The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 265, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Page: 2 of 10
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TUESDAY, APKIL r. 2012
MONUMENTS
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Wildflowers
Bir dwalching, archery, ‘wetland critters’ class al l lackberry Flat
ulation.
Hickman with the OK
Conessions will be avail- Wildlife Department at 405-
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LOWELL UMS
FUNERAL HOME
Lowell-Tims Funeral Home
Jackson County’s Only Crematory
ATTENTION
If you have mineral
interest you'd like to
sell please call
405-203-8055
for more details
learn English Today Aprende
ingles ahoral Free Classes -Clases
gratis. Booker I earning Center
located at 400 West Elm. Classes
are Monday through Thursday
(1 unes - Jueves) Irom 8:15 a.in. to
11:15 a.m.
I he Pinochle Club is looking for
Pinochle Players. People who want
to learn are welcome. They can
teach you to play and have fun. For
more information, call Pat Schnur
at 477-3956.
looming
de Hokanson
All activities will begin at
the Hackberry Flat Center,
a facility that provides wet
land classroom experiences
for school groups, programs
on wildlife and wildlife relate
The Southwest Oklahoma Quilt
Guild meets on the first Thursday
of each month at Grace United
Methodist Church Fellowship
Hall (south end of building) on
South Park Lane at 10 a.m., pot-
luck luncheon at noon, and busi-
ness meeting at 1 p.m., followed
by the monthly program. On the
third Thursday of each month is a
quilt workday, so bring a project
and join in!
Red Rivers Toastmasters invites
you to join us in overcoming the tear
of public speaking every Tuesday
night from 5.30 to 6:30 p.m. at the
Southwest Technology Center. For
more information, call 563-9002.
Altus Original Group of
Alcoholics Anonymous (315 N
Crain) meets nightly at 8 p.m.,
Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Thursday (Women’s Meeting) No
noon meetings until further notice.
Contact =480-0417.
The Community Center, 400
block ol Falcon Road, is having a
dance every Thursday, at 7 p.m.
The Altus Ballroom Dancers w ill
meet permanently 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Mondays in the east end of the
Altus Community Center on Falcon
Road. New couples are encouraged
to come for an evening of ballroom
dancing. For those who want it.
teaching will be available for waltz,
foxtrot, swing, rumba cha cha cha,
tango, salsa, samba and quickstep.
Family Life Church w ill present
Dale Gentry, of Breakout Prayer
Network, on Sunday, May 13, at 10
a.m. The church, located at 1901
Falcon Road, invites everyone for a
service of prayer and prophecy.
The Altus Meal Site is needing
volunteers to help deliver meals to
those who are homebound. Meals
are delivered Monday thru Friday.
Any time you can give is appreci-
ated. If you would like to volun-
teer call the Altus Meal Site at
580-482-1290. The Altus Meal Site
is a part of Southwest Oklahoma
Community Action Group.
The Operation CARE Food
Pantry offers free food to quali-
fied applicants every third Saturday
of the month. 10:30 Devotion and
food pantry open 11 to 12 noon.
May 8 at 7 .pm. at Best W estern in
Altus. For More Information please
contact Tanya Cary 580-471-1255
Association meets every first
Thursday of the month at Fred's on
N. Main in Altus, at 7 p.m. Riders
of all types of hikes welcome and
even if you don't have a motorcycle,
you're still welcome. More info at
cmawot a yahoo.com.
The Altus Public Library pro-
vides a 30 minute storytime for
preschoolers every Wednesday
morning from 10:30 a.m. to 11
a.m Children 3 to 5 years are wel-
come. For more information call
177-2890.
at the east entrance of the build
ing. I here w ill be a pot hick meal
every first Thursday of each month.
Entertainment will be provided by
the Cimarron Band. For more infor-
mation, call Johnny Newton or Edd
Green at 580-246-327 I
A Domestic Violence educational
outreach group is now available
through AC Ml House. For more
information, call Brenda at ACM!
House at 482-3800.
SW Oklahoma Action RSVP
Program is asking tor deactivated
cell pho ones, complete with batteries
and chargers, for their Cell-phones-
for-seniors program. Phones may
be dropped off ai the Altus RSVP
office located on the first floor of
the Towers: it UH E. Commerce or
the Mangum RSVP office located at
215 North Oklahoma in Mangum
Mission on Wheels will sched-
ule prom clothing giveaways
Wednesday and Friday from 4 to
p.m. They are currently in need of
prom clothing tor young ladies and
gents. Donations of prom clothing
will b e received on Monthly Ap
9. 16, and 23 form I to 6 p.m. For
information or special donations
call Edna at 580-6 19-8620.
The Friendship School and
Community Get-Together will be
held Friday, April 20 at 5 p.m.,
and Saturday, April 21 from 10
a.m. to ?, at the Altus Community
Center. Bring your favorite snack
for Friday night, tea and coffee
will be furnished. The meal will be
catered Saturday. $12 per person.
Reservations are needed no later
than April 13. Call Verna Johnson
at 580-482-7602.
Altus H.O.W. Group of Alanon
meets Tuesdays at 6 p.m. and
Saturdays at 10 a.m. at 315 N Crain.
8:30 A.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Closer for Limich
Kincannon
Funeral Home
delivery is available by calling 580-
481-4267.
A medical and travel expense
fund is set up at the First State
Bank in Altus for Terry Southhall
who is getting a double bypass and
Aortic valve replacement to be per
formed on March 27 in Lawton. All
donations are greatly appreciated.
Hackberry Flat area include
b riding tour for
intermediate and advanced
rs that begins
a.m and goes
able at the Center, including 990-4977.
drinks, candy, and grilled
hamburgers and hotdogs.
WELL IIMS
ME RAI H MI
1 etery with Habitat for Humanity Altus Area
11 officiating, will be having its monthly lunch on
Free Seminars on Health and
Wellness are held every Monday
from 7 to 8 p.m. at SWTC. The
seminars are hosted by Wisdom
Copious Covenant. Bring guests or
loved ones. For more information,
call Doug at 360-303-7038 or Paula
at 306-739-9675.
The Altus area TOPS (Take Off
Pounds Sensibly) group Chapter
=657 meets at 5.30 p.m. every
Thursday, at Highland Heights
United Methodist Church, 1911 N’
Main. For more information, visit
www.tops.org or contact Mark
(580) 738-1042 or Mary Wayne at
(580)482-20 )36.
802 Falcon Rd * Altus, Okla. 73521
580-480-0400
filled day for the
lily on Saturday,
from 9 a.m. to
lackberry
ated near
mu southwest
The ( ancer C enters of Southwest
Oklahoma on the Jackson ( ounty
Memorial Hospital campus is
recruiting volunteer drivers for the
12-passenger van that will provide
transportation for cancer patients.
Volunteer drivers must have ,1 cur-
rent driver's license. I he volun-
teer application can be picked up
at the cancer center at 1200 East
Broadway. For information call
the Cancer Centers of Southwest
Oklahoma at 48044400 or Bonnie
Mi A\skill al Jackson ( ounty
Memorial Hospital at 379-5771.
"ecu wou
Effective Monday, April 2
Altus Tag Agency
RED RIVER CALENDAR
Habitat for I lumanity Altus Area to
hold monthly lunch on Thursday
Kincannon Funeral Home
and Cremation Service
Altus - 482-1800 - Eldorado
www.kincannonfuneralhome.com
.....: Birding tours
- and families
four times on
a.m.. 11
p.m. and 2 p.m.
first 25
ip for the
e the tour will
■ fix Id guide
nake reserva-
Alcoholics Anonymous
Friendship Group of Altus meets
every Monday and Thursday at 8
p.m. For more information, call
649 2927 01 17 l-t 616.
tions for a bird tour please
email: mhickman@ zoo.
odwc.state.ok.us. Please
provide in your email which
of the four time slots and
the number of people in
your group. You may also
sign up for a tour when you
arrive at Hackberry Flat
Center but please note that
each tour is limited to 20
people. A waiting list will
be maintained.
Families can try for the
first time, or get skill devel-
opment tips, at the archery
and shotgun areas. Ever
been hunting for crawdads,
a.k.a. crayfish? Come learn
the trick of mud buggin'.
Take a close up look at
some of the sport fish of
Oklahoma in the Wildlife
Department's large aquari-
um. You can even try your
arm at “Goose knocking"!
Activities continue
National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI) Connection
Recovery Support group meets
from 2 to 3:30 p.m. every Thursday
at Taliaferro Mental Health Center.
215 W. Commerce. For more infor-
mation. call 480-0650.
Oklahoma
1 Wildlife
Friends
Hackberry Flat are offer-
The Altus/Mangum Cancer
Support Group meets at 6 p.m.
the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each
month in the education department
at JCMH, located in the east wing
of the hospital. For more informa-
tion, call 482-6435 or 182 7420
* All shapes * All sizes * All colors * All finishes * All prices
* Delivered and installed * SW Oklahoma‘s lowest prices
under the Thursday, April 19, from 11 a.m.
: Kincannon to 1 p.m., at the Altus Community
l H e. A full obitu- Center. The lunch is being spon-
ill be published in the sored by Emmanuel Baptist Church,
dition of the and the menu will be fried chicken,
es. Online tributes mashed potatoes, corn, roll and
pay be made at kincannon- dessert. Cost is $6 and take out
on the
^ lost as if first meeting will be held Tuesday,
Their picture to
inted Buntings I
—= important bill for veterans signed into law
e weekend. • @
inside the Center with ed activities as well as meet-
viewing wetland "crit- ing facilities for resource-
ters" in the wetland class- oriented programs, work-
room presented by Quartz shops and meetings. More
Mountain Nature Park information and directions
and the OK Wildlife and to Hackberry Flat can be
Prairie Heritage Alliance, found at www.w ildlifede-
Experience an interac- partment.com/hackberry_
tive exhibit about bats in flat.htm. For more informa-
Oklahoma by Alabaster tion about other attractions
Caverns State Park, in and around Frederick,
Participants of the call the Frederick Chamber
Hackberry Flat Day activi- of Commerce at 580-335-
ties are exempt from the 2126. For more informa-
required license or Wildlife tion about the Hackberry
Conservation Passport reg- Flat Center call Melynda
OBITUARIES
tten
Shirley Aon Otten,
, of Altus, passed away
11 2012, at the
County Memorial
it Graveside memo-
will be held at
I Thursday at the
In addition to Hackberry private collection of more
Flat Day, the “Crawford than 160 animal trophy
Collection” will be open mounts that were collected
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The from throughout the world
Crawford Collection in by Frederick's Crawford
downtown Frederick is a family. Admission is free.
not have a caregiver who is The U.S. deficit hit a for our country to get its problem, the President
able to manage their medi- re ord high in March, and fiscal house in order. The and ( ongress .......t have
cal or emotional needs, our budget deficit is slated Oklahoma state Senate anil the political will to stop
Many of our veterans to exceed S1 trillion lor the House have approved a spending money we don’t
return from conflicts with fourth consecutive year resolution this year request have It’s important that all
debilitating injuries and The ( Congressional Budget ing that Congress begin the \meric ins an ware ol the
extraordinary emotional Office is forec sting a 21 process of amending the danger v 1 if we con-
trauma. Nursing homes are budget deficit of $1.17 tril- ( onstitution to require a tinue our slide toward even
often not equipped to deal lion. Through the first half balanced budget every year, greater levels of indebt-
with such patients. Medical of the budget year, federal While Oklahomans - ■ Our le vil
Foster Homes like this offer spending totals $1.81 tril- are fortunate to have a ne ver res ( rs this trend if
a better environment for dis- lion. Congressional delegation Americans do not demand
abled veterans who deserve These startling figures that understands the impor- that they take iction
our care and gratitude. underscore the urgent need tanc e of this extraordinary Please feel fn € to cop
Christian Motorcyclists
Ward and April
have really The Cancer Centers of Southwest
the wildflowers, Oklahoma is host ing a free skin can-
es. Yellow cer screening next Friday, April 20,
rus reenthread and from 9 a.m. to noon. No appoint-
m Wallflower have ment is necessary. The screening
spotted in the last is a community service of Jackson
Prickly Poppy s County Memorial Hospital, and
D D per looking the Cancer Centers of Southwest
tchiing eyes Oklahoma. The facility is located
tooscare the on the Jackson County Memorial
rnish-eew. Hospital campus at’ 1200 E.
, the few that the Broadway in Altus. Call 480-4400
for more information.
vucia flower petals
elished by deer. Altus Professional Educators will
■ he naturecen- meet Tuesday, April 24, at 3:45
el got to start p.m., at Southwest Technology
n The entire flower Center, 711 W. Tamarack Rd. This
ten down to the is an important meeting. They will
- of the yucca be electing APE officers for upcom-
many sources ing year and will announce the win-
neric yucca" as ners fo the two APE $500 scholar-
parts, at Quartz ships. There will also be door prizes
0 have lots of and refreshments.
1 1 01 "soap weed"
slant has been Miss Altus Outstanding Teen
el or soap Pageant is now accepting contes-
is have high tants ages 13-17 years old. The
i saponins, first meeting will be held Thursday,
. state this April 26 at 7 p.m. at the First
'' Muss 1 State Bank in Altus, Limited Space
"U"is available. For more information
birds ire please contact Tanya Cary 580-471-
To They can 1255
zooming around
1 i pground and The Great Plains Stampede
bird feeders Rodeo is accepting applications
Mountain for Queen Contestants ages 16-22
The Scissor- years old and Princess Contestants
have also ages 10-15 years old. Contestants
these birds will compete in Interview,
fenc e and Horsemanship & Ticket Sales. The
Painted Mike Schulz
e 'v the Quartz State Senator
center and I was pleased to see the
you saw Governor recently sign
our bird into law an important bill
kills The for Oklahoma veterans,
n easy Senate Bill 1210 creates the
" other Oklahoma Medical Foster
blue Home Act providing non-
ed rump and institutional community-
' ' , based care for aging and/
ehashy or chronically/terminally-ill
d veterans who are unable to
15 live independently and do
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