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The East Texas Oil Museum has announced its holiday schedule. It will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and selected days in December and January.

Holiday schedule:

Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving): Closed

Nov. 28-29 (Fri. - Sat.): Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Nov. 30 (Sun.): Open 2- 5 p.m.

Dec. 12-13 (Fri. - Sat.): Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 14 (Sun.): Open 2- 5 p.m.

Dec. 16-20 (Tues. - Sat.): Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 21 (Sun.): Open 2- 5 p.m.

Dec. 23-24 (Tues. - Wed.): Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 25 (Christmas Day): Closed

Dec. 26-27 (Fri. - Sat.): Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 28-31 (Sun. - Wed.): Closed

Jan. 1-5 (Thurs.. - Mon.): Closed

Unless noted otherwise, the museum is open Tuesdays Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays, 2-5 p.m., until April 1, when it will resume its spring/summer schedule. The museum is closed on Mondays.

The museum is located at the corner of Highway 259 and Ross Street on the KC campus. For more information, contact the museum at (903) 983-8295.

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Today is Docia Bamberg Day, proclaimed as such by Mayor Joe Parker, who signed a proclamation in City Council Chambers this morning.

The proclamation notes the centenarian was born in Yantis in 1908 and was one of 12 children in the Bamberg family. She worked all of her life without complaint, from picking cotton to sewing to cooking and housekeeping for an oil drilling crew.

She has lived during one of the most eventful centuries in world history, "with a lifetime of memories and plenty of firsts that she recounts with joy such as traveling in a covered wagon to the Tyler Fair where she saw her first airplane, seeing her first car while walking down the country lane with her mother, and World War I..."

The proclamation states, "Miss Bamberg attributes her longevity to good health and the good Lord and as a fine Christian woman born to serve the Lord, has fulfilled her calling to teach Sunday school at Kilgore Missionary Baptist Church for 47 years."

Friends and family celebrated the of her milestone birthday on Saturday, Nov. 15.

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The artwork of Philana Oliphant will be on display in a free public exhibit through Friday, Dec. 5, in the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Building on the Kilgore College campus.

Oliphant is a drawing instructor at The University of Texas at Tyler. Her work includes drawings and sculpture, and has been exhibited in galleries in Tyler, Corpus Christi and Wichita Falls.

"The drawings are remnants of a behavioral form that allows my mind to achieve a meditative state," Oliphant said. "The results rely on a physiological statement which is the first principle of communication."

The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call Fox- Hearne at (903) 983-8128.

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Happy birthday to Alma Nell Farmer, Daniel Chappell, Bill Brantley, Darryl Wright, Cliff Yowell, Judy Johnson, Mrs. Clarence Matthews, Brad Barnhart, Troy Jones, Jean Anderson, Harold Burkett, Ernie Paul, John E. Daniels, Derek Muckleroy, Herbert Hale, Timothy Hilburn, Wilson Dickson, Kelly Laird, Collin Clower, Rene Terry, J.R. Aman, Tracey Blackman, Stephanie Batson, Sammie Lewis, Cathy Arnold, Ricki Overman, Natasha Webster, Tea Andrews, Willie Brown, Alex Shockley, Payton Evans, Nadia Gilliam, Kirk Hagg, Docia Bamberg (100), McKenna Marler, Rene' Clark.

Happy Anniversary today to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Moore.