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Youth respond to Hurricane Harvey

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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n the wake of Hurricane Padre Island, Texas. After Harvey, many local individuthe disaster, Gibson said her als and organizations mobifriends in Ada wanted to check lized to provide some sort of in with her family to see if they relief. Among them, the youth were okay. They had some response was exemplified in damage, but no major losses. two particular relief efforts The local Girl Scouts knew featuring kids 4-15 years old that the Gibsons’ community working through the Ada Early had been hit hard, so they Childhood Center and the Girl asked how they could help.

Scouts.

“We learned that they were According to Fortune making packages of personal Magazine, Hurricane Harvey care items, so we collected may be one of the most costly donations from our troop hurricanes in U.S. history with members and Ada community a death toll of 50, a million members who donated both people displaced from their supplies and money,” said homes, 200,000 homes Sarah Peters, leader of Troop damaged and an estimated 1095. cost of $180 billion.

They collected and sent raIn the face of such widezors, feminine care products, spread disaster, Lolly Cole ponytail holders, hair brushes, – a kindergarten teacher at combs and body wipes among AECC – proposed that the other items requested by the students in pre-K and kindernonprofit organization, North garten collect supplies to send Local Girl Scouts along with other kids in the community organized efforts to collect items to help victims of Hurricane Harvey Padre Watch, Peters said. to schools affected in South PHOTO BY ANGELA MARTIN They spread the word among Texas. other Girl Scouts and asked “It is great for our students to know what it is like to give back,” people to share their efforts on social media so other members of Cole said. “It shows the kids that there is more than just them, the community could donate supplies. Altogether they collected and it teaches them to give back to society.” enough for two full boxes of items. Mail, Parcels, and More in Principal Cindy Brady agreed. A pre-K teacher painted the Arlington Center donated the shipping for one of the boxes and receptacle, and the school sent home a letter with students private donations covered the other box. describing the school’s plans, she said. They asked specifically for Much like the children at AECC, assisting with relief efforts socks, underwear, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and paperback also helped the Girl Scouts realize their group’s purpose, Peters books. At the end of their week-long collection period, their said. receptacle was full.

“The mission of Girl Scouts is to build girls of courage, conWhile this kind of relief effort benefits those who have been fidence and character who make the world a better place,” she through a disaster, it also benefits the children involved, Brady said.

“Identifying and responding to needs in our community and said. It provides an experience to learn and develop greater emin the larger world is central to our purpose, and it is important pathy and character. for girls to learn that they can take action now, as girls, to change “It is a way to further the seven habits to accomplish goals, and the world.

They don't have to wait for adulthood.” it is always a good idea for children to be involved in these kinds The Girl Scouts involved in this effort understood this and of service learning projects,” Brady said.

The seven habits that the faculty at AECC strives to instill in its were excited to be able to do something to help others, said Lacy students are comprised of being proactive, beginning with the end Spann, a Girl Scout in the eighth grade.

“As Girl Scouts we are supposed to be friendly and helpful, and in mind, putting first things first, thinking win-win, seeking first to it is helpful when we spent a few extra dollars or hours … (helping) understand then to be understood, sharpening the saw and synsomeone else,” Spann said. ergizing, Brady said. Having the children involved in relief efforts Seventh grader Tinley Kratky said it is the duty of Girl Scouts helped contribute to these values. “to help other people and be a sister to everyone.” Collecting Local relief efforts didn’t stop with Ada’s young children, donations to send to people in need fulfills these goals. though.

“Girl Scouts are about helping people and raising awareness of Two local chapters of Girl Scouts – Troops 1095 and 1297 – problems in our community, and then solving those problems,” consist of girls in sixth through 10th grade. September Gibson said Becca Peters, an eighth grade Girl Scout who participated in had been a member of Troop 1095 and her mother Audrey had volunteered with the Girl Scouts before moving in 2015 to North the donation drive.

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ECU men’s basketball coach ready to jump into new season

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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a Havens has spent his life around basketball.

He grew up in Stillwater but moved to Dallas when he was 15 years old, where his father worked as a basketball coach. He loved playing basketball, but even more than that, he loved watching his father develop bonds and relationships with his players; it was another kind of family.

Watching his father, Havens said he knew what he wanted to do when he got older.

He wanted to be a coach.

As an alumnus of Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Havens secured his first job as an assistant coach at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee right out of college. He then went back to Northeastern to acquire his master’s degree, after which he spent a total of 15 years as an assistant coach at University of Tulsa and Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

Four years ago, he took the head coach position at East Central University.

Havens said he loves it in Ada, especially because it is about halfway between what he considers his two hometowns in Stillwater and Dallas. What he loves even more, though, is the team that he has helped rebuild and the relationships he has developed with his staff and players.

When Havens took over at ECU, the basketball team was in need of a change, he said. They had back-to-back last place finishes and had never made a Great American Conference tournament appearance. It was a challenge he readily accepted, hoping to instill a different kind of thinking in his team and get everyone to believe that his goals were possible and achievable. It worked.

His first year as head coach, ECU men’s basketball finished third in their conference. His second year, they finished second. The last two years, they have had first place finishes, making them regular season champions. Last year, they won their conference tournament and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

That was a first in school history – ECU had never been to the NCAA Tournament.

During Haven’s four-year tenure as head coach, ECU has the winningest Division II program in the state and in the Great American Conference.

Havens said he took a twofold approach to turning around the basketball program.

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First, he tried to get some good recruits who would fit well with the program and his vision. They needed to be good players but also hard workers who were committed to being good student athletes. They needed to be able to put in the work, but also represent the program well both on and off the court. Second, he needed to change the culture and thought processes surrounding sports. For Havens, it is more about the process than the end product.

“Let’s be better at the end of practice than we are right now,” Havens said. “The winning is a byproduct of doing things right, but you can achieve great things when you have guys who are committed to each other and hold each other accountable.”

These are lessons that Havens said he hopes his players apply beyond the court as well.

“Whether they are on the court, in the classroom or in the community, we expect them to do their best,” he said. “We aren’t just producing good players, we are producing great men who will be great employees, fathers and husbands.”

Havens said he takes a personal interest in the lives and futures of his players because they aren’t just players. They are family.

Though four of his starters graduated last year, Havens and his assistant coach,

Aaron Hill, are both excited to see what the new recruits can accomplish, along with their five returning players. Even though many players are new, the coaches said they came into the program knowing that expectations are high. They want to continue achieving greater things than they have already accomplished.

ECU men’s basketball’s first exhibition game will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Lloyd Noble Center in on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The team’s first home game will be against Arkansas Tech at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16. Their full schedule can be found on ECUTigers.com. More information can be found on Facebook under East Central University Men’s Basketball or on Twitter and Instagram @ ECUTigersMBB. Havens said he hopes that many people in the community will come out to support the basketball team and see what they accomplish this year.

“I love the challenge of competition,” Havens said. “I am excited to see what this group can do, especially since we are counting on a lot of newcomers. We have been at the top for the past two years and have built the program. So now we have to see how we are going to fare against others, how we are going to compete and how we are going to hold each other to that high standard.” www.adahub.com • 5

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Cornerstone Kids’ Ranch pumpkin patch grown out of love for children

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ow that all has come and October is here, it is time for all things pumpkin – pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin pie and pumpkin patches.

Cornerstone Kids’ Ranch will host a pumpkin patch Oct. 4-Nov. 3 full of activities geared toward fun for the whole family.

Having welcomed more than 13,000 visitors last year, their hours have extended from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays – with closing time at 5 p.m. Oct. 19-20 to celebrate fall break – along with 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Sundays.

The Cornerstone Kids’ Ranch staff tries to ensure that a variety of activities are available for all the kids and their families to enjoy so visitors’ experiences are memorable and enjoyable, said Dean Stone, founder and operator of the ranch. They have hayrides, train rides, a hay bale castle, an indoor hay bale maze, inflatable games, carnival games, duck races, petting farm, diamond dig, pedal car racetrack, playground, concessions and picnic areas for families to enjoy a leisurely lunch in a picturesque setting. On weekends, they also have pony rides.

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After fully exploring and experiencing all the fun games and activities, visitors can take a hayride to the pumpkin patches where they can choose their own pumpkin, Stone said. On weekdays, they choose from the “pie pumpkin patch” featuring selections between two and five pounds. On weekends, visitors can choose from the “jack-o-lantern patch” where some of the pumpkins weigh as much as 20 pounds. The pumpkin and all activities are included in the price of admission.

While the pumpkin patch has become a fall tradition for many families, Stone said he did not initially intend to be the owner and operator of one. He had been a children’s pastor all of his career.

It is what he had always done and what was most important to him. He served as the executive director for the International Network of Children’s Ministry based in Colorado. This was a fast-growing Christian organization that trained people of all denominations to minister to children. After a while, however, Stone wanted to return home to the Ada area.

Stone said he wanted to build an outdoor setting where he

could combine his two greatest passions: love of country, farming and natural resources and a true love and appreciation for children.

“I believe that the vast majority of faithbelieving people begin that relationship and faith in the first 14 years of life,” Stone said. “Ninety percent of our core values that we die with are already in place by age 14. We have to understand that children are infinitely valuable – everyone is infinitely valuable – and when they step on this property you love them and let them know that they are important.”

When he and his wife Lisa first acquired their property and began fixing it up, he was the children’s pastor at Crosspointe Church in Norman. He said he would bring the kids down to his farm, and they would have fun activities. Since then, it has grown. In the summer he hosts “Ranch Camp” for kids that features outdoor activities, including

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Cornerstone Kids’ Ranch also hosts birthday parties and events throughout the year, Stone said. What began as a small enterprise continues to grow. He would eventually like to add a large multipurpose building with a cafeteria and dormitories in the future.

The pumpkin patch grew out of his ministry when his aunt suggested he grow a small patch of pumpkins, Stone said.

While the irrigation on his farm is not sufficient to grow pumpkins, it did give Stone and his wife the idea to buy pumpkins, set up pumpkin patches and provide a fun fall activity for families.

For more information, visit their website, www.kidsranchok.com or call 405-250-3214. The ranch is located at 11960 County Road 3536 near Ada.

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Actor focuses on the heart behind ‘The Elephant Man’

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he Ada community will have a chance to see performances of way he thinks about this character.

Bernard Pomerance’s “The Elephant Man” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. “My life isn’t perfect, but I have both my parents who have 16-18 in the Chalmers Herman Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford shown me affection my whole life,” Newcomer said. “I’ve had Fine Arts Center on the campus of East Central University. relative stability my whole life. I’ve never had to do physical labor “The Elephant Man” is the senior project of local actor and or starve. I have never experienced any kind of stigma that would student, Philip Robert Newcomer. It tells the story of John Mergive me any idea of what it would be like to be gawked at the rick, a man in Victorian England who had multiple diseases and whole time and be seen as less than human.” deformities that severely impacted his quality of life. HistoriOne of the things that Newcomer said he is most nervous cal accounts show that Merrick was actually born as a seemingly about is the fact that he has to perform a good amount of the healthy baby, but his multiple congenital play while wearing nothing but a cloth conditions started to develop a few years adult diaper. after birth.

“I am a fairly hefty gentleman, but Merrick’s skin started to thicken and here is this guy that was taken around lumps started to appear. A bony growth from town to town to be put on display,” appeared on his head, one of his arms Newcomer said. “If I am uncomfortable and both of his feet. They enlarged to wearing a cloth diaper in public, how must the point where he could no longer wear Merrick have felt?” shoes. He also suffered a fall during his This role has challenged Newcomer as childhood that left him lame. an actor but also as a person. He said it While his mother loved him and cared drove him to deeper levels of empathy as for him, she died when he was 11 years he confronted the character of Merrick. old. His father remarried, and his new One of the most challenging things stepmother saw Merrick as a burden, about the play, however, is the possible according to historical accounts. He ran danger it could pose to the actor poraway and joined the workhouse doing traying Merrick. Pomerance wrote in the hard manual labor. At age 22, Merrick foreword to his play, “No one with any had enough of the workhouse and joined history of back trouble should attempt a traveling freak show as The Elephant the part of Merrick as contorted. AnyMan. one playing the part of Merrick should be Merrick met a successful surgeon advised to consult a physician about the named Frederick Treves, who examined problems of sustaining any unnatural or him and invited him to London Hospital, twisted position.” but Merrick refused and instead chose to Because of this, Newcomer said he has continue his life traveling with the freak been in consultation with doctors as well show. When his managers robbed him of Philip Robert Newcomer rehearses a scene for the upcoming as dancers so he can learn how to move production of “The Elephant Man” taking the stage Nov. 16-18 at everything in Belgium, Merrick had to in a way that will keep his body safe. the Chalmers Herman Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts find his way back to London.

Though Merrick was severely disfigured, Center at East Central University PHOTO BY GINA SMITH it is performed without any prostheses “When he arrived in London, he was dehydrated, starved and could barely or makeup. Instead, the actor physically speak,” Newcomer said. “They found changes his own body, contorting into Treves’ information in his pocket, and that is how he made his way uncomfortable positions that mimic Merrick’s disfigurements. back to the London Hospital.”

There are many things that make this role an ambitious one. In Despite all the physical and emotional turmoil that Merrick order to perform it in a respectful manner and honor the legacy endured, he remained full of kindness with a gentle spirit, Newof Merrick, Newcomer said he has had to do extensive research comer said. into the man’s history and psychology. He has to put himself The play begins at the end of Merrick’s traveling days. Because physically, mentally and emotionally in the shoes of someone else of this, one of the challenges Newcomer said he had with this who could not even wear shoes. character was doing extensive research on the history of Merrick Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for senior citizens and non-ECU so he could get into the psychology of a man with which he had Students. ECU Alumni receive a $1 discount, and it is free for all little in common. The play begins when Merrick is 23 years old ECU students, faculty and staff with an ECU ID. Grades 7-12 are and ends when he is 27. Newcomer is 24, and that impacts the $7, and children 5 and under are $5. www.adahub.com • 9

CASA executive director Gwen Gjovig, right, works with a staff of mostly volunteers to help create stability for children removed from abusive situations.

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CASA gives abused children a voice

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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he efforts of an advocacy group has had such an impact on helping abused children that it has seen its local budget grow nearly 40 times the size it was 17 years ago.

The 22nd Judicial District Court Appointed Special Advocates – also known as CASA – was created to serve the needs of children removed from abusive situations. When a child is ripped from their home because of abuse or neglect, they lose their home, their stability and sometimes, their family. Gwen Gjovig, executive director of CASA in Ada, began leading the organization in 2000 with a budget of $5,000, which has since grown to around $200,000 a year through grants, fundraising and donations. And with more money, they are able to help more children.

CASA members operate differently than an attorney or a DHS worker, though they do all work together, sharing information and working toward the best outcome for the child, Gjovig said. Her advocates work with the sole purpose of the child’s best interests in mind, trying to make sure that the child is taken care of and placed in the 10 • www.adahub.com

best situation. They strive to help the child find permanency and stability in their lives as soon as possible, whether that is reunification with their families or adoption.

It can be emotionally challenging work, though infinitely rewarding.

“We don’t want them to languish in foster care forever,” Gjovig said. “In one case, a child had been in foster care for 11 years and had 52 different placements in between foster families, hospitals and youth shelters. This can cause attachment and separation disorders. When a child is moved, they lose everything – friends, family, schools, counselors. Everything changes for them.”

This is one of the reasons why CASA workers are valuable, Gjovig said. They try to work for the child to make sure they have stability and certainty in their lives.

When a CASA worker is on a particular case advocating for a child, it can lead to shorter turnaround time, and the case is out of the system quicker, resulting in a better life for the children.

Just last year, CASA served about 75 local children, which is only half of all the children currently involved in Pontotoc

County child welfare, Gjovig said. This is one of the reasons why they need more volunteers. At CASA, the great majority of the work is done on a volunteer basis. They primarily recruit and train volunteers who become officers of the court. The volunteers go through 40 hours of training, including courtroom procedures, understanding how DHS services work, different ways to advocate for a child and how to communicate effectively with children and families. Three hours of their training involves courtroom observation, after which, they are sworn in as officers of the court.

After they are sworn in, they are given a case and a child or children for whom to advocate.

CASA workers do a lot of the same things that DHS workers do, Gjovig said, but they are independent from that state organization. This provides another set of eyes and ears in the child’s life, and their only interest is making sure that the child has the best possible life. Another benefit to having a CASA is stability for the child.

“These children may get three or four different case workers, a couple different attorneys, different placements, but they

will only have one CASA (representative), and that provides a constant in their lives,” Gjovig said.

These volunteers have contact with the child a minimum of twice a month, though many see the child more often than that, Gjovig said. They talk to the child’s teachers and have releases to speak with doctors and counselors. They talk to foster parents and the biological parents, if they are able. This helps provide a better understanding of a child’s situation and helps the CASA worker make an informed recommendation to the court about what is in the child’s best interest.

“Most of us who are involved have children of our own,” Gjovig said. “We advocate for our own children every day, but some of these kids don’t have anyone to advocate for them. The child is going to have a voice, and we are going to be that voice. Volunteers ensure that these children are not going to be left behind.”

In addition to needing volunteers, CASA always welcomes monetary donations as well as donations of material items children can use like teddy bears. For more information, visit their website adacasa.org. Donations can be made from the website or mailed to their physical address at 514 E. 10th St., Ada, OK 74820.

Their annual fundraiser, Country Roads, will start at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Elks Lodge at 3850 Arlington. The dinner and silent auction is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. with a live auction at 7:30 p.m. and music and dancing at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 per adult and $15 per child. CASA is currently accepting donations of items and services for the auction, and all proceeds will benefit abused and neglected children in Pontotoc County. For more information, to purchase tickets or to make a donation toward the auction, call 580-332-1441.

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