Common Sense, Ep. 66: TEAMS Learning Center
Plus WestSide High School's Leadership Students Speak and I Speak On New Episodes of 'Community Issues' on La Pera Radio
Episode synopsis
In this episode we visit TEAMS Learning Center, which is a local non-profit that aims to make quality, educational childcare affordable. Then we’ll head to WestSide High School to hear from their leadership team, but first an update about the ineffectiveness of Ivermectin against Covid-19.
Transcript
Intro
Hello and welcome to episode sixty-six of Common Sense, I’m Dominick Bonny and in this episode, we’re going to learn about TEAMS Learning Center in Wenatchee to learn about that non-profit organization providing affordable childcare to the Wenatchee, Cashmere, and Leavenworth communities. Since their rates are so affordable and they are a non-profit, they have to find creative ways to make up the difference when it comes to operating capital, and that’s where their Gorge fundraiser comes in. Last season volunteers manning a fried chicken stand raised about fifty-thousand dollars to support TEAMS and its mission to provide affordable quality educational childcare in the Wenatchee Valley. We’re going to learn more about that mission, the chicken stand, and what it supports in this episode. Then we’re going to head over to West Side High School and hear from students about their annual fundraiser, which is dedicated to supporting children battling cancer, and their families. But first, I want to make briefly mention a new study out last week that according to Fortune Magazine quote:
“The largest clinical trial into the effects of ivermectin on COVID to date and generally supports the findings of smaller studies, which have also found no significant benefit to ivermectin treatment.”
In the study, which is published by the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers wrote that quote:
“Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of COVID-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of COVID-19.”
Now, I have covered Ivermectin before, and even interviewed a local woman who’s father was prescribed Ivermectin to treat a severe case of Covid-19 by a local alternative medical provider. This man advised his elderly patient to drink hot lemon water and take Ivermectin, as well as partake in other unproven remedies and according to his daughter, a local woman named Leanne Lafferty, her father would have died had he not checked into the hospital and received proper care in time. That was episode forty-five of this show and you can go back and catch that via a link in the show notes.
It’s important to keep covering this story and the fallout that resulted because of the Ivermectin craze because as Leanne can attest, the fact that so many rushed to utilize an unproven bunk remedy to treat a serious illness resulted in sick people not getting the proper care they needed and deserved at a time when they really needed it. We’ll come back to the theme of junk science and those who use it to enrich themselves at the expense of others in the future, but now let’s head to TEAMS Learning Center in Wenatchee and meet Miss Joy Robertson and one of her dedicated Gorge volunteers who supports TEAMS.
Interview segment I
Stay tuned after the break for more.
Commercial break
Welcome back, before the break we learned a little bit about TEAMS learning center. Now let’s go back to that interview with Joy Robertson and then hear from a volunteer who donates her time to serve at the Gorge during concerts to benefit TEAMS.
Interview segment II
If you’d like to learn more about TEAMS and how you can support what they’re doing, check out their website. The link to that is in the show notes for this episode. Let’s go now to WestSide High School and hear from student leaders in Sheena Zacherly’s leadership class looking to help families with children battling cancer.
Interview segment III
If you know any family that can benefit from this annual fundraiser, please reach out to WestSide High School about that. This group of kids led by their teacher wants to help, they just need to find someone who needs it! If you’d like to learn more and suggest a beneficiary for this year’s fundraiser, you can find WestSide High’s leadership program on Facebook and a link to that will be in the show notes for this episode online. And if you’d like to know more about TEAMS and volunteer at the Gorge like Shelly, you can visit their website and sign up online, that link is in the show notes as well. That’s all for this episode, join me next time for more Common Sense!
Sources and links:
Study finds ivermectin, the horse drug Joe Rogan championed as a COVID treatment, does nothing to cure the virus, Fortune: https://bit.ly/3JG4aXC
Common Sense with Dominick Bonny – Ivermectin: https://bit.ly/3rmpXgz
Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19, New England Journal of Medicine: https://bit.ly/3rplBFs
TEAMS Learning Center: www.teamslearningcenter.org
WestSide High School’s website: www.wenatcheeschools.org/wshs
WestSide High School on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WestSideHighSchool
New Episodes of ‘Community Issues with Dominick and Rafael’ On La Pera Radio Online Now
In the last few episodes of “Community Issues with Dominick and Rafael” we delve into some of the history of Bethesda Christian Center and listen to some prosperity gospel preaching from founder Larry Titus.
We also talk quite a bit about Grace City Church and its impact on the Wenatchee Valley Community.
You can listen to all the episodes of the weekly bilingual podcast here.