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The Christmas Connection Connection at S.W. 25th Street and S. Hudson Avenue may sound like a seasonal organization, but it’s spreading holiday cheer all year round to Oklahomans in need. “The mission of Christmas Connection is to link those in need of receiving to those in need of giving,” said Valerie Finley, Christmas Connection executive […]

Spanish-speaking football fans of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University tuned in last weekend to listen to the bedlam game en Español. For the second time in OU’s history, a football game was broadcast in Spanish on KTUZ-FM 106.7, “La Zeta.” “Last year I started watching the enrollment figures in the Oklahoma City […]

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma 2006 statistics reveal that 79 percent of all clients are food-insecure and 44 percent are experiencing hunger. Helping hungry Oklahomans by servicing and sharing a community garden is Floyd Jameson, who started the garden with the assistance of his family in 1999. The City-County Community Garden, located at N.E. 36th […]

Enid pastor Wade Burleson has been censured by the trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Burleson has been at odds with the trustees since November of 2005 when the IMB enacted policy changes to prevent missionary candidates who had spoken in tongues privately from becoming Southern Baptist missionaries. Burleson objected to the […]

A metro-area nonprofit is asking residents to share their traditions in the form of a gift basket this year. Family Expectations is a free community program for lower-income couples expecting a baby or who just had a baby. “We wanted to do something that would be a lasting memory for these couples,” said David Kimmel, […]

ticians and musicians.   Confetti cannons were in full-blast and Santas danced as Oklahoma City rock band The Flaming Lips opened the night as the first music performance of the Centennial Spectacular. Lead singer Wayne Coyne gestured to fans, jumped around and took time to pop a giant yellow balloon to the sold out Ford […]

Coinciding with the state’s centennial celebration, the Central Oklahoma chapter of the American Institute of Architects has compiled a list of the 100 most architecturally significant buildings in Central Oklahoma. The buildings, their history and locations are featured in a new book, “Celebrate 100: An Architectural Guide to Central Oklahoma.” CRITERIAA committee of 10 architects […]

An estimated 1,500 black marchers progressed up to the steps of Oklahoma City’s City Hall, highway patrol troopers wary with shotguns across their chests, riot sticks at hand. Council members peered down from windows overhead. Throughout the city, 19 of the normal 80 sanitation department trucks wended their way to pickup sites, while residents they […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday continued a lifelong interest in storytelling and oral tradition Friday with a debut reading of his centennial poem. Lt. Gov. Jari Askins introduced the Oklahoma native at a private reception in the Chase Tower downtown, citing his “rare and wonderful gift” with words. The poem, divided into three […]

A celebration in Guthrie Friday aims to shed light on the black experience in Oklahoma at statehood ” a perspective that one event organizer says before seemed missing not just from centennial events, but history books. Sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Black Heritage Committee, the African American 1907 Statehood Celebration weaves lectures with performances […]