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VOL. 101 | NO. 195 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Florida sets record with 15,000 new virus cases STAFF REPORT new cases was the lowest the followed by Lee County, with states, but is No. 10 in cases County saw six new cases, state has seen since June and 1,243 and Palm Beach County, per million residents and pushing its total to 602 and They say records are made was a full 7% lower than the with 1,166. No. 25 in deaths per million Okeechobee saw nine new to be broken, but the record 18.2% reported on Thursday. There were 19 counties which residents. cases and is at 527. Florida broke Sunday morning The median age for new reported at least 100 new cases, For Highlands County, there Nationally, there was an is one the Sunshine State prob- cases was 38, making it two including some which followed were an additional 15 cases ably could do without. With straight weeks of seeing a the state’s pattern of setting reported, bringing the total increase of a little more than 15,300 new cases of COVID-19 median between 35 and 40 for records both for the number of to 532. There have been 84 75,000 new cases, bringing the reported, Florida smashed the state. While those ages 25 to new cases, as well as with the hospitalizations, with 33 still new total to 3.28 million, with the previous record of 11,694, 54 make-up roughly 56% of the number of tests given. hospitalized, along with 13 909 new deaths, pushing the which was set by California on COVID-19 cases in the state, Hillsborough County went up deaths. death toll to over 135,000. Wednesday. New York’s highest they account for just 7% of the 799, while Duval went up 571 The median age of county Globally, the count moved single-day increase was 11,571. deaths. and Manatee saw an increase cases is 48, which is less than past 12.8 million, with 566,790 It was also a record testing Once again Miami-Dade of 470. Escambia jumped 465 the state average of 39. deaths. day for Florida and despite the County saw the biggest in- cases and Sarasota was right DeSoto County saw just one large number of positives, it crease in the state with 3,561 behind with an increase of 464 new cases which brought its Brazil has seen the sec- was actually the best day the new cases, while Broward saw cases. total to 831, while Glades also ond-highest amount of cases, state has seen in several weeks. an increase of 1,826. Orange Florida has the third-largest had a minimal increase and followed by India, Russia and The positivity rate of 11.2% for County saw 1,355 new cases, amount of cases among the stands at 203 cases. Hardee Peru. School District has 2 director positions to fill

By MARC VALERO STAFF WRITER

SEBRING — The School Board of Highlands County is looking to fill two administrative positions — Director of Finance and Director of the Heartland Educational Consortium. Both openings are due to retirements. The Consortium’s Director of Professional Learning Sherri Albritton retired on June 30. School Board of Highlands County Director of Finance Richard “Bo” Birt will be retiring on Aug. 31. The closing date for applications for the director position at the Consortium is July 21. the School Board of Highlands County serves as the Consortium’s fiscal agent. The Consortium, which is located in Lake Placid, provides educational services to six school districts: Highlands, Hardee, Hendry, COURTESY PHOTO Glades, DeSoto and Hendry. The finance director position closed Superintendent Brenda Longshore, left, at the New Teacher Orientation in August. on Wednesday. District Humane Resources Manager Ana Guedes said there are four eligible applicants for the finance director position. School survey shows most ready for Birt said he has worked close to 20 years with the School Board of Highlands County. He started working face-to-face instruction for the district in December of 2000. “I am moving on to being a full- By MARC VALERO think all of those options are strong and the Department of Education time grandpa,” he said. Birt and his STAFF WRITER options for kids,” Longshore said. staff is guiding many of the district’s wife have 11 grandchildren. “Of course we would love to have decisions, she said. He was the finance director for SEBRING — The Back to School sur- them face-to-face and I do think for For elementary and middle school the City of Avon Park for three years vey forms closed today for parents to most kids that is the optimal learning students the district has three options before going to the School District. select the type of educational model environment, but there are certainly for students: attend school with face- He was the controller and operations their children will have with the start options available for families that feel to-face instruction with a teacher, director at the News-Sun. of the new school year on Aug. 10. like they are not ready to come back full-time remote online learning with The School District is currently Around mid-day Friday prior to the face-to-face yet.” the same curriculum with a Highlands advertising for teachers — six closure of the survey, Superintendent There will be many protocols and County teacher or Highlands elementary openings, two middle Brenda Longshore said there has procedures in place for the face- Virtual School with the Edgenuity school openings and four high school been about 8,000 responses to the to-face environment to provide the curriculum. openings. There are nine school survey with 5,700 opting for face-to- safest possible place that we can for Due to the many course offerings support staff openings and other face instruction, 1,300 for Highlands our students, she said. at the high school level there are two open position such as in transporta- Virtual School and 1,000 for remote Longshore said she meets with the district options: face-to-face instruc- tion, secretary/clerical and athletics/ online learning. Health Department every Monday tion or Highlands Virtual School. activities. “We will start making adjustments morning. The Health Department Longshore met with principals on Also, the School Board of Highlands (today) as we get the final numbers is supporting the district’s school Friday and they are making plans for County, at its July 14 meeting, will and then looking how to staff properly reopen plans. the back-to-school open houses on consider approval of changing the top each one of those options,” she said. There continues to be weekly virtual campuses that will be different this position at Highlands Virtual School “I think we have a very good plan meetings with the education commis- to higher position from lead teacher ... parents have many options and I sioner and input from the governor SURVEY | 2A to assistant principal. Sebring passes on paving Curry Street Alternative sought to help homeowner

By MARC VALERO a road into the unfinished been on the City Council’s STAFF WRITER Curry Street development, agenda several times in the which has five houses and hopes of finding a solution SEBRING — Due to the vacant lots. to Curry Street, which is pandemic’s impact on the Without the road and off Martin Luther King Jr. economy, the City of Sebring without utility services a Boulevard and south of will not be moving forward certificate of occupancy has Cemetery Road. with any plans to pave Curry not been issued for any of the At its recent meeting, the Street. houses that were built prior Sebring City Council was MARC VALERO/STAFF The City of Sebring in to the economic downturn in provided a budget estimate recent months was working 2008. of $165,773 to construct and The Sebring City Council decided not to move forward with paving Curry on developing an equitable Adriana Fernandez who Street, which was a small housing development that was unfinished due to plan to pay for the paving of owns one of the homes has CURRY | 2A the real estate/economy downturn in 2008.

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5 THINGS That Will Make You ALMANAC SMARTER Orange production Today is Monday, July 13, the 195th 1. Thoroughgood Marshall was born in Maryland in day of 2020. There are 171 days left in 1908. Young Thoroughgood would eventually change the year. his name to Thurgood. He once admitted, “By the time down as season ends I reached the second grade, I got tired of spelling all that Today in history NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA out and had shortened it to Thurgood.” 4.85 million boxes, an increase On July 13, 2013, a jury in Sanford, 2. In the 1950s, Marshall tipped off the FBI about from 4.51 million boxes in the Florida, cleared neighborhood watch communist attempts to infi ltrate the NAACP. But he was Florida’s citrus growing 2018-2019 season. Specialty volunteer George Zimmerman of all also the subject of FBI investigation, under the direction season ended on a sour note, citrus, primarily tangelos charges in the shooting of Trayvon of J. Edgar Hoover. According to FBI fi les, critics tried to with production of the state’s and tangerines, finished at Martin, the unarmed Black teenager connect Marshall to communism through his mem- signature orange crop down 1.02 million boxes, up from last whose killing unleashed furious de- bership in the National Lawyers Guild, a group that was about 6 percent from the prior year’s total of 990,000 boxes. bate over racial profi ling, self-defense called “the legal bulwark of the Communist Party” by the season. The U.S. Department Florida’s citrus industry and equal justice. notorious House Un-American Activities Committee. of Agriculture on Friday has been in a spiral for two 3. In 1967, President Johnson wanted to put Marshall released final numbers for the decades, as growers have faced On this date on the Supreme Court—but there wasn’t a vacancy, 2019-2020 season, with growers pressure from residential and so Johnson decided to do a little political maneuver- filling 67.65 million 90-pound commercial development, for- In 1787, the Congress of the ing. According to the most common version of what boxes, the industry standard eign imports, changing drink- Confederation adopted the happened, Johnson appointed Justice Tom Clark’s son, measurement. ing habits and citrus greening, Northwest Ordinance, which estab- Ramsey, as the Attorney General, which made the elder That number was below an incurable bacterial disease. lished a government in the Northwest Clark—who feared a confl ict of interest—retire on June the 71.85 million boxes filled The state’s orange harvest Territory, an area corresponding to 12, 1967. Johnson offi cially nominated Marshall as his during the 2018-2019 season. in the past topped 200 million the present-day Midwest and Upper replacement the next day. The industry entered the boxes, with a high of 244 mil- Midwest. 4. Marshall was sworn in to the Supreme Court on 2019-2020 season with an lion boxes in the 1997-1998 In 1812, New York became the fi rst October 2, 1967. But before he took the oath of offi ce, optimistic tone, expecting to season. Grapefruit production U.S. city to adopt regulations on how he had to survive a grueling wait, as several senators continue a rebound after a through the mid-1990s was pawnbrokers could conduct business. from southern states worked to derail his nomination. disastrous 2017-2018 season in also up to 50 million boxes a In 1863, deadly rioting against the For four days in July 1967, those senators questioned which Hurricane Irma reduced year. Even with the reduced Civil War military draft erupted in Marshall about his legal philosophy and imposed a quiz production. numbers, Florida remains the New York City. (The insurrection was about political history, reminiscent of a Jim Crow-era The state, however, saw nation’s top producer of orang- put down three days later.) literacy test. upticks during the 2019-2020 es, accounting for 56.4 percent, In 1965, President Lyndon B. 5. Marshall tackled equal pay for African-American season in grapefruit and while California produces Johnson nominated Thurgood teachers after he graduated from Howard University’s specialty crops. Grapefruit pro- 42.4 percent. Marshall to be U.S. Solicitor General; law school in 1933. Six years later, Marshall won a big duction in Florida ended with Marshall became the fi rst Black jurist victory for teachers like his mother, when a federal appointed to the post. (Two years court struck down pay discrimination against African- later, Johnson nominated Marshall to American teachers in Maryland. Marshall went on to the U.S. Supreme Court.) fi ght for teacher pay equality in 10 states across the In 1974, the Senate Watergate South. Committee proposed sweeping re- Source: mentalfl oss.com forms in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal. In 1985, “Live Aid,” an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa’s starving people. In 2005, a suicide car bomb explod- ed next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing more than two dozen people, including 18 children and teenagers and an American soldier. Ten years ago: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in Tampa, nine days after turning 80. T Five years ago: New York City reached a $5.9 million settlement FILE PHOTO with the family of Eric Garner, a Black man who died after being placed in a Sebring High School teacher Deena Wright teaches ninth- white police offi cer’s chokehold. grade Pre-IB “Inquiry” class in this fi le photo. The majority of FILE PHOTO One year ago: After briefl y becom- ing a hurricane, Tropical Storm Barry Highlands County parents are ready for their children to receive Sebring High School teacher Julie Giordano is teaching the IB course, “History of made landfall about 160 miles west face-to-face instruction this school year. the Americas” in this fi le photo. The majority of parents who fi lled out the School Board of Highlands County Back to School survey say they want their children to of New Orleans, bringing heavy rain receive face-to-face instruction. that tested the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane LOTTERY NUMBERS the best way to handle that. Katrina in 2005; the storm spared “But, we won’t have the big New Orleans and Baton Rouge from SURVEY catastrophic fl ooding. POWERBALL JACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY FROM PAGE 1A open houses this year where all of the families come in with all Saturday, July 11, 2020 Friday, July 10, 2020 of their children into the school Today’s birthdays 14-19-61-62-64-4-x2 9-13-30-34-42-43 year. setting,” Longshore said. “It will Winning Numbers Winning Numbers The open houses may Game show announcer Johnny be much more limited this year. Next Jackpot: Next Jackpot: involve kindergartners and Gilbert (TV: “Jeopardy!”) is 96. Actor It will certainly be structured Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Tuesday, July 14, 2020 some sixth-graders and some Patrick Stewart is 80. Actor Harrison much different than anything $87 MILLION $250,000 ninth-graders, she said. Every Ford is 78. Singer-guitarist Roger we have had in the past.” school is making decisions on McGuinn (The Byrds) is 78. Actor- MEGA MILLIONS FANTASY 5 comedian Cheech Marin is 74. Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid is 72. Rock mu- Friday, July 10, 2020 Saturday, July 11, 2020 sician Mark “The Animal” Mendoza 10-15-20-49-53-22-x5 4-11-23-27-33 plans for paving Curry Street. (Twisted Sister) is 64. Actor-director Winning Numbers CURRY Council just didn’t feel it Cameron Crowe is 63. Country Next Jackpot: PICK 5 FROM PAGE 1A was prudent at this time to singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is Tuesday, July 14, 2020 spend that kind of money in 58. Bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent $91 MILLION Sunday, July 12, 2020 asphalt road, which does not the current economic situation is 58. Country singer Neil Thrasher 5-5-9-7-0 include the cost of a cul-de-sac. especially with revenues falling is 55. Actor Ken Jeong is 51. Actress LOTTO Saturday, July 11, 2020 Additional right-of-way would due to COVID-19, he said. Also, Ashley Scott is 43. Rock musician Will 6-1-2-1-3 have to be obtained for the it is probably too much money Champion (Coldplay) is 42. Actor Saturday, July 11, 2020 cul-de-sac. to spend anyway because it is Fran Kranz is 39. Actress Aya Cash is 2-20-24-26-38-48-x5 PICK 4 The estimate does not not known how much the City 38. St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Winning Numbers include the cost to construct a will recover in its costs, not Molina is 38. Actor Colton Haynes is Next Jackpot: Sunday, July 12, 2020 retention pond, which would knowing how the development 0-9-7-9 32. Actor Steven R. McQueen is 32. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 require additional property. will progress. Soul singer Leon Bridges is 31. $9.25 MILLION Saturday, July 11, 2020 The design and engineering From a financial perspective 1-4-7-7 of paving Curry Street would Council didn’t want to burden Bible verse CASH 4 LIFE cost $26,500 according to a pro- the taxpayers with a road that PICK 3 posal from Poltson engineering may only benefit one property “Christ hath redeemed us from the Saturday, July 11, 2020 for a total estimated cost for an owner or two or three property Sunday, July 12, 2020 curse of the law, being made a curse 5-11-22-27-41-4 asphalt road of $192,273. owners. 0-4-7 for us; for it is written, ‘Cursed is Winning Numbers It was noted that a shell rock There is a vacant parcel locat- Saturday, July 11, 2020 every one that hangeth on a tree.’” — Top Prize: road would reduce the cost by ed behind Fernandez’s house, 3-7-4 Galatians 3:13. Sunday, July 12, 2020 about $20,000, but the ongoing which could be utilized to Do you realize that every fi lthy $1,000/DAY FOR LIFE maintenance of a shell rock access her property, Noethlich word, deed and thought that has ever PICK 2 road would soon offset the said. “We are going to assist her occurred was laid on Jesus at the Sunday, July 12, 2020 savings. with getting in touch with that cross? He died so that we might have 4-1 City Manager Scott Noethlich property owner and see wheth- life abundant and life eternal. Think Saturday, July 11, 2020 said the City Council decided er or not some type of solution it over. 6-8 not to move forward with any could be worked out that way.”

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS at the department and at “Our prayers and full support the city of McAllen, but our are with the valiant men and MCALLEN, Texas — Two strength will get us through,” women of the #CityofMcAllen police officers were shot and the chief said. “We gather PD this evening,” the tweet killed Saturday by a suspect our strength from our police read. “We are grateful for police who later fatally shot himself officers, and we gather our in McAllen and around this in a South Texas border town strengths from our colleagues, great state.” after responding to a domestic as you can see here.” U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez disturbance call, authorities Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who of McAllen said in a state- said. spoke with Rodriguez, offered ment that receiving news of McAllen Police Chief Victor the full backing of the state and the two officers’ deaths was Rodriguez identified the slain expressed his support via social “devastating.” officers as Edelmiro Garza, 45, media. “This is devastating news and Ismael Chavez, 39. Garza “Two of our finest were to our community. My heart was an officer with the police killed in the line of duty while breaks for these fallen officers department for more than eight working to protect residents and their families,” Gonzalez years while Chavez had over in their community,” Abbott said. “They served McAllen two years of experience. wrote on Twitter. “We unite to bravely and honorably and I “We have lost two brave #BackTheBlue.” will keep them in my prayers.” public servants who sought Lt. Christopher Olivarez, Rodriguez said that while the only to keep peace in our City,” JOEL MARTINEZ/THE MONITOR VIA AP spokesman for the Texas police are “weakened for the Rodriguez, visibly distraught, Department of Public Safety, moment,” he expects a resilient told The (McAllen) Monitor. A McAllen police officer hugs a mourner at McAllen Medical Center, said DPS was among the agen- law enforcement community The officers first met with Saturday in McAllen, Texas. Two police officers were shot and killed after cies assisting McAllen police on to stand tall and persevere two people who reported reportedly responding to a disturbance call. Saturday. through it. assaults that took place inside a wounds, they have both passed More details surrounding the Olivarez noted that DPS “The strength and the resolve nearby home on the south side away as a result. The officers domestic disturbance Garza sent troopers to secure the we have to serve our commu- of McAllen around 3:30 p.m. never had a chance to suspect and Chavez responded to scene after the McAllen Police nities, all of us here, will allow Saturday, Rodriguez said. But deadly assault on them, much were not immediately known. Department requested their us to do what we do every day,” the alleged shooter, whom less death.” Rodriguez said the attack assistance. He said his agency Rodriguez said. police identified as 23-year- Camarillo shot and killed happened suddenly and fellow received a call about the Law enforcement from old Audon Ignacio Camarillo, himself shortly after opening police officers didn’t learn of incident around 4:30 p.m. several cities in Hidalgo County opened fire when officers fire on the officers, Rodriguez the officers’ deaths until arriv- McAllen is located at the gathered Saturday evening attempted to enter the home. said, adding that the suspect ing to the area moments later. southern tip of Texas, about 70 at McAllen Medical to honor “They were doing their job. hid behind a vehicle after other Rodriguez said he doesn’t miles (113 kilometers) west of Garza and Chavez. More than That is what they were sup- officers responded to the scene. expect his department to get the Gulf of Mexico. 50 police cars were part of a posed to do. The person was a Camarillo had a few run-ins over the deaths of their fellow Texas Attorney General Ken procession that accompanied suspect of the incident, met our with police beginning in 2016 officers anytime soon. Paxton tweeted that his office the bodies of the officers, who officers at the door, and shot at to his most recent arrest last “The next few days for us, will provide the McAllen Police were taken to Hidalgo County both officers,” Rodriguez said. month on assault charges, moving forward as well, will be Department with any help pathology for an autopsy. “Both officers suffered fatal according to public records. very, very difficult, for ourselves needed. Dozens of US Marines in Japan’s Okinawa get coronavirus

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS are “to protect our forces, our families, and the local community,” TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of without providing details on the U.S. Marines at two bases on infections. the southern Japanese island of The Marines did not immediately Okinawa have been infected with respond Saturday to an Associated the coronavirus in what is feared to Press inquiry about the latest be a massive outbreak, Okinawa’s outbreak. governor said Saturday, demanding Okinawa is home to more than an adequate explanation from the KYODO NEWS VIA AP half of about 50,000 American U.S. military. troops based in Japan under a Gov. Denny Tamaki said he could This Jan. 27, 2018, aerial file photo bilateral security pact, and the say only that a “few dozen” cases shows U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma in residents are sensitive to U.S. ANNE OWENS/U.S. NAVY VIA AP had been found recently because Ginowan, Okinawa, southern Japan. base-related problems. Many the U.S. military asked that the Okinawans have long complained In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, student Naval aviator exact figure not be released. The talks between the U.S. military about pollution, noise and crime Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle, assigned to the Redhawks of Training outbreaks occurred at Marine and Okinawan officials. He said related to U.S. bases. Squadron (VT) 21 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, exits a Corps Air Station Futenma, which Okinawan officials also asked the Okinawans also oppose a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft. is at the center of a relocation Japanese government to demand planned relocation of the Futenma dispute, and Camp Hansen, Tamaki that the U.S. provide details air base from the current site in said. including the number of cases, seal a densely populated area in the US Navy welcomes Local media, citing unnamed off Futenma and Camp Hansen, south to a less populated area on sources, said about 60 people had and step up preventive measures the east coast. been infected. on base. Local media reported that the “Okinawans are shocked by Okinawan officials made similar Okinawan assembly adopted a 1st Black female what we were told (by the U.S. requests to the U.S. military on resolution Friday protesting the military),” Tamaki told a news Friday in order to address local U.S. military’s lack of transparency conference. “We now have strong residents’ concerns, Tamaki said. about its outbreak on base. Tactical Aircraft pilot doubts that the U.S. military has The Marines said in a statement Okinawa has about 150 cases taken adequate disease prevention Friday that the troops were taking of the coronavirus. In all, Japan measures.” additional protective measures to has about 21,000 cases and 1,000 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tamaki demanded transpar- limit the spread of the coronavirus deaths, with Tokyo reporting more ency in the latest development and were restricting off-base activ- than 200 new cases for a third KINGSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Navy has welcomed and said he planned to request ities. The statement said measures straight day Saturday. its first Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot. “MAKING HISTORY!” the U.S. Navy tweeted Thursday in response to a post that Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle had completed naval flight school and would STATE NEWS BRIEFS later this month receive the flight officer insignia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Marion County Public Grossman Orr said that festival known as the “Wings of Gold.” Defender’s Office was closed officials will work with other The Naval Air Training Command tweeted that Sunday and not accepting phone community-based organizations to Swegle is the Navy’s “first known Black female TACAIR messages. raise donations and disperse them pilot.” Man charged in Florida Ocala is about 80 miles north of to those most in need in Key West. According to Stars and Stripes, Swegle is from church arson attack Orlando. Burke, Virginia, and graduated from the U.S. Naval OCALA — A man accused of Police: Dog at center of Academy in 2017. setting a Florida church on fire was Officials said she is assigned to the Redhawks of Fantasy Fest in Florida deadly Florida dispute being held without bail Sunday on Keys canceled because Training Squadron 21 in Kingsville, Texas. charges that include attempted euthanized Swegle’s milestone comes more than 45 years after of coronavirus second-degree murder and arson. PORT ST. LUCIE — The dog Rosemary Mariner in 1974 became the first woman to The Marion County Sheriff’s fly a tactical fighter jet, according to news outlets. KEY WEST — The risk of corona- at the center of a neighborhood Office charged Steven Shields, 23, virus transmission has prompted dispute that left three people dead on Saturday, hours after detectives organizers in the Florida Keys to last Monday has been euthanized, say he plowed a minivan through cancel this year’s Fantasy Fest. police said. the front door of Queen of Peace Key West’s annual masking and The female mastiff named Roxy Catholic Church in Ocala, doused costuming festival had been sched- was surrendered to authorities in the foyer with gasoline and set it on uled for Oct. 16-25, but festival Port St. Lucie and euthanized on fire, causing extensive damage. director Nadene Grossman Orr said Wednesday, the Palm Beach Post Several people were inside Thursday that the 41st edition will reported. preparing for Mass when the attack not be staged. The dog’s owner, Ronald occurred early Saturday, but no one The festival was developed in Delserro, 82, is accused of fatally was hurt. 1979 to bolster off-season business shooting Harper Hansman, 11, According to court documents, in the tourism-based economy. It and her father, 55-year-old Guy Shields told detectives he is men- grew to generate some $30 million Hansman, according to police. tally ill but had stopped taking his in annual revenues for the Florida The dispute was apparently over medication, the Ocala Star-Banner Keys island chain. tensions involving the dog. reported. “Since there will not be a Fantasy Delserro, who lived next door to Shields told detectives what he Fest 2020, we are concerned about the Hansmans, died Monday after did was “awesome,” and he smiled how the island’s workers will be an exchange of gunfire with police and laughed, the affidavit said. affected,” Grossman Orr said. and a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s :,1'2:75($70(176 He told detectives he was “on a About half of the Florida Keys deputy. A police officer was shot mission,” called himself “king” workforce is employed in tour- in the arm, and a bulletproof vest 560 U.S. 27 North and that he has problems with the ism-related jobs, Keys tourism stopped a bullet to the chest. Family Owned Sebring, FL 33870 Catholic Church and referenced officials said. The island chain On Tuesday, Sandra Delserro, 78, & Operated (863) 385-4796 passages in the Bible’s Book of reopened to visitors June 1 after contacted animal control officials Revelations. being closed to nonresidents for and said she wanted to surrender Since 1978 CarpetPatioBlinds.com Services were being held Sunday some 10 weeks to slow the spread Roxy “as she was leaving town,” the adno=00041579 in another part of the church. of COVID-19. Palm Beach Post reported. A4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | July 13, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com NATIONAL NEWS California now allows nursing home visits, but few happen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of Public Health, said outdoor for residents, who are largely visits should be allowed even in confined to their rooms, has For months, families have facilities reporting virus cases, contributed to a decline in pined to see their loved ones though local health officers can their loved ones’ mental and who live in California’s skilled choose to limit visitation if they physical health. nursing facilities, which have feel it’s too risky for nursing Chaparral House, a skilled been shut down to outside home residents. nursing facility in Berkeley, visitors to keep the coronavirus Tony Chicotel, staff attorney created special procedures for from spreading. for California Advocates for outdoor visits for residents California health authorities Nursing Home Reform, said the who can’t join in video chats recently issued guidance for state’s guidance hasn’t made because of their health condi- visits to resume, but few are much difference yet. tions or if they are dying, said happening as infection rates “I have not heard from any- KJ Page, the facility’s admin- surge in many communities. body since the new policy went istrator. Visitors must make Facilities are being cautious into place on June 26 who said, appointments, wear masks and after many suffered severe out- ‘Hey, I am now able to visit my get tested for the virus. breaks earlier in the pandemic. loved one in a nursing home, at Larry Yabroff, 78, has been “I’m desperate at this point,” JEFF CHIU/AP PHOTO least outdoors,’” he said. able to visit his wife, Mary, who said Sue Mathis, who hasn’t DeAnn Walters, director of has Alzheimer’s, under these seen her 94-year-old mother in Larry Yarbroff, right, adjusts his mask as he sits with his wife, Mary, while clinical affairs at the California conditions. She couldn’t grasp San Francisco in four months. visiting her at Chaparral House in Berkeley, Calif., Friday, July 10. For Association of Health Facilities, video chats and became agi- “My mother calls me crying, months, families have pined to see their loved ones in California’s skilled said outdoor visits need to be tated during window visits, he sometimes several times a day, nursing facilities, which have been shut down to outside visitors amid the monitored and require staff said. So he wears a mask, gets coronavirus pandemic. begging me that she wants to time, and facilities might be tested regularly for COVID-19 see me, and when will she see up in two to three weeks. guidance, indoor visitation is reluctant to take that on while and largely stays home except me, and will she be able to see For some — especially older limited to one person at a time dealing with virus cases. for walks — and the handful me before she dies. It’s crazy.” adults and people with existing and only may occur if there’s “Having some kind of safe of times he has gone to see his California’s skilled nursing health problems — it can cause adequate staffing, testing and visit really is important,” wife. facilities closed to visitors in more severe illness, including no new virus cases in a facility Walters said, but added, “just On Friday, he had his tem- March, but their residents still pneumonia, and death. for 14 days and a decline in because one entity says, ‘Hey, perature taken at the front have been among the hardest Families have relied on new cases, hospitalizations this is OK,’ we still have to be entrance to the facility before hit by the pandemic because phone and video calls to stay in or deaths in the surrounding responsive to our other agen- being escorted around the many are elderly, frail and live touch with loved ones. In some community — a combination cies that guide us.” building to a garden out back. in close proximity. Statewide, cases, they can chat through of standards few can meet. The American Health Care His wife was brought out in a the facilities account for about windows at the facilities. But Otherwise, facilities are sup- Association/National Center wheelchair, and they sat on a 40% of California’s nearly 7,000 these visits can be challenging posed to allow outdoor visits for Assisted Living isn’t tracking bench and talked. deaths. for residents with impaired and follow infection control each state’s rules or procedures “I enter into her reality, For most people, the new vision or hearing or cognitive protocols. but says more are allowing whatever it is, and that is coronavirus causes mild or difficulties. Rodger Butler, a spokesper- visitation or will soon. Many calming for her,” he said. “She moderate symptoms, such Under California’s new son for California’s Department relatives say the prolonged is definitely happy to see me, as fever and cough that clear isolation and lack of activities which is a blessing.” As virus rages in US, Churches amid the pandemic: Some New York guards outbreaks, many challenges against another rise

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NEW YORK — Crowded bars NEW YORK — As coronavirus rages out of con- and house parties have been trol in other parts of the U.S., New York is offering identified as culprits in spreading an example after taming the nation’s deadliest the coronavirus. Meat packing outbreak this spring — while also trying to prepare plants, prisons and nursing in case another surge comes. homes are known hot spots. Then New York’s early experience is a ready-made there’s the complicated case of blueprint for states now finding themselves America’s churches. swamped by the disease. It could also come in The vast majority of these handy at home, as the region readies for a poten- churches have cooperated with tial second wave of infection that experts predict health authorities and successful- will likely come at some point. ly protected their congregations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered advice, ven- Yet from the earliest phases of tilators, masks, gowns and medicine to states the pandemic, and continuing to dealing with spikes in cases and hospitalizations this day, some worship services and, in some places, rising deaths. Some health and other religious activities have care workers are heading to other states to help been identified as sources of local fight the virus, reciprocating the influx that gave outbreaks. TONY GUTIERREZ/AP PHOTO New York hospitals some much-needed relief just They are by no means at the top In this Sunday, June 28, 2020 file photo, Senior Pastor Robert Jeffress addresses months ago. of the list of problematic activi- attendees before Vice President Mike Pence was to speak at the First Baptist At the same time, the Democratic governor ties across the U.S., but they have Church Dallas during a Celebrate Freedom Rally in Dallas. has ordered travelers from more than a dozen posed challenges for government states to quarantine for 14 days, while urging New leaders and public health officials States, even as myriad houses of Also in June, West Virginia’s Yorkers not to let up on wearing masks or social whose guidelines and orders are worship halted in-person services health department announced distancing. sometimes challenged as en- for safety reasons. outbreaks linked to five churches Yet with the virus tearing through the South and croachments on religious liberty. Of the first wave of cases in in different parts of the state. The West, Cuomo warned Friday it would eventually “If we wanted to have zero South Korea in February, several biggest was at Graystone Baptist rear up again in New York. risks, the safest thing would be thousand were members of the Church in Lewisburg with 51 “We’re doing everything we can,” he told WAMC to never open our doors,” said secretive Shincheonji Church cases, three of them fatal. radio, but “I can feel it coming.” prominent Dallas megachurch of Jesus. Hundreds of other In several cases, churches that A widely cited University of Washington model pastor Robert Jeffress. “The cases were linked to a Muslim resumed in-person services opted doesn’t project spikes — at least through its question is how can you balance missionary movement event in to close again after outbreaks. Nov. 1 time frame — in New York, New Jersey or risk with the very real need to late February in Malaysia that Among them: Connecticut, whose Democratic governors have worship.” was attended by about 16,000 — Holy Family Catholic coordinated on traveler quarantines and, earlier, In the past two weeks alone, people from numerous East Asian some shutdown policies. But that doesn’t mean the there have been two notable Church in Las Vegas. The diocese countries. announced Thursday that the densely populated tri-state area is in the clear. church-government confronta- In the second week of March, tions in California. church would be closed indefi- before warnings and lockdown nitely after a priest who celebrat- DON’T LET THE San Francisco’s city attorney orders proliferated in the U.S., 35 sent a cease-and-desist order in ed Mass this week tested positive. 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HONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents turned up over the weekend to vote in an unofficial primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field candidates for an upcoming legislative poll. The primaries were held two PETR DAVID JOSEK/AP PHOTO weeks after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security Presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski accompanied by his wife law on the semi-autonomous Malgorzata addresses media after casting his vote during the presiden- territory in a move widely seen tial election runoff in Rybnik, Poland on Sunday. as chipping away at the “one country, two systems” frame- work under which Britain hand- VINCENT YU/AP PHOTO ed Hong Kong over to China in Turnout high for 1997. It was passed in response People queue up to vote in Hong Kong Sunday, July 12 in an unofficial primary to last year’s massive protests for pro-democracy candidates ahead of legislative elections in September. calling for greater democracy Over 200,000 Hong Kongers voted in an unofficial Hong Kong primary that will Poland’s momentous and more police accountability. help the pro-democracy camp decide which candidates to field in legislative Throngs of people lined up at elections in September. polling booths in the summer platforms to remove messages pro-democracy activists heat to vote despite a warning deemed to be in violation of the had raised money via crowd presidential runoff last week by Hong Kong’s con- legislation. funding. They pledged to veto stitutional affairs minister, Eric On Friday, police raided the the government’s budget if THE ASSOCIATED PRESS complain about our politics,” Tsang, that the primaries could office of the Public Opinion they clinch a majority in the said Eugeniusz Kowalski, 67, be in breach of the new national Research Institute, a co-or- legislature. Under Hong Kong’s WARSAW, Poland — Voters a retired office clerk, after security law because it outlaws ganizer of the primaries. The mini-constitution, known as the in Poland turned out heavily voting in Warsaw. interference and disruption of computer system was suspected Basic Law, the city’s leader must Sunday to cast ballots in the “We could use some duties by the local government. of being hacked, causing a data resign if an important bill such razor blade-close presidential change,” he added. Organizers dismissed the leak, police said in a statement, as the budget is vetoed twice. runoff between the conserva- The head of Poland’s comments, saying they just and an investigation is ongoing. Organizers said Sunday that tive, populist incumbent and influential Roman Catholic want to hold the government Hong Kong’s pro-democracy nearly 600,000 people voted at the liberal, pro-Europe mayor Church, Archbishop Wojciech accountable by gaining a major- camp, which includes multiple polling booths set up across the of Warsaw — a battle that re- Polak, said the new president ity in the legislature. parties, is attempting to join city, exceeding organizers’ esti- flected the deep divisions in should be conciliatory. The new law prohibits what forces and use the primaries as mates of a turnout of 170,000. this European Union nation. “In the situation when Beijing views as secessionist, a guide to field the best candi- “Despite the threat of the President Andrzej Duda, we see constant discord, subversive or terrorist activities dates in the official legislative national security law, there who is backed by the ruling divisions, the rift in society, or as foreign intervention in election in September. Its goal is are still nearly 600,000 people right-wing Law and Justice let him be a unifying one, the Hong Kong affairs. Under the to win a majority in the legisla- coming out to vote, “ said Au party and the government, president of all Poles,” Polak law, police now have sweeping ture, which is typically skewed Nok-hin, one of the organizers has campaigned on tradition- said after voting in Gniezno. powers to conduct searches toward the pro-Beijing camp. of the primaries. “We can see al values and social spending Duda voted in his home- without warrants and order To hold the primaries, Hong Kongers are really brave.” in this mostly Catholic nation town of Krakow while internet service providers and as he seeks a second 5-year Trzaskowski voted in his term. wife’s southern hometown of Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, a Rybnik. former European Parliament “This is a civic duty but Virus cases up sharply in Africa, lawmaker, jumped into the also a privilege because this race relatively late to oppose is a very important election,” Duda’s denigration of urban Trzaskowski said after voting. India as inequality stings liberals, the LGBT community “I hope the turnout will really and other minorities and to be high.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS counter an erosion of demo- The ruling party and Duda cratic rights under the ruling have won popularity through JOHANNESBURG — South party. He is representing the a welfare program that Africa’s confirmed coronavirus centrist opposition Civic improved the lives of many cases have doubled in just two Platform party that was in impoverished families with weeks to a quarter-million, and power in from 2007 to 2015. children and retirees, espe- India on Saturday saw its biggest The latest polls show cially in rural areas and small daily spike as its infections the race between the two towns, and also through passed 800,000. The surging 48-year-old candidates may their attachment to Poland’s cases are raising sharp concerns be decided by a very small traditional Roman Catholic about unequal treatment in the margin. The result is expected values. pandemic, as the wealthy hoard to lead to starkly different But the ruling party has medical equipment and use political paths for Poland, drawn criticism from EU private hospitals and the poor at least until 2023, when the leaders for taking steps to crowd into overwhelmed public next parliamentary election is politically influence the facilities. scheduled. justice system and the media Globally more than 12.5 mil- The State Electoral in Poland. It has also deep- lion people have been infected Commission said the turnout ened social rifts with verbal by the virus and over 560,000 JEROME DELAY/AP PHOTO by 5 p.m. was 52.1%, more attacks on urban liberals and have died, according to data Covid-19 patients are being treated with oxygen at the Tshwane District than four points higher than the LGBT community. compiled by Johns Hopkins Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday July 10, 2020. Health Minister Zweli at that time in the first round Trzaskowski has vowed to University. Experts say the pan- Mkhize this week said South Africa could run out of available hospital beds of voting on June 28 — one close the social rifts and to demic’s true toll is much higher within the month. sign of just how much Poles continue the benefits policy. due to testing shortages, poor on both sides feel their His support is strongest in data collection in some nations care unit equipment in their Indian Prime Minister nation’s future is at stake. larger cities and among more and other issues. homes. The country lost its first Narendra Modi urged top offi- The ballot was supposed highly educated people. Some of the worst-affected doctor to COVID-19 this week. cials to improve infection testing to be held in May but after Due to the pandemic, the countries are among the world’s “The welfare, occupational and tracking, especially in states much political wrangling was voting is being held under most unequal. South Africa leads safety & health of frontline with high positivity rates. delayed by health concerns strict sanitary regulations. them all on that measure, with workers is a non-negotiable Officials on the southern amid the coronavirus Poland has registered over the pandemic exposing the gap minimum!!” the Kenya Medical Japanese island of Okinawa said pandemic. Some 30 million 37,000 infections and almost in care. Practitioners, Pharmacists and dozens of U.S. Marines have voters are eligible to cast 1,600 deaths. In Johannesburg, the epicen- Dentists Union tweeted after her been infected at two bases there ballots. Voters must wear masks ter of South Africa’s outbreak, death. On Saturday, the union in what is feared to be a massive In the first round, Duda and gloves, maintain a safe badly needed oxygen concentra- and other medical groups urged outbreak. The officials said the got 43.5% support and distance and use hand sani- tors that help COVID-19 patients President Uhuru Kenyatta to U.S. military asked that the exact Trzaskowski 30.5%, but on tizer. They can use their own who are struggling to breathe implement a promised com- figure not be released. Sunday the mayor is expected pens to mark ballots. Election are hard to find as private pensation package to ease the “We now have strong doubts to pick up support from most officials must wear masks businesses and individuals are “anxiety and fear that has now that the U.S. military has taken centrist voters who backed and sit wide apart from each buying them up, a public health gripped health care workers.” adequate disease prevention candidates who were elimi- other. Ballot boxes were specialist volunteering at a field More than 8,000 health measures,” Gov. Denny Tamaki nated. Those who supported being regularly disinfected hospital, Lynne Wilkinson, told workers across Africa have been told reporters. a far-right candidate two and the polling stations were The Associated Press. infected, half of them in South In Australia, the beleaguered weeks ago are seen as critical frequently ventilated. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Africa. The continent of 1.3 bil- state of Victoria reported 216 swing votes on Sunday. The powerful ruling party public hospitals are short on lion has the world’s lowest levels new cases in the past 24 hours, If Duda is reelected, the leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, medical oxygen — and they of health staffing and more than down from the record 288 the right-wing Law and Justice was the target of a prank are now seeing a higher pro- 560,000 cases, and the pan- previous day. It hopes a new six- party will continue to have a when he voted in Warsaw. A portion of deaths than private demic is reaching “full speed,” week lockdown in Melbourne, close ally in the president and man approached the ballot ones, the National Institute for the Africa Centers for Disease Australia’s second-largest city maintain its hold on almost box alongside Kaczynski Communicable Diseases says. Control and Prevention says. with a population of 5 million, all key instruments of power wearing a face shield and a South Africa now has more Many parts of the world are will curb the spread. in the nation of 38 million print-out of Kaczynski’s like- than 250,000 confirmed coro- facing fresh waves of infections “We cannot pretend that people. A win for Trzaskowski ness over his own face. The navirus cases, including more as they try to reopen their doing anything other than fol- would give him the power back of his T-shirt read “fight than 3,800 deaths. To complicate economies. lowing the rules will get us to the to veto laws passed by the evil with laughter” while the matters, the country’s troubled In India, which reported a other side of this,” said Victoria ruling conservatives and give front had a cat added to a power utility has announced new daily high of 27,114 cases Premier Daniel Andrews. Poland a less contentious famous Leonardo da Vinci new electricity cuts in the dead on Saturday, nearly a dozen In Latin America, where relationship with EU officials. painting — an apparent of winter as a cold front brings states have imposed a partial inequality is sharp and Brazil People were seen waiting in reference to Kaczynski’s love freezing weather. Many of the lockdown in high-risk areas. and Peru are among the world’s lines at voting stations across of cats. country’s urban poor live in Cases jumped from 600,000 to top five most badly hit countries, the country, especially in Exit polls were being shacks of scrap metal and wood. more than 800,000 in nine days. the COVID-19 pandemic is seaside resorts where many released after the polls close And in Kenya, some have been People are packing India’s public sweeping through the conti- Poles were vacationing. at 9 p.m. The final official outraged by a local newspaper hospitals as many are unable to nent’s leadership, with two more “We should vote because results are expected early in report that says several gover- afford private ones that generally presidents and powerful officials otherwise we have no right to the week. nors have installed intensive uphold higher standards of care. testing positive in the past week. 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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 An old tactic renewed There is no debate about this statistic: Florida is the most popular state for the Affordable Care Act. With 1.9 million Floridians signing up for Obamacare in 2019, Florida continues to lead the nation in sign-ups. Even Texas, with more people, had fewer sign-ups — 1.1 million. North Carolina was next with 505,275. As for Florida, the sign-ups have increased from 983,775 in 2014 to 1.9 million last year. The reason for the popularity of the Affordable Care Act in Florida has a lot to do with the refusal of state leaders to expand Rebuffing one president — Medicaid. Nevertheless, it is beyond belief that Florida has joined a lawsuit challenging the consti- tutionality of the act that is before the U.S. and protecting those to come Supreme Court. It represents an official thumbing of the nose to Floridians who need health care. Even with WASHINGTON — If hard cases strengthen Congress’s hand in so many sign-ups for Obamacare, Florida still make bad law, a corollary may be GUEST COLUMN future showdowns without unduly has 2.7 million people who are uninsured. that bad presidents risk making Ruth Marcus weakening the president. According to healthinsurance.org, Florida has bad law. A president who ignores Congress is empowered, in part, a Medicaid coverage gap. Non-disabled child- settled norms and makes maximal- when subpoenaing a president. because the majority forcefully less adults are not eligible for Medicaid. ist legal arguments in defending Such subpoenas should be issued rejected Trump’s contention, According to a brief from the Center on his conduct may provoke courts to only as a “last resort,” when the echoed by the solicitor general, Budget and Policy Priorities, the Trump admin- overreact — solving the problem information is “not available from that a congressional subpoena for istration has changed from opposing specific at hand but setting bad precedents any other source” and is needed nonprivileged, private information elements of the law to opposing it in total. that could bind future occupants of “now, rather than at the end of the from a president had to be justified Essential elements of the act initially included the office. president’s term.” by a “demonstrated, specific need.” the individual mandate and the tax penalty In its pair of rulings concerning The court majority wasn’t buying That was the standard the court for not buying insurance, Medicaid expansion subpoenas for President Trump’s it. “That double standard has no applied in dealing with a subpoena and protections for people with pre-existing financial records, the Supreme basis in law,” Roberts observed. for President Richard M. Nixon’s conditions. Court appeared heedful of this As a practical matter, the crim- Oval Office conversations with top The Supreme Court earlier approved the tax danger and avoided it. In short, inal subpoena case, Trump v. advisers, a case that posed legiti- but said that states were not required to expand the justices did not let this terrible Vance, may be the less important. mate worries about chilling future Medicaid. president make bad law. They State prosecutors aren’t likely to presidents’ ability to get candid ad- When Congress scrapped the tax penalty, neither accepted Trump’s extreme be issuing a flurry of subpoenas vice. But the Roberts Court slapped that meant the entire law must fall, said the positions nor set out rules that against future presidents, notwith- down Trump’s efforts to apply this Trump administration as does a total of 18 state could prove problematic for standing the overheated warnings stringent test to his private records, attorneys general. successors. As a matter of law, this from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in saying that would give “short shrift Republican supporters of the lawsuit insist president lost, as he should have; dissent, that the ruling “provides to Congress’s important interests in that they still support protections for people the presidency survived. no real protection against the use conducting inquiries to obtain the with pre-existing conditions, but this looks The first case, involving a grand of the subpoena power by the information it needs to legislate like an old political tactic of offering goodies jury subpoena to Trump’s accoun- Nation’s 2,300-plus local prose- effectively.” without paying for them. tants from Manhattan District cutors.” As Roberts noted, this However, the court said, the Congress clearly wanted to eliminate the Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., was the was the first known state criminal House committees seeking Trump’s individual mandate but keep the rest of it. easiest, both because precedents subpoena directed at a president. records had overstepped in going That was confirmed by Sen. Lamar Alexander, so clearly argued for upholding the Congressional subpoenas are after the material without provid- the Republican from Tennessee. Congress had subpoena and because Trump’s po- another matter: They are more ing adequate justification, posing voted down a repeal measure. sition was absurdly overwrought. common, so the court’s road map the risk that they were engaged in a There still is no credible Republican replace- Trump’s personal lawyers has real-world consequences. fishing expedition. ment for the Affordable Care Act. Responsible contended that a sitting president The court could barely contain The court set out a four-part health industry leaders have offered suggestions enjoys absolute immunity from its exasperation with being sum- test to govern such cases: Could to repair, not replace, the act. But those propos- state criminal subpoenas. This is moned to referee this dispute. As Congress obtain the information als have gone nowhere in partisan Washington. a view of the chief executive as Roberts observed, sounding like it needs for its “asserted legislative If the Supreme Court strikes down the entire hothouse flower, unable to survive a parent annoyed at having to purpose” from other sources? Is the Affordable Care Act, it could result in 20 million the supposedly distracting, stigma- break up a fight among squabbling requested information too broad? people losing their health insurance, accord- tizing and harassing impact. toddlers — Don’t make me stop Has Congress provided a “detailed ing to the Urban Institute, including many This position, as Chief Justice this car! — inter-branch struggles and substantial” explanation of Floridians. John G. Roberts Jr. noted, was so have been erupting since the dawn why it needs the material? And is Florida leads the nation in sign-ups for out there that the solicitor general, of the republic. the subpoena too burdensome on Obamacare, so why is the state challenging it in representing the interests of the Still – thank you, Trump ad- the president’s time? This won’t court? presidency rather than Trump ministration – this was the first provide an automatic answer in Evidence shows that the law continues to himself, did not endorse it, and time the court had been forced to every instance, but it sets reason- remain popular without the mandate, especially the court rejected that argument adjudicate. Historically, disputes able rules going forward. in Florida. unanimously. over congressional demands for Meanwhile, the notion that More insurers have joined the marketplace “No citizen, not even the pres- presidential documents have been Trump won these cases because for the Affordable Care Act in Florida, driving ident, is categorically above the hashed out, as Roberts wrote, his tax returns will remain shielded down prices. common duty to produce evidence quoting the late justice Antonin until after the election misses Opposing the Affordable Care Act is all about when called upon in a criminal Scalia, in the “hurly-burly, the give- the bigger point. A dangerously ideology, not serving the people. proceeding,” Roberts wrote. and-take of the political process bloated view of presidential power An editorial from The Florida Times-Union. The fallback position, taken by between the legislative and the was resoundingly rejected by a the solicitor general, was that a executive.” conservative court — a court that state prosecutor should have to Now that hurly-burly has a set of rebuffed Trump but protected pres- demonstrate a heightened need court-established rules — which idents to come. JOIN THE YOUR VIEW CONVERSATION Letters are welcome on virtually any subject, but we do by Medicare or AARP because the article, “DeSantis needs to send have some rules. We will not accept any Letters to the Editor Infection gave chills of another kind Highlands County Fire Rescue uses clear message,” on your Viewpoints that mention a business in a negative tone, as they have no a billing company in West Palm page Sunday, July 5, 2020. means to defend themselves. Please keep Letters to the Editor I am writing this letter to inform and they coded the bill stating I I strongly support that message. I to less than 250 words. 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January of this year I needed an bill, they still insist I just had the Part 2.” I am so pleased that he Due to the number of letters received, we are able to run ambulance because I was shaking chills. took the time, did the research and only four letters per person per month. and trembling and weak that my I am 81 years old, legally blind, then presented it so well. I pray The Letters to the Editor section is designed as a public wife couldn’t help me or get me to diabetic and feel we were not for some change of heart – and forum for community discourse, and the opinions and state- the car to go to the hospital so she treated fairly by Fire Rescue. thereby change of actions – for ments made in letters are solely those of the individual writers. called EMTs for help. Donald L. Levine those who feel it’s their “God given The newspaper takes no responsibility for the content of these The paramedics told me to right” to do whatever they want letters. 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS recently said schools must Landon said. reopen to in-person classes, Single-occupancy dorms, Public health experts warn her district had been weigh- outdoor classes, socially that a one-size-fits-all schools ing options many others are distanced classrooms and reopening could drive infection considering, including full-time mask-wearing by students and death rates even higher. online teaching or a hybrid and faculty are on tap for the They’re urging a more cau- mix. university. Face coverings will tious approach, which many Wattier’s school has mostly be required at the school too. local governments and school Hispanic and Black students, Policies may change depending districts are already pursuing. many from low-income fami- on virus activity. There are too many uncer- lies; almost 70% qualify for free She dismisses complaints tainties and variables, they or reduced-cost lunches and from some parents who say say, for back-to-school to be many have parents who work masks are a loss of personal back-to-normal. in “essential” jobs that increase freedom. Where is the virus spreading potential exposure to the virus. “It’s not harmful for your rapidly? Do students live Online education was hard child,” she said. “If you see with aged grandparents? Do for many with limited internet wearing masks as a loss of per- teachers have high-risk health access, and Wattier knows ZAHRAH WATTIER VIA AP sonal freedom, then you have conditions that would make in-person classes can help even to think the same of pants.” online teaching safest? Do the playing field. In this undated photo provided by Zahrah Wattier, Wattier, back left, a Dr. Tina Hartert of Vanderbilt infected children easily spread But she’s worried. high school teacher, poses for a photo with her husband, her 4-year-old University is leading a National COVID-19 to each other and to “My school has over 2,000 and 2-year-old twins in Galveston, Texas. Her district had been considering Institutes of Health-funded adults? students. That’s over 2,000 options many others are reviewing: in-person education, full-time online study aiming to determine Regarding the latter, some ev- exposures in a day,” she said. teaching and a hybrid mix. what role children play in idence suggests they don’t, but “It’s a lot to think about. It’s my for adult staff and students ex- considering not returning to transmitting COVID-19. Almost a big government study aims to job. It’s something I choose to cept the youngest. Desks would the classroom because their 2,000 families are enrolled and find better proof. Results won’t do, it’s something I love. Now it be distanced at least 3 feet children’s day care centers self-test every two weeks. The be available before the fall, comes at a really high risk.’’ apart; the CDC recommends aren’t reopening. Some say they idea is to find infected children and some schools are slated to She also worries about her 6 feet. Both the academy and won’t come back until there’s a without symptoms and see how reopen in just a few weeks. 2-year-old twins in day care the CDC suggest limiting adults vaccine. easily disease spreads within “These are complicated and a 4-year-old who has asth- allowed in schools, including “I am concerned and it’s families. Results may come by issues. You can’t just charge ma and is starting preschool. parents, and canceling group because of the age group,” year’s end. straight ahead,” Dr. Tom Her parents live with the family activities like choir and as- Morales said. ‘’Middle school “If we don’t see significant Frieden, former director of the and they’re both high-risk. semblies. Staggered arrival students ... are lovely and I love transmission within house- Centers for Disease Control and The American Academy of and dismissal times, outdoor them, but they touch, they get holds, that would be very Prevention, said Wednesday Pediatrics says the goal is for classes, and keeping kids in close, they roughhouse. It is reassuring,” Hartert said. during an online briefing. all students to be physically the same classroom all day are their nature. They’re 13 years She noted that in other Children infected with coro- present in school. But it says other options. old. They are defiant.” countries where schools have navirus are more likely than school districts need to be President Donald Trump has “If masks are required and a reopened, evidence suggests no adults to have mild illnesses, flexible, consult with public threatened federal funding kid isn’t wearing a mask, is my widespread transmission from but their risk for severe disease health authorities and be ready cuts for districts that don’t fully job description going to be to children. and death isn’t zero. While a to pivot as virus activity waxes reopen. While most funding chase down this kid and insist In France, public schools virus-linked inflammatory and wanes. typically comes from state they wear a mask? And what if reopened briefly before a condition is uncommon, most “It is not that the American and local sources, experts say they don’t?’’ summer break, with no sign of children who develop it require Academy of Pediatrics thinks schools will need more federal She’s heard outrage from widespread virus transmission. intensive care, and a few have this is a done deal because we funding, not less, to reopen parents angry at the prospect Masks were only required for died. Doctors don’t know which have put out guidance,” said safely. Masks, extra cleaning of some schools not reopening upper grades, but students children are at risk. Dr. Nicholas Beers, a member supplies or janitors, additional or incredulous about sending stayed in the same classroom “The single most important of the academy’s school health classroom space, mental health kids back into classrooms. all day. Frequent hand-washing thing we can do to keep our council. “But what we do know support for students and staff ‘’There is no win-win,’’ she was mandatory. A better test schools safe has nothing to is that we need to have a more traumatized by the pandemic said. ‘’Teachers are used to will be when the new school do with what happens in realistic dialogue about the im- are among potential costs. being scapegoats. This is just a year starts Sept. 1. school. It’s how well we control plications of virtual learning on And with more parents out of whole new level of anger.’’ In Norway, schools closed COVID-19 in the community,” the future of children. We have work, more children will qualify Dr. Emily Landon, a in March for several weeks. Frieden said. “Right now there left whole swaths of society for federally funded school University of Chicago infec- Nursery schools reopened first, are places around the country behind, whether it’s because lunches. tious disease specialist, is then other grades. Children where the virus is spreading they have limited access to Lynn Morales, 49, teaches 8th helping the university and a were put in smaller groups that explosively and it would be a computer, or broadband grade English at a high-poverty campus preK-12 school decide stay together all day. Masks ar- difficult if not impossible to internet,” or because of other public school in Bloomington, how to reopen safely. en’t required. There have been operate schools safely until the challenges that online educa- Minnesota. Her district is “Things are evolving from, only a few virus cases, said Dr. virus is under better control.” tion can’t address. considering several options ‘We can’t do it unless it’s per- Margrethe Greve-Isdahl of the Zahrah Wattier teaches high Following academy guide- including in-person classes; a fectly safe’ to more of a harm Norwegian Institute of Public school in Galveston, Texas, lines would mean big changes final decision is expected Aug. reduction model, with the Health, but she noted virus where cases and deaths have for most schools. Mask-wearing 1. caveat that you can always step activity is much lower than in been spiking. Until the state would be strongly encouraged Some colleagues are back” if virus activity flares, the U.S.

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High Low High Low Ocala Daytona Beach City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 91/74 92/75 Apalachicola 89 79 t 89 77 pc Bradenton DeLand Clearwater 90 80 pc 90 79 t Today 7:34a 1:27a 8:23p 3:00p Tue. 8:09a 2:05a 10:09p 4:11p Beverly Leesburg 92/75 Coral Springs 93 77 pc 92 75 pc Hills 91/75 Daytona Beach 92 75 pc 91 74 t Clearwater 90/75 Fort Lauderdale 92 76 pc 92 78 c Today 6:30a 12:18a 7:17p 1:28p Orlando Fort Myers 92 79 pc 92 75 t Tue. 7:16a 1:08a 8:39p 2:35p Brooksville 93/76 Titusville Gainesville 93 74 pc 91 70 pc St. Petersburg 92/75 Jacksonville 95 72 t 92 71 pc 93/75 Today 8:58a 2:22a 9:47p 3:55p Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Key Largo 90 81 pc 90 80 pc Tue. 9:33a 3:00a 11:33p 5:06p Kissimmee Key West 91 83 pc 90 83 s U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states Sunday) High ...... 109 at Needles, CA Low ...... 34 at West Yellowstone, MT Tarpon Springs 93/76 Melbourne Melbourne 93 73 pc 91 75 t Vero Beach 90/80 Plant City Haines City 93/73 Miami 93 79 pc 95 80 c Today 6:13a 12:37a 6:45p 12:57p Today Tue. Today Tue. Tue. 7:00a 1:33a 7:37p 1:46p 91/76 93/75 Naples 90 79 pc 91 78 t City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Ocala 91 74 pc 90 71 t Winter Haven Venice Albuquerque 98 70 c 95 71 pc Kansas City 90 70 pc 93 72 pc Tampa Okeechobee 91 73 pc 91 70 t 92/77 Today 6:56a 12:44a 7:45p 2:17p Anchorage 66 53 c 69 56 pc Knoxville 88 65 pc 92 66 s 92/82 Orlando 93 76 pc 93 76 t Tue. 7:31a 1:22a 9:31p 3:28p Atlanta 90 72 pc 93 70 s Las Vegas 111 86 s 107 82 s Bartow Frostproof Panama City 88 80 t 89 78 c 92/76 Baltimore 87 69 pc 89 67 s Los Angeles 86 64 pc 81 63 pc St. Petersburg 92/75 Pensacola 93 79 t 93 78 pc Birmingham 92 68 pc 95 71 s Louisville 88 66 s 90 67 s 93/81 Avon Park Pompano Beach 89 75 pc 90 76 pc Marine Boise 84 56 s 87 58 s Memphis 91 72 s 94 78 s Wauchula 92/74 Vero St. Augustine 94 75 pc 92 73 t Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland Boston 83 68 pc 75 61 pc Milwaukee 80 68 s 86 69 pc 92/76 Basinger Beach St. Petersburg 93 81 pc 92 79 t Sebring direction in knots in feet chop Buffalo 77 61 pc 79 61 pc Minneapolis 86 69 pc 73 61 t 92/73 93/74 Sarasota 91 82 pc 91 78 t Sarasota Myakka City 92/75 Burlington, VT 83 64 pc 76 60 t Montgomery 94 71 pc 96 73 s Tallahassee 91 74 t 93 72 pc Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs 91/82 93/78 Charleston, WV 83 63 pc 87 62 s Nashville 89 66 s 92 67 s Okeechobee Tampa 92 82 pc 91 79 t SW 6-12 1-2 Light Charlotte 91 70 pc 92 72 s New Orleans 95 82 t 94 79 t 91/73 Vero Beach 93 74 pc 92 75 t Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola Port Chicago 83 68 s 88 72 pc New York City 82 68 pc 85 69 s Venice Venus Indiantown West Palm Beach 91 75 pc 91 77 t SW 6-12 1-2 Light 90/81 Charlotte Cincinnati 85 63 pc 87 66 s Norfolk, VA 90 75 t 88 74 t 92/77 92/74 92/75 Cleveland 79 62 pc 83 64 pc Oklahoma City 94 73 s 98 72 pc UV Index Today Sun and Moon Columbia, SC 94 73 pc 95 74 s Omaha 91 70 s 84 65 t Sebring Winter Haven Columbus, OH 85 62 pc 85 65 pc Philadelphia 85 70 pc 87 69 s The Sun Rise Set Concord, NH 83 64 c 77 58 t Phoenix 112 90 c 111 88 pc Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Statistics through 1 p.m. Sunday Today 6:40 a.m. 8:23 p.m. Dallas 103 80 pc 100 78 pc Pittsburgh 81 58 pc 83 60 s Temperatures Temperatures Tuesday 6:40 a.m. 8:23 p.m. Denver 95 60 t 85 55 pc Portland, ME 81 65 pc 71 61 c Minutes to burn ...... 10 Des Moines 89 71 s 83 67 t Portland, OR 78 56 pc 82 58 s High/low 91/76 High/low 90/77 The Moon Rise Set The higher the number the greater the risk. Detroit 81 61 pc 86 65 pc Providence 84 68 pc 83 62 pc Normal high/low 92/69 Normal high/low 92/74 Today 1:25 a.m. 2:11 p.m. Duluth 80 63 pc 77 54 t Raleigh 89 67 t 91 68 s Record high 101 in 1969 Record high 99 in 2016 Tuesday 1:56 a.m. 3:04 p.m. Record low 63 in 1956 Record low 67 in 1986 Pollen Index Fairbanks 64 51 sh 70 54 c St. Louis 89 71 s 92 77 s Precipitation (in inches) Precipitation (in inches) New First Full Last Fargo 84 58 t 79 58 c Salt Lake City 92 64 s 90 65 s Hartford 83 64 pc 83 61 pc San Antonio 106 77 pc 104 77 s 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 1.92” 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.01” Helena 76 48 pc 79 49 s San Diego 77 67 pc 75 64 pc Month to date 5.89” Month to date 2.29” Honolulu 87 74 sh 88 75 c San Francisco 70 54 s 73 55 s Normal month to date 3.29” Normal month to date 3.45” Cause ...... Mold Houston 101 81 s 100 78 s Seattle 74 54 c 77 56 pc Year to date 29.94” Year to date 15.50” Jul 20 Jul 27 Aug 3 Aug 11 Source: National Allergy Bureau Indianapolis 84 62 s 87 65 s Washington, DC 88 72 pc 90 72 s Normal year to date 25.49” Normal year to date 25.41” Last year to date 25.27” Last year to date 23.68” 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 12:38a 6:48a 12:58p 7:08p City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Tue. 1:17a 7:27a 1:38p 7:48p Jan. 0.58 3.37 2.48 7.46/1948 Temperatures Amsterdam 72 59 pc 65 54 sh Mexico City 77 54 t 78 55 t Wed. 1:55a 8:07a 2:18p 8:29p Feb. 1.44 1.56 2.54 10.61/1998 High/low 90/77 Main pollutant ...... Ozone Baghdad 113 82 pc 114 84 pc Montreal 81 62 t 76 59 t March 0.14 1.43 3.60 12.18/1960 Source: The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you Beijing 86 68 t 91 69 pc Ottawa 76 59 pc 79 60 t 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 72 54 pc 77 59 pc Paris 81 59 pc 72 59 pc May 1.66 1.49 2.74 12.72/1957 24 hours through 1 p.m. Sun. 0.00” during those times. Major periods begin at the times June 6.09 9.66 7.87 16.44/1992 shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are Buenos Aires 52 36 pc 51 42 pc Rio de Janeiro 83 68 pc 75 68 r Weather Trivia™ shorter. July 2.29 11.89 8.25 16.45/1945 Airport Cairo 96 73 s 97 77 s Rome 85 62 pc 84 65 s Aug. 8.20 7.48 14.59/1949 Q: Cancun 89 77 pc 89 79 s St. John’s 73 59 c 63 49 c Possible weather-related delays today. Check with What is the hottest urban area in the Sept. 3.78 6.08 17.26/1960 United States? Weather History Dublin 65 50 sh 59 54 sh San Juan 91 80 pc 90 79 s Oct. 4.66 2.58 9.43/1952 your airline for the most updated schedules. Edmonton 65 50 pc 71 52 pc Sydney 61 53 r 62 53 sh Nov. 2.79 2.11 7.81/1988 Hi/Lo Outlook Delays A tornado cut a path of destruction from Halifax 77 61 c 72 58 r Tokyo 76 71 r 78 70 c Dec. 2.99 2.76 12.52/2002 Orlando 93/76 part cldy none northern New Jersey into New York City Kiev 66 55 sh 69 54 c Toronto 76 60 sh 82 65 pc

Total 15.50 53.90 51.12 73.28/1959

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JACOB DIAMOND VIA AP This photo provided by Jacob Diamond shows the second bedroom inside Magic equipment manager Jacob Diamond’s suite at the team hotel on the Disney complex in Lake Buena Vista. All 22 teams in the NBA restart had to pack more than ever, for a road trip like none other. Every team is assured of spending at least five weeks at Disney, and some could be there for three months. At the NBA restart, team equipment JOE KLAMAR/POOL VIA AP Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas of Finland steers his car during the Styrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring racetrack in Spiel- is a challenge to berg, Austria on Sunday. manage Hamilton wins Styrian GP ahead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Rob Pimental spent a good amount of time thinking about everything the Miami Heat of Mercedes teammate Bottas would need for what could be a three- month trip to Walt Disney World. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ahead of Red Bull’s Max He is the Heat equipment manager. Verstappen. Every jersey, sock, sneaker, whatever the SPIELBERG, Austria — Because of social distanc- team needs, it’s his responsibility to have Lewis Hamilton won the ing amid the coronavirus it ready. So, when it came time to figure Styrian Grand Prix from pandemic, the drivers on out what was getting packed for Disney, pole position on Sunday the podium had their tro- Pimental came to a realization. to clinch an 85th career phies delivered by a remote “Pretty much everything,” said Pimental, win and move within six controlled device. who confessed to having a few sleepless of Michael Schumacher’s “What a weird year nights of worrying. “I’m the type of guy Formula One record. but (it’s) great to be back who wants everything on hand, so I liter- Most of Schumacher’s driving with this kind of ally packed up my entire equipment room wins were during a performance. The team did and brought it with me.” dominant spell with a fantastic job, it was just He’s not alone. Ferrari, but his old team for me to bring it home,” All 22 teams in the NBA restart had is struggling badly. For the said Hamilton, who finished to pack more than ever, for a road trip second time in the past four fourth last week after a time like none other. Every team is assured of races, Charles Leclerc and penalty. “Difficult weekend spending at least five weeks at Disney, and Sebastian Vettel crashed last weekend but this was a some could be there for three months. The into each other and went great step forward.” challenges for players and coaches are out. Bottas won last weekend’s obvious, but the challenge for equipment When Hamilton stood season-opening Austrian managers — among the unsung heroes of on the podium he raised a GP on the same Red Bull this restart plan — aren’t anywhere near as clenched right fist. Ring track in Spielberg visible to those watching games from afar. Hamilton’s record-ex- at the foot of the Styrian “This is what equipment managers were tending 89th career pole on mountains — hence the built for, honestly,” Orlando Magic equip- a rain-drenched track was name change. ment manager Jacob Diamond said. “We one of his best in extreme Despite the sizeable have some of the smartest guys around the conditions, but during margin of Hamilton’s win, league that do what I do and at the end the race he was hardly Bottas maintains he can of the day, for us, it’s really no job too big, JOE KLAMAR/POOL VIA AP challenged as he finished a challenge for the F1 title. He no job too small. Our coaches are relying Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates on the podium sizeable 13.7 seconds ahead leads in points 43-37. on us, our players, and this is history right after winning the Styrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull of Mercedes teammate Ring racetrack in Spielberg, Austria. Valtteri Bottas and 33.7 WIN | 4B TEAM | 4B Oilers’ Green joins list of players opting out of NHL return

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS playoffs. Sven Baertschi also play resumed. Baertschi, “Due to the uncer- decided to opt out. who spent most of this Roman Polak of the tainties surrounding Kampfer, who played 10 season in the minors, is Stars and Mike Green of COVID-19 and after games with the Bruins under contract through the Oilers are opting out much consideration, this season, said his wife 2020-21. of playing, and Lightning I’ve decided for deeply and son have a congenital “Sven informed us late captain Steven Stamkos personal family health defect that could cause yesterday that he has cho- will try to play after recov- reasons not to participate complications with the sen to opt out of the NHL ering from injury. in the return to play,” virus and called it “one of return to play program,” In the aftermath of Green said in a statement. the hardest decisions” he Canucks general manager a deal being struck to After a trade from Detroit, has had to make. Jim Benning said. “It was resume the NHL season, the defenseman played Polak is a pending free a difficult decision but Aug. 1, Green, Polak and two games for Edmonton agent who last month ultimately one we respect three other players joined before injuring his right agreed to a deal in his na- and understand.” Calgary defenseman knee. tive Czech Republic next The Lightning won’t NICK WASS/AP PHOTO Travis Hamonic in choos- Boston’s Steven season and told reporters have Stamkos at 100% for ing not to participate in Kampfer, Montreal’s Karl there he wasn’t planning Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos (91) looks on the expanded 24-team Alzner and Vancouver’s on returning to the NHL if OUT | 5B during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals in Washington. B2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | July 13, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com

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He knows the said the Wizards are using a similar contents of each, where every item everybody-must-help approach, and is, so if Nikola Vucevic needs a cer- Heat coach Erik Spoelstra insisted MARK THOMPSON/POOL VIA AP tain pair of socks or Aaron Gordon his team do the same. needs a certain type of compression “There’s an absolute understand- Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany, left, and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, right, gear, Diamond fi nds it in a fl ash. ing that this is an all-hands-on-deck stand against racism in the pit lane prior the Styrian Formula One Grand Prix race. “I made sure I overpacked for this situation,” Spoelstra said. “And rather than underpacked,” Diamond that means bags, laundry, cleanup, down the right entering a Bottas was down to under said. “It’s not so easy to have things everything — not just for equipment WIN hairpin bend and ended a second. sent here. I’d rather have things here, managers, but everybody. ... We’re all FROM PAGE 1B up riding over the back of Bottas overtook ready to go, so here we are.” going to be involved in every aspect Vettel’s car, mangling his Verstappen on the next lap Toronto Raptors equipment of it.” “I have no reason to rear wing and prompting a but Verstappen regained manager Paul Elliott prides himself Days will be long for equipment doubt any of my ability safety car to come out for his position superbly, on typically taking only what he managers. Each team only sent one; or skills. I know what I’m two laps. only to concede it again needs. He tends to take 45 bags on it’s not unusual for two equipment capable of,” the Finnish Vettel, who fi nished 10th moments later as Bottas’ a standard road trip; by NBA stan- personnel to travel, but that wasn’t driver said. “I really feel last week, had to retire superior speed proved dards, that is packing light. possible on this trip because of the some improvements in while Leclerc came into the decisive. Not this time. For this trip, Elliott’s restrictions on the amount of people my driving since last year pits on Lap 5 and was soon “When Valtteri tried to count was 176 bags. who can be in the NBA bubble. that’s why I’m confi dent it out of the race. pass me I tried to make And while most teams only had to Extra work will add up as well. will be a good battle for the At last season’s penul- it a bit more diffi cult,” move their operation once — from After practices or games, equipment championship this year.” timate GP in Brazil, both Verstappen said. “The their home facility to Disney — managers will have to load up the Like last Sunday, drivers Ferrari cars crashed out. podium is good but there’s Elliott had to pack the Raptors up sweaty gear, take it back to the hotel, again wore black T-shirts Vettel appeared at fault that still a lot of work to do.” twice, fi rst from Toronto to their pre- then call a shuttle to pick them up with “End Racism” and time after being overtaken Red Bull showed signs camp workouts at Florida Gulf Coast and take them to the laundry facility most took the knee a cleanly by Leclerc and late last season that it University in Fort Myers, and then built for the restart — 66 washers few moments before the trying to regain position. was closing the gap on again to get the stuff up to Disney. and 66 dryers, all lined up inside national anthem. But this time Leclerc Mercedes, but this time “I looked at it as what they were what once was a batting cage at Red Bull driver Alexander was far too hasty and Verstappen is not con- going to take for a two-week Western the Atlanta Braves’ former spring Albon did well to fend off impatient. vinced a serious challenge road trip, took what I would usually training complex. persistent attacks from Up ahead, Hamilton can be mounted. pack for that, and kind of quadru- There’s also a code among the Racing Point’s Sergio Perez was coasting and about “I tried everything I pled it,” Elliott said. “I just had to equipment managers. While the 22 and fi nished fourth ahead fi ve seconds clear of could but it’s still not make sure I had enough options for teams will be trying to beat each of McLaren’s Lando Norris Verstappen when the enough,” Verstappen said. these guys to accommodate them other, the equipment staffs are and Perez, who dropped to Dutch driver came in for “As a team we want to win when they need. I just want to be working together and helping one sixth after touching wheels his fi rst tire change on Lap and fi ght for the champi- prepared.” another where possible. with Albon late on. 25 of 71. onship, and to do that we More gear is on the way. “We all understand each other’s McLaren’s Carlos Sainz Hamilton came in for need to win races.” By the time games start, the 22 daily battles,” Diamond said, “be- Jr. started from third and fresh tires soon after and Renault driver Esteban teams will have more than 4,000 cause we share the same ones.” fi nished ninth, but collect- then Bottas a few laps later, Ocon was the other driver jerseys between them. Every team The real comforts of home are ed a bonus point for the meaning that by Lap 38 not to fi nish, but team- brought three sets of uniforms — gone for the next several weeks. The fastest lap. Verstappen was second mate Daniel Ricciardo typically, two jerseys each for each trick, Pimental said, is making sure At the start of the race, again — still fi ve seconds was eighth behind Racing player. Then the decision was made players don’t have to worry about Hamilton got away cleanly adrift of Hamilton. Point’s Lance Stroll. to give players at Disney the oppor- getting what they need. while Verstappen did well Verstappen’s front wing Daniil Kvyat of tunity to wear jerseys with a mes- “It’s something we’ve never done to hold off Sainz. was damaged on the right AlphaTauri rounded out sage raising awareness about social before,” Pimental said. “But we’ll Leclerc tried to overtake side and, with six laps the top ten. injustice and racial inequality, and make it work.” remaining, his lead over

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A March but was injured again lot of people still don’t get during voluntary workouts. it, and a lot of people are “We don’t have a specific still afraid to talk about timeline for when he will be a the racism that goes on in full participant in camp, but we America, especially for our expect he will be ready in time people. ... But we have some for games,” BriseBois said. “He’s ears, and we will continue MARK J. TERRILL/AP PHOTO here, he’s skating, he’s been JOHN LOCHER/AP PHOTO to push the envelope and getting treatment, he’s been let everyone know that we Los Angeles Lakers forward coming to Amalie (Arena) doing Edmonton Oilers defenseman Mike Green (27) fights for the puck against the are human as well. We don’t LeBron James, right, shoots as his dry land work. But he will Vegas Golden Knights during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Las want to be just be used for Orlando Magic center Nikola not be a full participant on Day Vegas. Green and Vancouver’s Sven Baertschi are opting out. Dallas defen- our God-given abilities.” Vucevic defends during the second One of training camp.” seman Roman Polak is not reporting for now. And Tampa Bay captain Steven JaVale McGee, the Lakers’ half of an NBA basketball game, While Stamkos has a better Stamkos is not reporting at full strength. veteran center, said he will in Los Angeles. wear “Respect Us” on his chance of being ready for Tampa expressed no concerns for my team win, but my family deputy commissioner Bill Daly jersey in Orlando. Bay’s next game than he would his health inside the bubble. has and always will come first,” said Saturday the league will be “It’s a blessing to have have after surgery if the playoffs “I believe the NBA and Hamonic said. “Being my little taking over injury and illness this platform,” said McGee, had started in mid-April, the (Commissioner) Adam kids’ dad every day is the most disclosure from teams as a way whose asthma has him Flames will have to cope with- Silver, they took all precau- important job I have. I love this of protecting player privacy. being particularly cautious out Hamonic when they open tionary measure to make game and my team. This is a “Medical privacy is important during the pandemic. “We their series against Winnipeg on sure that we as a league are decision that is extremely hard in this process,” Daly said. have way more of a voice Aug. 1. as safe as we can be,” James for me to make.” “Having said that, we under- playing basketball … Our Hamonic became the first said. “Obviously, in anything The Lightning already got stand as a league we have an fans are basketball fans over player to publicly choose not to that you do, there can be a pandemic scare when three obligation of some transparency anything. This is the biggest play in light of the coronavirus things that can happen, so players and additional staff with respect to the COVID virus platform we can speak pandemic. Hamonic’s daughter we will cross that line if it tested positive for the novel in particular, so at least for now about social injustices. was hospitalized last year with happens. But we’re doing coronavirus last month. The we’re going to maintain a policy That’s the best time to talk respiratory issues, and he and everything to make sure positive test results forced the where the league is announcing about it.” his wife also have a baby boy. everyone stays safe during team to close its facilities for a on basically league numbers James also said he didn’t Their health concerns, not this pandemic. Adam Silver brief period of time. and clubs are really prohibited consider not playing in the the soon-to-be 30-year-old’s has given me no reason to The Minnesota Wild, who face from giving any information NBA’s restart, believing the impending free agency, led him not believe him since he the Canucks in the qualifying with respect to COVID test league can be a positive to opt out. took over. I have no con- round, ruled out defenseman results, and, for purposes of force through its visibil- “I wish I could lace up my cerns. 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How to wear your mask MarY WOrth By Karen Moy and June Brigman properly for protection DEar rEaDErs: * Make it into a Today's Sound swing by cutting Off is about the legs off. Drill wearing a face a hole in each mask: arm of the chair, DEar hELOIsE: then run a rope As a registered securely through nurse, I'm ap- the hole, knot palled by the way hInts frOM hELOIsE the rope under people wear a Advice Columnist the chair arm DILBErt By Scott Adams face mask that and hang over covers only their the branch of a mouth but not their nose. tree.— Heloise When we sneeze, cough or DEar hELOIsE: I've never seen speak, we release thousands it printed any place before, but of water droplets that we may one must wash or use a sani- not see but are still present tizer on a cane handle each in the air. If your nose is not time you use it. — Bonnie E., covered, you breathe in those Newport, Wash. water droplets. The potential Bonnie, thanks for the re- of inhaling the COVID-19 minder. And it's always a good virus rises dramatically. idea to sanitize frequently According to the CDC, your used door handles, toilet mask must fit snugly, covering handles and faucets. Also fOr BEttEr Or fOr WOrsE By Lynn Johnston both nose and mouth. There remember to sanitize car door should be no gaps and should handles, steering wheels, either be laundered or, if it's a gear shifts, radio buttons and single-use mask, disposed of anything else you touch fre- after each use. Always remove quently in your vehicle. the mask from behind. Don't — Heloise touch the front of the mask. DEar hELOIsE: I have various It may take some getting heirloom napkins and doilies used to, but it's better than that were just taking up catching this terrible disease space in a trunk. I decided or passing it on to others. to put them out on display — Judith in New York where I can enjoy them as DEar rEaDErs: Here are new dresser scarves and in various uses for old wooden chairs: ways under lamps, pictures, * Cut a circular hole in the candle arrangements, etc. PICkLEs By Brian Crane seat to place a dog's food bowl I can remember the family for tall dogs. members who gave them to * Cut a circular hole in the me and show them off to seat and place a potted plant visitors. — Penny A., Lanse, in it for your garden. Penn.

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DEar aBBY: place to live "Darlene" and I rather than your have been friends home. for 40 years. She DEar aBBY: Dur- moved to Arizona ing my sister's with me in the pregnancy, she made very clear Mutts By patrick McDonnell ’80s from Michi- gan. Her boy- that the only peo- friend drove out DEar aBBY ple she wanted and convinced Advice Columnist to transport her her to return to child would be Michigan and get her, her husband married, which she did, but and our mother. I disagreed, she's always hated Michigan. but because of her pregnancy, She raised two girls. I was I kept silent and abided by her always called "Aunt" and was wish that I not purchase my considered close. own car seat in the event of an Years passed and the mar- emergency. (I don't have any riage was struggling. I invited children of my own.) Darlene to come and visit to Now that the child is in day haGar thE hOrrIBLE By Chris Browne get away for a bit. She fell right care, I found out through a back in love with Arizona. She third party that my sister has expressed her unhappiness in listed me as an emergency the marriage, and I told her contact. The first question that that if she ever needed a place came to mind was "Why?" but to stay, she could live with me. all I could do was acknowledge She came out for another visit, the information. Would it be found a job and decided to stay. out of line for me to ask her Her girls, now in their early about this, and if she confirms 20s, were shocked and hurt by it, to remove my info from their mom's decision to di- her emergency contact? Or vorce their father. One of them should I just hope that I never blames me, blocked me on get called? I don't want to be BOrn LOsEr By Art and Chip Sansom Facebook and no longer talks unprepared, but I know that to me. It has been three years, emergencies do happen. and when Darlene's daughter — Taken Aback in the East comes to visit, I have to stay DEar takEn aBaCk: Before away. Darlene refuses to talk to listing you as an emergency the daughter to smooth things contact, your sister should out between us. I think she have asked for permission and should do something to defend discussed it with you. It would me. Am I wrong? — Wrongly not be out of line to tell her Blamed in the West you have just been informed DEar WrOnGLY BLaMED: No, about it and ask why she did it you are not wrong. You did without telling you. PEarLs BEfOrE sWInE By Stephan Pastis Darlene a favor by welcoming While you're at it, ask if the her to Arizona, but you were child has any medical condi- not responsible for her divorce. tions you're not aware of and It appears no good deed goes EXACTLY what she wants unpunished. done in an emergency situa- Darlene should have ex- tion. If you decide to follow plained to her daughter the through with this, you should marriage was an unhappy one know the name of her doctor, for a long time, and regardless what — if any — medications of where she chose to live af- the child is taking, and what terward, it wouldn't have been hospital the ambulance should near their father. Darlene and deliver the kid to if it becomes her daughter owe you an apol- necessary, since you don't have ogy. Because you are required a child seat in your vehicle and MarvIn By Tom Armstrong to stay away when Daughter don't want to risk being cited visits, perhaps it would be bet- should you be stopped on the ter if Darlene found another way.

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