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9 Yummy Food: Delicacies Have Inspired Art For Thousands Of Years

KEEP THE CHANGE NUTRITION 101

10 Sky High: Local Students Capture Data During Eclipse For National Project

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OVER THE FENCE

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13 Signing Day: POGO highlights Focus Areas At Partnership Event

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SEASONAL STOCKING

t’s November, and as we enter baking season, it’s time for me to remind you this is the perfect time to start stocking your freezer – as space allows. As the holiday season invokes many opportunities to feast, grocery store prices tend to reflect these traditions, so start checking your sales flyers. Angela Rowland Here’s what to look for on sale. Buy extras, freeze what you can and store the imperishables away until needed. • Baking Supplies – Sugar, flour, chocolate chips, spices and more. Sugar saves well in your pantry, so stock up. Spices and flour tend to have a shorter life-span – typically only 6-12 months depending on the item – so freeze any you won’t be able to use in time. Just know that your spices may lose some potency from the freezing process. • Meats – Turkeys, of course, and ham will both be on sale in the coming weeks. Remember, you can actually eat a turkey any time of year. The meat works well in any recipe calling for chicken. • Canned Goods – These will hold well in your pantry until needed. It’s a great time to stock up on canned veggies, soups – especially soups used for cooking, such as cream bases – and more. Not sold in cans, but other Thanksgiving basics like French-fried onions, boxed stuffing and potatoes are also discounted now. Use the onions on salads or make a chicken and stuffing casserole any time of year. • Harvest Vegetables – Don’t forget in-season produce like squash can be purchased now while they’re everywhere and frozen for the future. Cut them up and freeze on a baking sheet or store them in a freezer-safe container or plastic bag until you need them for stews and chilis for the rest of the winter. S

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nutrition 101

HEALTHY HOLIDAY EATING TIPS he holidays are officially here. The timespan from Halloween activities to New Year’s Day can be challenging to a lot of us. So much sugar and baked goods start to appear all around us. It starts getting colder, so we tend to move less outside. The cooler temps and less movement tend to lead to drinking less water. When I am talking to patients about eating an anti-inflammatory diet during the holidays, at first it can sound impossible. I really enjoy being able to show patients that eating this way is doable no matter what month we are in. It is helpful to remember how good your body feels when eating a clean diet. Usually bloat, indigestion, joint pain and so much more go away when we are eating a clean diet. The holiday months can be filled with a lot more processed gluten, dairy, added sugar, fake sugars and too much alcohol. When this becomes our normal way of eating for months at a time, we tend to feel pretty bad. When our body feels bad we tend to start moving even less and becoming less motivated. Our sleep even starts to get affected by what is going into our bodies. Baking with different gluten-free flours like oat, almond, cassava and rice are ways to keep baking. Using sweeteners like coconut sugar, honey, pure maple syrup and pure stevia are ways to continue to sweeten your holiday treats. You don’t have to have complete FOMO – fear of missing out – around holiday food. You just have to be more aware of which ones you choose to enjoy. Try baking the below bread recipe for your next get-together and enjoy the holidays while also enjoying some delicious bread.

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Ingredients: 2 cups flour of choice 2 cups shredded zucchini ½ cup coconut sugar 3 large eggs, room tem1 tsp baking powder perature ½ tsp baking soda ¼ cup melted coconut oil ¾ tsp cinnamon 3 Tbsp honey ½ tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan with coconut oil and line it with parchment paper. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Place your shredded zucchini on a large paper towel and wrap the paper towel around the zucchini so it completely surrounds it. Lightly squeeze the zucchini a couple of times to remove excess water. Add the zucchini, eggs, coconut oil, honey and vanilla to the flour mixture. Fold everything together until combined. Pour the batter in the prepared loaf pan and spread evenly. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let the bread cool for at least 10 minutes prior to lifting out of the pan. Let the bread cool on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes before serving. Nutritional Information per serving: Makes: 12 slices, 1 slice per serving Calories: 204 Total Fat: 8g Cholesterol: 46mg Sodium: 81g Carbohydrates: 27g Dietary Fiber: 1.5g Protein: 4g Nutrition 101: Oat flour is one of my favorite flours to use when baking gluten free. The great thing about oat flour is that you don’t even have to go and specifically buy that flour. I just take my old-fashioned oatmeal that I already have in the pantry and put it into the food processor. After you have the oats in the food processor for about 2 minutes you will have oat flour. This is a much cheaper way than buying the pre-made oat flour. S Andrea Beck, a registered dietitian and personal trainer, received her master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. She offers personal training and nutrition education through an online platform, StrongHER along with functional nutrition and labs through Laser Focus. For inquiries, visit strongherwithandrea.com, or the Facebook page, Nutrition and Exercise 101 with Andrea.

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YUMMY FOOD Delicacies Have Inspired Art For Thousands Of Years

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ovember is the time to be thankful, especially for food. Many artworks include food. Every time I see Ernst Müller’s “Lunch,” it makes me hungry. The young man in the painting is still wearing his work apron, but he is so hungry that he just starts eating. Other than the baguette (a long loaf of French bread), what other foods can you see in his basket? Some ancient pottery has food painted on it, maybe showing us what would have been served in the vessel. There have even been Roman mosaics discovered that show all types of fish and sea creatures. Scholars think that these mosaics show the type of food that the owner might have eaten. Sometimes people paint food because the food is everywhere. In the museum’s collection, we have a small painting of an egg and another painting has bunches of grapes. Other times, artists paint food because they are so unusual. Fr. Gregory Gerrer painted breadfruit, mangos, papaya, avocados and many other exotic fruits and vegetables when he visited San Salvador because he had not seen them before. He wrote later in his autobiography, “There are fruits of many kinds, among which are citrus fruits, luscious custard apples, papaya, sapodilla, coconuts, pineapples, the juicy slippery mango, with a flavor like a pineapple and apricot combined. It takes an expert to eat them for they are tough, slippery and full of silky fibers. Now it is in your hand, now it is up your sleeve or in your neighbor’s lap, or on the floor. The correct way to eat them is to roll up your sleeves, stand over a bathtub and go to it. You are considered to be expert, when you can lick the juice from the elbow to the wrist. Many of these fruits were exported.” In another work, the artist Antowine Warrior illustrates the making of fry bread on an open fire. Scan this code to visit Many Native tribes make variations of frybread. The the Mabee-Gerrer tradition of fry bread has been around for more than Museum of Art’s at150 years. Frybread is typically made out of white home project page.

flour mixed with water, baking powder or yeast and a sprinkle of salt, which is then deep fried in oil or lard. What is the most exotic or unusual food you have eaten? What food are you most thankful for?

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Art Project: Draw your favorite food Supplies: paper, pencil, crayons, or paint Want to get more creative? Draw and cut out a plate, then draw and cut out some of your favorite food, now place them on your plate. You have now created a collage. Want more food-related art projects? Check out mgmoa.org/art-projects for more fun ideas. S www.shawneeoutlook.com

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SKY HIGH

Local Students Capture Data During Eclipse For National Project

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he pre-engineering They designed a system using a students at Gordon surveying tripod that would Cooper Technology simplify the process and require Center joined more than 40 othless manual adjustment of the er teams around the country in equipment. gathering atmospheric data dur“We designed it so it wouldn’t ing a 24-hour period around the take as many people and would annular eclipse that occurred in take less time,” Miller said. October. Students also collected The group traveled to Texas ground-level data during the where the eclipse was most protime period for scientists to nounced in this region armed compare against the data colwith technology provided for lected in the atmosphere by their the project and the knowledge balloon-radiosonde equipment they have gained through parto give a more complete picture ticipation in the Gordon Cooof the eclipse’s impact, Bushper program. ong said. The software used by The project came from the students did come configNASA Space Grant Consortium ured for the project, but they funds that helped provide the did not receive much informaequipment to the students, who High school students participating in the pretion about its utilization. Miller, put the resources to use for real- engineering program at Gordon Cooper Technology Murray and their fellow particiworld research purposes as part joined more than 40 other teams – mostly collegiate pants had to figure out how to level – around the country in collecting atmospheric of a senior design and developuse it based on some of the skills ment project, said Aaron Bush- data during the annular eclipse last month. — Photos they’ve gained during their time submitted ong, pre-engineering instructor at Gordon Cooper. at Gordon Cooper. The majority of the teams were from the Throughout the course of the project, the students had to collegiate level, so his group was one of a handful of high school adapt to ensure that the equipment all stayed in communicastudents selected to contribute. tion with one another for effective data collection that would “They really had to innovate to make it better for the data eventually go to the project’s headquarters in Montana, said collection,” Bushong said. Murray, who is planning to major in mechanical engineering at The students devised methods to launch radiosondes – Oklahoma State University. This meant not only making sure small instrument packages suspended below balloons filled the balloon ascended on time but that it did rise too fast or too with helium – to measure atmospheric data like pressure, tem- slow to gather the information correctly. perature and relative humidity, said Conner Murray, a senior While the goals seemed simple, Bushong compared the at Tecumseh High School who participated in the project. The project to handing someone a stack of bricks and asking them data fed into software programs designed to help scientists sift to build a wall with no further instructions. The students had through the changes that occurred before, during and after the to employ their own creativity, ingenuity and aptitude to aceclipse. complish their tasks in a timely manner for the project to work. Though they received parameters of what the project wantBushong’s students launched a balloon every hour dured to collect, they had to create their own method for achieving the 24-hour period, but they couldn’t begin the process of ing their goals, Tecumseh High School senior Sarah Miller said. each instance until within 15 minutes of the scheduled launch,

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which sometimes required quick thinking if they discovered a problem during that time. “This was really exciting for us to get to do with our seniors and have that kind of leg up on research before they go to college,” Bushong said. “These kinds of experiences are very rare.” Even once the data collection period ended, Bushong and his students had to sift and reevaluate some of it upon returning to Shawnee to make sure they packaged it in a meaningful way for those who would conduct the analysis at the project’s headquarters. The data will also continue serving a purpose for the students locally as they kept the text-based information to analyze, Bushong said. This could help when they participate in similar projects, including next year’s total eclipse in April. They will take other lessons and experiences from this project into the classroom to make their work easier in the field during that event as well, Miller said. For instance, they are working on other methods of tracking their equipment to help make recovery easier between launches. For Miller – who also plans to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at Oklahoma State University next year – this kind of project emphasized the importance of hands-on field experience for students. “We’ve learned about problem-solving skills so that we can go out in the field and adapt to the problems that might arise like the wind blowing over the balloon and all sorts of problems,” she said. “We had to think fast to get those fixed and keep going.” The project fueled Murray’s interest in figuring out solutions to simplify processes, he said. They received checklists of tasks to implement for the launches, but as they gained more experience through their preparation, the team realized there were ways to combine and reduce the number of steps to help the process run quickly and smoothly. “Overall, it was a very cool experience for our team,” Bushong said. “They did a great job, and they really showed they could overcome the problems they faced in the field. “It means a lot for all of us, all the instructors, to see that our students are getting something out of this, and they can go on and be successful in college and after that.” S

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Executive director of Pottawatomie GO (POGO) John Bobb-Semple speaks to attendees about the organization’s focus areas and goals at the Signing Day event hosted at their office in October. For more information or to get involved, visit gopogo.org/mission Bobb-Semple said. Now under the umbrella of the Avedis Foundation, POGO has spent the past year establishing and strengthening partnerships with local businesses, organizations and individuals while also defining its focus areas to “measurably improve the health and wellbeing of Pottawatomie County.” The pep rally atmosphere of the signing day event invited community partners to celebrate milestones with

Blue Zones Approved organizations from that era that are now Legacy Partners while inviting them and new partners to join POGO in new ways to continue improving community health. “Our community is responding to many critical challenges and making significant strides,” Bobb-Semple said. “To prioritize our contribution and focus areas, we are guided by the 2021 Pottawatomie County Community Health Needs Assessment, a broad range of 30www.shawneeoutlook.com

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plus community leaders, and a commitment to continue the legacy work of our communities’ 2020 Blue Zones Certification. The areas of focus identified by POGO were: • Built environment improvements • Promoting active lifestyle • Increasing fruit & vegetable consumption • Improving mental well-being • Promoting social connectedness Attendees at the event had the option to pick areas in which their skills and resources could benefit the initiatives put in place to work toward improving those aspects of the community. Additionally, Bobb-Semple and his team got to share some of the perspectives and information they’ve gathered during the last year to help guide their focuses. “This year, we learned the importance of telling our story of how our past work with Blue Zones Project got us to this point,” Bobb-Semple said. “We learned the value of relationships aligned with the goal of measurably improving wellbeing for our community. We learned that this work is fun, challenging and takes time to do it right. We learned about the great work happening across Shawnee and neighboring communities.” In 2020, Shawnee became the first certified Blue Zones Community in the state of Oklahoma within the timeframe set by the larger national organization, which has gained fur14

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ther recognition from a four-part Netflix documentary released this year. Yet, POGO sees a next-level goal as it pursues becoming the healthiest county in Oklahoma, and community partners working diligently over time to make generational improvements can accomplish this. While the signing day event gave the organization an intentional way to continue building and bridging current partnerships in the community, new relationships play a critical role in achieving goals for improvement within any community. POGO will keep inviting anyone in the community to put their time and talents toward these focus areas. For more information, follow POGO on social media and sign up for our newsletter at gopogo.org. S

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CORN DANCE

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ou can still find Loretta Barrett Oden peeling potatoes in the kitchen at age 81. Whether it was as a young girl helping cook for her large family or getting dinner ready for her two boys while she was raising her own family, putting food on the table seemed to be a central theme during the first half of her life. She couldn’t anticipate, however, the impact it would have on her second half, including the release of her first cookbook, Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine, published by OU Press and made available starting last month. Born and raised in Shawnee, Oden’s learned the lessons and lore of Potawa-

Loretta Barrett Oden shares decades of First American recipes and stories in her first cookbook, Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine, available now through OU Press. — Ethan Stewart tomi cooking from her mother’s side of the family along with tradition of her father’s family, whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. In her youth, she gained some restaurant experience at Van’s Pig Stands before moving to Oklahoma City at the age of 20. She married and had two sons that kept her busy, but after they had grown, Oden felt the call of the road. She began traveling and experiencing what the country had to offer,

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Photo: Metta Nielsen and her journeys always seemed to bring her back to food. “It seemed like cooking was the only skill I really had,” Oden said. What she couldn’t find at that time, however, were many restaurant options that offered some of the heritage dishes that she grew up making. “There were no representations of First Americans food,” Oden said. This motivated her to further learn more about not only her Potawatomi rotos but also other tribal traditions held by people in the areas she lived and visited. When her son, Clay, approached her about starting a restaurant that celebrated these traditions, all of her experiences seemed to fall into the right place when they opened the doors of their first Corn Dance Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 20

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“It was serendipitous; that’s how I would describe it,” Oden said. “It seemed like a perfect place and time for a Native American-themed restaurant … and it clicked with people.” The Corn Dance Cafe continued to flourish and added a second location during her 10-year tenure, and while most cooks count opening their own restaurant as the pinnacle of their career, Oden saw herself just getting started. The food and stories they shared at the Corn Dance Cafe grabbed national recognition, and she found herself making guest appearances on NBC’s “The Today Show” and on special airing on the Food Network. Oden relished the chance to expose a wider audience to First American cuisine and heritage and humorously points out how often she’d receive these requests around Thanksgiving. Coincidentally, the arrival of her Corn Dance cookbook – which Oden wrote with contributions by food journalist Beth Dooley – also coincides with this year’s holiday season, and she is excited about people possibly featuring some of her favorite dishes on their tables in the coming weeks. The recipes incorporate some central themes of simplicity like the Three Sisters – corn, beans and squash – that can be prepared in so many ways and sustain a person for a lifetime, but she also works in more unique and complex dishes. Oden also made room for the recipes to include traditional First American elements like bison or rabbit while giving people the flexibility to use ingredients that may be more common at the average grocery store. More than discovering a new favorite dish, however, Oden wants people to find insight and inspiration in the more than 250 pages of recipes and stories she has compiled during decades of ex-

ploration. “I love telling the stories,” Oden said. “It fascinates me, and I am finding other people are fascinated as well by the history of food.” In fact, this passion led beyond her initial guest appearances on television when she hosted her own 2006 PBS miniseries, “Seasoned with Spirit: A Native Cook’s Journey,” which won an Emmy as it featured Oden exploring tribal traditions from the great forests of the north to the bayous of the Gulf Coast. As her reputation as one of the country’s most influential Native chefs grew beyond the borders, Oden accepted invitations to showcase her cuisine in places like Tokyo, Italy, France and South America. Regardless of where her culinary adventures have taken

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PA. Shawnee Lake and a new water system was built with funds Readers might be familiar with that reference, ei- and workers with the New Deal. The Municipal Auditorium ther by the study of history or family lore, but there’s became part of the city landscape that’s still here after nearly 90 much more to the story than just those three letters, especially years. Woodland Park behind it included picnic tables, tennis here in Shawnee. and croquet courts, and the swimming pool was constructed It began in the early 1930s with the New Deal as President by grateful workers that citizens enjoyed for many years. Franklin D. Roosevelt and others recognized the bad condiAnother long-standing structure accepted by a grateful tions in the country due to the failures of banks and businesses town was Athletic Stadium, which was later named Jim Thorpe added by the Dust Bowl and droughts. Shawnee escaped much Stadium. It's been used, enjoyed and upgraded over the years of the worst, but one bank did but took a blow from last spring’s close, the heat burned up the tornado. It’s now being repaired. crops and the railroads laid off Local voters often passed employees. bond issues to match the New Government help began loDeal money and helped projects cally with the CWA (Civil Works like the Pottawatomie County Administration). Men signed Courthouse. That building was up for laborer jobs like gravelunder the PWA (Public Works ing unpaved streets and painting Administration), a program set exteriors of the school buildings, up to support businesses. and there were the NYA (NaSome of the original grade tional Youth Administration) school buildings were replaced programs. The Municipal Auditorium was built about 90 years ago – from the multi-story strucIn Shawnee, the girls were in part thanks to programs available through the Works tures to the safer one-story – and housed and taught homemaking Progress Administration and other programs under others gained additions such as skills in a building in Boy Scout the New Deal put in place during President Franklin D. gyms and/or auditoriums. Again, Roosevelt’s administration. — Photo submitted Park, which later was used to funds for the projects came from feed and clothe the area’s poor. New Deal money and from bond Later, their building became the YMCA’s Teen Town. The boys’ issues. Without the government's help, the upgrades would not school was near the airport where they learned welding. That have been possible during such a trying time. site later became part of the Navy base. During the war, many It was all about getting the country and the people back on of the boys went to California using their skills in the shipyards. their feet, and Shawnee seemed to be at the front of the line. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) provided jobs A few had concerns about “government intervention,” but it for out-of-work men. This program was one of the most helpful was an unusual and difficult time for the country and many to Shawnee. Even smaller projects improved the town, such as citizens. Most agreed that it was more about putting people to the rock wall at Fairview Cemetery that’s still seen today. Farrall work than simply handing out money to those who were used Park gained play equipment. There were sidewalks and curbs to taking care of themselves. that local people have pointed out over the years bearing the Right on the heels of that desperate decade another tragedy WPA logo. engulfed the country: World War II. Shawnee residents and The very first building constructed in Oklahoma under the Americans in general learned to live with rationing, no tires government programs was the new Jefferson School. The origi- for their cars, no leather for new shoes, women in jobs they had nal had been damaged in the 1924 tornado when the top floor never anticipated and young people boarding buses and trains was ripped off. After repairs, children continued to attend, but to maybe never come back home. Just as it had been during it was not large enough to hold a “school full.” So in 1933, that the Great Depression, a resilient populace was grateful for the building was razed and Shawnee children got a new, up-to-date opportunity to work and serve and build – making their home school that’s still in use today. a better place. S www.shawneeoutlook.com

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n today's fast-paced, techchildren can walk or bike to nology-driven world, school safely, fostering a sense being a "free-range kid" of responsibility and self-remay sound like a relic of the liance. This movement isn't past. However, the concept of about reckless abandonment allowing children to walk to but rather about providing Goron school, ride their bikes safely the necessary tools and safety and embrace their indepenmeasures for kids to thrive. dence is making a resurgence. Safe One of the most compelling reaRoutes to School programs are gaining sons for encouraging children to walk momentum with municipal support, or bike to school is the positive impact encouraging a new generation of chil- on their health. In an era when childdren to experience the joy of being a hood obesity rates are on the rise, it's free-range kid. crucial to promote physical activity as As we reminisce about our own child- part of a daily routine. Walking or bikhoods, many of us can recall the thrill of ing to school provides an opportunity walking to school or pedaling our bikes for regular exercise, reducing the risk of down the neighborhood streets. These obesity and related health issues. were moments of independence, advenSafe Routes to School initiatives also ture and exploration, which are integral have the potential to reduce the reliance to a child's development. The desire for on motorized transportation, helping to independence is innate, and by allow- decrease pollution and traffic congesing kids to venture out on their own, we tion around schools. This not only imempower them to learn, grow and make proves air quality but also promotes a their own choices. healthier environment for everyone. Safe Routes to School initiatives aim Safety is understandably a primary to revive this spirit of independence. concern for parents when considering They encourage parents and commu- allowing their children to walk or bike nities to create environments where to school. Safe Routes to School pro-

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nying your child on their route and teaching them about road safety. Gradually allow them to walk or bike alone as they become more confident. • Teach Responsibility: Educate your child about the rules of the road and the importance of following them. Reinforce their understanding of safe practices. • Stay Informed: Stay informed about the Safe Routes to School program in your community. Participate in parent meetings and volunteer opportunities, and ensure you are aware of any safety updates or changes in the routes. • Establish Communication: Set up a communication plan so that you can stay in touch with your child while they are on their way to and from school. The revival of the free-range kid spirit through Safe Routes to School programs offers children the opportu-

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