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As a child, Sam Ozier grew up spending summers at Possum Kingdom Lake with his family. Now he captains a pirate ship there.
“It’s always been a dream of mine to build a pirate ship,” said the senior Texas A&M engineering student.
He decided during the pandemic lockdown to put together a business plan and Possum Kingdom Pirates LLC was born.
A search of Facebook Marketplace led him to purchase the well-used, former houseboat from a fellow in Illinois. They had it shipped down to Texas and upon further inspection, realized the bottom of the deck was heavily rusted. So, they stripped it down to just the pontoons and built up from there.
Wichita Falls Toastmaster Club is the oldest in Texas and has produced community leaders and helped countless others overcome their fear of public speaking.
That s up 1% from the previous week s tally of 78,420 COVID-19 doses administered.
In Wichita County, 30% of people living in Wichita County are fully vaccinated as of June 8. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers someone fully vaccinated two weeks after they ve been given a single-dose shot (Johnson & Johnson) or a second shot (either Pfizer or Moderna).
Texas reported 2,966,038 total cases of coronavirus, an increase of 0.40% from the week before.
The five counties with the highest percentage of their population fully vaccinated in Texas as of June 8 are Presidio County (61%), Hudspeth County (55%), Starr County (52%), Fort Bend County (51%) and Travis County (50%).
Here are the latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Wichita County as of June 8: