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6 attendees of SCOTUS nomination at Rose Garden test positive for COVID-19

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 attendees, COVID19, garden, nomination, positive, Rose, SCOTUS, Test

Less than a week ago, several top White House officials mingled with guests in the Rose Garden as President Donald Trump officially nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

a group of people sitting on a bench: First lady Melania Trump sits next to Seventh Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett's family as President Donald Trump announces Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.

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First lady Melania Trump sits next to Seventh Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s family as President Donald Trump announces Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.

Many of those guests were seen not wearing masks, fist bumping and greeting one another in close proximity, and their seats didn’t appear to be 6 feet apart.

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On Thursday night, Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest advisers, tested positive for coronavirus, then the president and first lady Melania Trump also tested positive. The president and his wife were present at the event, but Hicks was not.

a group of people in a garden: President Donald Trump, center, stands with Judge Amy Coney Barrett as they arrive for a news conference to announce Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.

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President Donald Trump, center, stands with Judge Amy Coney Barrett as they arrive for a news conference to announce Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington.

On Friday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, also at the Rose Garden, announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing “symptoms consistent with longtime allergies.”

Lee said he took a test only a few days ago “while visiting the White House,” which came back negative. He said he will “remain isolated for the next 10 days” and “will be back to work in time” to pursue Barrett’s nomination.

Prior to her judgeship, Barrett made a name for herself at Notre Dame Law School, also her alma mater. During her 2017 confirmation process, her Notre Dame Law colleagues penned a glowing – and unanimous – endorsement letter.

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University of Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins was also at the Rose Garden event and also announced Friday he had tested positive for the virus.

Kellyanne Conway et al. standing in front of a crowd posing for the camera: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Attorney General William Barr and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway talk in the Rose Garden after President Trump introduced Judge Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee, Sept. 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Attorney General William Barr and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway talk in the Rose Garden after President Trump introduced Judge Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee, Sept. 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

In a statement from the university’s vice president, Paul J, Browne, he said Jenkins “learned that a colleague with whom he has been in regular contact tested positive for COVID-19. … As a result, he is entering an extended period of isolation as indicated by University medical personnel and county health officials.”

“My symptoms are mild and I will continue work from home,” Jenkins said in the statement. “The positive test is a good reminder for me and perhaps for all of how vigilant we need to be.”

North Carolina Sen. Thom

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Save money by keeping your garden tools in shape with these tips

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 garden, Keeping, Money , Save, Shape, Tips, Tools

Jessica K. of Windsor asks: Do you have some suggestions on how to clean my new and used garden tools?

Keeping your gardening tools clean helps prevent rust, keeps the edges sharp and removes caked-on soil and sap. Good tools can be expensive, so to avoid the need for frequent replacement, keep them clean and in good working order.

All garden tools should be cleaned and wiped down after use to remove soil. If you won’t be using certain tools for awhile, give them a thorough cleaning and inspection before storing them. If pruners or saws are used to prune or remove a diseased plant, they should be cleaned and disinfected before using them on a healthy plant. A squirt of Lysol spray will work. Some gardeners say dipping the tool in bleach diluted with water and wiping it dry, before using it on the next plant, also works. But be aware that bleach can damage blades, so be sure to rinse and clean the tool thoroughly when you’re done.

Use a strong spray from the garden hose to remove soil. Scrape off stuck-on mud with a trowel or plastic scraper. To remove residual soil, fill a bucket with hot water and add about one tablespoon of dishwashing liquid per gallon of water. After removing the stuck-on soil, place the tools in the bucket and let them soak for 15-20 minutes. Rinse the tools and dry them with a microfiber cloth or an old towel. Look over each tool thoroughly for signs of rust. If you spot rust or pitting, use a stiff wire brush or steel wool to scrub it off. Wipe the tool with a little vegetable oil to help loosen the rust while you scrub it off. If any tool feels sticky, the safest product to remove it is a citrus based cleaner. Turpentine, lighter fluid or Goo Gone are good backups. When cleaning, pay close attention to the hinged areas.

For tools with wooden handles, those handles will eventually begin to dry out, split and loosen from the metal components. Once or twice a year, use a medium-grit sandpaper to sand down the handles to remove the rough spots and splinters. Rub the handles with linseed oil for a protective barrier to help repel water. If they’re in really bad shape, most wooden handles can just be removed from the metal component and replaced with a new handle.

Tools that have moving components, like pruners or shears, need oil to keep the moving parts working correctly and smoothly. Place a drop or two of machine oil on the hinged parts. It’s also a good idea to take these tools apart once a year and rub down the screws and bolts with a machine oil. This will help remove the hard-to-see rust and any mineral deposits.

Any of your gardening tools that have an edge — like hoes, pruners and shovels — will need sharpening every so often. The large blades and edges can be sharpened with

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How did Trump get COVID and who has he infected?

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 COVID, infected, Trump

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19 and “will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately.”

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Since this week’s back-to-back announcements that President Donald Trump and his adviser Hope Hicks have tested positive for coronavirus, at least 10 other people who were in close contact with them have shared similar results.

At least six of them attended a White House event Saturday at which Trump announced his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. They include first lady Melania Trump, former White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, the Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame University, and a White House reporter.

Barrett had tested positive for COVID this summer and has since recovered.

Videos and photos of that event, which was held outside in the Rose Garden, show more than 180 people in attendance, with only about 50 wearing masks and few practicing social distancing.

In one video, Lee, who disclosed his positive test result on Friday, is seen hugging at least two other attendees, and other images show guests shaking hands and chatting in close proximity. Lee appears to have been seated directly behind Vice President Mike Pence at the event. Tillis was seated directly behind U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

Guests mingled outside in the Rose Garden as well as at receptions held inside the White House. Masks were not required at any of the events.

Others to test positive this week were Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman who attended the presidential debate on Tuesday in Cleveland, and Trump campaign chairman Bill Stepien. He reportedly was at the White House on Monday and traveled to Tuesday’s presidential debate on Air Force One.

Two additional White House reporters also tested positive.

“There’s probably several super spreader events mixed up in this one scenario,” said Susie Welty, a contact tracing expert and technical director of surveillance at the University of California, San Francisco.

Welty said the number of people Trump and Hicks exposed to the virus could have expanded well beyond the circle of close contacts. The pair attended several events over the past week drawing thousands of people. The list includes his top advisers, his campaign donors, his Democratic rival Joe Biden, and scores of his supporters.

Biden tested negative for the virus on Friday, as did several other people who have been in contact with Trump or Hicks, such as Pence. But Welty and other experts noted that the incubation period for the virus is up to 14 days, so those negative results do not mean they are in the clear.

President Donald Trump tosses a hat to supporters as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport, Sept. 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn. (Photo: Alex Brandon, AP)

“To really be out of the out of the woods, we want to continue seeing” negative results for 14 days after exposure to

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Donald Trump Is Taking Remdesivir, Doesn’t Need Supplemental Oxygen, White House Says

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 doesnt, Donald, house, Oxygen, Remdesivir, Supplemental, Trump, White

Late Friday evening, the White House announced that President Donald Trump did not need supplemental oxygen, and had started taking Remdesivir for his COVID-19.

a man standing in front of a building: President Donald Trump, shown here leaving the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, is beginning Remdesivir therapy.

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President Donald Trump, shown here leaving the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, is beginning Remdesivir therapy.

The White House released a statement from official presidential physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley at 11:34 p.m. on Twitter from the account of press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

“This afternoon, in consultation with specialists from Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins University, I recommended movement of the President up to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for further monitoring. This evening I am happy to report that the President is doing very well. He is not requiring supplemental oxygen, but in consultation with specialists we have elected to initiate Remdesivir therapy. He has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably,” Conley wrote.

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Trump himself tweeted shortly before, at 11:31 p.m., in his second tweet since his diagnosis.

“Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!” the president wrote.

Trump’s other tweet Friday evening, posted at 6:31 p.m., was to announce that he was being admitted to Walter Reed in an 18-second video.

“I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support,” Trump said in the video. “I’m going to Walter Reed hospital. I think I’m doing very well but we’re going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well.”

“So thank you I appreciate it, I will never forget it,” he added.

Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment.

According to the White House, Trump has only shown mild symptoms, including fatigue and fever. Donald J. Trump Jr. told Tucker Carlson on Fox News Friday evening that the president had been taken to Walter Reed out of an “abundance of caution.”

In addition to the Remdesivir, Trump is being given an experimental antibody treatment from Regeneron. The treatment is called REGN-COV2, and though it is still in clinical trials, the drug is being is being administered to the president under the “compassionate use” provision of the Food and Drug Administration’s guidelines.

Conley said earlier Friday that Trump was also being given zinc, vitamin D, the acid reflux drug famotidine, sleep aid melatonin and aspirin.

In addition to Trump, first lady Melania Trump, former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis and Utah Senator Mike Lee have also tested positive for the coronavirus. White House aide Hope Hicks was the first to test positive for COVID-19 this week. All attended Saturday’s nomination ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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Opinion | Testing Was Not Enough to Protect Trump’s White House From Coronavirus

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 Coronavirus, house, Opinion, Protect, testing, Trumps, White

The president has been infected with coronavirus. Schadenfreude is inappropriate. This is, however, a good opportunity for leaders to rethink their current policies and rhetoric on prevention — because what the president’s case highlights are the limitations of even the best testing regimes.

The president is tested for coronavirus every day. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report the incubation period can be two to 14 days, it usually appears to be somewhere between three and five days after exposure. Given that President Trump tested positive on Thursday, he was most likely infected sometime between Saturday and Monday. We are usually concerned about a sick person being able to spread infections to others for up to two days before symptoms began or a test was positive. Therefore, the president might have been infectious to others as early as Tuesday. He probably interacted with many, many people in this time frame; likewise for Melania Trump and Hope Hicks.

The three of them will now need to isolate for at least 10 days. All of the people who were in close contact with them — and by close contact, I mean spent 15 minutes within six feet of them — will have to quarantine for two weeks, because they are at significantly increased risk of being infected themselves and infecting others. If any of them later test positive or show symptoms, they need to isolate for 10 days from that time.

This, in other words, is going to be a contact tracing fiasco — one that could easily shut down the White House.

Many, including me, have called for more testing for all. But what happened with Ms. Hicks and the president illustrates that testing doesn’t matter unless you close the infection loop with other interventions.

The president and the White House benefit from what is arguably the most rigorous coronavirus testing in the country. In the past, the White House has claimed that Mr. Trump is tested multiple times a day, and is the most tested man in the country.

Screening people without symptoms finds those who are infectious and gets them into quarantine and isolation earlier. But this doesn’t serve any purpose unless you’re also pairing this screening with careful behavior. Even if the infections of the president and others were discovered during regular screening, they still had a huge number of contacts; it’s still a disaster. If you’re going to lead a life where you could theoretically infect hundreds of people or more a day, slightly earlier knowledge doesn’t matter that much.

The most testing, the most advanced technology, and the best health care are simply not sufficient when it comes to this disease. What’s necessary are simple public health measures, like distancing, masking, washing hands and spending as little time as possible close together indoors in the same room. The key to slowing down the spread of coronavirus infections is to have few, if any, close contacts. There’s just no getting around it.

Unfortunately, this has

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Trump White House, campaign staff who have tested positive for COVID-19

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 campaign, COVID19, house, positive, staff, Tested, Trump, White

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – News of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis has upended the U.S. presidential election campaign entering its final month and roiled stock markets, raising questions about succession and prompting White House aides to insist that Trump would keep a busy, if modified, schedule.

U.S. President Trump waves while walking to the Marine One helicopter to depart the White House to fly to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where it was announced he will work for at least several days after testing positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Hope Hicks, a close adviser to the president who often traveled with him on the Air Force One and Marine One presidential aircraft, had tested positive for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus on Thursday.

After Trump tweeted he and his wife, Melania, tested positive for COVID-19 early Friday morning, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, who has had frequent contact with Trump, said she tested positive for the virus and was quarantined at home in Michigan.

Trump and some other Republicans have eschewed social distancing, mask wearing and other protocols health officials recommend to stop the spread of the virus.

Here are other White House and Trump campaign personnel who have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent months:

— U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien in late July. Before Trump’s infection, O’Brien was the highest-ranking administration official to test positive for the virus. O’Brien had mild COVID symptoms and returned to work on Aug. 4.

— Katie Miller, spokeswoman to Mike Pence, wife of Stephen Miller, a Trump senior adviser, in early May, forcing Pence to slightly delay a Pence trip to Iowa.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle, senior adviser to Trump campaign and girlfriend to Donald Trump Jr.

— Tom Phillipson, the former acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in early June. He told the Wall Street Journal of his infection after recovering and leaving the White House in late June

— A member of the U.S. Navy who served as a personal valet to Trump tested positive in early May. The infection prompted daily tests for those working at the White House.

— A U.S. Marine assigned to Trump’s helicopter squadron tested positive for the coronavirus in late July. The squadron transports Trump and other top officials from the White House aboard the Marine One helicopter.

— A worker in a White House complex cafeteria tested positive in late July. The cafeteria is located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where some White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, have offices.

Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Heather Timmons and Alistair Bell

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Mr. Cabinet Care Awarded Orange County Register’s 2020 “Best Kitchen & Bath Company”

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 Awarded, Bath, cabinet, Care, Company , County, kitchen, Orange, Registers

Mr. Cabinet Care, a family-owned and operated kitchen and bathroom renovation company, was recently announced the Orange County Register’s “Best Kitchen & Bath Company” for 2020.

Oct 2, 2020 – Anaheim, CA – Mr. Cabinet Care, a family-owned and operated kitchen and bathroom renovation company, was recently announced the Orange County Register’s “Best Kitchen & Bath Company” for 2020.

The annual Best of Orange County readers’ choice award celebrates the area’s most popular attractions, restaurants, and businesses. The Orange County Register asks readers to cast votes for their favorite local businesses who continuously excel in service and quality. A 14-time winner, Mr. Cabinet Care was again named the winner and voted #1 in the “Best Kitchen & Bath Company” category at the 27th Best of Orange County Awards, which reaffirms its commitment to local clients and acknowledges its leadership and exceptional quality and service.

Mr. Cabinet Care Awarded Orange County Register’s 2020 “Best Kitchen & Bath Company”

“We want to thank all of Orange County for voting us the winner of this competitive category,” remarked Sid Jaridly, CEO of Mr. Cabinet Care. “It’s truly an honor to be named the best in our industry, particularly during such challenging and unprecedented times. We continue to maintain our commitment to exceptional quality and service, and it is a privilege to have that commitment recognized 14 Times. Each day, we continue to find new ways to get our clients the best value in kitchen and bathroom renovations.”

Hardworking businesses, including winners like Mr. Cabinet Care, continue to come out on top among Orange County Register readers despite such trying times. Each day, Mr. Cabinet Care reins as a leader in kitchen remodeling, kitchen renovation, kitchen design, and quartz and granite countertop installations. Using only the highest quality products and services to give clients the overall best value, Mr. Cabinet Care builds to custom specifications and maintains affordability in custom remodels. In kitchen cabinet refacing projects, various designs, woods, and stain options, with new panels, hinges, and custom milled moldings, are available to achieve a brand-new look.

“The events of 2020 have required us all to adapt to a new environment,” added Ron Hasse of the Orange Counter Register. “The Best of Orange County had to adapt as well as businesses faced unprecedented challenges that required them to excel in newly competitive environments.”

“Considering there are hundreds of contractors in Orange County, winning this award was truly an honor,” added Jaridly.

About Mr. Cabinet Care

Mr. Cabinet Care is a family-owned and operated kitchen and bathroom company located in Anaheim, California. With over 30 years of industry-leading experience, Mr. Cabinet Care has emerged as an expert in kitchen remodeling, cabinet refacing, quartz and granite countertops, and related services for clients across the region. Satisfying over 20,000 clients, Mr. Cabinet Care has established itself as a dominant and innovative leader by offering unique services that meet client budgets and world-class craftsmanship expectations.

To learn more, please visit MrCabinetCare.com.

For further information about Mr. Cabinet Care’s “Best Kitchen and Bath Remodeling Company” award, or to schedule an interview with

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Worries behind the scenes at White House after Trump COVID diagnosis

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 COVID, diagnosis, house, scenes, Trump, White, worries

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual on Friday despite President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus.

“The business of government continues,” economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters after Trump disclosed on Twitter early in the day that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment in the early evening. But staff members said he would continue working from a special suite there and that he had remained engaged in governing throughout the day. He did not transfer power to Vice President Mike Pence.

“We’re just trying to make sure that he takes it easy but he’s hard at work and will continue to,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox.

Trump spoke to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, McEnany said, and discussed emergency declarations and the coronavirus stimulus package with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

“His first question to me this morning was, ‘How is the economy doing, how are the stimulus talks going on Capitol Hill?,” Meadows told reporters outside the White House, adding he had spoken several times to Trump already.

Privately, some Trump advisers worried Trump’s illness could cost him the presidential election in just 31 days.

White House staff members wait to watch U.S. President Donald Trump depart by helicopter to fly to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where it was announced that he will work for at least several days after testing positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

“Clearly it changes the dynamic from us being able to travel and show enormous energy and support from the rallies, which has been part of our calculation just like in 2016,” said one Trump adviser.

The president’s upcoming election events were postponed or moved online. Trump had been scheduled to hold a “Make America Great Again” rally in Florida on Friday night, two in Wisconsin on Saturday and another in Arizona on Monday.

On Friday, the sight of more White House staff than usual donning masks, including press secretary McEnany in the evening, was taken as a sign that coronavirus risks were being taken more seriously. Communications adviser Hope Hicks and first lady Melania Trump also tested positive.

Some in Washington speculated that Trump’s events on Saturday to announce Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court may have spread the virus.

Besides Trump and his wife, attendees Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, Mike Lee, a Republican senator, and the University of Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John Jenkins, have all tested positive for the coronavirus.

As Trump told the country that the coronavirus would “disappear,” White House officials and many Republican politicians have eschewed mask-wearing and other protocols health officials recommend to stop the

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Oregon shows off interior of completed Hayward Field

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 completed, Field, Hayward, interior, Oregon, shows

Welcome to the greatest track and field facility in the world.@OregonTF is ready to make history.#HaywardMagic | #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/qZbJlejQc9

— GoDucks (@GoDucks) October 3, 2020

Earlier this summer, Oregon officially took possession of the completed Hayward Field and the views of the new track and field exterior were stunning. With the Track and Field athlete now back on campus, we’re finally getting a look at the interior.

When the exterior was completed in June, Track and field coach Robert Johnson said that he wanted his athletes to get the first look at the state of the art facility with a construction budget upwards of $200 million.

On Friday, the Oregon athletes were given a tour and the athletic department released multiple videos for fans detailing the interior of the facility.

We could get used to this.#HaywardMagic #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/lWoenLmpjC

— oregontf (@OregonTF) October 3, 2020

The stadium which was built to host the World Championships in Athletics in 2021, which has now been moved to 2022, will also be the home for the Oregon track program, featuring state of the art training equipment. Hayward Field will feature a 140-meter indoor track along with throwing and jumping pits on the ground floor, weight, locker and equipment rooms, a theater and medical facility, hydrotherapy pools, and seven a barbershop. All of these additions will be tailor-made so that the athlete will have the very best.

“We’re going to basically have everything in one house,” Oregon track and field coach Robert Johnson said during the construction of the stadium. “[Before] The kids didn’t have a locker room. They didn’t have a place to shower. They didn’t have a place to go and prepare for a meet. I think with this renovation it brings the facility up to speed.”

Nike executive and lead project designer Todd Van Horne believes the project’s result will represent what Carnegie Hall does in the music world.

“Hayward Field will be a world-class theater for track and field,” Van Horne said in a media tour that took place in September. “But, this is truly built for the athlete.”

The opening of the stadium was supposed to occur this spring but the COVID-19 Pandemic saw the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Track and Field Season plus the 2020 Tokyo Olympics pushed back to 2021. With all major international events pushed back by a year, the US Olympic Trials will take place in the summer of 2021 at Hayward Field and the Track and Field World Championships will now take place in the summer of 2022. It’s not clear what will be the first event to take place in the new stadium.

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Butterfly Garden launched in friendship

October 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 Butterfly, friendship, garden, launched

Friendship Senior Options Foundation honored the late Herb Demmel last week as they dedicated their new Butterfly Garden at Friendship Village Schaumburg in his memory.

Demmel, a longtime and much-beloved resident of the senior living community was a known volunteer, conservationist, land steward, and more. Demmel’s wish for the Butterfly Garden was fulfilled by a gift from his family to the Foundation after his death this spring. The Butterfly Garden is in the community’s Secret Garden.

Over the 17 years that he lived at Friendship Village, Demmel gave generously of his time as a very active volunteer. During an interview in 2016, Demmel said that having worked professionally during evening hours for many years, he had determined that he had free time during daylight hours to volunteer.

“It gave me a way to meet a lot of people and be outdoors, which I like,” he said.

Demmel was responsible for the installation and much of the maintenance of Friendship Village’s koi ponds. He worked extensively in Friendship Woods, adjacent to Friendship Village. There, he cleared weeds and nonnative trees and plants, planted wildflowers, and gave nature walk lectures to residents and associates. Demmel also planned and funded the clearing of the woods at the entranceway to Friendship Village. He was also a volunteer at the Kane County Forest Preserve. Demmel received a certificate of appreciation from Friendship Village’s Land Stewardship Committee and was the 2017 Schaumburg Volunteer of the Year.

During the dedication event for the garden last week, a sign was installed, reading,” The butterfly garden is a parting gift from a longtime friend and resident Herb Demmel; an advocate and generous supporter of land stewardship at Friendship Village, dedicated to the great care of the wooded areas of our property and preserving nature for all residents to enjoy.”

“We are always so grateful for the generosity of donors to the Foundation, which supports seniors and those who serve them,” said Karen Kay, director of Friendship Senior Options Foundation. “This gift from the Demmel family will continue to positively impact the lives of residents at Friendship Village through the beautiful Butterfly Garden, while also serving as a lovely memorial to Herb.”

Friendship Senior Options Foundation is a 501(c) (3) charity. The Foundation is built upon three pillars that drive its mission: Benevolence, education and the arts, and capital improvements. For information, on the Foundation or to make a donation, visit www.FriendshipSeniorOptions.org/foundation, email [email protected] or call (847) 884-5700.

Friendship Village is a leading Life Plan retirement community offering independent living garden homes and apartment homes, as well as assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing care, and short- and long-term rehabilitation services. For more than 40 years, Friendship Village has been providing Chicago area seniors with exceptional retirement living options. For additional information, visit www.FriendshipVillage.org

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