Paul Potts, a senior at Dale High School, was the winner of the Jim Spurr Student Poetry Contest.

Troop 477 Eagle Scout Lucas Schafer, 16, salutes the U.S. flag after posting the colors, as veterans Bill Ford and Jerry Shiles, State Senator Shane Jett and former State Rep. Justin Wood and others do the same, during the Shawnee Memorial Day ceremony at Woodland Veterans Park on May 25. Jett and Wood spoke at the event. Photos by Natasha Dunagan, Countywide & Sun

Wayne and Gloria Trotter

John Dmytryk adds styrofoam to the densifier, as Sammy Thompson collects the styrofoam log which the densifier produces, in the Shawnee Pioneer Library parking lot on May 9. The University Lutheran Church Green Team from Norman collected enough #6 Styrofoam to produce nine logs that day, which will eventually go to a plastics broker, then to a manufacturer. They also collect styrofoam egg cartons to pass on to their "Poultry Partners" and will return to the library on Oct. 10.

Gloria Trotter and Suzie Campbell pose at the 2015 Oklahoma Press Association Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in Oklahoma City. Photo provided