USDA providing millions in assistance for farmers facing financial risk

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• To date, over $1 billion in immediate assistance is providing relief to more than 20,000 distressed borrowers thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that nearly $130 million in additional, automatic financial assistance has been obligated for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk.
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The best Mother’s Day gift –– a son’s second chance at life

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May is a month full of family and fun, especially on the second weekend when families gather to celebrate moms. May has always been an important month for the Kloft family of Mt. Angel, Ore., –– there is lots of farming to be done, young livestock to be cared for, and their customers are ready for grilling season, which means that every Saturday the Klofts get up before dawn to get to the Beaverton Farmers Market to see customers and friends and sell their Lonely Lane Farms pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and goat, raised in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley. In May, they will also most definitely take time to celebrate Mother’s Day and the three-year anniversary of learning their son, John, needed a new kidney that would eventually come from his mom.
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Constitutional Minute

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Today, we are laboring under the notion that we have a whole host of “rights” to stuff which is paid for by other people like the “right” to a free public school education; the “right” to a fair wage, paid vacations, maternity leave, and equal pay for equal work; the “right” to an income for when you are old, unemployed, sick, disabled; a “right” to a “decent” standard of living including “adequate” food, clothing, housing, medical care, and other social services.
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5K run steps forward for missing, murdered Native women

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ANTLERS –– Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s (CNO) Outreach Services Program will host a run and walk to help bring awareness to the issue of violence against Native American women. The 2nd Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 5K Run and 1 Mile Run/Walk will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 13 at the Choctaw Community Center, 302 SW O St. in Antlers. Race day registration is available from 6:30 - 7 a.m. at the nearby CNO Wellness Center.