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The historic Okmulgee Colored Hospital has undergone amazing progress in recent years. Previously, the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program in 2021 awarded “Landmark for all Generations, Inc.” to fund elements of a project aimed at increasing the marketing and visibility of this historic Okmulgee Black Hospital. Funding included monies for a logo and style guide creation, video production, and the development of a website to disseminate content that will help the public better understand this unique historic site. “Landmark for all Generations” is headed by Lemon Lewis of Okmulgee, Oklahoma who has made his life goal the restoration. Mr. Lewis is looking forward to sharing the story of Oklahoma’s first Black hospital and gaining support for its renovation.”
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The “Tulsa Remote” group has now completed their second leg of a fiveleg tour of the all-black towns of Oklahoma. The first leg consisted of Taft, Tullahassee, and Redbird. This second leg consisted of visiting the towns of Summit, Rentiesville, and Vernon. At Summit, the group met Mayor Greg Smith and visited the historic St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church. In Rentiesville, the group met Mayor Mildred Burkhalter and Selby Miner at the Dusk ‘Til Dawn Blues Club and Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame and the Honey Springs Battlefield Visitors Center. In Vernon, the group was greeted by Supt. Pastor Herman and Corine Huffman of Huffman Pentecostal Temple who gave the history of Vernon and gave the group of tour of the town which included a visit to New Hope Missionary Baptist Church established in 1917 and thriving. Leg three towns will include Grayson, Clearview, IXL, and Boley.
Read moreThere will be a Golden Family Reunion planning meeting on May 31 at 1:00 p.m. at the school pavilion. Memorial Day is approaching. The town is asking those who live out of town to please make your donations early. You may send your donations to the Town of Clearview, 302 West Main Street, Clearview, 74880. Two trustee positions are up for election in May: Marilyn Jackson and Otis Davis. Anyone wishing to run for these positions need to file with Shirley Nero, secretary/ clerk. Please continue your prayers for those on the sick list Joyce Barrett, Sharon Johnson Patton, L. C. Carson, Marjorie Plunkett, Kevin Sinnett, Kurrilue Johnson, Billy Walker, Cornell Lucas, Eugene” Cowboy” Tyler, and Jean Chatman.
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Congratulations to Taylor, the grandson of Johnny and Veola West of Owasso and the great great-grandson of the late Marguerite and Lawrence French of Clearview, who completed a week of service as page for Senator J. J. Dossett, Democrat from Owasso at the Oklahoma State Capitol. Taylor is a senior at Owasso where he is a member of the Owasso High School Competition band. In addition, he is the Martin Luther King Tulsa Youth Ambassador president, the Black Caucus Chair for Young Democrats of Oklahoma. and is a member of Young People’s Department at the Tulsa Historic AME Church on Greenwood (12th District). The family is extremely proud of Tyler for his participation in the community.
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Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.
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HooRay! We had 11 Red Hat Ladies that traveled to Pete’s Place in Krebs, OK to join in an Italian dinner and all the fixings! It was a fun event!! We had one new lady to join us from Lamar. This was our first meeting since December so you can image all the chatter that went on. It was so good to see everyone!!
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