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January 2, 2021 | Vol. 2 Iss. 01
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LOCAL LAWMAKERS LOOK TO 2021 By Becky Ginos | becky.g@davisjournal.com BOUNTIFUL—With the start of a new year, Rep. Ray Ward, R-Bountiful and Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross took a moment to reflect on what they hope lies ahead in 2021. “I want to get back to normal,” said Ward. “With the roll out of the vaccine I hope that makes a difference, especially for teachers. It’s so hard at schools. I’ll feel better if they’re vaccinated so we don’t have to have kids out so much.” When case numbers and hospitalizations go down, we’ll all let out a sigh of relief, he said. “But for my older patients they’ve been locked in their homes, they won’t go out and they can’t see their families. We need to get the vaccine to them so they can do normal things and keep them healthy and happy.” Getting through this economy has been tough, he said. “The injury of that will last longer even after the virus goes away. The federal stimulus really helped when we thought it would be gone by fall, instead the numbers don’t look better they look worse and worse. We can cross our fingers and grind our teeth about the economy but it’s really important to pass another federal stimulus. The basic idea of stimulus is to put money back into the economy, so it doesn’t take a bad turn.” Ward said he hopes those who are high risk can get the vaccine so that in the next few weeks those who want it can get it. “I think with the vaccine we’ll see things getting better and better. My two big things Continued page 7
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