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FEATURES

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9 Systems of Care

6 COMMUNITY 6 NUTRITION 101

10 Everyone’s Favorite Deputy

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The Railroad.

So what IS going on with the efforts to reopen the rail line from Shawnee to McAlester you ask? A lot would be the simplest answer, but we all know the devil is in the details; with any railroad project, there are always a lot of details.

When the bridge approaches on the rail line washed out twenty some years ago, the use of the rail line between Shawnee and McAlester slowly came to a halt. There simply wasn’t enough freight at that time for a Class A rail company the size of Union Pacific to warrant maintenance of the line. This was a scenario that played out all across the US, as smaller markets could not offer a large volume of rail traffic, many stopped seeing rail activity.

Somewhere around that time, Short Line Rail companies came into prominence. They were perfectly suited to operate shorter distance rail service, lower freight volumes, and could undertake repairs or maintenance at a lower cost than the big boys could. And for the record, we like Short Line railroad operators…

The rail line in question belongs to the Union Pacific railroad. They can decide if they want it reopened, if anyone can lease it, and who will pay for repairs and maintenance. They can structure the arrangement of the potential revenues that might be generated for the various sources of income associated with the use of rail.

Recently, because of the efforts of the

Roasted Broccoli AOK railroad, the severed approaches to the bridges southeast of town have been repaired and the focus has been on trying to reopen the rest of the line. Remember the part about this not being easy? Hold that thought.

Now that the bridge use is functional again, our best friends at the AOK, have been communicating with the Union Pacific folks about trying to lease the section of line from Shawnee to McAlester. Those conversations often discuss how much the lease rate will be, who will pay for and complete the necessary repairs, who will assume the risk of operating equipment on this section of track, where the revenues will come from, and how they are divided. A long list of other questions, as with any business arrangement, need to be answered.

There are road crossings between Shawnee and McAlester that need to be improved, which takes time and money.

Bridges, culverts, rail ties, sidings, switches, and a host of other details all have to be resolved and agreed upon.

Plus there are still a host of municipalities, county governments, the Corporation Commission, other rail service providers, and the Federal Rail Administration that need to weigh in on all of this. Remember the “it isn’t easy” part?

In the long run, success will come through many small steps and as all the parties involved continue to work toward the same common goal. Above all, it will take persistence and patience.

Tim Burg is the Executive Director of the Shawnee Economic Development Foundation and is one of only 1200 certified economic developers in the world. His past business and civic experiences allows him to focus his expertise on business retention and expansion opportunities, plus undertake marketing, attraction, and recruitment of new business to this region.

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Vitamin C is a powerful, natural anti-oxidant and helps fight against flu causing viruses. The flu virus has hit hard in Shawnee this season so I am doing all I can to stay healthy. Vitamin A is highly known as the “eye-sight” vitamin. If you are contemplating pregnancy or you are currently pregnant, getting enough folate in your diet is very important for a healthy pregnancy because folate helps prevent neural tube defects. So much from just one little vegetable! Keep your Valentine healthy!

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Preston Armstrong wasn’t the model teenager growing up. He got involved with the wrong crowd, which naturally brought the police into his life. His behavior was reckless, forcing him to learn life lessons the hard way.

At 17, his parents kicked him out of their house because he wouldn’t obey the rules. He suddenly found himself living on the streets. “I had to transition into adulthood on my own,” he recalled.

Those experiences brought Armstrong, now 26, full circle as someone who serves families in crisis. He helps other children and their parents while serving as a family support advisor for Systems of Care, a mental health program that comes under the direction of Red Rock Behavioral Health Services.

He and his colleagues work together to give youngsters and their parents a life free of abuse, anger issues, and other mental and behavioral problems. Talking about the success stories is fun for Armstrong.

“One of our most recent graduates from the program is an 8-year-old boy diagnosed with high functioning autism. I had worked with the family for about a year. There was a lot of aggression, probably with the single-parent dad because he didn’t have all the answers to be a parent,” Armstrong said.

Anger and violence were the key issues, but it wasn’t happening just at home. It also occurred at school, which allowed the boy’s teacher to become part of the treatment plan. “We found new ways to redirect the child with positive reinforcement,” Armstrong said. “We also had to teach the boy there would be consequences for his actions. We taught the family ways to work with the child

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on his level, to look at him at eye level, get his attention and then calmly handle the problem instead of there being a confrontational vibe. The teacher now reports the boy is using manners on his own, saying ‘yes, ma’am, please and thank you.’”

In some cases, it’s more complicated and can often involve numerous state agencies such as the Department of Human Services, the Office of Juvenile Affairs and law enforcement.

Armstrong is currently working with a 15-yearold boy and his parents because of problems with the law and domestic violence at home. Since taking the case, Armstrong has met with the teen, his mother and representatives from DHS, OJA and a counselor. “We’ve met twice a month trying to figure out how to succeed at school and get DHS out of the home,” he said. “At first, we were getting bad reports in court and now the reports are good and the child has passed all his drug tests.”

About 90 percent of the cases involve anger issues, which can escalate into more severe problems if not dealt with immediately. “The violence is consistent in these instances,” Armstrong said. “But we’re not here to force them to do anything. We want to create ways to work through that anger and control the violence.”

In too many cases, the violence exhibited by children is reflective of their parents’ anger and violent tendencies, Armstrong said. Elisa Thompson, Systems of Care project director for Oklahoma, Cleveland and Pottawatomie counties, said most referrals involve children 5-17 years old.

Most issues, she said, involve defiance, frequent in-school suspensions, stealing, violent outbursts and a general life of crime.

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or life will be tough for them,” she said.

Part of the process focuses on helping families identify their goals. “We work with everyone in the family and usually something is going on with the parents, too,” Thompson said. “We can help them (parents) deal with their own bout of depression.”

In each instance, the family works with a Systems of Care team that includes a case manager and a family support advisor like Armstrong. The children, parents and outside sources meet once a week to discuss problems that need attention or success stories.

The support team also meets one-on-one with the child and later with the parents. “We get whatever resources are needed for the child and family,” Thompson said. “We identify what they need and pull them in. If we have everyone on the same page working toward the goal, then we usually have success.”

In Shawnee, Systems of Care is contracted to work with 15 families a month. Treatment time can vary from six months to a year. Systems of Care is allowed to work with families regardless of insurance coverage because of Red Rock’s contract with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, said Thompson, a veteran of 20 years in the mental health field.

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Everyone’s Favorite Deputy If you never got a chance to see the comedic genius of Don Knotts during his lifetime, you will have a chance to see the next best thing. David Browning is “The Deputy of Mayberry: Barney Fife,” a professional comedian and impersonator who will perform Knott’s famous character for the annual Shawnee Police Foundation Awards Banquet early next month.

Browning kept the audience of Shawnee policemen, support staff, and supporters of the department in stitches last year, drawing the largest crowd the foundation had ever seen. This year, he’s back and ready to tickle funny bones and warm hearts.

People are entertained and enlightened by the Mayberry Deputy character, perhaps because it reminds them of a time gone by. “We live in a world where people are searching for their own Mayberry,” Browning says. “I value this character for what it gives people today: a laugh, a lift, and memories.”

Browning began his career in community theatre and later put together the “Barney Fife” act from his memories of watching every episode of the Andy Griffith Show, he discovered that he could make a statement as David Browning that was not funny at all, but the same statement made in uniform as “The Mayberry Deputy” had audiences falling out of their seats. Audiences have kept him in demand all across the country, even for a most critical audience, an Andy Griffith rerun watchers club at a Mayberry

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Shawnee Police Chief, Russell Frantz, is looking forward to this year’s performance. “We had a really good time last year. He’s got a good, wholesome message about law enforcement and community,” said Frantz.

The Shawnee Police Foundation formed 7 years ago to assist the department with support tools and training they could ill afford.

“SPF purchases the equipment directly,” said Frantz, “if the officers need a piece of equipment.

They’ve provided training over the years, a lot of safety equipment, and they purchased the first round of bikes for the department. They’ve bought some different equipment for the detectives, crime scene investigation tools, and equipment like SWAT vests, and ballistic helmets. I don’t know any department where every officer has a ballistics helmet. About two-thirds of our officers have swat vests.”

“We’re grateful for all they’ve done,” said Frantz.

“They’ve been great supporters.”

Shawnee Police Foundation’s annual awards banquet is March 10th, 2015 at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center. Social hour is at 6:30 PM and dinner at 7 PM. The menu includes Grilled Chicken Teriyaki, Roasted Prime Rib or Beef, Shrimp Cocktail and delicious garnishments and side. Tickets are $25 per person or a corporate tables are available for $250. Officers may also be sponsored at the banquet for $20 per officer.

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A LESSON IN LOCAL HISTORY by: Jamie Bergsten

It’s no wonder that local author, Ann McDonald, finds herself comfortable writing about Shawnee’s history. After all, she’s the third generation in her family to call this area home. From her early days at Jefferson Elementary School, holding one of those first grade fat pencils, was borne a love of writing that still persists today. “I couldn’t say I’m ‘inspired’ to write,” she said. “I just can’t keep from it.”

Ann (Lanier) McDonald was born at the old City Hospital here in town into a large wellknown family in the community. She graduated from Shawnee High School and later married Lonnie McDonald, to whom she was wed for 50 years. Her early working life included stints at the Shawnee News-Star and Daily Oklahoman, as well as clerical positions that helped her put Lonnie through college after military service.

When they began a family, she became a stay-at-home mom to their three children, a job which she loved for many years.

However, when her kids left for college, she took a position that would help pay for their education. She seems surprised that the “temporary” job as the sports writer for the Tecumseh Countywide News turned into a 20year career.

“Most of my training has been in journalism,” she said, noting that she got her start as the sports editor for the Wolves > Ann McDonald

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Journal during high school. “I did have a creative writing class during college, but basically my training has been ‘on the job’. I’ve had friends over the years who’ve critiqued my work, but my biggest growth has been the years I worked for Wayne and Gloria Trotter at the Countywide News. I learned early how to take three or four pages and condense it into three or four paragraphs.”

Over the years she’s lost track of just how many articles she’s had published in magazines and newspapers. She’s got stacks of fiction that she’s written, but she came to realize that her real love was nonfiction, “putting down stories that might be lost if someone didn’t save them. I told one of my sons once that when someone dies, it’s as if a library burned down.”

That respect for maintaining information led her to publish a collection of the columns she wrote while sports editor at the Countywide. Titled Sidelines: Twenty Years of Watching the World Go By, the book chronicles her opinions and observations, including those about youth sports, life in the 1940s and 1950s, and the thrill of attending the World Series.

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Her second book, Growing Up Whitlow: Making Do in Oklahoma During the Depression, focuses on her own family’s history. She tells the story of her maternal grandparents, who raised a family of eight children in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, Great Depression, and two world wars. The tales, as told to her by family members, express what it was like to “make do” during tough times.

A third book, History of Sports in Shawnee, OK, beckons back to McDonald’s interest in athletics. It recounts all of the sports information she’d collected over the years, from the early days in Shawnee to SHS records and personalities.

Included are stories of the ties Dizzy Dean, Jim Thorpe, Gordon Cooper, and Bobby Bonds had to our community.

Just last month, McDonald’s latest work was published. Shawnee, OK Naval Air Station: World War II is fresh off the press, detailing the impact the Municipal Airport had in training navigators to guide navy aircraft and the sudden departure of that station when it was no longer needed.

“I’m excited about this book because it really is an education for most Shawnee citizens,” she said.

“Very few people even knew one existed.”

A careful fact-checker, McDonald prides

herself on making sure her information is correct.

“I just can’t hold speculations,” she explained. “If it can’t be proven, it’s not in my books, or at least I say it’s only a rumor.”

McDonald said that she normally gets the idea for one book while she’s working on another. Her ultimate goal is to finish the list of books she’s planned, although she admits that at the rate she’s going, “I think I’ll have to live to be 138 to get them all done!”

She loves to research and credits that to her mother, who always told her to look things up, rather than telling her answers or how to spell things. “My two greatest interests are writing and history, especially local history, so most of what I have planned incorporates these. I’ve dubbed my work ‘Shawnee, OK History Books’, and I’m having a website developed not only to distribute my books, but to maybe just (document) the information itself.”

Those interested in learning more about Shawnee’s past should relish the fact that McDonald is “putting down stories that might be lost if someone didn’t save them.”

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Building Shawnee City Engineering Department by: Mindy Wood

The light on your street has been out for three months. Why hasn’t the city fixed that? Maybe you’d like to get the city to widen a street on your commute home, and did you call the city about the drainage problem in your subdivision? That’s the city’s job, isn’t it? Your tax dollars pay for that, right?

Not exactly. City Engineer, John Krywicki sets the record straight about misconceptions regarding the city of Shawnee engineering and streets department.

“We get calls constantly about street lights. We report it to our contacts at OG&E, but then we don’t have any means to get OG&E out to schedule it. We do take the calls and we send emails to OG&E instead of asking customers to do that,” said Krywicki.

While Krywicki said they do anything they can to assist citizens with drainage concerns, not all drainage issues are the city’s responsibility. A lot of residents are surprised to learn that most older subdivisions have covenants which dictate drainage responsibilities to the home owner’s association, not the city of Shawnee. “When the HOA dissolves, then it falls back on the city, but we don’t have resources

or manpower to take that on citywide,” said Krywicki.

While the city maintains the roads and bridges in Shawnee, tackling a new road project such as widening an existing road, sometimes can stretch beyond their budget into the millions. Those projects are on a long list as the department seeks outside funding sources to compensate.

“The dollars we collect from sales tax will barely cover just the maintenance of existing roadways and not be able to do improvements. There was no way we could have done Kickapoo. In the future, MacArthur from Harrison to Bryan will need to be four-laned. The road is narrow, it’s just an overlay oil mat type road and the base isn’t good. The cost of four-laning a road like that is $5 to $5.5 million and our sales tax can’t accomplish that,” said Krywicki.

While they end up in a lot of different departments within the city of Shawnee and in the private sector, their department revolves around codes and ordinances as they oversee public improvement projects and ensure private developers are going by the book when it comes to site plans.

A developer may have plans for sewer lines, water lines, and drainage that work for their site, but may create problems for other businesses or homes in the area. Krywicki and his team see the whole picture and enforce codes that prevent risks those plans impose like flooding, traffic congestion, or runoff.

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His department also performs estimates, predicting a project’s costs and demands for city departments’ capital improvement projects. They are responsible for the design of and oversee plans for all improvement projects, with some exceptions. “We try to do all our engineering in-house, but the city will hire out for consultants on bigger facility projects like the water treatment plant.”

They are a go-to source for information to the public, as they keep public works records for water lines, sewer lines, and general information on infrastructure. They’re also in the know about flood plain areas as the flood plain administrators for FEMA codes.

The department includes John Krywicki, city engineer, Rex Hennen, assistant city engineer (utilities), Michael Ludi, assistant city engineer, and Sheriff Secretary, Danny Turner for the street and traffic department. For more information, contact them at 405-878-1660 or stop the office at 222 N. Broadway.

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“I’ve wanted to learn ballet for as long as I can remember,” Hanchey said. Growing up in Crowley, LA, the oldest of four children, dance class was not an option.

Hanchey fell in love with the sophisticated sounds of classical music and developed her voice under the tutelage of an impassioned teacher. She was the lead singer in a 4th grade operetta, sang in the choir, and performed a senior voice recital.

A math major, Hanchey found yet again an outlet in the arts while attending LSU in Baton Rouge. She joined the university chorus, sang in the a cappella choir, performed in two operas, and was a member of the chorus in Funny Girl with her future husband, Dale.

After the Hanchey’s married, Cindy completed LSU’s MBA program. She was hired by LSU as a faculty member in the newly formed Computer Science department.

In 1972, Hanchey discovered LSU offered an adult ballet class. The instructor, Elissa Fuchs, was a professional ballerina from New Orleans who danced in her early teens with Ballet Russe, a Russia-based company; at age 19 with the ballet corps of the Metropolitan Opera; and in the ‘40s with Victory Troupe. Fuchs would lay a solid foundation for this very ready student of ballet.

After two years, Hanchey took a year and a half hiatus from ballet to deliver her first daughter, Jennifer. Hanchey continued classes for nine years with Molly Buchmann and Sharon Matthews, co-directors of the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre. She missed one month while having her second daughter, Jessica. “I didn’t stop taking lessons,” Hanchey said, “but I didn’t do the jumps!”

In 1985, the Hanchey’s moved to Shawnee, accepting faculty positions in the Computer Science program at Oklahoma Baptist University. Immediately, Hanchey found a ballet instructor, Janet Combs, who had a degree from the OU School of Dance, one of the top five dance schools in the country. But classes at the Shawnee Academy of Ballet would be different from what she was used to. Instead of a room full of adults, she would be integrated into a class of middle and high school students.

Hanchey missed performing combinations in the class— she had learned and mastered steps such as pas de bourre’, jete’, assemble’ as stand-alone movements. While Hanchey did not participate in recitals, the classes containing a performance proved challenging because of the required physical and mental blending of the steps.

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Hanchey remembered. “I was old enough to be their mother, yet they accepted me as one of the girls.”

Today many of these girls are now mothers with children of their own taking dance. The connection Hanchey made with these students is obvious as evidenced when their paths cross. “We are always happy to see one another,” Hanchey said.

“There is usually a hug involved.”

Hanchey’s next chapter of dance education continued with private lessons from Julie Wells Busler, an OU dance graduate who performed one year for Ballet Magnificat, a renowned professional Christian ballet company based in Jackson, MS. Since the fall of 2011, Hanchey has been a student under the instruction of Dr. Van Oort,

assistant professor and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at St. Gregory’s University. Van Oort applauds Hanchey’s broad range of knowledge of the history of ballet and of various ballet productions. “She is an inspiration to the college-aged dancers, and to me as well,” said Van Oort. “Her technique is strong and she is aware of what her body can do and works with that to reach her greatest capacity.”

This journey in dance education has led to a greater appreciation of the arts. Hanchey has season tickets to the Tulsa Ballet. She attends occasional dance performances at OU and is a member of Dance Partners, providing dance scholarships to OU students. She attends theater simulcasts of professional ballets, when available. But simply put, she loves it all.

Hanchey celebrated her 68th birthday recently. But this Ph.D, OBU Professor Emerita of Computer Science isn’t slowing down. She still dances, still dons her leotard and leggings, and her precious pointe shoes—handmade in Russia.These are her favorites and performing on her toes is a topic she cannot discuss without a smile that reveals the passion lying ever near the surface. “As a child, I loved ballet in my mind,” said Hanchey. “Now my heart loves it too.”

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Both men and women struggle with the occasion, if only in selecting an appropriate gift, making sure a bouquet arrives on time, or etching just the right sentiment on a card. For advice on how to handle it all, we turned to some local experts.

Here’s what they had to say.

Larry Roberts is a Licensed Marital & Family Therapist who’s been in private practice for nine years. He emphasized the importance in doing away with the idea of a perfect date. “Eliminate the word ‘perfect’ from your vocabulary, as it doesn’t exist, and you’ll only frustrate yourself and your date trying to find this ‘unicorn’,” he said. “Sit down and discuss what you’d both like to do ahead of time. This works better than trying to read each other’s minds and guessing what the other would like. Once you’ve both expressed what you’d like to do, your desires heard and clearly understood, make a plan to accomplish this. Get a babysitter, make reservations, buy tickets – whatever you need to do. If you both agree that you’d rather not compete with the crowds, discuss what you’d like to do at home, perhaps cooking a special meal together or renting a movie. The key here is to TALK to each other about what you’d like to do and be willing to do it!”

For valentines on a budget, Roberts recommends trying what he and his wife enjoy: “dream shopping.” They go to car lots or Bass Pro Shop to check out new vehicles and boats. They also enjoy some dates that include a quiet dinner at home, followed by dessert in a restaurant.

Heather Annis, who like Roberts, practices at Christian Counseling, PLLC in downtown Shawnee, is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has

served in a variety of clinical capacities, totaling 18 years in her field. She encourages Valentine’s Day daters to find things that fit their lifestyle. “If they are active ‘doers,’ a trip to the rock-climbing wall might be what they’d like. If they are more ‘quality time’ people, just a walk around Bricktown might suffice. In some relationships, the gift might be more important than the date itself. People need to talk about what they like and then compromise.”

Annis suggests that couples play “Would you rather?” when planning the evening’s events.

“For example,” she said, “would you rather do something together outside or in an inside venue? Would you rather be among people or in a quiet, intimate setting? Then couples can look at options that we have locally.”

She also offered tips that couples can use year-round to strengthen their relationships.

“People need to check in with each other to see what’s working and what isn’t. We all change over time. Where we are in the life cycle changes, as does what we’re interested in. We need to make sure we are changing together and not separately. It’s much easier to get a vehicle back on course when it first starts to veer off instead of when it’s off the road completely.”

Toppie Lincicome sees a broad range of clients in his counseling work. By day, he is a school counselor at Shawnee Early Childhood Center, and in the evenings, he keeps a private practice, Shawnee Hypnosis and Counseling Center, LLC. Like Roberts, he said that the idea of a perfect Valentine’s Day can set couples up for disappointment. “I would suggest, shoot for excellence,” he said, “and if perfection happens, there will be even more to celebrate.” Simply put, he explained, “The date should convey the message, ‘You are perfect for me’.”

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Lincicome also reminded couple to reflect on the beginning stages of their relationships.

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Lincicome gently suggested that men could do themselves a favor in relationships by being better listeners and allowing ladies to talk about things that bother them, without men trying to “fix” them. Ladies, he said, would be better off telling men what they want and need in clear terms.

For those without a significant other this year, these professionals offered common advice: don’t be alone.

Plan a fun day with friends. This could mean a singles-only shopping trip, dinner out, or ballgame.

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Recover for Less As I am recovering from Strep throat, I find it a timely idea to cover how to save money while keeping your family healthy.

The first important step is keeping your medicine cabinet wellstocked. These are the types of items you can stock up on when couponing – from bandages to over-the-counters, drug stores are often actually your best bet for finding a good deal on home remedies.

Keep an eye out for sales (and there are plenty of coupons) so you can purchase at a good price and be ready for the unexpected, rather than dashing to the store last minute and paying much more for whatever you can get that moment (been there!).

Also, remember that generic medications are proven to be equally effective to their pricier name-brand counterparts. Check the active ingredients to be sure you’re getting the same type of product and then let price dictate what you purchase. If you find a sale and a coupon, the name-brand might be the better bet, if not, a generic or store-brand will be just as good. For example, we purchase Loratadine, the active ingredient in Claritin, at Sam’s for less than $10 for over a year’s supply. We have found it to be equally effective at a fraction of the price.

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BIGGEST LOSER SPEAKS AT HEART EVENT by: Mindy Wood Danny Cahill, from season 8 of Biggest Loser is the speaker for the 13th annual heart event, Heart 2 Heart, hosted by St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital on Tuesday, February 10 at 5:30 PM. His presentation, “Lose Your Quit,” is an experience that has Cahill taking the audience through the painful consequences of abusing food to winning his life-long battle with obesity.

To date, Cahill holds the title of “Biggest Loser” for men, losing the most percentage of weight loss in the show’s history (55.58 percent). He is also the first to lose 200 lbs. before the show’s weigh in, and he set the record for the most consecutive weeks of double digit weight loss. He lost 239 lbs. in 2009 when he left the program.

Keeping the weight off has been a challenge at times. Cahill said that starting a healthy lifestyle is easy, but maintaining it is the real problem. “Giving up is the biggest issue,” said Cahill. “People get motivated all the time to start. The trick is how do you keep the motivation going?”

In his book, “Lose Your Quit,” he addresses how to lose the regrets, the lies, and how to find the why.

“There’s a million reasons to quit. You’ve got to have one reason that’s bigger than them all to keep going,” he said.

Cahill had a million reasons to lose weight, but it wasn’t until a father-daughter talk drove him to action. “She put her arms around me and said, ‘Daddy I want to be just like you.’ I felt like a million bucks and then she said, ‘I want to have a belly just like yours.’ It was a moment I will never forget; it felt like I was in a freefall.”

During his training he learned that regrets had helped keep him overweight. “Regrets are not what got you where you’re at. They’re what keep you where you are. If you relive them, that’s where you’ll stay.

You take good choices and you run with them; take bad choices and learn from them,” said Cahill.

The lies he found lurking in his life also came to light. Until the Biggest Loser, Cahill discovered he had never really decided to give up his unhealthy lifestyle. “All those years I said I didn’t have time.

All those years I was watching TV, on Facebook, or on Candy Crush. If you take an inventory of your life, you’ll find you have the time, but haven’t made it a priority.”

Another lie Cahill used to tell himself was that he would start his diet on Monday. “If you truly want to be healthy, why would you start Monday? It’s an excuse to keep doing what you’re doing and stay exactly where you are,” he said.

Cahill has faced his ‘I quit’ moments. After his

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father died, he experienced depression and regressed.

“I went 47 days without working out and I’d only gone 2 days in a row without working out. I gained 35 lbs. in 47 days. My wife told me we couldn’t do this again.

I needed to figure something out.”

He started working with a trainer and partner, and found other ways to stay motivated. Cahill said the principals he has learned over the years can benefit anyone who needs motivation to change other elements of their lives.

“Everything is connected to everything else.

When people change their health, other things fall in line. They start caring enough to change other things.

Mind, body, and spirit are connected and it all goes in the same direction. I’ve seen people get this one victory and it bleeds into other areas of life,” he said.

Cahill has appeared on multiple national television programs including The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Live with Regis & Kelly, Larry King Live,and Joyce Meyer’s Everyday Living. He is a motivational speaker who regularly speaks for churches, corporations, and universities.

St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital hosts the heart event as an educational awareness opportunity for the community. Heart disease is one of four health issues found in the community health needs assessment, conducted every four years. “The survey showed keys to a healthier community require focusing information around the topics of heart disease, obesity, and the importance of exercise, cancer, and prescription drug abuse,” said Carla Tollett, spokeswoman for St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital.

Seating is limited, please RSVP to 405-878-3496.

The event will be held at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center on Tuesday February 10, at 5:30 PM. Education booths will be available and light refreshments will be served.

Join St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital as they hear how Danny Cahill, from Season 8’s “Biggest Loser,” lost an incredible 239 pounds in just under seven months!

His presentation will be a turning point in any listener’s life. RSVP to 405-8783496. Held at Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center, starts at 5:30 PM.

FEBRUARY 11TH Tecumseh Public Library offers an introduction to cake decorating. Teens will learn the basics of cake decorating as they bake heart shaped cakes in time for valentine’s day! Call 405-598-5955 for more information.

FEBRUARY 25TH - 28TH Unit Liner Water Garden Expo will display their decorative water features, along with water, garden, and pond supplies at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center.

FEBRUARY 28TH Shawnee Public Library presents a fantasy art workshop, a lesson in visibility and the illusion of depth with a controlled collage. It is one program within Pioneer’s The Big Read 2015 celebration of “A Wizard of Earthsea”, a fantasy novel by Ursula Le Guin. Join us and create your own unique piece of artwork illustrating a passage in the novel. Community room A/B from 2 PM to 3 PM. www.shawneeoutlook.com

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SHAWNEE’S

GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE OF 1922

Between July 1, 1922 and the end of March 1923, Shawnee, Oklahoma became the center of national attention during the Great Railroad Strike of 1922.

Local violence included the dynamiting of six homes, several random shootings, the arrest of a former district judge, and an active terror squad. A future gangster and bank robber was incarcerated, a prohibition was issued against public gatherings, and accusations surfaced by a United States marshal about an Oklahoma state representative’s prior knowledge of these activities.

The strike, one of the five largest in United States history, began July 1, 1922, involving 400,000 workers. Shawnee’s maintenance shops, some of the biggest in the southwest, impacted 750 Rock Island workers and another 150 Santa Fe workers. President Warren Harding proposed a settlement four weeks into the strike, but railroad executives rejected it.

On August 17, 1922, a group fired 30 shots into the Rock Island roundhouse. An Associated Press dispatch out of Washington D.C. on August 22, quoted United States Attorney General Harry Daugherty as saying, “the agitation of railroad strikers at Shawnee is at as high a pitch as any point in the United States.” An Associated Press dispatch out of Oklahoma City the same day stated Federal and National Guard troops were standing by if needed with sniping occurring routinely in Shawnee. A New York Times article on August 26, 1922 reported union leaders proposed taking over security at the Rock Island yard to quench the violence in the area, but the United States marshal dismissed the idea as unfeasible.

The Tulsa World reported on the explosive situation August 27, 1922 saying 150 men including special agents and deputy marshals secured property valued at $15,000,000. About 200 “imported workers” lived and worked inside the gates of the rail yards. Another 400 workers were expected the next day, from as far away as Chicago.

From July 1, 1922 until August 2, 1922, the Shawnee Morning News featured headlines about the strike. Front page stories appeared in every issue of the paper from July 1, 1922 until September 14, 1922.

Shawnee became the center of national attention as tensions escalated.

On September 1, 1922, federal Judge James Wilk-

by: Bob Perry, Pott. Co. Historical Society Member

erson, at the urging of United States Attorney General Daugherty, issued an injunction, allowing railroads to use government sanctioned force to prevent unions from disrupting the maintenance facilities effectively ending the strike. Workers settled for a 5 cent an hour decrease in pay and forfeited their seniority. Nationally the strike was ending, but hostilities boiled in Shawnee.

On October 2, 1922, a meeting of the Business and Professional Men of Shawnee had to be moved to the Shawnee Convention Center when over 600 people showed up to hear the United States Marshal, Alva McDonald, address the violence. The next day 1,500 people crowded into the same auditorium when union leader, L.C. “Sandy” Watson responded. Over 300 local business and professional people signed petitions supporting both the railroads and the workers.

In November of 1922, a series of dynamiting incidents began with six Shawnee homes eventually targeted. Sporadic gunfire rattled the city while several “replacement workers” were beaten and robbed.

On January 5, a former district judge and attorney for the striking workers, W. N. Maben, was arrested for violating the federal injunction. Charges accused him of entering the City Café, drawing a revolver, and saying, “If there is a scab here in the house, I want to kill him.”

On January 19, 1923, Shawnee’s Mayor, George B. Caruth, the Shawnee Chief of Police, J. I. Sims, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff, Grover C. Butler, and the United States Marshal, Alva McDonald published a joint proclamation in the Shawnee Morning News forbidding, “all public meetings and street gatherings for the purpose of disorder, threats, or intimidation,” putting Shawnee at the brink of martial law.

By February 25, seven men were arrested for the “depredations” carried out in Shawnee, including the destruction of rail bridges across the southwestern United States. Eventually, 17 men were arrested in what Marshal McDonald called, “an organized terror squad” headquartered in Shawnee.

One arrestee, Roy Hendrickson, was the righthand man of Oklahoma state representative, Sandy Watson. The United States marshal accused Sandy Watson with having prior knowledge to all of the crimes, but the elected official was not charged. One of

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Rock Island Railyard the leaders of the “terror squad,” Henry Garrett, eluded arrest for several days after leaping out of the window of a passenger train while being transported to Oklahoma City for arraignment.

Perhaps the most notable of the “terror squad” was young James Overstreet, who was sent to the state reformatory at Granite for his involvement in the dynamiting of houses. Overstreet would later become a notorious bank robber and a contemporary of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd, credited with over a dozen bank robberies in Illinois.

Strike violence caused 11 fatalities across the nation. Shawnee escaped without any loss of life, but scores of citizens were victimized and about a dozen local men were incarcerated as a result of the mayhem.

The strike signaled the beginning of the end to the railroads as the driving force of the Shawnee economy, and the rifts scarred the community for many decades to come.

For more information about the history of Shawnee’s railroads contact the Pott. Co. Historical Society, located at 614 E. Main St. You can also read Bob Perry’s historical novel surrounding the strike, “Brothers of the Cross Timber,” available at the Santa Fe Depot and Amazon.com.

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