(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - In partnership with the Ketchikan Public Health Center and sponsored by the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council presents the first ever Blueberry Vaccine Clinic during the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council’s 46th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival, Saturday, August 7th, at the St. John’s Episcopal Church parking lot, 10am to 5pm.

The FREE Blueberry Vaccine Clinic will have available all three COVID vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Anyone can get their first or their second vaccine at the clinic! Please bring your vaccine card if this is your second. Those interested in a vaccine may sign up prior to Blueberry Saturday to schedule a time, but it is not required as walk-ins are very, very welcome. Please find the QR code and link for sign up at ketchikanarts.org

In June the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce (GKCC) received a $45,000 grant from the Alaska Chamber to incentivize vaccinations in Ketchikan. GKCC spent the bulk of the grant to purchase $100 gift cards from local Ketchikan businesses to be given away at several vaccine clinics since June 5th. As the original one-month grant timeline runs out, GKCC still has funds and $100 gift cards to disburse. In a new collaboration, GKCC will partner with the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council (KAAHC), to re-granting funds and gift cards and continue to encourage the Ketchikan community to be vaccinated from the COVID-19 virus.

Each person that receives a COVID-19 vaccine during the Blueberry Vaccine Clinic will also receive a $100 gift card to a local Ketchikan business!!! In addition, each newly vaccinated person will be entered to win in hourly $100 CASH prize drawings from the Blueberry Mainstage located this year at the Market Cafe at the corner of Main and Dock streets. Every newly vaccinated person’s name will be put back into the drawing for the Grand Prize of $2,000 drawn at 4:45 from the Mainstage. Everyone who has received a vaccine either at the Blueberry Clinic or prior, and can show their vaccine card, is eligible to be entered in the Grant Prize drawing!!!! Enter your name at the Blueberry Vaccine Clinic tent!

Lastly, persons receiving vaccines on Blueberry Saturday will be encouraged to make some art while they are waiting. Artwork created at the Blueberry Vaccine Clinic will be combined with other artwork stations throughout the Blueberry Arts Festival to make a full installation to be exhibited at the Main Street Gallery.

Related Information:

FREE Blueberry Vaccine Clinic
Blueberry Arts Festival, Saturday, August 7th, 2021 10am - 5pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church parking lot

Hosted by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council
Sponsored by the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce In partnership with the Ketchikan Public Health Center

Edited By Mary Kauffman, SitNews

Source of News:

Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council
https://www.ketchikanarts.org

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