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Serving Western Oklahoma Since 1901 Weekend Edition How to Cook a Turkey Tuesday's edition of The Elk City News will feature Four Elk City High School local third graders’ drawings of how they would cook a turkey, complete with their recipes and other recipes. United Supermarket of Elk City agreed to donate a tur- key that would be given away to one of the participat- students make AllS tate a ing kids by random drawing. See the kids' drawings and Elk City High School | rr recipes in the Tuesday edition of The Elk City News. students Britney Reyna, Cade DeWitt, Hannah White and Francisco Quezada were named to the Oklahoma Music Educators Association } High School All State ILY 6 -1T1 P M LIGHTS ON DA ES %. Chorus organization. FR EE W E E K E N D AC TI VI TI Submitted photo from Elk City High School. SGIVING | =A D FOLLOWING THANK‘ | # CHRISTMAS WEY WEEKEND BEFORE DES F * DOUBLE-DECKER BUS RI By Don Munsch, Editor of like a letterman jacket. HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE RIDES It’s exciting to get a jacket, Francisco Quezada said. “T wasn’t expecting it, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime op- Four Elk City High School students were named to the portunity for me and it was beyond belief,” said White, a at Oklahoma Music Educators Association High School All sophomore. «? CAROUSEL RIDES State Chorus organization. “This is my fourth year making All-State, and I go through “+ MINIATURE TRAIN RIDES Britney Reyna (treble choir), Cade DeWitt, Hannah White the same thing every year: the anticipation, the waiting and and Quezada earned the All-State. Justin Ediger, choir co- then finally finding out, that relief,” said DeWitt, a sopho- HOT CHOCOLATE director at ECHS, said in an email these students have been more. working on music since July and have gone through two sep- “Tt was nerve-wracking, because last year, I got alternate VISIT WITH SANTA CLAUS arate auditions to earn a spot in one of the two choirs (mixed and didn’t make it — I made it but not all the way; I was choir and treble) that will perform in Tulsa at the Tulsa Per- alternate — and my hard work finally paid off, I guess,” said 2 SANTA’S GIFT SHOPPE forming Arts Center in January as a part of the Oklahoma Quezada, a senior, “I was happy I made it this year instead Music Educators Association’s Winter Conference. of just being an alternate.” Lots of holiday lights, hot cocoa and good times Students who spoke to the News were excited about re- in order to qualify for Tulsa, will welcome family, friends and visitors to the an- ceiving All-State. Students receive an All-State jacket, sort See All-state page 2. nual Elk City Christmas in the Park. Visitors can Former motel building to be demolished drive through the park and view the light displays every night from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. beginning Nov. 29 and continuing through New Year’s Eve, ac- cording to the Elk City Chamber of Commerce. And By Don Munsch, Editor Manager Lee Litterell said Meacham contacted him and told You can book it: A former motel on Route 66 in Elk City him he thought the commission would vote in support of de- then “extra-special activities” will take place every will be demolished. molition of the property. The cost of a demolition would run Friday and Saturday night through Dec. 21 from 6 The Elk City City Commission approved removal ofthe between $150,000-$250,000, Litterell said. p.m to 9 p.m., the chamber said. Staff photo by Don abandoned motel at its meeting Wednesday afternoon. Also, The motel closed four years ago this month, and the build- Munsch. the city will explore its option concerning the value of a lien ing and its parking lot area have become run down. A city after the demolition job has been conducted and the line has document described the building as being in a deteriorated, Minister retiring after been filed. The commission in its motion declared the former motel substandard state. The building was once a Travelodge that eventually became a Motor Lodge. years behind pulpit building to at 2500 E. Highway 66 to be a dilapidated struc- “This property is a real eyesore,” commissioner Jeff Jack- ture detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. son said Wednesday, adding that it was not secure and was Commissioners discussed the motel building at their Oct. a hazard. j 7 meeting and decided to provide more time for city leaders Commissioner Rick Shelton said he thought someone to meet with building owners about the disposition of the would get hurt on the property eventually. building. Litterell said the city would incur some costs on the de- Ryan Meacham, attorney for the building’s owners, was molition. “We can adjust the budgets a little bit to make it not present at the Wednesday meeting, and Elk City City work,” he said. Parkinson’s support group begins at Baptist Village By Don Munsch, Editor Nearly 20 people attended the first Parkinson’s disease Dale Royal, sitting in his office at Pioneer and Bell support group meeting last week at Baptist Village of Elk Church of Christ in Elk City, will retire soon from City, located adjacent to First Baptist Church in Elk City. preaching at the church. Staff photo by Don Munsch. Support group meetings will be held the second Thursday By Don Munsch, Editor of each month at 5:30 p.m. and they are free and open to the Dale Royal is leaving the pulpit. public. Royal, preacher at Pioneer and Bell Church of Christ in At the meeting on Nov. 14, Wendy Mobley, director of Elk City, will soon be retiring from the church after having support at the Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma who is been there for four decades. based in Oklahoma City, gave an overview of Parkinson’s He put in a 90-day notice in late October and said every- Disease, or PD, and provided data. One million Americans thing is up in the air as far as his delivering last sermon at the live with PD, and 60,000 people are diagnosed each year, church. He will still attend the church after his last sermon. according to a Parkinson Foundation handout. More than Born in Minnesota, he grew up in his early years in the 10,000 Oklahomans have PD. Dakotas but spent his teen years in Michigan. His father’s Vickie Byerly, LPN who is on the health services team side of the family was from Iowa and his mother’s side was at Baptist Village, said in an interview Monday concerning Ve from Michigan. Dale Royal moved to Michigan in 1937. He the beginnings of the support group that a resident at Baptist Ry never graduated from high school. Village wanted to learn more about his disease process. “However, I have four college degrees,” he said, laughing. “And he had talked to me about it, and I did some research Wendy Mobley, director of support at the Parkin- Royal, who turned 90 in June, joined the Navy when he was and then it was kind of laid on my heart and I thought about son Foundation of Oklahoma, talks to people at a 17, in 1946, and after getting out of the service, he went to it for a weekend, and I thought this is what I need to do,” support meeting Nov. 14 at Baptist Village of Elk college on the GI Bill and attended Florida Christian City. Staff photo by Don Munsch. See Support page 2. Sce Retiring pave 2. uum Weather tomorrow 56 / 30 Vol. 117, No. 94 75 cents, 10 pgs. Mail delivery 580.225.3000 View online elkcityoknews.com