A Fall Festival will be held by members of Trinity United Methodist Church at 1601 E. Shawntel Smith Blvd., just east of Muldrow, on U.S. Highway 64. The festival will run from 9:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, and will include a bounce around and games for children, a yard sale, silent auction, bake sale, country store and more. Chili or stew will be available for lunch on Friday and Indian tacos will be available Friday evening. Brisket sandwiches will be available Saturday.
An All-You-Can-Eat Bean Dinner will be held from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday at the Masonic Lodge No. 120 at 109 W. Redwood in Sallisaw, next to Sequoyah Memorial Hospital. The cost is $4 per person and the menu includes beans, cornbread, relishes, dessert and soft drinks. Proceeds will go to the scholarship fund, which provides scholarships for one senior from each of the Central, Sallisaw and Vian High Schools.
A Fall Carnival will be held at Cave Spring School from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. The carnival will include games, door prizes and a silent auction on baskets. All proceeds will go to the elementary school Christmas fund.
A scrapbookers' crop day will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday for all those who enjoy making scrapbooks or are interested in learning. The crop will be held in the First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall in Sallisaw. Call 775-5521 for more information.
A gospel singing convention, to honor Airman Jacob A. Flippin who will be deployed to Iraq soon, will be held from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday at the Apostolic Faith Church at 101 N. Washington (one block west and one block south of Charlie's Chicken) in Sallisaw. A potluck lunch will be held at noon. For more information contact Zane and Linda Hardin at (918) 773-4259 or at zaneandlinda@yahoo.com.
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 8384 in Muldrow will hold a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday to benefit a heart patient and a cancer patient.
An All-You-Can-Eat breakfast will be held from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Masonic Lodge No. 120, across from Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy, coffee, juice and milk. Cost is $4 for adults and $2 for children age 12 and under.
A Hog Fry Fundraiser Celebration will be sponsored by the Muldrow Cherokee Community Organization from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Muldrow Park. Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the event. All children's tickets will be $4. The meal, cooked in the park, will include hog meat, barbeque beans, fry bread, grape dumplings and a soft drink. Native American music will be played, a horseshoe pitch will be held, and Cherokee cultural demonstrations will be held. Door prizes will also be given away.
Members of the First Baptist Church of Hanson will hold a fall revival from Sunday through Wednesday, Nov. 7. Randy Proctor will be the evangelist. Services will begin at 6 p.m. each day.
A womens meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the New Life Christian Outreach at the corner of Treat and Caddo Streets in Muldrow. Brenda Townsend will be the guest speaker. For more information call (918) 427-3187. Men are also welcome to attend.
Members of the Redbud Garden Club will meet at 2 p.m. Monday at Western Sizzlin restaurant in Sallisaw for their regular monthly meeting.
A community blood drive will be held from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church at 2100 McGee Dr. in Sallisaw. The Red Cross will be conducting the blood drive. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 1-800 GIVE LIFE (1-800-448-3543) or visit www.GIVELIFE.org.
Members of the Sallisaw High School Class of 1964 will meet at Simple Simon's Pizza at 6 p.m. Monday to plan a reunion. All classmates are invited to attend.
A bean dinner to benefit the Blackgum Fire Department will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the Blackgum Community building located two and a half miles west of McQuicks on State Highway 100. Meals are $5 for adults and $3 for children.
Local Hospice Inc. will hold a Caregivers Support Group at 1 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month, at the Sallisaw office, 206 N. Wheeler St. The group meetings will begin Nov. 7. Volunteers are also needed for the group. For more information call Local Hospice Inc. at (918) 790-2277.
Muldrow Public Schools Title VII Indian Education Parent Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the school board conference room at the school superintendent's office. The parents of Title VII students are invited to attend.
Take-out dinners for the Sallisaw United Methodist Women's Thanksgiving dinner may be placed by calling 775-2538 between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, through Thursday, Nov. 8. The dinners are $8 and they may be picked up at the west entrance of the First United Methodist Church on McGee Drive between 10:30 a.m. and noon on Friday morning, Nov. 9. Orders must be called in and will be given a pick-up time. Some delivery times are available and those placing an order should ask about delivery at the time they place their order.
The Sallisaw United Methodist Women's 36th annual Thanksgiving dinner will be held Friday, Nov. 9. The menu includes turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, rolls, dessert and a soft drink (for dine-in only) for $8 for adults and $3 for children age 10 and under. Dine-in hours will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the dinner will be held at 2100 McGee Dr. in Sallisaw.
Members of the Tenkiller Area Community Organization (TACO) will have their community Thanksgiving dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the TACO Building on Mullens Lane in Cookson. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner will be served. The cost is $5 for adults and $2.50 for children age 10 and under. The public is invited to attend.
The Oklahoma Eastern Half Gospel Singing Convention will be held from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Free Will Baptist Church in Porum. To get to the church exit Interstate 40 at Exit 278 and go south on State Highway 2 to Porum. Eva White of Sallisaw is president of the group, Meg Scott is vice president and Linda Harding is secretary. For more information call (918) 733-4259.
A chili or beef stew dinner will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Revival Fires at 822 S. Elm St. in Sallisaw. The cost is $3 and all proceeds will go to the youth group.
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 8384 in Muldrow will hold a turkey shoot from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, to raise money for the general fund. The VFW members are also planning a poker run and Veterans' Day Dinner on the same day. The poker run will be held from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. to raise money to send packages to the combat zones.
Women in the Outdoors classes will be held Saturday, Nov. 10, and Sunday, Nov. 11, at Tenkiller State Park. Classes offered are Dutch oven cooking, knife forging, muzzleloader, cold process lye soap, basket weaving, basic beadwork, corn husk dolls, basic fishing techniques, basic wood art, basic rappelling, and leave no trace camping. For more information contact Leann Bunn, Tenkiller State Park naturalist, at (918) 489-5641 or by e-mail at lbunn@oklahomaparks.com.
The annual Veterans Day Salute will be held by the Gore High School Student Council at 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, at the Brooks Cawhorn Gymnasium. State Rep. Ed Cannaday will be the guest speaker. Dinner will be served at the high school cafeteria. All veterans are invited to attend.
The next General Educational Development (GED) test will be given at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Adult Education Center, 312 S. Walnut, Sallisaw. The GED test for Sequoyah and Adair Counties is given on the second Tuesday of each month. Those planning to take the test must pre-register. For information call (918) 775-5544.
The Cherokee Nation Tax Commission office and all Cherokee Nation Tag Office locations, including those in Adair, Collinsville, Gore and Tahlequah, will be closed on Wednesday, Nov. 14, for staff development training. The offices will re-open at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, for regular business hours. For further information contact Sharon Swepston, Cherokee Nation Tax administrator, at (918) 453-5320.
The Gore High School Future Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is celebrating the Oklahoma Centennial by selling engraved bricks for $25 each. The bricks will be used to build the Gore Schools Centennial Brick Plaza on the high school campus near the flagpole and marquee. All proceeds will go to the project. FCCLA members are managing the project but are not making money from it. The deadline to submit an order is Nov. 15, and orders should be brought to the high school office.
The Sequoyah County Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at the society's museum at 200 E. Creek in Sallisaw. Tim Mulvihill, archeologist, will be the guest speaker. Everyone is invited to attend.
The Vian Baptist Church Youth Group is initiating a supply drive for military troops serving overseas. The church youths have begun writing letters to soldiers and plan to continue to do so with the holidays approaching. A donation box is inside the church to collect supplies, such as ChapStick, Visine, socks, hand warmers and any other items the community wishes to contribute. These will be sent out the first part of December to arrive before Christmas. The church is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily to accept gifts.
The Muldrow Public School District Board of Education announces that candidates for the No. 3 seat on the Muldrow School Board may file to run for this post between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 3 through 5, at the Sequoyah County Election Board in Sallisaw.
The Belfonte Public School District Board of Education announces that individuals interested in running as a candidate for Post No. 3 on the Belfonte School Board of Education must file to run for the seat between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. from Monday, Dec. 3, to Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Sequoyah County Election Board in the Sequoyah County Courthouse annex in Sallisaw.
The Gans Public School District Board of Education announces that candidates for the No. 3 seat on the Gans School Board may file to run for this post between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 3 through 5, at the Sequoyah County Election Board in Sallisaw.
The Sallisaw Public School District Board of Education announces that candidates for the No. 3 seat on the Sallisaw School Board may file to run for this post between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 3 through 5, at the Sequoyah County Election Board in Sallisaw.
