PDN Graduation Section(s) taking shape, but still needs help
The Poteau Daily News’ 2022 Graduation Section(s) will be publishing May 28.
It’s beginning to take shape, but there are still some thing we’re lacking.
PDN still needs a senior group photograph and senior biographies from Bokoshe, Leflore, Pocola, Spiro and Whitesboro.
Senior group photograph is still needed for Heavener, while we still need senior bios from Cameron and Wister and eighth-grade bios from Hodgen and Monroe.
What PDN is guaranteeing in the 2022 Graduation Section(s) will be the high school graduates and bios from the 13 high schools and the eighth-grade equivalents from Fanshawe, Hodgen, Monroe and Shady Point — since those for schools only go to eighth grade — due to space constraints.
Anything else that we receive that can “make the cut” will be included, but what doesn’t “make the cut” will be placed on our website at www.poteaudailynews.com.
Those group photographs and bios we’re needing can be sent to me at editor@poteaudailynews.com.
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My final duties as Poteau Kiwanis Club president — as current Vice-President Lyle Whitworth will become our president in October — dealing with the Little Olympics was handled last week, getting the final three fifthplace boys who placed in the 100-meter dash their medals by mail.
Thanks to all thirdthrough sixth-graders who participates and coaches who brought them. We earned about $3,000 from it, although it’s just one of our products for our county’s local youth — but every little bit helps as we have two major things coming up.
The first of those is the Poteau Kiwanis Club’s Learn to Swim Program, which will begin June 7 and run twice a week — Tuesdays and Thursdays until June 30 — at Twyman Pool. There is no cost for the kiddos to sign up. The event is for ages 5-10. They can register June 7 on opening day. We usually do two hour sessions daily — 9-10 a.m. and 10-11 a.m. — so those sessions are completed before the regular “business day” for the pool begins on those days.
We are looking at doing something special on that final June 30 day of lessons, besides our funded pizza party for the swimmers and lifeguards.
For the record, the other major thing will be in December, and I’ll mention that as we get closer to that date.
Our local civic organization’s next fundraising event will be our Poteau Kiwanis Club Golf Tournament, teeing off at 10 a.m. May 27 at Wolf Ridge Country Club. Registration will begin at 9 a.m.
The team entry fee is $195 for the three-golfer, par-3 tournament. Hole sponsorships will cost $100 per hole.
For additional information or to call to enter or become a hole sponsorship, call Tournament Director Lyle Whitworth at (918) 413-2929 or Susan Jenson at (918) 6493146.
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What a shocker Saturday at Churchill Downs. A horse who about a day before wasn’t even going to be one of the 20 horses to run in the 148th Kentucky Derby got in due to another horse being scratched and beat an 80-1 odds against winning by making a late charge down the stretch to win it.
Rich Strike became the second-ever longest shot to win “The Run for the Roses” — as the longest-ever longshot won it in 1913, Donerail, who entered the race at a 91-1 odds of winning it.
Now, the question will be can Rich Strike have a shot at being a Triple Crown winner, by taking the second “jewel” of horse racing’s Triple Crown in the Preakness later this month at Pimlico in Baltimore.
For the record, the last Triple Crown winner was Justify in 2018 after American Pharaoh broke a 37-year drought of lack of Triple Crown winners in 2015 — with the last one prior to American Pharaoh being Affirmed in 1978.
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Check out our sports section in today’s edition as Sports Editor Tom Firme will have all the lowdown about this past weekend’s state track meets and baseball playoffs.
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Seeley is the editor of The Poteau Daily News. He can be reached by telephone at (918) 647-3188, Ext. 30 or by e-mail at editor@poteaudailynews.com.