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Members of the Oklahoma Association of Student Councils (OASC) have gathered on Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Alva campus for BASIC, a leadership workshop, June 13-18.

Homeowners may feel helpless when drought strikes and begins to transform their lawns from green sources of pride to offcolor eyesores. However, learning to identify signs of drought stress and what to do about it can help homeowners get their lawns through dry periods.

This week there will be celebrations of Juneteenth, which marks a late acknowledgment of the end of slavery. Like the Tulsa Race Massacre, which recently passed a grim 100th anniversary, many Americans were never taught about these important historical moments. The omissions were intentional.

The Chickasaw Nation Public Health Nursing Department will host community COVID-19 drive-thru vaccination events in Tishomingo and Sulphur at no cost for anyone 12 years of age and older.

The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation recently donated $5,000 to the Coloradans for Animal Care campaign against Colorado Initiative 16, a citizen-led proposal that would have far-reaching implications for livestock producers across the country.

A study from the University of Cambridge equated inactivity with being obese.

Talking and listening is the best way to reunite a sorely divided America. In a partnership with StoryCorps, KOSU is inviting people across Oklahoma to take part in meaningful conversations being recorded for history.

DEAR ABBY: I am getting married, and my fiance’s daughters, 19 and 21, are in the wedding party. I have purchased the dresses they are wearing, which are light and flowing. I have told the girls that on the day of the wedding I do not want them wearing thong underwear.

Today is the 167th day of 2021 and the 89th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1884, the first U.S. roller coaster began operation at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. In 1903, the Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. In 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health has joined the Necrotizing Enterocolitis Society Biorepository, which allows member organizations across the nation to collaborate on research into a devastating intestinal disease that affects premature babies.