GREAT NEWS! The New Leash on Life Prison Pen Pals Program director, Barbara Lewis, chose four Holdenville Animal Shelter Dogs to participate in its training program at our local prison! Riley, Chrissy, Minnie and Rosa started a ten-week program beginning on March 22, 2023 at 11:00am. Gabriel Sears, our ACO, and other three others took the dogs to the prison that morning. Collared shirts with long sleeves, long pants, closed toe shoes are required to enter the prison with only your driver’s license. No cell phones, purses, etc. will be allowed behind the walls. They will hand off the dogs to their inmate who will then spend the next ten weeks training them. After two weeks Holdenville Animal Shelter was able to take one more dog to the prison to replace one that did not fit the program. Gracie was the fifth dog from Holdenville to attend! HALO recently got a report from Barbara Lewis who runs the program that the STAR PUPIL in the program was Holdenville’s own CHRISSY! She said she is up a ready every morning asking, “what can I learn today!” We are so proud of our doggy students!

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Following Anheuser-Busch’s embrace of a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman as the face of Bud Light, conservatives across the country showed their displeasure by boycotting the beer brand, causing Bud Light to lose more than $5 billion in market capitalization in the last week.

Timothy Harris passed away Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 59. Timothy was born February 16, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Robert Edward Harris and Daisy (Lilley) Harris.

Jessy Cook- 1st Place - 8th Grade Ag Explorations Zane Peters- 5th Place - 8-9-10th grade general ag Lillian Scroggins - FFA Creed Elizabeth Swadley - FFA Creed.

Congratulations to Jonathan Wiseman and Ashtin Dennis on being awarded The Gates Scholarship! They are 2 of the 750 students awarded this scholarship out of 51,000 who applied..

Holdenville Police Chief, Kyle Lening along with Hughes County Deputy Trevor Teague, hosted a seminar on active shooter preparedness last week for all school administrators in Hughes County. Lening said it is crucial for all local law enforcement officers to be prepared in case of an active shooter on school property.

Mike Schmitt Inducted into Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame Our good friend and Lamar resident Mike Schmitt recently attended a celebration in Chicago in honor of his induction into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame. Attending with Mike was his wife, the former Anita Mills of Lamar.

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