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CONTENTS

PUBLISHER

AUGUST 2022

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CREATIVE DIRECTION Kelsey Walker Fawn Wilson-Olivarez

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features

departments

8 Colorful History: Tracing The Origins Of Early Paint Creation

KEEP THE CHANGE

NUTRITION 101

10 Cops N Kids: Event Back Bringing Law Enforcement, Kids Together

MENTAL HEALTH

SONIC CONTEST

13 Bat House: Students Help Provide Shelters For Bats As Part Of Advanced Class

SHAWNEE HISTORY

OVER THE FENCE

CALENDAR

19 Fold Fashioned: Origami Hobby Leads To Unique Opportunities Over 40 Years

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airy includes milk and foods made from milk – primarily cow’s milk in the U.S. Dairy has actually not been a part of our diets for very long. Though some of the population do well on dairy, estimates show that upward of 75 percent of the world’s population are actually lactose intolerant. Lactose is a milk sugar that constitutes the main carbohydrate found in dairy. Most humans stop producing the lactase enzyme early in childhood. This lactase enzyme is needed to break down lactose. Symptoms of lactose intolerance may be stomach pain, gas, bloating, nausea, irritable bowel syndrome and skin irritation. If you are indeed allergic to dairy but still consuming it, it could even affect your immune system. Data in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics noted the connection between asthma and allergies and milk intolerance. About 45 percent of children with asthma also have a dairy allergy. It was stated that if a person has asthma or allergies, consuming dairy could potentially worsen your symptoms. Many people who are lactose intolerant can eat fermented dairy, such as yogurt and kefir with no side effects. Some people with the dairy allergy can even handle eating butter because all the milk sugar and milk protein have been removed. The degree of the allergy can vary person to person. Below is a delicious breakfast that is dairy free for those that need it.

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This is the kind of breakfast I would either have on a weekend or utilize for leftovers. If you have leftover sweet potatoes and veggies from the night before, it will make this breakfast even quicker. Ingredients: • 2 medium (4-5 oz each) • 4 eggs, cooked to desweet potatoes, cleaned sired doneness and diced (keep skin on) • ½ onion, diced • 2 tsp olive oil • 1 cup mushrooms, • 1 tsp black pepper washed and sliced • 1 tsp garlic powder • 1 cup of spinach leaves • 1 tsp onion powder • Cooking spray Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cover sweet potatoes with olive oil and seasonings, mix well and place on a cookie sheet. Cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes. While the sweet potatoes are cooking, add the onions to a skillet sprayed with cooking spray. Let the onions cook for about 3-5 minutes and then add in the mushrooms and spinach. Cook for an additional 3-5 minutes until desired softness of vegetables. Your mushrooms and spinach will dramatically cook down. Once the vegetables are cooked, remove them from the skillet and use the same skillet for your eggs. You can scramble or “fry” the eggs with the cooking spray. Once the sweet potatoes are done, combine the sweet potatoes, veggies and eggs all together on your plate. Makes: 2 servings Nutritional Information per serving: Calories: 333 Total Fat: 14g Saturated Fat: 4g Cholesterol: 430mg Protein: 17g Fiber: 7g Carbohydrates: 37g Nutrition 101: Batch cooking can really save you some time. If you are having a tough time fitting in multiple meals in your day due to lack of time to prep and cook, try to cook as much as you can at once. I try to make it to where I am in the kitchen about three times per week. That way I am not doing prep, cooking and cleaning seven days a week. If I am going to serve sweet potatoes at dinner or grill even some fajita vegetables, I will definitely make extra at that moment to help with future meals that week. S Andrea Beck, a registered dietitian and personal trainer, received her master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Central Oklahoma. She offers personal training through an online class and nutrition services through SSM Health St. Anthony in Shawnee. Contact her at Andrea.beck1@ssmhealth. com or through her Facebook page, Nutrition and Exercise 101 with Andrea.

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Any special memories of your time on the BancFirst Student Board? A: I remember visiting the BancFirst building in downtown OKC with the other Board members on my birthday. I had not spent much time in that part of downtown and had never put much thought into the corporate side of banking. I found it really interesting and enjoyed the day.

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olor! Many of the colors were easy and inexWe are surrounded by vibrant pensive to make, but others cost as much as colors, neutral colors, soft colors and gold. A vibrant blue had been impossible to loud colors. Whether the blue of the sky, the create until the Middle Ages when a techorange of a sunset, the color of the earth or nique to make blue paint from lapis lazuli vibrant colors in flowers, colors are everywas discovered. Lapis lazuli is a beautiful where. semi-precious stone that is mined in the SarHow many times do we rush past not i Sang mountains of Afghanistan. The stone paying attention? Have you thought about has been used to make jewelry for thousands what it takes to recreate these colors to paint of years and has proven difficult to turn into with? We are spoiled now that technology pigment. In the 14th and 15th centuries, a has reached a point where we can bring just process was discovered to make a pigment about anything into a paint store, and they called ultramarine. The process was very can come very close to recreating it. We can intensive, and the paint was as expensive as walk into an art store and select from hungold. Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl dreds of colors to find just the right one. That Earring” is a well-known example of the use wasn’t always the case. of ultramarine. Recreating colors to use for art has been Have you ever wondered why purple is going on for thousands of years. The oldest associated with royalty? One color that was paintings that have been found were painted equally as difficult to create as blue was pur45,000 years ago in Leang Tedongnge cave on ple. In the 2nd century BCE, the Phoenicians a remote Indonesian island called Sulawesi. The creation of different color paints in first discovered a small shellfish that secretThe paintings were created using red ochre the ancient world through modern times ed a yellow liquid when crushed. Once the pigments mixed with saliva. Red ochre has depended on the resources available, the secretion came in contact with air, it turned been found in several prehistoric paintings, customs at the time and the ingenuity of purple. The purple liquid made a beautiful leading experts to believe it was the first color the society making them. color called Tyrian purple when used to dye used to create art. Other prehistoric paints fabric. The problem was that it took a huge that have been found were made from minerals, charcoal and soil. number of shellfish – 12,000 to 15,000 – to make enough dye for one People used materials that were available to them, which left artists piece of clothing. Because of the beauty of the color and the cost, with a limited palette of black, white, red, yellow and brown. only the very wealthy could afford to use it. In fact, Roman emperors Once people started traveling and trading, a new prohibited anyone but themselves from wearing anyworld of color was discovered. People became very thing purple. Eventually, other high-ranking people ingenious and discovered how to make colors by were allowed to wear purple, but the cost was procombining ingredients. Rare ingredients from all hibitive for most. over Europe and the Middle East were combined There are many more intriguing stories behind with plentiful – and sometimes gross – things like different paint colors, and there is a lot of informaurine and manure. The new colors included Egyptian tion available online. My challenge for you is to walk blue made from sand, lime and copper; a red made through the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art galleries from mercury and sulfur; and white made by enclosand look at the colors in the paintings. ing pieces of lead in pots with manure and vinegar. Are they murky, soft, dark, light, muted, vibrant, Scan this code to visit the Oh, think of the smell. etc.? One problem that arose repeatedly throughout Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Then look at the date the painting was created. the years was the toxicity of the paints. We now know Art’s at-home project page. Does this give you any insight as to why certain colhow dangerous mercury, arsenic and lead are, but ors were or weren’t included? at the time people didn’t connect the symptoms they were experiThe Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is now absolutely free to enjoy encing and deaths to those materials. Lead was used to make white in August thanks to the Ad Astra Foundation, Avedis Foundation, paint; mercury was used to make red; and arsenic was used to make BancFirst and St. Gregory’s Abbey. The museum is located on the yellow and green. OBU Green Campus at 1900 West MacArthur. S 8

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the community, the goal of protecting members of the Shawnee area took precedence during the last two planned events. Given the state of restrictions established related to the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the year, the 2020 Cops N Kids joined the slate of canceled events in lieu of public health concerns. During early 2021 – with promising data showing declines in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – the Shawnee Police Department seemed poised to enjoy a comeback for one of its signature annual events until about two weeks before its scheduled return. With the reported rise in hospitalizations and deaths attributed to emerging variants of the COVID-19-related virus, it made sense with the overall mission of the police department’s goal of protecting the community to at least postpone the event before eventually canceling it, though Lozano said that decision may have been tougher than missing the 2020 Cops N Kids. The passion for Cops N Kids among its participating agencies and planners, however, seemed to have weathered those disappointments as they put together the 2022 Cops N Kids, which will roll out 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center at 1700 W. Independence. Cpl. Vivian Lozano with the Shawnee Police Department – who leads the planning efforts for Cops N Kids and other department outreach events – said law enforcement officials are not the only ones who have missed having the event. “We’ve had some kids come to the police department for day camps, and they’ve all asked about it,” Lozano said. “We are excited to bring together the kids with members of law enforcement and let them see that we are people too. “The interactions and smiles from the kids … have missed those.” While a similarly named event took place in Shawnee a couple times before and during 2007, the first iteration of the current Cops N Kids occurred in 2017 at Woodland Veterans Park with three months of planning and about 720 registered kids in attendance. With more time to put it together, Lozano saw the event grow to more than 2,000 kids signed in at the event featuring more than 30 law enforcement and first response agencies on the local, state and federal levels alongside 20 private organizations during the 2019 event. The mission of Cops N Kids – which recently received sta10

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After two years of COVID-related cancelations, Cops N Kids aims to answer the call from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 27 at at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center at 1700 W. Independence, featuring games, rides, inflatables, food, giveaways and more. — Photo submitted tus as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit – seeks to create connections between law enforcement and kids as they explore, interact and learn about the different ways those serving their communities help keep them safe, Lozano said. Meeting the men and women behind the badge in a fun environment can help kids realize that many are neighbors whose families go to the same schools, churches and grocery stores as they do. If the only interactions kids have with law enforcement comes in times of crisis, it’s more difficult to build those kinds of relationships and impressions. Past events have given kids the chance to sit in a squad car or explore a command unit used by federal agencies like the U.S. Marshals to coordinate operations. They have climbed into the cockpit of a news helicopter, watched K-9s performing demonstrations of how they assist officers and tackled a rope course. In addition to these unique opportunities to see inside the world and learn about the tools of law enforcement, Cops N Kids has many of the traditional attractions for young attendees. There has been face painting, inflatables, bike raffles and other prizes. Law enforcement and first response personnel help with many of the games available for kids to play. New this year will be a water slide inflatable to help attendees beat the heat, Lozano said, and Santa Claus is scheduled to make an offseason appearance along with a bike rodeo. There will also be a new slate of private organizations ready to connect with members of the community with games and giveaways for the kids, Lozano said. Some booth space may still

be available leading up to the event, and the deadline to register will be Aug. 15. Though response to the COVID-19 pandemic affected Cops N Kids directly, it did not impact the Cornstock event Shawnee Police Department started in June 2021 and repeated again in June 2022. Though proceeds from Cornstock do benefit Cops N Kids and its ability to provide food, fun and festivities, the annual cornhole tournament is its own separate event that gives the department more opportunity to have fun alongside the people they serve. “Cornstock is a fundraiser for Cops N Kids, but it is not a replacement for Cops N Kids,” Lozano said. “We still want (Cornstock) to stand alone as its own thing.” This year’s Cornstock added more tents and kids activities from the 2021 event to enhance the family-fun elements, and Lozano said they are looking to add a kids tournament to the roster for the 2023 Cornstock event. They are also looking to add more food trucks and vendors to next year’s proceedings to help create a festival atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family. Cops N Kids also gives members of different agencies to catch up, especially after a couple of years of limited interaction stemming from COVID-19 response, Lozano said. “Being able to see people I haven’t seen in the last two years is exciting,” Lozano said. “It’s almost like a reunion with family you haven’t seen.” For more information, visit facebook.com/shawneecopsnkids or call Lozano at (405) 501-3357. S

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Students at South Rock Creek School’s gifted and talented program studied bats as part of their course and created 10 bat houses with funding from Citizen Potawatomi Nation to help provide shelter during the summer months. — Photos submitted

major goal of most gifted and talented education programs is to enhance what students are already doing in the regular classroom. G/T classes seek to provide creative outlets for study in the arts and sciences and often provide opportunities for advanced study that normal curriculum does not. South Rock Creek School started a new G/T program last fall, and one of its major units of study is one that will continue to impact the area ecologically for years to come. Susan Brooks, who’s about to begin her 35th year teaching – with 33 years at South Rock Creek – led the new initiative for first through sixth graders. All students in those grades were tested in the fall to determine qualification, along with looking at other criteria, and 37 children ultimately participated in the program. Each grade studied bats, with third through sixth graders doing more in-depth learning about the animals’ importance to the ecosystem. “With this being the first year for our program, I brainstormed with each age

group on their interests and what direction they wanted us to take,” Brooks said. “One of the third grade boys mentioned studying bats, and after seeking input from each group I began to study all ideas put forth. In my personal learning about bats, I found out that they’d been living on earth for at least 50 million years. That fact alone is what piqued everyone’s interest, so our closer look at bats began.” Once each grade began learning more about the creatures, students decided they wanted to do something bigger for the Oklahoma bat population. “I asked all of the kids to check with their parents to see if they could donate time, money or materials to help us build a bat house,” Brooks said. “One sixth grader’s father works for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and he made Linda Capps, CPN tribal vice-chairman, aware of the project. She then offered to fund the entire endeavor, and the tribe donated $1,000 to the G/T classes to build multiple bat lodges.” Through that donation, the school was able to purchase six bat house kits.

For several weeks, students worked on finding out how to construct safe homes for the mammals. A house can hold over 100 bats, depending on the size and chambers of the structure. It must be at least 10 feet off the ground and preferably mounted on an independent pole or in a corner of a rooftop to help ward off predators. The house must also be close to a water source so the bats can drink when they awaken and before their night feeding. Brooks and her students learned of a bat conservation group in Colorado that sells certified bat house kits that come with all supplies pre-cut and ready to put together. The kits also give directions on choosing exterior paint colors for each region of a state. With that knowledge, students chose a camouflage green for the houses with two ideas in mind: one of SRC’s school colors is green, and the camouflage – a good color for this region – helps with safety for the bats. Once the houses were constructed and ready, the tribe invited the G/T students and their teacher to attend a hanging ceremony and luncheon. Capps set up a www.shawneeoutlook.com

meeting between Brooks and tribal employees to discuss the best areas on tribal land to mount the houses. “My students and I met the group on a Thursday morning in May and watched as they suspended four of the six houses,” Brooks said. “Each one was mounted on a 10-foot pole several feet from a freshwater pond. Afterwards, the kids were served a picnic lunch nearby. The tribal golf course requested that one of the additional houses be hung in their area, and the remaining home is now hanging on the property of a South Rock Creek employee.” Students followed this up by writing thank you letters to Capps and tribal members, acknowledging them for the funding and support of the project. Each year, the houses will need to be cleaned and prepared in early spring for the return of the females to roost and have their offspring. Brooks will be taking her students on a field trip this fall to check on the houses and see if they were inhabited this summer. In addition to the house construction, each student chose a bat species from anywhere on earth and presented information about it to the class using a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow. Groups learned that bats are the only flying mammals, yet they didn’t originally fly. One theory on this adaptation is that they learned to fly while spreading their wings to jump from tree to tree as they looked for food. Moving through the air this way made bats safer, and thus they adapted to flying. Students also discovered more interesting facts: • The bumblebee bat can fly up to 60 miles per hour. • Most bats have one baby, or “pup”, per year. • Males and females roost together unless there are babies present. Female bats will then roost (hang upside down) in the nursery area of their home. The females also live in large colonies to protect their offspring. • Baby bats are large when born and hang onto their mothers as they fly. They also have much to learn for survival, so they stay with their mothers for several weeks as they learn to hunt. “Most bats eat millions of insects in their lifetimes – some up to 1,000 bugs an hour – and pollinate flowers when drinking their nectar,” Brooks said, “so without bats, the world would be overrun by mosquitos.” S

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f you see James Graham about town with a paper dragon on his shoulder, don’t be afraid to ask him about it. That’s what it’s there to do. Graham has been folding origami for more than 40 years, and the hobby has opened doors and provided unique opportunities he could not have anticipated when he started. Graham has always gravitated toward work and hobbies that meld scientific and mathematical thought patterns with creative expression, he said, which he comes by honestly through the work and interests of his parents and other family members. His mother was a teacher who oversaw the creation of yearbooks, and his father worked with architecture and wood crafts. Graham remembers family gatherings when his dad and uncles would sit and talk about plans for houses and other projects they were undertaking or in the process of planning. Exposure to the practical and creative approach they would take to solving these problems or mastering a certain craft influenced his approach to the world. “I like thinking out of the box,” Graham said. His love of origami began in May 1981 as a senior in high school. Like many students waiting out their last two weeks of high school, Graham found himself with extra time on his hands and a study hall teacher busy with other tasks. Venturing into the hallway, he saw an origami frog and crane on the desk of the art teacher. After an inquiry about how to create these, the teacher handed him a book and a couple pieces of paper. The teacher showed him how to read the diagrams, and he spent those last two weeks practicing the techniques in that book, which led to many other texts and more recently online resources. As a kid with academic interests and atypical pursuits, Graham said he felt he understood the adage about a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. However, he later learned more about wood crafting and the value of using a square peg to stabilize a round hole over time, which can be a difficult task but rewarding if placed appropriately by a thoughtful and creative individual. This concept has inspired the basis of a book he is currently writing focusing on his love of origami tentatively titled “Square Peg, Round Hole: Life in the Hands of a Creative Designer.” As someone who did not feel they fit in during their youth, Graham said origami has been a great tool to meet people and learn about them while getting to share about one of his great

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helped shape his faith from his work with paper. “I look at the Bible a lot with origami,” said Graham, who added that this was another area where his father had a major impact. “We’re like temporary people, like the paper. We have a side that’s here on Earth and one that will be on the other side in the future.” For a piece to truly reach its full potential, the creator must know before the first fold what the end result will be. Each piece has a purpose, and he likes to see the beauty in the piece no matter how arduous the process of reaching it or how many steps it took. Sometimes the creases placed by the creator go unseen in the finished product, but they no less contribute to the finished product. In that way, Graham said he has a deep appreciation for how God shapes the lives of people. S

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al development and work readiness firmly believe that all of us training – and the Sarkeys Founneed all of us to succeed. dation. With their input, TEEM All residents of a comand Sarkeys have launched a new munity are connected, and our scholarship initiative. Women collective success is contingent incarcerated at MBCC came up on healthy relationships and inKris Steele with the idea of this scholarship clusion. This assertion took on a deeper meaning in 2018 when I was ex- program with the dream of breaking the tended an invitation from the Justice Lab cycle of trauma, addiction and poverty in at Columbia University to participate in their families. Nicole, a resident at MBCC, was one the Square One Project, an initiative designed to reimagine justice and public of the scholarship’s visionaries. She noted safety. Little did I realize how significantly that “obtaining a college degree would allow me to turn my life around. I could this opportunity would impact my life. The Square One Project supports and build a better future for my son and myempowers a diverse group of stakehold- self. I will be the first in my family to aters to imagine a response to harm that tend college.” Another advocate from MBCC, Fedoes not lead with punishment and is free from racial disparities. Three core values licia, said, “Obtaining a degree will help underpin Square One’s work to inclusively make the rest of my life the best of my life. reimagine justice and safety: truth-telling, It will open many doors when I am released from prison. Having a degree will power-sharing and human dignity. We employ these values to ensure a show potential employers that I am more level playing field for all perspectives as we (than) my mistakes.” That this concept came to life because seek to answer the question, “who needs to give up power, and who needs to gain of the leadership from women currently power?” We live out these values by cen- incarcerated demonstrates the power of tering people affected by the harm and inclusive reimagination to generate transtrauma caused by inequality and systems formative solutions. Another Oklahoma community is also of oppression in all of our discussions. For far too long, people who have had the intentionally inviting people with involvemost access to resources have made deci- ment in the criminal legal system to the sions on the behalf of others without their table where policy decisions are made. consent or input. As a proud Shawnee res- The Oklahoma County Criminal Justice ident, it is my hope that our city will make Authority recently formed a Citizens Adpolicies differently. I hope for us to create visory Board (CAB) to provide accountlarger tables where all community mem- ability and improve conditions inside the bers – especially those impacted – have Oklahoma County Jail. CAB members will conduct listening sessions with residents input and voice. Our neighbors in McLoud are model- detained in the facility on a regular basis. ing the power of inclusive reimagination. The intent is to build trust among commuResidents from the Mabel Bassett Correc- nity members who are part of CAB and tional Center (MBCC) provided their in- for them to gain a better understanding of sights to the Education and Employment current conditions in the jail from the jail’s Ministry (TEEM) – an Oklahoma City residents in order to increase transparennonprofit dedicated to breaking cycles of cy and co-create a strategy for improving incarceration through education, person- jail conditions.

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Preliminary listening sessions have revealed a need for more exercise, increased access to showers and additional programming in the realms of mental health, education, addiction and employment. This guidance, combined with input from frontline staff, jail administration, law enforcement officers, elected officials and family members of people being detained at the jail will result in developing a wellinformed strategy for improvement. My participation with the Square One Project has underscored the value of problem-solving in inclusive settings that respect all people and center those who are closest to the problem. Thanks to strong collaboration between city officials, tribal partners, the faith community, businesses, philanthropic leaders and nonprofit organizations, Shawnee is making gains to improve the quality of life for local residents through efforts like Shawnee Aligned, The Campus Culture Project, Purchase with a Purpose and R.A.W. Luncheons. As our community continues to identify strategies to increase treatment options, improve housing stability, boost economic opportunities and eliminate harm, we must include directly-impacted people. Residents at MBCC and participants of CAB have shown us that those closest to the problem have the insights and experience to design the solutions. Holding dignifying spaces for people with diverselived experiences to engage in power sharing and truth-telling results in a true sense of connectivity that enables the creation of a shared vision. A community as great as Shawnee deserves this standard of valuesbased and principled decision making. S Kris Steele is executive director of TEEM (The Education and Employment Ministry), a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and incarceration in Oklahoma. He also serves as chair of the Citizens Advisory Board to the Oklahoma County Jail. Kris and his wife, Kellie, have two daughters: Mackenzie (19) and Madison (17) and reside in Shawnee.

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lmost as soon as Shawnee was settled, there was base- ered professionals though the team was not aligned with a Maball. jor League Baseball franchise. Manager Lou Fitzgerald put out Businesses, factories, schools, clubs, neighborhoods a call for players, and some were former Shawnee’s high school and the railroads often had teams from their different work areas. students, including Bob Saulsberry, Dave Rolette and Perry HadSome even traveled to nearby towns to play. dock. By the 1920s, a permanent field was built on school land on Owen then sold the Hawks to a stockholder organization afShawnee’s west side – where Memorial Park is today – and named ter alerting Major League Baseball about the team. Owen’s price Athletic Park. In 1929 and 1930, the Robins played in Shawnee as was $12,000 with each certificate selling at $100. Early stocka St Louis Cardinals farm team. holders included Earl Hawkins, After local citizens upgraded W.G. Neale, Frank and Dr. Marie the stadium in 1937, the New Brown, Buddy Henderson, ShanYork Giants and Cleveland Indinon Hamm and C.A. Munday. ans came to Shawnee for spring The plan was successful. In training games. Giants player 1953, the Shawnee Hawks were and Meeker-native Carl Hubbell picked up by the Brooklyn Dodgwas a featured player. ers and became their Class D miThe following year the Pittsnor league team. Rules said that burgh Pirates and Chicago a team must have seven rookies, White Sox with local stars Paul and one signed was Oklahoma and Loyd Waner and Cy Blanton City high schooler Don Demeappeared for a series. Two years ter. He played that season with later, the Pirates were to meet the Hawks before eventually advancPhiladelphia Athletics, but the The Shawnee Hawks played seven professional seasons ing to the major leagues where he as an independent and Major League Baseball-affiliated game was rained out. played for 11 years with BrookThen the world’s attention team and helped propel several players to major league lyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland. careers in the 1950s. — Photo submitted turned to war for the next several Besides Demeter, Hawks playyears. Coaches and players were gone with the military. Other er Stan Williams (1954) was eventually an MLB All Star. Bill Kunactivities including rodeos were held at the field, and the city tore kel (1956) and Don “Ducky” LeJohn (1954) were major leaguers down the bleachers to donate the wood and metal to the war ef- with Kunkel later becoming an umpire and LeJohn a scout for the fort. Once the worldwide conflict was over and those in the mili- Dodgers. tary came home, Shawnee citizens wanted to honor them and The Shawnee Hawks set records in attendance their first three return life to a semblance of normal. years affiliated with the Dodgers, with around 40,000 total fans Baseball was a way of doing that. Within a few short years, the attending games. In 1954, they finished first in the regular season renamed Memorial Park stadium was being used by local leagues, with a 92-48 record only to lose to Ardmore in the playoffs. high school teams and youth teams, but baseball lovers – many Then attendance at all the Sooner State League games began of whom remembered the Robins from 20 years prior – dreamed to dwindle. By 1957, only 22,000 Hawks fans came to the loof another professional team. In 1950, it became known that the cal games. The country was making a full recovery after years of Duncan team – part of the Sooner State League – was for sale. The war. The economy was thriving. Automobiles were more reliable. league consisted of teams from McAlester, Lawton, Pauls Valley, Families began to travel, taking advantage of better highways Ada, Chickasha and Seminole. and enjoying vacations. An evening watching young hopeful ball Chet Fowler bought the team and moved it to Shawnee. In a players at Memorial Park may be fun, but now it was possible to naming contest, M.B. Case submitted the winning Hawks moni- go to St. Louis or Kansas City and see major leaguers. ker and earned a season pass. Twelve-year-old Darrel Holmes The same was true throughout the Sooner State League. Afwon the bat boy job by answering some baseball questions. ter the 1957 season, the league folded, but for those years in the Local businessman Irvin Owen purchased the Hawks from 1950s, Shawnee again had real professional baseball right out Fowler in 1952. Because the players were paid, they were consid- here at Memorial Park. S www.shawneeoutlook.com

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Awe Of Nature Helps Put Problems In Perspective

BY BRANDON DYER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY

or six of us walked up the steep dirt road leading toward the engrain of sand. Thousands of galaxies. I have been utterly befuddled trance of the camp one night and into a clearing since July 11 attempting to make on the ridge surrounded by tall pines. We had one sense of a recent image which at one point in time purpose. We wanted to see the stars. The camp is would have been unimaginable. an hour and a half west of Billings and literally in Did you see it? the middle of nowhere. No light pollution, no smog. About a month ago NASA released its first images Nothing but perfectly clear skies. I stretched out my from the new James Webb Space Telescope, and they are blanket on the wild mountain grasses and laid flat on my spectacular. back breathing deeply in the crisp, chilly air. Never in my NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the initial imlife have I seen so many stars. There was no section of sky void of tiny, dazzling lights. I’ll never forget it. We barely age covers an area of sky roughly the size of a grain of said a word, staring slack-jawed into an infinite universe sand held at arm's length. Imagine how little the universe is represented holding out a single grain of sand on your Brandon Dyer containing answers to mysteries we haven’t even the capacfinger tip. In this tiny sliver of sky captured by Webb exists ity to consider. thousands of galaxies in an infinite universe. Take a moment to let Moments like these have a way of swallowing up ego. Self seems that sink in. Not thousands of solar systems, thousands of galaxies. less important. Irrelevant even. Considering my personal aspiraAbout 100 years ago, we thought there was only one galaxy con- tions or clinging to my personal rights and opinions has little value taining billions of stars. Now in a seemingly microscopic view of when staring at the stars. What place does anger, jealousy or greed have in such a mothe universe, we can see thousands of galaxies with billions of stars or suns. Now, if you can, try to imagine how many grains of sand ment? Experiencing awe allows us an opportunity to reboot the at arms length it would take to cover the sky. Need a brain break? system and to reevaluate what really matters. To give up grasping When I was in college at Oklahoma Baptist University 25 years at things over which we have no control. It allows us to be at peace. ago – an equally inconceivable thought for me – I began to spend Can you imagine it? a couple of weeks each summer at a youth camp in the Beartooth Maybe you can’t make the 24-hour drive to Montana to lay on Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana. I first began making this your back in the mountains and be awestruck from stargazing, but trek as a summer youth ministry intern. Over the next 10 years, you can wake up and watch the sunrise. It happens every morning. I would return each summer with a new group of inspired youth You can drive a dirt road and find a quiet place to sit still in simand adults, ruining them forever in the pristine mountain beauty. plicity and listen to the curious sounds of nature. Awe is waiting Their lives in the land of waving wheat no longer seemed so sweet to be experienced in even the tiniest moments of life if you look by comparison. closely enough. When you find it, sit with it. Let it shape you. Let it If there were a highlight reel of my life, it would most certainly leave you befuddled. Then share it with someone and let it inspire include a single memory from my first trip there. A group of five them as well. S

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Aug. 1-15: Enrich your life and the lives of children in the region with the 2022 Pioneer Library System Summer Learning Challenge, which encourages participants to log their time spent reading and learning or at library events both in-person and virtual. Each logged minute of learning becomes one point toward a community goal of 7 million points across the system’s three counties. The Pioneer Library System Foundation will donate books to children enrolled in WIC programs in Cleveland, McClain and Pottawatomie counties once the goal is met. Information: pioneer. beanstack.org/reader365

Aug. 12-14: Teams at the Oklahoma Cornhole State Championship will throw down at the Grand Casino and Resort at 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Competitors will vie for the chance to win the title and a shot at national tournaments at this Oklahoma Cornhole Association event, which will also feature a non-competitive bracket for local friends, families and neighbors to try for a trophy and bragging rights starting at 7:30 p.m. that Friday. Information: oklahomacornhole.com

Aug. 1-28: Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art will display its exhibit, “From Ancient Ruins to Skyscrapers: Architecture in Art,” with works from the museum’s permanent collection featuring buildings of all types and materials from a variety of time periods. The museum will host a free Gallery Talk and Reception at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26 with curator of collections Delaynna Trim discussing this exhibit. Museum admission is free during August. Information: mgmoa.org Aug. 12-13: The FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival offers two days of balloon glows, balloon launches and balloon rides with a carnival, inflatables, food trucks, vendor market and live music in a family-friendly environment in and around Raymond Peltier Park at 1702 S. Gordon Cooper. Scheduled music performances include Dustin Pittsley, Levi Parham, Mike Hosty, Tyler Maxwell and the Outsiders, Cam Allen, Bryan White and Andrea Pearson. Information: firelakeballoonfest.com Aug. 12-13: The Outdoor Nation Expo returns to the FireLake Arena at 18145 Old Rangeline Road with a free event to help families find all the ways to enjoy the • KRATOM • DELTA 8 • CBD BATH BOMBS PET TREATS & OIL GUMMIES FLOWER TOPICALS • SAGE - SWEETGRASS - CEDAR • CANDLES • GOAT MILK & OLIVE OIL SOAP • LEATHER JEWELRY BY JO HURTA High quality, organic, responsibly sourced CBD & KRATOM products which are 3rd party lab tested. Family owned and operated. WE CARE ABOUT YOU.

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Aug. 18: The Third Thursday Poetry Reading will feature Ron Wallace, a poet and novelist who teaches in the English department at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant. His "Renegade and Other Poems" won the Oklahoma Book Award in 2018. More recently, his novel, "A Secret Lies in New Orleans," won the Book Award for fiction published in 2021. Wallace will begin his presentation at 7 p.m. followed by open mic reading. The Lunch Box will open at 6 p.m. for those who want to order a meal. Aug. 19: The Arts @317 will host its own Block pARTy 5:30-8:30 p.m. at 317 E. Main St. with featured artist Maggie Price, a student at Oklahoma State University who has been doing art for many years. She will have a variety of her art with her as well as demonstrate how to create universal designs and print them onto paper. There will also be music and other activities under the awning in front of the studio as weather permits. Information: (405) 659-8193 Aug. 25: Silver Lining Arts Academy is having a meet the teachers night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Saint Paul's United Methodist Church at 301 N. Beard. The come-and-go event will highlight the Silver Lining’s classes in theater, dance, singing and piano. Information: www. slaaok.com, (404) 585-8886.

Aug. 27: Cops N Kids returns with a full afternoon of family fun featuring law enforcement and first responders from all levels showcasing the skills and tools that help keep communities safe. The event will also feature games, food, inflatables, giveaways, vendor booths and more from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center at 1700 W Independence St. Information: facebook. com/Shawneecopsnkids Aug. 27: Heavy metal band Queensrÿche will rock the Grand Casino Event Center with guest Great White starting at 7 p.m. at 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Since first gaining attention with its 1982 self-titled EP, Queensrÿche has garnered an international following as one of the most respected and creative bands of the 1980s. Information: grandboxoffice.com Aug. 27: Comedian William Lee Martin will bring his down-home sense of humor to the stage of the Historic Ritz Theater at 8 p.m. at 10 W. Main St. Information: ritzshawnee.com Sept. 4: Locomotive Operators of Central Oklahoma will host its monthly public run 1-4 p.m. at 29626 Lake Drive in McLoud. Ride the rails on powered ⅛-scale locomotives right outside of Shawnee Twin Lakes. Information: locotrains.org Sept. 7-10: The Pottawatomie County Free Fair will be held at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center at 1700 W. Independence. Information: freefair.org or pottcofreefair@ gmail.com Sept. 9-17: Shawnee Little Theatre presents “Murder on the Orient Express,” adapted by comedy Ken Ludwig from one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels featuring beloved eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. Christina Stewart will direct this local production of one of the most enduring comedy-mysteries in the world. Information: shawneelittletheatre.com If you know of any events you would like to see featured, email editor@shawneeoutlook.com.

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