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Census Takers are Easy to Spot Across New Hampshire
WASHINGTON — The United States Census Bureau is actively conducting Non-Response Follow Up operations across every city, town, and municipality in the state to ensure a complete and accurate count of everyone living in the United States. By law, the Census Bureau must provide the first results from the 2020 Census by December 31st. To provide complete and accurate results by that deadline, we are doing everything we can to collect a response from every household by September 30th. We are urging households to respond, maximizing staff and production hours, and ensuring data quality along the way.
Following Health & Safety Guidelines
To ensure safety of all employees and residents, census takers are wearing masks and following social distancing guidelines. In most cases, census workers will make up to six attempts at each address to count possible residents—this is the same number of attempts we have been planning all along. Census takers will still visit homes during the originally planned hours—between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., local time, including on weekends, to reach people when they are more likely at home. Census takers are also calling some households to help them respond to the census, providing one more way to count hard-to-reach communities and people who have not yet responded.
We continue to urge households to respond through our multilingual advertising campaign and through the efforts of nearly 400,000 partner organizations. We urge everyone to respond now or when a census taker comes to your door—and to encourage everyone you know to do the same. We are even mailing an additional paper census questionnaire to many households that have not responded yet in low-responding areas.
Identifying Census Workers
The Census Bureau is attempting to complete data collection as quickly and safely as possible, while ensuring a complete and accurate count as it strives to comply with law and statutory deadlines. Identifying a Census Bureau employee can be accomplished by checking their ID badge, which includes:
Measuring Quality of Work
The United States Census Bureau has created a group of experienced field experts to closely monitor, evaluate, and resolve quality issues. Because census takers are using mobile devices instead of paper, we have a great deal of data about how long the census takers spend interviewing each respondent andwhere they physically were when the interview was conducted. We are carefully monitoring this information and using it to identify outliers. Based on those outliers, we may re-interview a portion of the census takers’ work to verify quality standards are met. The best way to avoid a visit from a census taker at home is to complete the 2020 Census online at www.2020census.gov.
About 2020 Census
The U.S. Constitution mandates a head count, every ten years, of all residents living in the United States and its territories. Census counts determine how many seats each state is allocated in the U.S. House of Representative as well as how over $675 billion in federal dollars in distributed annually. Individual responses are protected by federal law, never to be shared with any other department, court, or law enforcement agency. Responding to the 2020 Census is easy with four ways to respond: online, by phone, by paper, or with the help of a census taker.
Medical Emergency Rescue near Peaked Mountain in North Conway
North Conway: On Thursday, August 27th shortly after 1:00 PM New Hampshire Fish and Game was notified that a hiker was in distress on the Middle Mountain Trail in the area of Peaked Mountain in North Conway. The hiker was Theodore Clancy, 76 of Lake Hopatcong, NJ. Theodore was hiking with his son, daughter in law and grandson. After hiking for about an hour Theodore began having chest pain and they phoned 911 for assistance. They were about a mile and a half from the trailhead.
Along with Conservation Officers members of North Conway Fire and Conway Fire departments responded. Paramedics were able to assess Theodore, provided treatment and monitor his condition. He was placed in a litter and carried to the trailhead. He arrived at the trailhead shortly after 4:00 PM and was transported by ambulance to the Memorial Hospital in North Conway. Ultimately he was transported by DHART to the Maine Medical Center for additional care.
Source: NH Fish and Game Press Release
WHO Says Test, Despite CDC’s Recent Flip Flop
LONDON (AP) —The World Health Organization says countries should actively test people to find coronavirus cases, even if they are mild or don’t show symptoms. That’s despite the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recently switched guidance to say asymptomatic contacts of cases don’t need to be tested. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for the coronavirus, says when officials are investigating clusters of COVID-19, “testing may need to be expanded to look for individuals who are on the more mild end of the spectrum or who may indeed be asymptomatic.” She says testing and tracing is “really fundamental to breaking chains of transmission.”
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Update: Fatal Accident in Conway – Victim Identified
On Monday, August 24, 2020, at approximately 10:30 pm officers from the Conway Police Department, along with Conway Fire and Rescue and Conway Ambulance, responded to a report of a pedestrian who had been struck by a motor vehicle on East Main Street near the intersection of Odell Hill Road. When officers arrived, they observed a male lying in the eastbound breakdown lane. The male, a 59 year-old from Conway, was found to be deceased as a result of injuries sustained from being struck by a vehicle. The victim’s name is Phillip Martin, known by his friends as Phil or PJ. He was an aspiring chef who loved photography and has a daughter named Megan who is a sophomore at Plymouth State University.
The vehicle that struck Martin was identified to be a 2016 Buick SUV operated by a 58 years-old female from Florida named Susan-Rachel Hebert. Hebert did not suffer any injuries in the collision. The Conway Police Department Accident Reconstruction Team was called out to investigate the crash. The preliminary investigation revealed that the male pedestrian was struck in the eastbound travel lane of East Main Street a short distance east of the intersection of Odell Hill Road. It appeared that Hebert attempted to avoid the collision by swerving into the opposite lane of travel but was unable to avoid Martin who was in her lane of travel. Martin’s bicycle was found on the opposite side of the roadway in the breakdown lane of the westbound lane. The bicycle was not involved in the crash. This portion of East Main street is not serviced by street lights and it was raining with low level fog in the area.
Immediately following the crash, this portion of East Main Street was shut down for approximately 3 hours to allow the Conway Police Department Accident Reconstruction Team to document the scene. The road was re-opened at approximately 1:40 am. This accident remains under investigation but speed and driver impairment and/or distraction do not appear to be a factor in the crash. Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to contact the Conway Police Department at 603-356-5715.
The Conway Police Department would like to offer their condolences to Martin’s family and friends for their loss.
Christopher Mattei
Lieutenant
08/25/20
Source: Conway Police Department Press Release
New Hampshire Launches “Save Your Breath” Anti-Vaping Campaign
Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program has launched a year-long social media campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the health impacts of vaping among young people. The campaign, Save Your Breath, urges youth to make the right choices by providing information on the negative consequences of vaping such as physical and mental health, money and time.
In 2019, 34% of New Hampshire high-school aged youth reported using an electronic tobacco vapor product (including e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, vape pipes, vaping pens, e-hookahs, and hookah pens), as compared to 20% nationally.
“Vaping is putting a whole new generation of New Hampshire youth at risk for a lifetime of tobacco use addiction. Tobacco use, including vaping, is unsafe for youth and young adults and can harm their developing brains,” said Dr. Sai Cherala, Bureau Chief of Population Health and Community Services in the DHHS Division of Public Health Services. “The campaign encourages young people to look past the flavors, choose not to vape, and save their breath.”
Save Your Breath will run for a year reaching youth, young adults and families in New Hampshire through several social media channels including Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Spotify, and the website https://saveyourbreathnh.org/.
New Hampshire also offers My Life, My Quit, a tobacco cessation service for teens who want to quit using any tobacco product. My Life, My Quit, provides free and confidential services to answer any questions and to help teens quit. Participants can enroll online at https://mylifemyquit.org/ or by calling or texting “Start My Quit” to 1-855-891-9989.
The DHHS Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program is here to provide resources and education on vaping products to anyone. For more information, contact the NH Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program at TPCP@dhhs.nh.gov or (603) 271-6891.