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OKLAHOMA PRESS ASSOCIATION BETTER NEWSPAPER News CONTEST W AWARD INNER Source for The 2015 The Heart of Oklahoma Purcell Register Thursday, August 11, 2016 purcellregister.com Vol. 129 No. 40 • 3 sections • 4032 pages 75¢ Since 1887 Compassionate Short and sweet School board breezes through agenda PMH cares for more than the patient care JeanneGrimes The Purcell Register John D. Montgomery • The Purcell Register JeanneGrimes Repeat winner The Purcell Register And nothing is more treating patients as fam- Going head to head against comforting than the real- ily and extending care in open houses at Purcell’s el- Jon Corea,.left,.was.presented.the.Jayne.N..Montgomery.award. Nothing is more gut- ization that your family difficult times to family ementary and intermediate for.the.second.straight.year.for.developing.the.most.outstanding. wrenching than to have member is more than just members who can only schools translated into a light grant.proposal.to.the.Purcell.Public.School.Foundation..Board. a family member in the another case. president.Kerry.Wilhoit.made.the.presentation.at.the.annual. hospital, not knowing if Purcell Municipal Hos- breakfast.for.faculty.and.staff.Monday.at.Purcell.High.School. they will recover or die. pital has a long history of Please see Care, page 9A Please see School, back page New road project begins Affects Johnson Road west of Purcell McClain county District 2 has started work on Johnson Road west of Purcell. The county crew consists of Richard Ward, Ethan Pendle- ton and Don Cole on the road John D. Montgomery • The Purcell Register grader. They started the process Fuel spill A collision.involving.two.semi.tractor-trailers.just.after.8.a.m..August.4.necessitated.brief.closings.of.State.Highway.59.and.the.ramps.to.Interstate. 35..According.to.an.Oklahoma.Highway.Patrol.spokeswoman,.the.tanker.didn’t.lose.its.load.though.there.was.a.fuel.leak.from.the.truck..No.one. Please see Johnson, back page was.injured.in.the.collision. Faculty additions Rain Purcell Public Schools starts year with nine new teachers pretty JeanneGrimes The Purcell Register grade histo- School and He previ- School and scarce ry at Purcell wanted to ously taught the Univer- The students who an- Junior High move closer at Clinton. sity of Cen- While some localized swered the ringing of school School. He to Norman. C u p p tral Okla- locations have seen sub- bells Wednesday in Purcell is a graduate H e a n d chose Pur- homa. stantial rain in recent found nine new faces in of Welling- h i s w i f e , cell for the She previ- days, Purcell has been classrooms ton (Kans.,) Anne,have “great op- ously taught relatively dry. across the High School three chil- portunity to a t M i d - Last Friday .01” was re- district. Cupp and South- Henson dren – Jaxon, Higbee work with a Thompson west City- corded here with another New facul- w e s t e r n 10; Addy- great school D e l C i t y .05” falling Saturday ty members Oklahoma son, 6, and district and Schools and morning. this year are State Uni- Hudson, 5. c o m m u n i - Paoli Public That brings the total J.D. Beck, versity. Cupp is ty.” Schools. rainfall for the year-to- Jacob Cupp, In addition t e a c h i n g He has a “My goal date to 25.99”. Beck G i d g e t he is an as- high school wife, Alison. is to finish Oklahoma City has G r e e n l e e , sistant foot- math and Greenlee my teaching recorded 19.36” with the Kortnie Henson, Jana Hig- ball coach f i f t h a n d is teaching career in a normal rainfall for this bee, John Higbee, Van L. Greenlee and basket- Higbee sixth grade Kinchen third grade Wilhoit small town date at 22.53”. Kinchen, April Thompson, ball coach. social studies and math. math and science at Purcell Annual precipitation and Sharie Wilhoit. Beck previously taught He is a graduate of Elk City Intermediate School. She is a for central Oklahoma is Beck is teaching eighth history at Clinton High High School and SWOSU. graduate of Pauls Valley High Please see Teachers, back page 35.85”. Inside Inside Find it... The Washington Vested Opinion.................4A Purcell Register and Lexington interest starting softball A mother’s Society..................6A ■ Deadlines ■ Contact us Both teams in the gift may save Sports...................1B Chisholm Trail oficer’s lives • News: 12 noon, Tuesday Classic at Shawnee. in Lexington Obituaries.............8A • Display Ads: 12 noon, Tuesday 405-527-2126 [email protected] • Classiieds: 11 a.m., Tuesday Classiieds............9B • Legal Notices: 2 p.m., Tuesday Pg..1B Pg..2A 2A-THE PURCELL REGISTER, Thursday, August 11, 2016 A mother’s Donation buys 6 vests for Lexington Police Department gift Sometimes all it takes to discounts to those departments from $750 to $354 per set. make a situation better is a that reached out to us,” Black- “We placed the Lexington manufacturer that is willing more said. need on the list and I was con- to put personal safety above Dallas changed that. templating how we would help profit. The company is commit- Lexington gather the balance That’s what happened when ting 10 percent of every dollar of the funds needed when the a local business, Armor Advan- generated in export sales to most amazing thing happened,” tage, announced an initiative to providing Hard Armor sets at Blackmore said. cloak as many law enforcement no charge. Myers had accompanied officers as possible with hard “If the projections of our Lindsey to the meeting and armor that is impermeable to distributors and representatives quietly listened to the entire even high-power rifle rounds. are accurate, we will be able to conversation. As the meeting “We must protect those commit over $2 million to this concluded, she spoke up. who protect us,” said Armor effort over the next 12 months,” “I have one question, how Advantage President Michael he said. much is it to make sure that Blackmore. Blackmore called on commu- every full time officer in the Jeanne Grimes • The Purcell Register The recent tragic loss of law nities, organizations and other department has one of these?” Protecting the protectors enforcement lives in Dallas, corporate sponsors to generate Told the balance on six vests and Baton Rouge showed first the funds necessary “to make came to $2,124, Myers quietly Mary Myers of Purcell and her great-granddaughter Jordyn Lindsay presented Lexington responders like police, fire and this a reality.” reached into her purse, pulled Police Chief Deana Allen and Patrolman Greg Lindsay with a check for $2,100 to be used to EMS are woefully unprepared Such a partnership became out a checkbook and stated “I purchase six hard armor protective vests from Armor Advantage in Purcell for the department’s when facing the onslaught of reality last week. want to make sure our officers full-time officers. rifle fire, he added. Mary Myers of Purcell has are safe, I will pay the balance Blackmore set an ambitious a son, Greg Lindsey, who is a myself.” goal for his company – provid- Lexington police officer. “This is such a tremendous Mauldin launches new business ing free of charge more than 1 Lindsey contacted Armor gift to all my guys,” Allen said. million sets of hard armor in Advantage and met with “We are a small agency and our every police cruiser, fire truck Blackmore to discuss the small pay is not what it would take for Lynda Mauldin, a long time not only captures the character Her partner, Stelpflug, who is and EMS unit in the country. department’s need. our officers to be able to buy Purcell resident and former and texture of their life, but adds a Lawton native and a former “Until the events of Dallas, Through a series of dis- their own vests. I don’t think Horticulture instructor at Mid- context and dimension to their journalist and marketing execu- we had done little more domes- counts, Blackmore was able Mary will ever know what a America Technology Center, legacy,” she said. tive, says the pair rely heavily tically than offer substantial to bring the armor price down gift she has given us.” has announced the launch of Mauldin brings more than on a storytelling approach to MyTimes Publishing, a com- 25 years of teaching and retail preserving their clients’ per- pany specializing in helping marketing experience to the sonal and family history. individuals write and publish partnership. Prior to becoming “Storytelling has been used their life stories. a teacher, Mauldin worked as for centuries as a means of According to Mauldin and a caregiver at several nursing teaching life lessons and pass- co-founder Steven Stelpflug, homes and assisted living cen- ing family history from genera- the company was founded on ters in the greater Oklahoma tion to generation,” explains the concept that everyone has City area. She firmly believes Stelpflug. “Unfortunately, a story to tell. that seniors deserve our respect we as a society have largely “So many people have amaz- and admiration, and she consid- abandoned this tradition. At ing experiences throughout ers the opportunity to work with MyTimes; however, we utilize their lives, yet very few have MyTimes a blessing. storytelling as a means of both the opportunity to document “We created this company to acquiring information and and record them for their chil- preserve the integrity of our cli- producing a finished product dren and future generations.” ent’s lives and their memories,” for the client.