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Bring your friends out for junking done fun!! vintage merchandise,antiques,arts and crafts~repurposed junk~books,retro recycled items,tools and more! ~Dealer/Vendor space available monthly!

Funky Junk Flea & Craft Market in Lawton offers an array of treasures waiting to be discovered. Browse antiques, collectibles and arts and crafts galore. Funky Junk Flea & Craft Market will also feature re-purposed items, as well as books, magazines, recycled items, coins, tools and more. At this market, you may find what you're looking for, or a unique item you didn't expect to find at all.

Live country music.

The topic chosen for the Cameron University 2011-2012 Academic Festival, "Afghanistan: Its Complexities and Relevance," will present numerous opportunities for Cameron students, faculty, staff and the public to gain an understanding of this central Asian country.

Five internationally recognized guest speakers are scheduled to address Cameron's students and members of the public. Combined, the expertise of these speakers covers a broad array of issues relevant to Afghanistan.

All lectures are open to the public and free of charge. Due to expected interest, tickets are required for each speaking engagement. For more information on acquiring tickets, visit www.cameron.edu/festival7. Book signings will follow most public lectures.

Guest Speakers:
August 30, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Khaled Hosseini
Author
The Kite Runner / A Thousand Splendid Suns
*Tickets for Hosseini's talk wil be available on a first-come, first-served basis, starting Monday, August 1.

September 29, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Steve Coll
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Author
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011 / The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

October 26, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Chuck Hagel
Distinguished Professor Georgetown University; U.S. Senator (1997-2009)
America: Our Next Chapter

January 19, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Robin Wright
Journalist, Foreign Policy Analyst, Author
The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy / Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

March 15, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Gen. (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal
Military Leader
Retired Four-Star General, former commander of all international forces in Afghanistan

For tickets and additional information, visit www.cameron.edu/festival7.

All events held in the Cameron University Theatre.

The City of Lawton and the Lawton Arts & Humanities Council is please to present, “No One Will Marry a Princess With a Tree Growing Out of Her Head”. The production by Lawton Community Theatre is set for Thursday, April 5 at the McMahon Memorial Auditorium located at 801 NW Ferris Avenue.

This widely acclaimed fun, witty, and delightful children’s musical features a spirited princess who upon reaching her twenty-first birthday (and is finally able to choose a husband), discovers that a tree is growing from her head courtesy of the local evil wizard Wartstitch. She enlists Gimlet the Good and Kind to help her on her journey to the four corners of the earth in search of a solution. This 60-minute musical recommended for children Pre-K to 4th grades, will delight the entire family.

Funding from the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as support from the McMahon Auditorium Authority allows performances to be offered at very special rates.

Daytime Performances
Special performances for schools, daycares, and small groups are set for 10am and 11:45am, however prior registration is required and seating is by lottery selection. The costs for the daytime performances are $1/person. Call 581-3470/3471 for information on the registration process.

Evening Performance
Back by popular demand, the evening performance is open to the public at the very special rate of $3.00/person general admission tickets. Children under 2-years old, admitted free. Tickets for the 6:30pm, “No One Will Marry a Princess With a Tree Growing Out of Her Head” can be purchased at the McMahon Memorial Auditorium Ticket Office located at the auditorium’s west entrance. The ticket office hours are Monday through Friday from 10am to 12noon and 1pm to 4:30pm. Call 580-581-3472 for more information on purchasing tickets for the evening public performance.

Funding for this presentation comes from the City of Lawton, Lawton Arts & Humanities Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Oklahoma Arts Council, and the McMahon Auditorium Authority.

Walk MS - Lawton

Date: Saturday - April 14, 2012

Location: Lawton High School
Address: 601 NW Fort Sill Blvd., Lawton, OK 73502

Site Opens: 9:00 a.m.
Walk Begins: 10:00 a.m.

Event Director: Cristy Racy
Contact Info: cristy.racy@nmss.org

"The Cemetery Club," by Ivan Menchell

A sentimental comedy about three widows living routine and comfortable lives until a local widower’s attraction to one of the trio threatens the stability of the threesome and forces them to look at their lives, their grieving and, ultimately, their ability to love again.

For more information, call 580-355-1600 or go to www.lct-ok.org.

The 18-hole "Lawton" course at the Lawton Municipal Golf Course facility in Lawton, Oklahoma features 7,142 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 72.9 and it has a slope rating of 102. Designed by Ben Hogan, the Lawton golf course opened in 1956. Cindy Nunn manages the course as the General Manager.

The Historic Mattie Beal Home has been named an official 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Project for southwest Oklahoma. After undergoing extensive rehabilitation in 2003-2005, the Home is again open for historical tours. The exterior has been returned to its 1923 grandeur. The interior is alive with colors of the art deco period and the grounds have been beautified with new period-appropriate landscaping. In conjunction with Lawton's birthday in 2007 the date for the official Centennial celebration at the Mattie Beal Home was August 3 and 4. The living history performance, "Mattie's Place", was performed on Friday, August 3, at 6:30 pm and Saturday, August 4, at 2:00 pm. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Lawton and partial funding for the Centennial Tours throughout the year are funded by the City of Lawton, Lawton Arts and Humanities Council, Oklahoma Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts.

Fort Sill has added a piece of history to its Field Artillery Museum, with a piece of the World Trade Center now on permanent display.

The twisted and smashed I-beam, measuring about 31 inches tall by 16 inches wide, was recovered at the trade center site in June 2002 by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Museum workers cleaned the beam and put a protective coating on it. Otherwise, the piece stands as it was taken from the massive pile of debris in 2002.

The Field Artillery Museum is just off Interstate 44, inside Fort Sill's Key Gate West and is open from 9 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday.