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The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Saturday, October 10, 2020 Tabasco: A spicy recovery who follows worthless peo- considerable practical wis- who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he lationships has contributed dom into the ministry she of- age up to three years. When pers, McIIhenny saved the cial production of the sauce ple and pursuits will have fers to individuals, couples deemed ready by a member seeds. he called Tabasco. In 1870 poverty...laziness casts one and parents. of the Mcllhenny family, the In April of 1863, Edmund Mclihenny secured a patent, into a deep sleep. The idle An experienced teacher approved, fully aged mash Mcllhenny was forced to and in 1872, opened an of- person shall suffer hunger... love not sleep lest you come and public speaker, Yoder is blended with all natural, flee New Orleans with his fice in London to sell to Eu- high grain vinegar. After wife when the Union Army ropean markets. He sold his to poverty...open your eyes has offered ministry in West- four weeks of numerous entered the city. They went new sauce in small bottles and you will be satisfied em Oklahoma since 1991, stirrings, the skins and seeds to Avery Island where her resembling the used cologne with bread. including seminars for men are strained out and the fin- family owned a salt-min- bottles that held his first When we ask God for pro- and women. Through years ished sauce is bottled. ing business. Mcllhenny samples. Among the vary- vision, we need to be willing of systematic Bible study, Dixie Yoder Avery Island isn’t actually planted the pepper seeds in ing sizes currently available, todo our part! God isn’t the Dr. Dixie has gained a deep an island. Located seven his wife’s garden. In 1863, one-eighth-ounce bottles of “great welfare system in the working knowledge of the “A pessimist sees difficul- miles south of New Iberia, when Union forces invaded Tabasco, bearing the presi- sky.” He provides strength principles contained in the ty in every opportunity; an Louisiana, surrounded by the Island and captured the dential seal, are served on to do what we don’t feel like doing. Word of God and how they optimist sees opportunity in wet marsh, it’s a huge dome salt mines, the MclIlhenny Editor’s note: The News apply to practical every day Air Force One. every difficulty.” -Sir Win- of rock-salt three miles long family was forced to flee Tabasco Sauce is still ston Churchill and a half-mile wide. At its again, this time to Texas. made on Avery Island, will be running Dixie Yod- living. Tabasco Pepper Sauce is a highest point, it projects only Returning at the end of the Louisiana. At least half of er’s column in weekend edi- She is a familiar voice on spicy condiment made from 152 feet above sea level. war, they found their planta- the company’s employees tions of the paper. Here’s a local radio stations through capsicum peppers, vinegar Edmond Mellhenny, a tion in ruins; their mansion live on the island, many of bio she provided the paper: her daily devotional and and salt. The hot peppers New Orleans banker, was and belongings plundered. whose ancestors worked for Yoder grew up in Western live interviews. Her weekly are picked by hand as soon the founder of the Tabas- However, the crop of cap- the company. The current Oklahoma. She is the found- newspaper columns offer as they ripen to the perfect co Sauce company. About sicum hot peppers had been CEO, Paul Mcllhenny, is the er and executive director of practical wisdom to newspa- shade of bright red. The day 1850, a soldier gave him ignored and the plants re- sixth McIlhenny to run the Infinite Grace Ministries, an per readers throughout Okla- of picking, they are mashed some dried peppers acquired mained. company. inter-denominational Bibli- homa. She earned her certi- and mixed with Avery Is- in Mexico during the Mexi- Instead of blaming people cal Guidance and teaching fication in Biblical/Pastoral Five years later in 1868, land salt and then placed in can-American War, suggest- Mclihenny devised a spicy and circumstances, sighing ministry located in Weather- white oak wooden barrels ing that he try them in his using chopped capsi- with discouraged _ entitle- ford, Oklahoma. Personal Guidance, Bach- and allowed to ferment and food. As they used the pep- sauce cum peppers, vinegar and ment and defeat when he Yoder has many years of elor of Arts in Biblical Stud- experience in Biblical Per- ies, Master of Arts in Chris- Avery Island salt. He pack- lost everything but a few aged his sauce in 350 used scraggly plants that no one sonal Guidance ministry. tian Counseling and Doctor cologne bottles and gave wanted, Mr. Mcllhenny took ter and a Bible scholar who of Ministry. She possesses She is an ordained minis- them as samples to whole- what he had - determination, more than 30 years of min- salers. He gave some to hard work and used perfume loves the Word of God and istry experience and has had its application to everyday a personal guidance ministry General Hazard, who shared bottles - and built a multi- life. Her teaching emphasiz- them with his brother: the million-dollar company. since 1996. She has been ac- largest wholesale grocer in Proverbs 14:23; 28:19; es how receiving salvation through Jesus Christ and tively involved in the Okla- New York. The sauce was 19:15-16: 20:13: In all labor homa Marriage Initiative knowing God the Father in- a hit, and in 1868, Edmund there is profit, but idle talk timately makes it possible to program since 2002. OMI’s MclIlhenny began commer- leads only to poverty...one enjoy a life filled with mean- mission is to reduce the di- ing and purpose. Wedding vorce rate in Oklahoma, and She and her husband, Ga- its strategies have attracted len, have been married for national political and media 50 years and enjoy time with announcement: two adult sons, their daugh- ters-in-law and four grand- attention. Send your questions and Cory Alan Maupin- children. Along with the comments to: knowledge she has gained Dr. Dixie Yoder drdixie@ drdixie.org Alexandra [Ali] during years of study, her years of nurturing family re- www.drdixie.org Elliott family announces birth Thomas and Katy Elliott of Hammon are overjoyed by| the arrival of the newest addition to their family. Kinleigh Ann Elliott was born at 10:53 a.m. Aug. 31,| 2020, at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City. Cory Alan Maupin is groomsman Andy Hayes. She weighed 6 Ibs 1 ounce and measured 19 inches long. proud to announce his mar- Also in attendance were Co- Baby Elliott was named in honor of her late aunt, Corie! riage to Alexandra (Ali) Ro- ry’s brother Shane Gearreald Leigh Koch, who was so proud of all of her nieces and driguez Garcia. and sister Sachia Weldon as nephews. The wedding took place on well as Cory’s father Steven Kinleigh was met at home by her proud siblings: Rea- August 29, 2020, in Tulsa, Maupin and his aunt Diane. gan, Kylan, and Kash. Her maternal grandparents are Boyd Oklahoma, at Spain Ranch. The service was officiated and Nora Koch of Strong City, and her paternal grandpar- Cory is a 2006 graduate of by Blake Zimmerman. ents are Millard and Shirley Elliott of Hammon. Kinleigh’s Elk City High School and a The couple will make their maternal great grandparents are the late Jack and Mary 2012 graduate of SWOSU home in Phoenix, Arizona, Ann Hickman of Leedey, and Lola Koch and the late Eldon| pharmacy school. Ali is a where Cory will continue his Koch of Arapaho. Her paternal great grandparents are the 2007 graduate of Scottsdale career as a pharmacist and late Junior Parker of Hammon, Joann Parker of Elk City, Christian Academy in Phoe- Ali will resume her practice and the late Tommy and Bonnie Elliott of Hammon. nix, Arizona, and a 2011 as an OB/GYN. graduate of the University of lel phil Arizona in Tucson. She received her medical degree from San Juan Bau- tista School of Medicine in Caguas, Puerto Rico, in 2016. Giving the bride away was her father, Julio Rodriguez. Cory escorted his mother Cherri Craig and grandmoth- er Juanita Maupin down the OF aisle. 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