Community Thanksgiving service is Monday The annual McAlester Community Thanksgiving Worship Service will be Monday at 7 p.m. at the Grand Avenue campus of First United Methodist Church. The Rev. J.T. Carnell, pastor of First Nazarene, will bring the message. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Choir, under the direction of Loise Washington, will provide the special music. Worship leaders represent a variety of faith traditions and include pastors and members of churches from across the community. The night’s offering will go toward the Alms Funds of McAlester's two ministerial alliances. Local students win at OMTA audition Local winners of the recent OMTA Junior Auditions in the Muskogee area were Julia Stizza, grades 5 and 6, and Esther Salters, grades 7 and 8, with John Raunikar as alternate in grades 5 and 6. The winners performed on Nov. 5, at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee where they were presented a trophy for their memorized piano solos. The audition is sponsored by the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association, and all three study piano with Debbie Brown of McAlester. Outgoing tribal chief avoids office, protest CONCHO (AP) — The outgoing governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes is avoiding the tribal headquarters as protesters try and keep him out. Darrll Flyingman’s final day as tribal governor is Jan. 2. Flyingman’s opponents already have changed the locks to the governor’s office, saying they don’t want him to harm the tribe during his final weeks in office. OCU receives $1M from late wife of jeweler OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City University says it will create an endowed chair that will be funded with a $1 million bequest from the late wife of a local jeweler. The bequest by Jeroldine Zachritz Clark will fund the B.C. Clark Jr. Endowed Chair in OCU’s Meinders School of Business. The Clark family owns B.C. Clark Jewelers, which is thought to be the oldest retail store in the state under the same name and ownership. B.C. Clark Jr. is now 96 years old. He attended OCU and has maintained close ties with the private university. OCU President Tom McDaniel says the Clark family has shown a tremendous commitment to the university and that Jeroldine Clark’s gift will benefit generations of students to come. The $1 million gift brings OCU’s current $50 million fundraising campaign to $47.2 million.

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