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Counting your blessings is a life-skill all of us would be wise to practice. I’m still an amateur blessing- counter, but with the ambition to improve. I’ve learned from the great ones, who I’ve met in hospital rooms and soup kitchens: people who do not deny their hardships but keep a sharp lookout for good people and good news. How well they know the road could always be rougher! They’ve built a foundation of gratitude and hope, that stabilizes them in spite of their circumstances.

Despite the extreme weather swings and lack of rain throughout this summer and autumn, some brilliant colors have emerged. Unbelievably, most plants did begin with green leaves in the spring. The green chlorophyll pigments in leaves busily absorbed blue and red wavelengths of sunlight while reflecting green light. Why the leaves look green to us. Deep inside each leaf, chlorophyll sends light energy to reaction centers where oxygen is split from water brought up from the roots.

Through a 0.495-cent Pottawatomie County sales tax increase for schools, backed by voters in November of 2015 and set to continue until June 30, 2026, schools have been collecting funds for several years. The tax increase was proposed to achieve two things: a 0.49-cent portion –– projected to raise $3.7 million in revenue annually –– is METRO being split between the county’s 14 school districts, and the other portion of the tax — .005 cents — is being utilized for the construction, acquisition, maintenance, and operation of the One Safe Place Family Justice Center.

Gold Star Families monument to be unveiled at Woodland Veterans Park As part of the Veterans Day program today, the new Gold Star Families Monument be unveiled at Woodland Veterans Park in downtown Shawnee. The Veterans Day program begins at 11 a.m.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series answering some of the most fundamental questions around climate change, the science behind it, the effects of a warming planet and how the world is addressing it.

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact businesses globally, even as the pandemic is gradually becoming yesterday’s news, today’s small businesses must continue to rethink their strategies for recruiting younger employees, especially during periods of employee shortages.

November is National Diabetes Month, and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Services Diabetes Program and pharmacy improved their offerings in 2022 to help patients manage their disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its most recent National Diabetes Statistics Report in January 2022.

With clocks recently rolled back an hour and diminishing daylight for drivers, AAA Oklahoma cautions that it is peak time for deer crashes. Through December, deer are more likely to dart into the roadway, stopping for very little, including vehicles, in their quest for mates.