You have been reading all year of the work going on,
of the lives touched in small ways and of the grand plans that have emerged and
are on the verge of the great tipping point to turning around our community area
serving from 46th to 76th St. North and from the Osage County line to Highway
75. Now you can become a part of that story...
Make your online donation by year's end at
www.turleyok.blogspot.com; you don't need paypal to use the online service. Or send a
check to A 'Third Place Foundation at The Welcome Table Community Center, 5920
N. Owasso Ave., Turley, OK 74126. Or bring it by during our New Year's Eve
gathering beginning at 9 pm tomorrow evening.
If you missed it, here http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-incredible-year-in-turley.html is our annual end of the year report to the community. Please
find ways to share it with others, and go to the website and read and share of
the many other events and issues and projects underway in our area.
Be an underwriter, be a presence in this abandoned
place of the Empire:
$100 helps us provide one of our many community meals
throughout the month
$300 pays for a whole month's mortgage for us, or a
whole month's insurance for us, or helps us staff the food center for a
month.
$500 pays for a whole month's utilities for us,
keeping us open and as a warming station for those without heat during these
cold months, keeping the computer center alive.
$1000 will announce us to the world with new community
signs for the center and for the kitchengardenpark and orchard.
Help us keep the mission
alive...
The Week Ahead:
Sat. Dec. 31, beginning at 8 am and going all morning,
we will be doing major site preparation work at our emerging community garden
park kitchen and orchard at 6005 N. Johnstown Ave. This has been one of the
amazing stories of this past year, and so come witness as we take another leap
forward on the last day of the year turning abandoned property into an oasis for
healthy food and community connections.
Sat. Dec. 31, 9 pm. to after midnight. This has been
the year we also bought another old historic abandoned building and turned it
into our community center, so it is fitting that we end the year relaxing and
enjoying this place of renewal, where passions meet the world's great needs, and
people find purpose and hope in giving back to others. We will have food, play
board games, watch the Best Picture Gandhi to usher in a year of revolutionary
peace, and community liberating presence here in our area.
Tuesday, Jan. 3 and Thursday, Jan. 5, from 3 to 6 pm,
our Food Pantry Center, where we also provide healthy recipes and healthy meals
made out of the food pantry ingredients, where we will be signing people up and
handing out tickets for the great food giveaway on Jan. 13 we are coordinating
with the Food Bank.
Thursday, Jan. 5, 3:30 pm our Future of the Turley Area deep planning session; we will be unveiling and working on the boundaries for the incorporation of a city of Turley, working on taking our disaster response network to the next level by identifying resources and leaders in sixteen neighborhoods within our currently unincorporated area, hearing reports from partners and networking our organizations.
Thursday, Jan. 5, 5:30 pm, helping the Advisory Board
of the O'Brien Park welcome its new activities director with a public reception.
This is one of our partners in the community.
Also help plan our parade presence in the Martin
Luther King Jr. parade and candlelight vigil and events. And stay tuned in
January for the start or something new...
Merry continuing Christmastide, and a happy new year
to you and to your communities.
Ron
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