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THURDAY, MAY 18

HOOKS 4, DRILLERS 1

Drillers: Eddys Leonard 2-4; Jose Ramos 1-3; Diego Cartaya 1-4, 2B, R.

Hooks: Will Wagner 2-4, 2 2B, RBI; Joey Loperfido 2-4, HR, 2 RBI, R; Kenedy Corona 1-4; Colin Barber 1-3, 2B; Chad Stevens 1-3, R; Aaron Brown (W, 2-1) 4 IP, 3 H, 6 K.

Highlights: Joey Loperfido powered the Hooks with a two-run home run in the eighth inning to help secure the club's fourth consecutive win and third straight against the Drillers at Whataburger Field. Loperfido's blast provided some insurance with Corpus Christi holding on to a 2-1 lead. Aaron Brown pitched the final four innings for the Hooks and earned the win by delivering four scoreless innings with six strikeouts.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17

HOOKS 1, DRILLERS 0

Drillers: Jose Ramos 1-2.

Hooks: Jose Altuve 1-4; Drew Gilbert 1-4, R; Chad Stevens 1-3, 2B; Joey Loperfido 1-3, 2B, RBI; Garrett Wolforth 1-3; Julio Robaina (W, 3-2) 6.1 IP, H, 10 K.

Highlights: Julio Robaina delivered the start the Hooks needed to capture their second consecutive win against the Drillers at Whataburger Field. Robaina delivered 6.1 innings, allowing one hit with 10 strikeouts as Corpus Christi won its third consecutive game and moved to 15-20 on the young season. Joey Loperfido connected on the Hooks' lone RBI on a double in the sixth inning and Diosmerky Taveras and Tyler Brown pitched 2.2 scoreless innings in relief to secure the win. Astros' second baseman Jose Altuve went 1 for 4 in his second start at second base after connecting on a single in the eighth inning. Altuve also reached on an error in the sixth.

TUESDAY, MAY 16

HOOKS 7, DRILLERS 3

Drillers: Jose Ramos 2-4, HR, 3 RBI, R; Eddys Leonard 2-4, 2B, R.

Hooks: Jose Altuve 0-5, K; Quincy Hamilton 2-4, HR, 3 RBI, R; Drew Gilbert 1-4; Kenedy Corona 2-4, 2 RBI, 2B, R; Chad Stevens 2-4, 2 RBI; Rhett Kouba 5 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 7 K.

Highlights: The Hooks overcame allowing a three-run home run in the first inning to open their six-game series against the Drillers with a victory at Whataburger Field. Quincy Hamilton tied the game on a three-run home run in the fourth inning and Chad Stevens followed with a two-run single to give Corpus Christi a 5-3 lead. The Hooks added two more runs in the fifth on a two-run double by Kenedy Corona. Rhett Kouba earned the win for Corpus Christi after throwing five innings, allowing two runs and striking out seven. Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who was continuing his rehab stint with the Hooks, finished 0 for 5.

TULSA, Okla. — As summer break approaches, parents of school age children have an option for providing their kids with nutritious meals this summer, at no cost.

During the pandemic years, many families got used to the “grab and go” concept when it came to picking up summer meals. But that’s changing this year.

FOX23 spent the lunch hour with Bradyn Powell, Union Public School’s associate director of child nutrition, who said this summer, they’re going back to their traditional summer food service program.

With the school year winding down, Powell wants to make sure no child goes hungry this summer.

“We want them to have that quality meal, some of them that’s the only meals they get each day and we want to make it as nutritious as possible because we know it’s not nutrition until it’s in your body," he said.

Powell said they’re here to support families, not just during the school year, but year-round.

Beginning June 5, Union Public Schools will offer it’s summer food service program free of charge, to any child aged 18 or under. The meals must be consumed on site. Curbside meals will no longer be offered.

We caught up with single mother of five, Ondrea Kingfisher Hawkins, who was at home Thursday afternoon with her three adopted sons King, David and Darius.

She also has two foster kids. She remarked that she sees the return to the traditional summer food program as a win-win for parents.

“I like that we’re going back to like the kids are able to go in the school to socialize, so they have that two aspects of getting nutrients that they need as well as being able to see some kiddos that they went to school with,” Hawkins noted.

We also reached out to Tulsa Public Schools and learned that they will be launching their summer school food service program on June 1 and Owasso Public Schools will launch their program on May 30.

We also learned that the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma has a summer feeding program.

For more information on their summer feeding sites or pantry locations just click here.

TULSA, Okla. - Amnoni Myers arrived in Oklahoma in Nov. 2021 through the Tulsa Remote program. Now, she is preparing a collaborative fashion show event called “Threads of Change,” through the Builders + Backers Idea Accelerator powered by Heartland Forward program.

The event will also serve as a fundraiser for foster care and Myers will be giving back to other kids in the system locally. All support raised from a sneaker raffle will be going to Youth Services of Tulsa.

The month of May happens to be National Foster Care Month and Myers who was born in Boston was raised in the foster care system.

“After finding my belongings waiting for me on the porch in black trash bags, I knew I had aged out of the foster care system with little direction and support,” said Meyers.

She decided to work toward advocating for better policies on Capitol Hill and the White House during the Obama Administration.

Then, Meyers found herself facing one of the most darkest moments in her life.

“I lost my little sister and best friend to suicide. Before she passed; she said to me, “Sis, always remember that you are the prize,” said Myers.

In January 2022, Meyers published, You Are the Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma, which was inspired by her sister’s words of wisdom.

“This fashion show is a homage to those who’ve been affected by the foster care system, and homelessness by bringing awareness to the struggles and successes of us as people!” said Myers.

Collaborating with Myers on the event is Jamar Torres who also arrived in Oklahoma in Nov. 2021 as part of the Tulsa Remote program and is also a fellow participant in the Builders + Backers and Heartland Forward programs.

Torres was also born in Boston, and in the same hospital as Myers was born.

“Our birthdays are only a week apart and we also connected through Black Queer Tulsa,” said Myers.

"It’s crazy that we met in Tulsa but not in Boston despite being born in the same year, hospital and growing up in similar neighborhoods," said Torres.

Torres will be leading a live aromatherapy workshop with his project Live Vibe Dream Reflect, LVDR during the cocktail hour.

"LVDR is a reflection of my family roots - Black American and Puerto Rican. No matter where life carried us, we always had self-care rooted in our daily lives through these aromas that center us spiritually, mentally, and just for all the good vibes," said Torres.

Myers says the self-care and love that LDVR will be bringing to this event aligns with the message of self-worth and being and knowing you are the prize.

“So thankful to be collaborating with Jamar on this!” said Myers.

Friends of Myers from the community will be taking to the runway this Friday, May 19, posing in t-shirts and hats designed by Myers herself.

The fashion show and aromatherapy workshop will take place at the Dennis R. Neil Equality Center, downtown. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m.

“The event is ticketed at $25, but with the discount code, 'youaretheprize' they will get $5 off,” said Myers.

Threads of Change is a full-circle moment for Myers. It means the world to her and her fellow collaborator and now friend for life, Torres.

“It means that we can dream beyond our past and current realities of trauma by coming together and celebrating our accomplishments as builders and backers,” said Myers.

TULSA, Okla. — Plans to build a new Route 66 Interpretive Center on "Cry Baby" Hill across the street from the Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza have been put to a stop.

It's a story FOX23 News first reported on last May and there was a lot of excitement about Sharp Development's plan that would have capitalized on Tulsa's ties with Rt. 66.

Artist renderings of the proposed mixed-use development featured a 40-room hotel and classic car vending machine, much to the delight of those on the selection committee like Dennis Whitaker, a Senior Planner of Special Programs for the Tulsa Planning Office at INCOG.

"I don't know that any Route 66 attraction across the eight states would have that kind of a high-profile unique amenity where you could rent a classic or antique car and select it and drive it around the area and see all of the touristy Route 66 amenities," said Whitaker.

Whitaker said the scale of the mixed was such that it would not have overwhelmed the neighborhood in terms of height.

He said Sharp Development reached out to him last week to let him know they were withdrawing their proposal.

On Thursday, FOX23 received a statement from Kimberly Honea, the Vice President of Hospitality and Development.

"We made the mistake of submitting a project that simply cost far more than it would ever be worth after further future construction analysis of project costs," said Honea.

Sharp Development's proposal was one of four that the selection committee looked at last year before selecting their ambitious proposal that would have also included apartments, retail and a large terrace with an amphitheater overlooking the Arkansas River.

"It was a disappointment," said Whitaker. "When you add to the remarkable features that they brought in their concept illustration and the fact that they're just such wonderful people to work with and you build those relationships over time. It's a disappointment."

He said he respects them and the reliability of their data and their decisions and that they have been great Tulsa partners in many other facets in Tulsa.

On Thursday, FOX23 also spoke with a townhome owner who's lived next to the site for 30 years.

She remarked that this isn't the first time plans to develop the site have fallen through. When asked about future development, she said she'll believe it when she sees it.

The takeover of the eateries formerly known as Zoe's Kitchen by Cava in Tulsa is complete, now that the Brookside location has made the transition from one Mediterranean-inspired menu to another.

The change in ownership officially happened in 2018, but with COVID-19 restrictions and hardships, it's taken awhile for all 261 Zoe's Kitchens in the country to become Cava restaurants.

My companion and I decided to sample a couple of items during a visit to the newest Cava, 3629 S. Peoria Ave.

The menu is more compact at Cava than what Zoe's Kitchen offered: eight bowl meals, plus a build-your-own option that can have greens, grains or both as the base ($10.35-$13.95); and four pita-wrapped sandwiches, plus a build-your-own ($10.35-$13.95).

To keep things simple, we choose to go with the Lemon Chicken Bowl and the Crispy Falafel Pita ($10.35 each). Drinks are either self-serve fountain drinks or specialty lemonades; some bottled and canned beverages, such as sparkling waters, are also available.

The Lemon Chicken Bowl included a generous amount of chicken, along with dollops of a red pepper hummus and a spicy concoction called Crazy Feta, along with sweet pickled onions, halved cherry tomatoes, chunks of cucumber, crumbled feta cheese, what at first looked to be black beans but was in fact lentils, spinach and romaine lettuce leaves, in a preserved lemon vinaigrette.

The vinaigrette had a good balance of sweet and sour, and the diversity of texture meant that no two bites were exactly the same. My companion especially liked the pickled onions, which were more sweet than tart.

"Is this for here, or to go? Because it'll make a difference how I wrap this up," said the young woman behind the counter. I have a feeling that however she chose to assemble and secure this thing, it was going to be difficult to eat.

The pita used as the wrap was, while pliable, quite thick and of serious diameter. I tried hefting the thing to take a bite, realized quickly that this way madness lies, and chose instead to deconstruct it.

The five falafel balls managed to retain their structural integrity and contained the odd whole chickpea, which gave them an unexpected textural element. The interior of the pita was smeared with a mixture of roasted eggplant and hummus and augmented with tomatoes, onion, cabbage, wonderfully sour salt-brined pickles and just enough of a cilantro-and-pepper dressing called skhug to keep it interesting.

We sampled the blueberry lavender and strawberry citrus lemonades and went back for refills of the blueberry lavender.

Cava offers cookies and brownies for dessert, but the best thing about going to the Brookside location is that, once the meal is finished, one can walk next door to the newly opened Big Dipper Creamery for some locally made, small-batch, inventively flavored ice cream. We would heartily recommend the Honeycomb Lavender.

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Cava has four other locations in the Tulsa area. For more, go to cava.com. Big Dipper Creamery has two other locations, in Sand Springs and in Mother Road Market. bigdipperok.com.

Cocina 66, the food business incubator for Tulsa-area Latino entrepreneurs, celebrated the graduation of the latest group of participants with a ceremony held Monday, May 15, at the Mother Road Market, 1124 S. Lewis Ave.

A sister concept to the Kitchen 66 Launch Program, Cocina 66 teaches a seven-week business training course completely in Spanish to start-up food entrepreneurs. The program helps participants develop practical experience, sales training, marketing and communications skills, as well as access to a commercial kitchen space to develop culinary skills in a professional environment.

This sessions graduations, and the food concepts they created, are:

Elsa Ramirez: Bakery concept featuring a Mexican version of tiramisu plus custom cakes

Jesus Claudio: Barbecue concept combining local flavors with Mexican carne asada

Jose Colon & Karla Rosa: Puerto Rican concept featuring Tripleta sandwiches and bakery items like biscocho cake

Raquel Sandoval: El Salvadorian concept featuring pupusas

Adela Castaneda: Mexican sandwich concept

Maria Aidin Cuellar: Fried pastry concept focused on Venezuelan flavors

Bianca Bailon: Authentic Tamales and Mexican catering

Preetiben Dave: Indian-Mexican fusion concept

Karla Ivelisse: Authentic Puerto Rican food

To learn more about the Cocina 66 and Kitchen 66 Launch Programs: kitchen66tulsa.com.