Parks and Rec are planting flowers downtown and planning for all the events coming up this summer. The Senior Center has been opened for a month now. They are getting ready to go to bid for fencing at the Motocross arena in the middle of June/early July. Mowing season is underway, and they are preparing the rodeo grounds for the rodeo in June. Ponca City Parks and Recreations Director, Eric Newell, provided an update. held a happy hour event at the Ponca City Country Club last week, they plan to have these events every year. Jenna Wynes and Jake Kriech provided an update for Winterrowd Talley Architects Inc.Ĭonstruction work is underway at the Anderson STEM building, and the site for the Concert Hall classroom addition as began, foundation is set for the softball project, Liberty Elementary renovations and improvements are underway, the indoor/outdoor facility’s construction documents are being finalized in a few more weeks, airport construction documents are also finalizing, and there are several residential and Broken Bow cabins that are being worked on. The Enid concrete company has poured over 6000 yards a month for the last two months. These projects include an ODOT job on US-77 north of Newkirk a bridge over Cowskin Creek on Highway 156 a relaying job in Billings Union Street from Gary to Liberty, and Prospect and Pecan to the VFW Building Blocks Daycare on Union a tent pad is being set up for the turnaround at Philips 66 later this year various streets in Tonkawa various parking lots for the Kaw Nation and US-60 from Tonkawa. The recent rains have slowed down several operations, but there are several ongoing projects. Forms are due back in the Chamber office by 5 pm on Friday, June 2.Ĭommittee members then went around the room to provide their various updates.īrad Fox with Evans and Associates provided an update. If you would like to nominate someone for the class, please contact the Chamber for a nomination form. The Chamber is currently accepting nominations for the 37th Leadership Ponca City class. I’m glad we were able to see it, even if we did happen by it on accident.The Ponca City Chamber of Commerce Community Development Committee held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, May 18 at 10 am. It is an incredibly beautiful, if somber, place. There are smaller chairs to denote the children who perished.Īt the center of the memorial is a large reflecting pool, and it is flanked my tall pillars at either side, denoting the time of the “last moments of peace” (9:01) and the time when “recovery began” (9:03). Each chair is engraved with the name of someone who died in the bombing. Precisely where the building had once stood are nine rows of metal chairs – a row for each floor of the building. It is engraved with the names of the more than 600 survivors of the attack. Most died not from the blast itself, but from when the building collapsed.Īt the north and east end of the memorial are pieces of salvaged granite from the original building, which comprise the Survivors’ Wall. 168 people died in the attack, including 19 children who were at a daycare located inside of the building. On April 19, 1995, the federal building that stood on this spot was bombed, in what became the deadliest act of domestic terrorism to have occurred on U.S. We’d hoped to make a pilgrimage there but had accepted that we wouldn’t have time, and then there it was: unavoidable. We were walking back to our hotel on our last day in town, and we passed it, quiet and looming in its spot adjacent to the main road on which we walked. We found ourselves at the Oklahoma City National Memorial by accident.
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