Source: Ethan Joyce, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 4/4/20


In Boone, at least two businesses were set up to adapt and immediately help in the midst of the novel coronavirus. That pair — The High Country Food Hub and Watauga Opportunities Inc. — are both battling the pandemic and helping out their fellow community members in their own ways. Watauga Opportunities has provided community rehabilitation and vocational training to people with disabilities in the area for the last 45 years. It's now helping to fight COVID-19 by assembling test tubes for testing kits through its manufacturing plant in Boone.

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