Off to Nationals
Red Tie Night Meghan Spears and Virginia Hefner peruse the silent auction items during the 27th Annual Red Tie Night, benefiting the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund. Page B1
Bishop McGuinness’ Jacob Marino and coach Brett Young celebrate at the District Speech and Debate Tournament. Jacob will represent Oklahoma at the national tournament. For more student news, see Page 7.
OKC FRIDAY Vol. 52 No. 46 • Two Sections • 18 Pages March 22, 2019
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Britton contingency plan has its own contingency plan
Honoring the Keatings Cathy and Frank Keating’s grandchildren join them in celebrating their recognition as the honorary co-chairmen of the Allied Arts Campaign. From left: top row, Cathy Keating, Will Leonard, Catie Leonard, Mary Katherine Keating and Frank Keating; and bottom row, Frankie Keating, Matthew Leonard, Callie Keating and Mary Frances Leonard. For more on the event, see Page 2.
Traffic and trash affected by project while water and cable lines alter work By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Boy Scouts to laud Sias The Last Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America is honoring Dick Sias with the 2019 E.C. Joullian Distinguished Citizen Award during a Tuesday ceremony. The event is set to take place at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel beginning with a 6 p.m. reception, followed by a 7 p.m. dinner. More than 400 guests are
expected to be present to honor Sias. Robert Henry, Mike Joseph and Pastor Trevor Smith will each have a role in the program. Nearly 100 Boy Scouts are also presenting displays of the Scouting experience and will conduct a patriotic flag presentation. For more information, visit www.scoutingrocks.tv.
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Contingency plans sometimes need a contingency plan, as the City of The Village has discovered on its $3.95 million project to rebuild Britton Road between May and Pennsylvania avenues. Virtually the entire milelong westbound lane of Britton Road has been torn out in preparation for reconstruction and traffic is currently reduced to one direction: eastbound. Consequently, traffic on the north side of Britton has been disrupted. According to
City Manager Bruce Stone, some impatient motorists have simply driven through their neighbors’ yards. The city’s trash collection service has been affected too. While construction is under way, The Village Public Works employees are rolling 90-gallon trash carts from residences in the area to the tennis courts at Harrison Park near Oxford Way, Stone said. After the carts are emptied by contractor Waste Connections, city workers roll the carts back to their proper locations. See BRITTON, Page 3
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City buries electric line proposal By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer A suggestion that overhead electric lines in Nichols Hills should instead be buried was examined but shelved. “This idea has popped up several times in the past 10 years,” Mayor Peter Hoffman said. “We can’t afford to do it right now, but it is good to continue thinking about it and revisiting the issue from time to time.” “It’s something to think about,” but the project would be too expensive to undertake right
now, said Councilwoman Sody Clements. Engineering costs alone for a project to bury all overhead power lines in Nichols Hills might run $1 million to $2 million, said Pat Lewis, OG&E’s community affairs manager for Nichols Hills and other area communities. “Undergrounding” all power lines in the community would cost perhaps $25 million to $30 million, Richard Cornelison, a Nichols Hills resident who is an
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