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New and existing Oklahoma mentoring programs that serve students in grades K-12 can now apply for Boren Mentoring Initiative Grants from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. The foundation offers two types of grants.

Recently, United States Attorney Robert J. Troester and ATF Special Agent in Charge Jeff Boshek provided a briefing on illegal firearm conversion devices, commonly known as “switches” or “auto sears” which convert semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic weapons (i.e., machineguns) in a matter of seconds.

In conjunction with America Recycles Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Cherokee Nation, Modoc Nation, Muscogee Creek Nation, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, and the Wyandotte Nation will receive a total of $6,092,098 in Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia to expand recyling infrastructure. The United Keetoowah Band will receive $2,000,000 in Recycling Education and Outreach grants to provide additional opportunities for recyling. As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, these grants will expand education for waste management systems across the region.

First Baptist Church of Frederick, 201 East Grand, extends an invitation to the community to attend the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 24. They would also like to invite the community to their annual free Community Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day.

“Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate December 15, 1941, as Bill of Rights Day. And I call upon the officials of the Government, and upon the people of the United States, to observe the day by displaying the flag of the United States on public buildings and by meeting together for such prayers and such ceremonies as may seem to them appropriate.”