By Kara Hampton
Mother of an ONU senior who will genuinely miss spending time in Ada after she graduates next weekend

My daughter is an ONU student, and hence a 4-year member of your community. You have welcomed her into your churches, schools (she works with the Polar Buddies program), grocery store, restaurants and more.

Yesterday, you took care of her and the entire ONU community when someone played havoc with their sense of peace and security by sending a bomb threat.

Thank you for busing them to AHS and opening the school to shelter them, even when that meant you in turn had to close it and place your own students on lock-down. Thank you to all of the churches & businesses that opened up your doors and hearts to house them during this chaos.

Thank you for loving our children in Ada, as we loved them from afar. I've always been thankful for the tight-knit community of ONU & Ada, and you showed that abundantly yesterday.

We ONU parents thank you!!!