NEWS
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).
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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