OMRF dinner raises $450,000 for MS

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The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s MS Advocate dinner has raised $450,000 to support care and research for multiple sclerosis at OMRF. OMRF Directors Jim Morris and Burns Hargis announced the total Thursday night during the annual event, which was held at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.

Choctaw Nation honored for excelling in blood drive challenge

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The Third Annual Tribal Blood Drive Challenge resulted in Choctaw Nation receiving two of the three awards. The tribe coordinated efforts to collect over 1700 blood draws with 108% of what Our Blood Institute (OBI) projected to be collected and the most overall blood draws. The participating tribes collected a combined 3,702 draws equating to approximately 11,106 lives

Deuteronomy 15

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The Year for Canceling Debts 1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. 4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, 5 if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

Zechariah 6

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Four Chariots 1 I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses, the second black, 3 the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. 4 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”

Ambulance Authority, others awarded $30,000

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The Choctaw County Ambulance Authority announces it has received a $30,000 Rural Oklahoma Community Grant from the Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation administered by the Oklahoma City Community Foundation.

Hugo School board hears end-of-year reports

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HUGO — The Hugo Board of Education met Monday in its regular meeting for May and the location for the meeting was the new Middle School cafeteria. The bright and expansive room was refreshing and it provided a cavernous space for the school staff and a significant number of area citizen attendees.