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by Erika Storts A Special Scheduled Meeting of the Wetumka City Council will be held at 6:30pm, Monday, November 18, 2024. The following items are scheduled for consideration and possible action by the City Council at the time: Mayor Norma Marshall called the meeting to order at 6:30pm. Michael Hamilton led the Pledge of Allegiance. Mayor Norma Marshall led the invocation.
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Lawrence Dale Ross was born on July 2nd,1942 in Hinton, Oklahoma and passed from this life peacefully at his home December 21st, 2024, in Edmond, Oklahoma. His parents were Mahdeen and Alvin Ross. He was one of three boys, Lloyd Allen was the oldest, Danny Kay was the youngest leaving Dale as the middle child. The boys grew up and remained close throughout their lives and loved spending time together. He grew up on the family farm in Sickles, Oklahoma and learned to work in the peanut fields from an early age and started driving the tractor at eight. Dale liked to tell of one of his favorite childhood memories when the whole family, aunts, uncles and cousins would all get together for a “chicken picking”. They would gather and have a big outdoor chicken picking where they would pluck and prepare the chickens and take them to the meat locker in Hinton to enjoy throughout the year.
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Many people do. Many people find this particular holiday season to be full of heartache, or a nameless void. They can feel a myriad of unwelcome emotions that threaten to overwhelm and sink them into a black hole. Sadness, depression, loneliness, anxiety, or just the very fear of any of those. Any one, or all of these emotions can descend without warning on their lives and take the wheel.
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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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ADA, Okla. – Randi Bray of Wetumka, Oklahoma received her Master’s degree Saturday, December 14 from East Central University at the 2024 Fall Commencement ceremony.
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Graham-Dustin Students Go Christmas Shopping!
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