The Miracle Among The Ruins: A Third Place Community Foundation: Creating The Welcome Table Community Center, GardenPark and Orchard, Corner Store Free Pantry, Art Studio, Clothing/ThriftStore, and Supporting Renewal in the 74126 and 74130. Click on the Donate button or Subscribe button below for options to support our projects. We are a grassroots volunteer 501c3 nonprofit. Center located at 5920 N. Owasso Ave. Gardens at 6005 N. Johnstown. Contact us at 918-691-3223, 430-1150, 794-4637
Sunday
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Monday
See The Vision: Miracle Among The Ruins.
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Above is the link to the video produced by OU Design Studio and A Third Place Community for The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project, transformation "TNT" vision in TulsaNorthTurley. Go be amazed at the possiblities and share this post with as many as you can.
Below is the link for the video that shows a part of the property and area the way it is now, from a first video produced as a project by OU Graduate Social Work students working with us at A Third Place. The project has morphed and evolved into the vision of the video above, but we thank the students for helping us imagine this project last summer and fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgFKD6_i_w
The next video we need to make will sure the surrounding area and the number of burned out still standing and other vacant abandoned homes around this proposed. This project is one of several we have going on, but it is our major one at the moment and is connected to the larger plan of community renewal that calls for action for justice. We who live here are beginning it, but we invite you to be a paret of our "E.P.I.C." movement, experiencing and participating in the imagining of community, especially here where community has been fragmented.
In our area of the lowest life expectancy in the Tulsa area, in a healthy food desert, with 40percent of vacant homes abandoned, with school cutbacks especially in science in our area, with gang activity nearby, with community centers being shut down, a group of local residents are organizing community in an association called A Third Place, 6514 N. Peoria, and we are transforming in our area a city block of rundown property on a hill overlooking downtown Tulsa, in an area bridging two diverse ethnic neighborhoods, 60th and N. Johnstown Ave.
What you see is the garden park project divided into three overall areas.
The southern third of the transformed city block will be an open space with a gazebo for entertaining; this is the side with the best views of downtown Tulsa from this hilltop; the middle third of the park will have a portable and fixed kitchen areas for demonstrating and teaching and family use for grilling or dehydrating etc. the food grown on site, and it contains a fire pit for community or family gatherings, picnic tables for eating and meeting, and a playground;
the northern third will be the community garden beds, many raised for accessibility; what isn't shown as much will be the compost and toolshed areas. We have volunteers ready to go and are lining up other groups to help us with hands on volunteering, grantwriting and fundraising to augment our phased in creation of this vision
We are working with the OU-Tulsa Graduate Design Studio, which made this movie and our architectural plans, and with the OU Tulsa Graduate Social Work Department which helped us launch this dream, but our Miracle Among the Ruins can only, will only, happen with your donation by going to www.turleyok.blogspot.com for more info and to donate and only if you share this with someone else.
Thank you for your action.
Above is the link to the video produced by OU Design Studio and A Third Place Community for The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project, transformation "TNT" vision in TulsaNorthTurley. Go be amazed at the possiblities and share this post with as many as you can.
Below is the link for the video that shows a part of the property and area the way it is now, from a first video produced as a project by OU Graduate Social Work students working with us at A Third Place. The project has morphed and evolved into the vision of the video above, but we thank the students for helping us imagine this project last summer and fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgFKD6_i_w
The next video we need to make will sure the surrounding area and the number of burned out still standing and other vacant abandoned homes around this proposed. This project is one of several we have going on, but it is our major one at the moment and is connected to the larger plan of community renewal that calls for action for justice. We who live here are beginning it, but we invite you to be a paret of our "E.P.I.C." movement, experiencing and participating in the imagining of community, especially here where community has been fragmented.
In our area of the lowest life expectancy in the Tulsa area, in a healthy food desert, with 40percent of vacant homes abandoned, with school cutbacks especially in science in our area, with gang activity nearby, with community centers being shut down, a group of local residents are organizing community in an association called A Third Place, 6514 N. Peoria, and we are transforming in our area a city block of rundown property on a hill overlooking downtown Tulsa, in an area bridging two diverse ethnic neighborhoods, 60th and N. Johnstown Ave.
What you see is the garden park project divided into three overall areas.
The southern third of the transformed city block will be an open space with a gazebo for entertaining; this is the side with the best views of downtown Tulsa from this hilltop; the middle third of the park will have a portable and fixed kitchen areas for demonstrating and teaching and family use for grilling or dehydrating etc. the food grown on site, and it contains a fire pit for community or family gatherings, picnic tables for eating and meeting, and a playground;
the northern third will be the community garden beds, many raised for accessibility; what isn't shown as much will be the compost and toolshed areas. We have volunteers ready to go and are lining up other groups to help us with hands on volunteering, grantwriting and fundraising to augment our phased in creation of this vision
We are working with the OU-Tulsa Graduate Design Studio, which made this movie and our architectural plans, and with the OU Tulsa Graduate Social Work Department which helped us launch this dream, but our Miracle Among the Ruins can only, will only, happen with your donation by going to www.turleyok.blogspot.com for more info and to donate and only if you share this with someone else.
Thank you for your action.
Friday
The Four Directions Initiative: A "TNT" 20-20 Vision Project
For several months, our A Third Place Community has been engaging in projects and initiatives small and big throughout our service area of Greater, or historic, Turley area from 46th to 86th St and Highway 75 to Osage County Drive...The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project, see below for this transformative and much needed Miracle Among The Ruins event, has only been the most visible. Our partnerships are deepening with others within this area, and we are beginning or planning projects for community health, community beautification, community education, and community redesign, all of which will lead to a better sustainable environment for our children and businesses and associations to thrive.
For several months, the overall big picture has been emerging which will connect the dots of our past, current, and emerging projects, visions and dreams.
The Four Directions Initiative: a "TNT" (TulsaNorthTurley) 20-20 Project is the result.
Working with the OU Graduate Design Studio and others we will produce graphic designs to help show the project which will allow us to present it to community residents who will help us shape its final forms.
In the meantime, here is a look: Imagine and come help us bring it to reality.
The Four Directions Initiative is a renewal vision that refers to projects ongoing and planned in our service region between now and the Year 2020 that creates "corridors of community" between these end or destination points along our boundaries:
I.
West (Northgate addition, Vining Park, Horace Greeley school) to
East (O'Brien Park, new soccer and sports complex, Highway 75 wildflower plots),
with the following projects and points in a corridor between these two destination areas:
1. current Greeley School Gardening and Beautification project spinning out to include Northgate addition
2. Turley Residential (Correctional) Center, future partner, 61st and N. Cincinnati
3. The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project, 60th and N. Johnstown,
4. Turley United Methodist Church, 61st and N. Johnstown, including community garden space and native plant trail and improved primitive trail on far south side where children and others walk now.
5. Osage Prairie Trail intersections beautification wildflower projects ongoing and emerging, just west of Peoria
6. Historic Church Renovation into A Third Place Community and Food Justice Center, OU Community Health Clinic, Urban Monastery Prayer and Meditation Space, Let Turley Bloom Center, at 59th and just west of N. Peoria.
7. Cherokee School Outdoor Classroom Garden Learning Spaces ongoing and emerging, possibility for community school designation for Cherokee and increased community space and events at 6001 N. Peoria.
8. A Third Place Audubon Bird Sanctuary GreenSpace, 61st Street east of Cherokee along current path school children walk. Project pending purchase of one acre for sale inexpensively.
9. Veterans Center Building and grounds and sign improvement at 61st and Utica where we worked to remove grafitti.
10. Vann Industrial Park, 61st and Lewis, future partners with emphasis on creating green jobs
11. Scottsdale Addition, near 61st and Lewis, future sign renovation beautification to finish grafitti removal.
12. Park Meadows Mobile Home Park, near 61st and N. Lewis, partners for safety, beautification, and community events
13. O'Brien Park, 61st and N. Lewis, current partners in gardening, beautification, and community and family sustaining events.
14. Extending corridor to the south along E. 56th St. North at Lewis to include beautification project and welcome project at old Allen's BBQ building, ongoing and emerging project
15. Extending to Highway 75 and 56th St. to include current and future partnerships with North Tulsa Farmers Market, new soccer and skateboarding complex under construction, to make community friendly and supporting of local residents and Turley businesses.
16. Highway 75 and 56th Street Exit Wildflower Beautification Plot currently sponsored by A Third Place and the State Dept. of Transportation
17. Extending to north to 66th St. and N. Lewis near O'Brien Park to include our new Welcome to Turley beautification, wildflowers, and signage at intersection project currently underway.
18. Back on the western edge extending south to include beautification and community projects at Gilcrease Middle School, the planned new City/County Health Department facility, both at 56th and N. Cincinnati, Houston Elementary School, Carriage Trails neighborhood, Chamberlain Center, and Louisa May Alcott gardening project.
II.
South to North: along Peoria Ave. and immediate area from 46th St. to 76th St.
This would become the hub for a Far North Main Street Project, along North Peoria from the historic Turley area, 46th St. to either 66th or 76th St. for the Main Street Oklahoma grant project. The aim would be increased infrastructure of streetlights, sidewalks, bus stop improvements, beautification projects, plantings, cleanup, Redbud Avenue tree plantings, shopping centers revitalization, McLain High School initiative, and more.
Partners and projects along the Far North Main Street Project, current and future, include:
1. on the southern edge Generation of Destiny youth center at 46th St.,
2. McLain High School initiative and Greenhouse Project,
3. the PlanIt Tulsa envisioned corridor for part of this area by the old McLain Shopping Center, and shopping center just north of McLain.
4. new neighborhood association by the McLain shopping center,
5. New Beginnings Church sign beautification project near 54th and Peoria,
6. Northside YWCA, current and emerging partner, near 54th and Peoria, in the old Wiley Post School building,
7. the redeveloped and expanded to four lane 56th and Peoria intersection with signage directing people to parks, health department, and business districts,
8. the Welcome to Turley sign at 56th St. redeveloped and expanded by A Third Place with Keep Oklahoma Beautiful grant
9. wildflower beautification reclamation projects all along North Peoria with planters around abandoned signposts, some currently underway, and at businesses.
10. Cherokee School projects, with sidewalks and lights and other neighborhood safety issues and neighborhood watches
11. Old Turley Fire Department flower bed beautification project of rundown historic building.
12. Bus Stops with Shelters and beautification plots
13. Turley Post Office signage and visibility for promotion
14. transformation or destruction of long abandoned and rundown commercial buildings along this stretch of North Peoria.
15. 66th and N. Peoria intersection beautification where old Smith's grocery store was, and across the street in vacant land owned by the Freedom Bank, a future partner, and triangle median.
16. Extending beautification projects to 76th St. to include past and current ones at the northern limit where there is current renovation we are doing of the Welcome to Turley sign and at the nearby Donut store area beautification plot we put in.
17. Extending just west of Peoria along here for Osage Prairie Trail projects. The trail connects downtown Tulsa with northern Tulsa County Skiatook and beyond.
18. Extending behind McLain High School to include Penn Elementary gardening and beautification future, old Monroe Jr. High building where Tulsa Adult Learning and Margaret Hudson program are located, and Berry Park, 48th St. and Utica, as well as partnering with Sarah's Senior Living Center in the area.
Plus projects beyond these 36 to be included but unknown now at this stage; perhaps one you have.
We are currently already involved in several of these 36 projects, not waiting but acting, or we are about to start them. But putting them into the "big picture" and naming them helps to give focus to our energy, to recruit partners and helpers for these projects, and to shape our grants and fundraising for completion beyond our current capacities.
The "Four Directions" in the name also alludes to the importance of community spirit, ownership, and above all sense of place, to the original settlers of our area since we were and are a part of the Cherokee Nation.
The "Far North" designation for the Main Street Project is borrowed from the designation of our area by the Tulsa Community Services Council demographics research.
The "TNT" designation for TulsaNorthTurley alludes first to how we have "exploded" with community renewal energy these past three years and to the "vision explosion" to come through the initiative above; and secondly by linking TulsaNorthTurley we name our interconnection and destiny with one another despite any differences of ethnicity and history. For example, even as we may continue to work for incorporation of much of the currently unincorporated area of Turley in particular to get additional resources to help in this initiative, as well as for other reasons, we also know that because of Tulsa North and Turley's proximity and weaving together of where people go to school, shop, live, go to church, etc., that the two differently named areas are similar in many ways and share common issues and destiny.
Stay tuned for further developments as we work on visually presenting this project, in soliciting input about adding to it, and which parts of it should receive top priority, and how you can be a part of the adventure right now.
We hope you are inspired by our small acts, even moreso now that you can see how the dots connect into a bigger picture.
For several months, the overall big picture has been emerging which will connect the dots of our past, current, and emerging projects, visions and dreams.
The Four Directions Initiative: a "TNT" (TulsaNorthTurley) 20-20 Project is the result.
Working with the OU Graduate Design Studio and others we will produce graphic designs to help show the project which will allow us to present it to community residents who will help us shape its final forms.
In the meantime, here is a look: Imagine and come help us bring it to reality.
The Four Directions Initiative is a renewal vision that refers to projects ongoing and planned in our service region between now and the Year 2020 that creates "corridors of community" between these end or destination points along our boundaries:
I.
West (Northgate addition, Vining Park, Horace Greeley school) to
East (O'Brien Park, new soccer and sports complex, Highway 75 wildflower plots),
with the following projects and points in a corridor between these two destination areas:
1. current Greeley School Gardening and Beautification project spinning out to include Northgate addition
2. Turley Residential (Correctional) Center, future partner, 61st and N. Cincinnati
3. The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project, 60th and N. Johnstown,
4. Turley United Methodist Church, 61st and N. Johnstown, including community garden space and native plant trail and improved primitive trail on far south side where children and others walk now.
5. Osage Prairie Trail intersections beautification wildflower projects ongoing and emerging, just west of Peoria
6. Historic Church Renovation into A Third Place Community and Food Justice Center, OU Community Health Clinic, Urban Monastery Prayer and Meditation Space, Let Turley Bloom Center, at 59th and just west of N. Peoria.
7. Cherokee School Outdoor Classroom Garden Learning Spaces ongoing and emerging, possibility for community school designation for Cherokee and increased community space and events at 6001 N. Peoria.
8. A Third Place Audubon Bird Sanctuary GreenSpace, 61st Street east of Cherokee along current path school children walk. Project pending purchase of one acre for sale inexpensively.
9. Veterans Center Building and grounds and sign improvement at 61st and Utica where we worked to remove grafitti.
10. Vann Industrial Park, 61st and Lewis, future partners with emphasis on creating green jobs
11. Scottsdale Addition, near 61st and Lewis, future sign renovation beautification to finish grafitti removal.
12. Park Meadows Mobile Home Park, near 61st and N. Lewis, partners for safety, beautification, and community events
13. O'Brien Park, 61st and N. Lewis, current partners in gardening, beautification, and community and family sustaining events.
14. Extending corridor to the south along E. 56th St. North at Lewis to include beautification project and welcome project at old Allen's BBQ building, ongoing and emerging project
15. Extending to Highway 75 and 56th St. to include current and future partnerships with North Tulsa Farmers Market, new soccer and skateboarding complex under construction, to make community friendly and supporting of local residents and Turley businesses.
16. Highway 75 and 56th Street Exit Wildflower Beautification Plot currently sponsored by A Third Place and the State Dept. of Transportation
17. Extending to north to 66th St. and N. Lewis near O'Brien Park to include our new Welcome to Turley beautification, wildflowers, and signage at intersection project currently underway.
18. Back on the western edge extending south to include beautification and community projects at Gilcrease Middle School, the planned new City/County Health Department facility, both at 56th and N. Cincinnati, Houston Elementary School, Carriage Trails neighborhood, Chamberlain Center, and Louisa May Alcott gardening project.
II.
South to North: along Peoria Ave. and immediate area from 46th St. to 76th St.
This would become the hub for a Far North Main Street Project, along North Peoria from the historic Turley area, 46th St. to either 66th or 76th St. for the Main Street Oklahoma grant project. The aim would be increased infrastructure of streetlights, sidewalks, bus stop improvements, beautification projects, plantings, cleanup, Redbud Avenue tree plantings, shopping centers revitalization, McLain High School initiative, and more.
Partners and projects along the Far North Main Street Project, current and future, include:
1. on the southern edge Generation of Destiny youth center at 46th St.,
2. McLain High School initiative and Greenhouse Project,
3. the PlanIt Tulsa envisioned corridor for part of this area by the old McLain Shopping Center, and shopping center just north of McLain.
4. new neighborhood association by the McLain shopping center,
5. New Beginnings Church sign beautification project near 54th and Peoria,
6. Northside YWCA, current and emerging partner, near 54th and Peoria, in the old Wiley Post School building,
7. the redeveloped and expanded to four lane 56th and Peoria intersection with signage directing people to parks, health department, and business districts,
8. the Welcome to Turley sign at 56th St. redeveloped and expanded by A Third Place with Keep Oklahoma Beautiful grant
9. wildflower beautification reclamation projects all along North Peoria with planters around abandoned signposts, some currently underway, and at businesses.
10. Cherokee School projects, with sidewalks and lights and other neighborhood safety issues and neighborhood watches
11. Old Turley Fire Department flower bed beautification project of rundown historic building.
12. Bus Stops with Shelters and beautification plots
13. Turley Post Office signage and visibility for promotion
14. transformation or destruction of long abandoned and rundown commercial buildings along this stretch of North Peoria.
15. 66th and N. Peoria intersection beautification where old Smith's grocery store was, and across the street in vacant land owned by the Freedom Bank, a future partner, and triangle median.
16. Extending beautification projects to 76th St. to include past and current ones at the northern limit where there is current renovation we are doing of the Welcome to Turley sign and at the nearby Donut store area beautification plot we put in.
17. Extending just west of Peoria along here for Osage Prairie Trail projects. The trail connects downtown Tulsa with northern Tulsa County Skiatook and beyond.
18. Extending behind McLain High School to include Penn Elementary gardening and beautification future, old Monroe Jr. High building where Tulsa Adult Learning and Margaret Hudson program are located, and Berry Park, 48th St. and Utica, as well as partnering with Sarah's Senior Living Center in the area.
Plus projects beyond these 36 to be included but unknown now at this stage; perhaps one you have.
We are currently already involved in several of these 36 projects, not waiting but acting, or we are about to start them. But putting them into the "big picture" and naming them helps to give focus to our energy, to recruit partners and helpers for these projects, and to shape our grants and fundraising for completion beyond our current capacities.
The "Four Directions" in the name also alludes to the importance of community spirit, ownership, and above all sense of place, to the original settlers of our area since we were and are a part of the Cherokee Nation.
The "Far North" designation for the Main Street Project is borrowed from the designation of our area by the Tulsa Community Services Council demographics research.
The "TNT" designation for TulsaNorthTurley alludes first to how we have "exploded" with community renewal energy these past three years and to the "vision explosion" to come through the initiative above; and secondly by linking TulsaNorthTurley we name our interconnection and destiny with one another despite any differences of ethnicity and history. For example, even as we may continue to work for incorporation of much of the currently unincorporated area of Turley in particular to get additional resources to help in this initiative, as well as for other reasons, we also know that because of Tulsa North and Turley's proximity and weaving together of where people go to school, shop, live, go to church, etc., that the two differently named areas are similar in many ways and share common issues and destiny.
Stay tuned for further developments as we work on visually presenting this project, in soliciting input about adding to it, and which parts of it should receive top priority, and how you can be a part of the adventure right now.
We hope you are inspired by our small acts, even moreso now that you can see how the dots connect into a bigger picture.
Fourth Annual Turley Area Festival at A Third Place Community Center on Juneteenth Weekend, June 18-19
Plan now to attend, and come help us put it on: The Fourth Annual Turley Area Festival, Juneteenth, Friday June 18, noon to nine pm, and Saturday June 19, 10 am to 10 pm, at A Third Place Community Center, 6514 N. Peoria. Free Festival For All. Music. Art. Games. Free Food. Programs. Free Swimming. Children's Activities. Community Info and Exhibits.
Sponsored by A Third Place, along with the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Graduate Social Work Dept, and O'Brien Park. Far North Greater Turley Area includes the neighborhoods from 46th St. North to 86th St. North and from Highway 75 to Osage County Drive.
Turley Area Festival Theme: "Our Past, Present, and Future"
Friday, June 18:
Lunch and Kickoff Celebration Ceremony 12-1pm
Band and Games (board, Wii) 1-2 pm
History Presentation and Turley Tour 2-4 pm
Band and Supper 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Hands-On History Project 7-8 pm
Band and Games 8-9 pm
Saturday, June 19:
Free Swimming at O'Brien Park with contribution of food for the A Third Place Community Center Food Pantry.
Tye Dye Tshirt Making 10 am to Noon
Presentations on Turley Area Present and Community Renewal Projects 10 am to Noon
Lunch and Band Noon to 2 pm
Tye Dye Tshirt Making 2 to 4 pm
Panel Presentation: Our Healthy Community Future: Plans and Visions 2 to 4 pm
Dinner and Band 4:30 to 6:30 pm
"TNT" Event: Your Voice For "TulsaNorthTurley" Map of the Future 7 to 10 pm
Closing Celebration Band 8 to 10 pm
ongoing Jupiter Jump, art gallery exhibits, exhibits on community businesses, groups, projects
ongoing Great Giveaway from Giving Room, consignment sale opportunities, games and activities, and more.
Stay tuned for schedule of Festival Planning meetings. Get involved. Renew lives, communities.
Email thirdplaceturley@aol.com, or call 794-4637 or 4301150 or 6913223.
Sponsored by A Third Place, along with the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Graduate Social Work Dept, and O'Brien Park. Far North Greater Turley Area includes the neighborhoods from 46th St. North to 86th St. North and from Highway 75 to Osage County Drive.
Turley Area Festival Theme: "Our Past, Present, and Future"
Friday, June 18:
Lunch and Kickoff Celebration Ceremony 12-1pm
Band and Games (board, Wii) 1-2 pm
History Presentation and Turley Tour 2-4 pm
Band and Supper 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Hands-On History Project 7-8 pm
Band and Games 8-9 pm
Saturday, June 19:
Free Swimming at O'Brien Park with contribution of food for the A Third Place Community Center Food Pantry.
Tye Dye Tshirt Making 10 am to Noon
Presentations on Turley Area Present and Community Renewal Projects 10 am to Noon
Lunch and Band Noon to 2 pm
Tye Dye Tshirt Making 2 to 4 pm
Panel Presentation: Our Healthy Community Future: Plans and Visions 2 to 4 pm
Dinner and Band 4:30 to 6:30 pm
"TNT" Event: Your Voice For "TulsaNorthTurley" Map of the Future 7 to 10 pm
Closing Celebration Band 8 to 10 pm
ongoing Jupiter Jump, art gallery exhibits, exhibits on community businesses, groups, projects
ongoing Great Giveaway from Giving Room, consignment sale opportunities, games and activities, and more.
Stay tuned for schedule of Festival Planning meetings. Get involved. Renew lives, communities.
Email thirdplaceturley@aol.com, or call 794-4637 or 4301150 or 6913223.
Wednesday
Our Latest News in Tulsa Northern edge: Food Justice and Community Renewal
A Third Place Community Center just received news we have become an official pantry site with the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. Just now need to build more shelves to get ready for the extra food. Besides the food we can distribute for free, we can also purchase some items for a low cost. Help us provide healthier food that way. Donate through the button above.
Also, this summer A Third Place Community Center will be conducting the summer free lunch program for all in our community from one years old to 18 years old and will be held at Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria Ave., from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Donations needed to help with those costs, as well as volunteers. Donate through the button above.
And tonight, Wednesday, May 12, at 5:30 pm come to the Center for the unveiling of the plans and visual design from the OU Graduate Design Studio for our The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project to be located at 60th and N. Johnstown, transforming rundown abandoned homes and property into a wonderful community neighborhood revitalization and community gardens space.
Also, this summer A Third Place Community Center will be conducting the summer free lunch program for all in our community from one years old to 18 years old and will be held at Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria Ave., from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Donations needed to help with those costs, as well as volunteers. Donate through the button above.
And tonight, Wednesday, May 12, at 5:30 pm come to the Center for the unveiling of the plans and visual design from the OU Graduate Design Studio for our The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project to be located at 60th and N. Johnstown, transforming rundown abandoned homes and property into a wonderful community neighborhood revitalization and community gardens space.
Saturday
Coming Events in Turley and Area For You, With You, From You
A Third Place Community Center, 6514 N. Peoria Ave., where small acts of justice done with great love change the world. It has been a wonderful three years of growing in mission here. We had our Grand Opening in June 2007.
We just finished last rainy weekend the Beautify Turley Day, and were surprisingly and wonderfully joined at the last minute by a church youth group from Kansas which helped clean up our streets (thanks Vanessa and the Center for Racial Justice for their recommendation), and the renewed Welcome Sign is looking beautiful and still being finished; the music was great at the community center, and the schools gardens are growing too. We helped Cherokee School with a partner in education lunch Friday and made more good plans and connections there. Then did the same with From Turley to TU community coalitions networking at State Rep. Seneca Scott's monthly meeting--lots of people doing great things and lots of ideas for working together. We had our monthly community breakfast today.
Here it comes our Summer of Transforming Love.
We have brought the Bookmobile back this summer to Turley, to A Third Place Center, after it has been gone from our area for many years. So exciting. First day will be Friday June 4. Spread the word and let's swamp them with a welcome and customers. Come to the center and get fliers and handouts on the bookmobile schedule and pass out wherever you are.
We will have a Community Health Initiative working with OU social work students, and also another project working with OU pre med and medical students coming to Turley. See below.
We will have our Fourth Annual Turley and Area Festival Celebration Juneteenth Event, June 18-19. Food, music, programs on Turley and area Past, Present, Future. Celebrating our Difference, and the Difference We Make. Art. Tyedying. Community Info Expo. Seed and Plant exchange. Children's activities. Board games, Wii games. Rodeo Parade.
We will feed all the children in our area a free lunch everyday at Cherokee School from June 7 to August 6 so even though they aren't in school where they are primarily fed they will continue to have at least one good meal a day, and we will have activities for them too.
Coming up right away to support all the above:
Sunday, May 9, 10 am missional Mothers Day. communion, conversation, common meal.
Tuesday, May 11, 11 am north tulsa community coalitions networking at Job Corps, a great program on the demographic changes and issues coming to our area of Tulsa; then come to 6:30 pm at the center every second Tuesday Let Turley Bloom ecological documentary; this day it is critically acclaimed "Manufactured Landscapes" and sustainability conversation and community gardening planning.
Wednesday, May 12, 5:30 pm unveiling the final design from OU Tulsa Graduate Design Studio for our project to transform a city block of abandoned homes into the Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project at 60th and N. Johnstown. We have a closing date on purchase coming up and still need some 100 people to give an average $100 to help us begin the project. Go to posts below to read more. Go to button above to donate online, and pass it on. It only happens with your help. Donate more if you can, less if you need to, and spread the word to others. See the full vision on the website.
Friday, May 21, 2:30 pm Turley Leadership Council networking at the Center
June 4-5, June 18-19 and July 2-3, Community Health Initiative with OU Graduate Social Work students and A Third Place. Two neighborhoods and others will be closely surveyed to build an understanding of the community health problems in our area, information that will help us, we hope, get grants to help alleviate the issues.
Fridays July 9 and 16 Community Health Project with OU premed and medical students in our area.
Remember our community health clinic meets every Monday and Friday at the clinic in the mornings.
Remember our Food Pantry always needs food, and we should be coming a part of the community food bank soon.
And ongoing worship Sunday mornings with the church at a third place center and Rev. Ron Robinson, community and guerilla gardening and the "usual subversive activities" during the week. Or just come hang out. And working working working on the Big Vision news hope to unveil soon too about creating safe and sustainable spaces, outdoors and indoors, from one end of our area to the other.
We just finished last rainy weekend the Beautify Turley Day, and were surprisingly and wonderfully joined at the last minute by a church youth group from Kansas which helped clean up our streets (thanks Vanessa and the Center for Racial Justice for their recommendation), and the renewed Welcome Sign is looking beautiful and still being finished; the music was great at the community center, and the schools gardens are growing too. We helped Cherokee School with a partner in education lunch Friday and made more good plans and connections there. Then did the same with From Turley to TU community coalitions networking at State Rep. Seneca Scott's monthly meeting--lots of people doing great things and lots of ideas for working together. We had our monthly community breakfast today.
Here it comes our Summer of Transforming Love.
We have brought the Bookmobile back this summer to Turley, to A Third Place Center, after it has been gone from our area for many years. So exciting. First day will be Friday June 4. Spread the word and let's swamp them with a welcome and customers. Come to the center and get fliers and handouts on the bookmobile schedule and pass out wherever you are.
We will have a Community Health Initiative working with OU social work students, and also another project working with OU pre med and medical students coming to Turley. See below.
We will have our Fourth Annual Turley and Area Festival Celebration Juneteenth Event, June 18-19. Food, music, programs on Turley and area Past, Present, Future. Celebrating our Difference, and the Difference We Make. Art. Tyedying. Community Info Expo. Seed and Plant exchange. Children's activities. Board games, Wii games. Rodeo Parade.
We will feed all the children in our area a free lunch everyday at Cherokee School from June 7 to August 6 so even though they aren't in school where they are primarily fed they will continue to have at least one good meal a day, and we will have activities for them too.
Coming up right away to support all the above:
Sunday, May 9, 10 am missional Mothers Day. communion, conversation, common meal.
Tuesday, May 11, 11 am north tulsa community coalitions networking at Job Corps, a great program on the demographic changes and issues coming to our area of Tulsa; then come to 6:30 pm at the center every second Tuesday Let Turley Bloom ecological documentary; this day it is critically acclaimed "Manufactured Landscapes" and sustainability conversation and community gardening planning.
Wednesday, May 12, 5:30 pm unveiling the final design from OU Tulsa Graduate Design Studio for our project to transform a city block of abandoned homes into the Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park project at 60th and N. Johnstown. We have a closing date on purchase coming up and still need some 100 people to give an average $100 to help us begin the project. Go to posts below to read more. Go to button above to donate online, and pass it on. It only happens with your help. Donate more if you can, less if you need to, and spread the word to others. See the full vision on the website.
Friday, May 21, 2:30 pm Turley Leadership Council networking at the Center
June 4-5, June 18-19 and July 2-3, Community Health Initiative with OU Graduate Social Work students and A Third Place. Two neighborhoods and others will be closely surveyed to build an understanding of the community health problems in our area, information that will help us, we hope, get grants to help alleviate the issues.
Fridays July 9 and 16 Community Health Project with OU premed and medical students in our area.
Remember our community health clinic meets every Monday and Friday at the clinic in the mornings.
Remember our Food Pantry always needs food, and we should be coming a part of the community food bank soon.
And ongoing worship Sunday mornings with the church at a third place center and Rev. Ron Robinson, community and guerilla gardening and the "usual subversive activities" during the week. Or just come hang out. And working working working on the Big Vision news hope to unveil soon too about creating safe and sustainable spaces, outdoors and indoors, from one end of our area to the other.
Wednesday
Where Planting Beauty is a Social Justice Event
Saturday, May 1, 8 am to 2 pm Beautify Turley and Area
---Transforming and planting at the Welcome to Turley sign, 56th and N. Peoria. This is one of the main entries into our part of the area as you cross into the unincorporated section, and immediately confront abandoned houses and eyesores; the Welcome sign will be a seed of hope and beauty right away.
---Picking Up Trash dumped in our area; there is more than we can ever get to but we will make a stab at some of the worst of it. Bags, gloves, water provided.
---Planting more outdoor classrooms at Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria.
---Plant and Seed and Tool Exchange at A Third Place Center, 6514 N. Peoria Ave.
---Giveaway Day at the Center
---Free Lunch for Helpers at the Center
---Live Country Band Johnny and The Oklahomans during lunch at the Center.
If we get enough helpers, Working on the new beds at Horace Greeley school, 63rd and N. Cincinnatti. Working on the intersection at 66th and N. Lewis, the community garden at 60th and N. Johnstown.
Hope you can help us spread the word, and find helpers for our project this Saturday; in part it is completing the rain-dampened projects from two Saturdays ago at Cherokee School, plus planting projects for which we received a Keep Oklahoma Beautiful grant.
Come by and see what's happening on North Peoria. And while here see the city block of abandoned houses we are raising funds for to transform into The Welcome Kitchen Garden Park Project at 60th and N. Johnstown.
We are a third of the way in raising funds needed; help us now; all we need are 100 more people to give an average of $100 (give more if you can, give less if you need to; all is dearly welcomed) indicate if you would like a particular name on the donor sign in honor or memory of someone.) Read all about it and donate online at www.turleyok.blogspot.com and share with others; this is a grassroots intiative carried out entirely by all volunteer community group. We are hoping if people can't give $100 they may know ten people who could give $10.
Thanks for all you do, feel free to pass this on.
Ron Robinson and Bonnie Ashing
691-3223 cell or 430-1150 home or 794-4637 at the Center.
---Transforming and planting at the Welcome to Turley sign, 56th and N. Peoria. This is one of the main entries into our part of the area as you cross into the unincorporated section, and immediately confront abandoned houses and eyesores; the Welcome sign will be a seed of hope and beauty right away.
---Picking Up Trash dumped in our area; there is more than we can ever get to but we will make a stab at some of the worst of it. Bags, gloves, water provided.
---Planting more outdoor classrooms at Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria.
---Plant and Seed and Tool Exchange at A Third Place Center, 6514 N. Peoria Ave.
---Giveaway Day at the Center
---Free Lunch for Helpers at the Center
---Live Country Band Johnny and The Oklahomans during lunch at the Center.
If we get enough helpers, Working on the new beds at Horace Greeley school, 63rd and N. Cincinnatti. Working on the intersection at 66th and N. Lewis, the community garden at 60th and N. Johnstown.
Hope you can help us spread the word, and find helpers for our project this Saturday; in part it is completing the rain-dampened projects from two Saturdays ago at Cherokee School, plus planting projects for which we received a Keep Oklahoma Beautiful grant.
Come by and see what's happening on North Peoria. And while here see the city block of abandoned houses we are raising funds for to transform into The Welcome Kitchen Garden Park Project at 60th and N. Johnstown.
We are a third of the way in raising funds needed; help us now; all we need are 100 more people to give an average of $100 (give more if you can, give less if you need to; all is dearly welcomed) indicate if you would like a particular name on the donor sign in honor or memory of someone.) Read all about it and donate online at www.turleyok.blogspot.com and share with others; this is a grassroots intiative carried out entirely by all volunteer community group. We are hoping if people can't give $100 they may know ten people who could give $10.
Thanks for all you do, feel free to pass this on.
Ron Robinson and Bonnie Ashing
691-3223 cell or 430-1150 home or 794-4637 at the Center.
Tuesday
Every Event An Experience of Hope
Thanks to all who came to our many April events and everyday happenings at the Center, Clinic, Library, Giving Room, Food Pantry, Church, etc. You are Invited....
Beautify Turley & Area Event, Saturday May 1 from 8 am to 2 pm. Thanks to grant from Keep Oklahoma Beautiful. Help us pick up trash from the streets. Help us create new and more beautiful Welcome to Turley signs. Free meal for helpers. Live country music from Johnny and The Oklahomans at A Third Place Center. Find out ways you can help us keep beautifying our community.
Community Arts and Crafts. Tuesday, May 4, 6:30 pm at the Center. Bring projects, talk about ways to take art into the streets and other places of our area.
Partnering with Cherokee Elementary School, meeting of business and community and church leaders in Turley area, cookout on the courtyard, talk by Rep. Seneca Scott, Friday, May 7 11:30 am.
Community Sharing and Organizing with State Rep. Seneca Scott, "From Turley to TU" Friday, May 7, 5:30 pm Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus, Apache and Harvard.
Benefit Pancake and More Community Center Breakfast and Sharing, Saturday, May 8, 8 to 10 am, at the Center. $5 Bring others to find out what's going on, meet new friends, share plans.
Community Gardening and Random Acts of Kindness and Beauty, Saturday May 8 10 am to noon, meet at the Center.
Monthly Sustainability Documentary and Discussion by Let Turley Bloom, with community gardening planning and sharing, "Manufactured Landscapes." about the destruction of land, communities, and dignity of workers in order to feed the consumption of the few. Tuesday, May 11, 6:30 pm. at the Center.
Turley Community Association, Tuesday, May 25, 7 pm, O'Brien Park Center.
OU Community Medicine Clinic every Monday and Friday at the Center.
Weekly Worship Church in A Third Place, Rev. Ron Robinson, 10 am, Sundays, communion, conversation, common meal, community projects.
Weekly 12 Step Recovery Group at the Center, Saturday 7:30 pm
Weekly Fire Department public meetings, Thursdays 7 pm, 6404 N. Peoria Ave.
Turley Water Board meeting last working day of each month 8:30 am, 6108 N. Peoria
Beautify Turley & Area Event, Saturday May 1 from 8 am to 2 pm. Thanks to grant from Keep Oklahoma Beautiful. Help us pick up trash from the streets. Help us create new and more beautiful Welcome to Turley signs. Free meal for helpers. Live country music from Johnny and The Oklahomans at A Third Place Center. Find out ways you can help us keep beautifying our community.
Community Arts and Crafts. Tuesday, May 4, 6:30 pm at the Center. Bring projects, talk about ways to take art into the streets and other places of our area.
Partnering with Cherokee Elementary School, meeting of business and community and church leaders in Turley area, cookout on the courtyard, talk by Rep. Seneca Scott, Friday, May 7 11:30 am.
Community Sharing and Organizing with State Rep. Seneca Scott, "From Turley to TU" Friday, May 7, 5:30 pm Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus, Apache and Harvard.
Benefit Pancake and More Community Center Breakfast and Sharing, Saturday, May 8, 8 to 10 am, at the Center. $5 Bring others to find out what's going on, meet new friends, share plans.
Community Gardening and Random Acts of Kindness and Beauty, Saturday May 8 10 am to noon, meet at the Center.
Monthly Sustainability Documentary and Discussion by Let Turley Bloom, with community gardening planning and sharing, "Manufactured Landscapes." about the destruction of land, communities, and dignity of workers in order to feed the consumption of the few. Tuesday, May 11, 6:30 pm. at the Center.
Turley Community Association, Tuesday, May 25, 7 pm, O'Brien Park Center.
OU Community Medicine Clinic every Monday and Friday at the Center.
Weekly Worship Church in A Third Place, Rev. Ron Robinson, 10 am, Sundays, communion, conversation, common meal, community projects.
Weekly 12 Step Recovery Group at the Center, Saturday 7:30 pm
Weekly Fire Department public meetings, Thursdays 7 pm, 6404 N. Peoria Ave.
Turley Water Board meeting last working day of each month 8:30 am, 6108 N. Peoria
Friday
Free Community Academy & Free Meal Tuesday 5:30 pm to 8 pm
Have an idea for making our area a better place? Have a desire to make yourself a better person? Like to get job skills and leadership training and relationship building? Want to help make your organization or church or business better?
Come to Community Academy, free, taught in conjunction with the University of Oklahoma Tulsa Graduate Social Work Department and A Third Place Center. Bring someone with you. These sessions have been great. Just two left this month in this first ever round of meetings.
Next session April 20. Then come for sure to the final celebration, even if this is your first time, on Tuesday April 27 when we have the event in conjunction again with the monthly Turley Community Association meeting.
Want to see pictures of past community academy gatherings? Or follow what all is happening with A Third Place? If you are on facebook, friend A Third Place Community and also friend and follow Ron Robinson at www.facebook.com/revronrobinson.
Come to Community Academy, free, taught in conjunction with the University of Oklahoma Tulsa Graduate Social Work Department and A Third Place Center. Bring someone with you. These sessions have been great. Just two left this month in this first ever round of meetings.
Next session April 20. Then come for sure to the final celebration, even if this is your first time, on Tuesday April 27 when we have the event in conjunction again with the monthly Turley Community Association meeting.
Want to see pictures of past community academy gatherings? Or follow what all is happening with A Third Place? If you are on facebook, friend A Third Place Community and also friend and follow Ron Robinson at www.facebook.com/revronrobinson.
Community Gardening Party at Cherokee and Greeley School Saturday April 17 10 am Free Meal and Free Live Music and Plant/Seed/Garden Exchange
Everyone welcome and everyone needed. Come by Cherokee School 10 am on. Live music and free meal and plant and gardening seed and more exchange. Help make an outdoor classroom and beautify Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria Ave, come for as little or as long as you can. Come find out what's going on in the community. Come help us get a similar school gardens and science outdoor nature classroom going at Greeley School, 63rd and N. Cincinnati. It all happens Saturday, April 17. If we get too much rain we will reschedule for Saturday, May 1 which is our great neighborhood area litter pickup event, celebrate renovation of welcome signs, etc. party anyway.
Consider This...Change This
Consider All This:
...That our Elementary school children walk past this property, and families walk past on their way to the grocery store and back home. Go to the video in post below that the OU social work students made last summer. You will see one piece of property that is by far not the worst of properties here where we live; in fact near this property are some other dozen or so abandoned run down empty burned out buildings most open where children can get to. But this is the property we can start with and has a beautiful view of downtown Tulsa. From a place of turning away from it can be a place of turning toward.
...That our public community centers have been closed down, especially in our lowest income areas like ours, affecting programs for our children...That Our state is dead last as the healthiest state, and our children's health is a big part of that... And consider that our 74126 zip code has the lowest life expectancy in our metropolitan area...We can create here an outside community space for community health, classes, meetings to go along with our inside community space and clinic, so we can use this property for gardens and kitchen and classes in a way that doesn't require people to come to us.
Think about this fact: That 40 percent of the vacant residential properties in our two mile radius have been abandoned...not for sale, not for rent, vacant and abandoned and waiting to become like the properties in the video and those even worse nearby.
That We live in a healthy food desert...When I was in cardiac rehab this last Fall across town after my heart attack the nurses brought out all the healthy brands and said to our class buy these, and I said I couldn't get them on my side of town and was fortunate enough to be able to regularly drive across town unlike most of my neighbors... That the survey we did with OU last summer showed A third in our area feel insecure about feeding themselves and their families with healthy food…oh we have convenience stores and smoke shops galore. But, but, there is not even pizza delivery for thousands who live north of Apache street, and we are talking just a couple of miles from downtown itself.
That next year for our elementary school and all those in the north Tulsa area The Tulsa Public Schools are ending the elementary science/nature classes in schools in our area even though our high school, McLain, has a magnet science programs. The classes were started to help our children get the science and nature background early on so they can take advantage of the magnet program when they reach that age and it won't just be for others with the skills from other areas. That not only are we putting in outdoor classrooms and planning to fill the gap by creating a science and nature extra curricular club since it won't be focused on in the curricula the same, but this property will serve as a classroom.
That week after week, but more it seems the warmer it gets and youth and others are out more but without more "outside" places to go to, the news is full of killings and shootings within our two mile radius. That our one little block project will not be THE answer, but it is A response, risking community and connection and is in a place for reconciliation.
Consider This...Change This. The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project. Become a part of the Possibility. Pass it Along, again and again and again. Go to the Donate button.
...That our Elementary school children walk past this property, and families walk past on their way to the grocery store and back home. Go to the video in post below that the OU social work students made last summer. You will see one piece of property that is by far not the worst of properties here where we live; in fact near this property are some other dozen or so abandoned run down empty burned out buildings most open where children can get to. But this is the property we can start with and has a beautiful view of downtown Tulsa. From a place of turning away from it can be a place of turning toward.
...That our public community centers have been closed down, especially in our lowest income areas like ours, affecting programs for our children...That Our state is dead last as the healthiest state, and our children's health is a big part of that... And consider that our 74126 zip code has the lowest life expectancy in our metropolitan area...We can create here an outside community space for community health, classes, meetings to go along with our inside community space and clinic, so we can use this property for gardens and kitchen and classes in a way that doesn't require people to come to us.
Think about this fact: That 40 percent of the vacant residential properties in our two mile radius have been abandoned...not for sale, not for rent, vacant and abandoned and waiting to become like the properties in the video and those even worse nearby.
That We live in a healthy food desert...When I was in cardiac rehab this last Fall across town after my heart attack the nurses brought out all the healthy brands and said to our class buy these, and I said I couldn't get them on my side of town and was fortunate enough to be able to regularly drive across town unlike most of my neighbors... That the survey we did with OU last summer showed A third in our area feel insecure about feeding themselves and their families with healthy food…oh we have convenience stores and smoke shops galore. But, but, there is not even pizza delivery for thousands who live north of Apache street, and we are talking just a couple of miles from downtown itself.
That next year for our elementary school and all those in the north Tulsa area The Tulsa Public Schools are ending the elementary science/nature classes in schools in our area even though our high school, McLain, has a magnet science programs. The classes were started to help our children get the science and nature background early on so they can take advantage of the magnet program when they reach that age and it won't just be for others with the skills from other areas. That not only are we putting in outdoor classrooms and planning to fill the gap by creating a science and nature extra curricular club since it won't be focused on in the curricula the same, but this property will serve as a classroom.
That week after week, but more it seems the warmer it gets and youth and others are out more but without more "outside" places to go to, the news is full of killings and shootings within our two mile radius. That our one little block project will not be THE answer, but it is A response, risking community and connection and is in a place for reconciliation.
Consider This...Change This. The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project. Become a part of the Possibility. Pass it Along, again and again and again. Go to the Donate button.
Monday
PassAlong The Possibility: Transforming Neighborhoods
Update on The Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project
A Third Place Community Center in Turley and in Tulsa’s northern-edge
With University of Oklahoma Design Studio and Graduate Social Work Partners
Consider All This: We are in recession….Our public community centers have been closed down, especially in our lowest income areas... Our state is dead last as the healthiest state… And our 74126 zip code has the lowest life expectancy in our area... 40 percent of the vacant residential properties in our two mile radius have been abandoned… We live in a healthy food desert…A third in our area feel insecure about feeding themselves and their families with healthy food… The Tulsa Public Schools are ending the elementary science/nature classes in schools in our area even though our high school, McLain, has magnet science programs.
Because of, in spite of all this….We at A Third Place Community Center believe another way is possible…
Sustainable Community Development One Block at a Time. Taking a full block with 12 lots with abandoned houses and trash, in an area overlooking downtown Tulsa, bridging two ethnically diverse low income areas….Turning It into An Outdoor Center with Community Gardens, Community Kitchen, Community Classes and Meals, Family area. On an acre at 60th and N. Johnstown Ave.
We are raising from local residents and global citizens $15,000 needed to purchase the property to begin the transformation. WE CAN ONLY DO IT WITH YOU…We need 100 people from around the world to give at least an average $100 to match what we have raised (you can give more; you can give less; we want as many owners as possible). Donate in honor or memory of someone who cared.
See above link to Donate Online. Use credit, debit cards or paypal. Or Send checks made out to A Third Place Community Foundation to 6514 N. Peoria Ave., Turley, OK 74126. We are an all-volunteer grassroots new 501c3 non profit organization but already have a health clinic, library, computer center, food pantry, clothing room, lending library, gardens and orchard, community center with programs and events. We would love to partner with you. Thanks so much.
“Small Acts of Justice Done With Great Love Change The World”
A Third Place Community Foundation, 6514 N. Peoria Ave.918-794-4637, 691-3223, 430-1150, thirdplaceturley@aol.com
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A Third Place Community Center in Turley and in Tulsa’s northern-edge
With University of Oklahoma Design Studio and Graduate Social Work Partners
Consider All This: We are in recession….Our public community centers have been closed down, especially in our lowest income areas... Our state is dead last as the healthiest state… And our 74126 zip code has the lowest life expectancy in our area... 40 percent of the vacant residential properties in our two mile radius have been abandoned… We live in a healthy food desert…A third in our area feel insecure about feeding themselves and their families with healthy food… The Tulsa Public Schools are ending the elementary science/nature classes in schools in our area even though our high school, McLain, has magnet science programs.
Because of, in spite of all this….We at A Third Place Community Center believe another way is possible…
Sustainable Community Development One Block at a Time. Taking a full block with 12 lots with abandoned houses and trash, in an area overlooking downtown Tulsa, bridging two ethnically diverse low income areas….Turning It into An Outdoor Center with Community Gardens, Community Kitchen, Community Classes and Meals, Family area. On an acre at 60th and N. Johnstown Ave.
We are raising from local residents and global citizens $15,000 needed to purchase the property to begin the transformation. WE CAN ONLY DO IT WITH YOU…We need 100 people from around the world to give at least an average $100 to match what we have raised (you can give more; you can give less; we want as many owners as possible). Donate in honor or memory of someone who cared.
See above link to Donate Online. Use credit, debit cards or paypal. Or Send checks made out to A Third Place Community Foundation to 6514 N. Peoria Ave., Turley, OK 74126. We are an all-volunteer grassroots new 501c3 non profit organization but already have a health clinic, library, computer center, food pantry, clothing room, lending library, gardens and orchard, community center with programs and events. We would love to partner with you. Thanks so much.
“Small Acts of Justice Done With Great Love Change The World”
A Third Place Community Foundation, 6514 N. Peoria Ave.918-794-4637, 691-3223, 430-1150, thirdplaceturley@aol.com
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Donate Now Online For The Transforming Turley Welcome Table Kitchen Garden Park Project
Now Donate Online. You can do so without a paypal account or going through paypal. When you click on the button above you will go to a page where you can donate through paypal, or you will see toward the bottom of the page a list of credit cards and a place where you can click continue to pay directly with your credit or debit card and not with paypal. If you ever have any problems or questions about the online donation process, please let me know.
See above where you can click to donate to our amazing transformation project so needed at this time of cutbacks to turn a neglected city block on the northern edge of Tulsa overlooking downtown Tulsa and full of abandoned buildings in a neighborhood full of abandoned burned out buildings into a community garden, community outdoor meeting space, and event space. An outdoors A Third Place Center, designed by OU Graduate Design Studio and with the assistance of the OU Graduate Social Work students helping us, a nonprofit community grassroots all volunteer based group of people changing the world one block at a time. Sustainable. Inspiring. See the main post below.
You can use your credit card information, or your pay pal account either one. It is secure. It just takes a few minutes and can change the world. We need another 12,000 people to give $1, or another 120 to give $100, or just another 60 people to give $200, or another 30 people to give $400. We can do it. Donate and let others on your networks know you have donated and ask for challenge or matching donations.
Act now while the offer, as the saying goes, is still good and help us buy the property. Be an owner of the place.
If you have a difficulty with the online donation please contact me at RevRonRobinson@aol.com
See above where you can click to donate to our amazing transformation project so needed at this time of cutbacks to turn a neglected city block on the northern edge of Tulsa overlooking downtown Tulsa and full of abandoned buildings in a neighborhood full of abandoned burned out buildings into a community garden, community outdoor meeting space, and event space. An outdoors A Third Place Center, designed by OU Graduate Design Studio and with the assistance of the OU Graduate Social Work students helping us, a nonprofit community grassroots all volunteer based group of people changing the world one block at a time. Sustainable. Inspiring. See the main post below.
You can use your credit card information, or your pay pal account either one. It is secure. It just takes a few minutes and can change the world. We need another 12,000 people to give $1, or another 120 to give $100, or just another 60 people to give $200, or another 30 people to give $400. We can do it. Donate and let others on your networks know you have donated and ask for challenge or matching donations.
Act now while the offer, as the saying goes, is still good and help us buy the property. Be an owner of the place.
If you have a difficulty with the online donation please contact me at RevRonRobinson@aol.com
All Welcome to The Following Events at The Center
Thanks to Tulsa City/County Library for great donation of audio and VHS curriculum and books to the Center. Come see many of them left. Thanks to Great Visit by University of Oklahoma Staff Leadership Institute. Thanks to Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma for site visit. Thanks to Cherokee School and McLain High for partnerships. More to Come with Greeley School......No OU Community Health Clinic this Friday April 2 or Monday April 5; resumes Friday, April 9.
Tuesday March 30 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Free Meal, Community Academy for all 14 and up, and monthly meeting of Turley Community Association. Come find out what is happening in the community, bring ideas, connect, learn leadership and relationship skills. Open to all.
Thursday, April 1 6:30 pm Maundy Thursday Communion Service at the Center, free and open progressive Christianity for all.
Friday, April 2 noon, come participate with Turley LivingRoom Church in Good Friday worship service at All Souls Church, 2952 S. Peoria Ave.
Friday April 2 5:30 pm Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus "From Turley to TU" meeting monthly first Friday with Rep. Seneca Scott, community coalitions.
Saturday, April 3, 11 am to 3 pm Easter Eve party, Ron Robinson and Bonnie Ashing's house and garden, 563 E. 63rd St. N.
Saturday, April 3, 11:30 am Easter Egg and Doggie Biscuit Hunt, O'Brien Park, 6147 N. Lewis.
Resurrection Sunday April 4 Liberation Worship and Service Project 10 am
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm Community Arts and Crafts gathering
Saturday, April 10 All Community Breakfast Benefit 8 to 10 am $5 donation
Saturday, April 10 Random Acts of Kindness and Beauty 10 am to Noon
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 pm Gardening Group and Movie "SuperSize Me"
Saturday, April 17, 10 am Community Gardening, Cherokee School
Saturday, April 17, 2 pm Saving Pets of Turley
Tuesday, April 20 and April 27 5:30 to 8:30 pm Community Academy, free 14 and up, free meal, classes to help with organizations, ideas, leadership and relationship skills.
Saturday, May 1, 8 am Community Clean-Up and Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Planting Day, celebrating our grant to beautify the welcome signs for our community.
And more to come: Our Board will be conducting three sessions of Leadership Retreat in April; we are forming new projects with Cherokee and Turley area businesses, and of course we are seeking support and partners for the Welcome Kitchen Garden Park Project. See below.
Tuesday March 30 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Free Meal, Community Academy for all 14 and up, and monthly meeting of Turley Community Association. Come find out what is happening in the community, bring ideas, connect, learn leadership and relationship skills. Open to all.
Thursday, April 1 6:30 pm Maundy Thursday Communion Service at the Center, free and open progressive Christianity for all.
Friday, April 2 noon, come participate with Turley LivingRoom Church in Good Friday worship service at All Souls Church, 2952 S. Peoria Ave.
Friday April 2 5:30 pm Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus "From Turley to TU" meeting monthly first Friday with Rep. Seneca Scott, community coalitions.
Saturday, April 3, 11 am to 3 pm Easter Eve party, Ron Robinson and Bonnie Ashing's house and garden, 563 E. 63rd St. N.
Saturday, April 3, 11:30 am Easter Egg and Doggie Biscuit Hunt, O'Brien Park, 6147 N. Lewis.
Resurrection Sunday April 4 Liberation Worship and Service Project 10 am
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm Community Arts and Crafts gathering
Saturday, April 10 All Community Breakfast Benefit 8 to 10 am $5 donation
Saturday, April 10 Random Acts of Kindness and Beauty 10 am to Noon
Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 pm Gardening Group and Movie "SuperSize Me"
Saturday, April 17, 10 am Community Gardening, Cherokee School
Saturday, April 17, 2 pm Saving Pets of Turley
Tuesday, April 20 and April 27 5:30 to 8:30 pm Community Academy, free 14 and up, free meal, classes to help with organizations, ideas, leadership and relationship skills.
Saturday, May 1, 8 am Community Clean-Up and Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Planting Day, celebrating our grant to beautify the welcome signs for our community.
And more to come: Our Board will be conducting three sessions of Leadership Retreat in April; we are forming new projects with Cherokee and Turley area businesses, and of course we are seeking support and partners for the Welcome Kitchen Garden Park Project. See below.
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