Issue: May 2009

Full Color Gardening Now that the snow’s gone, Edmondites have gardens on their minds. This time of year Davison’s Nursery’s Jayson Davison gets inundated with questions about how to put together a mind-blowing garden. Davison gets asked a lot about plant hardiness. Oklahoma’s summer heat can be rough, but there are lots of options out…

When the USS Enterprise needed to destroy a ship carrying a bizarre disease, Captain Jean-Luc Picard used the code “Omicron Omicron Alpha Yellow Day Star 2-7 Enable” to remove its protective shield and torpedo it into oblivion. Most people live their whole lives without ever needing to know this, but for “Trekkers” like Charles Warren…

Before Ryan Wood had a chance to chase all his dreams, war claimed his life. But his passion for life lives on in the form of a scholarship that’s making others’ dreams come true. Wood was serving with the Army in the Iraqi War when a buried bomb killed him and four of his fellow…

Many bands’ styles are easy to guess from their names – not so with GUM. Their music must be listened to first, and even then, it’s not easy to pigeonhole the Edmond quintet’s sound as simply one thing or another. It’s garage rock, but there’s a piano. It definitely owes something to The Beatles, but…

They fight the elements. They fight their own bodies. Most of all, they fight to finish in time. Trail runners, participants in one of Oklahoma’s – and Edmond’s – fastest-growing sports, take running off the jogging paths and onto the dirt. “People are getting off the beaten path. They want to do something different,” says…

Bryan Turner, owner of Red Rock Builders, is passionate about conservation. He’s also passionate about his occupation, home building. And he’s found a way to give equal time to both – he married his passion to his work. Taking a concept developed by Edmond Electric, Red Rock constructed the e4home, one of the most conservation-conscious…

Edmond soldier 1st Lt. Michael Behenna faces the charge of premeditated murder of a suspected terrorist, Ali Monsour Mohammed, while interrogating him near Beiji, Iraq. Now the interpretation of that day – May 16, 2008 – rests in the hands of an Army general considering a clemency packet, as well as an Army Appellate Court….

Fine Hearing CareIf you’ve never heard of an audiologist, then listen up. Some studies estimate that only one out of five Americans who could benefit from a hearing aid have one. Others simply go through life with impaired hearing, unaware of the options available to improve it. “People don’t realize that hearing is a quality…

What do actress Halle Berry, author H.G. Wells, and hockey legend Bobby Clarke have in common? All are or were famous, all had type 1 diabetes – and all, to anyone’s knowledge, never kissed a pig. Only in Edmond could kissing pigs and funding diabetes research cross paths, where pig fever descends upon the city…

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…

“We’re going to do every-thing we can, but it doesn’t look promising,” said Stamps’ doctor. “You have ninety days to live, if you don’t start treatment immediately. It’s incurable.” These are the last words that anyone wants to hear from their doctors, yet this is exactly the shocking news that doctors gave to Rodney Stamps,…