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Adver readers have mixed views on whether or not to continue wearing a facemask on July 19. In a poll on our website yesterday, 51 per cent said ending the rule was too early, with 44 per cent agreeing with Boris Johnson s stance and the remaining 5 per cent not sure. The prime minister has gambled on trusting the public’s judgment and the protection offered by vaccines as he scrapped mandatory mask-wearing and lifted social distancing requirements. The debate raged on the Adver s Facebook page when we asked whether readers would still be wearing a face covering in a fortnight s time. Hilary Brooks said: “Yes. The medical profession say it’s ludicrous to stop wearing face masks at present. I know who’d I’d rather trust.
Michael Carr served as captain of Warrenpoint Golf Club 15 May, 2021 01:00
WHEN I first met Michael Carr we were standing in the soon-to-be SDLP constituency office on Newry Street, Warrenpoint.
Michael was known to me by reputation only so the initial introduction was to take place over a cup of tea and cake; but he was quick to insist that for him, it had to be coffee and it always had to be Nescafé.
Michael was serving as a councillor for Warrenpoint and I was the newly appointed office manager for Karen McKevitt MLA.
Karen had the ingenious idea that Michael, with his years of life and political experience, should work alongside us in the office.
City, county reach threshold for FEMA snowstorm relief, awaiting state totals
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, WY)
May 1 CHEYENNE The March winter storm that blanketed southeast
Wyoming with two-and-a-half feet of snow was an expensive occurrence that cost municipalities across the state. But it s still unclear whether it was enough to meet the
$1 million threshold for
Wyoming Office of Homeland Security spokesperson
Kelly Ruiz.
$357,000 responding to the storm, and the city of
Cheyenne reached that amount on its own, spending a total of
$598,000. The county is still compiling its final costs, though Interim Public Works Director
Molly Bennett said upwards of
$70,000 was spent on overtime for public works staff, and