{"id":100411,"date":"2021-03-16T08:11:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=100411"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:44:31","slug":"lancaster-mayor-r-rex-parris-to-present-key-to-the-city-to-morris-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/lancaster-mayor-r-rex-parris-to-present-key-to-the-city-to-morris-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris to present &#8220;Key to the City&#8221; to Morris Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_100413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100413\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100413\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Morris-Thomas-drone-over-AVH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Morris-Thomas-drone-over-AVH.jpg 900w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Morris-Thomas-drone-over-AVH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Morris-Thomas-drone-over-AVH-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Inset image] Morris L. Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER &#8211; At the Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 23, Mayor R. Rex Parris will present a Key to the City to\u00a0 <strong>Morris L. Thomas<\/strong>, who is credited with garnering FEMA support for Lancaster during the latest COVID-19 surge.<\/p>\n<p>As COVID-10 cases overwhelmed Antelope Valley Hospital last year, Parris sent urgent requests for help to Congressional Representatives Mike Garcia and Kevin McCarthy, and former Representative Buck McKeon.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Thomas contacted his liaisons in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to solicit assistance; and AVH soon received the support needed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; \" id=\"theav-879086883\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4504301096758439\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4504301096758439\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5907184250\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to Morris Thomas, on December 28, 2020, the Antelope Valley Hospital received additional medical staff &#8212; including nurses, emergency medical technicians, and respiratory doctors from the California Emergency Medical Services Authority (CAEMSA),&#8221; according to a news release from the city of Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring our most trying and difficult times, Morris was there,&#8221; Parris said. &#8220;The City Council and I are deeply appreciative of all the work and support during this time. I am honored to present the Key to the City to Morris at our next Council meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Key to the City is bestowed upon distinguished citizens and residents as well as honored guests to the City.<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from the city of Lancaster.]<\/em><\/h6>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; At the Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 23, Mayor R. Rex Parris will present a Key to the City to\u00a0 Morris L. Thomas, who is credited with garnering FEMA support for Lancaster during the latest COVID-19 surge. As COVID-10 cases overwhelmed Antelope Valley Hospital last year, Parris sent urgent requests for help to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}