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AROUND EDMOND As the earthquakes rang in the New Year, so did the voices of residents in and around Edmond, and loud and clear. The first two weeks of 2016 have seen a town hall style meeting at UCO’s Nigh Center that was hosted by Arcadia Republican Rep. Lewis Moore on Janurary 14. The room was packed with angry homeowners concerned about their home values and the structural integrity of their homes, and rightfully so . It was the same scene at the Earthquake Forum held Friday January 15 at the State Capital, but the difference with the forum was that the angry homeowner’s came from across the state. Trevor Hultner will bring you coverage of the Forum in the next issue. What seemed to be missing from both gatherings were seismologists from the Oklahoma or National Geological Services. I understand people have been losing jobs in the oil and gas industry, and that the prices of oil have dipped under $30 a barrel and we are seeing gas at 10 year lows (as of the date of print I saw it at $1.33 a gallon at 164th & May), however, I also understand the ramifications of constant shaking of homes, the damage it can cause, and that homeowners concerns are righteous. If at all the 30 earthquakes in 24 hours or so were at all related to the process, something needs to give. There has to be a happy medium. We’ll all see how this shakes out in coming weeks and months. In this issue, I have gathered fun things to do in and around Edmond for Valentines Day. We can’t thank Madeline’s Flowers on Broadway north of 9th St. enough for allowing us to use their gorgeous and creative floral arrangements to illustrate this issue. Check them out for floral offerings for all budgets. And take a look at the floral photos throughout this issue, as Madeline’s offers some great alternatives to the old bouquet of roses. And, the succulents are pretty cool as you can plant them after receiving them to grow all year! Jennifer Hodgens, of Oklahome Real Estate Team wrote a hysterical blog about organizing after the holidays in this month’s My Home feature, it’ll make you reconsider hiring someone to help you let go of what you “really” don’t need. Life Happens talks about the 20 something fog and how to address it with yourself or your twenty something and Local Flavor features 3 Tequilas on Broadway. And, Trevor Hultner interviewed local Edmond artist Jerry Bergin, also owner of Earthtones Painting Co., and he gained some insight into Jerry’s amazing contemporary art, just recently discovered and outed on Facebook by interior designer Kelly Clemens of Modern Whimsy. Jerry uses some pretty unconventional mediums to create his modern take on animals, and the result is amazing! If you are interested in purchasing one of his pieces, or are interested in his interior painting services (his home is full of his work on both accounts and I can attest to the truly amazing quality of both!), contact him at 405-314-2270. Congratulations to Jill Castilla on being recognized as one of Journal Record’s Most Admired Oklahoma City area CEO’s. She is awesome, her team and everyone at Citizen’s Bank will inspire you and this is a reflection of Jill’s enthusiatic and positive nature. If you need proof of this, show up to Heard on Hurd the 3rd Saturday of March to see what I’m talking about! It’s contagious! One last note for this issue, don’t forget to pick up your free cypress mulch at Mitch and Hafer Parks after February 7, and remember it’s free for personal use! This is just a small reason Edmond rocks! And again, thanks so much to all of you for reading this issue, and be sure to keep up daily at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @EdmondActive! See you Around Edmond! ~ Sherri
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If you are new to Edmond, here is a great perk - the City of Edmond, after mulching the thousands of Christmas trees that were collected, will offer residents (no commercial use) the opportunity to come back to Mich and Hafer Parks and pick up free cypress mulch for spring gardening! Currently there is mulch from the ice storm tree collections available at both parks!
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Did you visit the Edmond Outdoor Ice Skating Rink this last holiday season?! Next year, it is rumored that the City will sponsor an entire festival atmosphere to this popular holiday tradition held at Mitch Park on Covell in North Edmond. There is so much room for this to happen, I just can’t personally wait! Thanks again to the operators of the rink for the generous banner they provided us with, we appreciate it very much!
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The Journal Record Names Jill Castilla as One of Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs Oklahoma City-based business publication The Journal Record has named President and CEO Jill Castilla to the 2016 Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs list. The annual list highlights natural leaders who are innovative and honest and includes CEOs from public and private businesses as well as from nonprofits. “I’m deeply grateful to work with an outstanding team who continually lifts me up to become a better leader,” said Castilla. “Our little bank has been through so much and to come out of it thriving with an amazing leadership team is a true blessing. Citizens has been around for 115 years this year and I’m here to ensure that the legacy will continue for another 115 years. “ The Journal Record’s Most Admired CEOs list comprises of 27 individuals who continually contribute their talents and skills to better the organizations they lead. The seventh annual awards ceremony honoring these individuals will be held on Feb. 18 at Embassy Suites in downtown Oklahoma City. Three CFOs will also be recognized during the ceremony. All award recipients will be profiled in the Oklahoma’s Most Admired CEOs magazine to be published on Feb. 19. “Jill’s leadership within Citizens Bank of Edmond and the Edmond community are without comparison. She has the vision, values, commitment and integrity to make true and impactful change in our community and the state,” said Cynthia Hendershot, chief operating officer. “I’m excited to continue working with Jill and to see all of the new ideas coming to fruition at Citizens this coming year.” “We’re gratified to receive so many nominations for most admired CEOs and CFOs; that’s a testament to the great leadership in Oklahoma,” said Joni Brooks, president and publisher of The Journal Record. “The honorees are outstanding individuals who deserve recognition, and, together with our partners, we’re proud to honor them.”
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Organizing After the Holidays By Jennifer Hodgens, of Oklahome Real Estate Team
Honestly, I’m not really sure why they call it “Spring Fever”. It’s always during this cold and blustery time of the year that I’m dying to reorganize, clean out and declutter. Maybe it’s cabin fever, maybe it’s the overload of new Christmas toys my daughter received that are now spilling out over the top of every toy chest, and maybe it’s just me wanting to simplify life a bit after the craziness of the holidays. During the winter, I spend more time indoors as the days are shorter and families crowd in for the holidays. I get
space look like a crazy rainbow exploded. I stored away most of the colored pillows, took down the Christmas décor and bought a new light grey rug. I picked one color (yellow) to use as a very minimum pop of color. Instant sigh of relief.
sick of EVERYTHING in my house. A good purging helps me feel less stressed, organized and ready to spring into a productive new year. These three tips have helped me get a jump on things this year.
yahoo.com) and after surveying my progress, she told me I could probably use about 3 days worth of her service. “Sheesh!” I thought. Boy was she right. Tiffany came to my house from 9-2:00 each day and together we dug through old cans of chili in my pantry I hadn’t seen in at least 3 years, drawers of Tupperware in my kitchen cabinets that I’m pretty sure my mom received as wedding gifts and coats in my coat closet that still had the tags attached after 5 years of never being worn. She was right. She kept me on task (I could get distracted for hours pouring over old junior high school photos. I rocked the big bangs) and drove away with her car
GO NEUTRAL AND BRIGHTEN UP Flip on HGTV for 5 minutes and you’ll instantly see that light and bright tones are SO in right now. White kitchens, lighter wood floors and chrome or nickel fixtures give any home a clean, fresh look. I took one look at my living room and all the kid toys, Christmas decorations and random knick-knacks that I “had” to have made the
HIRE A PROFESSIONAL This fall I spent a few days cleaning out the closets in my house. I proudly thought I had purged well. Then I was introduced to Tiffany McFadden with Organized with Style service (organizedwithstyle_2016@
literally stuffed out the windows full of Goodwill donations. Second sigh of relief. INVESTING IN THE RIGHT TOOLS One other miracle Tiffany introduced me to was the exciting world of organizational tools. She asked me to text her a few “problem areas” I had before she came to visit. I sent her an embarrassing picture of hundreds of pairs of boots piled up and ready to avalanche in my closet and a drawer full of cooking spices (covered with green food coloring and chocolate
sprinkles) in my kitchen. She arrived with bags full of items I’d never thought to buy like a lazy susan to store the spices and risers to organize canned goods. We even found an old antique wine display case in my attic perfect for boot storage (Lord knows those aren’t going to be purged!). Final sigh of sheer relief. While the meteorologists forecast more winter storms in the next few months (and we all know they’re NEVER wrong), winter is a great time to hunker down, stay indoors, pour a cup of hot chocolate and start purging. By spring, you’ll feel lighter, rejuvenated and free. Have fun!
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Local Flavor Since moving to Edmond in 2005 we’ve been on the lookout for a decent Mexican Restaurant. Sure, Ted’s and On The Border are okay, they just lack a certain amount of authenticity. Tex Mex seems to be more prevalent here, and I am more partial to Baja Mexican. So far our journey to find a Mexican restaurant that suits our taste has been disappointing. On a lark we decided to give 3 Tequila’s, on Broadway, a try. Our first impression? The menu was packed full of variety and deciding what to order was quite a task. I finally went with the Toro Fajitas; a mixture of chicken, steak and shrimp. To say the least, it was a home run. Best Fajitas I’ve had in OK. I can’t wait to go back and try some other items on their menu. If you are new to Edmond, give them a try, located on Broadway south of 3rd Street.
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Southwestern Edge Interview With Local Artist Jerry Bergin story and photos by Trevor Hultner
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EA: How did you get started with art? Jerry Bergin: If we go way back, it would be when I was in high school. I was still trying to figure out what I was going to do when I got into college, and I enjoyed my art classes; the commercial art classes specifically. One of my teachers came up to me, looked at the project I was doing, and said, “you should do this for a living.” A light bulb went off in my head, and I said, “That’s it! This is the only thing I’ve ever really loved or enjoyed – why wouldn’t I?” So I went to college and started off in commercial art, then changed to fine art education probably about a year, year and a half in. After I graduated I took a job at Six Flags in the art department for about four years. After that, I went off and started doing painting and faux finishing for about fifteen years. That was my artistic outlet, so to speak. When I wasn’t doing this, it’s because I was doing it on a full-time basis anyway. I didn’t get to do fine art, but I was doing something creative that looked pretty, was aesthetic and made houses look nice. That kind of helped me feel like I was being creative. I didn’t feel as much of a need to express myself on canvas. EA: Because every house that you were painting was a canvas. Jerry: Absolutely. That’s how I viewed it. Every house was a piece of artwork waiting to be finished. EA: What kind of interior work did you do? Jerry: For nine years, I did specialty finishes on walls and woodworks. I would make cabinets look old and distressed with up to seven or eight layers. Lots of glazing, lots of distressing. Probably the first
three years of my business was all woodwork. Then, after that, I started doing more walls. Walls involved lots of glazing, and some of the same types of things – three or four layers’ worth of plasters and glazes. So a brand new wall could have looked like it was imported from an old chapel in Italy or something. EA: Is that where you met the people you started a studio with? Jerry: Sort of. I did work for a designer for years, and we worked really well with each other, so he offered me a job. Suddenly I wasn’t painting on walls anymore, and that need to create started coming out of me. He actually had the idea of building an art studio in his garage. I said, “Let me do that.” I talked him into it, we built the thing, and every Friday we’d take off at noon and go to his studio, all five of us that worked there at the time. We’d spend the rest of the day, four or five hours, working on our artwork. It was amazing, and I owe it to him, because where I am now, creating these pieces where I feel like I’ve finally gotten something that I’ve been striving toward for a long time, I don’t know that I would have been able to get there if I hadn’t had a consistent four or five hours every week to work on it. It didn’t stop there; I brought all my stuff there and I liked so much of what I was doing that I brought it home. And that turned into, three or four nights a week I’d be working on these pieces. That’s how, by taking these steps toward getting finally where I feel like I’m creating something I can be proud of, and maybe people might like also. EA: It also helps to have a job that affords you that four hours every Friday. Jerry: When I was self-employed
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I probably wouldn’t have allowed myself that kind of time. I probably need to call him and tell [my old boss,] “Thank you” again. I think he knows, because he’s been watching this whole thing progress and he was an encourager from the beginning. EA: What is the difference between the job that you have and the art that you’re able to create? Jerry: One of my favorite parts about what I’m doing right now is, there is very little separation between what I’m doing here and what I used to do at work. I’m going to use all the same materials, I’m gonna use all the plasters, all the paints, all the glazes; even some of the techniques where I use a spray rig to spray in some of these colors. So much of what I do, down to the technical and even the chemistry aspects involved in how these products work, goes into how I do these pieces. I knew I needed to go in that direction. I knew somehow that if I could combine what I already knew from my art training, and the use of these really creative and unique materials, if I could figure out a way to put it all together on canvas I’d have something. That’s why there were so many stepping stones to getting here. Every time I would create something I was like, “I’m getting there, but something’s missing.” I just kept on pressing in and pressing in, and I can’t count the number of times I got discouraged, thinking it wasn’t going to happen, I’m not going to get this right. All the while, my boss and the people I worked with saw what I was making, and they were like, “Why are you so hard on yourself? Why do you keep pushing yourself when what we see is great?” EA: Because what you’re seeing is not. Jerry: It wasn’t! And as an artist you even question, is it ever going to be great, or even if it got to a point where it was great, would I even recognize it if I got there. And I haven’t gotten there. But I do know that I’ve never been as proud of what I’ve
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done as I am. EA: Now, talk about that, because your art is starting to get out there. Talk about the process of it getting out there, talk about what you have been painting and the renown that it’s getting. Jerry: That’s overwhelming. I just wasn’t expecting it at all. Kelly Clements was the one who put my stuff on her Instagram page without my knowing it. She knows me well enough to know she can do that. I don’t think she felt like she was being sneaky about it; she even admitted, when she made that first post, that “I’m doing this and he doesn’t know it.” But she put it out there, and I say this in the humblest of ways, because it’s not like I feel like somehow I was deserving of it, but it was very overwhelming to see how many people expressed, not just an interest that they happened to like it, but people were asking how big is it, what size is it, how much does it cost – EA: Can this fit in my living room. Jerry: Yeah! To me, anyone can jump in and say “that’s pretty,” you know, and they can mean it or not, you don’t even know. But if people are asking to see if it can fit in their own space, that’s when I knew, or at least felt like, people liked this stuff; I might actually be okay at this. Kelly Clements encouraged me to create an instagram page so that I could keep the interest going. EA: What’s your social media? Jerry: You can find me a few different ways. On Facebook, it’s either Jerry Bergin, my stuff is there, but also you can find it on Earthtones Painting, which is my painting company. If you go to Instagram,
it’s BerginFineArt. EA: Talk about the paintings themselves, a little bit. Jerry: I think my goal with every piece is to try and combine all of my favorite elements in a way that comes together nicely on one canvas. I think juxtaposition is my favorite element in all of my art. For instance in these pieces I’m doing now, I like that I’m combining Southwest imagery with an urban feel. What I liked about it was I felt like, you could live in Oklahoma, and not necessarily be drawn to Southwest imagery, but still like these paintings - and maybe even figure out how to appreciate that kind of imagery through a different vibe, which is what I think these things have. It wasn’t like I tried to spend too much time thinking about what would young people want to buy. Even now, you know, with people starting to take notice, part of me’s like, I don’t really care if this piece sells, it’s in me, I gotta do it. And so I do it regardless of whether or not people are going to like it. It just turns out that people did. But to go back to your original question, in describing the art, that’s one thing. The imagery, in combination with the feel of it, is very different. They’re on opposite ends of the spectrum but you can put them together and it works. I also like that there’s an element of chaos and an element of control. In my pieces I have these entire parts of the process that are sort of out of my control when I do the splashing or the splattering. I kinda have to let it do what it’s going to do. You don’t know what it’s going to do. So it might actually fail miserably, which is kind of unfortunate if you’ve really liked what it was up to that point. I like that, I like that there’s an element of, “I’m out of control of this, and it’s either going to be great or it’s not.” There’s juxtaposition there, too. The chaotic, or organic quality to it, and then the man-made quality, which is obviously the parts that’re really broken up colors, and really straight lines, it’s clear that this
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part is the man-made element, whereas the splashing and maybe even the stuff in the background, the idea is to make it look like it might be found on some old New York wall behind an alley or something. EA: I notice the Banksy art book on your table there. Jerry: He’s one of my favorites. And I almost hesitate to say this because I don’t want to be perceived as one of those people who are on the street art bandwagon, but I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t a big part – I mean, the influence is there. That’s what’s going on here. It’s just that mine is a very intricate stencil. Street art was designed so they could get in and get out really fast. Mine, I get to take my time, so I get to be very meticulous. What I love about it is that the influence is there, it’s always been a part of art that I’ve loved and been influenced by, but you don’t look at it and say, “He got this because he likes stenciling or Banksy or whoever.” I appreciate for myself that it’s in there, but it’s not necessarily – a lot of graffiti art is out there right now, and I just wouldn’t want to be in that category. And then finally, the last couple things to answer your question, is more of the juxtaposition. I love putting in differences in sheen, differences in light and dark, positive and negative space is really important to me, so I try to put all of that into each piece and try to make every one of those things interesting and go together well. EA: Now do you think you would have
done that had you started doing canvas art right out of college? Jerry: Oh, no. Definitely not. Right out of college, I didn’t think you could even do art if it wasn’t acrylic, paint, watercolors, pastels, charcoal. In art school all they teach you, really, are the basics. And you think, going in, that the things you can buy at Hobby Lobby, that’s what you can make art out of. It wasn’t until I spent four or five years in the faux-finishing industry that I was like, “I could use these materials and the techniques and everything to create.” And when I finally did that, I was like, “This is art. This resonates with me.” Coming out of college, I think I would probably be really – not necessarily embarrassed, it would look nothing like what I’m doing now. I question if I would ever have gotten here. I almost needed to take several years away from that and get into the real world, doing what I was doing. EA: What are your other influences? Jerry: Banksy, for sure. There’s an artist who’s got a lot of street art influenced art in him as well, but specifically, he does something called splash art or splatter art. I found him because I was trying to figure out if there were other ways to create cool splashes and splatters. There’s another one called 3A Crew. I have a friend of mine, his name is Gary Hickerson, he’s actually a local artist, and he is a huge influence, not just artistically but philosophically. How he got where he got, and the things
I heard him say and talk about, helped shape my thoughts and kind of directed me where I was going artistically. And then Matt Joseph is another local artist, and he actually does kind of a southwest thing with a contemporary vibe as well. He’s huge also. Those are big ones. EA: Are you working toward a gallery show? Jerry: I wish I could say I had some kind of concrete plan, but my broad goal is to figure out how to get more and more visible. I don’t know what that looks like yet. I don’t know if I need to go to designer markets, or if I’m going to go to galleries or what, but what I’m doing right now in order to prepare for it is just produce as much as I can. It’s difficult when you have shows like the Designer showcase home, because I sold two of them and immediately that’s half my inventory right there. My goal is to get as large a body of work as possible, so that I’ll actually have something to offer the public. And I almost feel like I have to have at least 10 or 15 pieces all in one room before people can look around and say, “I understand what you do.” You can look at one or two pieces and maybe not really get the full idea, but if you can see a bunch of them, people would say, “I get it.” And maybe that would add to the appreciation. I think people like it if they can understand what the artist does. EA: Thanks for speaking with us. Jerry: Thank you.
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Romantic Edmond Your Guide To Valentines Day In Edmond
Reserve a cottage at Aaron’s Gate Country Cottages at Aaronsgate.com or Arcadian Inn Bed and Breakfast at ArcadianInn.com
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Edmond Jewelers Valentines Day is one of the most popular
Edmond Florists Nothing says “I Love You” like
days for Weddings and Engagements/ If
a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers on
you are planning on popping the question,
Valentines Day. Come home from work
you’re going to need the hardware to go
without them and you’re in the dog
along with it. Edmond’s Jewelers can
house. In an effort to save you from that
help with that.
shame we’ve compiled a list of Edmond Florist. We’re here to help.
Fields Jewelry 12 S. Broadway
A Bloom Above the Rest 416 South Broadway
Ring’s Etc Fine Jewelry 225 South Broadway
Madeline’s Flower Shop 1030 South Broadway
Silver Leaf Gems 19 N Broadway
Kickingbird Flowers & Gifts 1251 East Danforth Road
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Creative Dating Take her racing If you and your girl are on the competitive side you can let it out on the race track. Pole Position on May Avenue is the perfect place for such a date. The electric karts at Pole Position are fast and the experience is thrilling to say the least. But here’s a helpful tip, let here win. That way it will be easier to talk her in to going back for a rematch. Be fore warned, though, racing at Pole Position is very addicting...yes, it’s that much fun.
Paint her a picture Paint Your Art Out at 10 S. Broadway 405-513-5333 to register or www. PaintYourArtOut.net One fantastic way to spend some fun, quality time with your
Museum Of Art
Valentine is to try an
Go for a little class and culture and
artist led session at
take your Valentine to the Museum
Paint Your Art Out.
Of Art in Downtown. Go to www.
Bring in a bottle of
okcmoa.com for the latest exhibits.
wine or refreshment of choice and settle in to find your inner artists. One of our favorite spots!
Go To The Gardens The Myriad Gardens are a great way to spend some time with your special someone. Now that the park has been totally redone, there is plenty
Stroll The Paseo From the galleries to restaurants and eclectic boutiques, you can’t go wrong with taking a date to the Paseo District.
to see and do at Myriad Gardens.
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Dining Out We asked our Facebook Fans to tell us what their favorite local restaraunts were to take their Valentine to, and here’s how they responded in order of recommendations: In Edmond:
In OKC:
Signature Grill
Ranch Steakhouse
Danforth at Bryant & Danforth
3000 West Britton Road
Boulevard Steakhouse
Mahogany Prime Steakhouse
505 S. Boulevard
3241 W. Memorial Rd
Cafe 501
Opus Prime Steakhouse
501 S. Boulevard
800 W Memorial Rd
Othello’s
Paseo Grill
1 S. Broadway
2909 Paseo Dr
Bayou Grill
Red Prime Steakhouse
1315 E Danforth
504 N. Broadway
Charleston’s
Micky Mantle’s
3409 S Broadway
7 S Mickey Mantle Dr Cheever’s Cafe 2409 N Hudson
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Edmond Events December 2015 1-31 Edmond Holiday Light Displays Downtown Edmond, Spring Creek Plaza, Spring Creek Village, First Baptist Church, UCO & OC Campuses. 1-31 Edmond Outdoor Ice Skating Rink Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell 2 UCO Symphony Orchestra Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 3-6 Musical Theatre Christmas Show - Naughty & Nice & a Little Bit Nuts UCO Jazz Lab 3 Cocoa and Carols Hardeman Auditorium / OC Campus 3 UCO Wind Symphony School of Music Concerts Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 4 UCO WinterGlow Old North, Nigh University Center - UCO Campus 4-6 Boys Ranch Town Drive-Thru Christmas Pageant Boys Ranch Town 5100 SE 33rd St, Edmond 4-5
Outlaw Kart Winter Nationals Lazy E Arena 5-19 Christmas in Downtown Edmond Downtown Edmond 5 Edmond Electric Parade of Lights 6:45pm Downtown Edmond 5 Mayor’s Tree Lighting and Essay Contest Awards 6:00pm Shannon Miller Park 5 Holiday Lights Run 2:00pm Mitch Park 5 Breakfast With Santa MAC (Mitch Park) 5 Holiday Hustle 5K Oklahoma Christian University 5 UCO Choirs Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 7 Oklahoma City Jazz Orchestra UCO Jazz Lab 10-12 Musical Theatre Christmas Show Naughty & Nice & a Little Bit Nuts UCO Jazz Lab 12-13 Cowboy Christmas Cheer and Dance Classic Lazy E Arena 12 Santa’s Art Workshop
Fine Arts Institute - 27 E. Edwards 19 Santa & The Edmond Police Department 11am- 4pm 100 East First St. 19 Downtown Edmond Horse Drawn Carriage Rides Downtown Edmond
January 2016 1-10 Edmond Outdoor Ice Skating Rink Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell
13 Frigid 5 Miler Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell 14 Band of Royal Marines and the Scots Guards Armstrong Auditorium 19-20 A Doll’s House Judd Theater / OC Campus 26-27 A Doll’s House Judd Theater / OC Campus
March 2016
8-10 Annual Eagle Watch Arcadia Lake Park Office
3 Beethoven’s Fifth - Polish Baltic Armstrong Auditorium
14 Sara Sant’Ambrogio - Chopin on the Cello Armstrong Auditorium
3-6 Serse Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO
22 Broadway Tonight: Linda Eder Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 25 Cinderella- Moscow Festival Ballet Armstrong Auditorium 26 The Sleeping Beauty Moscow Festival Ballet Armstrong Auditorium
February 2016
8 UCO Wind Symphony Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 9 UCO Symphonic Band Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO Mar 31 - Apr 2 UCO Kaleidoscope Dancers in Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO
April 2016
4 Mariachi Los Camperos Armstrong Auditorium
Mar 31 - Apr 2 UCO Kaleidoscope Dancers in Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO
11-14 The Odyssey Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO
7 Song of Songs by Ryan Malone Armstrong Auditorium
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21-24 My One and Only Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 26 UCO Symphony Orchestra Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 27 UCO Symphonic Band Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO 28 UCO Wind Symphony Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO Apr 29 - May 1 Downtown Edmond Arts Festival Downtown Edmond 30 UCO Choral Masterworks Concert Mitchell Hall Theatre, UCO
May 2016 Apr 29 - May 1 Downtown Edmond Arts Festival Downtown Edmond
June 2016 4 Route 66 Corvette Club Roundup Hafer Park 9-12 17th Annual UCO Endeavor Games UCO
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Shop.Eat.Play.Edmond. If you are looking for a cozy place to stay for your special day, whether it be while visiting family, a winter Wedding or another special occassion, visit ArcadianInn.com and reserve your room, as they book quickly at this time of year. The Arcadian Inn Bed and Breakfast is located at 1st and University, across from UCO. To book a reservation, visit www.ArcadianInn.com or call 405-348-6347. Follow for specials at @ArcadianAarons at Facebook, Twitter Instagram & Pinterest!
We offer affordable & stylish accents, re-styled furniture, fun jewelry, unique holiday and home decor & gifts and we have an Etsy like atmosphere! Stop in now to see all of the latest decor & gifts and accessories for you and your home. Find Serendipity Market at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest! Our Location: 917 E Danforth Rd, Edmond (Across from Ted’s Cafe Escondido) and you can call us at 405-340-8869
Emory Anne Interiors is one of the trendiest stores in Edmond, with a fantastic selection of new high end to affordable pieces for your entire home, very unique home accessories, full line of Company C, Lenny & Eva and Waxing Poetic Jewelry, Thibaut fine fabrics, wallpaper and custom furniture. Emory Anne’s also offers fabric by the yard and design services in store. Be sure to stop by to visit this store first when redecorating on any
budget. You can find Emory Anne Interiors at 15020 Bristol Blvd, on 33rd between Kelly and Santa Fe Open M-F 10 am to 6 pm and Sat. 10-5 pm. Be sure to follow at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest for sales & inspiration and online at www.Emoryanneinteriors.com! If you have any questions, you can call the store at 405753-4466.
Millies is the place to go for weekly prepared meals, catering for your wedding or special event and for your Graduate! Millie’s also has new healthy items available for pick up in their Meals to Go freezer! Give Millie’s a call at 330-9156 or visit her website for more information! Located at 1333 W. Danforth Rd in Edmond! For more information, visit her website at www.MilliesTable.com
2 Doors Down Furniture Consignment is now accepting select gently used brand name quality furniture and accessories. If you’re looking to make a change in your home, this store is the place to check first as their stock is unique, trendy, and affordable, but you have to check in often as their inventory changes daily. Be sure to stop in to 2 Doors Down, located at 15020 Bristol Park Blvd Ste 400, off 33rd
Street, between Kelly & Santa Fe, and take a look around, great owners and great pieces! You can also find them at Facebook & Instagram at 2DoorsDownEdmond or by calling them at 405-254-5175 if you see something you’d like to place on hold! If you’d like to consign your gently used pieces, send your email to twodoorsdown.edmond@yahoo.com Store hours are M-F 10-6 and Sat. 10-5
It’s almost Mother’s Day and Graduation , and now is a great time to save on something new with Edmond Wine Shop’s Employee Picks! Cases are discounted, too! Be sure to follow them at Twitter & Facebook @EdmondWineShop! Located on 15th & Boulevard and open Mon– Sat. from 10 am until 9 pm! You can also call in any order at 405-341-3122 for a later pick up.
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Shop.Eat.Play.Edmond. Enjoy the country at any one of the 5 cozy cottages at Aaron’s Gate Country Cottages, in Guthrie, all decorated for the Christmas Holidays! They are just a few minutes north of Edmond. Located on a beautiful wooded 10 acre property, you can relax with the outdoor jacuzzi’s or just relax indoors in front of the fireplace and wake up to a beautiful candlelit breakfast. Visit online at www.Aaronsgate.com to discover the different packages and to reserve your room, or call 405-282-0613.
Roost Interior Design is Designer owned, offering interior design services metro wide. Previously Roost Oklahoma, Andrea and Lauren are focusing their energy and talents on the interior design aspect of Roost for 2016! If you are interested in their services, you can find them online at Facebook and Instagram at @RoostOklahoma.
Paper Arts is a scrapbook and art boutique that provides top of the line supplies, classes and one-on-one instruction, as well as, ready to buy gifts. We take pride in offering a comfortable space for anybody to come create their heart’s desires. You can visit the store at 632 W. Edmond Road 405-330-2055 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paper-Arts/
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Life Happens The Odyssey Years By: Quinton Ellis, Masters of Science
I am pleased to report to all of you that our social scientists have been hard at work developing a name for the cloud that I and many others some ten years ago sprinted headlong into, clumsily navigated through, and emerged exhaustedly from only just recently. Their hard work has yielded the term “the Odyssey Years” which it is meant to redefine and explain what I had until now simply referred to as my twenties. Does that scare you, parents of Edmond? It probably should. Adulthood is being reconceptualized. There was once a time (and it wasn’t that long ago, but change is occurring so rapidly these days) when parents used all the high praise and applause of high school graduation as cover for the simultaneous eviction of their little birdie from the nest. What seems to have changed has been the automatic expectation that flight would be achieved in relatively short order. “The Odyssey Years,” when you peel back all of this particular onion’s layers, amounts to the scholarly assertion that our little winged ones are hitting every single branch on the way down before they figure out that whole flapping maneuver. Many of them seem to prefer simply employing a bungee cord which lands them right back in the nest. It’s enough to make you cry, as onions often do. You may have noticed that there has been a gradual disintegration of the stigma and embarrassment attached to young adults returning to their nest of origin. I confess that I returned to my own whilst finishing up my Master’s program. It was embarrassing, but I didn’t know at the time that I could just chalk it up to part of my “odyssey.” Please don’t misunderstand me. It’s not as though our twenty-somethings are not eventually achieving great things- the problem is just the word: eventually. And who, dear parents of Edmond, do you suppose that word becomes a problem for? It’s not as though they named this life stage The Furious White Knuckled Pursuit of Personal Identity and Professional/ Academic Distinction in an Unforgiving World Years. The Odyssey Years sounds far more whimsical in nature, don’t you think? Your kids will sure think so. To you it should sound like one of those old-timey cash registers fused with whatever sound your feverish hand-wringing makes. The book in which this term was coined is called “After the Baby Boomers.” The authors postulate that our children’s twenties have begun and will continue to mimic the lifestyle trends that were once predominately European in nature. Everything we currently associate with adulthood, marriage, family, career and independence are put on hold. They are all highly desirable, perhaps more so now than ever, just not yet. The book highlights many socioeconomic
trends that are responsible for this shift, but I can think of a couple of reasons that might be of use to you. For one, our kids are taking their sweet time because they can. Wouldn’t you if you were in their Crocs? For all of our talk about the modern gauntlet of social pressures our children face we often forget that, in many cases, all we require from them are decent report cards and clean rooms. How’s all that going, anyway? High school is about as easy as life is going to get for our kids, but they so often appear as though they are engaged in some type of trench warfare. It’s that or they are having entirely too much fun. Either way, your child’s future difficulty will largely be a function of you having provided them so much comfort. And why shouldn’t this be the case? Isn’t the reason you work so hard that you want to be able to afford comfort for your children? It takes an awful lot to stop being a parent when your child needs the help. And of course you will help them, especially when so many other moms and dads you know are in the same boat with one or more of their own children. But the net result is that our birdies are jumping out of higher and higher trees with weaker and weaker wings to save them. The other reason is that our teenagers spend far more time thinking about where they want to go this weekend than they spend thinking about where they want to go in life. I talk with many bright kids who in reply to my asking them that last question simply say, college. Really? Why? For what purpose? Don’t you hate school now? They have precisely the same answers to those questions as I did at their age- I don’t know. That’s a perfectly acceptable answer except for the puzzled look I encounter all too often during its delivery which says: Huh, I’ve never really thought of that before. As a parent the best thing you can do is to ask these types of questions of your children. Don’t expect answers. Most of your kids really don’t know. They are unlikely to begin their odyssey with Mapquested directions to their adult selves, but they can at least dive from the nest with a decent compass and a general heading if you can get them thinking just a little ahead. The earlier your child’s preparation begins, the shorter the journey to their destinationtheir own darn house. Edmond Family Counseling is deeply committed to educating and serving our parents, teens, and families. If we can be of help to yours, please contact us at 405-341-3554 or visit our website: http:// www.edmondfamily.org. Donations are always appreciated and a vital part of the continuation of our mission in the community.
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Stop by to see what’s new for 2016 at Emory Anne Interiors!
Company C offers colorful pillows, throws & accessories to brighten up your spaces! Emory Anne Interiors has a full Bridal Registry!
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15020 Bristol Park Place, Edmond (on 33rd, between Santa Fe & Kelly)
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