Hello, I’m Lori McConnell. I volunteer with Snohomish County’s Medical Reserve Corp. I have been volunteering with them since March 2021, first working as a screener/observer at the mass COVID vaccination site in Monroe, then doing PCR COVID testing in Everett and Lynnwood. Currently I am working at the mobile vaccination clinics.
I wish everyone would get vaccinated so we could all get back to living life normally. My memorable event was when a man came into a mobile clinic in Granite Falls recently. He told me he “had to” get vaccinated or wear a mask to work, but he didn’t believe COVID was real until a co-worker was hospitalized. I told him he was lucky it wasn’t him! I was so glad to see him there.
I’ve also been volunteering within my local community as a Board member of the Clearview Community Association since 2015. The great thing is it’s all about issues I can really affect! My most memorable event in this role was when I drove the effort to bring our community together to preserve our natural environment — and the tract housing developers finally lost interest (for now) in destroying our rural area. We are a rare unincorporated area that actually has an effective voice at the county government level.