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News December 30, 2020 Still, for seven years after mitted as if you gave birth. You Jones was going to have to pay child Her daughter Charlene be- Round support. With the twins, they had a different father listed on that, Jones opened her home to foster children. Somewhere in came a foster parent and ended up adopting five children her- don’t want to be something else they have to survive, so make Coninued from page 1. their birth certificate than who those years, she was even award- self. sure you are committed to the Two of her granddaughters, teenage years like you are the Town permanent family. turned out to be their father. We did the same with the girl. ed Foster Parent of the Year. “I was raised in a house that now adults, have also fostered. baby years,” Jones stated, “DHS went to their family At the end, it was me standing. always had all the cousins and “[ had to quit because I was Jones also sees parenting kids December 31 and asked if any one in the fam- ‘They would have been split up aunts and uncles around. With getting up in age and DHS was in the technology age as more New Years Eve ily wanted them and no one at that point more than likely. I my parents, there was no child sending me children that were trying than when was raising seemed to. Then they had to go thought, ‘Well, you have already who didn’t have a home with the hardest to place. I had one raised them to this point. They them. We never had to think little girl who had been in six her biological children. to their fathers and see if they In fostering, she always in- wanted to and that required are your children and you are about having a babysitter be- homes and she was just four. January 1 some testing because not all of their mother. Why not make it cause they were always around. If I would have been younger, sisted the parents visit their official,” Jones added. So this was the natural thing to I could have done it. But I was children at her home rather their fathers were known. The New Years Day father of Dalton, the youngest, On June 18, 2007, she drove do,” she said. getting too old and also had my than the DHS office. had already signed over rights over to the Beckham County ‘That feeling was clearly passed four who I had adopted that I “I would let them sit and visit because he seemed scared he Courthouse and officially adopt- down to her own children and had to think about,” she added. and the babies be up on their Southwest Oklahoma ed the four children. grandchildren. Jones's advice to adults want- mama's lap,” she said. “This is ing to foster is simple. a home and it was the home Show Pig Series Hog “Do it and your life will be en- their children were living in. 1 Buckle cutting horses. Really anything rode a black mare when I was riched,” she stated. didn’t think it was good for the Show, Convention Cen- to do with training horses, he a little girl and then did in col- For those who take the plunge children to be in a government does. He worked around Fenli into full adoption, she urges ter South building. and said he hasn't seen many lege, so the black horse just parents to be aware of the com- office with people watching Coninued from page 1. children as trainable as she is,” made sense as the name. We will mitment. them be babies and it be cold Jessica said. have RV hookups for those who “When I went to adopt these and they wouldn't warm up. I January2 “It was perfect for kids just Jessica recently completed want to do that and will have ankids, my sister was living right never minded leaving the room learning,” Jessica explained. her masters degree in nursing next door to me and told me and going to my bedroom or the Southwest Oklahoma “Some of these kids here age on to become a nurse practitioner. apartment that will become an to be sure. I didn’t think about kitchen and letting them get Show Pig Series Hog riding $50,000 quarter horses After she completes her board Air BNB for those traveling who that much then, but the kids do to see their parents in the lov- and that can put a lot on a kid examination, she will practice in want to stay in that.” grow up to be teenagers and it ing home where they were liv- Show, Conyention Cen- who hadn't done it. She needed Clinton. In the meantime, Jessica is isn't as easy as when they are ing. This way both knew what a a place where she could just Additionally, she is a Botox kids. There have been times that home was supposed to be like. ter South building. learn the sport for one year be- and filler practitioner in Elk City excited that Fenli’s first year of I have been setting rules that In fact, I had one of the moth- fore she dived into that.” and Clinton. Information upon competition was so successful. they have told me that I'm not ers ask me howI had all these Fenli’s horse Picasso has been her services can be found on her “This is a family tradition their real mom. I never sugar kids playing and laughing and January 12 a trail horse in his earlier life. Facebook page of Aesthetic Art- coated things with them and ‘The unique markings upon his istry. handed down to me from my would say, ‘You are right. I'm just being cheerful. I said, ‘This Chamber of Com- In the meantime, she and father and to him from his. I not. But I am the mom you have is just our home’ I never left face earned him the nameof the them if I was going on vacation. merce Banquet RSVP famed painter. Fenli will be found hauling their have told her that it is a legacy now? You can go thinking that Whether they were my kids Iad- Fenli then went to work with beloved horses to rodeos. They way, but I picked you and I'm to know how to be a horseman opted or my foster kids, I took required, First Baptist a Davis, Oklahoma, horse train- have competed in barrel racing sorry your parents wouldn't do er named Mark Luis. potlucks together. and care for and ride horses. We that. But now you are my kids them with me everywhere I Church Activity Center. “He helped her learn more Currently they are building like to go to Packsaddle a couple just like my other kids. So my went. They are just family.” about trail riding, lead changes a stable south of their house to times a month. This summer advice there is to know once you Jones’ home demonstrates and how to properly handle a board horses. take that step and adopt them, family is defined by love — re- Due to the COVID-19 horse. You know, it isn’t always “Tt will be called Black Horse my dad, who is 78, came up and they are your kids. There is no gardless of generations, race or easy to learn from mom. He has Stable,” Jessica explained. “I road the trails with us.” turning back. You are as com- how that family is formed. pandemic, many events have been cancelled, low Elk City alumni who men- Student the idea, LeGrand spotted an ad with our son,” LeGrand ex- parents for three weeks per year post-poned or modi- tioned his exchange student for Facebook for exchange par- plained. “We live in Elk City but and then after that they have a girlfriend from high school. ents. that is where we send our son. mandatory two years in the mil- fied. Please check with Coninued from page 1. “Our girls were growing up ‘They applied with the compa- ‘They got to see a community and leaving the house,” LeGrand ny, PanAtlantic. The coordinator open their whole arms.” itary,” LeGrand explained. Student the event coordinator said. “It was only our son basi- had previously lived in Thomas, In fact, both exchange stu- The LeGrand’s two exchange ‘The idea for the LeGrand fam- cally left at the house. We are but had relocated to El Reno. dents got to be a part of the students do share one big com- to make sure of any both parents who liked having “The ball got to rolling really Canute state championship ily first took root when LeGrand mon American love, particularly changes. was getting a tattoo from a fel- kids at the house.” quickly,” LeGrand recounted. baseball team. Michele was even ranch dressing. Almost instantly after having “They did background checks announced as the basketball and a home study. They called homecoming king. “Courtney put multiple pack- the school to check if they had “When Seongjae first came ages of ranch in Seong 's suit- Oklahoma Solar Power ever had a problem with us as here, and this was before the case. That and he loves banana parents. We passed and they pandemic, we took him to Wal- started pairing us with kid.” greens and he wanted a medi- pudding, so she put the ingre- ‘The local economic downturn cal mask. I kind of laughed and dients and instructions to make Company Earns Tesla also assisted rapid placement. asked him why he was getting it,” LeGrand added. “They said there had been that. He explained that he had “I really like the ranch dress- several oilfield families who had acold and that is just what peo- backed out. It put us at the top, ple in Korea are expected to do ing,” Seongjae laughed. “It is Certification but we wanted to make it work when they have a cold. Then not really the greatest thing in the no matter what,” LeGrand re- counted. a few months later, the pandem- ic hits and he sees all the mask world. Like, why is it not every- where? I like all the American ‘The family did a Skype inter- Americans were wearing that in a solar generation system at view with Seongjae and his par- look fashionable. He would say, culture. I like the skateboarding. 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