Long weekend leads to Arkansas

A lot of workers enjoyed a long weekend due to the Labor Day Holiday on Monday. In 1887, Oregon became the first state of the US to make Labor Day an official public holiday.
By 1894, there were thirty states that were already officially celebrating Labor Day and in that year Congress passed a bill recognizing the first Monday of September as Labor Day and making it an official holiday. It began as a federal holiday but with the unions supporting it all the states and territories have subsequently

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made Labor Day a statutory holiday.

With me having a long weekend, AG and I started out Saturday morning going to drive to our hometowns, Marion and Harrisburg, Ar. and just drive around. Plans changed once we left Calhoun County. Rather than drive to Memphis and over into Arkansas we decided to cross the river at West Helena, Ar. No destination was planned, just riding as usual, with plans to spend the night when I got tired of driving. Well, those plans changed too. We got halfway over into Arkansas when AG said we better be going the “other way” if we want to get home….meaning he wanted home (he was out of his comfort zone). Never did get to either hometown just hit the interstates and headed South. We did enjoy the ride seeing part of the state we hadn’t been in in years, he enjoyed seeing crops.

Regions Bank lobby has reopened but please check the restrictions in place. There several as to wearing a mask, the employees will be wearing a mask, distances will be marked, and several more. If in doubt, you can call ahead and get more information. They are trying to provide safety while you do your banking.
Calhoun County covid-19 cases are still on the rise. As of Saturday our number was at 486. On our ride over into Arkansas Saturday when we did stop on the doors of the business had a sign stating “no mask no service”. Of course we still used the hand sanitizer I keep in the Jeep.

Our prayers this week for ones having health concerns are for Wayne Johnson, Harold Tallent, families with ones in the nursing homes they can’t visit with, Bro. Al Gaspard and his wife Jeannie, Ann Whitt, Jimmy Coker, JR Denton and his wife Etta, Jackie Peden, Betty Bradford, Alan Murphree, Tammy Sutherland, Wayne McMahan, Teresa Hardin, Shirley Herrod, Wilma Gibson, AG Gibson, and Quay Wolfe.
Sympathy and prayers to the friends and families of Marjorie Faye Black Mann and Nancy Ann Lambert. They will be missed by all that knew them.