Updates from Meeker Town Hall

1. Update on Glenn Crest Park A. Finally! The Grand Opening of Glenn Crest Park with the official Ribbon Cutting was accomplished with the Chamber of Commerce, Sponsors, Employees & Town Residents.

Time for planting flowers

This past Sunday, my wife Pat decided it was time to go buy flowers so she could plant them whenever she was ready. My role is helping to go and pick up the flowers, the potting soil and whatever else she thinks she needs. I mentioned picking up the flowers, not picking them out.

Town Talk

Stroud’s largest park is Foster Park, located at Gillispie Avenue and East 7th Street near Parkview Elementary School. The land was donated by the George Foster family and developed during the early 1950’s.

Portable garden

When the forecast started showing a frost/freeze warning for Tuesday night, my first thought was: “No biggie. We’ll just bring the garden into the house.” And so we did.

Understanding kitchen rules

Knowing what is permitted for me to do in the kitchen cookingwise is a lesson I learned many, many years ago. It’s limited I assure you. Thank goodness for the microwave oven. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult. It’s not that I don’t know how to cook, because I assure you I do.

Updates from Meeker Town Hall

1. Update on Glenn Crest Park A. Glenn Crest Park is open to the Public. B. Robbie Hulstine Enterprises did complete the beautiful stonework on the two columns that hold our “Welcome to Glenn Crest Park” sign. C. The ribbon cutting for the Grand Opening had to be cancelled because of the rain.

Wicked Lies and Alibis, the Murder Mystery Event

This is the Sixty-Sixth article in a semipermanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.

New mayor sworn in at Meeker

The Town of Meeker has a new Mayor and Vice Mayor following the Board of Trustees meeting earlier this week. The Trustees appointed Jeff Wilbourn as the new Mayor and Donna Weber as Vice Mayor. Wilbourn replaces Aaron Head as the mayor.

COVID climbs again

The number of new cases in the area attributed to COVID-19 has jumped some in Pottawatomie and Lincoln Counties, Oklahoma State Department of Health figures show. But there have been no new deaths reported in either county since the last report..

Dishwasher

I am sad on Kindra’s behalf. Our dishwasher gradually became less and less effective, recently reaching the point where it wouldn’t clean at all. There were times, in fact, it seemed to make dishes dirtier than they were when you put them in. So a couple of weeks ago Kindra sprung for a new one.