
Weeks preparing Ardmore girls basketball to trust the process
Lance Weeks is no stranger to coaching as he’s made stops all across Oklahoma and even in Arkansas.

Lance Weeks is no stranger to coaching as he’s made stops all across Oklahoma and even in Arkansas.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Local professional artists Denise Duong and Gabriel Friedman and art therapist Brittany Dray have been working with Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health patients for the past several months, helping them develop skills to reduce and manage anxiety and fear and to develop self-expression through art.

This week, Americans will gather around their dinner tables with family and loved ones to reflect upon and count our blessings. As one of our most unifying American traditions, it is important to join in collective gratitude.

The scent of smoked turkey filled the air around the Ardmore Elks Lodge as the Elks cooked up 275 turkeys during their Sixth Annual Turkey Drive. The turkeys, along with all the fixings for a fantastic meal, will be distributed to local families in need, the Veterans Center, and local shelters. Each completed meal will feed between six to eight people Ardmore Elk Clay Allison said the cooking began at 6 a.m. on Monday morning and lasted well into the afternoon.

If your idea of a New Orleans cocktail is a Kool-Aid colored, alcohol-heavy concoction served in a plastic hand grenade or a novelty glass resembling a hurricane lamp, stop thinking like a college freshman on his first B B “Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em,” by BE recipes for cocktails created at Cure, the craft cocktail B credited with being modern-day New Orleans’ first destination bar for craft cocktails. The book has recipes for sours, Manhattans, and bittered slings interspersed with some history of New Orleans, its drinking culture and the men and women at Cure who created the drinks.

DEAR ABBY: I left a manipulative and abusive marriage after 18 years. My parents fully supported my decision. When I became engaged to the wonderful man who is now my husband, my mother and many other family members told me that second weddings were “not important” and I should have just gone to the courthouse.

Patricia “Kay” Boyd, 77, passed away November 17, 2022 at her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She was born January 8, 1945 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Ruth Boydstun Christie and C.C.

Rae Alma (Williams) Mapp was born on November 18, 1929, in Love County to Atlas Williams and Fannie Caldwell. She passed away peacefully at her home on November 20, 2022, surrounded by family.
occupation: maid resident: Newport News, VA Services: 11:00 Sat., Nov. 26, 2022 @ First Baptist Church, Ardmore, OK Burial: Clearview Cemetery, Ardmore, OK Harvey Douglas Funeral Home & Crematory .
Dorothy Irene Ford, age 94, passed away on November 21, 2022, in Ardmore, Okla. Services are pending with Griffin~Hillcrest.