May 13, 2020 Issue, Page 3 of 8

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Page 3 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma ‘Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Elk City girl spends birthday on community project By Don Munsch, Editor School, along with mom person,” Julie said. “And each week. Friday was no ordinary Julie and sister Aeries West- she, for probably six months Julie hopes her daughter birthday for Aubrey West- ern, a sophomroe at Elk City now, has said for my birth- continues to leave her sur- ern. High School, cleaned up day this is what I want to do. roundings better than she At least it would not have trash at the softball 4-plex Initially, she wanted it to be found them and will encour- been an ordinary birthday at Ackley Park West in Elk her whole class, but because for most children who turn City. Aubrey’s project, done of social distancing we age others to be diligent and 8-years-old. on an unseasonably cold couldn’t really do that. And familiar with their surround- On a day when most chil- morning, had the blessing of so that’s why it became her, ings and try to do the same. dren would just enjoy atten- Billy Thornton, park super- her sister and myself.” Aubrey said Friday’s cold tion with birthday parties intendent for the city, Julie Aubrey and her sister and bothered her “just a little,” and the usual activities and Western said. mom picked up one bag of and she hopes to do a project merriment attached with cel- Julie said her daughter is trash. Aubrey selected the each year on her birthday. ebrating another year of life, “very kind-hearted girl” who 5-plex because she played “Maybe when I’m older Western chose to do a com- on recreational outings will softball last summer and I can help at the food bank Aubrey Western poses with the trash she and munity project on her birth- see an opportunity to make the area was familiar to her. day. the town or the park prettier Plus, she and her mom walk at our church,” Aubrey said. her mother and sister picked up Friday Aubrey, a second-grad- with cleanup efforts. the park’s trail and go to the The family attends St. Mat- morning at Ackley Park West’s 5-plex softball er at Elk City Elementary “She’s just a very helpful skate park with her scooter thew Catholic Church. complex. Staff photo by Don Munsch. Magazine realities of working on the People story mentioned peo- hicles or staying at lest 6 feet Parade front line. ple who had died from the “You're constantly won- virus in the New York City apart. Groups larger than 10 Continued from page 1. dering if you might have Fire Department, and Al- are discouraged. the traffic gets extreme. touched on something with bert said those people would The parade will be broad- I mean, it can weigh up to the virus on it,” he said. have been healthy. He said when he was in “That’s what worries me navirus pandemic. District cast on KOOL 94.3 and Big 80,000 pounds depending Deepwater, New Jersey, face is the people who don’t Continued from page 1. on what you’ve got in that in a news release. The dis- officials ask attendees to Elk TV. Broadcast will be- masks were required and have anything wrong with trailer.” “you're not supposed to get trict opted for a graduation practice all social distancing gin around 1:43 p.m. with them that are dying from this While Albert likes the light parade because of the coro- guidelines by staying in ve- honor speeches. out of truck without one and stuff,” he said. traffic, Albert worries about you darn sure didn’t want to He said he talked to “tons” how longer the new norm go into a truck stop without of people since the article hit can go on with the economy and unemployment. one and the fast-food restau- rants in that area.” the newsstands, including people he has not talked to Better water for better living. “T don’t think we can hold ‘The virus shook people up in years. 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Mnuchin, experts, though, repeated and joblessness reaching Depression-era heights, interviewed on “Fox News Sunday,” was asked whether warnings that only robust testing and contact tracing We have but two words for our grocery, hardware and convenience Treasury Secretary Steven the country was looking at a could prevent cases from Mnuchin acknowledged “real” unemployment rate - flaring up again. Sunday that things were including those who are un- “The bottom line is that deremployed - of 25%. “probably going to get worse before they get better,” but we're not diagnosing enough “We could be,” he said, cases, and we’re not tracing store heroes... he predicted a rebound later predicting a “very, very bad their contacts,” said Thom- in the year. second quarter.” as Inglesby, who directs But the Treasury secretary Johns At the same time, a widely Hopkins University’s watched new projection in- said he expected improve- School of Public Health. dicated the U.S. death toll ment in the third and fourth from the pandemic would quarters, and that “next year For many, nervousness reach 137,000 by early Au- is going to be a great year.”” over reopening the coun- gust, and a leading public White House economic try was amplified when the health expert flatly contra- adviser Kevin Hassett also White House announced two YOU. dicted President Donald predicted unemployment cases within its walls and Trump’s contention last would hit a “trough” in May a resulting ramping up of week that the virus would or June, with unemployment precautions. Katie Miller, a subside on its own, without rates “north of 20%.” Ap- press aide to Vice President a vaccine. pearing on CBS’s “Face the Mike Pence, tested positive Other infectious disease Nation,” he called the coro- last week, as did a personal specialists, meanwhile, navirus crisis the biggest valet to the president. warned that a too-swift re- negative shock to the job Hassert said it was “scary opening of businesses and market since World War II. to go to work” knowing public spaces would ignite Pushed by Trump, most the virus was present in new hot spots. governors have begun lifting the West Wing. 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