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The Young County Senior Cub Center hosted the Olney Chamber of Commerce for its quarterly luncheon featuring keynote speaker Kathryn Hager from Ramble and Company of Wichita Falls. The Cub Center played host to a mix of regular Cub Center attendees and OCC members. Attendees enjoyed a Mexican-style lunch and good company as Ms. Hager discussed the small business marketing strategies she offers her clients.

The school board approved its emergency operations plan and held closed-session discussions of the Texas School Guardian Program, a state program which trains school personnel to carry concealed weapons to defend campuses in the event of an active shooter, OISD Superintendent Dr. Greg Roach said. The identities of the Guardians and the school’s safety plans will be kept confidential. Private security expert Danny Deffenbaugh was expected to complete his assessment of OISD’s three campuses on Sept. 30, and make his report to the board, Dr. Roach said.

The Olney Police and Young County Sheriff ’s departments each received funding this fiscal year to install a computerized dispatch system that would instantly share information about emergency calls between deputies and Olney officers. The Copsync computer-aided dispatch (CAD) is an add-on to the COPsync system that Olney and the Sheriff ’s Department already use separately to keep track of dispatch calls and to write reports. The Sheriff ’s Department performs dispatch duties for Olney between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m., when OPD Dispatcher Deena Clarke is off duty. The CAD creates shared records of 911 calls and immediately sends information about previous calls about a particular address or person to officers responding to calls. It also can compile real-time reports about major incidents for police investigators, if necessary.