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9 Paper Cutting Part Of Traditions During Chinese New Year Observances

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KEEP THE CHANGE

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NUTRITION 101

11 Shawnee PD Hands Out 751 Items During First-Ever Toy Drive

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MENTAL HEALTH

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13 South Central Cuts Ribbon For Parklet As Part Of Larger Revitalization Initiative

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SHAWNEE HISTORY

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ow that the Christmas cookies and New Year’s snacks are behind us, it’s time to assess those resolutions. Is getting fit on your list this year? If so, here are some low-budget options to help you meet your goals.

• Workout for free at home. Check out YouTube for a variety of fitness options. Try channels such as Popsugar and The Betty Rocker for free workout videos that can help you keep things fresh. If you have a video game enthusiast in the house, you can find work- Angela Rowland out “games” for your home console, or if you’re old-school like me, find some workout.

• Find cheap workout equipment. Many YouTube videos offer tips on low-cost gear, such as using water bottles as weights or scarves for resistance, but if you want to find some actual weights, resistance bands or more, check out Five Below (the nearest location is in Midwest City, but there are rumors we have one on the way).

• Join a gym. We have a few options in Shawnee. If you’re wanting a cheap monthly fee, Planet Fitness is only $10 a month. To have access 24 hours a day, Anytime Fitness is a great option. If you’re looking for offerings for the whole family, the YMCA is a good choice, even offering childcare for children up to 6 years of age. Most local gyms also offer access to group fitness classes with membership, so these might be great choices if you’re a social person or having someone holding you accountable keeps you motivated.

Don’t forget, you always have the option of just staying active in your daily life. Have a dance party in the kitchen or go for a walk in the neighborhood. It doesn’t have to be formal to be effective. S Angela Rowland is an OBU graduate and a stay-at-home mother of four. She enjoys finding new ways to stretch the paycheck and share some of her favorite tips and deals.

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appy 2023!

It will take me about 3-4 months to get used to writing that year down!

As you are thinking about the year to come and what you want this year to bring, I challenge you to think big. I am not an anti-New Year’s resolution kind of person. I just want you to really think about it and make it meaningful and not just another resolution that is focused around a number on the scale. Think much bigger than that.

Sit back and think about your why – your BIG why. Why do you want to lose weight? Why do you want to get healthier? Why do you want to be stronger? Why do you want to quit smoking? Why? Think about something big that would be able to keep you motivated all year long.

We are all motivated at the beginning of something new, but we need it to keep going when life gets challenging. Find that motivation and put it as many places as possible to remind you. Maybe it is a scripture or quote. Maybe it is a picture of a place you want to visit or of a loved one that inspires you. Maybe it is a picture of a child that you want to live for and be able to run around with and be around for. Place that inspiring picture, quote, word or scripture on your bathroom mirror, refrigerator, computer, in your car, in your purse, etc.

The goal is that your resolution is so life-changing and your motivation is so big that you won’t want to give up.

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Who said you couldn’t have something sweet and meet your healthy New Year’s resolution? We all know at some point a craving is going to hit for something sweet.

Instead of grabbing processed junk food, have something that is sweet from honey and dark chocolate.

Ingredients 3 cups of cocoa crisp cereal 1/2 cup of natural peanut butter 1/3 cup of honey 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips, plus an extra 1 1/3 cups for the chocolate layer 2 teaspoons of coconut oil Instructions: Combine the peanut butter, honey and chocolate chips in a sauce pan over medium-low heat. Stir continuously until the chocolate is melted. Mix in the cereal and gently stir until all the cereal is coated. Press firmly into a square pan lined with parchment paper. Melt the 1 1/3 cups of chocolate chips with the coconut oil. Pour on top and spread evenly. Store in the freezer or refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Slice into squares and store in the freezer or refrigerator. Makes 15 squares.

Nutritional Information per serving size: 1 square Calories: 130 Total Fat: 7g Saturate Fat: 2.5g Cholesterol: 0mg Protein: 4g Sodium: 58mg Carbohydrates: 14g Dietary Fiber: 1g Nutrition and Exercise 101: Peanut butter can be a great way to add in flavor to a dessert without adding sugar. Yes, peanut butter is high in fat, but it is a good for your heart fat. Those types of fats are called unsaturated fats. When picking your peanut butter, you want to pick a natural one that doesn’t have added sugars and oils. There are stores that you can go to and have peanuts or almonds freshly ground into a container. The freshly grounded kind gives the best flavor without anything at all being added to the nut. It is a taste that really can’t be beat. 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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Joe Taylor’s “Boy With Rabbit” sculpture has welcomed visitors in the courtyard of the MabeeGerrer Museum of Art for almost 40 years, and fits with the Chinese zodiac in 2023, which is the year of the rabbit.

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SUBMITTED BY DELAYNNA TRIM, CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF ART

he Chinese New Year – or Spring Festival – starts Jan. 22. The Chinese calendar is based on the movements of the moon. This is called a lunar calendar. The new year begins on the first new moon of the lunar calendar.

Did you know that not everyone uses the same calendar?

The Gregorian calendar – which many in America and in Europe follow – was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in AD 1582.

This replaced the previous Julian calendar that was used from 46 BC (Julius Caesar introduced it) to AD 1582. The Gregorian calendar more closely follows the solar year – the revolutions the earth makes around the sun. ing. This bronze sculpture has been sitting The Spring Festival can last up to 16 on the fountain in the museum’s courtyard days. The Chinese New Year is celebrated since the early 1980s, watching over many with family gatherings and fireworks. Obgenerations of koi fish. servers will often decorate using intricate Joe Taylor (1907-2000) was an art prored paper cutouts. Red paper is used befessor at the University of Oklahoma from cause it is associated with festivities and 1932-1970. He created more than 500 happiness. In the Chinese tradition, paper portraits during his lifetime. He won nucut outs are used in New Year festivities, merous awards for his sculptures. Some weddings and to celebrate births. Red is of his work can be seen on the campuses also used because of a myth that Nian – a of Oklahoma Baptist University and St. beast that comes out on New Year to eat Gregory’s University – now OBU’s Green people – is scared of the color red.

Campus.

Children receive a red envelope with money inLet’s try our hand at a paper cutting art project side as part of the New Year celebrations. Somein honor of Chinese New Year. You will need red times these red envelopes are given to friends and paper, scissors, pencil and an eraser. coworkers as well.

Fold the paper in half.

Chinese New Year celebrations end with the Draw your design.

Lantern Festival. This year, the Lantern Festival ocUse the scissors to cut out your design. curs Feb. 5.

You can fold and cut just like you would to creEach year in the lunar calendar is represented Scan this code to visit the by a zodiac animal with 2023 being the year of the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of ate a paper snowflake.

If you would like to see how to create some fun rabbit in this calendar.

Art’s at-home project page. designs, check out some videos demonstrating the To celebrate rabbits, let’s look at a popular piece technique at mgmoa.org/art-projects. at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art – “Boy with When you are done take a photo or your artwork and share it Rabbit” by Joe Taylor. You may have seen it many times without really looking at it. After all, the nearby fish are really distract- on social media with the hashtag #MGMOAArts. S www.shawneeoutlook.com

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The Shawnee Police Department was able to raise 751 donated items to give out to more than 160 kids in the community as part of its first-ever toy drive last month. — Photos submitted

he Christmas season is all wrapped up, and it was a busy one for the Shawnee Police Department. Not only did the department take part in the 14th Annual Shop with a Cop event, but they also put together their first ever citywide toy drive.

Shawnee PD partnered with local businesses and organizations to start receiving donations for new and unwrapped toys in mid-November and collected them through Dec. 14. Drop off locations included Arvest Bank, First National Bank, First United Bank, Resthaven Funeral Home, Vision Bank and Vyve Broadband.

In total, 751 items were collected during the drive, including clothes, sticker books, coloring books, crayons, toys, sports equipment, electronics and more, said Cpl. Vivian Lozano, public

information officer with the Shawnee Police Department who coordinated the event. Volunteers from the community helped sort and organize the donations according to age groups the day before the giveaway event.

The department worked with local families to get 162 children signed up to receive gifts on the primary day of the toy drive on the afternoon of Dec. 15. Families lined up in front of the department’s new headquarters at 912 E. Independence St. to take part in the festivities. Resthaven made each child their own personalized ticket to hand to an officer at the table for their designated age group.

The kids would then visit a station with toys displayed for them to receive from officers and community volunteers along with a stop by the table giving

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reading and activity books. After receiving their toys, children and their families could take photos with Santa or in front of Christmas trees and decor provided by Walmart and Lowes.

The final stop for families at the event was at the treat table where they could fill up with hamburgers and hot dogs grilled on-site by Arvest Bank, treat themselves to cookies provided by Chick-Fil-A and

warm up with some hot chocolate from Droffats Catering provided by the PD. Lozano said it was a great turnout, and the Shawnee PD will be hosting the event again next year. There were some toys left over after the event was all said and done, so the following week officers passed out the extra toys at some house calls they went on and also to different children they

came into contact with.

“I would like to thank everybody that volunteered their time,” Lozano said. “They came out and helped pass out toys, put the toys together, divide the toys and everybody that donated toys, whether it was here at the police department or the additional locations.

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BETTER TOGETHER South Central Cuts Ribbon For Parklet As Part Of Larger Revitalization Initiative

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outh Central Industries Inc. understands that communities are better together.

The organization’s mission starts with including its clients known as their PEEPs – People Experiencing Exceptional Purpose – in the activities of the community in which they live. Through vocational training and opportunities, these individuals with developmental disabilities work to support industries like city beautification, janitorial, lawn care, pallet construction and product sales.

This goal of involvement, however, extends beyond finding opportunities for PEEPs to identifying ways South Central can use its resources to help

the neighborhoods near its nearly four-block campus anchored at 204 N. Louisa.

“South Central really wanted to be a good neighbor, and really provide revitalization for the southwest quadrant of Shawnee that is so economically repressed, poverty driven and limited in resources,” said Tina Hanna, executive director at South Central. “We wanted to see what we could do to help that area of our community.”

Enter South Central’s multifaceted Better Together Revitalization Initiative, which marked a major milestone last month with the unveiling of the new South Central Parklet and com-

munity garden at 209 N. Louisa. On a chilly December morning, more than 150 people – including television personality Rutledge Wood – gathered to dedicate the new green space resulting from a $50,000 Hometown Grant awarded by the T-Mobile Foundation at the national level.

“We really wanted a gathering place for the community for neighbors to come together,” Hanna said. “It’s also very beneficial to our PEEPs to have natural resources around them.”

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Hanna and some of her staff visited a vocational organization known as BIG in Georgetown, Texas, and found inspiration in the way they integrated their initiatives into the surrounding neighborhoods and worked alongside the residents there to improve life for all their community members.

Examining the needs of the area and identifying opportunities where South Central could lend a hand required a thorough and honest approach, Hanna said. They discussed ideas with the board of directors, the PEEPs, their families and community members.

The South Central team wanted to make sure the steps they took made real differences for their neighbors.

“They were very supportive of what our dreams and our visions were for this area,” Hanna said.

For instance, a lack of nearby affordable grocery and home goods options puts a strain on some residents in the area with limited transportation, including South Central’s PEEPs, Hanna said. The organization used its SCI Supply division – which provides resources for janitorial, office, household and food service – to partner with Community Market of Pottawatomie County to create a food pantry available to residents within walking distance west of Harrison.

South Central also aimed to improve the profile near its campus via two federally funded Community Economic Development grants that helped with construction of an Adaptive Warehouse and renovations for a new adult day center, Hanna said. The latter

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will allow working families that have members who have aged out of a vocational program or have major health concerns. This aims to take the pressure off worrying about leaving these individuals at home while at work while providing constructive activity for those adults.

They also hired a group to provide a market study of the area to get a thorough assessment of the needs, and one of the major concerns was affordable housing, Hanna said. This prompted South Central to submit information to the Oklahoma Housing Finance Authority to qualify for $4.5 million low income housing tax credits that will help build 12 apartments and two homes with eight single dwelling units.

These will provide assisted living support for those with special needs and

low income.

Some of the other funding sources for these initiatives include: $500,000 Avedis Foundation $102,000 Pottawatomie County Community Economic Development Fund $75,000 Anderson Foundation $50,000 Kirschner Foundation $25,000 Winterringer Foundation $10,000 SSM St. Anthony $8,000 Donna Nigh Foundation $5,000 Canadian Valley Co-op $5,000 Shawnee Board of REALTORS All of this combines with South Central’s fairly rare status as a selfsustaining nonprofit that helps take

the successes of its PEEPs, people and programs to attract grants and funding with matching or other requirements that other organizations may not be able to access, Hanna said. Even with that in their favor, they still averaged about 27 rejections to every yes they received in requests for grants and funding. The Avedis Foundation helped shift some momentum by issuing a challenge grant to show their belief in South Central’s vision to help spur others to do the same.

Regardless of the support they receive via grants from the local level to the national, Hanna said the Shawnee community and its people have always been willing to support groups like South Central that want to lend a hand to their neighbors, and it’s that heart that helps drive projects like the Better Together Revitalization Initiative even more than awards.

“It meant so much to have the support of our board of directors, the support of our community, the support of our city, the support of the families we serve, the PEEPs we serve, and to have so much buy-in that was evident at the dedication and ribbon cutting (of the parklet and community garden),” Hanna said. “That meant the world to us.

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BY DAVID DINSMORE After a year off resulting from public health concerns, The Oklahoma Gravel Growler will ride once again hosted

by Spokelahoma in partnership with Citizen Potawatomi Nation Feb. 3-4 starting at the CPN Festival Grounds on South Gordon Cooper. — Photos submitted

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he Oklahoma Gravel Growler cycling race and ultra marathon will ride again in the Shawnee area Feb. 3-4, marking its return as a marquee event for the Spokelahoma bicycle shop and its new partnership with Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Spokelahoma took the hold of the handlebars for the Growler in 2018 after its first couple of years as a very “grassroots” event. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, made for a few bumps in 2021 when the event moved to the St. Crispin’s facility east of Seminole before 2022 let the air out of its tires and saw the year pass without a race.

At its peak, however, the race saw more than 500 participants, and with regular runnings aside CPN as a partner, Spokelahoma owner and Growler coordinator Craig McIntyre said there’s a lot of excitement about where it could go from here.

“For a long time, we had wanted to partner with CPN

on different things,” said McIntyre, whose Spokelahoma bike shop relocated to 111 N. Broadway in Tecumseh last February. “I think it’s really important for cultural awareness of the people whose land you’re actually riding on.”

In addition to its start and a focal point of activities happening at the CPN Festival Grounds and surrounding properties, the Oklahoma Gravel Growler and ultra-marathon will unfold in large part on tribal land, McIntyre said. Event organizers are working with the nation to coordinate events and activities for friends and families of the riders and runners to have the opportunity to explore features like the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center, have some fun bowling, take a swing on the golf course or try their luck in the casino. They also have worked to make the Grand Casino Hotel the official lodging of the two-day event.

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“Most good things in this state seem to come from partnerships between the tribes and other entities, whether it’s the government of Oklahoma or whether it’s some private enterprise.”

In addition to providing entertainment options and cultural enrichment opportunities for attendees and participants of the Growler, the partnership with CPN also bolsters the potential longevity of the Growler traditions.

Events hosted by CPN – such as the FireFlight Balloon Festival – seem to have a focus on long-term sustainability, McIntyre said. They will hopefully be events that transpire across generations, and he would like to see the Growler be among those.

“We want the event to have a future,” McIntyre said. “One of the reasons we built the gravel growler into what it is and what we hope it’s going to continue to be is to build a commu20

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nity for people of all ages to ride and create an event that will showcase this area and show people what cycling can attract to this area.”

The keys to the success of previous Growlers has been providing an experience beyond showing up to just ride or run, McIntyre said. Whether for the participants or those attending to support them, the Oklahoma Gravel Growler has aimed to provide a fun and family-like atmosphere at its events.

This year, Alison Tetrick is returning as the “ambassador of awesomeness,” leading and participating in race activities along with a women’s cycling Q&A. She will also lead a pace group that will help riders maximize their performance. Professional cyclist and Tour de France racer Frankie Andreu will also make another Growler appearance as the announcer.

The event will also feature a charitable beneficiary of the activities, with money raised this year going toward early childhood music education in Tecumseh Public Schools, McIntyre said.

The festivities will kick off Friday, Feb. 3 with a vendor expo, packet pickup and some registration opportunities followed by a social ride. The Tetrickled women’s clinic will take place that afternoon and capping the evening will be a rider meeting and party.

Saturday morning the runners will hit the road about 8 a.m. with riders following at 8:30 a.m., McIntyre said.

The cutoff time will be 5 p.m. with the Shackleton award once again going to the last official finisher of the long course to cross the line.

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he decade before had been difficult but not as bad in 1937-38 basketball season, the Wolves were able to play their Shawnee as other areas of the country. Black Friday in games on a regulation size court.

The year also marked an important event when Eleanor Roo1929 wasn’t as devastating as it was where more of the sevelt was in Shawnee to visit some of the projects her husband’s population depended on business and banking.

The Dust Bowl in western Oklahoma didn’t affect eastern plans had been responsible for. And the 1938 Oklahoma Baptist Oklahoma as much, but the choking drought caused the loss of University graduating class sat for a speech by J. Edgar Hoover. crops to local farmers. And the recent closing of the Rock Island Other political speakers over the years included J. Howard Edmondson (1958), Lyndon Johnson (1959) and George Nigh shops was devastating to the town’s economy.

So, it was welcomed when the federal government, urged by (1962).

Gym classes – especially those at the junior high – used President Franklin D. Roosevelt, came to the rescue with his New Deal programs. The plans were developed to put people the smaller courts on south corners of the building, and SHS back to work during what was called the Great Depression by continued their home games there until their own gym was constructed in 1959. Other sports giving people jobs, new skills and events held at the Municipal Aurescuing companies. ditorium included Bill Tilden’s First, Shawnee was rewarded tennis match in 1937, the Allwith National Recovery AdminisAmerican Redheads in 1950, the tration programs that taught young Harlem Globetrotters in 1951 and people skills like cooking, sewing Gorgeous George and his wrestling and welding followed by the first show in 1959.

Public Works Administration conThe most fascinating event was struction project in Oklahoma with likely “Icelandia,” an ice skating Jefferson School in 1934.The Works show that brought their own porProgress Administration projects table ice rink in 1951. included the lake and water works, The Auditorium was the site of county courthouse, football stamusic shows, such as Bob Wills dium, swimming pool, additions to Construction on Shawnee’s Municipal Auditorium (1942), Roy Acuff (1946), Sons of other schools – constant construc- began in 1935, and it hosted a variety of events – the Pioneers (1949), Fred Waring tion and work for Shawnee citizens including sports, speeches, education, concerts and (1956), Jerry Lee Lewis (1957) and more – in its first few decades. The building is still and companies.

Alec Templeton – a world renown And then there was the Munici- usable nearly 90 years later. ­— Photo submitted blind pianist – in 1955. pal Auditorium. There was no large Maybe the most unusual event was the planetarium show by place for local folks to gather for shows and events, and the gym in the high school was too small for regulation basketball games. Armand Spitz in 1952.

It was Shawnee citizens themselves, however, who made the A spot in Woodland Park was selected, plans drawn, funds from the city of Shawnee were matched with those from the PWA and most use of the beloved Municipal Auditorium. High school graduations were held there until 1962. Plays, band concerts construction began in late 1935.

Like most projects there were debates about the cost, the and other school programs occurred there as well as Scout court size, the arrangement of seating and paint color. More- events and those of the Camp Fire Girls. Many remember the over, the seats themselves became an issue when the company Kiwanis Pancake Feed every year.

When the high school moved to the west side of town and couldn’t make their promised delivery date. Even with the alterations and additions, citizens’ excitement continued as the the junior high moved to the former high school building, gym classes and basketball games ceased in the Municipal Auditobuilding rose in the center of town.

The cornerstone was laid by the Masons at the end of March rium. Later, an addition was built on the east side of the building as the construction continued. The city commission approved with room for senior citizens programs.

Most everything else has moved elsewhere, but according to a $1,400 sound system feeling like this would enhance the programs that could take place in the new auditorium. Once its overseers, the fine old building is still serviceable even after the building was finished, those visions came true. During the 90 years.

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A PRAYER IN THE FIELD

BY ROGER DYLAN TURNER

Our Father, we approach to thank you for this day.

We thank you that we have come together. Just as education is food for the mind, so entertainment is food for the heart; and we ask that you help us all to mind our table manners, so to speak. For no good host invites a guest to a meal with the goal of insulting them. Really, what cause will either town have for boasting on account of its team or what cause will either have for shame? A worker is paid for his own work and a criminal is punished for his own crime, so why should one in the stands behave or be treated as if he had been on the field?

We also pray that although both teams have practiced hard, and both desire to win, please, help each to not want the other to lose. Please, help the winners to be proud of themselves, but without wanting the losers to feel bad, just as someone may wish to be satisfied, while not wanting someone else to be hungry or poor.

We ask that you help us to remember that the numbers we see here today are just that: numbers. Those on the uniforms and those on the scoreboard. They reflect nothing on the moral character of anyone here, just as one should not be judged by their number of years or the number of coins in their pocket; though all such things are matters of caution, they are also open to chance.

And finally, we thank you for the rain; it's not so thick as to interfere with the game, but just enough so that we all might be refreshed.

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BY BRANDON DYER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY

one afternoon had me happy to simply walk away unscathed. t happened three times in one afterOne of the hardest truths to accept in noon, just a few weeks ago. The first life is that we can’t control the actions or was in front of Dutch Bros. Coffee, choices of others. We can’t make anybody the second on 45th by Gordon Cooper do anything. Attempting to control other Technology Center and the third was 30 feet people – or anything outside our circle of conoutside of Wal-Mart. It had been years since trol really – only leads to more frustration. It’s something like this had happened and then three hard enough to control ourselves at times. What times in a single afternoon? I admit, I was frustrated, makes us think we can control others? When somebut I also realized there was nothing I could do but one wrongs us, we often feel like we need to pay laugh a little and perhaps be more alert. them back. Sure, I could have chased that car down Twenty five years earlier, while I was in college anand said a few choice words. Who knows what kind other series of threes occurred. In one week, I locked Brandon Dyer of scene might have developed? Nothing good would my keys in my truck three times. Three times, I had have come from it. That much I know. to spend money to have someone come fiddle with This is the myth of redemptive violence. Think of the my door to unlock it for me. As a poor college kid, not only was I frustrated but I was also broke. I had never locked my Hatfields and McCoys or the Montagues and Capulets. We keys in my truck before, and I haven’t since. It has only hap- think that if we get somebody back for what they have done pened three times in my life and all within a week. However, that we will somehow win. The truth is revenge only leads unlike what happened a few weeks ago, each of these experi- to trouble, even tragedy at times. I am not suggesting people ought not be held accountable for terrible choices, but justice ences were my own doing.

So, what happened exactly a few weeks ago? Three times is different than revenge. Justice follows a process, though I was nearly hit by a car. The first time a person failed to look we might not always agree that the outcome is fair. Revenge, right as they were pulling out of Dutch Bros. I was turning however, is birthed in passion, often with little thought of left, and they took a really wide right turn. Fortunately, they consequences.

There are certainly larger, very important issues this saw me at the very last second and slammed on their brakes missing my truck by inches. It was an honest mistake. We’ve brings up, but for the purposes of this article I would like all had close calls that were our fault. I was a little spooked for us to consider what it would look like to simply dust ourselves off and walk away from the majority of our petty but no big deal.

The second was a few hours later as I was on my way to conflicts.

Do we really need to speed ahead to cut off the person Wal-Mart headed west on 45th in front of Gordon Cooper.

An eastbound car began to cross the centerline. I let off the who just cut us off? Who wins when we post a snarky comgas a little expecting the driver to look up from their phone ment after reading an opinion we don’t agree with? Which and course correct. As the car drew closer and closer it was of us has ever truly “won” a Facebook argument? When was moving further into my lane. Realizing what was about to the last time you convinced someone that you were right by happen, I yanked the wheel right and veered into the ditch being ugly, particularly in a public forum? Don’t these things typically lead to more ugliness? to avoid a collision then back onto the road.

We need to learn how to control our emotions and beFinally, as I was exiting Wal-Mart and walking across the pedestrian crossing, a car to my right either didn’t see me come more mature human beings. Isn’t this what we try to or didn’t care to slow down. Like in the movies, I literally teach our children? Bono said that the purpose of art is to had to dive out of the way to avoid being hit. You can’t make chase ugliness away. Controlling our passions is most defithis stuff up. Fortunately, I didn’t listen to my retaliatory in- nitely a form of art because it replaces ugliness with beauty, stincts. Although my heart was racing, three close calls in something our world needs more of. S www.shawneeoutlook.com

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calendar Jan. 1-22: Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art will present the limited exhibit “Messiah: Christ in Art” to explore the different ways that Christ is depicted in art through the ages. The free-to-the-public gallery talk and reception featuring curator of collections Delaynna Trim will be at 7 p.m. on Jan. 20th at the museum at 1900 W. MacArthur.

Information: mgmoa.org/messiah-christ-in-art Jan. 7: The "World's Best Young Elvis" Travis Ledoyt will pay homage to the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll starting at 8 p.m. at the Historic Ritz Theater at 10 W Main St. Information: ritzshawnee.com Jan. 14: Oklahoma's very own renowned medium, Jacqueline Brooke, will bring her remarkable gifts to Shawnee at 7 p.m. at the Historic Ritz Theater at 10 W. Main St. Information: jacquelinebrooke.com Feb. 3: Songwriter Night @ Music Unlimited will feature artist Levi Walker and other Oklahoma songwriters 7-9 p.m. at 1109 W. Kickapoo Spur St. This live music event is free of charge and open to the public. Information: kevinhall8384@gmail.com Feb. 3-4: Oklahoma Mission of Mercy will host a two-day clinic designed to meet the oral health needs of dental patients of all ages by providing free dental care to as many adults and children as time, volunteers and supplies will allow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center at 1700 W. Independence St. Information: okmom.org.

Feb. 5: 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 Feb. 10-18: Shawnee Little Theatre presents “PUFFS: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic,” a clever and inventive play that puts a new spin on a familiar adventure from the perspective of three young wizards. Magic, sports, and a battle against evil collide in this play about anyone who's ever felt like they weren't the hero of their own story, which will take the stage at 1829 N Airport Drive. Information: shawneelittletheatre.com.

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Feb. 11: Community Renewal invites participants to We Care-aoke – a night of dinner, cocktails, and Singo (musical Bingo) to benefit the organization’s initiatives in Pottawatomie County – from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Grand Casino at 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Information: communityrenewal.org.

Feb. 11: John Shack's V-Day Variety Show will bring music, comedy, burlesque and magic as part of a special Valentine’s Day performance at 7 p.m. at the Historic Ritz Theater at 10 W. Main St. Information: facebook.com/johnshackmagic Feb. 13-17: The Professional Bowlers Association will conduct its Shawnee Classic pre-tournament qualifier with a combined $150,000 in prize money at the event rolling into FireLake Bowling Center at 40945 Hardesty Road. Information: pba.com/tournaments/2023/pba-shawnee-classic If you know of any events you would like to see featured, email editor@ shawneeoutlook.com. S 30

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