Time to mark your calendars for the 6th Annual Lake Overholser/Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge Clean-up!

Gather around 0830 on Saturday, April 23rd at the Overholser Pavilion which is located around NW 14th and East Overholser Drive in Oklahoma City. Volunteers will be divided into groups to clean up different parts of these areas. We need most of the volunteers to help pick up trash on land, but will also need people to collect trash in the water around the shorelines. To help with that, OKC Kayak is donating the use of their watercraft. We will clean up until 12:30 when we meet back at the Pavilion for a free lunch provided by Earl’s Rib Palace. Volunteers will need to wear long pants, sturdy shoes, insect repellent, sunscreen, and sturdy gloves.

If you have not participated before, this is a fun event. There is not one group who participates in this event; it is a group of groups plus many individuals. Groups who have participated before include Department of Environmental Quality Green Team, Oklahoma Sierra Club, Girl Scout troops, Boy Scout troops, church groups, Chesapeake Energy volunteers, Texas Roadhouse Volunteers, 10th Street Volunteers, the Audubon Society, OKC Outdoor Network, Putnam City West Honor Society, Putnam City Outdoor Club, and many others.

In order to have enough supplies and food, we ask that those who are planning on attending let us know. Our Facebook link is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Lake-OverholserStinchcomb-Wildlife-Refuge/105680642809050?v=app_2344061033

Tulsa Partners next Fourth Friday Green Bag Lunch Series will feature Carla Grogg and the sustainable efforts of the Grogg’s Green Barn. Fourth Friday Green Bag Lunch Series are designed to bring those in Tulsa community together to educate one another and discuss ideas on green issues.
Founders Kelly and Carla Grogg will be opening Oklahoma’s first organic and native plant garden center called Grogg’s Green Barn on March 4. The garden center will feature organic, natural and eco-friendly items. Those items include soils, fertilizers, seeds, composting, real mowers, and rain barrels for water collection.
Born from the ideas of the founders who saw a business that was environmental sustainable, Grogg’s Green Barn was constructed using local materials. Low VOC paints were used, as well as low E glass on windows, and the capability to capture up to 4000 gallons of water run off to make this business eco-friendly.
Our next Fourth Friday Green Bag Lunch Series will be held at 1st and Lewis Kendall Whittier Library in Tulsa on February 25 from the hours of 11:30 to 1:00 pm. Bring a lunch, bring a friend and experience this series that will discuss green endeavors and the accomplishments and benefits of the Grogg’s Green Barn.

Upcoming schedule for Fourth Friday Green Bag Lunch Series for March and April will be:

March 25- Earl Burden
Timber Frame Homes / Structural Insulated Panels

April 22- Josh Miller
Tulsa Beautification Foundation
George Kaiser Family Foundation

For more information please call Tulsa Partners at:
918-632-0044