July 11, 2019

July 11, 2019

Vol. 20, No. 7

In This Issue DIRECTIONS

EAGLES JOIN NEW SPORTS LEAGUE OC NOW PART OF THE LONE STAR CONFERENCE

Directions, by Joe Slack, in real life is located in front of OnCue, at 15th and I-35, 4100 E. 15th Street, but this week is hidden somewhere in our paper. Email c o n te s t @ e d m o n d p a p e r. c o m with the correct location to be entered in the weekly drawing.

For more information, see page 4.

State worker’s other vocation See Page 8 PHOTOS PROVIDED

Seen in action from last season were Oklahoma Christian athletes Kali Crandall and Will Lienhard. As of this month OC now moves on to the Lone Star Conference, which is now the largest league in NCAA Division II sports.

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Oklahoma Christian began a new era in athletics on Monday when the university officially became a member of the Lone Star Conference, helping make the LSC the largest league in NCAA Division II. The Lone Star is the fourth conference of which OC has been a member in its athletic history. OC was a member of the now-defunct Texoma Conference from 1975 until 1978, when it joined the NAIA’s Sooner Athletic Conference from the league’s creation in 1978.

In 2012, OC left the SAC and NAIA and joined the Division II Heartland Conference. The Heartland officially ceased operations on Sunday as seven of the league’s nine members prepared to move into the LSC and increase the LSC’s membership to 19 schools.

“This is a historic day for the Lone Star Conference as we welcome eight new members and become the largest and most dynamic conference in NCAA Division II,” LSC Commissioner Jay Poerner said.

“Individually and collectively, our 19 member institutions embody the very best in Division II with a shared commitment to community, academics and athletics excellence.”

In August 2017, the LSC Council of Presidents voted unanimously to offer full membership starting in 2019-20 to OC, Arkansas-Fort Smith, Dallas Baptist (Texas), Lubbock Christian (Texas), Rogers State, St. Edward’s (Texas), St. Mary’s (Texas) and Texas A&M International. Rogers State later decided instead to join fellow Heartland member Newman (Kan.) in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

The LSC also is adding Texas-Tyler, a university that is making the transition from NCAA Division III into Division II. The LSC, founded on April 25, 1931, started as a five-member conference of Texas-based schools and with the latest expansion will have 14 members in Texas, two in Oklahoma, two in New Mexico and one in Arkansas.

“Athletics have always been important in the OC experience,” OC President John deSteiguer said. “We are looking forward to hard work, memorable games and success in the highly competitive Lone Star Conference.”

Fifteen of OC’s 17 varsity athletic programs will compete in the Lone Star, with the university’s swimming programs to continue to compete as an affiliate member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. OC’s indoor and outdoor track and field programs, which have competed in the Great American Conference the past four years, will make the move to the Lone Star. OC’s women’s volleyball team will begin competing in the LSC with the 2020 season.

The LSC conducts conference championships in 18 sports (nine for men and nine for women). Men’s championships include football, cross country, soccer, basketball, baseball, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, golf and tennis. Women’s continued on Page 5

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Scenes from Carnival

The Wagner’s Carnival made its inaugural visit to Edmond and LibertyFest with four days of fun at Mitch Park.

The carnival had many thrilling rides, including a carousel below.

Barbara Fitzgerald and Michelle Culwell enjoying the treats at Wagner’s Carnival at Mitch Park. The carnival closed Saturday.

Photographs by Melinda Infante

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From the Publisher

Back in the USA Folks that read this column much know how I like to travel. Over the years it has been a privilege to visit all parts of this big globe and I enjoy it.

There are so many great places to see and things to Ray Hibbard do but it’s the people in these wonderful countries that interest me the most. My friend, the late Darrell Barton, who traveled as a videographer for CBS during his career once told me about travel, “Just sit down and have a cup of coffee with the folks who live in a country and you will find out they are just like you and me. All they want is a decent job, health for their family and opportunities for their children to improve their lives.” I am reminded of his words every time I hit the road.

This adventure took us on a trip to the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Half of the towns I had been to five years ago but wanted to take my bride, Lisa, to see what I had discovered and the other half I wanted us to experience for the first time together. We make great traveling companions and we each are good at going with the flow and not letting changes upset the trip. It’s better not to get bogged down in the details of your travel so much that you miss the reason for going.

I noticed that some of the places where I had traveled before had made many changes. Budapest is a great example. This wonderful place that holds more than a 10th of the entire population of Hungary has become more crowded and much more westernized. There was not only an abundance of people on the streets, but the locals were wearing the brands and styles of clothing we see in this country. It was a much more casual and relaxed style than I had noticed before. The shops and markets were full of locals making purchases.

The English language was spoken everywhere. As the younger generation of Hungarians takes over the aging work force in that country, more English is being used. In the last five years an entire new generation is now working in the stores, banks and raising their own families. You will hear a young father talking to his children in both languages and they respond back in English. That tells me that the use of English will just continue to grow in Hungary.

Hungary has done a great job in

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Kinderdijk, Netherlands, is the location of 19 remarkably preserved 18thcentury windmills. This charming hamlet is located amid low lying polders, tracts of land reclaimed from the sea by the power of the windmills and enclosed by embankments or dikes. It reminds visitors of the Hans Brinker novel in which a heroic boy plugs his finger into a ruptured dike.

overcoming their Soviet Union repression from World War II to 1989 when U.S. President Ronald Reagan called to tear the “wall” down. In fact, the Hungarian people celebrate President Reagan as their true liberator. I don’t know that he should get all the credit but there are several statues of him in Budapest. The Hungarians were let down so many times in history by so called liberators who just forgot to go home. The Russians were the best example. They didn’t leave for about 45 years.

Amsterdam offered us the most militant of people I’ve ever encountered in Europe. It is the bike rider.

They don’t yield for anyone, cars, buses or pedestrians. It is crazy but you learn quickly to not step in either direction with out looking and to always know where the bike lanes are located. As nuts as their system can seem, I envy the amount of bike riding that goes on in Amsterdam. They are everywhere. Most places in our country just don’t lend themselves to doing without a car. Edmond has made so much progress in making it safer for folks to ride bikes, but we are still far behind the habit in other

countries.

Folks in Europe make much more use out of advice from their pharmacist. They get their first diagnosis from the pharmacy which may lead them to making an appointment with their doctor or just trying the suggestion they receive from the pharmacist. It is a wonderful benefit when traveling to be able to ask questions of the pharmacist. They are incredibly helpful. We should give pharmacists in this country a broader scope to practice medicine on a limited scale.

They are incredibly knowledgeable and more accessible then making an appointment with a doctor when it might not be necessary. Having these folks so accessible could be one of the reasons that Germans live longer then we do in the U.S. It also doesn’t cost as much.

You will see much more awareness of the environment in these countries. Waste disposal is more complicated in these countries. My column a few weeks ago revealed how much of what we may think is getting recycled in the U.S. is just getting put into landfills. I visited with an American I met in Germany that works for

a large waste management company.

He confirmed my suspicions. Germany has a different problem when it comes to supplying energy to their homes. They have several nuclear plants that generate their needs but want to get themselves off that dependency and close as many of these plants as possible. Solar and wind is being expanded but they have a long way to go before any plants can be closed. Their only other option is to buy energy from France which comes from nuclear plants as well.

All over these countries Mexican cuisine is expanding like crazy. When I was in Regensburg, Germany in 2014 I came across a Mexican restaurant stuck back behind a fountain.

They hardly had any customers. I went back to that location this trip and found it packed. Each place we visited had not one but several Mexican restaurants. I didn’t try any of them but should have just to see what their version of Mexican food was like. I stuck to eating all the local favorites including multiple kinds of sausages and pastries. Nothing but vegetables for me for the next several weeks.

If you have that cup of coffee with the locals in Germany or Austria, you quickly find out that their tax burden far exceeds what we have in the U.S. We honestly don’t know what high taxes are and that is just fine with me. I think the highest sales tax we have in this nation is at 10%. The VAT tax in Germany is around 19% with some items sporting lower amounts such as groceries. Add to that they have fuel and income taxes on top of the VAT tax. I think one lady told me it can take up to 47% of your pay just to cover these taxes.

If you want to save your shopping for Sunday, forget it in Germany. By rule of law, all the stores are closed including grocery stores. It puts all the stores on an even playing field.

There are a few exceptions including some old town tourist locations and train stations. We visited with my cousin who lives near Cologne, Germany and she said if she has forgotten something at the store and it is Sunday, she must locate a train station to see if she can find it there.

Travel is a wonderful thing. It may sound odd, but I still say that the best part of travel is coming home.

There is nothing better then coming home to the town, state and country where you live. We are blessed here in Edmond!

(Ray Hibbard may be reached by email at ray@edmondpaper.com)

Check out what’s inside! n Images from LibertyFest parade............................................Pages 6 & 7. n Real life cowboy ..........................................................................Page 8. n Questions Dem. candidates should have faced ..........................Page 10. n Weekend calendar of events ......................................................Page 11. n Spider-Man movie review by George Gust..................................Page 15. n Crossword ..................................................................................Page 15. n Sports ........................................................................................Page 19. n Business News ............................................................................Page 21. n Worship directory ......................................................................Page 23.

See if you can find ‘Directions’ “Directions,” in real life is located in front of OnCue, at 15th and I-35, 4100 E 15th Street, but this week is hidden somewhere in our paper. E-mail contest@edmondpaper.com with the correct location to be entered in the weekly drawing.

Local artist Joe Slack created the sculpture to draw the public in. “I just want to engage,” said Slack, “And for it to be part of the landscape.” At it’s tallest point of 17 feet ‘Directions' is the largest sculpture Slack has ever attempted. It features three huge faces with a rust patina. Located along I-35 it is certain to draw travelers in to engage with just one of the pieces of public art Edmond is known for.

For more information on Edmond public art please visit http://visitedmondok.com/public-art.php

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Cover From Page 1 titles are determined in volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, softball, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, tennis and golf.

The new Lone Star members will join current members Angelo State of San Angelo, Texas; Cameron of Lawton; Eastern New Mexico of Portales, N.M.; Midwestern State of Wichita Falls, Texas; Tarleton State of Stephenville, Texas; Texas A&MCommerce of Commerce, Texas; Texas A&M-Kingsville of Kingsville, Texas; Texas Woman’s of Denton, Texas; Texas-Permian Basin of Odessa, Texas; West Texas A&M of Canyon, Texas; and Western New Mexico of Silver City, N.M. “It is an honor for Oklahoma Christian to join the Lone Star Conference,” OC Athletic Director David Lynn said. “We believe the Lone Star is a premiere NCAA Division II league. We look forward to competing against all of the great schools around the league and visiting all the many college towns that Lone Star schools are located OC soccer player Josie Knox. Josie was also a standout in in. This is a great time for Eagle athletics.” soccer at Deer Creek High School.

Helen Lehman

Edmond Genealogical Society will hold meeting on July 15 Do you have German ancestry in your family tree? Researching your German ancestors can be a challenge. Tracing your ancestors back to their places of origin can sometimes make you feel like a tourist in a foreign country. Overwhelmed by unfamiliarity with the language, culture, and resources, it’s difficult to know where to start.

The Edmond Genealogical Society will meet Monday, July 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the LDS Church, 1351 E. 33rd Street in Edmond.

Our program, Researching Your German Ancestors, will be presented

by Helen Lehman, past Director of the Family History Center Library in Oklahoma City. Helen's program will discuss how to get started with your German research and provide information on understanding, interpreting and reading the language, determining places of origin and how to find the records needed to locate your German ancestors. Changing borders, shifting political alliances, and wars caused many people to leave the country and migrations will also be discussed. Not all Germanspeaking ancestors came from Germany. Helen will also focus on the diversity of DNA results that may surprise you. You won't want to miss this informative program!

Helen A (Wills) Lehman is originally from the Pacific Northwest. As a child, she moved with her family from Washington to Northern Utah, where she lived until she started college at Arizona State University. She met her husband, John, an Ohio native, at Arizona State. When their two children were young, they returned to John's home state. It was here where her genealogy adventures began and blossomed. Migratory Patterns became important to her be-

cause most of her ancestors came across the sea from England, Ireland, Scotland as well as Holland and eventually through southern Ohio just after the Revolutionary War. Her quest to learn of these ancestors' Migratory Patterns as well as European research methods have become the norm for her. Learning who came from and where and how they got here has become mesmerizing as she has read and studied about their trials and conquests from what we today would consider insurmountable difficulties.

Since her genealogical adventures began in 1981, she has filled 26 huge three-ring binders full of family papers and genealogical records. She also produced a 600 plus page book focused on the Lehman/Lehmann family. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, until the fall of 2018, she and her husband, John, had been Directors of the Family History Library in Oklahoma City for just over seven years.

The Aug. 19 program will feature Andre' Head, President of the Black Genealogy Research Group (BGRG) and CEO, The Coltrane Group, Andre' will present The Boley Farmers and Merchants Bank Robbery. The residents of tiny Boley OK defended their bank from the “Pretty Boy” Floyd gang in 1932. This promises to be a fascinating program and an interesting look at a slice of Oklahoma history. Don't miss it!

Genealogical research assistance is available at 5:30 p.m. prior to the meetings.

To know more, visit our website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okegs a nd find us on Facebook: Edmond Genealogical Society. Our meetings are always open to the public and we invite you to join us.

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Scenes from annual LibertyFest parade

Citizens Bank of Edmond again turned many heads with its impressive float during the LibertyFest parade.

Parade marshal Greg Slavonic greets the crowd. Slavonic, of Edmond, is also the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy.

The LibertyFest entry again featured colonial soldiers.

Edmond’s high school marching bands were represented last week.

Photographs by Melinda Infante

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Scenes from annual LibertyFest parade

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Pelco Products float in the 2019 LibertyFest parade featured great events in American history.

The Knights of Columbus showed off its new uniform.

Another large crowd showed up in downtown Edmond for the parade.

A Star Wars storm trooper marched in downtown while Darth Vader battled the sun with an umbrella.

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Participates in LibertyFest Rodeo

The state worker’s other life as a cowboy Dirt, or rather soil, falls into two interesting measurements of time in Blane Stacy’s life – eight hours and eight seconds.

Rodeo and dirt – or as Stacy calls it, “Soil” – have each come to garner a special place in the 31-year-old’s life.

The full-time soil health educator with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission (OCC) is a part-time saddle bronc rider who has qualified three times for the International Finals Rodeo (IFR).

Born one day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 1987, Stacy craves that Fourth of July run that rodeo diehards refer to as “Cowboy Christmas” where the intent is to collect a lot more checks than dirt in a short amount of time.

There are so many rodeos in this span.

Last year, Stacy’s summer holiday got off to a painful start. The 6-feet, 1 inch, 185-pounder with a bristly red mustache took some time off work and entered rodeos for July 3 through July 15. In that stretch Stacy would have only one day he wouldn’t be climbing aboard a bronc. Each time out he’d been looking to make an eight-second qualified ride.

On the first day of that stretch, at Moline, Kan., Stacy dislocated the right shoulder of his riding arm.

It is often said, “There are no disabled lists in rodeo.” There’s a lot of grit though. So the cowboy who lives in Blanchard, Okla., “gutted it out” for the next 12 days, winning six of 11 rodeos.

This year, the gate swung open on the Christmas run recently at the Edmond LibertyFest International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA) and Open Rodeo. After winning both stops the previous weekend at Siloam Springs, Ark., and Carthage, Mo., Stacy drew a horse called Webster County of Sumner Rodeo Company at Edmond.

The chute three gate swung open and … stay tuned.

State University, Stacy gained various forms of conservation experience in jobs over the next few years before going to work at OCC in Water Quality in 2014. Two years later he moved to the OCC Soil Health program.

Now, the cowboy champions soil health through trainings, workshops and offering technical assistance.

Somedays his audience is fifth graders from a science class and other days, ranchers trying to recover from wildfires or floods, or both.

“I want to help them improve the soil, increase diversity, and regenerate the land,” he said. “I try to relate everything I talk about to real life experiences that my audience has. I bring the idea that ‘Soil Health affects everyone’ whether it’s a rancher trying to improve grazing, a stormwater planner trying to reduce flooding risk by improving soils’ water holding capacity or a child having a clean swimming place at the creek. The actual steps will vary, but by trying to relate the audience’s personal experiences with how natural resources can affect their lives is how I promote and teach about Soil Health.”

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Blane Stacy of Blanchard is a full-time soil health educator with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission (OCC) and a part-time saddle bronc rider.

He is shown here making a 74-point saddle bronc ride at the Edmond (Okla.) Liberty Fest International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA) and Open Rodeo on a horse called Webster County.

Below the surface Time has played a lot of roles in Stacy’s life –both in large and small chunks.

Go back to the years of growing up farming and ranching near Delaware, Okla., as the youngest of Kevin and Cathy Stacy’s two children.

“We didn’t call it Conservation or

Soil Health, it was simply managing the resources we had -- grass, soil, cows -- to be profitable, productive, and progressive,” he said. “The knowledge of different types of plants that grow in the ecosystem, and what each one was good for shaped how I viewed the natural world.”

Next, dig down a little to one particular week. It came when Stacy was 15 years old. In the summer of 2003 he went as far west as the Oklahoma state line will allow to a camp called Black Mesa Ecological Academy in Cimarron County.

Stacy said, “For seven days we participated in range, soil, livestock, wildlife, archeological, and geospatial activities that I absolutely loved. The fact that there were careers based on the natural resources I loved to study and be a part of, really solidified where I wanted to focus my career aspirations.”

When he says “be a part of” he’s referring in part to competing in Land and Range Judging contests.

That led to both state and national, individual and team honors, including an individual State Champion title for Oklahoma Union High School in 2004 and being a member of the National Champion team in 2005.

After graduating with a bachelor’s of Science in Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma

Time marches on “Five minutes” — that’s Stacy’s split-second answer to how much thought he gave to riding broncs before deciding to do it.

“I’m serious, five minutes,” he repeated. “Sometimes things in life just jump out and grab you, and that’s it.

I worked the summer of 2007 in Pawnee, Okla., for the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) and with a Range Management Specialist named Joe Vielma. At the time, he also helped the OSU Rodeo Club some. One day we were talking about bull riding or something, and he (Vielma) mentioned that ‘you don’t see as many bronc riders these days.’ To this day, I don’t know why that statement jumped out and grabbed me, but I thought, “I think I’m gonna try me some bronc riding.’”

He bought his first saddle bronc equipment off of eBay and just entered the next closest rodeo.

Stacy figures it took him about five years of $80 eight-seconds or less practice sessions at rodeos to get a little seasoning.

Still, he remembers one of those nights like it was last night.

Stacy was working a summer job in Cordell for the NRCS, and there was a rodeo in Mangum he decided to enter. He was maybe 10 horses into his bronc riding career at this point.

“This little wiry grey horse did everything but stab me with a knife in the chute. He would try to flip, lay down, bite, lean on me,” Stacy said.

Well, the bronc took some energy out of himself, and the cowboy realized this and nodded for the gate.

Stacy recalls that a classic matchup it wasn’t, but it was a qualified ride.

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Blane Stacy of Blanchard is shown here at the Edmond LibertyFest International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA) and Open Rodeo after putting his bronc saddle on the horse he had drawn. He would end up getting a reride on another horse that night.

Cowboy From Page 8 “First time I had made the whistle, ever,” he said. “I felt so good I hat fanned him a little before I rolled off.

It was 64 championship points and was the only qualified score. I won 400 bucks, and I thought I’d never see a bad day again.”

Stacy has qualified for the American Cowboys Rodeo Association (ACRA) Finals nine times, the IFR of the International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA) three times and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s (PRCA) Prairie Circuit Finals once. All-in-all, he’s toted his saddle, bronc rein and chaps to 12 states to compete.

Back to Edmond After difficulties in the chute at Edmond, the judges awarded Stacy a reride — another opportunity to get his Cowboy Christmas rolling.

He would now be paired with Sumner’s bronc Webster County.

Stacy had seen the horse several times at other rodeos, but had never been matched against him.

As the chute three gate swung open, it was showtime.

Stacy said, the powerful bronc

“pretty much just did what he’s supposed to do which is jump and kick as high as he can.”

There was an anxious moment or two, but the soil health educator stayed aboard for eight seconds and 74 points. By the end of the rodeo, that would earn Stacy a third place check in the saddle bronc riding.

“I started real good, but there were about two jumps there I thought I was coming off,” Stacy said. “Sometimes in rodeo we get to evaluate the soil a little closer than we’d like to. I can definitely tell you there are probably some soil compaction issues in that arena now where my body hit, but it was after eight seconds.”

In the crowd that night at Edmond, was Stacy’s wife Judy and 10-monthold son Luke Warren Stacy.

Hitting the rodeo trail on a limited basis is a good fit in Stacy’s list of priorities. It allows him to spend more time with his family and to share the story of conservation in fields, schools, at conferences and farm shows or other venues.

“I’ve found the perfect blend,” he said.

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Blane Stacy of Blanchard is a full-time soil health educator with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission (OCC). Stacy is also part-time saddle bronc rider who has qualified three times for the International Finals Rodeo (IFR).

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Commentary ... We’re on YOUR Side

Use caution near water Warren’s free college plan just doesn’t make sense

The other day in the office we were talking about how fortunate most of us truly are.

If you’ve made it to 30 or 40 then you need to be very grateful. It means you’ve survived a Steve Gust whole host of diseases, wars, violence, viruses, weather events and car wrecks. We should be more grateful anyway for a lot of reasons. But that's a column for another day.

There is yet another deadly danger also. It involves water. Over the holiday, I noticed more people than usual drowned. That included children, which is such a tragedy.

Kids need to be watched pretty closely around water. Anytime you go to the lake with them, have them in a life vest. Put one on yourself as well.

Knowing how to swim is a great skill. I highly recommend it.

However, even if know how to swim, you have to still be careful.

I've known how to swim most of my life. There was one day when that didn't make a lot of difference. I was 15 and went down to Lake Eu-

faula. A friend and I were messing around the boat dock. I got the brilliant idea of diving under the boat dock and coming out the other side.

It was really a dumb thing to do. But when you're 15 you seem to find a lot of dumb things to do.

I dove under this dock and didn't come up where I thought I would.

My head hit the dock. There was no air. I did it again and had the same result. Then I did it a third time and panic started to set in.

At this point God started to feel a bit sorry for me. I opened my eyes and saw peaceful sunlight streaming through water. I can still picture that in my mind to this day. I knew that was an opening and I took it. Air never felt so good when I surfaced.

I learned a great lesson that day.

Be very careful around water.

Swimming pools are great fun and extremely relaxing. But follow basic rules around them.

Always use caution folks.

And be careful where you drive your car. The thing can be swept off the road and into a river.

A strong rushing water current can be fatal.

(Steve Gust can be reached at news@edmondpaper.com)

By Vicki Alger There’s no such thing as a free lunch, or free college. But that reality hasn’t stopped Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts from touting her trillion-dollar-plus plan.

Step one of her plan would cancel most or all of the student loan debt carried by nearly 45 million Americans, up to $50,000 per person as long as their household incomes don’t exceed $250,000. This step alone would result in a one-time cost of $640 billion.

Step two is ensuring students don’t accumulate loan debt ever again by making college “free” like K-12 public schools.

Officially dubbed the Universal Free College program, the estimated cost of this part of her plan is a jaw-dropping

$1.25 trillion over the next 10 years. But never fear: Warren will pay for it by imposing an UltraMillionaire Tax on the rich.

There are several flaws in Warren’s free college scheme, starting with the fiction that her proposed tax on “ultra-millionaires” will actually raise enough money to pay for it.

For example, most European countries have ditched their wealth taxes in large part because they generated so little revenue. So, when the freecollege coffers come up short, average taxpayers will be stuck making up the balance — a very real possibility, especially since Warren also has vowed to bankroll her $70 billion-a-year “free” Universal Child Care and Early Learning plan with the same Ultra-Millionaire Tax. One of the worst ele-

ments of Warren’s plan is that college degrees will become about as meaningless as many of today’s high school diplomas.

Americans already spend an average of more than $13,000 per pupil, per year, for every public elementary and secondary school student — almost as much as they spend for each student at public two-year colleges. That kind of money should buy a topnotch education. Yet nearly 75 percent of high school graduates are not deemed college-ready in English, reading, math and science.

If history teaches us anything it’s that we can’t subsidize our way to college affordability.

The federal government’s reach into higher education has grown steadily over the past 60 years — and with it college inflation rates, which are about twice as high as general inflation rates. As a result, average tuition and required fees at public two- and four-year institutions have increased by more than 300 percent since 1963.

Contrary to what Warren claims, the cause of these skyrocketing increases is too much government funding, not too little. Mounting evidence shows that colleges gobble up increases in federal funding, rather than use them to reduce the burden on families and students.

Perhaps the greatest cost inherent to Warren’s “free” college plan is nurturing the notion that attending college is an entitlement instead of something earned. Such an entitlement mentality helps explain much of the outrageous behavior transpiring on American college campuses largely on the taxpayers’ dime Alger is a research fellow at the Independent Institute. She wrote this for InsideSources.com

Questions Dem candidates should answer

By Cal Thomas The likelihood I would ever be invited to serve on a network panel questioning the Democratic presidential candidates is equivalent to an invitation to take the next trip to the moon.

Still, as I tortured myself watching the two “debates,” which were not really debates but mostly a show of memorized sound bites, I thought of questions that ought to have been put to them all.

Question 1: Some of you have, or had, the power to change many of the things you now say are wrong with America. Why didn’t you?

Question 2 (for Joe Biden): You and Barack Obama, for a time, had a Democratic majority in Congress. Why didn’t you reform immigration laws and address homelessness? Your administration deported a lot of people who were in the country illegally, so why criticize President Trump for wanting to follow your example? Do our laws mean nothing?

Question 3: During the second debate, all of you raised your hands when asked if you would provide free health care to immigrants who are here illegally. Aren’t you inviting even more to come to America with such a policy, and wouldn’t that add to our already staggering debt? Followup: President Trump said we should take care of Americans first. Why would you use American tax dollars to pay for people who break our laws?

Question 4: Is there anything President Trump has done that you could praise? Many of you talk as if unemployment hasn’t declined — especially for minorities — and wages haven’t risen. Unem-

Some of you have, or had, the power to change many of the things you now say are wrong with America. Why didn’t you?

ployment is at, or near, record lows and wages are up.

Question 5: Some of you think raising taxes again is a good idea, but with a $22 trillion debt and with record amounts of revenue already coming into Washington, isn’t the real problem uncontrolled spending? Follow-up: Are there any government programs you would cut or eliminate?

Question 6: Many of you have a lot of complaints about the U.S. Is there anything positive you could say?

Question 7: Many of you have criticized President Trump for confronting Iran and withdrawing from the nuclear deal. Iran is a major sponsor of terrorism in the world and its leaders say they have a religious mandate to wipe out Israel and impose Islamic law on everyone. How would you negotiate with their leaders and what is your plan for fighting terrorism?

Question 8: Some of you say Russia is the greatest existential threat and others name China. Russia has been supporting the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and the crumbling dictatorship of

Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Russia has also sent a warship to Cuba. How would you oppose Russia’s adventurism and China’s expansionism? How would you deal with China spying on us?

Question 9 (for Sen. Kamala Harris): You attacked Joe Biden for working with segregationist senators during his time in the Senate. He (and Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through significant civil rights legislation in the 1960s) said it was necessary in order to accomplish anything. If you were in the Senate at that time, would you have refused to work with those senators, possibly scuttling significant legislation that has led to improvements in the lives of many Americans, including African Americans?

Question 10: There have been 60 million abortions in America since the Supreme Court’s Roe v.

Wade decision in 1973. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than five times as likely as white women to have an abortion. Does this trouble you? Follow-up: Some states allow babies to die if they survive an abortion and some call that infanticide. Are you opposed to that practice?

These questions and others might have provided more useful information to the public than the ones tossed at the candidates. As I say, though, it is unlikely I will ever have a chance to ask them and the network stars won’t either.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

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Thursday, July 11 ---- In the Gallery ---- Concerts in the Park – Classic Rock ---- J.L. Jones “Ferris Wheel Sessions” ---- Movie Night at Pelican Bay – Beauty and the Beast ---- Movie in the Park – Incredibles 2 Friday, July 12 ---- In the Gallery ---- Don’t Tell Dena ---- UCO Jazz Lab – On a Whim ---- Edmond Junior Rodeo ---- Wynonna & The Big Noise Saturday, July 13 ---- In the Gallery ---- Edmond Farmer’s Market ---- Edmond Junior Rodeo ---- 18th Annual KickingBird Classic presented by Edmond Electric ---- One Two Ten ---- American Cowboy Warrior Sunday, July14 ---- In the Gallery ---- American Creed: A Film Screening & Community Conversation ---- Oklahoma Summer Bridal Show

information go to pelicanbayaquatics.com Don’t Tell Dana Location: The Patriarch Extra Info: 8 – 11 p.m.; for more information visit them on Facebook Movie in the Park – Incredibles 2 Location: MAC in Mitch Park Extra Info: Free; 8:30 – 11 p.m.; For more information find them on Facebook UCO Jazz Lab – On a Whim Location: UCO – Jazz Lab Extra Info: $15; 8 – 10:30 p.m.; for more information visit them on Facebook Edmond Junior Rodeo Location: Edmond Round Up Club Carl Benne Arena Extra Info: $1 ---- $5; for more information visit edmondroundupclub.com

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18th Annual KickingBird Classic presented by Edmond Electric Location: Kickingbird Golf Club Extra Info: $150/player; 10 a.m.; for more information visit edmondok.com

In the Gallery Location: Edmond Fine Arts Institute Extra Info: Featuring works by Heather Porter, for information go to: http://www.edmondfinearts.com

American Creed: A Film Screening & Community Conversation Location: Edmond Library Extra Info: 2 p.m.; for more information visit metrolibrary.org

Edmond Farmers Market Location: Festival Marketplace & Plaza Extra Info: Free admission; 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.; for more information go to: edmondOK.com

Wynonna & The Big Noise Location: Showplace Theatre, Riverwind Casino Extra Info: 8 p.m.; for information visit riverwind.com

Concerts in the Park – Classic Rock Location: Hafer Park Extra Info: Free; 6:15 – 8:45 p.m.; For more information visit edmondok.com J.L Jones “Ferris Wheel Sessions” Location: The Patriarch Craft Beer House Extra Info: 7:30 p.m.; for more information visit them on Facebook Movie Night at Pelican Bay – Beauty and the Beast Location: Pelican Bay Aquatic Center Extra Info: 7:30 – 10 p.m.; for more

One Two Ten Location: River Lounge, Riverwind Extra Info: 9 p.m.; for more information visit riverwind.com American Cowboy Warrior Location: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Extra Info: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; for more information visit nationalcowboymuseum.org Oklahoma Summer Bridal Show Location: Oklahoma State Fair Park Extra Info: 1 – 5 p.m.; for more information visit okbride.com

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One of the many photographs to be on display soon at the Oklahoma History Center. It highlights the state’s criminal past.

Photo exhibit to display state’s criminal history On Monday, July 22, the Oklahoma History Center will open its newest exhibit, “Wanted: Dead or Alive.”

This photography exhibit is comprised of images of some of Oklahoma’s most infamous criminals and will be displayed in the Vose Atrium Gallery during the History Mug shot of criminal Ralph Roe. Center’s regular hours of operation, Monday through Satur- tram, Ralph Roe and many more.

Many of the people featured were day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., until born and raised in Oklahoma or Feb. 29. moved here and began their lives of Images utilized in the exhibit have crime. Sometimes the stories are as been drawn from the Federal Bureau much about the location as the individof Investigation, the University of ual. Although many of the tales feature Oklahoma Western History Collectruly despicable characters, others tell tions, the National Archives, the vast of people who temporarily went astray. photographic archives of the OklaSome of the accounts include strange homa Historical Society and private twists and turns, and there is even an lenders. The 38 black-and-white imunsolved mystery. ages on display consist of mugshots, The Oklahoma History Center is locrime scene locations and group shots with criminals and law enforce- cated at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in Oklahoma City. For more informament officers. They span more than 70 years, starting before statehood in tion, please call 405-522-0765.

The Oklahoma History Center is a 1907 and reaching into the late division of the Oklahoma Historical 1950s.

Society and is an affiliate of the While there may be a few familiar Smithsonian Institution, National names, such as the Doolin and Dalton Archives and is an accredited memGangs and Ma Barker, the exhibit showcases stories that might not be as ber of the American Alliance of Museums. For more information about well known. Visitors will learn about the OHS, please visit www.okhiswhiskey towns, the Tulsa Central Park Gang, Spencer State Bank, Wanda Bar- tory.org.

State lawmaker seeks study into recent flood State Rep. Lonnie Sims (R-Jenks) requested an interim study to conduct a state-level review of the actions taken leading up to and in response to the historic Arkansas River Flood of 2019.

“We experienced the second most significant flood event along the Arkansas River since 1986,” Sims said. “The flooding spared no community along its banks as it traversed through Northeastern Oklahoma, nor the cities and towns inundated by the overflows of lesser-known creeks and streams that feed into it.”

Sims seeks to facilitate an after-action study with key federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as public and private stakeholders that were negatively impacted up and down the river.

“How did we forecast, plan and ultimately respond to protect the people, property, wildlife and environmental treasures of this state?” Sims asked. “We owe it to all who have suffered greatly to gain every lesson possible to better respond and, if at all possible, prevent the next one.”

“There will be considerable interest to participate,” said Terry Simonson, director of Tulsa County Governmental Affairs. “From what we have learned, there may be some legislative action needed that could be

helpful. Counties need to have a way, like cities do, to proactively fund the flood control and storm water infrastructure improvements needed, especially in the unincorporated areas where many live in a flood zone. We hope that in addition to the scope of the inquiry looking back, we can look forward as well on how counties develop a fundable floodwater plan.”

Sims emphasized this event is far from over, especially for those Oklahoma families who have lost everything.

“I’m extremely grateful for the disaster declarations of Governor Stitt and President Trump to ensure these Oklahoma families have access to every state and federal resource available,” Sims said.

Representatives may request interim studies to examine a policy issue in depth, but ultimately, the decision on whether the studies are approved resides with the Speaker of the House. Decisions on which interim studies requests are approved will come from the Speaker’s office

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Congratulations again to Edmond’s Miss Oklahoma Edmond’s Addison Price took her bows recently in Tulsa as she was named Miss Oklahoma 2019. The award also came with $23,000 in scholarships. Addison is a graduate of Edmond North High School.

‘Gone with the Wind’ mansion to be auctioned In 1936 when Margaret Mitchell wrote her fictional novel about the Civil War-era Deep South, 'Gone With the Wind,' it didn’t occur to her that it would end up being a classic bestseller that would endure for generations.

When Selznick International Pictures purchased the film rights to the book in 1939, Mitchell had no interest in being involved in the production except for doing one thing: She came across a photograph in the Atlanta Journal of a Covington, Ga. 1836 plantation-style house, cut it out and mailed it to David Selznick with notations that it was identical to the house that she envisioned for the book’s character Ashley Wilkes. Since then, Twelve Oaks was purchased by the current owners in rundown condition and underwent a $2 million restoration in 2017 bringing it back to the fine Antebellum home Margaret saw in 1939. With the owners desiring to start a new project, Twelve Oaks has recently been put up for auction ending July 25th with a starting bid of $1 million.

Today’s Twelve Oaks is even more stunning than when Mitchell found it with the restoration and addition of 21st-century amenities. At 10,000 square feet, it has 11-foot ceilings and hardwood floors throughout, chandeliers and period lighting, 12 bedrooms, 13 baths and 12 fireplaces routed into five eye-catching, brick chimneys, now with fires remotely controlled. With decor kept within the period, there is the formal parlor, large dining room, new kitchen and elegant bathrooms with two tubs that cost over $14,000 each and one with a rare antique shower shaped in a circle with sprays from shoulders to feet.

The master suite with personal library is rich with built-in wood bookcases flanking a fireplace with room for seating and a library table. In ad-

Twelve Oaks, the inspiration for Ashley Wilkes’ plantation home in 'Gone With the Wind,' is now up for auction with bidding open through July 25. dition, there are three laundry rooms, fire-sprinkler system and intercom.

The rooftop captain’s walk affords lovely views. Outside is a swimming pool with historic pergola, covered porches, a large deck and over three acres of gardens with a four-car carriage house that has Tesla and Copper Creek charging stations for both cars and golf carts.

A visually perfect example of an historic southern town, Covington is known as “The Hollywood of the South” since over 125 movies and television shows have been filmed there. Details of the town’s film career can be seen downtown in the Georgia Television and Film Museum.

The mansion is located only three blocks from the town square with a wide range of restaurants and shops, 30 miles east of downtown Atlanta.

As a bed & breakfast and event venue, Twelve Oaks has been named Best of the South by Southern Living in 2018 with frequent appearances in movies and television and big enough to house cast and crew. It is listed in Trip Advisor’s Hall of Fame and as a wedding venue has won Best of the Knot and WeddingWire Couples Choice Award.

Twelve Oaks, the inspiration for Ashley Wilkes’ plantation home in 'Gone With the Wind,' is now up for auction with bidding open through July 25. Dewey Jacobs of Target Auction and Land Company in Gadsden, Alabama is the auction manager.

Visit TopTenRealEstateDeals.com for more historic, spectacular and celebrity homes and real estate news.

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Jake Gyllenhaal joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a mysterious new ally from a parallel universe that befriends Peter Parker (Tom Holland) on a class Summer trip to Europe in ‘SpiderMan: Far from Home.’

Latest Spider-Man film a lot of fun

By George Gust After the massive box office success of “Avengers: Endgame” Marvel and Disney Studios are headed back to the well for more with its most recent addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe“Spider-Man: Far from Home.”

This film takes place directly after the events of “Endgame” and follows the continuing adventures of Peter Parker (Tom Holland). This film finds Parker wanting to get away from the Super-Hero game and go on a European class trip with his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) and crush MJ (Zendaya). However, a new elemental threat and a mysterious new ally Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) change Peter’s plans and force him back into action.

“Spider-Man: Far from Home” continues the light-hearted high school milieu that “Spider-Man: Homecoming” brought to this version of SpiderMan/Peter Parker. And after the colossal stakes and weight of “Avengers: Endgame” this lighter and comedic tone is a welcome change of pace.

Back from the first film is the undeniably charismatic Holland as a young Parker whose awkward energy plays wonderfully against a more active role for Zendaya as Parkers love interest MJ. However, aside from a few small chuckles and an overall cheeky tone, the comedy in this movie falls somewhat flat, featuring one-liners that don’t quite hit the way they should.

Where “Spider-Man: Far from Home” is most successful is it’s focus on delivering a satisfying summer action movie with a heavy heart after the harsh experience Spider-Man has been through in the previous film. This movie has a villain that is ul-

Woody Guthrie Festival The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival and Thlopthlocco Matrilineal Sons & Daughters announce the inaugural Native Maestro Series, comprised of Oklahoma Native performing artists. The Native Maestro Series premieres Friday, July 12, 2019, 6pm at the Noble Middle School Auditorium in Okemah, Oklahoma.

Featured artists: Timothy Tate Nevaquaya (Comanche) - Native Flute Kyle Bell (Thlopthlocco Tribal Town) - Film Maker Maggie Boyett (Shawnee/Kiowa) Modern Dancer Barbara McAlister (Cherokee) - Classical Mezzo-Soprano Aaron Beck (Tulsa Opera) - Guest Pianist Nicole Emmons (Citizen Potawatomi) - Film Maker/Artist Jerod Tate (Chickasaw) - Classical Composer This annual event has been created to provide a showcase of Oklahoma Native performing artists and add to the rich tapestry of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. It is presented alongside the new Thlopthlocco Matrilineal Art Showcase, which follows on Saturday, July 13 at the Citizens State Bank, in downtown Okemah.

The concert is free and open to the public.

timately a meta commentary on the state of news and group think while still feeling like an intensely personal storyline for Parker. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” felt like a smaller story in a larger universe similar to the small scale (no pun intended) “Ant Man” series, while “Spider-Man: Far from Home” brings the character to the forefront in the larger cinematic universe to fill a spot that’s been left open with the exiting of the mainstay Avenger characters.

Overall, “Spider-Man: Far from Home” is another fun and breezy entry into the MCU SpiderMan series and provides a necessary pallet cleanser and reset for the massively successful series of comic book movies. Charismatic and entertaining throughout, this movie has wonderful performances from Holland, Zendaya, and Gyllenhaal and proves once again that Marvel has an inexplicable way of narrowly avoid Super-Hero fatigue.

“Spider-Man: Far from Home” is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments.

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Crossword Puzzle STATEPOINT CROSSWORD THEME: FAMOUS DOGS ACROSS 1. One chore, e.g.

5. Not bright 8. *Dog in yoga 12. Impersonator 13. *Marvel Comics' ____ Dogs 14. *First dog in space 15. Bulb holder 16. Auto pioneer 17. Without illumination 18. *Smallest dog breed 20. Play-ers 21. Those who vote against 22. Paul Simon's former partner 23. Medium's seance state 26. Do like ivy, two words 30. *Type of terrier 31. L in NFL 34. Cleanse 35. Priest's Eucharist garb 37. Pilgrimage to Mecca 38. On the fritz 39. Eight furlongs 40. Study of bird eggs 42. Not lager 43. Change into stone 45. Scandinavian country 47. Web robot 48. Plants and animals 50. Partner to greet 52. *Wartime horrors 56. Royal topper 57. What Daenerys Targaryen wanted to do 58. Like tiny print 59. Seizure or sunstroke 60. Between ids and superegos 61. Sacred image in Orthodox Church 62. Al Capone's nemesis Eliot 63. One of the five W's 64. Aren't, colloquially

DOWN 1. Magnesium silicate 2. Moonfish 3. Bruce Willis' ex 4. Oliver Twist, e.g.

5. Indian metropolis 6. River in India 7. Table hill 8. Thin cigar 9. Rembrandt's medium 10. SNL act 11. David Zinczenko's "___ This, Not That!"

13. Chin beard 14. Filthy dough 19. "I give up!"

22. 1/100 of a hectare 23. *Lady's Bella Notte date 24. China grass 25. Like tower of Pisa 26. *Stephen King's rabid character 27. Native American fruit 28. Throat lobe 29. *"Our Gang" pit bull terrier 32. Call to a mate

33. Girl 36. *Hound of Hades 38. _____ Protocol, climate change treaty 40. "Oftentimes" in poetry 41. Gnostic's intuitions 44. Itsy-bitsy bits 46. Basket-making fibers 48. When it breaks, the cradle will fall 49. Traditional Inuit home 50. Three blind ones 51. Chows down 52. *What Charles Schulz did with Snoopy 53. ____pedia or ____leaks 54. In a little while, to Shakespeare 55. Rock opera version of "La BohËme" 56. "Wizard of Oz" man

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New drug may up survival of ovarian cancer patients Women with ovarian cancer who have undergone four or more rounds of chemotherapy typically haven’t had much hope that another treatment option will lengthen their lives in a meaningful way. However, a new research study shows tremendous promise for a drug called niraparib to exDr. Moore tend life when all options have been exhausted.

Gynecologic oncologist Kathleen Moore, M.D., associate director of clinical research at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine, is the lead author for the study, which was published in The Lancet Oncology, the world’s leading cancer journal. The study reveals especially good news for patients with ovarian cancer who do not have a mutation of their BRCA gene, as well as those who have received multiple chemotherapy treatments. Because the study showed a longer survival time for those patients, it lends support for an expansion of the use of niraparib, a PARP inhibitor that targets cancer cells without affecting normal cells.

“This is another piece of the puzzle that helps our patients live longer,” Moore said. “There haven’t been a lot of studies done on patients without BRCA mutations who have received four, five, six or more lines of chemotherapy. That’s who this trial sought to study. Until we can cure patients, we are doing our best to find treatments that buy them meaningful pe-

riods of time, until we can provide them with the next effective line of therapy.”

Because women with BRCA-associated cancers respond best to PARP inhibitors, they have been the most heavily studied group and led to the first indications for using the drugs in treating ovarian cancer.

However, only about 25 percent of women with ovarian cancer have a BRCA mutation either in their tumor or blood, and there is a high unmet need for effective therapies for the 75 percent of women who do not have BRCA mutations, Moore said.

Ironically, having a BRCA mutation means that the patient’s cancer will respond better to chemotherapy and to a PARP inhibitor like niraparib. Women with BRCA mutations have something called homologous recombination deficiency – which means that when their cancer cells make mistakes in the process of dividing, they have trouble repairing those mistakes.

PARP inhibitors like niraparib make repairing those mistakes even harder, which equates to treatment being able to kill cancer cells more efficiently.

However, women with BRCA mutations aren’t the only cancer patients who have homologous recombination deficiency. Up to 25 percent of women without a BRCA mutation can also develop the condition, meaning they, too, can benefit from taking a PARP inhibitor.

The study further categorized patients into those who were resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy and those who showed some response to it. Among women who responded to their last chemotherapy

treatment, 27 percent responded well to niraparib and averaged 9.2 months until the disease grew or spread. Participants in the study had an overall survival time of more than 20 months, which is quite remarkable in this late line of therapy, Moore said.

“We don’t normally see response rates of more than 10 percent in women who have had four, five and six chemotherapy treatments,” she said. “So a 27 percent response, especially given that these were not all women with BRCA mutations, was a nice signal that these patients can still benefit from PARP inhibitor use.”

Even among women whose cancers were resistant to their last chemotherapy treatment, niraparib still extended their lives. Thirty-three percent of women in that category benefited from the drug for at least four months.

“Those additional months are important,” Moore said. “They are never enough, but several months of disease stabilization is better than none. They can get people to Christmas or to see a new grandchild or to another milestone. Then, if they are stabilized and feeling better, they might be able to take another drug or go on a clinical trial.”

Research studies also are important for expanding the types of patients who can receive a drug like niraparib, Moore said. Per FDA regulations, the only way that women without a BRCA mutation can currently receive niraparib is to respond favorably to platinumbased chemotherapy, then go on the drug as maintenance.

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Kenneth Wyatt just celebrated his 80th birthday. It was even more special due to a lung transplant operation he underwent at Integris in January.

Integris helps lung transplant patient celebrate birthday Kenneth Wyatt just celebrated his 80th birthday on June 4. What makes this milestone even more special is knowing he underwent a lung transplant on Jan. 10, 2019, at the age of 79.

The staff at Integris Baptist Medical Center held a surprise party for Wyatt and hope to have more of these celebrations in the future.

“People should not see age as a deterrent to seeking an organ transplant,” says Mark Rolfe, M.D., co-medical director of lung transplantation and advanced pulmonary disease management at the Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute in Oklahoma City. “We look at physiologic age, not chronologic age. The old way of thinking was you can only transplant people 65 and younger, but there's a lot of 75-year-olds who are otherwise healthy and still young at heart.”

About a year and a half ago, Wyatt suddenly started to experience shortness of breath. “It came on really quickly,” remembers Wyatt. “I just couldn’t get enough air. I felt claustrophobic, like I constantly needed more oxygen.”

He was diagnosed at another facility with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and was told his condition was terminal and he was simply too old for a transplant. Thankfully, Wyatt persisted and found another physician who immediately referred him to the Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute.

“I was anxious to meet Mr. Wyatt,” says Alan Betensley, M.D.,

co-medical director of lung transplantation and advanced pulmonary disease management at Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute. “We ran some tests and concluded he was healthy despite his pulmonary fibrosis, so we felt he would be an ideal candidate for transplant, regardless of his age.”

Wyatt was placed on the lung transplant list Nov. 15, 2018. “I hear some people wait years for a transplant, so I was surprised to get ‘the call’ less than two months later,” admits Wyatt. “I woke up in the Intensive Care Unit and everyone told me I did great. I was out of the hospital within a week.”

“Kenneth did remarkably well through the entire process. His oxygen level is back up to 98 percent and he is currently undergoing rehabilitation to regain his strength and endurance,” Betensley says. “I have no doubt he will make a full recovery.

He is proof positive that age is relative.”

Wyatt says the experience has given him a new outlook on life and a brand-new purpose for living. “The way I figure it, is God gave me this condition for a reason. And maybe that reason is to help raise the age limit for transplant consideration. Integris took a chance on me when most other institutions wouldn’t, and I will be forever grateful for that.”

“I could still have 20 years ahead of me,” Wyatt predicts. “My mom is still living at 104 and my grand-dad lived to be 101 … so there’s a lot of life left in me.”

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How Managed Cloud Computing Helps Improve Business Efficiency While companies who are taking advantage of the cloud are seeing productivity gains, new cloud resources and capabilities are continually being developed. One example is managed cloud services, which more and more busin esses ar e usin g t o a c hie v e e v en gr e at er performance, value and efficiency.

What is “managed cloud,” and is it a service you should be using to your company’s advantage? Here are some reasons why you may want to take a closer look at benefits associated with engaging a managed cloud services provider.

Managed Cloud Services help you fo ocus on your core business, not IT. The term ‘managed cloud services’ simply refers to the outsourcing of the day-to-day management of a company’s cloud activity. This includes the cloud-based resources and technical support needed to automate and enrich business operations. Someone has to be tasked with managing the cloud for a business; a company can hire and train experts to do all the complicated tasks needed to manage the cloud inf rastructure, or they can use managed cloud, which lets a business fully utilize cloud computing without having to staff a dedicated team. Managed cloud services let a company focus more on its core business and less on IT functions.

24/7 Monitoring and Management The proactive monitoring associated with managed cloud services ensures that downtime is minimized. By ceaselessly analyzing system metrics and trends, a cloud der can identiffy and detect what potential services provider failures are, often before they occur.

Professional Expertise and Administration A managed cloud provider brings a wealth of expertise to the table. The service provider has a team of experts that not only manage the customer ’s computing, storage, networks and operating systems, but also the programs, tools and applications that are integrated into the cloud inf rastructure.

Enhanced Securitty Cloud computing providers have measures in place to secur e y our busin ess data an d applications. This includes encryption, firewalls, network security and physical security. Once they’ve migrated to the cloud, a company’s information and applications are no longer stored directly on office devices. If anything were to happen to these devices, the data wouldn’t be at risk; it’s all stored on their secure cloud.

Afffor o dable and Accessible Traditional cloud computing approaches can require a significant outlay of capital. A managed cloud service avoids this; it requires minimal upf ront costs and, instead, you pay as you go. A business can avoid having to invest in hardware, software, licensing and other fees, because the cloud provider takes care of these things.

In a ddition, c loud c omputin g ser vic es are “ondemand,” which means vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned rapidly. This gives businesses increased flexibility and takes the pressure off capacity planning. With a managed cloud provider, the network is constantly upgraded to the latest generation of computing software and hardware. This offers several benefits over traditional solutions, including reduced network latency for applications and expanded economies of scale.

Advanced Mobilitty and Business Continuitty Because the cloud goes anywhere, your office goes anywh ere. Applications an d data are a ccessible to authorized users via the internet. As long as they have a device with internet access, they can safely and securely stay in sync with their business.

And, as we all know, a crisis can strike out of nowhere - f rom natural disasters to fires and power failures. The cloud helps ensure your business data is constantly backed up and protected in geographically diverse and redundant data centers. Should the unexpected occur, a business can access its data quickly f rom temporary locations and temporary devices. This enables the company to conduct business as usual with an uninterrupted employee and customer interface.

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Armstrong International Cultural Foundation's director of marketing and public relations Shane Granger speaks to Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department attendees during the tourism quarterly meeting at Armstrong Auditorium.

Armstrong hosts state tourism officials The Armstrong International Cultural Foundation hosted the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department (OTRD) at Armstrong Auditorium on recently in Edmond. More than 30 tourism professionals from 15 communities attended the department’s quarterly meeting and afterward several took a back-stage tour of the auditorium.

Colin Murphy is the meeting and events marketing manager for the OTRD and chaired the meeting. He said, “We were thrilled the Armstrong Auditorium hosted our quarterly tourism meeting.

The facility is truly one of a kind, and absolutely gorgeous. The staff was wonderful and Armstrong is a great partner in tourism.”

OTRD is responsible for a wide array of activities promoting destinations that attract visitors to the state of Oklahoma.

Through its website TravelOK.com, the department connects visitors to agritourism, group travel, historic Route 66, museums, concert venues, film lo-

cations for movie studios, music and cultural festivals and more.

One of the department’s latest initiatives is the Oklahoma Fishing Trail, announced by Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell at a news conference on recently, at Lake Thunderbird State Park. The initiative aims to turn Oklahoma into America’s number one fishing state. Visit FishinOK.com for more information.

Just prior to the quarterly meeting, OTRD issued a press release stating that tourism is the state’s third-largest industry, and new research shows that visitor spending hit a record high in 2017. An estimated 21 million visitors generated $8.94 billion in total direct travel spending for the state and generated $656 million in state and local tax revenue in 2017 — the equivalent of $430 for each Oklahoma household, the release stated.

“Armstrong Auditorium fits right in to this tourism picture,” said Shane Granger, director of marketing and public relations for the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation. “The concerts

and exhibits we host for the public, along with the festivals for the Philadelphia Church of God, generate a portion of these tourism-related tax revenues.” Granger added that the auditorium attracts over 55,000 visitors per year.

The Armstrong International Cultural Foundation is a member of the Oklahoma Travel Industry Association and the Adventure Road travel district. Working with both the Edmond Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau, eight of the Foundation’s employees have received national certification as Certified Tourism Ambassadors for the OKC metro area.

The Foundation has twice been awarded top prizes for its contributions to Oklahoma tourism.

Just last week it received the “Outstanding Temporary Exhibit” award from the Frontier Country Marketing Association for its exhibit, “Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah Discovered.” In 2014, the Foundation received the “Outstanding New Attraction” RedBud award for Armstrong Auditorium.

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Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department representatives tour Armstrong Auditorium during their quarterly tourism meeting.

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Sports

Rowers and national recognition The University of Central Oklahoma has announced that Madisyn Kitchell, Eileen Anderson, and Megan Dwarshuis were each named First Team All-Americans, while Anderson Shelby Wackerly was named Second Team All-American.

"I'm proud of each of these young women for their achievements," UCO head rowing coach Montia Rice said.

"Each one of them works very hard for their position and for this team.

They all deserve to be recognized for

that and I'm glad they have earned this honor."

Anderson, a junior from New Jersey, makes her return to the status of AllAmerican after receiving the honor in Kitchell 2017. Dwarshuis, a junior from Grand Rapids, Michigan, joins Anderson as a second-time winner. The two are the fourth and fifth two-time winners in UCO history.

Kitchell earned All-American honors this season for the first time. The junior coxswain from Yukon, Okla.

also represents three straight years UCO has had the First Team All-American coxswain.

All three first team selections were part of UCO's Varsity 8+ national Dwarshuis championship boat and helped UCO win its third consecutive national title in that boat. They all helped the Bronchos win their second straight team national championship.

Wackerly, a junior fomr Edmond, Okla., spent most of the season in the V8+ boat with her fellow All-

Americans, but moved to the Varsity 4+ for the national championship and in doing so, helped UCO win a national title in that boat for the first time in school history.

Wackerly Wackerly helped Central earn maximum team points toward its team national championship.

Central Oklahoma has had now 17 All-Americans a combined 22 times over the past eight years with five two-time selections. UCO began rowing 11 years ago.

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Joe Baxter will be performing from his new ablue ‘The Weather’ during an upcoming concert in Arcadia.

Morning Music concert set A Morning Music concert and the monthly Round Barn Rendezvous are coming up July 13-14 at the Arcadia Round Barn, and singer-songwriters Joe Baxter and Mary Battiata will present a songwriting workshop on July 20.

Kelsey Avants and Tim Gent, acoustic musicians who call their duo Wallpaper, will play from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 13 in the downstairs museum of the Round Barn.

Gent is from Marlow and Avants lives in Duncan.

The Round Barn Rendezvous, a monthly jam session held in in the loft of the barn, is set for noon to 4 p.m. July 14. Refreshments will be available.

Battiata, who lives in Virginia, will lead the July 20 workshop along with Baxter, a Midwest City singer-songwriter who coordinates the live music at the Round Barn.

Battiata’s latest album, “The Heart,

Regardless,” released last year, received four- and five-star reviews from critics across the country and the United Kingdom. The album reached #15 on the country and country Americana charts of the Roots Music Report.

Baxter’s newest album is called “The Weather.” In addition to his solo career he leads “The Regular Joes,” an original rock and roll band, and the Round Barn Ramblers, an acoustic group that plays country and bluegrass.

Participants in the two-hour workshop should be prepared to take notes, Baxter said.

Admission is free to the Round Barn, but donations are accepted for the maintenance of the barn, which is located six miles east of Interstate 35 on Historic Route 66. For more information about the workshop or live music at the barn, call Baxter at 405833-1350.

The late-Merle Haggard struck gold 50 years ago with his mega popular country song, ‘Okie from Muskogee.’ The tune is known internationally.

Commemorative concert set

A half century of being an ‘Okie from Muskogee’ The Greater Muskogee Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism announced that Muskogee will host a commemorative concert and other events to celebrate the 50th anniversary performance of ‘Okie from Muskogee’ by Merle Haggard.

On Oct. 10, 1969 Merle Haggard recorded the hit album, Okie From Muskogee – Live from Muskogee, Okla. inside the Muskogee Civic Center. The live recording emerged from the already hit song “Okie From Muskogee”, written by Haggard and songwriter/drummer Eddie Burris, which saw success at live performances even before its official release on Sept. 25, 1969.

The commemorative concert featuring Ben Haggard and the Strangers, Merle’s son and original band, will be held Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, inside the original venue, the Muskogee Civic Center, 50 years to the day of that historic night. The event will also feature special guests including Oklahoma’s own, Ricochet.

“We are excited to announce this event that is 50 years in the making,” said Justin O’Neal, Interim Tourism Director for the Greater Muskogee Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism.

“This album is known as one of the greatest albums of all time featuring one of the greatest songs of all time,” added O’Neal.

The event in October 1969 was the last of a run of six shows that were all intended to be recorded and released as a live album titled “Six Nights on The Road.” Due to a shady equipment salesmen and technical difficulties none of the previous five shows were able to be recorded. In fact, even on the historical night the band was not sure if anything recorded as planned.

“We didn’t even have speakers to

know if we were going onto the tape” Haggard recalled in a later interview for a commemorative release of the album years later. “Fuzzy [Owens] told me that night in Muskogee, he said ‘If you’ve got this on tape, I’m not sure whether we did or not, Hag, but if you did, it’s a million seller.’”

The song reached No. 1 on Billboard Magazine Hot County Singles chart by Nov. 15, 1969, where it stayed for four weeks. The Album would go on to win ACM 1969 Album of the year, and the single would take home both ACM Single Record of 1969 and 1969 Song of the Year, the song would go on to be the biggest hit of the superstar’s career.

Thousands of people from all over the world come to Muskogee each year to see the legendary town depicted in the song. “There have been many times we meet tourists from overseas who don’t speak much English, but they can say “Okie From Muskogee” which lets us know just how wide the impact of this goes, said O’Neal. “What we are looking to accomplish with this event is to celebrate a legacy and continue to draw on the attention the song has provided to our town.”

In the spirit of celebrating the 1969 event, the ticket prices will be the same as they were in 1969 - $3, $3.50 and $4. The event will also offer a special VIP seating and reception package available in a limited amount. Further details about the event will be released in coming weeks and tickets will go on sale Aug. 10 at www.visitmuskogee.com.

For more information on the event go to www.visitmuskogee.com or contact the Greater Muskogee Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism at (918) 682-2401.

Lyrics from famed 1969 hit song We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like livin' right, and bein' free We don't make a party out of lovin' We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy Like the hippies out in San Francisco do I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,

And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all leather boots are still in style for manly footwear Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen Football's still the roughest thing on campus And the kids here still respect the college dean And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee A place where even squares can have a ball.

We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

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Nine Francis Tuttle students set precedent Nine Francis Tuttle Technology Center students are the first in the nation to earn a newly-defined, industry-approved hospitality certification.

Francis Tuttle teamed with the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA) and the Oklahoma Hotel and Lodging Association (OHLA) to develop the HospitAbilities Oklahoma Hospitality Certification.

In collaboration with hospitality industry experts, Francis Tuttle created a tailored curriculum to teach industry-approved competencies and jobsite skills.

Students in the program received instruction in many areas including culinary skills, use of commercial kitchen equipment, sanitation and safety.

Francis Tuttle instructors led the classes.

“We know that not all students display their gifts and talents in the same way,” said Kari Bailey,

Hospitality Certifications Francis Tuttle service careers instructor. “HospitAbilities is a new program for students who want to get started in the workforce and join the industry. We offer a HospitAbilities Certification for students of all abilities.”

Following completion of the required classes and trainings, industry evaluators administered competencies tests to students enrolled in the program.

Ninety percent of students successfully completed the tests to earn certification. As part of this innovative partnership, the ORA will assist these students in obtaining employment in the service industry.

“The HospitAbilities program represents an employee population that wasn’t readily available to

us before,” said Chandy Rice, ORA’s director of education. “Together with Francis Tuttle Technology Center, among other career centers, we are able to train and certify students for today's workforce.

Rather than testing on paper, this certification involves bringing in industry evaluators to score the students individually. Because there are many different skills needed in the hospitality industry, our students are able to play to their strengths and open many doors for their future.”

“This certification is another instance where our instructors collaborated with industry leaders to create and implement a program that will benefit our students and the industry,” said Denton Blevins, Francis Tuttle instructional director. “We are evaluating the program elements and requirements in anticipation of this becoming a national certification in three to five years.”

How employees can benefit from time off Vacations can be great ways to see the world, soak up some culture and get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But traveling can have benefits that last longer than a one- or two-week vacation.

Traveling can have a positive effect on personal health and well-being, as various studies point to how travel can boost one’s state of mind and overall mood. The following are five ways that traveling can positively affect travelers’ mood and health. n Increases happiness: People are happiest when they have a trip coming up, according to researchers at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. A 2014 study from researchers at Cornell University confirms the findings, noting people get more happiness from anticipating a travel experience than from an object they can acquire. n Enhances creativity: The brain is influenced by new environments and experiences, which is the hallmark of travel. Researchers at the Columbia Business School found that travel can encourage people to embrace different ways of living and influence their outlook on life. n Stress relief: Travel is a great way to get away from

obligations at home and at work, allowing the mind to reset without having to make decisions beyond figuring out which activities to do during the day or which foods to grab along the way. The mental wellness site Psych Central adds that vacations take people away from the places and activities that contribute to their stress levels. n Fosters change: Remembering pleasurable experiences from vacations when one returns home can be a positive behavioral intervention. Dr. Tamara McClintock Greenberg, a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist, says you can incorporate those feelings into daily life by recreating food or experiences at home. n Encourages exercise: Vacations can be full of swimming, walking, sightseeing, or participating in other fitness pursuits. According to the World Heart Federation, moderate exercise lowers risk of heart attack by 30 to 50 percent, suggesting that traveling is good for the mind and the body. Exercise also has been shown to combat depression and help reduce stress and anxiety.

Traveling can improve one’s mental health and overall well-being. Making time to take vacations is an important component of staying healthy.

Magazine honors Arvest Bank Arvest Bank has been recognized

by Forbes magazine among its “BestIn-State Banks” for the second consecutive year. Arvest received the recognition for its banks in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

This is the second time Forbes and its market research partner, Statista, have produced the lists.

Arvest was recognized on the Arkansas list in 2018. Additionally, earlier this year, Forbes and Statista named Arvest one of the “World’s Best Banks.”

“We appreciate those who once again rated Arvest so highly, and it is especially rewarding to be recognized in two additional states this year,” Arvest President and CEO Kevin Sabin said. “Our associates continue to focus on serving our customers to the best of their abilities, and we believe awards like these are a byproduct of that commitment.”

The “Best-In-State Banks” lists were selected based on an independent

survey of more than 25,000 U.S. citizens across all 50 states. Participants were asked to name and rate all banks with which they have – or previously had – a checking account.

The ratings were based on five categories: Trust, Terms & Conditions, Branch Services, Digital Services and Financial Advice.

Each category contained a battery of questions, and a bank’s total score was based on a formula weighting recommendation, general satisfaction and the scoring of the battery of questions. Across the entire United States, a total of 149 unique banks were awarded with the “Best-In-State Banks” designation.

Arvest Bank, named by Forbes magazine as one of the “World’s Best Banks” for 2019, operates more than 270 bank branches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas through a group of 14 locally managed banks, each with its own board and management team.

Arledge & Associates sponsor upcoming government accounting seminar July 25 Public sector finance and accounting professionals are invited to a July 25 training seminar focusing on issues impacting governmental practitioners.

Edmond-based accounting firm Arledge & Associates will conduct its annual Government Accounting Seminar for municipal, county, state, higher education and tribal government finance and accounting officials and employees. The seminar is set for 9 a.m.

July 25 at Francis Tuttle Technology Center’s Business Innovation Center, 2824 Progressive Drive in Edmond.

The seminar will cover a wide range of topics including payroll, subrecipient monitoring, bond reporting changes, fraud prevention, data input strategies, fiduciary activities, auditor communication and leases. Account-

ing and auditing professionals from Arledge and Associates, along with other guest speakers, will lead the sessions.

The cost to attend the seminar is $50 and lunch will be provided. To register, visit jmacpas.com/seminars.

For more information, contact LaDonna Sinning, CPA, CFE, at ladonna@jmacpas.com or (405) 3480615.

Arledge and Associates, PC is a recognized leader in the accounting industry offering practical solutions in the areas of tax planning, auditing, consulting, accounting advisory services and client accounting. Through its Gateway Executive Solutions division, the firm offers outsourced CFO, controller and cloud-based accounting solutions.

For more information, call 348-0615

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State genealogy group sets July 17 meeting Land records are often needed for a well-researched family history.

Many genealogical clues can be found in land records.

They can often be instrumental in separating two individuals with similar names and sometimes they are the only place that may mention a wife by name. Many genealogists are unaware of the value of these historical documents and the family relationship information that can be gathered from them.

Sometimes they explicitly state other familial relationships such as receiving land from a relative: father, mother, brother, uncle, grandfather, etc. Wives may have needed to release their dower rights if a husband sold land. Unfortunately, there can be some challenges in researching these records. These documents can be hard to read as the handwriting is not always clear. There is a lot of legal terminology that you will want to become familiar with. But, the information they contain is well worth the effort. You just may be able to solve a family mystery or learn more about your ancestors and their lives with the information found in land records.

The OHCE Genealogy Group will meet on Wednesday, July 17 at 10:15 a.m. at the Oklahoma History Center. Group member Walt Stoyanoski will present Land Records. His program will offer tips and strategies for researching these very important documents and advice on where to find them.

Walt Stoyanoski became interested in genealogy shortly after retiring from the Accounting and Finance Di-

vision at Tinker Air Force Base. One day Walt and his mother were looking through his late aunt’s genealogy research. That inspired a search for his great-grandmother’s grave. Walt was hooked. He is now trying to improve on his aunt’s work and document the information she was unable to find.

Walt enjoys the challenging detective work and the reward of walking where his ancestors did. In addition to OHCE Genealogy Group, he is a member of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society, OKC Computer Genealogy Club, Edmond Genealogical Society, National Genealogical Society, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Tulsa Genealogical Society, Rock County Genealogical Society (Wisconsin), and the Hardwick Historical Society (Massachusetts).

The OHCE Genealogy group meets at 10:15 a.m. in the third floor Fischer boardroom on the third Wednesday monthly at the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zudhi Dr. in Oklahoma City – across from the State Capitol. Our Aug. 21 program will feature group member Glenn Clure, Sr. who will present So, I've Got All This Genealogy Stuff ....

What Do I Do With It??. If you need to organize your genealogy research, this is the program for you!

For additional information, visit our website: http://www.ohcegenealogy.com or find us on Facebook: ohcegenealogy. Our programs are always open to the public and we invite you to join us.

Benefit will help needy pay their utility bills The Salvation Army of Central Oklahoma is pleased to announce its annual Home Energy Aid fundraiser with community partners Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Oklahoma Natural Gas and Public Service Company of Oklahoma will take place on Friday, July 19 at its 1001 N Pennsylvania Avenue, Oklahoma City location from 11am to 1pm. “Utility bills continue to be a challenge for many in our community,� said Major Susan Ellis, area commander. “We want to help as many seniors, persons with disabilities and families on low and fixed incomes as we possibly can with the resources provided. The Salvation Army stands ready to help our neighbors in need regroup from personal disasters they may be experiencing. I look forward to seeing everyone at the Home Energy Aid fundraiser.�

Tickets are being sold in advance and day of the event. For a $7.50 ticket, individuals will be treated to a fresh-grilled hamburger, chips and drink. To go orders will also be available. “Funds are critical to meet this ongoing need which is what makes this fundraiser so important,� said Traci Jinkens, director of development. “Donations and sponsorships of this event will be directed right back into the utility assistance programs. All donations for this fundraiser will be matched 1:1 up to $3,000 thanks to the gift of an anonymous donor.�

For more information about utility assistance, contact The Salvation Army of Central Oklahoma at 405246-1100. For information on sponsorships or to make a donation, contact Traci Jinkens at 405-2461109.

Engagement, Wedding notices Do you have a wedding or engagement notice? If so, please contact us at Edmond Life & Leisure, either by phone, 340-3311 or e-mail, news@edmondpaper.com. We will then send or fax you an engagement or wedding form. The cost is $35, which includes a photograph.

Payment is due upon submission by noon Thursday.

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Changes to Citylink Nominations taken for Women’s Hall of Fame The Oklahoma Commission on the Status of n How has she positively elevated the status bus service noted Women (OCSW) is seeking nominations for 2019 and positively impacted women and girls?

Citylink bus service hours for Routes 1 through 3 have been extended an hour.

The change will allow customers returning to Edmond on the Express Route from downtown Oklahoma City the opportunity to continue their journey and assist other passengers commuting to and from work within Edmond.

Additionally, Route 3 will see changes to its current route and will no longer enter the University of Central Oklahoma campus. The new route will be as follows: • Leave Festival Market Place and travel east on Second Street.

• Travel south on Waterwood Parkway to Target, and continue east to Bryant Avenue.

• Travel south on Bryant Avenue to 15th Street.

• Travel west on 15th Street to Rankin Street.

• Travel north on Rankin Street to Ninth Street.

• Travel west on Ninth Street to Boulevard.

• Travel south on Boulevard to 15th Street.

• Travel west on 15th Street to Broadway.

• Travel north on Broadway to Fifth Street.

• Travel east on Fifth Street to Littler Avenue.

• Travel north on Littler Avenue to First Street.

• Travel west on First Street back to Festival Market Place.

For questions regarding the changes, contact Citylink at 509-6370.

inductees to the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame. Nominations must be postmarked by the July 26 deadline. The event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the OK Judicial Center.

“There are many outstanding Oklahoma women who are improving the lives of other women, families and children and deserve to be recognized for their efforts,” said Denise Castelli, the 2019 Committee Chair of the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame. “It is important to honor these women in a permanent manner to inspire and encourage today’s young women and girls to pursue their dreams through today’s role models.”

To be eligible for the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame, nominees must live in Oklahoma or be a former resident of Oklahoma. As a guide for choosing a woman to nominate, consider the following questions: n What enduring contributions has she made?

n Has she helped open new frontiers for women and society in general? n Is the community/state/nation or world better for the contributions of the nominee? n Are people in general better because of the accomplishments of the nominee? n Are women in the state, region, United States and/or world better? Has their status improved or opportunities increased because of the contributions of the nominee?

Nomination forms and a list of former honorees are available at www.ok.gov/ocsw. The nomination form and supporting materials must be postmarked no later than July 26, 2019, and mailed to: Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women Will Rogers Building 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd, Suite E-1 Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi Good Shepherd Anglican Church (Traditional Episcopal) 1000 N. Broadway, Edmond •314-8715 Sundays - Holy Communion 8:00 & 10:00am Animal Friendly Parish “If you have people who exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have those who deal likewise with their fellow human being.”

St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

www.anglicancgsedmondok.com 1928 Book of Common Prayer • anglicancgesedmondok.com

SCRIPTURE • TRADITION • REASON

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