AN ANGELIC PERFORMANCE Olivia Mildren, Lily Warren, Suri McKinney, Mady Fong, Phoebe Lane and Kaitlyn Shaver are angels in Casady School’s Live Nativity. For more photos, see Page 3.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 53 No. 34 • One Section • 16 Pages • December 27, 2019
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The Village could issue $3.7 million bond
Bachelors Club The 74th annual Bachelors Club Christmas Ball presented 29 debutantes and raised $35,000 for Citizens Caring for Children, a nonprofit chosen by Bachelors Club President Sam Jackson.
By Ashley Haley Staff Writer Residents of The Village voted in favor of the city’s first-ever general obligation (GO) bond in 2018 for $10.3 million to improve the city, and the council could issue the remaining $3.7 million next year. At their regular city council meeting, The Village City Council received an update on the GO bonds from Ben Oglesby, Municipal Finance Services of Oklahoma, Inc. (MSFOK) representative. The council has already issued $7.1 million in bonds, which included $6 million to improve streets, sidewalks and signage and $1 million to renovate six city parks. Oglesby
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2019 was a year for progress throughout Oklahoma City Compiled by Rose Lane Editor January The Village residents are told it is time to clean up their properties. Bob Ross is named OKC FRIDAY’s OKCityan of the Year. It is announced that Britton railroad crossings would receive a $1.4 million upgrade. In his State of the City address, OKC Mayor David
Holt vows to doing for future generations what those before have done for the residents of Oklahoma City. February Despite what was called a challenging year, the United Way of Central Oklahoma surpasses its 2018 campaign goal of $17 million. City and county law enforcement officers wrap up a month-long investiga-
tion into the circumstances of an elderly man in The Village who lay dead for several weeks in his home that also was occupied by one of his sons. The Oklahoma City Philharmonic Board President Terri Cooper wishes Executive Director Eddie Walker “great success’’ as he would step down effective April 1 to become the executive director at Oklahoma Contemporary.
Village volunteers saving dogs’ lives Village Animal League volunteer, attorney Tom Wolfe reached out to Cheryl Steckler after reading about the organization in OKC FRIDAY. Tom tells his story in a column about his experiences with The Village Animal Shelter on Page 10. Tom Wolfe plays with JoJo at the Village Animal Shelter, left. JoJo was featured in FRIDAY and has since been adopted.
All eight proposals in the $28.45 million capitalimprovements bond issue submitted to Nichols Hills voters in a special election on Feb. 12 pass by extraordinary margins. March Gene Rainbolt throws a party for his 90th birthday and brought Willie Nelson onboard to perform. Underwritten entirely by Rainbolt, the event benefited cancer research.
Due to mounting interest in its pre-K and kindergarten programs, Casady School announces it will develop some temporary space to accommodate classrooms for up to two dozen youngsters. Red Tie Night CoChairman Ethan and Wendy House and Lela Sullivan present Mary Deane Streich with the Oklahoma AIDS Care See 2019, Page 5
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