December 6, 2019 Issue, Page 13 of 14

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Friday, December 6, 2019 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Page 13 Honor Choir Christmas Program Elk City be the first on stage perfor- Choir will be putting on mance of the year and will along with some new, non calendar The Elk City Honor Twelve Days of Christmas their Christmas Program at include classic songs such traditional songs like Holi- Dec. 6 6 p.m.Tuesday. This will as Jingle Bell’s and the day Lights and Angels in the ECHS basketball, Clev- want for Chrigt. land Tournament. » pit LETTERS tr istng, ° Dec. 7 Art Club Paint Night TO SANTA ECHS Basketball, Clev- land Tournament. FFA-MFE/ALD Confer- ence at Tulsa. Dec. 9 School Board Meeting, 6 p.m. Dec. 10 Merritt sixth-grade math classes combed the ECHS Choir sing at Ki- campus to find and measure objects in the wanis shape of squares, rectangles, triangles, paral- lelograms and rhombuses. Photo provided by ECHS Basketball vs Merritt Schools. Woodward, 4 p.m. Dec. 11 Basketball Booster Club Meeting, 8 a.m. Dec. 13 ECHS Basketball at Al- tus, 4 p.m. in your Santa Letters to 109 West Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644 or email us at [email protected], please include name, age and contact information. Letters may be published in our upcoming Hometown Tidings special on Dec. 14 December 20th. Each Santa letter will be entered into a drawing fora ECHS Band, Shortgrass free ham provided by United Supermarket of Elk City. Honor Band at Cordell. Give blood this holiday season Oklahoma Blood Institute themed T-shirt. Oklahoma Blood Institute’s needs. Appointments to encourages healthy adults “The simple, yet selfless, Thank the Donor program. to “follow their instinct,” act of donating blood this Every two seconds, some- give blood are not required and set aside about an hour holiday season will give one needs blood, and the but can be made by calling from their busy schedules to patients in local hospitals supply must be constantly donate blood, according to a chance to spend precious renewed. If donors opt not Oklahoma Blood Institute an OBI news release. The time with their families,” to take the T-shirt, Okla- holidays are typically a chal- said John Armitage, M.D., homa Blood Institute will at 877-340-8777 or visiting lenging time for the life-sav- president and CEO of Okla- make a monetary donation obi.org. ing blood supply; and one homa Blood Institute. “The to Global Blood Fund for donation can save the lives cost- just an hour of your blood center assistance in *]6-year-olds must weigh of up to three area patients.* time- is certainly less than developing countries. Oklahoma Blood Institute other gifts most of us will As the nation’s sixth larg- at least 125 pounds and pro- Elk City Elementary students Tanner Ruiz and give this season. But there’s est non-profit blood collec- will hold a blood drive with vide signed parental per- Angelina Helton accompanied by school Prin- Canute Community on Mon- nothing that has a greater tor, Oklahoma Blood Insti- cipal Amanda Friesen presented Mrs. DeAnne day from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. impact.” tute’s donors provide every mission; 17-year-olds must Bell with a donation check for the Elk City Unit- at the Canute Heritage Cen- Blood recipients have drop of blood needed for the opportunity to send a patients in more than 160 weigh at least 125 pounds; ed Fund. The funds came from the Elk City El- ter, Lions Club, 101 N. 9th ementary PTO and the families that helped rais St. Each blood donor will message of appreciation to hospitals statewide. 18+ year olds must weigh at funds through the November snack sale. Photo receive a free, limited edi- their individual blood do- It takes nearly 1,200 do- provided by Elk City Elementary. tion, long-sleeved holiday- nor, anonymously, through nors a day to meet those least 110 pounds. m 1% AG G VUND “ElkCituNews is.com