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The Dustin Activities Committee will be hosting a City-Wide trash pickup on Saturday, October 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Volunteers will receive a FREE T-Shirt and gloves. Lunch will be provided. We need your help! Thank you!

There will be a Community Revival October 5-10, 2020 at 6:30 nightly at the Lamar Park Pavilion in Lamar, OK. The speaker will be Mark Oswald and everyone is welcome to attend. Please bring your lawn chairs as there will be limited seating. Come and enjoy some good, solid Biblical preaching.

The Holdenville Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will be hosting the annual Fall Festival and Car Show this Saturday, October 3, centered around Main Street and Broadway.

WE’RE BACK! The Boots N Bows Square Dance Club started back Sept. 19 dancing again. We were expecting Charlie to start the dance, but he wasn’t expecting a flat tire. So, Jim Howard just happened to arrive early for the dance and he got to call for us until Charlie arrived.

The Wetumka City Council held their regular scheduled meeting on Monday, September 14, 2020. Those council members present were June Fixico, Donna Dyer, and Richard Roush. Sherri Smith city treasurer/interim city manager and Mayor Norma Marshall were also present.

SEPTEMBER 28TH—OCTOBER 2ND Mon: Cheeseburger pie, California blend vegetables, warm cherries, brownie and milk Tues: BBQ chicken, baked beans, warm potato salad, dinner roll, ambrosia and milk Wed: Turkey & cheese sandwich, pea salad, diced cucumbers, gelatin and milk Thurs: Chicken & noodles,...

September 24 Aaron Burr Sr. was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1735, first in his class. He then became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey.

Here's this week's Family Talk column....Setting expectations for children A friend of mine recently posted this conversation on Facebook: Unnamed hormonal pre-teen child: “Mom, you expect so much of me!” Me (the over-bearing mother): “What do you think I expect?

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com We went for our daily walk together that evening, just like always. As we passed a neighbor’s home a few houses down from us, Renie remarked, “Hey, look, they are evidently redoing the flower bed there on the right side of the house.

Of the Five Tribes, the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves. By 1860 the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves. Many Cherokees depended on them as a bridge to white society. Full-blood Indian slave owners relied on the blacks as English interpreters and translators.