SPD Dispatch
Supervisor
Charged
"Pavne
Ohtest Newspaper - Since 1890"
A former dispatcher
supervisor for the
Stillwater Police
Department was arraigned
Monday on a felony
charge accusing him of
secretly recording a June
25 conversation between
three other dispatchers
about his girlfriend.
StlUwater Journal
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SPORTS
Intrasquad
Scrimmage
Saturday
The first week of
football practice for the
Perkins-Tryon Demons
will culminate with
the annual intrasquad
scrimmage Saturday night
at Mcllvain Field. It will
begin at 6 p.m.
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• Aug. 12 - P-T Schools
Rrst Day of School
• Aug. 14, 10 a.m.
- 4-H meeting, Evans Ag
Complex
• Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m. -
Perkins Lions Club meeting
hosted by Cimarron Valley
HCE
• Aug. 17, 3:30-6 p.m.
- Open house at new
Perldns-Tryon Junior High
building
• Aug 18, 7 p.m.
-AIc~ Anonyrnous
(.~) meeting, Perkins
Uons Den
• Aug. 19, noon = Perkins
Community Chamber
of Commerce meeting,
Vassar Community Center
• Aug. 20, no0n-Birthday
Luncheon, Senior Citizens
Center
• Aug. 23, 6:30 p.m.-
Perkins Lions Club meeting
• Aug. 24, 7 p.m. - Perkins
Mason~ Lodge #92
meeting, 915 E. Kirk.
• Aug 25, 7 p.m.
- Alcoholics Anonymous
(AA) meeting, Perkins
Lions Den
• Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m.
- Pertdns Planning
Commission meeting, City
Hall Annex
• Aug. 30, 6:30 p.m. -
Perkins Lions Club meeting
at Lost Creek Church
NDEX
Church .................. C3
Classifieds .......... B4-B5
Comics .................. B6
Entertainment ...... C2
Groups ................. $6
History .................. A5
Obituaries ............. A2
Opinions ........... A4, S4
People .................. A2
School ........ .. ......... A6
Seniors ................. C4
Sports ................. B1 -B3
THE JOURNAL
IIl!iJ!l!!lll!!! U ! !11 III
New buildings ready for first day of school
By Cindy Sheets
Contdbuting Writer
When riley rearmed to school
this morning for the first day
of school, Perkins-Tryon sev-
enth and eighth graders will
be stepping into brand new
classrooms.
The students wiU be the first to
enjoy the district's new junior
high school.
The 22,844 square feet building
hosts ten classrooms, including
a state -of-the-art technical edu-
cation room.
Two of the classrooms also
serve as storm "safe rooms."
The $2,943,000 project was
let for bid on March 2, 2009,
and construction started that
summer.
Almost all of the construc-
tion is now complete, with the
exception of a tittle exterior
finish work on the older junior
high building which will now
mainly serve only the ninth
grade. The district will hold an
open house of the new facility
Tuesday, Aug. 17, from 3:30
to6p.m-
The school boasts a geother-
mal HVAC system.
"The geothermal system is
top-shelf," School Superin-
tendent James Ramsey said.
"We've had it on and it's
lived up to its claim as far as
[reduced] energy cost."
The new building and part of
the old junior high building is
covered with an Exterior Insu-
lation and Finishing System
(EIFS), which also provides
a boost to energy bills in the
form of improved insulation.
Though the EIFS exterior
looks like a stucco finish, it
is actually much more effi-
cient. It uses a foam plastic
insulation that is coated with a
lightweight synthetic coating
which is waterproof.
The building also boasts a
standing seam metal roof.
The new junior high front
doors face Kenworthy Street.
The building entrance features
a vestibule whose inner doors
leading into the school will be
locked during school hours.
Visitors to the school will
enter through the administra-
tion office. This will provide
better security for the school.
The administration area.
located mainly behind the
front office, features a teacher
workroom, lounge, restrooms
and storage, as well as office
and meeting space.
Adjacent to the office is an
open school commons area
that will serve as a spot for a
variety of events, as well as a
place for students to gather.
Hallways radiate from the
commons area and lead to
classrooms.
Just down one of the halls,
students will be able to access
the new school media center,
which hosts offices and lots of
reading and studying space.
The media center also con-
tains 16 computer stations and
a recessed large screen.
The media center and all
The main entrance of the new junior high school building faces Kenworthy Street on the
north side of the building. Photos by Cindy Sheets
Gall Metcalf (right), owner of Heart & Sow Designs, Tuesday morning discusses her products
with Pat Hamilton and Kelley Sasser during the Perkins Community Chamber of Commerce's
Business Fair at the high school commons area. The event is held each year to help kick off
Perkins-Tryon School's fall semester. More than 170 P-T school staff, administrators and
instructors viewed information booths from 40 local businesses and organizations.
classrooms are also equipped
with Smart Board capabil-
ity. These interactive white
School supplies ready for students
boards allow teachers to dis-
play lessons or activities via a
computer and can be accessed
A group of volunteers Monday evening gathered at the Perkins-Tryon High School commons area to assemble supplies
for a school backpack project. Shown are (from left) Tonya Gilbert, Dec Doyle, David Orr, Brian Norton, Debbie Murlin,
Amy Petermann, Chris Petermann, Rusty Norton and Tammy Curtis.
Project organizer Amy Petermann said the effort is in response to a need that many students at all school sites have for
school supplies. Petermann said 15 filled backpacks will be distributed to each elementary school grade. Classroom sets
will be distributed to intermediate school classrooms; fourth grade will receive water paint sets, scissors and dry erase pack-
ages, fifth grade will receive planners and scissors, and sixth grade will receive planners and index cards. The intermediate
school will also receive several bags that can be distributed on an as-needed basis. The junior high and high school will
receive 90 binders with paper, folders, dividers, pens and pencils.
The supplies were purchased with funds from grant monies and donations from Eden Chapel, Payne County Bank,
Williams Foods, the Perkins Lions Club, Palmer Marler Carberry Funeral Home, Old Station Monuments & More, Perkins
Drug, Perkins Community Chamber of Commerce, the Christian Church of Perkins, Ralph's Packing Co., Frontier Realty,
and the First Baptist Church. Photo by Cindy Sheets
using touch technology, sort of
like an electronic chalkboard.
Each classroom is equipped
with two computers, and
teachers have access to two
portable computer labs,
which each contain 14 laptop
computers.
Ramsey said the school is
designed for future classroom
and kitchen/dining additions.
Outside, the school boasts a
large, paved parking lot that
extends from the old junior
high and intermediate school
buildings west to the old band
room parking lot.
'Tm really pleased with the
parking lot," Ramsey said,
noting the lot should improve
drainage in the area. 'q'his is
the area that would usually
become a pond when we'd
get heavy mill."
Ramsey noted that Kenwor-
thy Street, on the north side of
the school, was also raised and
re-paved to alleviate flooding
problems. Rainwater should
now be diverted west to the
practice field area, he added.
Over the summer, other
improvement projects on the
existing school were com-
pleted, Ramsey said.
See SCHOOL, Page A3
Vinco woman ordered to pay restitution in cruelty case
By Patti Weaver
Joumal Correspondent
In what the undersheriff
called "the worst case of
animal cruelty I've ever
seen." a Vinco woman was
placed on five years' proba-
tion Friday -- conditioned on
her not owning any domestic
pet and paying restitution for
the cost of caring for about
80 dogs and two cats seized
from her property southwest
of Perkins.
Martuan Louise Middle-
ton, 59, had been found
mentally competent to stand
trial and spent eight months
in jail before she pleaded no
contest to animal cruelty and
was released on a personal
recognizance bond pending
her sentencing.
Payne County First Assis-
tant Dislrict Attorney Tom Lee
had argued in court Friday that
that she should be given a five-
year prison term for allowing
more than 80 animals to live
in unfit conditions.
Her court-appointed
attorney, Debra Vincent,
told District Judge Donald
Worthington, "Martuan
Middleton loves animals so
much that she can't say no to
them. That's how you end up
with 84 dogs.
"One person on a limited
income couldn't take care of
all those animals," the defense
lawyer argued in asking the
judge to put her on probation.
"I think the court can under-
stand her no contest plea is
based on her belief she didn't
have the intent to do harm to
these animals.
"She was working at
WalMart at the time she was
arrested," noted the defense
lawyer, who added that Mid-
dleton had lost everything and
was now staying with a friend
in Stillwater.
Since Middleton did not
have a plea bargain regarding
her punishment, the judge held
a sentencing hearing Friday at
See CRUELTY, Page A3
