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Saturday, June 12, 2021 Weekend Edition Beckham County Sheriff’s Office is investigating of a For Elk City’s Aerial Bound, AAU Junior Olympics is the chance to soar into top medals the 2019-20 fiscal year. $17.2 million figure is with old with their parent’s assis- of what Ashleigh and these oth- couraging and uplifting atmo- in Erick five months ago and that the child’s information tance through the Mommy and er coaches are building. It’s an sphere! Our hope is to teach life Me program. Older students amazing was put into program. the You National Missing can re- and that lessons Unidentified Persons our athletes will can range up to high school stu- ally see the kids develop. We will carry through the rest of their dents. have some who come out who lives. We coach skills through “They also have divisions arewere verynot shyreleased when by theyour office - start regarding abecause progressions NAMUS entry technique based upon their skill level,” and then get to watch them gain and safe tumbling is our highest Gore detailed. “They don’t throw confidence as they succeed and importance! We trust the pro- a beginner who happens to be a get the support of Ashleigh and cess, and we do our very best to The district could not find little older in with students who the other students,” Gore stated. provide the coaching that each have been doing it for years. The Established in 2009, Aerial individual athlete needs. In a divisions are made up with a for- Bound Tumbling and Cheer season of our world where many mula that includes age and expe- lists its mission statement on things are uncertain, we pray rience,” Gore stated. its website, www.ecaerialbound. that our gym, our staff, and the The Aerial Bound athletes will net. Department of Human Services atmosphere officialswearehave created working will with the fiscal year ended. He head south to the AAU Junior “Our goal is to provide the Olympics for five days at the end safest training in the most en- See Olympics page 2. Hunt, payroll/insurance of July. to the current fiscal year, but “We don’t take any children 48 years, with 40 of with us unaccompanied. Their continues, and a final parents have to take them be- cause the week will just be so Left, Cloy Richardson is a 2021 state champion in all three events. Although she is barely busy. It is also very expensive thirty pounds, Gore said that she can masterfully perform feats that compare to athletes for the kids to go down there, so much older and bigger. Right, Cameron Fechner is a 2021 Oklahoma state champion in two they have all been active in our levels -- single and double mini-trampoline. While the majority of Aerial Bound’s athletes are fundraisers for this. We don’t girls, ther boys are also successful. Courtesy photos. have any currently going on for Later on Tuesday on the sheriff’s office FB page, Manning the Junior Olympics, but we do said sheriff’s officials had found documents that confirmed By Shonda Little we are preparing to head to the the state. Tumbling is like the expect to do something for the AAU Junior Olympics, which running back handsprings and Lincoln Teen Center. Since the flawless, Lincoln Teenand that is Center doesn’t closed for After the Covid-19 pandemic will be held in Houston, Texas, flips.” shut down numerous compe- this year. In order to go to na- The athletes have a runway the summer, we have moved our tition opportunities for the tionals, you have to be in the that is 105 feet long and five equipment into their building to young athletes of Elk City’s top ten in your division and feet wide through the rod floor train there for the time being. Aerial Bound in 2020, the team event at state. When we travel competitions. The Lincoln Teen Center is such of hard-charging, high-flipping down, there will be 26 kids go- On the trampoline competi- a great program for the commu- satisfied that the circumstances through which he came to ton – 1978, 1982 andof1984 – and oneeven state kids have been putting in long ing with us. Ashleigh owns the tions, they compete in both the nity. A lot people practice hours in eager anticipa- gym and is our leader. She has single trampoline and double know that it is down there, so don’t Elk City Commissioners tion of making up for lost time. created a great program. The trampoline events. we for been a coach want48toyears raise– a head awareness for football That passionate dedication success speaks for itself. We also coach for it,” “These are mini-trampolines. paid off for Aerial Bound at their have several other coaches who The kids also have a thing that 40 Gore years said. – and has an overall re Gore grew up in the Mustang approve next years budget cord of 307-147 and a playoff record of 44- area before moving to Elk City recent outing at the Amateur work hard with these kids to as- looks kind of like a runway. 24.They Athletic Union (AAU) Oklahoma sist Ashleigh. Each one of us is go at it running. On the single He played as anfootball at Oklahoma adult. She had neverState. been Elk City Police, Fire Department, “Our strength is going to increase dramati involved personally in tumbling cally,” he said. “The [players’] confidence in State Championship meet. happy to help Ashleigh, and the trampoline, they get one chance. Owned by lifelong Elk City kids accomplish their goals.” On the double trampolines, but said that she has a natural and EMTs to see a raise resident Ashleigh (Bonds) Aerial Bound is a gym that they get three chances. For the competitive streak. Her now Rheaume, Aerial Bound boasted focuses on tumbling and cheer- younger kids like the four-year- 10-year-old daughter Henlee By Shonda Little more state champions than any leading. olds, they may do the splits or a got involved when she was a tiny other gyms in Oklahoma. Not “We will be competing turn. The older competitors may three-year-old. The Elk City commissioners met for their regularly scheduled even the big city clubs of Okla- through the tumbling, which do flips or something like that. “This is what my daughter meeting at 7 pm Officials on Monday,County in Beckham June 7, have in thecut commissioner nearly $1 cham- million during an loves, interview so inwas it the natural athletic for office me at homa City and Tulsa could best includes the rod floor and tram- They then have to stick their bers at city hall. from their estimated budget this year, with the final them. poline competitions,” Gore said. landing perfectly on a mat,” to get involved as a coach. I love approval The meetingof the began2019-20 fiscal and with a prayer yearthenbudget cominglead a flag salute in by the “We had seventeen state “It is not the same thing as gym- Gore said. being around the kids, and we Commissioner Rick Shelton. champions,” explained Aerial nastics. Tumbling is what we Aerial Bound starts teaching are real involved in the church. The commissioners first held a public meeting as advertised Bound coach Sarah Gore. “Now primarily see out in this part of children as young as 18-months- I feel honored to get to be a part for the city’s budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. 2019-20 City isbudget Manager the search on toTom atIvester find their weeklythat noted an offensive meeting nobodyMonday. coordi seemed toThe fina have The accident any comments andOccurred just after that this process went6 p.m. in a hay field 3 quickly. over Mostto ofthe thosestate by thehad questions firstbeen of October. answered for the commis- Cain tried to prior repairwhen something under his 1986 Ford F350 Elk City Police arrests couple for assault sioners budget. excise The two weeks boardwas meeting gives open the they had finalpublic. to the a final meeting approval and signs off on it for the and battery against each other His starting date is the first Monday after our first phase of the CAPS get Ivester explained that the highlights for the upcoming bud- Hartman, started with Beckham County which he Beckham said was a County paySheriff’s raise in in donesaid officials County Clerk. the forOffice, Fire,Department, City Police ElkCarter April that anticipation changes of the Elk City Fire, in the upcoming budget contract with the Fraternal Order of Police. of Elk City. The second major highlight is that the Elk City Fire Depart- Villegas reportedly had stated that he received a ride home from tion scheme ment’s for the Elk firefighters and offense. EMTs with On thethe ambulance de would also re- a taxi service. ceive a raise and be put in a pay increase schedule similar to the “Mr. Villegas informed Ms. Parsons that he did not want anything police department’s. to do with her because she left him at the bar. During this argument, Theiscounty “This cutpay the first $998,696 schedulefrom thatits thebudget, Hartmanand fire department said Ms. Parson allegedly locked Mr. Villegas out of the residence,” the EMTs have had. It is a step schedule and will have levels depend- officer reported in the court documents. ing upon the years that they have in. It will closely resemble the Villegas then said that he contacted a neighbor who lived in a department police or every department’s,” official Ivester gives their estimate of what explained. nearby house but who was out-of-town. Villegas obtained permis- they’re said Ivester needing for pay that the the year,” increase forHartman said. the three “Theof Elk groups excise sion from the man to stay in his home. City first responders will be approximately 5%. Villegas reportedly told the officer that Parsons could attempted stay on the floortothe gain Ivester also noted that tax revenues had been down for Elk entry into the neighbor’s home through the dog door on the back- City in the previous year by approximately 8%. side of the house. “It was not down as much as had been anticipated. We had a.m. with Hot Hash and “Mr. Villegas informed me that he kept trying to push Ms. Parsons braced ourselves for as much as 20%. We have recently seen an out of the dog door,” the officer added. “We uptick in don’t those know numbers those figures but are yet,” she cautiously said. within planning “We’reit,” kind Villegas pointed to what the officer described as “several recent Ivester said. Parsons Villegas injuries.” Additionally, the city will significantly increase the spending “I observed a cut (which was later determined to be a bite mark) year the within before anddepartment streets current year figures and the and help the county landfill. on Mr. Villegas’s right forearm. I also observed scratches on Mr. Vil- The streets department’s funding comes out to approximately By Shonda Little “But we’ve legas’s right arm and scratches on both knees,” the officer stated. $1,000,000, and made 20 percent the landfill comes out cuts; some offices to roughly $1,200,000. While the reporting officer was speaking to Villegas, a second Ivester approximated that the increase equates to about 60- According to a probable cause affidavit, Elk City Police Depart- ECPD officer arrived at the scene. 70% for each of those two city departments. ment officers A fire thatwere dispatched burned to the 100 the Team Chipblock TaeofKwon Thorton Lane at get those final figures from them, it’s Villegas then told the officer that his phone had been dead and None of the remaining departments sawkind any of wait andde- significant approximately 2:46 am on May 30. DoECPD The building Tuesday dispatchers afternoon had received a call in thea 1400 about possible domes- that he was trying to charge it. Villegas expressed to the officer that creases in funding. Commissioners remained gave their final approval for the figures tic assault and battery. he wished that he had been able to a definite record the date set for incident, thethe report “They are static or had a slight increase,” Ivester ad- states. vised. Upon arrival, the reporting officer contacted a male subject who first weekendhis in November. Ivester noted that the city would be making major capital im- wasfire chief for previously thetoElk known City Fire the officer Department. as Jose (Joe) Villegas,No a 46-year- Villegas also indicated that he began charging cell phone and provements, namely purchasing five new police vehicles for ap- oldinjuries man listedoccurred. as a Leedey Two people in the build resident. that, when it was charged up, he began recording Parsons. there, at least one and account in pump there,”for the Hartman Villegas reportedly claimed that when Parsons realized that he proximately $300,000 a water watersaid. plant for ing escaped Villegas informedunharmed. the officer thatThe main he and his part live-inofgirlfriend the had been at occurred the Palace Nightclub, located on heater the 2800area.block of E. High- was recording her, she acted like she passed out on the back porch. Hartman could not provide an exact figure. The public fire in the hot water 75 children this year. Villegas then That figure law contacted was up from 40 lastHe enforcement. year. also alleged that, See Commission page 2. way 66, when she left him there. $12,130. Thegirlfriend insurance company also is investigating. His was identified as 30-year-old Alisha Marie Parsons See Arrests page 2. Weather Vol. Vol. 119, 117, No.No.547 Mail delivery Home delivery View online View online tomorrow 99/70 98 / 72 75 cents, 128pgs. 75 cents, pgs. 580.225.3000 580.225.3000 elkcityoknews.com elkcityoknews.com