The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation will host its an annual estate planning seminars this month for attorneys, CPAs, certified financial planners and trust officers. Seminar dates and locations are: • Oklahoma City – Oct.

Nutritional well-being is an important part of successful aging. Improper nutrition, or malnutrition, can lead to infections, confusion, muscle weakness resulting in immobility and falls, pressure ulcers, pneumonia, and decreased immunity to bacteria and viruses. Malnutrition is costly, lowers the quality of nursing home residents’ lives, and is often completely avoidable.

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Oklahoma CareerTech have opened applications in October for spring 2026 Teaching to Teach Apprenticeship Program participation. Ninety Oklahomans were accepted in the initial class of participants this fall.

Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), is launching two new statewide campaigns, “Meet Your Favorite Foods” and “Build Your Meal,” to show Oklahomans that healthy eating can be flavorful, simple and fun.

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• Nonprofit honoring 100 public school seniors as Academic All-Staters OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is now accepting applications for the 2026 Academic All-State class. Each year, OFE honors 100 public high school seniors as Academic All-Staters.

HUGO –– The Rustic Storm marked an exciting new chapter on Saturday, Sept. 13, with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Hugo Area Chamber of Commerce. The event celebrated the store’s grand reopening at its new location, 116 N. Broadway in Hugo.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Most adults who have lived very long know that a strong storm –– with its heavy clouds, pelting hail or blinding snow, driving winds, or flooding rain can bring on certain fear and anxiety. Not to mention downright physical and financial problems when actual disaster strikes.

A come and go retirement celebration for Paul Yoder will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.