The Choctaw Nation Summer Food Service Program will continue its beneficial program of meal distribution to children across southeastern Oklahoma this summer. “We are pleased to offer multiple opportunities for children to get a nutritious meal this summer,” says Shelly Rector, senior director of USDA food and nutrition programs for Choctaw Nation.

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YOUTHPOWER ENERGY CAMP 2024 CAMP INFORMATION YouthPower Energy Camp is designed to help develop leadership skills, have summertime fun, and at the same time learn about one of rural America’s most important industries –– rural electrification. This is a yearly, weeklong summer camp where campers experience electricity in a new light! Each year, more than 80 students across Oklahoma participate.

Clean and Unclean Food 1 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God.

Happy Belated Birthday to Vickie Roberts (May 14)! Happy Birthday to Ron Springs (May 15), Carliss Harmon (May 18) and Trenton Hall (May 19)! To nominate someone for Iris Garden Club Yard of the Month, call 580.969.8094 or 580.372.5748 with name, address and phone number. Fort Towson Historic Site will have its 200th celebration on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 10 a.m.

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The Iris Garden Club of Hugo met on April 22 at the Burnside community room. Hostesses were Joye Satterfield and Holley Lowrance.

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation celebrated its 77th anniversary in Idabel on April 25 as part of its statewide “77 for 77” campaign that harkens back to the foundation’s roots. “This year, we’re going to touch all 77 Oklahoma counties to say ‘thank you’ to Oklahomans for daring to dream in 1946 and for supporting that dream ever since,” said OMRF President Andrew Weyrich, Ph.D.

We all know that exercise helps our bodies in many ways. But how, exactly, does going for a jog or bike ride lead to those beneficial genetic, biochemical, physiological and genetic effects? An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation researcher is seeking to answer that question.