Farmers market to host fall festival
(1958), starring Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland. Free popcorn is provided at each showing.
The Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma City Farmers Market will celebrate the fall harvest this month by hosting its inaugural Fall Festival.
The family friendly event will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Farmers Market pavilion, 400 N Portland Ave.
The festival will include live music, food trucks, craft vendors and a face-painting booth and scavenger hunt for children. Bakers can take part in a pumpkin-pie baking contest, and all attendees can enter for a chance to win a Thanksgiving basket featuring an organic turkey.
Preregistration for the piebaking contest is at 10:15 a.m., with the contest beginning at 10:30 a.m.
The event also will include several demonstrations by representatives from Water4, an international safe-water nonprofit based in Oklahoma City.
In addition, the normal weekly farmers market will be taking place, with a variety of locally grown produce and handmade goods for sale.
Parking and admission for the market and the Fall Festival are free. For more information, go to osuokc.edu/farmersmarket. The market is open for regular winter hours from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday.
MWC fire chief chosen to serve association
Midwest City Fire Chief Bert Norton recently was sworn into duty as the 2018-19 Oklahoma Fire Chiefs Association’s vice president serving the IAFC-Southwestern Division’s board of directors.
Norton was elected by a vote during the OFCA summer conference. The annual installation was held in conjunction with the Executive Leadership Conference earlier this month in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Norton has served the Midwest Fire Department as fire chief since 2015. He began as a firefighter with the department in 2001. Before his service with Midwest City, Norton was a firefighter with the Harrah Fire Department for six years after serving as a volunteer firefighter in Harrah from 1994 to 1995.
Norton was the first company officer in Oklahoma to achieve the Center for Public Safety Excellence Fire Officer Designation in 2013, a news release stated.
Achievers
The University of Central Oklahoma will host the Miss UCO 2019 competition at 6 p.m. Saturday in Constitution Hall in UCO's Nigh University Center. Admission is free for students with a valid UCO ID and $10 for all others.
Miss UCO 2019 is an official preliminary for the Miss Oklahoma and Miss America competitions. Winners are eligible for cash scholarships and Central tuition waivers totaling $8,400.
This year's 16 contestants, followed by hometown, classification and major are:
Melanie Mikles, Elk City, junior, special education; Baylee Mays, Bixby, junior, marketing; MacKenzi Richert, Broken Arrow, junior, nursing; Erin
Lee Goldman, Edmond, senior, forensic science and biomedical sciences; Madison Clark, Oklahoma City, junior, special education; Chrishell Seals, New Orleans, sophomore, psychology and biology; Emily Yannatone, Edmond, junior, psychology; Siobhan
Murray, Yukon, sophomore, family life education; Lexie
Herron, Altus, junior, fashion marketing; Kayla Welch, McAlester, sophomore, strategic communications; Grace Mckeown, Yukon, sophomore, kinesiology; Lauren Clay, Blanchard, senior, strategic communications and organizational communication; Morgan Money, Edmond, freshman, marketing; Marylin Segura-Morales, Oklahoma City, senior, forensic science and interpersonal communication; Lexi Neahring, Enid, junior, business finance; and Shelby Love Cargill, Perry, senior, professional media.
For more information about Miss UCO, go to www.uco.edu/ missuco.