In decades past, local residents joined organizations and attended meetings across the community for socialization and networking but also to be involved. Life meant living. These days, we tend to box up our identities in our job descriptions and families. Plus, we do less actual living and engage in more sedentary, isolative activities, sitting behind screens. Unfortunately, we need to be active for our mental, physical, and relational health and to build up our communities for years of success to come.

Alcoholics Anonymous 325 East 10th, New Life Intenational Church, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. For more information call (918) 210-8056.

The following individuals were listed on the Creek County Sheriff ’s intake log. Charges may have been reduced or dropped since press time.

Local jazz musician Carmen Bruner will perform live in concert on Thursday, February 3rd, at the Freeland Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with the release of her first album: “Carmen Bruner – EP”.

The Bristow City Council's meeting was held on Tuesday evening instead of the normal Monday due to the honoring o Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan.

Sons of the American Legion The sons of the American Legion meet the first Thursday of every month at the Legion Hall, 7 p.m. Cimarron Public Transit offers rides Cimarron Public Transit offers public transportation for $1.50 and free to seniors 60 years and older.

The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis – its worst blood shortage in more than a decade. Dangerously low blood supply levels are posing a concerning risk to patient care and forcing doctors to make difficult decisions about who receives blood transfusions and who will need to wait until more products become available.

A personal injury collison occurred on the Turner Turnpike, four miles west of Kellyville, sending both driver and a juvenile passenger to the hospital. James Johnson, age 34, from Tulsa, and a juvenile passenger, also of Tulsa, was traveling westbound on the Turner Turnpike when the 2008 Ford F150 Johnson was driving departed the roadway striking a center median twice before reentering the roadway when the vehilce then departed the roadway to the right rolling at least three times before coming to rest on its wheels.

Alcoholics Anonymous 325 East 10th, New Life Intenational Church, Tuesdays at 7 p.m. For more information call (918) 210-8056.