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Activities March 13, 2021 Publish one time (March 13,2021) in the Elk City News. Time and technology change ‘The City of Elk City will accept sealed bids for Roof repair/replacement to the following buildings: Cemetery Maintenance Building and Water Plant Building. communication between twins Sealed Bids will be accepted until 12:00 p.m. Monday, March 29, 2021 in the City Clerk's office, 320 W 3rd, Elk City, Ok 73644. Bid specifications for each building may be picked up from the City Clerk’s office. The City of Elk City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. If I were you, the next time town could cause. It might Dear Abby she blocks you, do not repeat- make more sense to consider Bidders must present a copy of their liability insurance and workers compensa- tion insurance. edly try to reach her. Wait until DEAR ABBY: My twin sister she calls back. If you haven't al- selling your current home and/ Bidder Name: moved to another state years or the rural property and us- ready taken this up with her di- ago. We always kept in close rectly, you should, because her ing the money to buy a place Bidder Address: contact through telephone phone manners are atrocious. Bidder Phone: calls. But since the invention in town in a neighborhood of caller ID, call waiting, cell- DEAR ABBY: My husband that isn’t degrading and is near Cemetery Maintenance Bldg: and I are elderly. We live in a medical facilities should you phones, texting, etc., things barf Landfill Office : have changed. x Examples: She'll cut off a renovated shack I inherited and your husband need them. Sea) Park Maintenance Bldg: conversation to answer an- from my family. The neighbor- At this point in your lives, the other nonemergency call. She hood is degrading, and I'm try- last thing you need is stress n frantically texts that she needs ing to decide whether to build and isolation. cig Publish ome ime (March 13,2021) inthe Elk CityNews. to talk right now, then doesn’t anew home out in the country call and won't answer when I on property I own. Sy “The City of Elk City will accept sealed bids for Asbestos Abatement to the Snips If I do, my family, which DEAR READERS: This is my SRarf) Building, NE cornerof Broadway & Main, Sealed Bids will be accepted until 12:00 try to call her. She doesn’t re- needs a better place to live, p.m. Monday, March 29, 2021 in the City Clerk's office, 320 W 3rd, Blk City, Ok turn calls or texts for days. annual reminder to all of you "73644. The City of Elk City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. When we do talk, she com- could live in my current house. who live where daylight saving Bidders must present a copy of their liability insurance and workers compensa- plains nonstop, and if I try to But I'm worried about the tion insurance, chime in about what's happen- physical and emotional toll it time is observed: Don't forget ing in my life, she cuts off the will take on my husband and to turn your clocks FORWARD conversation. Also, we have a me to improve the wooded one hour tonight at bedtime. Bidder Name: two-hour time difference, so property. I also worry about when she does call, it’s either issues like potential dementia Daylight saving time begins at Address: super late or the dinner hour. living nearly 30 miles from 2 a.m. tomorrow. It’s a ritual I If I can’t talk long, she gets town in the country. love because it signals the com- mad and blocks me for days. No matter how much I weigh ing of spring, and with it lon- Phone Number: I don’t want to be the eti- the pros and cons, I can’t reach a decision whether to build or ger, brighter days and warmer quette police, but something Bid Amount, is off. Advice? - JUST ABOUT not. Because of our ages, it’s weather. -- ABBY HAD IT IN ILLINOIS now or never. Can you please help me decide? - STUMPED Dear Abby is written by Abi- DEAR HAD IT: Has your ABOUT THE FUTURE twin always been this self-cen- gail Van Buren, also known tered and rude, or is it relative- DEAR STUMPED: Allow me as Jeanne Phillips, and was ly new behavior? Do not blame to offer a third alternative. founded by her mother, Pau- advances in technology for it. You described your husband line Phillips. 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