🌱 Pocola’s Dakotah Terrell returns to basketball with UAFS

Good morning Pocola! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• Pocola’s Dakotah Terrell returns to basketball with UAFS
• Remembering Wayne Karl Hoelcel, former Van Buren resident

Also on today's calendar: Chris Janson.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 75 and low of 46 degrees.
• Thursday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 67, low: 39.
• Friday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 59 and low of 35 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• UAFS men roll past University of the Ozarks in opening game (rivervalleydemocratgazette.com) — Pocola native Dakotah Terrell returned to basketball with nine points and seven rebounds in UAFS’s 81-54 season-opening win over the University of the Ozarks. After playing football at Missouri last year, he celebrated his Fort Smith debut with friends, family and fans who traveled from home.
   

• Wayne Karl Hoelcel (davidsoncountysource.com) — Wayne Karl Hoelcel, a former Van Buren resident whose surviving family includes sister Regina Morton of Pocola, died November 4 at age 79. He moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, in 2022 and is also survived by his wife of 51 years, Donna, two children and four grandchildren.
   

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📸 Around Pocola

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Pocola

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday November 14

• Los Socios del Ritmo →
  Pocola

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Other local events

Saturday November 21

• Chris Janson →
  Pocola OK

Friday December 4

• Celebrity Chef Takeover with Kevin Lee & Nini Nguyen →
  Pocola OK

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• Veteran's Day
  Singleton Es Arkoma, OK 74901
  9:30 am

Thursday November 12

• MS Basketball Heavener Boys H Girls A
  Spiro Public Schools Multi-purpose Building, 918 SW 3rd St, Spir
  4:30 pm

Monday November 16

• MS Basketball Wilburton Tourn.
  Wilburton Public School Gymnasium , Wilburton, OK 74578, USA
• 4/5 BB @ Heavener
  Spiro , OK 74959
  4:30 pm

Tuesday November 17

• 5th BB @ Muldrow
  Spiro , OK 74959
  4:30 pm
• MS Basketball 6th Grade Muldrow
  Muldrow Schools Administration, 715 E Shawntel Smith Blvd, Muldr
  4:30 pm

Thursday November 19

• 4/5 BB Talihina Home
  Spiro , OK 74959
  4:00 pm

Friday November 20

• 5th BB Stigler Home
  Spiro , OK 74959
  4:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Sonic posted a job opening for Cook in Pocola. Apply here.
• Tractor Supply posted a job opening for Groomer, Petsense in Poteau. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pocola here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Roland

• Evelyn Yerton, 83, of Hopkinsville (wkdzradio.com)

Poteau

• Family, community members remember fallen deputy Walker LeMay at bridge renaming (5newsonline.com)
• Three people arrested in River Valley after allegedly conspiring to kill woman, take child (nwahomepage.com)
• The 7 Can't-Miss Towns In Oklahoma (worldatlas.com)

Sallisaw

• True Grit Trail Legislation Took Effect Nov. 1 (okwnews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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