Outlook March 2017

Spring Break

STAYcation The best local kids’ activities that’ll keep them laughing, learning, and busy

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7 steps

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had plans last night, but they got waylaid. I was heading out when my iphone rang or chirped or did whatever it does when someone wants to FaceTime. It was my granddaughter Aubrey, calling from Denver. I settled into a comfy chair and answered.

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Aubrey is wonderful and cute. And thanks to the FaceTime, I can see she now has short hair.

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Sandy, my late wife, and I raised Aubrey until she was eight years old. And she still, and will always, have a room here. She’ll be visiting for a week over Spring Break, just days before turning 13. I’ll have to find some fun stuff to do. (Thankfully, there’s a list of fun stuff to do on pages 14 and 16.)

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OFF THE BEATEN PATH

Explore Oklahoma’s hidden gems at Science Museum Oklahoma.

SPRING BREAK STAYCATION

Activities your kids will love over Spring Break.

6 EASY TIPS TO REFRESH YOUR HOME

Bring the spring indoors with easy, DIY tips.

Health

7 STEPS TO AN EMOTIONALLY HEALTHIER YOU

Help for the stresses of life.

Aubrey reminds me of what it was like to be a preteen. She complains about mandatory attendance of Spirit Week at school.

About chores she has to do at home. About how stupid boys are.

(Except for Zander. Hmm, that’s new.)

Business

She knows I’m dating someone and asks me how that is going.

She wants to hear all about it because, according to her, dating in your 50s is cool. She has no idea how uncool it is. She says she doesn’t want me sitting on the couch alone. So I assure her I will forge ahead.

I ask her if she has any cool words for me to try out. Some of her past gems have been “on fleek,” “woke,” and “suss” - as in “suspect.” She keeps me up on her junior high vocabulary. I ask about her squad (A squad is a group of friends. I learned that a while ago). She’s quick to tell me she still says things like “dope” and “rad.” She thinks those words are cool. I assure her they were...in the 80s.

So, for now it’s a live video chat. Soon, it will be warm hugs, smiles and Spring Break together. A vacation for her and staycation for me. Rad. Dave Miller Back40Design, President

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FEATURELOOK

By Morgan Day

Off The Beaten Path

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ome Oklahomans might spend their whole lives crossing the

state’s roadside attractions and hidden gems off their bucket lists, but not Scott and Katie Henderson. They took a different approach.

In less than two years, this husband and wife team researched and photographed Oklahoma’s unusual, historic and often overlooked areas. Now, that visual bucket list is on display inside Science Museum Oklahoma’s SmART Space galleries.

Scott, director of SMO’s smART Space galleries, researched the locations while Katie photographed and edited the images for the “Off the Beaten Path” exhibit, which opened in November 2016. Among the 43 photos from around the state, visitors can see the rough, patchy skin of North America’s second-largest herd of Asian elephants in Hugo, a light bulb in Mangum that has been burning for 89 years, and one of America’s “Muffler Men.” Some sites were fairly well known, like the Blue Whale of Catoosa or Totem Pole Park. Some, on the other hand, were more challenging to find.

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of the fun: finding and discovering them.

We explored some very small towns and had people from the town helping us hunt things down.”

Whether the sites were well known or not, the couple said many will be lost if someone doesn’t invest more time and care in preserving them.

“We were surprised by a lot of the historic places, the condition and disrepair they’re in and the sad state they’ve been left to,” Scott said. “It was a little disheartening.”

One that stands out in particular, Scott said, is the Wheelock Academy, a building that functioned as a boarding school for American Indian girls from 1884 to 1955 and is now in Oklahoma folklore as a reportedly haunted site. Although the building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the deterioration is evident, Scott said.

The two hope the gallery inspires Oklahomans to learn more about their state and see for themselves the aging attractions and overlooked locations.

The smART Space Gallery is located at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, Oklahoma City. The exhibit runs through May 4, 2017. Admission to SMO’s smART Space galleries is included with the cost of general admission.

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Green with ENVY Create your own secret garden. Or give the neighbors something to talk about. Either way, beautifully designed landscaping will not only enhance your personal pleasure of your outdoor area, it can add 20 percent more value to your home.

There are two main styles when considering landscaping,” says Andy Nelson, President of Nelson Landscaping. “You can go with traditional, or branch out into something more contemporary and modern looking.

Nelson, who unofficially started his landscaping business at 12 years old with a mower and a deep desire to purchase baseball cards, has seen nearly everything that can be done outdoors in Oklahoma over the years. The extreme weather, from hot to cold to hot again within a single 24hour cycle, limits what plant species will thrive and bloom in the state.

However, even within the small pallet of options, Nelson says each style can be unique and create a distinctive appearance that will survive the shifting temperatures. When considering which style best suits you, here is an easy way to tell them apart.

Traditional, he explained, is considered far more colorful with an arrangement that creates symmetry. There’s always a mix of flowers, perennials, and evergreens to create a vivid mixture of color and clean lines.

Modern, on the other hand, is far more monotoned. Landscapers will usually take one plant species and create a mass planting. There is little variety of species in the design and it’s limited in color, usually staying with the cleanliness of all green with small touches of white.

Whatever style fits, either can be executed successfully with the right plants, trees, shrubs, and design to fully utilize the possibilities.

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Family portraits, favorite vacation pictures, that crazy picture of you skydiving, print them with pizazz. Create artful statements with your photo, says Tim Francis, Owner of FrameMaster. Recreate your favorite photos on canvas or even watercolor paper, which stylizes the finished product. “It’s a unique way to have fun, tweak, and change up family photos,” he says.

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The white kitchen cabinetry will not only brighten a tired kitchen, it will create a style that will age beautifully.

Turn your backyard into a coveted social spot. Relaxing, easy to maintain, patio furniture brings the comfort of the indoors into the romance of the outdoors. For the best look and quality, Beverly Swanson Hayden, manager of J.C Swanson’s Fireplace and Patio Shop, recommends Brown Jordan’s Pasadena collection, a stylish aluminum collection available in sling, padded sling, and cushioned pieces.

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FEATURELOOK

STAYcation Close-To-Home Activities So Fun Your Kid Will Put Down Their Tablet With Spring Break week coming, you could plan a big family trip.

You could debate with the family over where to go until at least one family member isn’t happy.

You could spend a day searching for the best deals on where to stay, how to get there, and what to do when you arrive. You could spend days catching up on your laundry so that it can all be packed into suitcases. You could go on vacation and spend the majority of the time anxious to get back home so you can rest and recover.

Or, you could plan a Staycation.

Forget the travel, stress, even most of the laundry.

Stay home and explore what Edmond and Oklahoma City has to offer for you and your kids. From yearround activities to special spring break camps, there are fun activities in your own backyard that will have your kids forgetting all about their digital world and engaged in the real one.

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Here are some events and activities your kids will love

Special Spring Break Events Oklahoma City Zoo

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March 13-17 l Ages 4-11

Find the wild, colorful adventure that is right for your child at the Rosser Conservation Education Center at the Oklahoma City Zoo with their Spring Day Camps. From half to full-day camps, each offers exciting activities, like Zoo tours, crafts, games and even up-close animals visits.

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March 11-19 Ages 7 and up, with smaller Kids Court for ages 24 months to 6 years

Your kids can bounce, bounce, bounce away all their energy during the extended Spring Break hours at Elevation Trampoline Park. Monday through Saturday during Spring Break week, Elevation opens at noon and stays open until 9 pm on Monday through Thursday and until 11 pm on Friday and Saturday.

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STAYcation MORE events and activities your kids will love

Science Museum Oklahoma sciencemuseumok.org/spring-break-camps March 6-10 and 13-17 l Grades 1-3 and 4-6

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum nationalcowboymuseum.org

Let the learning and laughter begin during the SMO Spring Break Camps: Truth in Fiction. Your child can dig into the microscopic world of Ant-Man, the chemistry of Harry Potter, Oklahoma’s own Jurassic World, the science fiction of Star Wars, the science of sounds of Star Trek, Peter Parker’s world of spiders, the space exploration of Guardians of the Galaxy, and more.

Your child can drop into interactive experiences between 10 am and 2 pm during the National Cowboy Museum’s Spring Break week drop-in activities.

Throughout the week, the museum will be hosting fun family-friendly activities - a new one each day - inspired by various exhibitions currently on view.

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Monday, March 13, decorate your very own

Your little engineer or science guru can step into a world of technology and torque with the LEGO NXT Mindstorms Robotics Camp at the MAC in Mitch Park. From 1 pm to 4 pm each day, the camp takes your children through all the aspects of robots, such as the gears, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical circuitry. During the camp, each child will build his/her own doodling robot to take home.

Tuesday, March 14, your child can become a

March 13-17 l Grades 2-5

bandanna in honor of the Museum’s new exhibit A Yard of Turkey Red: The Western Bandanna. junior illustrator by making your own paperback book cover inspired by the exhibit The Artistry of the Western Paperback.

Wednesday, March 15, learn the art of wrapping

thread as seen in the exhibit Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains.

Thursday, March 16, learn about the origins of

the decorative element seen on most contemporary bandannas and design your own paisley canvas pop art based on the exhibit A Yard of Turkey Red: The Western Bandanna.

Friday, March 17, enjoy a special screening of The

Cowboys, starring John Wayne, held in the Dub and Moselle Richardson Theater. Screening times are at 10 am, 12:30 pm, and 2:30 pm. After the film, partake in a scavenger hunt that takes families through the temporary exhibit Hollywood and the American West and the Museum’s Western Performers Gallery to ex plore the classic icons of Western films.

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HOMELOOK

6 easy DIY Tips to Refresh Your Home Outside, the world is saying it’s time for renewal. The dead is coming back to life, the coolness is giving way to warmth, and every gray thing is turning vivid again. Inside, however, your home may still feel like winter. Is it time for an interior Spring? We sat down with the experts in design and organization to give us some quick and easy tips on how to bring Spring indoors without costing you a season of savings:

By Gia Rose, Designer’s Market Interior designer & showroom manager

By Dan MacKay, Tailored Living of Edmond Owner/President

DESIGN

ORGANIZATION

Most Oklahomans have familiar pieces, like their grand mother’s armor or rocking chair, they want to keep, but they still want a modern style to their home. To do this is all about balance. And Oklahomans do this so well. By adding a few nontraditional or modern elements with your traditional, you’ve updated your space. It can be that simple. Here’s where to start:

Clutter creates stress, mental fatigue, and disorganization.

To really air out your space, you’ve got to organize or remove anything creating chaos. Here are three steps to help get you organized:

Pick one central, inspirational piece. It can refresh your space and serve as a guide for all other design decisions in the future.

To know which piece is right for you is about falling in love.

Find a piece you love looking at everyday. Also, make sure the piece has elements that tie into other elements in your space, such as a red color, certain form, or a metallic frame that coordinates with the other gold pieces in your space.

The underlying key to organization is that everything has to have a place and everything belongs in its place. If you don’t have a place for something, it ends up on the table, in the garage, or stuck in a corner. You need to create a place for it or assess whether or not you need to keep it.

1 Your inspirational art piece

2 Add a rug for texture, color, or both

In everything in life, you need a staple element and that’s your rug. It anchors your space. If you’ve chosen an abstract piece of art for your space, use a geometric patterned rug. Get the colors working together and you’ve got instant coordination.

3 Accessories tie it all together

An easy way to freshen up space is to change out pillows, lamps, and accessories on your coffee table. These are quick updates that make a huge impact. The easiest way to create a welcoming, light, and airy feel is to stay with items that have simple lines and can be seen through, such as glass.

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1 Everything must have a place

2 Sort, shed, or store

Sort your items. Find out what you want to keep and what to get rid of. When you’ve decided what you want to store, consider if the items have a place. If not, you need to create a place or consider putting it back into the shed pile.

3 Assess your storage areas

Once you’ve determined what you want to store, take inventory of your storage areas, such as the pantry, garage, laundry room, and closets. Purchasing additional storage bins, drawers, or other organizational pieces can help you create and maintain an organizational system using the space you have available.

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FEATURELOOK

By Dr. Tabatha Carr, ND

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re you exhausted keeping up with everyday life? You have all the pressures of your job, the time and energy needed for your kids, and all the joy, tears and work of your marriage. Then there are the million other responsibilities pulling you in every direction.

EMOTION

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POSSIBLE RESULT

Anger

Liver

Sudden Violence

Being Stuck

Large Intestines

Constipation

Life can be challenging when things are going relatively well and seem nearly impossible when things are not. This is because everyday events affect our emotions and our emotions can have a direct, physical influence on our health.

In Latin, the word “emotions” means “to move-out.” So we can see that “emotions” are a result of what is going on inside our body and they need “to moveout” of our body one way or the other.

Did you know that how you feel about yourself affects your body, mind, and spirit? It also manifests in your parenting and relationships because it influences how you relate to others.

The body’s response to stress is to suppress your immune system. This causes a cycle of problematic health challenges. Different emotions actually impact different organs in our body, which can cause the stress to manifest itself through different health issues. (See chart above.)

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Disgust Stomach

Nauseated

Fear

Kidney

Adrenal Stress, Back Pain

Grief

Lung

Crying, Shallow Breathing

Irritated

Bladder

Frequent Urination

Resentment

Gall Bladder

Restless Legs

Self-Esteem

Spleen/Pancreas

High Blood Sugar

To live a fuller life, you need to nurture YOU. The more you do, the more you will notice an increase in your energy and productivity.

Here are 7 ideas to help you easily maintain your emotions: 1) Engage in intimate relationships for emotional healing: Girls’ night out, companionships, and romantic love.

2) Identify the stressors in your life and find ways to relieve that stress.

3) Make good food choices to main tain optimal gut health and energy.

4) Get adequate physical activity.

5) Get enough sleep.

6) Remain hydrated with plenty of water to keep your body cleansed of toxins.

7) Add plenty of Omega 3 fatty acids and B vitamins to your diet.

Emotions are not bad. They tell us that we need to change or fix something. Give these tips a try so you can handle those job pressures, enjoy your family time more, and confidently face all those other challenges life is throwing your way. For optimal health and happier relationships, get those emtions moving out.

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TASTYLOOK

Traditions with a

tro sauce, tomatillo avocado dip, spicy hot salsa with guacamole, and rich queso.

When you’re dining at Hidalgo’s, the appetizer merely sets the stage for the main attraction. The variety of choices for your meal ranges from traditional dishes, like enchiladas, burritos, and tacos, to unique combinations that bring a rare taste all their own, such as the Parrilla with Argentinian chorizo or the Peruvian ceviche made with Basa fish.

“I try to take inspiration from so many places,” says Juan. “My goal is to WOW my customers with flavor and surprise them with the exceptional service that surpasses their expectations of what service should be.”

To serve even more, Hidalgo’s will soon be expanding their current location to include an additional private room, while also offering more takehome service and catering.

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Hidalgo’s is exactly what you’d expect and exactly what you don’t. And that’s exactly how Juan Hidalgo envisioned it.

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Socializing is not only for parties and on-line communities. It is the interactions with our family and friends that is the home fashion trend never going out of style.

The way that people use their homes has changed over time. Homeowners now prefer to gather with family and guests, in an open kitchen concept, since the kitchen is the real living room of the home, states Leslie Peake, co-owner with her husband Dan, of Heritage Renovations.

Remodeling Oklahoma homes and businesses since 1985, family owned by native Oklahomans, Heritage Renovations is a company that brings attention to every detail. For the homeowner who dreams of a new look, seeking a fresh perspective on living space, Heritage Renovations offers expertise and experience. When working to

“I truly believe that every customer is important and I want to make them feel appreciated,” he says. “I want them to leave knowing that they had an amazing experience and delicious food.”

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infuse new life into a client’s space, Heritage Renovations offers complementary interior design services.

From complete room additions, to specialties such as kitchen or bathroom design and remodeling, Heritage Renovations is there with patient attention to every aspect of a project. Converting an attic to additional living space, adding an outdoor kitchen or doing a complete home make-over, from conceptual design to the finished project, Heritage Renovations has worked magic for hundreds of homeowners. With their abilities encompassing the latest design trends to restoring classic historic mansions, most projects easily fall within Heritage Renovations purview. In their 10,000 sq. Ft. facility, they build all of the cabinetry and woodwork for each project, which allows them to achieve a higher quality custom product, while controlling all scheduling. The company utilizes the latest technology in design programs that allows them to create a three-dimensional model of the project before work ever begins. Estimates are free.

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ALOOKBACK

By Louise Tucker Jones

Cooking Up

memories

I’ve always said the Army did me a big favor. It made my late husband, Carl, appreciate my cooking. Had we married before he experienced mess hall food, it might have been a different story.

However, I was fairly good at baking so as my first gourmet delight I sent heartshaped cookies to my sweetheart while he was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He loved them and raved about my “autographed cookies” as he described them since I put our names on them.

Later, as a young newlywed, I put my skills to the test with a soufflé. I had never made one but it sounded interesting. Everything went as planned until the end of baking time. The recipe said to “test” it but didn’t say

ACITYLOOK

By Dr. J. David Chapman

5TH and LITTLER

There is a transformation taking place around Edmond’s small, unique Stephenson Park.

The city-owned park is a WPA (works progress administration)-constructed asset.

The park is surrounded by other WPA-constructed projects, such as the State Armory and American Legion Hut. The park is bordered by a rustic stone containment wall and contains several unique bridges all thanks to the WPA. The area surrounding the park is undergoing its most significant change since its WPA era construction.

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how. Having made cakes all of my life, I took a toothpick and poked it into the soufflé. Stunned, I watched that beautiful creation sink to a bit of nothing. Determined not to let it be a complete disaster, I scooped out the middle and mixed it with Cool Whip and put it in pretty parfait glasses. Carl never knew this wasn’t the dessert I planned.

But I have to wonder what he would have said about the cranberry bread I recently baked. It was one of his favorites.

After a long afternoon of baking, I had six loaves of cranberry bread cooling on my kitchen counter. But they didn’t look right so I tasted it. I left out the sugar!

What do you do with six loaves of bland cranberry bread? You store them in the freezer until you can figure it out and start all over. The next batch was good and my sweet hubby would have been pleased.

In case it isn’t obvious from my walk down memory lane, I’m thinking about Carl a lot these days. March would have brought our 51st wedding anniversary and

District. Grant Group owners Casey Massegee and Chris Anderson have quietly been buying up many of the buildings and much of the land surrounding the park with the intention of creating a synergistic, urban, mixed-use, walkable area.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Casey and learn of his vision for the area.

Casey expects to have approximately 100,000 square feet of mixed-use buildings around Stephenson Park with a mixture of retail, restaurant, multifamily residential, and office when complete.

On the corner of 5th and Broadway, the Grant Group has been approved to build a 6,000 square foot mixed-use building with a commitment for a Tucker’s restaurant on the bottom floor and office space on the second floor. The company has a 14-unit townhome project slated for the corner of 3rd and Littler, called Towns @ Stephenson Park.

The largest project is a 16,000 square foot mixed use building at 5th and Littler named Park17. According to Casey, “the catalysts are in place for a successful urban environment where you can truly live, work, and play. You have a public gathering place at the park, a grocery store, pharmacy, dry cleaner, and three of the best restaurants in the state.”

I miss him. But I still say the Army did us a favor, and it wasn’t just about cooking.

Our year-and-half separation while Carl was overseas taught us to never take our time together for granted. Thankfully, God gave us 45 years of love, marriage and celebrations.

I Am Blessed!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Louise Tucker Jones is an award-winning author, inspirational speaker & founder of Wives With Heavenly Husbands, a support group for widows.

LouiseTJ@cox.net or LouiseTuckerJones.com.

Casey recognizes the benefit of correct “tenant mix” and intends to bring tenants to an area that the City of Edmond residents want, but also ensure the tenants complement one another by attracting patrons at different times of the day. This appears to be the making of what we refer to, in our business, as “good density” and a valuable contribution to downtown Edmond.

Dr. J. David Chapman is an Associate Professor of Finance & Real Estate at UCO (jchapman7@uco.edu).

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EDUCATIONLOOK

Servant Minded Edmond students will be working hard over Spring Break to help those in need.

From middle school to college, hundreds of Edmond students are taking their break time to make a difference. Whether going out into the world, the nation, or the city, these students are opting to spend their days off making a positive impact.

If you happen to be in any of these areas, or would like to support their efforts, here are some of the places you’ll find local students serving others.

The Regional Food Bank The seventh and eighth graders from Crossings church will be helping out at The Regional Food Bank, as well as helping with programs and clean-up at Wings and Peppers Ranch. “They’ll be up and out by 9 am and working hard until 4 pm,” says Angie McDowell, middle school ministry coordinator for Crossings students.

Nashville Urban Mission High schoolers from Crossings are heading out east for a week of serving the city of Nashville through Nashville Urban Missions. Partnering with the Center for Student Missions, 45 students and nine adults will be serving this local ministry by helping various city organizations, such as YMCA or the Boys and Girl’s Club.

Capital Hill Elementary School Students from Memorial Road Church of Christ are reaching out to their OKC student body by spending their Spring Break helping with repairs at Capital Hill Elementary School building. Approximately 40 college students will be painting the walls, creating murals, making gift baskets to leave for the teachers, building benches for kids to sit on in the hallway, creating a reading area with furniture and shelves, and performing any repairs that are needed.

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Acuna, Mexico Middle and high school students from The Well church will be traveling with 40 adults to Acuna, Mexico to help build homes with Casas por Cristo. With many residents in poverty, some creating homes out of trash, the church mission trip will be spending the week building two small houses for local families in need. “It’s one of those world changer trips,” says Cole Taylor, lead pastor at The Well. “When you go, your whole worldview changes and you don’t come back the same.”

Dallas, Texas Approximately 20 middle school students from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church will be traveling to Dallas to work with Trinity River Mission over the break. Students will be working with smaller children, around elementary age, to provide tutoring, mentoring, and reading help.

Toronto, Canada High schoolers from St. Luke’s will be spending their break up north in Toronto, Canada, working at the spring break day camp hosted by Urban Promise. The camp focuses on serving underprivileged youth in low-income neighborhoods in their city.

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