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Effectiveness of MFR
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/back-pain/expert-answers/myofascial-release/FAQ-20058136

"The focused manual pressure and stretching used in myofascial release therapy loosen up restricted movement, leading indirectly to reduced pain.

Many studies have found that massage, chiropractic manipulation and similar manual therapies work as well as other treatments for back pain. Few studies, however, have tested myofascial release therapy specifically, partly because the exact elements of myofascial release therapy vary from therapist to therapist."

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Sports
Very early reference (99 years) found to Mountain Lake's basketball tradition: "In the way of athletics the high school has always been among the leaders, especially in basket ball. Several times they have been champions of their district and on one or two occasions have been the final contenders for the state championship."

John A. Brown (ed.), History of Cottonwood and Watonwan counties, Minnesota: Their People, Industries, and Institutions: With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families. In Two Volumes. Indianapolis, IN: B.F. Bowen and Company, 1916. Volume 1. Page 260. --

History
> additional source Minnesota Place Names (https://books.google.com/books?id=ShcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA574#v=onepage&q&f=false) page. 151>

> Mountain Lake 100 years centennial book published 1986.

Mennonite immigration
In 1873, Mennonite immigrants from the Ukraine (at that time, Ukraine was part of Tsarist Russia) began to arrive in Mountain Lake, having been recruited by William Seeger, a member of the Minnesota State Board of Immigration. Seeger had specifically targeted Mennonites, “because they were believed to be hard workers of good character.” The majority of these Mennonite families came from the Molotschna Colony, located near the present-day city of Melitopol, Ukraine. However, a number of Manitoba Mennonites originally from the Chortitza Colony, near the present-day city of Zaporizhia, also settled in the Mountain Lake area. By 1880 it is estimated that 295 Mennonite families had settled in the Mountain Lake area.

Because Mountain Lake was already an established community and its surrounding farmland largely surveyed, the Mennonites could not arrange themselves in the traditional communal villages they had been accustomed to in their Ukrainian colonies. This forced them to adapt to American-style, single family farms and to live amongst their non-Mennonite neighbors. As settlement continued, the Mennonites of Mountain Lake had soon established a successful and cohesive community, “based primarily on agriculture and local commerce.” For many decades thereafter, they retained the speaking of Plautdietsch, the Mennonite variation of Low German.

-- Byron

History
Byron was named by Postmaster V. C. Spurrier, who received a postal designation in April 1898 for a town to be named Byron - apparently named for a relative of his who owned a store there. Originally located in Woods County, Byron became part of the newly organized Alfalfa County in 1907, at the time of statehood.

While the town was listed in an 1898 state gazetteer, it's lack of railroad access caused the new settlement to develop slowly at first. However, in April of 1901, W. C. Edwards arranged for land for a new townsite about one mile south and one-half mile east of the original settlement and within the course of a month the existing business buildings were moved from the old to the new town site and a new bank, meat market, and lumberyard were opened. In April 1902, the Woods County commission incorporated the town of Byron. In anticipation of the arrival of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad line that ran south from Kansas through the county, a grain elevator was constructed in October. Upon completion of the line to Byron on October 21, "the town celebrated with a huge bonfire, and the railroad laborers were treated to lemonade, cigars, and locally grown apples."

After the arrival of the railroad, Byron flourished economically. The town's population reached it peak of 286 by 1909. Notable businesses included the Byron State Bank, two newspapers - the Byron Republican and the Byron Promoter - and both a Christian and a Methodist church. It also sported two hardware stores, three general stores, a blacksmith, and a flour mill.

Area farms produced both wheat and alfalfa and the town became an important market and shipping point for grain and livestock. In 1929, one of the state's four warm-water fish hatcheries was established to produce sport fish for state lakes and farm ponds. However, Byron began a slow economic decline as falling agricultural prices and the Great Depression both took their toll. By 1930, the census counted only 197 residents.

An interesting political development briefly brought Byron into the news, when in 1935 five women unseated five male incumbents on the town board. They proceeded to pay off the town's debt and began to produce income through the sale of electricity to its residents.

Nonetheless, in 1942, the railroad abandoned its line through town. Through the 1940s and 1950s, only a half-dozen businesses were still in operation. The declining rural population prompted the combining of Byron's schools with those of the nearby towns of Burlington and Driftwood in the 1960s, resulting in the formation of the consolidated Driftwood-Byron Public School. It's population continued to fall to 131 in 1950, 72 in 1970, and only 57 in 1990. Byron ended the twentieth century with a population of 45, and by 2010, the U.S. Census counted just 35 residents.

Burlington

History
Originally the town of Burlington was named "Drumm", for prominent cattle rancher Major Andrew Drumm. Major Drumm had operated the 150,000 acre U Ranch in the area from 1874 until 1888 on land leased from the Cherokees and was a founder of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association. Drum was also the founder of the Andrew Drumm Institute of Independence Missouri. A post office was established there as such on June 6, 1906. After plans to rename the town "Wheaton" in July of 1907 fell through, the town's name was officially changed to Burlington on August 21, 1907, which it remains to this day.

Alfalfa County’s first consolidated school was organized in Burlington in April of 1908. The following year, the first school building was completed. By 1913, it had 150 students and four teachers. A two story brick building was constructed in 1923. In 1948 a new gymnasium was added. In 1963 a new school was built and many additions have been added since that time – the most recent being a band room and agriculture shop addition in 2014. In the 1960's, Burlington, Driftwood, Byron, and Amorita schools consolidated into a single school. There were approximately 150 (pre-K-12th) students in 2014.

Need to incorporate history: http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=BU011

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Driftwood is a small unincorporated community in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States. Its name was taken from nearby Driftwood Creek. A once prosperous rural community, it had at one time two churches, a store, gas station, grain elevator, 2-story school, and a post office. Today, it is made up of less than a dozen residences and a church grouped along both sides of Oklahoma SH-8/SH-58.

The Driftwood post office was established May 12, 1894 and closed October 31, 1959. In the 1960's, Driftwood, Burlington, Byron, and Amorita schools consolidated into the Burlington School District located in Burlington.

Driftwood is located on Oklahoma State Highway 8/State Highway 58 8 mi north of Cherokee and 1 mi west of the Medicine Lodge River.

CCD – North Alfalfa 92015 census tract 9556 census tract block group 2