When she began the business in 2011, owner, creator and chief candle maker Hodgkinson set the warm wax into glass jars but has since moved to ceramics. “I wanted these to be more than just candles,” she said. “I wanted them to be art.” Art they are. Each is hand-poured into a ceramic jar that […]
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’Tend to their business
Donny Sizemore Donny Not only does Donny Sizemore have the gift of gab, but he can turn that gab into a drink. “I’m a ‘bespoke bartender,’” he said. “You speak what you want; I find out your palate, and I make that. I love the challenge.” With 27 years’ experience under his belt, he is […]
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Buddy system
During an American Hockey League meeting in which teams shared ideas and best practices, Stacie Rathbun, sales support coordinator for the Barons, learned about San Antonio Rampage’s similar project at a local childrens’ treatment center. “It was just like, we have to do this,” said Rathbun. The Barons and Rathbun (who championed the project) felt […]
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Big lessons, little packages
It’s also the home for Touchstone Youth Project, a local youth mentoring program that pairs underserved kids ages 8 to 18 with a mentor for the school year. Steven Charles, Touchstone’s executive director, said people often don’t realize it’s a mentoring program — although he admits he’s not crazy about the word mentor because he […]
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Class act
Mary Kate Henson Credit: Mark Hancock “Childhood obesity in Oklahoma is on the rise in all areas, but in zip codes with lower incomes, lower accessibility to grocery stores and low walkability, poor health trends are even higher,” said Mary Kate Henson, health promotion specialist at the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, which established the “Wellness […]
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Reel jobs
On May 24 — the final day of this year’s session — the state House voted against extension of the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program, which provides incentives for qualifiying film productions that spend money on Oklahoma goods and services. Before the vote, House Democratic Leader Scott Inman of Del City called the Democrats in […]
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Marrow minded
<span style="mso-bidi- line-height:115%”><span style=" mso-bidi-line-height:115%”> Marshall Matlock By: Mark Hancock Marshall Matlock’s life was saved by a stranger. Four years later, he is now Facebook friends with her. But in late 2009, after two rounds of chemotherapy to treat his acute myelogenous leukemia, all Matlock knew was that his chance for survival depended on finding […]
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Western world
We’ve seen it in connection with the Devon tower; a flourishing downtown, midtown and uptown; arrival of the Thunder; the Core to Shore plan and boathouses that train Olympian rowers. But just southwest of those emblems of modernity lies the Oklahoma National Stockyards — a section of the city that bespeaks history, despite having undergone […]
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‘Land’ ho!
Rick Sinnett Photo: Shannon Cornman Unless you’re up close and in person with Sinnett, you won’t see the globs of light blue paint in his hair and flecks covering his clothes and sunglasses, but you will see that same color covering the exterior of the onetime grain silo at 200 S.E. Fourth. Aqua is the […]