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Children, veterans and family pets can suffer because of fireworks

Everyone loves fireworks. In theory that’s probably true, but in reality, fireworks are troublesome for many of our friends and neighbors.

Jess Bayles’ 7-year-old son is one of several young children in Meeker with noise-sensitivity related to autism. 

“If we know they’re coming, we can warn him, someone can hold him, and he has noise-canceling headphones,” Bayles said. That’s how they deal with planned fireworks displays. Illegal fireworks present a different problem. 

“A week or…