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Clean-Up

Volunteers From Across the State Help in Tornado Clean-up and Outreach

Help is in place and growing in Barnsdall and Bartlesville after tornadoes touched down.

• Sweet Salvation: Tulsa Salvation Army Volunteers are in full force in Barnsdall as they delivered dozens of pizzas, hundreds of waters, clean clothes and countless prayers to the men and women working to clean up the destruction.

• Recover With Red: The American Red Cross of Oklahoma is helping with supplies as well. They’ve opened a shelter at the Osage County Fairgrounds for residents displaced by the storms. It offers a safe place to sleep, meals, health services for disaster-related conditions, spiritual care and more.

See how you can help from the comfort of your computer HERE.

Outreach

Tulsa Girls Home Opens 2 New Townhomes

Tulsa Girls Home gives foster girls a place to live, heal and hope. Now, the girls aging out of foster care will have a place to call a temporary home of their own.

• Shovels for Success: Tulsa Girls Home relocated to Jenks and celebrated big this week! The home will welcome more girls in need of high quality residential care for those in Oklahoma foster care. The girls find healing through therapies and trauma-informed programs that promote the development of social and relationship healing.

• Teachable Townhomes: The new site has enough land to build four townhomes to help the girls aging out of foster care make their way into the world and eventually live on their own. They broke ground on two of those townhomes today!

Learn more about Tulsa Girls Home HERE.

Event

Last Chance to See Tulsa Botanic Garden’s LEGO Display

It’s a big week at Tulsa Botanic Garden as the larger than life LEGO display will soon be taken apart.

• Large and in Charge: It’s your last chance to enjoy Sean Kenney's Nature POP! exhibit. Tulsa Botanic Garden is wrapping up the exhibition with a celebration on Thursday, May 9th as it is the last day to see the Nature POP!

• If You Build It: The display features life size animals and garden scenes all made out of LEGOS. Tomorrows final tour and celebration will include a concert from Hot Toast Music Co. from 6-8pm. Food and drink will be available at 5:30pm. LEGO enthusiasts can have some fun building with members of Oklahoma LEGO Users Group in the Children’s Discovery Garden from 2 to 6pm.

See the full calendar of Tulsa Botanic Garden events HERE.

Community

Mayor G.T. Bynum Proposes His Final City of Tulsa Budget

Tulsa’s 2024-2025 proposed budget backs a powerful punch as Mayor Bynum’s last.

• Show Me the Money: The 24/25 $1.023-Billion budget calls for a safer Tulsa. Some features include restoring the City's emergency operating reserve to a level of 8.5% of the general fund, allowing for a 2-year program to convert City-owned highway lights to LEDs through the voter-approved PSO Franchise Agreement, and adjusts our utility rates to keep Tulsa in line with the cost to deliver service. 

• Room for More: The budget also calls for enhancing the Tulsa Fire side of the 911 Center by adding two positions and a new app that will give instantaneous direct connection between first responders and citizens. The budget calls for a Homeless Program Lead who will collaborate with City leadership and external stakeholders in the development, implementation and monitoring of City-led homelessness efforts as part of the Path to Home initiative.

See Mayor Bynum’s complete budget speech HERE.

Event

Downtown Tulsa Midweek Market Open Tonight

It’s a farmer’s market you don’t have to wait until Saturday morning for.

• Farm Fresh: The Downtown Tulsa Midweek Market is on tonight and runs through June 26th and then again from September 4th to October 30th. Over 30 vendors have signed up and the list is growing.

• Wonderful Wednesdays: You'll find fresh produce, handmade goodies, food trucks and live music at Chapman Green located at 6th and Main. It’s all about supporting local farmers and artists while making Downtown even more vibrant. With the market open 4p to 7p, it's the perfect spot to grab dinner for the family and park for free.

Plan your trip to the Midweek Market or sponsor a booth HERE.

In other news

•  🏈 Making Moves: The Tulsa Oilers Football Team moved its offices over to the newly opened WeStreet ICE Center, home of Tulsa Oilers Hockey.

• ❤️ Tornado Outreach: News 9 and the American Red Cross have teamed up to make donating to those affected by recent storms easy.

• 🍽 Bartlesville Boom: Stop by Nineteen0Eight Friday night for a 5 course prime rib, wine pairing, live cocktail music dinner, and a speakeasy experience you won’t forget.

• 🌪 Did You See It?: Check out this amazing freeze frame of the moment lightning outlined a Monday night Oklahoma tornado.

• 🏛 History Highlights: Catch the new art exhibit that features the history of the Tulsa Race Riots and the evolution of Greenwood.

• 🧘🏻‍♀️ You Had Me at Om: There’s a new way to relax and tone in the Greenwood District starting Saturday.

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