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No. 33: April 2017

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Sunny Leigh, KVOO ra-dio show host, will be theGrand Marshal at theFounder’s Day Parade inLocust Grove this year onMay 13.

Leigh, who says, “I putthe ‘broad’ in ‘broadcast-ing’” is also a radio geek,animal lover, Spanx aficio-nado and coffee drinker,according to her Facebookpage.

The 2013 Academy ofCountry Music Personalityof the Year, Leigh will beriding in the parade at 3p.m.

KVOO’s Sunny Leighto be parade marshal

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The day’s celebrationswill include some new ac-tivities, such as a horseshoetournament and a streetdance, in addition to thetraditional parade, kids’games, vendors, art show,car show, chalk art contest,Fishinghawk Karate Studiofirewalk and more.

A few of the bands thatare scheduled to play in-clude Ragland and Three-Legged Dog.

The parade will be a bitdifferent this year, as it willbe starting at the sale barninstead of the high schoolparking lot and will pro-ceed west down MainStreet.

Founder’s Day is con-ducted by the LocustGrove Oklahoma AreaChamber of Commerce. Tobe a vendor or to partici-pate in the parade, visit theChamber website atlocustgroveoklahoma.com.

Vendor and paradeforms can also be picked upat Builder’s Wholesale &Hardware Supply or Won-der City Coffee.

PARADE MARSHAL. . .Radio station KVOO person-ality, Sunny Leigh will leadthe Founder’s Day Parade at3 p.m., May 13.

Locust Grove will have an all-day festival celebratingthe power and joy of words in our life when the WonderCity Wordfest happens on April 15.

The day will be filled with events that will allow peopleof all ages and backgrounds to come and celebrate words,community and family.

Special guests include Jimmie Tramel, Tulsa Worldwriter, who will be judging the pastry contest, and thenewest Oklahoma Poet Laureate Jeanetta Calhoun Mish,who will be having a book signing in the author’s room.

Jimmie Tramel is a pop culture blogger and featurewriter for the Tulsa World’s scene department. He spent24 years as a sports writer at the Tulsa World before de-ciding to play in a different sandbox. A graduate of Lo-cust Grove High School and Northeastern State Univer-sity, he has authored books about former Oklahoma Statefootball coach Pat Jones and former Oklahoma football

FOOD JUDGE. . . Locust Grove graduate and Tulsa Worldwriter Jimmie Tramel will judge the pastry contest at theWonder City Wordfest to be held April 15.

Poetry, stories, pastryall a part of Wordfest

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EDITOR’S NOTE: While this newsletter is producedby the LGAA and will contain that organization’s news, wealso want to publish information about any activities in Lo-cust Grove that our community might be interested in.

Please contact Betty Perkins at [email protected] 918-479-5617 (leave a message if no answer), if youhave news on LG events, places, or people for inclusion infuture issues. For advertising, call Roxann Perkins Yates at918-530-5321 or email at [email protected]. AsLGAA is a nonprofit organization, advertising must sup-port the publication of this newsletter. Your support is greatlyappreciated.

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FUMC announces plansfor Easter services, egg hunt

The Locust Grove First United Church is making plansfor Easter services with the public invited to all.

The first service to kick off Holy Week will be theEaster Cantata on April 9, at 6:30 p.m. The FUMC Choirwill present a program of song.

The second service will be an observance of GoodFriday on April 14, at 6:30 p.m. The Good FridayTenebrae Service. Tenebrae is Latin for “shadows” or“darkness.” This service is one that is traditionally hostedduring Holy Week.

The Easter Day service will be April 16, at 8:30 a.m.Those planning to come should bring a chair, as the ser-vice will be held outdoors.

At 9:30 a.m., a fund-raiser breakfast will be held at9:45 a.m. to help send children to camp this summer. Afree Easter egg hunt is also planned at this time.

As always, all services are open to the public.

Clean up day in Locust Grove will be from 8 a.m. tonoon on April 29.

Discarded items should be brought to the old highschool parking lot at the corner of Wyandotte Street andJoe Koelsch Drive. Should the dumpsters fill before noon,collection will stop at that time.

Car batteries will be accepted, but paint and chemicalare not accepted.

This is a service for citizens of Locust Grove and Lo-cust Grove Public Works Authority customers only. ALGPWA statement and ID must be presented prior todisposal.

In conjunction with the Community Clean-Up Day,LGPWA will be accepting used car, truck, motorcycleand agricultural tires.

“This is an opportunity for individuals to recycle tiresthat have accumulated over the years,” said Cheri McNutt,PWA project coordinator.

Tires not accepted will be those on rims, ATV and off-road vehicles, airplane, bicycle, mower and wheelbarrow,and non-agricultural heavy equipment.

For more information, call 918-479-5354.

Clean-up Day in LGscheduled April 29

Friends of Library to meet April 4Members of the Locust Grove Friends of the Library

have a number of items on the agency when they meet at5:15 p.m. at the library, 715 E. Main.

Agenda items include an update on recent and futurepurchases for the library, discussion on the spending ofthe money from the cookbook sale, printing of a color-ing book and the presentation of a new Friends of theLibrary brochure.

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The Mayes County Oklahoma Home and CommunityEducation Spring Jamboree is planned from 9 a.m. to 2p.m., April 18, at the Mayes County Extension buildingon the fairgrounds.

During the make-and-take workshops, attendees willhave completed craft projects, including a homemadecard, Mason jar craft, patriotic flag block and decorativecoaster.

A program will also be held on a variety of disappear-ing nine patch quilt blocks.

Breakfast snacks will be provided during registration,and lunch will also be provided.

Registration is $19 and the deadline was March 14, sothe extension office should be called to determine avail-able. That number is 918-825-3241.

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FISHING TRIP FOR TV SHOW. . .Brad Cowan, center,took two students from his fishing class at Locust GroveMiddle School, Josh Willis, a 7th grader, at left, and GracieSandford, 8th grader, as part of an episode for “OklahomaToday” TV show broadcasted on OETA Sunday morning.

‘Oklahoma Today’ wantslocal class to go fishing

When local teacher,Brad Cowan, was con-tacted by Blake Podhajsky,a producer for the TVshow, “Outdoor Okla-homa,” he was excited tolearn that his fishing classat Locust Grove MiddleSchool would be featuredon the OETA program.

He selected two studentsfrom his class who “hadlittle to no exposure to fish-ing,” and off they went tothe upper end of GrandRiver on Ft. Gibson Lakebelow the low water damarea.

“The fishing wasn’t asgood as it had been earlierin the week, but the kids stillmanaged to catch some fish(cappie and white bass) andhave a great time,” Cowansaid.

Cowan said that he didn’tknow when the episodewould show on the Sundaymorning program.

“It won’t air for awhile,”he said. “Usually it takes agood 9-12 months beforethey air after filming.”

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Town librarian, MareaBreedlove captures the in-terests of children duringstory time on Thursdays at10:30 a.m.

“We are gearing up forSummer Reading. Thetheme this year is “Build aBetter World,” saidBreedlove.

“I love helping peopleand working to make the li-brary a place for the peopleof our community to enjoyand utilize. The library hasa lot to offer and is very rel-evant, especially in thisdigital age we live in.”

This book lover alsocaptures the interests ofpeople through her photog-raphy, and she has beendoing so since she was nineyears old.

“It was a Polaroid Landcamera. After taking thephoto, you pulled it out ofthe side of the camera andwaited for a minute or twobefore you peeled off thepaper to reveal the devel-oped photo. If it was coldoutside, you had to stick it

this metal sleeve and put itunder your arm for it todevelop. It was kind ofmagical. You never reallyknew how it was going toturn out,” she said.

Forty years later, shecontinues to follow herpassion.

“I am doing somethingthat I never dreamed Iwould be doing—shootingsports for a newspaper. Igot my first digital single-lens reflex camera in 2009.I was completely cluelessabout how to use it. I tooka class at NTC in Pryor andcompleted the Certificateof Photography program atTCC. Those classes werea great starting point. Igained a lot of confidencethrough those classes,”Breedlove said.

Breedlove admits thatshe’s not a sports’ expert,but “I love the action. The

challenge of trying to get agreat action photo is whatkeeps me interested,” shesaid.

Her work has won muchrecognition.

“The first contest I en-tered was the photo contestfor the Muskogee Renais-

sance Faire. I got 2nd place.I entered the Mayes CountyFair. I won reserve cham-pion and champion alongwith some other ribbons.I’ve entered the Tulsa StateFair and won some rib-bons,” she said. “However,

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ART SHOW. . . Marea Breedlove stands beneath her award-winning photograph at Pryor’s annual art show where thephotograph placed first, just one of many awards the photohas garnered.

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(Continued from Page 4)the one I am most proudof was winning 1st place inthe Northeast OklahomaArea Art show in Pryor. Ientered the photo I took ofmy son standing in front ofthe tilt-a-whirl ride at theLocust Grove Founder’sDay carnival. That samephoto had won 1st placeand champion at the MayesCounty Fair.”

Photographing peopleand events has been a ser-endipitous experience.

“Over the years, I havephotographed a wide vari-ety of subjects. I have alsomet and become friendswith people I neverdreamed of knowing andhave gone to events andplaces that I never thoughtI would go all through pho-tography,” she said.

As vice-president of theLocust Grove Arts Alli-ance, Breedlove promotesthe talents of others in thistown.

“I have been involved

Town librarian cont. . .with LGAA since its incep-tion. There are many tal-ented people in and aroundLocust Grove, and LGAAis a great place for thoseartists to be supported andshowcase their talents,” shesaid.

“I’d like to see the orga-nization gain more mem-bers and continue to addevents throughout the year.Having a juried art showwith a judge and prizes issomething I’d like to seethe organization work to-wards.”

This Owasso HighSchool graduate has livedin Locust Grove with herhusband Dan since 2005.And she likes calling thistown home.

“Of all the places I havelived, Locust Grove is myfavorite. The people hereare the best. It’s great feel-ing to go to an event or justto the store and see peoplethat you know. I’m happyto call Locust Grove myhome,” she said.

AWARD WINNING PHOTO. . . The photograph thatBreedlove took of her son at the Locust Grove Founder’sDay carnival has won a number of awards, including theMayes County Fair top prize.

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Arts Alliance makes plans for art showHorton appointed new secretary

Local artist ShelleyHorton was appointed asthe new secretary at theMarch 8 meeting of theLocust Grove Arts Alli-ance. She replaces ShaunPerkins who resigned be-cause of work commit-ments.

• Betty Perkins, trea-surer, reports on expendi-tures of $250 to attorneyBen Sherrer for his work onpapers associated with thegift of a building to LGAAand the local Chamber;proceeds from the Beansand Bingo event, and ex-penditures on new t-shirts

for several members.• Shelley Horton was the

featured LGAA member inthe March newsletter, andMarea Breedlove is fea-tured in today’s issue.

• The group discussednew signs for the buildingdonated by Jerry and LindaCowan, and decided tohave both the Chamber andthe Arts Alliance listed onthe front window. MemberRay Grass volunteered todo the painting.

• A metal plaque will bebought to list the buildingas the Wilma Cowan Build-ing.

• Permission was alsogiven to the high school artclass to paint a mural on thewest side of the entrance.

• The group also dis-cussed paying the depositsfor the building, andPerkins was appointed totake care of the depositswith the Chamber to reim-burse the LGAA for onehalf of that cost.

• In the Founder’s Daydiscussion, the decisionwas made to have a silentbid for artwork instead ofthe silent auction previ-ously used. The silent bidwill have buyers placing bidfor an item in a sealed en-velope. At the end of the

auction -- just before theparade begins -- the envel-ops will be opened, and thehighest bidder will win theitem.

• Roxann Yates reportedthat 20 artists have signedup to have a booth at theart show.

• Shaun Perkins reportedon a new exhibit at the Ru-ral Oklahoma Museum ofPoetry. Called “Only Mys-tery, opened March 11 andwill run throughout theyear.

ROMP is also hostingthe Wonder City WordfestApril 15 when a variety ofactivities are plannedthroughout the day.

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New poet laureate Jeanetta Mish at Wordfest(Continued from Page 1)

coach Barry Switzer.Among pop culture creden-tials: He named his son af-ter Superman.

Tramel, a connoisseur ofPig-N-Out in Salina, is theperfect judge for theWordfest pastry competi-tion. At the competition, 10pastry-makers will havesamples of their pastry foreveryone to enjoy. Tramelwill choose an overall win-ner, and the audience getsto vote for a PopularChoice award.

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish’smost recent books are a po-etry collection, “What ILearned at theWar” and “Oklahomeland:Essays.” Her first poetrybook, “Tongue TiedWoman,” won the EddaPoetry Chapbook Compe-tition for Women in 2002.Her second poetry collec-tion, “Work is Love MadeVisible,” won the 2010Oklahoma Book Award for

Rob Harmon and Betty(Rumor) Perkins will alsobe selling and signingbooks.

Events include competi-tions in storytelling, poetryrecitation and pastry-mak-ing. Roxann Yates will betalking about the WonderCity Cookbook recipe boxand will have some of thecustom-made boxes forsale.

Awards for the winnersof the Oklahoma PoemContest will also be givenout. Poetry will end the

Covey Masonic Lodge plansspaghetti dinner, pie auction

The Locust Grove Covey Masonic Lodge and Lo-cust Grove Archery program will host a spaghetti din-ner and pie auction on April 8, at 5 p.m. at the LocustGrove Upper Elementary School.

Cost of the dinner is $5, and everyone is invited tocome help raise funds to support the high school’s andmiddle school’s State Champion Archery Teams.

All proceeds will go to help finance the teams’ trip toLouisville, Kentucky in May for the national competi-tion.

WORDFEST VISITOR. . .New Oklahoma poet laure-ate Jeanetta Calhoun Mishwill be a part of Wordfest onApril 16. She will have someof her books on sale in thebook room at Wonder CityCoffee.Poetry, the 2010 WesternHeritage Award for Poetryfrom the National Cowboyand Western Heritage Mu-seum and the 2010 WILLAAward for Poetry fromWomen Writing the West.

In addition to Mish andTramel, Aaron Doughty,Davis Joyce, JamesMurray, M.A. Chiappetta,

night, with a performanceof the one-woman showPOEM LIFE at 7 p.m.

A trip to the Rural Okla-homa Museum of Poetry(ROMP), two miles west oftown, will also befiguredinto the day’sevents. ROMP, celebratingits fifth year in 2017, has anewly opened exhibit calledONLY MYSTERY.

All events are free andopen to the public. To learnmore, visit Wonder CityWordfest at the ROMPwebsite: ROMPoetry.com.

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The Senior Citizensgroup celebrated AprilFool’s Day when they hadtheir monthly dinner anddance April 1.

The menu includedchicken and dumplings,salad and bread, followedby a variety of dessertsmade by the senior ladies.

Dinner is served at 5:30p.m. each month, and thedance follows from 6:30 to9 p.m.

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“A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal,” PatConroy once said. Beat it, bake it, roll it, and whisk away.Serve this edible, visible spread of love—this once upona time.

The story begins when you think inside the box—therecipe box. Every niche, corner and boxy space offersyou a direction and an opportunity. Inside the box issomeone’s thinking and doing.

Though the cards are small, a kitchen is consumed bythe orts and globs of ingredients that come together as apiece of art, a memory, a story to tell, inspired by thetaste buds.

Card comments personalize the recipe. Wonder CityCoffee (WCC) baristas discovered recipes inside pur-chased vintage boxes that included: Asheville salad writ-ten in lovely cursive and ending with the words, “Fine ona hot day.” Fine names like Topaz Treasures and CalicoBean Salad, Carrot Jam, and Pfeffernusse were found inthe vintage recipe boxes.

For a portion of the Wordfest celebration on April 15at WCC, we’ve created a festival of words on recipescards and filled vintage recipe boxes with 100 of our reci-pes and some of the finds from boxes purchased.

For every WCC box bought, customers will enter adrawing for a cutting board hand crafted of exotic hardwoods by Jerry Yates and valued at $150.

Buy a cookbook box. Participate in the other eventsof the day. Take home a think-in-the-box. Stain a recipewith love, and cherish the story the meal creates.

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Recipe boxescontain bits of love,memory, stories

MASONIC GIFT. . . Melissa McClendon, left front, acceptsa check from Bubba Estes, Worshipful Master of the CoveyMasonic Lodge to bring the Daddy Daughter Dance a profitof $2000. Others in the picture from left are members of thelodge: Don Hanna, Steve Garrison, Dewey Talley and TuxiePeoples. The school raised $1800 from the dance, and theMason brought the total to $2000.

I am perpetually tiredthese days, but I forcedmyself to attended the per-formance of the Tulsa Jun-ior Ballet at the upper el-ementary school last week.Mostly because we hadthree local girls involved inthe workshops heldthroughout the day. Idragged myself into thegym -- and POW!

About 30 young people,from 7-15 years-old per-formed -- no, they broughtsome joy into the room.

They dazzled. They blewme away with their abilityand presence. Local stu-dents who took part wereJosie Bell, MadisonMennecke and AbbyStanglin.

They performed an origi-nal play, “Afternoon in theMuseum,” the story of“Cinderella” in ballet, anda lively, jazzy dance “Ex-plore the Joy.” And theycertainly did! If you weren’tthere, you missed out!

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In April, Wonder CityCoffee, 118 E. Main, willhave another fun-filled va-riety of entertainment op-tions for visitors.

• On April 1, come forthe 1st Saturday StoryHour, a very popular hourof storytelling from prosand amateurs and anyonewho just wants to tell astory.

In honor of LGHS’sApril 1 Prom Night, thespecial theme for thisstorytelling will be PROM.

Come with a prom photofrom your past, and youwill get a drink discount orcome in prom dress to geta discount, also. Stories donot have to be prom-re-

Wonder City Wordfest onApril 15, come out to see aone-of-a-kind one-womanshow POEM LIFE. The 90-minute show is an interac-tive, multimedia experiencedescribing poetry in 7crimes.

The show, starring RuralOklahoma Museum of Po-etry director Shaun Perkins,starts at 7 p.m., and is bestfor teens and adults.

• April 22 marks the re-turn engagement of verypopular paranormal inves-tigator Ken Storch, whowill be talking about para-normal activity in Okla-

UKE PLAYER SarahSpurrier will be the featuredentertainment on April 8from 6-8 p.m.

homa with a focus onSasquatch.

Storch, a retired Colo-rado homicide detective,has spent decades research-ing paranormal events andis an investigator with theOklahoma UFO Paranor-mal Team. Storch will talkfrom 7-8 p.m.

• The first ever WonderCity Coffee Open Mic willbe held on the last Satur-day of the month, April 29,from 7-8 p.m.

Come with a song, astory, a poem or anythingelse that is entertaining andappropriate for all ages.Sign up by 6:50 p.m.

All Saturday night eventsare always free and open tothe public. Like WonderCity Coffee on Facebook tokeep up-to-date on allevents. Call the coffee shopat 918-479-2885 for moreinformation.

lated, but they are encour-aged. The fun is from 7-8p.m.

• Ukulele player SarahSpurrier will entertain onApril 8 from 6-8 p.m. Sa-rah says she will bring “adose of happiness” to any-one who needs it while sheplays and sings.

“There will be originalnew songs and some ofyour favorites, too,” saidSpurrier. “This show will bekid friendly and perfect fora family date night.”

For more on Sarah, findher by her first and lastname on her You Tubechannel or visit her websiteat sarahspurrier.com.

• As the ending event of

Ken Storch to talkabout Sasquatch

April 22 at WonderCity Coffee Shop

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