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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: This Christmas, we planned to get a puppy, but it is too young to leave its mother yet. Instead of revealing the puppy on Christmas Day, we wrapped a big box that had a little note in it from Santa saying that a new puppy will arrive soon, and to write down their ideas for a name on the back of the card.

State Representative Anthony Moore has been named to the Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) Presidential Order of Merit. Moore, who resides in Clinton with his family, represents District 57 (which includes SWOSU’s main campus at Weatherford) in the Oklahoma House of Representatives where he serves as Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education & Career Technology Education.

Through a grant awarded to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences from the United States Department of Agiculture (USDA), experts at OU Health can now expand life-saving technology and expertise to rural hospitals in the state, where life expectancy is lower, and residents face an increased risk of death from stroke.

Louis and Auguste Lumiere are French brothers who invented a cameraprojector they called the Cinematographe. In 1890, Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson developed the first motion-picture camera, called the Kinetograph, a machine with a peephole viewer that allowed one person to watch a strip of film as it moved past a light.

Frederick Elementary School, named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2020, received a B on this year’s State Report Card. The one thing keeping them from receiving an A? Chronic absenteeism.

Midwestern State University recognized 1,040 honor students for the Fall 2023 semester. The President’s Honor Roll included 400 students, the Provost’s Honor Roll included 297 students and the Dean’s Honor Roll included 343 students.

The Frederick School Enrichment Foundation has announced that applications for the Lorene Wessel Scholarship for 2023 graduates of Frederick High School are now available at the high school counselor’s office.

Da-da-da-DUM! One of the most well-known first movements in any symphony often needs no other words and anyone in the vicinity will name Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The nearly deaf composer spent about four years composing Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 6, from 1804-1808, before its fairly disastrous world premiere Dec. 22, 1808, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

The Frederick school enrichment foundation has announced that William H. “Bill” Crawford and Family have created a new scholarship for second semester sophomores.