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LATEST COVID-19 DATA Sept. 15 NGHS data Total COVID-19 patients: 82 Gainesville COVID-19 patients: 52 Braselton COVID-19 patients: 22 Total discharged: 2,162 Total deaths: 291 Sept. 15 DPH data for Hall County Total cases: 8,379 Cases per 100k: 4,060.6 Deaths: 138 Hospitalizations: 900 Percent positive tests in last 2 weeks: 10.2% WEATHER | Gainesville 5-Day Forecast 4$} AccuWeather Plan your week | Get the NEW app TODAY Afternoon rain TONIGHT Plenty of clouds THURSDAY FRIDAY Tropical Cloudy rainstorm SATURDAY SUNDAY Sun, then clouds Partial sunshine HIGH: 69° LOW: 64° 71765° RFT: 73760' 79762° w-Mumm 71754° RFT: 71752' 70751° RFT: 74748' Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: 70% 25% 70% 25% 15% 5% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Regional Weather Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. O Blairsville Morganton 74/62 72/66 Nelson o 70/64 Cumming Buford O lielsville renceville 71/66 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 Almanac Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport through 5 p.m. yesterday Temperature High/low 74 68 Normal high/low 80762° Record high 95° in 1927 Record low 42° in 1937 Precipitation (in inches) 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date 0.25 Normal month to date 2.19 Year to date 51.20 Normal year to date 38.11 Record for date 1.63 in 1963 Main Offender: Ozone Source: Environmental Protection Agency | Pollen Yesterday Trees absent Grass absent Weeds 0 o 0 qOQ o“q Low Mod. High Verjj Main Offender: Various weeds Source: National Allergy Bureau City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W Albany 80 75 t 83 73 r Atlanta 70 66 r 74 67 r Augusta Brunswick 76 71 r 83 78 sh 84 71 r 88 77 r Chattanooga 80 68 pc 78 66 r City Today Hi Lo W Tomorrow Hi Lo W Columbus 74 69 r 79 70 r Dalton 76 67 sh 76 65 r Greenville 76 64 sh 71 64 r Macon 74 69 r 82 68 r Savannah 79 74 r 87 74 r CELEBRITY REPORT Parks’ home displayed in Italy as US race tensions rise The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a set ting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples. It’s the latest stop for the house in a years-long saga that began when Parks’ niece saved the tiny two-story home from demolition in Detroit after the 2008 finan cial crisis. She donated it to an American artist who took it apart and rebuilt it for public display in Germany, and now Italy, after failing to find a permanent resting place for it in the U.S. As racial tensions seethe across the Atlantic, the exhibition of the home start ing Tuesday has taken on fresh relevance. The display is being accompanied by a repeating soundtrack entitled “8:46” and lasting that long. It’s the original time prosecutors said it took for a Black man, George Floyd, to be killed by white police officers in a May slaying that has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement and protests around the nation in a reckoning with America’s his tory of slavery and racial injustice. Min nesota prosecutors later acknowledged the police officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck for seven minutes, 46 seconds, but said the one minute difference didn’t affect the case. Artist Ryan Mendoza has been cam paigning for more than five years to draw attention to the historic value of the home, where Parks lived for a short time after her 1955 defining act of defiance: refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white pas senger in Montgomery, Alabama. The yearlong refusal of African Ameri cans to ride city buses that followed is regarded as the first major U.S. demonstra tion against segregation. In an interview ahead of the opening, Mendoza said he hoped the grandeur of the Naples debut of “Almost Home” would draw attention to Parks’ legacy and help America “remember a house it didn’t know it had forgotten.” Parks lived in the tiny house in Detroit with her brother and his family as she struggled to make a new life for herself in the northern U.S. after receiving death threats following the bus protest. The fam ily says Parks, who died in 2005, lived there with 17 other relatives. The house was abandoned and slated for demolition after the financial crisis in 2008 and Detroit’s dramatic decline, but Parks’ niece, Rhea McCauley, bought it from the city for $500 and donated it to Mendoza. After unsuccessful efforts to persuade the city to help save the building, Mendoza in 2016 dismantled it and moved it to the Ger man capital, rebuilding it on the lot of his studio for public display. In 2018, Brown University announced it would feature the house as part of a planned exhibition on the civil rights move ment organized by its Center for Slavery and Justice. But it backed out at the last minute, citing a legal dispute with the family. Associated Press TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1630, the Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. In 1966, the Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera house at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” In 1974, President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional am nesty program for Vietnam war deserters and draft-evaders. In 1987, two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth’s ozone layer by calling on na tions to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000. In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to $507.5 million). Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery went on the first untethered spacewalk in ten years. In 2001, President George W. Bush, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House, said there was “no question” Osama bin Laden and his followers were the prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks; Bush pledged the government would “find them, get them running and hunt them down.” In 2007, contractors for the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA guarding a U.S. State Department convoy in Baghdad opened fire on civilian vehicles, mistakenly believing they were under attack; 14 Iraqis died. In 2013, Aaron Alexis, a former U.S. Navy reservist, went on a shooting rampage inside the Washington Navy Yard, killing 12 people before being shot dead by police. BIRTHDAYS Bluesman Billy Boy Arnold is 85. Movie director Jim McBride is 79. Actor Linda Miller is 78. Musi cian Kenney Jones (Small Faces; Faces; The Who) is 72. Rock musician Ron Blair (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Mud- crutch) is 72. Country singer David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) is 70. Actor Mickey Rourke is 68. Actor-comedian Lenny Clarke is 67. Base ball Hall of Famer Robin Yount is 65. Magician David Copperfield is 64. Country singer-song- writer Terry McBride is 62. Actor Jennifer Tilly is 62. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Orel Hershiser is 62. Singer Richard Marx is 57. Singer Marc Anthony is 52. Comedian-actor Amy Poehler is 49. Rap per Flo Rida is 41. Rock singer Teddy Geiger is 32. Rock singer-musician Nick Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 28. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO UV Index 9 a.m. Noon 3 p.m. 6 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe AL GRILLO I Associated Press Workers clean boom at Herring Bay on Knight Island, Alaska, Sept. 16,1989. More than 400,000 feet of boom used in the Exxon oil spill cleanup were to be cleaned. Some were stored and some were used in laboratory work. The rest were shredded and discarded. Find local events at gainesvilletimes.com/calendar HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21 -April 19). Today will test your endur ance, and if you persist, you will pocket a prize, tiny in comparison with the other takeaway, which is the enor mous satisfaction that comes from knowing you can count on yourself. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll deal in a different cul ture, not having to do with re gions but with a professional setting or a social group. It is possible to remain true to your core and still let some of the influence rub off on you. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There are some things that cannot be accomplished with effort. In fact, the more effort you put into them, the worse they’ll turn out. To know if this is the case, pull away; do noth ing; and watch for improve ment. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Give a thought to the envi ronment you’ll be operating within. The easier you make it for yourself, the better you can focus on the details that will make your work tran scendent from the usual fare. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The desire for freedom is a trap. Whatever you choose, it comes with responsibility. The real freedom is loving your choice so much you don’t mind being trapped by it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Ac cept your feelings, one and all, especially ones that might make you weak, vulnerable or unattractive. Approve them, because it’s the only chance you have at steering those emotions. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). While it would be wrong to impose your care, you’ll be dealing with people who won’t easily accept what they need. Ask whether you can help. They’ll probably say no the first time. Wait a bit and ask again later. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Your appreciation of the beauty around you is a kind of meditation now, espe cially when you can take it privately, without having to express with language what it means to you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). In matters of trust, some one has to lead, and it will probably be you. You’ll give your trust, and the other per son will behave in a trustwor thy way. When you withdraw your trust, the other person will do the same. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Others won’t see the truth of the situation until you point it out. Of course, what you’ll point out is actually your truth, not the truth, which is still mysterious. Your truth is a start. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Follow your natural instinct to assess who gets what and why. In the animal world, ter ritorial knowledge is a matter of life and death. For you, it will be a smart and lucrative thing to figure out. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Jealous people have been known to do terrible things. Avoid attracting envy. Keep your cards close to the vest. Today, the only one who needs to know about your assets and accomplishments is you.
