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The Ponca City Federated Music Club invites the public to the Composer’s Workshop 39th annual program, Sunday, March 5 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church 6th and Central. Local composers include: Elaine Armstrong, Suzi Lenhart, Amy Muegge and Debbie Rue. National composers include: Mary Leaf, Christi Cary Miller and Carole Bayer Sager. Hostesses for the meeting are Chair: Vicki Stokke, Amanda Cook, Sandy Pendergraft, Marci White, Jenna Wynes and Patti Ziegenhain.

Please join Survivor Resource Network on Saturday, March 4th for A Purple Affair, a fabulous night celebrating the upcoming fashions for Spring and Summer. This event is one of the most highly anticipated events in our community and is the primary fund-raising event for Survivor Resource Network’s domestic violence shelter.

If you have driven around Ponca City in the last few months, you might have noticed a number of painted fox murals popping up around town. These have been in connection to City Arts’ Fox Project. Over the last several years, the fox has become a sort of unofficial mascot for Ponca City. The history behind the mascot is fairly simple. In the 1930s, a figurehead of Oklahoma history, E.W. Marland, brought red foxes from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma to be kept, bred, and hunted for sport. Now, it is not uncommon to see a red fox around town.

1 Million Cups met for their regular monthly presentation at Pioneer Technology Center (PTC) to listen to a speaker share information about their business on Wednesday, March 1. 1 Million Cups was founded as a way to bring entrepreneurs in front of their communities with other entrepreneurs to share their stories.

At approximately 12:35 pm on March 1, there was a two vehicle collision that resulted in injury at the intersection of OK-11 and Union. Vehicle one, a 2004 Kia Optima driven by Margaret Jean Burgess, 37, of Ponca City, was pulled off onto the shoulder of OK-11 and Union Road. Burgess attempted to re-enter the roadway and failed to yield to vehicle two, a 2006 Ford F250 driven by James Dale, 39 of Ponca City, and was struck. There were a total of 5 people in vehicle one. The driver and passenger of vehicle one were pinned in the vehicle for an hour and were extracted by Blackwell and Ponca City Fire using the Hurst tool, more commonly know as the jaws of life.

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