Broken Arrow World Weekly Gallery March 23, 2015

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Chris Royal and Courtney Hamilton perform with the Broken Arrow Indoor Percussion Ensemble during the group’s send-of performance Thursday at the Art Pancook leads a ukelele lesson at the Broken Arrow Senior Center in Broken Arrow on Wednesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

Broken Arrow High School gym. The group competed at the WGI Mid South Championship over the weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photo by James Royal

Broken Arrow Indoor Percussion performs its show “Shadow” during a send-of performance Thursday at the Broken Arrow High School gym. This is the irst year the Broken Arrow band program has had a winter indoor percussion ensemble. The Darrell Adrien (right) and Jimmy lewis play pool at the Broken Arrow Senior Center in Broken Arrow on Wednesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

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group competed last weekend at the WGI Mid South Championships in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photo by James Royal

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BROKEN ARROW WINS CLASS 6A GIRLS STATE TITLE

The Broken Arrow Lady Tigers react as their team defeats the Muskogee Roughers at the class 6A girls state basketball title game at the ORU Mabee Center in Tulsa on March 14.

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Emerson Leavitt sits on his great-great-great-grandpa’s antique potato cutting machine.

Emerson’s great-grandfather, Don Hansen, will be planting potatoes at Thunderbird Farm.

This statue is near the intersection of Main and College in downtown Broken Arrow.

Photo by Rhys Martin

The Tulsa Classic Thunderbird Club has adopted Washington Street between Olive and Aspen in Broken Arrow as one of its civic activities. The next clean-up day is Saturday, April 25, following the club’s regular Saturday morning breakfast meeting. More than 20 members in their Thunderbirds will be there cleaning the right-of-way. Drive by and wave with a thumbs up!

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 Looking Back at Broken Arrow  Sullivan Brick Plant: For a town to

Reeda Sisson, 89-year-old resident of Senior Suites in Broken Arrow, won the title

Elm Place and the MKT train tracks and

grow, it needs a steady stream of building

hauled to the plant where it was dumped

supplies. The abundant timber around

in one of two pits. The two pits allowed

Broken Arrow provided part of that

batches to be worked on alternating days.

stream, but wood cannot be used to build

Once there, a horse named Baldy drove

everything. Chimneys and foundations

a mill that mixed the mud. Molds were

require something more, something like

lightly sanded to prevent sticking and

brick. In January 1904, W.R. Sullivan

pulled through the mixture to ill the

began making bricks in Broken Arrow.

mold. Once out, a pallet was placed on

A bit of experimentation was involved.

top of the mold which was then inverted

The irst batch was taken from the kiln

and “bumped” to loosen the bricks. The

before they were fully dried. The second

mold was then removed, and the bricks

batch was burned but usable. Eventually

went through their initial drying. They

Sullivan mastered his craft and began

were then edged, or turned, to speed up

producing bricks that would become

the drying. After they were suiciently

ubiquitous in Broken Arrow. Sullivan’s

air cured they were kiln ired. This

bricks, known as stif mud bricks, were of

iring took a practiced hand as heating

a diferent quality than clay bricks as they

or cooling them too rapidly resulted in

were softer with a less vitriied inish.

the bricks breaking. So it was that these

Sullivan’s brickmaking process will seem

bricks were transformed from a muddy

familiar to anyone who has ever baked a

creek bank into the building blocks of a

cake. Mud was taken from the river near

city.

of Ms. Senior Oklahoma, Long-Term Care 2015, at the Cox Business Center March 7, sponsored by Grace Hospice. Courtesy Phyllis Parkhurst

Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society

Broken Arrow Chamber

Broken Arrow Police

President Wes Smithwick,

Oicers Keith Cook,

Mayor Craig Thurmond,

Rodney Gardner and

and Rooster Days Miss

Sgt. Steve Smith raise

Chick Sarah Singleton

the American lag at the

partake in a Chik-il-A

opening of the new Chik-

tradition, the irst bite.

il-A. Photo by Samantha

Photo by Samantha

Extance

Extance.

Flat Stanley was sent on

Broken Arrow Chamber

visit to Broken Arrow by 7-

President Wes Smithwick

year-old Emerson Juhasz of

is about to take his irst

Allentown, Pennsylvania, as

bite, a Chik-il-A opening

part of a classroom project.

tradition. Photo by

Stanley visited historical

Samantha Extance.

sites in the area and had his picture taken. On this day he saw beautiful dafodils in Bill and June Nessler’s yard.

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Broken Arrow is Oklahoma’s fourth-largest city and Tulsa’s largest suburb, with an estimated population of 100,073 in 2011. It is also one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, adding more than 25,000 residents and a slew of big-box retailers since 2000. Known for quiet suburban life and short commutes to Tulsa, Broken Arrow has been named by national publications as one of the best 100 places to live, one of the 10 best places for families, one of the 25 safest cities in America and one of the most afordable suburbs in the south. A downtown revitalization efort that began in 2005 has aimed to create an arts and entertainment district centered on the city’s Main Street, and several new restaurants, a historical museum and a performing arts center have headlined the recent downtown improvements.

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