BROOKINGS – Brianna Doran, chair of the Brookings Disabilities Awareness Committee, speaks to the Brookings City Council March 23 after Mayor Keith Corbett, far left, issued a proclamation naming March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.
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BROOKINGS – Brianna Doran, chair of the Brookings Disabilities Awareness Committee, speaks to the Brookings City Council March 23 after Mayor Keith Corbett, far left, issued a proclamation naming March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.
Matt Weiss, vice chair of the Disability Awareness Committee, standing next to Doran, also spoke, as did Mark Sternhagen, seated in wheelchair.
Sternhagen contracted polio as a toddler because he missed a chance to be vaccinated because the polio vaccine was in short supply.
“If I had been vaccinated, I would not have gotten polio; there is no doubt about that,” Sternhagen said. “So, please, if you get the opportunity to get the COVID vaccine, please don’t hesitate. Take it. Get the vaccine. It’s our only way to normalization.”
