CHOCTAW COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES Director Pat Collins is joined by Sheriff Terry Park, Lewis Collins, and a representative of Airwaves of Paris (Kenneth), as they begin the process of installing and testing new radio repeater equipment that will serve all of Choctaw County.

The Choctaw Nation officially opened its new central laundry facility in Hugo Thursday, after Chief Gary Batton and members of the Tribal Council toured the modern high volume facility. The massive new laundry operation is capable of doing the equivalent of 30,000 loads of laundry each day and will efficiently process a number of linen products that are generated daily by the Nation’s growing hotel and casino operations in Durant, Grant and Pocola.

The number of COVID cases are on the rise locally after a brief hiatus, according to discussion during the Choctaw County Memorial Hospital board meeting June 30. “They are starting a little uptick,” hospital CEO Nick Rowland said.

1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, 2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back; 4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand 1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.

1 “ ‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. 2 They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. 3 Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the Lord Almighty.’

Buff Parker Field was covered with future Buffalo football players Saturday morning, as first-year head football coach Krystopher Gross and his assistants put nearly 40 football campers through a series of drills.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– State health officials are soliciting comments from individuals regarding the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Public feedback is needed for the State Plan of Program Operations for the 2022 Federal Fiscal Year. Comments must be received before July 30, 2021.