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Page 2 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Coffee Rodeo to see a lot of the top 10, top on and the business is slow, signs of soft drinks and other this year, Thomas said, they will close. products line the walls. Pa- “So, we’re probably going Fillingim said she liked trons can buy products while Continued from page 1. the location of the business’ waiting for their coffee or Continued from page 1. 20 cowboys in the world at “We might stay open de- building and the square foot- sandwiches, such as T-shirts, pandemic, and the Elk Elk City this year,” Thomas pending on [business], or we age it offered. Original pedal spices and syrup flavors. City event has not been can- said. might close early,” she said, cars line an area near the “Tf you can dream it up, celed as of now, Thomas Tickets for the rodeo go on noting if there’s an Okla- ceiling of the Main Street we can make it in coffee,” said. He said there could be sale Monday. Ticket outlets homa Sooners game going Coffee and Cafe and old Fillingim said. many participants in slack are Circle A Western Wear this year. [580-225-7363] and the Some rodeos in the Pacific Schools to School Plan on the district social distancing “where ticket office at Beutler Bros. website. we are able.” Visitors on Northwest are canceled this Arena in Elk City [405-317- The plan said it was de- year — Walla Walla, Wash., Continuedfrom page 1. campuses will be limited, 7161], according to the ro- veloped through collabora- and Pendleton, Oregon— and sanitizing will be done be- and parents will be asked to deo website, Tickets also tion with teachers, parents, complete daily health assess- a lot of world champion con- fore school. can also be purchased at the administrators, board mem- testants are up there and will “Classrooms and other ar- ments before sending their bers, surrounding schools, be looking for places to go gate. eas will be cleaned and sani- children to school. Oklahoma State Department tized throughout the day,” he of Education and _ public If a student or staffer tests Art said. health officials. The plan had positive for COVID-19, then er at Heritage Hall High Daugherty said the district two guiding principles: limit the district will contact the School in Oklahoma City. is “trying to isolate groups exposure where possible director of the district's re- Admission is free and of students the best we can. and understand that learn- gional health department for Masks are required for bus ing must remain constant, Continued from page 1. the public is invited to the further instructions as well riders to help with this.” whether it is virtual or in the The graduate exhibit was exhibit. Masks are required as follow CDC guidelines At Canute, all teachers face-to-face setting. originally scheduled for this for school site or district clo- and social distancing is en- have returned to school, said In the plan, school officials past spring, but because of Canute Superintendent Jill sure. the COVID-19 pandemic, couraged. said school sites in Canute Henderson. Students can Public Schools will practice For more information the exhibit was moved to The exhibit is sponsored opt for in-person or virtual recommended _ guidelines on the school plan, access August, the release stated. by the SWOSU Department learning. She referred other from the Centers for Dis- https://s3.amazonaws.com/ Barr teaches at Edmond questions from The News to ease Control and Prevention seschoolfiles/2063/canute_ Deer Creek High School, of Art, Communication and the school district's Return on proper hand washing and return_to_school_plan1.pdf. while Lyons is now a teach- Theatre. Wisconsin is still at the center of the presidential race By Mark Z. Barabak, Los shore of Lake Michigan. an octogenarian Biden in the voted twice in Democratic to stand up and be counted. the last two decades by sever- Angeles Times But the pandemic caused Oval Office. “I’m sorry, but primaries for Vermont Sen. And in this election, this is al exceeding close elections. APPLETON, Wis. - In the party to delay, then shrink, your mind isn’t as sharp as it Bernie Sanders and places what Ifeel like I have to do to (Obama’s twin victories were 2016, a fed-up Patrick Mur- then finally cancel the in-per- was when you were or 50 60.” herself well to the left of accomplish that.” ray cast his presidential bal- son gathering. While much of Four years ago, Trump car- Biden. But she has no hesita- Wisconsin is one of the notable exceptions.) A blow- lot for Donald Trump, see- the technical production will ried Wisconsin by just over tion voting for him, especially most evenly divided states in out by either candidate in No- ing the brash New Yorker as be handled out of Milwaukee, 22,000 votes out of nearly 3 now that Harris has joined the the country, evidenced over vember would be a surprise. “somebody new, somebody the most important business million cast, becoming the ticket. “Anything,” Krueger different, somebody that - and whatever screen-sized from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thurs- Canute first Republican to win the said, “is better for the country wasn’t part of the Washington pageantry the Democrats can state in 32 years. The path than Trump.” day and Friday. crowd.” muster - will be done remote- to victory, like the candidate With partisans so deeply Beckham County will Now, though, Murray’s ly. Biden and Harris, once of- himself, was unique. dug in, one key to the elec- have just one polling place contempt for the president ficially nominated, will deliv- His performance lagged in tion will be independent vot- Continued from page 1. open, Eastside Baptist is abundantly clear, even er their acceptance speeches areas where Republicans typ- ers like Murray in places such and the second proposi- Church in Elk City, on elec- cloaked behind the mask that from Biden’s home state of ically win by huge margins, as Appleton, Oshkosh, Green tion, which would have tion day that services the swaddled his nose and mouth Delaware. in the conservative-leaning Bay and other small industrial voters who reside in Canute funded buses, failing by a as he ran errands on a sunny Still, the presidential cam- “WOW” counties - Washing- cities of the Fox River Valley, two-to-one margin, 67 per- School District, the release afternoon in northeast Wis- paign here is no mere after- ton, Ozaukee and Waukesha - which, along with the WOW cent to 33 percent. The en- stated. The polling place consin’s Fox River Valley. thought. Campaign signs that neighbor Milwaukee and counties, are major battle- “My biggest problem with dot Wisconsin’s farmland, lead to the vast countryside grounds. tire bond package was $13.6 will be open from 7 a.m. to Trump is he’s a pathological suburban lawns and the lofts beyond. The former police officer million. Tpm. liar,” Murray spat out. “Ican’t of the urban and trendy. The ‘Trump overcame that slug- can’t bring himself to vote The Aug. 25 Runoff Pri- The release stated anyone deal with that.” television airwaves have been gish showing by walloping for Trump or Biden. So when mary Election is not neces- who needs to look up their The 72-year-old retired cop ablaze for months with adver- Democrat Hillary Clinton in he casts his ballot, he said, he sary in Beckham County as polling place, verify their is no fan of Joe Biden who, to tising, much of it scathingly Wisconsin’s small towns and will do so in support of Vice all candidate races were de- registration information or Murray, seems like just “an- negative: The candidates and rural areas, flipping 22 coun- President Mike Pence or Har- cided with the June 30th Pri- view a sample ballot can do other old white guy.” Still, he their allies have already spent ties that voted for Barack ris, whose background as a mary Election, according to so online. The Online Voter plans to tune in to the Demo- or reserved nearly $50 mil- Obama in his two big victo- prosecutor _ San Francisco’s a release from the Beckham Tool can be accessed on cratic National Convention, lion worth of TV time, about ries. (Clinton also suffered district attorney and Califor- County Election Board. But the Oklahoma State Elec- which started Monday, be- evenly divided between the from a significant drop-off nia attorney general - appeals there is the special election tion Board’s website: www. cause just maybe Biden’s two sides. among younger and Black to Murray. for Beckham County voters elections.ok.gov. Those running mate, California Sen. voters, particularly in Mil- “I like Pence,” he said, “T’m pretty much done with who are also in the Canute who vote by mail can also Kamala Harris, can bring the campaign,” Elena Phil- waukee.) pausing at the book drop out- School District to vote for check the status of their bal- Murray around to supporting lips, a 59-year-old financial Since then, suburban sup- side Appleton’s downtown li- two propositions. lot using the Online Voter the ticket. planner in suburban Milwau- port for the GOP has eroded brary. “But I want (Harris) to Early voting will be avail- Tool. Sample ballots are Wisconsin, the land of dairy kee, said with a weary roll of even more, with Democrats change my mind,” in part by able at the Beckham County also available at the County cows, beer and razor-thin eyes benumbed by so many gaining ground in the 2018 convincing Murray that Dem- Activity Center in Sayre Election Board office. elections, was one of three political ads. “I can’t wait un- midterm election as well as ocrats can better deal with the “blue wall” states that slipped til November.” a springtime Supreme Court pandemic and bring an end to away from Democrats in She, too, is not particularly election in which a liberal the country’s deep divisions. Betty A. Ward 2016 - by a combined total of thrilled with Trump, though challenger knocked off one of Doug Henke doesn’t need fewer than 78,000 votes. The Phillips concedes she knew the state’s conservative jus- further convincing. Betty A. Ward, 86, of Elk City, Oklahoma passed away breakthrough put Trump in what she was getting person- tices. He couldn’t bring himself peacefully at home with her the White House, giving him ality-wise (loudness, coarse- Perhaps more significant, a to vote for Trump four years family by her side on August the Electoral College votes he ness) when she voted for him recent Marquette Law School ago, so he backed Clinton. 12th, 2020. She was born on needed to win the presidency in 2016. Even so, the conser- poll found the president hold- This time, the lifelong inde- April 30th, 1934 to Glenn and even as he lost the nationwide vative-leaning independent ing just a small lead over pendent is staking a Biden for Bernice (McCann) Schulz popular vote. considers the president a far Biden in the rural areas where president sign outside his Os- in Butler, Oklahoma. Betty The two other states that better choice than Biden, who ‘Trump swamped Clinton. hkosh home - an admittedly grew up, attended school, and flipped, Michigan and Penn- Phillips called “a career poli- The survey also found con- purposeful provocation in the graduated in Port, Oklahoma. sylvania, are thought to lean tician in office for way too cerns over COVID-19 grow- Republican-leaningcommu- She worked in the account- more strongly toward Biden, many years with too little ac- ing and unhappiness with nity. ing department for Charter Oil leaving predominantly white, complishments.” Trump’s handling of the crisis The 64-year-old doctor has company. Betty was married heavily rural Wisconsin as the Pam Kuepper, 61, a first- deepening as the number of developed “an intense ha- to Clayton Ward on May Ist, 1955 in Retrop, Oklahoma. band: Clayton Ward of the most competitive. It could be grade teacher in Menasha, cases in Wisconsin increased. tred” for the GOP, which he They lived in Houston for 37 home the one state, if the election one of Wisconsin’s abundant Neither candidate was par- sees abetting Trump’s worst years, they moved back to Brother: Bill Schulz & wife is close, that decides the No- small towns, offered a similar ticularly well-liked. Trump impulses, and hopes his small the family farm in Sentinel, Carla of Pearland, TX vember contest; polling sug- calculation, Trump may be was viewed favorably by protest will lead to some spir- Oklahoma and lived there for Niece: Paula Workman of gests the former vice presi- “a little tacky,” she said, but 42% of those surveyed and ited discussion with neigh- 10 years before moving to Sentinel, OK dent holds a modest lead. she considers Biden at age unfavorably by 55%. Biden bors, Elk City, OK in 2002. Betty Preceded in death by her Ina pre-coronavirus world, 77 too old and too eager to was seen favorably by 43% “T’m not trying to be parti- was a member of the country parents and Sister: Earlene Democrats had hoped to bol- spend other people’s money. and unfavorably by 48%. san, I don’t really like that,” club, she enjoyed playing golf Herring ster their claim to Wisconsin's (Trump is 74.) But many seem ready to said Henke, who picked up and spending time with her husband and friends. She will Graveside: 10:00 a.m., Sat- 10 electoral votes by stag- “He'll be, what, 82 when swallow hard in the service of the blue Biden sign along urday, August 15, 2020 ing their national convention he finishes his term?” Kuep- winning in November. with some organic beets at the be deeply missed by all who in Milwaukee, a first for the per said, her voice arcing in- Rebecca Krueger, 37, a farmers market in Oshkosh. knew and loved her. 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