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A Bridge to Somewhere

Dr. Matt Crain

President Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce

uring any period of economic downturn, it’s normal for people to look for waste and corruption to expose and eradicate.The famous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska gained national attention and became an icon as future projects were compared to it. Are we building a “Bridge to Nowhere” in Tulsa County? I’m not talking about the new bridge at I-244 that rescued us from the gauntlet where big trucks and even small trucks scared us to death for months.The Inner Dispersal Loop (IDL) is considered an essential set of roads and connections for travelers and commuters alike. Certainly no one would have the audacity to suggest that Highway 169 leads to “nowhere.”When you reach the county line, you are more than 25 miles from City Hall, but it could hardly be described as “the middle of nowhere.” Just ask the folks at Tulsa Tech! As I followed the news coverage of the opening of the latest leg of the Gilcrease Expressway recently, I was struck with the continual references suggesting the Gilcrease leads to nowhere. As you stand at the end of the current loop, you can see acres and acres of beautiful timber. From a vehicular standpoint, there is some truth in these words . . . you cannot continue driving. Gilcrease Expressway Expansion Phases Gilcrease Expressway 1 I-244 to Sheridan Road Expansion Phases Gilcrease Expressway 2.4 miles completed 1970 Gilcrease Expressway

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Let’s check the hypothesis . . . starting with the Tulsa Country Club, Reservoir Hill, the Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Gardens, Postoak Lodge, the Osage Hills Country Club . . . all nestled in some of the most beautiful parts of the Tulsa area. What’s amazing is the area’s proximity to downtown. The Gilcrease Expressway at Peoria is less than three miles from City Hall! Crossing the L.L. Tisdale Parkway takes you into Osage County, technically, but you are still less than four miles from Tulsa City Hall. Many people drive to West Tulsa only to travel on the Turner Turnpike to Oklahoma City. With the Creek Turnpike now available, many South Tulsa residents can bypass West Tulsa altogether. Speaking of the Creek Turnpike, don’t get me started on building roads in the middle of nowhere.Those were my exact thoughts when it was proposed more than 20 years ago. We are already expanding this road into the middle of nowhere, and even though it lies mostly outside the City of Tulsa and is more than 11 miles from City Hall, it certainly has become “somewhere” for most of us. One of the greatest needs is often heard from Sand Springs.

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hat a great way to begin a new year: another two miles of the Gilcrease Expressway are open and traffic is flowing to the beautiful Osage Hills in northwest Tulsa. The newest section of the expressway extends from the L.L. Tisdale Parkway to North 41st West Avenue. Oklahoma Transportation Secretary Gary Ridley and Osage County Commissioner Scott Hilton joined me at a dedication on January 10 to celebrate this milestone for the Gilcrease Expressway.We’ve reached a milestone, but our work on this long-term project continues. Construction of the newest section of the Gilcrease Expressway began in March 2010. It was completed in December 2012, using two construction contracts totaling nearly $21 million.The roadway was constructed as a two-lane highway on a four-lane right-of-way, to allow for future widening. Major projects such as the Gilcrease Expressway are accomplished through cooperation among several partners

including the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, which administered the construction contracts the Federal Highway Administration, which provided Surface Transportation funding; and Tulsa voters who approved General Obligation Bond Issues and the Third Penny Sales Tax. Expansion of the Gilcrease Expressway is vital to Tulsa’s growth, both now and in the future. The Gilcrease Expressway will complete a west “beltway” like Tulsa’s north, east and south transportation systems. The highway also will improve movement of goods, people and services in this area. Opportunities will open up for business and residential development, with better access for public safety services. As we move forward with the Gilcrease Expressway, we will continue to acquire right-of-ways, as well as to design and build the section which will include a bridge across the Arkansas River. Our goal is to complete Tulsa’s planned transportation system, connecting citizens in all parts of the city, and bringing everyone together as One Tulsa.

New dentist at Tulsa Dental Center Joanna K. Aycock, DDS has joined the Tulsa Dental Center practice located at 5031 South 33rd West Avenue. Dr. Aycock is a graduate of the University Of Oklahoma College of Dentistry where she received her Doctor of Dental Surgery. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Zoology at the University of Aycock Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Dr. Aycock was awarded the Oklahoma Association of General Dentists scholarship based on work ethic and commitment to dentistry. She is currently a member of the Oklahoma Association of Women Dentists. Recently Dr. Aycock coordinated the Good Shepherd Mission Clinics in Oklahoma City. She also participated in the Oklahoma Mission of Mercy Dental Clinics, the OU College of Dentistry Kids Day and Drumright Dental Center’s “Love

Thy Neighbor” dental mission day. A native of Tulsa, Dr. Aycock graduated from Union High School. “I am pleased to return to Tulsa and join the team at Tulsa Dental Center. My passion is providing quality dental care to my community.” For more information contact Tulsa Dental Center at 918446-6100 or visit the website, www.tulsadentalcenter.com.

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The river city: From Tallasi to Tulsa

Tulsa River’s Coming of age On a clear day in 1925, you and your oil baron buddies could peer out the tall windows of the freshly minted Mayo Hotel to watch the Arkansas River coming at you from the west. It was a high time.

Editor’s note: With this article, the River’s Edge continues a series about the heritage and little-known lore of the Arkansas River at Tulsa, part of a forthcoming book, The Tulsa River. ©Ann Patton 2013.

Recreation and fishing abound on this stretch of the river below Lake Keystone.

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Keystone Dam helps protect Tulsa from flooding. Photo by Vernis Maxwell

hat capricious, muddy river, seen from on high, can run as blue or silver as the sky. At sunset, the water poured in like molten gold or red fire. The best view was at night, when the “Tulsa River” reflected the million sparking lights of the refineries, the throbbing heart for Tulsa’s booming economy, looking like a fantasy children’s amusement park. By 1929, the town on the high east river bank had become a vibrant city. A financial street called Boston Avenue had become a canyon of high rise buildings, busy castles of brass, brick, and stone. Fine homes spilled out from downtown, first north, then south and east from the river into neighborhoods with names such as Maple Ridge and Sunset Terrace. Times were changing, fast. Automobiles had replaced wagons, and the town was carving out roads at a dizzying rate. A local newspaper columnist worried that driving at such high speeds would drive the entire population insane. You could take your buddies for a Sunday drive in your flivver and wander along the river, maybe crossing at 11th

Street on Route 66 – championed by a Tulsan named Cyrus Avery, who had a crazy idea for a national road system. On that Highway of America, you could drive either way from Tulsa’s river, north to Chicago or west to Los Angeles, if you had the stomach for the long dirt roads. “Columbus discovered the New World,” wrote our favorite son, Will Rogers, “but the old Tin Lizzie has made us discover America.” Tulsa was coming of age, a little country town grown big.The town on the Arkansas River was known, far and wide, as a city of great wealth and power. It was, after all, the self-proclaimed Oil Capital of

Trolley cars ran between Tulsa and Sand Springs from 1911 until 1955. Archive photo courtesy of the Beryl Ford Collection/ Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County library and The Tulsa Historical Society.

the World. Tulsa “would have been a real town, even if its people were not greasy rich with oil, for it is founded on the spirit of its people,”Will Rogers said,“…where we park our millionaires to keep them from getting under our feet.”

Boom and bust And then the bubble burst. The stock market crash of 1929 hit hardest on those least able to survive. There were, in the shadows of the refinery, other Tulsas. Downwind from the refineries was North Tulsa, reserved for the segregated black families, still struggling to recover from the ’21 riot. And clustered on the low westbank, within walking distance of refinery jobs, were the refinery workers, many of them desperately poor, in places named Garden City and West Tulsa. A church survey of West Tulsa during the Depression painted a grim picture of poor-white desperation, with children too sick and hungry to go to school and a public health profile worse than Calcutta. The river was a fickle friend. First Continued next page February 2013 | 7

The Corps of Engineers is an atthe-ready army, poised to create massive public works projects for war or peace. Sometimes those missions converge. So, as World War II raged after Pearl Harbor, the Corps was building Tulsa’s mile-long bomber plant, where a B-24 Liberator would roll off the assembly line every 19.5 hours. And they were simultaneously building levees to hold back the flooding Arkansas from the Tulsa refineries and Sand Springs Steel Mill, which could not lose a day of production if we were to win The War.

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A Civil Defense search and rescue team convenes along Arkansas River during the historic 1943 flood, probably on Sand Springs Line. Photos courtesy of The Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa Historical Society.

and foremost, it brought them jobs. The refineries and other industries depended on the Arkansas for water, and everybody used it as a public sewer. It was an era of grand exploitation in the name of progress, in a time virtually without regulation. The river corridor was becoming a chemical alley. As if poverty and pollution were not enough, Nature unleashed her extremes in the 1930s.With nine dry years and the work of the moldboard plow that broke the plains, Western Oklahoma became a dust bowl. The state’s infamous Okies took flight like the dusters. In off years, the Arkansas River at Tulsa was either a strip of sand in drought or a raging beast at flood. A historic government reaction was slowly wresting the nation from the Depression and Dust Bowl – so it seemed logical that government could control the flood tide, too. In reaction to record floods, Congress passed the watershed 1936 flood control act, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began its world-changing program to harness the

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nation’s rivers, blocking them with dams, capturing them in lakes, and constraining them with flood control and navigation structures. The Corps’ Tulsa District office was created in 1939 and began developing vast plans for the Arkansas and Red River basins – at the same time that, across the big water, a madman named Hitler was invading Czechoslovakia.

War and peace The Arkansas River had showed itself in 1943 in a flood to remember. In a wartime sneak attack during a time of drought, the rain began to fall May 7 and would not stop. Waves of water rose into what the state’s Governor Bob Kerr called “the worst flood in the recorded history of eastern Oklahoma.” Downstream from Tulsa, near Muskogee, the river that had been a sand string was suddenly 50 feet deep and 8 miles wide, carrying water at the rate of 700,000 cubic feet per second. (By comparison, Tulsa’s 1986 river flood topped at 304,000 cfs.)

The Tulsa/West-Tulsa levees are a critical chunk of Tulsa infrastructure, but you could live here your whole life and never notice those long skinny grasscovered mounds of dirt that stretch along the Sand Springs Line and wrap around the refineries, then circle around the southern end of what is now the Holly Refinery in Tulsa. History matters.The river levees had to be built fast, because we had a war to win. So the Corps quickly designed and built levees, piling local soils higher than a man’s head, to hold back as much water as possible from what were then seen as critical facilities. An oversight came to light a decade later, in major floods in 1957 and 1959. The Corps levees stopped at the southern edge of the refineries, leaving nearby neighborhoods, Brookside and Garden City, open to the flooding. Garden City homeowners had taken matters, and shovels, into their own hands and created their own homemade levee along the west bank at around 36th Street, which offered unreliable protection. On the east bank, Brookside was open to the river. Many Tulsans still remember frantic sandbagging on the Arkansas in the 1950s, in futile fights to hold back the river from Brookside. These days, levees are engineered

A highway to the sea

Built where the Cimarron River joins with the Arkansas River, Keystone Lake covers more than 20,000 acres and can pass nearly 1 million cubic feet of water per second. Photo by Vernis Maxwell

with better materials and to higher standards than what was accepted in the 1940s. Today, the levees would have a solid core of clay or concrete; then, they were little more than local dirt and sand held together by grass. Over the following 50 years, major floods have tested the integrity of those levees and have required emergency measures to keep the levees from failure that could create catastrophic danger and damage. But thus far, the levees have served us well. Today, the aging Tulsa/West-Tulsa levees need our help; they are in critical need of repair and upgrading. Few people notice, but those in the know, worry.

Dam it After WWII, when Gov. Bob Kerr became a senator from Oklahoma in 1948, he used his considerable influence to turn the Arkansas into a navigation channel. He remembered well the trauma of the ’43 flood and reasoned that the wild river should be tamed with dams that could provide flood control, water supply, hydropower, and navigation. The watersheds of the Arkansas and its sister Red River, covering 180 million acres, could become “the laboratory for one

of the greatest experiments in water and land conservation ever tried by free men,” Kerr said. In Kerr’s vision, the river could become a 445-mile water stairway from Catoosa to the sea, creating an economic engine for the region. The technical staff of the Corps of Engineers said it couldn’t be done, because of the nature of the river. The Arkansas is an unusually cantankerous river. On its way from the Colorado Rockies to the Mississippi, the river stirs up and carries along countless tons of silt that can confound man’s control. But Congress, with the powerful Senator Kerr as the driver, said it would be done.To seal the deal in a high-stakes political tradeoff, Kerr cast the deciding vote to create the national interstate road system. Now the Corps had to make the Arkansas navigation work. It was, said the brigadier general assigned in 1958 to build the Arkansas waterway, “one of the most complicated projects the Corps of Engineers has ever done.” None of it was easy, but the giant water network evolved. By 1964 the Corps of Engineers was closing one of the pivotal dams, the one most relevant to Tulsa: an earthen dam named Keystone, 20 miles west (upstream) of Tulsa.

Keystone’s statistics matter, especially if you live downstream. The lake was built where the salty Cimarron joins the silty Arkansas. Keystone Dam stores up to 1.7 million acre feet of water. The storage can be used for flood control, recreation, hydropower, water supply and navigation. When the lake’s not storing flood waters, it covers more than 20,000 acres. That seems vast, but in fact, as Corps flood-risk-reduction lakes go, it’s actually rather small, considering that it’s upstream from a major metropolitan area. Statistically, the flood storage pool could fill up something like every 6 to 25 years, meaning the Corps periodically will have to flood the downstream areas after very large rains – as happened here in 1986. In point of fact, Keystone is sized to pass a very large volume of water, nearly 1 million cubic feet per second, which would cause an unthinkable, catastrophic flood downstream. But when the Corps closed Keystone Dam, the excitement knew no bounds. It was, everyone said, the end forever of Tulsa floods. Unconstrained by fact, leaders proclaimed that the Arkansas would never flood again – unless, as one ecstatic senator said, all the lands west of the Mississippi were under water. “The fickle Arkansas,” wrote the editor of the Arkansas Gazette, “which scourged the countryside with floods and shrank to a trickle in seasons of drought, now runs in bank for the year round, controlled by locks and dams that… lace the great valley with clear lakes.The quality of life has visibly improved.” The jubilation grew. On June 5, 1971, with Anita Bryant singing “America the Beautiful” and President Nixon delivering the keynote address, the Arkansas River Waterway was dedicated at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa. Defying all logic, Tulsa had become an inland port, and the Tulsa River was now on a navigation highway to the sea. ~ February 2013 | 9

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past and future

Tourists come into town, spend money, and leave without putting a drain on city services. Bicycle tourists are no different.They spend just as much money as their motoring counterparts, so municipalities make an effort to attract them. – Ed Wagner

Story and photos by Ed Wagner

he present state of bicycling issues in Tulsa requires some historical background. In the 1990s, the RiverParks trail was a gem for recreational cyclists, with only some scattered infrastructure like bike lanes and bicycle racks in other parts of the city. The bike lanes were the proverbial redheaded stepchildren of the Public Works Department. Poorly designed and never maintained, they quickly became unusable. Bike racks were scarce. Local ordinances of the day included a mandatory sidepath law, mandatory bells, and a prohibition against riding two abreast. A small group of cyclists worked with city officials to have these laws removed, insisting that bicyclists have an equal right to use the public roads.

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A decade ago, INCOG developed a plan to incorporate bicycling onto existing streets in an attempt to connect neighborhoods with popular destinations. Large-scale maps presented a grand vision of low-traffic streets supplementing the growing trail network and were intended to encourage Tulsa cyclists to use a bike for basic transportation. An ad hoc committee of experienced cyclists pored over the details, finding some deficiencies but largely discovering a well-designed system. At present, the on-street route system includes 207 miles within the city. INCOG subsequently established a Bicycling Subcommittee as part of the Transportation Committee. After several false starts, it’s presently called

the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Members include law enforcement, city and state planners, the River Parks Authority, Tulsa Health Department, local cyclists, and more.

The BPAC has five goals: • They want to upgrade the present bronze Bicycling Friendly status, awarded by the League of American Bicyclists, to the silver level by 2017. Concurrently, they plan to achieve bronze status from the Walk Friendly Communities organization. • Preventable injury and fatality rates for bicyclists and pedestrians must be reduced by 50 percent by the end of 2017.

old road. While encourages a more intimate experience not solely devoted of Tulsa’s Route 66. ~ to bicycling, the task force recog- Editor’s Note: Ed Wagner, a lifelong bicycling enthusiast, attends any City of Tulsa or Tulsa nized that bicycle County functions, boards or meetings that tourism is grow- have to do with the area’s biking opportuniing. Oklahoma has ties. He will continue to share his findings more remaining with River’s Edge readers in the coming year. miles of original Route 66 than any Our Customers Always Return other state, so interest in riding the Mother Road is high. It draws people from all over the world. In 2012, Adventure Cycling approached the city Business Cards • Programs about establishing Brochures • Postcards • Invitations a suitable bicycle Menus • Flyers •Newsletters Letterhead • Envelopes • Forms route through Tulsa. Route 66 had several alignments, but 3615 S. Harvard • 918-747-1844 the one that seems best for bicycle use boomerangllc@sbcglobal.net is 11th Street to the east and Southwest Boulevard to the west. As yet, funding for this has not been determined. Tourists come into town, Boomerang spend Printing add rivers edge.indd 1 5/22/2012 money, and leave without putting a drain on city services. Bicycle tourists are no different.They spend just as much money as their motoring counterparts, so municipalities make an effort to attract them. The Route 66 Task Force aims to make the Mother Road more attractive, drawing on the rich history, romance, art, and architecture found along the historic road. The slower pace of bicycle travel

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• Bicycle commuter mode share will triple by 2017 and increase tenfold by 2022. Similarly, the walking mode share will increase by 3 and 4 percent, respectively. • Transportation funding will include 7 percent for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. • BPAC will develop and implement bicycling education for the general public and law enforcement, including a school-based campaign reaching 75 percent of students in the 2014-2015 school year.

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Nick Hoffmann and his wife Shannon with sons, Brody, left and Nicholas, right..

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nywhere else around town, Nick Hoffmann’s red Dodge pickup probably glides in and out of traffic without notice. But when he turns the corner onto a 20-acre tract in Bixby where the Hoffmann Longhorn Cattle Company is based, about 20 head of a certain breed look up expectantly. They know it’s suppertime. Along with his wife Shannon and sons Nick and Brody, the Hoffmans have – almost by accident – embraced a pastime that not only celebrates a breed iconic to the American West, but produces beef touted by breeders as the leanest around. The entire enterprise “actually just kind of fell into our laps, so to speak,” says Hoffmann, a self-employed financial planner. As the economy was falling into recession in 2008, a family friend was looking to get out of the longhorn business and

offered to give her cattle to them. “I said, ‘Why don’t you just sell them?’” Nick recalls. “She said, ‘It’s not the right time to sell them.The market’s bad.’” Shannon Hoffmann, who grew up in the area (and taught school and coached several sports at Bixby), located the land, and the Hoffmanns took delivery of eight longhorns. “I think we always probably wanted to have horses and some land at some point, but I probably would never have gotten into this had we not met that gal that had them,” Nick says. “Sometimes you meet people and you get pointed into directions that change your life for the better. You do things you never thought you’d do before.” The herd has grown over the years. At one point it numbered near 30, but the expense of raising cattle in an exceptional multi-year drought has prompted the Hoffmanns to bring numbers down over the last couple years. “When you have to start putting hay out in June or July, as opposed to October or November, it starts costing a lot more money,” Nick says. Still, Nick says he’s impressed every day by his herd’s hardiness. “What cow, in these drought conditions, can be pregnant, nurse a calf and feed herself?” he asked a visitor. “That’s what longhorns are bred for. They’re bred to be hardier, more tolerant of drought conditions and heat conditions. They’re bred to be tough cows. They’ve survived well in this drought.” Nick says the close-knit community of longhorn breeders, who are always eager to share their knowledge, has aided his family’s foray into the longhorn

business immeasurably. Longhorns bring about half of what an Angus would bring at the sale barn, Nick says, but the beef from them is without equal. According to a study cited by the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association, a serving of longhorn beef has fewer calories, less fat and less cholesterol than other beef, pork, chicken or even turkey. “Health-conscious (consumers) are always looking for a more health-conscious choice,” Nick says. “Here, you know what you’re getting, as opposed to going to the grocery store and getting who knows what. We don’t use any steroids, hormones or antibiotics.” Nick says his family’s cattle operation also gives him a much-needed outlet to work off the stress of daily suburban life. He spends perhaps an hour a day at his property – where he and his family hope to build a house someday – and more on the weekends. “It’s a nice change from the office job to be able to come out here and do this, be outdoors and actually work hard as opposed to sitting behind a desk all the time,” he says. Plus, his two sons get a chance to learn the value of a hard day’s work from an early age. “My job as a parent is to teach them to survive and have skills,” Nick says. And while those skills the Hoffmann family learns today may be a sideline to other enterprises, Nick says he can’t rule out the possibility of longhorns becoming their main business pursuit. After all, their journey up to this point has been one of opening doors of opportunity. “You’ve got to go with it sometimes,” Nick says. “If it feels like the right thing to do, you’ve got to trust it’s the right direction.” ~

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Dance your way The ways of dance are many in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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ancing is an integral part of the human experience and perhaps particularly so during the Valentine’s month of February. Whether you find a place to try out your moves with a partner or simply attend a few classes on your own, dancing can be a great stress-reliever. You’ll find live music to dance to on the first Saturday of every month when the Tulsa Barn Dance hosts a Contra Dance starting at 7:30 p.m. at Diva Girlz Studio on East 15th Street. Just about any night of the week in Tulsa, the younger crowd can often be found at dance clubs working off some steam. For River’s Edge Magazine writer Jordan Crudo, there are many places to choose from when it comes to moving your behind. “My favorite place for dancing has to be Caravan,” says Crudo. “I’m from

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Florida and had never experienced the fun and fast country and line dancing that took place. They even hold classes for the dances they do at night! Baker Street Pub is another place the teammates and me like to go, because they always have live 1990s music to dance to! The Treehouse, located downtown, is also a player favorite because they play more modern music while the dance floor is engulfed in laser light shows all night. Dancing in lasers can be quite fun.” Another River’s Edge staffer, Lisa Stringer, likes to get her jingle on with belly dancing. Tulsa boasts several belly dancing studios, including the Shimmy Shack and Belly Dance Academy of Tulsa, where longtime instructor Shadia Dahal has been teaching the ancient Middle Eastern art of belly dance for decades. The Queens of Chaos reign belly

dancing where Deborah – also known as Kittie Sparkle - says you can “improve your body’s flexibility and stamina, gain a toned body and learn dancing techniques, all at the same time.” Ballroom dancing, country line dancing, square dancing – all of these opportunities are just a Google search away as Tulsa’s dancing schools are many, including Feel The Beat Dance Studio on 11th Street, where you can learn styles including Country Western, swing, Latin, ballroom, two-step, competition dance and much more. Tulsan Alicia Chesser has been dancing all of her life and is a dancer with the Soluna Performing Arts Group and is coartistic director for Tulsa Modern Movement. She says whether you participate or just watch, dancing is good for the soul. “Opportunities for dance instruction

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in Tulsa are growing every year, as are opportunities to see a wide range of dance styles in performance,” says Chesser. “Groups like Tulsa Ballet, Choregus Productions, and Living Arts of Tulsa bring in cutting-edge, world-class contemporary works to expand the minds of audiences here, and there are plenty of chances to experience the classical repertory as well. Smaller organizations like JustMove and the Oklahoma Swing Syndicate are bringing high-quality dance to the community. And troupes like Portico Dans Theatre, Living Water, Soluna, and Tulsa Modern Movement are creating original choreography and collaborating across disciplines with other arts organizations. So there’s a lot of local energy!” Newcomers to dance can find so many places to walk in and feel comfortable and learn a lot, says Chesser. There are dozens of classes to choose from – ballet, ballroom and hip-hop to name a few. And there are many more including jazz, lyrical, and even aerial dance. Studios include PC Dance, the Legacy Project, Elite Dance, The Dance Pointe, and many more. Chesser says,“Dance has been part of

my life since age four, when I started training at the June Runyon School of Ballet, then later at the Tulsa School of Ballet under Moscelyne Larkin. I danced as an apprentice with Tulsa Ballet while in high school. After college I moved to New York City, where I saw the best of the best perform, and also began to work as a dance writer for publications like The Village Voice. “When I came back to Tulsa, I started taking the adult ballet class at Tulsa Ballet’s Center for Dance Education and from there came opportunities to work with local choreographers and eventually to be a co-artistic director of Tulsa Modern Movement, where I teach, perform, collaborate on new work, and help run the company,” she says. “I’ve gotten to participate in dance films and festivals here in Tulsa and hope that more and more people look for those events as chances to experience movement in new ways. I’ve written a dance column, and also teach a class called ‘Expressive Movement’ at 306 Phoenix House, where we do a lot of gentle improvisation and

connect to the deep instinct to move that exists in all of us.” Chesser continues her own training with modern dance classes and adult ballet class with Tulsa Ballet. She is currently in rehearsal with choreographer Rachel Bruce Johnson, who is creating a solo for her. “For me, dance is one of the most powerful tools I have to bring together my spirit, mind, and body,” says Chesser. “When I dance, I get to have an experience of my whole self that is delightful, challenging, sometimes humbling, and ever-changing. Somehow I can speak from my heart through movement in ways I can’t always do in words. Learning to do that more consciously, in a more aware and graceful way, is what I love best about taking class.” So . . . “dance like no one is watching” as the saying goes and find a club or class to suit you – or just turn on some music and . . . dance. ~ February 2013 | 15

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The Tulsa Arts Scene by Sarah Crain

Featured columnist, Sarah Crain studied Music and Theater throughout school and has two associate degrees from Tulsa Community College in Music and Theater. In 2002, Sarah decided to start her own business in an attempt to avoid the life of a “starving artist.” This allowed her the ability to make a living while enjoying the freedom to perform from time to time. Sarah has appeared in several Tulsa shows including Fiddler on the Roof, Once Upon a Mattress, & Jekyll & Hyde throughout her performance career, and currently writes music in her off-time.

ome people sing with the radio, some in the shower, others sing on stage. For some, singing is such a large part of their life that finding a place to sing for fun is a must.Thank God for karaoke! Karaoke is a form of interactive entertainment in which performers sing along with recorded music using a microphone. Usually there is a screen on the stage that provides the lyrics of the song while the “karaoke track” plays in the background.Though there seems to be some debate on karaoke origins, many believe that the movement started in Japan in the 1970s, and quickly moved through the rest of Asia and other parts of the world by the 1980s. At first, the singing sensation was thought to be a fad, but within a few years

karaoke machines were widely used in Japanese hotels and restaurants and by 2004, Daisuke Inoue was awarded the “Ig” Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke. Though you may picture neon lights and beer when you think of karaoke, Japanese karaoke entertainment is quite different from what we currently experience here in the U.S. In Japan, there are special clubs called “karaoke boxes” where a group of friends can rent their own stage for a predetermined amount of time and share the mic throughout the evening. These karaoke boxes are private to the group, allowing guests to perform freely in front of their friends without the worry of performing in front of a critical stranger. Drinks and food are served around a common table while members of the group take turns performing and listening to their friends. In America, karaoke has become a public performance sensation. Thousands of people ranging from professional to amateur singers flood karaoke clubs and bars daily for their five minutes on stage with the mic. The music performed can range from country and pop songs to blues and show tunes depending upon the venue.This diversity of karaoke styles has given rise to the creation of various forms of karaoke bars and clubs, with each venue catering to a specific crowd. If a patron is looking for a place to sing country music they may go to a country bar with Linda (LJ) Mulkey belts out a song during a recent karaoke night out. Courtesy photo

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a karaoke night, but if they are looking for a place to sing show tunes, they may have better luck at an art club or gay bar. Karaoke competitions are also very popular; and the winners usually walk away with a huge smile and some cash and/ or prizes. Fortunately for Tulsa-area singers, there is a website - www.karaoketulsa. com - to find a place to sing. Singers in Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bixby, Wagoner, Catoosa, and Claremore can view a karaoke calendar and search by venue or day to find a place to sing karaoke.The site includes the start time for each karaoke event and a contact page for those who have questions or updates for the site. The website, created in 2009, relies upon the local KJ’s (Karaoke DJ’s), clubs and singers to help them keep the site up-to-date.

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Singing karaoke is fun regardless of a singer’s skills and/or training. There is nothing like singing a favorite song for your friends and as a fellow karaoke performer, I am continually amazed by the support a karaoke audience provides. I have seen performers who were “ok singers” send an audience into a standing ovation because of their stage presence; I’ve seen meek performers receive monetary tips from audience members because they had an amazing voice and their lack of confidence was recognized and addressed with kindness; and I’ve seen the members of a opera or musicaltheater cast assemble to sing karaoke so they have a place to wind down after their show. If you are ready to take your singing from the shower to the stage, try karaoke. Whether you are interested in

singing karaoke yourself, or you have a friend who likes to sing, start searching for your song and find a venue. If you have a specific song you want to sing, it may be wise to call the club first or bring your own CD. Regardless, sing like no one is watching, and break a leg! ~ Home Based Business Owner? Tired of Working Overtime? Need Some Help?

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Food Spies—Waterfront Grill Lunch with the by Mr. and Madam Spy

girls — Sunday Brunch with the family — business deals can be brokered and romance can bloom on the Arkansas River. Whether the view from the big patio is a river or a mudflat, the Waterfront Grill located right next to the Oklahoma Aquarium is a hot new concept restaurant - yes, they won the award - and it is a concept whose time has come. Since the Waterfront Grill opened a little over a year ago, its fans have come to rely on it to prove the rule that great food and drink in a lovely environment reliably give birth to social occasions that, having been properly nurtured on such a backdrop, inevitably develop to their full potential. Happiness and conviviality abound! Comfortable, plush, Italian leather booths with polished mahogany wood rails for parties of 2, 4, 6, or 8 are like little, luxury private rooms. To say the least, the atmosphere is pleasing and, when we visited recently, it was decked out for the holidays. It serves up an instantly festive mood. The staff is attentive and entertaining, and magically present at the instant, but not before you need them.We would

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bet they are all tipped very well. The food, like that of most all American restaurants, is stupidly generous in serving size. Most things should be shared whether you are willing to or not. There is no nutritional information available on the food — and frankly, we didn’t want to know. Their skinny potatoes are shoestring French fries and undeniably the best on the planet, but you must ask yourself, do you really need to eat the equivalent of two large baking potatoes in a single sitting no matter how delightfully delicious they are? But we digress. The star dish is probably their crab

mango stack appetizer that we suggest as a meal. Mmmmmmm. Large chunks of lump crab meat with layers of avocado and mango in an artfully arranged tower. There is a strong designer’s touch to the appearance of all the food.Your eyes will give it all big thumbs up. But your taste buds, as always, rules and it will not be disappointed. There is quite an array of choices on the menu so that the pickiest eater can be satisfied from the old tried-and-true excellent renditions of burgers, grilled salmon, hickory wood-grilled steaks that start with excellent meat, to the comfort food of homemade meatloaf, rotisserie chicken, and chicken fried steak. But the more adventuresome of us can order excellent sushi and seared ahi, all served with perfect orchestration. The bar is a winner as well. Large and spacious and surrounded by glass, its libations are expertly made and served and earn deserved, happy, repeat orders. Kudos to the mixologist. The Sunday brunch should not be

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missed. The omelet bar was designed to meet a diner’s every whim. If a component is on the menu and you don’t see it available among the options displayed, you need only ask for it and your creativity will be rewarded. The combinations you can choose are almost endless. We personally will never be able to eat enough bacon anywhere, but especially here. How can you go wrong with applewood smoked bacon? And then there is the banana walnut bread. Belgian waffles, blueberry pancakes…all done to perfection. Why is this only on Sunday? The breakfast eaters of the world would rejoice to have another choice every day. No, we do not own even a small part of this restaurant, but we think we wish we did. ~ Editor’s Note: Food Spies is a South Tulsabased family team of fervent foodies who refuse to ‘play nice’ and will only call it like they taste it. Food Spies reports on their culinary adventures in upcoming issues of River’s Edge and other publications nationwide.

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“’Mid the hills of Oklahoma, ‘neath the Sooner sky…”

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Westside Legacy by Eileen Seefluth Class of 1986

aniel Webster High School is more than its campus; it is its students, alumni, teachers, and westside community. It is a storied campus, featured as a backdrop in countless photos and even on the silver screen in two major movies, both directed by a Hollywood legend. Many leaders and famous folks call Webster their alma mater. For the past 75 years, DWHS has been the heart of West Tulsa. Preparation for the June 8, 2013, celebration is under way to honor the school’s rich history and continuing legacy. I’m among the 12,000 DWHS graduates to date and I believe one of the reasons for the school’s place in the hearts of West Tulsans is pride. Generations have been honored walking across the stage in royal blue and white. Once upon a time - before officials tired of rescheduling commencement ceremonies due to rain – students “graduated across the steps in front of the school,” says Sharon Knight Bozone, (’64), a third generational graduate out of five generations of Webster graduates. “We had plenty of room, students sat on the steps until they walked up to receive their diplomas. It was a wonderful time, back then.” She also mentioned lingering memories of cafeteria favorites including bean chowder and cinnamon rolls. Alumna Anita McDougal, (’72), wrote to her classmates, sharing a dream from back when they were young, she says, “We woke up to graying hair, chubby bellies, glasses, wrinkled skin and growing beards. The hearts are still 18, but time has slipped away all too soon. We laughed, we loved, cried, held each other up and walked across those beautiful steps that ARE Daniel Webster High.” Neither time nor distance can diminish love for the school and community. Gary Finley (’72) traveled 1,440 miles to attend his class reunion. Students graduating more than 40 years

ago can still sing the Alma Mater from memory – “’Mid the hills of Oklahoma,‘neath the Sooner sky…” Bozone’s father, Earl Knight, penned the school’s song in 1938 when he was a senior himself. Today, the most recent of the Bozone clan, Desiree, is working toward her graduation in a few years. DWHS is the “best kept secret of the westside” says Assistant Principal Dale Edwards, a Webster teacher since 1961. He has enjoyed his work so much at the school, he now volunteers there. He continues with glowing remarks about the school that he’s a part of and says,“It’s the center of community here at Webster.” His late wife, Charlotte Baker Edwards, also taught at Webster. The Edwards Building (the Annex) is named in their honor and Mr. Edwards expressed his excitement and pride for the hard work they invested. Many alums cite sincere appreciation to some longtime teachers such as Mary Bennett, Saundra Ford, and Patricia Mott. Mott mentioned “the sense of community, that’s why we teachers stay so long.” Other teachers close to the heart of many include Gladys Whetstine, Jerry Burdick and Earl Larkin.

And then there is “Mama…” “Mama Tibbs” was how students referred to their beloved English teacher of the 1970s, says Saundra Ford. Ruth Tibbs was revered for her warmth and wisdom that kept students – and even young teachers – coming back for her nurturing and loving guidance. Former students remember her as their senior sponsor, mentor of the Journalism Club, PTA activist, and so much more. They continue to visit and seek out Tibbs, even though she finished her career at the Education Service Center and retired in 1990.

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High regard and sports legends A Webster legend, the beloved Coach Bill Allen, not only taught at the school, he also acted as athletic director and assistant principal, and spent time as the head basketball coach and was inducted into the National High School Coaches Association and Oklahoma Hall of Fame. His very modest personality Well-known singer Patti Page (far left) was a 1945 Webster graduate. Rod Kilgore (’72) was regionally recognized as one of Webster’s best multi-sport athletes. He was recently inducted into the Tulsa Public School Hall of Fame. 2011 graduate Zebulon Peterson was recognized with an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

captured the heart, respect, and gratitude of so many at Webster and beyond that circle. Allen fostered incredible charisma, integrity, and a winning attitude that assisted him in attaining championed goals and setting standards for the Warriors. Looking back, he was named coach of the year and he completed his 18th season at Webster with a 19-6 record. Coach Allen’s legacy continues with two field houses, one older and one opened in recent years. The new one not only capitalizes his legacy, it also shines on other sports magnets as well with trophies, plaques, stand-out athletes such as Robert Iverson and Kyle Henry, to only name a few, because there are so many. One alumnus athlete, Ira Willis, is currently a coach at DWHS. Sports legends abound at DWHS. There was the famed 1970 State Championship Cross Country Team. This was the same decade that Webster’s football, wrestling and basketball were powerhouse teams and would frequently take down, for example, rivals Booker T. Washington High School and Okmulgee High School. Webster baseball coach Gene Hart taught at the school for a 29-year span from 1965-1994 and says he is proud to be a part of the school’s legacy and to be in the fine company of “the many coaches, leaders, doctors, lawyers and outstanding people,” who have graduated. “I remember some really star athletes from the heyday of winning state baseball championships in 1969, 1970 and later, again in 1985. There were other times we should have won,” Hart says. “Some guys who come to mind that played for me are Steve Bowling, Rod Kilgore, Gary Simmons and Scott Tyler. So many of our athletes like Don Morgan went on to be coaches themselves. Joe Sasser came back and coached basketball at Webster.” Rod Kilgore has recently been named to the Tulsa Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame. He was recognized for his baseball and football skills and his wrestling prowess as an All-American. Kilgore also was a two-time NCAA wrestling individual champion at the University of Oklahoma. Of movies, media and more In the 1970s and 1980s, the school’s classic-style campus was used as a setting in for two movies, both based on books by Oklahoma author S.E. Hinton and both directed by esteemed film director Francis Ford Coppola – The Outsiders and Rumblefish. A Webster teacher then, Bob Hayes, played a part in 1983’s Rumblefish, a black-and-white film using the spherical cinematographic process. Graduates of particular distinction include Major John Admire, a highly decorated U.S. Marine honored for his service In Webster’s first yearbook, published in 1946-47, Betty Hallford was recognized as Miss Daniel Webster and Bill Bunch was named Warrior Chief.

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in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf who served as Senior White House Military Aide to President Jimmy Carter. Later, he was branch chief for the Operations Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy Joint Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Known back in the day as Clara Ann Fowler, graduate Patti Page changed her name (as was the music industry custom of the time) to become one of the best-loved singers of the 1950s. She was famous for her own pop music style – a distinctive blend of country and western and jazz and her work is still covered and performed by recording artists today. She died on Jan. 2, 2013 at the age of 85. Other notable Warriors are Jeannie (Richardson) Cue, (’72), who now sits on the Tulsa City Council, and her classmate, Susan (Holland) Kimball who served as Mayor of Owasso. Dr. Matt Crain, (’73), heads the Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. You don’t have to be a DWHS grad to feel the high school’s energy and spirit as evidenced by an assortment of awards and trophies displayed throughout the school’s grand lobby. The past and present mingle as long-ago accomplishments are displayed next to ongoing programs and announcements for future endeavors. Others DWHS grads of distinction include Lewis Maxwell, John Autry (who was on the basketball team as a student and later worked as a teacher and area principal), Laura Undernehr, Jerry Billings (who became a teacher, assistant principal and principal at Nathan Hale High School), Eddie Creekpaum (Robertson Elementary principal), Gene Shell (Webster and

top: Webster’s 1985 band was directed by longtime band director, Jerry Burdick. above: Webster’s 1974 Latin II class is pictured. photo courtesy of gary patton

The University of Tulsa baseball coach), and Darla Hall (active in school and local politics including service on city boards and City Council).Visitors are invited to check out the collection of Hall of Fame plaques lined up throughout the main hall. One can go back in time by viewing hanging, framed graduate pictures starting with the very first class back in 1938. Photographed in black and white while others, in vibrant color, depict passing fashions, changing hairstyles and beaming smiles. One need not go back decades to find students of distinction. Zebulon Peterson, a 2011 graduate, was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Peterson planned to attend Oklahoma State University and then law school with the award valued at $250,000. Continued next page February 2013 | 23

Lights, Camera, Action Ever in the limelight, DWHS has become a TPS magnet school for broadcast media and is staff-led by a graduate of distinction and now teacher, J.V. Haney.The $1.4 million program has been mostly funded by grants and churns out programming on Channel 20, hosted by Haney, “Inside Tulsa Sports,” and “Cascia Hall Commandos.” During the school year, the students produce programs themselves and also rent out studio space.They work diligently with hands-on training to produce phenomenal broadcast material, which make viewers yearn for more. Webster continues to address budgeting challenges with increased grant applications. “Although the three-year grant has expired for remodeling, equipment, teacher’s salaries, and maintaining equipment, Career Tech still funds the program today,” Career Development Instructor Jeffery Mason explains.When asked about program goals, he says,“We are working to have the end of the year Broadcasting Competency Certification have the same weight as an associate’s degree.” Honoring the military The Redbud Trail, a celebrated idea with rows of redbud trees and a royal blue sign with white text on the north side of the campus, honoring and paying tribute to, as well as recognizing all the DWHS graduates who have given their lives during times of war. Continuing to honor the military, Webster offers JROTC (Junior Recognized OfficersTraining Corps), teaching discipline, excellence, honor, and so much more, including a replacement

credit for Physical Education. JROTC is funded by the Department of the Army and, at DWHS, is under the instruction of Lieutenant Colonel George Giffin. Some of the programs offered are blood drives, recycling, Kid’s World, and summer camp, which includes five days at Camp Gruber, Braggs, Okla., with various physical events while residing in the barracks. Challenges continue and a summer celebration planned Though Webster has wonderful, tenured teachers in place for their bright students, the school continues to face challenges today that include lower socio-economic families and students who don’t commit to attend school each and every day or arrive tardy, students who don’t strive to improve their academics and show little or no concern in doing well in testing. Also, although DWHS is centered on a lovely tract of 17.5 acres, there are boundaries to abide by and no room to expand. DWHS is the center of the West Tulsa community, says Assistant Principal Saundra Ford. Even with the challenges facing Webster today, the future is bright as graduates and staff reach out to assist current students both personally and via constant improvements. Through continuing upgrades while preparing for the upcoming celebration in June, school officials have executed improvements including a new cafeteria and student union area, new plumbing, excellent heating and air units, as well as new paint, and windows and are more reason to check out the exciting anniversary festivities slated for summer 2013. ~

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ebster High School began its course with humble beginnings brought about by the Great Depression. Funded through Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds, the school was designed by Arthur M. Atkinson, John Duncan Forsyth, Raymond Kerr and William H. Wolaver. The art deco inspired building opened on its nearly 20-acre campus in 1938. The school’s main entrance is flanked with large rectangular columns which frame the school name and iconic clock. Two metal torch lanterns also flank the front entrance and these, as well as many other art deco design elements, dot the interior and

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exterior of the building. Cast aluminum plaques above the three entry doors present classic Greek motifs. The central plaque contains a Greek column ringed by a laurel. One of the side plaques contains a female figure and the other a male figure. The construction was possible when President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal in 1935. The United States was deep in the Great Depression when the U.S. Congress created the WPA to administer $5 billion for public works projects such as Webster. The program’s purpose was

to employ as many people as possible and to create long-term benefits for their communities. By the time the program ended in 1943, it had created about eight million jobs nationwide, and a variety of public works in the area including Webster, Greenleaf State Park, Tulsa’s National Guard Armory, areas of Mohawk Park and the Tulsa Zoo, and the Pensacola Dam. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, the WPA made a significant impact on Oklahoma with approximately 119,000 people employed between 1935 and 1937; a total of $59 million was spent in the state on WPA projects during that time. According to New Deal records, the school was completed in July 1938 at a construction cost of $662,855.

Thanks to Carol Nasworthy, who provided some of the information for this article from the Webster High School Alumni facebook page.

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Imagine having no bridges at 11th, 21st or 71st streets.With one wreck on the I-44 Bridge, your detour would take you through Jenks to get to Brookside! That’s what happens every time there is a problem on the Highway 97 Bridge. Sand Springs residents are forced to travel to I-244 to get back to their homes or workplaces. Finish the Gilcrease – conceived half a century ago – and Sand Springs can enjoy what Tulsans take for granted. Far from leading “nowhere,” the Gilcrease connects north and south Sand Springs, Berryhill, Chandler Park, and I-44. The “loop” is completed. How are we doing on proximity? At Chandler Park, you are a mere 5.8 miles from City Hall.You can enjoy “Lights on the Hill” next Christmas, plan your class reunion, or go rock climbing or rappelling in a premiere park known for both.You can drive through the beautiful timber from the airport and be there in a matter of minutes, bypassing downtown and the industrial district on West 21st Street. If there is a wreck on the Gilcrease, travel south on Highway 75 out of downtown and loop around at I-44. Either way, you are minutes from a beautiful place, not out in the middle of nowhere. Some have predicted that the Gilcrease will lead to urban sprawl. Blindly increasing the number of square miles of

infrastructure needed without considering how to pay for that infrastructure is poor planning. There are two options. Tulsa can increase in size toward the west or we can utilize the encroachment model used widely in South Tulsa.We can deed our property located less than six miles from our City Hall to other municipalities or we can strengthen Tulsa in the only remaining direction we can grow. I’ll admit that I’m biased. I grew up a short distance from Chandler Park. I love driving less than 10 minutes and attending a show at the PAC downtown or an event at the BOK center (orange barrels aside). River development and connectivity are related. We cannot continue to expect people to drive for miles and miles on narrow roads through unending stop signs to reach the opportunities and entertainment we cherish. Tulsa County has been quietly working for months on potential solutions to our unfinished business on the Gilcrease Expressway. We have almost completed the acquisition of right-ofway. We have worked to fenceline the investment already made. It is time for the City of Tulsa to join the Mayor of Tulsa in the project. It is past time for the State of Oklahoma to recognize the growth and development of the Eastern region with allocations for real progress. I call on all of us to get behind this worthy effort and unite to accomplish what is long overdue in an area so very close to downtown. ~

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by Jordan Crudo

Oil Change —

and Love in the Air

ans call it “the majors.” Coaches call it “the top.” Sportscasters call it “the big leagues.” But players call it “the show.” These all refer to the ultimate dream of playing in the best league in the world: the National Hockey League (NHL). Due to the lockout, that entire league stayed idle while all the leagues below it still ran. That meant many players normally playing at the top level moved down, while those who were displaced by the NHL players moved down themselves. This trickle effect made hockey everywhere very out of the ordinary.The Oilers were one of the few teams in America that stayed loyal to their core players by not taking any displaced players from the lockout, even if they were better, which they were. Thus, the Oilers were up against teams that were a step higher the entire first half of the season. As the new year began, hockey fans rejoiced as the fat cat greed subsided long enough for a deal to be struck, and a halfseason to be saved in the NHL. Mere days after, shuffling of players struck a fast pace as all the displaced players moved back up, leaving wide holes in all of the teams in the Central Hockey League, while your Tulsa Oilers stayed decently intact. Due to the coach’s gamble on not signing lockout players, the Oilers fought hard the first half of the season but found themselves in last place. Now that the NHL is back, though, the Oilers do not need to scramble to fix their team, and will be significantly better than most of the league, both talent- and Tyler Fleck, left, is the Oiler’s team captain. Courtesy photo

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chemistry-wise. This means as normalcy starts to set in for the NHL, the Oilers will begin tearing apart teams that previously put the squad in the dog house. Making it to “the show” has its bountiful benefits, including the money, the fame, and the glory.The intensity of all three significantly differ between leagues, even though the skill levels aren’t that far apart (NHL•AHL•CHL). Thus, sometimes it is mere details, and doing the little extra things that can punch a player’s ticket to the next level. Oilers center Gary Steffes, one of the top point-getters in the CHL, was moved up after the lockout ended, and though he will be missed here in Tulsa, the team and community couldn’t be more proud of him. Gary was usually the first one on the ice, and last one off. He clearly worked the hardest, kept a positive locker room attitude, and kept his diet and exercise regimens in check. This is Gary’s second year pro, both years with the Oilers, as he is now a step closer to “the show,” by signing with the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League (whom feed into the Colorado Avalanch). While many players moved up to where they belong, many others are now getting second chances. A good example is long-time Oiler goalie Ian Keserich. Known to Tulsa as “Kes,” he carried the burden of trying to keep his team in every game even though they were facing teams stacked because of the lockout. Kes and the Oilers eventually parted ways because of the poor record the team had, and after playing pro for the Left wing #13 Ben Gordon. Courtesy photo.

Oilers for three years, Kes found himself working at “In the Raw” sushi bar. Finally, as the lockout ended, he was offered a contract with the Elmira Jackals in New York, and Kes is now where he is happy. The Oilers also signed three previous players it had let go at some point of the season, including Jason Weeks, Dan Bakala, and Drew Atkins. It just goes to show that the hockey world can be just as cruel, or nice, as the real world, as anything can happen and everything can change in an instant. Though January has been full of changes for the team, February looks plenty promising. With love in the air as Valentine’s Day approaches, the Oilers are ready and able to get back in the thick of competition as a championship-caliber team. With so much work and time put forth into the team, having a social life, and even a love life, can be difficult for any player. Though half of the team is either married or has a family they are raising, the other half consists of bachelors ready to meet a nice Tulsa girl to treat them right. Players are not allowed to date cheerleaders, so to meet new people, players usually find themselves at popular hangouts like Baker Street Pub, Caravan, and the Looney Bin Comedy Club. Downtown is also a popular spot to see a player mingling at such places as the Max Retrobar (Tulsa’s official 1980’s-themed bar) and Joe Momma’s Pizzeria. Some of your

Oilers eligible bachelors include longtime Oiler Sean Erikson, defensemen Kyle Mariani, Ryan Barlock, and Jeff Buvinow, offensemen Drew Atkins and Daniel Amesbury, and goalies Dan Bakala and Jordan Crudo. When it comes to love, as a pro hockey player, it might not be hard to find someone, but it is very hard to find someone right. The amount of travel, amount of time dedicated to the team, the geographical instability of Oct. 26, 2012 Oilers vs. Quad possibly being let go or City Mallards. Courtesy photo traded, and the glory of local fame that comes with playing, can put a strain on any relationship and make it hard to find those with sincere feelings for the person and not just the player. If you’re lucky enough to have a shot with one of these boys, make sure that not only you treat them right, but they treat you right. Thus, the Oilers would like to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day to all the fans who love and support us, for better or for worse. ~

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Keeping her mind on task and strictly focused, Kim Watt creates a piece of glasswork art. Photo by Vernis Maxwell

Get your Chihuly on at Tulsa Glassblowing School by Tracy LeGrand

TGS fundraisers feature house-made table centerpieces, such as these used in the annual event. courtesy photo

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ou don’t have to be famed sculptural glasswork artist Dale Chihuly to appreciate the results of the ancient art of glassblowing. The often-swirling and always-molten creations coming from a 2100-degree furnace form gem-colored, candy-looking creations that can simply take your breath away. Tulsa’s only open-access glass blowing facility is Tulsa Glassblowing School, a nonprofit located in the downtown Brady Arts District. TGS is a welcoming, creative environment where “glass experiences” are offered to anyone interested in feeling what it’s like to manipulate molten glass. The facility is also available for more extensive classes, private lessons, team-building and rental (to those qualified to utilize what is officially classified

as the ‘Hot Shop’). The term “hot shop” includes all of the equipment used to create glass art using glass heated to 2100 degrees, says Executive Director Janet Duvall.That includes the furnace that houses the molten glass, the reheat furnaces, the benches and tools, and the annealing ovens. Instructors include Program Director Rachel Haynes, BFA in Glass, who chose hot glass art after working with metal and ceramics. Haynes’ interest in the fluidity of the glass and the immediacy of the art form were of great interest. Project Director Kenneth Gonzales, BA in Glass, who recently relocated to Tulsa from Tennessee, chose the art form in part due to an appreciation for the physical challenges of the medium and finds he

can express his ideas more effectively and artistically in glass. Erich Minton, BA, a long-time associate of the school, initially was drawn to ceramics and then discovered that glass art offered an even more unique means of expressing his artwork.

A peek ahead Much is planned for the coming next couple of years with visits from world-renowned practitioners including Tom Kreager, Professor of Art, Hastings College and, from the state of Washington, Richard Royal, Pino Cherci and Scott Darlington.TGS also hopes to have Davide Salvadore from Murano, Italy, return to the Tulsa glass community. Some students find that glass art creation is their passion and pursue continued education at the university level to further their abilities, says Duvall.To learn how to blow glass, one can either take a group class for $400 (6 weeks - 2 hours once a week) or private lessons at $60 per hour.The amount of time it takes is highly dependent on the individual and how often they practice between private/ group sessions. Rental rates are generally $40 per hour with the individual being responsible for purchasing the colored glass. Student discounts may apply. TGS

At a recent First Friday Art Crawl, Rory McCallister shows off his glassblowing prowess. Courtesy photo

also offers one-time glass experiences where one can have the opportunity to create a piece of glass art in a safe and guided environment.

Safety first, last and always

says Duvall. “The ideal age for a onetime experience is around 10 and older, but it is very dependent on the individual child. One has to be able to follow instructions and stay focused on the task at hand for safety reasons. TGS partners with numerous youth organizations and schools within the community generally at the high school level to expose students who otherwise would not have the opportunity to experience this amazing art form.” About those safety issues, Duval says, “As an open-access glassblowing school, TGS staff is ever-mindful of safety issues. While working with 2100-degree glass seems intimidating, it is very rare for burns to occur in the hot shop. In reality those who do tend to get a burn are those with the most experience. It is not the glass that generally creates the occurrence, but rather heated metal associated with the glass. Safety is always of the utmost importance in teaching anyone how to work with molten glass.”

Thank you, Dale Chihuly

Hot glass art is intriguing not only in “The youngest group we’ve had its nature of essentially playing with fire, were six-year-old Brownie Girl Scouts,” but also the glass often times will dictate which direction the artist has to adapt to create a thing of beauty as the chemistry of glass and color interact. It is an art form that requires practice to perfect technique. Chihuly was instrumental in opening the hot glass field in the United States. His freeform creations allowed for a level of expression that many try to duplicate. The TAS annual fundraiser – Some Like It Hot – is June 13, 2013. To learn more about Brady Arts District First Friday Art Crawl (the first Friday of the month), classes or other questions, visit 19 E. Brady St. or call 918-582-4527. ~

Karen Slankard created this glass flower using a rolling technique. She created the piece in only one session.

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Get Set! Run! Grab Your Sweetheart Run as an individual or register with your sweetie and run as a couple in the Fleet Feet Sweetheart Run on Feb. 16 at 7:45 a.m. in downtown Tulsa. There will be a 5 km beginning at 7:45 a.m., a 10 km at 8:30 a.m., and 1 km fun run at 8:35 a.m. More info and online registration is available on the website at www.fleetfeettulsa.com, or call 918-492-3338. Start/Finish is at Fleet Feet Sports Blue Dome store, 418 E. 2nd St. The event benefits the Champ Camp (a special camp for children and families with heart abnormalities). A pancake

breakfast will be served to all participants of this event. Street parking is available and in surfaces lots near Fleet Feet Blue Dome. Handicap parking is available in the lot behind Lee’s/ Fleet Feet. Please note that some lots in the area are private pay parking lots.

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Post Oak Challenge has race for everyone The Post Oak Lodge Challenge brings eight exciting race options to this year’s schedule. Saturday, March 2 will have three trail events on Post Oak Lodge property. Saturday’s distances are 10K, 25K, 50K and all include the infamous “Hill from Hell.” Sunday, March 3 will have three events that will take place on a combination of gravel and paved roads, and single track trails. Sunday’s distances are Quarter Marathon, Half Marathon, Full Marathon. Runners in these events will also experience the “Hill from Hell.” All finishers running Saturday and Sunday will receive a doubler’s award. Those that finish the 50K and the Full Marathon will receive special, double sized awards. The Post Oak Lodge Challenge is directed by a Volunteer Committee comprised of local runners to benefit the Oklahoma Botanical Gardens, the Tulsa Boys Home, and the River Parks Authority. For more information or to contact the Race Director please email postoakchallenge@yahoo.com. Visit the website at www.postoakrun.com.

Come Play Your Hand RunnersWorld presents its annual Valentine’s Poker Run on Feb. 16 at 8 a.m. This year’s event will be held at the Oral Roberts Mabee Center. Participants can donate online or ante-up on the day of the event. Contributions benefit the RunnersWorld Training Programs. This is a fun, non-timed run, with runners following a pre-defined course and wearing a race number. The event has been created in conjunction with RunnersWorld’s Saturday morning training runs but is open to the general public. Come out and enjoy a “Wild and Wacky” game of Poker. Run a mile, get a card, run another mile, get another card for a total of five miles and five cards. The best hand at

the end of the race wins first pick of prizes – and so forth until all the prizes are gone. There are some amazing prizes for this minimum donation of $5 ... winter jackets, running socks, gift certificates, running apparel, accessories, race entries, etc. Can’t run five miles? No problem, officials will just turn you around early and give you extra cards at the finish line. It’s all in fun and for training!

tulsa area running/CYCing events Run/Walk 02.02.13 Big Freeze 5k & Fun Run, Tulsa

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Running 02.16.13 Sweetheart Run, Tulsa Run/Walk 02.16.13 RunnersWorld Valentine Poker Run, Tulsa

Running 03.02.13 Tulsa Running Club Post Oak Lodge Trail Challenge (50K, 25K, 10K), Tulsa

Running 03.03.13 Tulsa Running Club Post Oak Lodge Challenge (Mara/Half/Quarter), Tulsa

Running 03.02.13 OSU Osteopathic Scrub Run, Tulsa

Running 03.04.13 Brooks Ravenna Test Drive Event & Pub Run, Tulsa

February events Jan. 28-Feb. 03 Tulsa Boat Sport & Travel Show, times vary, Expo Center, Expo Square, details at www. tulsaboatshow.com Jan. 30-Feb. 02 The Green Collection of Rare Biblical Artifacts, 10 am to 8 pm, Mabee Center, 7777 S. Lewis Avenue, details at www. mabeecenter.com Feb. 01 Bob Schneider + The Cadillac Black, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www.cainsballroom.com Tulsa Oilers vs. Missouri Mavericks, 7:35 pm, BOK Center, 205 S. Denver, details at www. bokcenter.com Tulsa 66er’s vs. Erie Bayhawks, 7 p.m., SpiritBank Event Center, 107th & Memorial, details at www.nba. com/dleague/tulsa First Friday Art Crawl, 6 pm, Brady Arts District, West Brady St. Downtown, details at www. livingarts.org Feb. 01-03 Lady of the Camellias, times vary, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac.com Feb. 01-27 Faculty Art Show, 10 am to 5:30 pm plus, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac.com Feb. 02 Tulsa Oilers vs. Wichita Thunder, 7:35 pm, BOK Center, details at www.bokcenter.com Tulsa 66er’s vs. Santa Cruz Warriors, 7 p.m., SpiritBank Event Center, 107th & Memorial, details at www.nba.com/dleague/tulsa Oklahoma Natives: Plants and People, 9 am to 3 pm, Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S. Peoria Avenue, details at www. oknativeplants.org Feb. 05 Tulsa Oilers vs. Rapid City Rush, 7:05 pm, BOK Center, details at www.bokcenter.com Feb. 07 Savoy (Live) + Grandtheft, DJ Falkirk, 8 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www.cainsballroom.com Feb. 08 Women’s Living Expo, times vary, Expo Center, Expo Square, details at www.womenslivingexpo.com Ann Compton, 10:30 am, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www. tulsapac.com Harlem Globetrotters, 7 pm, BOK Center, 205 S. Denver, details at www.bokcenter.com War with Grand Funk Railroad, 7 pm, River Spirit Event Center, 8330 Riverside Parkway, details at www. riverspirittulsa.com

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Feb. 8, 9, 10 The 27th annual Tulsa Indian Art Festival will be held at the Glenpool Conference Center February 8th, 9th, and 10th. The national juried art show features Native art, cuisine and entertainment. Daily admission is $8, Student/Senior Friday is $5, and a 3-day pass is $10. For more information visit www.tulsaindianartfestival.com or www.facebook.com/ TulsaIndianArtFestival. Ramona Quimby, 9:30 am and Feb. 08-10, 14-16 noon, Tulsa Convention Center, Barefoot in the Park, times vary, 100 Civic Center, details at www. Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at tulsaconvention.com www.tulsapac.com Mid-Century Modern: Philbook Feb. 09 Paintings and Prints, 12-1 pm, Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Philbrook Muesum of Art, 2727 S. Lights + Parker Millsap, 7 pm, Rockford Road, details at www. Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, philbrook.org www.cainsballroom.com FEBRUARY 8-9-10, 2013 Feb. 16 Bill Maher, 7Glenpool pm, Brady Theather, 105 Center 13, Conference • Hwy 75 & 121st Othello, times DINNER vary, TulsaStudent/Senior PAC, 119 E. W. Brady St., www.bradytheater. PREMIERE NIGHT SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT Friday: Friday, February 8, 20132nd, - 7:00details p.m. Daily Admission: $8.00 $5.00 at www.tulsapac.com com 3-Day Pass: $10.00 Native Food JURIED ART AWARDS • SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS & Entertainment • Native & Live Auctions Feb. 14Foods Dinner Buffet Tulsa Symphony:Silent Red, 7:30 pm,• Entertainment Daily $35.00 - Individual • $500.00 for Table of 8 (Reservations Only) Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at Eli Young Band, 7 pm, Brady For Sponsorships, Artist & Student Entry Packages - call 918.298.2300 or visit our website www.tulsapac.comwww.tulsaindianartfestival.com Theather, 105 W. Brady St., www. bradytheater.com Kid Rock, 7:30 pm, BOK Center, 205 S. Denver, details at www. The Who - An Evening With…, 7:30 bokcenter.com pm, BOK Center, 205 S. Denver, details at www.bokcenter.com Cooking Up Compassion, fundraiser for Catholic Charities, 6 pm, Laughing Matter’s “Taste of Tulsa Convention Center, 100 Chocloate & Comedy”, 7:30 pm, Civic Center, details at www. Henthorne PAC, 4825 S. Quaker tulsaconvention.com Avenue, details at www.cityoftulsa. org Feb. 10 Tulsa Camerata “Transfigured Teen Choice Live! The Tour, 3 pm, Love,” 7 pm, Philbrook Muesum of BOK Center, 205 S. Denver, details Art, 2727 S. Rockford Road, details at www.bokcenter.com at www.tulsacamerata.org Teen Choice Live! The Tour, 3 pm, Tulsa Convention Center, 100 Feb. 15 Civic Center, details at www. The xx + Austra, 7:30 pm, Cains tulsaconvention.com Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www. Tulsa Oilers vs. Allen Americans, cainsballroom.com times vary, BOK Center. details at Tulsa Oilers vs. Arizona Sundogs, www.bokcenter.com 7:05 pm, BOK Center, 206 S. Denver, details at www.bokcenter. Feb. 12 com That1Guy + Wolff, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www. Feb. 15-17 cainsballroom.com Vintage Tulsa Show, Exchange Mardi Gras Parade, 7 pm, Blue Center, Expo Square, details at Dome District, start/stop 1st and www.vintagetulsashow.com Elgin, details at www.travelok.com Darryl Starbird’s National Rod & Feb. 12, 14 Custom Car Show, times vary, Expo Center, Expo Square, details Candlelight Concert Series at www.darrylstarbird.com “Vintage Valentines,” 7 pm, Harwelden Mansion, 2210 Feb. 16 S. Main St., details at www. Hayes Carll, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, candlelightconcertseries.com details at www.cainsballroom.com Feb. 13 Tulsa Oilers vs. Texas Brahmas, 7:05 pm, BOK Center, details at The Used + We Came As Romans, www.bokcenter.com Crown The Empire, Mindflow, 6 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, Tulsa Ballet Theatre: Idols & Icons www.cainsballroom.com Gala, 6:30 pm, Tulsa Ballroom, 3rd & Houston, details at www. tulsaconvention.com

Rick Springfield, 8 pm, River Spirit Event Center, 8330 Riverside Parkway, details at www. riverspirittulsa.com Feb. 17 Tesla Quartet, 3 pm, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac. com Feb. 21 Jamey Johnson, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www. cainsballroom.com Pure Freedom Live!, 7 pm, Mabee Center, 7777 S. Lewis Avenue, details at www.mabeecenter.com Feb. 22 North Mississippi Allstars + The London Souls, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www. cainsballroom.com Feb. 22-23 New Genre Festival: Strange Planet, 8 pm, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac.com Feb. 22-24 Love’s Labour’s Lost, times vary, Henthorne PAC, 4825 S. Quaker Ave., details at www.cityoftulsa.org Bassmaster Classic Outdoor Expo, times vary, Tulsa Convention Center, 100 Civic Center, details at www.bassmaster.com Feb. 23 JD McPherson, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www. cainsballroom.com Feb. 23, Mar 01, 03 The Most Happy Fella, times vary, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac.com Feb. 23-24 4th Annual Whole Person Indoor Triathlon, TBA, Mabee Center, 7777 S. Lewis Avenue, details at www.mabeecenter.com Feb. 23-24, Mar 01-02 Radio Golf by August Wilson, times vary, Tulsa PAC, 119 E. 2nd, details at www.tulsapac.com Feb. 24 Excision + Paper Diamond, Vaski, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www.cainsballroom.com Feb. 26 Tulsa 66er’s vs. Iowa Energy, 7 p.m., SpiritBank Event Center, 107th & Memorial, details at www.nba. com/dleague/tulsa Feb. 28 Tame Impala, 7 pm, Cains Ballroom, 427 N. Main, www.cainsballroom. com Feb. 28-Mar. 03 Akdar Shrine Circus, times vary, Pavilion, Expo Square, details at www.akdarshrine.org

Western Neighbors’ Chili Dinner & Groundhog Watch Party, Feb. 1 The annual benefit raises money for Western Neighbors Benefit Assistance and includes a silent auction. For details, call David Breed at 918-445-8840. Bowl For Kids’ Sake, Feb. 6 Held at two different bowling facilities the Feb. 6 event raises money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma. It’s not too late to start a team. Details at www. bbbsok.org or call Adam Nichols at 918-744-4400. 5th Annual Spring Film Festival, Feb. 13 The University of Tulsa Department of Film Studies presents it’s free, open to the public film festival at 7 p.m., Feb. 13. A reception outside the screening in Gussman Concert Hall features cake and refreshments and the juried event will feature prizes for student films. For more details, call Ashley Etter at 918-631-2969. 2013 Bassmaster Classic, Feb. 22-24 Bassmaster Classic excitement has been building since the announcement was made that Grand Lake and the Tulsa metro would be host for the 43rd edition of one of sport fishing’s greatest events. This is the first time for Oklahoma to host the Classic on Feb. 22-24 and Tulsa Sports Commission officials say it will bring about $26 million in economic impact to the area. For details, visit www.bassmaster.com. 2013 Tulsa Polar Plunge, Feb. 23 Hundreds of hardy souls will make the icy plunge Big Splash Water Park pools to raise money for Special Olympics in Oklahoma. The Tulsa plunge kicks off at 10 a.m. and is great fun for observers as many plungers plunge in costume. To learn more, call Jennifer Lightie at 918-481-1234.

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