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Who gets your family’s turkey? Where do they get it?

The youngsters in Mrs. Lindsey Linker’s PreK3 Class answered our Thanksgiving questions ...

Once again, following Santa’s visit to Allen, the Allen Chamber will be giving five lucky shoppers $100 each. Tickets will soon be given out by Chamber member stores to customers who spent $5 or more on purchases. Save your tickets for the drawing!

The trash pickup will be changed next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Farmers State Bank is once again sponsoring an Angel Tree for area children, ages birth to 12 years old.

A BBQ Benefit is being planned for Saturday, December 7th, 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m., to benefit Richard Blalock. The event will be held at the Choctaw Community Center, 103 E. California Avenue, Coalgate.

Its time for a little basketball!! The Allen teams begin the seaon in the Conference Tournament in Tupelo next week. The boys hit the floor Monday at 8:20 and will face Stonewall. The Lady Mustangs will see Roff at 4:30. Admission for the games is $5. Brackets are on page 9.

has to be trimmed and shaped up so that you grow a tighter, denser tree. And we do that with hand clippers,” Nicholson said. Imagine doing that more than 30,000 times, every year. Outside the holiday season, he only has two employees. When Christmas rolls around, the staff grows to about 25.

It would be my first time to cut down my “own” Christmas tree. My dad and I had gotten permission from our good friend John Daugherty to go on his land and take any tree we wanted. We got started a little later in the afternoon than we had hoped.

Holdenville General Hospital is proud to announce the new upgrade of their MRI system! A celebration Open House and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held Wednesday November 6th, to showcase the new MRI system for patients, providers and the community!