May 1, 2021 Issue, Page 8 of 10

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8 May 1, 2021 Community Take back event was a success The Drug Enforcement safe prescription drug dispos- Agency’s National Prescrip- al. In addition, this team pro- tion Drug Take Back Day was vided many community mem- held on April 24. The Red Rock bers with free Narcan (81), - Rural Communities Opioid gun locks (14), Deterra drug Response Program, partnering disposal pouches (57) and re- with Indian Health Services, Sheriff Departments, SWODA, source information for avail- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes able services. of Oklahoma Tribal Opioid The RCOP would like to ex- Response Project, Oklahoma press our appreciation and Bureau of Narcotics and the gratitude to all those that par- DEA hosted a drive-thru event ticipated in this event. This for four (4) underserved coun- was a successful event because ties in Western Oklahoma, of your help and support. namely Washita County, Beck- Sincerely, Brittani S. Brice, ham County, Custer and Blaine County. Prevention Coordinator of As a team we brought in for- Custer, Beckham, Washita and ty-nine (49) pounds of expired Blaine County for Red Rock and unused prescriptions for Behavioral Health Service. Letter to the Editor Elk City Splash Pad There has been a lot of talk in the very recent past about cli- mate change due to global warming, and the possibility that the The Elk City Splash Pad, located at Ackley Park West is now open. The pad will be open daily from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. polar ice-caps are melting at an alarming rate. A teenager by the name of Greta Thunberg from Sweden, has met with the United Nations General Assembly, and even had an audience with the Pope, who supports her message, regarding the probability that life around the world is being affected in a negative way by an One Hundred Years Ago - May 1921 increasing rise in temperature. Young people all over the world Miss Betha Dunn closed a Fortunately, one of them had highway running along his Nearly the entire town at- are demonstrating for abolishing the use of fossil fuels in favor successful term of the Seventh two pairs and lent the other farm by setting out a row of tended the American Legion of “green energy”. Day Advent Church denomi- the spare pair. Another lodger rose bushes. Memorial Service. The pic- Democrats and the Biden administration support this narra- national school; thirty-eight lost $20 ($269) and his only The W. D. Wright Produce pupils were enrolled with five pair of shoes. Co. reported that, since Feb. 1, tured faces of those soldiers tive, and are using this reason to stop the use of oil, gas and coal completing 9th grade. The night watchman at the egg shipments from Elk City who lost their lives during and in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint of greenhouse gases, Miss Olive Conn, State pub- Dixie Store heard an after-hour averaged about two cars or ap- after the World War were un- lic health nurse, reported on disturbance. Upon investiga- proximately 2500 dozen eggs veiled and wreaths were placed supposedly saving the planet. This agenda has resulted in the the examination of the county tion, he fired at a shadow in weekly. on each soldier’s grave. Mrs. shut-down of the Alaskan Pipeline and the loss of many jobs. school children. Of the 3577 the office and heard someone Several citizens respond- children examined, 2665 had fall to the floor with a groan. Blanch Standifer delivered a This has negatively affected Oklahoma and other states, and is ed to an inquiry about their “physical defects”; defective vi- When help arrived, they found mother’s most memorable moving address, part of which certainly not popular! sion was found in 387 children, the would-be burglar had not trait. Walter Blackburn said read, “Arms ached and hearts I was surprised to be reminded in a paper printed a year and adenoids in 446, enlarged ton- been shot but had dropped he could still taste the soap his ached, for the lads gone from sils in 836, diseased gums in 81 from a rope dangling through mother used to “scrub the bad our sight. For your boy and a half ago that the public outcry was just the opposite 43 years and scabies in 8. the skylight. He refused to talk words” out of his mouth. Jim Jim Lewis had a pig that or give his name. After being my boy became our country’s ago. Back in 1978, dark predictions were made about the end O’Donnell recalled his child- weighed 720 pounds; he would removed to the county jail, he hood nightly foot washings. sacrifice.” of earth’s civilization over “global cooling and a coming of an ice hop on said critter and ride was “persuaded” to provide Please wear your poppy on He often tried to sneak off to age within our lifetime”! There is a video you can access online “piggyback” all over the yard. his name but would not say bed pretending that he’d for- Memorial Day. that the current climate change movement doesn’t want you to Sixteen men belonging where he was from. Within the gotten, but when his mother This article was written by to the Presbyterian Church month, the culprit, Jess King, tucked in her seventeen chil- see: shingled the whole roof of the was sentenced to the peniten- Luanne R. Eisler and taken dren, she discovered Jimmie It is a TV special called “In Search Of”, that was televised in church in one day! The guys tiary for two years. Talk about and any others who had “for- from items published in The were dressed in their “union- swift justice! gotten.” She then helped wash Carter Express, The Elk City 1978 – a documentary with a dire warning by leading scientists, alls”, hammering away just like Curtiss Burnett, manager of him up and, “Oh, those stone Press and The Elk City News- climatologists and weather experts of the time, sounding an they were used to such work. the Fountain Café, was killed bruises did hurt.” He also re- Democrat; these newspapers alarm about global cooling that was presented as “scientific fact”, Sixty-three-year-old Othello near Gary, Ind. He had joined membered the large loaves of “O. H.” Young tore off the old a party to drive Buick cars from can be found on microfilm at based on a 30-year study of the earth’s cooling trend. This pro- bread, twelve and fourteen of the Elk City Carnegie Library. shingles and carried up water the factory in Flint, Michigan them, which his mother baked gram featured Leonard Nimoy (narrator) of Star Trek fame, the to the roofers. The Ladies Aid to Elk City. It was thought that every day for her little Irish- Supplementary information served a nice lunch. The men his car was hit by a train. men who ate heaps of bread was taken from Heritage Quest U.S. Army, the Nat’l Science Foundation, and various universi- worked for over a week to dig Bob Schlotz beautified the and molasses. and www.dollartimes.com. ties – all warning that the earth is on the brink of disaster! My a hole for a basement where conclusion is that mass hysteria ran amok with false theories they could install a furnace. An 11x42 feet addition on the then, just as it is now! west end of the structure had also recently been completed. 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