Shawnee Oklahoma
Oklahoma City Area - The Shawnee Service Unit
A multiservice clinic, Shawnee Health Center also maintains a staff for community and environmental health. Employees include a dietitian, a community health nurse, a social worker, a mental health technician, a sanitarian, an environmental health technician, and a construction inspector. Shawnee The town of Shawnee is a civic-minded community of 27,000, proud of its excellent school system, its housing choices, and its surprisingly good shopping. ... The diverse patient population is composed of seven major tribes. Seminole, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, Creek, and Shawnee. These tribes were all among those relocated by the U.S. Government, from lands as far to the north as the Great Lakes and as far to the southeast as Florida. Among the 30,000 people served by the unit are many urban Indians from Oklahoma City and Norman. The Shawnee Health Center The only facility currently managed by this service unit is the Shawnee Health Center, completed in 1976 and remodeled recently. With 15,000 square feet and outpatient visits totaling nearly 50,000 in one year, it is the largest, busiest Indian health center in the Oklahoma City Area. The center's four staff physicians personally attend over half of these visits. ... [Read More]
Governor Brad Henry
A third generation Oklahoman, he was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he attended public schools and graduated from Shawnee High School. The governor attended the University of Oklahoma as a President's Leadership Scholar and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1985. In 1988, Governor Henry was awarded his law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Law Review. ... Despite the demands of office, Brad Henry remains a committed family man. The Henrys have long been active members of the Shawnee community, participating in a number of civic organizations and local causes. They are also members of the First Baptist Church of Shawnee where both have served as Sunday school teachers. The Governor has also served as an ordained deacon at that church. ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senate - Senators
Charlie Laster was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on April 18, 1954. He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1972. He graduated from Oklahoma State University (Pre-Law) in 1976 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma in 1979. ... For the past 26 years, he has maintained a private practice in Shawnee with an emphasis in commercial litigation and family law. He is a member of the Shawnee Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma Bar Association, Pottawatomie County Bar Association, and Oklahoma State University Alumni Association. ... [Read More]
Oklahoma Weather
Select a location Ada, Ada Municipal Airport Altus Air Force Base Altus, Altus/Quartz Mountain Regional Airport Alva, Alva Regional Airport Ardmore, Ardmore Downtown Executive Airport Ardmore, Ardmore Municipal Airport Bartlesville, Bartlesville Municipal Airport Chandler, Chandler Municipal Airport Chickasha, Chickasha Municipal Airport Claremore, Claremore Regional Airport Clinton, Clinton Regional Airport Clinton, Clinton-Sherman Airport Cushing, Cushing Municipal Airport Duncan, Halliburton Field Airport Durant, Eaker Field Airport Enid, Enid Woodring Regional Airport Fort Sill Frederick, Frederick Municipal Airport Gage, Gage Airport Grove, Grove Municipal Airport Guthrie, Guthrie Municipal Airport Guymon / Guymon Municipal Airport Hobart, Hobart Municipal Airport Idabel, Mc Curtain County Regional Airport Lawton, Lawton Municipal Airport McAlester, McAlester Regional Airport Muskogee, Davis Field Norman / Max Westheimer Oklahoma City, Wiley Post Airpo ... [Read More]
Oklahoma: Services to the States (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection includes oral histories, songs, and stories collected from people who moved from Oklahoma to California as a result of the dust bowl in the early 1940s. Of particular interest is Mrs. Myra Pipkin, whose family homesteaded in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1898 (see photo). She had an extensive repertoire of ballads and songs, many of which were documented by the collectors. Mrs. Pipkin is thought by some to have been the prototype for "Ma Joad" in the Grapes of Wrath . ... [Read More]
NWS Norman, Oklahoma - October 4, 1998 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak
Straight line wind damage also occurred in the cities of Shawnee, Prague and Newcastle. ... At least 19 tornadoes struck the portion of Oklahoma served by the NWS Norman office. These include tornadoes in the cities of Moore and Shawnee. Eight more other tornadoes touched down in northeastern Oklahoma in the area served by the NWS office in Tulsa . ... [Read More]
Oklahoma City Area - Home
To provide health services to this population, the Oklahoma City Area Office is organized into twelve Service Units: (1) Ada , (2) Claremore , (3) Clinton , (4) Lawton , (5) Pawnee , (6) Shawnee , (7) Tahlequah , (8) Talihina , (9) Wewoka , (10) Haskell , (11) Holton , and (12) Eagle Pass . Of the 40 health centers, 26 are totally managed by tribes under compact/contract, 12 are operated directly by the IHS, and 2 are operated under contract with Indian organizations. ... [Read More]
Welcome to Oklahoma's Official Web Site
Oklahoma has produced more astronauts than any other state. These include Major General Thomas P. Stafford (Weatherford); Gordon Cooper (Shawnee); Owen Garriott (Enid); Shannon Lucid (Oklahoma City) and William Reid Pogue (Okemah). ... [Read More]
Grant Announcements: Oklahoma - HUD
Bush Administration announces $370,157 in affordable housing funds for the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal town, Delaware Nation, Iowa Tribe and Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma ... Bush Administration announces $43.7 million in housing counseling grants for low-income families - Ada, Bethany, Enid, Idabel, Norman, Oklahoma City, Shawnee, Stigler, Stillwater and Tulsa Receive Grants ... [Read More]
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