[16 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 235 views]
Tender Mercies: A night and morning at the Mission of Mercy free dental clinic

by Danny Marroquin

It was 10 p.m. on a Thursday night. Ice from the latest winter storm was just beginning to thaw, and the damp Tulsa parking garage was lit dimly by florescent bulbs and portable heaters. With doors set to open at 5 a.m. the next morning, already a line of four hundred curled around the yellow tape and metal gates…

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Articles, General Updates »

[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 49 views]
VOK Update #16

Greetings to our Founders and Supporters!

The Good News is … Grant Awarded! — New radio application — FCC Rules on Points Group — Founders Party Set — Founders List Needs Your Info — Web Magazine Articles — Thank You, Commissioner Clyburn

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[8 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 180 views]

Those interested in volunteering at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History are invited to attend one of two volunteer orientation sessions: one from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 20; and the other from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23. The sessions will take place in the Kerr Auditorium at the museum, located at 2401 Chautauqua Ave. on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus…

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[26 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 161 views]
Beyond the Tap: Preparing for water ‘booms and busts’

by Asia Scudder

On January 21 the City of Norman hosted the second in a series of water related forums. Kyle Arthur of the Oklahoma Water Resource Board spoke about how Oklahoma has gone through “boom and bust” periods of water availability since the mid-1800’s…

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[5 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 445 views]
VOK Update #15

Greetings to our Founders and Supporters! Many exciting things have happened and are being planned. Contents: (1) FCC Ruling; (2) Founders Party; (3) Web Magazine; (3) Grants; (4) Program Proposals; (5) Mission Statement; (5) Founders List…

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Articles, In The Community »

[25 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 632 views]
Norman bike co-op in search of new digs

by Gene Perry

Tate James found inspiration for the Norman bike co-op from near and far. He’d seen the bike library and community garage at the OKC Infoshop in downtown Oklahoma City, a similar program in Atlanta where his cousin worked, and, on a recent trip to Israel, a communal bike shop at a Kibbutz…

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