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October 3, 2008

New Briefs for 10-4-08

Democrats slate rally



Garfield County Democratic Party will host a rally 3-6 p.m. Sunday at Government Springs Park.

The rally will feature live music from Shiloh and other performers. Speakers include Dr. Ivan Holmes, chairman of Oklahoma Democratic Party; Hugh Rice, father of U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Rice; Frankie Robbins, 3rd district U.S. House candidate; Pierce Jones, House District 40 candidate; and other state and local Democrats.

Hot dogs and chips will be available for $1 each. Bumper stickers, buttons and signs also will be available.







Switching problem shuts down OG&E; customers



More than 1,300 Enid OG&E; Electric Services customers were without power for about 15 minutes Friday.

OG&E; spokesman John Little said 1,363 customers were without power from 12:15 to 12:33 p.m.

Little said the outage was due to some switching problems, but the problem was quickly corrected.

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