Project SAFE accepting donations to give clients, residents a merry Christmas
The Shawnee News-Star
During the holiday season Project: SAFE is thankful for contributions and is currently accepting donations to give shelter residents and clients a very merry Christmas.
According to Project: SAFE Executive Director Renee Clemmons, the organization accepts donations year-round but is also grateful for any donations from the community to make this Christmas a special one for clients.
Clemmons said financial donations are appreciated as well as donations of house hold items such as towels, gently used clothing for women and children, scarfs, gloves, toys and snack foods.
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Shawnee radio station KGFF celebrates 90th
By Vicky O. Misa | Vicky.misa@news-star.com | (405) 214-3962 | Twitter: @Vicky NewsStar
The Shawnee News-Star
On Thursday, a longtime institution in Shawnee celebrated its 90th anniversary.
Local radio station KGFF, Shawnee first hit the air waves at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning Dec. 10, 1930.
And it has continued serving the area ever since.
KGFF General Manager Mike Askins said, though the station had already been in operation for a few years, it was Ross Porter who brought it to Shawnee.
The earliest records on file indicate the Wallace Radio Institute put KGFF on the air in January 1927, Askins said.
I grew up in a Muslim family on the coast of Kenya. My father served as an Imam, and I was one of the muezzins (Muslims who call others to pray five times a day) at a local mosque.
The only school I ever attended existed to educate young men in the ways of Islam and to help them grow as Muslims. I was being trained to defend the Muslim faith and to share it with others. As a young man, I became one of the best and most well-known evangelists for Islam in my region.
Early in life, my father had taught me to hate Christians and even to beat them if necessary. I was trained to believe that Christians were on the same level as animals. We were not allowed to associate with them in any way.