Friday, April 23 Ribs Potato Salad Baked Beans Rolls Sugar Cookies Wednesday, April 28 Roast & Gravy Mashed Potatoes Purple-Hull Peas Corn Bread Jello with Fruit.

After starting out Wednesday morning in the mid-30s, a major warming trend will highlight our five-day forecast. As the warm air pushes the cold air out, showers and storms will be likely on Friday and a few could be severe with temperatures climbing to near 70 degrees. The warming trend really kicks in this weekend with highs in the mid-70s and low-80s are coming back by Monday.

Oklahoma Lions Mobile Health Screening, sponsored by Hugo Lions Club, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, May 3 at Kiamichi Technology Center parking lot. No appointments are needed. Screenings offered include: Glaucoma, visual acuity, cholesterol, blood pressure, index, blood sugar, bone density, lung function, body mass and diabetic retinopathy.

This upcoming week is the final week for us to hear policy bills that originated in the House and were approved by their chamber. April 22 is the deadline to hear these measures, and of the roughly 320 measures we approved out of committee, we’ve heard approximately 120 of them on the floor. We’ll continue to work through the remaining. We did pass two bills this past week that will be of particular importance to Oklahomans in all four corners of the state. I know many of you have been anticipating higher-than-normal gas and electric bills due to February’s historic winter storm. The answer none of us really knew, though, was exactly how high this price increase would be.

I wanted to inform District 19 on one of the latest controversies that I find myself in. I have been receiving negative news coverage over my role in Senate Bill 2. I managed to get an education bill placed in the committee I chair, which is Criminal Justice and Corrections. We substituted language in the bill to require the state to use the sex reported on the original birth certificate to determine male or female gender, for sports participation. Simply put: biological males will play biological males on male sports teams, and biological females will play on female teams. I have been questioned why this bill was allowed in Criminal Justice and Corrections. I have explained that this issue directly affects corrections, as presently it is my understanding that another state has 21 cases of men who are claiming transgender status and are requesting to be moved to a female prison. Anyone with logic should see this a recipe for disaster.

Even in the midst of national press scandals and more political (and agency) corruption than American citizens can get their arms around, America’s future is still bright and can be the city on a hill that so much of the world seeks to relish.

Funeral services for Jimmy Don Babb, Jr., of Oklahoma City, formerly of Hugo, Okla., will be at 1 p.m. April 24, 2021 at Rogan Funeral Home Chapel.

Funeral services for Randell Dwight Jones, fondly known as “Randy,” are pending at this time with Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home. Randy went to be with the Lord on April 14, 2021 in Soper, Okla., at the age of 76.

Graveside services for Linda Lou Forbus, of Dallas, Texas, were held at 2 p.m. April 17, 2021 at Mt.

Funeral services for Calvin Edward Hicks, of Hugo, Okla., will be at 10 a.m. April 22, 2021 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home of Hugo.