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NW Fire Board meetings Second Tuesdays each month 7 p.m. at Oologah Station #1

In a year full of changes and uncertainty, it might be easy to question how to be an effective leader.

Compassion Women’s Center of Rogers County, also known as CWC, celebrated the opening of their new offices with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Claremore Area Chamber of Commerce.

Cherokee Nation announced today a new virtual platform for the 15th annual Cherokee Art Market. The virtual market will run Dec. 7 – 21 and will feature premier Native American art from various tribal nations.

Oklahoma State University alumna and Cherokee Nation citizen Dr. Cara Cowan Watts will be recognized Saturday with the Ely S. Parker Award, the highest honor awarded by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Funeral services for Beulah Marcella White were 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 at Reynolds & Sons Funeral Service in Collinsville.

As Christians, we like to think of ourselves as unafraid of death but in reality, even the most devout believer has occasions when the fears of death overcomes them. As human beings created by God has a strong impulse to avoid death. Death was not in God’s original plan when we were created. Our purpose was to fellowship with God because we wanted to and not because we had to. We were made to be whole. A oneness with our creator living in paradise in communion with Him. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the fruit, death was a necessary response to the admittance of sin into the world. It is a grace that we die. If we didn’t, we would have to live in a sinful world for all eternity.

The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, a nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools, is seeking nominations for its 2021 Academic All-State Awards.

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, the American Red Cross urges eligible donors to band together to provide hope and healing to patients fighting cancer by giving blood or platelets.

The Oklahoma office of NFIB, the state’s leading small business advocacy organization, today announced that state Sen. Julie Daniels earned its Guardian of Small Business award. Sen. Daniels was presented the award by NFIB State Director in Oklahoma, Jerrod Shouse, at the state Capitol.

NW Fire Board meetings Second Tuesdays each month 7 p.m. at Oologah Station #1

Food distribution will be Thursday, Oct. 8 at Oologah First Baptist Church.