For Barnegat High School seniors, 2020 will be the year with no real prom, a modified graduation, and a lot of other missed milestones due to safety concerns surrounding COVID-19. But rather than dwell on what they couldn’t do, seniors Julie Johnson and Brooke Lynn Schmalz turned their focus on what they could.
While finishing out their final year of high school through remote learning, the friends also worked full time at the Barnegat Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, hired during the height of the outbreak.
“We needed help, and it was not easy to come by, with so many people scared to work in this kind of environment,” said Jessica Collins, an infection control nurse at the…
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