FRIDAY, MARCH 19 , 2021
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JENKS HAS ITS FIRST OFFICIAL BREWERY WITH THE CAPE BREWING COMPANY, AND MUCH MORE
By Kyle Salomon For the first time in the city’s history, Jenks officially now has a brewery. The Cape Brewing Company, 732 W. Main St. in Jenks, had its grand-opening ceremony last Wednesday with community and city leaders in attendance to celebrate Jenks’ new business. J.C. Cody and his family had a vision for a brewery in Jenks, but also a family-oriented place where entire families could come, and all have something to do. That vision met perfectly with Jenks community leaders and specifically, Josh McFarland of Red Dog Construction, who purchased and is renovating the Melody Lane area in Jenks. “Originally, I was planning on doing a brewery,” McFarland said. “I talked to my wife and told her Jenks needed a brewery. There are enough people here to support it. We started to do research on how to make beer, but I knew nothing about it. During that process, I met with several actual brewers and J.C. (Cody) was one of them and he said we are interested in doing this, but he wanted to hear our vision. I said my vision was a family-oriented place, so we began talking about how we can build family and beer together with yard games outside, live music and concerts. They told me that was their vision, and they were ready to go if we would have them. This truly is something that will be good for the community and good for kids and good for families.” Lane Castleberry with the Jenks Chamber of Commerce spoke during the event and said this was a great day for the community and a great day for businesses in Jenks. “I can’t think of a better time than now of needing a place where people and families can come together. On behalf of the Chamber, congratulations and thank you for your investment into the community and we look forward to working alongside you.” Jenks City Council Member, Cory Box echoed Castleberry’s comments during his speech last Wednesday. “This is something Jenks really wants. We are a family community. I hope somebody else also takes a risk and we get to do more events like this. We appreciate the risk J.C., and his family took to do this. To take that plan and make this happen, we are incredibly fortunate.” When she was campaigning to get elected onto the Jenks City Council, current council member, Kaye Lynn said she had a vision for the Melody Lane area and she is thrilled that vision is starting to come to fruition. “This has been an amazing trip since the first time I met JC. When I ran for city council, this area was baron. I knew we were missing millions and millions of tax dollars because we didn’t have a place where our family could meet up. Out of the clear blue, I received a call from J.C., and he presented their thoughts on what their vision was. My whole concept surrounded family. Our Jenks family needed a place where they can meet up. As we went through his concept, I realized how great it was. This is one of the best things that has come along in the past 20 years.”