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Elissa Jones and Kaden Jeffries are the Pioneer Technology Center (PTC) November Students of the Month. Jones is an adult student from Arkansas City and demonstrates dedication, responsibility and a high level of competency in the Practical Nursing program. According to her instructor her positive attitude in class and in clinicals makes her a great role model. Kaden Jeffries is a junior in the SHARE (Sharing Hope and Redefining Education) program at Pioneer Tech. He represents the Construction Technology program as Student of the Month. His instructor praises his new builder skills and attitude and that fact that he is always ready to complete any task given to him. To discover more about Pioneer Tech’s programs and services call 580-762-8336 or visit pioneertech.edu.

Roy Lambert and the former Doris Richards were married November 19. 1960 at First Baptist Church in Kinder, Louisiana.

Ponca City Gospel Jubilee November 21st at 6:30 will feature “Restored” Talented singers, recording artist and gifted musicians coming to share their love for Christ through song and testimony. “We are ‘Restored,’ broken people that God has mercifully put back together.

Journey King has been named the very first female Eagle Scout in the Cimarron Council and in the state of Oklahoma. She lives here in Ponca City and is a Senior Patrol Leader of local Troop 501.

I love Spider-Man. He is my favorite superhero and has been for as long as I can remember. I deeply identified with Peter Parker, seeing myself in the hero the same way many others had, my love of the character even influenced my interest in photography, which now I make a living in.

WASHINGTON -- The first national memorial to Native American war veterans, which was designed by an Oklahoma artist, was unveiled on Veterans Day in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian officially opened its National Native American Veterans Memorial on Wednesday.

The Pioneer Technology Center Practical Nursing class of 2020 celebrated their graduation last week in an outdoor ceremony. Members were pinned by their family and friends and are pictured left to right back row Candala Shenold, Ponca City; Jacki Terrell, Tonkawa; Maribel Florer and Carlie Sixkiller from Ponca City; Taylor Lough, Newkirk; Stephanie Horton, Ponca City; Kari Brumback, Newkirk; Casey Case, Geuda Springs; and Jordan Walton, Newkirk. Front row Allison Wilson, Shayna Owen, Ruby Swanson, and Nora Summitt all from Ponca City. Hannah Crawford, Tonkawa; Carly Adams, Newkirk; Sheri Bernard, Fairfax; Kelsea Eckert, Peckham, Melissa Kennedy, Ponca City; and Ashley Lind from Arkansas City. The next class enrolls in March, for more information about this program and the prerequisites contact Pioneer Tech at 580-762-8336 or visit www.pioneertech.edu.

ENID, Okla. — The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center has hired Dr. Neal Matherne as their new Education Director. Matherne is a heritage professional with a passion for helping museums and communities better understand each other. At the Field Museum of Natural History, Matherne cofacilitated outreach to the Chicagoland Filipinx community, linking them to the museum’s collection of 10,000 objects from the early twentieth-century Philippines. He comes to the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Matherne conducted a two-year study on the relationship between Skidmore’s Tang Teaching Museum and Scribner Library through the use of primary source collections. He is also an ethnomusicologist with an interest in the Philippines and popular musics of the United States. He previously taught at the University of the Philippines Diliman, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of California, Riverside.