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Collinsville, Oklahoma
Miscellaneous News
 March 15, 2005
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City officials indicated last week that the historic Collinsville swimming pool has been cleared for another season by the Health Department, but the long term continued use of the pool is doubtful. This discussion was part of a meeting with the citizens group making recommendations on spending Vision 2025 funds for city park improvements.
-- Ted 3/15/2005

Collinsville's community pool was built with mostly volunteer labor starting in 1954 and completed in 1958.

3 different views of the new class room addition at the Collinsville High School: The March 10th aerial view provided by Bruce Kern of Oklahoma Aerials shows the slab before the steel frame was added. The March 14th view is looking south from near the baseball field. The March 15th view is looking west from the entrance to the HS parking lot. (Previous Coverage)
High School Contruction / Spring Break /
Swimming Pool Aging / City Penalized /
Cherokee Language Class / Grad Pages
Collinsville Schools will be on spring break next week March 21-25.
26 people started a Cherokee language class Monday March 14th ...sponsored by the Victory Cherokee Organization.
3/14 Stranded Dolphin Update from Emily Wright
Revisions to the CHS tennis team's schedule were added to the March and April www.cvilleok.com calendar today. -- Ted

City Penalized

In the March 7th City Manager's report to the City Commission, Jim Whitlock indicated that the city had not satisfied the Oklahoma State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) consent order relating to operation of the sanitary sewer system. (Previous Coverage) The city failed to identify the source of some out of limit readings back in 2002 A $10,000 stipulated penalty for non-compliance is being held in abeyance pending faithful performance on the revised consent order. DEQ may impose a fine as high as $30,000.
Middle School construction progress.
(Aerial View)

The plan voted on a year ago.
Portions of the east wall at the new middle school building started going up March 9th.
The CHS Chorus will be putting on productions of "Guys and Dolls" May 9th
and 10th.
Individual cvilleok.com web pages for each 2005 CHS graduate are under construction. Parents and graduates are invited to submit photos and messages. Email to wrightted@aol.com or leave with Mrs. Bowman at CHS to be scanned and returned. An early version of the pages should be online before the end of April. Final updates will be made after graduation photos are available-- Ted Wright 3/15/2005