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Sapulpa Daily
Thursday, Nov. 4,2004
Sunday $1 / Daily 50c
Scripture
thought:
Wherefore seeing we also
are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us
run with patience the race that is
set before us.”
— Hebrews 12:1
It’s your day
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY to
Brooke Mondier. 14 and Phyllis
Slater
If you want to with someone a
happy birthday or anniversary, call
224-5185 Ext 200 by 9 am
Monday through Friday and by 4
p.m. on Friday for the weekend.
Birthday wishes may also be sent
by e-mail at
lifestyles@sapulpadaHyherald.oom.
Incidentally
The Sapulpa Salvation Army will
accept applications for Christmas
assistance from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
through Friday with additional
evening hours Friday from 5 to 8 at
1721 S. Hickory. They will accept
applications in Bristow from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. today at 1110 S. Chestnut.
For information about what docu-
ments to bring, call 224-4415.
The Sapulpa Football Team's
Friday night game has been moved
to Star Spencer High School, in
Oklahoma City.
The Sapulpa Senior Center is
having their annual craft show from
5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 4
p.m Saturday at the Sapulpa
Senior Center, 803 S. Bixby.
There will be a grocery bingo
Friday at the Sapulpa Indian Center
at 1020 N. Brown. Concession be-
gins at 5 p.m.'and bingo starts at 7.
Community Care of Sapulpa will
have a clothing give away from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 12 W.
Burnham.
Praise Center Ministries will
have a holiday bazaar from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m Saturday at 5672 Highway
117 in Sapulpa There will be
Christmas gifts. Christmas decora-
tions. candles, jewelry, collectibles
and much more.
There will be a garage sale from
8 a.m to 2 p.m Saturday at 715 S.
Lexington Road to raise money for
a heart transplant for 25-year-old
Johanna Wheeler. The proceeds
will go into a special savings ac-
count at BancFirst through the
Healing Hearts Foundation.
Creek Nation Head Start, 8601
S. Union, will have a Indian taco
meal from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There will adult bingo and a kids’
carnival starting at 4 p.m.
Freedom's fall carnival this year
is themed “Freedom Fighters” and
children can dress in their favorite
military or public service attire. The
carnival is from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Friday
at Freedom Elementary School.
There will be an arts and crafts
fair from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
at 1020 N. Brown.
The Sapulpa downtown holiday
open house is from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Saturday. The annual Jingle
Bell Sweepstakes is Saturday
through Dec. 10.
The United Methodist Women's
fall craft bazaar is from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday at the First United
Methodist Church, 1401 E. Taft. AH
proceeds benefit local, regional and
state United Methodist Women's
missions.
There will be a tutor training
from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in
Frank Hall of the Bartlett-Collins
Sapulpa Public Library. Cal Creek
County Literacy for more informa-
tion at 224-9647.
Vol. 90/No. 45,10 Pages
You may already be a winner
Jingle Bell Sweepstakes returns to Sapulpa for sixth exciting year
By MATTHEW BROADDUS
Herald Managing Editor
Tami Fleak and her friends loaded
grocery sack after grocery sack into their
cars, then they fanned out across the city
to deliver them to local stores.
They weren't returning groceries, but
instead, delivering Jingle Bell
Sweepstakes tickets.
For the sixth year, Sapulpa Main
Street and local merchants are giving
Sapulpa shoppers a chance to win
$10,000.
The sweepstakes gets under way
Saturday with the Downtown Holiday
Open House.
Businesses will have in-store specials
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday.
The $10,000 drawing will i>
be held at I p.m. Dec. 11 at
the Creek County
Courthouse parking lot.
The annual open house
spotlights local merchants
and offers shoppers a chance
to see what's available for the
Thanksgiving and Christmas
seasons.
"It also will be a great time to start col-
lecting Jingle Bell tickets.” Fleak. the di-
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rector of Sapulpa Main Street, said.
She said Sapulpa retailers have mer-
chandise that cannot be found
anywhere but Sapulpa.
“The idea is to show people
they can do their shopping in
Sapulpa first.” she said. “There
are plenty of gift items and sea-
sonal merchandise, decorations
i and specialty things for people
right here in Sapulpa. You don’t
have to go somewhere else."
Merchants will hand out Jingle
tickets throughout the month of
and the first week of
Bell
November
December.
Each merchant can choose their ow n
way to give out tickets.
"The idea is to give out as many tick-
ets as possible," Fleak said.
The sweepstakes encourages shopping
in Sapulpa and helps grow the economy.
To celebrate the sixth anniversary of
Jingle Bell, six $1,000 prizes will be giv-
en away in addition to the $10,000 prize.
For every silver sponsor, there will be
a $100 drawing each day prior to Dec 11.
The winning number will be published
every day in the Sapulpa Herald.
“It is great for business, our communi-
ty and our economy." she said.
Matthew Broaddus 224-5185 Ext. 206
editor@sapulpadailyherald.com
Couple face
child neglect
charges
By SARA PLUMMER
Herald StafT Writer
The Creek County Sheriff's
Department made a few arrests
Tuesday.
Deputy Joseph Thompson
said in an affidavit that he was
dispatched to a residence in the
21000 block of South 417th
West Avenue near Bristow to
assist a child welfare employee.
Mati Garcia, with an alleged
child abuse investigation con-
cerning three children.
Thompson said when he ar-
rived at the residence he con-
tacted Christine Haulcomb and
asked for Justin Haulcomb.
Christine Haulcomb told him
he wasn't there but she knew
why they were there and that
they could come in.
Thompson said when he and
Garcia walked into the home,
they noticed holes in the walls
in the living room and kitchen.
There was also no electricity
and Christine Haulcomb told
him it had been turned off for
four days.
According to the affidavit,
she also told Thompson and
Garcia that when her husband.
Justin Haulcomb. got mad he
punched walls and broke
things.
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TERESA COOPER
Pet Contest
Jordan Nixon and Lightning won honors at the Atwood Pet Costume Contest over the weekend. Nixon
and his pig both dressed as firefighters.
Students filling a box with culture
Exchange teaches students about another country
By SARA PLUMMER
Herald Staff Writer
There may be no other
fifth grade class in Sapulpa
that knows more about the
country of Indonesia than
Cathy Adams' class at
Freedom Elementary
School.
Her class spent three
weeks researching almost
every aspect of the coun-
try, including government,
defense, religion and civil
rights.
Adams' class is partici-
pating in a sort of cultural
exchange. Her class is
sending a culture box filled
with things such as class
pictures, school cafeteria
menus, information on
each student and what they
do for fun, a copy of the
Cherokee alphabet, an
American flag and even a
cowboy hat, if it fits, to a
school in Indonesia.
Hopefully by
Christmas, the class will
get a box back filled with
similar information from
Indonesian students.
“I chose Indonesia be-
cause I felt like it was such
a different culture than any
they had learned about,”
Adams said.
She said she got the
idea for the culture box
when she attended an
EastWest Center confer-
ence and got involved with
the Respect Diversity
Foundation.
After attending the con-
ference and talking with
people from Indonesia.
Adams said she learned
that they are not that dif-
ferent.
“I want (my class) to
see that even though the
culture is different, they're
basically the same," she
said. “They are more alike
than they are different.”
Adams said her class
really jumped on the proj-
ect and she was able to in-
corporate lessons from
civics, social studies and
other subjects into the re-
search of Indonesian cul-
ture.
“You can teach them a
term like archipelago, but
now they have a connec-
tion to it,” she said. ”1
think learning that
Indonesia also has three
branches of government
surprised them too.”
See BOX, Page 3
SARA PLUMMER
KYLE STEPHENS, A fifth grader at Freedom Elementary, works on decorating
the culture box that will be mailed to a class in Indonesia. The box will include
class pictures, school menus, a copy of the Cherokee alphabet and even a cow-
boy hat, if it fits.
GOP make
strides in
state house
By JEFF PACKHAM
CNHI Capitol Bureau
OKLAHOMA CITY (CN-
HI) — Gay marriage and
coattails are behind a change
in leadership in the House,
according to volunteers in ar-
eas where voters went against
recent voting trends.
Democrats focused on ed-
ucation, health care and jobs
in an effort to maintain the
majority in the Oklahoma
House and Senate but that fo-
cus led to a net loss of nine
seats in the House and two in
the Senate.
Republicans now hold a
sizeable 57-44 majority in the
House while Democrats
maintain a 26-22 edge in the
Senate. Democrats have
pointed to national voting
trends and the gay marriage
amendment for the lost seats
while Republicans insist the
people just wanted a change.
Rick Lowery, an ordained
minister from Bartlesville,
blamed the lost seat in House
District 10 on issues such as
gay marriage and abortion.
Lowery said Republicans in
the area swayed on-the-fence
Democrats into voting
Republican by using the ho-
mosexual message.
“The people are afraid of
gay people and the
Republicans used that to their
advantage.” Lowery said.
Democrat Judy Taylor of
Dewey lost despite her anti-
abortion stance, Lowery said,
but voters in the normally
Democratic voting district
turned out and voted for
Republican Steve Martin.
Lowery said he found it iron-
ic that President George W.
Bush had taken the same
stance in support of civil
unions as U.S. Sen. John
Kerry, D-Mass„ yet that had
no impact on voting in
Oklahoma.
Lowery said Democrats in
the area worked hard but
were caught in a numbers
crunch. Lowery said he
walked through neighbor-
hoods filled with blue-collar
workers and was shocked to
see the large number of pro-
Bush signs in front of houses.
'I’m not ashamed of what
we did.” Lowery said, noting
the increased turnout by Bush
and Tom Coburn supporters.
“It was a nationwide sweep.”
Stan Driver of Grove said
the race in House District 5
turned due to the conserva-
tive values of the district and
the candidate who ran on the
Republican side. Driver said
the district was registered 70
percent Democrat but 80 per-
cent of the people in the dis-
trict shared the same values.
“This area has become
more conservative,” Driver
said.
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