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PBSC respiratory care grad ready to fight pandemic
Jahlissa Powell has always wanted to help people. Now the recent Palm Beach State College graduate will get the chance as a new respiratory therapist at Jupiter Medical Center.
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Originally designed as the primary thoroughfare of the city, Poinsettia Avenue stretched eight-and-a-half miles and linked the south and north ends of our city.
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Genders of PB Zoo’s three Malayan tiger cubs revealed “It’s a boy, a girl, and a girl!” confirmed the Palm Beach Zoo’s director of animal health, Dr. Kathleen Woodie, during the trio’s first medical check-up in mid-July.
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Handling the onslaught of dog-killing cane toads During the rainy season, when these giant toads are active, dog owners must watch for signs of poisoning. By ADRIANA BRASILEIRO The Associated Press
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MIAMI — “Who can I call to get rid of these monsters??? I’m dying over here and I have 3 dogs!” The distressed plea for help was posted late last month by Ohilda Gilbert, a real estate agent, on a Facebook group of South Florida moms. A photo of a fat, warty cane toad next to a pool pump illustrated her post and fired up a conversation with over 200 comments about the dreaded amphibians. The yellowish brown cane toads, also known as bufo, marine or giant toads, are making an appearance in South Florida after the recent heavy rains stirred them up from their burrows and gave them plenty of water to breed in. If summer turns out to be wetter than normal, as forecasts are predicting, tadpoles will have better chances of survival, potentially creating a population boom for the largest toad found in Florida – a big concern for many dog owners. “As long as there is water for them to breed in, the cane toads will thrive,” said William Kern, an associate professor at the University of Florida who specializes in urban pest management. “They will be out above the surface, foraging and breeding. People are probably seeing more of them now.” Though these scary-looking toads are generally harmless to humans, they can be dangerous for pets. The amphibians, which average between four and six inches but can grow to nine inches, have
large triangular glands behind the eyes that contain a high load of a milky-white toxin that can kill dogs, Kern said. If a dog bites or licks the slow-moving frog and gets some of the poison in its mouth, it can suffer convulsions, loss of coordination and cardiac arrest. During the rainy season, when the toads are breeding and are generally more active, dog owners must watch out for signs of poisoning: excessive drooling, red gums, vomiting, disorientation, circling, stumbling and falling, and seizures. If poisoning is suspected, use a hose to wash the dog’s mouth for several minutes, running water through one side of the mouth and out the other, taking care not to flush water down the throat, which could further spread the poison. The advice is to get to a vet as quickly as possible. The cane toads can also cause environmental damage. They have no predators and eat pretty much anything: small lizards, snakes, bugs, and even smaller native frogs. Cane toads also compete with native frogs for food and breeding areas. And much like other invasive species such as the voracious Burmese python, cane toads do well in Central and South Florida’s urban environments. With hundreds of man-made lakes and canals, and plenty of bugs year-round, this is paradise for them. “We have dozens out on the street at night. They are not even scared of people anymore, it’s like there are gangs of them
out this year,” said Elizabeth Bonilla, who lives near a canal in Homestead. Her technique for getting them out of her backyard is to stomp and chase them out until they leave. “I can’t bring myself to kill them.” The Rhinella marina, as the toad is called, is yet another invasive species that was introduced to South Florida by people – but with a misguided purpose. Native to mainland Central America and parts of South America, the toad was introduced in the 1930s in several sugarcane-growing regions, including Hawaii, Australia and South Florida, as a way to control pests. Farmers believed the toads would benefit crops by eating beetles that killed cane plants. But the plan backfired. As it turned out, cane toads can’t jump very high, so they couldn’t eat the beetles that lived in the upper stalks of the plants. Instead, they ate pretty much everything else, including bird’s eggs and small mammals. And their poisonous glands ensured that would-be predators stayed away. In Australia, the toads have been especially problematic, having spread widely and establishing large populations in isolated areas where they have wiped out native species of frogs. The Australian government has spent millions on programs to control the invaders. Wildlife managers in South Florida encourage landowners to kill the invasive cane toads on their property whenever possible, so it’s important to correctly identify them and not confuse them with native southern toads, which are harmless. Southern toads have ridges CANE TOADS / PAGE 6
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SCENE FROM WEST PALM by Aaron Wormus | awormus@palmswestmonthly.com
History reveals proud past of West Palm’s Poinsettia Ave. This year, the City of West Palm Beach celebrates its 125th birthday. In honor of our quasquicentennial anniversary, and the fact that I’ve been spending more time at home, I’ve been reading through a lot of old newspapers. Among the charming aspects of downtown West Palm Beach is the fact that its streets are named after tropical flowers: Banyan, Clematis, Datura all the way through to Iris from north to south; Narcissus, Olive, Rosemary, Sapodilla and Tamarind from east to west. Several flowers, Althea, Lantana, Myrtle and Jessamine have fallen off the map, but none so dramatically as Poinsettia Avenue. Poinsettia came after Olive on our downtown map. Designed as the primary thoroughfare of the city, Poinsettia Avenue stretched eight-and-ahalf miles and linked the south and north ends of our city. At the turn of the century, at its intersection with Clematis Street sat Hotel Poinsettia. With fine dining for 200 guests and a breezy second-floor balcony, the hotel was a center of commerce and social life. A postcard shows 4th of July celebrations with hotel patrons dancing on the balcony and dozens of bicycles parked in the center of Clematis Street. By 1915, it was clear that personal automobiles were the future of travel and a “highway” was envisioned that would run north to south from Canada to Miami. Miami-based Carl Fisher promoted the “Dixie Highway” and with the help of “automotive clubs” ran a successful marketing campaign to link local roads together to form “The Dixie Highway.” Cities jumped on the opportunity to become a link on this highway and take advantage of the economic boom promised along the route. In 1920, Poinsettia Avenue appeared on maps as “Poinsettia - The Dixie Highway.” The influx of cars into downtown brought prosperity to the area, but also changed the feel of the city. In 1920, a West Palm Beach planner lamented that the roads were too narrow, and efforts were made to give cars priority on streets. Clematis Street was turned to a four-lane road, bicycles were removed from the center of the street and eventually The Hotel
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According to the State Archives of Florida, this postcard, circa 1922, depicts the Poinsettia Hotel in downtown West Palm Beach during the early years of the 20th century.
Poinsettia was turned into a parking lot. The Dixie Highway gained popularity as years passed, and Poinsettia Avenue – while still the official name – was all but forgotten. In 1956, Miami Herald journalist Ed Pfister picked up on a problem brewing in West Palm Beach and wrote about it in a Sept. 9 story headlined “Street Marking System Under Fire.” West Palm Beach had embarked on a year-long streetwidening project along The Dixie Highway from Southern Boulevard to the southern city limit. Merchants were hit hard by the prolonged street closure. Eager to drum up business and recoup their losses, the business community undertook a national advertising campaign under the familiar “South Dixie Highway” name. When the work on the street was completed and the streetsigns went up, businesses were shocked to find that the city had chosen to use the street’s actual name: Poinsettia Avenue. The marketing campaign was a bust. Adding to the confusion, north of Southern Boulevard the street signs still read S. Dixie Highway. And in downtown, one side of the street read Poinsettia Avenue and the other side of the street was named S. Dixie Highway. With a business revolt on their hands, the city quickly rescinded. At a commission meeting held
Sept. 24, 1956, the city commission voted to officially rename all of Poinsettia Avenue to South and North Dixie. You would think our story of Poinsettia Avenue would end there. Well, our hardy winter-blooming wildflower lay dormant for 37 years and came back to life in 1993 when residents of the North End grew tired of the traffic that Dixie Highway brought through their neighborhood. They lobbied the city to revert the street name back to its historic name. The proposal drew ire from some. Citing now-familiar arguments, George Maples penned a letter to the editor titled “Making Dixie ‘Poinsettia’ gains West Palm nothing.” He wrote: “Florida residents and Southern gentlemen from Andrew Jackson to Stephen Foster have long been proud of the very respectable term Dixie … The name has long been a reason to stand at attention for the memory of our Southern heritage and the rights and principals we hold dear.” North End resident George Stockless responded in the Palm Beach Post with these points: “Poinsettia was the original name of the street. We are fed up with 18-wheelers speeding and littering on our lawn. We want our ‘quality of life’ back. This is only our first step to get our street back.” The city agreed on the change and in April of 1994 Dixie Highway was officially
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Now in 2020, 125 years after the founding of West Palm Beach, we are again hearing proposals to rename this stretch of road and rid ourselves of the controversial “Dixie” name. One thing everyone can agree on is that we no longer need a “highway” running through the heart of West Palm Beach. I would like to go back to what residents saw when they arrived at the brand new city of West Palm Beach 125 years ago: a beautiful shady street linking the north and south neighborhoods. Calm neighborhood traffic, storefronts along the street providing opportunities for local merchants and restaurateurs. And in the shade of the pines and palms, a wildflower blooming just in time to greet the visitors from the north: the Poinsettia.
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This female cub with unique heart-shaped stripes over her right eye is one of three Malayan tiger cubs born at The Palm Beach Zoo on May 12.
Genders of Malayan tiger cubs born at Palm Beach Zoo revealed The Palm Beach Zoo recently announced the genders of the three Malayan tiger cubs born May 12 to the zoo’s tigers, mother Api and father Kadar. “It’s a boy, a girl, and a girl!” confirmed the zoo’s director of animal health, Dr. Kathleen Woodie, during the trio’s first medical check-up in mid-July. “We were able to give the
cubs their first vaccinations and weigh them. I am happy to report they are healthy and thriving,” said Woodie. Gender is important for future species survival plans, as these tigers serve as a backup population for tigers in the wild. Though the zoo is open to visitors, the cubs won’t be viewable to the public until September.
Jahlissa Powell has always wanted to help people, and now she’ll get the chance. As a new respiratory therapist at Jupiter Medical Center, she’ll be among the frontline health care professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m actually really excited to enter the field right now, even though it is a pandemic,” said Powell, who graduated magna cum laude this past May from Palm Beach State College’s Respiratory Care Associate in Science degree program. “Now that I’m an RRT, I can help people get off of ventilators, get them better, get them back home to their families and back to a normal life.” Graduates must pass two exams in order to become an RRT, which stands for registered respiratory therapist, and be eligible for state licensure. Powell not only passed the exams, she soared to the top of the class. On the multiple-
choice exam, Powell scored higher than any other PBSC Respiratory Care graduate in the history of the 31-yearold program. On the clinical simulation exam, her score placed her 29 points above the nationwide average. “Jahlissa completed her second-year practicals here at JMC, so we knew how much of a rock star we were hiring. Her enthusiasm for learning and true concern for the care of her patients will benefit all those who we serve at JMC,” said Christopher C. Jones, director of Respiratory Services at Jupiter Medical Center. “As cardiopulmonary specialists, we’re the ones who closely monitor the patients who are either on ventilators or getting oxygen or breathing treatments, and we communicate with the doctors on how the patients are doing,” Powell continued. “I feel like I graduated at the right moment.”
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Simple steps make back yards Capstone at Royal Palm senior living community now accepting private tours less appealing to cane toads The Western Communities’ newest senior living community has opened its doors in Royal Palm Beach and is now accepting appointments for individual tours while adhering to CDCapproved guidance for proper social distancing, cleaning and disinfecting. The Capstone at Royal Palm was designed to provide its senior residents with an active and engaged lifestyle with supportive care. The pet-friendly community features 56 studio, one- and two-bedroom spacious assisted living apartments and 28 private memory care apartments, with the option of private bath. Features include an awardwinning dining program with
casual and formal dining rooms, scheduled local transportation, an on-site salon and spa, fitness center, sun room, landscaped walking trails, gardens, outdoor gazebo and even a dog park. All assisted living spaces include weekly housekeeping and laundry service, private bathrooms, kitchenettes, utilities, vibrant activity programs and concierge service. “The Capstone at Royal Palm is a true resort-living experience,” said Hope Garling, sales and marketing director of Capstone. “Our residents will enjoy a friendly and caring staff, amazing social events and made-to-order meals.” According to Garling, moveins will begin in mid to late
August, allowing prospective residents the opportunity to freely tour the facility and grounds beforehand. “Now is the perfect time to take a tour of our beautiful, brand-new facilities, as our new residents are not scheduled to move in for a few more weeks,” said Garling. “We’re now accepting appointments for tours seven days a week,” she added. The Capstone at Royal Palm is located at 10621 Okeechobee Blvd., just west of State Road 7 and across from Royal Palm Beach Community High School. For more information on The Capstone at Royal Palm or to schedule a private tour, go online to thecapstoneatroyalpalm.com or call (561) 570-2005.
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on their heads and smaller, oval glands. If the toad is more than four inches long and has puffed-up, triangular bags in the area above each shoulder and behind the eyes, it’s likely a cane toad. Because the toads are not protected by conservation laws, they can be killed, but there’s a catch: Even the poisonous amphibians are protected by Florida’s anti-cruelty law. The recommended method of humanely euthanizing cane toads is to rub a small amount of numbing agent like Orajel on their bellies, placing them in a plastic bag and freezing them for 48 hours, according to American Veterinary
Medical Association guidelines. After that, the toads can be disposed of, said the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. If dabbing lidocaine on a toad’s belly sounds gross, a toad removal company can do the job. “That’s a business that will probably do well this season,” Kern said. And homeowners can do a few things to make their backyards less appealing to these monsters: Keep grass short and clear away brush piles and clutter, clean up food scraps from pet bowls or outdoor gills, keep pet food indoors and install bug lights that keep flying insects away, reducing the toads’ main food source.
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THE VILLAGE IDIOT by Jim Mullen
The best city slogans are sometimes the most honest A few years ago, I heard of a town that paid a team of consultants $50,000 to come up with a slogan they could use to “brand” the town. After months of work, they came up with “A Nice Place to Raise Kids.” And that is probably true. But it must not be a good place to pay taxes if they’re throwing away $50,000 to come up with such a lame slogan. I think a group of underachieving sixth-graders could have come up with that one for only $5,000. It’s not so much the money, or even the slogan, that bothers me; it’s the fact that the local politicians seemed to think they needed a slogan in the first place. Of all the problems in any town – road repair, health, safety, fire, police, noise ordinances – how does something like the lack of a slogan work its way to the top of the to-do list? How did the town get by all those years without one? By the time people started calling San Jose “Silicon Valley,” it already was. “Hotlanta,” “the Big Apple,” “Sin City” and “the Windy City” weren’t names coined by focus groups and consultants. They were usually jokes made by sports reporters that caught on. For a while, New York tried to call itself “Fun City,” but no one who’s ever lived there called it that. It
wasn’t long before it became a national joke. But if it’s so important to the city elders to have a slogan, let me suggest a few. Your town can just send me a big fat check if you use one of them. “Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out.” This is the perfect slogan for those cities where every other person you talk to seems to be moving to Florida or Arizona. As for the towns they’re moving to, their slogans could all be, “It’s the Same Urban Sprawl You’re Used To, But Warmer!” Got a run-down neighbor-
hood in your city that’s starting to attract hipster coffee shops and micro-brew pubs? Wondering how to tell the world zipping down the interstate about your new gentrification? How about, “We Love Man Buns!” It tells the whole story in four short words. And hey, it didn’t cost $50,000. Speaking of interstates, here’s one you can use if you see the traffic on the superhighway buzzing past your burg without stopping: “Last Exit Before Speed Trap.” It sure beats “Move Along, Nothing to See Here.”
A lot of smaller towns proudly proclaim things like “Home of the Fightin’ Wildcats,” but that really doesn’t mean much to people who didn’t grow up there. That town might want to spice it up a little. Add a sign that says “The Birthplace of Spam!” Sure, it’s not true, but who’s gonna know? Except for the real birthplace of Spam? And it’s not as if they’re claiming to have the World’s Largest Frying Pan or the World’s Biggest Haystack or something that could be easily checked. Maybe the World’s
Oldest Woman invented Spam here and then left town. Who’s to say? Some towns aren’t advertising their best features. While it may be a “nice place to raise kids,” that’s not going to attract many tourists. Why not take a liability and turn it into an asset? “Visit the World’s Largest and Longest-Burning Tire Fire!” Sure, it’s not something most people would brag about, but Sun City brags about sunshine, and what is the sun but a big ball of burning gas? Or give people something to do: “Come Shoot Rats at Our Landfill Before We Turn It Into a Sports Park That Definitely Won’t Smell!” Who needs a bunch of highpriced consultants when you can come up with something like that on your own? Jim Mullen is the author of “It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City,” a comic memoir about his move from New York City’s Greenwich Village to a former dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains. His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and The Village Voice.
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How does COVID-19 affect kids? Science has answers, gaps By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer
What role children play in the coronavirus pandemic is the hot-button question of the summer as kids relish their free time while schools labor over how to resume classes. The Trump administration says the science “is very clear,” but many doctors who specialize in pediatrics and infectious diseases say much of the evidence is inconclusive. “There are still a lot of unanswered questions. That is the biggest challenge,” said Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, a pediatrics professor at the University of Florida and former scientist at the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Several studies suggest, but don’t prove, that children are less likely to become infected than adults and more likely to have only mild symptoms. An early report from Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began last winter, found that fewer than two percent of cases were in children. Later reports suggest between five percent and eight percent of U.S. cases are in kids. The CDC says 175,374 cases have been confirmed in kids aged 17 and under as of July 17, accounting for roughly six percent of all confirmed cases. The number who have been
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Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, teachers check students before a summer STEM camp at Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas. Scarce data on whether infected children – including those without symptoms – easily spread the disease to others complicates the issue of reopening schools safely, said Jeffrey Shaman, a Columbia University infectious disease specialist.
infected but not confirmed is almost certainly far higher than that though, experts say, because those with mild or no symptoms are less likely to get tested. The CDC says 228 children and teens through age 17 have died from the disease in the U.S. as of July 15, about 0.2 percent of the more than 138,000 Americans who have died in all. One early study examining infections in children comes
from a Wuhan hospital. Of 171 children treated there, most had relatively mild illness. One child died, and only three needed intensive care and ventilator treatment. Perhaps more worrisome was that 12 had X-ray evidence of pneumonia, but no other symptoms. A CDC study involving 2,500 children published in April echoed those findings. About one in five infected children were hospitalized versus one
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in three adults; three children died. The study lacks complete data on all the cases, but it also suggests that many infected children have no symptoms. “We’re trying to figure out who those kids are,” Rasmussen said. “We need to figure out the impact on kids and on the rest of the community, their parents and their grandparents. If they’re transmitting a lot to each other, and then bringing it home to their families.” Not knowing if children are infected makes it difficult for schools to reopen safely, many experts say. Scarce data on whether infected children – including those without symptoms – easily spread the disease to others complicates the issue, said Jeffrey Shaman, a Columbia University infectious
disease specialist. A National Institutes of Health-sponsored study seeking to answer that question and others is under way. A JAMA Pediatrics study from May, cited by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, involved just 48 children treated in U.S. and Canadian intensive care units. As McEnany indicated, most were not critically ill. Still, she did not mention that 18, or almost 40 percent, needed ventilator treatment and two died. McEnany was correct that children appear less likely to become critically ill from COVID-19 than from the flu. But the CDC says COVID-19 can be more contagious and has been linked with more “superspreading” events than the flu, meaning it can quickly spread and infect lots of people. Also, blood clots and organ damage have been found in children with COVID-19, including those who develop a related inflammatory illness. The most recent count shows 342 U.S. children and teens have developed that condition, called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. The condition is rare but can occur in children with current or recent COVID-19 infections. Symptoms include fever and problems in at least two organs, often including the heart. Digestive problems are common, and some cases have been mistaken with Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. Perhaps the biggest unknown is whether permanent damage to lungs and other organs can result. The virus is too new to know for sure.
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Outside the Neighborhood
Wisconsin family saves bear swimming with head stuck in bin
BLOOMER, Wis. — A Wisconsin family helped save a young bear that was struggling to breathe while swimming in a lake with its head caught in a plastic food container. Tricia and Brian Hurt and their son, Brady, were fishing in late June on Marsh Miller Lake in western Wisconsin’s Chippewa County when they came across what they first thought was a swimming dog. They soon realized, though, that it was a young bear with a clear plastic cheese ball container stuck on its head. Their first attempt to pull the tub off the bear’s head failed, but another try was successful. They captured the rescue on video. “That was the thing I remember most, is that bear panting heavily, trying to get air. Can you imagine having that down in the water, it sealed it off so it couldn’t get fresh air into that jug?” said Brian Hurt. Tricia Hurt said if they had been two minutes sooner or later, they likely wouldn’t have come across the bear. “I should have bought a lottery ticket,” Brian Hurt said. “I probably would have better chances at winning the lottery ticket than stumbling across that poor bear.” The Hurts then went to a
nearby resort, where some people had watched the rescue and told them the bear had been that way for at least a few days. Locals had been trying to figure out how to get the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to help it. Brian Hurt estimated the bear was a year old and likely still with its mother. They watched it all the way until it got to shore. “We heard it fall and collapse on shore so I knew it was safe at that point,” he said, speculating that the bear would have drowned if they hadn’t been there to help.
Amazon delivery moment captured in Delaware goes viral
MAGNOLIA, Del. — When Lynn Staffieri saw her Amazon delivery driver running away from her house, she wondered what she just witnessed. She received the notification through her Nest doorbell, a service that provides videocapture for home-monitoring and security. “I saw the Amazon lady running away from the door and I thought ‘Oh, that’s weird,’” Staffieri said. “I didn’t have the audio at first when I saw it so I didn’t know what was going on.” When she came home and saw the footage in full, she learned that her son was behind it. He added unique delivery instructions to the order.
“I said knock three times, scream abracadabra and run very fast away,” Jacob Staffieri said. The video has now gone viral. “He just thought it would be funny,” Staffieri said. “I think he was surprised it actually worked out.” Staffieri’s video, originally posted to Facebook, has more than 25,000 shares and 3,900 comments. She said people have been contacting her from all over and telling her which outlets her clip has appeared on. Someone told her they saw her footage on the news in Lebanon and she thought, “Oh wow, that’s crazy.” The Amazon worker was delivering a playpen for kittens Staffieri is fostering from a local rescue. “I have six fosters from three different litters,’’ she said. The kittens can’t share litter-boxes until they are medically tested and cleared, so the playpens keep them separate while still allowing them to get used to people and other animals. She has yet to find out the identity of the delivery woman but said the local Amazon manager for Delaware saw her post and reached out to try to get them in contact. “I would love for her to see and say thank you,’’ she said. “Part of me thinks we’ve been stuck inside for so long and needed something to make us laugh.”
Kentucky woman finds rattlesnake under wheelchair seat
MURRAY, Ky. — A woman travelling in a motorized wheelchair near a Kentucky Walmart discovered a rattlesnake under her seat in early July, the Murray Ledger & Times reported. Officer Chris Garland said the woman “just happened to look down and saw the head right under her. She was still on the chair when we arrived. She couldn’t move, and I guess that was from being scared. Come to think of it, I probably would’ve froze too.” Murray Police Department officers killed the snake after they helped the woman out of her wheelchair and got the rattler on the ground. “We tried to contact someone who might have been able to have picked it up, but when we finally did find somebody, they were too far away,” Garland said. John Hewlett, a Murray State University graduate researcher, said the snake was probably not local to the area. “If I had to bet everything on it, somebody caught it and turned it loose in the parking lot or somewhere else in the city,” Hewlett said.
Pandemic leads 7-Eleven to forgo free Slurpees on 7-11 DALLAS — The coronavirus pandemic took away another summertime tradition in the U.S.: There were no free Slurpees at 7-Elevens on Saturday, July 11, to hail a date that doubles as an abbreviation of the convenience store chain’s name. 7-Eleven has been giving away its slushy beverage to all customers for nearly 20 years on July 11, but it scrapped the promotion this year to reduce the risk of people flocking to its stores and risking contracting the coronavirus. “Gathering nine million of our closest friends in stores on one day just didn’t feel right,” said Marissa Jarratt, 7-Eleven’s chief marketing officer. The Dallas-based chain instead decided to donate 1 million meals to Feeding America, a hunger relief group. The roughly 33 million people who had 7-Eleven’s membership app installed on their smartphones as of July 1 were also eligible for a free medium Slurpee at any time in July.
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This Month in History Aug. 6, 1787: The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate the articles contained in a draft of the U.S. Constitution. Aug. 22, 1787: Inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress. Aug. 1, 1790: The first United States census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people. Aug. 9, 1842: A border dispute between the United States and Canada was resolved with the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Aug. 9, 1854: Henry David Thoreau published “Walden,” in which he described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Aug. 27, 1859: Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the first
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“BOOK MARKS” by David Kahn ACROSS 1 Does a send-up 5 A way to get it down 8 Honey follower? 14 Act as a w itness 16 Moliere’s trickster 17 “The Maltese Falcon” novelist 19 “Star Wars” heroine 20 Parliamentary vote 21 They may be deserted 22 Alphabet sequence 24 Biblical verb 26 Big advantages in sports 33 William Tell’s canton 34 Legal thing 35 A load of gossip 36 Neutral, to a decorator 37 Next in line at 22-Across 38 “Barbara ___” (Beach Boys tune) 39 What candles sometimes reveal 40 Place of perfection 42 Word with Glory
43 Piece of advice 44 Social Security check, e.g. 48 Notorious Barrow 49 Word with dog or legs 50 It may seal the deal 53 Game animal 55 Development divisions 58 Results of imperialism 62 Kidnap 63 Like some stock 64 Precisely 65 Nickname for either of two AL teams 66 “Desperate Housewives” Hatcher DOWN 1 Supplement 2 Sound from a chapel tower, perhaps 3 To be, to Caesar 4 Division in a church 5 Symbol of easiness 6 With dexterity 7 Intelligently planned progress 8 “This ___ recording” 9 Hudson,
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Aries (March 21 – April 20) You went over the top with this, but who cares? It’s taught you a lot about trusting your gut. Others are shocked. If they don’t know what to make of it don’t worry. They’ll see the light sooner or later. Taurus (April 21 – May 21) You’ve got to take a few risks if you want things to change. The tried and true methods that kept everything running up till now won’t work to remedy a situation that could use a complete over haul. Gemini (May 22 – June 21) Your life just opened up in ways that seem close to miraculous. Stop pinching yourself and look around; there’s a whole new script and a whole new cast waiting for you to start directing this movie. Cancer (June 22 – July 23) You’ll need the Wisdom of Solomon to figure this one out. The truth has been too well hidden. Don’t expect to come up with the answer until everyone involved comes forward with their version of the story. Leo (July 24 – Aug. 23) You may
not show it but you’re sensitive enough to know that something’s going on. Don’t press people for more than they’re willing to give. You’ll get nowhere if you try to force yourself on this situation. Virgo (Aug. 24 – Sept. 23) Think your ideals apply to anyone but you? You’re wrong! You’re dealing with someone whose sense of integrity has flown the coop. Don’t put anything past them and don’t let sentiment cloud your objectivity. Libra (Sept. 24 – Oct. 23) So much of who you are is what you see reflected in the eyes of other people. It’s high time you got away. Much has changed. A retreat or some time alone would do a lot to help you get your bearings. Scorpio (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22) Everyone knows how you feel. Belaboring the point won’t make it clearer and not making a choice won’t make the need to choose disappear any time soon. If you want to do something about this you better do it now. Sagittarius (Nov. 23 – Dec. 21) The
tendency to overlook the obvious when it comes to giving other people the upper hand will continue to screw things up until you decide that isn’t your job to patch up anything that was broken to begin with. Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 20) You aren’t as sure about why this had to happen as you are about the fact that it came to save the day. Cross your fingers. With luck, recent miracles could turn your life into the better part of a dream come true. Aquarius (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19) You can say whatever you want. You’re not over this no matter how good you are at pretending you’ve moved on. The real test will come at a gathering or a blast from the past where key players decide to have it out. Pisces (Feb. 20 – March 20) If you’re waiting for someone to come along to give you permission to go for it, only you can do that. Don’t worry about who you have to answer to or let anyone be your excuse for missing the boat.
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