Alva's Dee Wiebener has worked in the retail clothing business for over 25 years. She was recently honored by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. She received a Regents Business Partnership Excellence Award at a luncheon at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.

Owner of LaDeeda clothing store on the north side of the square in Alva, Wiebener has provided thousands of dollars worth of new clothing to Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva. The clothes are for the Teacher's Closet, which was founded in 2017 by NWOSU professors Dr. Jen Oswald and Dr. Jennifer Page for...