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The Ever Changing, Always Enlightening Oklahoma History Center

  About the time you think you’ve seen everything there is to see at the Oklahoma History Center – that’s exactly when the museum changes its existing exhibits or brings in brand spanking new ones, both educational and magnificent. The … Continue reading

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Searching For Heroes

By Bud Elder   When one “googles” the search engine company Google, it might come as a surprise to find that the giant conglomerate is one of Oklahoma’s strongest corporate citizens. Now, through the cooperation of the Oklahoma Lt. Governor’s … Continue reading

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The Long Haul: Life With an Eosinophilic Disorder and a Race to Raise Awareness

  By Lindsay Whelchel     Riley is 3 years old, with giant blue eyes and a joyful smile. Like many little girls, she loves princesses. Riley’s parents speak in earnest about her boundless energy and her cooperative, loving demeanor. … Continue reading

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MASTERS OF MAYHEM

By Bud Elder   While Oklahoma is ranked at a position that is, at 28th, exactly half of all American states in respect to population, it seems as though the former territory produces from its citizenry a disproportionate number of … Continue reading

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EMPLOYEE GIVING

Lindsay Whelchel   It was during a meeting for the Oklahoma Regional Food Bank, when a commotion could be heard from the lobby. Dawn Burroughs, vice president of marketing and development, thought, ‘It must be a lively volunteer group coming … Continue reading

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Finding Courage Through Beads

By Gina Harkins   When Beth McDowell took her 16-month-old daughter to the doctor last August, she expected to receive a simple prescription to cure Mia’s discomfort from a bladder infection. Instead, doctors found a grapefruit-size tumor in her abdomen, … Continue reading

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THE THREE C’s: CUPCAKES, CAKE POPS & COOKIES

By Kerry Vincent   CUPCAKE CRAZY? There is much ado these days about cupcakes; far from the simple children’s staple echoing birthday parties of yesteryear, today’s cupcakes have become a unique art form all their own. Like small top-tier cakes, … Continue reading

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Top-Secret Mission … The Oklahoma Connection

By Lisa Hemphill Anderson   The first time I heard about this top-secret mission, I was in high school in the late 1960s. Let’s face it, back then, a top-secret mission conjured up ideas of 007, espionage and such … … Continue reading

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Oklahoma’s Very Own “COOKIE QUEEN”

By Judy Brotton Everyone loves a good cookie. But not many of us would go to all the trouble of extravagantly decorating a batch of cookies … just to have them eaten before our eyes! But Maryann Rollins, a self-professed … Continue reading

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Major Janie Howard – On The Front Lines of Healing

By Bud Elder   It has been argued that, while the “information age” is a necessary and vital component of the human existence, there is fallout of the old world order as modern-day audiences are barraged by news, messages, advertisements, … Continue reading

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