Casady promotes boys volleyball
Dancing for a Miracle David Hyer and Mary Blankenship Pointer raise their trophies as the winners of the Children’s Health Foundation 2022 Dancing for a Miracle. Each of the dancers were paired with a professional for the competition. For more, see Page 2.
Casady coach Jay Gallegly helped form the Oklahoma Boys Volleyball Assocation (OBVA) to promote boys volleyball across Oklahoma For more, see Page 5.
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PC North’s Ryan Gooch (28) tries to bring down the Norman quarterback during a scrimmage last week. The Panthers, along with five other Fridayland teams, begin the 2022 football season this Friday against Southmoore.
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class, these courses also offer the opportunity for students to earn college credit for qualifying scores on the end of the year AP exam. Taking AP exams gives
Short term rental properties proved to be a hot topic of discussion at last week’s Village City Council meeting. Dozens of citizens filled the council chamber both for and against short term rental properties in the city. Many had attended the overflowing Town Hall Meeting earlier this month at The Village Library hosted by Ward 4 Councilman Sean Cummings and Donna Rice Johnson. The council heard complaints ranging from congested residential streets to loud late-night parties from some while others took the podium to tout the benefits short term rental properties can bring to the city like increased revenues from sales tax, hotel/motel taxes and fees. “We like regulations,” said Eric Casper, community volunteer for Airbnb Oklahoma City. “We want to keep bad hosts out – we want the bad apples out. We’re just small business owners trying to make a living.” City Manager Bruce Stone shared the city’s current ordinance on home sharing adopted by the council in July 2021. “The regulations seem to provide adequate language to hold licensees (home sharing property owners) accountable,” Stone said in his report to the council. “However, like many misdemeanor offenses, enforcement is not always easy and can take some effort and time. “I looked at our sales tax collections for the first five months of 2022 and see that Airbnb contributes, on an annualized basis, somewhere in the range of $30,000 in sales taxes,” he told the council. Stone told the council that Oklahoma City levies a 5.5% hotel/motel tax on their home share property owners, which if adopted by voters in The Village would, “likely more than double annual revenues from home sharing operations.” The Village currently charges an initial $75 home sharing license fee with a $25 annual renewable fee. It has never had a hotel/motel tax no hotels or motels operate within city limits. Stone said a hotel/motel tax has been discussed and, “it seems that the council is open to putting the questions to the voters, who must vote to approve such a tax.”
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Fleming scholar learns problem-solving skills at OMRF Her summer internship at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation provided Kate Walker a glimpse into the sea of change that followed – an 800mile move to college. Walker, a 2022 graduate of Heritage Hall High School, was part of OMRF’s 66th class of Fleming Scholars. She worked in the lab of OMRF Vice President of Clinical Affairs Judith James, M.D., Ph.D., investigating how people with the autoimmune disease lupus react to Covid-19 vaccination. “I knew how to work independently,” Walker said, “but this experience has really taught
me how to adapt to new situations and how to problem-solve on my own. Beyond that, this is real-world experience; it’s not just something you turn in for a grade. My work here might actually be used.” Two days after her internship ended, Walker flew to Madison, Wisc., for freshman orientation at the University of Wisconsin, where she plans to major in neurobiology and Spanish. She hopes to incorporate research into a career as a pediatrician. Walker’s summer lab experiments didn’t always go as smoothly as she’d hoped, and
that was a good lesson about medical research, said her OMRF mentor, Ken Smith, Ph.D. “Two-month projects are always a bit challenging, because in science, you don’t often see results that quickly,” Smith said. The Fleming Scholar program is named for Sir Alexander Fleming, the British scientist who discovered penicillin and in 1949 came to Oklahoma City to dedicate OMRF’s first building. Founded in 1956, the eight-week program See WALKER, Page 11
McGuinness sets records with AP Scholar Awards One hundred eight Bishop McGuinness students have been named AP scholars, the most in the school’s history. And, 66 seniors achieved the recognition, the most of any
graduating class at Bishop McGuinness. In 2022, 278 Bishop McGuinness students took 567 exams in 22 subjects with 80 percent of students earning a passing score of 3 or higher.
The Advanced Placement program offers college- level courses for students while still in high school. Beyond providing students the academic rigor and experience of a college-level
Village Lions Club Car Show rolls into Duffner Park Saturday By Rose Lane Editor The Village Lion’s Club’s 17th Annual Car Show is set for this Saturday at Duffner Park, just east of May on Hefner. Plans are for 25 categories, six best of show awards, a five-ball judging, club participation awards, goodie bags and a 50/50 prize. Three participants are to win $100 each in cash drawings. The fun begins with 9-11:30 a.m. registration. Judging of the participants is noon to 1 p.m. and the awards are to be present-
ed at 2 p.m. The registration fee is $20 per car, but there are no pre-registrations available. The show is free to spectators. Proceeds from the car show benefit Oklahoma Lions EYEBank, Oklahoma Lions Boys Ranch, Coats for kids, the BritVil Food Pantry and other projects in The Village. Attendees are also asked to bring used eyeglasses to be recycled. For more information, call David Ralston at (405) 478-4783 or Sean Ralson at (405 209-7326.
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