Charger Homecoming
Halloween Coloring Contest Blythe Butler is the winner of our Halloween Coloring Contest. For the runnersup and People’s Choice winners, see Page B7.
Heritage Hall Homecoming King Jacob Livesay and Queen Emory Stephenson with kindergarten assistants Reese Renegar, Coco Colton, Westley Ferguson and Abe Dunnington. For more information, plus other student news, see Page B4.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 52 No. 26 • Two Sections • 20 pages October 26, 2018
www.okcfriday.com facebook.com/okcfriday Serving affluent far north Oklahoma City, Nichols Hills and The Village for 44 years
OKCPS starting down the Path to Greatness By Rose Lane Editor
country, Casady School and its supporters completed the capital campaign in just
The Oklahoma City Public School District is conducting an online-survey as the launch of its Pathway to Greatness Project, a collaborative effort to disrupt the status quo by redesigning OKCPS for the future. A set of public meetings will follow in early November. In addition, three groups of leaders have been harnessed to work together to “reinvent” OKCPS. The plan is to have a report ready to be presented to the Board of Education in March 2019. The goal of the Pathway to Greatness Project is to align the district’s resources to provide equitable learning opportunities for all students enabling them to achieve the district’s vision of every student graduating ready to fulfill their unique purpose in a healthy, vibrant community, Superintendent Dr. Sean McDaniel said. “Trends over time show that our enrollment is declining slightly and will likely level-off in the next couple of years,” he said. “This means our share of state funding will decline, even if the overall funding level increases again.” “A comparison of the number of students we have enrolled and the amount of space in our school buildings shows that we are maintaining a lot of instructional space that we aren't using, a choice that is directing resources to facilities instead of to our students.” To accomplish this, the district is introducing the Pathway to Greatness project, which McDaniel said is the next step in the journey which began with The Great Conversation and led to the district's strategic plan, The Great Commitment. “The Pathway Project (P2G) will be informed by a thorough assessment of our facilities, a detailed demographic study and
See CASADY, Page 7
See OKCPS, Page 7
Colin FitzSimons, Casady School Board of Trustees Development Committee chairman, Nathan Sheldon, head of school, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Edward J. Konieczny ("Bishop Ed") and Eric Long, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce research economist, cut the ribbon on Casady School’s new reimagined entrance. - Photos by J. Holland Photography
Casady School extends A GRAND WELCOME Casady School’s reimagined entrance and enhanced security initiatives are designed to keep students safe, while continuing to provide and open and inviting environment for guests and visitors. The school dedicated its new Pennsylvania Avenue entrance last week. The A Grand Welcome to Casady School capital campaign features a new four-lane roundabout off the
Pennsylvania Avenue entrance, Welcome Center, art sculpture, landscaping and lighting. The school is also implementing a Visitor Management System that requires a car decal and RFID identification for vehicles that come on campus, Brook Arbeitman, Casady’s director of communication, said. With the number of school security issues which have occurred around the
The highlight of the new entrance is an Alice Aycock sculpture titled “Twister Grande.”
Oklahoma City helps keep the water flowing in The Village By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer More than a mile and a half of new water mains will be constructed in The Village. The City of Oklahoma City is replacing 9,480 linear feet of 6- and 8-inch
diameter cast-iron water mains that were installed in The Village in the 1950s and “have reached the end of their useful life,” said Jennifer McClintock, public information officer for Oklahoma City’s Utilities Department. All of the new mains will be 8-inch lines,
according to the project manager. A map provided by the city shows that the water mains to be replaced are located at: • Kerry Lane, between Northland Road and May Avenue; and, • Huntleigh Drive and
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Carlton Way, between Northland Road and Mahler Place. The OKC Water Utilities Trust awarded a contract on The Village water line replacement project Oct. 23, McClintock said. Construction is expected to start “very soon after that
(we do not have an exact start date),” she wrote. Completion of the job is anticipated by late spring or early summer of 2019 unless “significant delays” occur because of weather or other reasons, she said. See WATER, Page 3
Haynes is new NHills judge By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer An Oklahoma City attorney who is a municipal judge in six Oklahoma towns – one of them for 41 years – recently added another to his resumé. R. Stephen Haynes was appointed associate judge in Nichols Hills by the City Council on Oct. 9. He joins Kevin Krahl, who was named municipal judge on Sept. 11 to succeed Charles B. Lutz upon his retirement after 32 years of service to the community. See JUDGE, Page 3
R. STEPHEN HAYNES