Dear Editor;
It appears that the ‘virus’ is still alive among us. It also looks like the control freaks · may be heading us for another lock-down. They might even really believe that it could work next time. I’d like to tell a bit about our own experience with the first lockdown.
We live at the Baptist Village of Cordell. Contrary to the opinion popular among some folks it is not a nursing facility neither does it provide assisted living. It is an apartment building that requires its residents to be the age of fifty-five years or more and able to handle self care ..
The Village staff is three people. They include the building manager or administrator, one fulltime and one part-time custodian/maintainance person. They are on duty five days a week with the manager on call most of the time. During the time of the pandemic we also had a temporary from the Oklahoma City office.
With the onset of the ‘Covid-19’ panic we went into a full-time lockdown. We were restricted to the building with the doors locked and masks required for access to the halls, laundries, or lobby area. (Don’t get the idea that this was the first time for outside doors to be locked. Earlier one of the good ladies espied a female person afoot on Crider road and became fearful for her own safety. At her request the outside doors were and are sometimes kept locked.)
Residential movement remained restricted with no outside visitors, including families, allowed for many months. During this same period staff were allowed to come and go. One of them, the temporary office holder, commuted daily from Lawton
They had interaction with famiy and others while we were carefully restricted. Two of them also missed work because they had the virus. Our being restricted really made us feel safe when our outside interaction was limited to staff and virtual visits with others.
Many of our residents have been of legal voting age for more than seventy years. Our people are smart enough to exercise common sense precautions during times such as these. That would not include very limited interaction and that only with those people that are unlimited in their own interactions. Is it not true that most virus cases in nursing homes were introduced by staff personnel?
Our hope and our prayer here at Baptist Village at Cordell is that administrative personnel in Baptist Village Communities at Oklahoma City discover that their Cordell facility is an apartment building and not a nursing facility. We love our apartment and our staff but it was never designed for extended lockdowns.
Charles Sappington
Resident of Apt. 22
Cordell OK
Dear Mrs. Ingram:
I recently read an article in the Cordell Beacon edition from Wednesday July 21 which you wrote.
I found it to be very interesting. I have also always been a believer in removing weeds. But I must say that the idea of not having to do weeding is very appealing and as a bonus, it is actually better for the garden not to (weed)! I am 98 and have had different gardens over the years, though I do not have one at this time.
This has actually gotten me curious about which weeds are good to eat and the healthy benefits, as well as the part of the plant that should be eaten and how to know at what growth stage of the weed is best to consume.
Do you have any recommended publications that might educate me further on identifying and choosing the best weeds to enrich the garden as well as for eating?
I just wanted to thank you for the article and let you know how much I enjoyed it.
Sincerely,
RH Thurman
Carnegie, OK
Hector,
Thank you for the Cordell Rocks 2.0 video. We are up to 60 followers and I’ve delivered many rocks. I was in awe of how professional the whole thing was start to finish.
Mike Mayfield
Cordell OK
(via FaceBook)