Shawnee Medical Center employees held a food drive through the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

Downtown Shawnee, Inc. has announced the 2nd Annual Downtown Business Merchants Design Contest. Downtown businesses will be judged based on best use of lights, window and door display, originality and amount of work put into the design.

Chapter 2654 of the American Association of Retired Persons will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Liberty Baptist Church cafeteria. Board members meet at 9:30 a.m.

Pioneer Library System customers can reduce their existing library fines and help feed the hungry in their communities by taking advantage of the Food for Fines program Nov. 30 through Dec. 6.
Any non-perishable food item brought into the library that week is worth $1 in reduction of existing library fines.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $80,000 to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma.

Unity Health Center ended its 2009 United Way pledge drive with record-breaking numbers for itself and the county for the third consecutive year.

The Tecumseh of Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards banquet Thursday night to celebrate those whose time and talents have resulted in many accomplishments for the chamber and city over the past year.

The night’s theme: “Tecumseh Today, Working Toward Tomorrow.”

A McLoud woman, Mary Jo Garrison, died Wednesday night in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of SH 102 and Hazel Dell Road.

In appreciation of the community support it receives each year, Unity Health Center will hold a free, holiday lighting ceremony at 6 p.m., Nov. 30 at the main entrance of its north campus.

The decline in sales tax revenue for Shawnee through November 2009 continues to reveal a weakened local economy, but city officials said that improvement of the numbers depends largely on Shawnee’s citizens.

Several parents across Shawnee might have found it a bit harder to sleep Wednesday after attending a Reality House Party presented by Gateway to Prevention and Recovery and the 2Much2Lose Initiative.
“There are a lot of parents having heart palpitations across the state at what they are seeing at these ‘parties,’” Jan Tipton, director of training and prevention for Gateway, said.

The East Central University Singers, the University Chorale and the ECU Gospel Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 1300 E. Beverly in Ada. Admission is free.

Habitat for Humanity of Shawnee, Inc., will host a work day on the house being constructed off Ken Del Drive on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8:30 a.m.

A Chandler man critically injured in an accident earlier this month died Nov. 11 from his injuries, according an updated report released Wednesday by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

The Shawnee Fire Department’s free smoke detector program has provided smoke alarms to those in need, but the supply of smoke detectors is nearly depleted.

The Shawnee Board of Education voted Tuesday to sell $3 million in bonds recently approved by voters for Dec. 8.
The sale will take place at 12:45 p.m. at the administration building, 326 N. Union.
The special meeting was called because the board needed to approve the selling of the bonds to comply with law.

A lawsuit filed three years ago in Pottawatomie County District Court by the city of Shawnee against three companies hired to engineer and install an ozone machine for treatment of the city’s water has been settled through mediation.
The lawsuit, which originated in 2006, sought resolution regarding the inability for the city to use a machine installed at its water treatment plant.

Just in time for cooler temperatures across the state, the top 5 percent of 2010 Shawnee High School graduating seniors received academic letter jackets from Arvest Bank Tuesday.
A total of 16 seniors received the jackets, which were purchased by Arvest, during the 26th Academic Letter Jacket Reception.
 

Shawnee detectives continue to investigate the armed robbery of a local tanning salon.

St. Gregory’s University Theatre continues its season this week with “Crusades,” a contemporary piece by internationally acclaimed playwright Michel Azama.