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OCTOBER 31, 2012

AroundTheTownTONIGHT’S THE NIGHT!

TRICK OR TREAT IN PONCA CITY Wednes-day (tonight) is the official night for ghosts and gob-lins in Ponca City!

TRICK OR TREAT FAIR, Northern Oklahoma Col-lege-Tonkawa invites trick-or-treaters 12 years old and younger to the eighth annual Trick-or-Treat Fair in the Foster-Piper Field house, East Gym, tonight. Admission is free, and all children 12 years and under must be accompa-nied by an adult. The fun will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m. Various NOC student organizations and sports teams will be hosting games and handing out candy. The photogra-phy club will also be taking free Halloween pictures, and there will be inflat-able amusement games for the youngsters. For more information, call 580-628-6789.

BOOS FOR FOOD, ben-efitting the Ponca City Salvation Army, is tonight at The Poncan Theatre. Full Flava and The Kings of Time featuring Harley Hamme as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Amy Lynn as Janis Joplin, Vince Gibbs as Prince, with special guests VERS3TYLE. Also featur-ing: Charlie Redd and the Full Flava Kings, Okla-homa’s No. 1 Funk, R&B , Soul Band. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are $15 or $10 for adults, $8 for kids and $25 for VIPs, with the donation of five canned good items. For more infor-mation, call 580-401-3352.

GRILL NIGHT, present-ed by the American Legion Post 14, is Nov. 2. Join the American Legion for a rib-eye steak or hamburger/cheeseburger the first and third Friday of the month from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy a 16-ounce ribeye steak with fries and drink for $15 or a third-pound hamburger/cheeseburger with fries and drink for $5. For more information, call 580-765-9073.

THE FLY-IN BREAK-FAST will be held at Ponca City Regional Airport from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday. For more information, call 580-767-0470.

THE 2012 “POUNDING THE PAVEMENT” 5K run/walk, presented by the Ponca City Christian Academy starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. It will begin and end at the Marland Man-sion grounds. Registra-tion is $20 in advance or $25 the day of the run. All funds raised will go toward the daily operation of the school. For more informa-tion, call 580-765-6038.

EYES ON THE WORLD, presented by the Ponca City Art Center, contin-ues through Nov. 11 at the Ponca City Art Center. “Eyes on the World” fea-tures work from nine pho-tographers from various countries. The show, curat-ed by local photographer Ken Crowder, comprises three images from each of the artists for a total of 27 photographs. For more information, call 580-765-9746.

A POKER RUN, pre-sented by Moose Lodge No. 1031, starts with registra-tion from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday. The run begins and ends at the Moose Lodge, 500 West Prospect Avenue. Final destination activities include food, live entertainment, 50/50 and a live auction. First vehicle out at noon, final vehicle return by 5 p.m. Registra-tion is $20 a driver, $10 per passenger. All proceeds go for Moose support of local charitable organizations. For more information, call 580-762-5265.

DALE EISENHAUER AND KATHY BROWN per-form Saturday at the Stage-coach Event Center. Chuck wagon dinner starts at 6:45 p.m., show begins at 7:15 p.m. Dutch oven desserts at intermission. Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for 12 and under. For more information, call 580-362-3160. Stormy Bennett

Poncan Opry To HonorVietnam-Era Veterans

The Poncan Opry returns to The Poncan Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10.

This performance will march to a different beat as the Poncan Opry salutes Vietnam vet-erans. During the years of the Vietnam War, the nation was experiencing social and politi-cal changes on a scale never before seen, and the music of that time reflected it.

The Poncan Opry Band will perform the music veterans were hearing while serving. This music embodied the changes from the Civil Rights movement, both the anti-war and pro-war beliefs, the environmental concerns, and nuclear proliferation. The Poncan Opry honors all veterans from all branches of the military, as well those who were POW/MIAs.

The Poncan Opry will also feature special guest Stormy Bennett. Bennett was born in Louisiana, Mo., in 1951, the youngest of seven children. His family was a musical family and he grew up listening to them singing songs from the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Carter Fam-ily and others.

His mother played guitar, and it wasn’t long until he developed a desire to be a musician as well, learning the basics from his mother at the age of 13.

At the age of 15, Bennett got his first job playing guitar with a band. In 1974, he and

his wife Cheryl were married and he entered a career in law enforcement. However, the pull of music took over in 1981 and he picked up his guitar and hit the road, playing with various groups from Florida to Minnesota, Illinois to California and most of the states in between.

In 1995, Bennett said, he got tired of living out of suitcases and watching his kids grow up through pictures. He decided to bid farewell to life on the road. He re-entered his career in law enforcement and today is a detective with the Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., Sheriff’s Office.

In 2010, Bennett was nominated as an “America’s Most Wanted” All-Star for his work in eradicating methamphetamine and his intensive investigations of child abuse.

The show features the high-energy style of the Poncan Opry Band, which consists of Bucky Fowler on lead guitar and vocals; Rob Loren on fiddle; Kurt Graber, steel gui-tar; James Hocutt, bass guitar; Mike Price, keyboard; Chuck Case, drums; and vocalists Karla Fowler and the Fowler Sisters: Kristine Saner, Kelcy Mohr and Kandace Sovereign.

Tickets are available at www.poncantheatre.org or by calling 580-765-0943. The price is $16 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under.

THE HOME of Dr. Bruce and Courtney Baugher, 910 East Overbrook Avenue.

THE DONALD Henderson home, 901 East Overbrook Avenue.

KINKAID VETERINARY Hospital, Fourth Street and Cleveland Avenue.

TEMPLE EMANUEL, at Highland Avenue and Poplar Street.

Historic Homes, Building Tour SundayBy BEVERLY BRYANT

Midweek EditorSeveral historic buildings and

homes will be open for visitors in Ponca City Main Street’s “Horse and Hound” Historic Homes and Buildings tour Nov. 4.

The Main Street program is part-nering with the Historic Preserva-tion Advisory Panel on the project.

Tickets are $10 each and will be available at each building on the tour as well as at Tour Central, the Shelter Insurance office at 1212 East Highland Avenue. Refresh-ments also will be served at Tour Central.

The tour will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Nov. 4. Visitors may start at any location and visit the locations in any order.

Temple EmanuelA Jewish community has been in

Ponca City as long as the city has existed. Records show that the first service was held in 1899 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Buch-hemer. Between 1915 and 1930, 12 to 20 Jewish families participated in religious services held in homes and halls located in Ponca City, Tonkawa, Blackwell, and even Arkansas City.

A lay leader who came by horse and buggy from his farm in Ren-frow conducted many of the ser-vices. Beginning in 1923, a Jewish Sunday school was established to provide religious education to the Jewish children in the community. The first Sunday School classes were held in the Chamber of Com-merce office.

In May 1962, the desire to strengthen the ties of Jewish com-munity lead to the organization of Temple Emanuel. One of the goals of the organization was to build a house of worship and in May 1964, ground was broken for the temple which stands today. The first services were held for the High Holidays in September 1964, with the formal dedication set for November to coincide with Hanukkah.

The building was designed by prominent Ponca City architect Harold Kannady. He also designed a number of homes and business-es in Ponca City, including the original building for West Junior High School. When he presented the design, Kannady told the con-gregation that his inspiration for the lines of the building were the hands of God holding the world.

The exterior of Temple Emanuel is brick and stucco, with a con-trast in color and texture between the high central sanctuary and the rooms on either side. Two tables

with the Ten Commandments in Hebrew are on the outside of the building on both the east and west facades.

Ponca City Federal BuildingIn 1930, John Duncan Forsyth

and Donald McCormick were cho-sen as architects for the new Art Deco-style building. The total cost of the building was $200,000, with an additional $50,000 paid for the lot.

The construction provided a tre-mendous boost to the local econo-my during the early 1930s.

An article in the March 14, 1934, issue of the Ponca City News described the building on the day the post office opened:

“Native stone from the Marland quarries, Minnesota yellow kaso-ta stone, Arkansas black marble, iron, aluminum and various woods have been combined to make Ponca City’s federal building an edifice of unusual beauty as well as one of attractive dignity and simplicity. Eagle flag holders in aluminum and aluminum indirect lighting fixtures on either side of the steps will strike a modern note as does the buff, white and black color scheme used throughout the building.

“The first floor will be used by the post office proper, the second floor will house the federal court rooms and other federal offices.

“A black and yellow color note is established in the lobby by the stairs, rises and treads which are of the yellow kasota stone and the black Arkansas marble. Stair banisters are of cast iron, painted black as are the other pieces of the metal used about the building, with a wood hand-rail.

“Corridors on the second floor are of cream and black terrazzo and the walls are of white plas-ter. The court room is finished in cream colored acoustin plastering above a walnut chair rail. White wainscoting and a beam ceil-ing with cream colored acoustic plaster panels carry out the pre-dominating decorative scheme. A brown and tan checkerboard cork flooring has been used.”

Visitors touring the courtroom also will see the law library and the judge’s chambers.

Kinkaid’s Veterinary HospitalLocate at Fourth Street and

Cleveland Avenue, Kinkaid’s Veterinary Hospital represent-ed a major change for Dr. David Kinkaid and his staff.

A major renovation of the for-mer Ponca Townsite Restaurant, designed by David’s son, Dr. Brett

(See TOUR, Page 6C)

News Photos by Beverly Bryant

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Students Get Harsh Look at What Drugs Do

The Drugstore Program, a drug education program targeted at 5th, 6th and 7th graders, was held at Hutchins Memorial auditorium last week.

This effort, which began in 1996, is held every four years, and is organized by the United Way.

Many of the people that are part of the program are actually performing the jobs they do in the community on a daily basis. In addition, a myriad of volunteers are needed to make this program run smoothly.

The students are bused to the auditorium in groups. The rigid schedule allows groups of students to process through the mimicked portrayal of a student being arrest-ed on drug charges.

The court system is depicted using career prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges. The probationary system is staffed by case workers from the Office of Juvenile Affairs.

When the previously arrested student is found uncon-scious in a party scene, actual Ponca City Fire Depart-ment paramedics enter, followed by an Emergency Room scene, staffed by actual nurses.

The relapse ends in death and a funeral scene follows. The final presenter is an actual Kay County Detention

Center inmate, who explains that he lost his freedom, career and family because of poor choices he made to involve himself in drugs. The inmate has his hands and feet shackled while wearing his orange prisoner jump-suit. He candidly cautions students against making the same poor choices that he has made. He assures them that poor choices will lead them to incarceration or death.

The students were given a Drugstore T-shirt as they board the buses to return to school.

The honorary chairmen for this session of Drugstore were David and Michele Baskin, whose son died as a result of a drug overdose.

FOLLOWING THE funeral scene, a Kay County Detention Officer, left, brought in an actual Kay County Detention Center inmate, center, con-victed on drug charges, to speak with students about where making poor choices has landed him. At right is Ponca City Fire Fighter Scott Kulczycski, who also works as a Kay County Reserve Deputy. The convict explains to students that he has been incarcerated for two years at the Kay County Detention Center. He doesn’t know yet, since court proceedings aren’t complete, if he will go on to prison from here. The convict has volunteered to do these presentations. He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and played professional basketball in a Euro-pean league. With felony convictions, he is no longer eligible to teach. He tells the students that he doesn’t know where he goes from here or what kind of a job he will be able to get once he gets out. Visitation is limited to once a week, but his wife only comes about once every two weeks. He told students he hasn’t seen his children or grandchildren since he has been locked up. Throughout his talk he encourages the students to stay away from drugs and tells them the only difference between himself and them is bad choices.

Judge Lee TurnerLT. ANTHONY ROGERS shows students a drug display.UNITED WAY Director Melissa Young reminds students that if you use, you lose.

GEOCACHING:By BEVERLY BRYANT

Midweek EditorIt may sound odd to some,

but there’s a growing group of people who have found fun in getting scratched up and bruised while searching for “treasure.”

The growing hobby of geo-caching (sounds like geo-cashing) nearly always causes some minor injury to the par-ticipants as they search loca-tions using their GPS equip-ment. The search usually involves a hand-held device as well as their car GPS, in order to refine their locations.

The North Central Okla-homa Geocachers includes members from South Central Kansas. The group has about 12 members, sometimes more.

Members adopt their “cach-ing” names — those in the

local group include oil-bear125, shakinsometrees, bitman1, cisnguy, bliminonion and geobuddy23.

One mother-and-son pair have T-shirts with individu-al tracking numbers in the design.

“People come from all walks of life,” said Diana Ehlers (bliminonion). “In Kansas, just over the line, there’s a Catholic priest with more than 600 caches.”

At a recent lunch, a group of geocachers met to talk about their hobby and explain jut what geocaching is.

They talked about recent purchases of new plastic con-tainers to hold their caches and ask about any that others may have available in certain sizes.

In its most basic elements,

geocaching is a sort of puzzle game in which participants put small trinkets, along with a log book, in a container and hide it for others to discover. The geographic coordinates (latitude and longtitude) are recorded for others to find, using their GPS devices.

The cacher then posts the coordinates, and sometimes some clues, on an account with geocaching.com. Others see it there and go searching for it.

It may sound simple, but getting to the proper coordi-nates is just the first part of the search. Caches can be hid-den almost anywhere — hid-den in a bush, in a high place or even inside a cedar tree. That’s where the scratches come from.

There are three rules when

a cache is found, geocacher Rhonda Cobb (oilbear125) said.

“Once you find one, log your name. Trade evenly — which means if you take something from the cache, replace it with something of like value. And third, record your find on geocaching.com.”

Participants describe it as a high-tech game of hide and seek.

“I use a multi-billion-dollar satellite to find a piece of Tupperware in the woods,” said Bobby Armstrong (bit-man1). “It’s like an Easter egg hunt for adults.”

Cobb said there are almost 2 billion caches hidden around the world with a half-billion people looking for them.

“A lot of caches will take you to historic sites,” Ehlers said. “There are caches at the 101 Ranch, Cowboy Hill, the White Eagle monument, the Marland Mansion, both Ponca City funeral homes and many cemeteries.”

Geocachers are asked to be respectful in their searches and to take care of the proper-ty as well as the cache itself, to maintain the fun aspect for everyone involved.

“Anyone can place a cache, but I recommend you find at least 100 first, so you know the rules,” Cobb said.

The hunters can be almost any age. Sherry Trussell (sha-kinsometrees) said she has gone with her nephews, who like to hide caches.

The game can be played all over the world. Ehlers trav-els regularly and has found caches in Bermuda.

“I haven’t been anywhere where I couldn’t find one,” Cobb said. “Someone has hid-den one no matter where I go.”

Recently, Cobb was award-ed one of John Grisham’s 5,000 golden “Grisham Geocoins” to activate in one of the cach-es that she maintains. Dou-bleday, publisher of John Grisham’s “The Racketeer”

has released the Geocoins across the United States. Geo-cachers are asked to keep them moving by placing them in other geocaches. Geocach-ers can upload their best Grisham geocoin photos to the John Grisham Facebook page to be entered to win one of 11 autographed first editions of “The Racketeer” and a Grand Prize, a one-ounce bar of pure gold.

There are also items called “Travel Bugs” which are sup-posed to move from cache to cache, with their journey recorded in the log book, in the same manner as a “Flat Stanley” which is mailed from one location with another.

Cobb has found 1,400 cach-es, and Ehlers has found more than 9,600, she said. The cach-es also are rated according to difficulty, using a star scale.

On geocaching.com, play-ers can find a map that will take them to the middle of the road near the cache. From that point, the GPS will take them to the spot.

Even with that kind of help, it can be hard to spot a cache, as this reporter learned. After lunch, the group set up a prac-tice cache. Finding the coor-dinates was fairly easy, but the cache was inside a bush — covered with a layer of leaves that made it look like a bird’s nest.

Once it was found and opened, there was a delight-ful collection of children’s stickers, small fingernail polishes and the other little “treats” one may find around the house.

A Game of Hide-and-Seek Using Satellites and GPS

RHONDA COBB was awarded one of the John Grisham’s 5,000 golden “Grisham Geocoins” to activate in one of the geocaches that she maintains. Cobb released the cache in Newkirk the same day that Grisham’s new book, “The Racketeer” went on sale.

Braman United Methodist Church To Hold Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. 7

BRAMAN — The Braman United Methodist Church will hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 7.

At 4 p.m., numerous crafts, pie, cinnamon rolls, fruit breads, home-canned fruit, vegetables, pickles and other baked goods, jams, jellies and other items will be for sale in the foyer.

Dinner will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. It includes turkey, brisket, dressing, potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, cran-berry sauce, homemade pies and rolls, coffee and tea.

The cost is $6.50 for adults,

$3 for children ages 4 to 11, and children younger than 4 are admitted free.

The Braman Method-ist Women’s Service Group is ready for the bazaar. The group has four hand-quilted quilts of various sizes. “It’s Just Triangles” is 108 inches by 104 inches and is predomi-nately brown with shades of autumn. “Plaid Diamonds” is 100 inches square and is a multicolored plaid accented with a blue border. “Pastel Mosaic” is 79 inches by 90 inches and is pink, blue and purple bordered with a floral

print. “Yellow Brick Road” is 74 inches by 81 inches and is yellow and gold with a maroon border.

“Road Less Traveled” is 82 inches by 98 inches. It is machine-quilted with black and white prints accented with burgundy.

Three machine-quilted throws also will be available. Many other items also will be available for the auction. The auction begins at 7 p.m. Pro-ceeds from the evening will be used by the United Methodist Women for missions and other projects the group supports.

Lapidary Art Show SaturdayThe Rough and Tumbled

Rock and Gem Club will hold its third annual Lapidary Art Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Members will demonstrate how to turn rocks into jewelry and lapidary art at the Ponca City Art Center, 819 East Cen-tral Avenue. The show is free.

Collecting rocks and gems is

a hobby that can be shared by the whole family. This year’s show will feature a “Kids’ Corner” with educational and enjoyable activities for chil-dren and adults alike.

Begun in 2010 this one-day show illustrates how to turn precious and semi-precious stones into works of art. B. Jay Bowman will demonstrate

how to facet fine quality gems. Bowman, a certified gemolo-gist and graduate of the Gem-ological Institute of America, was inducted into the Lapi-dary Hall of Fame in 2002 and continues to share his knowl-edge.

For more information, call Lee Whitebay, 580-765-2074.

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Local Women Share Their Journeys Through Breast CancerBy BEVERLY BRYANT

Midweek EditorThe Ponca City Soroptimist

Club presented four women who are surviving breast cancer at the Breast Cancer Awareness Banquet Oct. 25.

The women — Cathy Cole, Vie Bottger, Debi Vap and Lisa Crone-Sheldon are all in different phases of their journeys, and their conditions are as unique as they are. No two women’s experiences are the same, but they all agreed to speak to spread the word about how important early detection is in breast cancer.

Cathy Cole The day of the banquet, Cole

completed the 22nd round out of 33 to 36 radiation treat-ments. She finished her che-motherapy before the radia-tion treatments started.

Her journey started Feb. 9 when her hand brushed across her neck while she was at a Women in Agriculture conference in Tonkawa.

“I discovered a soft tissue lump in my neck,” she said.

She called her doctor to make an appointment to get it checked out, but it would have been several weeks before she could get in.

On her way home, she decid-ed to stop at AMC Urgent Care.

“They did a bunch of tests,” Cole said. “It was a lymph node in my neck as well as several under my arm.”

Tissue samples were sent to a special lab in California to determine what she was deal-ing with.

“The tissue of origin test showed it was 95 percent breast cancer,” she said.

Cole said once a diagnosis was made, she realized she wasn’t on the journey alone.

“It is a rewarding trip to take because you learn so much,” Cole said. “But fami-lies are also on this journey and the family members each have their own experience.”

She shared that her daugh-ter Molly had posted on Face-book how proud she is of her mother and her fight against the disease.

She has also experienced several spiritual moment that have lifted her up, she said.

“I would have small panic attacks, like I felt when my son died in a car wreck. Then I felt a calm and knew some-one was praying for me,” she said. “Just at that moment my friend Carey Head texted a prayer to me.”

She said her friend Leann Parr, also going through breast cancer treatment, told her to “ ask me anything — and carry Kleenex.”

Cole said she assumed the tissues would be for drying tears. Parr corrected her and said “You lose your nose hairs, too, and your nose drips.”

The next day, another friend, Mary Rhyne brought Cole a little packet of tissues, unaware of the conversation.

Last year Cole, who works with Ponca City Medical Cen-ter’s Health Woman program, started the Healthy Woman Mammogram during the Pink Heals Tour. The fund balance grew to $24,949 last year.

She said more donations have been promised for this year.

“It always warms my heart. I love this community and I am so glad to be a part of it,” she said.

She ended with two com-mands to the audience:

•Get your mammogram•Listen to your body. If

something doesn’t seem right, check it out.

Vie Bottger“This isn’t my first rodeo

with cancer; it is my second,” Bottger said.

“Twenty-one years ago in February I had a bone mar-row transplant. Twenty years ago you couldn’t be over 40 years old to have a bone mar-row transplant. Now people in their 70s get stem cell trans-plants,” she said.

This time around, she said she had fallen asleep on the couch and woke up hurting “because I had laid on a piece of wood,” she said.

“I went through a mam-mogram, a diagnostic mam-mogram, a third mammogram with an ultrasound,” she said. “Then they had me come back in a week and I had a needle biopsy.

“Waiting is the hardest part,” she said. “They just called me on the phone. It’s still a slap in the face. I sobbed for a few minutes and

then got up to fight.”In December, she had a mas-

tectomy. The surgeon found more cancer and the surgery was a lot more extensive than expected.

“Dumb drains,” she said. “They hurt and you can’t wait to get rid of them.”

She said the doctors thought the cancer looked self-con-tained.

“They wanted to take things one baby step at a time. Then they did adjunctive chemo and radiation. With expe-rience and time, they have found that little pieces float off and cause cancer in the liver and other places,” she said.

“Because of my bone mar-row transplant my marrow is compromised, so I’ve been a trial and error for the poor doctor. I’ve changed chemo several times,” she said.

Because of one of the drugs she has taken, she said, her heart function dropped down to 45 percent.

“They prefer it to be at 50 to 65 percent,” she said.

Bottger had five weeks of radiation.

“I am, thankfully, through that. I couldn’t wait to get my appointment with the plastic surgeon — I will have surgery in February, and that will be the last step of this journey.”

Her message to the audi-ence: “You can never give up hope.”

“We have so many people to thank,” she said. The nurs-es who deal with 75 to 100 patients a day, all with their

different needs. I lost over half my blood and I didn’t know it. They couldn’t get my blood because I have a spe-cial antibody because of the bone marrow transplant.”

She was not a willing hos-pital patient, she admitted. When the doctor wanted her to stay overnight, she found many excuses.

“I needed makeup. They made up a makeup kit for me, got me some paper pajamas and a turban to get me to stay overnight,” she said.

“They suffer along with us. It bothers them. Everyone is an individual to them,” Bott-ger said. “Everybody here putting this (banquet) on and the firemen who are serving, thank you. It means a lot. I’ve been through it and I’m still here.”

Debi Vap“My journey began April

2. I had an appointment in Ark City in the morning, then a mammogram in Stillwater and then I was supposed to go to Newkirk to set up a con-cession stand,” Vap said. “So I thought I would cancel the mammogram. Then it hit me — no. It took 10 minutes.”

The next day, they called her back in because they spot-ted something.

“‘We want to make sure it’s really nothing,’ they said. On April 11, I got back in for diag-nostic mammogram.

“It was not anything I expected. When she got done, the radiologist really wanted to do an ultrasound,” she said. “They started the ultrasound

and couldn’t find what they were looking for. I came in the next day for an MRI ... they pinpointed it, found the size and I had a needle biopsy. On the way out they handed my husband a card with the name of a surgeon they already made an appointment for.”

She said when she got the word about the needle biopsy, it was cancer.

I went into the office of a co-worker and had a massive breakdown,” she said. “Then you either pick yourself up by your bootstraps or you lie down and do nothing.”

From that moment, life became a whirlwind.

“Meeting the surgeon was a nightmare,” she said. Neither she nor her husband caught everything the doctor said.

“He knew a breast cancer specialist and I saw her by that Friday. The whole world lifted off of my shoulders,” Vap said. “That was the scari-est conversation I ever had.”

In Vap’s case, the lump was less than an inch and was found in a duct instead of a gland.

“I had to have genetic test-ing done. We figured out it was not a genetic mutation,” she said.

She had three surgeries in six weeks, Vap said.

“A lumpectomy; a lift, tuck and reduction. And a port placement for chemo.”

She had her seventh che-motherapy a week before the banquet.

“My last one will be on Hal-loween. We will have more

information on radiation then. It will be at least 33 treatments, every day,” she said.

She said she is taking pre-ventive radiation and chemo for the cure, not for remis-sion.

Vap said the personal sup-port she has received has been incredible.

“You’ll see a lot of people here who have name tags with the name of Debi. They aren’t all named Debi. They are doing this to support me,” she said. She said her son’s foot-ball team members all wear “Cancer Sucks” bracelets in their games.

Her take-away message:“Mammograms are needed.

Everyone has to have one,” Vap said. “Every April I get my mammogram, my ob/gyn exam and I pay my taxes.”

“My journey continues and I hope to be finished by Christ-mas,” she said.

Lisa Crone-Sheldon“A still small voice was

nudging me as I gave the invocation during last year’s Pink Heals Tour,” pastor Lisa Crone-Sheldon said. “I went in and I think that event saved my life.”

She talked to the audience about self care.

“We forget to take care of ourselves. We never quite get around to it. But events like this remind us — we all need to take care of ourselves and get our mammograms,” she said.

“I want to emphasize what a wonderful community we have and what wonderful resources we have in Ponca City,” she said. “I saw a mem-ber of my church there and we were joking. I had learned at a Soropitmist event that our medical center here has improved so much that we are right in line with the best. We have digital mammography.”

Last year, after her mam-mogram, she said the doctor’s staff told her they saw some calcifications.

“You need to be sure to come in next year because it could be cancerous or pre-cancerous,” she said they told her.

“At this event last year, I knew I needed to go get that mammogram, so I set aside time to drive down the street and take a few minutes to get a mammogram. My doctor said I needed to have a needle biopsy,” she said. “My hus-band bought me some hard lemonade and I was ready. We also went to the Rusty Barrel afterward and had a tumble-

weed.”The doctor called Crone-

Sheldon into his office and said “We have a cancer.”

“I thought ‘what’s this we?’” she said.

“He got me in to a surgeon. We are so fortunate to have surgeons like Dr. Gilbert in our community. It is wonder-ful to get everything done right in Ponca City. I could continue doing my work to get my mind off all this other stuff,” she said.

She had a mastectomy on the right side.

I had a very small calcifica-tion. It was just a couple of star shapes, not even a lump,” she said. “They call that pleo-morphic calcifications. They looked like snowflakes. That’s how they knew to check for it to see if it was cancer. It was probably the size of the first tick mark on a ruler.

“They told me there was no way I would have felt this in a self exam. We really should know how to check ourselves routinely in the shower to make sure everything is still normal. In this case, the mam-mogram was the only way it could be caught,” she said.

“There are a variety of can-cers. Don’t compare yourself to every other story you have heard. Some are more aggres-sive. Some are fed by estro-gen. Take it one day at a time and be proactive,” she said.

“My husband kept me laugh-ing and kept me from taking thing too seriously,” Crone-Sheldon said. “I didn’t have time to get emotional. I like to swim and do the breast stroke. Allen said ‘I guess you’re going to have to start using your arms now.’”

She said VitaCare was an excellent source of help for fitting her prosthesis and undergarments, as well as swimming suits.

“I want to say thank you to my church. They are here — many are on a spiritual retreat tonight,” she said. “My church showed love to me in a way that just blew my mind. I never knew how many were breast cancer survivors until then. Some of them took me to the doctor while I was still on pain meds and to get stitches out and tubes out.

“Don’t wait until you have cancer to build that kind of support network.”

Her message to the audi-ence:

“God is our protector. Yes, I had cancer, but it could have been much worse if I had not listened to that prompting,” she said.

BREAST CANCER awareness speakers Debi Vap, Lisa Crone-Sheldon and Cathy Cole share a laugh after the Soroptimist International of Ponca City Breast Cancer Awareness banquet last week. Not pictured is Vie Bottger. (News Photo by Beverly Bryant)

Personal Experience Drives Campaign for Pink Fire Truck

By BEVERLY BRYANTMidweek Editor

The Ponca City Fire Department has been a strong ally of the Pink Heals Tour, which has visited Ponca City the past two years.

The tour was scheduled to appear again at the Breast Cancer Awareness Banquet this year, but unforeseen circumstances caused a last-minute cancellation. The tour did recently visit several cancer patients, however.

The tour brings pink fire trucks, signed with messages of hope and remembrance, to communities all around the country.

“Two years ago, Soroptimists found out about Pink Heals and Cathy Cole was like a bulldog determined to get them here,” Soroptimist Kathy Tippin said.

For some of the city’s fire crew, it is very personal.

David VanBuskirk“April 7 is a date on the calendar I will

never forget,” Fire Marshal David VanBus-kirk said. “I was headed to Oklahoma City for a workshop. We ate lunch and listened to speaker.

“It was the same day my wife was going to get her first mammogram at the age of 40,” he said.

“I look at my phone and saw she called me. She said ‘I had my mammogram and they see something that doesn’t look right and they are going to do an ultrasound. Don’t worry let’s see what happens.’

“A little later she called to say they were going to do a needle biopsy. I jumped in my car and I raced home at 90 miles an hour with a range of emotions,” VanBuskirk said.

“I get home and my wife was saying everything’s good, but we’ll have to wait the weekend. We got the results on Friday — it was cancer, a very aggressive cancer,” he said. “I kept thinking this can’t be, she’s

only 40. I turned to her and said ‘we are going to fight this and win this.’

“I almost sit back and say everything went almost perfect. It was a difficult time but we made it,” he said. “It went pretty good. She’s doing great today.”

He looked at the Ponca City fire fighters who were acting as waiters, all dressed in pink T-shirts in support of breast cancer patients and survivors.

“After all the surgeries I’ll say these firemen who are here tonight — they are not here because they are great waiters or because they look good in pink,” he said. “As Dave Graybill, the founder of the Pink Heals Tour says as we travel around the country, we love each and every one of you who is here tonight and our community.”

VanBuskirk said the other fire fighters who participate in the Pink Heals Tour have been persistent.

“They kept poking me to get a pink fire truck. I woke up one night and thought ‘We need a pink fire truck. How can we do this? How can we raise the funds.’

“Now’s the time to get started. As you know, if we set our mind to do something we get it done,” he said.

“This year we went to several houses,” he said. “When we hand those ladies their flowers and tell them we love them, there’s not a dry eye in the bunch.

“It is about love. About awareness. About Hope.

“Tonight is our official kickoff of our Pink Heals Oklahoma Chapter. Next year we will have our own pink fire truck out front,” VanBuskirk said.

“We need a vast array of people from accountants to people to fold T-shirts and sell T-shirts,” he said.

Those interested in helping bring a pink fire truck to Ponca City are asked to email VanBuskirk at vanbudj@poncacityok.gov.

Soroptimist International of Ponca City donated $1,000 to the Domestic Violence Center of North Central Oklahoma for medical care for the women at the shelter.

“To be a survivor is an enormous thing,” DVCNCO director Amanda Doran said. “There’s not a finish line — every day there is an opportunity to make the choice to be a survivor. Thank you for the amount of power in this room — the remarkable power when so many people get together and say they will not endure their trial in silence.”

The Soroptimists also donated $1,000 to the Healthy Woman Program fund to pay for mammograms for uninsured and underinsured women.

Cathy Cole, director of the Healthy Woman Program, also thanked the organization.“I could not be more blessed. I have the most amazing job in the world,” Cole said. “It is also the most heartbreaking, as women come to me and ask, ‘Do you know how I can get help to get a mammo-gram?’

“When the Pink Heals tour came last year, I started this fund,” Cole said. I can’t thank our community so much for helping save lives. This is doing it.”

MARY AUSTIN, right, helps her two grandsons fix their hamburgers at last year’s Kaw Lake Fall Festival. The chil-dren are, from left, Blake Aus-tin, son of Ryan and Stepha-nie Austin and Taylor Austin, son of Brett and Darcy Austin. This year’s festival is Sunday.

Kaw Lake Fall Festival SlatedSunday at Camp McFadden

Explore a nature trail, decorate a pump-kin, wear your most unusual costume ... these are some of the events at the Annual Kaw Lake Fall Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Camp McFadden, on the west shore of Kaw Lake.

Children are encouraged to wear their cos-tumes to enter a special children’s costume contest with prizes for those 12 and younger.

“This year we decided to have the Fall Festival on a Sunday,” said Kathy Tippin, executive director of the Kaw Lake Associa-tion. “With so many other things going on in the area and college football games on Sat-urdays, we hope this will prove to be a great family alternative for a Sunday afternoon.”

Children 12 and under are encouraged to wear their costumes and enter the Costume

Contest for prizes. “We look forward to seeing all kinds of

costumes,” said Wayne Mitchell, president of the Kaw Lake Association.

For the adults there will be a Gift and Craft Show inside the Camp McFadden lodge.

Among other activities for the day are a hay rack ride, nature hike and pumpkin decorating. And there are the usual camp attractions including the Canoe Pond and Nature Walk on the wonderful hiking trails. In addition, new to the camp will be kayaks on the Canoe Pond.

Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for chil-dren 6-12. Under 6 are free.

For more information, contact the Kaw Lake Association at 580-762-9494 or 877-671-6985 (toll free).

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Whatever Happened to Boxing?A friend and I were having a

relatively meaningless discus-sion recently, when he posed the question “Whatever hap-pened to boxing?”

Neither of us provided an answer to the question, it was simply a lead-in to more meaningless discussion about our memories of a time when boxing was a sport that drew a lot of the nation’s attention.

Boxers were right up there with other sports notables. Muhammad Ali, Wilt Cham-berlain, Mickey Mantle, John-ny Unitas, they were all heavy-duty celebrities. In some ways, the boxers might have been the biggest stars.

I never participated in box-ing — except once. My broth-er-in-law had two pair of box-ing gloves and a friend and I borrowed them once to see what it would be like to fight with gloves on. I remember landing a couple of blows, but my friend got me in the eye with a thumb. That ended that bout and my interest in put-ting on the gloves.

But I have warm and fuzzy memories of being a boxing spectator in the years before my family had a television set in our home.

We had a standing invitation to visit our neighbors, George Bergsma and his mother, Emma, who did have a televi-sion set. We usually went over to their house at least once or twice a week to view the TV offerings of that era.

My mother insisted on see-ing “I Love Lucy,” which we did almost every week. Another of our favorites was Edward R. Murrow’s Person to Person. If you don’t remem-ber, Murrow would interview celebrities, usually in their homes. I specifically remem-ber the interviews featuring Humphrey Bogart and Lau-ren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, Groucho Marx and Elizabeth Taylor. Both of my folks really liked “You Bet Your Life” Groucho Marx’s game show.

One show that I got a kick out of was “Stanley” which featured Buddy Hackett and Carol Burnett, long before either became famous. For some reason, I would giggle every time the show came on. But I must have been one of the few to giggle at “Stanley” because it was cancelled after the first season. Another favorite was “Private Secre-tary” with Ann Sothern and yet another was “December Bride.” But my most favor-ite television experience of that era was the Friday nights when my Dad and I would go to the Bergsmas’ to watch the “Gillette Cavalcade of Sports” or the “fights” as George and my Dad called them.

The “fights” were boxing matches between some high-ly regarded boxers and they always were competing in New York’s Madison Square

Garden where the legendary Johnny Addie was the ring announcer. As I recall, Addie always wore a tuxedo. I also remember that George liked to see fights involving the small-er weight classes. He liked to see fighters box with finesse. Personally, I liked the heavy-weights. I guess I was a little bloodthirsty as I wanted to see a knockout. And the big-ger guys were more likely to punch their way to a knockout than the smaller ones.

One of the things that made the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports special was the theme song. Remember the “Look Sharp/Be Sharp March” which I’m now told is the official name of Gillette’s theme music? I loved that music. The words went something like this “To look sharp and feel sharp too, choose a razor that’s built for you. Light, reg-ular, heavy, a shaver for any beard, Ole.” Gillette spon-

sored just about every impor-tant sporting event back in those years and the theme song could be heard at each. But Friday nights almost always meant boxing, Gillette and that great theme.

As I mentioned earlier, our neighbor, George, liked the smaller fighters. Two of his favorites were Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep, who were featherweights. He would enjoy telling about how the two had fought several times and how one of their bouts was called the dirtiest fight ever fought. I saw both Pep and Saddler fight other fight-ers on the Gillette program and I remember seeing some pretty good fights involving one or the other.

Other boxers I can remem-ber that George liked were Paddy DeMarco and Kid Gavilan.

I would rather see fighters such as Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Wal-cott box, because they were heavyweights or light heavy-weights and knockouts in their bouts were more frequent.

I also liked Rocky Marcia-no, but I never saw him fight on television. When I was a youngster, the only time Mar-ciano pulled on the gloves was for a heavyweight cham-pionship bout. We listened to those on the radio, and as I recall, if it was for a cham-pionship, it was sponsored by Gillette. Marciano never lost and is considered one of the very best fighters ever.

The earliest fight I remem-ber hearing on the radio was one between Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. Louis was the favorite of just about every-one I knew. He had a long and illustrious career and then had retired. But he ran into financial difficulty through

very sad circumstances. Those who handled his money failed to pay income taxes and Louis wound up owing the IRS mil-lions of dollars. He started boxing again just to raise money to give to the U.S. gov-ernment. The Charles fight was an attempt to get some big bucks, but not only did Louis lose the match on points, not very many folks showed up to buy tickets, and Louis’ share of the gate fell far short of the goal.

Louis went on to fight some more, but he was too old, the reflexes were gone and he was never able to recapture the glory he had had in his prime. I remember crying (I was only six) when Louis lost the Charles fight and also remember my mother admon-ishing me that I shouldn’t get so “riled up” over a “sports thing.”

Later I became a fan of the real Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray Rob-inson. Some have called Rob-inson the best fighter, pound for pound, to ever crawl into a ring. Robinson had some notable fights, with Carmen Basilion, Jake LaMotta, Bobo Olson and Gene Fullmer. He fought LaMotta (the subject of the movie “Raging Bull”) six times.

When Marciano retired, there was a tournament to replace him as heavyweight champion of the world. The two finalists were Floyd Pat-terson and Archie Moore. I remember cheering for Moore and being upset when Patter-son won. Again I was admon-ished not to get so worked up. I never did like Patterson and was happy when Ingemar Johansson knocked him out. And after Patterson regained the championship by whip-ping Johansson, I was happy when Sonny Liston knocked Patterson out in the first round. And eventually Lis-ton would lose to a young-ster named Cassius Clay, who eventually changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

Ali fought in an era of great fighters, such as Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton. They were all heavy-weights. A middleweight in the same era was Sugar Ray Leonard, who was very, very good, but in my humble and biased opinion, was not as good as the first Sugar Ray.

There were other fighters of note to come along, such as Tommy Holmes, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield. But for me, my interest began to wane when fighters like Mike Tyson came along. Part of my disinterest is due to promot-ers such as Don King. And

when Tyson bit off part of Holyfield’s ear I lost all inter-est.

I don’t think I could name one boxer in today’s world. If my mother were here she would nod in approval. She abhorred violence and could not understand how anyone

would be interested in watch-ing a couple of men “pound on each other.” She was ulti-mately concerned that I might be inclined to take up boxing. She had little to fear on that count. That thumb in the eye experience had been enough for me.

This and That About Sports

By David Miller

BOXING CAN be a bloody sport as can be seen in this photo of Sugar Ray Robinson, left, fighting Carmen Basilio. Robinson once was called the best fighter “pound for pound” in the history of boxing.

JAKE LAMOTTA, shown above, was a very good fighter in his own right, but he was immortalized by the Robert DeNiro movie “Raging Bull.” LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson fought six times.

THIS SUGAR Ray, (Sugar Ray Leonard) was a pretty good boxer in his era.

MUHAMMED ALI shown in his prime as a boxing champion.

EZZARD CHARLES, right, and Joe Louis during their 1950 fight in New York. Charles won the match on points.

MADISON SQUARE Garden ring announcer Johnny Addie, left, holds up the hand of Archie Moore, who successfully defended his light heavyweight title against Harold Johnson in 1954. Addie was a central character to the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports telecasts of Friday Night Fights in the 1950s.

GEORGE FOREMAN, famous for marketing his grills, really was a very fearsome boxer in his prime.

THE PONCA CITY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012–PAGE 5-C

EACH MONTH, RSVP recognizes one volunteer who has demonstrated exceptional performance in their volunteer service, as evidenced by their reported hours and comments from their volunteer station or site manager. Pictured are Volunteers of the Month who have been recognized since the last banquet. They are, from left, Nancy Priebe, Barbara Shoemaker, Jeanette Bahjet, Carol Sneath, Paula Dill and Jack Kelsey.

RSVP Honors Volunteers at Annual BanquetThe Retired Senior Volunteer Pro-

gram of Kay County recently held its 15th annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet at Kay Electric in Blackwell.

The highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of the awards for Vol-unteer of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, Overcoming Adversity, Kay Coun-ty Community Awards, Station Partner-ship Award, Volunteer Supporter, Chat-line, Frankie Moore Memorial I and II Awards, and Volunteers of the Month.

Volunteers with RSVP of Kay County contributed a total of 119,777 hours of service to their communities during the past year, according to Director Rocky Hudson. The organization part-ners with 67 volunteer stations or sites where volunteers can serve.

There are more than 600 volun-teers who are members of RSVP of Kay County. Six volunteers from Ponca

City contributed more than 1,500 hours of service during the past year. They are Chuck Clark, Garvin Fryar, Virgie Haines, Laura Taylor, Peggy Wilson and Joe Wensler.

Another group of Ponca City RSVP volunteers contributed between 1,001 and 1,500 hours of service. They are Maxcine Bussey, Joan Clark, Jack James, Ila McKee, Edith Mears, Glea Means and Jay Stafford.

Another 42 Ponca City RSVP volun-teers achieved between 500 and 1,000 hours of community service in the past year. They are Eulonda Alkim, Jeanette Bahjat, Betty Bales, Neva Balzer, Clau-dia Barnes, Delores Barnhart, Vonda Barnwell, Helen Bloxsom, Royce Cal-dron, Burton Casad, Marcia Caudle, Betty Cohenour, Darlene Cotton, Linda Dickerson, Roy Furr, Lawanna Gann, Blanche Giles, Sharon Glowacki,

Charles Godsey, Syble Hager, Clara Hargraves, William “Bill” Hermes, Sherrill Hickerson, Chuck Hoddy, Ruby Johnson, Marilyn Krepps, Ted Matson, Marcella Matthews, Lorraine McDonagh, Phyllis Moriarty, Barbara Nickles, Gerald Nield, Fay Nex, Mer-lynn Perdue, Leora Rhoads, Warren Rivers, Keith Romine, Shirley Rut-ledge, Sonny Sage, Gene Sullivan, Trel-ma Sullivan and Lavena Toon.

RSVP is a United Way of Ponca City agency. It is also funded by the Okla-homa Department of Human Services, Aging Services Division and the Cor-poration for National and Community Service.

For more information about RSVP or how to become an RSVP Volunteer, call 580-762-9412 or stop by the RSVP office at 205 West Hartford Avenue, Suite 100.

THE FRANKIE Moore II Awards are given to RSVP volunteers who have accrued a significant number of volunteer hours in one of three catego-ries during the past year — between 500 and 1,000 hours of volunteer service, 1,001 to 1,500 hours, or more than 1,500 hours. Pictured are six of the seven volunteers who have accrued more than 1,500 hours of volunteer service. From left, they are Joe Wensler, Peggy Wilson, Benjamin Dill, Virgie Haines, Garvin Fryar and Chuck Clark. Not pictured is Laura Taylor.

THE NEWCOMER of the Year Award is presented to a volunteer who has joined RSVP since the last banquet and has been actively involved in the community. This year’s recipient is Kathy Turner, right, receiving her award from RSVP Council Member Sandra Lockwood. Turner has volunteered at RSVP, the Ponca City Senior Advisory Board and her church.

THE STATION Partnership Award is presented to one RSVP Station or volunteer site that has worked closely with RSVP to provide volun-teer opportunities which are interesting and beneficial for volunteers while meeting valid community needs. This year the honor was given to the Ponca City Senior Center. Marie Trenary, left, Senior Programming Specialist at the Center, accepted the award from Earleine Harman, RSVP Council Member.

COMMUNITY AWARDS honor a volunteer in each of RSVP’s Kay County communities. This year’s award winner from Ponca City was Roy Furr. Furr volunteers for the Ponca City Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Ponca City, The Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Ponca City Main Street and Kaw Lake Association. The presenter of the award is Carol Orr, RSVP Council Member.

THE FRANKIE Moore I Award, given each year in memory of the former Volunteer Coordinator, is presented to the RSVP Volunteer with the highest number of reported hours since the last banquet. This year’s recipient was Peggy Wilson, left, who directs the day-to-day operations at the McCord Senior Center. Rita Sells, RSVP Council Member, made the presentation.

THE VOLUNTEER Supporter Award is presented to an individual or non-profit organization in Kay County which has supported the RSVP Program in various ways during the past year. The recipi-ent of this year’s award is Jenny Ellis, left, Sales and Marketing Director for Sterling House of Ponca City. The presenter is Traci DeBoard, Volunteer Coordinator for the RSVP Program.

THE VOLUNTEER of the Year Award is the highest recognition which can be received by a volunteer with RSVP of Kay County. It is bestowed on one individual each year who exhibits exceptional service to their community and is the recipient of other distinguished recognitions. In speaking of this year’s winner, RSVP Director Rocky Hudson said “Every time I see him, he is pouring himself into the service of help-ing others — whether at Ponca City Medical Center, the Outpatient Surgical Center or doing a one-time project for RSVP. Further, what sets him apart is not only the conti-nuity of his service, but the quality of his effort.” Pictured receiving the Volunteer of the Year award from Hudson is Garvin Fryar, left.

Contact Midweek

Submit your story ideas to Midweek Editor Beverly Bryant at midweek@poncaci-tynews.com or call (580) 765-3311, Ext. 137. Deadline is noon Wednesday.

Burbank Fire Department To Hold Cookoff

BURBANK — The Burbank Volunteer Fire Department will have a chili cookoff at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Entry in the cookoff is $25 per chili. Tasting bowls are $5 for adults and $2 for children 10 and younger.

Grand prize will be a gas grill and second prize will be a $100 gift card. Sponsors said there will be door prizes.

For more information, call Trevor Davis at 580-716-7837.

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(Continued From Page 1C)Kinkaid, makes the practice the only animal clinic in the downtown area. The practice moved to the new location in May.

The clinic includes an inviting reception area with separate dog and cat waiting areas staffed by David’s daughter Kelli Backus. There is a special high-end pet boutique and a drive-up window on the north side of the building for picking up a pet’s special food or medication.

Lydie’s CottageJohn Duncan Forsyth, master architect for

the E.W. Marland Estate, designed the origi-nal chauffeur’s quarters and garage. Several architectural elements used in the mansion were implemented in a smaller version in the cottage, including the scalloped ceiling and fish-scale stone floor in the entry. The exterior limestone and red clay tile roof match the other original buildings on the estate.

The cottage included a living room, kitchen, and half-bath on the ground level, with two bedrooms and a full bath upstairs, plus four garages and two carriage stalls.

Marland and his wife Lydie returned to Ponca City and the Marland Estate in 1939, fol-lowing E.W.’s term as governor of Oklahoma. Forsyth remodeled the carriage area of the chauffeur’s house into a bedroom and bath-room, and E.W. and Lydie made this cottage their home. They only opened the mansion occasionally for special events. The restored cottage is furnished as Lydie’s home might have looked in the 1940s. The north upstairs bedroom contains the Marland Family Exhib-it, highlighting various elements of E.W. Mar-land’s personal and public life — as a family man, a philanthropist and a politician. Many original artifacts and memorabilia help por-tray the family fun activities such as polo and fox hunting, as well as the extravagant life-

style of the Marlands.Also on the tour is the home of Dr. Bruce

and Courtney Baugher, 910 East Overbrook Avenue.

Other historic sites will be marked with signs, but not open to visitors. They include:

•The Donald Henderson Home, formerly the G.B. Barnes house, at 904 East Overbrook Ave-nue, across the street from the Baugher home.

G.B. Barnes was the son of B.S. Barnes, founder of Ponca City. G.B. joined his father in Ponca City shortly after the Cherokee Strip Land Run in 1893. For many years he was associated with the Murdoch Coffee and Spice Company in Kansas City, Mo., as a salesman, later representing the firm in Lincoln, Neb. In 1917, he bought the Barnes Grocery Store from his brother in the 300 block of East Grand Avenue. He sold it in 1933. In 1938 he retired and moved to Tulsa.

There will be a sign marked “Master of the Hounds” at this home. E.W. Marland brought the sports of fox hunting and polo to Okla-homa. The little red foxes they hunted are not indigenous to this part of the country; Marland had them brought in from Pennsyl-vania. There are many of them living in this region now, and they are all descendants of a “Marland” fox that got away. The “Master of the Hounds” directed the hunters in the proper way of conducting themselves during a fox hunt. To become a part of the “Horsey Set” became the elite thing to do in Ponca City.

•Marland’s Fourteenth Street Polo Field, which was on the west side of Fourteenth Street between Overbrook and Parkview Lane;

•Hillcrest Polo Field and Pony Barn, No. 47 Hillcrest.

Polo was also introduced to Ponca City by Marland. He organized a team and set up three different polo fields for practice and for competition.

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THE EXTERIOR of the Federal Building in Ponca City. It houses the U.S. Postal Service as well as a branch of the Kay County District Court.

THE JUDGE’S BENCH in the Kay County District Courtroom.

THE STATE SEAL, which is hung on the wall behind the judge’s bench.

LYDIE’S COTTAGE, on the grounds of the E.W. Marland Estate.

Local Author PlansBook Release Party

By BEVERLY BRYANTMidweek Editor

Ponca City author Barbara Hay will host a book launch party for her new book, “The Bulldoggers Club: The Tale of the Ill-Gotten Catfish,” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 10 in front of the Ponca City library.

The children’s event will include pony rides and a trick roper and an appearance by the Red Dirt Rangers.

“This is a Red Dirt book release,” Hay said.

“The Bulldoggers Club” is a middle-grade reader for grades 4-6, Hay said.

“It is for readers who like rodeo; it is multi-cultural and multi-generational,” she said. “I wrote it for reluctant read-ers. My goal is to encourage children to develop a love of reading and to become life-long learners.”

The book is the latest release by Roadrunner Press, which Hay founded in 2009. Roadrunner Press also pub-lishes the works of M. Scott Carter, Linda McDonald and Joan O’Neill, in addition to Hay. Each of the authors is scheduled to appear at the book release party with their books.

Jeanne Devlin came on as editor of Roadrunner Press in 2010 and took on the busi-ness side of the publishing company. She also makes the book selections. In addition, the company now has a mar-keting manager.

“We are a regional press with a strong base in Okla-homa,” Hay said.

The Roadrunner Press meets frequently in the cottage Hay uses as her writing studio, a charming green house situat-ed between the former Ponca City News building and a for-mer automobile lot in the 200 block of North Third Street. A long, heavy dining table serve as the conference table for business meetings.

The cottage is a multi-func-tional location. In addition to being the home of Roadrunner Press, it still contains a gym which was established and run by Hay’s partner, fitness trainer Joe Andrew, who died at the age of 39 in 2011. Many of his clients continue to work out here and Hay expects to hire a new trainer in the near future.

A large portion of the cot-tage, however, is Hay’s writing retreat. The rooms are dec-orated in a country French style and large windows look out on a courtyard, which cur-rently is filled with a variety of autumnal flowers and gar-den art. A black cat with white whiskers affectionately greets visitors.

Although Hay has a large home in Ponca City, the cot-tage often serves as an over-flow location for guests and is used during writing retreats she has hosted. Decorative hat boxes keep her notes neatly filed on closet shelves.

Hay, originally from Mary-land, moved to Ponca City in 1993 when her husband Ron accepted a job here. He became ill in 2004 and had a liver transplant in 2005. He died in 2006.

Hay maintains close connec-tions with her four children, sons Ben, 28, and Peter, 26, and daughters Amelia, 22, and Julia, 13. She plans to run with her son in the Tulsa 5K run.

“It keeps you on your game,” she said.

She took her daughters, her daughter-in-law and her granddaughter on a research trip for a new series she is writing. They traveled in Hay’s SUV to the northeast United States; the trip also included a visit with family and a stop

in New York to see a Broad-way Show. They also visited the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, crossing through the Hudson River Valley.

On their way home, they stopped in Cleveland to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“That was a tribute to Joe,” she said. “He knew every piece of trivia about rock and roll.”

She met Joe after her hus-band Ron died.

“I started running and I came to see Joe as a trainer,” she said. “It gave me some-thing positive to do through my grief.”

She ran a 15K race in 2007 and a marathon in 2008.

“I ran 20 miles every four days to train,” she said. “I made a 10-mile loop twice.”

Hay said she has been writ-ing for 20 years — she worked nine years as a newspaper stringer and has written fic-tion since she was in high school.

“In 1992, I started writing novels,” she said.

Her first book, “The Lesson of White Eagle,” was pub-lished in 2001 through a print-on-demand publisher.

She has also worked as a 911 dispatcher for the Ponca City Police

“Then I opened the press

and started working,” she said.

She stopped writing when her husband became ill.

“I wrote a Haiku daily and some short stories,” she said.

In addition to her husband and Andrews, Hay also lost her father in December 2011.

“I had to walk on hot coals to get here,” she said. “I’ve never lost my hopefulness about life. A window opens somewhere, it seems, and I’ve had good friends to support me.”

She said many of those friends are part of Roadrun-ner Press.

“We are like-minded souls,” she said. “We want to make quality products that reflect the beauty of Oklahoma.”

Among the works published by Roadrunner Press are cal-endars by photographer David Fitzgerald and postcards.

LOCAL AUTHOR Barbara Hay with her new book, “The Bulldoggers’ Club,” at the desk where she writes. (News Photos by Beverly Bry-ant)

A SITTING AREA on a hidden porch provides a cozy spot for morn-ing coffee.

A COUPLE of gnomes hang out with the garden plants.

Pioneer Woman MuseumPrepares for Renovation

By BEVERLY BRYANTNews Staff Writer

The Pioneer Woman Muse-um has started a partial reno-vation of the education room using private funds, in antici-pation of a major renovation to start in January, museum director Jean Winchester said.

The education room will be the new collecting room, she said.

“We will be a collecting museum again,” she said.

In January, the Oklahoma Historical Society will close the museum for several months for a big change in the building, Winchester said.

“We will change the lobby and move the weaving area and rework both exhibits rooms,” she said.

“The room that was the col-lections room will become the education room and will include a kitchenette,” she said.

The renovation will include the repair of ceilings. The gift shop also will be redone.

“The Women of Rock and Roll exhibit will leave and the permanent gallery will be updated,” Winchester said.

“We will have old-fashioned

things that you use your hands for through computers,” she said.

The gift shop is accepting museum-quality handcraft-ed consignment items, Win-chester said.

“You can already find beau-tiful handcrafted gifts avail-able now from several Okla-

homa and regional artists, including Audrey Schmitz, Betty Biedermann, Carl Petersen, Darrell Bolin and the Long Hair family, Judy Morrison, Kitty McGinnis, and Jan Heffner.

For more information about consigning items, call the museum at 580-765-6108.

TURNED WOOD pieces made from box elder wood by Carl Petersen are among the items available at the Pioneer Woman Museum’s gift shop. These and other pieces by local artists are sold on consign-ment. (News Photo by Beverly Bryant)

News Photos byBeverly Bryant

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Area CalendarEvery Day

Principles Before Person-alities, Narcotics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Harmony House base-ment (use south entrance by parking lot).

Twice a MonthFriday or Saturday

Christian Singles Group meets twice a month, for more information on time and place, call 763-5945 or 762-1295.

Third SundayBikers Against Child Abuse

(B.A.C.A.) North Central Chap-ter, for information call (580) 716-8500.

Every MondayTOPS #308 (Take Off Pounds

Sensibly), First Presbyterian Church, 1505 East Grand Ave-nue, Ponca City, 5 to 5:50 p.m. for weigh-ins with meeting fol-lowing. Contact Donna McCoy 580-362-3961 or Natalie Welch at 580-716-3059 after 5 p.m.

After Five Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Pizza Hut, 2301 North Fourteenth Street, prospec-tive members welcome.

Ponca City Rotary Club, 11:30 a.m., Pizza Hut, 2301 North Fourteenth Street.

Gamblers Anonymous, 7 p.m., Woodlands Christian Church, Fourteenth Street and Hartford Avenue, contact (580) 761-1770.

Gam-Anon, 7 p.m., Wood-lands Christian Church, Four-teenth Street and Hartford Avenue, contact (580) 382-1950.

Friends of the NRA, 7 p.m., Ponca City Junior Rifle Club Range, contact 765-7324.

First Monday of the Month

Oklahoma City Vet Repre-sentative Harold Barse, read-justment counseling therapist, 9 a.m.-noon, Otoe-Missouria Tribal Complex Enterprise Building Conference Room.

Lions Vision Support Group, 10 a.m. at Ponca City First Christian Church, using the west entrance. Refreshments are served at 9:45 a.m. For a ride call 762-3263. The meet-ings are open to visually impaired residents.

Autoimmune Disease Sup-port Group, 5 p.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand, contact (580) 763-8051.

Parent Voice Groups, sup-port, education and resources to assist parents in advocating for their children who have behavioral or mental health issues, 6 to 7:30 p.m., 205 East Chestnut Avenue, child care and dinner provided, please RSVP 762-7561 Tammy or Deb.

Parents of Multiples Club, 6-7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, South Fifth Street and East Oklahoma Avenue, Ponca City, for more informa-tion, poncacitypomc@gmail.com.

Christian Motorcyclist Asso-ciation, 6 p.m., Pizza Hut, 2301 North Fourteenth Street.

Pioneer Genealogical Soci-ety, 7 p.m., Ponca City Library, guests are welcome, call 762-5931 or e-mail kdzehr@sbc-global.net for more informa-tion.

First Monday and TuesdayOf Every Other Month

AARP Driver Safety Class, February, April, June, August, October, December, 6 p.m., Pioneer Technology Center, classes intended for older drivers; however, drivers of all ages are eligible to attend. Most auto insurance compa-nies give discount for success-ful completion of classes, seat-ing limited. Call (580) 762-3265 to register.

Monday-FridayAlcoholic Anonymous Sim-

ple Steps, Noon, Harmony House, 212 South Third Street.

First and Third MondayPonca Lodge No. 83 Meeting,

6:30 p.m., Masonic Center, 1200 West Grand Avenue.

Second MondayAlzheimer Support and

Respite Group Meetings, 1 p.m., Ponca City Senior Cen-ter, 319 West Grand Avenue.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Group, 5:30 to 7 p.m., First Christian Church, Fifth Street and Cleveland Avenue, free snack supper and meeting, activities for grandchildren provided; con-tact RSVP 762-9412.

The Children’s Hour Grief Support Group, 6 p.m., 1904 North Union Street, Suite 103, Ponca City, call 580-762-9102 for information.

Second and Fourth MondayPonca City After Five Lions

Club, 6:30 p.m., Pizza Hut, 2301 North Fourteenth Street. Pro-spective members welcome, information on club activities, David 765-9595 or Jerry 491-1004.

Third Monday of the MonthAutoimmune Disease Sup-

port Group, 6 p.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand Avenue. Contact (580) 763-8051.

Fourth MondayPM Patches and Pieces Quil-

ters’ Guild, 6 to 9 p.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand Avenue. Contact 762-0761.

Tuesday-SaturdayPioneer Woman Museum,

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Ponca City, (Closed Sunday, Monday and Holidays).

Every TuesdayBand Playing, 9:30 to 11:30

a.m., Ponca City Senior Cen-ter, 319 West Grand Avenue.

Country Notes Playing, 10 a.m.-noon, McCord Senior Center, 115 Mary Road, public welcome.

Kiwanis, noon to 1 p.m.,

Ponca City Country Club din-ing room.

Dragon’s Harvest Moon, story time for 3- to 6-year-olds, 1 p.m., Ponca City Library. Space limited, sign up in advance.

DivorceCare, a seminar and support group, 5:45-7:30 p.m., Master’s Touch Christian Book and Gift Store, 312 East Grand Avenue, Ponca City, informa-tion 767-1054.

Country Jam Country and Gospel Music, 6 p.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand Avenue.

Bible Institute, 7 to 8 p.m., Ponca City Foursquare Church, 762-2729, a non-cred-ited Broadway Bible College class taught by Pastor Blaine Herron.Every Tuesday and ThursdayExercise Classes in Yang

Style Tai Chi Chuan, 5:30 p.m., Assembly Center First Baptist Church, 218 South Sixth Street, with Instructor Bill Goldsber-ry, no class fee/appropriate clothing required.

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Exercise, 9:30 a.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand Avenue.

First TuesdayLions Kids Diabetes Sup-

port Group, 6:30 p.m., For Location Call Rick at 762-8383.

Caregiver’s Support Group Lunch and Meeting, Noon, First Lutheran Church, 1101 North Fourth Street, Ponca City, RSVP 762-1111.

Parkinson Support Group, 1 p.m., Ponca City Senior Cen-ter, 319 West Grand Avenue, Contact Sharon, 763-8051 for more information.

Classic Cars & Draggin’ Grand of Ponca City meeting, 7 p.m., Nazarene Church, 1900 West Grand Avenue, prospec-tive members welcome.

Second TuesdayCamp McFadden Recre-

ational Area Board Meeting, noon, Head Country BBQ Res-taurant. Public invited; for information, phone 762-9955.

Schooners Car Club Dinner and Meeting, 6 p.m., Pizza Hut, 2301 North Fourteenth Street.

Cherokee Strip Corvette Club, 6 p.m., Pemberton Chev-rolet, 3330 North Fourteenth Street, Ponca City, more infor-mation www.cherokeestrip-corvetteclub.com.

North Central Oklahoma Mothers of Multiples, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Ponca City Library board room, all parents of multiples welcome.

Northern Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, 6:15-8:30 p.m., Pioneer Technol-ogy Center Conference Room, 2101 North Ash Street, more information Todd Rivers, 763-4998 or email childofgod777@hotmail.com.

Rural Water District No. 1 Monthly Board Meetings, 7:30 p.m., Enterprise School Build-ing on Lake Road.

Second and Fourth TuesdayMoose Lodge/L.O.O.M. Meet-

ing Night, 8 p.m., Moose Lodge, West Prospect Avenue, Ponca City.

Third TuesdayPo-Hi Leo Club, 6:20 p.m.,

Ponca City First Christian Church, following Friendship Feast.

Children with Disabilities Family Support Group, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Opportunity Cen-ter, 2225 North Union Street, Ponca City.

Fourth TuesdayRough and Tumble Rock

Club, 7 p.m., Albright United Methodist Church, 128 South Palm Street, Ponca City, call 479-619-8941 for more informa-tion.

Wednesday-FridayPonca City Humane Society,

11 a.m.-6 p.m., 900 West Pros-pect Avenue.

Every WednesdayPonca City Noon Lions, 11:30

a.m. lunch, noon meeting, Ponca City Country Club.

Bingo, Moose Lodge, 500 West Prospect Avenue, 6 p.m., concessions available.

First and Third WednesdaySoroptimist International of

Ponca City, a women’s service

club, Noon, Pizza Hut, contact 763-1474 or Kathy 765-8043.

Second WednesdayGeneral Electric Retirees

Association, 9 a.m., V.F.W., Arkansas City, Kan.

Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme Garden Club, 11:30 a.m., Cann Garden home or members homes, Ponca City, brown bag lunch, Gardening Enthusiasts Welcome, for information call Jan Neylon, 767-1890 or Donna Earnest, 762-5299 or email herbs2@sbcglobalnet

Ponca City Stamp Club, 6 p.m., location, members’ homes. For information, call John Hedrick, 762-6702, or e-mail john_hedrick2000@yahoo.com.

Third WednesdayCrystal Dawn Coalition, a

Meth Prevention Initiative, 8:15 a.m., Northern Oklahoma Youth Services, 2203 North Ash Street, Ponca City.

Operation Pioneer Spirit, 1 p.m., Pioneer Woman Muse-um, 701 Monument Road, Ponca City; Organizing the day before, 10 a.m., at the museum, information, Pioneer Woman Museum, 765-6108 or Mary Anne Potter 767-1957 or oper-ationpioneerspirit.com. All patriotic citizens welcome.

Last Wednesday of Each Month

International Club, 6:30 p.m., for more information, 763-6020.

Every ThursdayOklahoma Department of

Veterans Affairs Representa-tive, 9 to 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m., American Legion, 407 West South Avenue. Any veteran needing assistance or has questions is welcome.

Movie on big screen in the program room of the Ponca City Library at 3:30 p.m. See in-house brochures, or call to find out what’s playing.

Celebrate Recovery for Any-one With Hurts, Habits, or Hangups (That’s All of Us), 6:15 p.m., Otoe Baptist Church, Red Rock.

Open AA Meetings, 7 p.m., Ponca Tribal Social Develop-ment Center, all welcome.

First ThursdayMaster Gardeners, 9 a.m.,

Cann Gardens.Writer’s Group, 7 p.m., Cyber

Rover, 113 North Main, Black-well, information Evyonna, 763-1638.

Kay-9 Dog Training Club, 7 p.m., Ponca City Library, pub-lic welcome, contact Ruth 401-5569.

Second ThursdayPonca City Area Society for

Human Resource Manage-ment (SHRM) Chapter No. 698, noon, Pioneer Technology Center, Room B-120, contact Katy Muller 762-5935 or Mike Daugherty 765-3372.

Goldwing Road Riders Asso-ciation, a motorcycle club, 6 p.m., meeting at 7 p.m., Pizza Hut, Ponca City, More Infor-mation, call Elston and DiAnn Ashpole, 580-762-8918.

“Lean on Me” Bariatric Sur-gery Support Group, 6 p.m., Ponca City Medical Center, Conference Room B. Contact 762-1186.

Families With Hearing Loss Support Group, 6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 200 South Sixth Street, Ponca City, Daycare Provided, Informa-tion Gineta 580-761-0393.

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 14, 7 p.m., Post Home, 407 West South Avenue, all eli-gible persons invited. Contact 765-9073.

Kay County National Alli-ance on Mental Illness, 7 p.m., 201 East Chestnut Avenue. The group welcomes anyone with a mental illness or who is inter-ested in support, education or advocacy for the mentally ill and their families. Contact 765-2814.Second and Fourth ThursdayAmerican Legion Member-

ship Meeting, 7 p.m., Post Home, 407 West South Avenue.

Third ThursdayInterfaith Dialogue Group

of Ponca City, call Jean Cham-bers for details, 716-4594.

Ponca City Newcomers Club, 6:30 p.m., Ponca City

Country Club. Contact Teresa, 491-8863.

Kay County Chapter of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society (archaeology), 6:30 p.m., Ponca City Library, call Richard, 765-9661 for meeting programs. Guests welcome.

Kaw City Area Chamber of Commerce, 7 p.m., Community Center, 300 Morgan Square, Kaw City, see www.kaw-citychamber.org for contact information, visitors welcome.

Vietnam Veterans of Ameri-ca, Northern Oklahoma Chap-ter 750, regular meetings, 7 p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue.

Kay County DAV Chapter 16, 7 p.m., 1006 West Fergu-son Avenue, Blackwell, For Benefit Questions, Call 580-363-3309, Call 580-363-3241 for other information.

Third Thursday of Every Other Month

Kay County Local Emergen-cy Planning Committee, noon, training room of Ponca City Fire Station No. 1, Fifth Street and Grand Avenue, January, March, May, July, September, November.

Fourth ThursdayHospice of North Central

Oklahoma inc. and Higher Ground Center for Loss & Edu-cation Grief Support Group, 1:30-3 p.m., 1904 North Union Street Suiit 103, Ponca City, more details 580-762-9102 or 1-800-814-9102.

Alzheimer Support and Respite Group Meetings, 7 p.m., Ponca City Senior Cen-ter, 319 West Grand Avenue.

Every FridayPrayers for the Nation,

10:30-11:30 a.m., 739 North Fourth Street.

Ponca Language Arts Coun-cil, 1:30 p.m., Valdez Building, White Eagle, everyone inter-ested in the Ponca Language invited.

Senior Pitch, 6 p.m., Ponca City Senior Center, 319 West Grand Avenue.

Cruise Night, 6 p.m., Chap-man’s Shoes Parking Lot, North Fourteenth Street, Ponca City, Welcome hot rods, motorcycles, anyone interest-ed in the hobby, hosted by Schooners Car Club.

First and Third FridayBurger & Steak Night, 5-8

p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, Ham-burger/Cheeseburger With Fries $5, 1-Inch Thick Rib-eye With Fries $15 While They Last, Water or Tea Included, Soft Drinks and Alcoholic Beverages Also Available.

Every SaturdayPonca City Humane Society,

10 a.m.-2 p.m., or by appoint-ment, 900 West Prospect Ave-nue.

Story Time for 0-3 Year Olds, 11:30 a.m., Ponca City Library,

Children’s Area, Free, Public Welcome.

Bro. Mike’s Gospel Jubilee, 6:30 to 9 p.m. One and a half miles east of the River Bridge on U.S. Highway 60.

First Saturday of Every Month

Ponca City Regional Air-port and Ponca City Aviation Booster Club, Fly-In Break-fast, 7 to 10 a.m., Building 14, Ponca City Municipal Airport.Second Saturday of the Month

Figure 8 Stock Car Races and Demolition Derby, 8 p.m., 77 Speedway north of Newkirk. For information, call (620) 442-3250, or go to badascar.com.

Third Saturday of the MonthMoose Lodge/L.O.O.M. Hosts

Breakfast Buffet, 7-10 a.m., Moose Lodge, West Prospect Avenue, Ponca City.

Osage County Republican Party Meeting, 10-11 a.m., Snid-er’s Soda Shoppe, 102 West Main, Hominy, contact 918-260-5762, Everyone welcome to attend and get involved.

November 2Burger & Steak Night, 5-8

p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, Ham-burger/Cheeseburger With Fries $5, 1-Inch Thick Rib-eye With Fries $15 While They Last, Water or Tea Included, Soft Drinks and Alcoholic Beverages Also Available.

November 3Ponca City Christian Acade-

my “Pounding the Pavement” 5K Run/Walk, 8:30 a.m., Mar-land Mansion, Those regis-tered by Oct. 22 will receive a T-shirt, For more information log onto www.PoncaCityChris-tianAcademy.org or call 580-765-6038.

Iris Magnus Book Signiong, 10 a.m.-Noon, Hastings, 2900 North Fourteenth Street, Ponca City, signing her book “The Sweet Walk: Overcoming the Diabetes Challenge and Taking Control of Life.”

November 5Iris Magnus Book Signiong,

2-4 p.m., Walgreens, 2100 North Summit Street, Arkansas City, Kan., signing her book “The Sweet Walk: Overcoming the Diabetes Challenge and Tak-ing Control of Life.”

November 8Noon Lions’ Dinner and Auc-

tion, Dinner 6 p.m. (catered by Stage Coach BBQ), Auction 7 p.m., Moose Lodge, 500 West Prospect Avenue, Ponca City, Proceeds to Lions many vision projects.

November 10Ponca City Veterans Day

Parade, 10:45 a.m., Grand Avenue, Call 580-765-9073 for information or entries.

November 12Kay County Retired Educa-

tors Association, 11:30 a.m. lunch, Pioneer Technology Center 2101 North Ash, Ponca

City, Program: “Must Know Health Tips,” by Mary Allan, Pioneer Technology Center director of practical nursing, lunch $7.

November 13McCord Volunteer Fire

Department, 7 p.m., McCord Volunteer Fire Department Station, 22 Howard.

November 16Burger & Steak Night, 5-8

p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, Ham-burger/Cheeseburger With Fries $5, 1-Inch Thick Ribeye With Fries $15 While They Last, Water or Tea Included, Soft Drinks and Alcoholic Beverages Also Available.

November 19Osage Cove Volunteer Fire

Department, 6 p.m., Fire Station, corner U.S. 60 and Keeler Road, new volunteers always welcome.

Ostomy Association of North Central Oklahoma, 7 p.m., Program to be Decided, Stillwater Medical Center, Board Room.

November 24Pancakes/Sausage/Biscuit

and Gravy Breakfast, 6:30-10 a.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, adults $5, children under 12 $3, children under 6 free, includes drinks.

December 7Burger & Steak Night, 5-8

p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, Ham-burger/Cheeseburger With Fries $5, 1-Inch Thick Ribeye With Fries $15 While They Last, Water or Tea Included, Soft Drinks and Alcoholic Beverages Also Available.

December 8Pancakes/Sausage/Biscuit

and Gravy Breakfast, 6:30-10 a.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, adults $5, children under 12 $3, children under 6 free, includes drinks.

December 15Lions’ Free Eye Screening

and Visit With Santa for Chil-dren 6 Months and Older, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Ponca City YMCA.

December 21Burger & Steak Night, 5-8

p.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, hamburger/cheeseburger with fries $5, 1-inch thick rib-eye with fries $15 while they last.

December 22Pancakes/Sausage/Biscuit

and Gravy Breakfast, 6:30-10 a.m., American Legion Post 14, 407 West South Avenue, adults $5, children under 12 $3, children under 6 free, includes drinks.

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THIS LOCATION played a very important role in the early days of Ponca City. It is also Ponca City’s smallest city park. The first person who emails midweek@poncacitynews.com with the correct location will have their name printed in next week’s “Where Is This?” (News Photo by Beverly Bryant)

Where Is This?

LAST WEEK’S “Where Is This?” caught us by surprise. Lifestyles Editor Carey Head took the photo on the left on Oct. 16. Just three days later, Big Tex, who stood at the Texas State Fair in Dallas for many years, burst into flames. It is a coincidence that the two photos were taken from approximately the same spot. Mike Newcomb was the first reader to identify this Texas icon. (Left photo by Carey Head; right photo provided.)

This Week’s Adoptable Pets

JUNIOR IS a little over a year old, Cairn terrier mix. He is friendly and sweet and loves to play, Ponca City Humane Society Direc-tor Patricia Amador said. “He is strong-willed, though, so he needs a family that will understand this. He will do best in a home with no young children.” For more information, call 580-767-8877 or visit the shelter at 900 West Prospect Avenue.

GINGER IS a 7-month-old retriever mix. She was rescued from Blackwell and a nice family helped her get well. She is full of energy and loves to play. She will be a medium to larger dog but don’t let that pass her by. She will make a wonderful pet, Ponca City Humane Society Director Patricia Amador said. Call 580-767-8877 or visit the shelter at 900 West Prospect Avenue for more information.

Arts and Humanities Council To Present Free Guitar Concert

The Ponca City Arts and Humanities Council is pleased to host guitarist Steven King in concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at The Poncan Theatre, 104 East Grand Avenue. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The concert is free to the public and no tickets are required to attend. However, Ponca City Arts and Humani-ties is asking the audience members who attend to bring at least one canned food item to be donated to NERA (New Emergency Resource Agency).

King, a finger-style guitar champion from Spokane, Wash., will perform in a vari-ety of musical genres. He stud-ied music in California, shar-ing the same college music classes with rock legend Eddie VanHalen. King took his education further into jazz, arranging, orchestration and solo finger-style guitar.

The concert at The Poncan Theatre will showcase King’s acoustic guitar abilities, which won him the coveted International Finger-Style Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield, Kan., in 1994.

As a clinician artist for Tay-lor Guitar Company from 1995 to 2005, King’s concerts and guitar clinics took him around the United States, Europe and Asia. King has recorded 21 guitar CDs, including seven highly acclaimed albums (the “Beatle-ing” series) dedicated to his own solo guitar arrange-ments of 100 Beatles songs.

King’s solo guitar CD, “Clas-sical Swing” is a unique solo guitar exploration of classi-cal pieces played with a jazz influence. Other CDs featur-ing his guitar treatment of jazz standards, popular music, show tunes, and originals are

also fan favorites. Several videos of King are available on YouTube.

Today, Steven is found at his computer, as well as the concert stage, cranking out unique world-class solo gui-tar arrangements of jazz and popular songs for study pur-poses, only obtainable by his students who are enrolled in his “Finger-Style Guitar Col-lege ” (online at www.finger-stylecollege.com).

Leslie Schauvliege, director of the Ponca City Arts and Humanities Council, said she feels King’s performance will appeal to a diverse audience

of all ages as his music is so varied.

King is a personal friend and occasional musical part-ner of Edgar Cruz, a Ponca City fan favorite and Oklaho-ma Arts Council roster artist. King has played with Cruz at the UCO Jazz Lab on several occasions.

This concert is made pos-sible by assistance from the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ponca City Arts and Humanities Council also receives financial assistance from individual donors, and local businesses.

Guitarist Steven King

Exhibit Honors Fallen HeroesNEWKIRK — Newkirk Main Street is spon-

soring the photo exhibit “Remembering Our Fallen” Nov. 1-11 at the Kay County Court-house.

A very emotional exhibit, “Remembering Our Fallen,” is a reminder of the sacrifice made by more than 100 fallen service men and women who called Oklahoma home. They were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The photo display will be coming to Newkirk, hometown of Jed Hartley, who died while serv-ing.

Jared “Jed” Hartley, the son of Doug and Kathie Hartley, was born Jan. 2, 1983. He was a charter member of the Newkirk Junior Main Street, formed in 1997. He graduated from Newkirk High School in 2002 and enlisted in the army in the fall of that year. He was sent to Iraq in March of 2003 as a mechanic, but never content to stay in the background, he volun-teered for 200 missions as a part of the 125th forward support battalion as a specialist. The 125th escorted convoys.

He came home in October 2003, but then was sent back to Iraq, where he gave his life for his country on July 15, 2005.

Jed was given the nickname “the Mighty

Mosquito” in basketball and the nickname fol-lowed him into the service. He was not physi-cally a large man, but he was definitely a force to be reckoned with.

“The warriors of the 21st century, profes-sionals, who volunteered to join the United States Armed Forces, grew up in the shadow of Sept. 11, 2001, a defining moment for most of them,” said Dr. Mary Hawkins, President of Bellevue University, financial sponsor of the display. “They come from all walks of life and every corner of our country, daring to go where so many never would. They retain the face of freedom and build upon the legacies of those who went before them in a cause greater than themselves.”

The exhibit was created by Patriotic Produc-tions in Omaha, Neb., and is sponsored by Bel-levue University. Oklahoma Central Chapter Guard Dogs will be responsible for moving the exhibit from community to community.

Newkirk Main Street will host a brief cer-emony on Nov. 11, Veterans Day.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information about the exhibit

while it is on display in Newkirk, call 580-362-2377.

Booster Club To Hold Auction, Chili Cook-Off

RED ROCK — The Frontier Booster Club, in partnership with the Masonic Lodge of Tonkawa, will hold its 15th annual Chili Cook-Off and Auction starting at 5 p.m. Sat-urday. The auction follows at 6:30 p.m. in the Frontier School Cafeteria.

To get to the cafeteria, go west on State Highway 15 from U.S. Highway 177 or east on State Highway 15 from U.S. Highway 77 to Frontier School.

Tasting kits are $3 per per-son, which includes drink and dessert. Diners will cast their votes for “Best in the West.”

Prizes are $50 for first place, $35 for second place, $25 for third place and $15 for best table presentation.

To enter the chili contest, call 580-761-5428 and leave a message for Rhonda by noon Friday.

There will be an auction of donated and handmade items. To donate an item, bring it to the Frontier Ag room in care of Shane Martin.

Planners say there’s some-thing for all and the heartburn is free.

All proceeds will support the Frontier FFA and 4-H members.

Roosevelt PlansBenefit Dinner

Roosevelt Elementary School, in partnership with the Ponca City Masonic Lodge, will have a fundraiser spa-ghetti dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 8.

The dinner will be at the Masonic Lodge, 1200 West Grand Avenue. Meals may be purchased for dine-in or drive-through.

Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the school, 815 East Highland Avenue, or at the door.

All proceeds will go to Roos-evelt Elementary School to help with the transportation costs for school field trips and daily physical education/run-ning program.

The Masonic Lodge will match the funds raised.

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