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Monday, October 9, 2023

Mayo Clinic Minute

Strategies to stay healthy during respiratory virus season

DeeDee Stiepan Mayo Clinic News Network

Fall and winter are a time when highly contagious viruses that cause respiratory illness usually circulate heavily in communities. Because many of these viruses can lead to serious infection, hospitalization and even death, it’s crucial to arm yourself with strategies that can help prevent illness and keep you and your loved ones safe.

In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, an infectious diseases expert, outlines some strategies you can use to keep you and your family healthy during respiratory virus season.

“Each year we have what we call viral respiratory season where people seem to get colds, and some people get worse infections, including pneumonia,” says Dr. Sampathkumar.

Audit urged UNC to require active shooter training for faculty, staff. It didn’t comply

Korie Dean

The Charlotte Observer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill received recommendations in 2020 to require active shooter training for faculty and staff, an audit document obtained by The News & Observer indicates. But three years later, and following two gun-related lockdowns this academic year, the university has not implemented such requirements.

The internal audit, which was completed in May 2020, included five recommendations for how the university could improve safety and security before, during and after active shooter or “armed intruder” situations on campus.

The first recommendation, which corresponded to the auditor’s observation that the university at that time had “insufficient” active shooter training for university employees, said the university “should consider requiring” faculty and staff to participate in such training to “ensure” they are prepared to respond to such emergencies. The recommendation said such training could also be added to new employee on-boarding processes.

But according to information provided to The N&O by the UNC media relations office following the deadly Aug. 28 shooting at the university, there is no required emergency training for faculty at the university.

The university provided a response to each recommendation in the 18-page audit, stating it concurred with all of them. Regarding the recommendation for required training, the university’s response stated that it would implement “rigorous training exercises for law enforcement” and “review” other training resources. The response did not directly address whether the university

would implement required training specifically for staff and faculty.

Some UNC students recounted to The N&O in the days following the Aug. 28 shooting at the university that they felt their professors were not prepared for the emergency.

“I know that not everyone felt as prepared as they may have wanted to, and no system and no response is perfect,” UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz told members of the university Faculty Council at a Sept. 28 meeting, adding that the university would “assess whether more required trainings should be considered.”

UNC Police Chief Brian James told The N&O in an interview last month that “it is absolutely best practice to have as many people trained as we possibly can,” but said any mandates for training would need to be decided by university leadership.

UNC said in its responses to the audit recommendations that it would act on all of the recommendations by the end of the 2020 calendar year — either by completing them, or by taking steps to review them.

UNC spokesperson Erin Spandorf told The N&O by email that the university’s Office of Internal Audit, along with the associate vice chancellor for campus safety and risk management, have been tracking the implementation of the audit’s recommendations since 2020.

“Significant efforts have been attained related to addressing identified improvement opportunities; however, the recommendations remain in an open status, with noted progress,” Spandorf said.

The university did not address specific questions from The N&O regarding why it has not implemented required training for faculty and staff. Nor did it address whether the training is included in new employee on-boarding.

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venIt’s almost Halloween at Oklahoma State, so it’s time to get spooky Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to find decorations on a budget that fit

Let’s start with a Stillwater favorite, Walmart. The superstore is full of budget-friendly items for students to pick from. A notable item is the $2-$5 mini pumpkins available for purchase. Want to take the mini pumpkin to the next level? After checking out all the amazing articles, grab some paint and some O’Colly newspapers,

If you want to freak out your friends when they walk in the door, Walmart has a variety of skeletons. The spooktacular props range in price from $2-$30. Grab some command hooks for these festive decorations and pumpkin lights. A string of lights is about $6. Remember to turn off the lights before you leave for class.

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Aggressive play calling highlights OSU’s 29-21 upset victory against Kansas State

Ashton Slaughter Assistant Sports Editor

Nearly two weeks ago, following OSU’s loss to Iowa State, coach Mike Gundy set the tone in his meeting with the team to begin the bye week.

“You’re playing last year’s Big 12 champs that whooped your ass,” he said, referencing the 48-0 result in Manhattan.

His offense played with fire, pulling out all the stops in the Cowboys’ 29-21 upset victory against Kansas State on Friday night.

Heading into the game, the OSU offensive unit ranked 99th in total offense in Division I, an atypical position for Cowboy football. The bye week, though, allowed Gundy and offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn to scheme up different looks and plays, pulling no punches against what has been a productive Wildcats’ defense.

On the Cowboys’ third offensive play, quarterback Alan Bowman lined

up in shotgun with Ollie Gordon II lined up next to him. Gordon took the handoff and headed left, toward wide receiver Brennan Presley, who was heading right in motion after the snap. Gordon flipped it to Presley, and he took it eight yards.

The next play, Bowman handed the ball off to Gordon again, who this time pitched it to another wide receiver, Rashod Owens, flicking it back to the quarterback to fire a pass nearly 30 yards down the field to tight end Josiah Johnson. The pass sailed out of bounds, but that wasn’t the point — the offense was reaching deep in the playbook and wanted to make its presence felt immediately, in front of a national-television audience on ESPN and in front of a sold-out Boone Pickens Stadium crowd dressed in all black, too.

Later in the quarter, on firstand-10 from Kansas State’s 24, Bowman fired a pass to Presley after motioning across the field to the right, only for Presley to pass it back to Bowman on the opposite side of the field, leading to a 3-yard gain. Only Brendan Mott, Wildcat defensive end, read the play, and Bowman attempted to maneuver

around him with a juke move before being tackled.

“I tried to be all cool and step back,” Bowman said. “It wasn’t great.”

These types of play calls and a Bowman-led, confident offense ushered to an early 10-0 OSU lead in the first quarter.

Early in the second, when it seemed like OSU (3-2, 1-1) couldn’t be any bolder, the punt team ran out on its own 44-yard line on fourth-and-1. Sure, punting with such a close distance to a first down isn’t ideal, but the Cowboys still held a three-point lead after a Kansas State (3-2, 1-1) touchdown.

Sure enough, the Cowboys pushed their chips into the middle.

Running back Elijah Collins took the direct snap for 4 yards. The Cowboys pulled out a flea flicker, a double pass and a fake punt within just more than 20 minutes of football.

“And we had more (plays to use if needed),” Dunn said. “...We felt like we had to get in and really get after ‘em and score and put up points, and we did.”

“The defense has no idea what we’re going to do,” Bowman said. “To

be able to have a reverse, have a double reverse pass, have a throw back to the quarterback, that’s the Oklahoma State offense.”

Despite the Cowboys’ offense progressively becoming more conservative throughout the game — which they never trailed in — their aggression to win and puff out their chest was clear.

OSU’s 29 points is a season-high total, and dating back to last year, it’s the most points since Homecoming against Texas in October (41 points).

Call it payback, a two-week mindset coming off a bye or just an aggressive game plan; either way, the offense did enough to defeat Kansas State, a game where OSU was a 12-point underdog.

Bowman says this is what the OSU football program has always been about offensively and what it will be moving forward.

“We’re going to do a lot of different things; we’re gonna throw a lot of stuff at you, we got some trick plays, and we’re gonna throw the ball down the field and score a lot of points,” he said.

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Alan Bowman threw a deep pass off a flea flicker, handed it off before a reverse and even caught a pass in

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With the QB job set, Bowman showed OSU’s offense has potential in win against KSU

Braden Bush Sports Editor

Friday night was a relief for Alan Bowman.

The previous time Bowman jogged onto the field at Boone Pickens Stadium, he was met with boos. He checked in for his fourth drive of the game against South Alabama with the Cowboys down 16-0, and he and the offense hadn’t done much of anything. Six plays later, he walked off the field with a 6-for-12, 42-yard, oneinterception stat line.

It was a night to forget. Although he won the starting job the next week and played well against Iowa State, Bowman and the Cowboys were dealt back-to-back losses.

Bowman’s statistics in OSU’s 29-21 win Friday against Kansas State weren’t the best of his career, or even better than those he put up in Ames two weeks ago, but the offense operated smoothly with him at the helm after weeks of preparation as “the” guy at quarterback. It was a tight win, but this time, Bowman walked off to applause, not jeers.

“It was down-to-the-wire stressful, but it feels good to sit down with a victory,” Bowman said.

On OSU’s opening drive, Bowman went 6-for-10 for 52 yards as the Cowboys marched 72 yards in 15 plays for a touchdown.

That’s something the Cowboys (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) hadn’t done all season, but they also hadn’t had Bowman taking most of the first-team reps and building continuity with the rest of the first teamers all season.

“The more games that we play as a unit, the more reps that we get in practice, the better we’re gonna be on offense,” Bowman said. “I think that kind of attests from two weeks prior to this week, is really just getting two weeks together to be able to operate at a high level.”

Bowman finished 19-for35 for 235 yards and no touchdowns — not stellar, but it was effective. He had two 45-yard completions that set the Cowboys up at the KSU 2-yard line and 13-yard line, and he didn’t throw an interception after throwing three the past two games.

Although he’s not known for rushing, OSU offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn designed a few power-formation runs for Bowman against the Wildcats (3-2, 1-1 Big 12), and one for a first down. That gave another wrinkle to the offense.

“The running game with the quarterback was a little bit better,” Dunn said. “We’ve got to get him out on the perimeter, just some, enough to move the pocket and not let people try and rush the so-called launch point and tee off on him.”

Three weeks ago, Bowman was in a three-man rota-

tion at quarterback and didn’t know what the future held. Two weeks ago, Bowman earned the start and played the whole game but wasn’t guaranteed the job after a pair of picks and consecutive losses. This week, Bowman

and the offense showed what it could do with consistency.

The Cowboys weren’t perfect. KSU’s offensive line dominated OSU in the red zone, and five drives ended in field goals. Bowman missed on some throws, and receivers dropped

others. But Bowman and the offense did enough after two weeks of practice with certainty at quarterback, and the Cowboys are back in the win column.

“There’s a lot of poten-

tial for this offense,” Bowman said. “There’s some shots that we missed, some incompletions that we had that we’d like to have back, obviously some throws I’d like to have back, but I think these are things that we can clean up going forward.”

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OSU quarterback Alan Bowman said having two weeks of preparation as the starter has helped the offense operate at a higher level.

Bray, Owens stepped up against KSU in De’Zhaun Stribling’s absence

questions about the OSU secondary two weeks ago after a big performance.

OSU put those questions to bed Friday night, shutting down KSU.

After a flurry of losses in the wide receiver room during the summer, the addition of De’Zhaun Stribling was a crucial one.

Stribling missed Friday’s game with what coach Mike Gundy called a season-ending hand injury, but a few familiar faces filled his shoes. Sophomore Jaden Bray and junior Rashod Owens both went over 70 yards receiving.

“(Bray’s) a good player, and we’ve got to keep getting him the football,”

OSU offensive coordinator Kasey Dunn said. “He’s athletic, and I think he could be a special football player for us.”

Owens will also be a key to the offense with Stribling done for the season.

“He’s played every position, he’s very intelligent so he can play multiple spots,” Gundy said. “He’s played in big games, he had catches in the Fiesta Bowl.”

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At the forefront of OSU’s defensive dominance was safety Cameron Epps, who hauled in two interceptions, including a pick-six right before halftime. Epps moved into the starting lineup after Lyrik Rawls’ injury, and Epps ran with the opportunity.

“Cam has got a chance,” Gundy said. “He’s long, rangy, very intelligent, he’s very athletic, he has good hands. He’s raw, he hasn’t played very much.”

OSU offensive line gets on the right track

One of the biggest weaknesses of Oklahoma State heading into Friday’s game was its rushing offense.

The Cowboys were the 104thranked rushing offense, and a big reason for it was the struggles of the offensive line. KSU entered with the sixth-ranked rush defense.

OSU running back Ollie Gordon ran all over KSU, racking up 140 yards and a touchdown behind an improved effort from the offensive line.

“It’s really great when your offensive line can come out and fire on all cylinders back-to-back weeks,” Gordon said. “I’m really proud of them because they came in and handled the first half, and then they adjusted in the second half.”

The offensive line also kept Alan Bowman clean, allowing zero sacks and only one quarterback hurry on the night.

Alex Hale ties program record

Most of the time, the contributions of a kicker go under the radar.

That wasn’t the case Friday, for OSU kicker Alex Hale tied a program record with five made field goals against the Wildcats. Hale, an Australia native, also made a career-high, 53-yard field goal in the third quarter.

Hale has been at OSU since 2019, battling for the starting job. Despite not having his job secured at all times, Hale stuck it out at OSU, and it paid off Friday night.

“It’s nice to get back on the field and get lots of kicks,” Hale said. “I’ve been here a long time, so it’s been a long time coming, I’m just happy to be back out there.”

Red zone offense struggles

The Cowboy offense racked up 412 total yards and pummeled KSU both on the ground and through the air.

However, there was a concerning trend.

OSU entered the red zone four times but managed to only get into the end zone once.

Because of Hale’s heroics, the Cowboys’ lack off execution near the goal line didn’t come back to bite them, but if they continue to fall short, Gundy said it will bite them eventually.

“I think obviously we have to emphasize red zone more, that’s what coaches are going to tell you, that’s what all our players are going to tell you,” Bowman said. “We’d love to add touchdowns not field goals.”

OSU’s offensive line, although good between the 20-yard lines, struggled to block KSU once near the goal line.

“I think when we got inside the 12-yard line they whipped us up front,” Gundy said. “When you’re talking specifically in the run, I think we got whipped up front.”

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Growth through pain

OSU professor releases book

Kennedy Thomason News & Lifestyle Editor

OSU professor Sarah Beth Childers has released a new book.

“Prodigals, A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss” shares snippets of Childer’s life growing up in Appalachia. She discusses her life, before and after the suicide of her brother.

“I wrote the book because I tend to process the important events in my life by writing about them — something that resulted in my first creative nonfiction book, ‘Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family,’ — so writing about my brother’s death felt like an inevitable and important part of my grieving process,” Childers said. “I also felt an urgency to preserve memories of my brother and my own childhood and youth before I lost them.”

The book explores Childers’ journey, dealing with grief and how it has shaped her transition from a sister to a mother. One of the main conduits she uses to tell her story is the Bible.

“A major part of writing the book was telling the story of the prodigal son,” Childers said. “I loved picturing him as a real young man and imagining his journey. For source material, I used the Bible and the Bible storybook my siblings and I read as children, and it was so much fun to revisit that book and its artwork as an adult reader.”

Childers said she hopes her story will resonate with her readers.

“I’m thankful I wrote the book when I did, because I’m a mom now and see life differently as a result,” Childers said. “This book felt like it needed to be about Joshua and our own childhoods in West Virginia rather than about my kids in Oklahoma.”

One of Childers’ goals is for readers to recognize the complex nature of family relationships and how healing is possible despite pain.

“Suicides happen within such a complex web of cultural influences, life circumstances and random events, that self-blame or blame of anyone is unproductive,” Childers said.

Childers’ book is available through online booksellers and the University of Georgia Press.

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OSU professor Sarah Beth Childers recently released a book, “Prodigals, A Sister’s Memoir of Appalachia and Loss.”

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The viruses responsible for causing most infections in the fall and winter are influenza, COVID-19 and

respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

One of the best strategies to provide protection against these viruses is vaccination. Annual flu shots are recommended for everyone 6 months and older.

“The flu vaccine, as you know, has been around for many, many years and is a very safe vaccine,” says Dr. Sampathkumar. “It does do a good job in preventing the most serious complica-

tions of flu, which are hospitalization and death.”

Updated COVID-19 vaccines are also recommended this year, along with a newly approved RSV vaccine for adults ages 60 and older with risk factors for RSV such as weakened immune systems, frailty or chronic heart or lung disease. Dr. Sampathkumar says along with getting recommended vaccinations,

avoiding crowded areas, considering masking to protect yourself in crowded indoor spaces, and frequent handwashing, are other ways to help get you through respiratory virus season.

“Then, if you do become sick, make sure that at that point, you do wear a mask to protect those around you. Staying home and not exposing a lot of people at your workplace or elsewhere.”

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A health care worker receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

As noted in the audit — and as is still the case presently — the UNC Police Department offers voluntary training when requested by campus departments or units. James told The N&O his department promotes “that training as often as possible” and conducts “it on a regular basis.”

“Certainly, we believe that the more people we have trained, the better prepared we are,” James said.

But the audit noted not all faculty and staff are required to attend those training sessions, even when they are requested and offered in their department. The audit stated that while the university’s Campus Health department requested and held a training during the time that the audit was being performed, only 20 of the department’s more than 100 employees attended.

The training, which is called “Shots Fired on Campus,” is based on training offered by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety, the UNC Police website states.

“The University has not fully integrated Shots Fired on Campus training into the campus framework, therefore, the University is missing an opportunity to benefit from the knowledge provided by the Campus Police Department,” the audit stated.

“Integrating the training is important for maintaining the safety of faculty, staff, and students. Active assailant, armed intruder training plays a key role in keeping students and staff safe during an emergency, but without integration, faculty, staff, and students may not be adequately prepared.”

Darrell Jeter, UNC’s director of emergency management and planning, told The N&O in an interview last month that training is required for “those who have defined roles in our campus emergency response plans.” Guskiewicz told the university Faculty Council last month that active shooter training is required

“for many of the new members to our campus community,” and other faculty are “regularly” encouraged to participate in training.

Erin Siegal McIntyre, a professor in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, organized a voluntary training for faculty following the Aug. 28 shooting.

Siegal McIntyre, who began teaching at the university in 2020, said she did not receive emergency training during her on-boarding process, as the university was recommended to implement in the audit.

Siegal McIntyre told The N&O she waited a short time after the shooting before reaching out to UNC Police about training, but eventually decided to do so after it seemed like there would not be a larger push by her department or the university at-large to ensure faculty participated in the training.

The training was scheduled for Sept. 15 — two days after a second lockdown occurred at the university on Sept. 13, when a man allegedly threatened a campus dining worker with a gun in the student union. Siegal McIntyre said the process to request and schedule the training with UNC Police was “pretty simple,” and an officer responded to her email request on the same day she sent it.

Siegal McIntyre said “a packed house” of about 30 people or more attended the training. Attendees included faculty from the journalism school and other departments across the university, she said.

“I think the fact that we had another active shooter situation in the days preceding the training that had been organized probably helped a little bit” with attendance, Siegal McIntyre said.

Siegal McIntyre said the 90-minute training was useful and offered practical tips for how to effectively barricade a classroom during an active shooter situation, among other information. She said the training helped build trust between the journalism school faculty and campus police, and established a line of communication between them.

But she said the training was limited due to the time constraint, and the university could do more to ensure people on campus are prepared for emergencies — including, at a minimum, requiring training.

“I would say we’re still not optimized for an efficient response in a variety of ways that were discussed during this training,” she said. “And so I think it helped, kind of, bring ideas forward around what can improve.”

The audit’s four additional recommendations were related to technology the university uses during active shooter situations and ensuring campus buildings are properly marked and equipped for such emergencies.

Regarding technology, the audit recommended that the university improve its closed-circuit television system — which the audit stated was “inadequate” at the time — both by installing more CCTV devices and streamlining the system used to monitor them.

The university responded to that recommendation by saying it would form a committee tasked with identifying and implementing “technical solutions designed to enhance campus security, to include cameras, a video monitoring system (VMS), a common door locking system, etc.”

At a campus Board of Trustees meeting last week, James identified such measures as one way his department would like to improve security following the Aug. 28 shooting. James said he would like to see more surveillance cameras installed around campus, but did not address which areas of campus lack cameras or say specifically where he wants to see them installed. When The N&O previously requested surveillance video of Caudill Labs, where the Aug. 28 shooting took place, the university’s public records office said no such records existed.

The university will also soon receive and install license plate readers through Flock Security, a private company, which James said will help provide “real-time access” to other surveillance cameras on campus.

The university launched a multi-year project in 2018 to ensure campus classrooms were equipped with interior door locks. Responding to a public records request, UNC told The N&O that the majority of campus classrooms have interior door locks after the project, which installed the locks in phases based on classroom size. The project’s last phase, which focused on classrooms that can fit between 10 and 24 students, was completed in “early September.”

The audit also recommended the university implement technology to better communicate with students’ families during emergencies, as well as to better account for students and employees following an emergency and reunify them with their families.

Spandorf said the university in July 2020 began using a new mobile safety app provider, AppArmor, “to allow students to give others notice of their location status and/ or request assistance” during an emergency. The university expects an “I’m OK!” option in the app to launch this semester, which will allow users to “quickly notify their family and close friends that they’re OK when an incident occurs on campus,” Spandorf said.

Regarding campus buildings, the audit recommended buildings and parking lots be better marked to ensure first responders could quickly identify them in emergencies.

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies responded to the Aug. 28 shooting, James told trustees last week. He said he would like to offer training opportunities for officers in those agencies to come

to campus and become more familiar with its layout.

“The University,” the audit states, “has created mutual aid agreements with many of the local and state emergency response entities that is an invaluable resource in responding to an active assailant, armed intruder emergency. Providing location information allows responders to move rapidly through campus during an emergency to engage the armed assailant, to ensure areas are safe, and to tend to people in need.”

“However, when buildings, roads/parking lots, rooms and/or offices are not easily identifiable, response time can be slowed, and lives lost.”

The audit included a recommendation for the university to implement “comprehensive building safety plans” across campus, in which safe hiding locations on each floor of a building would be identified. The recommendation also urged the university to equip buildings with emergency medicine supplies. The audit found that a “limited number” of buildings had safety plans in place, while none had emergency medical supplies.

Spandorf said the university gave campus buildings a new template for their emergency plans in August 2021. James previously told The N&O that campus police regularly perform building security surveys, and he told trustees last week that he views them as “equally important” as active shooter training.

The May 2020 audit is the most recent one the university has completed on active shooter situations, Spandorf said.

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Walmart Halloween Decorations

Dollar Tree, or $1.25 tree, is the best store for working on a budget. Most of their seasonal items range from $1.25-$5.00. It’s wide selection allows

you to go as crazy as you want without breaking the bank.

Dollar Tree Halloween Decorations

Budget-friendly is in the name at 5-Below on Perkins. Their store is full of Halloween decorations, from costumes to porch decor. Their categories are spooky decor, fall-o-ween and merry spookmas. Check out 5-Below’s website for everything Halloween. https://www.fivebelow.com/categories/halloween/decor

You know and love it; like a ghost, it haunts abandoned storefronts each October: Spirit Halloween. Prices range from cheap to expensive, but it is your one-stop shop for Halloween. You can even pick a costume while you’re there.

Spirit Halloween Run to Perkins and stop at Hobby Lobby, the destination for all things crafts. Hobby Lobby can get pricey as things add up, but the trick is paying attention to the sales. The store is having a fall sale with 40% off from Oct. 2 to

Oct. 7. Paper crafts are also available if you want to make cute door decorations. Hobby Lobby doesn’t sell a lot of spooky Halloween decorations, but if you’re going for a more classic fall look, the massive craft store is perfect. The craft nature of the stores means more options for freestyle decorating.

Don’t worry about missing the sale; Hobby Lobby does their sales on a bi-weekly basis, so keep checking back for more deals.

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Cowboy Calendar

Monday 10/09/2023

9th Annual Pumpkin Patch

Highland Park United Methodist Church

Mon-Fri 1-7 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. ; Sun 12-6 p.m.

Leon Polk Smith: Affinities in Art & Design

OSU Museum of Art until Jan. 27th @ 11 a.m. 4 p.m. https://museum.okstate.edu/art/leon-polk-smith.html

Those Who Served Military Exhibit

Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar Until Dec. 9th @ 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. https://www.stillwaterokhistory.org/

Speed Bingo College Bar @ 10 p.m.

Trivia Night Stonecloud Brewing Company @ 7 p.m.

Yoga in the Plaza

The Mcknight Center for the Performing Arts @ 6 p.m. https://mcknightcenter.org/Online/default.asp?doWork ::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent ::loadArticle::article_id=F016AD05-B1BC-4ABE-B0580A3E7CFC332D&menu_id=497C0760-E150-4F0EA8FC-9963C1FED435

Tuesday 10/10/2023

Cowboys, Canines, and Cocktails

The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts @ 6 - 8 p.m. Tickets: $100 https://hr.okstate.edu/pet-therapy/ sponsorship-event.html

Cowgirl Softball Vs. Seminole State College

Cowgirl Softball Stadium @ 6 p.m.

Pumpkin Patch

The Twelves until Nov. 5th Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m.Dusk $8 / person Kids 2 and under free

Wednesday 10/11/2023

Louie Kids’ Night

Louie’s Grill & Bar @ 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Trivia Night College Bar @ 10 p.m.

Live Trivia

Iron Monk Brewing Company @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Bingo Night

Louie’s Grill & Bar @ 8 p.m.

OSU Up Close @ 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. https://go.okstate.edu/admissions/visit/osu-up-close.html

Thursday 10/12/2023

Funk N’ Beers College Bar @ 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Kid’s Night

Eskimoe Joe’s @ 5-9 p.m. w/ $1 Buffy meal

Line Dancing Lessons

Outlaws @ 7-8 p.m. $10

Cowgirl Soccer VS. BYU Neal Patterson Soccer Stadium @ 7 p.m. https://okstate. com/sports/womens-soccer

resolve shared winter financial hurdles. Making a personal change next spring inspires deeper partnership and romance next summer. Profit through collaboration. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Creativity and romance abound, despite obstacles or harsh realities. Discover hidden beauty. Aim for mastery and artistry. Have fun with friends and family. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Focus on domestic matters. Your home and family require more attention. Surprises or interruptions could deviate plans. Pad the budget for the unexpected. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Communication is your strength. Others ask for advice. For a month with Venus in Virgo, focus on home and family. Stretch resources creatively. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Creative projects can produce lucrative income. Adapt around emerging challenges. Use what you’ve accumulated. Repurpose something old. Connect and share for great solutions. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Check your course, and then full speed ahead. The next month with Venus in Virgo could get lucrative. As you gain strength, gain options. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Slow down and keep a low profile. Take time to process recent changes. You can get productive behind closed doors. Organize and coordinate.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Rely on teamwork to navigate unforeseen events. Communication unlocks hidden doors. Complete old projects and relax with Venus in Virgo this month. Collaborate. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Work takes priority. Social activities can benefit professionally. You’re especially popular. Grow your lists and audiences. Plan and prepare carefully for best results.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Plan a trip. Let others know what you’re up to. Study and research. Adapt around unscheduled delays or distractions. Communication and will power win.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Changes necessitate budget revisions. Get into a planning phase. Strategize with your partner. Delays or changes require coordination. Share support and coordinate for solutions.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Coordinate with your partner to manage unscheduled changes in plans. Talk and action get results, despite deviations. Align forces and make it happen. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Nurture your work, energy and health. Discuss challenges. Take your mate’s wishes into consideration. Learn from doctors, coaches and friends. Try something new.

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