Broken Arrow World Weekly Gallery April 20, 2015

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Ashanti Mack of Broken Arrow runs during the 33rd annual Owasso Ram relays track meet in Owasso on April 10. She placed first in the 300 hurdles (47.55 seconds).

Photo by Shiela Haynes

Samy Akem of Broken Arrow runs during the 33rd annual Owasso Ram relays track Korena Aills of Broken Arrow drives the ball during the Class 6A preview tournament at Indian Springs Country Club on Thursday. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

meet in Owasso on April 10. Akem earned gold in the 110 hurdles (15.20) and placed second in the 300 hurdles (41.18). Photo by Shiela Haynes

The sun sets near the intersection of North 84th Street and East Kenosha in Broken A bird rests on a wire at sundown. Photo by Donna Rennhack

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Arrow. Photo by Miles Lacy Sr.

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Angie Akers, seventh-grade world geography teacher at Oliver Middle School in Broken Arrow, talks to students about the Oklahoma City bombing on March 30.

CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World

Jacob Surber, a seventh-grader at All Saints Catholic School in Broken Arrow, accepts a trophy for winning the Tournament of Champions competition at Redlands Wisteria blooms in a Broken Arrow yard. Photo by Janice Partridge

Taylor Dobson of Broken Arrow competes in the Class 6A preview tournament at Indian Springs Country Club on Thursday. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

Community College in El Reno. Photo by Penny Patton

Shannen Stewart of Broken Arrow competes in the Class 6A preview tournament at Indian Springs Country Club on Thursday. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

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 Looking Back at Broken Arrow  Broken Arrow High School basketball player Josh Holliday (left) gets a hug from his father, John Holliday, during a signing day event at Broken Arrow High School in Broken Arrow on Wednesday. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

Wrestler Steve Allen (right) gets a hug from his father, Steve Allen, during a signing day event at Broken Arrow High School in Broken Arrow on Wednesday.

MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

Teacher Amanda Bowser of Oak Crest Elementary School receives the Teacher of the Year award

The City of Roses — When Broken

judged by local nursery manager C.R.

Arrow was founded in 1902, the town

Malone. The roses were used to decorate

was part of a treeless prairie. Early

the cemetery for Decoration Day on May

settlers began remaking the area by

30. Shortly thereafter a sign was erected

planting various trees, shrubs and

on North Main welcoming visitors to

gardens. An early favorite was the rose.

“The City of Roses and Sparkling Spring

With numerous varieties in a virtual

Water.” Articles continued to appear

rainbow of colors, the rose gardens

in the paper relating to roses, including

brightened homes and welcomed

one about a proliic rose grower named

visitors to our city and those returning

J.B. Wilson. Wilson shared his secret of

home. A 1922 newspaper article in the

mixing rotted manure in with the soil

Broken Arrow Ledger-Democrat noted

for growing rose bushes that produced

that “Perhaps no other town of its size

beautiful roses until nearly Christmas. As

in America can boast of as many rose

time marched on, the rose fell from grace

gardens as Broken Arrow.” That year the

here. In the 1980s, we even lirted with

numerous lowers were used to decorate

making the dafodil the oicial lower.

the commencement ceremony. In late

However, in recent years, the moniker

May of 1924, Broken Arrow held its

has been reclaimed and we are once

irst Rose Carnival at which Miss Katie

more the City of Roses. A stroll through

Akers was crowned the Rose Queen. In

our beautiful Rose District alludes to

addition, there was a contest for best

those early gardens and demonstrates

rose in a variety of color categories as

the beauty and versatility of the lower

well as a category for bouquets. It was

that gave the city its name.

Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society

from Superintendent of Broken Arrow Schools Jarod Mendenhall

Patty Sutton of Centennial

during the Teacher of the Year

Middle School receives the

Gala and Star Awards event at the

Beyond and Above Award

Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa on

from Superintendent of

Thursday.

Broken Arrow Schools

JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

Jarod Mendenhall during the Teacher of the Year

Teacher of the Year nominee

Gala and Star Awards at

Michael Luger (center) of

the Renaissance Hotel in

Broken Arrow Academy

Tulsa on Thursday.

poses with Superintendent of

JAMES GIBBARD/

Broken Arrow Schools Jarod

Tulsa World

Mendenhall and Cheryl Kelly, president of the Board of Education, during the Broken Arrow Teacher of the Year Gala and Star Awards.

JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

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Broken Arrow is Oklahoma’s fourth-largest city and Tulsa’s largest suburb, with an estimated population of 100,073 in 2011. It is also one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, adding more than 25,000 residents and a slew of big-box retailers since 2000. Known for quiet suburban life and short commutes to Tulsa, Broken Arrow has been named by national publications as one of the best 100 places to live, one of the 10 best places for families, one of the 25 safest cities in America and one of the most afordable suburbs in the south. A downtown revitalization efort that began in 2005 has aimed to create an arts and entertainment district centered on the city’s Main Street, and several new restaurants, a historical museum and a performing arts center have headlined the recent downtown improvements.

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