Pet Food Pantry is for the couple who walked in to the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter prepared to give up their pets after tearfully explaining they could no longer afford to feed their cats and dogs. It’s for the low-income senior citizen who didn’t have the means to buy food for her pets. And it’s […]
Nicole Hill
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How to spot a hipster, or dress like one
Illuminated Mac screens dot the interior of Norman’s Gray Owl Coffee. In their glow, the outline of a certain breed of college creature comes to life. It’s a sea of TOMS shoes, skinny jeans and plaid. Hard to define, but easy to spot ” these are hipsters. And this is just one of their home […]
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Adoption is on the rise in Oklahoma
A piece of paper does not a mother make, but for Shawn McGriff, the feeling of motherhood wasn’t complete until she held her son’s birth certificate in her hand. “It said, ‘Mother, Shawn McGriff,’ and it said, ‘Father, “¦ Craig McGriff,’” she said. “Even though they tell you that, you just comprehend that they really […]
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Goodwill is raising money to complete a move to a larger space
Operating in the Oklahoma City area for nearly 75 years, Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma has made its mission putting people to work and improving lives. Now, however, the organization needs its own helping hand. Goodwill is trying to raise $300,000 through public donations to fund its ongoing relocation, made necessary by the city’s “Core […]
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Kids and families will be amazed and entertained at Saturday’s “Pandemonium of Magic” event
“Pandemonium of Magic” 2 p.m. at the City Arts Center 3000 General Pershing. www.okcmagic.org $10 At age 2, kids think everything in the world is magical. By two or three years later, however, a child starts to appreciate the fantastical. That’s why movies like “Toy Story” hit it big with children (and adults, too) at […]
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Despite deadly risk, few Oklahoma teenagers get immunized against meningitis
Amanda Moran was two days away from heading off to the University of Central Oklahoma when she started feeling sick. Her doctors thought she had the flu. Then again, maybe it was anxiety from moving away to college. Or it even could have been overexertion from lifeguarding all week. Whatever it was, it was nothing […]
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Open house at the American Organ Institute offers a behind-the-scenes workshop and a showcase of newly restored organs
Open House University of Oklahoma American Organ Institute Monday, 6 to 8 p.m. 2101 W. Tecumseh in Norman 325-7829, aoi.ou.edu Organs may be favorites of churches and phantoms of the opera, but the University of Oklahoma American Organ Institute would like to give the rest of us an up-close look at what makes these room-sized […]
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A spooky staple of local TV for years, Count Gregore finds himself facing a new battle
A modest gray house on a suburban Moore street is a far cry from the eerie mansion generations of viewers envisioned. And it’s a cadre of dogs and cats that greet visitors, not a colony of bats. Then again, John Ferguson is not, contrary to popular belief, anything like the sinister Count Gregore he created […]
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A lot of us think dirty jobs are disgusting and downright dreadful, but hey, somebody’s got to do them…
Les Hutchens wasn’t particularly disturbed when a woman came to him with her deceased dog’s testicles. Heck, he wasn’t even all that surprised. It’s all in a day’s work for Hutchens, the president and CEO of Stillwater’s Reproductive Enterprises Inc. Even if that day happens to be the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the work […]
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Three Oklahoma teachers got to be kids again at space camp in Alabama as part of math and science initiative
As a child, Holley Sykes always wanted to go to space camp. This summer, she finally got her chance. Sykes was one of three Oklahoma elementary teachers who got the chance to attend astronaut training at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., in June. The Honeywell Educators at Space Academy awarded scholarships […]