The Grand Opening of the Edmond Children’s Learning Center

Today is the Grand Opening of the Edmond Children’s Learning Center at the Edmond Historical Society & Museum. Kids will get to paint their way into history, enjoy the sweet singing of a children’s choir, have their picture made by a caricature, and explore the new center. Children will also get to eat kid inspired treats and appetizers.

The Children’s Learning Center is inspired by early Edmond and made up of a General Store, a Sheriff’s Office, a Prairie house, a Train Station, and Citizens Bank of Edmond. For smaller children, the center provides a Toddler Garden. And, the fun doesn’t end there. Children get to learn all about Edmond animals by exploring the Touch & Learn animal section.

The Touch & Learn animal section is full of native animal bones, skins, and other hands on activities from Oklahoma. The Center also has a Tee-Pee section for children to learn about Edmond’s Native American History. And, children will learn fun facts that adorn the walls about the great City of Edmond as they walk through the center.

The Children’s Learning Center is great for kids and adults of all ages. It gives the perfect opportunity for Edmond residents and visitors to have fun while learning many great things about animals and Edmond’s history. And, best of all, it’s free for everyone to enjoy.

Edmond Annual Community Picnic

It’s that time of year again to celebrate the Edmond Community Picnic. The event will be Thursday, August 18^th, from 6-8 at Hafer Park in the #3 Pavilion. The Community Picnic is free for all Edmond residents. So, give your kitchen a rest for the evening and come on out to enjoy hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and drinks.

The event is for residents of all ages. Kids will enjoy a moonwalk, clowns, balloon animals, and face painting. And, everyone will enjoy the Edmond Police Department as they perform a motorcycle demonstration.

Sponsors of the event are the Edmond Sun and Edmond Neighborhood Alliance. Both sponsors are great at helping our community grow strong friendships by getting us all together. The Community Picnic is a great time and place for communicating with other Edmond residents, and sharing stories about Edmond and its great community. You will meet people from all over the community, and run into many people you already know.

At the Community Picnic, you can also meet politicians from the city, the Sun staff employees, city employees, and learn about what’s happening in Edmond’s neighborhoods.

Edmond, Oklahoma is a small, unique community that cares about its town and its residents interests. So, at the picnic, there will be two awards given out. One is the Sunniest Neighbor Award, and the other is the Neighborhood Newsletter Contest.

This year, the ENA president, will be introducing a fun game called Phantom Coin to attendees at the event.

You will find some of the nicest people in Edmond, Oklahoma. So, come on out to meet them. I hope to see you there.

Wind Power To Completely Power The University Of Oklahoma

By 2013, the University of Oklahoma will be using wind power to power the entire university. The school will, over time, purchase all its electric power from Electric’s wind power division.

A powerful wind farm near Woodward, Oklahoma will generate the power needed for the university. When the wind farm’s construction is complete, it will be called O.U. Spirit Wind Farm.

Oklahoma City, and most of the state, possess very large amounts of wind energy, ranking Oklahoma 6^th in the US with installed wind energy capacity. Adding wind farms in Oklahoma will also help boost the state’s economy. And, best of all, most Oklahoma residents are happy about the state using renewable energy.

Early Oklahoma settlers used wind energy to power their well pumps to make farming in the area possible. So, it looks like it’s time we do what the early settlers of Oklahoma did and get back to renewable energy.

The University of Oklahoma will also start using more vehicles that are powered by compressed natural gas, and the university will be opening its own compressed natural gas refueling center by November.

Edmonds First Ever Green Festival

On September 5^th 2008, Edmond, Oklahoma will have its first green festival starting at 6:00pm. The festival will continue on Saturday at 2:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm at Stephenson Park.

Just three months ago, the Getting Green not-for-profit organization was founded by Mark Neighbors. The Getting Green organization was established to encourage all Americans to be more environmentally friendly. Getting Green, will show everyone how to live ten to twenty percent more green.

Many people across the Nation have already taken small steps, sometimes huge steps, to become more  environmentally friendly. But there are still many who think that going green will affect their lifestyle too much. And, that is why Getting Green was so important to Mark Neighbors. He is ready and willing to show everyone that getting green will not change your lifestyle.

The festival will include learning opportunities and entertainment. There will be a new speaker every hour giving you steps and ideas to get green, along with twelve bands for your listening pleasure. Guest speakers topics will include eco-friendly practices for businesses, green architecture and wind power benefits. There will be exhibitors and sponsors with tables set up to show, hands on, how to get green.

Edmond Electric will be providing power for the event by using wind energy during the day and solar energy at night.

Everyone can do simple things to go green, such as printing on the back side of your printer paper, turning off appliances or electronics when not in use, and recycling.

There are green home builders in Edmond, Oklahoma, ready to build your dream home.