December 16, 2023 Issue, Page 2 of 10

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2- The Elk City News December 16, 2023 photography. Award e grant winners were rec- Round Continued from page1. ognized during half time of the Sayre Lady Eagles basket- ball season opener recently. Town + Sheila Hunter Congratulations to all the teachers grant winners! To + Marla Hendrix December 16 +Dana Day date, over $1,000,000 has been In celebration of the 30th awarded to Sayre Public School Last Day Christmas in the year of the Sayre Public School teachers through the Grants to Foundation, the board invitedTeachers Program. It’s exciting park Activities Open teachers to dream big with to reward these teachers who their applications this year are developing new and inno- as one $10,000 grant was to vative approaches to teaching Christmas Basket Deliv- be awarded. Five applications or advancing programs which were received for the $10,000 stimulate thinking and expand ery, Ministerial Alliance. grant and the winner is Mrs. the curriculum for our stu- Dana Day. rough this grant, dents. Mrs. Day received 8 iPad Pros You can donate and learn ‘There has been rumor that Chesni, and six-year-old Mat- December 17 Tractor he has an Alzheimer purple tie, who both attend Elk City and cases and 8 Apple Pens to more about SPSF at www. be used in her art classes for sayrepublicschoolfoundation. tractor in the future. He has Public Schools. digital drawing, design and org. Live Nativity, 6:00pm - Continued from page 1. not denied the rumor, but Stop by the Elk City Cham- 9:00pm. it may take a while to find an ber of Commerce to pick up the Simon refurbished the pink tractor himself, includ- exact duplicate of the two he 2023 ornament and t-shirt, already owns. He said it would which will benefit the many Gradie Barham Chancel Choir Cantata, EC ing choosing the color of pink have to be the exact 1961 JD chamber projects. They will Funeral services for Colene and painting it. He had to 3010 Diesel. There may be one also be available at the park Barham will be 10:30 am. United Methodist Church, have the yellow John Deere waiting for Simon to snatch for over the weekend. Simon said ‘Thursday, December 14, 2023, his next project. in the chapel of First Baptist 720 W Country Club Blvd, seat recovered and white em- Simon is married to Amber, the ornament is an exact rep- Church in Elk City, with Rev, 10 AM - 12 PM. blems made, but the entire who is an Elk City Elementary lica of his tractor. Now is the Russell Duck officiating. Burial project was completed by him second grade teacher. They time to pick up a Christmas will follow in the Fairlawn Cem- and his father. have two children, 13-year-old memory. etery, Elk City, under the direc- tion of Marshall Funeral Home Decemmber 19 of Alva. There will be a visita- tion with family present 5-7:00 Bricks & Books Club, cause they don’t notice the first pm. Wednesday, December signs of addiction, although 13, 2023, at Marshall Funeral Carnegie Library, 4-5PM 5 there are clues. Woodward Home in Alva. continued to talk about vocab- Gradie Colene Sparks, and up. ulary and methods of delivery daughter of the late Grady daughter, grandchildren, and Haskell and Eula Ann (Brewer) that are oblivious to outsiders. Sparks, was born October 25, great grandchildren. He showed pictures of various 1935, at Oklahoma City and Besides her parents, Grady December 24 vapes, pens, and even a sweat- passed away December 11, and Eula, she was preceded Christmas Eve shirt used to vape through 2023, at Alva, at the age of 88 in death by Clinton's parents, the hoodie strings. He gave years, 1 month, and 16 days. Raymond and Calla Barham, examples of child overdoses She was raised in Oklaho- her son, Cullen Barham; her ma City, graduating from Capi- brother, Jerry Sparks; her sis- Christmas Eve Services, that have been documented in tol Hill High School. She then ters, Mozelle Gillette Lacer and Oklahoma. This includes mari- attended a year at Oklahoma EC United Methodist Mary Ellen Coffee; and her son- juana that causes a condition there eating two or three small called marijuana psychosis ora Baptist University. On Octo- in-law, Larry Richey. Church, 5-11PM. Trends little bites of a gummy that’s psychotic episode. Woodward ber 11, 1958, she was united in marriage to Clinton Ray Bar- She is survived by her hus- in a jacket or in his pocket, gave examples as proof of the ham at Kentucky Avenue Bap- band, Clinton Barham of Alva; Continued from page 1. sitting at the back of algebra tist Church in Oklahoma City. her daughter, Lizabeth Richey December 25 dass. Nobody has a clue. But problem. To this union two children were of Alva; her brother, Paul Sparks juana in 1996. We had, basical- Woodward talked about the the point is this, that nobody's dark web and the ways kids born: Lizabeth and Cullen. They and wife, Linda, of Oklahoma Christmas Day made their home in Elk City City; three grandchildren, An- ly, 42 years to know what was hearing the dark side, they're hide their internet use. The in- where they raised their fam- drea Crawford and husband, going to happen if Oklahoma hearing about how good it is,” formation and documentation ily. She was a member of First Corey, of Alva, Michelle New- voters passed it. We wanted it, he said, Baptist Church in Elk City un- Chess Club, Carnegie Li- and the only thing people fo- Children and teens who of what is happening with the til 2013, when she and Clinton ton and husband, Tim, of Alva, youth in Oklahoma, as well as and Chad Richey of Watauga, brary, 6-7PM. are vaping at nine, ten, or 11 the United States was enlight- transferred their membership cused on was that it was going years old, and by the time they ening and alarming. Last year to First Baptist Church in Alva. TTexas; eleven great grandchil- to be medicine, and it is going Colene was a true support dren, Caitlyn Crawford, Chloe to bring in all this money for are 14- or 15-years old, it is there were 43 teenagers admit- staff person, completely gifted Lehr and fiancé, Brickman Free Community Christ- our schools, roads, and bridg- marijuana that helps them get ted to the hospital for marijua- in office etiquette and welcom- Bradt, Kennedy Crawford, through the day. They then go na related health issues. ing people in. Positions includ- Cason Crawford, and Charlee mas Dinner, Western OK es. That has not been the case,” ed positions at First National Woodward explained. to a stronger drug. Woodward The educators that at- Rae Crawford, all of Alva, Eli- Bank of Elk City, office man- jah Newton, Samuel Newton, Family Care Center. Con- ‘There is only a small per- indicated that the brain will tended his session learned a ager for Elk City Chamber of Thomas Newton, Isabella New- centage going to the schools. want more and more, or the lot about the issues in Oklaho- Commerce, floral and delivery ton, and Ezekiel Newton, all of vention Center. Woodward deals with the dark person will become depressed ma. Woodward provided data for Hylton Flowers, and church secretary for First Baptist Alva, and Jaqui Howell of Little side of the issue. He sees the and anxious. He added that to back up the information Church, a position she held for Rock, Arkansas; other relatives December 31 parents and counselors of the there are medical benefits, but he presented. He is booked 37 years. She ended her career and friends, there are also a lot of draw- through the spring to talk to as pastor's secretary, a position Memorial contributions addiction, who deal with the New Years Eve mental health problems that backs, which are a bigger con- communities and organiza- she cherished. may be made through the fu- cern. tions about the topic. When Colene was a member neral home to First Baptist are cropping up. He said that he is available to come to Elk of Jaycee Jaynes serving as Church Foundation, Elk City, there is an interim study be- Woodward noted, “It’s president, Arimathea, and a or the Alva Goldbug Education January 1 ing done because of the over- training the brain to hate be- City, a notice will be sent out to Homemakers Group in Elk Foundation (checks must be doses involving children and ing sober, and it will never be those interested in attending. City and then in Alva. She en- New Years Day He can be reached by email at joyed reading, cooking, and made to CFO-AGEE). the marijuana edibles that are enough. We've got to break working puzzle books. She and Remembrances may be increasing. Many of the homes down this attitude. People ask [email protected] Clinton made the move to Alva shared with the family at www. or follow OBN on Facebook to me all the time how we're go- Do you have an event or where there are medical mari- stay informed. ten years ago to be near their marshallfuneralhomes.com. juana cards have edibles. ing to solve this problem. So something else you would “When I talk to schools first of all, you got to get kids like to share with the com- about the marijuana issues where they don’t want to do and drug issues, we are finding drugs. Right now, our country munity in the Round Town the biggest things are the mar- wants to do drugs. Most of us Calendar? Email the in- ijuana edibles because they're will never use meth, cocaine, so easy to hide. Kids can get or heroin, but 42 states have formation for the event to high in plain sight, and teach- legalized marijuana. So our ers have no clue. Parents have states got what they wanted, [email protected] no clue. The kids can be sitting or what they demanded. But these kids move on to the next level because, again, they are “ElkCituNews smoking a marijuana flower with a bud joint. They've got to move on to the next level.” ‘The level of THC in the marijuana they are using to- (USPS # 173-020) day is 33 percent to 93 percent 580-225-3000 pure. Vape oils, sold in dispen- Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC saries, are more powerful than 109 W. Broadway, City, OK 73644-4736 smoking a joint. Woodward Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 said that it is not like the old POSTMASTEI Send address changes to PO Box 964, ty. 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