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Albemarle High School Students Host ZOOM Town Hall

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Albemarle High School Students Host ZOOM Town Hall

Les Sinclair talks with Karen Waters-Wicks, faculty adviser to the student leadership group and the host of the town hall about this Saturday’s ZOOM town hall to examine Covid-19’s alarming Impact in Black and Latino communities. The event is this Saturday afternoon, from 2 p.m. until 3:30, students from the school division’s four high schools examining these issues through a virtual community town hall. The conversation will bring together health policy experts and an Intensive Care Unit professional to talk about covid-19 and its community impact. The town hall will be live-streamed at: http://streaming.k12albemarle.org/ACPS/player.htm?xml/virtualmeeting.xml. Those wanting to attend the town hall, especially students, are asked to pre-register at https://tinyurl.com/teentownhallregistration. This link can be used prior to the event to submit questions or issues for the panelists and students to discuss as part of Saturday afternoon’s conversation.

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