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The Zeta Epsilon Chapter of ESA held its September meeting on September 7 at the home of Debbie Lyon. Members visited during a meal of chicken salad, fruit chips and desserts provided by the hostess and her two co-hostesses Vicki White and Jan Whitehead.
Read moreWomen On Mission met Sept. 23 at Brooke Brumley’s home.
Read moreThroughout the 1980s, faculty, staff and students at then Seminole “Junior” College participated in an annual spring ritual known as “Trojan Olympics.” Held the week prior to final exams, teams competed in such activities as tricycle races in the parking lots, food eating contests and canoe races on the campus pond. Top photo: Former counselor Cynthia Yerby looks on as longtime business instructor Fred Bunyan tries to break a balloon during his Trojan Olympics contest. Middle: After an unsuccessful canoe race, former business office cashier Carolyn Simmons surfaces from the campus pond. Left: Former speech instructor Marie Dawson races to the finish line during the tricycle races.
Read moreAs I was trying to take an afternoon nap, I began thinking about the way some people are causing havoc in our world; however, I did what I’ve trained myself to do when I am tempted to worry. I switched my thoughts to He who made the world. I turned my thoughts upward. And then a strange thing happened: words from an old song I hadn’t thought of in about 40 years came to me. It amazed me how things come back to us from so long ago.
Read moreReligion. Being good enough for God to accept us. Many do turn to religion… trying to always behave and say the perfect things. So that hopefully, their holy God will be obliged to help them handle the fears and horrible problems in life. But down deep, each of us know ourselves well enough to have to admit, “Being perfect all the time - that just ain’t possible!”
Read moreOBU’s Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host their first show of the school year Saturday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. inside Raley Chapel’s Potter Auditorium. This year’s theme will be “High School Musical: The Biggie.” Biggie is an annual variety show featuring sophomores, juniors and seniors performing in talented auditioned acts, as emcees and in the stage band. Biggie is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m.
Read moreThe Sept. 25 football game between the Oklahoma State University Cowboys and Kansas State University Wildcats is a competition that has a long and historic tradition, but a cooperative partnership between the two universities has been providing benefits throughout the region for just as many years.
Read moreThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Shylow Shane Young, 37, entered a guilty plea to one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, in violation of 18 United States Code Sections 113(a)(3), 1151 and 1153, punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to 10 years, a fine of $250,000.00, a term of supervised release of not more than 3 years, and a special assessment in the amount of $100.00, and to one count of Use, Carry, Brandish, and Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, in violation of 18 United States Code Section 924(c)(1)(A)(i)(ii) (iii), punishable by a term imprisonment of not less than 10 years in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence, a fine of $250,000.00, a term of supervised release of not more than 3 years, and a special assessment in the amount of $100.00.
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