Tree Theory: Hand-Crafted Furniture
“What can that board become?” is a question Todd Graham asks himself every time he looks at a new piece of rough timber. He crafts furniture the old-fashioned way, in an unassuming Edmond garage workshop filled with hand tools and a band saw. Usually, it’s a raw chunk of wood with potential that inspires a…
Read More >Sports: Main Sail
Almost everyone in the UCO sailing club is new to the sport, but competition pits them against seasoned sailors from other colleges all across the United States. “I find the team’s motivation to succeed, with little or no experience, inspiring. They take sailing to heart and, as a man, they have put tears in my…
Read More >Sports: The Fastest Game on Two Feet
Lacrosse has asserted a feverish hold on Edmond with astounding speed, growing from 93 players just four years ago, to a projected 400 players in 2011. “It’s been a phenomenal new sport to bring to the community,” says Edmond Lacrosse Club President Marc Anderson. In 2006, Edmond Parks and Recreation opened an instructional program to…
Read More >Sports: On Target
With the echoing crack of a 12-gauge shotgun, the spinning orange disc disintegrated into a puff of clay shards that plinked upon the thousands already scattered among the grass at the Oklahoma City Gun Club grounds in Arcadia. Charles Roller may be relatively new to competitive shooting, but it’s rare that a clay pigeon escapes…
Read More >Fine Living: Turning Decades Into Dollars
What’s the story behind that Civil War rifle? Who was locked up in those handcuffs? The sense of history in an antique store can be intriguing. The items for sale were once in peoples’ homes or businesses for years, if not generations. Each antique sits ready to be purchased by someone new; ready to take…
Read More >Sports: Slap Shot
“What are we going to do tonight?” Edmond families now have a new answer to this age-old question. The arrival of the Oklahoma City Barons has brought hockey back to the Metro. Mere weeks into the minor professional ice hockey team’s inaugural season, the Barons are gathering fans like an out-of-control snowball because Hockey fans…
Read More >Thunder on the Mother Road
There’s perhaps no better icon of adventure personified than Route 66. The “Mother Road” carries dense history and suggests boundless freedom, and that’s why it’s fitting for the Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum to stand on this legendary strand of asphalt. The squat, brick building has been many things since it was built in the 1920s,…
Read More >Cold Case Files
Sometimes murderers get away with their crime. Time goes by. Evidence is destroyed. Witnesses die. These are the types of challenges cold case investigators like Mike Burke must overcome to bring heinous villains to justice, sometimes decades after the trails have cooled. In 2003, Burke retired from the Oklahoma City Police Department as a detective…
Read More >Sports: Off-Road Madness
All-terrain vehicles, or quads, can provide fun and safe outdoor recreation as well as serve as utility vehicles for activities like farming and hunting. Having access to private land on which to ride ATVs is always best, says Shawn Garrison of House of Kawasaki, a motorcycle and ATV dealer in Oklahoma City. There are also…
Read More >Grin & Bear It
In Edmond, it’s a well-known fact that Dr. Charles Hetrick is in the business of smiles – he’s owned a successful dental practice, Hetrick and Holloman, D.D. S., at 218 E. 10th St. Plaza for 30 years. What few know is that much of his after-work hours and weekends are spent on a bicycle, which…
Read More >Sports: Armchair Athletes
“Everyone has a hobby. Some people like to finger paint or fly kites – I like to guess how many yards people are going to run,” says Dan Kubier, fantasy football enthusiast. Fantasy football is an increasingly popular hobby where “owners” select and trade real-life football players and collect points based on how well their…
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