Lake Region Library
DEVILS LAKE-The Lake Region Public Library will be reading I Am Malala for their February read with book discussion on March 3 via Zoom. For our March Book club we will be reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Black History Month, All You Need is Love and a Good Book, and Love Gone Wrong.
Dark Sky by C.J. Box (Adult Fiction). The governor of Wyoming gives Joe the thankless assignment of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip. Unbeknownst to them, as they trek further into the wilderness, a manhunter is hot on their heels. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his charge. Meanwhile, when Joe s closest friend Nate Romanowski and his own daughter Sheridan learn of the threat to his life, they follow him into the woods to try and rescue him before it s
Randy Hill Dies
Randy Lynn Hill, 63, of Lexington, Oklahoma, passed away Friday, February 26, 2021.
Randy was born June 5, 1957, in Ada, Oklahoma, the younger of two sons born to Quinn Thomas Hill and Mary Katherine (Little) Hill. He was raised in Konawa and attended school there, graduating with Tiger Class of 1975. Randy then attended school at East Central University in Ada, graduating in 1979, majoring in Human Resources. Randy began his career as a Probation and Parole Officer in 1987, leading to a long and distinguished career with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. For the next 20 years, Randy worked all around the state, before a medical condition forced an early retirement. He was a proud member of the Fraternal Order of Police and loved serving with his partners and other colleagues while on the force.
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Greg Louganis sat down with
theGrio for an exclusive interview about the documentary. They opened up about the inspiration for the film, their own personal histories, and why 2021 is the perfect time for a film like this to be released. Actor Keli Price during the Premiere For RLJ Entertainment’s “Sleep No More” on August 20, 2018 in Brooklyn City. (Photo by Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images for Incendiary Features )
Price initially drew inspiration for the documentary from his great-grandfather,
Jack Brooks, who “was denied his rightful spot in the Olympics because he was an immigrant Jew,” he tells
theGrio. He details, “…really investigating in that time and knowing that there were issues with anti-Semitism, et cetera, during the 1930s, which everybody kind of knew. But today I had no idea.”
Bob Williams Dies January 18, 2021 | Racing , Racing | Racing , Racing
Robert Clayton Williams Jr., known to most as ‘Bob,’ 86, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, went to be with the Lord on January 12, 2021.
Bob was born in Marlow, Oklahoma, on December 8, 1934, to Robert C. Williams Sr. and Margaret Williams. At the age of 12, Bob moved to Oklahoma City which would be his home for more than seventy years. In 1952 Bob graduated from Capitol Hill High School.
Upon graduating, he went to work at Oklahoma National Stockyards buying and selling cattle for different cattle companies. In 1953 Bob met Peggy Jean Barnett at Agnew Baptist Church. Peggy was a few years older than Bob but in her mind that wasn’t something he needed to know at the moment.