Tornado Reconstruction Forging Ahead
Terror rises from deep in your gut when the sky turns dark and cold and the sirens blare. The signal that a tornado touched down in our city sends us to our radios and televisions to see when and where the destruction will strike. On Tuesday, February 10th, the alarms sounded, signaling the arrival of…
Read More >Touch A Truck, Touch A Life
In a veritable who’s who of exciting vehicles, kids could not only see the different cars and trucks, they could reach out and touch them. More than 35 trucks, cars and vans and over 1,000 people gathered in the parking lot of Edmond’s UCO last May to support starving children in a unique fundraiser called…
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State Farm – Gary BaccusOnce a college football player, Gary Baccus hung up his jersey to play a different game: selling insurance for State Farm.A native Texan, Gary came to Oklahoma to play football for the University of Oklahoma. Gary remembers being impacted by the personal interest and dedication of his coaches. Gary kept that…
Read More >Hometown Hero for Education
Everybody wants to be somebody, do something great, be extraordinary. For Jim Carlisle, becoming an FBI agent fulfilled his childhood dream and led to a fabulous career. For twenty-eight years, Carlisle served on the force with assignments in nine locations across the U.S. before he volunteered to come to Oklahoma on a temporary thirty-day assignment…
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Caring & Friendly Pediatric Dentistry The inside of her office looks more like a playroom than a dentist’s office. Toys, movie posters, TVs and video games – this is the stuff you’ll find in the office of dentist Martha Garzon, owner of Caring and Friendly Pediatric Dentistry. Catering to kids is different from caring for…
Read More >Taking The Title
As the formation of dancers on the floor explodes into a series of perfectly executed, simultaneous back handsprings, one fact is clear to even the most casual of observers – cheerleading isn’t just girls with pom-poms anymore. “Cheering, for those who compete nationally, isn’t what it used to be,” says Orson Sykes, owner and founder…
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McMahan Family Medicine Native Oklahoman Zann McMahan, M.D., has practiced medicine in several different countries during his career, but continues to make Oklahoma his base of operations. The full-time doctor and family man went to undergrad at Oklahoma Christian University, medical school at the University of Oklahoma and spent his residency at Great Plains…
Read More >Stuntman Goes For Guinness Record
At 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit his entire body is consumed in flames, yet he continually dares to defy logic. Nothing, not the deep roar of fire in his ears or the suffocating smoke in his face causes him to compromise his professionalism. This jet ski stuntman has spent half of his adult life willingly lighting himself…
Read More >Going Clog Wild
Within the rhythmic heartbeat of the city lies a beat even more rapid. Dancing kicks it up a notch when cloggers set the beat. A rhythmic dance in which one’s feet become part of the music, clogging might be described as a form of country-infused tap dancing, only a little more abrupt. And—some would say—a…
Read More >People Helping People
Falling on hard times is tough enough. It’s even tougher without a house to come home to. Countless lives have been changed by Habitat for Humanity, an international nonprofit ecumenical Christian housing business that builds homes for limited income families. “Some families who apply for Habitat homes live in substandard rentals or unsafe neighborhoods. So…
Read More >Body vs Brains
As school begins for another year, teachers and parents flood the aisles of paper, crayons, and notebooks while kids are trying to squeeze the last drops out of summer. Long, lazy days are being replaced by routines and alarm clocks. Like most kids her age, 12-year-old Grace Hong is trading a season of summer camps…
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