Sales Tax For Fire Department Funding On Creek County Ballot
Tuesday is election day in Oklahoma and Creek County voters will decide a sales tax increase that would help fund fire departments.
Creek County has 15 fire departments and all but three are volunteer departments that mainly depend on things like fundraisers and bake sales to keep their stations running.
“Right now [volunteer firefighters] are not only fighting fires but then they re coming back and they re having a bake sale or they re having some kind of fundraiser stuff and then it turns into a full-time thing and then they have their [paying] job to go to,” said Mannford Fire Chief Bob Evans.
Sales Tax For Fire Department Funding On Creek County Ballot
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December 23, 2020 at 9:03 am
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been a fixture on national TV every year since 1964. But not many people know that the animated narrator of the show has a direct connection to the Northwest.
Burl Ives, the Academy Award-winning actor who performed the voice of the narrator Sam the Snowman, lived in Anacortes in Skagit County on Fidalgo Island from 1989 until he passed away in 1995. Ives and his wife Dorothy – who passed away in 2016 – moved to Anacortes after visiting a friend there. As it turns out, the couple left something of a special “Rudolph” legacy in Anacortes that still resonates decades after they first arrived.