November 28, 2020 Issue, Page 5 of 8

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Booster November 28, 2020 Elk City Middle School Elk City 8th grade girls won the food drive competition. Students brought food to go to our local food bank. Photos by Elk City Middle School, Updates from November Elk City School nurs- — some places. Assoon as we are noti- Quarantining at schoolis an ongo- ity | fied of a pi test, we begin contact _ing debate with the OSHD. Data is being es answer Frequently tracing, It takes several hours to look at collected at our district level as well as Aske ions: ‘other from other schools to discuss the d Questions: ne actual infection rate after exposures & ee i on clarify some things. at school. ECPS administration and expen the beckett ear Thisis an especially long process atthe hoard will look at making changes to middle.celand high school where ‘our quarantine policy when more data Basketball is considered high risk for Seer eeee ‘becomes available and we are sure that op eate ne oa fap needs to quarantine and who doesn’t, oe teva beete) the OK Health Department is that we fe quarantine anyone on the court with the We BeBin to make phone calls to notify You can also talk to your student positive person. This means each time P="! aelunch time. . e ve have a positive player, we willb yar ee \courage eating outside at someof Tie gaatac te be coc Wibyauspeoplesendingtheirkids our mew picnic tables around the district Elk City Middle School October Kiwanis Students of the o school sick? or driving to eat lunch in separate cars Month are Gabby Box & Brayden Duncan. Photos by Elk City -Why do you have to quarantine 24 PAlrnostaliayer ue erid ia ioe for high school children. Middle School. days if someone tests positive in your f “shield Teauemny iad) home? ‘Assoon asastudent startshavingany — g CovIigy eine Tie ceson uo uponiwern ne symptoms, we send them home. The ‘The person who is pos difficult part. D-19 is that am home is considered contagious for 10 See ‘This is a decision that only you can days andcan potentially expose you days before symptoms started. Achild ™ake. Ifyour child ishaving symptoms, at any time during those 10 days. This may have been at school on Monday then we strongly recommend getting iswhy the 14 day quarantine period and Tuesday feeling fine and then woke cannot start until after those 10 days ‘up Wednesday morning feeling sick the Health Department are the most. are over, making it a total of 24 days of and stayed home. We still have to go accurate tests and there is no cost to - back and contact trace on Monday and __@#yone. They do, however, takelonger to Tuesday. get results from. There are many ot offices in town that offer rapid testing What can we do to avoid quaran- asfal Oty ccm ntece sa that if tine? and itis still having 5 ‘There are many reasons why we don’t Currently the only hing your ste toms, we askthat youcontinue to keep notify of exposure until several days dent can do to avoid quarantine iswear them home and notify us for further Jater. The main reason is that we don't a mask. There are instances when we can guidance. know until then either. It is currently take mask wearing into consideration taking 1-2 days to get in anywhereto and possibly not quarantine a student if ‘What other questions do you have? get scheduled foratesttobedoneand —_ masks are worn consistently. We are glad to answer anything, so ‘up to 4 days later to get the results at please ask! Elk City Middle School November Kiwanis Students of the Month are Mylee Moran and Cole Buien. Photos by Elk Good Luck to all of ‘rust of ls Cty City Middle School. fra? Nie Gia our area teams! Elk City students named Ya| in All State Choir TERRY'S PORTO terrysturnitureshowroom.com (580)225-4006 OR(800)925-4006} Students that were named to the OkCDA and/or OkMEA. All State Choirs. Way to go guys! SHOWRO! Monday ELK CITY: 2714 W. 3rd St. 102 S. Main St. 580.225.2580 SAYRE: 711 NE, Highway Luke Friesen 2001 SOUTH Nth 580.928.2580 Through Jordan Thomas Saturday https://www.fnbec.com/ Kazlyn Ulrich ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA 9-6 Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. Emily Lamoni Good luck teams you are Keep up the great Greater. Together. work teams! Sales - Service - Parts - Rentals >>>- Elk City RV Sales Great Plains Bank 580-243-3300 Elk City | gepbankok.com | 888.449.2265 Member 3306 S. Hwy, 6 Elk City, OK 73644 FDIC Great Plains National Bank www.elkcityrvsales.com