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Three Durant women accept leadership roles in GFWC Oklahoma

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The General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Oklahoma announced their offi cer team for the 2024-2026 Administration with three Durant women slated for state offices. The officers were installed at the Oklahoma State Convention held over the weekend on the USAO campus in Chickasha. The change in leadership will take place after the GFWC International Convention on July 1.

Rocket slide will not fly away

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by citizens. An iconic piece of playground equipment that has been a fixture at Dixon Durant Park for about six decades will be refurbished and stay grounded thanks to a successful social media campaign The rocket slide landed at the park in the 1960s and it has been the symbol of the park for so long that locals call the park “Rocket Park.” It shares a common bond from Baby Boomers to Generation Z who went down the slide as children.

Kicking up your heels to step on sexual abuse

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Participants in the Choctaw Nation Family Violence Prevention Program kicked up their heels to step on sexual abuse during the 13th annual Kick up Your Heels walk Saturday morning at the Choctaw amphitheater located at the tribe’s headquarters.

Oklahoma needs public schools

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Private tutors and private schools have always been available for the rich. Our public school system in America became one of the great successes of democracy by educating the sons of rich men and poor men in the same classrooms. Later, over a hundred years later, girls were gradually allowed to integrate classrooms without the world coming to an end.