LCJ newsletter 6-23-2025
Monday's newsletter 6-23-2025
Daily Bible verse
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:3
Blast from the past
LeFlore County commissioners to meet Monday
LeFlore County commissioners will meet in a regular business meeting 9 a.m. Monday in the office of the board of county commissioners in the courthouse at 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. DISCUSS AND POSSIBLY APPROVE LEFLORE COUNTY ACCO-SIF WORKERS COMPENSATION RENEWAL QUOTE AND RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026.
11. CONSIDER AND POSSIBLY APPROVE RESOLUTION FOR DISPOSING OF EQUIPMENT FOR COUNTY INVENTORY ITEM D3-301.076, 2003 CHEVROLET ¾ TON PICKUP TRUCK, VIN: 1GCGC24U13Z254251, PURCHASED FEBRUARY 14, 2003 FROM LYNN SMITH CHEVROLET IN THE AMOUNT OF $16,496 TO BENEFIT LEFLORE COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3.
12. OPEN AND POSSIBLY AWARD BID REGARDING PURCHASE OF A 2000 OR NEWER BRUSH TRUCK WITH TRADE IN OF A 1994 CHEVY TRUCK TO BENEFIT HOWE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
13. OPEN AND POSSIBLY AWARD BIDS REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF LEFLORE COUNTY 6- MONTH COUNTY HIGHWAY MATERIALS FROM JULY 1, 2025 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2025.
14. OPEN AND POSSIBLY AWARD BID REGARDING PUBLICATION OF COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS AND PAID CLAIMS FROM JULY 1, 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2026.
15. CONSIDER AND POSSIBLY APPROVE PROFESSIONAL LEGAL SERVICES CONTRACT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LEFLORE COUNTY, THE LEFLORE COUNTY ASSESSOR AND BASS LAW, P.C. REGARDING REPRESENTATION WITH REGARDS TO CERTAIN AD VALOREM TAX ISSUES.
16. ADJOURN.
Oklahoma City wins Game 7, 103-91
Oklahoma City wins Game 7 of the NBA Championship Sunday night, 103-91, for the franchises’ first champion since relocating to Oklahoma City from Seattle.
It’s the second championship for the franchise. The Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA title in 1979; the team moved to Oklahoma City in 2008.
Finals Most Valuable Player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, scored 29 points and has 12 assists while Jalen Williams scored 20 points and Chet Holmgren had 18 for the Thunder, who finished off a season for the ages.
Oklahoma City won 84 wins in the regular season and playoffs, tying the 1996-97 Chicago Bulls for third most in any season.
The Pacers led 48-47 at the half even after losing Haliburton to what his father said was an Achilles tendon injury about seven minutes into the game. But the Thunder went on a 34-20 run in the third quarter as the Thunder built a 13-point lead.
Bennedict Mathurin had 24 points and 13 rebounds for Indiana. The Pacers had 1-0 and 2-1 leads in the series but could not hold off the Thunder.
Oklahoma City was the youngest team to win a title in nearly a half-century.
Clear skies, hot again Monday
LeFlore County weather forecast for Monday calls for another day of clear skies and hot temperatures.
The high is forecast to be 93 degrees with a low of 74.
Sunrise was 6:05 a.m. Sunset is 8:36 p.m.
Sunday’s high in the greater Heavener metropolitan area was 93 with a low of 74. No rain was recorded, leaving the monthly total at 8.39 inches, well above June’s average rainfall of 3.90 inches.
Average temperatures for June 23 are a high of 90 and low of 64. Records for the date were a high of 103 in 1984 and a low of 57 in 1982.
Last year on June 23, the high was 98 with a low of 74.
Area calendar of events
Area calendar of events for the next week in LeFlore County, southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The calendar is a free service for our readers. If you are with a non-profit and want an event publicized, email news@heavener.news.
Monday
LeFlore County commissioners meet 9 a.m.
Funeral services for Charlotte F. Smith
Heavener School Board meets 6 p.m.
Tuesday
Wister Boots and Badges blood drive
Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC
Al Grzech Trio featuring Niki Waters at the LeFlore County Museum
Wednesday
Poteau Rotary Club meets noon EOMC
Thursday
Poteau Kiwanis Club meets noon
LeFlore County Republicans meet 6 p.m. at Patrick Lynch Library
Heavener VFW bingo 6:30 p.m. Highway 59 North
Today in history
1992
Mafia boss John Gotti, aka “Teflon Don,” sentenced to life
On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a... read more
21st Century
2013
Wallenda crosses Little Grand Canyon on high wire
2018
Thai soccer team becomes trapped in cave
African History
1956
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
Arts & Entertainment
1989
Tim Burton’s “Batman” released
Crime
1993
Lorena Bobbitt maims her husband with a kitchen knife
Sports
1972
U.S. Presidents
1972
Haldeman encourages Nixon, on tape, to thwart FBI inquiry into Watergate
Zelma Grace Turnipseed obituary
Zelma Grace Turnipseed at age 86, passed away after a lengthy illness on June 15, 2025 and was born on Sept. 5, 1938 in Oklahoma.
She graduated from Howe High School in the class of 1956.
Surviving family members are her sister, Mary Sue Cunningham, of Kennebunk, Maine; her daughter Marcie Adkisson and husband Darrell of Anadarko; granddaughter Krystal Pinnick and husband James along with three great grandchildren Logan, Max, and Owen all of Queen Creek, Arizona.
She was preceded in death by her parents Oscar Story and Chloie Driver; her husband, Thomas Turnipseed, of Anadarko, and her sister, Betty Jo Ingle Doyle, of Tulsa.
A graveside service was held Thursday at the Oakland Cemetery in Poteau.