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SCOTT BUFFONSun Sta� Reporter

Coconino County health in-spectors will add to an increasing amount of coronavirus protocol enforcement restaurants can ex-pect on Monday, Aug. 10.

The move comes after the county continues to receive complaints from the public about people and businesses not following COVID-19 restric-tions. Eve Wolters, county divi-sion manager of environmental health, said 11 new investigations into businesses are started every day at the county level.

“That’s investigations. Those don’t include somebody com-plaining about somebody not wearing a mask,” Wolters said. “Those are complaints that call for us to do something more than education.”

Coconino County continues to see an overall drop in weekly positive case numbers, with just one week of increases since the high of 326 positive cases in mid-June. Last week, 115 posi-tive cases were reported. Over-all, 2,928 positive cases of the virus have been confi rmed by Coconino County as of Friday, with 114 deaths since the virus broke out in late March.

The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 1,698 new cases Wednesday, with 182,203 total cases across the state and 3,932 deaths since the pandemic began.

The county has a series of steps it plans to take to en-force Governor Doug Ducey’s

SAM MCMANISSun Sta� Reporter

It wasn’t a summit meet-ing, per se. Nor was it held on a summit. Rather, it took place on a prime stretch of forest land near Flagsta� that o� cials and a broad coalition of user advocates were looking to develop into an-other trail.

At that years-ago Forest Ser-vice conclave, Anthony Quintile, board member with the Flagsta� Biking Organization, had an ex-change that has stuck with him all this time. An advocate for equestrians told Quintile about an incident in which his wife

was riding on singletrack when a troika of mountain bikers over-took her. Her horse spooked, reared up, lashed out. The bikers pedaled on.

“She could’ve been thrown o� and broken a leg or killed,” the horseman told Quintile.

“Yeah,” Quintile lamented, “you know, there are a lot of (jerks) in the world, and some of them are mountain bikers.”

Not sure how his response would go over, Quintile was relieved when the horseman smiled and said, “Yeah, some of those (jerks) are equestrians, too.”

The point, Quintile empha-sized, is that the enduring prob-lem of a lack of trail etiquette in Flagsta� and elsewhere in

northern Arizona is not due to a single, or even multiple, user groups easily demonized.

“It’s a problem with individ-uals acting badly,” he said. “The reality of that story is that we each recognized that there were people participating in the thing we like to do who we couldn’t control but who were bad actors.”

And yet, there seem be enough individual “bad actors” on the trails, no matter the mode of transport, that a refresher course in proper trail etiquette may be in order.

Lessons in trail etiquetteRACHEL GIBBONS, ARIZONA DAILY SUN

A woman walks with her dog, Elden, Wednesday afternoon at Fort Tuthill County Park as two mountain bikers pass by. Flagsta� law requires all dogs be leashed at all times and trail etiquette indicates that cyclists yield to hikers.

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JONATHAN LEMIRE AND ZEKE MILLERAssociated Press

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the au-thority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefi t with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a

new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

At his private country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump signed executive orders to act where Congress hasn’t. Not only has the pandemic undermined the economy and upended American lives, it has imperiled the presi-dent’s November reelection.

Perhaps most crucially, Trump

moved to continue paying a sup-plemental federal unemployment benefi t for millions of Americans out of work during the outbreak. However, his order called for up to $400 payments each week, one-third less than the $600 people had been receiving. Congress al-lowed those higher payments to lapse on Aug. 1, and negotiations to extend them have been mired in

partisan gridlock, with the White House and Democrats miles apart.

The Democratic congressional leaders Trump criticized and in-sulted with nicknames in remarks ahead of signing the orders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, dismissed Trump’s actions as “meager” in the face of economic and health crises facing Ameri-

cans. Trump’s Democratic oppo-nent in the presidential race, Joe Biden, said the president had is-sued “a series of half-baked mea-sures” and accused him of putting Social Security at risk.”

The executive orders could face legal challenges question-ing the president’s authority to

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