The Shawnee Sports Complex is at One Salango Way in Dunbar, WV, a city on the Kanawha River in Kanawha County. Its large paved lots made it one of the most used sites for drive-up health events in the county in 2020 and 2021.
Events held here
- May 29 and 30, 2020, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: free state testing for minority and other vulnerable residents. See Free COVID-19 Testing Event.
- Summer 2020: drive-up COVID-19 testing with the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority. On Friday, July 10, 2020, more than 600 people were tested here. See Drive-up COVID-19 at Shawnee Sports Complex.
- Friday, August 21, 2020, 1 to 8 p.m.: drive-up COVID-19 testing. See Drive-up COVID-19 at Shawnee Sports Complex (August 2020).
- Friday, April 2, 2021: the first combined COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic. See Drive-Through Testing and Vaccination Clinic.
- Thursday, November 4, 2021, 1 to 6 p.m.: a drive-through health fair with flu and COVID-19 vaccines, blood pressure and blood sugar checks, and car seat checks. See Drive-Through Hero & Health Fair.
See all event locations.
Sources
- WV MetroNews: Testing events return to eastern panhandle, Kanawha County, Friday and Saturday (May 28, 2020)
- WCHS-TV: More than 600 tested at Kanawha drive-thru site Friday (July 11, 2020)
- WCHS-TV: Drive-through health fair scheduled Nov. 4 at Shawnee Sports Complex (October 29, 2021)
- Wikipedia: Dunbar, West Virginia