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AROUND EDMOND Well, how about the winter that wasn’t? Everyone talked about the harsh winter we would have due to El Nino moisture. I’m not complaining though, because less ice is never a bad thing. With the downturn in the economy, the lack of winter weather has been a godsend for the retailers in town and around the metro. I’ve noticed several businesses disappear around town and that makes me pretty sad. However, there is an influx of new restaurants and bars that are popping up in Edmond and that’s a great thing! Be sure to stop by Eggington’s, The Fixx, The Hash, The Zu, soon to be named new restaurant at the old Ice House & Creamery on 2nd St. next to the old Roost Oklahoma building. This may be the most exciting as they will be utilizing produce from the Edmond Farmer’s Market, and the owner’s are talking about setting up patio dining. Another bright spot in our community is the upcoming Heard on Hurd season opener! Everyone at Citizen’s Bank of Edmond is working so hard to bring the best of our community to light, and I for one can’t wait! Remember that everything to do with this monthly festival held every 3rd Saturday from March to October, has an Edmond connection, which I believe sets it apart from any like food truck festival and is the reason Citizen’s won this year’s Impact award for community events! If you’re new to the area, show up to Downtown Edmond Saturday 3/19/16 from 6 pm to 10 pm! While all of this is going on and we see adjustments being made at local businesses, the wine shop’s in town and around the state are being put on the spot to defend their industry operations statewide. The retailer’s are trying to keep their businesses sound, while working with two senator’s to update the availability of chilled wine in Walmart’s and other grocery and convenience stores. You can read Vance Gregory’s statement in this month’s City Buzz, along with the Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma’s rebuttal in the form of State Question 785. This State Question, which can be voted on in November, appears very
fair to all parties, allows for more selection of wines for consumers while cutting down on the availability to minors, instead of the two senator’s version which appears to allow for more Walmart’s full strength liquor licenses with less selection of wines and craft beers being available to consumers due to reduction of wholesalers, if SJR 68 passes as currently worded. Do you really want Anheuser Busch to be one of two wholesalers in our state and how would that affect our booming craft beer industry within the state? This would be horrible and would affect what you would be able to find in wine shops but also restaurants. And speaking of the economic downturn, how about those earthquakes??? After the round in January, they appeared to just stop. On February 22 they ramped right back up in the exact same place. With the price of oil at such a low as it is, and production not being necessary with over production having happened in 2015, something needs to give. But most of all, because the industry really does employ so many in our community, a happy medium or new solution to earthquake causing well injection methods needs to be considered or created, if a new option isn’t available. Trevor Hultner has taken the last two months to speak to residents, research the issue and to speak to those in positions of power or stature who are able to shed light on why and what is happening. We will be running a number of features on this subject this year. Ben Floyd, real estate broker, brokerage co owner and experienced home inspector, was kind enough to answer some questions in this month’s My Home section, about what this situation is doing to our homes and when you should consider calling an inspector or your insurance company and what the difference between cosmetic and structural damage is. Be sure to support our local shops, entertainment sources and restaurants while you are out enjoying what appears to be an awesome start to spring! Stay connected by following us at Instagram, Facebook and at Twitter! ~ Sherri
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CITY BUZZ
Broadway intersection in downtown Edmond for more than a century and Heard on Hurd is
our way of saying thanks to the community. As a local community bank, we are deeply invested in the success of the community and our customers and hope to continue serving this special place for another century and beyond!” On February 5th, ULI Oklahoma hosted the 2nd annual Impact Awards at the Oklahoma City School of Law. The Impact Awards highlight developments and initiatives that have made a positive impact on the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Finalists for each of the six categories were selected from an open nomination by ULI members. Projects completed in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area within the last two years were eligible for nomination. “Citizens Bank of Edmond’s Heard on Hurd has truly grown organically to something that we are proud to showcase as a community building
event
in
Edmond,”
Edmond
Economic Development Authority Executive Director Janet Yowell said. “We look forward to this season’s local food, music and pop-ups and all the thousands of attendees who will come to downtown Edmond to enjoy the event.” For more details, visit the ULI Oklahoma Impact Awards event page. About Citizens Bank of Edmond Citizens Bank of Edmond continues to Citizens Bank of Edmond’s Heard on Hurd Wins ULI Oklahoma’s 2016 “Best Community Building Effort” Impact Award
The Patriarch, a local historical house turned
operate on the same downtown Edmond
bar with local craft beer and spirits.
intersection where it was founded in April
“We’re pleasantly surprised to receive this
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independent
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Edmond, Okla. (Feb. 8, 2015) – Citizens
incredible honor and couldn’t have done it
asset institution is an innovative leader in
Bank of Edmond’s Heard on Hurd won Urban
without the amazing volunteerism of our
community banking and provides commercial
Land Institute Oklahoma’s Impact Award in
employees, the support of the City of Edmond
and consumer financial services, mortgage
the 2016 Best Community Building Effort
and all of the community coming together
origination, cash management and mobile
category. Heard on Hurd was one of three
to make Heard on Hurd a rocking success,”
banking solutions as well as accessibility
Edmond projects nominated which included
President and CEO Jill Castilla said. “Citizens
through non-traditional avenues. For more
the City of Edmond Public Safety Center and
Bank of Edmond has been on the same 1st and
information, visit www.citizensedmond.com.
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CITY BUZZ
LETTER FROM VANCE GREGORY, OWNER SOLUTION AND NEW STATE QUESTION #785 FROM THE RETAIL LIQUOR ASSOCIATION OF EDMOND WINE SHOP SJR 68 is a bill influenced and promoted by Walmart and lobbyists from the petroleum marketers, convenience stores and grocers. They are using a strategy to reform OK beer lawsalmost universally disliked- in order to capture the real prize they seek: access to the retail wine market in Oklahoma. They are shrewdly betting that enough consumers will be motivated to aid our fledgling craft beer industry- who certainly do deserve to be released from unreasonable regulationsthat they will vote for a state question that quite simply will put many locally-owned retail liquor owners out of business. If unlimited wine licenses are granted to every current holder of a 3.2 beer license, it will allow roughly 3000 more outlets for wine to the 700 current retail package stores. You are all smart enough to do the math. There will NOT be enough jobs and money to go around, contrary to what I recently read Sen. Jolley state. Corporations like Walmart are lobbying our legislators to make this change. Money spent to create slick web-sites that create a façade of grassroots support is a small investment compared to gaining a dominant share of Oklahoma’s retail wine sales. A recent column (“Activists, retailers hope to brew support for alcohol sales changes”, http://m.newsok.com/ article/5477183) illuminated their attempt to influence this legislation. Oklahoma craft brewers deserve to have restraints lifted that currently impede their operations. Strong beer reform has true -not concocted- grassroots support and could be accomplished without putting anyone out of business. The attempt to “bundle” beer reform with unlimited wine licenses is a strategy corporate lobbyists want to pursue because it yields them the greatest chance of success. This is the true core issue, not the wholesale status of AB-Inbev. Virtually everyone wants retail and craft beer reform, but to support any proposition that ends the livelihoods of local business owners or threatens layoffs of employees to the lucky few who survive is impossible for me. I strongly oppose SJR 68 as written. My colleagues in the Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma are working on an alternative solution. Stay tuned.
Today, the Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma (RLAO) filed an Initiative Petition with the Secretary of State. If it survives challenges from the grocery stores, convenience stores, Walmart and any other group who does not feel it adds to their profit enough, we will gather the necessary signatures to put it on the ballot in November for a vote of the people. It will be State Question #785. Our petition is pro-consumer, pro-public safety and pro-small business. Highlights include: * Cold, strong beer sold in every outlet that currently sells any strength of beer, including grocery and convenience stores. * Grocery store wine licenses to allow both locally-owned and chain grocery stores to sell wine. * Oklahoma breweries could distribute their products directly to Oklahoma retail package stores. * Oklahoma breweries could serve and sell their product at their own facilities, regardless of ABV. * Liquor stores could hold tastings inside their store. * Retail package stores could sell any and all items sold in a grocery store with some restriction. * Licensing fees from those businesses who choose to sell alcohol would go directly into state agencies whose primary purpose it is to reduce the number of alcohol-related injuries and deaths in Oklahoma. * There must be at least 2500 feet between two outlets selling spirits or wine; existing stores grandfathered in. It also allows the people of Oklahoma, through their legislators, to set the days and hours of operation for retail package stores but only specifically prohibits the sale of spirits on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. We wrote this State Question taking into account consumer demand for convenience along with consumer concern for safety. We feel it is a good balance and that Oklahomans will be more likely than not to vote in favor of it at the ballot box this November. We wanted to show Oklahomans that we are interested in evolving our liquor laws sensibly; without sacrificing public safety or the vibrant locally-owned system that many people enjoy and support. We wanted to show Oklahomans that there is better alternative to what Walmart, Senator Clark Jolley and other entities and representatives are proposing. We wanted to show Oklahomans that this could be done right the first time. A comprehensive explanation of our petition (what it does and why) will be posted at ConvenienceCosts.com and RLAO.org in the next few days. https://www.sos.ok.gov/documents/questions/785.pdf
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My Home
After an earthquake, should you call an inspector?
With the recent swarm of earthquakes in January and February, a lot of residents are wondering when or even if they should call an inspector or their insurance company. We sat down with Benjamin Floyd, a certified inspector, for his thoughts. What is the difference between structural earthquake damage and cosmetic damage? Cosmetic will typically be small sheetrock cracks or small cracks in masonry. It can be caused by shrinkage or expansion of building materials. Those materials can be affected by a range of
forces from moist or dry air, hot or cold temperatures, or even rain or drought. Even wind load, earthquakes etc. In Edmond, it doesn’t appear that we’ve seen major structural issues in homes that were constructed properly, yet. With a larger earthquake we could see that. What training do local inspectors have with identifying earthquake damage issues in Oklahoma? Local inspectors should be familiar with the soils around the area that they are inspecting. Unless you have the properly documented the cracks in your home it’s tough to determine what caused them.
What is common damage that can just be repaired by a homeowner? Cracks in sheet rock or in masonry can all be a DIY project but if you’re not use to doing that kind of work you can make a small problem look much worse than if you leave it alone. What is the most common damage that you have seen due to the recent swarm of earthquakes? The most common damage I’ve seen are hair line cracks in masonry. Mostly in the eyebrow arches over doorways. The worst I’ve seen were in dry stacked stone arches and one chimney that were improperly built. Would you recommend that homeowners consider earthquake proofing their property, i.e. earthquake straps to hold entertainment centers and TV’s, Velcro for items on shelves, etc.? If you are concerned that something in your home is unsafe, I recommend taking action to make it safe. For me, I’m not taking those steps. Could something major happen...yes? However, i think that most of the recent reactions are simply over reaction. When do you recommend that homeowners call their insurance companies regarding damage to their homes? If we have a quake, you can get it inspected or call your insurance company directly to have an adjuster come out. If residents would like to contact you, where should they call for inspection information? Benjamin Floyd is a co owner of 525 Realty Group and owns Benjamin Floyd Homes. You can reach him at the office at 525 N Jackson Edmond, OK 73034, or give him a call at 405-641-0022.
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Local Flavor When we moved to Edmond, there were only a couple of choices for breakfast in Edmond. You could have visitied Jimmy’s Egg, Around the Corner, Denny’s or Ihop. We are all lucky to be now be able to support three locally owned breakfast spots that boast American Diner style breakfast selections, and they are all well loved by all who dine there. Around the Corner is located on Broadway in Downtown Edmond and is open until 2 pm, The Hash is chef owned, is located on 2nd Street next to Half Priced Books and open until 2 pm, and the newest diner is Eggington’s which is located in west Edmond on Danforth & Kelly in the Ace Hardware shopping center and also open until 2 pm.
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The Big Shake-Up
Edmond, State Residents Speak Out About Earthquakes by Trevor Hultner This is part one in an ongoing series on the relationship between Oklahoma residents, state regulatory and utility agencies and the energy industry. When Emily Pope moved to Edmond, Okla. from Maryland in September 2015, she received an earful from her friends and relatives about the obvious threat in “Tornado Alley” – namely, the likelihood of severe weather putting her and her new family in danger. Pope and her husband were so concerned about this threat from above that they had a storm cellar installed in their garage before they moved in. “We had a tornado shelter installed […] because it was so important to us that our family is safe and that we’re protected against anything that might happen, and so we felt like we took the precautions that we needed to,” Pope said. A reasonable course of action; after all, Pope and her husband weren’t just protecting themselves – when they moved to Edmond, Pope was eight months pregnant with her son.
It quickly became evident that tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms were the least of Pope’s worries. “We’re more concerned about the earthquakes right now,” she said. Pope isn’t alone. At a recent open hearing at the State Capitol, residents-turned-activists from all over Oklahoma stood in front of a gallery of legislators, industry representatives and their fellow citizenry and demanded, in no uncertain terms, a cessation to the shaking that has been an underpinning of Oklahoma life for nearly six years. Just since September, Central Oklahoma has experienced over 1200 earthquakes of a moment-magnitude of 2.5 or higher – over 400 of which have been 3.0-magnitude and above. For Pope, the frequent quakes were a shock to her system; Maryland is not known for its seismicity. “Back in Maryland, I had only ever felt one earthquake,” she said. “That was back in 2011, it was the earthquake that put cracks in the Washington Monument in
Washington, DC.” Additionally, no one told her or her husband about the extent of the earthquake situation leading up to the move. “My husband came out here, he started work, he worked out everything to purchase the home and then we moved into our house in mid-September,” Pope said. “In the midst of all that, we had heard a little bit about Oklahoma having earthquakes, but it wasn’t really on our radar. It wasn’t something that the realtors warned us about, it wasn’t anything that my husband had felt when he first came out here.” Pope and her new family tried to get used to the earthquakes, but on New Year’s Day 2016, Pope had enough. “I was up early in the morning with the baby, changing him at his changing table, and the whole room was shaking,” Pope said. “It was so scary, because I immediately was thinking, what’s hanging above him on the wall that could fall on him, how long is the shaking going to continue, how much of a mess am I gonna have to clean up when it stops. All these things are
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New Edmond resident Emily Pope speaks at the state earthquake forum, January 15. running through my head as the house is shaking.” When the temblor subsided, Pope and her husband both took out their laptops and took to social media, creating the Facebook page “Stop Oklahoma’s Earthquakes.” The page is Pope’s effort to inform her neighbors and Oklahomans at large about the seismic activity in the area. Part of her mission is to post up-to-date lists of all the earthquakes that have happened within a given time period. Regularly, she takes the raw seismic data from the United States Geological Survey and posts it, giving fans of the page the date, time, location and intensity of any given quake nearly in real-time. “That data’s available to everyone, but it’s not necessarily something the people see in front of them a lot,” she said. Pope also posts relevant news stories and shares events concerning hydraulic fracturing, wastewater disposal and earthquakes. That’s how Pope came to be at the State Capitol with other residents on January 15, speaking her mind. The forum was organized by State Rep. Richard Morrissette (D-District 92). Morrissette said he was jolted into action by a similar earthquake to the one that sent Pope over the edge in early January. “I live in South Oklahoma City. I’m in this little ranchhouse on South Harvey Drive. And that little ranchhouse started rocking and rolling like I was on a roller coaster. That house is 35 miles from the epicenter of that quake,” Morrissette said. “I said to myself, ‘That’s enough. This has gone on long enough. This is ridiculous.’” Morrissette said he began to realize that the quakes were likely caused by a wastewater disposal process called fluid injection in the Mississippi line formation – and that no one was doing anything to address the issue in the legislature. Rather than wait on representatives from Edmond or other effected areas to spring into action, Morrissette took the initiative himself –
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Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal business leader and environmental activist from the Ponca Nation, speaks to the gathered residents about fighting for sustainable energy.
by calling the open forum to hear from the public directly. Part of his reasoning behind hosting the event is that the earthquake issue is not new. “This isn’t something that just cropped up overnight,” he said. “This has been going on and has been getting increasingly worse since November 2011. There’s no doubt in my mind, in the scientific community, and in the mind of the industry, that saltwater injection wells are causing these earthquakes. They know it, we know it, everybody knows it.” Morrissette wanted the Oklahoma State Legislature to create a “reparation fee” on injection wells to go into a fund that citizens could access to repair their homes and businesses if they were damaged by earthquakes. “If policymakers put their actions where their mouths were at the time, I told folks we could get this done by the end of the first week of the legislative session,” he said, noting that as we were talking it was the end of the first week of the legislative
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session and that nothing had been done, aside from Gov. Mary Fallin’s approval of $1.4 million toward more earthquake research. He likened this move to “putting a band-aid on a severed leg.”
AN AIRING OF GRIEVANCES One woman who spoke at the forum, Lisa Briggs, lived in between Edmond and Guthrie. After years of earthquakes shaking her foundation, she had her home evaluated by structural engineers. The ensuing report estimated that her house had suffered nearly $75,000 in damages, and was “on its way to becoming uninhabitable.” “One of the toilets wasn’t working because damage to the floor was causing it to leak,” she said. “The writing was on the wall. Fortunately, I had earthquake insurance that I bought two years earlier, because I used to live in California and I saw it coming.” Briggs told the audience that she had to vacate her home for over six months, only recently moving back in December; there were still repair crews working in
her home on the day of the forum, and new earthquake damage was occurring as fast as contractors could fix it. Luckily for Briggs, her earthquake insurance has been sufficient to cover these ongoing repairs to her house; a situation, she acknowledges, her friends and many others in Oklahoma can’t attain. “Many people can’t afford the insurance; they can’t afford the deductibles,” she said. “I have a friend whose insurance company is refusing to pay her claim because they say the earthquakes haven’t been big enough to cause damage.” Some insurance companies are specifically refusing to insure Oklahoman homes against earthquakes because they originate from oil and gas production. One Oklahoma resident posted a letter they received from their insurer to Twitter that said, “Subject to all policy provisions, the coverage provided by this policy IS NOT intended to cover property or liability loss resulting from extracting oil or gas from below the earth’s surface by any process, including but not limited to
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hydraulic fracturing or drilling; or injecting or inserting any substance, including but not limited to, water and wastewater, below the earth’s surface for any purpose; storage of any substance, including but not limited to, water and wastewater below the earth’s surface for any purpose; any combination of (a) – (c) above.” Is insurance the right answer to the earthquake problem? One speaker at the forum, Bob Jackman, didn’t seem to think so. Jackman, a former petroleum geologist and member of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, did not mince words about what he thought should be done. “Let me encapsulate what the real problem is,” he said. “We don’t want to buy insurance. We want to stop earthquakes and we want to stop them tomorrow.” Jackman suggested that Governor Mary Fallin had the authority to send out the Oklahoma National Guard to shut down injection wells, and he urged Fallin to do so “Monday morning.” Throughout the forum, residents and
invited speakers alike reiterated an important aspect of the entire debate. While earthquakes were what brought these people together in shared consternation, earthquakes weren’t the entire story. How did the processes involved in oil and gas production and in the disposal of wastewater and produced water effect local air quality? How did it effect ground pollution rates? What were the health effects on surrounding communities? These are questions Casey CampHorinek, a business leader and indigenous activist from the Ponca Nation, put into sharp relief. “If one considers that one woke up this morning and drank water, that’s a sacred act, that’s an act of prayer. If one considers that one ate this morning, of something that grew from the earth that sustains life, that’s a sacred act. If one considers that one breathes and shares that life, then that’s a sacred act,” Camp-Horinek said at the forum. “What is happening with the extractive industries is not sustaining life on earth. We’re talking about physical
structures here right now, but we should be talking about life itself.” Camp-Horinek attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France as part of a delegation from WECAN International, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network. She presented testimony to conference attendees and activists as an expert witness to the effects oil and gas production has on her community. She brought that message to the Oklahoma State Capitol, denouncing the unsustainability of the oil and gas industry as a driver of the state’s economy and calling on the state and the energy industry to work toward producing clean sources of power. “More than anything else, we have to understand what is sacred,” CampHorinek said. “It’s not having enough insurance to pay for a home, folks. We live here on earth! We have to have water. We have to have air to breathe. The farmers have to be able to grow their crops for the rest of us to be able to eat. “What we do here on this day will have A metro resident effected by the earthquakes speaks about the damage done to their homes. Dozens of residents attended the forum.
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State Representative Richard Morrissette, center, looks on as a Sierra Club representative, left, speaks. Rep. Morrissette hosted the forum.
a lasting impact on what happens to our mother, the Earth, that has a right to exist within her own life, that she herself is the purpose that gives us life.”
PLAN OF ACTION Public hearings at the State Capitol are good for the collective airing of grievances, a chance for regular citizenry to speak face-to-face with at least one elected state official about an issue they care about, and about which they’d like to see something done. Substantively, however, public hearings aren’t meant to produce, much less pass, legislation on that issue. As Rep. Morrissette and others at the forum noted, now was the time to write letters and call legislators, the Corporation Commission and even Gov. Fallin herself. But besides that and buying insurance, what could residents do? Every citizen in the state of Oklahoma has the right to file a petition with the state to create either a referendum or a ballot initiative for consideration at the next election. According to the Oklaho-
ma Secretary of State’s website, all that citizen needs to do is: draft the petition pamphlet and suggested ballot title; notify the Secretary of State of when the filing occurs; wait for the Secretary of State to receive and verify that it’s been filed correctly; publish a “Notice of the Filing of such petition and Apparent Sufficiency or Insufficiency of said Petition” in local papers; and wait at least 10 days for anyone to challenge the constitutionality of their petition. After that process is finished comes the easy part – gathering signatures. According to state statutes, referendum petitioners simply need to collect signatures from a quantum of registered voters that meets or exceeds five percent of the total votes cast for the office of governor in the last election for; petitioners looking to get an initiative on the ballot need eight percent. That’s 41,242 people and 65,986 people, respectively. Amendments to the state constitution require 15 percent of the total votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, so going by 2014’s turnout, pe-
titioners would need 123,725 signatures. Petitioning is only for the dedicated. Focusing in the scope of view a little, what can city governments do? Before May 2015, municipalities like Edmond or Stillwater had the ability to regulate the actions of oil and gas operations within their city limits. According to the National Municipal Policy Network, by 2013 over 400 cities and towns in 20 states nationwide had acted in such a fashion, including in neighboring states like Arkansas. In many of these municipalities, governments had erred on the side of placing moratoriums on drilling until such time that the process could be independently deemed safe for the residents. On May 29, 2015, Gov. Fallin signed SB 809, an act that prohibited those moratoriums and returned nearly all regulatory power to the Corporation Commission, into law. According to SB 809, cities and towns could now pass “reasonable ordinances, rules and regulations concerning road use, traffic, noise and odors incidental to oil
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and gas operations within [their] boundaries,” but they could not “effectively prohibit or ban any oil and gas operations, including oil and gas exploration, drilling, fracture stimulation, completion, production, maintenance, plugging and abandonment, produced water disposal, secondary recovery operations, flow and gathering lines or pipeline infrastructure.” In other words, communities’ ability to respond to oil and gas operations for any reason was drastically reduced. Cities and towns would have to go to the Corporation Commission with any complaint more substantive than noise or smell issues. The same may not be said for indigenous nations, however. At the forum, Casey Camp-Horinek’s message was simple, and very clear. “We of the Ponca Nation originally came from Nebraska. We’ve been reduced to 500 members, and now we’re experiencing an environmental genocide. And you, our neighbors, are beginning to understand that. So we have a solution we’d like to offer you. We know there’s
a law that municipalities can’t pass moratoriums,” she said. “I’m from a sovereign nation. I can.”
LOOKING FORWARD There have been some major and relevant updates to the overall story since we started writing it. SandRidge energy has turned over some of their disposal wells to state researchers from the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who now have $1.4 million more to use toward that research. The Corporation Commission also announced a disposal well reduction plan for northwest Oklahoma and Fairview, OK in particular that drops disposal in the area by 40 percent. Additionally, the Sierra Club of Oklahoma has filed a federal lawsuit against Devon Energy, Chesapeake and New Dominion Energy to try to get them to reduce the amount of production waste they’re generating, reinforce structurally weak buildings that may be especially effected by strong earthquakes, and to support the creation of an “independent monitoring
and prediction center to determine the amount of Production Wastes which may be injected into a specific well or formation before induced seismicity occurs.” Along with that, the recent economic downturn has hit energy companies in the state especially hard. SandRidge has laid off 400 employees, from entry-level workers to executives. And as we were going to print, Devon Energy also announced layoffs. In the coming months, this series will interrogate every aspect of Oklahoma’s energy infrastructure, taking into account all facets of this huge and important story. We’ll spend some time next month on oil and gas production itself and speak to industry and state officials on the benefits and drawbacks of certain production methods. Later, we’ll look at the expansion of wind and solar farms in the state and how power from those farms gets taxed. Finally, we’ll go in-depth into Oklahoma’s water management system to see how prepared the state is for the next drought.
Bob Jackman, a retired petroleum geologist, provides expert testimony to the residents at the forum.
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Everyone at Citizen’s Bank of Edmond is working so hard to bring the best of our community to light, and I for one can’t wait! Remember that everything to do with this monthly festival held every 3rd Saturday from March to October, has an Edmond connection, which I believe sets it apart from any like food truck festival! I also believe the specific care the entire staff at Citizen’s take to prepare and select vendor’s, food trucks and musician’s is the main reason Citizen’s won this year’s Impact award for community events! If you’re new to the area, show up to Downtown Edmond Saturday 3/19/16 from 6 pm to 10 pm, we guarantee you’ll enjoy yourself!
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Edmond Events February 2016 Friends of the Metropolitan Library Booksale February 20 @ 9:00 am February 21 @ 5:00 pm Oklahoma Expo Hall, Mother & Son Soiree February 20 @ 6:30 pm Orr Family Farm, 14400 S Western Ave Darla Z at ACM@UCO Performance Lab February 20 @ 7:00 pm ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., Musical Theatre: Kander & Ebb’s CABARET February 20 @ 7:30 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Dodgeball February 21 @ 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Musical Theatre: Kander & Ebb’s CABARET February 21 @ 5:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Discovery Family Series Sunday Concerts “Celebrating Black History” February 21 @ 5:00 pm Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker Ave ACM@UCO Alive! – CFAD
Collective Night February 22 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73104 Central Jazz Combos February 22 @ 7:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Erin Brockovich to speak at UCO February 23 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm UCO, 100 N. University Central Jazz Combos February 23 @ 7:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St CBE Cash Mob: Klemm’s Smoke Haus February 24 @ 11:00 am - 8:00 pm Klemm’s Smoke Haus, 2000 S Broadway Kyle Kinane at ACM@UCO Performance Lab February 24 @ 8:00 pm ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City 73104 Plaza Throwback February 25 @ 9:00 am District House, 1755 NW 16th St Laser Tag February 25 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Central Jazz Jam
February 25 @ 7:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Ethics Workshop with Chad McCoy, LPC February 26 @ 8:30 am - 11:30 am Edmond Family Counseling, 1251 N Broadway, Ste C Souled Out February 26 @ 8:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Hog Jog February 27 @ 8:00 am - 10:00 am Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Cold Frame Class February 27 @ 11:00 am 12:30 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave February 2016 Auction February 27 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm North Church, Sim Flora w/ The Edmond Jazz Quartet February 27 @ 8:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St Bryce Merritt Concert February 28 @ 12:00 pm EMHS LOWER COMMONS Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St
UCO Jazz Ensembles I, II, III, IV February 29 @ 7:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 E 5th St March 2016 The OKCMOA 32nd Annual Omelette Party March 4 @ 7:00 pm - 11:55 pm Chevy Bricktown Events Center, 429 E California Ave Swine Week Invitational Golf Tournament March 5 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Silverhorn Golf Club, 11411 N Kelley Ave Pom Clinic March 5 @ 10:00 am - 1:30 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Paint Your Art Out OKC Blue Session at Cox Convention Center includes game ticket March 5 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens Mangeant March 7 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Girls Night Out…Free Floral Design Class March 8 Madeline’s Flowers, 1030 S Broadway Spring Break Pop-Ins March 8 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave
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Swinal Tap March 8 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Techno Dance March 9 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Memorial’s Got Talent March 10 @ 6:00 pm Swine Week, 1000 E 15th St Ron Pope & The Nighthawks at ACM@UCO Performance Lab March 10 @ 8:00 pm 329 E. Sheridan Ave., Our City, Our Collection Members’ Preview March 11 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr Movie Nights in the Park – Minions March 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mitch Park, 1501 W Covell Movie at the MAC March 11 @ 7:00 pm City of Edmond Parks and Recreation, Government, 2733 Marilyn Williams Dr Oklahoma Gardening School presented by Devon March 12 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave March 2016 Spring Break 2016 at Orr Family Farm! March 14 @ 10:00 am - March 19 @ 6:00 pm 14400 S Western Ave
Pole Position Raceway OKC Spring Kids Camp March 16 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Pole Position Raceway, 2905 NW 36th Street
April 2016 Hound Hunt April 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Edmond Dog Park, 33rd St & Rankin
May 2016 Greg Proops at ACM@UCO Performance Lab May 7 @ 6:30 pm 329 E. Sheridan Ave.,
St. Patrick’s Day in the Gardens March 17 @ 11:00am - 2:00pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave
Movie in the Park – Inside Out April 8 @ 7:00 pm Mitch Park, 1501 W Covell Rd
Citizen’s Bank of Edmond Heard on Hurd Season Opener March 19 @ 6:00pm - 10:00pm Heard on Hurd, 32 N Broadway
ACM@UCO Metro Music Fest April 9 @ 3:00 pm Bricktown (Dowtown OKC), Flaming Lips Alley & Joe Carter Avenue
May 2016 Full Moon Bike Ride and Run returns! May 23 @ 7:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave
James C. Meade Friends’ Lecture Series: Van Gogh’s Bedrooms March 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr
SONIC Free Family Day at OKCMOA April 10 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr
Myriad Gardens’ Annual Easter Egg Hunt presented March 26 @ 10:00 am Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave Spring Season Hours 2016: Open Saturdays March 26-June 25 @ 6:00 pm Orr Family Farm, 14400 S Western Ave Easter Eggstravaganza March 26 @ 10:00am - 6:00pm Orr Family Farm, 14400 S Western Ave 2nd Annual Doggy Easter Egg Hunt presented by MidTown Vets March 26 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave
Penny & Sparrow at ACM@ UCO Performance Lab April 14 @ 7:30 pm Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., Edmond Farmer’s Market April 16 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Festival Marketplace, 1st Street Citizen’s Bank of Edmond Heard on Hurd April 16 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Citizens Bank of Edmond, 32 N. Broadway Norman Music Festival 9 April 21 @ 5:00 pm - April 23 @ 11:59 pm Norman Music Festival, Main and Porter
June 2016 Pop Up Shops in the Park June 11 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Choctaw Creek Park, 14098 NE 21st St Matisse in His Time: Masterworks of Modernism from the Centre Pompidou, Paris June 18 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr Father’s Day 5K at the Gardens June 19 @ 7:30 am Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave International Mud Day in the Gardens June 29 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave August 2016 Internet Cat Video Fest presented by Tinker Federal Credit Union August 6 @ 5:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W Reno Ave
Pop Up Shops in the Park April 30 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Hafer Park, 1034 S Bryant Ave
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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 Microaggression on the College Campus by Quinton Ellis, LPC
There was a time in my young life when the only thing I knew for sure about college was that they had toga parties. These days, the only thing I know for sure about toga parties is that they will result in your expulsion from college. Much like Christmas, (also not welcome on campus), college seemed a lot cooler when I was a kid. College has changed, because the students are very, very angry. Not for any of the reasons I think they have a right to be, but for reasons that are being invented each and every day. I first stumbled across the term ‘micro-aggression’ several years ago and initially thought it had to be an attempt at internet trolling. Here’s one of hundreds of definitions of micro-aggressions from none other than Psychology Today in 2010: “they are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.” Uhhh, okay PT, thanks for the…heads up. We’ll all try to be extra nice to people who are different from us tomorrow.” That won’t work. What? Why not, PT? Because these things happen every day. But…we don’t mean to be jerks on any day! That’s why we said ‘unintentional’. What if we just don’t speak to anyone at all? You should’ve high-lighted nonverbal as well. Is there anything, at all, we can do to fix this? Of course not. But you might as well try that shutting up thing for a whil One of the first student protests I remember began at UCLA in 2013 after a student accused a beloved 81 year old of oppressing him after he noticed that the professor corrected his capitalization of the letter I in the term indigenous in his dissertation. The professor was fired after the resulting uproar. And this is going to get worse, because it is the students who are protesting demanding more and more Kafkaesque speech and behavior codes while the schools are caving. To understand why, you really should read “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff. What they see happening on college campuses is that the students, mostly in the arts and ‘soft’ sciences (like, ahem, psychology), are being trained to filter their experiences through a reverse form of cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT is the dominant framework therapists use to help clients combat the irrational thoughts that fuel their
depression or anxiety. Essentially, you’re just trying to isolate the repetitive negative thoughts that interfere with a person’s ability to function properly. We have to assume the thoughts are irrational or otherwise not based in reality, because if They really are out to get you I’m going to have to refer you to Ironman, or the police or something. Sometimes the thoughts are based on exaggerations of reality: Yes, you have a large nose; no, it is not bigger than the rest of your head. What these authors are saying is that there is a social justice oriented framework within these institutions that encourages students to magnify the often legitimate harms they encounter through the lense of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and so on. Eventually, the harms they encounter do actually become as big as the rest of their Now, certainly oppression of all stripes is out there and very much in need of address, but the environment that these newly minted social justice Robocops happen to find themselves is the modern American university campus; arguably the most diverse, inclusive, supportive, nurturing living arrangement that ridiculous sums of money have ever in the history of the earth provided a human being. But, because your parents are nowhere in sight, as the saying goes, you’ve got to fight the oppressor that’s in front of you. Taco Tuesday isn’t going to call itself racist, so why shouldn’t it be you who leads this righteous and necessary crusade? Especially if there’s extra credit in it! Follow our counselor’s blogs and all the news from Edmond Family Counseling at www.edmondfamily. org. Edmond Family Counseling is committed to providing counseling and educational programs to individuals, families, and groups in Edmond and surrounding communities. We serve as a professional referral source for Edmond schools, churches, Edmond Juvenile Court, area health clinics, hospitals, and other… edmondfamily.org
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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!
HOURS: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Saturday 10am-5pm 405.753.4466 www.emoryanneinteriors.com
15020 Bristol Park Place, Edmond (on 33rd, between Santa Fe & Kelly)
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