The Rotary Club of Grand Island teamed with the UB Rotaract Club to help the Grand Island Schools TRANSFORM student desks for more protection for students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The schools had received $320,000 from the big CARES Coronavirus
Relief Fund and used a portion to purchase clear Plexiglas Pathogen Barriers for each student desk. (We would rather call them sneeze barriers!) But the schools needed lots of hands to peel protective film, fold and set up – there were over 3000 barriers involved. G I Rotary President Sherry Miller arranged a team of six from the UB Rotaract Club (Ruby Chen, Emma Correia, Taylor Sniatecki, Andra Sullivan, Sarah Swinnerton & Isabel Yu) to join Rotarians Sherry Miller, Dick Earne, Jerry Barlow, and spouse Barbara Barlow to provide much-needed help to school personnel. See a need, collect a team, then TRANSFORM plans into action; an ideal goal for Rotary Club of Grand Island, we try to come close!
