Member News

This week’s Member Spotlight is on Refuge Behavioral Health. This agency opened in 2012 and offers outpatient mental health counseling with specialties that include: child-centered counseling, marriage and family counseling, individual counseling, and drug and alcohol counseling. Services are offered for adults, adolescents, and children. Refuge also offers an after-school and summer program for students.…

This week’s Member Spotlight is on Boom-A-Rang Diner! The sole proprietorship is owned by Debbie Ritchie and opened May 5, 2014 – we’re almost to it’s 5th anniversary! When asked why she opened a Boom-A-Rang, Ritchie responded that she loved the food and there was nothing like it in Tishomingo at the time. She saw…

This week’s Member Spotlight is on the Arbuckle Area Council (AAC). The Council has had a long history in southern Oklahoma; however, they have not always been known by that name. In the early years, the group served under several different names before ultimately combining to be the Arbuckle Area Council. As they are today,…

This week’s Member Spotlight is on the Family Health Center of Southern Oklahoma (FHCSO). The original grant for the Family Health Center was written by Tina Davis, current and long-time CEO, out of the need for quality health care for the low income and uninsured residents of Johnston County. Since 2004 when FHCSO opened its…

With the warm weather being a bit more consistent and a lineup of events in the next few weeks, I wanted to take some time to list those for our readers. Get out the calendar! These come straight from our community calendar online so go to www.johnstoncountyokchamber.com and bookmark the calendar page, check it often,…

  This week’s Member Spotlight is on Echo Canyon Spa Resort. Initially beginning as a small bed and breakfast in July 2002, Joe and Carol Van Horn thought of the business as a weekend hobby. Joe and Carol met in February of 1997 at the Lifestyle Center of America (now the Chickasaw Retreat and Conference…

I admit, I have really dropped the routine of making sure these are published to our site and social media pages. Here’s to a very late New Year’s Resolution of making sure you can read these here every week! This week’s Member Spotlight is on the Johnston County OSU Extension Center. 4-H began in the…

Things are really heating up for Christmas on this first week of December! Between the tree lighting at the courthouse, the Living Windows Walk,Fill the Ambulance, Breakfast with Santa and other activities, there is sure to be one thing or another that will get you in the holiday spirit. One of my favorite Christmas pastimes…

Are you ready for this year’s Bike Ride? Join us on Saturday, October 20th for the 32nd Annual Alfalfa Bill Century Bike Ride! Jump in for the 10, 20, 30, 46 or 100 mile ride through beautiful Southern Oklahoma. Register before October 1st for $35.00 and receive this year’s unique t-shirt – after October 1st…

Hello everyone! We hope that you are enjoying your short week and are looking forward to some of the activities coming up in September. We have a ribbon cutting at Houser Furniture this Friday at 10:00AM to celebrate their brand new mural; there will also be muralists in town this week working on pieces on…