Rockets take ‘Shartel Showdown’ Mount St. Mary cruised to a 51-12 win over Capitol Hill last Friday to take the inaugural “Shartel Showdown” trophy. Page 12 - Photo by Mary Ellen Wolf
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 54 No. 18 • One Section • 12 pages September 11, 2020
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United Way presents WayFinder grants, kicks off campaign United Way of Central Oklahoma awarded $159,700 to Mental Health Association Oklahoma and Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City through the second annual WayFinder Innovation Grant program. The grant announcement comes as United Way kicks off its annual campaign to raise funds for 56 Partner Agencies throughout central Oklahoma. “At a time when our community is experiencing unprecedented challenges, United Way is grateful to support two groundbreaking programs that will address significant, unmet needs in Oklahoma City,” said
Debby Hampton, United Way of Central Oklahoma president and CEO. Launched in 2019, United Way’s WayFinder Innovation Grant program encourages local nonprofits to develop new and innovative approaches to health and human service challenges in central Oklahoma. Finalists were invited to pitch their ideas in a “Shark Tank” approach to a panel of community leaders, who selected two projects for funding in 2020. Mental Health Association Oklahoma will receive $100,000 for its Mobile Medical Intervention program
that provides episodic medical care to individuals experiencing homelessness, as well as residents in supportive housing units through Oklahoma City’s first street medicine team. The program will employ a licensed practical nurse and collaborate with community health partners to improve access to quality and appropriate care and mitigate expenses that would otherwise be occurred by emergency and hospital systems. “The Mobile Medical Intervention team will serve a population that can be very See GRANTS, Page 2
Getting her ducklings in a row Mother Muscovy lives in Quail Creek on Browne’s Lake and likes to take her 13 ducklings for waddles along Browne Stone Road at the corner of Castle Rock Road. She is leary of humans probably because the internet says, “Muscovy, large and quite flavorful.” - Photo By Vicki Clark Gourley
Jose Freede dies at 93
JOSE FREEDE
A pretty young British nurse met a charming young orthopedic surgeon working in a hospital in England and their subsequent marriage changed Oklahoma City forever. Jose Freede died last Thursday after a short ill-
ness. The longtime volunteer and philanthropist became a U.S. Citizen in 1954 and set out to do good deeds in our city. She chaired practically every charity and civic See FREEDE, Page 3
Red Andrews Dinner will go on! By Rose Lane Editor There will be a Red Andrews Dinner this year — it’s just going to look a little different. The Red Andrews Dinner is a community Christmas dinner, which traditionally is held at the Cox Center. Upwards of 7,000 people are fed each year and each child receives a toy. But, with the pandemic comes the need to social distance crowds of that size.
“We knew we couldn’t cancel Christmas,” Mary Blankenship Pointer, secretary-treasurer of the board, said. “It is going to happen. We just don’t know how yet.” She said the board is looking for different options and ideas. Anyone wishing to contribute to the dinner is asked to send donations to Red Andrews Christmas Dinner Foundation, Attention: Mary Blankenship Pointer, 2513 SW 124, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73170.
United Way of Central Oklahoma 2020 Campaign Co-chairmen Judy Love, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, and Mike Turpen with Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis.
Lyric Theatre performers climb back onto the stage After nearly a six-month absence due to the current pandemic, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma is among the first professional theatres in the nation to resume live performances. Lyric is set to return to the live stage this month with programming planned at downtown’s Myriad Botanical Gardens Water Stage. Audiences will be introduced to Professor Matt and Gerti when the Lyric Kids’ Clubhouse Cabaret hits the stage, featuring daytime cabaret performances for families through Oct. 4. And, it is followed by a newly rafted showcase of singers in Lyric’s Moonlight Cabaret slated for evening performances during the same threeweek run. “It has been a tough time for all of us, and everyone at Lyric could not be more excited to bring back live musical performances to Oklahoma,” said Michael Baron, Lyric's producing artistic director. “We have been planning for
this moment all summer long and promise to bring you the safest experience possible full of the magic, joy and hope that only live theatre can bring to your heart. “From the afternoon musical antics of Lyric's newest original stars at the Lyric Kids' Clubhouse Cabaret to your favorite Lyric performers singing each evening, this is a moment our artists, staff, board members and audiences won’t soon forget.” Lyric Kids’ Clubhouse Cabaret performances are: Thursday and Friday at 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Lyric’s Moonlight Cabaret will feature a new line-up of talent each week, with performances Thursday through Sunday at 7 p.m. Baron said a number of required safety measures will be in place as patrons arrive to the Myriad Gardens Water Stage, 301 W. Reno Ave. All patrons, staff and volunteers See LYRIC, Page 7
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