12:10 To The Top Tiffany Sparks

Tiffany Sparks’ goal is to be the change she wants to see in the community. Her role with the Lawton Public Schools Police Department provides the avenue she seeks to help make an impact.

12:10 To The Top Lindsay Hayes

DUNCAN – As a Duncan city councilmember, mother of two toddlers, businesswoman and community volunteer, Lindsay Hayes is as busy as a person can be. Yet, she smiles and laughs as she talks about her love for everything she does.

12:10 To The Top: Scott Chance

Since joining Congressman Tom Cole’s team in 2019, Scott Chance has been working with members of the community “to get feedback on issues important to Southwest Oklahoma and let constituents know what’s going on in Washington, D.C.,” Chance told Southwest Ledger in 2020. Cole is the U.S.

12:10: Tara Deavours

By age 20, Tara Deavours had become Wells Fargo’s youngest branch manager in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. She began at a small branch in Denton, Texas, which was acquired by the multinational financial services company.

12:10 To The Top: Frank Myers

Although he wasn’t born in southwest Oklahoma, Frank Myers’ family roots run deep. In fact, he lives on the land acquired by maternal relatives, the Fullertons, in the 1901 Land Lottery opening the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation to settlement.

12:10 To The Top: Teira Cole

Teira Cole is a hometown girl supporting a hometown mission. She is the Special Operations Manager at the Fires Innovation Science and Technology Accelerator and serves as FISTA Recording Secretary and also as the Association of the United States Army FIRES Chapter Secretary.

12:10 To The Top: Jace Zacharias

Sitting in a coffee shop reading from his laptop, Jace Zacharias could pass for any average young college man. However, his crisp black suit coat, white dress shirt, jeans, western squared-toe boots and short-cropped hair suggests otherwise. He is the Southwest Oklahoma Field Representative for U.

Dallas Payeton Former Multimedia Journalist, KSWO-7

When it came time to choose a career, former KSWO-7 news reporter Dallas Payeton said it was easy. “I’m an outgoing person and I love to talk. I would talk to the wall if I thought it would talk back to me,” he said, with a hint of a chuckle in his voice. “I get paid for something I like to do.

12:10 to the Top: Jacobi Crowley

Hired as executive director of Boys and Girls Club of Lawton last summer, Jacobi Crowley looked to his staff for suggestions on ways to advance the club and ensure greater success for its 80 members—many of whom are second- or third-generation members.

12:10 to the Top: Sara Orellana-Paape, MS, MPH

Advocating for smaller businesses and nonprofits, Sara Orellana-Paape, founder and director of 3Raptor Consulting LLC, launched the firm in May 2018 to provide affordable guidance and resources to improve employer-employee relations and create policy and procedures unique to clients’ needs.