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SMALLTOWN PAPERS
217 W COTA ST
SHELTON WA g6584-2263
4 Sections
24 Pages
County
Edward Avalos says
growing on a family farm
in New Mexico taught
him valuable lessons
which affect him every
day in life and through
his job as undersecretary
for marketing and
regulatory programs for
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Avalos
made a stop in Stillwater
last week.
Stillwater Journal
Page A1
P-T Opens
Perkins-Tryon begins
the 2013 season Friday
against a foe that has been
all too familiar in recent
seasons. The Demons
will travel to Jones for a
non-district clash with the
Longhorns. The kickoff is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at
Longhorn Stadium.
Page B1
Red Dirt Roads: Leading lunch items.
You Home is the theme for The Oklahoma Blood Insti-
Perkins annual fall celebra- tute will be set up at the Per-
tion, Old Settlers Day, this kins Fire Station for a Bedlam
Saturday, Sept. 7. blood drive. Just bring your
Downtown activities get photo ID to the fire station to
started at 8 a.m. with the start participate,
of the Pistol Pete 5K and 1 There will be free pony
Mile Fun Run. Registration rides from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
opensat6:30a.m.fortherace, at223NMainStsponsoredby
which makes a loop through Cimarron Valley Real Estate.
town and ends back on Main The annual Old Settlers'
Street. Awards will be pre- Day parade starts rolling at
sented following the race. 11 a.m. Long-time Perkins
Also beginning at 8 ram., resident and school bus driver
the Sparks 10 & Under soft- Betty Story Harper has been
ball team will host breakfast chosen as this years Parade
at the Lions Den. Marshall.
Food and craft vendor booths Special seating will be
open at 9 a.m. throughout provided for senior citizens in
the downtown area. More than front of the Lions Den.
60 vendors will be providing Parade entries will be judged
everything from jewelry to as the parade progresses
craft and gift. Lots of delec- through town. Parade winners
table foods, including bever- will be announced following
ages, snackitems like popcom the parade, at approximately
and ice cream, and of course, 12:30 p.m., and trophies will
be presented at that time. can be dropped off in the bus p.m. Entertainment includes
There will be a Fill the Bus at OSD or to Frontier Realty Kids Kingdom Cheer, Jean-
School Supply Drive in honor prior to the event nie Troxel, Iowa Tribe
of Harper. Special requests Entertainment at the Main Dancers, Rhythm Alley, and
for the drive are Clomx/Lysol Street Stage, located at Main ReadySetCheer! Also, OSU
Disinfectant Wipes, Dry erase and Thomas, will be provided football game will be on big
markers, colored copy paper, before and after the parade screen.
construction paper, pencils, concluding with Jason Savory Horseshoe players are
paper towels, tissues. Items and his band in concert at 1:30 See OSD, Page A4
Harper chosen as Parade Marshall
Long-time Perkins
resident and school bus
driver Betty Story Harper
has been chosen as this
years Old Settler's Day
Parade Marshall.
In 1987, she was asked
to drive an activity bus
for the Perkins-Tryon
School system.
"Lisa was starting
college that year so I
thought the extra income
would come in handy
with college expenses,"
Harper said.
That driving assignment
led to driving a bus. route
twice a day and a shuttle
bus during the day, which
she still does today.
"I'm often asked,
'How can you stand to
drive one of those hot,
crowded, loud buses?'"
she said. "My answer is
always the same. I have
loved each and everyone
of those kids on my bus
over the years and if I can
Betty Harper aboard her bus Friday afternoon.
touch their life in some honor to be selected as
small way - the way the Parade Marshall.
people in this community "My first impulse
have touched the lives of was to say, 'No, thank
my children, then I'll be you," she added. "I
driving a bus as long as guess that's because I'm
they will let me do so, not one who seeks the
or until my last stop - public lime light and to
whichever comes first! be honest it makes me
She said it was a great See HARPER, Page A2
ALENDAR
Email lhem to
• Sep 9, 5:30 pm - Perkins
Lions Club meeting,
Perkins Uons Den
• Sep 9, 6-8:30 p,m.
- Monday Music Night,
Perkins Senior Citizens
I
Center, 114 E, Kirk I
,Sep 9, 6 p:mi Perkins [
city CommOn meeting; ]
City Hall Anne
,Sep 11.7 p.m.
coholics Anonymous
(AA) meeting, Perkins
Lions Den
,Sep 16, 5:30
meeting, Perkins Uons
Den
,Sep 16 6-8 p.m.
Monday sic Night, [
Perkins CilJzens I
Center, 114 E Kirk
• Sep 18 7 p,m,
coho, n ous I
(AA) meeting; Perkins I
Lions Den
• Sep 19 11 am-
ahoma Territorial Plaza
Trust meeting; Vassar
Community Center
NDEX
Church .................. C3
Classifieds,: ........ ,B6
Entertainment ...... C2
Farm & Ranch ....... B4
Opinions ! ........ ,. A4, S4
Public Records .... S2
car rims
By Patti Weaver rims, according to an affida-
Journal Correspondent vit by Perkins Police Officer
A Perkins woman who is Charles Danker.
on probation for drug pos- The station's service man-
session has been charged ager, RustinArdrey, saidthat
with knowingly concealing the rims were stacked behind
stolen Chevrolet aluminum his shop and he knew they
rims allegedly taken from were there around July 15,
Harris 66 Service Station the affidavit said.
in Perkins. A customer called him
Courtney Suzanne Burch, "and informed him that she
32, was arrested last week knew who stole the rims
and released on $10,000 from his shop and gave
bail, court records show. She him the name of Court-
was arraigned on the felony ney Burch," the affidavit
charge Friday and ordered to alleged.
return to court on Sept. 26 After the customer
with an attorney, claimed that "Courtney took
Burch has denied knowing the rims to a scrap yard for
anything about the stolen car money," the Perkins police
officer asked Courtney "if the affidavit said. pounds would equal five
she ever scrapped any rims An employee at Ameri- rims, the affidavit said.
before and she stated no," can Scrap in Stillwater said When Perkins Police
according to the affidavit, that on July 18, "Courtney Chief Bob Ernst and the
"Courtney stated she brought 148 lbs. of clean officer went to Burch's
used to scrap and doesn't aluminum to the scrap yard," residence to talk to her,
do it anymore. Courtney for which she received $74, "Courtney was on her cell
stated she doesn't know the affidavit alleged. The phone and was cussing
anything about any rims," employee said that 148See BURCH, Page A2
seminar em es
By Van Mitchell
Journal Staff Writer
Safety in the workplace
was the message of a
recent Central Rural Elec-
tric Cooperative seminar
in which more than 200
zon jailed on drug charg
By Patti Weaver
Journal Correspondent
An ex-convict from Per-
kins with an extensive drug
history including manufac-
turing methamphetamine at
his residence was charged
Tuesday with possession
of marijuana and public
intoxication at 19th and
Prairie Road on Aug. 28.
If convicted of his latest
drug charge, Craig Scott
Dunlap, 46, who had been
released from prison last
summer, could be given a
life sentence, court records
three separate cases for:
• possession of the prescrip-
tion drug, Alprazolam, in
Stillwater in 2006;
• drug possession with
intent to distribute, along
with possession of metham-
phetamine and marijuana, in
Stillwater in 2005;
• possession of a substance
with intent to manufacture
methamphetamine, in Still-
water in 2003.
When Dunlap was sen-
tenced in his 2009 metham-
phetamine manufacturing
case, eight years of his
Dunlap
Four years ago, Dunlap
was convicted of manufac-
turing methamphetamine at
his Perkins residence and
staking, right-of-way and between life and death. It is
line construction crew not something that we take
members attended at its lightly," Swank said.
Stillwater headquarters. The emphasis on safety
Jillianne Tebow, CREC has been amplified recently
vice-president of corpo- by the magnitude of
rate operations said due to growth CREC is currently
CREC's Customer growth experiencing because
and continued product of increased oil and gas
upgrades, it was important production throughout its
to get all working parties service area. As CREC's
together to ensure safety is system continues to grow
a top priority, in miles of line, it is also
"There is a lot of activ- growing in the number
ity in the electric world and of people working on the
safety has always been one system through the utiliza-
of our highest priorities tion of contract companies.
here at CREC," Tebow As the number of people
said. "We began com- working on CREC's
municating with all those system increases, safety
crews making sure we are awareness heightens as
all on the same page and well.
the easiest way to do that "We want to make sure
is to bring them all together all crews working on our
at one place and one time system know that we are
to get the same message." as concerned for their
CREC CEO David Swank safety as much as we are
told the attendees that concerned for the safety
show. given an eight-year prison probation was revoked in safety was of the upmost of CREC employees," said
Dunlap remains in the term -- of which he served his 2005 and 2006 drugimportance at CREC. Steve Henderson, CREC
Payne County Jail on less than three years, court cases, while the balance of "We emphasize safety vice president of loss con-
School ,, ....... ,,,i A3 [ $7,500 bond pending a court records show. his probation was revokedin to all of CREC's employ- trol. "It is our daily goal
Seniors iii.,i ..... i:ilii C4 [ appearance this week with At the time of that drug his 2003 case on which he ees and realize that for that every indiyidual work-
Sports [ an attorney, court records offense, Dunlap was already was subsequently paroled, our linemen, being safe ing on the linesgoes home
IlllJl[I !Ill[I! U!!l[ ill Illsh°w'a on probation for 20 years in DOC records show. can mean the difference See CREC, Page A2
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