What is brown and orange with a little bit of glue? Why a hand-made pumpkin treat bag!
The first arts and crafts day was rainy and drab but once inside the community building things came alive as 37 students enjoyed a snack provided by Homestead Bible Church and made three projects that included a squirrel covered in fall leaves, a painted pumpkin treat sack and a colorful leaf made out of tissue paper. Volunteers Hadley Gambill, Koby Smith, Lane Gambill, Clarissa Kraus, Mason Gambill, Kayla Fast and Denise Aldrich were great in keep things cleaned up and working with the younger kids. Our adult volunteers this month were Sandy Boeckman, Robin Swain and Linda Lipps. We also had a few parents that stayed and helped out.
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Add Your Blog to Okeene.com
If you have a blog of your own why not get added to Okeene.com’s Local Blog Links. It’s free and will help drive traffic to your blog. (No Social Networking Sites-Yet)
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Clean-Up scheduled for this Saturday (10-10)
Downtown Clean Up Saturday, Oct 10 meet at the 4 corners at 9am with willing gloved hands, your favorite yard tool(s) and warm hearts.
Moore’s Open House
The Grand Re-Opening of our local grocery store was held Wednesday, September 30 from 10-2. 132 people came by to sign up for the door prizes and take advantage of all the great bargains Moores Venture Food Store was offering. Owner Bobby Moore and Managers, Kale and Lori Giesick were all on hand to meet, greet, carry groceries and just enjoy being a part of our community.
Door prizes were drawn for at the end of the Open House, the winners were as follows: Delane Kehnemund, Denise Guidry and David Wilson all won Ice Chests, Dixie Aphold won a $25.00 Gift Card, Lois Seelke won a $50.00 Gift Card and Cindy Lamle won a $100.00 Gift Card. Congratulations to all of you and Congratulations, Moore’s Venture Food Store, we are happy to have you in Okeene!
Moore’s Venture Food Stores Open House September 30th
The Okeene Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce Moore’s Venture Food Stores as the September Business of the Month. It’s been right at a month since Kale and Lori Giesick took over managing our local grocery store and we all started trying to remember, “MOORE’s VENTURE FOOD STORE”. The new owner, Bobby Moore, I have not met as of yet but any time I’m in MVFS I’m sure to find Kale or Lori working and always with a smile. It was a labor of love Patricia Kubat put forth when she reopened Okeene Market and we were restored to a “civilized town” with a grocery store! I know it took a lot of hours and was, no doubt, a huge source of stress, so thank you Patti for loving and believing in Okeene that much!
The Chamber would like to invite everyone to the OPEN HOUSE on Wednesday, September 30 from 10-2. MVFS will be giving away door prizes throughout the open house, come on by and see all the changes taking place, inside and out!
Annual Feed & Auction scheduled for October 20th
Our fundraising for Christmas is about to begin as we start gathering auction items for this year’s Annual Feed & Auction. This event has become known for a nice meal followed by a lot of laughs and some great bargains. Tickets are available at the chamber office or from any Chamber Board Member:
Mike Dobrinski, Dobrinski Chevrolet
Shelly Dunham, CEO, Okeene Hospital
Mike Buchanan, Buchanan Insurance and Tag Agency
Rae Dixon, Mountain Country Foods
Stacy Lee, Stacy Lee Photography
Bessie Becker, Grandma Bear’s
Maria Nease, Nease Insurance
Ali Milligan, Al’s Hair & Body Repair
Robert High, Wilkinson Mortuary
Janel Parrish, Pioneer Telephone
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Whea Esta 2009
Newly crowned 2009 Whea Esta Queen Miss Jessica Parrish
The 68th Annual Whea Esta was held August 21st & 22nd at the Okeene High School gym, cafeteria and auditorium.
The pageant is always a great time of excitement for the entrants, the proud families and those who are there to cheer them on. All of the girls did a wonderful job. Jessica Parrish was crowned Queen as Jena Holiday won 1st Runner Up, Karlee Brownlee was the 2nd Runner Up, Jessica Parrish won the Spirit Award and Karlee Brownlee won the Miss Congeniality.
I loved the addition of the video this year. It was so nice to see the Whea Esta Queen’s year as it was also a scrapbook of the Chamber events! Jill Boeckman was a lovely Queen last year, thank you Jill for all of your help!
The entries started arriving just after 7am Friday morning; we had some folks anxiously waiting to entering their fair items! Donna Laubach gave us a hand with entering and what a great help she was! We had a nice variety of items throughout the categories but the exhibit that won the Chamber Directors heart was the display Marjorie Winters put together of the Westfahl family’s legacy, WOW, if you missed Whea Esta this year, you missed something very special, something I hope, we get to see again. Saturday was filled with the Exhibits with Ribbons hung, the BBQ Cookoff, Drawings with Door Prizes from Chamber Members, a Petting Zoo by Cody Seelke and great demonstrations.
The Wheat Walk/Run had over 70 participants who enjoyed some great Okeene weather Saturday morning.
The exhibit placings were as follows:
Thanks, Jim!
Thanks for all of your work, Jim! I appreciate your looking out for the Okeene Chamber! And thanks for letting folks know I wasn’t the cause of the interruption….it’s logical, as you know, to assume I would be the responsible party! lol!
Okeene.com being rebuilt
Well it finally happened. After years of not having any real problems with Okeene.com a software upgrade went bad.
We will have the site up and running again as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime if you have any questions you can contact Sherri at the chamber office by email
Jim and Sherri
P.S. Sherri didn’t have anything to do with the crash it was all me – read Jim
