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October 21 - 22, 2020 • Vol. 2, Issue 22
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Statewide winter weather drill set today, tomorrow
Join the Fun:
King’s Chapel offers fun event for families. Page 2
From the Fairy Tree:
Encouragement for young letter writers Page 14
‘There’s a lemur!’
5-year-old spies missing animal Page 18
WEATHER...page 21 After the welcome rain, a little mid-week warm-up.
David Nehmer, President of Whysdom and Locke Hilderbrand, Chief Insights Officer, explain a new technology to help market Branson. (Photo by K.D. Michaels)
CVB shares new insight into Branson visitors By K.D. Michaels, Staff Writer With a goal of making 2021 better than ever in Branson, the Branson Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau has teamed up with the technology company Whysdom to gain more insight into past Branson visitors and potential new visitors. In a marketing presentation last week, Whysdom team members
met with Branson professionals to offer a unique idea to help bring more people to the area. The company uses geofencing, which is the use of GPS, Wi-Fi or RFID technology to create a virtual geographic boundary that enables software to identify when a smartphone or other mobile device enters or leaves a particular area. Working in conjunction with
the Branson CVB, Whysdom has geofenced the entire Branson area for the past 18 months. Since Christmas season in 2018, the company has been researching why visitors came to the area, when they came, and what they did while they were here. There are over 400 million mobile devices, such as smartphones
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Submitted to Branson Globe JEFFERSON CITY – In an attempt to get a jump on this year’s winter season, the Missouri Department of Transportation will hold its annual winter operations drill on Wednesday, October 21 and Thursday, October 22. The drill has been expanded to two days this year to accommodate social distancing requirements due to COVID-19. Motorists may notice increased numbers of MoDOT vehicles on state routes during the drill. In rural areas, crews will deploy after 8 a.m. In urban areas, the drill will not begin until after 9 a.m. The exercise should be completed by 3 p.m. “Winter weather seems to start earlier every year,” said Natalie Roark, state maintenance director. “We’ve scheduled this year’s drill a little earlier to make sure we all know our roles during a winter storm so we can do our jobs successfully.” More than 3,000 MoDOT employees are involved in clearing roads and bridges as quickly as possible when winter weather hits. During the drill, MoDOT employees will react to a simulated forecast of significant snow for the entire state. The department’s emergency operations centers will activate, and maintenance employees will be SEE WINTER WEATHER, PAGE 2
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Families invited to join the fun at Candy Lane By Cindy Thomas, Staff Writer King’s Chapel, Branson, invites area families to Candy Lane, a safe, fun alternative to traditional Halloween festivities this year. Candy Lane will be held Friday, October 30, at 6 p.m. at the church’s Music City Centre, 1839 W. 76 Country Blvd., Branson. In addition to plenty of candy treats, kids will experience an educational journey through a series of decorated rooms, each with a different theme. Activities will include a
costume contest, face painting, and games. The $2 admission also includes a mini show in the church’s theater. King’s Chapel moved to the Music City Centre location in 2019, following extensive remodeling to outfit the building as “100 percent church and 100 percent quality theater experience,” according to marketing director Barbara Shirkey. In addition to Friday’s Candy Lane, the public is invited to enjoy a musical theater presentation, “The
Greatest Show,” on Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1. Showtime is 7 p.m. both evenings; admission is free. To help ensure a safe experience, all events will be held in accordance with local ordinances concerning COVID-19 precautions. For more information about these events, as well as upcoming Christmas presentations, visit the King’s Chapel Branson website, https:// kcbranson.com/event-directory/, or call 417-460-KING.
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One of the most valuable parts of the drill is that it allows MoDOT’s newest employees the opportunity to drive a snowplow over their designated routes so they are aware of obstacles and obstructions, such as curbs and raised islands, that might be hidden in snow or ice. MoDOT spent more than $66 million on winter operations last year and used over 180,000 tons of salt; 3 million gallons of salt brine; 80,000 tons of abrasives; 350 tons of calcium
chloride; 24,000 gallons of liquid calcium chloride; 90,000 gallons of liquid magnesium chloride; and almost 500,000 gallons of beet juice. In an average winter, MoDOT employees will plow about 6 million miles of snow and ice, which is enough to go to the moon and back 13 times. For information on road conditions across the state, safe traveling tips, and other winter weather information, visit www.modot.org.
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King’s Chapel is located at Music City Centre, 1839 W. 76 Country Blvd., Branson. (Photo by Cindy Thomas)
deployed to their trucks. Emergency communications systems will also be tested. The drill serves as a training reminder to make sure proper equipment, plowing techniques and safety measures are used. In addition, every piece of equipment—every truck, motor grader, snow blower and tractor—is inspected and calibrated to conserve materials.
COVID-19 in Stone and Taney counties, by the numbers: (As of 10/15/2020. Data provided by TCHD and SCHD websites) CONFIRMED POSITIVE CASES TANEY COUNTY 1,134 STONE COUNTY 649
RECOVERED CASES TANEY COUNTY 884 STONE COUNTY 551
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TANEY COUNTY 31 STONE COUNTY 10
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Drug-Free Ozarks needs your Pets of the Week participation in project survey Tri-Lakes Humane Society, Reeds Spring Call (417) 272-8113 or visit www.tri-lakeshumanesoc.org
By Cindy Thomas, Staff Writer Drug Free Ozarks would like to ask residents of Branson and surrounding Taney and Stone County communities to participate in the 2020 Community Awareness Survey being conducted through October 24. Visit https://drugfreeozarks. org/2020-community-survey/ to complete the five-minute survey, which helps Drug Free Ozarks evaluate the effectiveness of its community awareness programs and gain insight into substance abuse patterns in southwest Missouri. Drug Free Ozarks is a partnership project between Cox Health and the Skaggs Foundation. According to Marietta Hagan, project director, the purpose is to come alongside coalitions and recovery groups to resource their efforts and serve as a liaison to the local hospital and health care community. Educational projects include the Generation Rx student prescription drug education program and training for school personnel, first responders and law enforcement in recognizing problems and using Narcan. Drug Free Ozarks also helps direct recovery groups in the com-
Marietta Hagan. (Special to Branson Globe)
munity to resources, including Narcan access. Drug Free Ozarks maintains extensive educational resources and links on its website for those seeking assistance. The theme “Sink or Swim” emphasizes the choice to reach out for help and information rather than continue floundering. One of the most frequently accessed pages is the FAQ page, https:// drugfreeozarks.org/sink-orswim/drug-facts/, with extensive descriptions of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and their effects. The Drug Free Ozarks’ Facebook and Instagram pages also empha-
size education. For example, parents can keep up on what’s trending, such as the dangerous “challenges” often making the rounds among teenagers. Hagan said an important component of education is to fight stigma. Contrary to what many people think, substance abuse is rarely a conscious bad choice; nobody wakes up one morning planning to overdose on heroin or commit a crime to support a meth habit. For many teens, it starts as a response to stress, trauma, or bullying. Prescription drug abuse often begins with an injury. The project website shares stories of people whose journey from successful citizen to full-blown addiction began with an on-the-job injury or pain medicines following surgery. Unfortunately, the stress related to COVID-19 hasn’t helped; a recent report from the Missouri Department of Mental Health indicated that 68.9 percent of respondents reported more prescription drug abuse since the pandemic began, and 46.5 percent reported drinking more alcohol. The 2020 survey is particularSEE DRUG-FREE, PAGE 7
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Train Up a Child: Can kids tell facts from opinions? First Amendment to the United States Constitution Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Rob Doherty Publisher (504) 583-8907 robd@bransonglobe.com Janet Steinkamp Editor steinjm4@gmail.com
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By Pat Lamb It is too bad that many adults don’t seem to be able to discern facts from opinions. Learning to do so can begin in childhood. It is interesting to observe that many times children seem to be more adept than adults in recognizing truth and facts from opinion. Unfortunately, sometimes they lose this ability as they grow older. When individuals cannot discern opinion from fact, their picture of society becomes skewed. Textbooks in schools often include sections addressing facts vs. fiction and facts vs. opinion. Often, teachers hesitate to use limited time to address this important aspect of learning. There are things parents and others working with children can do to enhance this ability in children. Adults need to be alert to opportunities in everyday conversation to draw attention to what is fact and what is opinion. Wise use of questions can require children to use facts to back up their own opinions. Discussion of conversations of acquaintances and news programs can draw attention to the need of careful scrutiny of information presented. It is easy to glibly go about our activities and not pay attention to what children are saying. We mistakenly think “they will grow out of it” when we actually do listen and hear things that are not
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accurate. We need to be more alert and “jump in” at opportune times to point out the difference in fact and opinion when we hear children talking about something. General statements need to be broken down and analyzed to help children see truth. It is easy to say, “That teacher is no good!” Children often say this when they are having a hard time with some work. In such cases, adults need to require children to be detailed and give facts to support the claim. Sometimes a child simply needs to be told, “That is your opinion. Perhaps other children think differently.” Since the child will probably give only negative information, positive facts should be used to counter what the child says to show both sides. Children express opinions very often. Finding an opportunity to work with the child on facts should not be difficult.
The value of using questions with children cannot be overemphasized. Questions require thinking. When opinions are expressed, a good question to use is, “What are the facts you are using to back up your opinion?” Another question to use is, “Where did you get your information?” Still another is, “Is the source of your information dependable?” Yet another good question is, “Can you think of some facts that people may use to form a different opinion?” This forces the child to look at the other side. School age children should watch some news on TV each day, but it should be screened first. Parents need to discuss the news with the children to help them see the difference between facts and opinions of the reporters. In addition, opin-
ions expressed by friends of the family should be discussed and facts presented. In my opinion, it is impossible for reporters and others to be completely void of expressing opinions no matter how hard they try. It is like requiring a person to change his/her basic makeup to expect complete impartiality. Even though a reporter may not say words to favor a certain point of view, there is still the matter of choice as to what is actually reported. Body language often speaks louder than the words spoken. Individuals may simply ignore what they do not like and emphasize the news that fits their opinions. It is so very important that children learn to decide for themselves the difference between facts and opinion.
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This billboard near Bull Creek promotes DrugFreeOzarks.org and Sink or Swim. Al, pictured here and on the billboard, tells her story of addiction and recovery on the website. (Special to Branson Globe)
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ly important because the last survey, conducted in 2017, revealed many area residents were largely unaware of the extent of the problem, including the numbers of Taney County school children in grades six through twelve who reported recently using alcohol or misusing prescription drugs. The insight gained from the current survey will help in evaluating the effectiveness of Drug Free Ozarks’ programs in raising awareness and planning future programs. Several local coalitions offer opportunities to get involved, volun-
teer, or donate to help address the problem. These include the Taney County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT), Stone County Community Health Coalition, Ozarks Wellness Network, and Healthy Families Task Force. Treatment partners include the Brook Wellness Center and Burrell Behavioral Health. Local recovery support groups include PEEPs in Recovery, Stone County Recovery Center, CORE (Communities of Recovery Experience), the Simmering Center, and Celebrate Recovery groups offered through area churches. More information is available on the Drug Free Ozarks’ website.
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bransonglobe.com not based on age or location, but based on how they like to receive information and the type of information for which they have been searching, as well as how they make decisions. By geofencing the area for the past 18 months, Whysdom has a great jumpstart on profiling the type of customer who visits Branson. “We want to go after those people who have already been to your businesses and who go to your competitor’s business and also pick out those who are look-alikes, to get new customers to Branson,” explained Nehmer. “These are the people that have been here before. Our goal is to help you reach back out to them and their neighbors and other people who are just like them, and invite them back to Branson.” The Branson CVB is already using this technology to help market Branson, uniquely, based on the customers’ needs, but Whysdom is now making this marketing tool available to private businesses as well. For more information on how Whysdom could potentially help your Branson business, contact Grant Sloan or Kirk Elmquist with the Branson Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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MDC maintains sustainable forestry certification for land By Joe Jerek, Missouri Dept. of Conservation JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces it has maintained its certification by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Forest Management Standard for 658,348 acres of state land. The certification follows an annual audit of MDC forestry practices for those lands. MDC has maintained its certified status since 2017 with annual audits confirming its forest-management practices continue to meet the SFI® standard. SFI is one of the world’s most recognized, independent third-party for forest-management certification standards and certification provides assurances of responsible practices across the forest products supply chain.
“Certification to SFI considers all aspects of our forest management process, from our actions taken in the woods to the paperwork we keep in our files,” said MDC State Forester Justine Gartner. “We are extremely proud to maintain this certification, which means we have outside validation that we are properly managing our forest resources to assure their health and sustainability.” SFI’s Forest Management Standard is based upon principles, goals and performance measures that were developed nationally by professional foresters, conservationists and others with the intention of promoting sustainable forest management in North America. SFI and its many partners work together to balance environmental, economic, and social SEE FORESTRY, PAGE 11
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Jefferson City to remove disputed Confederate general marker
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The City Council in Missouri’s capital city has approved removing a Civil War marker dedicated to a Confederate general amid a dispute about the accuracy of its description. Jefferson City Council members voted 8-2 Monday to remove the marker dedicated to Confederate Gen.
Sterling Price. The marker said Price intended to attack Jefferson City on Oct. 7, 1864 , but decided against the plan and spared the city, The Jefferson City News-Tribune reported. Critics questioned that version of events, saying no historical records support it. They also noted the marker was dedicated in 1933 by a chapter of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which had ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Council Ron Fitzwater had proposed the marker remain in place but with additional context added. The council rejected that proposal. Fitzwater said Monday he does not support the United Daughters of
the Confederacy but that keeping the marker and adding additional context would be a compromise. “I think this amendment gives us an opportunity to bring some healing to the community, allow us to address this very serious issue, put some education out and all walk away feeling
The marker. (Julie Smith/The Jefferson City News-Tribune via AP)
we’ve had an impact on this critical issue,” Fitzwater said. Councilman Jon Hensley said the marker was placed with the intention of being misleading about history. He also argued the council needed to listen to people who are offended by the marker’s ties to the Confederacy, especially the city’s Black residents. “You have this attachment to admitted propaganda in historical clothing, and then you have people telling us about deeply rooted, generations-long hurt that — since childhood for them — this marker has represented,” Hensley said. “I simply don’t understand how you can put those things on an equal footing.” The marker will be placed in storage until a decision is made on its future.
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Hospitalizations still rising in Missouri prompting worries O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A leading coronavirus expert in St. Louis is warning that hospital workers are “over-worked and demoralized” after months of battling the coronavirus, and the worst may be yet to come. Dr. Alex Garza of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said hospitalizations are getting higher and intensive care unit beds are filling up at a time when the flu season is about to create even more strain on the health care system. The St. Louis region is actually in better shape than the rest of the state, according to data released Tuesday on the state health department’s COVID-19 dashboard. Hospitalizations are at or near record levels in vir-
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objectives such as conservation of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, harvesting forest products, protecting water quality, providing forest industry jobs, and developing recreational opportunities. The SFI Forest Management Standard is also the only standard that requires participants to support forestry research. Learn more at https:// www.forests.org/. “The Missouri Department of Conservation joins other progressive organizations that are demonstrating their leadership and transparency by certifying their lands to the SFI Forest Management Standard,” said SFI President and CEO Kathy Abusow. “It is especially important to differentiate the responsible actors who are managing forests to maintain conservation values, sustain communities, and support responsible supply chains given that forest products are traded internationally. In other nations there are high risks of illegal logging and forest products are coming under increasing scrutiny.”
tually every region except St. Louis, which was hit hardest in the spring. But, according to Garza, even St. Louis is seeing an uptick. “Our cases, our hospitalizations, and our admissions numbers all continue at a dangerous ascent, into territory we haven’t seen since early on in the pandemic,” Garza said at a briefing Monday. “Unfortunately, we have erased every bit of progress that we’ve made this summer and fall.” The state on Tuesday reported another 1,524 confirmed cases, bringing the total since the onset of the pandemic to 159,625. The state also reported 25 more deaths. All told, 2,615 people in Missouri have died from COVID-19. Mis-
souri ranks eighth nationally for the most new cases over the past week, and seventh for deaths. The positivity rate of 21.1% for the past seven days is four times higher than the 5% benchmark the state seeks to achieve. In Springfield, CoxHealth constructed a temporary building on the parking lot of Cox Medical Center South to serve the expected overflow of COVID-19 and flu patients. The state dashboard showed that ICU capacity statewide was down to 29%, with 476 of Missouri’s 1,439 COVID-19 patients receiving intensive care. The data also shows that 788 ventilators are in use, a figure that includes non-COVID-19 patients. Garza said the renewed onslaught is taking a toll.
“Our staff are exhausted, they’re over-worked and they’re demoralized, which decreases the quality of care that everyone receives, not just COVID patients,” he said. Nixa and Ozark both announced new mask orders beginning Wednesday. Ozark city leaders cited the rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Christian County and the increasing number of hospitalizations,. Rick Groves, the assistant police chief in the small Missouri Booth-
eel town of Kennett, died Friday, a month after contracting COVID-19 “while serving in his capacity as a law enforcement officer,” according to a news release from Gov. Mike Parson’s office. Parson ordered U.S. and Missouri flags at government buildings in Dunklin County to fly at half-staff Tuesday in honor of Groves, who was with the Kennett department for 35 years.
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NEW YORK (AP) — From masks and fresh reads to outdoor gear and Christmas tree ornaments, the pandemic has inspired a slew of holiday gifts for all. Some ideas for giving in the time of coronavirus: MASK & SPEAK: There’s at
doubles as a voice amplifier for mask-on conversation and comes in two sizes, with replaceable filters. Available at MaskFone.com and Amazon. From $49.99. SLEEP & LISTEN: Coronavirus anxiety is no joke. Who hasn’t lost more than a little sleep? Enter
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A plethora of pandemic gifts available this holiday season least one mask out there for anybody on your gift list. One company has gone a step further with the MaskFone. It comes with wireless earbuds attached and built-in volume controls. The black, breathable fabric is water-resistant. Not on a call or listening to music? It
SleepPhone, a soft headband of fleece or wicking fabric (for exercise) that includes two flat speakers built in. Wireless, corded and wireless rechargeable versions exist. The SleepPhone comes in two sizes and four colors, including black, blue and lavender. Available at SleepPhones.com and Amazon. From $99.95. PANDEMIC TREES: Yes, we’d all like 2020 to go away. A little something for the Christmas tree may be just the keepsake once it does. Pandemic ornaments are abundant, including a set of three with snowman, reindeer and gingerbread person in masks touting
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rolls of toilet paper. The set goes for $35.99 on Amazon. Ornament king Christopher Radko has a Dr. Santa in scrubs holding this message: “We stayed at work for you. You stay at home for us.” $60 at ChristopherRadko.com and Amazon. “Good Morning Zoom” (Philomel via AP) KID BOOKS: For kids up to 5 and fans of “Goodnight Moon” parodies, there’s “Good Morning Zoom,” written by a mom isolated with her kids in April, soon after the pandemic took hold. One page reads: “Good morning room. Good SEE GIFTS, PAGE 13
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morning Zoom. Good morning friends you hope to see soon. Good morning light. And a world not quite right.” By Lindsay Rechler and illustrated by June Park. Widely available. $14.99. Another possibility: The kid boredom buster “The Highlights Book of Things to Do.” Hundreds of activities between covers for $24.99. Widely available. LIFE BOOKS: What better time to ask, “Um... How did I get here?” as 30-year-old entrepreneur Kathi Sharpe-Ross does in her book “Re:Invent Your Life! What Are You Waiting For?” The self-published, self-help guide i ncludes 30 interviews with executives to artists on their a-ha moments. Quincy Jones writes in a short foreword: “I believe that we are the biggest barriers to our own creativity and growth because of paralysis from analysis.” Available on Amazon and elsewhere. $19.99. Need to go in another direction? AcroYoga instructors Max and Liz Lowenstein are out with “Yoga for Inflexible People,” a beginner’s guide to Zen. $19.99. Not available until Nov. 11.
THE WORK WONNIE: Waistup dressing remains a thing, but one still has to dress. Enter this work onesie for the Everyman. It’s a button-down, suitable-for-meetings, striped work shirt attached to comfortable sweats on the bottom. It’s made to look like the shirt is loosely tucked in. And, wait for it, there’s a flap in the back. $55. Head to Workwonnies.com to pre-order for a Nov. 1 release. EXOTIC SWEETS: With the world at home in extended, close proximity to kitchens and pantries, snacking is an ever-present pastime. Mix it up for a lucky loved one with a monthly subscription to the Japanese snack box service Bokksu. Each box is themed and includes tea. Among past themes is the Otsukimi Moon Festival box, with mochi puffs and red bean doughnuts among the offerings. Items sourced from Japan. From $36.99 on a year’s subscription at Bokksu.com. WARM HANDS: As we live our best friluftsliv lives, we’ll be pulling double duty with gloves. The rubber ones may ward off germs but not do the trick when the weather goes frigid. Gifting nice gloves is usually a welcome thing, with options everywhere.
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For women, try a pair in cashmere and animal print from Amicale. $95. Widely available. There’s a matching headband for the same price. Plenty of cashmere-lined options for men, too. Along the lines of the great outdoors, the folks at Oceas have on offer a fleece-lined waterproof blanket that comes with a carry pouch. In blue,
gray and red. $33.99 at OceasOutdoors.com, Amazon and Walmart. com. At UncommonGoods.com, there’s an eco-friendly instant grill made for a single use out of cardboard, bamboo and lava stones. $15. Have you got a luxury-level gift budget? Do you know a homebound exerciser with a design bent? Tech-
Oct. 21 - 22, 2020 • 13 nogym notes its sleek Cross Personal elliptical trainer was designed by Italian architect and designer Antonio Citterio. The thing sure is pretty with its mirror-like steel finish. It has a live console with on-demand content and surround sound built into its handles. And it costs $14,815 at Technogym. com.
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Pixie post: Fairy letters offer advice, respite in Virginia
Maya Gebler and Cate Carroll read letters they’ve received from fairies in Norfolk, Va., on Monday Oct. 12, 2020. In the last few months, more than 700 letters have arrived at a fairy tree village outside the home of a journalist and children’s book author. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — With the coronavirus lockdown and school out for the summer, 9-year-old Maya Gebler’s social world had shrunk to her immediate family and a few friends. When her human pen pals stopped writing, she turned to the fairies who had taken up residence at a tree in her Virginia neighborhood. And the fairies wrote back. “They care about you,” she said. “And they want to write to you.” Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village. A sign on a small wooden door shaped like a slice of bread lets visitors know fairies are sleeping behind the smooth bark. Tiny buildings with mushroom spires and flowers line the sidewalk below. Perhaps just as important are
the cedar tables and chairs, the paper and the pens. One mailbox, often brimming with envelopes, welcomes correspondence. Another offers responses from the likes of the Fairy Godmother, Fairy Queen Lysandra and Tinker Bell. The fairy tree village appeared in July outside the home of journalist and children’s book author Lisa Suhay, 55, a mother of five. Word spread online and now youngsters arrive wearing pixie wings or princess gowns and a website connects children who live farther away. In the past few months, more than 700 letters have arrived — from neighborhood children but also from nearby cities such as Virginia Beach. Not a small number appear to be from students at Old Dominion University, a state school down the street.
For some, the letters offer a reprieve from days stuck at home and in virtual school. They also provide something much deeper — a therapeutic opportunity for wishing, confessing and venting. One child writes: “Can U please make the corona disappear very soon?” Another says, “We are moving to Guam but will you still be my friend?” And yet another tells of a mother, a teacher, who was crying and asks, “Can you help her?” Some are drawings of Tinker Bell. Others come with gifts, such as a cicada shell. There are complaints about school. And demands to know if fairies are real. SEE FAIRY LETTERS, PAGE 15
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“Dearest Queen Lysandra, I’m sorry I ever doubted you,” began one letter, clearly not the first from its author. Older letter writers share anxieties and insecurities. One thanked the fairies for advice to break up with her “toxic” boyfriend. “I’ve never felt so free!” she wrote. Some express gratitude. Many wish for peace.
And then there are those like Maya and her two friends, sisters Sophie and Cate Carroll. They’ve become deeply engaged in this fairy world, which includes pixies, elves, gremlins, hobgoblins and trolls. The fairies reached out to a local cable provider when Sophie and Cate’s Wi-Fi went down as school was starting and the company made their network “gremlin free.” Maya wrote about her 5-yearold brother Aiden, whose hear-
ing disability made communicating through masks difficult. The Fairy Godmother sent along masks with clear plastic windows around the mouth. “It’s given her an outlet to vent some of her concerns and fears and feel a little more secure,” said
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Maya’s mother, Jennifer Gebler. “She can have a sanctuary that’s removed from all the craziness that we’re seeing this year.” And the children who visit the wee village under her tree bring Suhay something in return. “I find myself feeling weighed
down by all the negativity,” Suhay said. “And all it takes is looking out my window and hearing a little girl singing a song from ‘Frozen’ at one of the doors to the tree. There are no bad days when this is in front of your house.”
From Million Dollar Quartet Cate Carroll shows off letters she’s received from fairies in Norfolk, Va, on Monday Oct. 12, 2020. In the last few months, more than 700 letters have arrived at a fairy tree village outside the home of a journalist and children’s book author. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
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Artist Rob Mullen walks down Long Trail, the country’s oldest long distance trail, in Manchester, Vt.. Mullen was nearing the end of his 272-mile month-long hike down the length of Vermont, painting along the way. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
Artist hikes length of Vermont, painting sights along the way MANCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — After hiking over 200 miles (320 kilometers) on the country’s oldest long-distance trail, Rob Mullen had just 3 miles (5 kilometers) to go in the rain to meet up with his wife and father for a break. He kept dry with his foul weather gear as he walked down the trail with a backdrop of trees sprouting fall’s orange and yellow leaves and carrying trekking poles and a big stuffed blue pack on his back that held his precious painting kit. Mullen, a 64-year-old wildlife and wilderness artist, is hiking the 272-mile (440-kilometer) Long Trail that runs the length of Vermont and over its highest mountains from the Canadian border to the Massachusetts state line and painting sights along the way. He was nearing the end of his monthlong journey and planned to finish as soon as Saturday afternoon with half a dozen paintings and several thousand photos from which to paint. He’s also coming away with sense of hope about the country from the people he’s met along the trail. “I’ll be painting from this trip for a long time,” he said during his break off the trail in Manchester
on a Tuesday. Mullen, who has done a number of wilderness canoe trips in Alaska and Canada, had planned to paddle in the Northwest territories of Canada this year with three others. But then the coronavirus pandemic hit. He decided to do the entire Long Trail as a painting trip and to raise money with his art for the Vermont Wildlife Coalition, of which he is a board member, and the Green Mountain Club, which maintains the Long Trail. Mullen managed to fulfill his plan to hike a certain distance and then paint a painting on the first day. He got to a shelter around 4 p.m., banged out a painting of an erratic boulder, cooked dinner and went to bed, he said. But the northern part of the trail with the bigger mountains is tough and he admits he hadn’t trained properly, which slowed his pace. “I mean I was really suffering,” he said, adding that he stopped to meet up his wife to hand off some weight, including his 8-pound (3.6 kilogram) painting kit. But he wasn’t about to give up. As he continued, he gained strength SEE ARTIST, PAGE 17
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and took back the painting kit. At times, he said the scenery was breathtaking. Unlike paddling, provides a view he can see for miles, showing peaks poking through the clouds at higher elevations, his wife Bonnie Rowell said. She
meets up with him about every five days to resupply him with food. Along the way, Mullen has seen black bears and in a special sighting, a gray fox. And he’s met many hikers who are either hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine or, like himself, Vermont’s Long Trail, sharing shelters with them for the night or meeting up on the trail.
Artist Rob Mullen shows one of the paintings he painted during his month-long hike on Vermont’s Long Trail, the country’s oldest long distance trail, in Manchester, Vt. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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“You get these ephemeral friendships,” he said, of the bonds he made with strangers along the way. The hikers look out for one another, share gear and help to fix what’s broken. When two hikers ran out of fuel on a recent night, another hiker loaned them a fuel cannister,
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“It certainly gives you a little hope that the apparent polarization that comes across when you’re watching the news doesn’t go that deeply into the populace maybe, at least not in many of them. So it was encouraging for me,” he said.
18 • Oct. 21 - 22, 2020 ‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old helps crack zoo theft case
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police said Friday they arrested a man suspected of stealing a ringtailed lemur from the San Francisco Zoo, where officials rewarded a 5-year-old boy who helped recap-
ture the endangered primate with a lifetime membership. The theft of Maki, an arthritic 21-year-old lemur, made the news Wednesday in San Francisco and beyond when zoo officials reported the animal missing and found evidence of forced entry at his enclosure.
Five-year-old James Trinh was unaware of the headlines when leaving his preschool Thursday in Daly City, about 5 miles from the zoo, and exclaimed, “There’s a lemur! There’s a lemur!” Cynthia Huang, director of the Hope Lutheran Day School, told the San
Francisco Chronicle Friday. Huang was skeptical at first. “I thought, Are you sure it’s not a raccoon?” she said. Maki scurried from the parking lot into the school’s playground and took refuge in a miniature play house, as the school called police who quickly alerted animal control and zoo officials. The children, parents and teachers watched as caretakers arrived and coaxed the lemur into a transport cage, Huang said. Also Thursday, police took 30-year-old Cory McGilloway into custody, San Francisco police Lt. Scott Ryan told reporters Friday. McGilloway, whom investigators had identified as a suspect in the lemur’s abduction, was arrested Thursday evening by San Rafael police on unrelated charges. He was expected to be transferred to San Francisco County Jail to be booked on charges of burglary, grand theft of an animal, looting and vandalism all related to the lemur theft, Ryan said. Police did not provide other details, saying the investigation was still underway but credited a multi-agency effort and tips on a public tip line that led to the suspect’s capture. San Francisco Zoo director Tanya Peterson said Maki was
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Mailman rescues man in chainsaw accident
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) — A mailman on his route in southern California helped another man who accidentally cut his arm with a chainsaw late last week, authorities said. United States Postal Service mailman Fernando Garcia was wrapping up his shift in Norwalk when he heard a loud scream from a nearby house before rushing toward the home to help, KNBC-TV reported Monday. SEE MAILMAN, PAGE 19
This picture from the San Francisco Zoo, shows a missing lemur, named Maki. The ring-tailed lemur was missing from the San Francisco Zoo after someone broke into an enclosure overnight and stole the endangered animal. (Marianne V. Hale/San Francisco Zoo via AP)
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Garcia said he found a man with a cut to the arm and used his belt as a tourniquet. He stayed with the man until an ambulance arrived. The extent of the man’s injuries remains unclear. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department posted on Twitter Friday from the Norwalk station that the man is expected to recover because of Garcia’s quick action. “I was a little panicky but at the end of the day... I did what anybody else would have done, which was to try to stop the bleeding,” Garcia said. “I was just fortunate to be there, to help him out.” It is unclear where the man was in the home and what the man was doing with the chainsaw at the time of the accident.
Rare white sea turtle found on South Carolina beach KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Volunteers checking sea turtle nests on a South Carolina
beach came upon a rare sight: a white sea turtle hatchling crawling across the sand. The town of Kiawah Island posted on its Facebook page that the Kiawah Island Turtle Patrol found a lone white baby sea turtle on Sunday. Photos show a tiny turtle that’s a creamy white color rather than the more typical gray or green of a sea turtle. The town says the hatchling is believed to have a genetic condition called leucism, which causes animals to have reduced pigmentation. The condition is described as extremely rare, but it’s unclear exactly how often such turtles are found in the wild. The Olive Ridley Project, a sea turtle conservation group, says sea turtles with leucism typically have a hard time surviving because of a lack of camouflage.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Clyde Edwards-Helaire showed new teammate Le’Veon Bell and the rest of the NFL how dominant the Kansas City Chiefs’ running attack is already. The rookie had 161 yards rushing and Patrick Mahomes threw two
touchdown passes to Travis Kelce, leading the Chiefs to a 26-17 win over the Buffalo Bills on Monday night in a game that was originally scheduled for last Thursday. Mahomes finished 21 of 26 for 225 yards. His first scoring toss to Kelce was the 90th of his career in
his 37th game, breaking the NFL record for fewest games to 90 TD passes. Hall of Famer Dan Marino had the previous mark at 40 games. Darrel Williams scored on 13yard run to cap a nearly eight-minute, 82-yard drive that gave the Chiefs a 20-10 lead with 1:18 left in
the third quarter, effectively sealing the game. The Chiefs are off to a their third 5-1 start in four seasons, and they bounced back from a sloppy 40-32 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Oct. 11. Last week, Kansas City added another weapon to its high-powered offense by signing Bell a few days after he was cut by the New York Jets. Bell is expected to make his debut this weekend at Denver. “I can’t wait,” Bell tweeted during the game. Buffalo (4-2) lost its second straight. The Bills fell 42-16 at Tennessee last Tuesday, a game that was moved because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the Titans. That led to the Kansas City-Buffalo game being pushed back as well. The Chiefs, who were originally scheduled to play three games in 11 days, wound up having two extra days of rest on Buffalo. Josh Allen finished 14 of 27 for 122 yards with touchdown passes to Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley. In what was supposed to be a showdown of the NFL’s top pass-
ers, the Chiefs leaned on their running game to help keep the Allen-led Bills cooling their heels on the sideline. The Chiefs dominated time of possession by more than 15 minutes, rushing 46 times — the most in eight seasons under coach Andy Reid — for 245 yards. It was the first time Kansas City topped 200 yards rushing since Mahmoes took over the starting job. Buffalo’s run defense had its worst outing since giving up 273 yards in a loss to New England on Dec. 23, 2018. The Chiefs, up 23-17, avoided a major scare when Buffalo’s Justin Zimmer stripped the ball from Edwards-Helaire at the Kansas City 30. The play was ruled a fumble on the field, but that call was overturned after replays showed Edwards-Helaire’s knee was down. Two plays later, on third-and-11, Mahomes scrambled out of trouble and hit Byron Pringle for 37 yards. The drive finished with Harrison Butker hitting a 30-yard field goal with 1:56 left.
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Kyle Larson reinstated to compete in NASCAR in 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Larson can return to NASCAR competition next season following a long suspension for using a racial slur while playing a video game. He was suspended in April after he used the n-word while playing an online racing game in which viewers could follow along. He was dropped by his sponsors and fired by Chip Ganassi Racing. Larson, who is half-Japanese, spent the last six months immersed in diversity programs that helped him gain an understanding of racial injustice. He did not apply for reinstatement until last week and the clearance came Monday. “The work I’ve done over the last six months has had a major impact on me. I will make the most of this opportunity and look forward to the future,” Larson said. Larson has spent significant time with retired soccer star Tony Sanneh, whose foundation works on youth development and empowerment in the Minneapolis area. Larson also met with former Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee and visited her foundation in East St. Louis, and also spoke with Max Siegel, the CEO of USA Track & Field who also runs a NASCAR-sanctioned team that is part of the stock car series’ diversity program. Larson continued work he’d already been doing with the Urban Youth Racing School in Philadelphia. The nonprofit helps minorities advance in motorsports and Jysir Fisher, one of its students, had celebrated with Larson in victory lane following a win in Delaware last October. He put the work in unpublicized in an effort to prove his motives were sincere. “NASCAR continues to prioritize diversity and inclusion across our sport. Kyle Larson has fulfilled the requirements set
by NASCAR and has taken several voluntary measures to better educate himself so that he can use his platform to help bridge the divide in our country,” NASCAR said in a statement. Larson also has spent the time away from NASCAR racing sprint cars, his passion, with a phenomenal success rate. He’s won 41 times so far this year and rebuilt a devout fanbase along the way. The time at the dirt tracks made for a blissful summer for Larson and his family, which accompanied him nearly every weekend. His two children were victory lane fixtures and his wife ran his souvenir challenge.
Despite the enjoyable family time, Larson insisted he wanted to return to NASCAR. He was considered the top free agent prospect before his firing, which ended eight seasons with Chip Ganassi Racing. Larson has long been considered a future star for NASCAR and presumably had his pick of cars for 2021. Instead, he’s hoping sponsors will agree to back him for a return to NASCAR. Larson is thought to be getting an open seat at Hendrick Motorsports, although the car number and sponsor affiliations are not clear.
Among the hurdles Larson must clear is that Hendrick is tied to Chevrolet, one of the brands that cut ties with Larson in April. The cur-
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After the welcome rain, a little mid-week warm-up By Daryl Weather, Weather Forecaster Rain! We got rain finally here in Southwest Missouri! Boy, did we need it too! Looks like more rain is possible for our morning hours today as a stalled front to our
south moves back north. Our afternoon hours look to hold mostly cloudy skies. This front will also bring some warmer weather back into the area for today and again tomorrow. On Thursday we may have to deal with those
pesky winds again as well. Friday, another front looks to move through the area bringing back the cooler temps and more chances for rain. Another cold front looks to move through late this weekend, bringing chances for an-
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MOVIES & TV • 1964 Film version of “My Fair Lady” directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1965) • 2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize, comedy’s top honor, at a ceremony in New York • 2019 Australia’s biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions • 2019 Facebook says it has taken down four statebacked disinformation campaigns, three from Iran, one from Russia in addition to dozens earlier this year MUSIC • 1858 Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “ Orpheus in the Underworld” (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris, includes “Infernal Galop” (can-can tune) • 1961 Barbra Streisand opens in “Another Evening with Harry Stones” • 1975 Elton John is given a star in Hollywood • 2001 “United We Stand” benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. organized and headlined by Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey and The Backstreet Boys SPORTS • 1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
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BIRTHDAYS • 1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1896) • 1917 [John Birks] “Dizzy” Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, a creator of bebop & modern jazz (A Night In Tunisia), born in Cheraw, South Carolina; (d. 1993) • 1924 Joyce Randolph, American actress (Trixie-Honeymooners), born in Detroit, Michigan • 1928 Whitey Ford, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (10 x MLB All Star; World Series 1950, 53, 56, 58, 61 [MVP], 62; AL Cy Young Award 1961; NY Yankees), born in NYC, NY (d. 2020) • 1940 Manfred Mann [Michael Lubowitz], British, rocker (“Mighty Quinn”; “Blinded By The Light”), born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa • 1942 Judith Sheindlin, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy), born in Brooklyn, New York • 1949 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, born in Tel Aviv, Israel • 1956 Carrie Fisher, American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2016) • 1980 Kim [Kimberly] Kardashian, American TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California • 1988 Hope Hicks, American political operative, White
House Communications Director (2017-), born in Greenwich, Connecticut DEATHS • 1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar • 1969 Jack Kerouac, American writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
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