Stroud City Council candidate Caleb Ball will be hosting a “meet and greet” on Sunday, March 23 at the Main Street Pavillion. The event will start at 1:00 p.m. Hot dogs and chips will be served. Everyone is invited to come have a bite to eat and share their ideas about what can be done together as a community to ensure a great future for Stroud. Caleb will be available to answer any questions and looks forward to seeing familiar faces as well as meeting new ones.
There is a new piece of playground equipment in the park. Town Talk purchased the equipment with their part of the profits from the sale of the blue Tiger lightbulbs. David Evans and Melvin Brown drove to Dewey to make the purchase, helped disassemble it and brought it back to Stroud. Service King sandblasted and painted the equipment for Town Talk. David and Melvin then delivered it to the park and reassembled it. Bob Pearman and his City crew installed it. As they say, it takes a village. Be sure and check it out. It is a nice addition to Foster Park. Speaking of playground equipment, I understand Parkview Elementary is having new equipment installed over Spring Break. They had a committee of teachers suggest playground ideas and it is about to come to fruition. The kids will come back from break to a big surprise. Thank you to Parkview teachers and staff for all they do for our kiddos.
The Naturals 9U will be hosting a baseball tournament this weekend in Stroud after taking last weekend off.They will play at 2:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 22. Gideon will travel with the Sandlots to compete this weekend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Stroud Tigers Middle School baseball team handily beat the Davenport Bulldogs this past week 21-6 and the Depew Hornets 100. They will travel to Okemah on Monday, March 24 to take on the Okemah Panthers at 5:00 p.m.
Former Stroud Class of 1957 graduate and Stroud elementary teacher Jan Gurney Mace recently passed away. Her memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday,April 5 at First Baptist Church Stroud. Town Talk offers its condolences to the Mace family.
Thank you to Five Star BBQ and 99 Nutrition for the huge discounts they offered our firefighters and first responders to say thank you for battling recent fires and for all they do for our community. We owe the men and women a debt of gratitude. Be sure and say “thank you” if you see them out and about in Stroud.
Have a great week and thank you to everyone who continues to shop and dine local………………first!