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2 - THURSDAY, MAY 21,2020
GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER
Local
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COMMUNITY NEWS IN BRIEF
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Monday, May 25
Tuesday, May 26
Monday scheduled route.
Wednesday, May 27
Tuesday scheduled route. "No Special Pickup" or "Brush Pickup"
Thursday, May 29
Route will run as scheduled.
Friday, May 30
Route will run as scheduled.
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face masks for medical personnel
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Lindsay grad makes college honor roll
Honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in
Weatherford and Sayre, Oklahoma, have been announced for
the 2020 spring semester.
Connor Pelzel, a graduate of Lindsay High School, was
named to the President's Honor Roll.
An undergraduate student earning all A's in 12 or more
hours during a semester qualifies for the President's Honor Roll.
There were 775 students named to the President's Honor Roll
during the spring semester.
Help to navigate crisis
Anyone who's in need because of the new coronavirus
can call the Cooke County Volunteer Organizations Active in
Disaster at 940-665-8505 from 9 a.m. to noon weekdays to
CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, MAY 25,2020 IN OBSERVANCE OF THE MEMORIAL
DAY HOLIDAY. CITY OFFICES WILL REOPEN ON TUESDAY, MAY 26,2020 AT 8:00 A.M.
CITY HOLIDAY. No Commercial, Residential
carts or roll-off service. Commercial dumpster
routes will run as scheduled.
advertising or other customer service matters. The Register
closes for lunch from 1:30-2:30 p.m. daily.
New subscribers may also sign up online at
gainesvilleregister.com/subscriptions. Classified ads may be
placed by emailing gdrclass@heraldbanner.com.
Extra copies of the paper are available after the day of
publication by calling the office and having them mailed to
you. Cost plus mailing charge will be calculated at that time
and will need to be paid by credit or debit card.
reach a volunteer community navigator who will guide callers
to resources that are available to help with utility bills, rent or
mortgage payments.
Participating organizations that are coordinating resources
through VOAD include the VISTO food pantry, the Boys&
The Cooke County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office
continues to maintain a drop box for homemade face masks to
be distributed to county hospitals and area nursing homes
Masks may be dropped off at 301 S. Chestnut St. between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays, according to a flyer from the
extension. Extension administrative assistant Kelly Huston said
the extension will wash donated masks, then turn them over to
emergency management personnel to distribute countywide.
Volunteers are asked not to deliver masks directly to the
hospital or nursing homes in order to preserve health care
workers'safety. For more information, call 940-668-5412.
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TCOG to meet Thursday
The governing board of theTexoma Council of
Governments is set to consider action on an amendment
to the organization's Comprehensive Energy Assistance
Program contract with the Texas Department of Housing and
Community Affairs at a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21.
The meeting will take place via teleconference, according to
led the women's suffrage movement.
Attendees may purchase food and drink items from the
Krootzmenu.
For more information, contact Vice President of Programs
Kimzie Moss at rptkimzie@outlook.com or 940-736-0836;
or President Kerri Kingsbery at kerri@kingsbery.com. More
information is also posted on the Cooke County Republican
Women's page on Facebook.
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Staff Writer
mhatfield@gainesvilleregister.com
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The Gainesville Daily Register's offices at 306 E. California
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precaution to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
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Wednesday, May 20.
Ticket
graduates
participating
of the 2020 graduation
ceremony will be required
to complete a COVID-
19 screening form that
will be shared with
families on June 1 with
a deadline of June 3,
according to a post on the
high school’s Facebook
page. Completion of
this form confirming no
signs or symptoms of
the coronavirus, as well
as having a ticket, will
; admittance
into the June 5 ceremony,
officials said.
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Republican Women to host movie night
The June 4 meeting of Cooke County Republican Women
will be a movie night celebrating 100 years of women's voting
rights.
CCRW will meet at 7 p.m.Thursday, June 4, at Krootz Brewing Girls Clubs of Cooke County, Cooke County Emergency
Company, 513 E. Elm St. in Gainesville, and the movie will be Management, Cooke County United Way, Home Hospice of
"Iron Jawed Angels/'a 2004 feature film about the women who Cooke County, I Love Nails and Spa, the Red Cross of Cooke
County,Temple Baptist Church and Workforce Solutions
Texoma.
An online form to request help is posted to the VOAD's
Facebook page. Search for Cooke County Voluntary
Organizations Active in Disaster, VOAD.
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Each ticket holder will other families, according
enter through the Home to the social media post,
entrance and be verified Masks are recommended
prior to entering Bearcat but not required.
Stadium. No social gatherings
Six tickets are provided will be allowed at
per graduate. There are Whitesboro ISD facilities.
96 seniors, according to No one will be allowed to
a previous report in the enter the field area, other
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HAPPY NURSES AND
NURSING HUME WEEKS!!
Home Hospice of Cooke County
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for a parade in their honor, different than years past.
The class of 2020 is Ticket holders,
scheduled to begin lining graduates and all
up at 5:30 p.m. Friday Participating members
next to the Whitesboro
Independent School
District’s Ag Building at
WHS coming from the
high school entrance off
of Texas 56/West Main
Street, school officials say.
The formal cap and gown
parade is scheduled to
kick off at 6 p.m.
The parade will travel
from WHS to Fourth
Street, then proceed to
Union Street and travel
south on Union to West guarantee
Main Street before making
its way back to WHS.
Vehicles with seniors
are slated to stop at Fourth
and Jordan streets to pick
up diploma covers and
have their names read,
according to a route map
provided by Whitesboro
ISD.
Spectators are
encouraged to come out
and show their support to
the 2020 WHS graduating
class while following social
distancing guidelines,
which include staying six
feet away from anyone not
in your household.
District officials said
they still plan to hold a
traditional graduation
ceremony at 8 p.m. June
5 at Bearcat Stadium.
However, it will be a bit
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Einselen, Sarah. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 2020, newspaper, May 21, 2020; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324724/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.