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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I adopted an energetic, bouncy little Terrier mix a few months ago from a friend who had found him abandoned and wandering near his farm. Eddie is around 1 year old, and according to the vet he was likely abused or in a puppy mill situation. He’s now caught up on his shots, neutered, has put on weight and is pretty happy.

AAA has tips for back-toschool roadway safety as students return to the classrooms With the 2023-24 school year getting under way and students returning to campuses and classrooms, transportation will undoubtedly be impacted. Back-to-school transportation affects not only students and parents, but also other motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians using the roads.

Cameron University has announced the President’s and Dean’s honor lists for the Spring 2023 semester. To make the President’s Honor Roll, undergraduate students must be enrolled full-time (carrying at least 12 hours of classes) and maintain a straight A average (4.0). The Dean’s Honor Roll requires a B average (3.00-3.99).

Oklahoma Human Services is excited to announce new text notifications for customers who receive benefi ts through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other assistance programs offered through the agency.

Oklahoma State University is now one of the first major research universities in the U.S. to prioritize the reduction of bird-window collisions with the completion of a $118,000 project.

The American Bar Association in 2020 exchanged the term legal assistant for “paralegal” in its definition of “a person qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible.” The University of Oklahoma Law Center – having also received feedback from students, graduates and administrators – has followed suit, changing the name of the Department of Legal Assistant Education to Paralegal Studies.

Laili K. Boozary, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and her mentor, Jason A. Oliver, PhD, a researcher at the HPRC, recently received a diversity supplement for $109,638 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE – Airmen from Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, traveled to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for the 2023 Experimental Aviation Association AirVenture Air Show from July 24-30, 2023. While the AirVenture show was celebrating 70 years, this year marked the first time the Air Education and Training Command was highlighted as the feature command.

ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE – After 13 years as an educator in the Altus, Oklahoma, community, Gwendolyn Brakebill, stepped into a new role as the 97th Force Support Squadron school liaison program manager at Altus Air Force Base in May 2023.