2021 Ambition: All Northwest Oklahoma Stories

While the COVID-19 pandemic forced significant changes in everyday life, and forced closure of some small businesses, select eateries in the area weathered the crisis by offering new and different services, and doubling down on diners’ favorites.

In Fairview, when you go to the bank to deposit a check, to the gas station to fill your tank or to the coffee shop down the street to buy your daily cup of Joe, everybody knows your name.

Anyone associated with Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) the past four decades knows the Case sisters.

For 10 years, Doug and Kristin daSilva have operated Red Rock Firearms in Enid on the premise of promoting the sport of shooting, gun safety and a strong belief in the second amendment.

It was considered radical when K.V. Williams and partner Larry Hammer opened their first Jiffy Trip convenience store in Cherokee in 1972.

In 2007, three friends in this northwestern Oklahoma community were looking for a common space to welcome others into the craft they loved, and they found it in Scrapbook 101.

When videographer Jack Quirk moved to Hennessey in 1980, he had no idea that 40 years later he’d still be there, so rooted into the community.

In 2000, Matt Dixon decided to pack up his family and move back to his native Okeene, where there was a wheat flour mill, to start Mountain Country Foods.