Rocktown Climbing Summer CampJune-JulyRocktown Climbing Gym200 S.E. Fourthrocktowngym.com319-1400 Want your little one to stay active this summer? Rocktown Climbing Gym offers weekly morning and afternoon sessions for children ages 6 to 15, with the cost being $145 per session. Campers get expert instruction on climbing safety, technique and a variety of climbing-related games and activities. […]
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Puppy love
When Tamara Smithee lost her dachshund to pancreatitis last October, the retired police officer decided to try improving the diets of her other rescue dogs — and every other canine she could. From there, she and two friends launched Biscuit Eaters, which specializes in all things dog treats. “My job grew to where I saw […]
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ASK and tell
The U ASK Initiative, set into motion by Temur Akhmedov, business development director at Engineered Systems & Energy Solutions, Inc., requires participants to attend one official meeting in their respective town, ask a pre-selected question and email the response to initiative organizers. The meeting in question could be the city council, school board, PTA or […]
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A fearless teen
It has been nearly eight months since a Taliban gunman attempted to take the life of Malala Yousafzai, due to her outspokenness on the right of Pakistani girls to attend school. As the 15-year-old activist sat on a bus preparing to depart from the school grounds in Mingora, Pakistan, an armed gunman boarded and shot […]
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Art de Aguilar
Deep in the valleys of southern Mexico lives a ceramic artist whose whimsical personality and artwork touch everyone within contact. Guillermina Aguilar Alcantara is a master of Mexican popular art, and the eldest of Ocotlán, Oaxaca’s Aguilar sisters, world-famous for their artwork. She has made the journey to Oklahoma City to create, display and sell […]
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How the West was 10
Over the past decade, Adelante! Gallery has built a reputation — in its Paseo Arts District home and beyond — for fine Southwest, Western and contemporary art. For its 10th-anniversary exhibit, gallery owner Cynthia Daniel Wolf said she is excited to continue that tradition with Art of the West, which opens with free receptions Friday and […]
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In the city
Barbara Gonzales Credit: Shannon Cornman Since 2010, the academy has given upper-level education majors who are passionate about teaching in urban classrooms the opportunity to do so through a partnership with Oklahoma City Public Schools. Gonzales and fellow future teachers entered the program in January. After completing volunteer hours and training, they will be placed […]
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Miles to go
courtesy: OKC National Memorial & Museum Unimaginable tragedy struck Oklahoma City the morning of April 19, 1995, when the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. Eighteen years later, more than 24,000 people from across the globe are rising up in the wake of fear […]
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It’s about time
A large group of onlookers gathered this morning at downtown’s First Lutheran Church, 1300 N. Robinson, to unearth a chest buried in the church’s basement 100 years ago today. Gov. Mary Fallin and Mayor Mick Cornett were among the dignitaries who spoke at the ceremony. Fallin assisted in the opening of the 6-foot-long, 3-foot-wide chest. […]
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First Lutheran Church treasure chest opened after a century
A large group of onlookers gathered this morning at downtown’s First Lutheran Church, 1300 N. Robinson, to unearth a chest buried in the church’s basement 100 years ago today. Gov. Mary Fallin and Mayor Mick Cornett were among the dignitaries who spoke at the ceremony. Fallin assisted in the opening of the 6-foot-long, 3-foot-wide chest. […]