Member News

This week’s Member Spotlight is on the Johnston County Health Department! The Health Department’s mission is to protect and promote health, to prevent disease and injury, and to cultivate conditions by which Oklahomans can be healthy.  The general clinic provides services such as immunizations, pregnancy testing, STD/HIV testing, SoonerCare enrollment and newborn screenings.  WIC services…

This week’s Chamber Spotlight is on the Tishomingo Development Team (TDT). This organization was formed in 2002 as the result of twenty local citizens answering the call to research community priorities and formulate a vision and objectives surrounding the following topics: business development, community image, youth leadership development, community promotion, health and wellness, and Johnston…

This week at Women’s Biz Connection, Kelby Owens from REI Oklahoma gave a general overview of marketing online and I wanted to share my notes. I also wanted to say that March’s meeting will focus on getting into the apps that there are questions about and solving the problems and answering the questions that business…

This week’s Chamber Spotlight is on the Tishomingo Development Team (TDT). This organization was formed in 2002 as the result of twenty local citizens answering the call to research community priorities and formulate a vision and objectives surrounding the following topics: business development, community image, youth leadership development, community promotion, health and wellness, and Johnston…

This week’s Member Spotlight is on the Tish Lumber Company. The location as we know it opened in 1976 as a smaller store than is present today. Before that time, the lot was known as Carey Lumber, and before that it was a feed mill. Train tracks ran through what is now the lumber yard.…

This week I attended a workshop at the Kiamichi Technology Center in Atoka to learn about RFPs or Request for Proposals. These are used by site locators or developers when trying to find the perfect location to set up shop, so naturally the Chamber would be interested in learning about the process. Anything that we…

Hello readers! Thank you to the Johnston County Sentinel writers and publishers for inviting me to submit my column. Where the length of my weekly writings has included upcoming events, I received suggestions to do a Chamber Member Spotlight each week, which is great for the businesses and organizations, but also for me to get…

I want to say a big thank you to the Durant Democrat for the continued publication of the C-D. I’m sorry I missed out on last week’s edition. I hope everyone is well, despite all the flu/bronchitis/strep cases. It has been a busy few weeks – we really appreciate everyone that has been sending in…

How about that Christmas parade last weekend? All of the entries looked fantastic and I am especially fond of all the miniature ponies we have seen in town this year, so cute! We are happy to announce that our winners of Best Float went to Landmark Bank, Murray State College, and the Family Health Center…

Last Tuesday, I attended the Rural Economic Development Conference held by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in OKC. Speakers and panelists were available for discussion over a variety of topics including the 2020 Census and data that can be obtained for use on American Fact Finder, Rural Broadband Research and Resources in Oklahoma, Tribal Partnerships,…