Ottawa Christmas Parade Weekend Festivities Highlight City Event
Ottawa hosts its eighth annual Christmas Parade at 1 p.m. Saturday on Main Street with 50 plus entries including bands, floats, Shriners, scouts, 4 H clubs, and Santa in a convertible. Also a Ye Olde English Feaste at Ottawa University and the Christmas Corner crafts fair run Friday night through Saturday.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
Itawa
Ottawa
Forest Park
City Park
Ottawa University
Ottawa Municipal Auditorium
Pete Cearfoss
Ottawa Retail Association
Shriners
Santa Claus
Cearfoss
Santa
ORA
Mowbray Union
OU Bell
Suzuki
Bryan Wendling
Kansas City
Stan
Alice Jo DeFries
Ottawa Community Arts Council
China Painters
Ottawa Quilters Guild
Cold Can Hamper Taste Smell and Mitral Valve Outlook
A 71 year old man asks about persistent loss of taste and smell after a cold. Dr Donohue notes aging and meds can worsen senses, suggests checking drugs and zinc intake, and advises dietary balance while recovery may be lengthy. The second letter from a 66 year old woman describes mitral valve stenosis likely from rheumatic fever. He explains valve narrowing, breathlessness on exertion, and treatment options including digitalis and possible valve replacement, with a hopeful note on future management.
Suggestions for Christmas grief and coping tips
Dear readers offer practical guidance for coping with loss during holidays. Advice covers changing traditions balancing solitude and sociability recalling memories setting grieving time breaking silence seeking support and using faith and community resources to find moments of joy amid sorrow.
Evangelist Parks to Speak at First Assembly Crusade
Evangelist Bill Parks will lead a Sunday crusade at First Assembly of God 520 E 13th with services at 10 50 a m and 6 p m The ministry has Assemblies of God ordination and spans Teen Challenge street work to pastoral roles in Texas and Pennsylvania His wife Joyce and two sons join with music and puppetry for children.
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Bill Parks
Assembly of God
Parks
Assemblies of God
Texas
Pennsylvania
Joyce
Holiday Fun At Burg Dec 12 Christmas Extravaganza
Williamsburg hosts a Christmas Extravaganza from 5 to 8 p.m. December 12 at the new community building. Activities include a chili supper, Santa’s visit at 6:30, candy donations from local groups, Santa crowning the Snowball King and Queen at 6:15, and penny voting from local businesses to choose the winners among eight contestants.
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Williamsburg
Santa
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Lord and Lady of the Manor
Wilbur
Ellen Ann Wheaton
Stan DeFries
Wilbur Wheaton
OU Performing Arts
Music Office
Tony Jones Hall
Paul Donohue
Ann Landers
J.H.L
Hurst
First Assembly
Sewing Machine Sales
Albright
Maio
FORD
Franklin County
Franklin Co. Farm Bureau
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Ass'n. Pol. Ady
Almeda Edwards
Franklin County Humane Society
West 19Th Street
Lisa Jones
Mick Jones
The
Burg
Tropics
Lawrence
Holiday
McDonald Drive
Kansas
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