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VOL. 101 | NO. 160 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun County not selling HRMC yet By PHIL ATTINGER said that a sale could six or seven years. subject to a public hear- STAFF WRITER get a bit complicated, If sold, it would be ing process, given that it’s especially with the sold subject to the lease, sale of county property. SEBRING — After facility leased to Hospital Carmichael said: “Not “We would be better off talking about priorities Corporation of America. many entities would be to wait,” Commissioner Tuesday, county com- Carmichael said the interested in that.” Greg Harris said. “We missioners decided now hospital campus consists For that reason, she could remove this from is not a good time to of more than one parcel said the county may not one of our priorities for sell Highlands Regional owned by the Highlands be ready at this point to the year.” Medical Center. County Hospital District, sell that property. The proposal from FILE PHOTO In her report, County with the lease on the In addition, she said, Attorney Joy Carmichael property set for another any purchase would be SELL | 2A Highlands Regional Medical Center. County to keep foreclosures in-house Outside firm, hired on contingency, now let go By PHIL ATTINGER STAFF WRITER

SEBRING — County commissioners have decided they don’t want to bring in an outside law firm to help with foreclosing on properties for code liens. The idea came up at the mid-May meeting after a coastal-county legal firm offered to take on any outstanding cases for the county for an hourly rate and a percentage of any settlements. The Board had voted unanimously on May 19 to take on the outside attorney on a contingency basis, but reversed that decision last Tuesday — unanimously — by voting to keep all foreclosure cases in-house. It was originally a consent item on the JERRY MEISENHEIMER/CORRESPONDENT May 19 agenda, meaning it would have been approved en masse with several other items. St. James Director of the RCIA program, Carol Muir, enjoys a hug from Rev. Ireneo Lopez-Tovar, who is celebrating his 70 years of priest- However, Commissioner Arlene Tuck asked hood. to have it pulled and added to the action agenda for discussion. It would have been an agreement between Father Lopez-Tovar hits 70 years in priesthood Highlands County and Weidner Law, a probate attorney in Tampa, to foreclose on By JERRY MEISENHEIMER himself in Arcadia. He appropriate open code enforcement liens. CORRESPONDENT loved the climate and Linda Conrad, zoning supervisor, had told decided to stay. For many commissioners that the fiscal impact would LAKE PLACID — On years, he helped out at St. depend on the number of cases referred to June 5, 1950, Father Ireneo James and the surrounding Weidner Law, but recommended the propos- Lopez-Tovar fulfilled his parishes. Now, at age 95, al from the firm, because it would provide father’s dream when he was he lives in a condo in Lake additional revenue that has previously gone ordained a Catholic priest Placid, and says Mass at St. uncollected. in Burzos, Spain. And over James as often as he is able. At the May 19 meeting,Tuck had concerns the past 70 years, he has So, on June 3, in spite that the county already has an attorney shared God’s Word with of the coronavirus, a in-house and would then consider hiring people around the world. special concelebrated another attorney for foreclosures while still Father Lopez-Tovar tells Mass was held on the day seeking an assistant county attorney. how his father would take of his 70th anniversary “Why do we need so many attorneys?” him on walks when he was of being a priest. Three Tuck asked. “If we have an attorney, an as- only 6 years old. When other priests assisted. sistant attorney and a paralegal, I don’t think they would see a church, They were the pastor we need to be hiring these other outside his father would tell him of St. James, Reverend [attorneys].” that one day he would be a JERRY MEISENHEIMER/CORRESPONDENT Vincent Clemente, the Tuck said the county’s in-house attorney bishop. Unfortunately, his Jean Warren of St. James Catholic Church presents a decorated cake pastor of St. Catherine’s and her staff, once an assistant is hired, father passed away around to Father Ireneo Lopez-Tovar at a reception in his honor. parish, Reverend Jose should be able to handle the code lien case- that time and wasn’t at his Gonzalez and Reverend load and the resale of those properties. ordination, at least not as only people with British come to the United States Felix Gonzales of the Commission Chair Ron Handley said in physically. But Reverend passports were allowed to and minister to the agri- Spanish Catholic Church May he would only be willing to take on the Lopez-Tovar always stay in the country. During cultural workers there. So, in Lake Placid. Italy, Spain, firm if they would do the first case pro bono, remembered those words. his 22 plus years in the for another 20 some years, and Venezuela, were so that he could see how effective the firm Since becoming a mission field, he had to Father Lopez-Tovar served represented. would be. priest at age 25, back in learn four different African the spiritual needs of Members of the con- He didn’t like the proposed hourly rate and Spain, Father Lopez-Tovar tribal languages. Puerto Rican and Mexican gregation prayed along potential of a 30-40% fee on any collected volunteered to become a Father Lopez-Tovar was migrant workers. while wearing their pro- liens. missionary to Africa, serv- befriended by the Apostolic One of those workers tective masks and social “My take is, if they want that deal, then ing in Southern Rhodesia Delegate from Rome, who asked if he would come distancing. (called Zimbabwe today). would become the Bishop down to Florida to baptize Following the 11 a.m. COUNTY | 2A In order to do that he had of Camden, New Jersey. his child. Father Lopez- to become a British citizen The bishop invited him to Tovar accepted and found PRIEST | 2A County virus toll hits 146

HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN STAFF more cases, but it was the first day since May 31 the county Several more cases of has a positive testing rate COVID-19 were reported in of less than 10%. Eleven of Highlands County with the the cases are in correctional release of Sunday’s numbers facilities and 16 from long-term by the Florida Department of care establishments. Health. The number of cases Glades County didn’t see any in the county has risen to 146, new cases for the day, but only with 144 of those Highlands received three test results back County residents. There have and held at 84 cases, with 43 been 39 hospitalizations and of those involving correctional nine deaths from the virus. facilities. Highlands County has seen Hardee County added four 11 cases involving long-term new cases and now stands at additional cases. The county It was another day with more big testing day for Florida and care facilities and one case 145 cases. now has seen 138 cases, with 30 than 1,000 new cases in the the percentage of positive tests that is related to a correctional Okeechobee County contin- of those involving correctional state, with an increase of 1,100 institution. ued its upward climb with 14 facilities. and 12 more deaths. It was a VIRUS | 2A DeSoto County added five

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5 THINGS fee be a portion of the proceeds of Almanac That Will Make You COUNTY the settlement and sale. SMARTER FROM PAGE 1A Tuck argued, instead, that the Today is Monday, June 8, the county should do all cases in- 160th day of 2020. There are 206 they need to prove to us that they house, “and we can make all the days left in the year. can do that and they can do the fi rst money.” 1. Frank Lloyd Wright and axed those who one gratis,” Handley said. “Then Commissioners asked Carmichael Today in history produced more than attempted to escape. they can show us that they can to look into the matter, and she 1,000 architectural 4. Wright is the make money at it and we can, too.” reported last Tuesday that, in the On June 8, 1967, during the designs. During his rumored inspiration Commissioner Greg Harris said past, the county attorney had han- six-day Middle East war, 34 lifetime, Wright designed behind Ayn Rand’s The the matter is time-consuming, but dled code enforcement foreclosure American servicemen were 1,114 buildings, but Fountainhead. Ayn would prefer to give them two or issues. killed when Israel attacked only 532 of them were Rand’s seminal work, three cases up front, to see if the Commissioner Don Elwell said the USS Liberty, a Navy intel- actually completed. The Fountainhead, is attorney can handle them. last week that the matter is a ligence-gathering ship in the 2. In 1937, Frank Lloyd a novel about a young County Attorney Joy Carmichael “capacity issue” for him. Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later Wright was invited to architect, Howard Roark, suggested, at that meeting, that the “If the staff has the capacity to do said the Liberty had been mis- Moscow to attend the who chooses to stand Board consider such an offer only it, all day long, I’d prefer you do it,” taken for an Egyptian vessel.) First All-Union Congress by his modernist archi- on a contingency basis: Letting the Elwell said. of Soviet Architects. tectural designs even On this date Initially he refused though others reject his the invitation because ideas. In 1845, Andrew Jackson, he was suffering from 5. Wright coined seventh president of the United pneumonia. However, he the term ‘organic States, died in Nashville, later changed his mind architecture.’ Wright’s Tennessee. and traveled to Moscow architectural philosophy, In 1864, Abraham Lincoln in June. “organic architecture,” was nominated for another 3. Wright’s Wisconsin was partially inspired term as president during the home called Taliesin was by his adoration of National Union (Republican) the center of controversy Japanese architecture. Party’s convention in Baltimore. ever since its construc- The term refers to a style In 1867, modern American tion in 1911. Tragedy that attempts to find the architect Frank Lloyd Wright struck on September perfect balance between was born in Richland Center, 15, 1914 when Wright’s man, nature and design. Wisconsin. servant Julian Carlton Source: theculturetrip. In 1966, a merger was an- set fire to the building com nounced between the National and American Football Leagues, FILE PHOTO to take effect in 1970. In 1968, authorities an- Highlands Regional Medical Center. nounced the capture in London LOTTERY NUMBERS of James Earl Ray, the suspected - Establishing the best route assassin of civil rights leader Dr. SELL through the county for the pro- Martin Luther King Jr. POWERBALL JACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY FROM PAGE 1A posed Southwest Florida Connector In 1978, a jury in Clark toll road between Collier and Polk County, Nevada, ruled the Saturday, June 6, 2020 Friday, June 5, 2020 Highlands County Community Counties. 1-17-38-68-69-18-x2 4-14-15-26-41-45 so-called “Mormon will,” Services was to use the proceeds - Develop a plan of action for purportedly written by the Winning Numbers Winning Numbers of that sale to start an endowment utility extensions. Next Jackpot: Next Jackpot: late billionaire Howard Hughes, to help the county support local - Build reserves for up to 3.5 was a forgery. Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Tuesday, June 9, 2020 nonprofi t organizations. months of operations and plan for $22 MILLION $275,000 In 1998, the National Rifl e In January, when commissioners a millage reduction, which may be Association elected actor hampered by expected reductions MEGA MILLIONS FANTASY 5 were setting priorities for the year, Charlton Heston to be its Commissioner Jim Brooks said he in revenue thanks to the COVID-19 president. Friday, June 5, 2020 Saturday, June 6, 2020 wished he had listed selling the pandemic. Ten years ago: In high-profi le 32-35-37-47-55-22-x3 3-11-23-26-35 Highlands Regional Medical Center - Make hurricane shelter up- Republican state primaries, Winning Numbers building as one of his priorities. grades, to include establishing a Meg Whitman won the nomi- Next Jackpot: PICK 5 Commission Chair Ron Handley pet-friendly shelter. nation for California governor Tuesday, June 9, 2020 said it was his “own little pet peeve, - Design and prepare a succession while Carly Fiorina got the $410 MILLION Sunday, June 7, 2020 “ adding that the county didn’t need plan for county administration. nod to oppose three-term 4-5-4-5-2 “to be in the hospital business any - Streamline county bureaucracy Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer; LOTTO Saturday, June 6, 2020 more.” to protect and grow the local in Nevada, Sharron Angle won 3-1-2-9-4 Other commission priorities, in economy by expanding existing the right to oppose Senate Saturday, June 6, 2020 order of priority, are: businesses and keeping an eye on Majority Leader Harry Reid. 27-32-36-38-43-50-x5 PICK 4 - Establishing a countywide road new opportunities. Five years ago: Siding Winning Numbers repaving and maintenance program - Improving the recycling with the White House in a Next Jackpot: Sunday, June 7, 2020 - Developing a standard fi re program, which is on hold at the foreign-policy power struggle Wednesday, June 10, 2020 3-4-5-1 house design for the entire county moment as the hauler has the pro- with Congress, the Supreme $3.5 MILLION Saturday, June 6, 2020 and continuing to improve the fi re cessing facility closed and has asked Court ruled 6-3 that Americans 4-6-1-2 and emergency medical services for and been denied a rate increase born in the disputed city of CASH 4 LIFE department. to cover costs for the program. Jerusalem could not list Israel PICK 3 as their birthplace on passports. Saturday, June 6, 2020 One year ago: Eighth-seeded 13-24-32-40-49-3 Sunday, June 7, 2020 8-8-6 Ash Barty won her fi rst major Winning Numbers tennis championship, beating Top Prize: Saturday, June 6, 2020 8-2-2 Marketa Vondrousova in the Sunday, June 7, 2020 French Open women’s fi nal. $1,000/DAY FOR LIFE PICK 2 Today’s birthdays Sunday, June 7, 2020 Actress Millicent Martin is 86. 8-1 Actor James Darren is 84. Singer Saturday, June 6, 2020 Nancy Sinatra is 80. Musician 7-1 Boz Scaggs is 76. Author Sara JERRY MEISENHEIMER/CORRESPONDENT Paretsky is 73. Rock singer After a special Mass at St James Catholic Church in Lake Placid, Fathers Vincente Clem- Bonnie Tyler is 69. Actor Griffi n ente, Ireneo Lopez-Tovar, Jose Gonzalez and Felix Gonzales pose for a group photo. Dunne is 65. “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is 63. Actor- director Keenen Ivory Wayans nun, was able to attend his 50th is 62. Musician Nick Rhodes PRIEST anniversary, 20 years ago. But, this (Duran Duran) is 58. Actor year she wasn’t able to come from FROM PAGE 1A Eion Bailey is 44. Former tennis Spain due to the virus; but, more player Lindsay Davenport is importantly because she just turned Mass, all were treated to lunch and 44. Rapper Kanye West is 43. 100. desserts, including a decorated cake Former tennis player Kim Father Lopez-Tovar wishes to for the occasion. Father Lopez- Clijsters is 37. Actress Torrey thank all those who participated in Tovar reminisced that his sister, a DeVitto is 36. his special day. Bible verse per million population and is No. “Confess your faults one 7 in cases per million population VIRUS to another, and pray one for among countries which have seen FROM PAGE 1A another, that ye may be healed. at least 10,000 COVID-19 cases. The effectual fervent prayer of a Globally, the world eclipsed the was lower than it has been any day righteous man availeth much.” 400,000 death mark and there have for the last two weeks. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a Miami suburb, rapper with some of Floyd’s last Rick Ross attended a words: “I can’t breathe.” ST. PETERSBURG — protest. Police weren’t visible During a break in the rain About 100 protesters at the protest, but Gland Saturday, several hundred gathered Saturday at said that earlier in the protesters sat in an inter- President Donald Trump’s day, some top officers section in downtown St. golf resort in Doral, from the city’s depart- Petersburg and chanted Florida, just outside ment wanted to march against racism. Miami. The protest was “in solidarity.” At one “No KKK no racist organized by Latinos for point, the city’s police USA,” the crowd yelled. Black Lives Matter. Many chief asked the news It was one of dozens of carried signs saying such media to leave. mobilizations in Florida things as “Vote Him Out” The Tampa Bay Times against police brutality, and “Don’t Be A Bunker reported that Chief sparked by the death of Boy,” the latter a reference Anthony Holloway said George Floyd, who died to reports that Trump the media was hampering May 25 at the hands of went into the White efforts to relate with pro- police in Minneapolis. House bunker when testers, but that reporters From Miami protests in Washington could stay. to Jacksonville to got more violent. Trump “(The protesters) felt Tallahassee and many cit- insists he only went there we were using this as ies in between, thousands briefly for an inspection. a media opportunity,” of people marched and In Doral, about a dozen LYNNE SLADKY/AP PHOTO Holloway told a Times chanted, stopping traffic police officers were on People protest over the death of George Floyd outside of the Trump National Doral, Saturday, reporter. “What we’re and demanding change. hand for the protest but June 6. trying to create is unity.” “It’s beautiful,” said did not take any actions. That wasn’t possible 28-year-old Nick Williams In Orlando, thousands reported that Sheriff John demonstration by demanded more citizen with the media there, in St. Petersburg. “It of people marched Mina told demonstrators calling out the names of oversight of law enforce- Holloway said. shows the city has come around Lake Eola, the his agency added a policy residents fatally shot by ment, using local and When the reporters together over all the city’s downtown park. this week that requires Sheriff’s Office personnel. state money for health mentioned the media had injustices.” Around 7:30 p.m. in deputies to intervene So far, 10 suspects have care and social services a 1st Amendment right to In Tampa, former Orlando, a possible tor- when they see miscon- been shot by Jacksonville instead of policing, and to be there, Holloway said Tampa Bay Buccaneers nado was spotted close to duct by their colleagues. police this year with six enact some sort of citizen “You have every right to coach Tony Dungy downtown, where a group Many who heard the dead, according to the accountability board to be here.” was one of many who of protesters gathered. message said it’s a start Times-Union. help set police policy. Eventually the police marched from a church There was no word of but not enough. About 1,000 gathered in Terron Gland, the left and didn’t march with to a mall that was hit with injuries. In Jacksonville, Tallahassee. Like the pro- organizer of St. Pete Peace the group. violence last weekend. In The Orlando Sentinel protesters began the testers elsewhere, people Protest, wore a black shirt Comforting the dying and their families — from a distance By LANE DEGREGORY TAMPA BAY TIMES

TAMPA — She gets to work early these days, now that there’s so much more need. When she turns into the empty parking lot at the hospice care COURTESY PHOTO center, the sun is just starting to brighten the sky. “Sail On: The Beach Boys Tribute” from Nashville, Tenn. is scheduled to She pulls on her mask and perform in South Florida State College’s Performing Arts Matinee Series in heads into the one-story brick March 2021. building where a nurse takes JOHN PENDYGRAFT/TAMPA BAY TIMES VIA AP her temperature. The long halls Suncoast Hospice Spiritual Care Coordinator Victoria Long talks with a are empty. Normally, patients’ hospice resident Tuesday, May 19 in St. Petersburg. SFSC Performing Arts families would be napping on the sofas in the Hearth Room, patients without a mask, circles the room number: 49. praying in the chapel, sitting holding their hands. She got “Hi, I’m Victoria. I’m glad prepping for next season beside relatives’ beds. But for a grant to buy four iPads for to see you’re resting,” she tells the last two months, the com- the chaplains and learned to the woman with sepsis, just By MARC VALERO respect for differing beliefs and mon rooms have been closed, Zoom, so she can connect after 10 a.m. Long squirts hand STAFF WRITER values, and enrich humanity.” the chapel shuttered. patients with grandkids. She sanitizer into her palm, rubs Cindy Garren, director of Dying people are alone. helps families set chairs outside her hands, bends over the AVON PARK — It’s the usual Cultural Programs, indicated Except for the hospice staff. relatives’ windows, so they can railed bed. The sheet is balled lull period for South Florida that the grant was written to Victoria Long walks into her at least wave good-bye. up beneath the patient’s cheek. State College’s Performing Arts, focus on local residents. office and logs onto her laptop She also ministers to patients’ She’s grimacing. but scheduling is being final- “A lot of performances are to see who has passed, who families — mostly by phone Long steps into the hall, pulls ized for the upcoming season available in our community came in, who she can help. now. And since visits are so on purple gloves, then returns. of shows. December to March, but A spreadsheet called “House restricted, she’s sitting in for The woman seems like she’s SFSC Director of Cultural not a lot during the summer Census” offers a daily update: many as a surrogate. “I can’t asleep, but Long assumes she Programs Cindy Garren said the months,” she said. “We need Two patients died overnight. replace the patients’ loved can hear her. “Is this better?” shows they present are usually to focus on local residents— Four people were admitted. ones,” she says. “But I can be asks the chaplain, folding the done by the first week in April. the people who live here One man’s sister is requesting there by their bedsides.” covers away from the patient’s There are no college events year-round.” a priest, a nurse wrote in the Volunteers who used to sit face. “You just get comfortable. nor dance recitals in the These grants are very hard chart. with patients are now barred I’m going to call your husband Wildstein Center for the to get as SFSC competes with At 7:30 a.m., Long calls her from the building, too. So hos- and see if he can come be with Performing Arts, she said. larger institutions in major cit- friend, the Rev. Kevin Yarnell pice doctors, nurses and social you.” Generally in the past years ies, Garren said. She would like from Sacred Heart. Can you workers have taken on those The woman doesn’t respond. there has been one show in to hold two free performances come quickly? The man’s sister roles. And “spiritual care givers” Back in her office, Long November and one show in next fall and two the following is Catholic and wants him to like Long are trying to take care hangs up her mask and makes December. spring. have last rites. of their co-workers. the call. “Good morning!” she “So we are just planning Garren said that during the As a chaplain at Suncoast “They’re working extra shifts, says and introduces herself. “I everything is going to [happen COVID-19 pandemic, offering Hospice’s mid-county care working harder while they’re just checked on your wife, she’s in] January, February, March performances is difficult. But center, Long tries to make sure here, worrying about spouses quiet and resting. If you want and April,” Garren said. “We’ve she has a plan—she would like every patient gets the spiritual who lost jobs, trying to virtually to come be with her, you can planned a full and vibrant and to stage outdoor performances help they need at the end of school their kids, anxious about come back today.” pretty exciting season for next on the Highlands Campus in their lives. She doesn’t try to their elderly parents and even The man seems surprised. year.” Avon Park. “We would be able save people or convert them. about buying groceries,” she He thought he couldn’t visit. Next season’s performers are to accommodate social distanc- Just find peace. says. “How are you doing?” Long “kind of set,” but schedules are ing—we have lots of outdoor When the coronavirus struck In hospice, she says, you see asks. “How long have you been still moving around she said, spaces, and we have plenty of in early March, and hospitals folks of every demographic, ev- married? … Oh, that’s a long for example a show that was parking.” barred visitors, many families ery background, every income. time to be with one woman. scheduled for the first week of Also, South Florida State moved terminally ill relatives Some crave salvation. Others Oh, you want 30 more years? January may have changed its College’s (SFSC) Performing into Suncoast’s care center are atheists. Some are ready to I’m so sorry.” touring route and will now be Arts was recently awarded a instead. The 40-room facility in die. Others fight the inevitable. She asks how they met, about coming in February, she said. $3,700 Performing Arts Touring Pinellas Park usually operates at A 49-year-old man with lung his wife’s personality, how long “I am finalizing all of our Grant from South Arts, an or- about half-capacity. But by late cancer came in yesterday, one he has cared for her. Eventually, dates,” Garren said. The Artist ganization that supports artists March, all the beds were full. nurse reports. It had spread to she asks about religion. My Series and Matinee Series and arts presenters in nine Some patients who have his brain, leaving him confused wife is Catholic, the man says. are booked and everything is Southern states—Alabama, COVID-19 come from nursing and combative. “He keeps So am I. “Would she want to booked for next year. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, homes, others from hospitals. pleading,” the nurse says. “He be anointed by a priest?” Long Garren expects to announce Louisiana, Mississippi, North They’re placed in “isolation wants to go home.” asks. Silence, then she hears the season’s performance Carolina, South Carolina, and rooms” at Suncoast’s three care A 75-year-old woman, a slight sob. “Would that be schedule this month. Tennessee. centers. At each one, a nurse admitted the day before, is important to her? Or to you?” South Florida State College’s SFSC Performing Arts asks visitors about their health, restless, in pain, dying of sepsis. Before she calls Father Kevin, Cultural Programs Department has been awarded grants their their travels and takes “She seems imminent,” says she checks the spreadsheet. was recently awarded a $10,000 from South Arts in the past, their temperatures. the nurse. Long writes: “Call The man whose sister had re- grant through the National including last year’s Artist In early April, the care husband.” quested last rites has died. “You Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Series performance of “The center started limiting visitors. Another patient has kidney got there just in time for him,” initiative called Grants for Arts Nutcracker,” presented by the Relatives are only allowed to failure and stopped taking Long tells the priest. “I hate to Projects. South Carolina Ballet. The get the patient settled during a dialysis. Doctors predicted bother you again, when you According to the NEA, Grants recent grant will be used to “tuck-in visit” and at the very death in 10 days. “This is an were already here today. But we for Arts Projects supports book “Sail On: The Beach Boys end, when a doctor determines unusual case,” the doctor says. have a woman who’s imminent, “artistically excellent projects Tribute” from Nashville, Tenn. the person is about to die. The person already planned whose husband would like a that celebrate our creativity and for the Matinee Series in March Long misses smiling at their funeral and doesn’t seem priest.” cultural heritage, invite mutual 2021. upset that the end is near. Long A4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 8, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com NATIONAL NEWS Criminals stealing unemployment benefits as claims surge

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS well-being of these peo- from where. The memo In other cases, crimi- ple and when they will get said that Washington nals are targeting people Criminals are seizing this resolved and get the was the hardest-hit state with false job offers, on a surge in job losses money they need to live but there was evidence assistance filing unem- to steal unemployment on,” said Eva Velasquez, of attacks in North ployment and to glean benefits from Americans president and CEO of the Carolina, Massachusetts, personal information. nationwide. This com- nonprofit Identity Theft Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Other people may also plicates an already tough Resource Center, which Wyoming and Florida. be targeted and used as situation for millions has seen a sharp jump The California cybersecu- “mules” to move money of financially strapped in calls for help with rity firm Agari estimated for the criminals. Americans and over- unemployment fraud. last week that at least 11 Experts warn that if whelmed state unemploy- Since mid-March, states have been targeted. a criminal has enough ment offices. 42.7 million people have On Thursday, officials While there’s no exact applied for unemploy- in Washington said the information to make an unemployment claim, measure of how many ment benefits, though NAM Y. HUH/AP FILE PHOTO state has recovered fraudulent claims have some have been rehired $333 million out an they have enough infor- been made, states from as states allow businesses In this Wednesday, May 13 file photo, a sign announces a store estimated $550 million mation to commit other Washington to Maine say to reopen. On Thursday, closing in Niles, Ill. Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to $650 million paid out acts of identity theft. So they’ve seen an increase the federal government to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide. fraudulently. people need to protect and numerous federal said 21.5 million people The uptick in crime complicates an already tough situation Those with jobs themselves from further agencies are working to are receiving jobless for millions of financially strapped Americans and overwhelmed are also targets of the harm by freezing their fight it. aid. That creates added state unemployment offices. fraudsters. Blake Victor credit and monitoring “About 10% of (un- opportunity for criminals. the bulk of the fraud state, their employer and Kent said that last week their credit regularly for employment insurance) An extra $600 a week in appears to be committed file a police report. But he got a letter from any irregularities. payments are improper benefits makes it more by criminals using stolen resolving the issue and the Massachusetts People should practice under the best of times, lucrative. data to make claims using getting proper payment Department of good cyber hygiene and we are in the worst Additionally, state someone else’s identity. means going through Unemployment as well, suggests John of times,” Scott Dahl, unemployment agencies The information has the state agency that Assistance informing him Breyault, who manages the inspector general have been overwhelmed that they had com- often been gleaned from processes unemployment the National Consumers for the U.S. Labor by claims and are work- menced payments for his prior data breaches or benefit claims, which League’s Fraud Center. Department, told the ing to get payments to unemployment claim. direct attacks on state is potentially already That means changing House Subcommittee on those in need as fast as “That’s funny, because passwords regularly, us- Government Operations. possible. In some cases, systems. overwhelmed. I am still employed,” he ing two-factor authenti- Dahl estimated that at security experts say the In many cases, victims The U.S. Secret Service said. cation whenever possible least $26 billion in bene- new processes, added don’t know they have issued a memo last Kent thought his infor- fits could be wasted, with workload and outdated been affected until they month that suggested a mation may have been to log into accounts and the bulk of that going to systems may have made apply for benefits and well-organized Nigerian exposed when he was a being wary of offers that fraudsters. it easier for criminals to find out someone has fraud ring was targeting victim of a data breach seem too good to be true, This forces unemployed act. beat them to the punch. state unemployment a few years back. But his whether that is by phone, workers, already reeling “This is El Dorado for Some even find their systems, according to the employer, Massachusetts online, mail or in person. from the loss of a job, to them and it’s pure hell benefit payments halted New York Times, which General Hospital, sent “Until this unemploy- fight for the benefits they for victims,” said Adam when a criminal usurps got a copy of the docu- an email a few days later ment problem starts to need and are entitled to. Levin, founder of data their benefits. ment. But agents were to staff saying they were recede, this is going to be “We are deeply security firm CyberScout. Victims should report still working to pinpoint aware of a number of a problem that sticks with concerned about the Security experts say a suspected fraud to the who was involved and such cases for employees. us,” Breyault said. Deputy killed in California ambush by Air Force sergeant THE ASSOCIATED PRESS arrested. Hart said Carrillo was SANTA CRUZ, Calif. taken to the hospital for — A Northern California treatment and would be sheriff’s deputy was killed charged with first-degree IAN MAULE/TULSA WORLD VIA AP and two law enforce- murder. ment officers wounded Gov. Gavin Newsom In this Saturday, June 6 photo, protesters kneel for 8 minutes Saturday when they extended condolences and 46 seconds during a rally at Central Park, in Broken Arrow, were ambushed with to Gutzwiller’s family Okla., in honor of George Floyd. gunfire and explosives and ordered flags at the while pursuing a suspect, Capitol to be flown at authorities said. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE VIA AP half-staff in honor of the Officials urge protesters The U.S. Air Force slain deputy. confirmed Sunday that This photo provided by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office “He will be remem- the suspect was an active shows Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Gutzwiller was shot and killed bered as a hero who to get coronavirus tests duty sergeant stationed at Saturday, June 6 in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near devoted his life to pro- Travis Air Force Base. Santa Cruz, Calif., when he and two other law enforcement tecting the community THE ASSOCIATED PRESS died May 25 at the hands of Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, officers were ambushed by a suspect. and as a loving husband a Minneapolis police offi- 38, was shot and killed and father,” Newsom said NEW YORK (AP) — As cer. The turnout continued in Ben Lomond, an spokesman confirmed driveway at Carrillo’s in a statement. New York City prepared to around the globe Sunday unincorporated area near Sunday that Carrillo had home and the deputies The shooting shocked reopen after a more than even as U.S. cities lifted Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz arrived at Travis Air Force were ambushed by Ben Lomond, a town two-month coronavirus curfews imposed amid last County Sheriff Jim Hart Base in June 2018 and gunfire and explosives of about 6,000 people shutdown, officials on week’s spasms of arson, said. A second deputy was a member of the 60th after getting out of their tucked up in the Santa Sunday lifted a curfew assaults and smash-and- was injured, and a third Security Forces Squadron. vehicle. Cruz mountains. that was put in place amid grab raids on businesses. officer from the California Carrillo’s wife Monika Gutzwiller was wound- Resident Kathy Crocker protests of police brutality Recent days of U.S. protests Highway Patrol was shot Leigh Scott Carrillo, ed and later died at a brought a bouquet to the and racial injustice. But have been overwhelmingly in his hand, Hart said. died in May, 2018 while hospital. Another deputy sheriff’s office as Hart they also urged that peaceful. Gutzwiller “was a stationed with the Air was wounded by gunfire gave a news conference demonstrators be tested for New York City prepared beloved figure here at the Force in South Carolina or shrapnel and struck by about the shootings. COVID-19. to enter its first phase of sheriff’s office,” the sheriff at the age of 30. The Air a vehicle as the suspect “It just breaks my heart “Get a test. Get a test,” reopening after shutdowns said. Force Office of Special fled. that this keeps happen- New York Gov. Andrew due to the pandemic. “Damon showed up to- Investigations, which was Carrillo attempted to ing,” she said, as teary- Cuomo urged people who Between 200,000 and day to do his job, to keep reportedly investigating carjack a vehicle and was eyed deputies entered the have been participating 400,000 people are ex- this community safe, and Carrillo’s death, did not wounded while being building. in rallies and marches in pected to head back to his life was taken need- respond to AP’s requests memory of George Floyd. the workplace Monday, lessly,” a visibly shaken for comment. DON’T LET THE He said the state planned with many using a subway Hart said. The deputies respond- to open 15 testing sites system that most New The suspect, Steven ed to a 911 call around DONUT HOLE dedicated to protesters so Yorkers have avoided since Carrillo, 32, was shot 1:30 p.m. about a sus- TAKE A BITE OUT they can get results quickly. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “The Chinese govern- to a deterioration of cases to single digits ment did not delay or U.S.-China relations over within about two months BEIJING — Senior cover up anything,” he trade and technology and and the “decisive victory Chinese officials released said. “Instead, we have pro-democracy protests ... in the battle to defend a lengthy report Sunday immediately reported in Hong Kong. Hubei Province and its on the nation’s response virus data and relevant Asked how China to the coronavirus pan- information about the would repair its relations capital city of Wuhan” in demic, defending their epidemic to the inter- with the rest of the world, about three months. government’s actions and national community Vice Foreign Minister Ma Wuhan, where the first saying that China had and made an important Zhaoxu said that cooper- cases of the virus were provided information in contribution to the ation over the pandemic detected late last year, a timely and transparent prevention and control of had improved ties with was the hardest-hit part manner. the epidemic around the most other countries. of China in the outbreak. China “wasted no time” world.” Without naming the ANDY WONG/AP PHOTO The city and soon after in sharing information He ticked off a series of U.S., he said: “Certain much of Hubei province such as the genome se- Xu Lin, Vice head of the Publicity Department of Communist government actions from countries go against the quence for the new virus Party shows a copy of the white paper on fighting COVID-19 a detailed timeline in the tide of history. To disguise were locked down for 2 to with the World Health China in action during a press conference at the State Council government report. The their inadequate response 2 1/2 months to stop the Organization as well as Information Office in Beijing, Sunday, June 7. timeline says that China to COVID-19, they spread of the virus to the relevant countries and began updating the WHO insanely smeared and rest of the country. in a third country and the it “seriously goes against regional organizations, on a regular basis on Jan. slandered China ... . In The report credited according to the report. sharing of information the facts.” He added 3 and that the head of response to such scape- needed to develop tests, that there were many Chinese leader Xi Jinping An Associated Press China’s Center for Disease goating practice, China with making the Jan. 22 investigation found that drugs and a vaccine. unknowns in the early Control and Prevention will certainly fight back.” decision to cut Wuhan off government labs sat on National Health stage of the outbreak and briefed the head of the The report, which ran releasing the genetic Commission Chairman that it took time to gather U.S. CDC on Jan. 4. 66 pages in the English by cutting transportation map of the virus for more Ma Xiaowei did not ad- evidence and figure out U.S. officials have version, lauded China’s links and banning people than a week in January, dress the specific findings the characteristics of the been critical of China’s success in reducing the from leaving or entering delaying its identification in the AP report, but said new virus. early response, adding daily increase in new the city. Thousands rally in Europe against racism, police brutality

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BERLIN — Thousands of people took to the streets of European cities on Sunday in support of the Black Lives Matter move- ment, which has drawn large protests against racism and police brutality around the world. A rally in Rome’s sprawl- ing People’s Square was LEO CORREA/AP PHOTO noisy but peaceful, with Relatives attend the burial of 57-year-old Paulo Jose da Silva, who died from the new corona- the majority of protesters ANDREW MEDICHINI/AP PHOTO wearing masks to protect virus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 5. According to Monique dos Santos, her stepfather against coronavirus. People gather calling for justice for George Floyd in Rome’s mocked the existence of the virus, didn’t use a mask, didn’t take care of himself, and wanted to Participants listened to Piazza del Popolo square, Sunday, June 7. People have been shake hands with everybody. “He didn’t believe in it and unfortunately he met this end. It’s very sad, but that’s the truth,” she said. speeches and held up protesting throughout Italy to denounce the police killing of handmade placards saying George Floyd and show solidarity with anti-racism protests in “Black Lives Matter” and the U.S. and elsewhere. “It’s a White Problem.” Khan said violence was police fired tear gas and World reaches 400,000 virus The rally came a day “simply not acceptable” pepper spray in skirmishes after largely peaceful and urged those protesting with protesters who anti-racism protests to do so lawfully while also hurled bottles and rocks deaths as pope urges caution took place in cities from maintaining social dis- after what had been an Australia to Europe to the tancing of remaining two emotional yet peaceful THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sundays for the pope’s noon blessing U.S. in response to the meters (6.5 feet) apart. But demonstration. after Italy eased its restrictions on May 25 death of American most demonstrators didn’t The Marseille protest BARCELONA, Spain — The confirmed public gatherings. George Floyd. heed that call, packing was one of several global death toll from the COVID-19 vi- Many counties like the U.S. and Floyd, a black man, died themselves tightly in front Saturday that attracted rus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Britain insist that they can ease re- after a white Minneapolis of the U.S. Embassy. 23,000 people across Sunday, a day after the government of strictions before having stalled their police officer pressed a Britain’s most senior France, where Floyd’s Brazil broke with standard public health outbreaks. knee on his neck even police chief said 14 death has shone a spot- protocols by ceasing to publish updates On Sunday, the U.K. revealed that after he pleaded for air officers were injured light on similar French of the number of deaths and infections places of worship can reopen from June while lying handcuffed on Saturday during clashes police abuses and given in the hard-hit South American country. 15 — but only for private prayer. the ground. with protesters in central voice to complaints from Worldwide, at least 6.9 million people Worries have surfaced over the past In Madrid, a few thou- London that followed a minorities that they have been infected by the virus, accord- couple of weeks that Prime Minister sand protesters gathered largely peaceful Black are frequent targets of ing to Johns Hopkins University, whose Boris Johnson’s government is easing around the U.S. Embassy. Lives Matter demonstra- harassment and worse aggregated tally has become the main the restrictions too soon, with new Many carried homemade tion attended by tens of from French police. worldwide reference for monitoring the infections potentially still running at signs reading “Black Lives thousands. In Hong Kong, about disease. Its running counter says United 8,000 a day. As things stands, nonessen- Matter,” “Human rights London’s Metropolitan 20 people staged a rally in States leads the world with nearly tial shops, including department stores, for all” and “Silence is Police Commissioner solidarity with the Black 110,000 confirmed virus-related deaths. are due to reopen on June 15. pro-racist.” Cressida Dick said the Lives Matter movement on Europe as a whole has recorded more Professor John Edmunds, who Protesters chanted assaults on officers were Sunday outside the U.S. than 175,000 since the virus emerged in attends meetings of the British gov- “Police murderers!” and “shocking and completely Consulate in the semi-au- China late last year. ernment’s Scientific Advisory Group “No justice, no peace!” unacceptable.” She said tonomous Chinese city. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for Emergencies, said the epidemic “is Police were present a number of arrests have “It’s a global issue,” said went as far as to tweet on Saturday definitely not all over” and that there is but the atmosphere been made and “justice Quinland Anderson, a that his country’s disease totals are an “awful long way to go.” remained peaceful. The will follow.” 28-year-old British citizen “not representative” of Brazil’s current In France, the government an- turnout meant that social The clashes broke out living in Hong Kong. “We situation, insinuating that the numbers nounced that from Tuesday, it will ease distancing was difficult, in the early evening near have to remind ourselves were actually overestimating the spread restrictions limiting travel from the though face masks were the Downing Street office despite all we see going on of the virus. French mainland to overseas territories ubiquitous. of British Prime Minister in the U.S. and in the other Critics of Bolsonaro, who has repeat- in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. “We are not only doing Boris Johnson. parts of the world, black edly clashed with health experts over Spain is preparing to take another this for our brother George Video footage online lives do indeed matter.” the seriousness of the disease and has step forward in the scaling back of Floyd,” said Thimbo Samb, showed one mounted po- Organizers called off threatened to take Brazil out of the its containment with Madrid and a spokesman for the group lice officer colliding with the Hong Kong rally World Health Organization, said the Barcelona opening the interiors of that organized the events a traffic light and striking late Saturday because decision was a maneuver by the hard- restaurants with reduced seating on in Spain mainly through the pavement before her of the city’s coronavirus man-style leader to hide the depths of Monday. social media. “Here in horse bolted away. Police restrictions. Those that crisis. In Turkey, Istanbul residents flocked Europe, in Spain, where said the officer was hos- still showed up gathered Brazil’s last official numbers recorded to the city’s shores and parks on the first we live, we work, we sleep pitalized and her injuries in groups of eight to over 34,000 virus-related deaths, the weekend with no lockdown, prompting and pay taxes, we also weren’t life-threatening. follow size limits on public third-highest toll in the world behind a reprimand from the health minister. suffer racism.” In Berlin, police said 93 gatherings. the U.S. and Britain. It reported nearly Russia remained troubling, with near- Thousands more people were detained in Among those at 615,000 infections, putting it second ly 9,000 new cases over the past day, filled a central square in connection with a demon- Sunday’s rally in Rome behind the U.S. roughly in line with numbers reported Barcelona. There were stration in the German was 26-year-old Ghanaian After Bolsonaro stoked his clash with over the past week. other protests called in capital on Saturday — Abdul Nassir, who is health experts, Pope Francis cautioned Pakistan is pushing toward 100,000 smaller cities. most of them after the studying for a master’s in people in countries emerging from confirmed infections as medical pro- In London, thousands main rally of 15,000 had business management at lockdown to keep following authorities’ fessionals plead for more controls and of people congregated ended. one of the Italian capital’s rules on social distancing, hygiene and greater enforcement of social distancing around the U.S. Embassy Police said several public universities. limits on movement. directives. But Prime Minister Imran for the second day officers and one photo- “It’s quite unfortunate, “Be careful, don’t cry victory, don’t cry Khan said a full shutdown would running. journalist were injured in you know, in this current victory too soon,” Francis said. “Follow devastate a failing economy. Following clashes Berlin when bottles and 21st century that people of the rules. They are rules that help us to India confirmed 9,971 new coronavi- on Saturday at another rocks were thrown from a color are being treated as avoid the virus getting ahead” again. rus cases in another biggest single-day demonstration in central crowd that had gathered if they are lepers,” Nassir The Argentine-born pontiff has also spike, a day before it prepares to reopen London that saw 14 police despite police orders to told The Associated Press. expressed dismay that the virus is still shopping malls, hotels and religious officers injured, there were clear the city’s Alexander He said he occasionally claiming many lives, especially in Latin places after a 10-week lockdown. concerns that Sunday’s Square. has felt racist attitudes, America. China has reported its first non-im- demonstration might take In France’s southern most notably when riding Francis was clearly delighted to see ported case in two weeks, an infected a violent turn. port city of Marseille, the subway. several hundred people gathered below person on the island of Hainan off the London Mayor Sadiq his window in St. Peter’s Square on southern coast. A6 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 8, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com VIEWPOINTS

HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 Timothy D. Smolarick Romona Washington VP & Publisher, D-R Media Corporate Executive Editor [email protected] [email protected] Amanda Young Rob Kearley Advertising Director Corporate Circulation Director [email protected] [email protected] SUN ANOTHER VIEW Don’t let apathy trigger another round of misery The sunshine, warm temperatures and blooming scenery look the same. It is that enticing transformation of spring into summer. Short sleeves, sandals, cookouts, parties, swimming pools and festivals. A reader asks why do I write? Yes, our senses view summer of 2020 no differently than 2019, 2018, 2000 or 1970. Last Monday, I had a reader answer, I can say that I have been But this season is indeed different, send an email that questioned my pretty successful with my column. I despite all the invigorating, familiar cues. choices of topics for this column. have had all types of people tell me COVID-19 has not magically disap- More specifically, the question was that they enjoy my writing, from peared. In fact, the number of positive asked, why do I write surrounding hard-line conservatives to a few coronavirus cases continue to right topics that do not pertain to me in our local government. I do not despite residents being more keenly rather than my personal life? think I would be blessed with this aware of public health officials’ calls to Topics such as school subjects, success if I would not have thought maintain six feet of physical distance sports, and volunteer opportunities of the two pieces of my motives. between people, wear face masks and were mentioned for me to write VIEWPOINTS FROM A TEENAGER However, I take it that the person practice proper hygiene. about. I can see where the author Miguel Arceo who wrote the email has children The pandemic has been called “the of this email is coming from and I as do many of my readers. If you invisible enemy.” This community must appreciate them for not writing to that my columns are intended are looking for opportunities for be careful not to consider the disease me in an aggressive manner. The to benefit the reader when they your child, encourage them to join “the nonexistent enemy.” COVID-19 is answer to this question can be split process what I wrote. That is why, a sport or a club in school. Cross real, and it is infecting more residents of into two parts: The audience and over time, I have strived to include Country is a pretty simple but chal- this country. the benefits of reading. more evidence in my columns lenging sport that I have benefited As the state continues to unfold in It is both a common and tragic instead of just making claims. massively from. The sport even has phases, a week or month at a time. fact that not many people my age Not to mention that I try to write what is known as the “running cul- COVID-19 pays no attention to calendar read the newspaper. Newspapers, over local government as often as ture” where everyone is extremely dates or deadlines, though. A commu- especially local ones, are crucial in possible because that is an area friendly. We are all runners that nity’s only weapons against the corona- getting local news to the average that not many people are familiar want to better ourselves, meaning virus, at this point, are the precautions person. The sad reality is that most with. People who are not familiar we talk to opposing teams as if they repeated over and over by public health teens turn to social media sites like with local government or any issue were our teammates. and medical experts — adhering to social Twitter and Snapchat to receive in general are then motivated to In terms of clubs, all students distancing, wearing face masks and thor- their news, as many national news do their own research to form an have access to a list of all clubs in ough hygiene practices. Researchers are outlets have a strong social media opinion. If a person does not agree a school and can all be found on rapidly working to discover vaccines, but presence. The main audiences of and writes a rebuttal, they have to their website. There are clubs for those are months from being available. newspapers are older readers who put their skills to work to explain every type of student and for all Attention must be paid to the health of prefer traditional methods of news. their opinion. Even I benefit from interests. I strongly recommend children, as well. Youngsters were seen Considering this, it just would not writing about these topics, as I Key Club as it is a great volun- as less vulnerable at the onset of the make sense for me to write column have to form my own opinions teer organization with plenty of pandemic. Now, cases of multisystem pieces that are aimed specifically and express them in a professional opportunities. Miguel Arceo is a student athlete inflammatory syndrome in children (or towards my generation. If I were manner. from Sebring High School. As with MIS-C) are showing up in kids, attacking to share volunteer opportunities I can proudly say that I have all columns, this is an opinion of their organs. MIS-C tends to arise after or other topics specifically for my learned a lot of new things in both the writer, not necessarily that of the COVID-19 cases surge. generation, I would use social my political views and my writing Highlands News-Sun. A reopening of businesses, public media to convey that information. skills. With these two pieces of my services and facilities is not a signal that The second piece of my answer is coronavirus has vanished. As residents venture into spaces that once were YOUR VIEW closed under state shutdowns, they need to act accordingly. People who refuse to Trump supporters will Nature’s God” in the Declaration of Another pet subject is balancing. wear a face mask in a store may infect stay the course Independence. Just a while ago, on a TV ad, this multiple others. Newly infected men, A recent writer imagines that a guy comes up to a person saying women and children could then share Read Kathleen Parker’s article supernatural being had a hand in going to try a little experiment COVID-19 with an unsuspecting loved titled “If headlines were images,” U.S. military actions in the Pacific and told that person to stand on one. Folks with diabetes, obesity, respi- and the national media will never during WW2. That’s hogwash. one leg only. When they did, the ratory ailments and heart disease — a get it. The country voted President This phantasm was nowhere to be activator pulled on the one-legged demographic group highly prevalent — Trump in because so many heard from when 600,000 died in standing’s shoulder making them should be wearing masks, maintaining Americans had lip service and the War Against Southern Treason. go into a falling mode. When social distancing and avoiding public no voice in our government, and There was no supernatural as- regaining composure, the activator settings, the Health Department advises. hopefully will vote him in again. sistance during the Spanish flu put on the standing erect person Instead, too many individuals have No matter how the current pandemic that ravaged our country a little white plastic bracelet. Then abandoned those preventive measures. national media reports half truths around 1920, then followed by the told to stand on one leg again and The signs of summer may have tricked and unnamed sources, they will Great Depression, then followed by pull on shoulder, which the one- them into letting their guard down. not deter us. a bloody world war. The magic of a legged standing person knew what Or, they accept the false narrative that She did say one thing I agreed god was missing during America’s was coming and rejected the pull. COVID-19’s danger is exaggerated for with however in her third para- miserable defeat in Vietnam. Wow! That little bracelet did political reasons. Or, they have become graph to “stop reading if you want Currently, the nation is under wonders for your balance. A apathetic and are just tired of hearing to have a pleasant day.” siege by civil unrest and a world- nationwide buying scam com- about it. So, let the army of reporters use wide pandemic killing hundreds of menced, selling millions of dollars Please don’t be apathetic right now. It’s their hoses full of hateful words to thousands. The U.S. leads in infec- worth of worthless plastic brace- just not the right time for that. try to put out the fire of support of tions, which continue to increase. lets. One was given to me.. That is An editorial from the (Terre Haute, Trump supporters. Conjuring religion seems a wasted how I found it to be worthless. Indiana) Tribune-Star. As the kids say “blah, blah, blah, effort, considering how much evil Here is a little balancing trick I we can”t hear you.” it has spawned throughout history use every morning while coffee is Jay Broker and how little good comes from it. perking. Stand upright with right JOIN THE Sebring Religion has been weaponized body edge slightly touching the CONVERSATION to further discrimination and bias. kitchen counter. Place the right To say that America was founded forefinger pointing and touching Letters are welcome on virtually any subject, but we do So-called religious values under such values is unflattering the counter top. Now, gently lift have some rules. We will not accept any Letters to the Editor and ridiculous. the left leg about two inches above that mention a business in a negative tone, as they have no When I was small and starting the floor. Count to a slow 10. Turn means to defend themselves. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “Attempts to eradicate in- Places recognizes the statue stead of contextualizing history as a “masterpiece” of French RICHMOND, Va. — David invariably fail,” Senate GOP academic sculpture. Harris Jr., a nephew of humani- leaders said in a statement. Northam emphasized the tarian and tennis legend Arthur Late Saturday, a small group monument’s enormous size Ashe, tried for decades to get a of demonstrators toppled a in his remarks Thursday, street named after his uncle in statue of Confederate Gen. saying that at six stories tall, it Richmond, the hometown that Williams Carter Wickham in towers over homes, businesses once denied Ashe access to Monroe Park, a Richmond and “everyone who lives in segregated public tennis courts. police spokeswoman said. She Virginia.” Finally, in 2019, the city said she did not know if there “And when it’s the biggest council approved the renaming were any arrests. thing around, it sends a clear over the objections of some Meanwhile, in southwest message: ‘This is what we value residents. So it was gratifying, England, protesters toppled the most.’ But that’s just not Harris said, to see Virginia’s the statue of a prominent slave true anymore,” he said. governor announce plans to trader. Footage from local Joseph Rogers, a descendant remove an iconic statue of broadcaster ITV News West of enslaved people and an or- Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee Country showed demonstrators ganizer with the Defenders who after days of protests over the attached ropes to the statue spoke with AP this week from death of George Floyd. of Edward Colston before a rally at the Lee monument, “My hat is off to them for pulling it down in the city of said he felt he was witnessing getting this done,” Harris said Bristol. Colston, born in 1636, history when he learned the Friday. “It took me 25 years to was prominently involved in statue would be removed. get the street name changed. Britain’s sole official slaving He also said the moment felt I commend these young folks company at the time, the like “a fulfillment of prophecy,” for getting these guys to see it Royal African Company, which a reference to words written within a week and a half.” transported tens of thou- by the black editor of the In recent days, amid an ex- sands of Africans across the Richmond Planet newspaper traordinary outpouring of grief Atlantic Ocean, mainly to the who covered the unveiling of over Floyd’s death, Virginia Gov. Caribbean. the Lee memorial. Ralph Northam has pledged to The Richmond monument “(The black man) put up the remove the Lee statue, while decisions, part of a wave Lee Monument, and should city leaders have also commit- of Confederate monument the time come, will be there to ted to taking down the other removals around the country, STEVE HELBER/AP PHOTO take it down,” John Mitchell Jr. four Confederate memorials has stunned some observers wrote. along Richmond’s prestigious in this former capital of the The moon illuminates the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee Elsewhere on the broad ave- Monument Avenue. Confederacy, a place where on Monument Avenue Friday June 5 in Richmond, Va. Virginia Gov. Ralph nue are statues to Confederate The changes amount to even three years ago many Northam has ordered the removal of the statue. President Jefferson Davis, a reshaping of how one of residents said they considered dragged on for more than 15 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. generals J.E.B. Stuart and America’s most historic cities removing the statues impracti- years, and the selected site was To white citizens in the late Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, tells its story in its public cal, or nearly impossible due to a gift of a prominent Richmond 19th century, the statue of Lee, and Confederate naval officer spaces — and a rethinking of a state law that protected war businessman, the documents a Civil War hero and native Matthew Maury. whom it glorifies. memorials. show. Virginian, was a cause for Richmond Mayor Levar “It’s been a long time com- The new Democratic ma- The statue was the first of celebration. Some even saved Stoney announced this week ing. ... We’ve tried marches, jority at the General Assembly five Confederate monuments pieces of the rope used to haul that he and a city councilman petitions, protests, going to city rewrote that law earlier this to be erected on Richmond’s the statue as souvenirs. would introduce an ordinance council” to get the Confederate year, an effort led by black Monument Avenue. It was But black citizens felt a removing those statues, and the monuments removed, said Phil women lawmakers. It will take unveiled in May 1890, at a deep-seated animosity to- Richmond Times-Dispatch has Wilayto, a longtime community effect July 1, giving Richmond time when the Civil War and ward the statue, seeing it as reported the city council has organizer and activist with and other localities around the Reconstruction were long over, a glorification of slavery, the unanimously affirmed support the Virginia Defenders for state permission to do as they and Jim Crow racial segregation Civil War and their treatment for such a move. Freedom, Justice & Equality. please. The Lee statue, mean- laws were on the rise. as second-class citizens, said Dr. Fergie Reid, who grew “And it took what is in effect a while, was on state property. The statue arrived in Julian Hayter, a historian and up in segregated Richmond mass uprising of the commu- “Yes, that statue has been Richmond in pieces from professor of leadership studies and in 1967 became the first nity to say these things are not there for a long time,” Northam France, where it was created. at the University of Richmond. African American elected to acceptable.” said Thursday. “But it was Thousands of Virginians used Today, the 21-foot bronze the Virginia General Assembly Republican lawmakers, wrong then, and it is wrong wagons to help pull the pieces equestrian sculpture that since Reconstruction, called Confederate heritage groups now. So we’re taking it down. “ for more than a mile to what shows the general in military the monuments’ removal “long and a Monument Avenue The idea to erect a monu- was then an empty field. That attire sits atop a 40-foot pedes- overdue.” But Reid, 95, said he preservation group have ment to Lee originated “within field is now part of Monument tal on whose side is inscribed a thinks they still have historical criticized the decisions. Some hours” of his death, according Avenue, the city’s grandest single word: “Lee.” value. have warned it could impact to a National Register of boulevard and one that’s been The listing of the Lee “I think they should go to tourism, and many have equat- Historic Places nomination visited over the years by digni- Monument on the Virginia a museum — just like the ed the monuments’ removal to form. Two rival campaigns to taries including British Prime Landmarks Register and the dinosaurs,” he said. erasing history. raise money for the memorial Minister Winston Churchill and National Register of Historic REGIONAL 5-DAY FORECAST TODAY TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY The Nation -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s

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High Low High Low Ocala Daytona Beach City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 88/73 89/74 Apalachicola 87 79 t 86 77 t Bradenton DeLand Clearwater 89 78 t 86 75 t Today 2:00p 10:54p ------Tue. 2:44p 11:41p ------Beverly Leesburg 91/74 Coral Springs 90 77 c 89 76 c Hills 89/75 Daytona Beach 89 74 t 88 73 t Clearwater 90/73 Fort Lauderdale 90 80 c 89 77 c Today 3:22a 8:35a 1:53p 9:35p Orlando Fort Myers 90 76 t 90 75 c Tue. 4:07a 9:22a 2:39p 10:17p Brooksville 92/76 Titusville Gainesville 88 73 t 89 73 t St. Petersburg 93/75 Jacksonville 91 73 t 92 74 t 89/74 Today 3:24p 11:49p ------Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Key Largo 87 81 c 87 80 c Tue. 4:08p ------Kissimmee Key West 89 80 c 89 79 c U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states Sunday) High ...... 94 at Wayne, NE Low ...... 25 at Wagontire, OR Tarpon Springs 92/76 Melbourne Melbourne 88 75 c 86 73 t Vero Beach 89/78 Plant City Haines City 88/75 Miami 90 80 c 89 78 c Today 2:03a 8:49a 2:06p 8:46p Today Tue. Today Tue. Tue. 2:52a 9:36a 2:57p 9:35p 91/75 91/76 Naples 91 78 t 90 76 c City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Ocala 88 73 t 90 73 t Winter Haven Venice Albuquerque 87 48 s 78 50 s Kansas City 90 71 pc 86 57 sh Tampa Okeechobee 88 74 t 87 71 t 91/75 Today 1:22p 10:11p ------Anchorage 60 49 pc 58 48 c Knoxville 90 71 pc 91 72 c 91/79 Orlando 92 76 t 90 75 t Tue. 2:06p 10:58p ------Atlanta 87 71 t 88 72 t Las Vegas 80 62 s 88 68 s Bartow Frostproof Panama City 88 78 t 87 77 t 91/75 Baltimore 82 59 s 92 67 s Los Angeles 86 66 s 92 65 s St. Petersburg 91/75 Pensacola 85 79 t 88 78 t Birmingham 84 72 t 87 71 t Louisville 91 75 pc 89 71 t 91/79 Avon Park Pompano Beach 88 78 c 87 76 c Marine Boise 63 45 c 70 47 c Memphis 82 72 t 89 68 t Wauchula 91/75 Vero St. Augustine 89 74 t 88 75 t Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland Boston 75 60 s 78 61 s Milwaukee 81 65 s 77 68 t 91/74 Basinger Beach St. Petersburg 91 79 t 89 77 t Sebring direction in knots in feet chop Buffalo 75 59 s 88 73 s Minneapolis 94 69 s 79 59 r 88/75 89/74 Sarasota 89 78 t 88 76 t Sarasota Myakka City 90/75 Burlington, VT 74 55 s 75 60 pc Montgomery 89 73 t 89 73 t Tallahassee 89 76 t 86 74 t Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs 89/78 91/76 Charleston, WV 87 64 s 91 71 pc Nashville 91 75 pc 87 72 t Okeechobee Tampa 91 79 t 89 76 t S 6-12 1-3 Light Charlotte 86 70 pc 86 71 t New Orleans 86 81 t 91 80 t 88/74 Vero Beach 89 74 c 88 72 t Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola Port Chicago 91 71 s 86 69 t New York City 78 62 s 84 67 s Venice Venus Indiantown West Palm Beach 89 78 c 89 77 c S 7-14 4-7 Moderate 88/78 Charlotte Cincinnati 87 66 s 89 71 pc Norfolk, VA 80 66 s 84 72 s 90/76 89/75 88/75 Cleveland 78 65 s 92 74 pc Oklahoma City 93 70 pc 88 57 s UV Index Today Sun and Moon Columbia, SC 88 72 c 90 73 t Omaha 94 70 pc 79 56 r Sebring Winter Haven Columbus, OH 85 62 s 92 74 pc Philadelphia 80 61 s 88 67 s The Sun Rise Set Concord, NH 78 51 s 79 57 s Phoenix 93 69 s 97 72 s Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Today 6:30 a.m. 8:20 p.m. Dallas 97 80 s 98 66 s Pittsburgh 81 60 s 94 72 s Temperatures Temperatures Tuesday 6:30 a.m. 8:20 p.m. Denver 77 39 s 68 45 pc Portland, ME 76 53 s 74 56 s Minutes to burn ...... 10 Des Moines 92 71 s 78 58 r Portland, OR 65 53 pc 66 59 r High/low 84/77 High/low 85/74 The Moon Rise Set The higher the number the greater the risk. Detroit 80 62 s 89 73 pc Providence 79 58 s 82 62 pc Normal high/low 91/67 Normal high/low 92/72 Today 11:22 p.m. 9:07 a.m. Duluth 86 65 pc 74 56 r Raleigh 86 70 s 89 72 pc Record high 100 in 1948 Record high 100 in 1985 Tuesday none 10:06 a.m. Record low 54 in 1972 Record low 58 in 1972 Pollen Index Fairbanks 76 48 pc 75 48 c St. Louis 91 73 pc 87 65 t Precipitation (in inches) Precipitation (in inches) Last New First Full Fargo 92 58 t 66 50 r Salt Lake City 58 43 t 69 51 s Hartford 80 57 s 88 62 s San Antonio 102 77 s 101 73 s 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.14” 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.52” Helena 55 39 c 63 49 pc San Diego 79 62 s 88 65 s Month to date 4.70” Month to date 3.39” Honolulu 88 74 pc 88 75 pc San Francisco 74 52 s 76 56 s Normal month to date 1.58” Normal month to date 1.40” Cause ...... Grass, palm Houston 97 80 pc 98 74 s Seattle 63 51 pc 63 56 r Year to date 18.46” Year to date 10.51” Jun 13 Jun 21 Jun 28 Jul 5 Source: National Allergy Bureau Indianapolis 88 70 pc 87 68 t Washington, DC 83 64 s 93 72 s Normal year to date 15.58” Normal year to date 15.49” Last year to date 12.51” Last year to date 10.64” Solunar Table Air Quality Today The World Monthly Rainfall Leesburg Minor Major Minor Major Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Today Tue. Today Tue. Month 2020 2019 Avg. Record Today 8:42a 2:28a 9:10p 2:56p City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Tue. 9:43a 3:30a 10:09p 3:56p Jan. 0.58 3.37 2.48 7.46/1948 Temperatures Amsterdam 62 47 pc 60 47 pc Mexico City 80 58 t 83 58 t Wed. 10:40a 4:28a 11:05p 4:52p Feb. 1.44 1.56 2.54 10.61/1998 High/low 82/75 Main pollutant ...... Ozone Baghdad 111 77 pc 114 79 pc Montreal 73 57 pc 72 57 pc March 0.14 1.43 3.60 12.18/1960 Source: The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you Beijing 99 75 pc 86 67 c Ottawa 71 54 pc 72 57 c Precipitation (in inches) Airnow.gov will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover April 3.30 2.08 2.63 7.36/1951 Berlin 70 52 c 74 54 pc Paris 69 50 pc 67 50 pc May 1.66 1.49 2.74 12.72/1957 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 1.30” during those times. Major periods begin at the times June 3.39 9.66 7.87 16.44/1992 shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are Buenos Aires 63 50 pc 60 49 pc Rio de Janeiro 77 70 s 80 71 s Weather Trivia™ shorter. July 11.89 8.25 16.45/1945 Airport Cairo 97 68 s 95 70 s Rome 74 60 t 73 58 t Aug. 8.20 7.48 14.59/1949 Q: Cancun 87 80 pc 88 79 pc St. John’s 59 39 r 54 38 sh Possible weather-related delays today. Check with How often does lightning strike the Sept. 3.78 6.08 17.26/1960 Earth: 1, 10 or 100 times per second? Weather History Dublin 59 45 pc 61 49 c San Juan 90 77 c 89 77 t Oct. 4.66 2.58 9.43/1952 your airline for the most updated schedules. Edmonton 61 40 r 65 41 pc Sydney 62 54 sh 64 52 pc Nov. 2.79 2.11 7.81/1988 Hi/Lo Outlook Delays A twister struck Cleveland, on June 8, Halifax 63 46 pc 61 45 pc Tokyo 79 71 s 83 72 c Dec. 2.99 2.76 12.52/2002 Orlando 92/76 storms all day 1953, killing 20 people and causing Kiev 83 63 pc 84 65 t Toronto 75 59 s 88 67 c

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dayton Moore remembers so clearly the vast sections of empty seats inside Kauffman Stadium when he took over as general manager of the Kansas City Royals, and he remem- BRYNN ANDERSON/AP PHOTO bers just as vividly — nearly a decade AJ Allmendinger celebrates after he won a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Saturday, June 6. later — how those seats filled and fans roared as the long-suffering club won the World Series. Those dueling memories make the ‘Dinger’ gets elusive oval win thought of playing games in empty stadiums hard for Moore to fathom. “I know how much strength all players THE ASSOCIATED PRESS draw from the fans and environment,” he said, when asked about plans to play HAMPTON, Ga. — A.J. Allmendinger a shortened season without crowds, “and finally won on an oval. you need that support to get through an He might just retire. entire Major League Baseball schedule.” Taking advantage of mistakes by As lockdowns are lifted and restric- the three leaders, the 38-year-old tions eased, sports are finally starting to Californian cruised to victory by emerge in the coronavirus pandemic. nearly 2 seconds over pole-sitter Noah But in virtually every situation, fans are Gragson in the Xfinity Series race at not yet being allowed to attend and the Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday. only consensus for now is that there “Oh my god,” Allmendinger said as could be a long period of empty or he climbed from his No. 16 Chevrolet. nearly empty seating. Some U.S. univer- “I won on an oval.” sities are modeling for 25% capacity for Indeed, he did. the upcoming football season or maybe Allmendinger, who first came to half-full arenas for the ensuing basket- prominence in open-wheel racing, ball season. claimed a single victory during more “I think for most sports, a reduced than a decade in the top-level Cup crowd wouldn’t negatively impact series, and he had three previous the overall experience, especially in a Xfinity wins — all on road courses. situation like baseball or even the NFL,” Now, he’s filled in a big hole on his BRYNN ANDERSON/AP PHOTO said Katy Lucy, a digital marketing agent resume. from Atlanta whose fandom is split Justin Allgaier, right, gets into his car before a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race at Atlanta “All I ever wanted to do was win between all things Georgia Bulldogs and Motor Speedway, Saturday, June 6. on an oval,” said Allmendinger, who the Washington Capitals. “But it would has only a part-time job in the Xfinity Then, after the final caution of He held on the rest of the way. be different for sure for those who attend Series after losing his Cup ride after the day, the top three cars — Chase “I still think that even if they had in person.” the 2018 season. “I have a lot of suc- Briscoe, Austin Cindric and Justin started in front of us, we could’ve beat Count her family among those who cess in so many forms of racing.” Allgaier — were all caught speeding them on a long run,” Allmendinger would pause before heading to the Allmendinger started 30th but on pit road. said. “But that clean air was definitely ballpark. quickly showed the strength of his car, That pushed Allmendinger into the a big deal.” “For me personally, I’m not sure I spending much of the day running in top spot on the restart with 34 laps to the top 10. go. WIN | 4B FAN | 4B Dixon wins IndyCar’s season opener

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS day. The 39-year-old New sped away in the No. 9 The massive grand- Zealander raced to his Chip Ganassi Honda for stands that can seat FORT WORTH, Texas 47th career victory and a 4.4-second victory over well more than 100,000 — IndyCar packed every matched A.J. Foyt’s record Simon Pagenaud. people were empty, and bit of its delayed sea- of 18 seasons with a win. Defending IndyCar not because of extreme son-opening event into “It was such a team champion and polesitter heat — temperatures in one long, hot day in Texas effort,” said Dixon, third Josef Newgarden was the mid-90s with a heat without any fans in the on the career wins list third behind Pagenaud, index around 100 degrees stands. Scott Dixon was behind Foyt’s 67 and his teammate at Team Fahrenheit throughout the fastest for most of it at Mario Andretti’s 52. “It’s Penske. practice, qualifying and a place he knows well. just so fast. Any situation Nearly three months even much of the race. No Dixon, a five-time we were in, we could just after the start of the spectators were allowed, IndyCar champion, took go for it.” season was put on hold as will also be the case for the checkered flag at dusk After a restart with because of the coronavi- the next race on the road Saturday for his fourth three laps left follow- rus pandemic, IndyCar course at Indianapolis win at the 1 1/2-mile, ing a caution when finally got on the track Motor Speedway on July TONY GUTIERREZ/AP PHOTO high-banked oval, where young teammate Felix for what would usually be 4. Chip Ganassi, left, looks on as Scott Dixon steps out of his cockpit drivers also practiced and Rosenqvist crashed while the midpoint race of its and onto his car in Victory Lane after winning an IndyCar auto qualified earlier in the running second, Dixon season. INDY | 4B race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday. B2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | June 8, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com

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Engineers soon handle as many home or streaming games created “carpet audio” as 150,000 fans for each soccer, baseball, the NBA, are factors, as is the engagement apps, wide- from previous games game. NFL and NHL. changing social makeup spread around the major between the same teams, Sound is one element Temperature checks, of fan bases. Dynamic leagues and colleges even then teased out roars of the fan experience. hand sanitizer distri- pricing, increases in before the pandemic, for specifi c events such Optics is another. bution stations and parking and concession will become even more as goals and red cards, “When it was clear touchless vending will prices, and a push toward common and interactive giving those watching there would be no become the norm for a luxury seating have exac- as teams try to recapture at home the option of a audience this season, while. Even concessions erbated the problem. lost revenue. There also more realistic experience. the fans had the idea of will change, though one Major League Baseball will be more behind- “This was the only idea bringing their images to big difference — gulp attendance has de- the-scenes content and that we thought could the stadium,” said Lubbo — could lead to a lot of clined six of the past enhancements available be most respectful to the Popken, deputy press grumbling. seven seasons. In college via smartphones that will fans,” said Alessandro secretary for German “If you don’t sell beer football, 13 of the 130 only be available to those Reitano, vice president soccer club Borussia the number of visits to schools that played in the in the stadium or arena, of sports production for Monchengladbach, which the bathroom drops Football Bowl Subdivision offering fans something Sky Deutschland. “To affi xed fan likenesses dramatically,” said Marc METAL ROOFING EXPERTS reported average crowd unique over fans watch- be honest, it’s a major to their seats. “We were Ganis, the director of sizes of 50% or less last ing at home. success.” surprised how many M SHINGLES sports consulting fi rm season. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2003. Kurt Thomas, the first U.S. male “Kurt was a fierce rival, who went gymnast to win a world championship on to become a cherished friend,” gold medal, has died. He was 64. two-time Olympic gold medalist Bart Thomas’ family said he died Friday. Conner posted on Twitter. “Proud to He had a stroke May 24, caused by a have been your teammate. Sending tear of the basilar artery in the brain hugs to his wife Beckie, his children, stem. Hunter, Kassidy and Kurt as well as the “Yesterday, I lost my universe, my entire gymnastics community, who best friend and my soulmate of 24 lost a true pioneer today.” years. Kurt lived his life to the ex- Thomas stepped away competition treme, and I will be forever honored after 1980 and starred in the 1985 to be his wife,” Beckie Thomas told movie “Gymkata” and worked as a tele- International Gymnast Magazine. vision commentator. He attempted a After competing in the 1976 comeback in 1989, pointing toward the Montreal Olympics, Thomas won 1992 Olympics. He made it all the way the floor exercise in the 1978 world to the Olympic Trials at age 36 but fell championships in Strasbourg, France, short of earning one of the six Olympic for the first U.S. men’s title. In the 1979 spots. He poured his life into coaching worlds in Fort Worth, Texas, he suc- after retirement. He and Beckie owned cessfully defended the floor exercise and ran Kurt Thomas Gymnastics in title and won the horizontal bar Frisco, Texas. while adding silver in the all-around, American men had struggled to pommel horse and parallel bars. break through internationally before Thomas. who also captured the Thomas’ arrival. He was an innova- American Cup three times, lost a tor on pommel horse — where the chance for Olympic gold when the “Thomas Flair” was entered into United States boycotted the 1980 the Code of Points — and the floor Moscow Games. exercise, where his “Thomas Salto” “In my mind and my heart, I knew I dismount was considered so danger- was the best at that time,” Thomas told ous it was eventually banned from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 1989. competition. Thomas brought a mixture of athleti- Thomas, who appeared regularly cism and showmanship the elite U.S. on late night talk shows in the 1970s, men’s program lacked. He starred at was the first breakthrough American Indiana State and led the Sycamores male star in a sport where the spotlight to an NCAA team title in 1977. His gravitates heavily toward women. popularity on campus at the time “All of us in the gymnastics family ranked second only to future basket- are sadden, shocked and devastated ball Hall of Famer Larry Bird. Thomas by the passing of our own,” Nadia MICHAEL SNYDER/AP FILE PHOTO won the AAU’s 1979 James E. Sullivan Comaneci tweeted. “Love to the In this June 6, 1991, file photo, Kurt Thomas, 35, competes on the pommel horse at the U.S. Award as the nation’s top amateur and family.” Gymnastics Championships in the compulsory round in Cincinnati.

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