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What’s Happening in LGA Free Local Newsletter

Sponsored by the Locust Grove Arts Alliance

No. 29: December 2016

LaTasha Duncan to have Tulsa exhibit during December. See Page 4

ORNAMENTS WANTED. . . Karen Perkins places an or-nament on the tree at the Wonder City Coffee Shop. KellyPalmer, owner, is asking customers to bring an ornamentto help load the tree with them.

CARD MAGIC. . . Magician Joshua Stacy created this na-tivity scene from a complete deck of used cards. The set isavailable at the Rabbit in the Hat Magic Shop on Main street.See story on Page 5.

In December, Wonder City Coffee is inaugurating anOldtimers 1st Saturday Story Hour. Every first Saturdaynight from 7-8 p.m., three or four oldtimers (term usedlovingly) in our community will tell stories.

In this hour, those attending will hear stories of peopleand places around Locust Grove. Learn some history andhave some fun as 3-4 oldtimers take the stage and mic foran hour.

Any oldtimer is welcome to come and share a family-friendly story. The event is free and open to the public.Don’t miss the first night of storytelling Dec. 3.

Regular storytime hourbegins at coffee shop

“In the summer of 1935, the old hotel on the main block oftown caught on fire. It seemed for a time that the wholemain block of town would burn. I remember standing onPresbyterian hill and watched the men of the town fight thefire.” --Beth Harrington (Centennial Celebration book)

COFFEE SHOP OPENS. . . Kelly Palmer, owner of theWonder City Coffee Shop, waits on some of the first cus-tomers on opening day Nov. 18

LGAA meets Dec. 14 at VFW

EDITOR’S NOTE: While this newsletter is producedby the LGAA and will contain our organization’s news, wealso want to publish information about any activities in Lo-cust Grove that our community might be interested in.

Please contact Betty Perkins at [email protected] 918-479-5617 (leave a message if no answer), if youhave news on LG events, places, or people for inclusion infuture issues. For advertising, call Roxann Perkins Yates at918-530-5321 or email at [email protected]. AsLGAA is a nonprofit organization, advertising must sup-port the publication of this newsletter. Your support is greatlyappreciated.

About What’s Happening in LG

LG Chamber makes plansfor parade December 3 The Locust Arts Alliance held its regular monthly meet-

ing on Nov. 9, at the VFW Hall when new officers and aboard of five members were elected.

The group voted to keep the same officers: JenniferHenson, president; Marea Breedlove, vice president; ShaunPerkins, secretary; and Betty Perkins, treasurer.

New board members are Ray Grass, Theresa Mennecke,Ann Phillips, Pam Quantie and Roxann Yates.

Plans were made for the window decorating contest tobe held the day of the Christmas parade, Dec. 3. Votingfor a favorite window will take place at the Wonder CityCoffee Shop until the start of the parade.

The alliance will have a booth at the Pryor Creek ComicConvention Jan. 21 when children and adults are invitedto create a “superhero” using only newspapers and ducttape as the major components. The work can be a sculp-ture, a wall hanging, a costume, etc.

Brandon Hall, high school liaison, reported that thehigh school drama, band and art departments will have afundraiser on Dec. 8 at the high school.

The arts alliance meets the second Wednesday of eachmonth at 5:30 at the VFW building.

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What’s Happening in LG December 2016

Plans for the Christmasparade were updated whenthe Locust Grove AreaChamber or Commercemet Nov. 15, at the VFW.

A raffle will be held at thecompletion of the parade atthe bank parking lot onMain Street. More than 40prizes have been gatheredfrom merchants and indi-vidual citizens. Tickets are$1 each or 6 for $5. Theycan be bought at severallocal businesses.

The Northeastern StateUniversity Band has con-firmed for the parade. ThePirate Band will also be apart of the event.

A ribbon cutting washeld at the ROMP Rum-mage Shop Nov. 26, withpresident Jerry Yates doingthe honors, joined by Jen-nifer Henson, treasurer, aswell as other shop ownersand chamber members.

Other new businesseswith ribbon cuttingsplanned for the future in-clude La Mansion, Wonder

City Coffee, the Rabbit inHat Magic Shop andMike’s Wholesale.

During the board meet-ing, members voted to re-imburse Shaun Perkins forthe cost of the town direc-tory which is currently be-ing printed. The 64-pagebooklet will be distributedthe day of the Christmasparade.

The board also decidedto not have a chamber-sponsored Easter egg huntin 2017.

In other business, theboard decided to drop theTracPhone because it wasgetting so few calls. Theofficers names and numbersare listed on the web siteand have already been field-ing calls.

Also an effort will bemade to coordinate cham-ber objectives with those ofthe Town Council.

The next meeting of thechamber is Jan. 17, at 6p.m. at the VFW.

December 2016 What’s Happening in LG

Rabbit in Hat Magic Shop opens

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Clark and Marcia Mayopened their highly antici-pated magic shop in the oldCook’s Restaurant buildingNov. 25-26, and young ma-gicians-to-be or just thosefascinated by the art ofsleight of hand crowded thesmall shop on Main Street.

“We had a really goodcrowd on opening day,”said magician Joshua Stacy,“and today has been goodtoo,” he said on Saturday.

Owner Clark May said atotal of 213 people had vis-ited the shop. “Seventeenpeople signed up for magicclasses, including fouradults, and we happily needto restock several types oftricks,” May said. “It wasan exciting weekend,” headded.

Stacy said he has beenintrigued by magic eversince he was 10 years old,and 12 years later, heplayed a version of the shellgame for a family of five.

“Cayson (King) is reallyinto magic,” said Andrea

He said the project cameabout when he was playingaround with an old deck ofcards last Christmas, and hebegan to fold and cut eachof the figures. “Just mess-ing around to see what Icould do.”

“The Baby Jesus is madeof the Ace of Spades be-cause that is the highestranking card in the deck,”Stacy said.

Also included in thescene are Mary and Joseph,three kings, four shepherds,a manager and the Star ofBethlehem, each uniquelyfolded and cut to make thecards represent the variouscharacters.

Leach of her son who wasright in front of Stacy as heshowed the family variousfeats of magic.

Marcia May sat on astool watching the magictaking place with a smallbrilliantly-colored bird onher shoulder. Paco, whocan “say his name if he’s inthe mood,” is a Kayak,which is a small parrot.

Stacy also worked hismagic and showed his cre-ativity with an amazing na-tivity scene made entirelyof a deck of cards.

“Every card in the deck,including the informationcards, is a part of thescene,” Stacy said.

Stacy wasn’t the onlymagician on hand for theopening of the Rabbit inHat Magic Shop. Set up onthe opposite side of theshop was RogerCornelison, who says he hasbeen involved with magicsince the age of 15.

“I work at American Air-lines, but I’ll be here fulltime once I retire,”Cornelison said.

He demonstrated amagic trick for this reporterwhich still has her confusedand bewildered. Cornelisontold a story about rabbits ashe made his magic fit thestory.

He placed a small yellowsponge cut into a rabbitshape into the reporter’shand. She was told to holdit firmly in her fist. Shecould feel it in her hand, andit did not change as far asshe could tell.

But as Cornelison’s storyreached a climax about howrabbits often multiply, shewas told to open her hand.She slowly uncurled her fin-gers, and six rabbits fellonto the black cloth on thecounter behind whichCornelison stood. Magic.

The shop is open nowon Fridays and Saturdays,and Marcia May said a the-ater behind the shop is in thefinal stages of renovation,and following that, a caféwill be opened in the mainpart of the building.

MARCIA MAYholds Paco, aKayak - asmall, bright-colored parrot,who May sayscan talk if he isin the rightmood.He wasnot in the rightmood Saturday

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MAGIC AT WORK. . .Magician Joshua Stacy completes atrick with the help of Cayson King, one of the visitors to theRabbit in a Hat Magic Shop as it opened the weekend ofNov. 25-26. The shop will continue to be open on Fridaysand Saturdays.

Locust Grove abstractartist LaTasha Duncan willhave an exhibition of herartwork in December at theZin Bar in the Brady ArtDistrict in Tulsa at 111 N.Main.

On Dec. 2, from 7:00-9:00 p.m., Duncan will bethere in person to talkabout her art and meetpeople.

Duncan’s art is createdthrough the use of fluid mo-tion or fluid dynamics. Hertechnique is a balance of art

LG artist has Tulsa exhibition in December

and science, comparing thedensity and viscosity of thecolors. The pigments usedto give paints their colorcan have different

densities. By pouring layersof paint of different colorson top of each other, thelayers mix, infiltrating oneanother, creating magicalpatterns. The viscous grav-ity current becomes un-stable as the paint spreadsradially.

“I fell in love with theabstract at a very earlyage,” said Duncan.

“When you createabstractly you are creatingan idea or interpretation ofsomething. It is up to the

viewer to decide what it isand connect with the art.”

“This is something youcannot typically achievewith traditional art.

“There is this suddenspark of imagination andcreativity in viewers thatyou cannot achieve outsideof the abstract,” saidDuncan.

For more about Duncanand her art, visitLaTashaDawn.com or callher at 918-479-4034.

Artist LaTasha Duncan

ABSTRACT ART. . . Artist LaTasha Duncan’s “Rude Awak-enings” will be one of her art pieces on display at an exhi-bition at the Zin Bar in Tulsa during December..


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In October, the CountryCottage celebrated its 30th

anniversary, but thisfamily’s restaurant roots goback many more years thanthat.

The Country Cottage isowned by Dale and LindaMoore, who built the busi-ness from the ground up.The Moores’ children KellyKnott and Kenny Moore,along with their spousesMark Knott and CindyMoore, manage the restau-rant.

But before this very suc-cessful restaurant venture,Linda’s mother and stepfa-ther Wilma and CliffordRucker built both Jerry’sDariette (then Ruckers’Dariette) and the VillageInn on spots next to wherethe Country Cottage nowsits.

Kenny and Cindy Moorealso run Blue Goose Cater-ing, as a side business fromthe Country Cottage.

All of this restaurantbackground makes for anincredible dining experi-ence. People come from allover the region to experi-ence the full service menuand buffet that the restau-rant offers.

And even more thanthat, people come to expe-rience the feeling of family,which the Country Cottagerepresents.

“They like to come andand tell us about their ownfamilies, and they ask aboutours,” said Kelly Knott.“They watched our familymembers grow up while wewatched theirs grow up,too.”

Dale Moore, who

worked on the CountryCottage building while hewas also working full timeat Boeing, helped his wiferealize a dream.

“It was my mom’s dreamto have this restaurant,”said Knott. “She wentthrough some hard times,but she saw it fulfilled.”

Linda Moore is often atthe restaurant and it’s ob-vious she is like family tothe diners, who stop with

Country Cottage celebrates 30 yearsplates full from the buffetwhen they see her andspend time talking abouttheir families.

“It started out kind ofsmall, and it’s grown,” saidKnott of the family busi-ness, which also includes aVictorian atmosphere andextensive gift gallery.

Great food and familytraditions combine for agreat experience at theCountry Cottage today.

FOOD AND FRIENDS. . . Linda Moore, owner of theCountry Cottage visits with Roy Ross, left, and Les Kern,right, who have come to dine at the well-known buffet.

“They (diners) like tocome and tell us abouttheir own families, andthey ask about ours.They watched our fam-ily grow up while wewatched theirs growup, too.” --Kelly Moore Knott

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Who is that man in the turquoise car?By Betty L. Perkins

If the guy driving the oldturquoise car saw me, hedidn’t act like it. I met thecar as I was coming intotown. I knew it was old butI didn’t know what kind itwas.

“I’ll just follow him a bit,and if he stops, I’ll ask himabout his gorgeous car,” Ithought.

I did a U-ee in the middleof the street. It doesn’tmatter where I was, be-cause a local police officertold me just recently that “ifthe street isn’t marked say-ing you can’t do a U-turn,then you can do one.”

By this time I had lost the

turquoise car, but lookingdown the next crossingstreet, I saw it.

I didn’t want to alarm thedriver, so I kept my dis-tance. You know, kind oflike a detective trailing asuspect. Not to imply thatI thought the driver was asuspect!

He was driving prettyslowly, so I was drivingslower, and together wecrept around the town. Fi-nally he pulled up to abuilding that I knew wasvacant.

I pulled off on the otherside of the street andwatched him.

When he opened a large

garage door, one of three,and I saw other old carsinside, I grabbed my cam-era and headed out. Theman I met was Ronnie Gilesand he graciously let metake pictures of his car andtalked to me about it and

other vintage cars he owns.Now, maybe it wasn’t

necessary to tell all of thisto tell the following story,but I just wanted you toknow how I came acrossthis story.

THE TURQUOISE CAR that first caught the writer’s at-tention and led to her pursuit around town.


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(Continued from Page 6)Ronnie Giles is the

owner of the oldest bankbuilding in town – the onethat mostly recently housedthe Locust Grove Gun andPawn, and the beautiful tur-quoise car he was about toput in the garage is a1932Plymouth.

Ronnie and his wife, Su-san Lacy, have owned thePlymouth since the early80’s, and it has gonethrough a number of colortransitions, including blackand silver when they firstbought it, then yellow, thena light turquoise, and thenthe current dark turquoise.

“The dark turquoise is acustom color that weworked on with the painterWaymond Williams formonths before getting it justright,” Susan said.

In addition to the Ply-mouth, the couple owns a1934 orange Chevy bought

in 2002.“Ron worked on it for

nine years, and I helpedquite a bit,” Susan said. “Ieven wrote a ‘book’ withlots of pictures about thewhole process.”

Ron explained that theChevy Sedan was a busi-ness coupe with a trunk,

while others had a rumbleseat in place of a trunk.

For her help on theChevy, Ron bought Susana 1966 Chevelle, turquoiseand white.

“It is a blast to drive, andgets lots of attention andwins almost every time Ienter a show,” she said.

Ron and Susan are bothmembers of the LocustGrove Outlaw Cruisers CarClub, a club of about 85members who do a cruiseonce a month and enter fre-quent car shows.

Their major show in Lo-cust Grove is the one heldon Founder’s Day in Maywhen more than 100 entriesare attracted.

This is one snoop, uhdetective, who is glad tohave made Ronnie’s ac-quaintance and learn abouthis cars, but my firstsuspection was partly cor-rect; he is an outlaw!

--Turquoise car--

SUSAN CHEVELLE. . .This car wins nearly everycar show Susan Lacy entersit in.

1934 CHEVY. . . This car isthe result of nearly nineyears of work by Ron Giles.

Bands, theaterart groupssponsor‘Night of Arts’

The Locust Grove HighSchool art, band, and the-ater departments will spon-sor a “Night of the Arts” at6 p.m., Dec. 8.

“Night of the Arts” willhave student art displaysand music by the highschool band. Student-cre-ated coloring books andChristmas ornaments willalso be available for pur-chase.

Enty at the door will be$5 per person, and pro-ceeds will go to the art,music and drama depart-ments for supplies.

For more information,contact Sabrina Shirley [email protected]. us.


Mike’s Wholesale to open in early DecemberMike and Robin

Pendergraft, both gradu-ates of Locust Grove HighSchool in the late 1970’s,are bringing a new businessto the town in early Decem-ber.

They have purchased theformer feed store, Feet andFeathers, on Highway 412west and are converting itinto Mike’s Warehouse, astore that will offer a vari-ety of products for thecommunity.

The new business willcarry building materials,including roofing supplies,hardware, paint (Valspar),some grocery items,snacks, novelties and giftideas.

“There’s been a lot ofinterest in the store withpeople asking when we willbe opening,” said Robin.

They hope to open in

early December but haverun into a lot of construc-tion woes trying to get thebuilding ready for its newproducts.

“We’ve completely gut-ted the place,” Robinadded, “new electric, newplumbing, new flooring,new sheetrock. It has takenus longer than we antici-pated.”

The Pendergrafts hopeto add lumber and otherbuilding supplies when abuilding in the back of thestore is renovated.

“That will come after weopen the store.”

Robin retired after 19years of teaching at the highschool level, with 12 ofthose years at the schoolwhich she graduated fromin 1979. Mike, who gradu-ated in 1978, is trying tofind a way to be home more

often. The Pendergraftsown a similar business inOklahoma City where Mikespends the week and comeshome only on weekends.

“We’re hoping to hiresomeone to work in thatbusiness, so Mike can behome at least a part of eachweek,” Robin said.

The Pendergrafts havethree daughters: Kristin,Amanda and Amber.Amanda will work in thelocal store along with hermother and father.

Cleaning out the feedstore after the couple pur-chased it from RobertButts, Robin found an un-usual “something.”

“It didn’t look like any-thing I had ever seen in mylife,” Robin said. “Icouldn’t imagine what inthe world it could be usedfor. It was kind of a square

table with a hole at one endand a gear which rotatedwhen you turned a wheel.”

When Mike was ques-tioned, he knew immedi-ately what it was. “It’s achicken plucker,” he said.Apparently one held thechicken in the hole andturned the wheel whichspun around picking feath-ers off the bird.

“People had been tellingMike that he had to havesomething different in thestore – something which noone else had. He thinks hemay have found his niche,”Robin said. “We can adver-tise that people can bringtheir chickens in and we’llpluck ‘em for you,” sheadded with a laugh. Shecould have been kidding,but maybe not. ThePendergrafts do have theequipment to do the job.


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The Locust Grove ArtsAlliance is sponsoring acostume contest with judg-ing and prizes at the 1st

Pryor Creek Comic Con-vention Jan. 21, 2017, atthe Graham CommunityCenter in Pryor.

Locust Grove graduateJimmie Tramel, who writesfor the Tulsa World, is or-ganizing this event. Therewill be lots of vendors andcomic fun, and the LGAAcostume contest will be apart of it.

To enter, make an origi-nal comic book hero cos-tume made only of paper,cardboard and tape. Thecostume can be displayedon a hanger or mannequin

or can be worn.Cash prizes will be

awarded in three categoriesof Most Creative or Artis-tic, Most Technically-Diffi-cult and Most Original.There will be prizes in threeage groups: 1st-6th grade,7th-12 grade and adult.

Contestants must bepresent to win the contestand bring it by noon to theComic Con for display andjudging.

The only materials thatcan be used in the construc-tion of the costume are pa-per (notebook, typing,newspaper), cardboard andtape (duct tape, scotchtape, masking tape).

Paint, crayons or mark-ers to cover the costumeand give it a design andcolor can be used. NOOTHER type of décor ma-terials may be used.

Costume heroes must beyour original creation (noBatmans, Wonder

Hugh J. Callery, amember of the Cen-tennial Committeewhich published a his-tory of the town, saysa few books are stillavailable, along withseveral copies of theDVD.

They can be pur-chased at the LG Li-brary, The book is $30amd the DVD, $20.

History book, CDavailable at library

Womans, Supermans, etc.).Costumes must have the

following information onan index card when they aresubmitted: On one side,write the hero’s name anda 1-sentence description ofhim/her.

On the other side, in-clude your name, age/grade, school (if appli-cable), and phone numberor email address.

For more information,visit lgartsalliance.com.

Hero Costume Contest announced


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RIBBON CUTTING. . . Jerry Yates, president of theLG Chamber, uses the large scissors at the ribbon cut-ting in front of the ROMP Rummage Shop. OwnerShaun Perkins and Chamber Treasurer JenniferHenson held the ribbon. Other shop owners in the areaand customers were also on hand for the ceremony.

STORE FRONTS at Downing Propane, left, andIngram’s Custom Rods, below, were painted by AprilStone and Stuart Horton in time for the Christmas pa-rade Dec. 3.

A painting by ClaudiaBiendl is spotlighted atHorsefeathers Embroidery.

WINNERS in the Halloween contest sponsored by theFriends of the Library are shown above. Nearly 100children took part from ages infant to 12.

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