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Happy Father’s Day to all dads. Many of you are doing a great job.

My mother often claimed that I started walking AND talking at 7 months and hav- slowed down with either undertaking since. I had to double up on my talking (not a problem) during a recent battle I lost with the concrete on my front porch that resulted in surgery and a left hip replacement.

Dayna and I spent the weekend attending the annual Oklahoma Press Association. It was an enjoyable and rewarding time.

IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN I can’t count the times I heard the expression, “It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken” from both my grandmother and my mom.

Twenty-seven band students from Holdenville Junior and Senior High Schools will compete with 469 other bandsmen Saturday at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, for positions in the All-District Bands.

Graduation time is here and students across the country are making decisions about their future. Many of them will start college but only half of those that start will graduate.

Seems my own version of ‘tough men,’ are rarely found any more, and the modern version of tough men are weak in comparison. Politically, today the phrase characterizes a person who fights for the causes he believes will benefit his people – or likely himself.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED AS LETTER TO THE EDITOR 4/1/23 I moved back to Hughes County three years ago to make this my forever home. This will be where my children and grandchildren come to celebrate holidays and build new memories of life on the farm.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. My Dad passed away some years ago and I still miss him every day.