Pictures I Like-Sunny Days Version
August Minter, 12, of Edmond, does a back flip off the rock wall during the last day of the season at Pelican Bay Aquatic Center in Edmond on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Here’s a few pictures that you may have missed in the newspaper over the last few days, including a deployment ceremony, high school football and pictures of the last days at local swimming pools. A memorable assignment from last week was a memorial service for Cheyenne Wolf. A local preacher read a story in The Oklahoman about Cheyenne and was so moved that he held a memorial service for the girl, who’s body is still unclaimed at the Oklahoma County Medical Examiner’s office. You can read more about Cheyenne Wolf and the memorial service for her by clicking here. Take a look at some of our photo galleries by clicking here.
Friends take pictures of from left to right Everly Goodfellow, 5, Spc. Amanda Kennedy, Hezekiah Goodfellow, 3, and Hattie Lou Goodfellow, 2, following a deployment ceremony for the 2-45th Agri-Business Development Team with the Oklahoma National Guard, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, at the Mustang Armed Forces Reserve Center in Mustang, Okla. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
Doc Holiday (bottom) and other dogs swim and play during the Dog Park Pooch Pool Party at Westwood Swimming Pool in Oklahoma City on Sunday, August 29, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
Del City's Quinn Ashford loses control of the ball as he is hit by Cortrez Colbert of Midwest City during a high school football game in Midwest City, Okla., Friday, September 3, 2010. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
Jack Werner (left) along with Tim and Jenny Findley (second row) and Brian Maughan and his girlfriend Misty Garrett listen to a memorial service for Cheyenne Wolf at First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City on Thursday, September 2, 2010. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman
-John Clanton
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Dear Mister Clanton,
This is a letter i wrote somebody active in the elementary schools of Durant, Oklohoma:
Dear Miss/Mrs. Gosnell,
I am Carla Smit from Den helder, Holland/The Netherlands, Europe and i have come across this photo of a beautiful red head girl on the internet. As she looked like me when i was about that age i clicked the photo in google chrome to see an enlargement.
As you perhaps know when you click on a photo in google chrome images search results, you first get the photo whilst in the background the `photo-hosting ‘website’ is loading. When this photo appeared in my screen and the website containing this photo was still grey-screen due to the loading it struck me the photo had a ‘pixel’-structure, like we all are familiar with when we look at a photo in a newspaper..
I knew what it meant right away.
This beautiful young girl was dead.
In my country we had a similair incident in springtime this year. Twelve year old Millie Boelen was raped and murdered by an police officer only a few houses away from her own. She was missing 10 days or so and the search was on the news every day. It touched me deeply and i still follow the news on this murder. The man is now charged with rape and murder and his appeal has been denied.
But the reason i write you is that i grief for Cheyenne Wolf so much it saddens me troughout the day and i cry every time i see this photo on my computer. I dont know why but i cannot stop crying for her. I want to know more about this girl and not only the case of her murder. Since i’ve read she has lived in your hometown at the time she died, and that she was eleven or twelve at the time of her death, i figured she had to attend elementary school in your town and perhaps you know more about her. Perhaps there are group photos of all kids in class, her classmates, did she have any friends? Did nobody love her or care about her wellbeeing? Perhaps there is a memorial somewhere dedicated to Cheyenne?
All kinds of questions like that, i want to know who Cheyenne wolf from Durant, Oklohoma was. Cos its really hurting me to know this girl is dead and its really hurting me to know what i know reading all the articles about her death. I dont know why, but it is really breaking my heart.
I hope you can help me a little on my way to find out more about Cheyenne Wolf.
Kind regards,
Carla
-This was my letter and i actually have the same question for you.
I ran acoss the photo a week ago, and she will be in my thoughts for a long time to come. I know myself a little.
I just ask anybody who i can find on the net about Cheyenne Wolf. I want to know as much about her as i can. I’am happy to have found this photo of Cheyenne’s memorial service.
Kind regards and thanks in advance,
Carla