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Rebels, Hippies, and Babes Carries Over to 580 Kids The Spillers Bid Farewell to Major Bean By Sheryl Ponce Pictured at the Elk City Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting are Shaylene Sikes, Susie Cupp, Kathrine Brown, Brittani and Leon Flowers, On Sept. 29th, Pat, Margy, and Mahala Spillers closed the LaDonna Thomas, manager Megan Rogers, and Brandy Coffman.; Brit- doors to Major Bean after asix-year run of serving coffee and tani Flowers and her son Leon. Courtesy photos. healthy options for breakfast and lunch customers. Their de- cision was not based on one factor, buta number of factors By Sheryl Ponce that made moving forward seem impossible to overcome. “It was a lot of little things. Employees, it is harder and Last week, Brittani Flowers took a plunge dipping into the harder to get employees. We had our core people, and then children’s market by opening 580 Kids, an extension of her 580 it was harder and harder to get employees, train them and Threads store. It is located at 212 W. Broadway, which is around then they move on. We wanted quality, committed people. I the corner from 580 Threads. have had some great people come through. But those people “Everybody kept asking us for kids’ clothes in our store. They are destined to move on to something else. It is just a differ- like our styles and want them in the kids’ clothes. So we did it. ent time now,” Margy said. had this building, using it for Good and Gather through the holi- As they looked back on their dream of opening the store, they wanted to opena quaint coffee shop with quality coffee day season. I thought, ‘Let’s flip it to retail and just give it a try’ and quality products. Those goals have never changed, nor We opened Saturday, and we had a good turnout,” Flowers said. did they want to lose. She plans on continuing the Bohemian style that she offers in “There's a lot of pieces factored in. It’s expensive if you the 580 Threads store. She will be selling newborn sizes to 14/16. want a good product, so that your margin of how much you Flowers is going to try to fill the gaps in what is already being of- bring home has gone down. I haven't looked at the exact fered in Elk City. going to have boys clothing. I’m just trying to fill a need,” she numbers, butI can tell you that our food bill has increased. “We are going to carry more of the kids’ sizes instead having added. During COVID we got really busy, and so our food bill went a lot of baby stuff. We know we have good baby/toddlers stores, up, which was fine, because we had the volume. Well, that ‘The store will be open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. backed off a little bit once COVID started easing up, but my and we will focus more on toddler and preteens. This whole area to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Megan Rogers, food bill was staying high. Then the margin what we were over here is preteens, including preteen girl jeans. We have some Clinton, is the store manager and only employee. Flowers will be boys stuff, too, But it is mainly girls or boys. We will have screen- bringing home was getting smaller. We realized we needed to printed shirts with our own graphic tees that will be unisex and working in both locations. pay people more to keep those good people that we wanted for boys. But we are going to focus on girls because The Depot is to stay. We had to pay them more money, and we want to do See 580 Kids page 2. See Major Bean page 2. Commissioners Approve the Purchase of 80 Acres By Sheryl Ponce commissioners also approved DWSRF from DW-271 Disburse- golf course because they are now using regular tap water. ment Request No. 6 in the amount of $391,398.10 for Loan P40- Ivester said that the library sold over half of the books they ‘The Elk City Commissioners met Monday, Oct. 3rd for their 200050102 ORF-22-0021-DW. This is payment on the waterline had for sale last weekend. There will be a drive through flu shots regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The agenda was short and project. Ivester said that the project is about 95 percent com- and COVID boosters at the convention center on Friday from 10 over in about 35 minutes. Mayor Nick Archer opened the meet- pleted. They went on to approve Pay App #3 for Orr Construction a.m, to2 p.m. ing with the invocation, followed by the flag salute led by Cory for the 202 Water System Improvements project for the same ‘The Arrowhead Center opened on Oct. 3rd, and it had 179 visi- Spieker. Rod Carver was absent from the meeting. budgeted amount. tors on that first day. He said they will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 ‘The group approved the minutes from the Sept. 21st meet- Next on the agenda was an item that had been tabled from p.m. without charge until the first of the year. Then the pricing ing, followed by the introduction of Ordinance No. 1274: An March 16th, June 15th, July Sth, and Sept. 6th. The commis- schedule will be voted on and instituted. They will have an of- Ordinance of the City of Elk City, Oklahoma, annexing a five- sioners again tabled the item until Nov. 7th, declaring the struc- ficial grand opening, but there are several major items that need acre tract of land in the SW % of Section 25, TL1N, R21 WIM. ture at 609 N. Jackson, Elk City, OK, to be dilapidated building to be completed prior to that date. This includes the esports soft- to the City of Elk City, Beckham County, Oklahoma, classifying detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare and ordering ware installation. the zoning thereof, classifying the Ward thereof. No action was removal of the structure. The owners were present, along with Last weekend, Ivester said that he thought there were about taken because this was an introduction to the ordinance. city inspectors, Danny McClure and Jackie Addington. Most of 1000 visitors in Elk City each day because of the flea market, ‘The purchase of an 80-acre tract of land located in $/2 W/2 the work that the city asked them to complete had been done, Kids Inc. tournaments, and the football game. He also noted that SE/4 Section 24, T11N, R21 in the amount of $480,000 was ap- and they are continuing to finish the repairs. The owners were the EMS calls and 911 calls have been up, and the old Pedro's has proved. According to City Manager Tom Ivester the opportunity encouraged to return to the Nov. 7th meeting, where it could be been torn down. to purchase the land began about two years ago. The owners were removed from the list. Ivestor commended The Way Church for the projects they going to put an RV park on the land, and then decided they would Commissioners approved the FY 22-23 recurring invoices for completed the previous Sunday, improving the city parks. May- sell it. This is an area east of the Granite Landing Apartments, Oct. 3rd, then they heard the city manager’s report. Ivester told or Archer said that Jeremy Cantrell had been instrumental in and it was originally priced at $3 million. The price was dropped the commissioners that the number of visitors at the museum those projects. Ivestor also pointed out that the Antioch Church again, and Ivester proposed the given price, and they accepted have been on the rise over the past two months. They usually see cleaned up the light house pond. it. He believes it could be an area for potential development, al- around 500 per week, and last week 579 visitors went through ‘The treasurer's report will be given at the next meeting, but though there is a gas line that runs through the property. the complex. Jennifer Rainey told the commissioners that they have start- ‘The next item on the agenda was the approval of a bid received He also told them that out of 19 sewer lagoons, seven were ed receiving the draw proceeds for the NDR, noting that the from Axtell Roofing Company for the roof repair/replacement at dry. This means that there has been no gray water to water the See Commission page 2. the Elk City Water Plant building in the amount of $83,000. The golf course. He will be installing a new pump for the well at the aT Te Weather tomorrow 88/55 Vol. 120, No. 78 75 cents, 12 pgs. Mail delivery 580.225.3000 View online elkcityoknews.com