24 Hour Pharmacist: Natural Alternatives To Antibiotics
BY SUZY COHEN Some of you take several antibiotics each and every day while some of you avoid them like the plague. The pros of a traditional antibiotic is that you can keep your infection from achieving full-blown status, or as some experts suggest, you chase the...
Pilot Club Fashion Show April 9th
The time has come for the Mannford Pilot Club’s Spring Fashion Show. This is the club’s big yearly fundraiser and is scheduled for Thursday April 9th at the MHS Commons. The show begins at 7 p.m. and is presenting young women from the area modeling clothes from CATO...
5 STAR SERVICE
Tuesday morning the Mannford branch of American Heritage Bank was presented the first bank-wide traveling 5 Star Service trophy. “Our Mannford branch has shown excellence in customer service by attaining the highest points in each category of our 5 Star Service...
Storms Rip Through Area
BY C.L. HARMON PUBLISHER . At 5:21 p.m. the National Weather Service confirmed an “extremely dangerous” tornado in the Westport area. That storm moved through wrecking roofs and windows of area homes and striking Westport Marina at Lake Keystone’s Cowskin Bay. This...
Mannford Students Sweep The Wins At STEM Competition
On March 13, Central Tech hosted the thirteenth annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) day at the Drumright campus. Students from around the district attended to compete in competitions that included math tests, scientific problem solving,...
Wax Museum At The MUE
Each student selected a historical figure that they have studied this year in Social Studies class. They used information from class as well as their own research to put together a short biography of the historical person. Students then dressed as the person from...
A Cat In The Hat At MECC
In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday Lisa Hudgins , Children's Minister at Lakeside Baptist Church visited the MECC. The Cat read the book The Cat in the Hat and brought "Hat" cookies to share with the students.
POET’S CORNER
Perspectives of Life and Time © By James E. Tate To think of yesterday Is to improve today And enrich tomorrow. To think of tomorrow Is to hone our plans for future life. But what is life? Is it not the present? Is it not today? Is it not now? We cannot change...
Serial Thriller 69
Let the fun continue.! This is the 69th installment of a continuing fictional story. Before each new segment, the last paragraph from the prior edition will be shown in quotations. “Weathers sharing information on the criminal investigation months earlier, but had...
Mindset 3-19-15
By C.L. Harmon A generation which fails to meet its obligations to hold its youth accountable for its actions is a generation which has lost its sense of responsibility to itself. Truly protecting one often means allowing that person to suffer the cost of his or her...
STEM CHALLENGE MASTERS FROM MANNFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL
8th grader Dustin Leonard, son of Anne and Barney Leonard placed 1st at the Creek county STEM challenge.
The Sandy Path Of Life… – 3-19-15
BY Sandy (Welch) Thompson If you are a mom, hear me now and listen well. I went home last night and got an extreme lesson in parenting, and well…character. I’ll forget it I am sure the next day I am late, upset, moody or whatever the excuse is that we give ourselves...
Natural Remedies That Help From Head To Toe
I’ve been a pharmacist for 25 years now. Let’s face, I know the good, the bad and the ugly drugs. I know we need some of them, and I know that others are not useful, or worse, they are harmful. So today I’ve decided to share the best remedies that help from head to...
Happy Anniversary – Spess
The couple met on New Year's Eve 1944 at the Cains ballroom. One of their favorite bands, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was playing. The couple married 3 months later. They still reside in Mannford where they raised their 5 children. They have also been blessed...
Gifford Promoted To Colonel
Robert "Don" Gifford, a 1989 MHS graduate, was recently promoted to Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG), and has been also selected to be the Commander of the 3rd Legal Operations Detachment in Boston, MA. As the Commander of nearly...
Mannford Senior Receives President’s Volunteer Service Award
The award, which recognizes Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country, was granted by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program on behalf of President Barack Obama. Mannford High...
Vandals Strike At Mannford Soccer Fields
For the second time in a matter of weeks vandals have hit Mannford Soccer Complex driving a motor vehicle across the fields in an unwanted journey of destruction, making tire track circles in the middle of the Under 12 year old soccer field. “This kind of stupid...
Burk Says Goodbye After 30 Years On BOE
Surrounded by family members, fellow board members and the 2015 Teachers of the Year, Wayne Burk said goodbye to his post of 30 years on the Mannford Board of Education. Superintendent Dr. Steve Waldvogel said of Burk that he was one of the most important people to...
Teachers Of The Year – Jill Spess MECC
1. 2. What is your teaching philosophy and methods used to implement such a philosophy? A.) My teaching philosophy is to foster learning by helping each child make connections in their daily interactions at school. I use individualized instruction as well as group...
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