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Stillwater News Press Articles from 2017

​During 2017, the Stillwater News Press published some articles written by volunteers, members, and friends of the Stillwater Community Center.  These make great light reading and you might learn a few things about what what going on around here in 2017.  To read an article, just click on the Read more and it will open up a .pdf file.  
2/7/2017
Old Friends are Worth Keeping
by Ann C. Houston
This week while rummaging through papers and documents my dad kept all these years about all things Stillwater, I ran across a copy of a remarkable issue of an old Stillwater newspaper. . . . Read more.
3/7/2017
Football Field Swapped for Downtown School Building
by Ann C. Houston
In April 1991, a building known as the old middle school had been sitting quietly for four years after the City of Stillwater and Stillwater Public Schools . . . . Read more.
4/13/2017
Genesis: Stillwater Community Singers
by Judy White
August 1994, Stillwater NewsPress: “There will soon be a new vocal music group in Stillwater.”  Stillwater Civic Chorale, sponsored by the . . . . Read more.
5/9/2017
Memories of a Beginning Teacher
by Nelda Helt
​My introduction to the Stillwater Community Center was during the time it served as Stillwater Junior High School. I arrived as an anxious student teacher with hopes of learning the . . . . Read more.
​6/30/2017
Decades of History at the
​Community Center

by Stephanie Kinder
As a native of Stillwater, my first memory of the building, now known as the Stillwater Community Center, was as a 6th grade middle school student.  Later . . . . Read more.
​7/27/2017
A Place to Call “Home”
by Larry Jones
Early one September morning in 1997 a group of people, including 16 Japanese landscape gardeners from Kameoka, stood outside the north entrance to the Stillwater Community . . . . Read more.
8/24/2017
Who Doesn’t Need Friends?
by Nancy Houston Beckstrom
When I left Stillwater in 1976, watching my hometown shrink in the rearview, I was sure I was gone for good.  Headed west for Colorado in a hand-me-down Plymouth Valiant, adventure . . . . Read more.
9/28/2017
The Time Has Come: Downtown Stillwater Cultural District
by Ann C. Houston
We didn't coin the phrase that links these facilities into a familial unit "Stillwater Cultural District Sisters.” Julie Couch and Shirley Weeks get that . . . . Read more.
11/9/2017
Curb Appeal Needs Friends
by Jim Baker
Hey, I’m so excited!  I have a whole new bunch of friends, “Friends of the Community Center.” This is a group of people committed to preserving and making the community center more . . . . Read more.
2/27/2017
Stillwater Community Center:  It belongs to everyone.
by Ann C. Houston
As a college town, Stillwater is a diverse community. That’s one of the reasons the Stillwater Community Center works so well for so many groups within and . . . . Read more.
3/21/2017
NOW What?
by Ann C. Houston
The Stillwater Community Center has been “saved” from the demolition crew and the Friends of Stillwater Community Center, Inc. is officially established to better negotiate and collaborate officially . . . . Read more.
​4/27/2017
SCC Enhances Morgan’s Musical Journey
by Morgan Reynolds
Music is my passion and my calling, which probably comes as no surprise to all you folks out there that I have gotten to know over the years.  I was born into  . . . . Read more.
6/15/2017
Stillwater in School
​Since 1889

by Roger Moore
Stillwater High School celebrated the Class of 2017 last month inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. The gathering heard from students and administrators . . . . Read more.
7/13/2017
Memories from the Spaces in the Stillwater Community Center
by Leva Swim
August 1968 marks the establishment of the Class of 1974, when students from all Stillwater grade schools merge into 7th grade at the Junior High School . . . . Read more.
8/10/2017
Age-Old Practice of Singing, Good for Your Heath – and Fun!
by Judy White
Choral singing has been done for centuries with documentation to the benefits of singing and music therapy. Singing boosts physical and  . . . . Read more.
9/14/2017
The Second 80 Years
by Jim Beckstrom
​When I was “asked” to write this article, my reaction was “why me?”  What am I remembering?  Yes, I knew I was involved in the Friends of the Community Center and the Foundation . . . . Read more.
​10/12/2017
DownTown and Gown
by Billy McCollom
Town and Gown Community Theatre and the Stillwater Community Center are old partners, having worked together several times. Their first experience was “Camelot” in the early 90s . . . . Read more.
11/23/2017
27 Years and Counting - The Stillwater Community Band is Home
by Wayne Bovenschen
It is hard to believe how fast the first 27 years of the reformation of the Stillwater Community Band have passed. In the fall of 1991, William  . . . . Read more.
​12/14/2017
Happy Holidays from Friends of Stillwater Community Center
by Nancy Houston Beckstrom
As 2017 comes to a close we can all look back and see the successes we have had during the year. Friends of Stillwater Community Center are amazed at all that has been accomplished . . . . Read more.
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