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Mayor
Sallee Surprised
Oct. 25, 2005 Oklahoma Mayor Of The Year Honored |
It is fortunate that Collinsville has the "Mayor of the Year" as the City continues to deal with loss of sales tax to surrounding communities while the population grows. Large retail shopping opportunities continue to spring up near Collinsville but outside our city limits. I walked the new Smith Farm shopping complex now partially open in Owasso Tuesday Oct. 25th. I had no success selling ads on this community web site as they are all national chain stores with advertising "controlled by corporate". It was also interesting to pass by the new Bass Pro in Broken Arrow while supporting the CHS volleyball team at the state tournament recently. Reasor's plans a new grocery at the Hwys 20 and 169 (at 116th St. N.).
I realize you won't find
everything you "need" in Collinsville, but I encourage you to explore
Collinsville stores first to save gas money and much needed city revenue (via
sales tax).
-- Ted Wright
Emily
Wright Update (Hurricane Wilma)
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Wednesday Oct. 26 3pm: Emily says she is heading back to campus as electricty has been restored. There will be no classes until Monday as other services are restored and repairs made. | ||
Tuesday Oct. 25 10:45am: Power still out in dorms ... she has gone to stay at a friend's house where they can at least open windows. The dorm windows don't open and it is pretty warm with no air conditioning and you can already smell food turning in dorm fridges. Lots more trees down on campus even after campus was pruned by Katrina. | ||
Monday Oct. 24 11am: Daughter Emily just called from Univ. of Miami asking me where Hurricane Wilma was as they have been without power in the dorms since early this morning. She said it was worst about 8:30 to 9am (Eastern time) this morning but they had less water leaking (thru the windows) into their room than when Katrina blew thru a few weeks back. -- Ted | ||
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I need to finish filling out my request to address the school board at their Nov. 7th meeting but hope to be on the agenda to continue to push for an appropriate way to honor our many state champions from CHS. If anyone would like to be heard on that subject please email your suggestions to me (or talk with a school board member). -- Ted |
The 7th Grade Football Cards were up 28-0 over Cleveland at end of 3rd quarter Tuesday. I missed the 8th and 9th grade games while at the Mayor's ceremony. -- Ted |