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Community

Tulsa Girls Home Breaks Ground on 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 is relocating to Jenks this May. 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.

Travel

Tulsa International Airport Opens Discovery Lab Playground Just in Time for Spring Break

Who says airports aren’t fun for kids? Tulsa International Airport knows how to get them tired-out for the plane ride.

• Destination Discovery: Discovery Lab Tulsa and TIA teamed up to let kids of all ages play their hearts out. A new play area is installed and ready for climbing for travelers in the airport terminal who’ve gotten through security.

• Play All Day: The state-of-the-art exhibit is designed to entertain, engage, and educate young travelers.
  The play area located between gates B7 & B9 is open all hours and offers several attractions like a stomp garden, a climbing maze, and a human circuit.

See all the TIA amenities HERE.

Community

Tulsa’s Gathering Place Sprouts New Routines for Spring

The sun goes down later, and Gathering Place just got greater!

• Gather for Greatness: With more sunlight hanging around T-town, the Gathering Place has extended park hours. The park where nature meets City is blooming with bright colors just in time for spring break. See the Chapman Adventure Playground, the Skate Park and BMX Pump Track, join an action-packed pickup game of basketball or journey through the luscious urban gardens.

• Spring Into Action: As for safety, parents and caretakers can stop by the Guest Services desk in Williams Lodge to pick up a wristband for their child. Parents and caretakers can write down their phone number and attach the band to their child’s wrist so that staff can easily find parents and caretakers who have been separated from their child.

See the Gathering Place Spring Break Guide HERE.

Kuddos

2 Tulsa Museums Make USA Today’s Top 10 List for Best Museums in the Country

Philbrook Museum of Art is the 2nd best museum in the Country according to USA Today. 

• Marvelous Museum: We already know Philbrook is tops but it sure is nice to have a national audience again. USA Today released its top 10 lists for music and art museums. Philbrook fell just behind Detroit Institute of Art which holds the #1 spot.

• This Land is Your Land: Tulsa is also in the spotlight for having one of the best music museums in the country. USA Today named the Woody Guthrie Center the 4th best.

See the full top 10 of best music museums HERE and art museums HERE.

Event

Champagne Themed Experience Planned for Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser

A new spin on fundraising is on and poppin’ for one of Tulsa’s most important causes.

• Pop Some Bubbly: You’re invited to a fundraising experience that’s all about fizzzz. The first ever Bubbly Bash is set for for April 19th with live music, fantastic food and gorgeous views from In the Raw Vu. Enjoy fireworks and bottle sabering high above the downtown Tulsa skyline. It’s all to benefit the Ronald McDonal House of Tulsa.

• Champagne for Champions: The Ronald McDonal House is a safe place to sleep with all the amenities of home for families with children who have long term stays in the hospital. It serves 5.5M children and families in 64 countries each year at no cost to them.

Get your sponsorship tickets to Bubbly Bash HERE.

In other news

• ✈️ Flying High: Tulsa International Airport announced quick tips for spring break travel that include best practices for picking up travelers, navigating construction and ways to get visitors passes.

• 🏀 Tied Tipoff: The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Memphis Grizzlies to move into a tie with Denver atop the Western Conference Standings.

• 🍜 Nourishment Needs: A Tulsa non-profit and Islamic Relief kicked off Ramadan by handing out food boxes to fight food insecurity.

• 💚 Luck on a Leash: A local dog rescue proved St. Patrick’s Day fun isn’t just for humans with a party meant just for getting pups of all ages adopted into their forever homes.

• 💦 Water Work Order: The Dam that keeps hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma homes from flooding is up for renovation by the Army National Guard.

• 💇‍♀️ Caring Cuts: A Tulsa non-profit is looking for super humans with scissor skills to help cut hair for the homeless.

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