This Edition In History 3-17-16
On March 17, 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Born in Great Britain, probably in Scotland, to a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship, Patrick was captured and enslaved at age...
This Edition In History 2-4-16
Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil. In college, Mengele first studied philosophy and then took a medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. Soon...
MHS Teacher Brings School Safety To Head Of Class
BY C.L. HARMON PUBLISHER ‘It’s a scary prospect to be raising children today’ seems to be a common conscious thought and phrase among parents and teachers these days. The simpler times of security and a sense of safety in small town schools have been overshadowed by...
American Heritage Bank Opens Second Location In Mannford
By Tatyana Nyborg Contributing Writer On Feb. 22, the second location of American Heritage Bank (AHB) will be opened next to Phelps Market. In 1969, American Bankcorporation, Inc., the bank's holding company, was formed, positioning it for phenomenal growth through...
Mayor’s Corner 1-21-16
By Mayor Tyler Buttram 2016 stands to be one of the busiest years Mannford has ever seen if all the planned projects come together like we hope. With the possibility of a new "High End" Apartment complex and two, if not three national franchises real close to making...
A New Year Brings Promise Of New Progress/Chamber Community Awards Announced
BY TATYANA NYBORG CONTRIBUTING WRITER THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESENTS OUTLOOK 2016 AT THE BANQUET On Jan. 18, 2016, the Mannford Chamber of Commerce conducted the annual banquet at the Senior Citizen's Center in Mannford, Oklahoma. Creek County and the City of...
Mindset 1-21-16
By C.L. Harmon All of us have what I call “protective progression”. We learn from a very early age that there are many things in this life which cause us pain. As we grow and mature, we take chances with out hearts, feelings, emotions, ideas and many other parts of...
Sandy Path Of Life: 1-21-16
By Sandy Welch Thompson Let me first preface this post by saying that I dearly love all three of my children. I am blessed and I truly know it. There is nothing in this world that I could have done to deserve the amazing experiences I have enjoyed as a parent. Grace...
Alleged Drug Courier Pleads Nolo Contendere, Avoids Jail
BY C.L. HARMON PUBLISHER To look at the top of the page of the Oklahoma On Demand Court Records website, it would appear that Tanda Williams was just driving around and got popped for driving a defective vehicle. But if you read the fine print, it tells a different...
Citations & Arrests For City Of Mannford 1-7-16
CITATIONS; 12-31-2015 MARTIN, EILEEN KIPER; TEXAS CITY, TX; SPEEDING 21-25 MPH OVER HIGGINS, WILLIE JAMES; SAND SPRINGS; IMPROPER DISPLAY OF LIGHTS ON VEHICLE 01-01-2016 ROBERTS, BRYAN KRISTOPHER; LINTON, IN; SPEEDING 11-15 MPH OVER 01-02-2016 KINARD, HUNTER GREGORY...
Serial Thriller 81
Let the fun continue.! This is the 81st installment of a continuing fictional story. Before each new segment, the last paragraph from the prior edition will be shown in quotations., “Now he too was broken and void of hope. He had aged years it seemed in what had been...
Mindset 1-7-16
By C.L. Harmon We journey through life one day at a time, one moment at a time. Sometimes we move quickly. Sometimes we move slowly. And at times we feel as though we are not moving at all. But what happens to us when we stop because something blocks the way? Perhaps...
Fun Facts About January
•January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was always shown as having two heads. He looked back to the last year and forward to the new one. The Roman New Year festival was called the Calends, and people decorated their homes and gave each other gifts. •The...
REPORTER’S RECIPES 1-7-16
Chicken Breasts Pierre Ingredients 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 pinch ground black pepper 3 tablespoons butter 1 (14.5 ounce) can stewed tomatoes, with liquid 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2...
24 Hour Pharmacist: How Blood Sugar Affects Your Breathing
By Suzy Cohen When you think of diabetes, either type 1 or 2, the possibility of complications affecting your eyes, heart and kidney come to mind. But you never really think of your lungs having problems as a result of blood sugar abnormalities. That’s unfortunately a...
Sandy Path of Life 1-7-16
Sandy Thompson Welch Well, it’s a new year, so Happy New Year to ya! With all the excitement those words bring, come a whole crop of promises to ourselves and everyone else. You can call them promises, resolutions, good intentions, just whatever really. I would just...
Keeping Up With MHS Boys Basketball
SUBMITTED ARTICLE The Mannford Pirates boys basketball team has tipped off it's 2015-2016 campaign. The first game of the season they visited the Berryhill Chiefs on November 24th. and came away with a 53 to 47 loss on the road. Noah Garner lead the Pirates with 17...
REMEMBERING YESTERYEAR: FIRST VIEW OF AN AUTOMOBILE
Zola (Bellis) Sample Author of "House of a Jillion Memories," published in 1957, and "Cherokee Strip Fever," published in 1976. She was born in 1900 in the Basin area. She died in 1994 in Okmulgee. She was a prolific columnist for several newspapers in the area for...
School Mid Year Allocation Is Bitter Sweet Bucks
BY C.L. HARMON PUBLISHER It’s a formula even the most seasoned of gamblers might scratch their heads over, but one that school administrators statewide have had to accept as the numbers game where the odds almost always seem stacked against them. It’s what’s known as...
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