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“After 12 weeks of intensive training at Ft. Benning he was sent to Vietnam in 1969, where he received his first Purple Heart after he and his battalion were ambushed. Sgt. Toney is a recipient of two bronze stars, as well as other honors. He is a board member of the Woodring Wall of Honor and Veterans Park at Enid, is a Purple Heart Ambassador, and currently resides on one of the first Centennial Farms in Oklahoma.”
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When the Statewide Offi cial Compensation Commission recently convened, its members endorsed a hodgepodge of pay raises for statewide officeholders. Most notably, the group voted to make the state superintendent Oklahoma’s highest-paid statewide elected official, voting to raise the pay for that job from $124,373 to $250,000.
Read more[ Destry Edwards is a documentary filmmaker and the media production and studio manager at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.]
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• ART ON DISPLAY: Kathryn Merrill Western Art will be open to the public on two different dates this month in lieu of its annual open house. The dates are Dec. 6 and Dec. 20 and it will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be cider, cookies and company as Merrill will be working on her latest piece as you shop. For more information, including the location, see the ad in this edition.
Read moreKingfisher Public Works Authority received approval last week for a $5 million Financial Assistance Program (FAP) loan.
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