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Oklahoma Gazette was given the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Outstanding Media Award April 16 for contributions to the goals of NAMI Oklahoma. NAMI Oklahoma recognized the Gazette for Nathan Gunter’s “Crisis intervention” story, which published Aug. 2, 2006. The article addressed actions taken by the Oklahoma Bar Association to provide preventative assistance to lawyers […]

Finca Bellavista, the world’s first sustainable rain forest tree house community, was created by an Oklahoma native and her husband. Finca Bellavista is located on the South Pacific coast of Costa Rica on 250 acres of primary and secondary rain forest, between two white-water rivers. Protecting the environment is important to both Erica and Matt […]

On a dreary, overcast evening Tuesday, the corner of N.W. 36th Street and Shartel Avenue got a little prettier as a Centennial Street clock was unveiled. The clock is a replica of the kind that used to grace the streets of cities and towns 100 years ago at Oklahoma’s statehood. The Shartel and 36th clock […]

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” “Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” Sam Duregger gets a lot of questions […]

Guthrie has hosted the 89er Celebration for 72 years, and this year’s event takes place from Wednesday to Saturday. Along with the annual parade, which will be held at noon Saturday, and the rodeo, which will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday, food and craft vendors will line Guthrie’s downtown streets. A […]

   When Bailey Cato heard that women in Darfur, Sudan, had to wake up every morning and decide whether to go forage for food and risk being raped, or to send out another family member and risk their death in order to stay alive, she could hardly imagine being placed in that situation.   “Every […]

Local automobile dealer Jackie and Barbara Cooper’s son died of complications from AIDS in 1989.   Several years later, the couple was approached by a group who needed help raising money, leading the Coopers to form the Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund, which raises money for Regional AIDS Interfaith Network and Oklahoma’s biggest fund-raiser, Red Tie […]

The beginning dance class in a Norman Parks & Recreations center near Reaves Park is a lesson in life, community and culture.   Pandora Tadefa-Everett was a volunteer teacher at the center when she spotted a trend.   “There were children (who) wanted to come and learn, but their parents couldn’t afford it,” she said. […]

In 2004, a small group of business owners formed the Diversity Business Association ” DBA Metro, for short ” to give that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender businesspeople in Oklahoma City an outlet for meeting and networking.   “It was something that had been needed for a long time,” said Monty Milburn, marketing specialist with […]

  Nearly a year after dying of cancer, 11-year-old Fletcher Vines continues to make an impact.   Fletcher’s mom, Gail Vines, returned to OU Children’s Physicians on Feb. 9 to help honor his memory. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation had announced giving the University of Oklahoma Foundation a $25,000 grant to be used for research for […]