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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Cindy Lange-Kubick: In a sea of Big Red cutouts sits Little Waldo, a lifelong Husker fan - Lincoln Journal Star

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A cutout of Dana "Little Waldo" Waldron sits in a sea of cutouts at Memorial Stadium, part of the Sea of Red Sellout campaign. Waldron family members shared the story of their son with Husker Athletics and Dana's brother, Drue Waldron, created the Waldo image in his memory.

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Where’s Little Waldo?

There he is.

There in East Stadium, Section 4, Row 11.

He’s wearing a red-and-white beanie, he’s smiling, his eyes are crossed. He’s Dana Waldron. A son and brother and father and lifelong Husker fan.

He’s 49. Forever 49.

His big brother Drue created the image, inspired by the loved one the Waldron family lost in March 2019.

“It looks like Dana with the shaved head,” says his mom Linda Waldron. “Dana could never take a picture without making a face.”

His signature move? Crossing his eyes.

“We’d always take two because Dana would be hamming it up,” said dad Dave Waldron. “Later, we started taking the second picture with everyone making a funny face.”

Dave and Linda were watching the evening news Oct. 1 when they saw a segment on the Huskers' Sea of Red Sellout campaign — make a donation and help fill the fanless football stadium stands with cutouts of the Big Red faithful.

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Dana Waldron

Dave watched as that sea of cutout images flashed across the screen. He saw Herbie Husker. He saw Lil’ Red.

And then the father thought this: Where’s Waldo?

He paused the TV, went back and watched again.

“It was either Dana speaking to me or a God wink,” Dave said. “I watched it again at 10 o’clock.”

Not "Where's Waldo?" but "Where's Little Waldo?"

The next morning, he sent an email to Mattie Fowler Burkhardt, senior director of development operations for Husker Athletics.

He told her about Dana. About his older son Drue, a commercial artist and cartoonist. He asked permission to send a drawing to be transformed into a cutout, instead of a photo.

“His email really inspired us,” Fowler Burkhardt said. “It made us realize this means more than we thought it would.”

She called Waldron back. I love this, she told him. Let’s try it.

Dave and Linda raised their two sons in Kearney. Drue was their first born and Dana arrived 2 1/2 years later.

In junior high, Drue’s schoolmates gave his last name a tweak.

“He was Waldo,” Dave Waldron said last week. “And his friends nicknamed Dana Little Waldo.”

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Dana graduated from Kearney High School and eventually moved to Lincoln. He graduated from Southeast Community College in Milford and found his dream job working for Norland. His informal job title was “Imagineer.”

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“Dana could build anything with his hands,” Dave said. “He was kind of a troubleshooter at Norland, he would create solutions and the engineers would build them.”

Dana was a dad with two kids. Olivia is almost 15 and Blake will soon be 11. He coached them on their winning Pinewood Derby cars. They rode bikes together, played games, watched movies.

“Dana had varied interests,” his obituary said. “Racing, boating and most of all spending time with his children.”

The Waldron family grew up loving the Huskers. They’d packed up for games in Lincoln. They traveled to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in 1976, to the Rose Bowl in 2001, to Tempe, Arizona, in 1996 to see the Huskers get trounced 19-0 by Arizona State.

Not the best of Husker memories, Dave said.

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Dana Waldron (right) at the Rose Bowl in 2001.

“The kids always said the most fun game they ever went to was 1983, the Oklahoma game in Norman."

When the TV cameras scanned the crowd, there were the boys in the stands and when the next issue of Sports Illustrated came out, there they were again, immortalized on its pages.

Husker Athletics made a video of the story behind Little Waldo. The staff interviewed Drue and Dave and included photos of Grandma and Grandpa Waldron with Olivia and Blake.

They plan to feature the story behind a cutout for each home game during the pandemic, Fowler Burkhardt said.

They have a few lined up from the more than 5,000 fans who have submitted photos and the stories behind them.

“That’s the most heartwarming part of this,” she said. “How many fans are using this to recognize a loved one, put a lifelong Husker fan in the stands one last time.”

The cutouts are weatherproof and tied securely to the bleachers. More than 4,000 are already in the stands waiting for gameday, delayed now until Nov. 14 after the pandemic led to the cancellation of Saturday's home opener against Wisconsin.

“We’re still actively taking orders,” Fowler-Burkhardt said. “Word is still spreading.”

Dave and Linda Waldron live in Lincoln now. They moved here from Kearney after Dana died to be closer to those grandchildren.

And they are happy to spread the Sea of Red word.

Little Waldo

Dave and Linda Waldron moved to Lincoln to be closer to grandchildren Blake and Olivia, whose father, Dana "Little Waldo" Waldron, died in March 2019.

“Mattie is a superstar,” Dave said. “We loved the video and how she captured the spirit of it. It’s all about the stories behind the faces.”

Dana’s father pauses now, remembering.

“I went for a year when I couldn’t talk about this,” he says when his voice returns.

“By doing the cutout, it is a form of healing, because it got us to thinking about all of the wonderful memories of 49 years.”

Where's Little Waldo?

Here he is.

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Passenger in livery cab shot, killed while stopped at red light in Queens - WABC-TV

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ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A 27-year-old passenger in the back of a livery cab was shot and killed in Queens early Sunday morning.

The shooting was reported just before 1:30 a.m. at Broadway and 81st Street.


Police say the victim was a passenger in the car when two people on a moped pulled up alongside the vehicle at a red light.

The passenger on the moped fired several rounds toward the car, striking the victim in the chest.

He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The livery driver was not hurt and called police.

Police are now searching for the two suspects.


No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
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The deadly shooting come nearly 12 hours after another passenger was shot and killed in Brooklyn.

In that incident, the 32-year-old victim ordered an Uber in East Flatbush just before 2 p.m. Saturday. He asked the driver to stop mid-block because he forgot something.

When he got back into the car, he had been shot and asked the driver to take him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead after emergency surgery.


His identity has not been released.

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Passenger in livery cab shot, killed while stopped at red light in Queens - WABC-TV

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ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A 27-year-old passenger in the back of a livery cab was shot and killed in Queens early Sunday morning.

The shooting was reported just before 1:30 a.m. at Broadway and 81st Street.


Police say the victim was a passenger in the car when two people on a moped pulled up alongside the vehicle at a red light.

The passenger on the moped fired several rounds toward the car, striking the victim in the chest.

He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The livery driver was not hurt and called police.

Police are now searching for the two suspects.


No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
RELATED | Arrest made after pregnant woman killed in NJ shooting

The deadly shooting come nearly 12 hours after another passenger was shot and killed in Brooklyn.

In that incident, the 32-year-old victim ordered an Uber in East Flatbush just before 2 p.m. Saturday. He asked the driver to stop mid-block because he forgot something.

When he got back into the car, he had been shot and asked the driver to take him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead after emergency surgery.


His identity has not been released.

RELATED | Father and daughter injured in Harlem shooting

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The Blacklist Boss Promises Katarina’s ‘Revelations’ About Red In Season 8 - Cinema Blend

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Remember, Katarina claims to not know who Red (an imposter) really is. Could she finally piece together some connections in Season 8? Ahead of last season, The Blacklist teased that Liz would learn some revelations that could impact her feelings towards Red. Well, they did. Of course, I'm not so certain that Katarina is not an imposter herself. Nevertheless, series executive producer John Eisendrath told TV Insider:

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Friday, October 30, 2020

Governor Cuomo Releases Guidelines on Testing Protocol for Schools to Reopen in Red or Orange Micro-Cluster Zones - ny.gov

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Requires Mass Testing Before School Reopens Followed by Weekly Surveillance Testing with Results Reported to The NYS COVID-19 Report Card 

New York State Will Provide Rapid Test Kits for Schools Wishing to Participate 

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today released guidelines for schools to reopen in red and orange micro-cluster zones in order to help keep schools in focus areas open to in-person instruction. The guidelines require mass testing in schools before they reopen followed by vigilant symptom and exposure screening conducted daily. Impacted schools can reopen as early as Monday however students and faculty must be able to provide a negative COVID-19 test result prior to going back to the classroom. New York State will provide rapid test kits for schools wishing to participate.

 

"In the micro-cluster zones, we've been working with schools in the red and the orange zones. The schools, private schools, Catholic schools, yeshivas, want to be open in the red and orange zones, and we've been working with them to try to find ways to keep people safe but allow children to go to school," Governor Cuomo said. "We have agreed with them on a protocol that keeps people safe and allows children to be educated."

 

In order for a school to reopen in a red or orange micro-cluster zones, schools must:

 

  • Remain closed for at least 4 calendar days after the zone designation is announced (48 hours to ensure lack of infectious contact in the school, and additional time for testing), and may re-open as early as the 5th calendar day.
  • Ensure that no person may attend in-person on the campus without first receiving a negative test result, this applies to faculty/staff as well as students.

 

Schools may reopen after these steps are taken, with students and faculty/staff who are positive or close contacts of positive cases appropriately excluded from school grounds. Additionally, the test result must be no more 7 days past the date of specimen collection on the day in-person learning reopens and date of specimen collection must be after date the zone was established.

 

After a school reopens in a red or orange micro-cluster zone, vigilant symptom and exposure screening must be conducted daily and must follow the below guidelines:

 

  • 25% of the in-person learning school community (both students and faculty/staff) must be tested per week.
  • The school should ensure that it provides opportunities to test on school grounds, or otherwise facilitates testing and accepts test results from healthcare providers.
  • If the school does not hold a testing event or provide testing on school grounds, test results provided to the school as part of the 25% testing of the population must be received within 7 days from the date of specimen collection and specimen collection must be after the school reopens.
  • Each week the 25% of the school population tested must be composed of unique individuals who have not previously been tested for the surveillance screening, as part of the weekly 25% testing until the fifth week of weekly testing at which point the individuals who participated in the first week of testing should be tested again.
  • Members of the school community who test positive must isolate according to established guidelines.
  • Contact tracing must be performed to ensure that contacts to newly identified positive individuals are quarantined according to established guidelines.

 

New York State will provide schools with rapid test kits if requested. The schools must provide certified personnel (with necessary laboratory permits) to do the tests, and all results must be entered into ECLRS and reported on the school survey to the NYS COVID-19 Report Card.

 

Schools that cannot meet the reopening requirements must remain in remote learning for the duration of the zone designation. If the 25% of the school population random sampling generates a minimum of 9 cases, or if for a sample size of more than 300 weekly tests, achieves a positivity rate of 2% (6 cases or more depending on size) in New York City, or 3% (9 or more cases) outside of the city, then the school will be required to close. Reopened schools that fail to comply with these requirements could be subject to Section 16 orders, or other fines and penalties.

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