PetSense Outlet is coming to Enid and will be located in Neilson Square.

PetSense Factory Direct Stores are a pet lovers' paradise. Founded in 2005 by Jim Dougherty, PetSense is rapidly growing throughout the country and is mainly located in rural markets.

Jim Dougherty is no stranger to the pet industry. Jim founded the first national pet superstore chain in 1986, which changed the way pet owners shopped and cared for their pets. Today, Jim realizes there is a large void for pet lovers who live in rural markets. PetSense was founded to fill that void and provide the following products and services not available in other retailers:

* Factory direct close out items: priced at outrageously low "Factory Close Out Prices" (while supplies last).
* Over 5000 items available at everyday low "Factory Barkdown Prices".
* Broadest selection of Dog & Cat supplies available in rural markets.
* Friendly knowledgeable associates eager to assist every pet lover.

The Oklahoma Blood Institute will be holding a blood drive on:

July 31, 2008 at Cherokee Strip Conference Center - Community Challenge Blood Drive from 08:00 AM-06:00 PM (Sponsor Code: Y793)

For your convenience, we are offering the ability to schedule your appointment online by clicking here and entering the sponsor code listed above. The gift of life can only be given by generous donors like you. Please help us offer hope, health, healing & comfort to patients in need. Give blood.

Donate Blood on behalf of the March of Dimes.

Ashley Ewbank

Volunteer Blood Drive Coordinator

(580) 233-932

Anyone remember seeing the singing cowboy, Gene Autry and his horse Champion, at the Convention Hall about 1946 or 1947 which was sponsored by the Enid Chamber of Commerce. Gene was used to large turnouts and was extremely upset at the size of the Enid audience and vowed never to return to Enid again. As far as I know he kept his word, and we have all somehow survived his absence. - Bob Kellet

Does anyone remember the disco located in the motel on South Van Buren around 1980-1981? The motel is gone but was located on the west side of the road. Can anyone name the motel and the disco? - Curtis D. Tucker

Are there any old places, events or people you've been trying to remember? Let us know in the comment section below.

Those Crazy Days of yester year are on their way back! Enid is once again putting on it's annual Crazy Days affair. Downtown stores along with other city businesses will be participating.

Get out and save money this weekend and help Enid bring back that great old Crazy Day tradition!

I guess my wife and I can officially say that our honeymoon is officially over. It's been 10 years today since we walked the aisle and it's been a honeymoon the entire 10 years. If you see Denise today wish her a happy anniversary.

A very happy 10 years baby!!

Photographer: Mark Killam Photography

Time for an Enid Buzz Rant...

Seems like there's a lot of talk about trashy neighbors and cleaning up Enid. I'm not exactly sure what the controversy is about. Why would anyone not want a clean neighborhood and a better looking Enid? Oh, I forgot, there are those folks in Enid like my ex-neighbors from several years back.

Let's see, we lived next door to each other in a very west side addition with nice homes and clean yards. These neighbors, not poor, were dirty, stinkin, nasty people. That's it. They just didn't care one iota about being clean, looking good or what anyone else thought. Sure it's a free country but not when your nasty habits affect my life.

You see, these neighbors had six dogs. They kept three very large dogs in the bag yard. They went one summer without ever cutting the backyard grass. These dogs only had a path around the edges of the fence to walk. The swing set was buried in grass and their daughter could not have used a machete to find her way through even if she had wanted to. They also kept three little dogs inside their very stinky house. Because of the dogs in back they erected a wire fence in the front yard right next to our bedroom window.

Needles to say, every time they would let these yapping banshee's outside at 5:30 a.m. they would wake us up. They only mowed their front yard about once every six weeks. We actually had a neighbor across the street mow their lawn one day because he was tired of looking at the knee high grass.

Now why should I care about lazy slobs like this? Because their nasty, uncivilized behavior caused our yard to become infested with fleas, ticks and mice. Their screeching dogs woke us up nearly every morning. Calling the city didn't help much because the dogs had to be outside screeching for them to get ticketed and the dogs normally stayed inside the pee infested house.

Did we invite many people over to our house? No. Did we enjoy coming home and making our yard look good? No. Did we move out of the neighborhood as quick as we could? YES! Listen, if you want to complain that it is your right to live like a pig that's fine. Just don't do it next to my house. You all find a nice rat infested neighborhood, park your cars in the yard and move in together.

I found a great site to help Enid with it's trashy people problem. If your neighbor is a lazy slob report them to this site. If you are looking for a place to live check out the site and avoid the areas with the "problem" citizens. This site also gives the location of sex offenders.

Visit RottenNeighbor.com and start reporting those nasty neighbors today!

Please leave your comments and SOLUTIONS below...

The YWCA Needs You!

Staples has two pocket folders, with brads, ON SALE and the YWCA uses the orange ones for the Racial Justice program. They are only .01 each on sale and there is a limit of 10. (After 10 folders, they are .10 each!) If everyone could purchase 10 orange folders for the YWCA that would be a huge savings! If Staples runs out of orange folders the YWCA could use around 50 folders for the school supplies and community education information packets.

Help now! SALE ENDS WEDNESDAY!

4th of July events and activities...

Oakwood Country Club will be having it's annual BBQ dinner and fireworks display tonight, Thursday, July 3rd.

Meadowlake will hold it's traditional fireworks display on Friday evening July 4th around the lake. The fireworks should begin just after dusk. At 8:30 p.m. the Enid Symphony Orchestra will begin performing.

Leonardo's Leonardo's annual Hometown Fourth of July celebration is Friday, July 4th at Adventure Quest.

Activities start at 9 a.m. with tons of fun for kids and family. Contests will include gunny sack races, seed-spitting, bean bag and balloon tosses, musical chairs and turtle races. Games end at 1 p.m.

Leonardo's will be open from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. - admission is $2 for Leonardo's members and $3 for non-members and good all day. There will also be free face painting for all ages at Adventure Quest and free Moonwalk for children 5 and younger.

Happy Birthday America!!