They are the Queens! At left: Selected as the Bishop McGuinness 2019 Homecoming Queen was Caroline Russell. Caroline was crowned by Ford Collier and last year’s junior homecoming queen, Corie Naifeh. Caroline is the daughter of Patrick and Kristin Russell of Oklahoma City. At right: Senior Cloie Mitchell was crowned Homecoming Queen at Mount Saint Mary. Those selected to the court are Freshman Attendant Hadley Moses, Sophomore Attendant Faith Irwin, Junior Attendant Katherine Gallagher and Senior Attendant Madeline Martin. Cloie is shown with senior basketball players Cedric Rollerson and Ean Heise.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 52 No. 42 • Two Sections • 16 pages February 22, 2019
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Sunbeam Home is Show House When Sunbeam Family Services began to make plans for an office move, they knew they didn’t want to sell their historic headquarters to just anyone. “We couldn’t imagine our beautiful old building being torn down and we felt we owed it to the neighborhood we called home for so long to honor the character and spirit of the area,” said CEO Jim Priest. “Everyone said, ‘Call Marva Ellard. She’ll make sure it’s done right.’” Spearheading MidTown Builders, Elllard specializes in breathing new life into historic proper-
need to know about their history. “If these buildings don’t exist, you can’t share the history of OKC by driving by an empty lot or a new building and saying, ‘this is where this important part of our past used to be.’ These buildings are vital to the social fabric of our
Oklahoma City University has new scholarships available in the Meinders School of Business and the Kramer School of Nursing. The Meinders Business Leadership Fellows Program is a prestigious opportunity for select, high-achieving, first-time, full-time freshman students entering the Meinders School of Business at OCU. The full-tuition scholarship consists of academic, departmental and Meinders Business Leadership Fellows Program and is limited to 18 scholarships per academic year. The Kramer School of Nursing at OCU recently received a gift creating the Kramer Way scholarship, which will provide $400,000 for 10 new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students and $90,000 for six new Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students over a two-year period starting in fall 2019. In addition to helping students earn their first degree, the school’s BSN program also allows those who have a degree in another field to earn a BSN in just 18 months. “The scholarship is critical because many candidates exhaust their financial assistance while earning their first degree, but this will allow them the financial ability to become a nurse,” said Lois Salmeron, dean of the Kramer School of Nursing.
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Near Wilson Elementary in the historic Mesta Park neighborhood at 620 NW 21st Street, the old Sunbeam Home is now 13 apartments. The historic property will serve as the 2019 Symphony Show House.
ties. Having transformed the vacant 1920’s era Sieber Hotel into residential units, Elllard could see the next life for the 13,000-square-foot Sunbeam property — as 13 apartments. The property is serving as the 2019 Symphony Show House. Near Wilson Elementary in the historic Mesta Park
neighborhood at 620 NW 21, the clever use of space, marriage of old-and-new materials and common area with a kitchen promises to be popular with tenants looking for something out of the ordinary. In addition to having a nice place to live, Ellard and her partner on the project, Larry LeBarre, think people
NHills voters overwhelmingly approve $28.45 million bond issue By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer All eight proposals in the $28.45 million capitalimprovements bond issue submitted to Nichols Hills
voters in a special election on Feb. 12 passed by extraordinary margins. Proposition 1, which devotes $13 million (nearly half of the bond proceeds) to reconstruct or resurface 13
streets, was endorsed by 91.16 percent of the 351 voters who cast ballots on the measure. Proposition 2, earmarking $6.55 million for the water system, including
construction of a water treatment plant, was approved by 328 of 351 voters. That measure was endorsed by the greatest amount (93.45 percent) and the widest margin (14-to-1)
of the eight proposals. Proposition 3, spending $1.6 million to repair or replace approximately 1.8 miles of sanitary sewer See BOND3, Page 3
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Britton work begins - Photo by Mike W. Ray
Mild weather recently enabled workers to make progress on excavation of the westbound lane of Britton Road between May and Pennsylvania avenues in The Village. Ultimately the entire three-lane, mile-long section of the dilapidated asphalt street will be torn out down to the dirt and rebuilt in concrete. Crossland Heavy Contractors started the $3,954,000 job in January and is expected to finish by sometime in November.