The Okmulgee Lions Club had received a request for a donation from Shirlanna Harbin of the Okmulgee Primary School Sunshine Committee, a group dedicated to brightening the lives of their beloved teach...

Another good time of fun, friendship, fellowship, food and games (as in Coleman’s pie bingo) took place Tuesday for the 15 pie winners of our annual Lions-Rotary Coleman’s Pie Bingo joint meeting. The...

The program for the Okmulgee Lions Club on Tuesday was listed as Boy Scout Troop 102 but could very well have been listed as freshman college course, Self-Improvement 101. The program was presented by...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club meeting was one of those programs we like to have because it features two of our newest members, and is affectionately referred to as “15 minutes of Fame.” The two culpri...

Never let it be said that the Okmulgee Lions Club doesn’t feel a kinship between our club and Okmulgee’s White-Williams American Legion Post 10, because both have recently celebrated 100 years of serv...

The Okmulgee Lions Club continues to be blessed to honor more outstanding students from Okmulgee High School, selected by the faculty. Plus, we get the added bonus of getting to meet the administrator...

Well, another 12 turkeys have departed with the blessings of the Trinity Lutheran Church from Tuesday’s joint Lions/Rotary Club’s annual Turkey Bingo giveaway, with thoughts of being the center of att...

Rarely in the 248-year history of the founding of the United States military (June 14, 1775), has a Seaman Recruit climbed the military ladder to the “Flag Officer” rank of Rear Admiral (2 star) in th...

I don’t know why an ages-old cheer from the long-ago Morris cheerleaders has anything to do with Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program, presented by Morris resident Kathi Seamans, but it does. And her...

All for one and one for all seemed to be the main thrust of Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program, presented by Jeffrey Moore, the newly hired Okmulgee County Emergency Management Director. A native o...

Have you ever just stopped and pondered on the real meaning of the word abracadabra? Yeah, me neither, at least not until Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program with John Pansze (pronounced like the fl...

Have you ever attended a church revival at one of the “up-tempo” churches (Pentecostal- type), where the speaker is just “faunching at the bit” for his turn to take over the podium, and it seems like ...

Excitement was in the air for Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club meeting because the beginning of backto- school and football season is just around the corner. Thus, it brings our annual update on the Okmu...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club meeting was the second meeting for Joy McGill, Oklahoma AARP Associate State Director for Community Outreach, a position she will soon be leaving to become the Director f...

Some of you might remember the 1983 Stephen King movie “Cujo” about a rabid dog which goes crazy in protecting his property. This movie is an almost-true story based on a dog in Maine named Travers, a...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was presented by Brenda Miller, recently announced Interim Director of the Okmulgee County OSU Extension Office, following the departure of Tanner Miller. She was...

Have you ever had the feeling or experience of drowning in a sea of knowledge that was so far over your head that the surface seemed out of reach? Well, join the crowd for Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Clu...

Lions host representatives during weekly meeting When I read or hear the words “Safe Harbor,” it conjures up thoughts of safety or a refuge, keeping one safe from the rocky shores of life and living’s...

Tuesday’s Okmulgee Lions Club program was a new story for a middle-age agency that has been around for quite some time now - the Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Shelter, commonly referred to as the Ann...

Once again, the Okmulgee Lions Club members were given an update on one of our state projects, the Oklahoma Lions Eye Bank, presented by Roxy Butler. I’m sure that a lot of you readers remember from p...