TODAY HIGH:77° LOW: 66° Clouds and sun with a shower or ROTARY DONATES GIFT CARDS TO TRACING MICHAEL JORDAN’S t-storm; humid RealFeel: 82° / 66° SATURDAY HIGH:82° LOW: 68° POLICE, FIRE, AMBULANCE SERVICE 10 BIGGEST LIFE FEATS Partly sunny and humid NEWS A2 SPORTS A12 RealFeel: 89° / 70° VOL. 122, ISSUE 41 | $1.25 Your Community. Your News. Your Website. | www.grandlakenews.com Friday, May 22, 2020 THE GROVE SUN City Council to reopen aquatics in June Parks, playgrounds, basketball courts also to reopen for public use Chloe Goff City Properties “Coronavirus mainly spreads [email protected] Opening in June through person to person con- City Wide Clean Up As of Monday, June 1 the tact and does not spread easily Rescheduled GROVE — After much de- Splash Pad, parks, playground on contaminated surfaces”. GROVE — The City of Grove liberation and debate, the City and basketball courts will Additional new guidelines City Wide Clean Up has been Council of Grove has voted to be open to the public. As of from the CDC include hand rescheduled for October 5-9. reopen city multiple amenities hygiene, respiratory ettiequte, At this time, this resched- Friday, June 5, the swimming uled date will have no impact to the public. pool will be open sans pool cloth face coverings (not in the on the Spring 2021 Clean Up. The month of June marks passes for the 2020 season. water), staying home, having the opening of almost all of The decision to reopen these adequately supplies for stock- the amenities that the City of locations comes on the heels ing the pool and restrooms The city and council will still by colored wristbands to allow Grove offers residents, should of a new set of guidelines from and posting signs displaying encourage social distancing the community to more safely the State of Oklahoma enter the CDC, hinging on one new information on how to stop and discussed the potential for enjoy the pool. Phase Three. guideline in particular, saying the spread of disease. 3-hour blocks of time denoted One new restriction that is already in place for the swimming pool, is imposed by the Delaware County Health Department. This restriction will lower the bathing load to just 50 percent of capacity. Additional rules and restric- tions will be put into place as the opening date draws near. City Properties Still Closed City locations staying closed to the public at this time are the Grove Senior Center, the Civic Center, the Community Center and City Hall. City Hall will still function as it has been via phone, drive-thru window, dropbox and online. As for the opening of City Hall and the Community Center, there are still some measures to be put into place JIM KOONCE / GROVE SUN The City of Grove’s Splash Pad SEE COUNCIL, A2 Eastern Oklahoma Library DCCSAN RECEIVES MASKS FROM GROVE ROTARY System launches new app; restarts curbside pickup Staff Reports [email protected] MUSKOGEE — The Eastern Oklahoma Library System is pleased to launch the Eastern Oklahoma Library System app to help patrons access many of the features and services of the library system available during in-person visits. In New Eastern Oklahoma addition, the library system fer while we adjust how we Library System App is resuming curbside service serve them. I am grateful as of May 11. The Eastern Oklahoma we had this app in develop- Library System app is ment, not knowing what a COURTESY PHOTO Curbside pickup restarts available for both iOS and connection it would be for The Delaware County Children’s Special Advocacy Network (DCCSAN) at all Eastern Oklahoma Android platforms, and it is our patrons when it was received some of the masks donated by Rotary District 6110 yesterday, Library System branches available now for free down- released. The app is integral Grove President Carol LaRue presented them to Jill McAbee. #StrongerTogetherGrove Patrons can put books, load through smart phone to our ability to serve our DVDs, video games, app stores. community now through hotspots, launchpads, “We are so excited to these uncharted waters, and audiobooks and magazines launch this incredible re- it will be such a partner for on hold through the EOLS source available for free for us to serve patrons as we Cherokee Nation release website. Once the items are all of our patrons,” Moroney transition back to person- ready, patrons can come and said. “This robust app will to-person service.” pick the items up. allow our patrons to check On the app, users can: “We are so happy to be to see if a book they want is • Scan book barcodes to plan outlining commitment able to resume curbside available, find the nearest see if an EOLS library has a pickup for our patrons,” library and even download copy available for loan; said Mary Moroney, Eastern eBooks and eAudio to listen • Find the nearest EOLS Oklahoma Library System and read from their portable library; to safely reopen casinos executive director. “We devices. We are thrilled to • Manage specific ac- want to connect them with be able to provide this new, counts, outstanding loans ‘Responsible Hospitality’ emphasizes the materials that they need. digital resource right now.” and more; And this is the first step While the app has been in • Download and read employee and guest safety for us to be able to do that development for months, eBooks and listen to eAudio- again.” Moroney said she knows books; Staff Reports Businesses’ unwavering com- In addition to curbside the app will be even more • Interact with the EOLS [email protected] mitment to team member and pickup of physical library beneficial to EOLS patrons community and individual guest safety above all else. resources, patrons can con- now, given social distanc- branch social media pages; TULSA — Cherokee Nation “How we move forward tinue to utilize the library ing guidelines related to the • Find out about upcom- Businesses announced it’s from this pandemic will be branches’ free WIFI from ongoing efforts to minimize ing events and, planned approach to providing a part of our legacy,” said the parking lots, and they the COVID-19 outbreak. • Access online resources. a safe environment for guests Chuck Garrett, CEO of Chero- can print and fax materi- “We are missing our pa- The Eastern Oklahoma Li- and employees at its entertain- kee Nation Businesses. “We als using the PrintOn app, trons so much right now,” brary System serves patrons ment properties: “Responsible intend to emerge confident sending materials to the Moroney said. “And this is through 15 libraries in six Hospitality.” This carefully in the knowledge that we did chosen library for curbside a way they can still access developed set of strategies pickup as well. a lot of what we have to of- SEE LIBRARY, A2 demonstrates Cherokee Nation SEE CASINOS, A2 ESTABLISHED 1898 MEMBER OF THE OKLAHOMA PRESS ASSOCIATION 12 PAGES • 1 SECTION A2 THE GROVE SUN | GRANDLAKENEWS.COM Friday, May 22, 2020 NEWS FORECAST FOR GROVE TODAY HIGH:77° LOW: 66° Shown is today's weather. Temperatures Clouds and sun with a shower or are today's highs and tonight's lows. t-storm; humid RealFeel: 82° / 66° Pittsburg 75/64 SATURDAY HIGH:82° LOW: 68° Independence Partly sunny and humid 78/65 RealFeel: 89° / 70° Springfield SUNDAY HIGH:84° LOW: 65° Joplin 76/65 Miami 77/63 Periods of sun, a shower and 77/65 t-storm around; humid Branson Grove 78/65 RealFeel: 91° / 62° 77/66 MONDAY HIGH:74° LOW: 63° Jay Bentonville Strong thunderstorms; cloudy 78/66 77/67 and not as warm Tulsa Mountain 80/65 Home RealFeel: 80° / 61° Fayetteville 78/65 TUESDAY HIGH:76° LOW: 59° 80/66 Some sun with a strong thunderstorm possible Muskogee Forecasts and graphics provided RealFeel: 78° / 59° 79/67 by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an ex- SUN & MOON MOON PHASES clusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Today Saturday New First Full Last LOCAL ALMANAC Sunrise 6:07 am 6:06 am Statistics through Wednesday Sunset 8:25 pm 8:26 pm High / Low temperatures 72° / 49° Moonrise 6:13 am 6:50 am Precipitation 0.00" Moonset 8:34 pm 9:34 pm 22 29May 5May Jun 13Jun Grove Rotary donates gift cards Staff Reports dinary service of to the 95 gift cards to all staff given to the fire depart- [email protected] community by the Grove members. The “thank ment, 30 to the police Police, Grove Fire and you” cards were for $10 department and 34 to the GROVE — In appre- Ambulance service, the each from various local EMT staff. #Stronger- ciation for the extraor- Grove Rotary delivered restaurants and 31 were TogetherGrove COURTESY PHOTOS Bobby Brown also received one of the restaurant gift Hayden Matthews smiles when he received a gift card Cheryl Rucker received one of the 95 gift cards for her cards as part of a “thank you” to the Grove Fire, Police from a local restaurant from the Grove Rotary Club. service as an EMT. and ambulance service. COUNCIL our employee. That will The reopening of City CONTINUED FROM A1 provide some addi- Hall will be revisited at tional safety that is not the Regular City Coun- for the safety of both in place yet,” said City cil meeting on Tuesday, the residents of Grove Manager Bill Keefer. June 2. and city employees. “If the goal is, like the Garage sales were also “One of the things mayor said, to protect addressed during the that we are waiting on and make the comfort meeting.