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
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Sunday
Turley History Group Every Third Thursday 6 pm
Brining Back Senior Nutrition Site to Turley, at O'Brien Park
Please help us spread the news about this great opportunity in our area.
Help Us With Summer Food Program at Cherokee; Training May 6
Second Saturday May 9 Transforming Turley Events
Commuity Breakfast. Freewill donation. Pancake & More Breakfast. 8 am to 10:30 am Odd Fellows Lodge, 6227 N. Quincy. For all in the community. Proceeds go to support local area projects.
10 am. A Third Place Center, 6514 N. Peoria, come help us beautify our area with new plantings of flowers and more at the Turley welcome signs, at Cherokee School community gardening and creating new landscape in the front of the school, our reclaiming of the 66th and N. Lewis intersection, and the 56th and N. Lewis intersection, and our new wildflower plots along Highway 75 at 56th and 66th streets, and at A Third Place Center's front itself. If weather is bad, we will meet inside the Center for our acts of kindness and service and planning.
2 pm Cherokee School Carnival in the gym. Help us at the A Third Place Center booth telling families about our many programs and projects and ways we can help each other.
You all are needed. No experience necessary.
OU Medicine Clinic in Turley Mon & Fri
Help us spread the news about this service in our community. Come volunteer to help host the center and provide a welcoming place for those who come in need.
Come say thanks to the OU staff.
Neighborhood Life 2009 Followup
But this is a process that is just beginning. If you would like to be a block captain or neighborhood point person on your street, please call 7944637 or send an email to RevRonRobinson@aol.com or thirdplaceturley@aol.com our new email address at the Center.
Would you like help cleaning up your streets and neighborhood? Would you like a watch patrol? Would you like to throw a block party? Would you like to start a community garden or turn an abandoned lot into a small park? Would you like to be an ambassador for the OU-Turley/North Tulsa Medical clinic at A Third Place, becoming a neighborhood wellness contact?Let us know.
You will be hearing much more about this to come.
Friday
Welcome OU Turley Social Work Community Project
Residents, come tell your stories and talk about the needs of your neighborhood as the Univ. of Okla. helps us on another community project through A Third Place community center.
Come to O'Brien Park Saturday from 10 to 2 for Garden and Neighborhood Event. Talk about ways to improve the quality of life on your street and in your area. WE will have community gardening planning at 11 am. It is all free. Come. Refreshments offered.
Wednesday
Help Keep A Third Place Center Open: Benefit Supper Friday March 13 6 to 8 pm $5 All You Can Eat Spaghetti & Chili
Come to our Turley "Town Square", the free community center called A Third Place, at 6514 N. Peoria Ave. next door to the Turley Post Office and laundramat. We exist through the love and labor of volunteers; we have a nonprofit organization, A Third Place Community Foundation, which coordinates the Center and our many activities and programs for our neighbors. We all live in or near the Turley area and Tulsa northedge. We partner with the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Tulsa to help provide services, connections, resources, and more here in Turley.
We can only do it with your support.
Come celebrate with us and have a spaghetti and chili benefit supper all you can eat for $5. Or if you can't make supper, leave off a donation or make out a check to A Third Place Community Foundation.
Our next volunteer training day will be Friday, March 13 at 1 pm.
We have many events planned, and new ventures about to be unveiled.
If you would like to get resources to help improve your own part of our area, your street or your neighborhood, come to the Center and see Ron and be a part of our new Turley Leaders Initiative.
On Saturday, March 14 go to the Odd Fellows Lodge at 8 am to 11 am for a community breakfast freewill donation benefiting a community project or family in need. Stay for a community gardening and beautification random act of kindness events from 10 am to noon at the Center.
Monday
Welcome to Turley
If you are a resident or a former resident of Turley, I hope you will find community here, both online and in person. Check out the links to the right and if you have links about Turley to add please send them to us.
If you are a student at the Univ. of Oklahoma Graduate Social Work Department, a special welcome as we partner again this semester. Thank you for helping us create community.
Read on and enjoy yourself and spread the word about us to others. Come experience the Turley Adventure.
Saturday
A Third Place Center & Turley Area New UpComing Events
"Doing Small Things with Great Love Changes the World"
Univ. of Okla. Community Medicine Clinic, Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, 9 am to 4 pm Call 660-3614 for appointment and latest schedule
Turley Resource Center, Donna Spivey, OU Grad Assistant Social Work Dept, Mondays and Fridays
Stress Reducing Class, Free, Tuesdays 7 pm
OSU Nutrition Class, Tuesdays Noon
AA Recovery 12 Step Group, Saturdays 7:30 pm
LivingRoom Church, Rev. Ron Robinson, Sundays 10 am; Wednesday morning prayer 9 am, bible chat 11 am, noonday prayer following
Every Second Saturday, community breakfast at Odd Fellows Lodge, 6227 N. Quincy, 8 to 11 am. Freewill donation.
Every Second Saturday, 10 am, Random Acts of Kindness A Third Place Center
Every Third Saturday, 2 pm Saving Pets of Turley, A third place Center
Every Third Saturday, 3 pm Turley History Conversations and Projects, see new meeting address below
Special Events For You
Friday, Feb. 20, noon volunteer training and 6:30 pm appreciation dinner and thank you reception for volunteers and Center leaders.
Saturday, Feb. 21
2 pm S.P.O.T. Saving Pets of Turley meeting, A Third Place.
3 pm Turley History Conversation, Sharing, Projects, meeting moved to 2701 E. 49th St. N.
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7 pm at O'Brien Park Center, Turley Community Association, meet with local and area governmental officials, hear reports, feedback
Sunday, Mar. 1 Oklahoma Food Coop begins taking orders; order through us; go see the expansive menu at www.oklahomafood.coop.
Tuesday, March 3, 7 pm important Community Gardening Development meeting, A Third Place. Come if you are interested in helping to grow community gardens in our area, or to find help with gardening, etc.
Thursday, March 5, WeatherCall Program in Turley with Channel 8's Frank Mitchell. Come to Cherokee School, 6001 N. Peoria Ave., for broadcasts at 4:30 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, for a special presentation for children at 6:30 pm, and then a presentation to adults at 7 pm about signing up for Weathercall. Just 50 cents a month and you get called on your phone in case of severe warnings in your area; don't worry about missing the tornado sirens. Be safe.Friday, March 6, 5:30 pm Community Coalitions meeting sponsored by State Representative Seneca Scott, at Tulsa Community College near the Fitness Center.
Stay Tuned for more events; come by the Center.
Friday
Free Food and Coop Information
1. We have food to give away that comes from within our community and from without. Right now we have lots of cucumbers, bags of lettuce, and buns. We also have fruit as well as our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that we keep available to all at any time. We often have excellent leftovers from the meals prepared or served as part of our many programs, and our programs themselves almost always come with free meal as part of the event. We are working with some churches, beyond The LivingRoom Church at A ThirdPlace, to keep this going and growing.
2. We are members of the Oklahoma Food Coop so people can order through us without having to have their own membership (we encourage those who can afford to do it to do so to support the worthwhile group, but if you can't you can order through us). Go to http://www.oklahomafood.coop/. It is easy. Each month between the first day of the month and the second Thursday you can see the thousands of items available and their prices and you can choose and give us your order. Then when the deadline comes on the second Thursday we will put in the order. We like to get paid when we submit the order but you can also do so when you pick up your order. The orders come in on the third Thursday of each month. We pick them up and bring them to A Third Place in the evening where you can get them then or the next day and pay if you haven't. Please pick them up as soon as possible. We also encourage people to go in together to get the best deals especially helpful when ordering meat, as you can get whole sides and half sides of beef cut up to specifications. See more at the website below and come ask us about it at the Center.
3. We offer a free nutrition class each Tuesday at noon offered by the OSU Extension Service. It is always open and offers a variety of topics related to eating healthy and inexpensive.
4. We are putting a big focus this coming year on transforming our area with community gardens to grow the cheapest healthiest food within our own "foodshed". If you are interested in being a part of a community garden let us know. You will hear more about this soon. We also encourage people to go in together to share livestock and can help you with that.
5. We also now have our new cookstove at the Center and can do more of our own food meals. You will be hearing more about that soon too and let us know if you are interested in helping.
Transforming communities one meal at a time.
Thursday
Benefit Pancake Breakfast Saturday Dec. 13 and Christmas Caroling Friday Dec. 19
Then join with us as we work on a beautification project at 66th and N. Lewis intersection.
Then on Friday, Dec. 19 from 6 to 8 pm come to A Third Place for the annual Christmas caroling party. Refreshments provided.