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Tips for the cold/flu season
On top of a pandemic, we still have cold/flu season to worry about. The 2021 Old Farmer’s Almanac has identified ways to lessen the chances of getting one or both of these, plus tips on exactly how and when to wash your hands.
Time-Tested Tips for Fighting Colds and Flus
HOW TO AVOID THE FLU
- Wash your hands frequently—the right way. (See “How—and When—to Wash Your Hands.”)
- Keep current on all inoculations (including a flu shot) and medications.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Don’t share food or drinks.
- Drink plenty of liquids, especially water.
- Get plenty of sleep.
- Spend some time outdoors.
- If you feel fine, exercise.
- If someone sneezes or coughs without covering, avoid the air that they have just contaminated.
- In public spaces such as restrooms, use paper towels or tissues to touch the faucet and door handles. Use your shoulder to open non-handled doors.
- Avoid direct contact with handrails, handles, buttons, and the like in public spaces.
- Avoid handshakes and hugs, and no kissing, even on cheeks!
- Do not share washcloths or towels.
- Avoid touching your fingers to your eyes, nose, mouth, or face.
- Don’t bite your nails.
HOW—AND WHEN—TO WASH YOUR HANDS
- Use lots of soap and lots of water. (The water temperature is not important.)
- Allow for 2 minutes (or at least 20 seconds) of vigorous scrub time after lathering.
- Scrub not only palms and fingers but also the backs of hands, the skin between fingers, and wrists. Use a nailbrush to scrub beneath fingernails.
When to wash your hands …
- Before and after they are near your face
- Before eating and cooking and after handling any meat or garbage
- After using the bathroom, blowing your nose, and sneezing into a hand
- After changing diapers
- After touching animals or cleaning up after them
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Editor’s note: This information comes from The 2021 Old Farmer’s Almanac. To request a complimentary media review copy or an interview with one of the Almanac’s editors, please contact Samantha Jones via email (sam@quinnbrein.com).
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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