Trunk or Treat Heritage Hall mascot Lightning with Middle School trunk-ortreaters Finley Ram, Sloane Travis, Emery Dieselhorst, and Sarah Ann Rosell. For this and more student news, see Pages 7 & 10.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 53 No. 27 • Two Sections • 16 Pages • November 8, 2019
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Business owners irked by Britton construction delays By Ashley Haley Staff Writer Village business owners expressed their concerns to the city council after the road project to reconstruct Britton Road between Penn and May Avenue has caused them to close their business. Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler owners Rick and David Haynes said business
at their restaurant, located on Britton Road, has dropped 50 percent. He said when traffic was directed from May Avenue to Penn Avenue, business only dropped about 20 percent, but when Britton Road is closed, business declines. In the meantime, the owners closed the restaurant for remodeling. “We can’t afford to be
shut down another six months,” Haynes said. “It’s frustrating for us on what to do and how to respond.” Haynes said when he drives by the reconstruction project at least once a week, he only sees about five people working on the road at a time, which is irritating. He said he doesn’t understand why the city can’t push the Department of Transpor-
tation to get the project done. Haynes spoke with an ODOT representative and was told that although the project was initially scheduled to be completed Friday, Nov. 15, they have now pushed back the completion date to the end of November or later. “Everyone along that street needs to be told when
By Rose Lane Editor
Goliath does his part as the men and women of Village Baptist Church make bedrolls out of shopping bags to share with the homeless. They cut up the bags, loop the strips and then crochet. Each time Karen Fisher is crocheting, Goliath climbs up on her work and sits quietly, purring and watching as each stitch makes his soft spot bigger and bigger.
While continuing to “Look Back,” the OKC National Memorial and Museum has a renewed mission to “Think Forward.” April 19, 2020 will be the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Building and memorial leaders say we stand at a turning point. The new “Looking Back • Thinking Forward” logo is designed to help people to envision the path ahead. The National Memorial and Museum hosted a Day One luncheon when Executive Director Kari Watkins and incoming Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Ross announced a renewed vision for the memorial. That started with the Day One luncheon — the first day of 168 leading up to the 25th anniversary. Each day until the anniversary, the memorial will honor one of those who were killed, those who survived and
- Photo by Fran Kozakowsk
OKC National Memorial and Museum Executive Director Kari Watkins and incoming Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Ross detail future plans for the memorial.
the team of first responders who were changed forever. See MEMORIAL, Page 2
Organization helps single mothers to Arise What once started as a local conference where single mothers received resources on how to create and maintain healthy homes, has now grown to a global nonprofit organization that has reached mothers in over 141 counties. Arise Ministries, headquartered in Edmond, was founded by Pam Kanaly
See BRITTON, Page 3
OKC National Memorial is Looking Back • Thinking Forward
‘Paw’sing to help
By Ashley Haley Staff Writer
they are going to finish the project and why,” he said. Haynes plans to attend a meeting with ODOT, The Village representatives, engineers and contractors to get answers about the project’s completion. Mayor Cathy Cummings said she is also frustrated with the reconstruction and
and Shelley Pulliam almost 18 years ago. The organization focuses on the emotional, spiritual and financial well-being of single mothers and women all over the world. After Kanaly’s first husband left her a single mother with a 2- and a 4year-old, Kanaly said she was devastated, but a message from God encouraged her to keep going. “I got a very sweet word from God that God would one day raise me up
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through this experience to speak to thousands of women about God’s grace and how they can make it through difficult seasons,” she said. “God has done exceedingly and abundantly beyond what I could have ever hoped or imagined.” Kanaly said single parenting is at an all-time high in America, with over one fourth of American households See ARISE, Page 3
Community leader dies New West Advertising Agency owner Bob Hammack passed away last week. He was a long-time community leader and member of the Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education.
Slater to receive May Award It was just a few years after Len Slater graduated from the NYU School of Medicine when the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In fact, the young physician was training as a resident and fellow in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Einstein College of Medicine when he saw some of the earliest patients with AIDS in New York City. Today, Slater is retired from the OU Health Sciences Center and is the recipient of this year’s Richard May Award, presented annually by the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund. “It is such an honor to be able to present this award to Dr. Slater,” said Lauren Sullivan, OACF execu-
tive director. “When he moved here in 1983, only two people had been diagnosed with HIV in Oklahoma. As the epidemic accelerated, he became an original provider to people living with HIV/AIDS.” “Finally, in the mid-1990s, effective HIV combination therapy introduced the revolution, and that continues today,” she said. OACF will present Slater with the award during a World AIDS Day luncheon on Friday, Nov. 15, at the UCO CHK Central Boathouse, 732 Riversport Drive in Oklahoma City, beginning at 11:30 a.m. “For over three and a half See SLATER, Page 2