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Vol. 8 2016 Issue 04
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AROUND EDMOND Can you believe it’s May already? This month started off with the 38th Annual Downtown Edmond Arts Festival. We love this event, and this year took the opportunity to find information on local arts opportunities for the community and to take in local artists’ wares. This year had some fun new additions that we feature in this issue. I also got the opportunity to have a great conversation with Edmond Artist Chris Cargill, who’s art you saw featured in ads, billboards, local winery labels and tshirts. Also, I had the opportunity to visit Edmond Artist Lisa Allswede’s The Project Box art gallery in the Paseo District for a conversation with fellow Edmond Artist Christie Hackler regarding her emBARK Migration Metal Monarch series. Find more information in this issue about seeing this installment at Myriad Gardens in June and then at the Oklahoma City Zoo in September, just in time for the migration through Oklahoma! She is an amazing person and I love her reason for bringing the slowing migration of the Monarch’s to light. Edmond native Chris Schwerdtfeger’s culinary dream of owning a food truck is coming to fruition as featured in our conversation about his new truck Bacon N’ Cakin within Local Flavor this month! It’s a great story so be sure to show him some love when you see him out and about! As well, check out this issue’s Reaction Poll and find out where our reader’s love to grab a cup of coffee and hang out locally. Trevor Hultner, in his continuing series on energy sources has some great information in this issue on Oklahoma’s Wind industry. It’s really informative and definitely a great read! Be sure to stay in touch with our events calendar here and online. The online version changes daily and has over 600 local metro and Edmond based events! It’s a great source of varied things to do in the metro for singles, married couples, and families! Email me at Sherrih@edmondactive.com to submit your event with the time, date, information and location of the event and a photo, if you have one. As I finish this issue, I have just started the next issue and it has dawned on me that on the 26th will be my birthday. I have spent most of my 40’s creating Edmond Active and having fun with all of you online. Thanks so very much to all of the businesses and readers for continuing on this journey with me which allows me to continue doing what I love at 50. Last week, I was talking to an ad agency rep about my social network’s, somehow the subject of age came up and she was shocked at my age, thinking I was in my late 30’s or early 40’s, based on my social networks and this magazine’s content. 50 is the new 30 something, apparently. And she is my favorite :) Thanks again to all of you, this year is looking bright. 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 Congratulations to the Edmond Memorial High School Baseball team for winning the 2016 Oklahoma State Baseball Championship! Also, congratulations to the Bulldogs for winning state in Girls & Boys Track and Boys Tennis! Way to go!
What’s New: Definitely stop by North Broadway to check out the newly relocated Pink Petal Boutique! Cute fashion, accessories and more! At 100 N Broadway
Congratulations to the Edmond North High School Boys Golf team for bringing home the win for the 6A State Championship! Photo via @ENFootball
Thanks to Rocket Fizz Edmond for forwarding over the awesome renderings of their new candy & soda shop at Campbell Corner on North Broadway! Should be a fun place for gifts, fun candy & unique soda options made by Rocket Fizz in Camarillo, CA.
Congratulations to the Edmond North High School Girls Tennis Team for their 6A State Championship! Photo via @ENFootball
Citizen’s Bank of Edmond recently ripped off the face of the Doll House in Downtown Edmond and will be renovating the space to create their commercial lending department!
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SOCIAL EDMOND INSTAGRAM
WOW! Midway through May, we reached 3,200 followers at Instagram! This account is about community, and I’m glad you feel the same! Thanks for following @Edmondactive!
It’s always fun to see the Citizen’s Edmond crew at local events, and especially at their photobooth at this year’s Downtown Edmond Arts Festival!
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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!
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My Home
A Leap of Faith
By Jennifer Hodgens This week I fearfully walked away from the security of a 10 year full-time job with a steady paycheck, a desk, computer, 401K and insurance. It was a job and a company that I loved with co-workers and bosses who had become like family. After a long time of prayer and discussion with my husband, we decided I would go out on my own to be able to spend more time with our daughter, to further a selfemployed career as an independent real estate team leader and to help my husband build his homebuilding business. It was one of the hardest leaps of my life, and even after years of planning for it, sitting here today I’m still kind of in shock. Taking a leap of faith is a dominant part of our culture right now. Everyone thinks about it. And more and more people are doing it. Sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of choice. This year, Gary and Martha Hall, our life group leaders and close friends, prayerfully decided to close their bed and breakfast after 25 years of award-winning hospitality in Edmond. The Halls started their own family business renovating and running the Arcadian Inn as a young family with two small boys. They are taking their leap of faith by closing a door and semi-retiring. This too is a common step many baby boomers are choosing to take as they near retirement age. My parents –also baby boomers –have lived in the Ponca City area all their lives. As they neared retirement they planned to
build their dream home and move closer to their grandkids and family. This fall after my father had a mild stroke, he retired from a beloved 40 year career as a clinical psychologist and made his leap of faith more quickly than he had planned. Today he and my mom are custom building a new home in Edmond, trying out new churches, and researching painting and knitting groups and ministry opportunities to get involved with in a brand new city. In one of my favorite books, The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkenson, we meet “Ordinary,” a Nobody who leaves the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. Once the Dream Giver convinces him to escape his Comfort Zone, Ordinary begins the journey of his life overcoming Border Bullies (which in real life would include concerned parents and skeptical friends), navigating the Wasteland, and battling the fierce Giants in the Land. This modernday parable invites readers to follow their hearts and find their destiny in an inspired Life Dream that is uniquely theirs. In the book, the author explains “Everyone has a dream. You may not be able to describe it. You may have forgotten it. You may even no longer believe it, but it’s there and you have it for a reason: to draw you toward the kind of life you were born to love.” “How do I know God’s dream for me?” You may be asking this very same first question the main character “Ordinary” asked at the beginning of his journey too. A few clues are left around to help guide you. 1) What have I always been good at? If you stop and think, the answer will come quickly but you’ll often try to dismiss it as “too easy,” “too elementary” or “something I was good at long ago.” 2) What needs do I care about the most? As Life Church pastor Craig Groeschel puts it, “The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.” 3) Who do you admire most? Perhaps God placed someone in your life as a guide to show you the path to follow. Pay attention to that. 4) What makes me feel most fulfilled? Brene Brown explains in her book The
Power of Vulnerability that for some reason American culture has taught us that who we are is the same as our vocation. At a party one of the first questions we usually ask to get to know someone is “So what do you do?” By this question we are asking what is your job title? What do you do that makes money?Other cultures don’t understand this. In Europe it’s very common to answer, “I love to cook, or I paint, or I teach dance,” even when the party-goer actually goes to an office, school or stays home to care for children everyday. She encourages us to cultivate play and rest defining it as letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. That’s fulfillment. 5) What have I felt called to do? Do you know the answer to this? Do you at least know the first step to find out? As Rocky Balboa says to Donny (Applo Creed’s son) in the movie CREED: “One step, one punch, one round at a time.” This is a great mantra for discovering your leap of faith in life as much as in the boxing ring. Our Oklahoma City metro area is going through some big changes right now with detrimental trickling effects of oil and natural gas prices continuing to drop across the country. Even if you’re not employed in this industry, you’ve still heard plenty about it and have probably felt its ill effects. Many highly skilled ex-employees are now finding themselves forced to look ahead at making a leap of faith. Whether it’s a new career, a new industry, going out on their own, staying home withthe kids or retiring; it’s all scary. But it’s also all exciting and perhaps it’s even what we were made to do. Usually the first step towards the leap of faith is stepping out of your comfort zone of security. So if you too are taking a leap of faith, take comfort in knowing that you don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step. Just take it and don’t look back. Jennifer Hodgens is a team leader for OklaHome real estate team (affiliated with Metro First of Edmond). Her husband, Craig Hodgens runs OklaHome Homebuilders and their daughter, Autumn loves to dance and paint.
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BACON N’ CAKIN’
I had the chance to take a minute and talk to Le Cordon Bleu trained Chef Chris Schwerdtfeger about his venture into the food truck scene, with his mom Judie Schwerdtfeger, with the metro’s first breakfast food truck since Waffle Champion. We found Chris at the 4/16/16 Heard on Hurd event and here’s what he had to say. EA: Congratulations on your new breakfast truck Bacon N’ Cakin’. Out of curiosity before we go further, are you a trained chef? I only ask because of the interesting combinations. Chris: As a matter of fact, I was trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale and graduated in 2011. EA: What was your specialty coming out of school? Chris: At the time I graduated, I was full culinary, but what I was specializing in school was Asian Infusion. EA: What led you to your debut of the Bacon N’ Cakin’ Truck? Chris: Ever since I had lived in Arizona and saw the explosion in the food truck scene there, when I returned to Oklahoma in 2012, I really wanted to do something like this here. I worked with Catherine and the Big Truck Taco girls right before they bought their first truck, and right before I went to school. So when I came back, the scene was really just starting up, and I knew it was something I was still really interested in. In 2015, I had gone back and worked with Big Truck Tacos again, and I had noticed there weren’t any trucks that were breakfast based, since Waffle Champion had retired their truck. I had wanted that truck
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but it wasn’t the right time. I actually bought this truck from Off the Hook when they set up shop in their brick and mortar space, at Britton and Broadway Extension. There was a void left by WC for breakfast food, so here I am. EA: Will this Heard on Hurd be your first event? Chris: No, this event marks our truck’s first month, and I’m looking forward to getting out around the metro, as well. EA: What will your specialty be? Chris: Our specialty will be the Ultimate Pancake Sandwich. It’s two pancakes, with bacon and cheese, or with strawberries and almonds, for example, and cooked into the pancakes. My savory pancakes have a fresh cooked egg between the pancakes. My dessert options are sweetcakes with sweet cream cheese between the cakes and then more of the goodness on top. We ran an omelet special at Open Streets OKC for a healthier option, and healthier options are hard with this truck but I make them available for daily and smaller events. EA: Where can people find Bacon N’ Cakin’ online? Chris: You can find the truck at Facebook, Instagram and at Twitter - @Baconncakin EA: Thanks for talking with me and here’s to much success! Chris: Thank you for the opportunity to let people know we’re here!
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Edmond Arts Festival Conversation with Chris Cargill
Featured artist of the 2016 Downtown Edmond Arts Festival I spent a few minutes with Mr. Cargill at this year’s Arts Festival and asked him a few questions. His booth was brimming with curious onlookers checking out his multimedia works. EA: How long have you been an artist and what type of art do you typically do? Chris: I have always drawn and sketched. As far as commercially, I have been doing this for about 4 years. I typically work on wood, and use a 6-layer method including paint, aerosols, newspaper and other mediums. EA: Congratulations on being the featured artist for this year’s arts festival. Is this your first time being featured? Chris: I am grateful to have been featured this year, and this is the second time as well as being the featured on the Waters Edge Winery labels. EA: What other shows have you traveled to? Chris: I’ve done the Affair of the Heart several times, the Edmond Arts Festival the last four years. I also try to do the other shows locally that are more theme oriented. I’ve also done a show in Santa Fe New Mexico. EA: Do you do commissioned work? Chris: I do. I try to make sure it is in a theme and a style that I specialize in. I try to work with the design concept and then I go from there with pricing and information for commissioned work can be found at my website. EA: Where can people find you online? Chris: They can visit my official site at ChrisCargill.com to see my current works and past works, along with articles on my work and upcoming shows and exhibits, and of course my contact information where I can be reached.
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Oil and Water Part III:
The Oklahoma Breeze How Wind Helps Power Our State By Trevor Hultner
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This is the third part of a multi-part series on how Oklahoma manages its energy resources. We’ve all heard the song. You know the one: it’s practically the only thing out-ofstaters can reference when talking about us, aside from the Thunder basketball team. It’s our state song. I don’t even have to name it, because you’re singing it to yourself right now. “Oklahoma: where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.” If you live in the metro or surrounding suburbs like we do, it’s likely that you won’t find too much prairie left over amid the sprawl of strip malls and residential neighborhoods. What you will find, however, is that famous Oklahoma Breeze. Light and refreshing some days, pregnant with destructive power on others, the wind is a constant force in our lives. Drive northwest only a few miles outside the Edmond city limits, and you’ll see a manifestation of humanity’s attempt to harness that force: wind turbines, dozens of them, extending off into the distance. This is the Kingfisher Wind Farm, one of several utility-scale wind farms situated all over the state. These farms generate thousands of megawatts of electric power
- not just for Oklahomans, but for millions of people living on the Southwest Power Pool. Oklahoma wind energy production has been growing since the construction of the Oklahoma Wind Energy Center in Harper and Woodward counties in 2003. The explosion of wind energy production has taken the state from “having no utilityscale wind energy capacity to now having nearly 4,000 megawatts of capacity, making it the fourth-largest wind energy state in the United States,” according to Dr. Shannon Ferrell, an associate professor of agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University. Ferrell published a report on the impact of wind energy for the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce in 2015. “We have more wind power than California does,” Oklahoma Renewable Energy Council spokesperson and former OG&E generation planning superintendent Mike Sheriff said. “If you look at the amount of wind per load, Oklahoma is even higher. We may not have as much wind power as Texas, but that’s because Texas’s load is 60 gigawatts and Oklahoma’s is between 15 and 20 gigawatts.”
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Part of the reason for the expansion in wind energy production in such a short time span is that the state has high wind energy potential coupled with a strong transmission infrastructure. These transmission lines allow for windgenerated power to move from farms to local power plants; according to Ferrell’s report, 17 percent of Oklahoma’s energy consumption in 2015 was from wind power. But they also allow for our energy to flow throughout the region as part of the Southwest Power Pool. According to the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and the Environment, in addition to the over-4000 megawatts of wind power currently in use across the state, another 1800 megawatts’ worth of wind farms are under construction. This falls in line with a comprehensive “all of the above” energy plan introduced by Gov. Mary Fallin in 2012 to continue to develop renewable energy and the infrastructure necessary to transmit it. Here is where the waters get murky, so to speak. The state’s budget shortfall and subsequent cutbacks to state services for mental health and education have sent lawmakers scrambling for ways to inject
money back into state coffers. Last year, Oklahoma legislators eliminated two tax credits that benefitted the wind energy industry: an investment and new jobs credit that, according to NPR StateImpact, was “rarely used,” and an ad valorem tax credit that reimbursed the industry over time. This year, with a $1.3 billion budget hole and declining oil and gas profits, lawmakers, oil industry representatives and citizen’s groups like WindWaste (which belongs to the Oklahoma Private Property Association) and Harold Hamm’s Windfall Coalition are lobbying to remove a third tax credit for zero emissions facilities that would naturally expire in 2020. We reached out to WindWaste through their public contact page for comment on this story, but at press time we have not heard from them. We also tried to get a hold of WindWaste’s parent organization, the Oklahoma Private Property Association, but they do not have a website or contact information for us to do so. According to their website, WindWaste “[Is] a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating Oklahomans about the harmful effects of Industrial Wind.” They have participated
in a handful of lawsuits against wind energy companies since 2014. Currently, Oklahoma legislators are still debating whether to keep or remove the zero emissions tax credit on the state level. On the local level, the city of Edmond definitely benefits from wind energy, according to Edmond Electric boss Glenn Fisher. “Every City of Edmond facility runs on wind through our Pure and Simple program,” Fisher said. Additionally, over 900 Edmond Electric customers use wind power. Edmond Electric purchases their energy from the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, including wind and geothermal power. According to Fisher, the city uses 95 million kilowatt hours per year. For Edmond and other parts of the state, wind may become a lot more prevalent in the coming years, thanks to a planned major transmission line running from Guymon, Okla. to Memphis, Tenn. Fisher said there is a possibility for Edmond - and any other municipality - to buy into that new line, through the OMPA. Oil and Water will return in Edmond Active Issue 6. It will cover the state’s water infrastructure.
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em/BARK: A Migratory Experience with Edmond Artist Christie Hackler Photos: Sherri Hultner
I stopped by The Project Box to check out Edmond artist, Christie Hackler’s em/ BARK: A Migratory Experience Monarch Butterfly art exhibit and to talk to her about why she chose the Monarch Butterfly to exhibit. Here is our conversation. EA: What is behind the creation of your metal Butterfly exhibit that you’ve shown at the Project Box here in the Paseo Arts District, to be shown at Myriad Garden’s in June and again at the OKC Zoo and Botanical Gardens? Christie: So, I really love butterflies because in the fall of 1996 I had an experience with my children driving through a butterfly kaleidoscope. It was just a really wonderful memory I had with my boys. Soon after that in December of 1996, my son Thomas died of meningitis, making this memory an important and special one for me. When my friends and family were trying to comfort me and be sympathetic, these butterflies just started showing up. I mean everywhere, on cards, on little rock statutes, and people were just buying me butterflies. To me, butterflies are very symbolic of metamorphosis of the cycle of life and death. The monarch became very symbolic for me in my own grieving process and that metamorphosis of life and death, and to coming back to life and
moving away from grief. I had been doing research on the Monarch butterfly, and in 1996 when I experienced that Monarch kaleidoscope, the Monarch butterfly migration to Central Mexico was at its height, numbering about 1 billion at that time. As of this year, the migration is only numbered at about 30 to 40 million. I went through about a year and a half where I lost four members of my family, my in laws, my father and my brother in law, and just felt inundated with death and felt I just needed to shake this off. Last year, I had my first solo show at The Project Box, and I was faced with having to fill up this whole gallery with something and felt like I was just in a funk. I decided that I was just going to make something that just makes me happy, and the image of the butterfly appeared. For me, the Monarch represents rebirth. I also feel that I want this work to have a purpose. A purpose of bringing awareness to what we are doing to our eco system. The butterfly is the number 2 most important pollinator to the bee. Because people are afraid of bees because they sting you, the butterfly is the ambassador for the pollinators. And, it is the year of the pollinator! EA: You have three installations of this
show this year. Tell our readers where they can find your butterflies throughout the year. Christie: Well, it started with this em/ BARK: A Migratory Experiment exhibit here at The Project Box, we’ll be at Myriad Gardens in June, and in September, you can find the final installation at the Monarch Festival at the OKC Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Each installation will have an increased number of butterflies. The Monarch Festival at the Zoo will be educational and include information on the Monarch’s migration, information on native plantings that attract the Monarch, information on creating fertile ground to grow butterfly friendly plantings, etc. EA: Where can our readers find more information on your installations and more information about how to purchase your butterflies? Christie: They can find me at Metalhoma.com, they can find me through The Project Box in the Paseo, or they can find me at my studio in Downtown Oklahoma City. In addition, the butterflies will be sold at the Made in Oklahoma Gift Shop at the Oklahoma City Zoo from July through August.
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Rapid Success Riversport Rapids Story: Sherri Hultner Photos: Chris Hultner
On Mother’s Day, I was given the opportunity to visit the Riversport Rapids facility in South/Downtown OKC during their grand opening, and what an experience and gorgeous facility. According to the Boathouse District, the Riversport Rapids is geared for both family fun and elite athlete training. The 11-acre RIVERSPORT Rapids whitewater center was completed as part of MAPS 3, the one-cent sales tax initiative dedicated to metro area projects. We met a Dallas resident who said that she liked the facility so much that she would be returning every weekend during the summer because the other like facility near her was 5
hours away, and it only made sense to head to OKC with the 3 hour commute. Her comments also included that she thought this may be the nicest, most well thought out facility of its kind in the entire country, for experts but also for beginners. According to Riversport, recirculating channels pumping treated water create class II-IV rapids and offer a range of experiences for whitewater rafting, tubing, kayaking and canoeing. The lower flow channel offers great family rafting and tubing experiences – no previous experience necessary. For more information, to purchase passes, and a calendar with hours, visit boathousedistrict.org
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Edmond Events May 2016 ELLIE GOULDING – MAY 18 – OKC May 18 @ 6:30 pm The Official Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City Visceral Trio – Featuring Henry Dickhoff on Organ May 18 @ 7:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, Edmond Art After 5: Moderns Annual Rooftop Party May 19 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Salt Lake Bees May 19 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Grow Great Grub Gardening Class May 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Providence Farms, Edmond ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS | Cain’s Ballroom May 20 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Salt Lake Bees May 20 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Groove Merchants May 20 @ 10:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, Edmond Family Art Market May 21 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm City of Edmond Parks and Recreation, Government,
Edmond CBE’s Heard on Hurd May 21 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm 32 N Broadway, Edmond Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Salt Lake Bees May 21 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Randy Rogers Band May 21 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Garrett “Big G” Jacobson May 21 @ 8:00 pm The University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, Edmond Taste of Oklahoma Brunch in the Gardens May 22 @ 11:00 am Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Salt Lake Bees May 22 @ 1:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Otep – May 23 – OKC May 23 @ 6:30 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City Full Moon Bike Ride and Run returns! May 23 @ 7:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City LEON BRIDGES with Andra Day | Cain’s Ballroom (Sold Out) May 23 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa STRFKR & Com Truise with Fake Drugs | Cain’s Ballroom May 24 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Flogging Molly – May 24 – Diamond Ballroom OKC May 24 @ 8:30 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City Preseason VIP Get Your Veggie on May 25 @ 2:00 pm - May 30 @ 10:00 pm Providence Farms, Edmond Old 97’s and Heartless Bastards with BJ Barham | Cain’s Ballroom May 25 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa TECH N9NE – 05/25/16 – OKC May 25 @ 7:30 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City A$AP FERG & TORY LANEZ | Cain’s Ballroom May 26 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Deftones May 26 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Memorial Day Weekend Prairie and Pollinator Plant Sale May 27 @ 10:00 am - May 28 @ 4:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2016 | Cain’s Ballroom May 27 @ 6:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Paseo Arts Festival May 28 @ 10:00 am - May 30 @ 6:00 pm Paseo Arts District, Oklahoma City The Turkey Mountain Troubadours with The Fabulous Hardcastle Brothers | Cain’s Ballroom
May 28 @ 6:30 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs May 31 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Tyler the Creator – 5/31 OKC May 31 @ 8:00 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City
June 2016 Summer Field Trips June 1 @ 9:30 am - June 24 @ 1:30 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City TYLER, THE CREATOR with Taco | Cain’s Ballroom June 1 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs June 1 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City An Intimate Evening with Justin Hayward – June 1 – Tulsa, OK June 1 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa Gogol Bordello / Frank Turner OKC June 1 @ 8:00 pm Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City OKC JAZZ FEST June 2 The Criterion, Oklahoma City Dancing In the Gardens Lesson: Swing Dance June 2 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs
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June 2 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City An Intimate Evening with Justin Hayward – June 2 – OKC June 2 @ 8:00 pm The Hudson Performance Hall, Oklahoma City
Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City 2016 Peace Love & Goodwill Festival June 5 @ 10:00 am - 9:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City
OKC JAZZ FEST June 2 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City
GRACE POTTER | Cain’s Ballroom June 5 @ 7:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Her & Me Opening Reception :: Marilyn Artus solo exhibition June 3 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Project Box, Oklahoma City
16th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival June 8 @ 8:00 am - June 12 @ 5:00 pm Oklahoma City
Dancing in the Gardens featuring SWING DANCE presented by Gardner Tanenbaum Holdings June 3 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City
Kirk Franklin – June 9 – Tulsa June 9 @ 8:00 am Brady Theater, Tulsa
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Iowa Cubs June 3 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City OKC JAZZ FEST June 3 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Edible Portraits June 4 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Learn how to build a cardboard boat! June 4 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm City of Edmond Parks and Recreation, Government, Edmond OKC JAZZ FEST June 4 @ 8:00 pm The Criterion, Oklahoma City Once Upon a Princess – Peace Love & Goodwill Festival June 5 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds June 9 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Nashville Sounds June 11 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Brit Floyd (World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute Show) – Saturday, June 11 – Tulsa, OK June 11 @ 8:00 pm Brady Theater, Tulsa
An Evening with Buckethead | Cain’s Ballroom June 13 @ 7:30 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa Summer Camp for K-6th Grades June 14 @ 9:00 am - June 17 @ 2:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds June 12 @ 6:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Brandi Carlile | Cain’s Ballroom June 14 @ 6:30 pm Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa
Built To Spill at ACM@UCO Performance Lab June 12 @ 8:00 pm ACM@UCO Performance Lab, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Omaha Storm Chasers June 14 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Omaha Storm Chasers June 13 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Omaha Storm Chasers June 15 @ 11:05 am Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Nashville Sounds June 10 @ 7:05 pm Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City Movie Night in the Park – Pan June 10 @ 7:30 pm Shannon Miller Park, Edmond Pop Up Shops in the Park June 11 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Choctaw Creek Park, Choctaw Corn Party June 11 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Orr Family Farm, Oklahoma City Painting In The Gardens With Wine & Palette June 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Dodgers vs.
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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 Paper Arts is a scrapbook and art boutique that provides top of the line supplies for scrapbooking, card making and other fun projects, classes and one-on-one instruction, as well as, ready to buy gifts. We love scrapbooking, card making and all things paper crafting. We also love to share our creations and the products that we find with our customers. There is nothing more satisfying to us than to hear the joy in a customer’s voice as they learn a new technique or find the perfect product for their projects. Paper Arts 632 W. Edmond Rd. Edmond, OK 73003 (405) 330-2055
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Life Happens Do You Know Your Teen’s Love Language? by Amanda Percival, Staff Therapist
One of the reasons that I pursued a
hike together. Physical touch can include
career as a therapist was my desire to help
high fives and hugs with your children or
strengthen others’ relationships. I love to
cuddling and sexual intimacy with your
work with couples and families. Although
spouse. Words of affirmation are all those
the majority of the clients I see are teens,
sweet compliments that we love to hear,
one common thread many of the teens have
“You look nice today,” or, “Your new
is a lack of feeling loved and accepted by
haircut looks great.”, or “Great job on your
their family. Many times this comes as a
math test!” Gifts do not have to be expensive
shock to their parents because the parents
or extravagant. They can include flowers
truly do love and care for their teen. So
picked from outside or a surprise ice cream
why the discrepancy between the two? One
cone. Acts of service are when you go out of
resource that I frequently share with parents
your way to do something nice for another.
is the book by Gary Chapman titled, The 5
Maybe you make a favorite meal for your
Love Languages. Chapman’s initial book
child or take your spouse’s car to the car
was meant for married couples, but he has
wash.
expanded his collection to include love
This may sound so easy; too easy. But
languages for children and teens. The books
you would be surprised at how bad we can
are also available translated into Spanish.
be at executing this. Once you know what
Chapman’s theory is that everyone has a
love language your child or spouse speaks,
“love language”. Much in the same way that
you can “love” them in the way that they
I could not communicate love to my child
hear and understand you. You can go to
by speaking Spanish if they only understand
www.5lovelangues.com and take a short
English, I have to speak my child’s love
quiz to determine which of the five you or
language in order to effectively communicate
your loved ones favors most. The website
my love for them. For some, this may seem
also includes more details in regard to each
like common sense. However, I have seen
of the love languages. Many of us enjoy
this revolutionize relationships so I believe
elements from each of the five, but we have
it is worth sharing.
one or two that we gravitate to most. I would also recommend reading Chapman’s book.
The 5 love languages he includes are:
It is readily accessible at most book stores as
• Quality Time
well as online and in most libraries. I have
• Physical Touch
seen it be a great resource in marriages and
• Words of Affirmation
families.
• Gifts • Acts of Service Many of us default to the love language that we most prefer and understand, and the one which is easiest for us to perform. Quality time can be anything from watching a football game together to enjoying a
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Stop by Emory Anne Interiors to see whats in store for Graduations, Weddings & Outdoor living!
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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