Winter Ball
Let me call you my Sweetheart!
Rand and Jeanette Elliott and Lila and Dr. Mark Sullivan at the event benefiting Oklahoma Contemporary. Page B1.
Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day is approaching. See photos of your friends and neighbors and their Sweethearts. Pages 11 & 12. Email yours to rose@okcfriday.com and we will include them in our Feb. 7 edition.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 53 No. 39 • Two Sections • 18 pages January 31, 2020
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Talking about a car wash
Over the top!
Village to meet with company By Ashley Haley Staff Writer
United Way surpasses campaign goal Topping its goal of $17.1 million, the United Way of Central Oklahoma celebrated the close of its 2019 fundraising campaign with its 19th annual Snowflake Gala at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. United Way revealed a grand total of $17,501,030 was raised through more than 700 employee workplace campaigns, corporate gifts, individual donors, and initiatives. This year’s campaign had more than 30,000 donors. Sherri and Bill Lance were the campaign co-chairmen.
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2019 United Way Campaign Co-Chairmen Bill and Sherri Nance, United Way Board Chairman Jim Couch and United Way President and CEO Debby Hampton. It was announced that Judy Love and Mike Turpen would be the co-chairmen of the 2020 campaign.
Bill is the secretary of commerce for the Chickasaw Nation. “We are incredibly
lucky to be connected with such strong community partners,” said Debby Hampton, pres-
ident and CEO of United Way of Central See UNITED, Page B5
Met radio airing thanks to Sias’ $1 mil gift The 89th season of the pioneering Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera launched late last year with the support of a new and generous underwriter. Richard “Dick” Sias made a gift of $1 million to support radio’s longest-running classical music program, which has
introduced countless people around the world to opera. The gift is in loving memory of his wife of 54 years, fellow Oklahoma City arts philanthropist Jeannette Joullian Sias. Sias’s generosity comes at a pivotal time for the series, which reaches approximately seven million listeners each
week and serves as a cornerstone of the Met’s media efforts. Sias’ donation will significantly aid the Met in funding operating expenses related to the program. A retired oil and fuel executive, U.S. Army veteran, family man, vintner, and lifelong
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Rescue Dog of the Week The Village Rescue Dog of the Week is Luna. She's between 1- and 2-years-old and good with other dogs. Luna is approximately 45 pounds with a sweet personality. We think she is a Lab/Dalmatian and she walks good with a halter. Her adoption fee is $95. She will be vaccinated with Bordatella, Rabies, DHPP, wormed and heartworm tested and spayed. For an appointment to meet her, call Trey or Becky at 751-0493.
Sponsored by Paulette and Leo Kingston of WePayFast.com
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Residents of The Village could soon see a new car wash in the city, if the city council decides to move forward with plans, city manager Bruce Stone said. During a regular city council meeting, Stone said he is meeting with representatives who want to bring Coulter Express Car Wash to May Avenue. With one location already in Edmond, owners are looking to purchase land located near Quail Plaza Drive. “In order for this to be possible, the council would have to add this as a planned unit development (PUD) and they would probably need to make significant changes to landscaping,” Stone said. “There’s a whole lot they would have to do to come close to meeting our codes.” He said while the city wouldn’t receive any sales tax generated from the car wash, the county and schools would benefit from it. The council said they are open to discussions about a new car wash coming to town, but Mayor Cathy Cummings expressed concern for traffic on May Avenue. “It might cause an issue,” she said. “That’s something else we need to talk about. It will increase traffic there where cars would turn into the car wash.” Discussions about the car wash, site plans and ideas are scheduled to take place next week. In other business, The Village City Council voted to approve an agreement with Oklahoma City to resurface intersections of Hefner Road and May Avenue and Hefner Road and Penn Avenue. “We didn’t resurface the intersection on our side, so they proposed to do the resurfacing on the south half of May and Hefner and the south half of Hefner and Penn in The Village,” Stone said. The Village will pay almost $23,000 for its portion of the project, which will come from bond money allocated to resurfacing Hefner Road. Stone said after the City of Oklahoma City approves the agreement, the resurfacing project is expected to start as soon as possible. After the project is complete, the intersections will be uniform on both sides.
All-new ‘Oklahoma’ a highlight of 2020/21OKC Broadway season By Rose Lane Editor OKC Broadway will host the national tour launch of a reimagined production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma.” OKC Broadway’s Elizabeth Gray introduced the next season following a reception at the Civic Center. Stripped down to reveal the darker psychological truths at
its core, Daniel Fish’s production tells a story of a community circling its wagons against an outsider and the frontier life that shaped America. Upending the sunny romance of a farmer and a cowpoke, this “Oklahoma” allows the classic musical — and our country to be seen in a whole new life, Gray said. “Oklahoma” plays the Civic See OKC, Page 2
