Jackie Cooper
Electronics has partnered with the manufacturer of this device and is getting
ready to sell the invention at their stores.

Considering that two years ago, electronic device distractions led to nine
fatalities and nearly 550 injury crashes in Oklahoma, this invention could bring
parents peace of mind.

You can tell your teenager not to text and drive, but we know how that turns
out.

“Yes, I tell them ‘don’t do that,’” said concerned parent Andrea Jones. “But
you know when we’re not around, they do what they want to do.”

So because there’s often a lack of self-control, a new device called
Cellcontrol is expected to take off.

“We’ve been looking for a device like this for over a year,” Jackie Cooper
Electronics President Donnie Chaffin said. “We’ve had a lot of requests for
it.”

Cellcontrol
shuts off a cell
phone‘s ability to send or receive text messages or emails when the car is
moving.

“Parents are concerned,” Chaffin said. “I think the general public is
concerned. We’ve all seen cars weaving back and forth and you think maybe it’s
someone that’s drinking, but no it’s someone that’s texting.”

Unlike GPS devices, it connects to a car’s on-board computer to detect when
the wheels are turning and communicates with a phone’s Cellcontrol app.

We put it to the test and the text screen disappeared when we put the
car in drive.

When we stopped, the texting screen reappeared.

On the Cellcontrol website, parents can also decide what phone
numbers their teen can call, see how fast they were driving and know if their
teen tried to uninstall the app or remove the device.

“They’re going to try everything they can do to get around it,” Jackie Cooper
Electronics Operations Manager Doug Berner said. “But this device has a lot of
safeties built into it, so they’ve kind of thought of all those things.”

The cost is almost $6.95 a month after a $59 installation.
It works in
vehicles manufactured since 1996.

Chaffin says Jackie Cooper Electronics will have
carry Cellcontrol in about 10 days.
It works with Androids, Blackberries,
most Windows Mobile phones and will soon be available for the iPhone.

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SHOWTIMES

• Friday, March 16: 10:30 a.m.
• Friday, March 16: 7 p.m.
• Saturday, March 17: 10:30 a.m.
• Saturday, March 17: 2 p.m.
• Saturday, March 17: 5:30 p.m.
• Sunday, March 18: 1 p.m.
• Sunday, March 18: 4:30 p.m.

The impressive skyscraper is closing in on a planned height of 850 feet and 50 stories, but also impressive is the “bucket hoist” that takes workers and executives straight up the side of the building. It goes up to the 37th floor, where the Oklahoma wind whips by at furious speeds.

Devon Executive Chairman Larry Nichols says the building’s shape will help shed the wind.

“This will give, but it doesn’t have that whiplash effect.”

For construction crews working constantly on the Devon Tower, whistles warn of moving loads and crews are all business. More than 1,000 workers are on site each day.

“The morning shift starts early in the morning, about 1,200 people work here all day,” said Nichols. “Then during the evening and midnight hours, it goes down to a staff of 65 or 75, something like that.”

It’s essentially a 24-7 operation; massive in every way, including the $750 million price tag. Devon employees are reminded every day of the place that will soon be home, and Nichols says that will be sooner than expected, as the project is ahead of schedule.

“The construction itself has gone fairly quickly. We’re building one floor a week.”

Nichols says the different trades doing the build-out are keeping pace through efficiencies.

“This plumbing unit is constructed off site, and so when the plumber gets ready to install it, the whole thing has already been built and tested.”

Our tour took us to seventh floor, the test floor, where sub-contractors can work out any kinks.

We finish in the six-story, glass rotunda. It’s Nichols’ pride and joy because it ties the entire headquarters together. And, being open to the public, it will further tie together Devon and the city it’s called home since Nichols and his father founded it 40 years ago.

“When we hired the architects, we looked very carefully,” said Nichols. “We wanted a building that would be a source of pride for our employees, for our company and for the city.”

Nichols says he expects employees to start moving into the building by next February, with the entire move complete by July. About 1,800 people will work in the building.

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Oakdale Baptist Church
10920 Sooner RD
Edmond, OK, 73013
From 6pm – 8pm

Mustang Church of The Nazarene
700 E State Highway 152
Mustang, OK 73064
From 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Trinity Baptist Church Child Development Center
1329 NW 23rd
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
From 6pm – 8pm

Earlywine Park YMCA
11801 S. May Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73170
From 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Saturday October 29th

Heartland Free Will Baptist Church
17601 S Sante Fe
Oklahoma City, OK 73170
From 11am – 2pm

City of Yukon
From 1:30pm -6:00pm

Mustang Community Center
1201 N. Mustang Rd
Mustang, Oklahoma 73064.
From 6:30pm – 9pm

The Gathering
8601 NW Expressway
Oklahoma City, OK 73162
From 5pm – 8pm

Monday October 31st

Real Church
11911 N Penn
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
From 6pm- 8pm

Emmaus Baptist Church
16001 S Western
Oklahoma City, OK 73170
From 6:30pm – 8:30pm

St. Marks United Methodist Church
8140 N.W. 36th Street
Bethany, OK 73008
From 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Have FUN be SAFE !!!

Those times and dates are as follows:

• Chickasha- Monday, After Dusk
• Del City- Monday, 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• Edmond- Monday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• El Reno- Monday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Enid- Monday, After Dusk
• Guthrie- Monday, After Dusk
• Kingfisher- Monday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Midwest City- Monday, After Dusk
• Moore- Monday, After Dusk
• Mustang- Monday, After Dusk
• Newcastle- Saturday, 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• Norman- Monday, After Dusk
• Oklahoma City- Monday, After Dusk
• Purcell- Monday, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Shawnee- Monday, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Stillwater- Monday, After Dusk
• Tecumseh- Monday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Yukon- Monday, After Dusk

For more detailed information, call your city’s chamber of commerce.