LCJ newsletter 1-13-2025

Monday's newsletter

Jan 13, 2025

Daily Bible verse

Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.

1 Chronicles 29:11

Today’s inspirational

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Nelson Mandela

Commissioners’ agenda 1-13-2025

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The LeFlore County commissioners will meet in a regular business meeting 9 a.m. Monday in the office of the board of county commissioners in Poteau.

AGENDA:

* CALL TO ORDER.
* MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING(S).

3. * PURCHASE ORDERS/PAYROLL (SEE ATTACHED LIST TO BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT).

4. * MONTHLY FEE REPORTS.

5. * TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS.

6. * BLANKET PURCHASE ORDERS.

7. * NEW BUSINESS.

8. * CONTRACT LABOR/SERVICE AGREEMENTS/ANNUAL CONTRACTS.

9. * BURN BAN.

10. Consider and possibly approve Resolution regarding change in Requisitioning Officer from Sharon Steele to Kathy Johnson, and addition of Punky Osburn in place of Kathy Johnson as Receiving Officer to all Election Board accounts.

11. Adjourn.

Heavener School Board agenda

Heavener School Board will meet in a regular monthly board meeting 6 p.m. Monday in the Glenn Scott Educational Center at 500 West Second Street in Heavener.

The whole agenda can be seen HERE.

Poteau School Board agenda 1-13-2025

Poteau School Board will meet in a regular monthly board meeting 6 p.m. Monday in the Bob Lee Kidd Fine Arts Center at 101 Mockingbird Lane in Poteau.

The whole agenda can be seen HERE.

Junior high LCT brackets

Clear skies, cool temperatures Monday

LeFlore County weather forecast for Monday is clear skies and cool temperatures again in LeFlore County and the area as the thawing from last week’s winter storm continues.

The high is forecast to be 43 degrees with a low of 25. Sunrise was 7:26 a.m. Sunset is 5:29 p.m.

LeFlore County calendar

LeFlore County calendar of events for the next week. The calendar is a free service for our readers. If you are a church or non-profit event, please email me at craig@heavenerledger.com.

Monday

LeFlore County commissioners meet 9 a.m.

Junior high basketball LCT

High school board meetings

Tuesday

Funeral service for Patsy Vinson

Junior high basketball LCT

High school basketball: Heavener at Talihina; Cameron at Arkoma; Howe at Westville; Red Oak at LeFlore; Panama at Warner; Pocola at Stigler; Muldrow at Poteau; Union Christian Academy at Spiro; Smithville at Whitesboro

Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC

Wednesday

Poteau Rotary Club meets noon EOMC

Thursday

Poteau Kiwanis Club meets noon

Heavener VFW bingo 6:30 p.m. Highway 59 North

High school basketball: Howe at LeFlore; Battiest at Talihina

HUA, City Council meet 6 p.m.

Friday

Fundraiser for Rick and Melissa Hamner

High school basketball: Heavener at Talihina; Cameron at Bokoshe; Keys at Howe; Kinta at Panama; Hartshorne at Pocola; Poteau at Roland; Whitesboro at Red Oak; Wilburton at Wister; Talihina at Stigler; Arkoma vs. Gans

Saturday

High school basketball: Weleetka at Arkoma

Today in history

1129

Pope recognizes Knights Templar

On January 13, 1129, Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. Led by the Frenchman Hughes de Payens, the Knights Templar organization was founded in 1118. Its self-imposed mission was to protect Christian... read more

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1929

Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles

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1982

Plane crashes into Potomac River

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James Joyce dies

1962

Comedian Ernie Kovacs dies in car crash

1968