Burlington School Receives License for Daycare August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 2 Barber County 4-H Meats Judging Team – State Runner-Up
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Burlington School receives license for daycare August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 2 Barber County 4-H Meats Judging Team – State Runner-Up By Justin Goodno, County Agent The Barber County Intermediate and Senior 4-H Meats Judging teams competed at the Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes, Aug. 22. The Intermediate Division team of Callan Smith, Hudson Rector, Callen Corr and Keagan McMurray finished second place overall. Also making the trip and competing as individuals in the Intermediate Division were Shaefer Stone and Cort Blunk. As a team they were 1st in Placings, 2nd in Retail ID and 6th in Questions. Individually (overall), Callan Smith placed 3rd, Hudson Rector 4th, Callen Corr 13th, Keagan McMurray 14th, th st Intermediate Team: Shaefer Stone, Cort Blunk, Keagan McMurray, Hudson Shaefer Stone 15 , and Cort Blunk 31 . Rector, Callen Corr, Dr. Tom Carr and Callan Smith The Senior Division team of Rhyan Marshall, Easton Rector and Sterling Rector placed 4th overall. As a team they were 9th in Placings, 7th in Reasons, and 4th in Retail ID. Individually (overall), Rhyan Marshall placed 4th, Easton Rector 11th, and Sterling Rector 23rd. Rhyan Marshall and Easton Rector were selected to try out for the first- ever All Star Team that will represent the state of Kansas at the national contest. The Barber County 4-H Meats Judging teams are coached by Dr. Tom Carr and sponsored by the Barber County Cattlemen’s Association. The Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes is held every August on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, with 4-H teams and individuals competing from throughout the state. Senior Team: Sterling Rector, Dr. Tom Carr, Easton Rector and Rhyan Marshall The Alva Review-Courier / Newsgram is published Wednesday by Martin Broadcasting Corp. 620 Choctaw St. Alva, Oklahoma 73717 Marione Martin, President Telephone Numbers: Alva Review-Courier 580-327-2200 Newsgram 580-327-1510 FAX 580-327-2454 www.alvareviewcourier.com E-Mail: manager @alvareviewcourier.net [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2020 August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 3 August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 4 Pfizer vaccine receives full approval By Marione Martin inspections. Never before has the inflammation a few days after the By now you’ve probably heard that FDA had so much evidence to judge second dose, mostly in young men. Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine has received a shot’s safety. The formula, jointly As for effectiveness, six months full approval from developed with Germany’s BioNTech, into Pfizer’s original study, the vaccine the FDA. Initially, will be marketed under the brand name remained 97% protective against severe the FDA waived Comirnaty. Covid-19. Protection against milder some of its usual Moderna has also applied to the infection waned slightly, from a peak of requirements FDA for full approval of its vaccine. 96% two months after the second dose for emergency Johnson & Johnson, maker of the third to 84% by six months. approval. Pfizer’s option in the U.S., said it hopes to do so Changing School Dress Code shot for people 16 later this year. My granddaughter expressed and older has now Pfizer’s shot will continue to be concern that her child is the only person undergone the same dispensed to 12- to 15-year-olds under she’s seen wearing a mask in her pre-K rigorous testing and an emergency use authorization, until class in Enid. Since children under regulatory review as dozens of other the company files its application for full age 12 are not eligible for vaccine long-established vaccines. approval. protection, it’s difficult to understand For full approval, the FDA required Normally, doctors can prescribe why parents aren’t showing concern. six months of follow-up data. FDA FDA-approved products for other A school district in Paris, Texas, inspectors also visited the plants where reasons than their original use. But has an innovative answer to requiring the vaccines are made and reviewed FDA’s acting Commissioner Dr. Janet students to wear masks. The governor each step of the production process for Woodcock strongly warned that the opposes mask mandates. So the school extra assurance that the shots are made Pfizer vaccine should not be used district changed its dress code. The under safe, sterile conditions. “off-label” for children under 12 — attorney for the school says mandating The status removes one more barrier a warning echoed by the American masks is really no different than that vaccine skeptics have to taking the Academy of Pediatrics. mandating shoes or other protective vaccine. A recent poll by the Kaiser Both Pfizer and Moderna have gear required in the dress code. Family Foundation found the lack of vaccine studies underway in youngsters, Unvaccinated Roommates full FDA approval was a key reason and they are using lower doses than I recently saw an article about that people who are unvaccinated give those available for people 12 and older. vaccinated college students finding for not taking the shot. Pfizer’s Bourla said he expects themselves assigned a dorm roommate President Joe Biden said that for study results from 5- to 11-year-olds who is unvaccinated. Generally they those who hesitated to get the vaccine by the end of September, but data for can apply for to get a new roommate until it received what he dubbed the those younger than 5 will take a couple but they’ll have to live with the “gold standard” of FDA approval, “the of months. unvaccinated person during the moment you’ve been waiting for is Currently, the FDA has authorized reassignment process. here.” third doses of either Pfizer’s or Higher Hospital Costs “Please get vaccinated today,” he Moderna’s vaccine only for certain If you are vaccinated, you are far said. people with severely weakened immune less likely to get sick enough to be Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called the systems, such as organ transplant hospitalized. And hospitalization due FDA’s action “an important milestone recipients. For everyone else, the Biden to Covid-19 is about to cost people a that I think will unlock some of the administration is planning for boosters lot more. Most private insurers are more skeptical minds.” starting in the fall. But the FDA is no longer waiving cost-sharing for Pfizer said the U.S. is the first evaluating that question separately. Covid-19 treatment. country to grant full approval of its In reaching Monday’s decision, the Federal law requires your health vaccine, in a process that required a FDA said serious side effects remain insurance to cover the cost of medically 360,000-page application and rigorous very rare, such as chest pain and heart appropriate Covid-19 testing. Vaccinations are still free. And in a few states, all out-of-pocket Covid treatment costs are covered. But in most states that is changing. Patients are about to start paying their deductible for Covid-19 care if they haven’t been vaccinated. Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 72 percent of the two largest insurers in each state and DC (102) health plans are no longer waiving these costs and another 10 percent of plans are phasing out waivers by the end of October. August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 5 August 25, 2021 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 6 Burlington School offers daycare, new extra-curricular activities board approval as did handbook revisions Streamlined bus routes; Miss Burlington Sept. 10 for 2021-2022. Also approved was the By Yvonne Miller $15/day for each subsequent child; $18/ July 2021 activity fund report. Burlington’s school board covered a day for a full day for children of Burlington The board approved encumbrances wide variety of business from following Public School employees; $10 for a partial and warrants as follows: general fund state legislative mandates regarding day up to four hours. The decided hours of encumbrances 94-129 for $93,536.07, no teaching of Critical Race Theory to operation for the daycare are 7 a.m. to 6 warrants 36-144 for FY ‘22 for offering more extra-curricular activities p.m., Monday to Friday year-round. $224,360.18 and reserve warrants for FY such as baseball/softball, One Act and A daycare calendar will be provided to ‘21 for $3,724; building fund Warrant shooting clays. parents for making arrangements when the 3 for FY ‘22 for $658.03 and Reserve Burlington School Board President daycare is closed for holidays. The board Warrant 21 for FY ‘21 for $9,400; child Terry Graham called the August meeting approved the age policy for the daycare as nutrition fund Encumbrance 12 for $100 to order with the following members being newborn through age 9 children who and warrants 3-11 for $3,124.91. present: Robert Hill, April Kisling and are Burlington Public School students. Board Follows State Legislature on Aaron Smith. T.J. Rockenbach was absent. Hirings, Accreditation and More by House Bill 1775 Also attending were Superintendent Burlington School Board Regarding House Bill 1775, the board Kevin Brown, Jr./Sr. High Principal Lacy Brown, Superintendent Brown’s followed the Oklahoma Legislature’s Gerrett Spears, Elementary Principal wife, received the board’s approval for a mandate. They added EGG and EGG-E Stan Pedersen and Minutes Clerk Tracy part-time position as a 3-year-old program (the state board policies) to the Burlington Granados. teacher assistant and also a cafeteria lunch Public School policy handbook. This is Principal Spears told the board, “the count position. about the controversial debate nationwide year has started out wonderful with The board signed employee contracts.