Weekly Hot News Podcast, October 11 2021

HSD is finally ready to launch a COVID-19 dashboard, showing the number and location of active COVID cases and quarantines for students and staff. This data is collected by our contact tracing team and school nurses with help from the Washington County Public Health Department. To protect the privacy of those involved, no names or grade level information will be displayed. Please note that this data may differ from data reported by the Oregon Health Authority because isolations and quarantines will no longer show up in our active data set once the person has returned to school/work and/or the classroom quarantine has ended. Our featured event was International Walk and Roll to School Day on Wednesday, October 6th, when McKinney Elementary celebrated by hosting a walking school bus from McKinney Park to the school. Several students participated in the event and received a raffle ticket and a sticker; four lucky students won a reflective prize kit. Oregon’s Safe Routes to School program encourages all schools to select a day in October where they will promote using alternate modes of transportation. Mooberry will celebrate on Thursday, October 21st. If your school is interested, please contact our local Safe Routes to School coordinator Bernadette Le by email or at 503-681-5294. www.hsd.k12.or.us