The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 25, 2019 Page: 1 of 22
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cation to receive gifts was
to be a resident of Jackson
Volunteers flooded the
First United Methodist
Church on Saturday to
help make a Merry Christ-
mas for 742 people repre-
senting in 271 families.
Project Noel, organized
through the church, raises
more than $25,000 a year
and gets donations from
for those in need. This
year’s organizers of the
event, Mike and Mitzi Pate,
said each family receives a
A group of volunteers
is making sure a military
family stationed at Al-
tus Air Force Base have
a Merry Christmas by
participating in what the
Armed Services YMCA
calls “Santa Boots."
blanket and a Bible, while
each family member gets
a toy for each child as well
as socks, gloves and hats.
And, if the gifts needed
batteries, Project Noel pro-
vided those as well.
To be eligible for the
giveaway, parents had to
go to the Department of
Human Services to pick up
a voucher for each mem-
ber of the family. Mike
The first sergeant of
each squadron nominates
a family based on rank
and need. They also fac-
tor in volunteer time by
spouses. Once they pick a
recipient, volunteers get
a wish-list from the fami-
ly and purchase gifts and
wrap them individually
for family members.
On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Sr.
Airman Nathaniel Payne,
his wife, Kristina, and
daughters Alexandra, 6,
Kamryn, 5, and Nadian-
na, 1, met at the Armed
Services YMCA on Altus
Air Force Base to open a
few gifts and take the rest
to their home to open on
Christmas. There were an
Price said not to let
anyone stop you from
your dream of flying.
He said 90 percent of
those who seek waivers
based on height, can get
a waiver to one aircraft
or another.
Price’s job at AAFB is
to make sure the pilots
here meet the medical
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Carbines: Weapon
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WEATHER. 2
COMICS/PUZZLES.4
CLASSIFIEDS. 5
SPORTS. 7
FREEDOM FLYER. 8
BY RICK CARPENTER
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Local family receives gifts
from ‘Santa Boots’ program
BY RICK CARPENTER
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Volunteers
Michael
and Amy
Colling-
bourne
assist a
parent at
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for 8- and
, 9-year-
| olds.
estimated 50 gifts w rapped
under a tree in the Armed
Services Y MCA office. Ka-
trina Payne volunteers at
Rivers Elementary and for i
the squadron.
Alexandra's face lit up
as she opened a package
that contained a dozen
whose artwork is in the month
ly calendar, and there is one se-
lected as the State Promotional
Poster of the Year. One more
artwork is used in the entry
form for the following year.
ODOT sent the calendars
out last week as part of a pro
motion to get entries for the
2021 calendar. All 14 winners
receive cash prizes of $250 for
first place. $150 for second place
and $100 for third place in their
grade categories. The winners
are announced in April, and
their family members are in-
troduced on the floor of the
State House of Representatives
at the State Capitol. Teachers
of the 11 winners receive a two
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A Duke elementary school
student won $100 and has his
artwork featured in the 2020
Trash Poster Calendar that
highlights student artwork.
Lance Womack, who entered
the contest as a fourth-grade
student last year, is one of 14
students whose artwork is fea-
tured in the year's calendar.
The ODOT distributes more
than 35,000 of the calendars to
state agencies, businesses and
schools statewide. There were
6,700 entries in the contest that
is divided into different school
grades. Womack's was in the
third through fifth grades.
There are a dozen students
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Lance Womack | Duke Grade School
Duke fourth grade student Lance Womack's poster drawing of Ants throwing trash
into a trash can won him $100, and he has his poster proudly displayed for the
month of July in the Oklahoma Department of Transportation 2020 Trash Post
Calendar.
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Alexandra Payne, left, who is 6 years old, reacts when she opens a package of 12 days of socks with the Disney Frozen emblem
on them. The movie is one of her favorites. Local volunteers wrapped gifts for Sr. Airman Nathaniel Payne, as well as his wife,
Kristina, and children Alexandra, Kamryn and Nadianna Payne.
of your arms and even
your buttocks to your
knees. Sometimes the
body lengths they mea-
sure may make you
more eligible to tly one
airplane over another.
Those are to determine
whether your extremi-
ties can reach the con-
trols to fly the aircraft.
Price said some pilots
are too tall for fighter
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In an effort to educate
wannabe pilots while
also trying to respond
to a shortage of U.S. Air
Force pilots, career pi-
lots at Altus Air Force
Base are combating
misinformation about
requirements to become
a pilot.
And, some of it is sim-
ply a tall tale.
Major Tyler Price,
who serves as the main
flight doctor at AAFB,
said the Air Force is
looking to diversify its
bank of pilots by seek-
ing waivers for some
measurements while
also determining wheth-
er specific standards
should apply to different
aircraft.
For instance, AAFB
flight instructor Capt.
Alana Benischek, who
is 5 feet 3 inches tall,
may not lie able to fly a
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different heights from requirements while
standing and sitting, serving as an Air Force
from your buttocks to Cadet at the Air Force
your feet and to the top Academy in Colorado
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fighter jet, but she does jets because they have
well with the C-17. The restrictions for those
recommended Air Force who might have to eject,
heights are between 64 But they could fly air-
and75 inches, or 5 feet 4 craft like the C-17 be-
inches and 6 feet 5 inch- cause they don’t have
es. But many like her the capability of ejecting
can apply fora waiver, in a cramped cockpit.
When they consider Benischek said she
a waiver, they measure got around the height
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