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4 cups chopped apples 2 cups flour ¾ cups white sugar 2 tsp. baking soda ¾ cups brown sugar 1 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 tsp. cinnamon ½ cup oil 1 tsp. salt Mix apples and sugars in bowl, then add eggs, slightly beaten and oil. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Then add to apple mixture, a little at a time, until it's all gone. Then add ½ cup chopped nuts and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Grease and flour pan, 11 x 8 x 2 or 9 x 9. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes.
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May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere’s Spring equinox and Midsummer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. Traditions often include gathering wildflowers and green branches ("bringing in the May"), weaving floral garlands, crowning a May Queen (sometimes with a male companion), and setting up a Maypole, May Tree or May Bush, around which people dance and sing. Bonfires are also a major part of the festival in some regions. Regional varieties and related traditions include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe, the Gaelic festival Beltane, the Welsh festival Calan Mai, and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It has also been associated with the ancient Roman festival Floralia. International Workers’ Day observed on 1 May is also called «May Day», but the two have different histories.
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Much of African American existence in the United States was characterized by legal and customary racial segregation. Denied access to economic avenues, Black citizens had no alternative other than to pool their resources and expertise to develop parallel structures within their own partially enclosed world. Equally, the institutions that they created also flowed from their cultural desires to construct their own identity. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the institutional structure of the African American community manifested itself in the church, mutual benefit organizations,
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History may record the most consequential aspect of President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting this term to be how it opened in prayer. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner, a former NFL cornerback turned Texas politician, led the Cabinet in bowing their heads and thanking God “for giving us this opportunity to restore faith in this country." Afterward, the president told Turner, “That was a very good job you did. You've done that before, haven’t you?”
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Blakelynn Golden, a kindergarten student was named Honorable Mention, and Taytum Wimberly won 2nd place in their respective categories. They are pictured with Oklahoma Bar Association member Matt Patterson. Congratulations!
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