Zombies and Pumpkins and Ghosts, Oh My!

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Event

It’s Time to Get Wild With Halloween at the Tulsa Zoo. HallowZOOween is Here!

It’s a spooky, but not too scary event that happens 2 weekends in a row. HallowZOOween let’s you trick-or-treat in the wild!

• Freaky Friday: Starting this Friday, thousands of visitors will hit the Tulsa Zoo for goblin stops where kids can pick up treats, enjoy carnival games, take part in special themed activities, as well as haunted trail rides around the zoo. Everyone is encouraged to dress up in creative costumes!

• Sunshine and Sunset Spooks: There are events both day and night. Forget cooking at home and reserve a spot for your family to have dinner. Stop at the pirate island, the creepy carousel, or catch a ride on the haunted train!

HallowZOOeen tickets can be reserved online in advance for guaranteed entry.

Business

A Black Wall Street Sneaker Business Owner Just Closed a $1-Million Seed Deal To Grow Her Tech Biz

Venita Cooper closed a $1-Million seed round with Ateno Capital and Lightship Capital.

• Trust the Prices: “Coop” as her colleagues call her has taken her knowledge of shoes and art and opened a great shop for one-of-a-kind pieces in the heart of Black Wall Street in the Greenwood District. She’s learned a thing or two about how much a good pair of sneakers should cost.

• Lessons on Laces: The tech spinoff she’s getting funded is called Arbit. It’s the first pricing algorithm designed to empower both buyers and sellers in the sneaker resell market. It’s not a marketplace. It’s an unbiased pricing tool that informs buy and sell decisions in ALL marketplaces. 

You can learn more about Arbit and sign up for early access HERE.

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Room For Cream Please! Local Collective Company is Making Sure Local Coffee Companies Have Room on Wal-Mart Shelves Too

Local Collective is bringing local to the masses and empowering local coffee roasters by giving them a way to be stocked on Walmart’s shelves in dedicated local sections.

• Aroma Advocates: It’s definitely a two cup kind of day when you are a business owner and you want to get your products onto Walmart’s shelves. There’s a jolly java company that is helping local coffee businesses do just that. Simply put, Local Collective will help get coffee roasters’ products on Wal-Mart store shelves in the same neck of the woods as their coffee houses.

• But First, Coffee: Local Collective has done the leg work of convincing Walmart of the importance of featuring a locally roasted section of coffee beans and other products on the coffee aisle. Topeca Coffee in Tulsa is pumped about the perk. “My Mother-in-law’s family has been growing coffee since about 1850. It is such an honor to now be able to work with Walmart,” said Topeca Co-Owner Chip Gaberino. If you live in the Tulsa area keep your eye out next time you pick up groceries, and you’ll see a variety of Topeca’s brews in the coffee aisle.

Learn more about Local Collective and the local roasters they are empowering HERE.

Event

Turkey Mountain Transformed Tonight! The Haunted Trail is Sure to Spook You

The Turkey Mountain Haunted Trail will be open this weekend and next weekend with things that go bump in the night!

• Tricky Trails: The 4 year tradition is back with the haunted trail, a trail of doom, a zombie paintball gun range kid friendly trail and a carnival to wrap it all up. The .75 mile trail is mostly down hill and gravel has been put down to make it easier to navigate.

• Haunted Hike: The West Side Alliance Soccer Club puts on what event leaders are calling the “good spooks” meaning, not too scary but enough to get your blood pumping through the woods. The experience is not recommended for children under 10, the faint of heart, or those with mobility issues.

Get your tickets to the haunted hike and get ready to meet your tricky tour guide!

Business

A New 3D Interactive Math Video Game Gaining in Popularity is Made in Tulsa

It’s the good kind of screen time! Boddle Learning started in Tulsa. It’s a math game application that will get your kiddo excited about the ABC’s and 123’s.

• Math Madness: Parents and teachers have access to the gaming platform for education that helps students kindergarten through 6th grade learn math and English. Grown-ups can follow their progress and fill in the gaps. The game designers made the game fun and similar to popular games kids are drawn to.

• Excited For Education: Educators can be rest assured that Boddle inventors Edna Martinson and Clarence Tan are not trying to change the way things are taught in the classroom. The game falls in line with traditional curriculums being taught today. Game on!

You can create a free Boddle account and get excited about learning HERE.

In other news

• ✝️Partners in ‘PECE’: Oral Roberts University is connecting business leaders with the ORU Community through a new luncheon series called PECE which stands for Partners in Economics, Commerce and Entrepreneurship. The first keynote speaker, Hans Helmerich of Helmerich & Payne will speak on mentorship October 26th. Reserve your spot at the ORU Global Learning Center event HERE.*

• 🦋You Give Me Butterflies: A Tulsa butterfly farm received a large grant for its work to encourage young visitors to start their own farms of all kinds. See the plans for the $750,000!

• 🐎Saddled Up for Surprise : The horse known for racing across OSU’s football field made some elementary student’s hearts race when he surprised them at school. See ‘Bullet’ make new besties. 

• 🎤Sing Me a Lullaby: An Owasso soon-to-be mom had a successful run on The Voice. While she wasn’t the last mom standing, Katie Wheatley did come home with something to sing about.

• 🦴Dachshund Dash: Oktoberfest is in full swing and there are plenty of sights to see beyond beer and brauts. See the funniest little dog race this side of the Arkansas River!

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