Martial arts movies and westerns are both known for showing students learning from the best, and eventually surpassing their teacher in knowledge, skill, and understanding. This is a triumph of both the student and the teacher.
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On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, I personally delivered a book to each Oklahoma Legislator’s office called Shared Ideals in Public Schools: Enduring Values that Unite Parents and Educators. I outlined the book a year ago on a series of notecards in a meeting with my local legislators as a possible path to restore local control to public schools. Parents and local educators solve the toughest, most controversial of issues at the kid level every day, but kid-level issues can rarely be fixed by faraway strangers from Capital City or Washington D.C. Central planners do not necessarily have bad intentions; they are just too far away from the local realities.
Numerous local athletes battled windy conditions Friday during the Ardmore Invitational.
The Eagles accomplished something on Friday that hadn’t been done in 17 years.
Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell was in Ardmore on Thursday to kick off the annual 35th Annual Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor’s Turkey Hunt. The hunt is designed to attract potential development partners into rural communities across the state and will feature nine different locations over the next few weeks. Ardmore hosted the first of these events.
The Ardmore Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Pho 12 Noodle House on Wednesday, April 20. The restaurant specializes in Vietnamese food and is located at 2401 12th Ave. NW, Suite 102A. Courtesy of Ardmore Chamber of Commerce
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment.
DEAR ABBY: A dear friend of many years is currently not speaking to me. She recently moved from California to Denver and had invited me to visit. We agreed on the dates, and I took time off work and booked the flights. Less than two weeks before my arrival, she abruptly canceled the visit, expressing no regrets or concern for whether I would be able to get a refund from the airline.