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[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 2,355 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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[16 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | 4,560 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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[11 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | 4,394 views]
OU Professor serves as first American Fulbright Scholar in Bhutan

by Michael Givel

From late June 2009 to late December 2009, I was honored to serve as the first ever American Fulbright scholar in Bhutan, a small constitutional monarchy between India and People’s Republic of China. Accompanying me on my journey to this ancient, rugged, and beautiful eastern Himalayan nation was my wife Rebecca Sherry and 11 year old son Noah Givel…

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[11 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | 6,274 views]
First American Fulbright in Bhutan: photo essay

Photos by Rebecca Ann Sherry.

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[8 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 1,063 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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[7 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 3,149 views]
Home Grown: OK Food Coop model for local food system spreading nationwide

by Kara Joy McKee

As the new general operations manager of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative (OKF), I had the privilege to travel to our nation’s capital last month to get a front and center view of the creativity and politics of the international local food movement. The OKF had been chosen to participate in the Wallace Foundation’s 2009 Community Food Enterprise study, which sought to identify the most promising and innovative local food projects going on today…

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