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August events in Claremore!

RogersCountyFair22 Hip Chick’s Roadshow will be coming back to the Claremore Expo Center Saturday, August 1st, 9 am-5 pm. They have a great selection of boutique, re-purposed and vintage items to choose from! Admission is $4, children 12 and under free! Receive $1 off admission by bringing school supplies (all donated supplies will be distributed to Claremore schools).

Stop by and experience a Wild West Shoot Out at High Noon at the J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum on Saturday, August 1st! The Tri-State Gunfighters will also include a Wells Fargo robbery, Western 21 Gun Salute and deputizing of the kids that are there!

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High-rise hotel announced near BOK Center

Hampton Inn artist rendering

Hampton Inn: artist rendering

With enthusiastic elected, business and civic leaders attending; Pete Patel of Promise Hotels announced the company’s newest Tulsa project – a nine story 125 room mid-scale Hampton Hotel at the corner of Third and Cheyenne across the street from the BOK Center. It is the first high-rise hotel to be built in downtown Tulsa in 30 years.

Patel credits Tulsa County’s Vision 2025 infrastructure initiative for Downtown Tulsa’s revitalization saying he is delighted to build “the closest hotel to the BOK Center, which is the establishment that made this development and much of the downtown revitalization possible.”

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Free sport and camp physicals to open

KidsSportsTulMedExpress is opening its second neighborhood medical center in Oklahoma and first in Tulsa on Wednesday, July 8 at 2140 South Yale Ave. The new center will offer a wide array of urgent care, employer health and basic wellness services to help keep Tulsans healthy.

As a welcoming gift to the community, the center is offering free sports and camp physicals to patients ages five and up, July 8 – July 22.

“We’re excited to bring our patient-centered health care to Tulsa,” said Arlene Neal, MedExpress Regional Vice President of Operations for Oklahoma. “At MedExpress, the patient is always our primary focus. We treat your family like we would treat our own – with the highest quality care and consideration.”
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The Jay Leno Show – Hard Rock corruption?

JayLenoTickets went on sale Thursday at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa for an upcoming Jay Leno Show that is one of two shows mentioned in an email April 7, 2015 from Danny Finnerty Director of Entertainment at the Casino in which Howard Pollack was paid as a promoter for doing nothing.

As Tulsa Today covered in a previous story titled “Cherokee corruption revealed, oversight disinvited” Howard Pollack and his business partner’s wife are maximum contributors to Principal Chief Bill John Baker’s campaigns.

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Cherokee corruption revealed, oversight disinvited

Jeffery Pletcher

Jeffery Pletcher

News Analysis: On Wednesday June 17, Jeffery Pletcher, former senior director of marketing for the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa posted video testimony of political corruption he witnessed. In an exclusive interview with Tulsa Today, Pletcher said he has also provided this testimony and further documentation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cherokee National Gaming Commission and the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Danny C. Williams.

This comes one day after the Cherokee Election Commission informed the internationally recognized Carter Center of the decision by the Commission not to extend an invitation to observe the upcoming Cherokee elections.

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