Thursday, January 7, 2021
JTV News presents The Morning Show. Today, Andy and Bart’s guests: Dr. Vivek Kak, Infectious Disease Specialist. The Chamber Connection, Pat O'Dowd & Theresa Horne, Certified Personal Trainer. 9 AM and 11 AM. Today on The Bart Hawley Show: Derek Dobies, Mayor, City of Jackson; Sam Sorensen, Jackson TSC Engineer, MDOT; Dan Machnik, Willis & Machnik Financial Services; Teague Gerweck, Producer, Meet the JTV Staff; Entertainment Correspondent and First Dad Dave DeBaker; Ric Walton, The Walton Insurance Group. 1, 5, 8, and 11 PM; 2 and 5 AM.
Events of Thursday, January 7, 2021
Christian Music Skate. Allskate Fun Center. THURSDAYS IN JANUARY: JANUARY 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2021, 2-4 PM. Allskate Fun Center, 1313 W. North Street, Jackson. Admission $6. $4 for any type of skate rental. Laser Tag: $6 for 1 game / $9 for a Double Play. Super Pass $12, Includes: Skate Rental, 10 Game Tokens, 1 Game of Laser Tag! Spirited: Prohibition in America. Ella Sharp Museum. Final day! "Spirited: Prohibition in America”. On view until January 7, this exhibition explores the tumultuous time in American history, when flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance lobbyists, and legends, such as Al Capone and Carry Nation, took sides in this battle against the bottle. Learn more at ellasharpmuseum.org/exhibits. View our regular business hours & holiday hours before your visit: ellasharpmuseum.org/visit. Jackson District Library presents “Library to Go” Boxes Sign Up. This free subscription-like service will provide your children, aged 0-9, with a selection of materials based on your preferred options! These materials will be yours to keep, so you don’t need to worry about returning them to the library. Boxes will ship near the end of the month. Registration for February boxes will be open January 4-10 (or until all slots…
Michigan Reports Vaccination Rate Triples Over Past Week
(January 6, 2020 8:45 PM) Michigan hospitals, local health departments and Federally Qualified Health Centers are increasing the pace of vaccinations in the state, administering three times the vaccine last week compared to the number of doses administered the first week. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracker data, Michigan is 11th in the nation for the number of first doses administered to date (124,689) behind Texas, California, Florida, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, New Jersey and North Carolina. Michigan’s COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard currently shows 152,511 doses administered due to a lag between when CDC posts data and the state updates its information. “The more people that are vaccinated, the less spread we will have, the fewer deaths and the quicker we can get back to a sense of normalcy,” said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy for health at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. “With a new variant of the virus in the United States, one that may be easier to spread than the current variant, there is more urgency than ever to vaccinate as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, with the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine.”…
