Winnie Mullins

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. I wanted to share with you the appreciation I have for our Fire Board and each of our first responders! Our Fire Board has worked tirelessly to try to save our district, each of them has given up countless hours with their families. Hours that they will never get back … and they did this for all of us.

Hi everyone, I would like to say “Thank You” to each of you who have been praying for me. I deeply appreciate you taking the time from your busy schedules to pray for me. For those who may not know, I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September. It turned out to be three different types of cancer, including invasive carcinoma. I had a mastectomy on Monday, October 28. I am doing well. I know this is very personal; the reason I share this with each of you is also very personal. Each one of you are very important to me. Your well-being is important to me. We all have things in our lives that we cannot control … cancer is one of them. We need God’s help; we need his merciful arms around us. I need to share with you that I should have been checking … checking much more often. I should have done better. A strong advocate of self-checking is our very own Teresa Hammond. Teresa is one of the many women who fight this battle daily. I write this column from my heart to ask each one of you to please check often … even our gentlemen, but especially our women. Please check often; it’s amazing what can be done to help us. Please don’t do as I did … please do not be afraid to self-check. It was actually by accident that I noticed I had a large lump in July. I picked up my hairbrush to reach up to brush my hair and accidentally hit my right side; I went to my doctor. Tests took a bit of time; I was diagnosed in September. I wish I had checked more often. It can save our lives. Thank you for reading this. May God bless us all.

The strength of our great nation … our veterans are the backbone of our freedom. We celebrate each of our veterans; we honor the service each has given to our great country.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and are ready for a wonderful Thanksgiving. What a pretty time of the year it is … so many beautiful leaves changing their colors. It definitely looks like fall all around us.

Hi All. Admiration and Respect … those are the words that come to my mind when I think about our Mustang football team. Our Oakdale High School football team is made up of young men from throughout our area, including our Valley Home area. Wes Burford, Matthew Cooley, Grant Gardner, Rowdy Sphar, and my grandson Cooper Bartholomew all are a part of this amazing team.

Hi everyone. I hope you all are enjoying our beautiful Christmas season. What a very special time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Today, I would like to ask for special prayers for our warrior, Wyatt Jones, and all those who fight these terrible illnesses. May God look down on each one with his healing hands.

Hi everyone; please, we have a very special Christmas prayer request: please would each of you take the time to pray for our young man, Wyatt Jones. Many of you already know Wyatt’s story … he was diagnosed with leukemia last January. He was 17 years old at that time … Wyatt has spent most of the past year in the hospital.

Happy New Year to all. I hope 2025 is a wonderful year for each of you. May this year will be filled with great blessings for you.

The Oakdale Fire Protection District Board Meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, January 9th has been cancelled. The meeting is rescheduled for Thursday, January 16th.