Irish clobber Guthrie
Happy Veteran’s Day
McGuinness quarterback Luke Tarman, right, accounted for six touchdowns in leading the Irish football team to a 41-14 win over Guthrie last Friday. Sports, Page 4
See Pages 9 & 10 for our special salute to those who have served.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 54 No. 26 • Two Sections • 14 pages November 6, 2020
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Getting out to vote
Lines were long throughout Fridayland as voters waited for as long as several hours to cast their vote in the Presidential Election. Above is the line at Stonegate Cumberland Presbyterian off of Western Avenue. At left: Annabelle, Erin and Sophie Bacalja came prepared with books and puzzles to keep busy while waiting at Northpark Mall. - Photos by Jennifer Clark and Rose Lane
Ryan Leonard named special counsel to the Governor
The real storm troopers Students step up to help elderly neighbor By Vicki Gourley Publisher The Oklahoma Standard is alive and well. Now in its third generation, high schoolers throughout the city turned out in significant numbers to help people in need. Created after the Oklahoma City bombing under thenGovernor Frank Keating, the former first family saw it in action after the ice storm. Will Leonard was
- Photo by Frank Keating
Three McGuinness sophomores demonstrated the Oklahoma Standard when they volunteered to clean up an elderly neighbor’s yard after the ice storm, from left, Brennan Chumo, Will Leonard and Atticus Richard. Cedrick Harris and Conar Harris, also McGuinness students, stepped up to help others clean up storm damage, too. See Irish Items, Page B4, for their story.
visiting his grandparents, Cathy and Frank Keating, who now live in Nichols Hills. They were surveying the damage in the front yard.
Will looked across the street and asked his grandmother, “How is Mr. Trost going to get trees to the curb?” Louis Trost, age 90, lives across the street
Cattle Baron’s Ball goes virtual Instead of the traditional boots and western garb, the attire this year for the American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball will be socks and flannel PJs, or whatever is comfortable for gathering around the computer. Like most other events, Cattle Baron’s Ball is going virtual on Friday, Nov. 13 beginning at 7 p.m. at cattlebaronsballokc.org. “It has been an unprecedented year of change,” said Rachel Stratton, ACS community development manager. “At the
American Cancer Society, we have had to adapt quickly to our changing world. Cancer has not stopped during this pandemic, and neither have we. “Our funds and resources are limited, but we are doing what we can to keep things as normal as possible, as difficult as that may be at times. So, we will go forward with Cattle Baron’s Ball, just in a virtual setting.” This year’s emcee will be
See BALL, Page 3
from the Keatings on Queenstown Road. Without waiting for an answer Will said, “I can call my friends Atticus See STORM, Page 3
Fridayland attorney Ryan Leonard has been hired by Governor Kevin Stitt to serve as special counsel for Native American Affairs. In this role, Leonard will assist the Governor and his administration on issues arising from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in McGirt vs. Oklahoma, through which the Court ruled the Creek Nation reservation still exists within the State of Oklahoma. Leonard is an attorney in private practice in Oklahoma City with the law firm of Edinger, Leonard & Blakely, PLLC. He previously served as a state prosecutor in Canadian County and served for four years
RYAN LEONARD
as a legislative assistant to former U.S. Sen. Don Nickles in Washington, D.C., as his chief aide on Native American affairs. The jurisdictional and other legal issues raised by the McGirt decision are unprecedented, and will require close cooperation with the See LEONARD, Page 2
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