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THE FORT SILL APACHE TRIBE -  The Fort Sill Apache Tribe is the federally recognized Native American tribe of Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache in Oklahoma.  The Fort Sill Apache Tribe is headquartered in Apache, Oklahoma.  Tribal member enrollment, which requires a  1⁄16minimum blood quantum (equivalent to one great-great-grandparent), stands at 650.   The tribe continues to maintain close connections to the Chiricahua Apache who were moved to the Mescalero Apache Reservation in the late 19th century.

U.S. ARMY AIR ASSAULT BADGE -  The Air Assault Badge is awarded by the U.S. Army for successful completion of the Air Assault School.  The course includes three phases of instruction involving U.S. Army rotary wing aircraft: combat air assault operations; rigging and sling loading operations; and rappelling from a helicopter.

Following is a list of the roadway improvements scheduled for completion in 2017:

Overlay AC - Structural

• E 10th from E side of Cherokee to W side of Shundi
• W 10th from W side of Center to E side of Leisure
• Leisure from US-59 to N side of Baycrest

Patching & Sealing - AC

• Woodland Hills from S side of State Park Rd to E side of Lakewood

Reprocess and Overlay

SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY -  Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ, also SAE) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity.   It was founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856.   Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South.   Its national headquarters, the Levere Memorial Temple, was established on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1929.

At their regular meeting on December 20, 2016, Council appointed members to the Board of Adjustments; Ben Hampton will serve on an unexpired term ending 10/31/2017 and Steve Ward will serve a three year term ending 10/31/2019.

The Board of Adjustments meets at the call of the Chairman and is open to the public.

City Hall will be closed Monday, January 2, 2017 in observance of New Year's Day.

The City of Grove was awarded a REAP grant in the amount of $10,000 to go towards the cost of holding a one-day Hazardous Household Waste and Electronic Waste collection event.

OLIAS SYMBOL -  The symbol used by Holeman in his piece called Welcome Home was designed by Jon Anderson.  Holeman discusses both the symbol and his work based upon it at his site awakenvisions.com:

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COUGAR -  The first mascot was a terrier named "Squirt" as someone brought a pet dog to campus.   The mascot became the Indians during the decade spanning 1910-1919, known as "Carlisle Connection".   Three football coaches came from the famous Carlisle Indian College in Pennsylvania: Frank Shivley, William "Lone Star" Dietz and Gus Welch.

CODE TALKER -  Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages.  In particular, there were approximately 400–500 Native Americans in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages.