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2- The Elk City News July 6, 2022 Fiber we have put together a plan to expand our fiber network to Continued from page 1. reach the vast majority of the homes in these communities,” to their website, Dobson.net to said Jim Horsburgh, Chief register their addresses, and Strategy Officer for Dobson when they are eligible for ser- Fiber. vice the company will contact ‘There will be teams of sales them to schedule an installa- personnel coming to town to tion. sign homes and businesses up “We have two plans of ser- with service. They will have vice today. We have a $60 plan some people going door-to- that is 100 mg’s and then an door along with a business $80 plan, that is one gig. Our sales team talking to local busi- speeds are symmetrical, so nesses. you get the same upload and “The difference you have download speeds. We will also with our company is that we be offering by that time, a five are headquartered in Okla- gig plan and a 10 gig plan. Five homa. Our customer service, years ago, we didn’t think that when you call, you are talking we would need a one gig plan to someone in Oklahoma, “Steampunk Horse Head” is the name of this sculpture and now with streaming and same with our technical sup- that is made on its own stand. Staff photos by Sheryl Ponce. gaming, and everything else port, they are out of Oklaho- Once I built the building, it that we have, there are a lot of ma. Our technicians are local people that sign up on that one as well. So that’s one of the Haggard blossomed from there. I had gig plan so the network will be differences along with just our Continued from page 1. an opportunity to the things I was wanting to do,” Haggard able to handle future growth experience,” Clark said. continued, needs,” she continued. She also said that con- He doesn’t remember a At the time, H&H was lo- She also said that they do sumers will have a choice. The cated on south Main and 2nd specific time that he knew this not have a data cap. If a fam- greatest advantage is that they Street, where they had a large was what he wanted to do, but ily reaches a certain amount will be bringing a fiber network tire following. RadioShack it transitioned into what he one of his metal sculptures. of data a month, their speed to Elk City. franchises were becoming pop- was able to do when he got the will not be reduced. There is an “We're happy and so ular, having all of the accesso- right tools. He has always been unlimited amount of data with thrilled to see more Oklahoma ries and electronic parts. Hag- a painter, and he likes to paint, their service. communities having a higher gard wrote to them and ended but he loves the metalwork. “We've seen exceptional broadband. Everywhere, not up getting the franchise. “[ haven't painted in several customer adoption this year, just the metro areas, will have “It was about 1975 or 1976 years, but probably I’m going to that it (RadioShack) took place. go back to that medium. I'm 72 and we are thrilled to further service. That is something that our footprint in more mar- Dobson focuses on, is what we When it took place, it just kind years old and I can’t lift some kets across Oklahoma and Ar- call for, to go where they don’t of grew and blossomed, and stuff. When we go to shows, we ended up having the elec- we have a 12-foot by 16-foot tronics and tires together. We enclosed trailer, some of my kansas. While we have been have that one choice anymore. serving fiber internet business The small communities will remodeled that store twice, pieces weigh 500 pounds. customers in Clinton and Elk also be able to have fiber-op- trying to get enough room. Moving the stuff has become a City over the last several years, tics,” she concluded. real challenge. | mean I can see Finally, we couldn’t get it all in there, so my Dad bought the handwriting on the wall,” the old United grocery store, he said. Auditions whim, and she also is a Golden which is where I was when I Haggard goes to specific Ticket winner. finally retired (3rd Street). He shows every year. He meets a Mr. Salt is a 40 to 60-year- kept the store Iand ran it. That lot of people and that seems Continued from page 1. old male who is a wealthy Brit- is how we separated, and he fi- to be what he likes doing the ish statesman. He flaunts his nally retired. He would come in most. Golden Ticket winners. wealth and is father to Veruca, and help mealittle bit, but ba- “You meet 1000s of people, Mrs. Bucket is Charlie's shamelessly spoiling her. Mike sically once he retired, he was and sometimes opportunities done,” he said. come where you least expect mother, ages 30 to 45, who is Teavee isa 9 to 12-year old boy, nurturing and trying to be en- known to be obnoxious and hy- Haggard said that his fa- them. Like last year, I took a ther was the money and the piece up there that was a guy ergetic and positive. Her hus- peractive. He also won a Gold- brains behind the store, but riding a motorcycle. It was a band, Mr. Bucket is 30 to 45 en Ticket. Mrs. Teavee is a 35 he handled the technical end flat tracker, motorcycle kind of years old and is also nurturing to 50-year-old mother of Mike of it. Forty-five years after a steampunk style. Very large. and energetic. Grandpa Joe is who is permissive and clueless having H&H Electronics, he It’s probably eight feet long. a 60 to 80-year-old man who about her son’s antics. retired. His father passed away And I was really proud of it. It in 2006. did good. The city of Edmond is caring and patient. He is the Violet Beauregarde is a 9 Haggard got married and came in and bought that, loving grandfather to Char- to 12-year-old brassy, com- they started a family. He had they're building a sculpture lie and goes with him to Willy petitive girl. She takes every three children, a full-time busi- garden,” he said. ness, which left no time for his He also has one of his Wontka’s factory. chance she gets to show off, sculptures in front of Carnegie art. He tried to do alittle water Mrs. Gloop is a female from turning into a giant blueberry. color and painting, but Hag- Library in Elk City, and one in 35 to 45 years old. She is ahap- Her mother, Mrs. Beauregarde gard did not feel that he was the park in Canute. This has py German woman who has a is a 35 to 50-yea- old “helicop- very successful with it. special meaning to him be- large personality. She is a over- ter” mother. She indulges her “I've waited 45 years to cause his family is from the Ca- indulgent mother. Veruca Salt daughter's impulses. get back where I started when nute area. It is also a piece that I was 18, back to art. When I he researched for authenticity, is ana 10 to 19-year-old female The ensemble consists of was in school, Jack Elder was and is one of the only pieces who is wealthy and spoiled. kids, cooks, squirrels, and my FFA instructor. He taught that is realistic. He said that Her father gives into her every Oompa-Loompas. me how to weld. The school they (Canute) wanted it to last had shop classes back in those without rusting. Haggard went days, and we had an FFA shop to Shannon’s Body Shop, who “Steampunk Motorcycle Made from Singer Sewing Ma- that was way down on south reached out to the manufac- chine” is what this piece is labeled. It is mounted on the Washington. I would go down turer to find the right product. full base of an old sewing machine. there, he trusted me and gave He noted that Shannon Rodri- me the key. I would go down guez would not charge him for one piece may lead to some- seems to have comfort in the there at night and build stuff. the work, he appreciated how thing else. fact that they will outlive him. He was kind of a mentor forme professional and nice he was “You will see a piece and His does not think that what and taught me how to weld. It about it. you instantly see something he does is glamorous, coming Aunitable fou is kind where I started doing When Haggard starts a that you want to build from it. metal sculpture. I got interest- project, he doesn’t actually One single piece can lead to a out of his shop covered with ed in it and then put it on the know where it will end up ar- whole sculpture, just because it grease, grime, and scale. back burner. I went to college tistically. He searches Pinter- gives you an idea of something. OV and didn’t have an opportunity est and the internet for ideas. He may have an idea form or ‘The ideas are the biggest ob- “T brush, I clean, and when I come out of there, I’m just to pursue it. They had sculp- stacle that I have in my life in ture classes, but they didn’t shape of something he wantssculpting. Mechanically, once black. It is the creating that $50 $75 have the facilities to do what I to build. you learn how to weld and you excites me. When a product do. I did a little metal casting, “T usually have an idea ‘can use the tools, anybody can is finished or when you get using clay and things like that, what I want it to be, but you build it. But the ideas are the something done, you look at but I didn’t have metal. I didn’t have to keep in mind that I'm artistic side of it. You are look- have the opportunity to do the it and say, ‘I did that.’ I like to pulling parts and pieces froming at a composition, shape, metal,” he reported. what I call a bone pile. Tons and that sort of thing. I think do things that havea little hu- When Haggard was learn- and tons of pieces of metal, that comes with some scale. mor tone. I've got a piece in the 6 Months 1 Year ing to weld, he built things like of shapes that I've accumulat- ‘That is what you go to school museum now, that started out feeders and trailers, and he ed that mean nothing, they're and learn how to do. The first to be a tin man in the Wizard was not sculpting at the time. just junk, You really can’t make step is the hardest. Sometimes of Oz. I got halfway through When he went to the shop to two pieces the same, because Tl go out there, this sounds weld a project, he found pieces you don’t have the same ma- weird, sit for an hour or two it, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t that interested him in a junk terial. As I build these things, because I don’t know exactly be funny if the tin man has pile. where I want to go. I'm nev- written his book on how to “T was looking at them they take shape and form in er getting something accom- put himself together with all (USPS # 173-020) (the scraps), but I really didn’t my time. I'll have something, plished, and that’s not un- of these tools.’ The book he is know what I was doing. I was [ll cut it off and start over. But common. Once I get that piece 580-225-3000 just young and stupid, but it the way I do it is, I weld and started, or once I have an idea holding was originally going to Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC interested me. I liked the shape then I grind the welds down. .». that is when I go to town,” say the ‘Wizard of Oz,’ now it 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644-4736 and forms of things, and that I do the basics, the same thing he said. says ‘Mechanical Engineering’ Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 was kind ofinteresting. That is you could do if you just had ‘The fun part for Hag- Not everybody gets him,” Hag- where I got started. I did alittle clay that you're molding, ex- gard is when he is gets the after that, but I didn’t have a cept that, you do it with the piece 75 or 80 percent com- gard laughed. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PO Box 964, Elk City, OK 73648 He may be returning to the place to do it. When you weld, fingers. What I do is, I build pleted, He said that is when he you have to havea shop. You've these welds up, I get shapes makes the little details that set canvas, but for now he is con- SUBSCRIPTIONS got hot metal, you got to have and weld them together, and off a particular sculpture. He tinuingto weld his original and abig space, and you got to have I grind them and shape them. likes to do most of the sculpt- unique sculptures. They can be Deliverd by mail: Sheryl Ponce....Stafi Writer tools, welders, finger materi- It's just a much slower process. ing in the winter because of seen at the museum and can $75Iyearly Neva Pyatt...Adverising Director als, plasma cutters, and acety- It's a little more tedious,” Hag- the heat. He uses a meg welder $50/six months lene torches all that goes sec- gard said. that heats up his shop during be purchased. He was once fea- No refunds on subscriptions. Zadie Eakins...Advertising Director ondary. I mean, besides that, He is always hunting pieces the summer heat, but when it tured in “Is This a Great State D’Ann Brasuell..Production Manager it's expensive. You have to have of iron. He goes to Davis Iron is cold outside he is able to ac- or What?” It seems as though [email protected] the money to buy the stuff. So scavenging, as well as auctions complish more. it should be, “Is This a Great elkctynewsadvertising @gmail.com Nahka King... CSR/Delivery that’s taken some time to get and flea markets to find ma- Haggard has pieces all Artist or What?” Stop by the [email protected] to that point. We moved up terials, When he sees a piece over the state, including Mercy here to this house, and Jan let of metal he may instantly see Hospital. There are big piec- museum to see his display of me build a building back here. something, while other times es scattered all over, and he sculptures,