Edmond, Oklahoma Could Be Home To Reality TV
Edmond, Oklahoma– I’m not a big fan of so-called reality shows, but I do watch a few.
In this recession, I thought there might be a way to bolster our city’s budget by creating some Edmond-based reality shows and put them on Channel 20, our government access channel.
One idea that seems to be a natural is “Survivor Edmond.” Gather a group of teenagers and take away their smart phones, laptops and all connection to the Internet for one week. The teen that can stay sane the longest is declared the winner.
Another idea is “The Edmond Apprentice.” Take a group of graduates with business degrees, divide them into teams of five and challenge them to build a fictional shopping mall that meets all city codes, has the approval of a fictional nearby neighborhood and is green-powered. The ones who can’t attract fictional tenants within three months during a recession will hear the words “you’re fired.”
“Edmond Bachelor” is pretty self-explanatory, except potential mates would be required to solve algebra and trigonometry problems. You see, you really will use math again at some point in your life.
Finally may I suggest “The Real World: Edmond.” A group of seven individuals from 18 to 60 years old share a nice house in Oak Tree. Drama ensues as the younger members want to party every day while the older housemates just want them to make their bed once in a while.
Think of the communication gap on that show.
If none of these shows get picked up, then Channel 20 could have a program in primetime where the couple next door invites you and your spouse and two other couples over to see slides from their summer vacation. It would be called … are you ready for this? “Yawn, It’s Late: Plus Eight.”
Edmond, Oklahoma Issues Discount Drug Cards
Edmond, Oklahoma –Discount cards offering an average savings of 20 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs will be available starting Friday to all Edmond, Oklahoma residents.
The program is offered by the city of Edmond and the National League of Cities.
Edmond will become the sixth city in Oklahoma to offer the program.
The free discount cards are available to all Edmond residents; there are no restrictions based on the resident’s age, income level or existing health coverage.
The card can be used at several pharmacies in Edmond.
Barrett Drug Center – 410 W Edmond Road
Clinic Pharmacy – 120 N Bryant Ave
CVS Pharmacy – 1301 N Santa Fe Ave
CVS Pharmacy – 1520 S Bryant Ave
CVS Pharmacy – 1327 E Danforth Rd
CVS Pharmacy – 3200 S Santa Fe Ave
Homeland Pharmacy – 2205 W Edmond Rd
Homeland Pharmacy – 1151 N Bryant Ave
Homeland Pharmacy – 24 E 33rd St
Hospital Discount Pharmacy – 104 S Bryant Ave
Sams Club Pharmacy – 1900 W Memorial Rd
Sherrys Discount Drug – 220 S Littler Ave
Target Pharmacy – 1200 E 2nd St
Thrifty Pharmacy – 2200 W 15th St Ste 124
TV Discount Drugs – 1701 E 2nd St
UCO Pharmacy – 100 N University Dr
Wal-Mart Pharmacy – 1225 W I-35 Frontage
Wal-Mart Pharmacy – 2200 W Danforth Rd
Wal-Mart Pharmacy – 1301 E 2nd St
Wal-Mart Pharmacy – 1101 Nw 164th St
Discount cards are available at the city of Edmond utility customer service office, 100 E First St.; Multi-Activity Center and Senior Center, 2733 Marilyn Williams Drive; the Hope Center, 1251 N Broadway; the Ministries of Jesus, 1100 E Interstate 35 Frontage Road; Edmond Mobile Meals, 23 W Third St.; University of Central Oklahoma Wellness Center and Nigh University Center, 100 N University Blvd.; and Edmond YMCA centers, 1220 S Rankin and 261 S Santa Fe Ave.
Edmond, Oklahoma: This Week’s News
Edmond, Oklahoma– I hope you are staying warm wherever you are. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s look back at the stories that made headlines in Edmond, Oklahoma this week.
Residents were preparing for the worst as weather prognosticators predicted icy roads and below zero wind chills through the weekend.
Earlier in the week I asked readers how they planned to spend their time huddled indoors.
Bill Shea wrote, “If we have to stay in, we will have a contest to determine how many ways we can learn to use duct tape. And keep remembering that it has been said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.”
Truer words have never been spoken, Bill. But remember this; the man who eats cookies in bed will wake up feeling crummy.
The city of Edmond will make free prescription drug discount cards available to residents through a program sponsored by the National League of Cities. The program could save card-holders an average of 20 percent on medicine.
If laughter is the best medicine why do some people say they “died laughing”? I was once taken to the emergency room for a nervous chuckle.
Edmond and Deer Creek students got time off from school thanks to the cold weather.
The only time I remember getting a day off from school was when I was the only one who could answer this question.
“Who threw the pencil at the principal?”
We’ll meet here again next week. Until then stay toasty, my friends.
Edmond, Oklahoma’s Good Samaritans Come To The Rescue
I received numerous e-mails from readers about the Good Samaritans who came to their rescue during the Christmas Eve winter storm.
Dana Bleeker wrote, “My neighbor R.L. Hilbun was working hard to get home Christmas Eve from Kansas. He was down to a crawl on I-35 near 2nd St, when a man approached his car and signaled he was having chest pain. My neighbor loaded him into his car, had him chew some aspirin and turned west to Edmond Medical Center; where it was determined that the man was in deed having a heart attack.”
Karl Kueteman wrote, “About 5 p.m. Christmas Eve, I was driving my daughter home from her job when I got stuck in a snowdrift heading north on Baumann Ave. Home was only 6 blocks north so we started out walking against that killer north wind. By the time we traveled one block thru the snowdrifts, I was praying that someone would come along and give us a ride. Lo and behold, a college student driving a Jeep Wrangler pulled up and asked if we wanted a ride. We wasted no time climbing into his Jeep for shelter from that north wind. The college student, Nathan said he was driving around in case someone needed help. We thanked Nathan for the ride home and he drove off, looking for others in need of help. God bless you, Nathan!”
Jan Hager wrote, “When we started out the morning of the 24th we had no idea that our usual trip to pick up my Mother to spend a couple of days at my house would turn into what it did, an adventure! Normally it takes about an hour and a half round trip to drive to her house near Lake Overholser and return to our home in north Edmond. On December 24th it took over six hours plus!”
“Many things occurred during our trip but I wanted to share a few.We experienced both Good and Bad during that time. The Broadway Extension was a complete nightmare, we thought it was a snow route. Of course everyone was experiencing the same thing…poor visibility, jammed up exits, abandoned cars and wreckless pickup truck drivers! While these pickup trucks may have been better equipped than our passenger car for these conditions the drivers seemed to delight in driving too fast and cutting in and out of the cars on the road forcing the non pickup drivers to attempt to avoid them. This with my 87 year old mother in the back seat with her hands over her eyes!”
“Now the Good…..at one point we were attempting to negotiate the hill on Eastern just North of Memorial, it was jammed up with cars that were stuck. While my husband is a wonderful driver he just couldn’t work miracles and we too became hopelessly stuck in the snow. From time to time we noticed a large black pickup with a pull-strap on the back but figured they had come to pull out a friend that was stuck. After an hour on the hill, with my Mom becoming more nervous by the minute, the black pickup appeared in front of and a young man jumped out of the passenger side and approached my husband asking if we needed help. Of course we were all thrilled to see the help come. The young man and his companion proceeded to hook up the pull line and pull us approximately a mile to a semi clear street. What a blessing!”
Tiffany Cargill wrote, “On Christmas Eve around 4pm there was a group of young men on the southwest corner of UCO (on 2nd street) that were literally hanging out & waiting for cars (or trucks in my case) that needed a push to make it up the hill just before the lights. They all kept smiles on their faces & then wished us a Merry Christmas.
We had just had a wonderful Christmas at my parents house & the help from those guys made a stressful, snow & ice filled drive home a little warmer for us. I hollered thank you out my window, but I don’t know if they heard or not. And to be honest, I don’t think they were out there to get the thank you…I think they were out there because of the warmth in their hearts.”
Jenna Adkins wrote, “Our neighbor Alex and his brother in-law went through our neighborhood of Sycamore and Elm Street near I-35 and scraped the street of snow and even cleaned our driveway. We have a lot of retirees and people with no equipment to do this type of work. It normally takes a week or more to be able to get out of our driveway. We thoroughly appreciate this.”
Bill and Kathy Merkel wrote, “Christmas Breakfast has always been part of our family’s Christmas celebration. This went by the way side this year with the snow. Just before noon our son called to tell us his daughter’s family from Midwest City and their son from Norman were going to make it sometime around 2:30. Our daughter was informed and they said they would get their daughter, her husband and children from apartments near Quail Springs and see us.”
“I begin shoveling the snow off the side walk so they could get in. The second time I went out to shovel I noticed the children and grandchildren of the Neighbor across the street had arrived for their activities. After I shoveled some more I went back in the house to get warm again and rest. Surprise, surprise – her sons Alan Hare and Steve Cherry had came over and were shoveling the driveway for me- this while they could be in their Mother’s home enjoying Christmas. Thus I have not had to worry about ice these many days. I wanted to send them a thank you, please help me by recognizing them.”
Edmond, Oklahoma’s Christmas Light Shows
Tim Breninger of Edmond has created his own Christmas light show with computer software, 1,600 lights and a low power FM transmitter.
Drive by his house at 15709 Teesdale Road to watch the 3 minute show and listen to the music by tuning to 104.5 FM in your vehicle.
Here’s a preview of what you’ll see:
Another remarkable light display is located at Springcreek Plaza at 15th and Bryant.
Here’s a preview .
A dazzling display can be seen in the Thornbrooke Neighborhood at 2616 Kensington.
Have a look .
Finally take a look at this house on Basking Ridge Terrace .
Edmond, Oklahoma: Can Turkeys Really Fly?
Can turkeys fly?
Years ago there was a very funny TV show WKRP In Cincinnati .
One of the holiday episodes was about a Thanksgiving Day promotion where the station was going to drop turkeys out of a helicopter to the people below.
It turned out the turkey’s couldn’t fly and they dropped to their death on the sidewalks below. “Oh, the humanity,” said WKRP’s ace newsman Les Nessman as he broadcast the event live over the air.
We’ll we were talking about the episode the other day and it turns out that a town in Arkansas has begin doing a similar event since the 40s.
Yellville, Ark. still celebrates its annual Turkey Trot with the dropping of live turkeys from an airplane.
So for your holiday pleasure here are some links to solve the age old question: can turkeys fly?
