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Vol. 96/ No. 69
Weekend
December 19,2010
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Although a soldier by profes-
sion, I have never felt any sort
of fondness for war, and I have
never advocated it, except as a
means of peace.
-Ulysses S. Grant
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Daily Scriptures)
I Make every effort to live in
peace with all men and to be
| holy; without holiness no one
will see the Lord.
-Hebrews 12:14
I Peacemakers who sow in
peace raise a harvest of right-
i eousness.
-James 3:18
|ByC.L. HARMON
\ HERALD EDITOR
A Tulsa woman and a
I Muskogee woman eluded
Walmart security and attempt-
ed to elude a Sapulpa police
officer after shoplifting mer-
chandise commonly used in the
manufacturing of methamphet-
| amine.
Patrol officer Michael
Heatherly received a call for a
shoplifting in progress at the
Turner
Walmart located at l(X)2 W.
Taft during the early evening of
Dec. 16.
He was given a brief
description of the suspect and
told that the female had run
from store, away from loss pre-
vention officers and was seen
getting into a 1988 tan
Chrysler.
Upon his arrival at the store,
he witnessed the vehicle leav-
ing the parking lot and attempt-
ed a traffic stop. But much to
his chagrin Carolyn Turner
(52) did not stop but instead
turned off her lights and accel-
erated.
She then turned the vehicle
on Cheyenne Street and
stopped at at the dead end, exit-
ed and attempted to climb in on
the passenger’s side of the
vehicle. At this time. Heatherly
ordered her on the ground at
gunpoint and she was then
taken into custody without fur-
ther incident, according to a
probable cause affidavit.
The passenger, later identi-
fied as Kimberly Halon (47)
was throwing the stolen items
from the vehicle while being
pursued by Heatherly. the affi-
davit alleges.
Items discarded during the
short chase included one con-
tainer of Drano cleaner, two
containers of Coleman fuel,
one container of rock salt and
one container of lithium batter-
ies. A search of the vehicle also
produces a package of cold
packs.
After Halon was taken into
custody, she refused to give her
correct identity. She provided
the name Kimberly Harbough
and the wrong birth date. Her
Halon
mother had to be contacted
give the correct identification
information.
Turner was arrested in
March of this year at the same
Walmart for shoplifting lithium
batteries. Security officers also
told Sapulpa Police at the time
that she and the other woman
she was with had both attempt-
ed to purchase cold medicine
but were denied due to to many
purchases of pseudoephedrine,
according to an affidavit writ-
ten at the time of that arrest.
City Of Mounds|
Facing Budget
Shortfalls
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Christmas time news of city
budget cuts reveal that emergency
personnel serving the citizens of
Mounds are primarily the directed
targets.
Word filtered out from the Dec
14 Mounds City Council budgetary
meeting of the cuts and the city’s
financial difficulties.
The Mounds budget was slashed
by double digits to maintain a bal-
ance between money coming into
city coffers in taxes and fees and
funds going out the door for depart-
mental needs/expenses.
A reflection of those cuts is
shown in the coming year of the
Mounds Fire Department’s budget
where personnel budget expenses
will be cut by 28 percent. Police
personnel expenses did not escape
the axe either as their funding was ]
slashed by 27-percent.
Administrator salaries and j
expenses were also reduced but I
only by 5-percent.
The overall city budget for 2011
has been reduced by five percent-
percent, according to recent reports
The Mounds City Council did
however, increase some facets of
municipal governance. Increases in
funding over last year were
approved for the parks department
and maintenance for street and |
alleyway improvement.
Future forecasts for utility feel
revenues for Mounds indicate little |
change from 2010.
BY JOHN BROCK
HtKAU) Staff Writm
Sapulpa Fire Chief Celebrates
vo-irc h.-n- We have hiuhlv trained ster.
etirement
years here. We have highly trained
firefighters
and the most
up to date
equipment
and 1 am
proud of
that.” Chief
Lawson said.
Lawson
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Last day on the job for Sapulpa
Fire Chief Kevin Lawson was Friday.
A reception-party-luncheon at the
Central Station tied up the last loose-
end to a career of 27-years and five
months as an emergency responder.
Lawson had informed city manag-
er Tom DeArman at the end of sum- graduated
mer of his impending retirement. from Sapulpa
•'The city manager will recom-
mend a replacement to the city coun-
cil. They will decide. I hope they’ll
pick the next chief in-house that s the
way it has been traditionally done,
Lawson said.
Asked as to how he will spend his
non-employed golden years, his
humor showed a bit.
“Well I’d like to sit around and
watch the grass grow, but I have a
honey-do list a mile long.” he said.
“The Sapulpa Fire Department as
I a whole has progressed more in the
last ten years, from what I’ve
observed than my first seventeen
“He
wanted to be
a trashman
when he
was little.
He loved the
garbage
truck. When
the garbage-
men came to
the house
they would
let him w ork
the levers
( com-
pactor). Our
trashmen
SAPULPA FIRE CHIEF KEVIN LAW-
SON S last day on the force was Friday. him ei
Friends, family and co-workers celebrated thc> n“r
with the Chief at the Dewey Street Central na"1cd h,m.
Station. Grandson Cale seemed happy to
eat and hang out with granddad. J!4*". ‘
JOHN BROCK PHOTO Holton
________________ amusingly
that firefighting was not his first said.
career choice when he was a young- Chief Lawson r collected thefirst
High with the
Class of
1975. Prior
to being
hired on as a
rookie fire-
fighter
Lawson was
working a
job at the
Sun Oil
refinery. His
family
pointed out
fire he fought was an August grasstirc
north of the cement plant on Walnut
street. “It was a hot dry summer that
year.”
Lawson said a memory that stuck
with him was rescuing a very large
man from the upper floors of the
Vista Plaza apartment complex.
“I was up on the ladder. This man
was over 300-pounds and couldn’t
even get out the window feet first. He
had to come out headfirst. Dean Cox
had pushed the ladder up against the
wall. My arms were shaking I could
barely hold him. I just knew that 1
was going to wind up on the ground
fast with the (big) guy on top of me.”
Lawson said. The slightly built chief
did manage to get both rescuee and
rescuer to the ground safely.
Sadder memories were spoken of.
The chief mentioned the sad loss of
two lives to fire, at an address south
of Lonestamie.
“Very tragic. It was a dad and his
daughter. He was made it outside but
went back in to rescue her.” Lawson
said somberly.
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Daily Herald
ANGNENE GIBBS
HERALD ASSISTANT EDITOR
On Monday night, the Sapulpa
Public Schools Board of Education
approved the receipt of S7.500 in
baseball facility donations from
Charles Bundrick and Clark Oil.
“Additional donations are still
coming in,” Superintendent Dr.
Mary Webb said. “The booster club
is working on a plaque to recognize
donors.
Board members also approved the
High School Color Guard to com-
pete in the Winter Guard
International Regional Competition
in Nashville.Tenn. in March.
They approved the disposal ot
several surplus items. These includ-
ed a micro-aerator, a small aerator, a
spreader, a Hunter tire balancer, a
tire changing cage, a Rhino finish
mower, two cleanout machines, two
air compressors and miscellaneous
plumbing and electrical parts.
Agreements
The Board approved a lease
agreement with lams-Witmark
Music Library. Inc. tor three per-
formances of Charlie Brown in
April.
They approved enrollment tor the
athletic teams in
TrackOurTeam.com. Parents can
track their athlete’s stats using the
software.
Board members approved a letter
of intent to participate in the federal
Gamin* Early Awareness and
Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs (GEAR UP). The grant is
for the 2011-2017 cycle.
The Board awarded a bid tor
transportation tracking software to
EduLog. The implementation will
cost $14,916. including the first
year’s maintenance fees. Yearly
maintenance and support fees w ill be
$4,416.
They approved a contract with
Crossland Construction for the
Washington School remodel. They
also approved an contract for engi-
neering and architectural services for
the remodel of the administration
building with LWPB, PC. These
contracts are part of the projects
which were approved for and paid
for with the March. 2009 bonds.
Executive Session
The Board met in executive ses-
sion for a little over 20 minutes
They are considering the purchase of
real estate. After reluming to open
session, they voted to employ an
ELL tutor at Liberty Elementary, a
substitute Latchkey assistant/teacher
at Jefferson Heights Elementary and
a student at the high school for on-
the-job training.
Other Actions
In other action, the Board
approved the independent auditor s
report for the fiscal year which
ended June. 2010. the monthly finan-
cial reports on the Activity Funds
account, bond purchase orders and
encumbrances, general fund pur-
chase orders and encumbrances,
building fund purchase orders and
encumbrances and child nutrition
fund purchase orders and encum-
brances
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