Glam and Galas
JFK Awards
It’s gala time in Fridayland and Fashion Editor Jennifer Clark shows you what to wear to all the benefit balls this fall. Page 11
Heritage Hall fourth grader Brooklyn Moore is the Statue of Liberty in the school’s production of “The American Dream.” Page 8
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 53 No. 23 • Two Sections • 18 Pages • October 11, 2019
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Emma goes home
Contractor proposes new design for The Village Animal Shelter
After four months in The Village Animal Shelter and two times as FRIDAY’s Rescue Dog, Emma was adopted by Melody Lain and visited The Village Council meeting to thank them for keeping her alive.
By Ashley Haley Staff Writer The Village Animal League (VAL), a group of residents who help maintain The Village Animal Shelter, is working with a local contractor to bring improvements to the shelter, including a new design and layout. General contractor Jim Abernathy has teamed up with VAL organizer
See EMMA, Page 2
Cheryl Steckler and volunteer Tom Wolfe to design a new floor plan layout for the animal shelter, which will allow more animals to be housed there and have outside access. “We care about these dogs and we want them to be in a good environment,” Abernathy said. “I realize it’s not hundreds and hundreds of dogs See SHELTER, Page 3
Government is answering the robocall
Alliance cooking up tour
By Mike W. Ray Special to OKC FRIDAY
- Photo by Ron Vavak
Homeowner Valerie Oakley and Oklahoma County Medical Society Alliance Kitchen Tour Chairman Dinah L’Heureux whip up plans for the event in Valerie’s kitchen, which is one of the stops.
Event features five NHills kitchens By Rose Lane Editor Five Nichols Hills kitchens will be open for touring when the Oklahoma County Medical Society Alliance presents its 2019 Kitchen Tour, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20. Every fall the Oklahoma County Medical Society Alliance organizes a tour showcasing some of the city’s most savvy kitchens with pro-
ceeds going to support the local community. Tour Chairman Dinah L’Heureux said the homes which are included this year are located at 1624 Westminster Pl., 2633 Dorchester Dr., 1804 Huntington Ave., 1523 Camden Way and 1902 Dorchester Dr. Culinary Kitchen, 7222 N. Western, is presenting kitchen demonstrations.
All proceeds benefit Healthy Schools OK and the OK City Crisis Nursery. Tickets are $20 each and are available online at www.ocmsalliance.org. They can also be purchased at Culinary Kitchen, Commonplace Books, New Leaf Florist, Norwalk Furniture and Design, Plenty, ~ Lush Blow Dry Bar, hom kitchen + bath, Edmond Furniture Gallery and Paper N’ More.
Convention center logo unveiled Officials have unveiled the MAPS 3 Oklahoma City Convention Center’s new brand, revealing colorful and energetic logo for a new community landmark. “Everyone has seen the rise of the MAPS 3 Oklahoma City Convention Center on the east side of Scissortail Park, and its completion will be another MAPS gamechanger for our City,” said Mayor David Holt.
“Today’s logo unveiling is another milestone on that path.” The logo uses shades of red, orange, blue, green and yellow in a design that evokes the building’s sleek architecture. The convention center will be 500,000 square feet. A 200,000square-foot exhibit hall
will dominate the ground floor. About 45,000 square feet of meeting spaces are on all levels of the building. The rooms can be configured to provide up to 27 individual meeting spaces. A 30,000-square-foot ballroom is the main space on the fourth level, complemented by 10,000 square feet of pre-function space and a 4,000-square-foot balcony.
Efforts to block the tsunami of obnoxious “robocalls” and “spam” telephone calls are under way at both the state and federal levels of government. The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously – 429-3 – in favor of H.R. 3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act. All five House members from Oklahoma endorsed the measure, which now advances to the U.S. Senate for consideration. Meanwhile, robocalls will be the subject of an interim legislative study in the Oklahoma Senate. However, what remedies the state could impose are in question because all interstate phone calls, and even some intrastate calls, are the province of the FCC. “What was once a rare annoyance has become an onslaught,” said U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn, D-Oklahoma City. Hiya, a Seattle-based spam-monitoring service, calculated that roughly 26.3 billion robocalls were placed to U.S. phone numbers last year, up 46 percent from 18 billion unwanted calls in 2017. And one report last year projected that as many as half of all cellphone calls this year could be spam. Hiya analyzed activity from 450,000 users of its app to determine the scope of unwanted robo-calling — and how phone users react when they receive an automated call. College student loan promotions, claims that one’s Social Security number has been misused, offers of interest-free loans, various See CALL, Page 3
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