Cache, Oklahoma

New Beginnings Assembly of God will be having a Garage Sale on Saturday, July 30th. Sale will begin at 7:00 in the morning and lasting until ???. The sale will be at the back entrance, there will be a sign there for direction. All proceeds will go towards an Air Conditioner. All donations will be appreciated

Hi there I am networking to try and save dogs that are due to be gassed in Altus Animal Control in the next couple of days. We have been told that at least one of these dogs is from Cache Animal Control. One of the dogs, a female yellow lab, has tags that are hard to read – I am worried that an owner looking for her will not know that she has been transferred to Altus to be PTS. I attach the link for the website that has the pictures of these dogs. I don’t know if there is any way to publicize them but I wanted to give the owners every chance to get their dogs back – they may only have until Monday… http://www.swoan.org/Altus/ I pray someone sees their missing pets in time..

Best regards Debbie

 Join us WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 at 7:00 pm in the High School Cafeteria for our FIRST Booster Club Meeting!

BY ZEKE CAMPFIELD
STAFF WRITER
ZCAMPFIELD@LAWTON-CONSTITUTION.COM

    CACHE — A newly reorganized Cache Economic Development Authority discussed a few ambitious proposals to boost city revenue during its first meeting of the year on Thursday.
    Members discussed several project proposals for Cache — all of them pertaining to recreation and quality of life — and then called on the Cache City Council for support.
    “We have some ideas, and we really want to improve the quality of life for the citizens of Cache, but it’s very difficult to build anything without a revenue source,” said new CEDA chairman Beverly Martine, a downtown business owner.
    Ideas discussed included a five-field sports complex, which could be constructed on land leased by the school, as well as extending the proposed bike trail at the refuge south all the way into the center of town.
    But both these projects will cost money, something CEDA doesn’t possess a lot of, said Eddie Dabney, a board member and vice president of the Bank of the Wichitas.
    Dabney said CEDA should pursue grants, or even funding from the county, to finance a percentage of these projects. The board will have to brainstorm some creative revenue-generating programs to finance the rest, Dabney said.
    “We’re going to have to go with one hand in our pocket and one hand out,” he said.
    At the urging of member Randy Batt, superintendent of Cache Schools, the group passed a resolution asking the city council to look into adding a dollar to water or trash bills for city residents, or even increasing the city’s sales tax by a quarter cent.
    Cache’s sales tax is at 7.75 percent, compared to 8.75 percent in Lawton, and brings in around $23,000 per month.
    “I think we can make a lot of difference here, but right now we can only throw around ideas,” Batt said. “As a citizen, $2 per month on my bill isn’t going to bother me if I see some results.”
    Dabney estimated the cost of a new sports complex at about $750,000 to a million dollars and said the project would be of great benefit to the city because of the number of people it would bring into town.
    He said a similar project in Chickasha has proved a boon to that community.
    “And if it works, we’re heroes,” he said. “If it doesn’t, well our community deserves that stuff anyway.”

 
Feb 2010

The last meeting was well attended and we covered a good deal of ground. The dinner with Jari Askins, Lt Governor of the state of Oklahoma, has been rescheduled for April 17 at 5:30 pm. The dinner will be held in the Cache Primary Cafetorium. Ms. Askins will be speaking on the growth of Southwest Oklahoma. All are welcome to attend. Tickets will be $20.00 and include dinner. For more information contact Beverly Martine at the Quilt N Bee 580-429-2400.

 
Scott Brown of the Chamber made a presentation on the upcoming three on three basket ball tournament scheduled for, Saturday, April 24. The basketball tournament will be held in the New Gym and will be an all day event. This is a co-ed tournament with two divisions, 9-12 grade and 18 & up. Cost per team is $70.00 with a discount of $10.00 for teams that register before April 1. For more information contact Scott Brown 580-591-2354.
Mr. Randy Batt, Cache Public Schools Superintendent, gave an excellent presentation on the upcoming bond issue and what is planned for the money that will be raised if the bond passes. Mr. Batt and the school board are looking ahead at the growth of Cache Schools and the community of Cache. For information on the school bond issue contact Mr. Randy Batt at Cache School, 429-3266.

Ernie Altic of the Cache Chamber made a presentation on the upcoming Golf Tournament schedule for April 24 at Hummingbird Golf Course. Cost will be $45.00 per person for 18 holes. Ernie is in need or some more golf carts and some volunteers to help with the golf tournament. For more information on the Golf Tournament contact Ernie at ernie.altic@conus.army.mil.

Other upcoming events that the Chamber has planned is a ‘Meet the Candidates’, in June, a watermelon back to school celebration in August and Western Days October 1 & 2. Paula Hood is working on the Christmas and holiday celebrations.

Western Days planning is in full swing. The first meeting for 2010 was February 22. Western Days will be held October 1 & 2, 2010. Some of the events planned are:

A Car Show
Parade
Bull Riding and Mini Bull Riding
Gunfight
BBQ dinner
Street Dance
Fire Lighting and War Dance contest
Vendors
Midway

More volunteers are needed and we are looking for ideas. The next meeting for Western Days is March 18 directly following the regularly scheduled Chamber meeting (March 18 at 6:00 pm). All are invited to attend both the Chamber meeting and the Western Days meeting.

A lesson that should be taught in all schools .. . and colleges!

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. ‘Ms. Cothren, where’re our desks?’

She replied, ‘You can’t have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.’

They thought, ‘Well, maybe it’s our grades.’

‘No,’ she said. ‘Maybe it’s our behavior.’

She told them, ‘No, it’s not even your behavior..’

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren’s classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren said, ‘Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.’

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and

stand along side the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, ‘You didn’t earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it’s up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don’t ever forget it.’

By the way, this is a true story.

Please consider passing this along so others won’t forget that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by U. S. Veterans.

ZEKE CAMPFIELD

CACHE As Friday evening slowly crept in, townspeople began hunkering down and making preparations to ride out the weekend without electricity.
With sleeping bags, board games and food grabbed from shelves, folks like Calvin and Mary Hayes began claiming a corner of the basketball court at Cache Intermediate School as the snow began to pick up again in the late afternoon.

"Several people called us and asked us to come here," Mary Hayes said. "And we were freezing to death."

Hayes and her husband are among Cache’s many senior citizens seeking refuge at the shelter and they were planning to stay at least until Monday.
"I hope we get back to the house then," she said. "This is the worst I’ve ever seen."

Her husband grabbed a medical bag filled with his twice-a-day IV treatments and bags of snacks from the back of their van.
"I came to share with others as well as do for myself," he said.

The two were about a dozen setting up camp at the center late on Friday afternoon.

Michelle Ward said she stayed at home Thursday night but she sought shelter on Friday for her 16-month-old daughter, Savannah.

"She couldn’t sleep at all," Ward said. "We finally had to bring her here today; it was just too cold."

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ZEKE CAMPFIELD

CACHE Foster kids across Comanche County may soon sleep a little more peacefully thanks to the charitable efforts of Beverly Martine and quilters from across the area.

Martine, owner of the Quilt N Bee in downtown Cache, said her store will be the hub for Southwest Oklahoma’s participation in a nationwide campaign to sew pillowcases for charity.

Sponsored by American Patchwork & Quilting, the nationwide “Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference” campaign calls on participating stores to donate pillowcases collected throughout the year to a local charity or organization.

Martine said she chose the Comanche County Department of Human Services as her target organization because she has a personal affinity for children in the state’s foster care program.

“My kids come from DHS,” Martine said, her eyes tearing up. “I have four kids adopted from the foster care system in Texas, and they didn’t do anything wrong their parents and caretakers did.”

12/31/2009 12:55:00 AM

ZEKE CAMPFIELD

CACHE The water crisis in Cache also appears to be over, Mayor Shawn Komacheet said on Wednesday.

A recommended boil order for city water customers since Monday was lifted Wednesday afternoon; the water system is full, clean and pressurized; and business will continue as usual, Komacheet said.

"After two days of testing, the lab says our water was fine both days, so we’re back to normal," he said.