Fundraiser set for school for homeless

Positive Tomorrows has announced a $10.2 million Capital Campaign to build a new school for homeless children, nearly doubling its current capacity. Judy Love and Todd Lechtenberger are co-chairing the campaign, which has raised $7.4 million to date. Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has announced it will match every gift made to the campaign up to $500,000.

“Last year we turned away over 100 students due to a lack of space at our facility,” said Susan Agel, president and principal at

Positive Tomorrows. “This generous matching gift will help to leverage the support of our community, and to ensure we can provide critical services to even more children and families in need for years to come.” Positive Tomorrows is Oklahoma’s only elementary school specifically for homeless children.

The new 36,000-squarefoot elementary school will have classrooms for children birth through fifth grade. It will also includes spaces for art, music, special education, a library, and outdoor learning spaces. It will hold 140 students, nearly doubling the school’s current capacity. The facility will be adjacent to NorthCare’s new campus on General Pershing

Boulevard between May and Villa Avenues.

Nissa Richison has pledged a lead gift of $2 million. Additional donors include the Chickasaw Nation; Devon Energy; Inasmuch Foundation; Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores; E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation; Vince & Marti White; Arnall Family Foundation; Cresap Foundation; Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation; LaDonna and Herman Meinders; Nancy and George Records; Kevin Durant Charity Foundation; Ronnie and Shahnaaz Irani; Katie McClendon; Gene Rainbolt; Gaye and Ken Rees; and the Sarkeys Foundation.

For more information or to donate to the campaign,

visit www.positivetomorrows. org/building-success.

Pryor ammonia plant resumes production

Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries Inc. said Wednesday that the ammonia plant at its Pryor chemical facility resumed production on Monday.

The plant was taken out of service to repair damage to some of the plant’s electrical controls, wiring and piping resulting from a fire that occurred on Sept. 23.

The impact to earnings related to the repairs and outage will be between $5.5 million and $6 million in the fourth quarter, the company said. Oklahoma crude oil prices as of 5 p.m. Wednesday