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Volunteers at the Chickasha Soup Kitchen package hot meals that are handed out at the door to hungry recipients.

Volunteers at the Chickasha Soup Kitchen package hot meals that are handed out at the door to hungry recipients.

$4K grant buys equipment for Chickasha Soup Kitchen

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The Chickasha Soup Kitchen will soon be serving hot meals prepared in its own quarters. The Soup Kitchen is housed at 520 Pennsylvania in a former Sunday School room that required “major remodeling,” said Michael Oberlender, pastor of Chickasha’s First Christian Church.
The Great Plains Republican Women

The Great Plains Republican Women

Great Plains Republican Women set luncheon

News Staff
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The Great Plains Republican Women plan to meet Thursday, June 18, at 11:30 a.m., at the Prairie Building at the Comanche County Fairgrounds. Lunch will be served. $12 per person. Reservations are required. To RSVP by Monday, June 15, contact Mary Jane Jones at 580-512-0900 or gprw2007@gmail.com.
Another federal aid bill is a possibility

Another federal aid bill is a possibility

Another federal aid bill is a possibility

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, June 11, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY – Although support in Congress for another federal stimulus package is tepid at best, the possibility of another large infusion of federal aid is not entirely improbable. 2020 will be remembered in the U.S.
Decline in energy sector

Decline in energy sector

Decline in energy sector is 'deepest in last 20 years'

News Staff
Thursday, June 11, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY – The pace of decline in Oklahoma’s energy production sector is “accelerating into the deepest contraction in the last 20 years,” Jerry Bohnen wrote in OK Energy Today, a daily report of which he is the managing editor. The Energy Index contracted sharply in April, Bohnen reported.
The landing page of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust’s “My Life, My Quit” cessation program’s web page.

The landing page of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust’s “My Life, My Quit” cessation program’s web page.

SW Okla. schools to use TSET funds toward health projects

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, June 11, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY – Several schools in southwest Oklahoma will buy water fountains, greenhouse supplies, playground and outdoor fitness equipment, and construct a walking path, with grants from the Oklaho- ma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) board of directors.
SBA makes disaster loans available to agribusiness

SBA makes disaster loans available to agribusiness

SBA makes disaster loans available to agribusiness

News Staff
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Agricultural businesses are now eligible for the Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and EIDL Advance program, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza announced earlier this month.
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