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April 13, 2022 Classic watch the competitiveness of The other part is economic the athletes. Because the finals impact it brought to the com- were in the evening, more peo- munity. With sometimes 30 to Continued from page1. ple were able to watch the final 40 boys teams and the same events, where the best of the number of girls’ teams com- of the coaches steaks and ham-best were vying for the medals. ing into the town, staying burgers for the kids. People set “We it knew that the way we up, overnight and eating out for was to have a night- two days, the community lead- volunteered to cook and there was just a lot of effort to put it time finals. That would bring ers encouraged the coaches to together. It ran until the track more people out to watch, keep the meet going. They did, got inefficient to run on,” Bell and it did. We had the sta- until the track would not sup- remembered. dium full, from 6:30 p.m. on, port the runners. Weatherly just to watch the finals. There said that some of the teams The way the coaches set up the meet was important were some pretty awesome left the meet early because the talent there and pretty awe- track had become so hard, the to bring teams to compete, as some event marks,” Weatherly coaches could not risk injury to well as, bringing spectators to added. their athletes. Bell said that the Elk City Three years ago, Superin- Track Classic developed a tendent Rick Garrison resur- Round reputation of being one of the toughest track meets in western Oklahoma. It brought faced the track, making it vi- able once more. The problem the new athletic director, Brian some of the toughest athletes Town out to see how they would fair against other top notch com- Hunt faces is rebuilding what once was a major meet for the district and other track teams petitors. across the state. April 14 “Icame in when Joe Bell re- Shop-Hop - Participat- tired in 1991. I took it and ran “Our track classic would not have been as successful if Clipping taken from an Elk ing businesses open. late we didn’t have the local people City Daily News paper on it until I retired, so total, I did until 7 p.m., downtown re- it for 21 years. It takes so many here that love track. They will April 23rd, 1990, with the people to run. Counting the come out and work. When you caption, “John Paul Smith tail district. people you have to use, you're have Kirby McBroom, Dee Wil- carries the baton during involving around 100 people. helm, Toye Crouch, Jim and the relay competition at April 16 You have all of the field events, the recent 33-school Elk Chamber Annual Easter runners, and then you have Mike and Southard who know track love it, you can have a suc- City Track Classic held re- Egg Hunt, 1 pam. Ackley people up in a press box, sort- cessful track cently which the Big Elks Park. ing metals. Including starters only want to meet. They not and hurdle jockeys, it just goes performers, butseethey good track won, Coached by Darrel on and on. We gave five medals help make sure that the want to Greene. Staff photo by Norman The Link’s Eggstrava- track Arrington.’; Pictured are As- for first, second, third, fourth ganza 11 am. - 2 pm, and fifth. Not only did they get meet goes well,” Weatherly sistant Track Coach Taylor hotdogs, cotton candy and medals, but they got plaques. noted about the upcoming Peffer with Head Coach drinks while supplies last. At the end of the meet, there meet. Andy Peffer when they was a high point girl and high He went on to say that when a track meet is run poor- both won Nationals while Giant bounce house and games for the kids, Ackley point boy. We furnished Track ly, it will not do well, “There's on the track team at OBU. Classic caps for every worker nothing more miserable than Courtesy photo. Park (across from the car- ousel) and for every coach that came,” going into a track meet that athletic director Jim Blevins said. is run poorly. You have to sit that's our goal to try to get it and they have a bunch of star run all day. It will be a good Baseball Easter Bash Coach Greene has partici- around, and complain about back to where it used to be. It’s girls. They have one girl that is time to support the return of ‘Tournament, Elk City Five pated in every track meet since this or complain about that. just gonna take time,” Hunt going into Texas Tech. So, that an event that made history for Plex. the beginning. He worked We wanted to make sure that said, team by themselves has drawn didn’t happen with our meet.” Elk City’s track and the com- to invite teams from across ‘The current track coach is some more teams this year. If munity. Thanks to the coaches April 22, the state, Texas, and Kansas, “The track meet had been Andy Peffer. He was a competi- we can get some more teams Merritt Prom, Elk City absent for a while and we are and community members who eyeing the most competitive trying to get it going again. It tor in the original Track Classic this year, then other people see made it what it was, and to Bill teams to come to the meet. is going to take time for us to and he is not trying to help re- Convention Center, start looking at results, to see He has seen records set, and vive the event. who comes. That is when we Weatherly, Darrel Greene, and Elk City Prom, Elk City remembered some of the best build this. It may take five to “| think the biggest thing get more than next year,,” Pef- Brian Hunt who are working races. ten years to even get close to to bring it back to what it once High School Commons. “The most memorable mo- the way it used to be. When that we have to fight is, get- fer explained. they picked the date they could ting more quality teams here. ‘The Elk City Track Classic was. It is still a track meet full ment was the race between Softball Border Wars Tonya Adams from Elk City have a track meet, it was the ‘The more we can get, the more will take place on Friday, April of athletes who are working to ‘Tournament, Elk City Five and Heather Murrell from same. It took place just before that will come. We had Pan- 15 in the Big Elk Stadium. It break records and move onto Plex. Spearman, Texas for two years regionals. It was tradition, handle, Texas came last year, will start around 1la.m. and the State meet. in a row were twoof the races I Red Carpet Communiy remember. Murrell was a State state testing, you will go to the dedication and success. ‘Theatre Presents :My Fair Lady” Champion from Texas for four years in a row. She still holds the 35-year record for the 400, Performance accelerated math class. They “T'll tell you as far as the Middle School goes, it’s not will get into the math class to get them caught back up, so necessarily what we do here and Tonya Adams, as a fresh- in the office, but what’s done April 23 man, went head to head with Continued from page 1. es, both physically and socially that then we can get these kids in the Middle School. Some prepared for high school,” he ers are to be commended for in the classrooms. Our teach- Softball Border Wars her. They both ran about 55 said. Tournament, Elk City Five point something in the 400 old kids, Moran indicated that have challenges in their home In other subjects, teachers our successes, because they're Plex. meters. It was a step for step it can bea volatile situation. life and their friendships, while can set up a class period for the ones that have really, really race. Tonya actually beat her “The downside, from my of- others are challenged with the students to go to the library for worked hard this year. We put Baseball Spring Dinger the second year, but didn’t fice, is the cell phones and what number of activities they must an added activity. The teacher a lot of pressure on them, but break the record,” Greene re- they can do with them.When I juggle. Moran believes that signs up for a time slot, and they have risen to the expecta- Wood Bat Tournament. called. went to school, not everybody choices are good for this age sends kids that are ready for an Elk City Five Plex. Coach Weatherly and carried a camera around with of students. They will start enrichment activity to the li- tions and even exceeded them. them or a video recorder. Now Coach Blevins all remembered it’s an instant everything. It choosing electives, activities, brary, while the teacher works So I'm very very proud of the April 24 with students who may need staff that’s here,” Moran con- a runner from Memphis, Tex- (posting on social media) tends and sports, but the focus in his added instruction. cluded. Softball Border Wars as named Larry Jones, who to backfire, it’s just having that building is on education. The Middle School stu- Moran is married to Tournament, Elk City Five smoked his competitors in the social media presence and “Curriculum wise every- dents will be facing state test- Marisa, and they have two chil- Plex, 1600 relay. availability to them. It is tough thing is going digital now, they ing beginning April 20th. It dren Kasen and Mylee. He is “One year we had kid from at this age,” he reported. even have the textbook online. il continue over the next the son of Jerry and Jennifer Baseball Spring Dinger Memphis, Texas, he looked He continued to talk about Our students can log in, being several weeks, testing all of Moran of Elk City. He sponsors like Buddy Holly, who was a how the students struggle with able to look at the different the seventh and eighth grad- the middle school shooting Wood Bat Tournament. sprinter. We had heard about that part of technology and so- platforms. Teachers have to be ers. Moran feels confident in Elk City Five Plex. him and knew we wanted to able to assess students. They the students’ performance and sports team, which is third in cial media. They don’t seem to get him in here. He was one of understand the consequences can assign the work digitally, credits his teachers for their the Southwest Region. Red Carpet Communiy the top sprinters in Texas, and of what they post is perma- which has definitely changed. ‘Theatre Presents :My Fair Lady” so we had a lot of kids want- ing to run against him. In the nent. “At this age, to understand We're using a program right now called Mastery Connect. Margaret Moore last race of the evening, a 1600 the consequences of some of Mr. (Mike) Sparks introduced Margaret Ann Moore was relay, he was anchor leg for the things that they can post us to it this year. We do assess- born July 9th, 1962 in Elk City, Do you have an eventor Memphis. I think they were out there is hard. There are so- ments in all of our core classes. Oklahoma to Wanda Agnus something else you would behind about 20 or 30 yards cial media platforms, such as Teachers use it weekly to do (Maybaum) and Edgar Steele. when it got to him. He finished Snapchat, that they say, ‘well, assessments on the standards, She passed away Saturday, April like to share with the the race, ending up winning that goes away.’ But when you It's an instant grade, and it’s 9th, 2022 in Hobart, Oklahoma community in the Round by about 10 yards. People just send that out to hundreds and an instant feedback. The pro- at the age of 59 years and 9 Town Calendar? went nuts over stuff like that, even thousands of people in gram drops every student in a months. Email the information just because it’s so exciting,” somebody's screenshots or tracker by classes, so it is color Margaret, known by many for the event to editor@ Blevins said. somebody keeps it, it’s never coded for the teachers to see as Margie, grew up in Elk City, ecdailynews.com. ‘The great races were only whether they need to go back actually gone in the digital age. Oklahoma where she attended part of the Track Classic story. It is always out there some- and reteach something. It in- school. It was during this time where. So we are constantly dicates whether students are she began cleaning hotel rooms talking to our kids about digi- not understanding something, with her mother. After school rElkCituNews tal citizenship and safety on- or there’s some disconnect she remained in the Elk City line. Telling them how that somewhere,” he explained the area where she was married can affect them later, even in concept. and raised her family. Margie college and their career. What Each week Moran meets continued to clean rooms for OK; daughter in law, Jamie they're doing right now, on with one of the Professional Best Western Hotel among oth- Forester, Elk City, OK; 7 grand- (USPS # 173-020) their social media platforms, Learning Communities (PLC) ers. After her children gradu- children, Joseph Ramon, Kylie 580-225-3000 can be a mountain to climb. that is divided by subjects to ated high school she moved Ramsey, Chasity Ramsey, Noah Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC ‘This age kids are just not ma- look at the curriculum and to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ramsey, Lexie Forester, Da- ture enough to handle some where students are in the cur- where she continued to clean 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644-4736 of the consequences,” Moran riculum maps. They discuss the son Ramsey, Remie Forester; rooms. In the last 8 years, Mar- 6 great grandchildren; 1 sister, Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 said. assessments, and what skills gie began having some health Rose Price and husband, Dar- Although he must continu- may need to be re-taught. They issues and returned to western POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PO Box 964, Elk City, OK 73648 ally emphasize caution on the also focus on remediation and Oklahoma where she made rell Price, Sr., Elk City, OK anda subject, he loves his job and enrichment with the students. her home. She enjoyed reading host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Josh Umholtz....Publisher how it is different each day. “We have had such a learn- and studying the Bible, color- SUBSCRIPTIONS “Every day is a new day. ing loss from COVID that we ing, playing Bingo and spend- Funeral services will be Deliverd by mail: Shery! Ponee....Staff Writer Just when you think you're probably just weren’t prepared ing time with her family and held Friday, April 15th, 2022 at $75/yearly going into a routine day and for at the time. We are really friends. 10:00 AM at One Church offici- $50/six months Neva Pyatt..Adverising Director you think it is planned out, it battling to fill the gaps in that She is preceded in death by ated by Darrell Price. Burial will No refunds on subscriptions. Zadie Eakins...Advertising Director always takes a twist or a turn. learning loss. So next year at her parents; the father of her be held at Antioch Cemetery So every day you just come in the Middle School, we are go- children, David Moore, Sr; 2 in Butler, Oklahoma under the D’Ann Brasuell..Production Manager here with a smile on your face ing to offer a class called accel- sons, Jeff Forester and David direction of Chris Whinery and editor @ecdailynews.com Nahka King...SR/Delivery and a positive attitude to see erated math. 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