Early Bird eNewspaper 3-29-20

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Fighting for life

Beyke earns big honor

Maple Sugarin’ a success

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LOCAL • 1B

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Letting the dogs out By Linda Moody

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Scentral Park continues to welcome dogs and their owners during the Stay at Home order.

Getting through these challenging times Dear Readers, Friends and Neighbors, During these challenging and trying times, it is important that we at The Early Bird - Darke County Media remind you of our commitment to keeping you — our neighbors, friends, and fellow citizens — informed on how COVID-19 is impacting daily life in our local communities. Our team of journalists is working around the clock to provide you with up-tothe-minute news on a daily basis; reporting information that is important to you and your loved ones, and highlighting the extraordinary people doing extraordinary things during this unprecedented experience. At The Early Bird - Darke County Media, we’re taking steps in an effort to do our part to slow the spread of the coronavirus and protect employees and customers while continuing to bring you the information you need to help navigate through this ordeal. First, to ensure the health and safety of our employees, where possible, we have offered staff the opportunity to work remotely. We have also increased sanitation practices throughout our newsrooms, offices, production sites, and with product deliveries. Additionally, our lobby will be closed to the public until further notice. Advertisers, customers, and readers can call us with any questions at 937-548-3151. At this time, we will continue to deliver your newspaper and provide essential news to our community. The World Health Organization states the risk of catching the virus that causes COVID-19 from packages — including newspapers — that have been moved, traveled, and exposed to different conditions and temperature is low. However, those who handle our printed products are taking precautionary measures. Second, while the home delivery and single copy sales of our printed publications will continue to remain available, we will be providing the online version of the The Early Bird free to the public. During this crisis, we have removed the paywall for our daily Digital Replica Newspaper (E-Edition). This option is available to subscribers and non-subscribers. This important step represents part of our effort to keep you informed during these uncertain and rapidly See TIMES | 3A

DARKE COUNTY — Wondering what is going on at the local animal shelters? Some social media sightings have indicated there have been local animals shelters delivering pets to people while they are unable to get out to adopt. One of them is the Friendship Animal Protective League, which reportedly delivered a companion pet to an elderly man who was too

nervous to go out and look for one during this pandemic. This apparently occurred, because those involved were pre-approved adopters. “Though the pet delivery idea is clever, I believe that violates the Stay at Home Order,” remarked Ruth McDaniel, acting president of the Darke County Humane Society (DCHS). “Luckily, our animals census is rather low right now.” McDaniel said the DCHS Shelter stayed open until the Stay at

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Stepping up to help in a crisis By Linda Moody

DarkeCountyMedia.com

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Allie Bergman, a third-grade student at Versailles, learned how to sew and enjoyed making face masks with her grandmother, during the school shutdown.

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Home Order came down. “Some of the animals are abuse cases so cannot be adopted yet,” she said. “We have a couple people that already met a pet and want to adopt. We are out there daily and can meet with them by appointment. I do think folks should meet a pet and see if there is a bond before adopting.” McDaniel is hoping the shelter can be opened back up soon. “The mandates have forced us

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DARKE COUNTY — Quite a number of people in the county have stepped up to help during the face mask shortage with this COVID-19 outbreak. Many have started making masks and donating them to health facilities, other organizations and/or for personal usage. According to one website, face masks can play a role in preventing the infection to this virus, but that role is limited. A healthy individual in a normal situation does not need to wear a mask, as per CDC recommendations. A surgical face mask is highly recommended for people who have the coronavirus infection or have a high risk of exposure. It offers a certain amount of protection against infection from one’s own hands or droplets from the cough or sneeze of an infected person. “My 9-year-old granddaughter Allie Bergman and I made a dozen yesterday,” said Judy York. “We just started. Allie spent her last day before shut down here. A third-grader at Versailles, she is learning to sew and it was a great day. I made about 15 more today. I’m just trying to figure out who to donate them to. I have more fabric on order. As for elastic, no one See HELP | 3A

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