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THE WAY WE WERE

20 YEARS AGO

— Photos By Vicki Clark Gourley

“THE PRESIDENT and The Duchess of Alva,” their teasing hosts dubbed honorees Brenda and President Tom McDaniel, left, with Ginny and Bob Johnson.

This column is reprinted from the August 4, 2000 edition of OKC FRIDAY.

By Joy Richardson Columnist Most of us would have been sucking our thumbs and sitting in the corner whimpering if we faced Judy Love's See JOY, Page 3

Hosts Judy and Tom Love.

For cancellations and closings See Page 6.

OKC Memorial releases books in advance of 25th anniversary

By Rose Lane Editor In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Building on April 19, the OKC National Memorial and Museum released two books, “Looking Back. Thinking Forward” and “Love Won: The Oklahoma Standard.”

National Memorial Executive Director Kari Watkins said the books were published by Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing and are available in the store at www.oklahomahof. com. The coffee table book, “Looking Back. Thinking Forward” was a collaboration between Watkins and Bob Johnson, the founding chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma National Memorial.

The children’s book, “Love Won: The Oklahoma Standard,” was co-authored by Governor Frank and First Lady Cathy Keating.

Watkins said both books are designed to remember the message of the Memorial and to take it to the future. The books show how the community rose up in the wake of terror and thus the Oklahoma Standard is a way of life in the Sooner State.

“Looking Back. Thinking Forward” includes the reflections of Former Mayor Ron Norick; the

Available for purchase at oklahomahof.com are “Looking Back. Thinking Forward: and “Love Won” The Oklahoma Standard.”

Keatings; Phillip Thompson, who lost his mother in the bombing and co-chaired Families, Survivors Committee; Hans and Torrey Butzer, co-designers of the Memorial; Polly Nichols, survivor of the bombing and former chairman of OKC National Memorial Foundation; Richard Williams, survivor of the bombing; Rowland See BOOKS, Page 2

Allied Arts establishes relief fund to help arts nonprofits Applications are now available for grants from The Central Oklahoma Arts Relief Fund, which is designed to help arts nonprofits in their time of need.

Allied Arts President and CEO Deborah McAuliffe Senner announced that the fund was organized in response to the economic impact of COVID-19 on central Oklahoma’s cultural community.

“In this unprecedented

moment, we are witnessing an increased demand for the joy brought to humankind through the arts,” said Senner. “With elevated support from the community, our arts groups can come out of this situation stronger and equipped to deliver outreach that educates, inspires and brings joy.”

Allied Arts has seeded the fund with $100,000 and appeals to the community to grow the fund in coming

months. Allied Arts encourages local individuals, companies and foundations to donate at any amount to help cultural organizations mitigate financial losses and unanticipated expenditures related to COVID-19.

Arts nonprofits in particular have been adversely affected by COVID-19 as restrictions are in place limiting social gatherings. As such, their fundraising events have been canceled; exhibits and

Restaurant association transforms convention into bombing relief effort Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series on how the Oklahoma Restaurant Association turned its 57th Annual Midsouthwest Foodservice Convention & Exposition into a relief effort for the victims and first responders of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

By Gordon Walker Oklahoma Restaurateur The opening day of the 57th Annual Midsouthwest Foodservice Convention and Exposition went

off without a hitch. The event, held at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, was expecting a record attendance of more than 10,000 over the course of the scheduled three-day convention.

A sunny spring morning was soon replaced with chaos. While first responders and local media rushed to the scene, ORA board officials came to a quick conclusion. The 1995 Convention was over. The work was just getting started.

Debra Bailey, who today serves See ORA, Page 2

artist talks have closed; and performances have been postponed indefinitely. The immediate relief grants received through the Allied Arts Relief Fund enable central Oklahoma’s arts organizations to help retain core functions and staff, make up for financial losses and cover unexpected expenses.

Allied Arts is set to award relief grants of $1,000$15,000 per organization.

Award amounts vary based

on organizational budget size, scope of programs, emerging needs and total resources available.

Individuals or corporations interested in making a donation, or looking for more information, should visit alliedartsokc.com/covid19. For questions on how to donate or questions regarding the grant, contact Jennifer Bryan at Allied Arts at 278-8944 or jennifer.bryan@alliedartsokc. com.

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ORA From Page 1 as ORA’s deputy director and chief financial officer, was on staff as director of operations in 1995.

“Things started happening and people went to work without having to be trained and without any kind of a learning curve,” Bailey said. “It just happened. Something inside of us just rose up.”

The ability to respond instinctively and instantly was apparent right off the bat, after organizers of the convention first began to grasp the magnitude of the tragedy.

There are times with any massive undertaking, like a convention, when “the show must go on.”

This was clearly not one of those times. Within an hour of

the explosion, the convention was cancelled. The decision was unanimous.

The 1995 ORA Convention was led by Chairman Ned Shadid, “The food show was turned into a relief effort,” Shadid said. “We already had food and cooking equipment there to do the food. Within a half hour, we had a buffet line set up to feed the 300 to 500 people who had been evacuated to the Myriad.”

The Myriad made for a strategic site for a resting place for the rescue workers from around the nation who joined the heroic efforts of Oklahoma City’s police and fire squads. The expansive convention center provided the perfect space for food product and equipment, and with workers with food prep know-how already in place due to the providential timing of the ORA convention, the

relief operation was up and running.

“All the electrical was overhead,” Shadid recalled of the convention space. “We could drop the electrical and water wherever we needed for this kitchen. Basically in a day it got turned into a commercial kitchen feeding thousands of people.”

In the early hours, food was prepared then loaded into the backs of pickup trucks to deliver warm meals to the rescue site. Eventually, security concerns forced the stoppage of all personal vehicles from making such deliveries. UPS picked up the slack, providing six trucks and drivers nonstop, around the clock, over the next several days. The food that would have been part of the convention was all gone after the first day of recovery provisions.

“Then the vendors, especially the brokers and distrib-

utors, opened up their warehouses and just brought us everything we needed as far as food and beverage,” Bailey said.

“They had no idea how they were going to get paid for it.

In two days, we went through like $30-40,000 of food,” Shadid said.

That total eventually passed the $100,000 mark, he said.

When American Red Cross officials made it to OKC, they had assumed they would take over meal service, providing cold pre-prepped meals. But with Oklahoma hospitality volunteers already up and running with hot food for two days before the national folks made it to OKC, Gov. Frank Keating told the out-of-towners that the cold food was not appealing.

“That’s not how we are going to do it here,” Keating said. And so the work of Sha-

BOOKS From Page 1 Denman, first volunteer executive director, founding member of the Foundation Board, trustee who oversaw construction of Memorial and former chairman of the Memorial Foundation; Hardy Watkins, owners’ representative of the Memorial and Museum 19982001; Karen Luke, former chairman of OKC National Memorial Foundation and vice-chairman to to Founding Chairman Bob Johnson; Kari Watkins; Sam Presti, executive vice president and general manager, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Memorial trustee; Jon Meacham, historian; and Larry Nichols, Oklahoma City leader, donor and husband of Polly Nichols.

“Looking Back” is important in several ways, Johnson said.

First, he said, it creates an indelible memory of the Oklahoma’s response to the bombing.

“We will never forget and fail to honor the 168 who died, the other survivors and the First Responders,” Johnson said.

Oklahoma chose “not to be defined” by the tragic events of April 19, 1995.

Johnson said, that instead the best of the “human heart” reached out and lift-

did and the highly skilled ORA volunteer brigade, which was estimated to reach 200 workers a day, marched on.

Shadid said ORA partners (such as food and equipment distributors) “got us anything and everything we asked them for. As we ran out of food on the floor, the purveyors called their companies and they brought trucks in with more food and we just kept putting it out.”

The volunteers worked around the clock, with little or no sleep the first few days.

One image that Bailey recalls was the respite that came from receiving an automatic dishwasher delivered to the Myriad. Before its arrival, there were volunteers who “literally had their hands in dishwater for 24 hours,” she said. “Their hands were prunes.”

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ed up our community. There was a sense of hope that arose from the chaos.

There is an important educational aspect to the book, also. People who aren’t familiar with the bombing and those who have suffered similar tragedies can be enlightened by it.

Johnson also called the book “very timely” as we all deal with the spread of the coronavirus.

Following the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, drawings and notes of sympathy, encouragement and hope began pouring in from throughout the United States and the world.

The Keatings narrate a selection of these in “Love Wins: The Oklahoma Standard.”

“Children play a powerful role in the healing of our community,” Cathy Keating said. “Children really capture this with clarity, passion and purity.”

Twenty-five years later, these children are now adults. She said the book really honors what they did to make a difference.

“This is really a call to action for the next generation of children to make an impact.”

Watkins said that all proceeds from the two books go to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum.

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JOY From Page 1 dilemma. Picture this: you've a gigantic crowd arriving at your home for dinner, too many to guests to consider calling and changing the venue.

But you have no electricity! Does the term "raw meat" appeal to you?

The Loves and other host couples Linda and Andy Coats, Kirk and Royce Hammons, Chris and Paul Houk, Gennie and Bob Johnson, Ruth and Dick Lampton, and De Ann and Lee Allan Smith planned a party to wish Tom and Brenda McDaniel a fond farewell.

They are moving to Alva to become the President and First Lady of Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

A smiling and unflappable Judy in a soft blue top and gauzy party pants greeted guests at the door and ushered them through the dark house to the backyard, where it was still daylight. Guests were treated to cocktails among bright blooming plants in their grand yard. Crisp white tables and chairs for dinner were set outside. But if

guests ate there, dinner would have to be over by nine o'clock as people have a silly aversion to eating in absolute dark.

Plan B in case of rain was also in action, as husband Tom had also overseen the setting up of tables and chairs for another hundred folks in their huge new party room. But plan B fell through too, as did the electricity.

At about 6:40, resourceful Judy dove into plan C. She sent the caterers to the exquisite atrium room of Christ the King church. The now "progressive dinner" continued among toasts and much gaiety. A normal party fades from memory, this one was doubly fun because of the capricious weather and electricity.

Susie Devening wrote a really funny poem, and slapped it into the hands of Judy Love, Ruth Lampton and Gennie Johnson, just before they were to read it.

The merry quartet brought the crowd to backslapping laughter. It was a perfect description of how everyone views the delightful McDaniels in their new roles. Alva won't know what hit them as Tom and Brenda bring more hilarity - along with unerring good

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taste - to every situation.

Relishing the evening were Linda and Bill Rodgers, Barbara and Paul Brou, Ann and Ed Dalton, Kaye and Ed Cook, Jane and Gerald Gamble, Sue and Don Timberlake, Vicki and Leland Gourley and Sharon and John Bozalis.

As typical females, we were all admiring each other's shoes (you guys may want to tune this out) Gene Barth had on seethrough "Cinderella shoes," and Linda Rodgers wore perky little slides with a bright mauve flower on the toes, and party honoree Brenda had on pink mules to go with her pink/white check sundress and jacket. I guess Tom McDaniel wore shoes, too.

Brenda entertained us with a review of the "Presidents' School" she and Tom attended in Oregon. Sounded like she was going to learn the proper way to pour tea. Bright and gracious as she is, we thought she should have taught the class. But apparently the content was about improving, and emphasis on public schools. Brenda was also asked to spruce up the President's home in Alva, as that hasn't been done for about 25 years. It is pink throughout, carpet and all, and every window has lace drapes.

While it is being refurbished, Tom and Brenda are staying in college dorm rooms. The mind picture of Brenda, as wife of the college President, tromping

down the hall to the urinals is just too funny. Sanely, she chose the girl's dorm.

Loving the cool evening the storms left were Sherron and Allen Evans, Jill and Tom King, Sue Ann and Dudley Hyde, Kay

and Clark Musser, Pam and Bill Shdeed, Kay and Harry Goebel, Joy and John Belt, Henry and Patricia Browne, Bev and Paul Kanaly and Randy Devening at the Loves’ party for the McDaniels.

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Sports Weekly NO MORE GAMES TO PLAY Seniors among hardest hit by spring season cancellation Editors Note: This is the first in a series of stories highlighting seniors in Fridayland schools who will not be playing this spring after schools shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we are profiling seniors from Casady.

By Jason Jewell Sports Editor With school districts across the country canceling classes along with the 201920 spring sports season, hundreds of ath-

letes are affected, many of whom only play sports offered in the spring.

“We are very disappointed for our students,” Casady athletic director Steve McCarthy said. “For some of them, spring sports are the only ones they play.”

One such athlete McCarthy cited is senior Sam Bass who runs track for the Cyclones.

He won gold medals in the 1600- and 3200meter runs at Shawnee

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and Holland Hall in the first two meets of the season.

“Sam was looking to break some records that might not be challenged for a long time,” McCarthy said.

“Now he can’t do that.

Going forward, there’s also some uncertainty about how this might affect the fall sports.”

Another athlete is baseball player Teddy Jacobsen. The senior is the only returning team captain for the Cyclones and an All-

Editors Note: The following is a list of Casady seniors, arranged by sports.

••• BASEBALL Coach: Brad Williams • Teddy Jacobsen, C, 1B, P: 2018, 2019, 2020 Captain, 3 Year Letter winner, 2018 MVP, 2018 & 2019 Highest Batting Average Award, All SPC 2018 First Team; 2020 Stats (4 games): .429 batting average, 2 doubles, 7 RBIs; Pitching: 1-0, 11 strikeouts.

• Tyler Hart, P, 1B: 2 Year Letter Winner, 2020 Captain; 2020 Stats: (4 games) .225 avg., 2 runs, 4 walks; Pitching 0-0, 7

“

We are very disappointed for our students.

For some of them, spring sports are the only ones they play.”

Casady Athletic Director Steve McCarthy

Southwest Prepartory Conference selection.

Like many other schools, Casady teachers and administrators are trying to stay in contact with students as much as possible.

“We are trying to keep the kids involved,” McCarthy said. “A lot of them are excited about the chal-

lenge of online learning. They understand what’s going on and just trying to adapt.”

Another unsung group dealingwith the cancellations are the coaches who lead these teams.

“This has been just as hard on the coaches,” McCarthy said. “A few of them were look-

-Archive photo by Johnny Holland, JHollandPhotography.com

strikeouts, 1 save.

• Charlie Robinson, CF: 2 Year Letter Winner, 2020 Captain; 2020 Stats: (4 games) .333 avg., 2 RBIs, 6 runs.

• Christian Owen, OF (1st-year player): 1 Year Letter Winner; 2020 Stats: .364 avg., 1 double, 1 triple 2 RBIs, 2 runs.

• Luke Foster, OF (1st-year player): 1 Year Letter Winner; 2020 Stats: .250 avg., 1 triple, 1 RBI, 4 runs.

• Aiden Raman, 3B (1st-year player): 1 Year Letter Winner; 2020 Stats: 3 starts at 3rd base.

• Cooper Jones, OF (1st-year player): 1 Year Letter Winner; 2020: played in 3 games.

• Ford Watkins, OF, DH (1st-year player): 1 Year Letter Winner; 2020: appeared in all 4 games, 1 RBI, 1 run.

••• TRACK & FIELD Coach: Autumn Johnson • Will Dumigan, pole vault: 1st place at Shawnee; 2nd Place at Holland Hall (personal record, 13 feet); 1st place at Bethany.

• Lucas Barrett, pole vault: 3rd place Shawnee (personal record 8 feet, 6

Casady’s Teddy Jacobsen throws a ptich during a baseball game last season. Jacobsen is one of nearly 3 dozen Cyclone whose seasons were cut short when schools shut down during the coronavirus outbreak.

inches), 300-meter hurdles, 5th place (PR 46.49 sec.)

• Jaiden Lydick, pole vault: 2nd place, Shawnee (PR 4-6); 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles, 7th place, Shawnee.

• Jonathan Gerard, discus: all-time PR (119-3) at Holland Hall, 8th.

• Caton Nelson: 1st discus (85-5), 1st shot put (28-8.5), Shawnee; shotput all-time PR (30-1/2) at Holland Hall; discus alltime PR (99-8), 3rd place at Bethany.

• Sam Bass: 1st, 1600m at Shawnee; 1st, 3200m at Holland Hall.

• Rumaish Khastgir: 3rd, 1600m at Shawnee; 7th, 3200m Holland Hall.

• Jack Berryman: 4th, 1600m, Shawnee; 9th, 800m, Holland Hall; • Peter Berryman: 2nd, 800m, Shawnee; 6th, 800m, Holland Hall.

• Heath Stanfield: member of 4x800 team at Holland Hall and Bethany who came in first at both meets.

• Julia Bohanon: 1st, 3200m, Shawnee; 1st, 3200m, 3rd, 1600m, Bethany; 5th, 3200m, Holland Hall.

• Amy Jarjoura:- 1st, 400m, Holland Hall; 2nd,

ing ahead to potentially great seasons.”

Those included the boys tennis team which boasted a senior-laden team, along with the baseball squad which had started the season with a promising 3-1 start.

While the baseball and softball teams, along with the track teams, had started their seasons, the tennis and golf teams weren’t scheduled to start until after spring break.

open 800m, Shawnee; 3rd, open 800m, Shawnee.

• Sara Jarjoura: integral part of relay teams; helped lead our 4x800 relay to one of their 1st place finishes at Bethany; 1st, 4x400, Shawnee; 2nd, 4x400 at Bethany.; 1st, 4x100, Bethany, 2nd, 4x100, at Shawnee.

••• SOFTBALL Coach: Sarah Smith Emma Dalhgren, SS: led the team in runs scored (14), .500 batting avg., .708 OBP, MVP, Legacy Christian tournament.

• Annakate Ross, 1B: 10 hits, .417 batting average & OBP and 6 RBIs. • Olivia Uhland, 3B: 6 hits, 8 RBIs, 4 runs.

• Hayes Sullivan, C: led the team in hits (13), RBIs (9), and batting average (.565).

••• TENNIS Coach: Justin Miles Gabe Terry: No. 3 singles; No. 2 doubles; great competitor, excellent sportsmanship.

Mathias Torres: No. 2 singles, No. 1 doubles, and No. 2 doubles.

Aaron Puffinbarger: No. 1 doubles, No. 2 doubles, No. 2 singles Rumaish Khastgir: began his career at No. 2 doubles and No. 3 singles before reaching No. 1 singles his junior year.

Yusuf Shah: did not miss practice; climbed the ladder to varsity.

John Pippin: made the varsity tennis team each year of his career.

Lukas Schneider: team manager; showed up for work every day and always gave 100 percent.

– Compiled by Jason Jewell

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What your friends and neighbors are doing: ••• Franci Hart “My friends and I are drinking wine together via FaceTime and exercising to YouTube Videos.”

••• Jeanne Edmondson “What am I doing during this “have to stay home alone” period of time you ask? First my status. 70 year-old, single white female with comorbidity of COPD living alone. Hallmark Channel ... what are they thinking playing Christmas movies???? We saw all those between October and Dec. 31 last year? Play older movies — we can’t remember if we saw those. New movies coming next month, can’t wait! Cleaning out closets is only so much fun.

Jigsaw puzzles at the ready, one down and another started since Christmas. How many shades of blue are there in a sky full of balloons? Torture! Watching Covid 19 info on tv has reached the tipping point.

Minding the government guidelines…staying home, washing hands, walking dog

on nice days, getting groceries from kids on front porch etc. etc. Main thing is praying for everyone to stay safe and healthy and knowing that I am not in charge.

This too will pass.”

••• Amy Freedman “With school being out for the (semester), my co-teachers and I are putting together videos, activities, story times and Zoom meetings to keep in touch with the children we serve and their families. Most of us have classroom websites where we also post activities and videos. Erna Krouch Preschool is one of the longest running preschool programs in the state. We strive to continue educating and communicating with our families during this time. I speak for all of us at EKPS when I say we miss our families and each other.”

••• Ashley Smith Cleaning out every drawer in the house, dusting everything, did my kids taxes, went on a walk, watching the “Golden Girls”

marathon, cooking, lots of laundry!

••• Shea Moseley Journaling.

••• Joyce DeFehr “Since I already work from home, my weekdays haven’t changed much. I work a normal eight-hour day from a computer on English and reading test development for one of the major national testing companies. As a remote employee, I’m used to attending meetings via Skype. Now, the entire company is working from home, so everyone is participating in our daily meetings this way. I’ve spent free time in the backyard pulling weeds, playing with my dogs, reading books I stockpiled in advance, cleaning and organizing closets, binging on a season of The Americans, and keeping up with the local and national news on TV. ••• Vince Hoenig “Deleted 3789 emails from my computer, emptied shredder, cleaned my flip

and rotary phones, called the telemarketers and asked them to please call me back, threw away outdated canned goods in pantry, unwrapped 2 left over Christmas gifts, reviewed my pension plan, , figured out how to access Netflix, went to Ace and purchased several for sale signs, changed batteries in clocks and updated to current time zone, looked for TV remote to watch comedy hour" of Dems and Republicans, the only thing I have gained during the mess is WEIGHT, waiting to see if there’s a Baby Boom at the end of this self-quarantine, and how any divorces there will be.”

••• Joyce Scholten “Praying.”

••• Shawn Blake “More dog walks, cleaning and organizing more than I already was, napping without guilt.”

••• Mandy McKean “Making stock for my newly founded crochet biz.”

Linda Howell “Teaching the hubs to play Canasta and he’s beating me!”

••• Timothy Fields “I closed my shop (salon) until its safe to resume working. It was a hard decision for me, in my 40 years I have worked while having a appendicitis, bulging disc and even a broken hand. I have always figured out how to service my clients. So this is extremely difficult not being able to be there for my clients. I’m passing time watching hair videos from some of my industry heroes, looking for new techniques and inspiration so when we can resume our daily lives I’ll be ready.”

••• Mandy McKean “Making stock for my newly founded crochet biz.”

••• Becky Foree “Walking in the neighborhood, cooking, catching up with friends I never have time to talk to, not feeling guilty about taking time to read.”

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Inspirational Movies

Note to Customers: For the duration of the COVID-

19 emergency, Utilities Solid Waste Management will not pick up any bagged trash, including bagged grass and/or landscape clippings, set out alongside trash carts, or on bulky waste days. Bags must be placed inside Big Blue trash carts. Do not put grass or other trash loose in the trash carts.

• Jasco Products is providing $1 million to support faith-based charities who are stepping up to serve their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. Please consider helping out Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity by recommending its organization on their Facebook page, @jascoproducts and sharing this with everyone you know! Or, you can email them at charity@byjasco.com.

• The Plaza District is raising money to support retail and restaurant employees whose incomes are directly affected by COVID-19.

The Plaza Support Fund aims to raise $16,000, with 100% of the proceeds going to workers in the district. The fundraiser will culminate in an event on Friday, April 10, from 6-8pm, with the Plaza District hosting a live stream via Facebook Live to replace

their normal second Friday event, LIVE! on the Plaza.

• Virtual programming will include: Plaza Walls Tour with Kris Kanaly, Doggy Punk Vest DIY with Amanda Martinez, Drag Performances by Topatio and Friends, Cooking Class with Pie Junkie, Special Performance by OKC Improv, Paint Class with Adam Jones and much more!

Live Streaming :

• OKC Zoo’s Red Panda Cam online daily at okczoo.org/redpandacam.

• Arts Council Facebook page for Art Moves performances each weekday at noon.

• 3rd Act Theatre Company at 3rdacttheatreco.com and on its Facebook page.

CLOSINGS - CANCELLATIONS

Chesapeake Events/Shows:

Michael Buble- postponed,TBA Pearl Jam – postponed,TBA Baby Shark Live! – postponed,TBA JoJo Siwa – postponed, TBA Jeff Dunham – June 12 Tool – June 17 Journey – June 19 Cody Johnson –June 26 Elton John – July 5 Impractical Jokers – July 31 Maroon 5 – Aug. 4 Backstreet Boys – Aug. 22 Cher – Sept. 18 MercyMe – Oct. 3 Jimmy Buffett – Oct. 15 Foo Fighters – Dec. 1

Annual Chuck Wagon Festival–postponed Western Heritage Awards – Oct. 2-3 Sunbeam Family Services’ Shine a Light event – cancelled Full Circle Bookstore will ship free or deliver books, call 842-2900.

Cleo Paker Robinson event Cancelled Brightmusic concert - Cancelled OKC Ballet Ball - Cancelled Tatas & Tinis OKC - Sept. 24 YWCA Casino Night - postponed Paseo First Friday Gallery Walk Chesapeake Energy Arena Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex Civic Center Music Hall OKC Parks facilities South Lakes Soccer Complex North OKC Soccer Complex MAPS3 Senior Health/Wellness Centers Riversport Adventures Cox Convention Center Oklahoma City Zoo & Amphitheatre Scissortail Park Myriad Botanical Gardens Metropolitan Library System locations OKC National Memorial/Museum Oklahoma Contemporary Science Museum Oklahoma National Cowboy & Western Museum **Redbud Classic postponed until fall **Memorial Marathon is now Oct. 4 **Paseo Arts Festival is now Sept. 5-7 **(e)motion(s): A Triple Bill - Sept. 25-27 **As You Like It – moved to Sept.

H

appy Passover!

Happy Easter!

This is a great week to be grateful and celebrate our many blessings, even as we navigate this pandemic.

Please continue to pray for all of the medical professionals battling on the front lines and their families.

This week’s insider tip comes from film historian Elizabeth Anthony, founder and President of Reel Classics. Antony is an enthusiastic expert on classic films. She programs and leads discussions for the Western Movie Matinees at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. And, she runs the most comprehensive classic movie website anywhere at www.reelclassics.com.

In a recent email newsletter, Anthony highlighted that Turner Movie Classics (TMC, Cox 63) is broadcasting some of the greatest films of all time during the month of April. Many of the films overlap with the AFI Movie Club from last week’s column. So, you can explore www.reelclassics.com for great information about the movie and the stars, watch the film on TMC, and join the national discussion at www.afi.com/moviecl ub for a robust film experience from your

own home.

Just in time for Easter, Ben-Hur, the Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston, airs this Sunday at 11:00am on TMC. The Ben-Hur page on ReelClassics.com offers reviews, papers, website links, audio files, and an insightful introduction from Elizabeth Anthony, excerpted below.

“The most honored film of all-time, BenHur (1959) won eleven of the twelve Academy Awards for which it was nominated - and deservedly so. More than just an almost-four hour long Roman spectacle of pomp and pageantry, Ben-Hur has become known as an ‘intimate epic’ - that is, a film that doesn’t lose sight of its characters and their personal struggles amidst its largescale production values and grandeur.”

Additional TMC films recommended

by Anthony and their dates include: Top Hat, 4/15; Some Like It Hot, 4/17; Casablanca, 4/18; Singin’ in the Rain, 4/19; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 4/20; Stage Door, 4/22, and

The Music Man, 4/26.

For a modern inspirational movie, I Can Only Imagine, the independent Christian film produced in Oklahoma, is now streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime. I Can Only Imagine tells the true story of Bart Millard, a songwriter with the band Mercy Me, who was inspired by his strained relationship with his father to write a song about arriving in Heaven.

The song became the biggest selling, most played contemporary Christian song in history, selling more than 2 million copies.

The movie I Can Only Imagine was filmed on location in Oklahoma City. It features beautiful aerial shots of the downtown skyline and interiors of great auditoriums like the Civic Center Music Hall thanks to location manager Alison Naifeh Dick. Oklahoma natives Mickey Liddell of Liddell Entertainment and Brent Ryan Green of Toy Gun Films both served as producers on the movie. Like the song, the film was also a huge success, earning $85 million at the box office off of a $3 million production budget.

Be patient with yourself and others this week. Enjoy the movies.

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Hospitality associations donate 400+ relief packages The Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA), Oklahoma Hotel & Lodging Association (OHLA), Feed the Children and Crossings Community Church are partnering to announce ‘Phase One’ of an Essentials Package guaranteeing more than 400 non-perishable food and personal care packages to Oklahoma City hospitality workers who are unemployed due to COVID-19 layoffs.

Each care package contains a 25 lb. box of non-perishable food and a 12 lb. box of personal essentials. Donations will be distributed on April 8 and Oklahoma City hospitality employees are encouraged to register in advance through the Feed the Children’s Hospitality Essential Care

Package portal on its website.

This effort is being organized by Feed the Children and hosted and sponsored by Crossings Community Church who is providing volunteers and other resources. It is expected to significantly impact the lives of many unemployed individuals who are struggling to make ends meet, due to no fault of their own. “With an estimated 15,000 hotel workers and 140,000 restaurant workers currently unemployed, any resource to help them survive is crucial. Feed the Children stepped up and their efforts will ultimately support the front lines of hospitality. Employee resources are equally important as the fight to survive this short-term

crisis, in the minds of hospitality operators. Both are ready to get back to doing what they do best: demonstrating Oklahoma hospitality to their guests and communities,” said Patti Colley, Chief Strategy Officer of the ORA and OH&LA. “The Crossings family is heavily invested in our community 365 days a year. We are thankful to have an opportunity to serve those who’ve served us through the years,” said Marty Grubbs, Senior Pastor of Crossings Community Church.

“Feed the Children is taking action to ensure our neighbors aren’t forgotten. We understand that many Americans are facing unexpected challenges and we are working dili-

gently with our corporate and community partners to ensure that as needs rise, children and their families continue to receive the food and supplies they need,” said Travis Arnold, Feed the Children president and CEO. This is one of two donation phases the partnered associations and nonprofit will provide for hospitality employees in need. After the first round of food and essential distributions on April 8, ‘Phase Two’ of distributions will take place at a different location. Food and resources are critical to the survival of hospitality workers. To register, visit the Hospitality Essential Care Package portal at feedthechildren.org.

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Religion

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We know that God is good

By Rev. Laurel Cockrill Columnist One year ago this week, The Reluctant Preacher got a new name. In the grand sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the church that raised me into the woman of faith that I now am, hands were laid on me and prayers were said, questions of faith and commitment were asked and answered and blessings were given, and I emerged a Minister of Word and Sacrament. You can now call me Reverend Laurel.

Thanks be to God. Here are Reverend Laurel's thoughts on the world we all inhabit one year later: I don’t know much, but I do know this: God is good. God is good, and works perpetually to bring about good so that God’s kingdom might be fully realized on earth. God’s goodness is subversive and surprising.

It is so subversive that it is often completely missed. We see it over and over again in the stories of Christ’s interactions with the people in his path. Jesus refers to the missing of God’s goodness as blindness. Jesus offers sight to the blind, if only we seek and allow his touch, his forgiveness, his confrontation of our out-of-whack-ness. God is good whether we are blind or not, and Jesus’ presence with us is

the cure to our blindness.

How many of us are like the man in this cartoon —- blinded by jadedness and disappointment about the way things seem to be going? Are we so convinced that the world is going to hell in a hand basket that we are blind to God’s goodness? Sadly, I think many of us are. But Jesus lives, my friends! Where Jesus is, hope is! Where Jesus is, love is! Where Jesus is, the Kingdom of God is! We must do whatever we must to allow Jesus presence in our lives to cure our blindness and open our eyes to the light of God’s goodness. God is at work in and among and through our world to bring about goodness for those who love God and neighbor. Look, and see!

See healthcare workers risking their very lives to treat and to heal their ailing

neighbors. See grateful communities conspiring to open their windows and applaud these medical professionals and first responders in gratitude. See clergy and lay leadership going into creative overdrive offering digital worship services for their beloved flocks. See phone chains and volunteer grocery delivery services caring for the elderly and shut-ins. See people turning to their Bibles with more frequency and more curiosity than ever before. See the Church contextualizing and adapting to the needs of God’s people — preaching the gospel using resources that were there but not fully utilized before. See a yearning for God’s people to gather together not out of habit or compulsion or obligation, but out of genuine desire to commune with Christ and one another.

See the glory of God revealed in the collective realization that we didn’t know what we had until it was gone. See God working for good.

I leave you today with some words that Jesus spoke according to John 16:32-33.

“The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home…I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face tribulation. But take courage; I have conquered the world!”

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OKC Action Center Ways to submit questions or concerns Contact the Action Center to ask questions or report non-emergency code violations, such as high weeds, abandoned vehicles or other neighborhood problems. For a police or public safety emergency, dial 9-1-1. For a water or sewer emergency, dial (405) 2973334.

Online Create an account and submit issues through our web portal at okc.gov. Sign up with an email address or by using your Facebook account.

OKC Connect mobile app (Android/Apple Devices) The OKC Connect app lets residents submit service requests through their smartphone, get information about City services and stay connected with updates.

Email Email us at action.center@okc.gov.

Phone Call the Action Center at (405) 297-2535,

Help move film forward ATTENTION! arts nonprofits, small businesses and individual performers - if you want something filmed to put online during the quarantine and are willing to pay for that service, deadCenter is setting up a database of available local filmmakers and videographers to help you out.

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Editorial Page

OPINION OUR STAND “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

John 8:32 (quoting Jesus).

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

– Edmund Burke paraphrase, 1767.

If you want it in the paper, it’s advertising. If you don’t want it in the paper, it’s news.”

– Ancient Chinese Proverb.

“Without, or with, offense to friends or foes, We sketch your world exactly as it goes.”

– Byron, 1818.

“Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of human society.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1878.

“We must always stand – alone if necessary – as the conscience of this community.”

– J. Leland Gourley, 1959.

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ON THIS OKC FRIDAY EDITORIAL OPINION PAGE: We urge courtesy in disagreement. We view with favor wise public choices and view with alarm flawed public choices. We give good advice to public officials at federal, state and local levels, and society in general, on what to do right. So, if they don’t take our advice, it’s not our fault.

EMAIL YOUR OPINION to: vicki@okcfriday.com

We need prayers from all faiths As Oklahoma City shelters in place waiting for the coronavirus wave we know is coming, we need Jews, Christians, Muslims and every religion, which believes in God, to pray.

Gov. Kevin Stitt upset many with his “Let Hope Arise” speech calling on “Christians” to pray for our state.

Roberta Clark of the Jewish Federation sent this comment: “We have no reason to believe that Governor Stitt's ‘Let Hope Arise’ intended to exclude the multitude of faith traditions in our state, but we do believe his office should have worked to ensure the program could be one that would have been welcoming to Oklahomans of all faith traditions. At a time when our State and Nation need to be united, ‘Let Hope Arise’ did the exact opposite by ‘uninviting’ anyone who does not share very particular religious beliefs. We hope

In MY Opinion by VICKI CLARK GOURLEY vicki@okcfriday.com that our State Government will choose to lead in inclusiveness to best represent the Oklahoma Standard.”

Mayor frustrated Mayor David Holt seemed unusually frustrated this week as he asked cityans to “Stop looking for loopholes” in the required social distancing, according to the Journal Record.

The Hooten-Warren Team Oklahoma County Clerk David Hooten and Court Clerk Rick Warren literally moved heaven and earth to set up remote working for 70 of their employees (maybe more now) to keep the courthouse open. And they did it in a day. These two elected officials are doing an unbelievable job.

Gannett furloughs employees Gannet is furloughing employees at over 100 of its newspapers, according to the Washington Post. Gannett owns both The Oklahoman and the Journal Record in Oklahoma City.

Forced to take a week’s unpaid leave in April are the following people on The Oklahoman staff: Sports columnist Berry Tramel; chief photographer Doug Hoke; photographer Nate Billings; sportswriter Abby Bitterman; online editor Richard Hall; staff writer Adam Kemp; sportswriter Maddie Lee; entertainment editor Brandy McDonnell; real estate editor Richard Mize; night editor Amy Raymond; book editor Ken Raymond; staff writer Tim Willert; and sports writer Scott Wright.

I haven’t heard about the Journal Record yet. All newspapers are in trouble because many of their advertisers were forced to close.

If there are no retail and no restaurants to buy ads, there is no revenue to pay staff.

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Spring Krista Souther, Owner Krista Anne’s Boutique With the entrance of Spring comes a chorus of colors that speak of new life and joy that we all desperately need! The Pantone color of the year is "Classic Blue, a shade reminiscent of the sky at dusk." Beyond that, yellow leads the race. Hues from soft lemon to buttercream to vibrant yellow; followed by corals, soft greens and lilacs as well as earthy tones. Snow-White, now worn all year long, continues to shine as well - particularly in suiting. Tropical, polka-dot & animal motifs add to the excitement of prints on the horizon. Blazers (both fitted and boyfriend-style) are a go-to wardrobe essential that continues. Wear them over skinny white jeans, shorts, a dress or even your athleisure combo to add a layer of warmth and sophistication. In accessories, dainty layers are being passed over by collar necklaces that are making a statement. I personally love the addition of the rope belt; it can be worn high or low, over a maxi dress or with a pair of jeans to make a great finishing touch!

Samia Moses, Stylist Balliets This spring everything from raffia dresses and bags to linens, has us craving warmer weather. This trend is full of naturals like Oscar De La Renta’s Rafia Earings and earth tone belts and suedes. Speaking of tropicals, everything from dresses and pant suits to footwear is an explosion of exotic florals, birds and greens. Pair these tropicals with an accessory in cheetah or leopard print for a pop of camel. If this is too much opt for a fab pair of bright palm leaf earrings or vacation worthy floral footwear! Our favorite look for breezy style has to be the soft take on tie dye from Young Fabulous Broke and Tanya Taylor’s painterly tie dye dresses. Tie dye has reinvented itself in a chic effortless way with scarves, flowy tops, swim wear and accessories!