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“Remember When…” The dollar should turn in the community

By admin • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Society

By Leon Rollerson
Guest Contributor

Has the lesson of the dollar turnaround been truthfully learned today, from lessons of yesterday? If you attend as many meeting as I do you will start hearing the speech that says in order for a community to stay healthy and also to grow then money must be put into the community [...]



Local Modern Woodmen members join nationwide volunteer effort

By admin • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Society

Each year on the fourth Saturday in October, volunteers from coast to coast pull out their can-do spirits and vow to improve their communities on Make A Difference Day, a national day of service.  On October 25 local Modern Woodmen of America members joined this nationwide effort.
Members of the Tulsa Modern Woodmen camp made a [...]



My Obama Experience…

By admin • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Society

By Fred Jones
Staff Writer

As I sat there 24 hours from a man of color becoming the President of the United States of America, I must say that this has been the most rewarding event I have ever participated in. I look back over my life and all the great things I’ve been blessed to be [...]



Homes Wanted…National Adoption Awareness Month

By admin • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Society

One Church One Child of Oklahoma (OCOC) is a special nationally recognized recruitment program designed to find parents for children, in particular African-American children. OCOC provides an organized method of reaching out to the local community through the churches to explain the adoption and foster care needs of children. The Oklahoma program, in its 20th [...]