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LAWTON GE Energy Financial Services is investing $117 million in Horizon Wind Energy's Blue Canyon V wind farm.

TRAINS, TREES AND TREASURES, CHRISTMAS MEMORIES OF THE PAST, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday through Jan.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Muskogee Civic Center, with live entertainment by The Beauweevliz at 1 p.m. and door prizes.

There have been many events going on over this past week. We had about 30 legislators show up at the State Capitol for a rally to restore funds to the Senior Nutrition Sites around the Oklahoma.

With the wind at their backs, officials from Horizon Wind Energy, owned by EDP Renewables, the world's fourth largest wind energy player, gathered on the Slick Hills terrain of southwestern Oklahoma yesterday with state and local dignitaries and project landowners to celebrate the start of operations at Blue Canyon V Wind Farm.

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Area educators will receive free admission and be eligible for door prizes Saturday at Three Rivers Museum, 220 Elgin.

The funeral for Spc. Dennis Pratt, who lost his life July 20 in combat in Afghanistan, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Frontier Chapel at Fort Sill with Chaplain Namen Bouma, officiating.

Sinnamon and Jim Pratt hold a photo Wednesday, July 22, 2009 of their son, Pfc. Dennis Pratt, at their home in Duncan, Okla.

An Oklahoman woman was air-lifted from the sight of a crash after her vechicle rolled over on I-44. Teresa Gambrel of Duncan was thrown nearly 30-feet from her car when she drove off the road.

LAWTON a ' Officials at BAE Systems say they are moving ahead with plans for an assembly plant at Elgin to upgrade the Paladin cannon.