staff report Westminster Presbyterian Church hosts, Faith Hope Love, a musical event and art auction to benefit Oklahoma tornado victims and recovery efforts. Join us for an amazing evening of music and art on Friday, June 21 at 8:00 pm in the Westminster Sanctuary, located at 4400 North Shartel in Oklahoma City. Featured musicians include [...]
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By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Emma Land, who graduated as valedictorian of the Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School class of 2009, has been named a recipient of the esteemed Fulbright Scholarship. Land will work as an English teaching assistant in Nordrhen-Westfalen, Germany, for the coming year. Land is the daughter of Charles (Chip) [...]
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Special to The City Sentinel Tulsa, Okla. – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma announced a statewide education and outreach initiative targeting Oklahoma’s uninsured residents. “The Be Covered” Oklahoma campaign will engage various community and civic groups to help the state’s uninsured population understand how the new health care law impacts them and what [...]
Staff Report The Oklahoma Historical Society’s State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) presented its 2013 Citations of Merit during a recent banquet, said Deputy Director Melvena Heisch. Government agencies, organizations, firms, and individuals who have had positive impacts on the preservation of Oklahoma’s heritage were honored during this featured event of the 25th Annual Statewide Preservation [...]
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By Darla Shelden Contributing Writer A weekend of festivities themed “The New Normal,” celebrated OKC Pride by bringing the Oklahoma City community together to support diversity, love and equality. “OKC Pride is honored to organize the state’s largest diversity celebration,” said Matt Harney, OKC Pride Board member & Education Committee Chair. “We are thrilled by [...]
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By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Editor Oklahoma leaders remain cautiously optimistic about preserving a popular insurance premium support program, designed and implemented in 2004 with bipartisan support, which benefits the working poor. On May 9, Leavitt Partners, a consultant to Oklahoma’s Health Care Authority (HCA), encouraged state officials to extend Insure Oklahoma, despite the Obama [...]
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Staff report Heather Meldrum, a fifth grade teacher at Stanley F. Hupfeld Academy at Western Village, reacts in surprise after being named the 2013-14 Oklahoma City Public School Teacher of the Year. Meldrum is the first charter school teacher ever to win the honor. Other finalists for the honor were Michael Spellis (Taft Middle, first [...]
By Darla Shelden Contributing Writer The state of Oklahoma incarcerates more women per capita than any other state in the nation. The majority of them are imprisoned for non-violent or drug-related offenses. In the book, Invisible Eve, award-winning photographer and writer Yousef Khanfar goes behind prison walls to capture the essence of women who he [...]
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News Release WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Oklahoma to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms and tornadoes beginning May 18, 2013, and continuing. The President’s action [...]
staff report As Americans try harder to improve their diets by decreasing fat and sugar, the challenge to make dishes tasty as well as healthy becomes that much more important. To help residents learn to enhance their food and their health by using flavorful spices and herbs when cooking, the Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension [...]
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