Summer Fun!

Looking for something fun to do this summer? Well, mosey on down to the Ironman Lanes for fun bowling and great food. My family plans on spending a few hot afternoon hours bowling and eating out on the town! 

New Low Summer Rates

Check It Out!

$1 per game $1 shoe rental

If you have been looking somewhere to have a birthday or Summer party? Have a tight budget? Look no more!

Party Rates $15 per hour per lane

Reservations, please.

Bowling Hours

• Monday-Closed
• Tuesday-11am-10pm
• Wednesday-11am-10pm
• Thursday-11am-10pm
• Friday-11am-10pm
• Saturday-11am-10pm
• Sunday-Noon-9pm

The great little cheeseburger place, Crystalz, has opened up in the Ironman Lanes.

Ironman Lanes Grill

Dine In or Carry Out

A wide range of delicious selections that will satisfy anyone’s taste.

Closed Monday

Tuesday through Thursday 11:00am to 9:00pm

Friday-Saturday 11:00am to 10:00pm

Sunday 11:00am to 8:00pm

Ironman Lanes have plans to form Bowling Leagues for the Fall. If you are looking to hone your bowling skills or just looking for a fun game of bowling, maybe you should consider a league. A bowling league can be lots of fun for a group of friends or church members.

• Men’s Leagues/Thursdays 31-32 weeks
• Women’s Leagues/Tuesdays 31-32 weeks
• Church Leagues/Mondays

For more information on leagues call (918) 273-5665.

The manager told me of some plans for the near future, perhaps adding some smoked meats to the menu, YUM!

Bring the whole family for good fun & good food at a very the right price in Nowata!

The gang are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Ironman Lanes

1422 E Fairview

East on Highway 60

Nowata, Oklahoma

(918) 273-5665

Be sure to mention you read about the Ironman Lanes here! 

Nowata Ironmen Lanes

Well, it finally quit raining! And according to the local weather guys, it rained 22 days straight! I couldn’t walk in my garden before now, so I am planting my tomatoes, peppers, etc this week. My harvest will be a bit later this year than normal but always worth waiting for that homegrown taste. The Maple Street Greenhouse has many varieties of tomatoes, peppers, etc. still available for your garden. And if you are finished with planting your garden, why not add a few more plants that you have always wanted to try out. I think I am going to try some unusual peppers and tomatoes this year.

A Garden Retreat

Memorial Day is this weekend and the greenhouse has many Memorial Day Flowers & Pots that are blooming great bursts of color and will continue to provide color until late Fall. There are all sizes and styles so if you are looking for just the right pot for that corner of your garden or patio, Maple Street will have it.

Yellow Knock Out Roses

If you love roses but don’t like all the pruning, spraying, etc., you will love the Knock Out Roses. The Knock Out Rose has much to offer the rose lover, like:

1. 3 x 3 small compact shrub
2. Drought resistant
3. Resistant to black-spot
4. Winter hardy in our zone
5. 5-6 week bloom cycle
6. Do not have to dead-head
7. Tough blooms and foilage
8. Single planting or multi plantings

Maple Street have both yellow and red Knock Out Roses. I believe it is important to purchase locally grown plants for many reasons, such as better care from the beginning and lower prices than most catalog prices plus no postage and handling. I checked out the prices on a few on-line sites and the greenhouse has a much better value available. I am going to plant a red one in my Southeast corner flower bed and a couple of yellow ones to form a hedge on the south side of my drive way. 

Red Knock Out Rose

In our corner of Oklahoma, the summer heat and drought kills more plants than the winter cold. Be sure to water all newly planted (in the ground) plants at least once a week and water deep; not shallow. In extreme heat and drought periods, you may need to water twice weekly. I use a small sprinkler on the hose in my landscape because I can leave a small spray on plants for deep watering and go do other things and I can also move the sprinkler around to water small spots and save water. I think the large arching type sprinkler are good for the following purposes:

• watering new sod
• large areas of gardens, like large flower beds and vegetable gardens
• large areas of shrub or trees.

Great Container Gardening

If you do not have space for flower beds, you can grow many plants in containers. Combine flowering plants with trailing plants to make a nice display of blooms with attractive foliage. Many vegetables can be grown in pots, such as a Patio Tomatoe. The plants you use for container gardening depend on the sun exposure for the area. The ladies at the Maple Street Greenhouse can help you with your all your planting/garden needs. Just drive out west on Highway 60 to the greenhouse and  “where great gardens begin”.

Purple Petunias

May Flowers

“Ordinary Things as Extraordinary Art”

Saturday May 16th 9:00am-4:00pm

Nowata Fairgrounds

Call (918)273-2301 for further information.

Art/Craft Marketplace

• 35 Booths of Handcrafted Art
• Door Prize Drawings

Patriotic Quilt Show

• Buckboard Quilts “God Bless America Exhibit”
• Provides Quilts for Wounded Soldiers

Is It Junk or Junque?

• Antique Appraisal Fair
• Appraisal Fee $3.00 per Item/2 for $5.00
• No Firearms, jewelry, paintings, large furniture
• Limit 2 Items per Person

Children’s Junque Arte Workshop

• Make & Take a Piece of Art
• Fun Artsy Activities for Children
• Make a Quilt Block to be quilted for the Patriotic Quilt Tour

Junque Turned Into Art

 ALSO ON MAY 16th!!!

Nowata Car Show

Jack Gordon Park (park right across the street from the Junque Arte Festival)

Call (918)273-2647 for further information.

Come enjoy the fantastic cars, food and good times.

 

Country Music Show

7:00pm

Green Country Showcase/123 N. Maple

Jack Ellis Theater

Call (918)273-2340 for further information.

Finish your fun day with the music show!

 

Oklahoma Wildflower Purple Thistle

The Nowata Area Chamber of Commerce has a box in their office for the project, Cell Phones for Soldiers.

www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com

Nowata Area Chamber of Commerce

126 S Maple

Nowata, OK 74048

(918) 273-2301

Office Hours: 9:00am-1:00pm Monday through Friday

Please drop off your old cell phones (that are taking up space in your desk drawer)for this very worthwhile project.

Click the above link to check out the details of the project.

 

            A Soldier’s Creed

I am an American Soldier.

I am a Warrior and a member of a team.

I serve the people of the United States, and live the military Values.

I will always place the mission first.

I will never accept defeat.

I will never quit.

I will never leave a fallen comrade.

I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills.

I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.

I am an expert and I am a professional.

I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.

I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

I am an American Soldier.

 

The Nowata VFW have some great activities and news for May, 2009. Everyone knows that freedom is not free and the members of the VFW have gone to war for our freedom. We all owe them a debt of gratitude and support.

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

Nowata VFW 2010 Officers

• Commander-Jerry Black
• SR Vice Commander-Kimberly Smoak
• JR Vice Commander-John Black
• Adjutant-Al Funston
• Quartermaster-Jim Hicks
• Service Officer-Dustin McClanahan
• Chaplain-Carrie Black
• Trustee-Bob Harvey
• Trustee-Marion Shook
• Trustee-Laura Dettle

The installation of the new officers will occur at the July monthly meeting.

Mother’s Day Brunch

• Day: Saturday, May 9th
• Time: 10:00 am to 2:00pm
• Location: VFW 747 South Maple
• Cost: Mothers are FREE! All other adults $5.00, Children 11-3 $3.00, Children under 3 FREE.

The menu includes pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruit, coffee and tea. Everyone bring all the Moms you know for a treat and help support the local VFW.

Continuing Education Scholarship Program

The local VFW will be awarding 3 scholarships this year to each of the High Schools in Nowata County-Nowata, Oklahoma Union and South Coffeyville. Each scholarship will be $250. Various fundraisers will be held throughout the year, so be sure to support those activities.

Nowata VFW May Entertainment Schedule

Band Night Cover Charge: $3.00 Single/$5.00 Couple       

Must be 21 or Older to Enter

Karaoke: Wednesday & Friday Nights 9pm-1am with Woody Walker

Wednesday is always Ladies Night

Music Entertainment: Every Saturday 9pm-1pm

May 2nd Sam Mensch/Classic Country

May 9th Stealin Country/Classic Country

May 23rd Barrel House Revealers/Red Dirt

May 30th Lickitty Split/Rocking Country

Nowata VFW

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

747 S Maple

Nowata, OK

(918) 273-0884

This is the press release sent to me by Billie Roane about the Spring Clean Up Day. I hope this event has a good turn-out!

Official 2009 Spring Clean Up Day in Nowata is Saturday, April 25

Plan now to be part of Oklahoma’s springtime statewide cleanup.

Teams, clubs and volunteers are encouraged to participate in Nowata’s participation in the 18th annual “Keep Oklahoma Beautiful” on Saturday, April 25, from 8:30-12:00noon. The event is Oklahoma’s Spring Clean Up and is being held in conjunction with the Great American Clean Up across the nation which runs from March 1-May 31, 2009.

The Nowata Beautification Committee, City of Nowata and Nowata Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the event for the day. Participating groups and individuals will gather from 8:30-9:00 am at the Jack Gordon Park to register and to receive street assignments for clean up and pick up trash bags and safety vests for highway collectors. Youth volunteers will need adequate adult supervision.

 

Everyone will meet back at the park at noon for a picnic and celebration to say thank you for an important job well done. And, there will be cash prizes given this year. Categories will include:

 

• Most Participants from a Spring Clean Up Day Group-$50.00

• Youngest Spring Clean Up Day Collector-$25.00

• Oldest Spring Clean Up Day Collector-$25.00

• Most Unusual Spring Clean Up Day Found Object -$25.00

 

Another opportunity for recycling will be the “Cell Phones For Soldiers” box that will be set up for everyone to bring their old cell phones and chargers which provides assistance for soldiers to keep in touch with loved ones.

The “rain date” for the Nowata event will be the following Saturday, May 2 at 8:30am.

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Form a group or come alone, but either way-Come join the fun and help make Nowata a cleaner place to live and help beautify the roadsides of Oklahoma!

For more information, contact Billie Roane at 559 2634.

Thanks, Billie!

Where Great Gardens Begin!

If you go west from Nowata on Highway 60, you will find a fantastic treasure, the Maple Street Greenhouse. If you are a gardener or know a gardener, this is the place to purchase anything & everything for the garden. Cherie Morgan and Diane Harper started their greenhouse business in 2002. The ladies at Maple Street know about gardening! If you have gardening questions or are looking for new, unusual and heirloom varieties of plants, they can help you.

Cherie and Diane do personalized plantings & color bowls; you can:

1. Bring your own pots and/or,
2. Chose your colors and/or,
3. Buy ready-made ones.

Color pots are great for front porches, decks, entry ways or to just enjoy!

Personalized Color Bowls & Plantings

Maple Street has a large selection of Mother’s Day plants and gifts. If your mother is a gardener, there are many items that she would love to receive from the greenhouse. I am sure she would love to visit  the Maple Street Greenhouses.

New, Unusual and Heirloom Varieties

 The Maple Street Greenhouses have nice Memorial Planters to commerate Memorial Day.

A water feature is always a very tranquil aspect of a garden and the Maple Street ladies can help you build one. There are water pumps and kits available.

Make a Water Feature for Your Garden

Have you been looking for vegetable plants? Well, hurry on out to Maple Street!

There is a huge variety of vegetable plants and bulk seed selection. One local gardener said “If they don’t have it, you don’t need it!”

• 80 Varities of Tomatoes 
• Cabbage
• Peppers
• Strawberry
• Rhubarb
• Sweet Potato Slips 
• And much more!

Locally Grown Strawberry Plants

Planning a herb garden? Be sure to check out the herb selection while you are at the Maple Street Greenhouse. In fact, have the ladies plant a herb pot for you; place it right outside your kitchen door for a few snips for cooking.

Purple Sage

The AHS Heat Zone is very important to consider when planting annuals. The AHS Heat Zone for our area is Zone 8, which means we get 90-120 days with temperatures over 86 degrees in the year. Cherie and Diane have selected and grown plants that flourish in this zone; so you do not have to worry about chosing the right plants. Annuals are a great addition to any landscape and add bursts of color. Maple Street Greenhouse carries the widest selection of annuals within 100 miles from here! They grow many specialty annuals.

Many Specialty Annuals

A whimsical piece of art or a wrought iron bench or plant holder can add just that touch to your garden that you have been wanting. Maple Street has that special piece!

Garden Art

 

Wrought Iron Garden Pieces

The Maple Street Greenhouse has a nice selection of bagged goods:

• Professional Potting Soil
• Mulches, Cedar
• Top Soil
• Cotton Burr Compost/for acid loving plants
• 10-20-10 Fertilizer
• Peat Moss
• Nature’s Blend/Great Soil Amendment

Mulches, Potting Soil, Soil Amendments

If you are wanting chemicals, fertilizers, insecticides, pruning paint, dog or deer repellent, etc., head out west to the Maple Street Greenhouse.

A Large Selection of Garden Needs

Shop for all your garden needs at The Maple Street Greenhouse!

Pink Verbena

Maple Street Greenhouse

Rt. 1 Box 396

Nowata, OK 74048

(918) 273-0078

Hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00am-5:30pm     Sunday 12:00pm-3:oopm

See you there!

Update sent to me by Billie Roane

Second Saturday Work Day-Nowata County Fairgrounds

Ten volunteers turned out to work at the Nowata County Fairgrounds, painting and cleaning in the north building . The group worked cleaning walls and floors, painting the walls, sanding and painting the metal doors and filling and taping off the floor cracks.

Two volunteers went to Double Creek Cove to finish painting the interior of the south bathrooms. Painting is now complete at Double Creek with all of the restrooms repainted inside and out, entrance sign painted, wood table tops replaced, boat dock poles and benches repainted.

At noon, the group was treated to charcoaled hamburgers, lemonade and homemade brownies at Jack Gordon Park. The volunteers crew included : Carroll Craun, Melanie Holdredge, Nancy Oglesby, Nita Wesson, George Briscoe, Jerry Roberson, Clay Marrs, Gage Milliman and Tom and Billie Roane

The May project will include finishing up the painting at the fairgrounds and working downtown removing the weeds and grass on the sidewalks. Anyone is welcome to come and work for a few hours making a difference in the appearance of Nowata and be treated to a picnic lunch. The day begins at 9:00am at the fairgrounds. For more information, contact Tom or Billie Roane at 559 2634.

Dogwood at The Savoy

 

 

 

 

 

I cannot find the words to express how appreciative I am for Billie Roane; she organized these 2nd Saturday Clean-Up days!  Tom and Billie Roane are great assets to our community; Tom is the Nowata City Manager and Billie is the Executive Director of the Nowata Area Chamber of Commerce. The couple believes in making a difference in the communities in which they live.

The first clean up day was at Double Creek Park on Oologah Lake in March. This month the site was The Nowata County Fairgrounds. I would like to encourage everyone to come to the Nowata County Fair, which is September 10-13, 2009. In fact, besides coming to the fair, please enter your art, sewing, baking, garden produce, houseplants, etc. There are open categories for anyone, no matter your age. I remember how exciting it feels to win those ribbons. I am going to enter something in the fair this year because the more entries there are the better the fair! While you are at the fair, look around at some of the improvements made on the April 11th & May 9th Clean-Up Days.

Nowata County Fairgrounds

 There were people painting, sweeping, filling cracks in the cement floor, vacuuming; generally working hard.

Nowata Citizens Working Hard

May’s 2nd Saturday Clean Up Day (may 9th) is a continuing clean-up at the Nowata County Fairgrounds. Bring your broom, dustpan, kneepads, paint rollers, paint brushes and pans (if you have any), if not, just bring yourself! Community service strengthens the entire community. It is well known that when a community is doing well as a whole, it’s individual citizens are better off. When you participate in civic betterment, it will make your life more enjoyable and the world more pleasant for everyone.

A Good Cleaning Crowd!

Isn’t this is what good citizenship is all about? Everyone has God given talents which can be shared with your community; no matter what your talents. It is a rich and supportive fellowship of people in a community that lend each other a hand in making the community better and more productive.

Friends Painting

On the south side of the Fairgrounds there is a pile of straw that gardeners can use for mulching; it is free. The leftover straw is from the Spring Livestock Show at the fairgrounds. Bring your pitchfork and get a load for your garden.

Free Garden Mulch

I am looking forward to joining the crowd cleaning the fair building on May 9th and I hope to see you there! The next time you are in the fair building, you will feel good that you had a helping hand in making Nowata better for the whole community. 

2nd Saturday Clean Up

 

Second Saturday Clean-Up Days

May 9th

9:00-1:00

Nowata Fair Grounds

For further information, please call Billie Roane at (918)273-2301.

Nowata has a group of dedicated firefighters/citizens who keep the fire watch here in Nowata County! Many of you have probably seen the news about the terrible grass fires and the loss of homes in the Oklahoma City area and Texas that have occurred this past week. My thoughts and prayers are with those fire fighters and the people  affected by the grass fires. The Nowata Fire Department, as well as, the other rural volunteer fire departments in the county have been out on many grass fires lately. There are only 4 paid fire department employees and the rest are volunteer in Nowata, which means that all are doing “extra duty”.  Here in Nowata, we can rest assured that there are group of reliable, hard-working fire fighters, both city and volunteer, that are ready at a moment’s notice to risk their lives to save our homes and lives.

Our Fire Chief is Mr. Randy Lawson.

What is a firefighter?
He’s the guy next door….
He’s a guy like you and me with warts and worries and unfulfilled dreams.
Yet he stands taller than most of us.
He’s a fireman….
A fireman is at once the most fortunate and the least fortunate of men.
He’s a man who saves lives because he has seen too much death.
He’s a gentle man because he has seen the awesome power of violence out of control.
He’s responsive to a child’s laughter because his arms have held too many small bodies that will never laugh again….
He doesn’t preach the brotherhood of man.
He lives it.
~Author Unknown

Nowata Fire Department

On April 11th,  the Nowata Fire Department Ladies Auxilary hosted a benefit breakfast for the NowataFire Department. The menu was Biscuits & Gravy and the cost was by donation. When I walked in the door, I was greeted by the delicious smell of baking biscuits and coffee. Those are two great smells in the early morning hours!  The dining room looked so nice and welcoming with the table cloths and a slide show of the various fire department activities.

Biscuits & Gravy Donation Breakfast

The 2009 Nowata Fire Department Ladies Auxilary officers are:

• Shena Guthrie – President
• Lisa Bright – Vice President
• Anita Riley – Secretary
• Amanda Belden – Treasurer

All the ladie’s husbands are fire fighters and Anita is a volunteer fire fighter, also. When those pagers go off in the middle of the night, often the whole family can be affected. These middle of the night calls can mean getting up to help fight fires or getting up with the baby who has woke up due to all the commotion in the house. Most of the volunteer firefighters have a “daytime” job to pay the bills,  so no matter when the call goes out, they must go.

The money raised from the fundraisers are used for various essential items, such as,

1. equipment
2. new tires for the vehicles
3. water and food out on the fire calls
4. food (addition to the donated food) for the community wide 4th of July celebration.

Some of the firefighting equipment got burned up in latest grass fires, so replacing that equipment is an absolute necessary action! Fighting any fire is dangerous so we want our firefighters to be completely and safely outfitted . These fundraisers are essential during this time of tight budgets for every department in the City of Nowata.

Nowata Fire Department Ladies Auxilary

In the past few years, NowataCounty has faced many different natural disasters, such as, the flood of 2007  and the ice storm of 2008. During these disasters, many of the dedicated emergency personnel lived at the fire department to make sure that everyone was safe and had the necessary items for living.

The next planned event for the Ladies Auxilary is an Appreciation Picnic for all the firefighters and their families. The picnic is planned for June 6th, 2009. I am asking that all citizens of Nowata County to consider helping their local fire department, whether it’s a few dollars or a few hours. When fire comes to call, whether it your neighbor’s house or your house, I know you will be thankful.

When fire is cried and danger is neigh,
“God and the firemen” is the people’s cry;
But when ’tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~Author unknown, from The Fireman’s Journal, 18 Oct 1879