Broken Arrow World Weekly Gallery Feb. 16, 2015

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The Sequoyah Middle School choir performs at the Performing Arts Center in Broken Arrow on Thursday. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

The Our Lady of Sorrows convent sits vacant in Broken Arrow on Feb. 6. The structure is scheduled for demolition. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

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Fifth-grade students pack into the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center for Fine Arts Recruitment, where students can observe every facet of programs, including band, drama, choir and orchestra. Photo by Adam J. Foreman

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Jill Donovan (left) of Rustic Cuf and Lisa Riley of Pinot’s Palette appear at the Broken Arrow Chamber Awards. Photo by Diane White

Christine Joseph, owner of the Nouveau Atelier de Chocolat, makes a chocolate bird

Clint Emerson of Emerson Orthodontics, winner of the Best Small Business award, appears at the Broken Arrow Chamber awards dinner. Photo by Diane White

Store manager Michelle Turner makes white chocolate-covered marshmallows at

box at her Belgian chocolate shop in Broken Arrow on Feb. 6 in preparation for Valen-

Nouveau Atelier de Chocolat in Broken Arrow on Feb. 6 in preparation for Valentine’s

tine’s Day. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

Day. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

Broken Arrow High School baseball players Grant Morris (left) and Jesse Gall auction of a quilt donated by Laura Dobson during the 11th annual Broken Arrow beneit auction that raises money for the school’s baseball program. The Jan. 16 event raised a little more than $30,000. Courtesy

The Sequoyah Middle School choir performs at the Performing Arts Center in Broken Arrow on Thursday. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

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 Looking Back at Broken Arrow  White Church and Cemetery (west

couples who wanted to get married had

side of 129th East Avenue south of 121st

to go before the Rev. Perryman in Broken

Street) — In 1875, the White Church

Arrow because there was no one in Tulsa

was the irst church building constructed

with the authority to perform marriages.

in Broken Arrow. The Rev. Loughridge

The White Church remained under the

preached there for a few years before he

Presbytery of Tulsa until it was sold in

was made superintendent of the Wealaka

1928. It has been used as a community

Mission near the present-day town of

church since that time.

The above information came from the

Leonard.

The White Church was originally called book “Broken Arrow: The First Hundred the Loughridge Memorial Presbyterian

Years,” written by Steven L. Stapleton. A

Church, and it was the irst organized

question we are often asked at the Broken

Presbyterian church in Tulsa County. Just

Arrow Historical Society is “Why is this

to the north of the church is the four-

church called the White Church?” The

acre White Church Cemetery, which was

answer is simple. It was due to the color it

known as the Broken Arrow Cemetery

was painted. At that point in our history, it

when it was established. (It is also

was not common to see painted buildings.

Another question we are asked is “Who

sometimes referred to as the Loughridge

is buried in the cemetery?” The cemetery

Cemetery.)

After the Rev. Loughridge left Broken Nicole Pride of Tulsa and her iance, Cory Conner, of Broken Arrow attend a “Forever for Real” relationship education workshop at the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa on

contains the graves of several of our

Arrow, Thomas Ward Perryman became

prominent Native American families and

pastor of the White Church. Tulsa

early white settlers to our community.

Feb. 7. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society

Broken Arrow’s Jalise

Bixby’s Karlie Owens

Smallwood shoots over

(right) and Broken Ar-

Bixby’s Ainsly Wolinbarg-

row’s Aysia Evans ight

er during a girls basket-

for the ball during a girls

ball game at Bixby High

basketball game at Bixby

School on Tuesday.

High School on Tuesday.

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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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