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Collinsville,
Oklahoma
November
7, 2012
Chrerokee
Food Distribution Center
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Symbolic
Dirt Turned With Construction Already Begun On New Collinsville Building
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Cherokee,
City & County officials broke ground at the site of a new Cherokee Food
Distribution Center on Cherokee Nation property at the north end of 12th Street
in Collinsville (northwest of the VCO Community Center).
Bill
John Baker
(Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation)
Tommy
Wildcat provided the blessing and traditional flute music.
The
new donated food center is one of 14 Cherokee Nation construction projects currently
active. The completed center will allow qualified underprivileged recepients
to "shop" indoors rather than pick up boxes of food off the back of
a truck. There will still some "tailgate" distribution sites but the
Collinsville center will be the 7th for the Cherokee Nation. The majority of
distribution occurs in Tahlequah, but there are also centers at Nowata, Salina,
Jay, Stillwell, and Sallisaw.
City
Manager Pam Polk thanked the Cherokee Nation for continued partnership with
Collinsville and Tulsa County.
While
the District 5 Cherokee Councilmen were in town for the ground breaking above
they also visited the Collinsville Police Department. They posed (above) with
the new storage building donated by the Cherokee Nation now in use by the Collinsville
Police. L-R: Police Chief Jimmie Richey, Buel Anglen, Cara Cowan Watts, and
Lee Keener. They also toured the recently rennovated police building and jail
(right).
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