K-UCO News Channel 6
Edmond’s own University of Central Oklahoma has finished remodeling K-UCO TV Channel 6, the student-run broadcast station that serves both higher education and the community. New FCC guidelines prompted the station to make the switch from analog to digital technology. But combined staff and student efforts initiated the studio’s facelift and UCentral’s name change. General…
Read More >Waiting with Lorie
Manda Jane Macias and her mom Lorie Anthony is not your typical single parent household. Instead of afternoons shopping at the mall together, thirteen-year-old Manda Jane can often be found talking to doctors to make sure her mom is getting the best possible healthcare. While other girls her age are worrying about which pair of…
Read More >Made In Oklahoma
Edmond graduates, Richard Ford and Scott Bridges, have come full circle since performing in the Edmond Community Theatre in 1987. Although rooted deep in the red dirt of Oklahoma, the two have branched out to places such as New York City, Los Angeles and Austin and have learned that all roads lead back to Edmond….
Read More >Vision Vineyards
Wineries and the wine making process are becoming more and more popular in Oklahoma. Dewayne Cooley, originally from Hollis, is finding his niche and making his mark in the industry. Cooley, who has been growing grapes for seven years, said he took on the grape growing challenge because he was looking for a way to…
Read More >Music, Poets and Painters
The purpose for the Black Arts Festival is to create an awareness of the different genres of art, to serve as a medium for spreading knowledge of artistic diversity and to provide special focus on African American arts. Holle Hooks, festival coordinator believes in the importance of diversity. “When we began the festival, we didn't…
Read More >Heavy Metal Pedals
If you like rock or country music, “American Idol” or Jay Leno, there’s a good chance you’ve heard guitar effects generated by Robert Keeley’s unique line of pedals, and you probably never guessed they were designed and built just a few miles north of Edmond. Often, six or seven of the top ten songs on…
Read More >Ideas in Ice
A chef, a sculptor, an artist. Ken Burkemper has used his entrepreneur skills to create a unique service. You see, Burkemper is an ice sculptor, one of a very few of his kind in the state of Oklahoma. “I never thought this would be full-time,” he said. “When I got started in the business (1989)…
Read More >A Piercing Generation
For some, a variety of body piercing is considered taboo. Others admire them as body art. Over the years, each generation increases the threshold on what is accepted in body modification. The negative image that comes along with tattoos and piercing has perhaps evolved more into a subtle disapproval and a slight outrage expressed mainly…
Read More >Perking Up Pregnancy
Consider the joys of pregnancy: the line on your home pregnancy test, breaking the news to your spouse, peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, not to mention the nausea and lack of sleep. But a couple of Edmond moms want to “perk up pregnancy.” Two years ago, sisters-in-law, Aprile Miller, 24, and Serina Isch, 27, came…
Read More >One Day at a Time
Dan Nyagol, a first-year Kenyan student at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, doesn’t want to think about the future. He lives life in the present, and understands attending college next year may be impossible. After completing classes last December, Dan traveled to Emporia, Kansas, to celebrate Christmas with his older brother, Elijah, who…
Read More >A Stand-Up Pastor
It's a packed house at the Comedy Club in Las Vegas. A lanky figure sporting tattoos from wrists to shoulders stumbles up to the mic, wipes the mop of hair out of his eyes, and explodes with jokes. Then he talks about God and then bombards the crowd with more jokes. No sex, no profanity—…
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