Lily Taylor A FORMER dance teacher from Westhoughton has really stepped up to being 102. Lily Taylor reached the grand age on Thursday in Wingates Residential Home, where she received a birthday cake and a small party to celebrate. Lily was born in 1919, during the Spanish Flu Pandemic, just one year after the First World War. She made an amazing recovery during the current pandemic, having caught coronavirus during the first lockdown. A former secretary at British Aerospace, in Lostock, she was also a dance teachern at the Thursday Club. Close family friend Rebecca Hill described Lily as “absolutely hilarious” and said her friends and family were amazed by how well she was doing.
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3,2,1, Happy New Year Tyler County
By Chuck Clegg - | Dec 30, 2020
Tyler County Courthouse
This Thursday at midnight, the count down to a new year will echo around the globe. It is the time when we watch as the New Year moves around the world from time zone to time zone. On television you can watch as the island nations of Samoa, Tonga and Kiribati in the south Pacific are the first to welcome the arrival of 2021. Shortly thereafter, New Zealand and Australia enter the New Year with celebrations of fireworks and parties. I believe this year, these celebrations will bring a new hope for the end of this world wide pandemic.
Through the Lens (3…2…1…HAPPY NEW YEAR)
By Chuck Clegg - | Dec 30, 2020
The Wetzel County Courthouse
This Thursday at midnight, the count down to a new year will echo around the globe. It is the time when we watch as the New Year moves around the world from time zone to time zone. On television you can watch as the island nations of Samoa, Tonga and Kiribati in the south Pacific are the first to welcome the arrival of 2021. Shortly thereafter, New Zealand and Australia enter the New Year with celebrations of fireworks and parties. I believe this year, these celebrations will bring a new hope for the end of this world wide pandemic.
A new mutant strain of COVID-19 that has been dubbed “501.V2” has gotten completely out of control in South Africa, and authorities are telling us that it is an even bigger threat than the “Super COVID” that has been causing so much panic in the United Kingdom. Of course viruses mutate all the time, and so it isn’t a surprise that COVID-19 has been mutating. But mutations can become a major issue when they fundamentally alter the way that a virus affects humans, and we are being told that “501.V2” is much more transmissible than previous versions of COVID and that even young people are catching it a lot more easily. That is potentially a huge concern, because up until now young people have not been hit very hard by the COVID pandemic.