• “For over a decade, our students have volunteered and are now definitely a part of the Sugar Art Show,” Chef Grady Perryman stated. Culinary Arts students, Tyler Graham and Beth Rice, were OSUIT’s 2015 Sugar Art Show volunteers. Perryman added that volunteering at the show was a rare opportunity to get to interact with the best cake and sugar artists in the world.

• Okmulgee’s Film Festival held their first Main St. 48-Hour Film Fest, during the beginning of October, encouraging both experienced and amateur filmmakers to submit their productions. Local independent filmmaker, Tyler Roberds, and the Okmulgee Main Street Arts and Humanities council fully funded the film festival with the help of the State’s Oklahoma Tourism Dept. Roberds added how localists could view this as another way for residents to take pride in our community.

• The Okmulgee Junior Bulldog Football Association started their 2015 season with success, after five-straight game winnings. The Junior Bulldogs compete every Saturday in third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade contests. After five weeks of action, the fourth and sixth-grade okmulgee squads remain unbeaten on the season at 5-0.

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• OSUIT published the names of fall enrolled students for the new semester. Five Hundred and eighty five students from the County were among the 2,401 students currently enrolled. The article states that OSU-Okmulgee was founded in 1946 and had since then been the only college in Oklahoma established specifically for technical specifications.

• In a stand to find a cure for diabetes, CP Kelco, along with their friends and family, joined tens of thousands of people in the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation’s Walk To Cure Diabetes. The 5k race started in LaFortune Park in Tulsa, and as the event finished Kelco’s 1999-2000, Udonna Edmonds, gave a special shout-out and thank you to those who attended.

• “Terror in the Timber” ad occurring October 19-21. Residents could partake of a Dark-Midnight Haunted Hayride and Spooktrail Adventure that was more tame for the kids. The family-oriented activities started on the corner of Hwy 75 & 20th St. in Okmulgee, with tickets that sold at $4 a piece.

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