Wow!
Wow!
Hey Terry,
I work in Edmond at UCO. Edmond has really built up in the last 20 years; traffic really sucks.
Nice to find another okie.
When I left Hayward, CA to re-establish myself in Edmond, it was like moving to a different planet.
I operated a technology company there from 1982 to 1987, and contracted to maintain the Trane Sentinel, Facility Control system at the College - I think it was called Central State back then. I actually had contracts to maintain similar systems all over the state.
I was back there about four years ago, bought a van from the City on Ebay, and could barely find my way around for all the changes. Starbucks? In Edmond?
I was there for the Post Office massacre, a sad day from which the term,
POSTAL, was coined; and helped set up the
Hope Center (Help Our People of Edmond), an interfaith organization designed to bring a level of accountability to those seeking aid, requiring individuals to take the steps necessary to get their lives back on track as a condition of receiving aid in Edmond. I was also on the board of Citizens Concerned for Children, now
Citizens Caring for Children, when it was Founded by George and Rose Harper, when child abuse awareness was increased in America under the leadership of Pastor Jerry Kirk and the
National Coalition Against Pornography.
I grew a lot in Edmond. It was a real down-to-Earth place back then, with mighty, purposed people living there. People who took this broken man by the hand and helped him change his mind.
I'm half Arkansan Okie on my mother's side, and I sing in the choir.