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MID-WEEK EDITION MIAMIOK.COM Have a great day! Thanks for supporting your local paper! 6 54708 11050 1 MIAMI NEWS-RECORD Serving Miami and the surrounding communities since 1903. Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | Vol. 116 No. 102 | $1.00 First round of COVID vaccinations start here Jim Ellis [email protected] MIAMI — A battle in the war against COVID- 19 was launched in Miami on Thursday, Dec. 17. Seventy-five doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered to front- line caregivers at Integris Miami Hospital, with COURTESY PHOTO another 75 on Friday Jeremy Floyd is led into the Miami Police Department for booking following his arrest Friday morning. — with no significant JIM ELLIS/[email protected] reactions. Dr. Clark Osborn and RN Cory Reeves of Integris Miami Hospital, received the Dr. Clark Osborn, a first round of COVID-19 vaccinations in Ottawa County here Thursday morning. family medicine physi- Ottawa County cian, and emergency room “As a health care can eradicate this terrible Reeves said. “I hope that nurse Cory Reeves were professional, I feel like disease that has caused so by taking this vaccine my the first two to receive the it’s my responsibility to much illness and heart- co-workers, family and injections in Miami. take the vaccine so we ache in our community,” community will see that is Sheriff Jeremy safe and effective.” With the Pfizer vaccine as well as one for Mod- Floyd arrested erna that was approved by a Food and Drug Admin- arrested, hoping he would istration advisory panel Had been answer the phone so I could late Thursday, Osborn ask him to tender his resig- predicts that things could indicted by nation so we could move on get back to semi-normal grand jury and keep the citizens of this by July 4, 2021. county safe,” Ottawa County “It’s a tremendous thing,” Thursday District 3 commissioner Osborn said. “The nice Russell Earls said. “He didn’t thing is that this vaccine Jim Ellis answer the phone.” (Pfizer) is 90 to 95% effec- [email protected] Floyd was arrested at his tive at six weeks. You take residence booked in at the the shots three weeks apart.” MIAMI — Outgoing Miami Police Department He said the Moderna Ottawa County Sheriff then transferred to the vaccine has been shown to Jeremy Floyd was arrested Ottawa County Jail follow- be about 95% effective. Friday, Dec. 18 after his ing his arrest on a warrant There are another two indictment by a multi- signed by Associate District vaccines that could gain county grand jury on Judge Jennifer McCaffrey GARY CROW MNR approval in January. RN Rachel Ramsey with the Oklahoma State Department of Health prepares Thursday. in Ottawa County. the first COVID-19 Vaccinations in Ottawa County for health care workers at “I placed a call to him Integris Miami Hospital Thursday morning. SEE VACCINES, A3 earlier just before he was SEE FLOYD, A3 HOLIDAY CHEER Christmas and New Year’s events planned Carla Nielsen [email protected] MIAMI – As we prepare for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays this year, the festivities planned in the area will be COVID-19 appropri- ate, but will still offer fun and excitement, with many of the casinos also offering shuttle services to area hotels. The event roundup includes: The Buffalo Run Casino & Resort, 1000 Buffalo Run with all your traditional cherry or apple pie. Call 918- Blvd., Miami, 918-542-7140, holiday dishes and more 919-9466 to place an order. https://buffalorun.com/ from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. for Then, on Dec. 31, join in On Dec. 31, Buffalo Run $19.99. They will also offer the fun for “NYE Down- will host a “NYE 2021” “Christmas to Go” meals that stream” with over $75,000 in party and a chance to win serve up to six people for cash to be given away. There $10,000 in cash with $1,000 $74.99, or up to 10 people will also be live music and the drawings each hour from for $124.99. Meals include “largest NYE countdown” in 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. and $2,021 at Quapaw honey glazed ham, the area. The festivities will midnight. cornbread dressing, gravy, also include a New Year’s Downstream Casino cranberry sauce, the choice Eve dinner buffet from 5 to Resort, 69300 East Nee Road, of three sides — mashed 10 p.m. with prime rib, cold Quapaw, 918-919-6000, potatoes, macaroni and crab legs and oysters for GARY CROW MNR http://downstreamcasino.com cheese, glazed carrots, but- $23.99. Miami’s Christmas Tree is lit up in downtown next to Security Bank. 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Bobby Shaffer Jr., 44, died Winningham in the parking lot of the Red Dirt Bar in Colcord COURTESY PHOTO On March 11, Win- The Three Wise Men in the nativity at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Grove are being wise by following after an argument with ningham pled guilty to the CDC recommendations and have masked up. Winningham. charge. He was sentenced Tristan Kauffeld, 21, was in Delaware County and also injured in the alterca- received 20 years on the tion and survived. Manslaughter charge (with Winningham was all but the first 10 years GARDEN arrested that night and was suspended), 10 years for the charged with Manslaughter Assault and Battery, 10 years in the First Degree, Assault for Leaving the Scene of an OF THE and Battery in the First Accident with Injury and Degree, Leaving the Scene two years on the final charge. 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RECORDS Obits and death notices are updated throughout the day at www.miamiok.com. before being used, then think you have to weigh the blessed to be the first in NE vaccine here and available Thursday an early Christ- VACCINES mixed with a small amount risk of having COVID-19 Oklahoma to get the Pfizer to give to our caregivers is mas gi to himself, his CONTINUED FROM A1 of saline solution. vs. the risks of taking the vaccination. It’s a very very exciting.” family and the community. “The vast majority of my vaccine. I think the safest exciting time. Sam Ratermann, M.D., “It will help keep me on While the Pfizer vaccine patients are anxious to take thing by far at this point is “We do everything we FAAFP, director of the the front lines caring for must be stored at minus-70 it once its available,” Osborn take the vaccine.” can to protect our staff hospitalist program at Inte- COVID patients, as well as degrees Celsius — colder said.