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2 May 26, 2021 News/Obits Round Exchange Continued from page 1. “We live in Elk City, but the kids go to school at Canute. I love that school sys- tem. The baseball program is among the best in the state, and I don’t see that tures. Mike had never put on a glove or thrown a baseball. He got a hit last week. Basketball is more important in Italy. He got to be our homecoming king,” Le- pudding. He loved both of those things. Believe it or not, he also loved Velvetta and shells. You don’t expect an Italian kid to love the most American pasta, but he changing for a long time. I hope it never Grand said. Town least one more year of high school in It- aly after he leaves the country,” LeGrand does. We want that to be a legacy pro- gram, but it had to start somewhere. The As Mike packs to return to Italy on the first of June, his host parents are packing does,” he said. “I am excited to see my family and my people of Canute embraced us and knew him with his favorite American foods. friends,” said Michelle. “Milan is very dif- said. May 28 ferent than here, but I want to go back for Mike got to play on the Canute High we were there for the right reasons. Then “Courtney has pretty well made him Baseball and Softball See- School baseball team’s state champion- enter the exchange students who were a care package with everything he will family. If not for my loved ones, Oklaho- ing Home Tournament, Elk ship. coming from big cities with different cul- need to make ranch dressing and banana ma would be my favorite place.” City 5 Plex. May 30 Baseball and Softball See- ing Home Tournament, Elk Hill time now with cryptocurrency and DogeCoin, so I am excited to see what I will learn in col- was in a group. The choir won sweepstakes this year. Elk City has a great golf program and a “I’m going to miss my mom’s chicken Alfredo the most. It is better than any- work a while in Oklahoma City, but I will be looking to go to a smaller town. That is Continued from page 1. lege,” Hill said. great choir program. I think I thing you would get at Olive City 5 Plex. Aside from being a super will retire my vocal pipes now, Garden,” Hill boasted. what is familiar to me, and it’s “I don’t know for sure competitor on the golf course, though,” he quipped. While he joked that he home. I don’t think I would where I will end up living. I Hill also was a starting point Hill’s favorite food is hasn’t read a book since the June 4 like the business finance side have gotten the kind of men- guard for Elk City High School. chicken Alfredo, and his favor- fifth grade, he said that Step 51st Annual Oil and Gas because investment strategies torship I did here anywhere “I was in choir, too. I don’t ite restaurant is the Wedge in Brothers is his favorite movie. Industry Appreciation Golf interest me. We are in a weird like singing by myself, so I Oklahoma City. “After I finish school, I may else,” he said. Tournament, Elk City Golf Course June 5 Dr. Chad Kinder Named SWOSU Special Assistant 51st Annual Oil and Gas Industry Appreciation Golf Tournament, Elk City Golf to the President forStrategic Partnerships Course the president for strategic force and technical centers, the department’s inception SWOSU. He earned his Doctor partnerships at Southwestern and institutions of higher in 2003. For over nine years, of Education degree from Route 66 City Wide Ga- Oklahoma State University education. Kinder served as park manag- Oklahoma State University. (SWOSU) in Weatherford ef- “Dr. Kinder has proven er and law enforcement ranger rage Sales, addresses to be Kinder is a past president fective July 1. himself as a pioneering leader at Crowder Lake University published June 2. Kinder will continue his in this area, and I look forward Park. and a two-time vice president duties as dean of the SWOSU to working with him in the He has created numerous of the Oklahoma Association Baseball Big West Bash College of Professional and future,” Lovell said. academic programs including Graduate Studies (CPGS). Kinder has been employed degrees in parks and recre- for Health, Physical Education, Tournament, Elk City 5 Plex In his added role, SWOSU at SWOSU since 1997 and has ation management, parks and Recreation and Dance and a incoming President Diana been dean of the CPGS since wildlife law enforcement, and director for the Southwest June 6 Lovell said Kinder will con- 2016. Before that, he served wildland firefighting. Park and Recreation Training Baseball Big West Bash tinue his innovative work at as associate dean of the School Prior to his employment at enlarging the opportunities of Behavioral Sciences and SWOSU, Kinder taught in the Institute. He was the 2020 Tournament, Elk City 5 Plex for more students to obtain Education for some 10 years. Custer City and Clinton Public president of the Weatherford Kinder a great SWOSU education by He also served as founding Schools. June 11 Rotary Club. He and his wife, establishing creative partner- chair of the Parks and Recre- Kinder holds Bachelor of Block Party Elk City, Dr. Chad Kinder has been ships with other organizations ation Management Depart- Science in Education and Mas- Gayla, have two children— Downtown Elk City and named special assistant to such as school districts, work- ment, a position he held since ter of Education degrees from Natalie and Carson. Route 66 Festival Cruies Night. June 12 Route 66 Festival, Down- What do California, Texas, New York and Florida town Elk City, Activities, car show, food vendors, musi- have in common? Stunningly low infection rates cand BBQ cook-Off. John Woolfolk, The Mer- Troisi, a professor of com- mid-April. But he remains a according to the CDC, with putting off a broad removal June 14 cury News munity health and epidemi- bit puzzled why Texas has fol- 54% of its total population of business capacity limits ology at the University of lowed a similar downward tra- having received at least one and most other elements of Paint the Town Purple, Perhaps no states rep- Texas Health Science Center at jectory as California, though shot compared with 53% in the state’s color-coded tiered Western Oklahoma Alzheim- resent the red-blue divide Houston. “But we haven’t vac- its rate of new infections is New York, 47% in Florida and restrictions until June 15, er’s Collaborative. better than deeply Democratic cinated everybody, we haven’t still higher than the Golden 42% in Texas. when it also will loosen mask California and New York and gotten to herd immunity. State. Mask mandates: California rules. New York took a similar Republican-run Texas and It’s probably not the whole “Texas for some reason has in June 2020 required face step Wednesday. Texas lifted June 15 Florida. And their approaches answer.” skated,” Rutherford said. masks for everyone down to its business capacity restric- Paint the Town Purple, to fighting the COVID-19 The answer to what’s driv- Here’s how the four big age 2 in most settings outside tions March 10. Florida lifted pandemic, from mask rules to ing down infection rates in states compared: the home, easing the rule all local COVID-19 restrictions Western Oklahoma Alzheim- shutdowns to online schools, states that define the coun- Infection rates: Like the earlier this month to let the May 3. er’s Collaborative. have been quite different, try’s stark divide is more than rest of the country, the four fully vaccinated forgo face Schools: Schools around with the Golden and Empire a quest for political bragging big states all suffered a deadly coverings outdoors except the country closed as CO- states more aggressive with rights. It can help identify surge in cases over the winter, in crowds. The state put off VID-19 swept the country in June 16 public health mandates while sound strategies for the next but California was the hardest until June 15 new CDC guid- the spring of 2020, but they Paint the Town Purple, the Sunshine and Lone Star public health crisis. hit. The seven-day moving ance that the vaccinated may haven’t been found to drive states have been out front on Dr. George Rutherford, an average number of cases per go maskless except in a few community infections and Western Oklahoma Alzheim- many resumed a partial or full reopening. epidemiologist at the Univer- 100,000 people shot up in indoor settings like public er’s Collaborative. But there is one thing they sity of California, San Fran- January to 114 in Califor- transit. New York replaced return of kids to classrooms now share: COVID-19 case cisco, said declining case rates nia, according to the CDC. It its 13-month mask mandate last fall. California has been rates have been falling in all reflect a number of things — reached 95 in New York, 82 in similar to California’s on among the slowest to fully June 17 reopen schools, with less than four of the country’s largest how much virus is currently Florida and 79 in Texas. But Wednesday with the new CDC Paint the Town Purple, states, particularly over the circulating; how much disease California also saw the sharp- guidance. Texas ended its one in four districts operating last month, according to data there has been in the com- est drop in cases and currently 8-month mask requirement fully in-person rather than Western Oklahoma Alzheim- from the U.S. Centers for Dis- munity, allowing resistance to boasts the lowest rate, a mere March 10 and as of Friday partly or fully remote. About er’s Collaborative. one in four New York districts ease Control and Prevention. build as more people recover 1.3. The rate now sits at 6.5 will fine local agencies that at- And experts say their similar from infection; vaccination in Texas, 9.5 in New York and tempt to impose them. Florida are fully in person and 78% fates can’t simply be explained rates; and virus variants. 13.8 in Florida, all of which has never had a state mask of Texas districts, while all June 18 Florida schools are fully open. by the success of vaccines. He noted that Florida, saw smaller spikes this year as requirement, and on May 3 Paint the Town Purple, “Certainly it shows that which has the highest case case rates fell. suspended all local COVID-19 What to make of all that? Western Oklahoma Alzheim- vaccinating people helps cut rate among the four big states, Vaccinations: California restrictions and mask require- Rutherford said widespread down on transmission, and is only just recovering after a also has the highest vaccina- ments statewide. infection in Southern Cali- er’s Collaborative. that’s great,” said Catherine March surge that peaked in tion rate among the big states, Reopening: California is See COVID page 3. Make Dad Famous! 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