Mobile Meals
Many homebound residents of Edmond find their days brightened with a hot meal and a caring attitude from Mobile Meals volunteers. Since 1974, Mobile Meals has been providing nourishing meals to people who can’t get out of their homes to shop for food. Today, more than 200 volunteers cook and deliver 90-100 meals each weekday….
Read More >The Cusimanos
Joe and Kim, and their Amazing KidsJoe and Kim Cusimano are surrounded by a crazy, happy, loving family. But the path to their happiness has not always been easy. After Joe and Kim had been married four years and had gone through infertility testing, children seemed unlikely. So the couple prayed about adopting. They didn’t…
Read More >Riding with the Pratts
Road Trips, Racetracks and CBRs Like most Americans, James and Kay Pratt have vehicles to take them where they need to go. But their real preference for getting around is their stable full of motorcycles — and a whole country to see and explore. “There’s not a lot of down time in our house,” said…
Read More >Edmond Going to the Dogs?
The long-awaited opening of the Edmond Dog Park last month was not just cause for celebration for the area’s thousands of dog owners. A growing number of successful dog-oriented business owners are thrilled at the community’s commitment to dogs. The owners say Edmond is one of the most accepting cities in Oklahoma when it comes…
Read More >Inspiring Workouts
Eric Duda has a vision of what he wants to be and where he wants to go in his athletic life. A world class athlete who grew up in Florida, Duda is so consumed by his desire to succeed that he moved halfway across the United States a year ago, settling in Edmond so that…
Read More >Scrapbook Memories
Valentine Memory Making Gift The perfect way to say “I love you” this Valentine’s Day may just be a scrapbook. Over the last several years, the hobby of scrapbooking has become even more popular, and Edmond is part of the trend. Scrapbooking is a way of preserving photographs while personalizing and embellishing the pages they’re…
Read More >Freewheeling Eric
Zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds. A top speed of 120 miles per hour. State of the art suspension that pre-vents wobble as the speedometer climbs. Sounds like a sweet car for sure. But Eric Hoenshell doesn’t drive cars that go that fast. He rides motorcycles that go even faster. And sometimes he uses both…
Read More >The Balancing Act
At UCO, student Peder Angell is a big wheel on campus. In fact, he is a big wheel all over Edmond. Peder is a unicyclist; one of those rare high rollers who chooses to travel through life perched upon a seat with only one wheel beneath him, holding onto nothing except an extraordinary sense of…
Read More >In Remembrance
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese planes came at dawn, without warning, dropping out of the sky with a devastating hail of bombs and torpedoes that would sink ships, kill American servicemen by the thousands, and change the course of history. Moored at Pearl Harbor on the fateful day of December 7, 1941, was the…
Read More >Relay for Life
Finding a cure and supporting survivors is the goal of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, an event taking place in Edmond. The all-night event will be held at the University of Central Oklahoma's Plunkett Park, between 7:00 p.m. June 1 and 7:00 a.m. the next morning. Relay for Life began in 1985 in…
Read More >Liberty Fest
Previously selected as one of the top ten places to be in America on the 4th of July by CNN and the USA Today, and a designated state centennial event, Edmond will be hosting LibertyFest 2007 in a weeklong celebration, June 28 through July 4. "This is a great event that is always well attended….
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