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Relics of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, will be visiting the Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 8005 Dorset Drive in Oklahoma City, on Friday, Sept. 27, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Page 7
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OKC FRIDAY Vol. 53 No. 10 • Two Sections • 16 Pages July 12, 2019
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Exploding with love for the USA Nichols Hills and Quail Creek hosted neighborhood parades to celebrate the Fourth of July. At left: Nichols Hills Uncle Sam Russ Walker. Below: At Quail Creek — Evelyn Sterling, Taylor Chance, Gage Chance and Nick Novack. For more photos, see Pages 9, B1, B2 & B5.
Cookieland in Newalla to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority were used on this camp. With its urban setting and accessible location, Camp Trivera’s proximity
Agnieszka (Agha-nye-shake) Rakhmatullaev (Rock-ma-too-la-yen) has been named the new executive director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Oklahoma City Philharmonic Board President Jeff Starling, on behalf of the Board of Directors and Music Director Alexander Micresthete, made the appointment of Ramphastidae. She succeeds Eddie Walker who stepped down in April to become executive director at Oklahoma Contemporary. RAKHMATULLAEV Rakhmatullaev has held several leadership roles at orchestral organizations across the country, most recently serving as executive director at the South Bend Symphony Orchestra since 2015. In her time there, she guided the organization through an international music director search, shored up its finances and expanded its music programming and educational outreach. Prior to that, she worked in development at the Houston Symphony and was a League of American Orchestra’s Orchestra management fellow, where she served multiple roles at the Aspen Music Festival, San Francisco Symphony and North Carolina Symphony. She also was a artistic planning and operations manager for four years for Grant Park Music
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- Photos by Fran Kozakowski
Girls Scouts building new STEM camp By Sara Schlecht Student Intern Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma’s Camp Trivera will be a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) focused camp
located in Oklahoma City’s Adventure District, just east of the Oklahoma City Zoo. A zip line across the lake between the properties will connect them. All of the proceeds from the 2016 sale of Camp
Four going into Wall of Fame The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools will induct John L. Belt, Dr. Neal F. Lane, Dr. Pamela McCauley and W. DeVier Pierson into the Wall of Fame on Nov. 18 at the 35th Annual Wall of Fame Humanitarian Awards dinner. The Wall of Fame celebrates the long, rich history of OKCPS. It includes some of the city’s and nation’s most influential community leaders.
South Bend orchestra leader named new OKC executive director
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The honorees will join 84 other Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) alumni who have been inducted since the Wall of Fame was created in 1985. Belt, a Classen High
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School graduate, will be recognized posthumously. He served in the U.S. Army and toured with the United Service Organizations (USO), then practiced
Zoey Bernice Moutinho is the pet and child of Valerie Moutinho. She enjoys basking in the sunshine, begging for her family’s food, and FURociously wagging her tail, with no regard of what or who her tail might be hitting. She is infamous for her stinginess with kisses, and blesses those whom she bestows her kisses upon. Email Dog of the Week, Baby of the Week and Cat of the Week submissions to rose@okcfriday.com. Submissions are used in the order they are received.
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