Photo: Rick Steiner Rick Steiner is announcing his intention to run for the District 3 justice of the peace seat on the Baxter County Quorum Court. Steiner
April 6, 2021
Kimberly Paxton-Hagner, co-owner of Kwik Lok Corp. based in Yakima, WA, has been elected to the role of board chair for the company. Kwik Lok is a global company that was founded by Paxton-Hagner’s grandfather, Floyd Paxton, and has been run by her family for three generations. Paxton-Hagner assumed the role as chairperson at the company’s recent board meeting on April 1.
Paxton-Hagner succeeds John Rothenbueler as chairperson upon his retirement. Rothenbueler guided the company through the transition from the second to the third generation of ownership. Kwik Lok is now owned by sisters Kimberly Paxton-Hagner, Melissa Steiner and Stephanie Jackson.
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January 25, 2021
Kwik Lok Corp. has provided $48,000 to organizations as part of a twice-yearly allocation philanthropy program. Organizations chosen for gifts for this allocation are working on COVID-19 recovery or are striving to mitigate impacts of climate change. They demonstrate inspirational efforts that align with Kwik Lok’s ongoing commitment to unlocking opportunity, improving well-being, protecting resources and fostering innovation.
“A global pandemic, unprecedented economic uncertainty, ongoing racial injustice, and climate change are all having devastating impacts on our families, our communities and our world, said Kwik Lok co-owners Stephanie Jackson, Kimberly Paxton-Hagner and Melissa Steiner. Now more than ever, it is that feeling of family, of respect, and of care that means everything. Caring about our Kwik Lok family means we must extend that care to their communities and the planet we share. We’re doing everything we can to do right by all three.”
PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for 2020: Downplaying dangers of coronavirus
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
On Feb. 7, Trump leveled with book author Bob Woodward about the dangers of the new virus that was spreading across the world, originating in central China. He told the legendary reporter that the virus was airborne, tricky and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.” Trump told the public something else. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP
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A Florida taxi driver and his wife had seen enough conspiracy theories online to believe the virus was overblown, maybe even a hoax. So no masks for them. Then they got sick. She died. A college lecturer had trouble refilling her lupus drug after the president promoted it as a treatment for the new disease. A hospital nurse broke down when an ICU patient insisted his illness was nothing worse than the flu, oblivious to the silence i