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Oktaha Tiger BASKETBALL Home Basketball Game

Themes Show your school spirit by dressing up at each home

game!

And get in FREE!

1/9 | Sallisaw Central

Clash of the Tigers

Blue & Gold

1/23 | Porter

Lei Down the Pirates

Hawaiian

1/29 | Haskell

Let’s Glow Tigers! Light Up

the Haymakers!

Neon

1/30 | Okay

Rope the Mustangs

Western

2/2 | Weleetka

Homecoming

Blue, Gold, and White—Let’s

Fight!

2/6 | Canadian

Tame the Cougars

Animal Print

2/12 | Henryetta

Good Knight—It’s Lights Out!

Black Out

Christmas Coloring By Emily Miller

The Oktaha High School Basketball Girls By: Katie Webster

In the season opener against Crowder, the Oktaha High School

girls basketball team had to go into overtime because they were tied 51-

51, but they grabbed the win at the end and won 63-57. It was a great

game for the girls, but one of girls, Gracie Dickson, got hurt. In the sec-

ond game of the season, they had to go into over time twice, but at the

end they won 52-51 against Haskell.

When I interviewed Gracie Pendley she said she has been playing

basketball since 1st grade. She also said she liked playing fast and ag-

gressive during the games. When I asked what the best part about play-

ing was, she said, “winning,” and the worst part is losing.

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December

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Christmas Life Hacks By: Kilee Holder

Since Christmas is right around the corner I decided to find some useful Christmas life hacks.

Want to get someone or yourself an Iphone for Christmas? Go to the apple store website online add the Iphone to your cart, wait seven to ten days, and they’ll give you a 15-20% discount on the phone. Not sure what to but someone for Christmas? Get them to guess what you got them. You now have a bunch of ideas

of what they want.

Eating Christmas dinner and need to sneeze but don’t want to? Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and it’s gone.

Stressed about Christmas? Smell oranges. The smell of an orange can relive stress.

Use two eggs and ½ a cup of oil to turn any cake mix into cookie dough.

Use plastic cups to neatly store your ornaments

Wrap Christmas lights around a hanger to keep them from getting tangled

INSTRUCTIONS

Lay out a sheet of parchment or wax paper to lay the cookies on once dipped. Choose lighter colored candy coated chocolates for the ears and brighter, blue, brown, red and purple for the noses. Select 20 nice looking chocolate chips for the nose and set aside. Melt the rest of the package. Slide the ears into place in between the cookies into the filling and dip the cookies in the melted white candy. Use a fork to lift the cookie out and gently bang the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Lay the cookie on the parchment. Place the chips on as the nose and press in gently to form a ridge around the nose. Paint a small amount of the white chocolate chips onto the nose and place it higher up on the nose. When the cookies are dried, use the black icing to dot on the eyes. Let dry completely before storing in a sealed con-tainer.

By: Allison Phillips

Every year at Christmas time it is fun to make Christmas cookies and other fun deserts. I especially like making decorative desserts. I love North Pole animal themed desserts. So, here is my favorite Christmas dessert that is easy and fun.

INGREDIENTS

A package of double stuffed

Oreos

60 different colored m&m’s

(medium sized)

1 tube of black icing

16oz. bag of big white chocolate

chips

Polar Bear Cookies

Holiday Crafts By Haley Quick

Looking for ways to decorate your house for the Christmas spirit? Well, here’s a cheap and easy way to make just that happen.

PG. 2

Holiday History

By Micah Gallegos Christmas according to Wikipedia: Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most com-monly on December 25th as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the sea-son of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which histori-cally in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season. In several countries, cele-brating Christmas Eve has the main focus rather than Christmas Day. Although the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, by the early-to-mid fourth century the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25th, a date that was later adopted in the East. Today, most Christians celebrate on December 25th in the Gre-gorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the civil calendars used in countries throughout the world. However, some Eastern Christian Churches celebrate Christ-mas on December 25th of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7th in the Gregorian calendar, the day after the Western Christian Church celebrates the Epiphany. This is not a disagreement over the date of Christmas as such, but rather a pref-erence of which calendar should be used to determine the day that is December 25th.

Santa Claus according to HISTORY.com: In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, an Episcopal minister, wrote a long Christmas poem for his three daughters entitled “An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas.” Moore’s poem, which he was initially hesitant to publish due to the frivolous nature of its subject, is largely responsible for our modern image of Santa Claus as a “right jolly old elf” with a portly figure and the supernatural ability to ascend a chimney with a mere nod of his head! Although some of Moore’s imagery was probably borrowed from other sources, his poem helped popularize the now-familiar image of a Santa Claus who flew from house to house on Christmas Eve–in “a miniature sleigh” led by eight flying reindeer–leaving presents for deserving children. “An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” created a new and immediately popular American icon. In 1881, political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew on Moore’s poem to create the first likeness that matches our modern image of Santa Claus. His cartoon, which appeared in Harper’s Weekly, depicted Santa as a rotund, cheerful man with a full, white beard, holding a sack laden with toys for lucky children. It is Nast who gave Santa his bright red suit trimmed with white fur, North Pole workshop, elves, and his wife, Mrs. Claus.

Here i s what you wil l n eed : newspaper yarn/twine wreath form hot glue gun burl ap (for hang ing)

F irst you wil l take a styrofoam wreath and wrap it in yarn

Next, wad up newsp aper into a bal l and wrap the yarn around it unt i l al l the news-paper i s c overed and i s in a ball shape . With the newspaper, you can keep squ ish ing it unt i l

it is almost a perfect ball!

Add a burl ap strap for hanging before you glue the

balls on the wreath so that it wil l be beh ind all the yarn

balls! Then, you just start glu ing the balls to the

wreath and t o each other unt i l you are happy with it!

WARNING: it i s very easy to keep making balls to f i l l in the gap s! You get to a po int where you just have to qu it .

Fun Events in December By Raelee Tate-Wyatt

There are many things going on in December, not only in Muskogee buy also surrounding areas in Oklahoma. The

Garden of Lights in Muskogee at Honor Heights Park is going on until January 1st. You can drive through the park

to see them. The admission to the park is FREE and the gates open at 5:30p.m.; that isn’t all to do in Muskogee.

There is also the Castle of Muskogee. It’s like Honor Heights but with Christmas Inflatables, you can go into the Castle to shop for gifts, decorations, and many

more activities for kids. The Muskogee Christmas Parade was December 2nd. The Oktaha High School Band marched in that. They will also be having a Christ-

mas concert December 14th at 7:00p.m. in the High School Gym. The Elementary and the High School Jazz Band will be performing, as well. There is no ad-

mission. It would be great if you could come! The Rhema Bible Church in Tulsa also decks out the outside with tons of colorful light displays! There is no ad-

mission to that as well, but there is concession, and that costs. Right outside the BOK Center in Tulsa as well has the Winterfest ice skating. The cost is $10 and

there are concessions there as well so you might want to bring some extra cash. In Tahlequah there is ice skating as well. Here is the schedule and prices for

that.

Schedule: Times: Holidays: Prices

Opening Day: Saturday, November 18th 2017 Days with School: 6pm – 9pm Christmas Eve 2pm – 5pm Skate Rental (All ages) - $2.00

Closing Day: Sunday, January 2nd 2018 Days without School: 2pm – 9pm Christmas 4pm – 9pm Adult (11 and up) -$8.00

New Years Eve 2pm – 9pm Youth (5-10) - $6.00

New Years Day 2pm – 9pm Youth (4 and under) - Free

PG. 3

31 Days of December! by: Mikayla leon

December is a great month. December has some cool things during its days. December is the last month of the year. Here are some different holidays celebrated throughout December.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Eat A Red Apple Day National Pie Day Rosa Parks Day World AIDS Day

2 National Fritters Day Special Education Day

3 International Day Of The Disabled Person National Roof Over Your Head Day

4 National Cookie Day Wear Brown Shoes Day

5 Annual Day Of The Ninja Walter Elias ( Walt) Disney’s Day

6 Mitten Tree Day St. Nicholas Day

7 National Cotton Candy Day Pearl Harbor Day

8 National Brownie Day Hanukah Begins At Sunset

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10 Emily Dickson Birthday Human Rights Day Nobel Peace Prize Award

11 National Noodle Ring Day UNICEF Anniver-sary

12 Frank Sinatra’s Birthday Golf Tee Patented Day Poinsettia Day

13 National Cocoa Day

14 First Miniature Golf Course Opened South Pole Discover

15 Bill Of Rights Day Phonograph Pat-ented

16 Boston Tea Party Anniversary

17 National Maple Syrup Day Underdog Day

18 19 20 Games Day

21 First Day Of Win-ter Humbug Day Look At The Bright Side Day National Flashlight Day

22 National Date Nut Bread Day Anne And Samantha Day Forefathers Day

23 National Pfeffer-nusse Day National Roots Day Festival

24 National; Eggnog Day Christmas Eve

25 National Pumpkin Pie Day Christmas Day

26 National Candy Cane Day

27 National Fruit-cake Day

28 National Chocolate Day Pledge Of Alle-giance Day

29 National Pepper Pot Day Tick Tock Day

30 National Bicarnonate Of Soda Day Bacon Day

31 Makeup Your Mind Day News Year Day