Robert Ross, co-founder of the Interurban Restaurant and the Urban Management Incorporated restaurant group, died on Tuesday. Ross, a father of six, died after a long battle with cancer. He was 72.
Known as "The Rosser" thanks to long-running radio ads with Dean Blevins, he and career-long partner Rusty Loeffler launched the first Interurban concept in 1976. They first met in second grade.
“We went to Sunday school together at Crown Heights Christian Church,” Loeffler said. “But we really became friends waiting tables together at Steak and Ale in 1969.”
Seven years later, they partnered with Rusty’s father, Frank Loeffler, to turn Norman's old Interurban line terminal into the Interurban Eating House.
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Dec 20, 2020
Swamped with inquiries about building on Capitol grounds monuments from groups ranging from PETA to Flying Spaghetti Monster advocates, the State Capitol Preservation Commission
The Commission said it had been swamped with requests from groups including Hindus, Satanists and Church of the Dude.
In October 2015, workers removed the Ten Commandments monument from state Capitol grounds after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the privately funded monument was religious in nature.
Here s a look back at the Oklahoma s Ten Commandments monuments at the state Capitol, Haskell County and LeFlore County courthouses:
Haskell County Ten Commandments
Haskell County Commissioners Sam Cole (left) and Henry Few at the Ten Commandments monument in front of the Haskell County Courthouse back in November 2004. The men are two of the three commissioners who approved the placing of the monument. Tulsa World File
West Alexandria news
By Mary Lunsford - West Alexandria correspondent
WEST ALEXANDRIA Birthdays this week: Curtis Early, Claire Napier, Rex Wysong, Eldon Barnhart, Kent Campbell, Michele Roell, Rhonda Baker, Tracy Johnson, Madison Linder, Dylan Hensley, Jean Beneke, Tommy Byrd, Devin Smith and Mindy Daniel.
Anniversaries this week: Jim and Shirley Jellison, Mark and Vickie Unger
Santa Villa Open House
Santa will be available from 5-7 p.m. at Santa Villa in Peace Park for visits with your children on the following dates: Saturday, Dec. 12, and Sunday, Dec. 13. Each child who visits Santa will receive a bag of gifts. Please note that due to COVID-19, children will not be able to pick out their own gifts this year and families may be waiting outside.