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Community 8- The Elk City News March 8, 2023 sag wore HOUSE {THE DAILY: OKLAHOMAN ~ ming to Call at Elk City onMarch 24th pictures with Joni. Flat and then returned to the when the President moved portant part of history, while The President and Rosa- White House. It seemed to be about Elk City, and he was the adjustments for the Pres- lynn stayed in Wade's mother’s an epic weekend event that able to see how the communi- ident to move about the com- home, and they went to church had an impact on the commu- cations between the staff and munities are complex. at the First Baptist Church on nity and the state. The people president worked. The promise that Jimmy Sunday morning. who were drawn in the lottery As Jimmy Carter lives out Carter made to the town of Elk Burns Flat and traveled to Elk Carter “They got up early and went City in a motorcade with the to First Baptist Church for got to hear the President of the his life as a former President, City is remembered. It is an United States, and others in he has left an important im- Continued from page 2. Secret Service and staff. When Sunday school before the actu- town could participate in a va- pact on the town of Elk City. event that has left a patriotic they got to the old high school, al church service. After church riety of other capacities. People remember, and they and heart-felt impact on the his staff was staying, therefore, they went into a room, and he decided he'd just walk back Weatherly drove one of learned first-hand that some people in the entire area. The AT&T had to run a main trunk he held a Democratic caucus to the house,” Weatherly said. the cars that transported Car- people keep their promises. stories about President Jimmy line to the Ramada Inn. before they went to the gym When the trip ended, Car- ter's staff. He was deemed an They learned about how the Carter remains, remembered, “Another other thing that where he gave his speech. ter traveled back to Burns important part of the convoy office of the President is an im- and revered. was going on was the fact that According to Donnie Jor- Carter had embargoed our dan, the President went to wheat. The farmers were not Beverly Jordan's classroom for happy. The Secret Service were the meeting, There they posted Oklahoma AG Drummond shares out here literally negotiating a photo of their baby, Joni Jor- with all the farmers because the farmers were mad, and dan (McConnell), on the po- dium that asked Carter to ex- poultry suit negotiation insights there were fears of protests. change photos with her. After They decided that they could the visit, Carter had taken the By Kelly Bostian his own. terested poultry producers to through which we capture the line their tractors along the picture with him, and the Jor- Drummond essentially said meet at his offices the day after waste, not in chat piles that Attorney General Gentner he had three big goals in mind the decision. Representatives blow, but in containers that street where the Co-op sits,” dan’s received an autographed Drummond told reporters when entered office, and this of Simmons, Tyson, and others can be then transported,” he Weatherly said. photo of him and his wife, Ro- Friday that poultry producers fourth priority dropped on attended and it was an “emo- said. President Carter flew into salynn. They had exchanged and the state of Oklahoma his office a week later. He said tional meeting,” he said. Drummond pointed to a sit- could find a way to contain and Frizzell’s written decision was He said he also consulted with uation long discussed among transport phosphorous-laden thorough and impressive and former Attorney General Drew people familiar with the issue, poultry waste away from sensi- the issue “big” and “import- Edmondson, who originally that the state is phosphorous tive environments. ant.” filed the suit and later worked deficient to the west and phos- He said any agreement be- “The poultry industry and ag- on it pro-bono with environ- phorous heavy to the east. The L” Coffectine Colamn tween the entities likely would riculture, in general, is not mental groups. material is an excellent fertil- not meet a federal judge's inconsistent with a clean and “I told him, Drew you started izer, but fertilizer companies March 17 deadline, however. robust environment,” he said. this, you've got all these plain- in the past have said it is not ‘The statements came in answer “So, with that asa predicate, we tiffs’ attorneys that want an cost-effective to transport the With Andy & Renie Bowman ——| sa Press Club luncheon Friday. to reporters’ questions ata Tul- need to find a resolution with audience, you talk to them and natural fertilizer source long the poultry industry through Till talk to you. distances. ‘The issue arose with a lawsuit which they can continue their “Meanwhile I've also met with “There's a solution dealing with “Flagged, Bagged filed by the State of Oklahoma good works of evolving and every single agency that touch- environmentalists, those that against major poultry produc- abating the phosphorous lev- es the environment or agricul- are skilled in this area, scien- ers in 2005, and U.S. Northern el in the Illinois River, and ture. So last week was a litany tists predominantly,” he said. District Court Judge Gregory I would broaden that to the of meetings with executive “We're going to find a solution directors and cabinet secretar- through which we can truly And Tagged” Frizzell's decision and findings Grand River as well,” he said. of fact, issued Jan. 18, shortly “We need to find a way that we ies in the various entities so I take the phosphorous content after Drummond took office. can not just rehabilitate the could better understand what out of eastern Oklahoma and Frizzell agreed with nearly ev- watershed but also put struc- they offer and what their con- move it out of the watershed ery state argument that laid ture in place through which cerns are,” he said. either much further east, or the blame for the majority of Drummond is broadening the further west.” we don’t have to have to revisit Saw the movie “THE JESUS group of young folks turned phosphorous pollution in the this in 20 years or 50 years. So, reach of the suit by also speak- He said he has received a first REVOLUTION” _yesterday. to God to see if He could make nearly 1 million acres of the that’s the framework of the ne- ing with Cherokee Nation rep- round of proposals from the Amazing how seeing scenes a difference in their life. Evi- scenic Illinois River Drain- gotiations.” resentatives, who were not a industry representatives and and hearing phrases from dently, He did. age and Lake Tenkiller on the Coming to some kind of agree- party to the suit, and said he given a response, all of which doorsteps of the 11 named ment on that likely won't hap- has the expectation that any is confidential, and that more decades before can instant- ‘The Jesus Movement then poultry companies, including pen before Frizzell’s March 17 agreement would govern poul- negotiations are scheduled for ly transport a person back in swept through California, Tyson Foods, Cargill, and Sim- deadline. Drummond said he try waste handling beyond just mid-week next week, time. Kelly Bostian is an indepen- turning around the lives of mons Foods. expects the judge will “chas- the Illinois River Basin. I was a young teenager living ‘The judge shifted a multi-facet- tise” the parties on that day Asked how negotiations might dent writer working for the in rural Oklahoma during the thousands of confused and ed, decades-long conflict into and set a new target date. impact individual farmers, Oklahoma Ecology Project, a years of the Jesus Revolution. hurting young people. Oh, high gear by demanding the “But I'm not going to take my Drummond said the pressure 501c3 non-profit dedicated to Very isolated and far removed they still had a very distinct state and the industry hammer eye off that ball,” Drummond is on the industry. in-depth reporting about envi- from Haute Asbury, California. and different way of dressing out an agreement by March 17 said. “The integrators are going to ronmental issues for Oklaho- But I heard and saw what was and talking from the norm or he would issue a ruling of Drummond said he invited in- have to provide a mechanism mans. reported, as we did have televi- of the average person around sion. And from those televised them, no doubt about it. Those images, I drew my conclusions things didn’t seem to change about those young people. drastically. The real change was OALP accepting applications for Class XXI I grew up in a non-churched in their beliefs and their be- family, but it did have a strict havior. They no longer held to By Trisha Gedon OALP Class XXI graduation is Cargill and an oil refinery. The of applying my natural re- moral compass and the very slated for April 2025. Pennsylvania visit will allow source-based knowledge in a traditional family values of “Anything goes, if it makes you STILLWATER - For more than “Every new class brings a sense class members to learn more broader global context,” Jones that decade. So, to see their feel good.” 40 years, the Oklahoma Agri- of excitement to the program. about agriculture in Amish said. “Maybe OALP was the behavior, read the signs they But I didn’t know about that cultural Leadership Program Each participant has a differ- communities, and a stop in catalyst, maybe it was the new held, and hear the phrases separate group of kids back has enhanced knowledge and ent perspective about agricul- Hershey, Pennsylvania, will connections and friendships leadership skills for Oklaho- coming out of their mouths then - or now in 2023. I just mans involved in agriculture. ture, which enriches the lead- teach the group about various developed; whatever the in- ership development that we agricultural products that go spiration, I'm thankful for a shocked me to my toes. I im- assumed that any young peo- “OALP helps potential leaders provide,” Bonjour said. into chocolate production. The broadened perspective. Hope- mediately tagged the entire lot ple with weird clothing, long develop a better understand- The 20-month program con- OALP class also meets with the fully, I will be able to impact of them as ‘bad immoral peo- stringy hair, with guitars slung ing of the various systems of sists of 10 three-day seminars Oklahoma congressional dele- agriculture on a global scale.” ple’ - lock, stock and barrel. across their backs were part economics and government,” and study tours within Okla- gation while visiting Washing- Bonjour said that while de- Decades past and _ times of the drugged, free love, hip- said Edmond Bonjour, OALP homa, one three-day seminar ton, D.C. veloping strong leaders is the changed, (not always for the py movement that was always director since 2010. “Class in northern Oklahoma and Ron Hays, Oklahoma Agrinet, overall goal of OALP, three spe- better) and I hadn't given members increase and use Kansas, a seven-day seminar in was a member of the inaugu- cific program objectives define much thought to that period of made up of troubled kids. I their knowledge and skills to Pennsylvania and Washington, ral OALP class and has served the program. life in our country. Until I went had them flagged, bagged and solve problems and to explore D.C., and a two-week interna~ as the OALP Advisory Council “First, the program is designed opportunities for Oklahoma tional experience near the end chair. He has observed how XX the program has changed and to help class members devel- to that movie. And I learned a tagged. agriculture.” of the program. OALP Class adapted over the years to meet op a deeper and fuller appre- lot. Folks, if there is anything that I OALP is comprised of up to 30 just returned from Israel. I learned that by labeling and would love to pass on to others professionals from across the Seminars within the state are the needs ofclass members. ciation and understanding of dismissing that whole group of from those ninety plus min- state who are engaged in pro- geared toward wind energy, “Pm always glad to see the way people,” he said. “The second young people as ‘bad,’ I missed utes of that movie, it is this: duction agriculture, agribusi- dryland farming, animal pro- the OALP director stretches objective is to help potential what else eventually happened Never, never, never assume ness or some other agricultural cessing and feedlots in north- the class in new ways,” Hays leaders gain a better under- sector. Applicants must be at west Oklahoma; cotton, irriga~ said, standing of basic systems of among them. I missed the fact that if a person doesn’t look, that a small segment of those smell, talk or behave the way least 25 years old and are cho- tion and vegetable production Travis Jones, Class XVIII mem- economics and government. teens came to realize hippie- sen for the program based on in the southwest; fish farming, ber and rangeland manage- And, finally, the third objective dom wasn’t giving them any you do, that they are troubled their potential to be important sod farms and both the poultry ment specialist, USDA-NRCS, is to help the class use the first more peace and contentment and anti-God. You could get agricultural leaders in Oklaho- and forestry industries in the looks back on his experience two objectives to solve prob- southeast part of the state; and with OALP and remembers lems and discover opportuni- than chasing popularity, pol- the surprise of your life when ma. Applications are available on soybeans, mushroom farming how fortunate he was to have ties for Oklahoma agriculture.” itics, financial gain, or the le- you get to know them, the OALP website and all ap- and water navigation systems been selected for this learning For more information about galistic church world had done. There is a Southern Gospel plication materials are due by in northeast Oklahoma. opportunity. OALP or applying for Class ‘They already had tried all those song out right now, called May 1. Interviews will take During the Kansas trip, the “I recently completed a mas- XXI, contact Bonjour at 405- things, and finally realized “YOU LOVE, I'LL JUDGE.” place in June, and the first class will visit a John Deere ter’s degree in international 744-8134 or edmond.bon- none of them helped, so that Pretty accurate thought. seminar will occur in August. training facility, a flour mill, agriculture with the intent [email protected].