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Artist’s single-minded dream leads to successful career

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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hance Brown is an artist.

He doesn’t just make art, but his identity as an artist colors his entire world.

Brown said it is the lens through which he sees everything. Growing up in Dickson, OK, Brown was always known as an artist, and it became woven into every fiber of his being.

It all began when he was four or five years old. One of his neighborhood friends liked to draw pictures, and Brown admired the exactness of the little boy’s drawings. He would try to bring out every little detail, and Brown said he was mesmerized by it. He wanted to do that, too. His family was supportive of his fascination with art and would encourage him, but none more so than his Granny.

Granny – though not a trained artist – also loved to draw, and she and Brown would spend hours of his childhood drawing together, he said. She would show him what she knew, and in a way, she became his earliest art teacher. As he grew into a more mature artist, she was always there cheering him on until she passed away last year.

Between his friend Garrett and his Granny, Brown began to develop his identity as an artist at a very young age, he said. He had a perfect mix of artistic freedom with his family and the critique of his peers to help him evolve into the artist that he eventually became – and is still becoming.

“Even at a young age, you make an agreement, and you are tied to the art before you even know it,” Brown said. “It wasn’t even really a choice, or if it was, it was a choice that was made at a very young age.”

When he was in second grade, Brown did a drawing of Tucker’s Tower that was hung in the park ranger’s office. When he was in fourth grade, he designed an Oklahoma quilt that his aunt helped him with that brought state senators and representatives to Dickson to see it, Brown said. Anytime that anyone wanted anything related to art, they would 4 • www.adahub.com

Chance Brown poses with some of his original paintings. PHOTO BY ANGELA MARTIN

come to Brown. Then when he was in ninth grade, he took his first real art class with Leanne West, who was a highly influential part of Brown’s life. West helped him refine the technical aspects of his art while also pushing him to be better and become the artist that she knew he could be. She encouraged him and prepared him for college art classes.

When Brown came to East Central University, he said there was no question in his mind about the direction of his life. He was going to be an artist and study art. Through art, he had many opportunities he would not have otherwise had. He went to Amsterdam and Paris with one of his teachers, Kate Rivers, and several other art students.

He got to try his hand in different forms of art and push himself even further, discovering more about his art as well as himself.

When he graduated from ECU in fall 2013, Brown was able to work for the Chickasaw Nation Arts and Humanities Division as an assistant to special projects and now serves the gallery coordinator. He also teaches painting and drawing classes for the community and employees. Sometimes they are themed for certain holi-

days, sometimes they are figure drawing classes and sometimes it is for the Chickasaw Arts Academy.

Brown said his art changed tremendously since high school. At first, he was drawing a lot of album covers, friends and family.

His art was mainly focused on depicting what he saw as accurately as possible, but it changed when he got to college.

“I realized I couldn’t just regurgitate popular icons,” Brown said. “I needed to make it my own. So I tried to stay aware and let everything shape me directly and indirectly.”

His art in college was mainly focused around juxtaposition of two seemingly unlike things in order to make a complete thought, Brown said. Doing this, he would make art out of his own personal experiences. He was trying to find his own voice and identity as an artist. Brown’s work has a serpentine motion with a strong line quality. He tends to think in terms of multiculturalism, whose heritage incorporates a variety of ethnicities. His work is constantly evolving as he is trying to find his voice; it is always changing as he pursues it. Part of his voice and identity as an artist is that quest of self-discovery with all of its twists and turns – much like the serpentine quality of his artwork.

Matthew 25 Mission helping feed county’s hungry

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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ith Thanksgiving rapidly ter, soup, cereal, dry beans, approaching, many famirice, some kind of boxed lies are consumed with choices meal and a snack food, Mcregarding their holiday menu.

Farlane said. They also have Will they try new recipes? juice and sometimes some Will there be sweet potatoes, shelf-stable milk. Additional mashed potatoes or both? items depend on whatever How many pies will they make, has been donated for that and what kind? month. On average they However, some families are receive two to three tons of making other kinds of choices. food from the Food Bank Will they eat, or will their every month at a cost of children eat? Can they afford $1,000-$1,500. This allows to have three meals in a day or them to help a significant only two, one or none? number of families in Ada’s According to the Regional community. According to Food Bank of Oklahoma, 15.3 the Regional Food Bank, the percent of Pontotoc County’s amount of food in each bag Volunteers unload an 18-wheeler from the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to help stock the population – about 5,660 will provide 14-17 meals to a people – is food insecure. The shelves of families served by St. Luke Episcopal Church’s Matthew 25 Mission. family per month. While this PHOTO BY ANGELA MARTIN United States Department of does not fill the hunger gap Agriculture defines food insecurity as “the limited or uncertain completely, it does make a significant dent in it. availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or In order to keep the program running, though, Matthew 25 uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptMission depends on donations from the community – donations able ways.” of time, money and groceries. Several other organizations and To combat this problem in Ada, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church churches help with this, including First United Methodist Church, founded the Matthew 25 Mission 17 years ago. Bill Moon, who First Presbyterian Church, First Christian Church, Kerr Lab, East has been volunteering since the very beginning, said the program Central University Baseball Team, Mormon missionaries, Chickabegan when Former St. Luke’s rector Rev. John Norvell started saw Nation, classes from Ada Junior High and High School and noticing a need in the community. People were coming to the many others. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church also provides sack church to see if they could get diapers. These families were havlunches for the clients to take to their children on pickup day. ing to choose between food or basic essential needs for their On the third Wednesday of every month, the 18-wheeler truck families. He spoke to the congregation, and they put together 50 comes from the Regional Food Bank, and volunteers will unload packages of food in brown paper bags and handed them out to the truck, take the supplies inside the church and organize them. people in need.

Then the volunteers take plastic bags and start filling them with Now, they serve around 200 families per month. Their prothe groceries for the families. Volunteers can come and go accedure has changed over the years as they continue to discover cording to their schedule during that Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. what works best for the volunteers and the clients. Chief organiz- until around 11 a.m. er Suzanne McFarlane – who has also been involved with the proThe next day, food is distributed from 8 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. gram since the beginning – has developed a system where people Volunteers are needed to help pass out the food and also help will take appointment cards for the next month whenever they cart it to the clients’ vehicles. Sometimes the volunteers are clipick up their food in the current month. Of course, if a family is ents themselves, as they get their own food and then stick around new to the program, the mission can still accommodate them, but to help others.

McFarlane said the appointment system helps control the chaos McFarlane has become passionate about the Matthew 25 Misso there isn’t a line stretching around the block. sion as it continues to thrive. She said she loves helping people When people show up, they have to register and provide a proof and has developed relationships with both volunteers and clients. of address because the program is restricted to residents of Pon“I have met some really great people, and I have learned to aptotoc County, McFarlane said. If someone is homeless, however, preciate the situations that these families are in,” McFarlane said. they are still eligible to receive groceries.

“I have learned to be thankful for my own blessings. You do things Groceries are provided by donations from local businesses and like this just because it’s the right thing to do.” individuals as well as from the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

For more information about the Matthew 25 Mission, contact Every month each bag will contain at least two cans of fruit, two St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 580-332-6429 or stop by the to three cans of vegetables, canned meat products, peanut butoffice at 110 E. 17th. www.adahub.com • 5

Jerry Walker spent more than 50 years in professional baseball as a player, scout, coach, manager and front-office executive.

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Full count: Walker recalls the payoff of a five-decade pro baseball career

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rowing up in Byng, Jerry Walker loved playing baseball. He loved the fact that he could be a part of a team while also going up against another player and competing man-to-man.

He was a pitcher, and he was good. In fact, he was so good that when he graduated from Byng in 1957, he signed a contract with the Baltimore Orioles and went straight to the Major Leagues that summer.

He did not know at the time that he would spend nearly 60 years of his life involved in baseball.

Walker pitched for most of eight seasons in the Major Leagues for Baltimore, Kansas City and Cleveland. After some time in AAA, he was traded to the New York Yankees in 1966 and played with them in Spring Training, eventually spending the season with AAA affiliate. In 1967, Walker said it was evident his pitching career was over. His shoulder injury had taken its toll on him, and while it is something that today’s medicine could easily rectify, they did not have that ability in the 1960s. Yet, Walker’s career in baseball was far from over.

He took a job as a minor league pitching coach and then managed in the Yankees’ minor league system. His children were getting to the age when they didn’t want to go away in the summertime, though, so Walker asked for a scouting job so he could work from home and spend his summers there, because his family was the most important thing to him.

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scouting professional players for trades and advanced scouting for reports on the teams they would play next. Walker did this level of scouting for a couple years and then had the chance to be the co-pitching coach for the Yankees in 1981-82. Walker was recruited by the Houston Astros as their co-pitching coach, where he spent the next three seasons.

When he left the Astros, he took a job with the Detroit Tigers as a scout, heavily involved in trades and evaluation of players. He did this for a few seasons before taking the job as assistant general manager in 1992. Team owner and president Mike Ilitch asked Walker to take the job of general manager of the Tigers in 1993.

After Detroit, Walker spent a season in Toronto and was told that they had several requests for him to interview at other clubs.

He took a job in 1995 with the St. Louis Cardinals as director of player personnel and rose to the position of vice president of player personnel. This is where he met one of his long-time friends and coworkers, general manager Walt Jocketty. They worked together in St. Louis for 13 years until Jocketty was let go and Walker decided to retire.

Jocketty took a job as the general manager of the Cincinnati Reds and asked Walker to come out of retirement and join him as vice president and special assistant to the general manager. They spent six seasons working together in Cincinnati until Walker decided to eventually retire for good in 2014.

During his career, Walker worked in almost every aspect of the

game – playing, coaching, scouting and managing. However, the part he said he enjoyed the most was working as a pitching coach, because he loved helping the pitchers get better at their craft.

Walker had many achievements during his career, including being the youngest pitcher ever to start an All-Star Game. He took the mound and won the second installment of the 1959 Midsummer Classic during a brief period in which the MLB featured two All-Star Games per season. Walker also has three World Series rings – two with the Yankees from 1977 and 1978 and one with the St. Louis Cardinals from 2006. He also has an American League Championship ring with the 1976 Yankees and a National League Championship ring with the 2004 Cardinals.

One of the things he remembers most fondly is the people that he encountered during his journey. Walker said he had a chance to work with the famed George Steinbrenner of the Yankees. While working for the Yankees, he would carpool from New Jersey to the stadium every day with Yogi Berra. In Houston, he got to work closely with Nolan Ryan, and he watched firsthand Mark McGwire’s now-controversial battle with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris’s 37-year-old single-season home run record in 1998. His days were filled with hall-of-famers.

What Walker likes most about baseball, though, is that people can be involved with it and enjoy it to whatever extent they wish – whether it is the enjoyment of watching it or delving deeper into the game and trying to think about the game in the same way that those in the management positions do. Yet, the most exciting thing is being in the crowd; the mood is electric.

Walker summed up his experience by paraphrasing his old friend, Yogi Berra: “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I’ve had several of those.”

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Ada Early Childhood Center teaches character with hospital fundraiser

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any early childhood educators think about how their schools can prepare their students academically. Ada Early Childhood Center teaches these skills and more.

Their pre-k and kindergarten programs teach kids how to read, write, think critically and begin to understand the concepts behind math and science, principal Cindy Brady said. Just as important, though, is teaching the kids how to be good people and citizens. They teach them how to work together, how to make a difference and how to have empathy.

While many of its programs and fundraisers focus on these values, AECC’s Benefit for OU Children’s Hospital – “Be Thankful for Our Health” – incorporates these ideas along with a healthy dose of gratitude. The fundraiser will be held Nov. 13-17.

“The goal is to raise money and awareness but also to teach our students that together we can make a difference,” Brady said.

During the fundraiser, the students will collect spare change to bring to school – pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters – to contribute to a fund for OU Children’s Hospital, Brady said. Last year, they raised a little more than $1,000 with all the children working together.

OU Children’s Hospital is a cause close to Brady’s heart. One of her grandsons, Camden, benefited from the care at this very special facility. When he was born, he had a condition called gastroschisis.

This is a birth defect where the intestines are on the outside of the baby at birth.

They knew that Camden had this condition because of an ultrasound, so the doctors at OU Children’s Hospital took care of his mother during her prenatal care and sprung into action after delivery. He had surgery within a week of being born and was eventually sent home safe and sound.

Brady said she was very impressed with the facility. They were all very caring and even

AECC Principal Cindy Brady helps a kindergarten student in the school’s literacy park. The school will teach students the benefits of giving during a fundraiser for the OU Children’s Hospital Nov. 13-17.

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sent text messages to check up on Camden and send him birthday wishes.

When the fundraiser kicks off at AECC, Camden will be there to put a face on childhood illness, Brady said. Of course, they won’t go into the scary details about what happened – describing his ailment as “tummy troubles” – but the students can see that he is safe, sound and happy now. This also will allow them to see that if something does go wrong that doctors are there to help make them better. A representative from OU Children’s Hospital will also be there to speak with the students.

There are two main reasons why Brady is proud of this fundraiser and the work it does in her school, she said. First, it shows kids that everyone working together can make a difference. It doesn’t matter if everyone can just bring spare change. When the school puts it all together, they have done something good. Second, it gives the children an opportunity to be thankful for their own health. The children also draw pictures to send to patients at the hospital, helping to brighten their days as well. They learn to think about others, how others are feeling and also how they can help make these children’s lives a little bit better.

“We are teaching our students a culture of character and to be compassionate and proactive,” Brady said. “We teach our students to look for ways to help others.

We help direct it, but the kids embrace it and find their own ways. We want to look at all the pieces of the child, not just the academic. All these pieces have to fit together to make a whole child, and this is a big piece of it – the caring, compassionate side and wanting to help others. This fundraiser isn’t just about raising money; it is about teaching them.”

This fundraiser also gives families a way to talk about thankfulness, compassion and philanthropy, Brady said. This can open up a discussion about how children can make a difference and how families can work together and be service-oriented.

“As a parent, everything is a teachable moment,” Brady said. “You have to take that opportunity to talk to kids about being healthy and helping those who aren’t.”

The Benefit for OU Children’s Hospital gives parents and families the chance to have that discussion while doing something good for others, Brady said. In some cases, this may even lead families to find other opportunities to help those in need. www.adahub.com • 9

Benefit concert for Family Crisis Center sounds off in time for holidays

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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ocal entertainment proDomestic violence has ducers are teaming up long-term effects on a vicwith advocates for victims of tim’s mental health, physical domestic violence to stage health, productivity, earning a benefit concert to raise potential and overall finanawareness and funding for cial security, according to the Family Crisis Center in information from the Family Ada. Crisis Center – which first Doors will open at 7:30 opened its doors 36 years p.m. Dec. 2 at the Elks Lodge ago. Children involved in at 3850 Arlington St. with a these situations also often four-act lineup scheduled to deal with long-term problems rock until the midnight hour. having to do with their mental Admission is either a donawell-being. tion of $5 or an item that While it is important for all the Family Crisis Center can people in abusive relationships provide to people in its care, to get help, this is even more such as household items, significant when children are personal care items, nonperinvolved, Tynes said. Children ishable foods, clothing for who grow up watching abusive both women and children and relationships are more likely toys. to be abusers or victims later Oklahoma ranks among in life. They don’t see normal, the top five in the nation for loving relationships on a regudomestic violence, which lar basis, and abuse becomes is a shocking statistic when all they know. The best way combined with one from the to break this cycle of abuse American Psychology Asis to stop it before another sociation that estimates that generation grows up to be in three women are murdered unhealthy relationships. by their partner every day.

Tynes began as an advoWhile abusive relationships cate at Family Crisis Cencan include violent acts, ter’s shelter, she said. In the they are not limited to this. beginning, she would wonder, Emotional and psychological “Why aren’t women leaving abuse can be just as devthese abusive relationships?” astating as well as financial As her understanding grew, abuse by which the abuser her thinking evolved into stops their partner from questions like, “Why is the Emily Sconyer will be one of the musicians featured at a benefit concert for the Family Crisis in Ada abuser doing these things?” getting a job or keeping a at 8 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Elks Lodge at 3850 Arlington St. job, thus keeping the victim This change in thinking helped PHOTO BY ANGELA MARTIN financially dependent on her put the blame where it them and under their control. This is a problem that crosses all needed to go – on the abuser rather than the victim. demographics, said Bria Tynes, a Victim’s Service Specialist with People can call the Family Crisis Center and expect full conthe Family Crisis Center. fidentiality. If they aren’t ready to leave yet, they can join an “It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman,” Tynes said. education-driven support group that Tynes leads. She said this “Your race doesn’t matter. Your socioeconomic status doesn’t puts them together with other victims where they can talk openly matter. It happens to any and everyone.” about their experiences and learn about both healthy and abusive A misconception about domestic violence is that it has to be relationships. If a woman is ready to leave, the center can put from an intimate partner, but in actuality it is anyone who is abus- her up in the shelter and help her get her life back by exploring ing another person and making the victim feel unsafe, Tynes said. job, education and housing opportunities. Women are allowed to This could be a partner, but it could also be a family member or bring their kids with them, and, in fact, around 70 percent of the even a roommate who makes it difficult to feel safe at home. women at the shelter are there with their families.

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When women come to the shelter, they often have nothing, and the same goes for their children. This is one of the reasons why Jesse Whitedeer of Whitedeer Entertainment called the Family Crisis Center to propose a benefit concert. When Whitedeer was growing up, he said he knew many people who got help from the Family Crisis Center, including family members. He saw firsthand the good that the organization did for the community. He has had success doing benefit concerts for other community organizations, and with the holidays coming up, he thought that this would be the perfect time to gather donations of money and needed items for the Family Crisis Center. One of the heartbreaking aspects of these situations is that the parents who are staying at the shelter might not have any way to provide Christmas for their children, so this is one way to help make their situation a little more bearable.

“If you are one of those people who sees a domestic violence case and say that you wish you could do something, then this is a way you can directly benefit the women and children in those situations,” Whitedeer said.

The benefit concert is an all-ages show. Music begins at 8 p.m.with Emily Sconyers, The Indigos at 9 p.m., Boketto at 10 p.m. and John Bomboy and the Underscores at 11 p.m.

For more information about the benefit concert or the Family Crisis Center, check out the Facebook event “Family Crisis Center Benefit Show” or like the Family Crisis Center Facebook page.

Call the Family Crisis Center at 580-436-6648 for more information or to bring a donation.

They also have a 24/7 hotline for the shelter at 580-4363504 for anyone who needs to get out of a dangerous situation.

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