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Hadley Park Towers (and COVID-19) BY VICK Y B., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR The usual hustle and bustle of the Hadley Park Towers has come to a complete stand still. The once vibrant and social place has become a ghost town. When taking my dog Faith out we usually encounter four or five people we say hello, but today it’s been solitude. The lobby, once filled with residents talking and sharing the latest gossip, is bare and quiet. The community room that plays a TV with ladies playing cards on Monday nights are no more. The occasional clanking of the pool balls down the hall is dark. If you’re lucky enough to see someone, you’re practicing social distancing. Today all residents were made aware of a lock down to protect the mostly 62 and over, disabled residents. Today at 4 p.m., until further notice, no more visitors are allowed unless they are medical. No family and no grand kids running around. Quiet. Solitude. On the opposite side of the flyer was a caring and compassionate letter from the
T H E M E : ACROSS 1. Bookie’s number 5. Parents org. 8. Slang for microwave 11. Time distortion 12. One with biggest share? 13. Like a case of appendicitis, possibly 15. Decanter 16. Knowing about 17. Mister in Madrid 18. *Usually served on ice, 2 words 20. Barber’s sound 21. Accepted truth 22. Took a load off 23. Artist’s office 26. Excites passions, 2 words 30. Comic book cry of horror 31. Rude or sarcastic 34. Chips, perhaps 35. Roleplay 37. Chinese “way” 38. Ice floaters 39. 100 centavos 40. Merry 42. Table scrap
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43. Breastbone 45. *Double shot of espresso 47. Feather’s partner 48. Not here 50. Nickname for Putin? 52. *Revolutionary event 55. *”Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us,” he wrote 56. Research facil. 57. Typically used in the fairway 59. Goodbye to amiga 60. Plenty 61. Why not 62. *Black tea, in China 63. Bard’s “before” 64. Pay close attention
DOWN 1. Be in the red 2. Crows’ cousins 3. Actress Barrymore 4. More like rumors 5. ‘70s Ford model
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6. Native American emblem 7. Dwarf buffalo 8. Pueblo tribesman 9. On top 10. For each 12. Cosmetic cabinet staple 13. Allegro ____ in music, Italian 14. *____ Perk from “Friends” 19. Exit plus s 22. Eye infection 23. Oozes 24. Article of faith 25. Romanov’s edict 26. *A ____ of tea, in U.K. 27. Prowl around 28. Embryo cradles 29. Green pasta sauce 32. One on the list 33. Faux one 36. *Equal parts espresso and warm milk 38. Fauna’s partner 40. Hudson’s Bay Company original ware 41. Experts 44. Nose channels 46. Kick the bucket 48. Between countertenor and baritone 49. Make this, not waste 50. Affected by the moon 51. Went down a slippery slope 52. Kitchen flooring choice 53. Tried follower 54. Bygone era 55. *The Revolutionary one followed #52 Across 58. The Simpsons’s neighbor
Director of MDHA, James Harbison. Thank you MDHA for doing what needed to be done, for caring enough about the residents to make some hard and I’m sure unpopular decisions. Resource flyers in the elevators are much needed assistance to an elderly and poor community. Even though we’ve been preparing for this with technology for years, it’s odd to finally put it to use — those who can. We have video conferences, broadcast from our homes, shop online and have groceries delivered to our homes. Facebook and Twitter are where we chat with friends, so we don’t need to go out anywhere. Everything is as close as your keyboard. It’s lonely and sometimes scary wondering if you’ve been infected during every cough and every sniffle. I have to remind myself that allergies are bad in Nashville, so I divert my thinking to that instead of COVID-19.
So Happy to be One of the Top Sellers JAMIE W., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR Well what can I say. I’m so happy and so proud of myself to be one of the top sellers of 2019. I can’t believe this is my forth year in a row to get this award. In August I will be doing this for nine years and I’m so grateful and thankful for each and every one of my customers. God bless all of my customers. I’m also so grateful for my husband Tommy for encouraging me to get out there and do what I do. I will say if this paper is still around and if I live to see 90 and as long as I’m able, I will
be selling these papers. I love doing this and I will say this is the longest I’ve held down a job. There are some people tell me to get a “real job” and I tell them, “hey, this is my job.” But I feel so honored to get this award for the fourth year in a row and God Bless everyone at The Contributor. If it was not for this paper I would not have a job. I love talking to all kinds of people and I’m so happy to know and get to know all of my customers. They are very great and amazing people.
The Atlantic Ocean BY JASON T., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR The Atlantic Ocean is a vast expanse of water which divides the continents of Europe and Africa from North and South America. This great sea extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic and has a serious share in both polar seas of ice. The North Atlantic section has more island and a greater variety of a coastline than some of the southern portions. The Atlantic is much longer from north to south that it is from east to west. The total surface has actually been affixed at 106.4 million square kilometers or 2/km. More great rivers empty into the Atlantic than any onto any other sea. The deepest spot discovered in the Atlantic is the Nares Deep, north of Haiti and Puerto Rico, at a depth of approximately 8,526 meters.
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The Atlantic, on the surface at least, is the saltiest of the great oceans. It has been tested on and in some locations as high as 37.5 percent salt, the lowest measurement being an even 3 percent salt. One of the famous sections of the Atlantic Ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. It is separated from the outer coastline of Florida and the island groups which actually carries a cold waterfall from the south, northward into Newfoundland. From whence, the water is distributed into smaller currents each of which, river or stream, affects a different country, either giving that country a milder or hotter environment or climate than they should expect. Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, and the Azores, we are all affected. Be kind and rewind.
