Friday, July 25, 2025
Courtesy Marilysis Saldivar Celio Saldivar (second from left), a husband and father of four, is currently being held in a Texas detention center.
‘Backbone of the family’ ICE detains OSU alumna’s father, leaving loved ones reeling
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he sound of screaming and crying traveled through the walls of the Saldivar home, breaking through Marilysis Saldivar’s state of unconsciousness. It was a regular Monday morning
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in the summer, and Marilysis was sleeping in. The cries were the first sign of her peaceful morning turning into a nightmare. Marilysis’ sister burst into the room to relay the news — their father, Celio Saldivar, was detained by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officers on his way to work. “I feel like I just went into shock,” Marilysis said. “I woke up with this overwhelming sense of fear that he has for himself, but also we have for him. In that moment, it just felt like everything stopped.”
Marilysis is the oldest of Celio’s four daughters. She graduated with her master’s in clinical mental health counseling from Oklahoma State in May — an achievement she attributes to her upbringing as a child of immigrants.
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OSU Art Museum exhibit explores wildlife through fabric, thread attention is Galápagos Marine Iguana, a dramatic textile piece by Canadian artist Sue Sherman. On a summer afternoon at the “In real life, they’re about 22 inches OSU Museum of Art, children gather long and eat mostly algae,” Sherman around a towering fabric iguana, said. “On two trips to Galápagos, I pointing at the jagged line of its have been quite close to them many stitched spine. times, and they are not threatening Just a few feet away, others thread at all. I was surprised to hear viewers needles and tiny hands at a community speak of this as a beast that could be quilt-making table — each stitch a dangerous.” tribute to the creatures on display. The artwork drawing so much See EXHIBIT on page 2 MJ NYAMDAVAA STAFF REPORTER
Raynee Howell Mayor Will Joyce read a proclamation declaring July 21, 2025, as Eskimo Joe’s 50th Anniversary Day in Stillwater. The local institution celebrated its anniversary with events all last week.
Blast from the past Eskimo Joe’s owner opens time capsule to end anniversary week
Fifty years later to the day, Clark pulled out one of the same flyers from a time capsule sealed during the bar’s Before Eskimo Joe’s opened its door 25th anniversary. as a bar, co-founder Stan Clark walked Clark had an audience beyond what the hallways of dorms at his alma anyone receiving that flyer in 1975 mater, Oklahoma State. could have imagined. Every seat in the Clark wasn’t taking a sentimental house, including the barstools at each walk weeks after graduation, but bar, was occupied. Those who couldn’t instead was sliding flyers — the first find a seat hovered against the walls, advertisements for Eskimo Joe’s — watching several tangible pieces of under the dorm room doors. The history pulled from the capsule. bar opened shortly after those flyers reached OSU students July 21, 1975. See BLAST on page 2 RAYNEE HOWELL
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MJ Nyamdavaa The Fur, Fangs, Feathers & Fins exhibit contains artworks from 43 fiber artists from around the globe.