As of yesterday, Grafton county (~90,000 people) has 26 identified active cases of COVID-19. Lyme has five active cases, Hanover has seven active cases, and Lebanon has 1-4 active cases.
Governor Sununu’s executive order closing indoor ice rinks expires this week. Indoor ice rinks will re-open October 30. Crossroads will follow suit, and students who played indoor ice hockey during the pause may return to in-person school Friday, October 30.
Each month, Crossroads Academy highlights key intellectual, moral, or civic virtues. This month’s virtues of respect and responsibility could not be a more timely connection to the health office and the global pandemic. Nobody wants to be the first covid-case, especially at a small school in a small town. Respect is treating others politely and kindly or with high regard. The first covid-case may involve a child. Please help align your child with the school’s core virtues to treat all classmates with respect regardless of the covid-circumstances or shared burden.
Responsibility is doing your part for the groups that make us whole. Many of us have come to appreciate the importance of in-person school for our children’s well-being and for our own ability to work more productively. The national covid-case numbers are reaching over 80,000 new cases per day. Our community, however, is still at a point where responsible behaviors may direct the course of being able to maintain in-person schooling without too many quarantine or operational disturbances.
If your family chooses to participate in Halloween festivities this weekend, please heed public health guidance.
Please check with your physician or local retail pharmacy for your child and family to become vaccinated against influenza.
