Burnett County Sentinel April 1, 2020

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BURNETT COUNTY

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2020 VOL. 58 NO. 22 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00

SOCIAL DISTANCING: Gatherings over 10 people should be avoided until April 30. P12

WHEN YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN, WE ARE THERE WITH YOU.

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s our nation grapples with a health crisis not seen since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and the polio outbreaks that followed, we want you to know we are here for you — and with you. Whatever happens, whenever it happens, your newspaper will be there for you. We’ll be there to let you know how our community is managing through this crisis — from business to government to the health care system and schools to the impact on individuals and families.

We will be here to give you the information you need to be up to date and safe. We will be here to tell you how our community continues to share and care for each other. Good things are happening in our community at a socially acceptable distance. These stories reinforce the ties that bind us as a community. It is important during these times to understand we are all part of a larger family. We value our invitation into your home each week in our print edition and we will be there online as well with news that can’t wait until the next edition.

We are here to help you make sense of the situation and to help you navigate it. Having fact-based, reliable reporting that provides public scrutiny and oversight is more important than ever. For over a century, this newspaper and its readers have navigated horrific events — natural disasters, terrorism, financial downturns, periods of extreme political and societal division. This challenge is greater than any of those, but, rest assured, we’ll be here for you. Stay strong. We will come through this, together.

April Fools’ Day ain’t what it used to be ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Meals getting ready for delivery Busses being packed in Webster. Full story and more photos on page 12.

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Companies will come up with gags. Everybody will have a good laugh, but nobody will be fooled. Oh, for the days when April Fools’ Day hoaxes and pranks could cause lines outside liquor stores or prompt people to smell their TVs or choke telephone lines with complaints to the National Park Service. We’re all so much smarter now, aren’t we?

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Aren’t we? Well, to prepare you for this day of trickery, here are 10 of the best April Fools’ pranks in history. After all, forewarned is forearmed. Or, as Abraham Lincoln once observed, “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” 1. Pasta grows on trees On April 1, 1957, the BBC TV show “Panorama” ran a segment about the Swiss spaghetti harvest enjoying

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a “bumper year” thanks to mild weather and the elimination of the spaghetti weevil. Many credulous Britons were taken in, and why not? The story was on television -- then a relatively new invention -- and Auntie Beeb would never lie, would it? The story was ranked the No. 1 April Fools’ hoax of all time by the Museum of Hoaxes website -- a fine source for all things foolish. SEE APRIL FOOLS’, PAGE 2

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