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The Yuma City Council, with a 6-1 vote, adopted an ordinance that adds a new chapter on recreational marijuana to the city code.
Councilwoman Karen Watts, during the Dec. 16 meeting, voted against the ordinance because it prohibits marijuana testing facilities within the city limits.
Watts, a healthcare provider, reiterated her reasons for voting against the amended ordinance. âIâll be voting no as Iâm concerned with the prohibition of testing facilities. The testing facilities that were left out to me are about science and safety. Government research is woefully underfunded and deficient in the area of cannabis. And I believe as people are looking to replace narcotics, anxiety meds and sleeping aids with marijuana, the consumer needs to know the health benefits and risks. So Iâm voting no because we left out the testing facilities,â she said.
Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls introduced a program designed to garner community support for local healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients.
âThe men and women in our healthcare industry here in Yuma, particularly those in the hospital working with COVID patients day after day, are plain wore out,â Nicholls said. âWith this new surge, thereâs only so many people that can work those positions, that have the training for those positions.â
He noted that at the beginning of the pandemic, the community demonstrated its support with parades, food and gifts, but that support has dwindled during this second surge of the virus.
Wilton Manors police searching for suspect who attacked elderly woman insider her own home
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WILTON MANORS, Fla. – A home invasion and attack on an elderly person has police in Wilton Manors on the hunt.
According to authorities, an unidentified suspect entered into an elderly woman’s Wilton Manors home while she took out the trash.
It happened Monday at approximately 6:40 a.m on the 800 block of Northwest 29th Street.
Police said the suspect began to attack the woman when she came back into her home, causing her to sustain non-life threatening injuries.
“She’s been here for 60 years,” said Karen Watts, the victim’s daughter. “They came up and put a towel over her, shoved her in the shower and punched her in the face at least 10 times.”