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COMMENTARY: Something fishy at the Fairgrounds
For years, the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds was an “animal prize” free zone. I know because I was the one who instituted the policy during the years that game vendors with live prizes were turned away. This year, for whatever reason, that policy was reversed or ignored.
LETTER: Tribal member wants juvenile justice laws changed
Last year, my wife’s car was stolen from the Casino parking deck.
COMMENTARY: Observations and random thoughts – Meet the new boss….issue.
A famous poet once said, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: The calling…ours, too
“The Church (Pentecostal) today seems to have found that in many respects, reverence, healing, and the Fear of God has gone. The Church has grown cold. (Exercise prayer.)
COMMENTARY – “Fall Festival” 2019
The centuries old Cherokee Indian Fair has been the most expensive event in the long list of seasonal events that the Tribe sponsors and executes.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Continue flowing with him
PASTOR TIMOTHY L. MELTON CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH “Fishermen will stand along the shores of the Dead Sea. All the way from En-gedi to En-eglaim, (on the western shore) the shores will be covered with nets drying in the sun. Fish of every...
LETTER: Ostomy Awareness Day is coming up
Ostomy Awareness Day is on Saturday, Oct. 5. Some of you may read this and wonder, “What is an ostomy”?
COMMENTARY: Wage gap for Native women is just plain ridiculous
My daughter, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, would have to work all of 2019 and until Sept. 23, 2020 to earn what a white, non-Hispanic male would make in 2019 alone according to a new study.
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