State Briefs: Man treated for stabbing
Published: June 28, 2009
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Police name dead worker
DURANT — Police have identified a man who was killed Thursday. Wayne Powell, 59, and a co-worker at Allied Stone, 2201 W Arkansas St., were moving slabs of granite on a forklift when one of the slabs split down the middle and fell on Powell, Lt. Carrie Wyrick said.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Teenager drowns
A Chickasha teen stopped breathing after sinking into a pond near Stillwater on Friday and was pronounced dead Saturday, the
Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. About 10 p.m. Friday, Irving Vuviat, 16, was swimming in a pond at Cooperland Raceway, southwest of Stillwater, when he submerged and did not resurface, troopers said. A bystander jumped in and found Vuviat, who was not breathing. Vuviat received CPR until paramedics arrived and was flown to
an Oklahoma City
hospital, where he died about 1:45 a.m.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
OKLAHOMA CITY
Food drive sets record
A record-setting 684,032 pounds of food and $576,889 were donated during this year’s Feeding Hope and Letter Carrier Food Drive, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma said. This drive will provide more than 4.5 million meals to hungry Oklahomans this summer. During the food drive, nearly 75 metro-area businesses joined the National Association of Letter Carriers and post offices in 30 counties to combat hunger.
JAY F. MARKS,
STAFF WRITER
Web search classes set
A free class on how to use Oklahoma County’s online
resources is set for Monday at the Downtown Library. The class begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Friends Room at the library, 300 Park Ave. For more information, call 606-3867 or 713-1353.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
MUSKOGEE
Water safety classes set
After 10 years
without a program to certify swimming instructors in the Muskogee area,
the American Red Cross is working to solve that problem, said Marla Garcia, community relations
coordinator for the Red Cross. "We just ... added five certified instructors to those available,” she
said. For more
information about the Red Cross
aquatics program, call (918) 682-1366.
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