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Event

Weekend Roundup

From hot air balloons to dinosaur dance floors, there’s plenty of family fun set for Tulsa and surrounding areas this weekend. Here’s the rundown.

• 🎈Full of Hot Air: The 60th annual Green Country Balloon Festival benefiting the Gatesway Foundation will offer a sunset up high and family festival down low this weekend.

• 🏰Prepare for the Scare: The Castle of Muskogee will offer a nightly monster dance, indoor haunts, fireside storytelling, a petting zoo and some serious thrills of all levels.

• 🐯Let’s Get Wild: Put on your costume for the spooky but not too scary HalloZOOween at the Tulsa Zoo with goblin stops, haunted train rides and the creepy carousel.

• 🌧Bummer at the Barn: We’ve been telling you all about the fun at Tulsa Trails West happening this weekend but since it’s all outside, Mother Nature is shutting down the fun and it is closed for the weekend.

• ✈️Fly High and Rev Up: It doesn’t get much better than chili, cars and candy at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum where the beans are hot, the cars are smoking and the trunk-or-treat is sweet.

• 🖼Trick ART Treat: Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art will offer a dinosaur dance floor, art walk, food truck and coffee station, haunted mansion tour and much more at it’s annual PhilBOO.

• 👨🏻‍💻Haunted Hackathon: Build in Tulsa is offering some virtual fun this weekend with it’s Build Day X AI Edition where you can build a great team of innovators and submit ideas for cash prizes up to $2,500!

• 🏃🏻‍♂️Beer, Pizza, Chocolate, I’ll Run For That: The 46th Annual Tulsa Run sponsored this year by TTCU is back in town with a 15k, 5k, fun run and a finish line festival like no other with a slice of pizza from Simple Simons, cold beer from multiple breweries and full sized chocolate bar from Reasor’s.

• 🍺Creepy Bar Crawl: More than 750 grown-ups (must be 21) are expected to join in on downtown Tulsa’s Halloween Bar Crawl featuring restaurant stops with prizes, complimentary photos with professional photographers and some of the best food and drinks you’ll find in Oklahoma.

Community

A Lake Skiatook Marina is Getting Attention for Huge Economic Boost

A beautiful spot for a staycation, Cross Timbers Marina is showing big growth.

• Splash and Sleep: Cross Timbers Marina at Skiatook Lake has become a large tax generator for Osage County. Built in 2015, the marina offers a restaurant bar, great parking and gorgeous places to rent for entertaining and relaxing. It’s reporting earning some big bucks since opening. Owner Ron Howell says the marina's public-private partnership has brought in $251-Million dollars of property value to Osage County since 2005, up $235 million dollars from 2015.

• Lovely Lake Levels: The private dock and growing tax generator sits on Skiatook Lake which is one of the newest lakes in Oklahoma that opened in 1984. Operators always have something fun brewing like 4th of July fireworks, corn hole competitions and lots of amenities for cottage renters. It’s offering half priced rentals now.

Rent your boat and cabin and get cozy at Cross Timbers this fall!

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Community

A Tiny Home Village Breaks Ground In Tulsa Aimed At Helping the Homeless

Eden Village will offer homes to the homeless with a full kitchen, one bedroom, one bathroom and a whole lot of community, dignity and security.

• Homeless But Hopeful: Eden Village of Tulsa is an organization aimed at helping the homeless by giving them a place to get back on their feet. Four out of 63 tiny homes are already up in west Tulsa as part of the Eden Village tiny home community. Organizers held an official groundbreaking on Thursday.

• Caring Community: More than a housing solution, Eden Village offers a community feeling for homeless people who need a fresh start. CEO Danny Stocksill said the first 10 homes are funded, and several businesses and foundations have set up matching donations through the end of the year. The Helmerich Foundation is matching donations up to $1 million, until the end of the year.

Check out the The 17-acre site is just west of the Gilcrease Turnpike by the Arkansas River, on 61st West Avenue.

In other news

• 🩰Lucky Coin: The U.S. Mint American Women Quarters program is featuring an Osage Nation Ballerina as its 10th feature who broke major barriers as a Native American dancer.

• 🍺Record Beer Bust: The University of Tulsa fell short on it’s attempt at the worlds largest beer tasting festival but check out these amazing photos of all the fun that was had.

• 🌳Re-grow After The Storm: This summer’s wind storm taught us a lot about broken trees, power outages and insurance claims and now a local expert is teaching us how to rebuild by successfully planting new trees.

• 👀Whoop, There It Is: Look up! There’s a Whooping Crane migration happening through Oklahoma and you don’t have to be an expert bird watcher to enjoy the flight.

• 🐄Eat More Chicken: The Tulsa City Council voted to approve a rezoning measure that could bring a Chick-Fil-A to midtown Tulsa and some citizens are worried about possible traffic tie ups.

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