The Ledger/LCJ blog 5-14-2022

By CRAIG HALL

Welcome to the Ledger/LCJ blog for today.

Today is May 14, 2022. The 134th day of 2022. There are 231 days left in the year.

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Spiro’s Gannon Shackelford was named the defensive player of the year for District 3A-7 baseball this spring.

He is joined by Jared Huff and Blake Dedmon, also from Spiro, along with Heavener’s Gunnar McAlester and Trevor Grubbs.

The 2022 Howe girls’ basketball camp is May 23-25 and is open to all students entering the fourth through the ninth grade.

The cost is $50 and each camper will receive a t-shirt.

In today’s weather forecast showers and thunderstorms are possible early Saturday with partly cloudy skies later in the day for the LeFlore County weather forecast.

The high will be 89 degrees with a low of 64 degrees.

Sunrise is 6:15 a.m. Sunset is 8:14 p.m.

Averages temperatures for May 14 are a high of 80 and a low of 58. Record temperatures for the date were a high of 91 in 1941 and a record low of 41 in 1971.

On May 14, 2021, the high was 73 with a low of 54.

Friday’s high was 90 with a low of 64.

On the calendar of events for today Funeral service for Barry Henry 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Poteau.

Heavener graduation 8th grade 2 p.m.; High School 8 p.m.

Heavener rodeo at Cecil Leachman Arena

Funeral service for David Alfred Bullard, 74 of Wister is 10 a.m. Monday at Church of God Seventh Day in Wister with Lamar Ford and Chip Hinds officiating. Burial will follow at Maxey Cemetery in Wister, under the direction of Evans & Miller Funeral Home.

David was born June 30, 1947 in Wister and passed away May 11, 2022 in Wister.  

Funeral service for Alva Faye Hesson, 84 of Pocola is 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mallory-Martin Chapel in Spiro. Burial will follow at Macedonia Cemetery in Pocola, under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home.

She was born Jan. 22, 1938 in Hunnington, Arkansas and passed away May 13, 2022 in Pocola.

The anticipation had been building the last few weeks for the PGA Championship, just like it was for the Masters. And just like the last major, the hype was more about who played than who had a chance to win.

Tiger Woods not only played Augusta National, he made the cut.

Phil Mickelson won’t even make it to the first tee at Southern Hills.

Six days before the opening round on the classic course in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mickelson decided not to defend his title and extend his three-month hiatus from golf.

Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board was so focused on releasing inmates that it cut corners and ignored internal processes that ultimately led to the release of an inmate who was later charged with three counts of first-degree murder, according to a grand jury report released this week.

The final report released Thursday by the Oklahoma County Grand Jury, which was requested in October by Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater, covered several investigations, including a probe into a Catoosa tag agency that led to felony charges against a sitting state lawmaker and his wife.

On this date in history, in 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.

1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp near present-day Hartford, Illinois.

In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama.

In 1988, 27 people, mostly teens, were killed when their church bus collided with a pickup truck going the wrong direction on a highway near Carrollton, Kentucky. 

In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. The hit sitcom “Seinfeld” aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.

In today’s birthdays Movie producer George Lucas is 78; Actor Tim Roth is 61; Actor Cate Blanchett is 53; Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is 38;  and NFL player Rob Gronkowski is 33

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