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      <title><![CDATA[Families Who Pray Together | One Church, One Child program focuses on placing African-American children in African-American homes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Historically, the black community has turned to its neighborhood church for guidance and leadership. That's why, in 1980, Father George Clements began to use Chicago-area churches to educate their parishioners about the need for foster and adoptive parents for black children.

In 1979, 70 percent of... By Holly Wall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Beginning to Look Like Christmas | "Christmas for Kids" is doing good, but they're still a need]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Thank you, readers! Within two weeks, you all have reached out through e-mails and phone calls to our office. Children have been selected, and we thank you all. But the tree still has many children on it, and our hope is that all of the children on the opposite page... By Aja J. Junior.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Downtown at Your Doorstep | Officials survey citizens to see how many people really want to live downtown, and why?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many city officials and others who support the revitalization of downtown Tulsa have spent the past couple of years talking about the need to attract more residents to the district in hopes of making it a real neighborhood, as opposed to a concentration of office buildings.

But up to this point, th... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bee in Her Bonnet? | Hearing will determine if Karen Keith's petition succeeds to remove Elizabeth Wright from commission]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Wright considers it a foregone conclusion she'll be removed from the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission during a hearing before the Tulsa County Commission on Monday, Nov. 23.

But the reasons for her removal, she maintains, are less clear to her.

Wright's future as a TMAPC membe... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rolling Up the Sleeves | After the election, sorta new city councilors get ready to take their seats]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It would probably be an overstatement to refer to Tulsa's recent municipal elections as a political tsunami. But there's little doubt the results have dramatically changed the elected-officials component of city government.

In addition to a new mayor in Republican Dewey Bartlett Jr., Tulsa voters e... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Honoring the Fallen

Oklahomans for Equality joins our international transgender community on Friday evening at 7:30pm, Nov. 20, 2009 at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center located at 621 East 4th Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma as we remember those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejud...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Closer Together. The curtain looks to be coming down for two of our local theaters. Clark Theatre and Heller Theatres will be closing and consolidating into one entity. The new theatre will be in the Henthorne building at 4825 S. Quaker and looks to open in early 2010. Clark Theatre's, 11440 E. Admi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Chosen Few | Older children and siblings tend to have a harder time with placement]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These stories are not the norm. When some people think of adoption, their thoughts usually turn to infants or toddlers being picked out of an orphanage. Often left out of this joyful equation are older children, who have been placed in the system for a period of time.

According to the U.S. Departme... By Katharine Kelly.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Season of Giving | "Christmas for Kids" moving along, but we still need you]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thank you, readers! In our first week, you all have reached out through e-mails and phone calls to our office. We've even had a few of our children selected, and we thank you all. But the tree has grown as well as the need, and we hope that all of the children on the opposite page will have Christma... By Aja J. Junior.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Murder by Numbers | City's homicide rate has staggered a bit but still too high for some]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first four months of 2009 were a particularly difficult time for the Tulsa Police Department's homicide unit, especially when compared with the previous year. There were 20 homicide victims in January, February, March and April of this year, compared to only nine in 2008, leading some observers... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Head 'Em Up, Move 'Em In | Yearly bison roundup brings share of challenges even in modern times]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Harvey Payne recalls the night before the first herd of 300 bison was due to be released on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve just north of Pawhuska in November 1993. It was a night of anticipation, with the animals that once all but defined the prairie due to be reintroduced to a relatively small patc... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Power to the Parishioners | First Presbyterian Church's youth ministries receives new home]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Jim Miller didn't have to look far when it came to finding a new home for the youth ministries program at downtown's First Presbyterian Church.

Miller, the church's pastor, was already a member of the nearby Powerhouse Gym when that building's owners put it on the market. And because his church... By Mike Easterling.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurial Spirit

Three Tulsa entrepreneurs will soon be receiving checks of $30,000, $5,000 and $2,500 from SpiritBank for competing in the Mayor's Entrepreneurial Spirit Award business model competition. Over 80 hopeful entrepreneurs submitted business plans for their ideas in April, and in...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Dancing, dancing, dancing. Looking to blow off steam from the work week? Dance off the stress at Tulsa's newest dance and night club. Club XS, 2182 S. Sheridan, will host its grand opening Friday, Nov. 13. The cosmetically remodeled club features a little bit for everybody, whether it's Country Nigh...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Picking up the Pace | Swift Adoption Services allows for more children to have homes much sooner]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Department of Human Services' Swift Adoption Unit is placing more children in adoptive homes than ever before.

Before 1999, the average number of children adopted in the state of Oklahoma hovered around 300. Since that year however, more than 12,000 children have been placed in adoptiv... By Frank Rieder.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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