December 28, 2022 Issue, Page 2 of 8

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2- The Elk City News December 28, 2022 Round * Town + how ” December 30 ‘Noon Year's Eve Celebra- tion at Carnegie Library 11 am. A special thanks to the Bank of Western Oklahoma for in- December 31 viting Santa and Mrs. Claus New Year’s Eve | to their Customer Apprecia- tion Day. January 1 Laine and Camryn Cates, New Year's Day from Leedey got to share their Christmas wishes with January 10 Santa and Mrs. Claus. Chamber of Commerce Neva Pyatt, Director of Banquet. RSVP required, Advertising at the Elk City News also had her chance to Elk City Convention Cen- tell Mr. and Mrs. Claus what ter. she would like for Christmas. Courtesy photos. January 16 oases Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR January 17 Continued from page 1. EC Leadership Hall of Fame Reception and In- Removing all the pretties WITHOUT SPENDING ANY MONEY ‘@ADRIAADANISCO peoee duction at Pioneer Center. seems to take twice as long as. it did when I put it up. I think it is like going into a new year. LIKE COMMENT February 2 Removing the old and look- SHARE THEIR SOMETHING Groundhog Day ing forward to the new is the THEIR PosT TAG A NICE re FRIEND Post Membership Gift Card metamorphosis that allows Feburary 14 mea fresh start. Instead of the Valentine's Day letdown after Christmas, I am SHOUT ship costs $75; an individual going to look at it as an oppor- COMMENT THEM Arrowhead membership for six months is February 20 tunity to look forward to a new AN EMOJI OUT $50; an individual membership Continued from page 1. POST Mave, 8 LEAVE Presiden’ts Day year and fresh start. No matter annually is $80; a monthly in- how old I get, I need a fresh A PIC A said. dividual membership is $12; ax = REVIEW A day pass is $4; a family and an individual quarterly start and outlook on life. I am February 22 going to try to practice that at- SUPPORT = wy SY ‘Ash Wednesday ‘BUSINESS: membership for six months membership is $30. The fami- titude. ly includes unlimited uses for costs $135; an annual family all ages of the family of six. March 12 membership is $250; a family The individual membership in- Spring Forward Time OHA Have something to share with the community? Email your “Letter to the Editor” to [email protected] monthly membership is $30; cludes one person six years of Continued from page 1. a family quarterly member- age or older. March 17 Man charged in grow house St. Patrick’s Day OU Health, Oklahoma City ~ 1,000 referrals March 22 Comanche County Memo- Beginning of Ramadan rial Hospital, Lawton - 1,100 bust held on $100,000 bond referrals Helpline Referrals 2000 or April more April Fool's Day SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital - Oklahoma City - April2 2,850 referrals Chickasaw Nation Medical ed notebooks that “appeared Palm Sunday Center, Ada — 5,000 referrals to be ledgers of some sort, an INTEGRIS Outpatient AR-15 rifle which Hua Ye said April 5 Clinics — 8,600 referrals was his, and miscellaneous Passover Through effective, health care provider-driven _tobac- documents, some indicating co treatment services, HHPQ Hua was paying for basic oper- April7 partner hospitals and clinics ational needs for the grow. Al- Good Friday have referred 55,000 patients though, over 5,000 marijuana to the OTH, resulting in an plants were seized, and over estimated 39,000 years of life April9 saved and $19.5 million dollars 120 pounds of marijuana were Easter in reduced health care costs as seized. I also located Hua’s well as personal spending on cellphone, and he provided Do you have an event or tobacco products. his passcode to the phone. The Tobacco Settlement something else you would Endowment Trust (TSET) sup- ‘A fluent Mandarin-speaking like to share with the com- ports OHA’s Hospitals Helping OBN agent went through it munity in the Round Town Patients Quit and the Oklaho- on-site. Based on his training Calendar? ma Tobacco Helpline. For more and experience, he saw what information the HHPQ initia~ Email the information tive, go to www.okoha.com/ he believed were chat threads for the event to elkci- hhpq. For information on the indicating black-market, illicit [email protected] Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline, By Shonda Little North 1920 Road. The place on Sayre's North marijuana transactions,” the http://okhelpline.com. The address is listed as a OBN agent wrote. 1920 Road, per OBN records, Ina Recent bust performed Sayre address. was a marijuana manufactur- ‘The OBN agent also alleged rElkCituNews by the Oklahoma Bureau of ‘The warrant was reported- er called “Ye Oriental Green the grow was “entirely out of Narcotics in coordination withly a follow-up to an OHP traf- 8866.” compliance for an OBN regis- the Beckham County Sheriff's fic stop the previous week in During the warrant execu- trant.” Office, the Oklahoma Highway which another suspect, Xiong tion, Xiong, three other work- ‘The OBN agent cited that Patrol, and the United States Ouyang, was arrested for traf- ers, and Hua were allegedly (USPS # 173-020) Drug Enforcement Agency. ficking marijuana on 1-40 located on the site. the property had no fence 580-225-3000, around the property, which he ‘We have now learned that eastbound near El Reno. ‘They were then detained. Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC a 43-year-old Sayre man, Hua The OBN who wrote the “Through gathering ba- allegedly created a serious risk 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644-4736 Periodic: Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 Geng Ye, has been charged report stated that he had fol- sic information, OBN agents for diversion, and added that with aggravated manufactur- lowed up on the traffic stop learned Hua Geng Ye was the the doors were reportedly not POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PO Box 964, Elk City, OK 73648 ing of a controlled substance and learned that the driver, admitted manager of the grow self-locking. and drug trafficking concern- Xiong, was allegedly coming site,” the OBN agent wrote. “This is entirely inconsis- ing that raid. from the grow house on North Over one hundred pounds tent with how a legitimate SUBSCRIPTIONS Josh Umholtz....Publisher The charges against Ye 1920 Road in Sayre. of marijuana was allegedly medical marijuana operation Deliverd by mail: Sheryl Ponce... Staff Writer were filed in Beckham County Xiong was allegedly en found in the kitchen of a dou- operations, but is, however, $75/yearly District Court on December route to an Oklahoma City ble-wide trailer found on the Neva Pyatt...Advertising Director based on my training and ex- $50/six months 19. apartment at the time of his property. In addition, over 20 Zadie Eakins...Advertising Director The probable cause affi- arrest. more pounds were allegedly perience, entirely compatible No refunds on subscriptions. with how an illegal grow site D'Ann Brasuell..Production Manager davit states that, on Decem- “Xiong had no paperwork, found in one of the trailer’s elkcitynews @gmail.com ber 14, OBN agents, with the no manifest, nothing to legit- bathrooms. operates,” the OBN agent al- Nahka King...CSR/Delivery leged. [email protected] assistance of OHP, DEA, and imized the marijuana in his In the bedroom reportedly Hours: Hua Geng Ye is due back in [email protected] BCSO, executed a search war- possession at the time,” the belonging to Hua Geng Ye, law Mon - Thur 9-4 + Friday 9-12 rant on the 11000 block of OBN agent wrote, enforcement allegedly locat- court on January 23.