The Woodstock Public Library will have a maker space in its new Dixon Avenue location thanks to a $50,000 donation from Neal Smoller, owner of Village Apothecary, in honor of the Covid Busting Volunteer Army.
“We were giving lots of doses with the help of a gigantic volunteer army,” said Smoller. “Everybody chose to be there. Almost nobody asked for anything in return and it was always such a moving thing. Persistently, when there was no pandemic to rise up and fight, they were just doing the daily grind of community care and community service. Those people have been doing it before us. So it was our turn to serve. And we all did it. We all went above and beyond what was expected of us.”
As a medical provider, Village Apothecary was being compensated by the government and by insurance providers for the vaccinations, and the…
