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Will Rogers once said, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Thanks to solid and progressive community leadership, Ada has been on the right track since its inception in 1901.

Now our history hasn’t always been roses, in fact, our past was thorny from time to time. We’ve faced uncertainty about the future of our community, but our drive to succeed has pulled through even the darkest days. As of late, Ada has continued to thrive when other parts of the country have stumbled.

Ada has grown and flourished by remaining true to the American values in which our country was founded. The belief that hard work and determination can make even the impossible possible has been at the root of some of our community’s greatest stories many of which have been left untold until now.

Have you heard the story about how a car accident created a $650 million international company? What about how a fourteen year old boy took money earned from a paper route and created one of the most respected companies in its industry? Or the one about a group of economic developers, before economic development was a catch phrase, who worked together to bring a business to town that’s been one of the Ada’s largest employers for over 100 years? Or how leadership and determination to succeed grew an organization from 250 employees to one of the largest employers in the State? These are just a few of the

stories that will be highlighted in future editions, but before we celebrate Ada’s past, we should take a glance at Ada’s future outlook.

Economic outlooks and projections are based upon previous trends and market analysis, thus imperfect. Based on information gathered from the past both during and pre-recession, the Ada Jobs Foundation has developed an Outlook 2011 for the Ada area.

Outlook 2011The size of the Ada labor force will

continue to grow in 2011, an increase of at least 0.7% is projected. Ada’s unemployment rate will continue to decrease in 2011. The rated declined by 2.8% in 2010, and we should expect a similar decrease in 2011. The size of the labor force and the unemployment rate are impacted by the number of jobs in the area. Projections for job growth in the county are as high as 3% for 2011. The majority of job growth is projected to occur in the following industries: Government, Other services (except public admin.), Mining Quarrying and Oil and Gas Extraction, Manufacturing, Accommodation and Food Services, and Finance and Insurance.

Retail Sales are projected to increase slightly during 2011. During 2010, retail sale continued their decline by 1.6%, which was much less than the 3.6% decline experienced in 2009. Ada’s retail sales have been hurt because several national retailers closed their operations,

including profitable stores located in the area. The last six months of 2010 showed positive retail sales growth, and we expect this growth to continue.

The value of building permits issued by the City of Ada is also projected to increase. The value of permits issued in 2010 increased by 91.2% from 2009, but the projected growth for 2011 is 31%.

Wages will also continue to increase in 2011. The median county wage increased by 0.88% in 2010. A similar increase is projected in 2011 as well.

Ada’s future is bright; we are on the brink of something great. We can feel it, as our economic development predecessors felt it before. There’s something coming around the next bend; just beyond the horizon. The only thing that can slow our progress is ourselves and a fear of change. Growth means change and change involves risk; willingness to go from the known to the unknown.

Change is inevitable, and only communities that adapt and make the necessary changes will continue to grow and prosper. Ada is undergoing a transformation, which will not only make us a growing community in 2011, but also one in 2035 and 2050. Like their predecessors before them, our community leaders are working hard to build the community we need to be in the next fifteen to fifty years. We are on the right track, but we’ve got to insure we keep moving and growing at a steady pace or other communities will overtake our progress and run us over. ■

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There’s only one direct lender in town who will see a mortgage loan from application to final payment without all those high fees that lenders routinely charge. Tyler Thompson, former real estate agent, opened his Wells Fargo office a year ago.

“Secondary market lenders are the middleman in the lending process and they charge fees for their services. Wells Fargo pays their loan officers so we don’t have to charge heavy fees to our customers,” said Thompson. “We don’t charge origination point and origination fees which can vary between hundreds or thousands of dollars. That’s money you can keep with Wells Fargo.”

Additionally Thompson can originate a loan anywhere in the United States so even if a customer moves, he’s still the go to guy. “Most people don’t realize that after they close on a loan, about 45 days later it will be sold and they’ll never be serviced by their mortgage broker. We don’t sell our loans,” said Thompson. The company’s reputation precedes them as the number one rated mortgage lender in America for the last fifteen years. “We service one in four mortgage loans.”

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programs, there is also a medical mission which goes to Haiti every four months in order to give the treatment that cannot otherwise be received. Dr. Dennis began by going to the orphanage as a worker, but now treats the sick and injured, some of whom have never been to the doctor before.

Dr. Dennis and his family, however, are not the only Ada residents to have an involvement with Haiti. When asked, he estimated that about 200 have now been helping in Haiti, including many other doctors and medical professionals in the area. Bruce and Sheri laugh as they recall the strangeness of seeing random strangers in Haiti wearing shirts that support the Ada Cougars. “As far as they’re concerned, Ada could be like Chicago or New York,” Bruce says. Smiles fill their faces as they reminisce about the warmth and kindness of the Haitian people—a joy that contradicts all we think we know about hunger and poverty. Personal space is not something they even think about; they want to be close to other humans—distance is something foreign and even rude to them.

If one wants to go to Haiti to help, the orphanage always has projects that need completion. However, if you want to help, but are not able, monetary support is always welcome. It costs between $1,000

and $1,500 dollars for one person to go, including all of their expenses. There are times where a student wants to do projects at the orphanage, or a nurse wants to work in the medical mission, and this is impossible because of finances. This is where monetary support can have some of its greatest impact. If you are interested in volunteering or donating money, you can contact the Southwest Church of Christ (for the orphanage) at http://swcocada.com, the Haitian Christian Foundation (for the preaching school) at http://haitianchristianfoundation.org, or the medical mission through Dr. Bruce Dennis or the Fittstown Church of Christ at PO Box 25, Fittstown, OK, 74842.

The impact of these missions affects not just the Haitians, but the volunteers as well. Sheri Dennis explains this well when she talks about an experience she had in 2000. A woman was dying of breast cancer. She had had no treatment whatsoever and moaned in pain within her house of concrete blocks. Her husband sat by her bedside and read scripture, praising God, and speaking with Sheri. She was taken aback, thinking, “He had such great faith among this great darkness, and he can be encouraging me?” She was never the same. ■

imagine living in a world where you see a doctor once every fifteen years. Taking one hour to drive ten miles. Living with fifteen other people in a house the size of a family room. If you lived in Haiti, you would be lucky to see a doctor, have

transportation, and live in a house as nice as that--and this was even before the devastating earthquake in 2010. Despite all of this hardship, though, the people seem happy, even joyful, because they are truly grateful for every small miracle and see blessings in every action. Though we have the power to change their lives for the better, it is difficult to say who is transformed more—the Haitian people or those who choose to help. The family of Dr. Bruce and Sheri Dennis is a perfect example.

In 2000, members of the Southwest Church of Christ decided to take a group of college kids to Haiti to help with their mission work. Bruce and Sheri Dennis were invited to come along as sponsors. Their lives would never be the same again. Since that first trip they have both gone back countless times and have taken their children as well. They even had the wonderful opportunity to adopt a Haitian boy seven years ago. Ryan is now nine and wears a beautiful smile.

Ada has a long history of involvement with Haiti. In 1988, Ada resident Reese Scott began the Cap Haitien Children’s Home, an orphanage for the many disadvantaged children in Haiti. When the Dennis family first went to Haiti, it was to help with this orphanage and also the affiliated Center for Biblical Training, a preacher-training program in Cap Haitien. Since 2000, however, much has changed. In 2009, the Haitian Widows program was begun, allowing the missionaries to care for both the youngest and the eldest—those who need help the most. Now, in addition to these three

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If you’ve been to a baseball game in southern Oklahoma at any time during the past 30 years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Jimmy Davis or Frank Kiser – or possibly both – calling balls and strikes behind the plate. That’s because these two long-time umpires have been working doubleheaders for more than three decades, braving Oklahoma’s extreme weather in one of the most thankless professions connected with sports.

“There’s not a lot of young people getting into umpiring anymore,” Kiser said as he began his 34th year behind the plate. Kiser also coached and taught school at Latta, Byng, Vanoss, Stonewall, Asher and Coalgate. “I think some of them are sort of worried about having to deal with coaches, but I think a lot of it is that there are just things that are easier to do. Umpiring takes a lot of time, and it can be a lot of work,” he said.

Davis – like Kiser – started umpiring for pay in 1977, referees basketball in addition to his umpiring duties. They do get paid, but neither of them do it just for the money. Davis said he keeps working the games because he loves the atmosphere and the association with young people.

“They (basketball and baseball) are both great sports, and working the games gives me a chance to kind of stay in shape,” Davis said. “But I also love the kids and being around them and taking

part in the sport. It’s been a lot of fun and it’s something I love doing.”

Kiser and his wife, Susan, have two daughters, as so Davis and his wife, Nancy. Both also have grandchildren.

Kiser is 63, while Davis is in his 50s, but both men continue to work as many as 50 to 60 games per season. In southern Oklahoma, many schools play baseball in both the fall and the spring, meaning Davis and Kiser spend nearly half the year on the baseball diamond. That’s a lot of wind, a lot of sun and – sometimes – a lot of listening to fans complaining about nearly everything they do.

“That’s just part of the game, and you have to understand that when you go in,” Davis said. “There are always some who are on you about anything they can find, but for the most part, people understand how difficult umpiring is and how they sure wouldn’t want to be doing it themselves.”

Kiser’s first game was when he was a teacher at Latta in 1977, when he was convinced by one of the coaches to umpire games during a fall baseball tournament. Davis worked his first high school varsity game that same year at Byng High School. Since then, the two have worked thousands of games across the state, including regional and state tournaments.

When it comes to the Oklahoma weather, Kiser said he remembers one

particular outing when he worked a baseball festival in Coalgate very early in the spring season. The weather wasn’t great for outdoor activity, but Kiser said they managed to struggle through the weekend despite bitter cold.

“Oh man, I remember it was really cold and windy and it was sleeting,” Kiser said with a laugh. “It had to be in the low 30s or something like that, and I thought I was going to freeze to death, but we just played through it.”

Because they’ve been calling games for so many years, both have had the chance to umpire for what sometimes turns out to be three generations of the same family.

“I guess that’s when you know you’ve been around a long time,” Davis said. “The years kind of get away from you, but then I see a lot of the time a man whose games I used to call, and I find out his son is playing. There have been even a few times when I find out that man has a grandson playing, and that’s when you really know you’re old,” he said.

Davis said he doesn’t have any immediate plans to stop working games, but Kiser said this spring and next fall may be his last “hurrah.”

“This coming fall would put me at 35 years, and I think that may be plenty,” Kiser said. “I’ve enjoyed it and I’m sure I’ll miss it, but it’s just about time for me to hang ‘em up and let somebody younger take over.” ■

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It all began with the ice storm in January 2002. A young woman bundled herself and her one-month-old infant against the elements and made the trek, on foot, to the Red Cross. She was in desperate need of diapers. Not having diapers on hand, the workers began to call the local churches, to see if anyone could help. Father John Norvell, the priest at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, received the call and dropped off the necessary item, but this incident stayed with him. Poverty is a devastating and growing problem in our community. As a local church, it was time to act. After surveying the other programs available in the county, it was determined that the most good could be done by providing food to those who need it most. Thus the Matthew 25 Mission began.

What began with one woman’s lonely trek across the ice became a project for the entire community. The Matthew 25 Mission refers to the corresponding Bible verse, “I was hungry and you fed me.” That is exactly what they do. The third Thursday of every month, volunteers gather to distribute bags of groceries. Each person gets one bag of canned goods and one of dry staples. In addition to these, perishables (like meat, cheese, milk, and fruit) are given as supplies last. In order to receive these gifts, you simply need to show up, provide a photo id, and proof of address (since they can

only afford to serve residents of Pontotoc County). There is no judgment; hard times can fall on any one of us. In the beginning, the volunteers consisted of St. Luke’s parishioners, and 55 families were served. Now that the operation has grown into a community wide effort, 250-300 families a month are able to receive assistance. Some start lining up as early as one in the morning, to make sure that they might receive the items that go quickly. They arrive by car, on foot, motorized scooter, or even lawnmower.

The Matthew 25 Mission has become it’s own entity, incorporated and recognized as a satellite agency of the Regional Food Bank. Each month, 4-5 tons of food are delivered to the church as a semi-truck pulls up 17th Street. The community involvement begins before the truck even arrives, though. Coca-Cola has donated refrigeration and carts. Apple Market provides monetary donations. Local businesses hold food drives. Individuals make their own contributions. But this is only the beginning.

Volunteers arrive early Wednesday morning to unload the truck, double sack plastic bags, stack the food, and fill the sacks, getting everything ready for the coming morning. The next day, volunteers once more arrive to distribute the food. Though many from St. Luke’s are involved, this is a Mission that has

garnered the support and respect of the community. The First United Methodist Church provides volunteers, as does McCall’s Chapel. Some students at ECU receive course credit. Leadership classes at the high school are a huge help, making a process that could last well into the evening end in the early afternoon. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church provides sack lunches for all those who come on Thursday. For Spring Break, when many of the regulars will be gone, the First Baptist Church at Wynnewood is bringing in volunteers to help. A Parish in Woodward, hours away, helps in the summer months. One Boy Scout is even earning a merit badge by keeping inventory of the stock.

Poverty affects all of us, directly or indirectly, and we can all be subject to hunger. Some who need assistance live with disabilities, some are elderly. A large portion, however, are those in crisis. They have just lost their jobs, or perhaps suffered a medical emergency. They need assistance for a few months, just until they get back on their feet. Many times, those who have been helped return to volunteer. And there are many ways to help. Financial donations are, of course, appreciated, but also food and plastic bags. Your own time and energy as a volunteer is always welcome, as are your prayers. For more information, contact St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, (580) 332-6429 or at [email protected]. ■

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