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• “What we’re going to see today is how a community - even after coming under attack - steps up to the plate”

By Stewart Doreen, Editer/Photographer
• Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - Midland community leaders celebrated a gift of medical supplies from the Midland-Odessa Chinese Association during the Unified Command Team press conference Thursday at the Midland County Annex.

The donation included 4,850 regular masks, 500 N95 masks and 650 pairs of disposable gloves.

Midland Mayor Patrick Payton wanted to acknowledge the donation just weeks after a “racial motivated” attack when 19-year-old Jose Gomez stabbed members of an Asian family at Sam’s Club in west Midland ...

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