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Vol. 8 2016 Issue 03
Publishers/Editorial/ Photography Chris Hultner Sherri Hultner Trevor Hultner
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AROUND EDMOND This month is a fun month in Edmond, with the 2nd round of Heard on Hurd on Saturday April 16, and then the Downtown Edmond Arts Festival happening April 29th to May 1. Both events will feature different food vendor’s and the Arts Festival will be featuring some new artists this year! Also, the Edmond Farmer’s Market starts up on April 16, in Downtown Edmond on 1st St just west of Broadway, with new local produce vendor’s bringing pasteurized milk, bagels and bavarian pretzels, and a great selection of micro greens and shoots, and the market will take place every Saturday 8-1 pm. Something new this year, North Edmond will get to enjoy the Farmer’s Market on Wedsnesday’s at Mitch Park every Wednesday starting June 1, open 8-1 pm. In the last issue, we talked about all things spring and Easter and I called the blooming of the city wide tulips on the Wednesday before Easter. It happened, and Hafer Park was just beautiful, and that timely blooming and the hard work from city landscapers at Parks & Rec. get two thumbs up from me, and earned them this year’s spring cover! You can find their handywork at all 26 parks in Edmond, and things like this are what make Edmond such a pleasant city to live. And, speaking of being such a pleasant place to live, I am hoping everyone voted yes for the extension of both Props on April 5th, as Edmond is exceptional in their usage of tax funds. In this issue, we are getting back to our roots in what we started Edmond Active for in the first place. Our magazine has always prided itself on bringing relevant community oriented content, not just advertising spots, which we use our social networks to promote our supporters services, retail, food and entertainment offerings in the hopes you will visit them before big box stores, but also be inspired by them. This issue we are giving you a preview of the fun that is the Downtown Edmond Arts Festival, development information around Edmond in City Buzz, social media tips for small businesses in Social Edmond, New Products features fun and unique finds at local retailers, Local Flavor reviewed the newest restaurant The Zu, part two of Trevor Hultner’s Oil & Water feature bringing a Q&A with the Director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, Life Happens brings some great advice to those who have recently lost jobs from Edmond Family Counseling, Shop Edmond independent retailer listings, and our ever expanding Events Calendar! I’ve been busy restructuring EdmondActive.com and you’ll be able to find constantly added and updated events from Edmond and the OKC Metro from your phone, laptop or tablet or desktop. Our calendar is updated daily, so check in often.
We have been in discussion with local residents, since January - some new and some lifelong residents, about what format they would like to participate in local discussion. I have set up a Facebook Group called Around Edmond, and will be adding another format for discussion shortly for all of you to talk about your community and more. Please feel free to use it to discuss everything around Edmond, and please add your friends you think might add to the discussion! That’s it for this issue, keep checking back with me at EdmondActive.com, as we add a News link, and repopulate the site with 5 years of content along with all new content, articles and online features! I would like to finish this month’s column in thanking Gary and Martha Hall for their support of EA, and 25 1/2 wonderful year’s of hospitality at the Arcadian Inn Bed & Breakfast. They will be closing their doors on May 31, 2016. The two innkeepers are the nicest people we know, and highly dedicated to their Inn and the cottages at the newly renamed Arcadian Getaways in Guthrie, formerly Aaron’s Gate Country Getaways. Rarely do a couple have the opportunity to live their dream of being Innkeepers, raise their young family in the community they so love, make hundreds of friends near and far, have the respect of the community and then get an opportunity to semi retire on their own terms. Terrific examples of a life worth living, IMHO. Be sure to support our local shops, entertainment sources and restaurants while you are out, and be sure to stay connected by following us at Instagram, Facebook and at Twitter! ~ Sherri
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CITY BUZZ
The new $10,000,000 football stadium at Santa Fe High School is under construction and set to host its first game with the first 2016 Edlam matchup between the North Huskies vs. Santa Fe Wolves on September 2, with Santa Fe being the home team.. The district’s first game of the season is Memorial vs. Ponca City, that will be played at UCO. Funds to approve the construction were voted on by voter’s in the 2015 Bond issue, and will save the district over a hundred thousand dollars in stadium and scoreboard rentals at UCO. The use of artificial turf vs. sod will save up to $45,000 in resodding costs, as well as lasting for approximately 8 years. Below are photos of some current construction happening, left, the new Crossings Community Church located on Covell across from Mitch Park, and right, at the intersection of Kelly & Danforth, is the construction of a new Bank of Oklahoma location and rumors of an all new Starbuck’s. Not pictured, is the new Kamp’s coming to 33rd & Boulevard, and the Eagle Trading Co. Restaurant in Downtown Edmond on 2nd St. and the new franchised candy store RocketFizz on Campbell.
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SOCIAL EDMOND INSTAGRAM
Myriad Gardens in OKC did an amazing job with their plantings this year! Be sure to stop by and check out their space in Downtown OKC!
Business
OKC, Edmond and Guthrie got lucky at the end of March when our first threat of tornadoes passed eerily close. I am a huge nature photography geek, including weather, and I’m With so many Edmond business owners hoping this is the last photo this year! joining the conversation at Facebook, as
of late, I thought I would share some tips for marketing your business online.
What’s New
1. Be sure to set up all your accounts with the same name so that residents can easily search and find your business. 2. Have even a simple website available for residents to see what your business offers. Consider it your online business card. 3. Post at strategic times during the day. Don’t overpost, as this will cause fatigue with your followers. Your Facebook page has an insights page, use it to see when your followers are online most, and to guage the effectiveness of your posts. 4. Do it yourself. Residents can tell the difference between canned content from a media content provider and content coming directly from you. FB is now part of running a successful business, as well as Instagram. 5. Have fun and don’t get discouraged, it takes time to build a successful loyal and organic following!
EA BUSINESS DIRECTORY
We are in the process of restructuring our site at EdmondActive.com & I have been working on our local business directory under Shop, Eat. Play. since January. If we have left anything out when we are done by late April, let me know!
If you follow EdmondActive at Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, be sure to come over and join our new community discussion group Around Edmond at Facebook. We have had this in the works since January, have discussed it with several residents, old and new. Most stated they turn off notifications for and eventually lose touch with active groups, so I am trying to discover the happy medium. While there are many groups targeting residents for their professional networking purposes, and other groups for garage sale purposes, and the neighborhood groups that are a fantastic way to connect with neighbors, this group will be a real time extension of the amazing coversation happening at EdmondActive’s Facebook page! Join us by searching Around Edmond at Facebook! If groups aren’t your thing, feel free to post at the EdmondActive Facebook page! edmondactive.com 07
New Products The fastest way to fragrance is now as simple as pressing the button on this Votivo Black Box diffuser. Very sleek in design, it fuses speed, efficiencty, fuctionality and ease of use in its instant delivery of fragrance. The diffuser is $60 with scent refills with 3 scent pods running $18 for over 90 hours of aroma. Charges with a USB cord. Sold exclusively in Edmond at Sterlings Home Decor and Gifts at 105 S Broadway, you’ll have a selection of 4 scents, and the scents are terrific if you are sensitive to candles or wax burners!
Pratcher Design can be found in the Pop Up Shops at Heard on Hurd, and after first seeing their space last fall, I did a little research online. What I found is that Pratcher Design’s Sandy Pratcher is one creative business owner, and has an amazing sense of humor. You can find her specialized items, including wine glasses & coffee cups at Pratcherdesign.com or find Pratcher’s Pop Up space at Heard on Hurd on April 16th!
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The Zu Sports Bar & Grill
Local Flavor
We visited the new Zu Sports Bar & Grill at 16 S Broadway on a Friday to see what the atmosphere was after their official grand opening on 3/15/16. When we arrived at 6:30 pm, it was busy and surprisingly we were seated right away and our order was taken almost immediately after that. We ordered the Triple Play Chicken Nachos, and were blown away at the size and the freshness of the ingredients used! This appetizer could easily substitute a lunch or dinner entree, and even better was how completely delicious it was. For dinner we ordered chicken tacos, and these too, were equally fresh and delicious. As far as price, The Othello’s owners were on par with The Zu and came up with very reasonable pricing, and a terrific menu & drink pricing. With this being a sports bar, as well, the TV’s didn’t disappoint in their size or location throughout! Very family friendly, tasty & great service!
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Spring In Bloom
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Celebrate Mother’s Day with a gift from Sterling’s! Sid Dickens, Rusticuff, Votivo & more! Follow the latest trends from Sterling’s at Instagram @SterlingsEdmond
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Oil and Water Part II: Interview with Jeremy Boak
Director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey By Trevor Hultner
This is part two of a multi-part series on Oklahoma’s complex relationship with its natural resources. Last month, we wrote about the public reaction to induced seismicity. This month, we interview Jeremy Boak, the director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, about the mechanics of fracking and the future of his organization’s studies. Edmond Active: What are the different ways in which oil and gas can be taken from the ground? Jeremy Boak: If you go right back to the beginning, Colonel Drake actually dug a well in Pennsylvania. But more recently, you drill a well. You have a large rig with essentially a string of pipe, a few-thousand-foot-long pipeline made up of 30-foot lengths of drill pipe. At the end of that, you install a diamond-head drill. You rotate that and it chops up the rock as you go progressively downhole. That’s conventional well-boring. You drill to a target depth, you put a casing in it, and you shoot some holes in it, actual bullet-like projectiles, and you allow the goodies to flow into it. Increasingly, over the past three or four decades, people have used directional tools to actually extend their wells and drill to a slightly different target at the bottom of the hole in a variety of ways, the most extreme of which is of course horizontal drilling. It comes down, hits a target and then it bends out and drills through that target
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zone for several thousand feet. You can imagine that exposes much more oil or gas to the borehole and therefore it flows much better. Since the 1940s, we have used hydraulic fracturing to enhance the flow into that borehole to create fractures and to tap into natural fractures in order to increase flow into the borehole. That involves pumping enough water down there to raise the pressure to where it’s more than the strength of the rock. When you’re doing that, you’re pressurizing it in such a way that the rock itself is now in tension, it’s now being pulled apart. Rocks aren’t very strong in tension. They can support a lot of weight, but if you try to stretch them, they’ll break much more easily. So the rocks break with a few hundred pounds over the ambient pressure. For years, newspeople called this blasting. EA: Is that an apt description? JB: Not at all. You’re really not blasting. Simply to overcome the pressure at depth, you have to pressurize. You have to get it up to a certain pressure and then you have to go above the ambient pressure just enough to make it break. You don’t want to go much further, because otherwise you break too far. The worst thing that could happen is that you break up or down into a very water-rich horizon as opposed to a very petroleum-rich horizon, and then you just have an expensive water well. Virtually all wells will produce some
water with them. And in fact, 95+ percent of the water that’s disposed of here is that water that’s co-produced. And again, one of the other mistakes that newspeople have made is to call that drilling and fracturing waste. That’s like calling the spoils pile from a coal-fired power plant, all the ash that those create, if you want to use the right parallel that would be called construction waste. The waste that you generated when you drilled, and there is wastewater from that, and the wastewater created from fracking a well, that’s legitimate wastewater, but it’s less than five percent of the total water that’s being disposed of here in Oklahoma in the places where earthquakes are occurring. Most of this being produced is actually ancient seawater. So, hydraulic fracturing is the next stage, and it started out, they would generally do that in a vertical well. They were a little nervous about going into a horizontal well, just because that bend is very tricky. You’re trying to put metal around a curve. It’s a challenging endeavor. And so if they started talking about putting pressure down there and causing the rocks to break they were a little nervous. But eventually they developed ways to do that, and now they’ve developed to where increasingly they’ve used more and more little stages of that fracking, so they’ve become more precise about where they place the fluid to frack. That’s where you get these massive
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multi-stage fracturing events, where it’s like 30 or 40 stages in some cases. And I have to say there was a point there where, every time I said that, two weeks later I’d hear somebody talking about a frack job that had more stages, and so it just keeps going up. And there were fashions too, I think. It’s cooler to do a lot of stages, and then it was cool to get by with only a few stages because that was more economical. It’s a little hard to keep track of what the average well is like, but they’re doing this in multiple stages. They seal off a part of the bore hole, frack it, then back off and seal off a different part of the bore hole, frack it, and work their way back from the “toe” at the far end of the well to the heel, where it bends up and goes vertical again. That’s a modern fracked well, and it’s a pretty high percentage of the wells these days. It’s common usage to talk about a fracking industry, but there is no such thing. There’s an oil and gas industry that has increasingly used hydraulic fracturing in the wells it drills. It’s a completion practice. It’s one way to complete a well, and you don’t have to do it. And especially, when times are hard and prices go down, people look for prospects that maybe don’t need that kind of expensive well, because half to two-thirds of the cost of the well is that frack job. If you can get reasonable economic production out of a simpler well, in hard times those are the kind of wells you might see being drilled. EA: Like, for example, right now. JB: That’s exactly right. EA: Here in the next few months you’ll probably see more simple wells being drilled. JB: Possibly. I haven’t yet gotten anybody in industry to tell me that’s really well underway, but I think it’s happening. EA: We also wanted to ask a couple of questions about the work you are doing with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as well as the State Secretary of Energy and the Environment to research wastewater disposal. To what extent are you working with them to look into these large questions of how much wastewater injection is contributing to earthquakes within central and northwestern
Oklahoma? JB: The interesting thing is, we’re kind of on the cusp of what appears to be a significant change. One of the things that was a problem was, because it was essentially an environmental requirement, the Corporation Commission was asking for reporting for this saltwater disposal, and they had a deadline every year when you had to get your data in. They didn’t ask for any intermediate reporting, because all they were really doing is verifying that you had a well, that you maintained a well, that you put stuff in there every year, and that we knew how much. When the earthquakes started happening, that was clearly inadequate, but it has taken quite a while for them to implement a new process and ask for more timely data. They started doing that fairly early in the year, but they’re basically asking for wells that are in this earthquake zone to report their daily injections every week. We’re finally getting a hold of some of that and beginning to put together a picture of what happens to injection in the area of interest. Certain wells only recently got that order. Right now we’ve got about 274 wells in the earthquake zone that inject into the Arbuckle. That’s not all of them, but it is a fair number of them so we think we’re seeing the relative pattern here. Injection sort of peaked in September 2014, and then it began to turn down, and it’s declined overall about 800,000 barrels a day from where it was. EA: That’s a quite significant reduction. JB: That’s a very significant reduction. That’s a 44 percent reduction in injection in this area. When we look at that, of those 274 wells, 154 had no directive from the OCC. These wells reduced their injection entirely on the basis of cost and other operational considerations. About half of that total reduction is in these wells that do not have a directive. Of the other half that did have a directive given to them by the OCC, half of that was due to those orders. The OCC kind of phased in the cutbacks. To date, that’s only amounted to about 200,000 barrels’ reduction a day. When the well operators go to reduce their injection, they can’t just reduce
the production from the well that makes that wastewater. They either shut it in or they leave it running. And so, they may overshoot their target, they may get more than 40 percent reduction because they had to shut in well A, B, C and D, and D gave them more than they needed. So we’ve got a total reduction of 800,000 barrels a day in these 274 wells, and we keep getting more every few weeks. All of these numbers and adjustments will change. I think the OCC is going to get more pushback from companies for this latest expansion of the area of interest. Part of it is going out into counties that haven’t really seen much in the way of earthquakes. We’ve got Kingfisher and Canadian and Blaine and Dewey, and there’s just not a lot of earthquakes there. But regulators are going to be driven to some extent by uncertainties and anxieties about things like this Fairview cluster of earthquakes that’s happened in the past month and a half. It’s a long way away from the large injection wells up in Woods and Alfalfa and Grant counties. They’re uneasy about how far away we could have a cluster of earthquakes driven by injection. And it’s tricky, because we’re out at the edge of our knowledge. We don’t actually have a good explanation for why the Fairview cluster – which include some of the largest earthquakes we’ve had since Prague – is happening in this place that’s so far removed. Some people are probably going to start questioning whether this interpretation that fluid injection is the real driver for these earthquakes – is that real. And other people have pointed out, yeah, you could have all of that injection in Woods and Alfalfa and Grant, and as that generates a lot of earthquakes, it changes stress fields in the solid state. We’re not necessarily feeling a liquid pressure wave, but it’s basically just rearranging things. Things line up magnificently to delineate a fault, and our faultmap didn’t have that on there. Part 2 of this interview will appear, with the rest of this transcript, on EdmondActive.com. Next month we move away from energy from the ground, and toward energy from the wind.
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Downtown Edmond Arts Festival Preview
2016 marks the 38th year of the Downtown Edmond Arts Festival. The festival runs from Friday April 29th to Sunday May 1st, and is fun for everyone in the family! Featuring Oklahoma artists and artists from around the country, you can find so many unique items. From Mixed Media to Jewelry, Wind chimes, Sculptures, Charcoal sketches, oil paintings and more. The food vendors and children’s area are always a big hit, as well as the local winery’s in attendance showcasing their vineyards. Downtown Edmond on Broadway usually closes the street from Hurd to 2nd Street during the event, so keep your eye out for their event map online for parking information, street closures and vendor and food locations. This event is a fun time to enjoy some of the amazing artists Oklahoma has to offer!
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Field Trip: Natural Falls State Park Story & Photos Courtesy Travelok.com
Located near the Oklahoma/Arkansas border in the scenic Ozark Highlands region of northeast Oklahoma, Natural Falls State Park features a 77-foot waterfall cascading through rock formations and creating a hidden, serene atmosphere at the bottom of a narrow V-shaped valley. A railed observation platform allows hikers to overlook the falls and another observation deck with seating is located at the foot of the falls offering two vantage points to enjoy one of the most scenic wonders in the state. The beautiful scenery looks familiar to many visitors because scenes from the 1974 movie, “Where the Red Fern Grows� were filmed in the park. Picnic tables and grills can be found throughout Natural Falls State Park. Campsites including 44 RV sites, including seven full hookup sites and 17 tent sites are available along with a comfort station with showers. The Red Fern Reunion Center is available for group functions. Other amenities include four and 1/2 miles of hiking and nature trails, picnic shelter, volleyball, horseshoes, basketball court, catch and release fishing, playgrounds, a ninehole disc golf course and a formal garden area. Pets are allowed on a leash only. Although swimming is not allowed in the park, there are several public swimming areas available with in a short distance of the park. Natural Falls State Park affords an opportunity to observe a variety of plant and animal life. The dense forest includes maples, chinquapin and white oaks, while plants such as flowering dogwood, sassafras, coral berry, spicebush, redbed, and pawpaw blanket the cool forest floor. The waterfall creates a moist environment where ferns, mosses and liverworts thrive.
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AMENITIES Discounts: Senior Discount Facility Amenities: ADA Compliant, Campsites, Credit Cards Accepted, Dump Station, Elec. 30 Amp, Elec. 50 Amp, Full Hookups, Gift Shop, Grills, Handicapped Parking, Meeting Space Available, Office WiFi, Park Ranger, Pets Allowed, Pets Allowed in Park, Picnic Area, Playground, Pull Thru Sites, Restrooms, Showers,
Tours Offered, Water Hookup Group Amenities: Accommodates Tour Groups, Advance Group Reservations Required, Bus/Motorcoach Parking, Group Rates Available, Seating Capacity: 50, Tour Group Welcome Reception Highway Corridors (within 5 mi.): US-412 On-site Activities: Biking, Disc Golf, Fishing, Hiking, Volleyball, Watchable Wildlife On-site Lodging: RV Sites, Tent Sites Tour Information: Group Tours, Guided Tours HOURS Open Monday - Sunday 8:30 to 5:00 Park and office hours are extended during the summer season/daylight savings time. Regular hours apply during the remainder of the year. Campers are allowed in the park 24 hours a day. Open year round including comfort station. PRICING Entrance fee: $5.00/vehicle. Oklahoma seniors and honorably discharged Oklahoma veterans get in free with documentation. Tent sites: $12 RV sites with electric & water hookups: $20 RV sites with electric, water & sewer hookups: $23 Premium sites: Additional $5 DIRECTIONS Located 6 miles west of Siloam Springs, AR on Hwy 412 and 1/8 mile south of Hwy 412.
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Edmond Events April 2016
O. Gail Poole: Flora and Felines Exhibit Opening April 7 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Poli-Trivia Night at the Edmond Historical Society & Museum April 7 @ 7:00 pm Edmond Historical Society & Museum Edmond
Super Hero Party April 9 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City Myriad Gardens Sketch Crawl April 9 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City ACM@UCO Metro Music Fest April 9 @ 3:00 pm Bricktown (Dowtown OKC), Oklahoma City Spring Sampler Evening of Art April 9 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Oak Tree Country Club, Edmond
Annual Edmond FFA Plant Sale April 8 @ 8:00 am - April 9 @ 5:00 pm Edmond, 300 North Kelly Avenue
Rick Springfield “Stripped Down” April 9 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City
ACM@UCO Metro Music Fest April 8 @ 12:00 pm - April 9 @ 2:00 am Oklahoma City
SONIC Free Family Day at OKCMOA April 10 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City
Kirk Franklin April 8 @ 6:30 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Movie in the Park – Inside Out April 8 @ 7:00 pm Mitch Park, Edmond LIVE! on the Plaza – Earth Day April 8 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Plaza District, Oklahoma City Tori Kelly April 9 @ 10:00 am Brady Theater, Tulsa Hort 101 Series: Planting Under Trees April 9 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Draw a Feathered Friend April 9 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City
Killswitch Engage April 11 @ 6:30 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City Kurt Vile and the Violators with Purling Hiss (Solo) April 12 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Halestorm – April 12 – Tulsa, OK April 12 @ 7:30 pm Brady Theater, 105 W Brady St Tulsa Melanie Martinez: Cry Baby Tour with Mainland | Cain’s Ballroom April 13 @ 6:30 pm Tulsa Ben Folds Chevy Bricktown Events Center April 13 @ 8:00 pm Oklahoma City
Judah & The Lion with The Saint Johns April 14 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
OKC Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds April 16 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Penny & Sparrow at ACM@ UCO Performance Lab April 14 @ 7:30 pm Oklahoma City
OKC Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds April 17 @ 2:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
OKC Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds April 15 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Edmond Farmer’s Market April 16 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Festival Marketplace, Edmond Dr. Orr’s Birthday Bash April 16 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City Painting in the Gardens Series with Wine and Palette April 16 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Meet Dayton Duncan, Producer of “The National Parks: America’s Greatest Idea” April 16 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Introduction to Wildcrafting Dinner April 16 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Citizen’s Bank of Edmond Heard on Hurd April 16 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Edmond The Cadillac Three with Brad Hargrove April 16 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Drive-By Truckers Cain’s Ballroom April 17 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa OKC Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds April 18 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Silver Oak/ Twomey Wine Dinner April 19 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City OKC Dodgers vs. Memphis Redbirds April 19 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City OKCMOA Moderns at the Festival of the Arts April 19 @ 10:45 pm - April 24 @ 5:00 pm Bicentennial Park, Oklahoma City K95.5 UNPLUGGED – Tulsa’s New Country Live Cain’s Ballroom April 20 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa OKC Dodgers vs. Memphis Redbirds April 20 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Norman Music Festival 9 April 21 @ 5:00 pm - April 23 @ 11:59 pm Norman
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Cocktails and Conversation with Mike McGrath: Only You Can Protect Your Native Bees April 21 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Umphrey’s McGee with TAUK Cain’s Ballroom April 21 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa, OK 74103 OKC Dodgers vs. Memphis Redbirds April 21 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City ABC’s Nashville In Concert April 21 @ 7:30 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa Earth Day Celebration in the Gardens April 22 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City
The Struts April 23 @ 8:30 pm The Vanguard Tulsa Puscifer April 24 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa My Morning Jacket w/ special guest: The Barr Brothers April 27 @ 7:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Blackberry Smoke: Holding All The Roses Tour with SIMO April 27 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa The Del McCoury Band with The Black Lillies April 28 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Keys N Krates with Nomad and PK Love | Cain’s Ballroom (16+) April 22 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa
Downtown Edmond Arts Festival April 29 @ 3:00 pm - May 1 @ 10:00 pm Downtown Edmond, Edmond
OKC Dodgers vs. Memphis Redbirds April 22 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
BØRNS w/NothingButThieves & The Strumbellas April 29 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa
The Struts Diamond Ballroom OKC April 22 @ 8:30 pm Oklahoma City
Pop Up Shops in the Park April 30 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Hafer Park, Edmond
Weather Round Up Day April 23 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City
Parachute – The Wide Awake Tour with Jon McLaughlin and Brett Taylor April 30 @ 6:30 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Bill Maher April 23 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa The 14th Annual 80’s PROM Cain’s Ballroom April 23 @ 8:00 pm Tulsa
Grace Potter April 30 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City
May 2016
Animal Collective with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith May 1 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans Zephyrs May 2 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans Zephyrs May 3 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City Graham Nash May 3 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans Zephyrs May 4 @ 11:05 am Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City Memphis May Fire / We Came As Romans with Miss May I and For Today Cain’s Ballroom May 5 @ 6:00 pm Tulsa Dancing in the Gardens featuring Salsa Returns! May 5 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans Zephyrs May 5 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City Lamb of God / Clutch / Corrosion of Conformity May 5 May 5 @ 7:30 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa Asleep at the Wheel Cain’s Ballroom May 6 @ 6:30 pm Tulsa
Harry Connick, Jr. May 6 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa Mother’s Day Celebration May 7 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City EAA’s Spring Show and Sale May 7 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Spring Creek Plaza, Edmond Greg Proops at ACM@UCO Performance Lab May 7 @ 6:30 pm Oklahoma City Harry Connick, Jr. May 8 @ 7:30 pm Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City SoMo with Quinn XCII Cain’s Ballroom May 10 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa, OK 74103 JJ Grey & Mofro with Ben Miller Band Cain’s Ballroom May 11 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa Sturgill Simpson May 11 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Ray Wylie Hubbard with Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights and Aaron Lee Tasjan Cain’s Ballroom May 12 @ 7:00 pm Tulsa FILTER with Orgy, Vampires Everywhere! and Death Valley High Cain’s Ballroom May 13 @ 6:00 pm Tulsa Movie in the Park – Hotel Transylvania May 13 @ 7:30 pm Bickham Rudkin Park, Edmond
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Shop.Edmond. Why Buy A Card? Say It In The Yard! Vsit our website for ideas on the use of our signs, and to book a greeting for someone special in your life. New inventory is being added regularly and each greeting will include stars, balloons and two special enhancement signs. We are already booking a few months out so do not wait! We look forward to helping you make someone smile! Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest @ Oklahoma Yard Greetings! Mackenzie Howard www.OklahomaYardGreetings.com (405) 474-0093 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, time for Spring Weddings, and Graduations! 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 Edmond Wine Shop on social networks at Twitter, Instagram & 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, visit Edmond Wine Shop online at EdmondWine.com.
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Shop.Edmond. Enjoy the country at any one of the 5 cozy cottages at Aaron’s Gate Country Cottages, in Guthrie, just in time for Romantic Spring Getaways! Located just a few minutes north of Edmond, 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. Be sure to check out the 4 and 7 day packages online at www. Aaronsgate.com to discover the cottages & to reserve your getaway, 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.
Sterling’s Home Decor & Gifts is a fun boutique located in Downtown Edmond, carrying Rustic Cuff, Sid Dickens, The GG Collection, Votivo, and more. Whether you are looking for gifts or something for yourself or your home, Sterling’s has made it a point to shop for unique items to bring home to Edmond. You can find Sterling’s at 105 S Broadway in Downtown Edmond and online at Instagram and Facebook at SterlingsEdmond! If you are looking for something specific stop in or call the shop at 405-844-7465 Open Mon. - Fri 10-5:30 & Saturdays 10-4:30
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Life Happens Unemployment: Next Steps to Recovery
“It was the best of times – and the worst of times.” So reads a quote from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, which could accurately describe the current economic climate in Oklahoma. We have enjoyed a mostly by Belinda Crosier, LPC, LADC thriving economy in Oklahoma for some time, as evidenced by the multitude of new restaurants, bars & entertainment facilities, commercial construction and lower prices at the gas pump. Yet those lower gas prices come with a price. Lower oil prices have resulted in layoffs by some of the oil companies, and will no doubt have some trickle-down effect on other aspects of our economy. For some, the worst has come to pass, and for many others, the fear of a potential layoff is an ever-present anxiety that cycles up and down with the fluctuating economic indicators. Sadly, too often there is some sort of shame inherent in being laid off, as if it was warranted or deserved. It may be difficult not to take it personally when it’s us, but a company’s bottom line does not discriminate on personal basis. I personally know someone who was laid off and suffered in embarrassed silence for weeks before sharing with friends that he was unemployed. Within a few weeks of disclosing his situation, a friend of a friend had put him in touch with someone & viola’ – he was once again working! Layoffs are just one of those unfortunate events that can happen to anyone, like a hailstorm or being rear-ended at a stoplight. When it happens, you start networking, talking to people who might know of employment possibilities, just like you ask friends for recommendations of a roofing contractor or body shop. Being proactive can help prevent feelings of powerlessness & helplessness; if you think a layoff might be coming get that resume’ dusted off and updated. Start checking out the job market now so you have an idea what companies or industries are hiring and do some research on areas or companies you might want to
consider. Losing a job is just that – a loss. With any loss there is usually a process of grieving, at least on some level. Initially there can be shock, especially if the layoff was unexpected, which can be immobilizing. There may also be some denial, a refusal to believe this is really happening, which can prevent taking constructive action, such as cutting back on expenditures or considering other options. Some will start catastrophizing in their minds, with worsecase scenarios, all the way up to winding up homeless and destitute, which is strong fuel for hopelessness, can lead to depression and accomplishes nothing. Anger can be a normal stage of the grief process. Feeling the situation is unfair is understandable, but trying to assign blame or responsibility is a waste of energy that could be better spent in problem-solving. Depression is also a natural part of grieving a loss, and where many people can become stuck and have great difficulty pulling themselves out. Action is the best antidote for depression: exercise (yes, I know you don’t feel like it, but do it anyway!), talk to people, research, brain storm, reassess priorities and make necessary lifestyle changes. While no one wants to lose their job and reduce their standard of living, there have been people for whom that has turned out to have some unexpected blessings. None of us like strife and struggle, but that’s usually when we learn and grow. Viewing the loss of a job as a temporary, but necessary, redirection, and being open to new possibilities and lessons, can make it less demoralizing. 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 Emory Anne Interiors to see whats in store for May Graduation, Wedding & Mother’s Day Gifts!
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)