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Ribbons 'a way to show support' at Cimarron
LAHOMA — Cimarron Booster Club members made a simple gesture Friday that hopefully will turn the tide of luck for this small community, which has been rocked by bad news recently.
“We just kind of have an epidemic here,” said booster club member Teresa Brakhage.
Six people from the community were named on ribbon corsages that were given free to people attending Friday night’s basketball games between Ringwood and Cimarron in Lahoma.
“This is a way to show support,” said Robin Hadley, a school administrative assistant.
Each person named on the corsage has been hit recently with ill health or injury.
Those people named on the corsage are:
• Karen Hollaway, whose son Ty is a sophomore at Cimarron High School and plays on the boy’s varsity basketball team.
• Kody Bergdall, a 1998 graduate of Cimarron High School who is getting evaluated at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
• Holly McBlair, 17, a senior at Cimarron High School and cheerleader who was diagnosed with a kidney disease and has been told she will need a kidney transplant in the near future.
• Zac Nakvinda, a sophomore on the boys basketball team who suffered a broken leg in a Jan. 18 Skeltur tournament game.
• Joyce Morse, a kindergarten teacher at Cimarron Elementary School who recently had surgery after being diagnosed with cancer.
• Jerry Lea Scott, who is receiving chemotherapy cancer treatment and whose daughter Brandi plays on the girls high school basketball team.
Cimarron boosters made 300 corsages. Fifth- and sixth-graders made more corsages on Friday, Hadley said.
The idea to do something to recognize community support came after Nakvinda suffered his broken leg.
“We’re a small community and tightly knit. We needed something to boost spirit,” Hadley said.
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