Chocorua Lake Conservancy Offers Self-Guided Earth Day Stewardship Week
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020 WWW.SALMONPRESS.COM OSSIPEE, N.H. - 75¢ Chocorua Lake Conservancy offers self-guided Earth Day Stewardship Week CHOCORUA—Many public event. But you of us are staying at home can still help! except when we get out for exercise while prac- ticing physical distanc- If you are looking for ing, but we can still vol- a reason to be outside unteer! and get some exercise, ei- ther by yourself or with members of your house- The 50th anniversary hold, please consider of Earth Day is coming visiting the lake on your up on Wednesday, April own—maybe bring a 22. The CLC had planned pair of work gloves—for our annual “spring a self-guided Steward- cleaning” Stewardship ship Day. Winter often Day at the two public ac- takes a toll on the beau- cess areas on Chocorua tiful shoreline trees, Lake, The Grove and dropping branches ev- The Island. It’s usually erywhere and filling the a great way to celebrate water bars with debris. Earth Day—spending You can help with our a morning with friends usual spring cleaning by and neighbors in view hauling branches into of the gorgeous lake, car- the nearby woods and ing for a place many of raking out debris from us enjoy throughout the water bars that divert warmer seasons. This runoff from entering the year, because of New lake. An “inventory “ of Hampshire’s stay-at- larger projects is also home order and “social part of our annual Earth distancing” recommen- Day spring cleaning, so dations from the CDC, SEE CLC PAGE A11 we are unable to host a Birdhouse building a Huggins Hospital prepares great at-home activity for possible surge WOLFEBORO — offer navigation and Department capacity. Huggins Hospital – like clinical assistance to Once Huggins Hospital’s for families other hospitals across those seeking testing number of inpatients the state and nation – is or information; a safe reaches 25, hospital clin- preparing for a likely site for those in need ical leaders would notify surge in patients if the of COVID-19 testing; a the state and local emer- COVID-19 (coronavirus) Temporary Outpatient gency planners with the outbreak is not mitigat- Practice to see those need to activate an Alter- ed by social distancing with respiratory illness nate Care Site (ACS). and other efforts. who may not initially Huggins Hospital has Huggins Hospital has need COVID-19 testing planned to utilize a local been operating under a but who still need care; ACS if needed – along Code White for the past screenings at each of with help from partners month, a structure that our entrances; and tele- in the Wolfeboro Police includes an Incident health services to pro- Department, Wolfeboro Command Center to vide care to patients who Fire and Rescue, the prepare and respond to prefer to stay home. Town of Wolfeboro and crisis situations. Even Huggins Hospital has the Carroll County Coa- prior to operationalizing also been conducting lition for Public Health. an Incident Command surge planning for a po- An ACS is a typical com- Center, Huggins Hos- tential influx in patients. ponent of public health pital had established This surge planning emergency prepared- a COVID-19 Planning includes increasing in- ness planning. ACS lo- Committee to research patient capacity at Hug- gistics have been part of the outbreak and steps gins Hospital from 25 to Carroll County’s emer- the organization needed 39. It also includes an SEE HUGGINS PAGE A11 to take to prepare. increase in Emergency MILTON MILLS — Regional Greenways’ Once Huggins Hos- A Birdhouse Building (MMRG) ‘MOOSE-ies for MMRG Educa- pital established an event for kids and their Families’ program, in- tion Coordinator Kari Incident Command families, scheduled tended to encourage the Lygren explained how it Center, they quickly im- Calendar of for March 21 in Mil- next generation of con- worked: “Families got to plemented new services ton Mills, turned into a servationists by offering choose between an open to support the needs take-home activity for families ways to have style platform house for of the community re- events suspended seven enthusiastic fami- fun together outside robins or phoebes and a garding COVID-19. The lies. The event was part while learning about the SEE BIRDHOUSES PAGE A11 new services included With many local groups and organizations wisely of Moose Mountains natural world. a COVID-19 Hotline to canceling planned events due to the ongoing coro- navirus outbreak, we have temporarily suspended publication of our weekly calendar of events. Once the current situation set- A Note to Readers tles down, we will return to being your go-to source This week’s edition of the paper might seem a bit smaller than you are accustomed to, but rest assured, this is only temporary. for the area’s most com- Due to the unique circumstances we are all living under at the present time, local sporting events and community activities have prehensive listing of local wisely been canceled as we all try to stay closer to home and practice social distancing. events and activities. 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