Everywhere We Go

Everywhere We Go  Vered L. Harris  On October 10, 2023 I went to our regular Rotary Club 29 lunch meeting. I was in a state of shock over the events on October 7, when thousands of people in Israel were brutally attacked, murdered, tortured, maimed, and kidnapped by people who infiltrated the country from Gaza. […]

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OKC Economic Development Panel – Sandino Thompson, Jennifer Nakayama, and Jeff Seymour

Livestream 11:55am 1-30-2024 OKC Economic Development – Sandino Thompson, EightTwenty and Jennifer Nakayama, Downtown OKC Partnership Jeff Seymour-Moderator Sandino L. Thompson is a community developer and thought leader with a passion for social innovation and inclusive development. He has over 20 years of experience successfully managing multimillion-dollar commercial and residential projects encompassing new construction, renovation, […]

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Facts are Stubborn Things

  Facts are Stubborn Things by Drew Edmondson Rotary Club 29 survived another election.  From president to board members we were voting, vying and surviving.  The results are in and there were no challenges, no court actions, few surprises and not much comment.  It is a credit to our nominating committee members that our elections […]

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Coach Patty Gasso – OU Women’s Softball

Livestream 11:15am 1-23-2024   Entering her 30th season at the University of Oklahoma in 2024, NFCA Hall of Fame head coach Patty Gasso has molded the OU softball program into a national power and permanently placed herself among the elite college softball coaches in the country. Oklahoma has won seven national championships, winning in 2000, […]

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Changing Views on Education

Changing Views on Education by Freda Deskin There is no doubt that public opinion about education has changed over the years. Phi Delta Kappa has been capturing those changing views in a yearly scientific survey since 1969. The survey is eagerly awaited by school leaders and others who are in a position to shape policy […]

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Human Trafficking Panel: Whitney Anderson, Craig Williams, Abraham Schenk, AJ Griffin

Livestream – 11:55am   Whitney Anderson, as the Co-founder and Executive Director of The Dragonfly Home, spearheads a pioneering nonprofit focused on providing life-saving services for victim-survivors of human trafficking in central Oklahoma. Her deep dive into this critical cause began during her pursuit of her MBA, where her studies in international business unveiled the […]

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Congressional Office for International Leadership Oct 6-14, 2023

HOST NARRATIVE Rule of Law – Armenia Oklahoma City, Oklahoma          October 6 – 14, 2023 DELEGATION: Tigran Davtyan – Judge, Anti-Corruption Court Armen Hovhannisyan – Judge, Anti-corruption Cases at the Criminal Court of Appeals Edgar Karapetyan – Judge, Aragatsotn Region General Jurisdiction Court Gnel Gasparyan – Judge, Yerevan City General Jurisdiction […]

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Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams by Ted Streuli Frances Streuli’s birthday was yesterday. She would have been 105. She dreamed that everyone would have a cookie. She made the best cookies and she loved to see people enjoying them. Peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, take your pick. But the special ones were the sugar cookies, always on […]

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No Meeting and No Makeup Required

Happy New Year! No Meeting and No Makeup Required

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How did we get into this mess?

How did we get into this mess? by Bart Binning. Ed. D. Charles Krauthammer, before his death in 2018, wrote “conservatives think liberals are stupid, liberals think conservatives are evil.”  Neither respect the other.  Stated another way, conservatives and liberals tend to speak different languages.  To paraphrase John Gray’s 1992 book: Conservatives are from Mars, […]

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