Growing Up Fast
When most kids hit landmarks like 5, 6, 7 or 8 years old, they’re learning their ABCs, basic addition and the fascinating world of interacting with their peers. But Grady Chandler is a little out of the ordinary. Grady, an 8-year-old from Edmond, operates in a faster-paced world – as a race car driver. …
Read More >The Preserver
Several things had to fall into place before Sean Richards could begin restoring the rarest of history’s books. First, the previous owner of his family’s house failed to forward his mail. Next, Richards began poring over the rare book catalogs that arrived, marveling over Shakespearean volumes and Galileo’s tomes. Finally, Richards began believing that he…
Read More >Best Toy Store, Dental Care, Boutique & Beadery
Dr. Joe Harris, D.D.S. When every person who walks through your door has a natural dislike of you and your profession, making friends isn’t easy. Edmond dentist Dr. Joe Harris meets that challenge head-on. Harris admits that the hardest part of being a dentist is simply that most people don’t enjoy having dental…
Read More >Holdistic Challenges Body and Mind
There are few things Freddy Harth loves more than staring down a rocky cliff face, fingers dug deep into handholds, watching the people gathered far below crane their necks upward in wonder. One of those few things is the chance to help someone else experience those feelings of achievement and exhilaration. Perhaps that’s why, after…
Read More >Extreme Makeover From the Heart
Why would Edmond companies donate time and money to help build a house located over an hour away? Some might say it was the allure of being part of the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” television show, but for these Edmond companies, it was less about entertainment and more about heart. In 2007, the infant son…
Read More >The Gift of Sight
“Cool thing about eyes is they help us with life,” says Dr. Mike Grindstaff of Optique Vision Center. “We want to give kids every advantage and their eye care is vital. Eighty percent of learning is visually stimulated.” Children’s eye exams are different than adults. Dr. Grindstaff and his team look for milestones in eye…
Read More >Water is Life
Imagine your day without water. You wake up. You don’t shower or brush your teeth. You don’t water your lawn or wash your car. And yet, you could still live without these activities. What you can’t live without, is water to drink. Water is Life. It is not only a fact; it’s an Edmond…
Read More >A Step Back in Time
“I’ve always been crazy about things that have wheels,” said Joe Hurly of Guthrie. “When I was in school, it was the days of muscle cars and two-door hard tops. Cars were a way of life back then — your dates, drive-in movies, drive-in restaurants — that’s how I developed my love of cars, and…
Read More >Designing a New Dew
Afleet of new Mountain Dew flavors will hit store shelves in April, one of which will bear the artwork of Edmond resident Ben Stone. He is one of three winners from the Mountain DEWmocracy Design Challenge, a competition to create new packaging. He found the Mountain Dew contest on Facebook, which started with a not-so-simple…
Read More >Connecting Through Text
As electronic devices become more sophisticated and easier to use, one form of communication, text messaging, is becoming more and more popular. Cell phone users in the United States sent 110 billion text messages in December 2009 alone. That’s 10 times more than just three years ago, according to a survey by the International Association…
Read More >In Full Swing
The weather is finally beginning to warm and many Edmond residents are turning to the outdoors and hitting the green. This cold winter season may have caused a few golfers to get a little rusty and in need of some tips from the experts. “The question I get asked most commonly is ‘Can you help…
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