Walk to Cure Arthritis calls on Oklahoma to raise awareness

Arthritis Foundation calls on local and area residents to support their mission to cure arthritis, and help people battling the disease live a full life, by participating in the 2023 Walk to Cure Arthritis on May 20 at Stars and Stripes Park, Lake Hefner.

Walk to Cure Arthritis, the Arthritis Foundation’s annual flagship fundraising event, celebrates arthritis warriors, their caregivers, and everyone else who’s part of the movement to conquer arthritis. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting research for better treatments and a cure, as well as offering tools and resources to help reduce chron- ic pain and improve people’s lives.

Funds raised will be used to keep research, resources, and services going strong for those battling arthritis. This year, the community will band together to help support the over 1,000,000 residents living with arthritis in Oklahoma.

“Arthritis is the No.1 cause of disability in the United States, affecting nearly 60 million Americans, including 300,000 children. Together, we can make a difference for these arthritis warriors,” said Shelly Jordan, Executive Director Arthritis Foundation Oklahoma.

“For 75 years, the Arthritis Foundation has been committed to con- quering this disease through lifechanging research and resources. We couldn’t make the progress that we do if it weren’t for community members coming together to support and raise money for this important cause.”

At this year’s walk, we will be honoring a local girl who battles Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, 14year-old, Stella Gebard. Despite being diagnosed with JIA at age 6, you will find Stella singing, dancing, and performing all over Oklahoma in productions like Lyric Theatre’s, Matilda. When she isn’t perfecting her craft in the studio, you may find her at her family farm or enjoying her cats, Oreo and Ginny, her dogs, Prada and Merle, and many of her horses! We are so pleased to celebrate Stella’s strength and tenacity at the 2023 Walk to Cure Arthritis OKC.

Other event honorees include: RA Warrior, Jami Cole, and Rheumatologist, Dr. Mary Mamut.

Residents can register and begin fundraising for the Oklahoma City Walk to Cure Arthritis and learn more about the event by visiting walktocurearthritis.org/okc or by contacting Shelly Jordan at sjordan@arthritis.org. To learn more about the fight to cure arthritis, visit walktocurearthritis.org.

The Catholic School of St. Eugene Kindergarten students Penelope Elder (left) and Penelope Marin (right) make signs to promote the diaper and baby wipes drive their class will hold this spring. Kindergarten’s SALT focus is Caring for Mothers and Babies. They also put together toddler snack kits for Infant Crisis Center clients.

The Catholic School of St. Eugene second grade student Kadence Simmons works on a cheerful sidewalk chalk drawing outside the Bethany Children’s Health Center. Second grade’s SALT focus is Caring for the Sick. Students visited Bethany Children’s Health Center to learn more about staying healthy, and to drop off motivational posters they made for display in the halls.

St. Eugene students serve community with SALT

The students, staff, and volunteers from the Catholic School of St. Eugene, located in The Village, went out into the community for their annual SALT Day of Service.

Since 2017, the Catholic School of St. Eugene has integrated service into its curriculum through the

The Catholic School of St. Eugene third grade student Ryder Jea helps sort clothes at Sharing Tree in Moore. Third grade’s SALT focus is Working to End Poverty and Homelessness. The class visited Sharing Tree (a Moore non-profit that provides families in need with a dignified shopping experience) after having partnered with them for a Christmas toy drive.

SALT Program. SALT stands for Serve, Appreciate, Love, Teach. Each class from preschool through eighth grade focuses on one service topic each year, integrated through activities, speakers, and an allschool service day. Each activity is meant to educate, provide an opportunity for students to take action, or reflect on their topic.

The program aims to strengthen Catholic identity as a school and provide opportunities for all students to embrace Jesus’ call to missionary discipleship as an essential part of who they are.

The Catholic School of St. Eugene fourth grade students Owen Elder (left) and Yocemil Castro (right)\work together to weigh and package linguine noodles at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. Fourth grade’s SALT focus is Working to End Hunger. The class organized a food drive in November, collecting more than 4,000 pounds of food.

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Hang the Moon

By Jeannette Walls

Hang the Moon was written by Jeannette Walls, a graduate of Barnard College and a journalist in New York. She combined her talents for historical fiction storytelling with a close look at the mountain people in the state of Virginia in the 1920s and prohibition and family feuding between the Kincaids and the Bonds. Her touch of hillbilly, competitive bootlegging adds a vivid touch of color to these people of Claiborne County, in rural Virginia.

There are many story lines at work in these hills besides the lucrative liquor business, with racial tension, family secrets, dysfunctional families, wild car chases in Model T cars and spiffy Packard limos. The two families involved in the squabbles are the Bonds and the offspring of Duke Kincaid, the richest and most powerful man in town. He has been married three times and interspersed are children who seem to appear about every 15 minutes. With those ingredients, jealousy abounds and Duke sent his relatives in and out of the family as he pleased. His daughter Sallie was sent to a relative for nine years after offending his second wife.

The list includes Aunt Faye, Baby Grace, Eddie, Georgette, Jane, as well as the friend’s handsome Rawley, and Tom. Sallie Kincaid fights for women’s rights in such a family and marriages, divorces, fallen women and male hucksters appear on almost every page.

With prohibition, killings and strong beliefs in marriage and varying degrees of commitment and lots of lies there would seem to be plenty of conflict, but the Women’s Temperance movement adds more with its stand against making, buying, selling and transporting liquor. There is bound to be trouble within and without friends and neighbors.

In other stories, old conflicts between the fictitious McCoys and the Hatfields from other authors might appear dull and sluggish as compared with these families. Sallie leads the road in staking claims on the Kin-