Boat completely burns up in Twin Lakes No. 1

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Thank you Jo for your timely letter. I agree the obscene profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies should be seized by the Health Reform Czar to pay for our right to public health care. Why should immoral advertising coerce us to pay till we bleed just so evil CEOs and lazy shareholders can smoke hundred dollar cigars and swill 40-year-old Scotch at their luxury villas.

Call your congressman and let them know that the bill they are voting on Friday shouldn’t be called cap and trade, it should be cap and steal. The Waxman-Markey Bill (HR 2454) is not a bill to clean the air or to clean water or to remove CO2 from the air, it is simply another route for government control and taxation.

Reader agrees with guest editorial

I just wanted to say that Jamie Bergsten’s article the other day on watching what you say in front of children and doing what is right in front of children, was right on and it’s one of the best guest editorials I’ve read in a long time. Keep up the good work, Jamie.

Letter to the editor very well said
I just finished the letter to the editor by Barton D. West. Very well said Mr. West, very well said.

For those people who are looking for something to do on July 4, there is a variety of activities to choose from in Pottawatomie County alone.
Shawnee’s 17th annual Red, White and Blue celebration is scheduled for Saturday evening at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center. The gates will open at 6 p.m., with musical performances slated by Uncalled Four and Randy Houser.

I’ve refrained from weighing in on the much publicized scuffle between an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and a Creek County paramedic last month.
The incident took place near Paden and the ambulance was carrying a patient reportedly headed to the Prague hospital.

A boat that had been carrying a family of four was completely burned early Friday afternoon at Shawnee’s Twin Lakes Lake No. 1.
All occupants were wearing life jackets and evacuated the boat without injury.
Steve and Dava Peters and their two teenaged children, all of Shawnee, began the holiday weekend on the water with their 1986 Bayliner when, at about 3 p.m., the rear of the boat caught fire.

Air Force Airman Christopher C. Rainwater graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Rainwater is a 2001 graduate of Seminole High School.

When you’re searching for a peaceful, quiet place to wet a hook, ride your horse or pitch a tent, look no further than central Seminole County.
East of the city of Seminole is a lake named for its biggest fan — the sportsman. Found in abundance at Sportsman Lake are the subtleties of nature and fish willing to bite.

The Seminole State College Board of Regents convened Thursday for its monthly meeting. At its June meeting, the SSC Board unanimously agreed to hold tuition and mandatory fees at the current rate, heard reports on campus activities, approved the college’s Educational and General Fund Budget for the 2010 fiscal year, accepted the audit, accepted an agreement for exchange of services with the SSC Educational Foundation and discussed purchasing technological equipment for classroom video capture.

When the middle-of-nowhere town of Woodward invited George W. Bush to its Fourth of July celebration, no one really expected the former president to accept. But he did.

Now this community of 12,000 is scurrying to get ready for what some locals are calling the biggest thing ever to happen to Woodward, a place where cattle outnumber people.

State Rep. Sally Kern has launched a proclamation for morality at a state Capitol rally where she was heckled by protesters who urged her to "love they neighbor."

Luv ‘N Stuf daycare fourth of July parade.

Photos from Lions Club Park on Tuesday June 23rd and Thursday June 25th.

Shawnee’s Todd Boyer, like most high school baseball coaches, is keenly aware of the value encompassed through summer league baseball.

Shawnee High School product Kyle Dixon inks a baseball letter of intent with Mid-America Christian University