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tschram

  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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A world of weary well-doers

Feeling unappreciated, unwanted, or unwelcomed in the post-Covid age? You are not alone. Although this column focuses (mostly) on educational issues, this is not just a school issue.

Lahoma Coleen (Murray) Williams

Healdton - A Celebration of Life Service for Mrs. Lahoma Coleen (Murray) Williams, 51 of Fox are scheduled for 10:00 A.M., Monday, May 2, 2022 at the Alexander Gray Funeral Home Chapel in Healdton with Rev. Raymond Norton officiating. Interment will follow to Oil Springs Cemetery.

Kenneth Craig Shelton

The son of the late Ode Shelton and Rosa Lee (Willmond) Monneyham, Kenneth was born on October 12, 1944 in Talihina, Oklahoma and passed away on April 28, 2022 in a Oklahoma City hospital at the age of 77 years, 6 months and 16 days.

Wayne Jackson Bunce, Sr.

Wayne Jackson Bunce, Sr., age of 75, passed away on April 25, 2022 in Ardmore, Okla. The family will hold a private memorial service at a later date. Cremation with care under the direction of Griffin-~Hillcrest.

Melba Janene Davis

The daughter of the late Cecil Land and Jewel (Barr) Land, Janene was born on January 1, 1937 in Willisville, Arkansas and passed away on April 28, 2022 in Springer, Oklahoma at her granddaughters residence at the age of 85 years, 3 months and 27 days.

Blake Carroll

Ardmore - Graveside Services for Mr. Blake Carroll is scheduled for 2:00 PM Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at the Rose Hill Cemetery of Ardmore with cousin Ronnie Carroll officiating. Services are under the direction and care of Alexander Gray Funeral Home of Wilson.

Favor for friend ends up destroying the friendship

DEAR ABBY: A few months ago, I offered to help a longtime friend with some landscaping. The area to be landscaped is tiny. I was concerned a professional landscaper would overcharge her. She contacted a landscaper anyway -- not to hire him, but to pick his brain.

Review: The perils of perfectionism in Finland’s ‘Hatching’

In the new Finnish film “Hatching,” 12-year-old Tinja is the picture of a certain kind of Nordic perfectionism. She lives a picture-perfect life that she doesn’t quite understand has been manufactured by her blogger and influencer mother. But things start to get gruesome after she finds a strange egg in the woods that hatches some of her deepest and ugliest fears and fantasies. AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr writes that “Hatching” might not be the most subtle film, but it’s an effective critique of the perils of perfectionism with a haunting and jaw-dropping conclusion. “Hatching” is in theaters starting Friday.

TODAY

Today is the 121st day of 2022 and the 43rd day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1840, the Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, was issued in Great Britain.