Before & After: Ray the Painter
What began as a local start up venture in 1991 with Ray Wolf’s love of painting and focus on craftsmanship, now has steadily grown into a full force corporation offering both residential and commercial painting and additional finishing services to the metro area. Though he lost his fight with cancer in 2009, the spirit of…
Read More >A Solid Foundation
Lynda Powell was struggling. The single mother’s difficulties ranged from the basics of food and clothing to the logistics of getting to and from work or getting through semester after semester of college. And to make things worse, she couldn’t find many resources for support. “Was it gas in the car or food on the…
Read More >The Genesis Project
The little boy, we’ll call “D,” is 8 years old. His hopeful eyes peering out from under a mop of dark brown hair will endear him to you instantly and his self-awareness just might astound you. What he says, however, could break your heart. His words, about behaving well and finding a home, about his…
Read More >All Heart
Melissa Huston has been running almost her entire life. She began when she was 15 and continued by taking a jogging class in college. As an adult, she ran regularly. Running was solitude for her; it was her time to think and work through issues, so normally she did it alone. Then, the Edmond mother…
Read More >BUSINESS: Computer Zone
For many of us, our computers are our lives. Or at least, they contain a large portion of our lives within their mysterious walls. Access to important files, photos and our connection to the Internet all rely on the proper functioning of what is, for many people, an unimaginably complicated invention. So when something goes…
Read More >A Positive Impact
What began for Catherine Godwin, as the normal task of grant writing for a local company ended up opening her eyes to an entirely surprising and disconcerting array of statistics. Those statistics screamed to the Edmond mother, “Do something!” and so she did. What Godwin learned was the impact of the number of Oklahoma’s incarcerated…
Read More >Lucky to be Alive
On Dr. Greg Walton’s 21st birthday, he was on top of the world. Summer was drawing to a close, as was his summer job in the oil industry. Senior year at Oklahoma State University was about to begin and after that, medical school. But all of that would change. In a devastating oil tank explosion,…
Read More >Team Red Bowl
Under the bright African sun, children are playing soccer. Only one of the children speaks English, but their squeals of delight can be translated across any language. For Edmond resident Tracy Zserdin, watching her 8-year-old son, Jake, connect to children on the other side of the world is what it’s all about. “I just…
Read More >Wonder Boy
Here’s the good news: A handsome superhero is to thank for a world without crime. The bad news? He’d be the first to tell you so. In a modern day re-creation of the dime novel, Edmond author Charles Martin, who also writes under the name Will Weinke, has created Wonderboy — a superhero with a…
Read More >Edmond, OK’s HGTV DesignStar
If life is a canvas, then Kellie Clements knows that we are our own artists. The Edmond interior designer and mother of two learned all about taking charge of her own palette when she auditioned for, and won, a spot in HGTV’s sixth season of “Design Star”�� which is airing this summer.
Read More >Dinner to Die For: Stone Lion Inn
The year is 1948. You are sitting down to dinner at an elegant inn. The food is superb. A sense of post-WWII euphoria fills the air. Then, without warning, a man drops dead and the game is on. But it’s not 1948 and the man isn’t really dead. You’re actually amidst the acclaimed antics of…
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