Volunteer Efforts Make
Main Street Look Nicer
Newkirk's Main Street week had a galloping start with 20 students
and adults who were part of the girls' basketball team from the
Northern Oklahoma College Enid campus.
Scott Morris, the coach, brought his team and assistants to Newkirk
on October 13 as part of their annual community service projects.
They worked like beavers in the downtown. They scraped the benches,
weeded, and mowed the Hole in the Wall Park. They washed windows
at the Spot and on the newly painted historic Woods building
owned by John and Linda Williamson.
They assisted a disabled family pack a moving van. They weeded
the garden behind the Heritage Center, and they wrapped boxes
for the Children's Christmas Shop.
In short, they were phenomenal workers for Newkirk Main Street
and downtown Newkirk.
On October 14, four hardy souls, design committee chairman, Caryl
Morgan; board member Delores Prelesnick, program manager Karen
Dye and volunteer Richard Gibson painted the benches in the Hole
in the Wall with paint from the Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Fresh
Paint project.
The promotion committee packaged Halloween candy bags and the
Junior Main Street students delivered them to downtown businesses.
Main Street board members delivered framed photographs to all
the Main Street business members.
Program manager Karen Dye attended a regional meeting in Perry,
Oklahoma on October 17th bringing back with her the Main Street
coloring books which also feature Newkirk on the cover as well
as a wealth of other information and ideas to be put into use
in the near future.
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