October 2022

The Iroquois Center for Human Development, Inc. (ICHD), which serves as a community mental health center (CMHC) for Clark, Comanche, Edwards and Kiowa counties, has been awarded a generous grant to focus on improving the health and well being of community members from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA).

Halloween and its roots in witchcraft and Druidic paganism are undeniable. When we examine the history of Halloween, one thing we find out very quickly is that it is based on the ancient pagan religion of the Celtics in Northern Ireland and their celebration of the festival of the dead, known as Samhain. In Northern Ireland, a class of ruthless priests known as the Druids ruled Northern Ireland through occult terror and human sacrifice for centuries.

While Jerusalem was growing ever closer to destruction during the years 600 to 592 BC, Nephi was faithfully recording their group’s flight from Jerusalem into the wilderness. He recorded his visitations by the Holy Ghost, and great visions of God’s work with the house of Israel and the world (1).

I recently had one of “those” talks you have with your kids when they become grown adults. You know the type of conversation where they admit some rule they broke when they still lived at home like, Sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night, or hiding some big secret that they said they were going to a friend’s house, but actually went somewhere else. You know, the kind of conversations you are curious to have with your kid, but scared to have all at the same time. YEAH! It was that kind of convo.

Let’s start out by looking at four scriptures .Gen 1:1 1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Grocery shoppers at Pratt’s Dillons store compiled a donation of more than $723 that was given recently to the Skyline Schools Foundation. The Kroger Family of Companies, which owns the Pratt store, offers the Dillons Community Rewards program to exemplify community engagement, positive social impact and charitable giving at the national and local levels.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that distressed borrowers with qualifying USDA farm loans have already received nearly $800 million in assistance, as part of the $3.1 billion in assistance for distressed farm loan borrowers provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Cottonwood Dental, at 603 S. Main in Pratt, hosted a special open house October 21 to promote their Invisalign services to current patients.