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Children everywhere plead with Santa each Christmas, writing letters for that one perfect gift. As Edmond children drop their letter in the mail, they may daydream of elves scurrying about to construct their special toy at the North Pole so far away. But little do they know that one local couple has created their own…
Read More >Full Circle: Growing Up & Giving Back
Born to drug addicted parents and stuck in a cycle of poverty, Edmond resident Amy Newberry was on track to become another heartbreaking statistic. “By the time I was 15, I was on drugs and dropped out of school, hanging with a local gang and pushing grocery carts full time. I just kind of had…
Read More >H&F: Lighten Your Holiday Diet
Let’s face it, no matter how much we love the cooler weather and bountiful merriment of the holidays, we all fear that as our hearts expand with holiday cheer, so too, will our waistlines. Being more conscious about our health, doesn’t have to make us less satisfied when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts….
Read More >Battling Leukemia: A Daughter’s Story
Life is filled with challenges we must face – some challenges are invigorating in their greater purpose. Still, others are heartbreaking. Melinda Meadows understands both. As a daughter, Meadows is challenging an illness that has crippled her entire family. Her mother, Mary Diggs, is battling leukemia. As Meadows represents her hometown of Edmond as Mrs….
Read More >H&G: Walking the Walk
These days, the trend is “green”. Not the minty hue of dollar bills, more along the lines of your carbon footprint shade of green. With increasing attention being focused on energy conservation, experts say it is more important than ever to think about our personal impact on the earth. One Edmond businessman has taken energy…
Read More >Turning Tragedy into Healing
Love and support can grow hope from tragedy. This is the central pillar for Danny Mize’s work, and his life. What started out as severe loss within Mize’s own family, has since evolved into a testimony to healing. His lifelong career has helped many others cope with grief – from the Oklahoma City Bombing, to…
Read More >On the Tip of Her Toes
The first thing you notice about Roma Kathlin Catania is her joy. She embodies the emotion perfectly. Joy saturates her speech when she talks about dancing and it overflows when she performs. The 11-year-old Edmond ballerina is jetting off to New York this summer to attend the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School. Catania began dancing at…
Read More >H&G: Summer Lawn Care
The time is drawing near for days filled with children frolicking in the sprinklers and evenings spent relaxing underneath the setting sun. That time is called summer, and the essential component to any blissful summer activity lies directly under your feet. Oklahoma summer lawns are both a gift and a burden to some homeowners who…
Read More >Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs
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Read More >In Flux
For many young people, May is a time of hope and new beginnings. It is about celebration and achievement. In the scholastic sense, it is a culmination of years of hard work. May is graduation month. And for most high school students, though they have indeed accomplished an incredible thing, they have done so…
Read More >Cleaning for a Cause
Admit it, you hate to clean but love a clean house. You feel much more at ease in a clean home and ready to take on whatever challenges the day brings. What if that challenge was cancer? What if, as you fought the hardest battle of your life, the day to day responsibilities like dishes…
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