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DECEMBER 2021 | VOLUME 36 ISSUE 2

7 CITY DESK P. 73 Le Louvre’s buche de noel cakes are almost too pretty to eat.

· Life’s a carousel for one Tulsa man. · Booker T. Washington High School recognizes an alum for his part in creating ‘.com.’ · From bean to cup at Topeca Coffee Roasters. · Two recent benefits.

25 ABOUT TOWN

· Tulsa Ballet debuts its new ‘The Nutcracker.’ · Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art’s glass exhibit. · Season’s readings. · A local food gift guide.

48 LEGENDS: RON LOONEY

Steel manufacturing businessman and longtime Tulsa Community College regent.

BY GAIL BANZET-ELLIS

50 OWNING THEIR FUTURE A City of Tulsa master plan is giving north Tulsans hope to own land and businesses taken from their predecessors.

BY MORGAN PHILLIPS

56 FILLING GAPS IN PROTECTION Tulsa Police and Fire departments and EMSA are like many other workplaces in Tulsa: Now hiring.

BY TIM LANDES

59 LIFESTYLE

· Talking trees at Owasso Christmas Tree and Berry Farm. · Tulsa sisters create a business with tie-dyed fashions. · Tulsa Glassblowing School’s annual ornament and snowmen sale. · Connie Cronley ponders ‘Thanksbeing.’

73 TABLE TALK

· Two recipes for a busy holiday season. · Three places for pad thai. · Reader favorites for weekend brunch.

SPECIAL SECTIONS

41 Holiday Hints 49 TulsaPeople Wellness

ON THE COVER: Joyce Horton is Cobbler Mom. Read more about her and other local food-centric gift ideas starting on p. 25.

Three Tulsa families celebrate Christmas with traditions from their home countries.

BY DEBORAH LAKER

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53 JUST LIKE HOME

Grateful to all who are called to serve We are forever grateful for your dedication and selfless service to deliver leading healthcare to our loved ones, our communities and each other — now more than ever. We recognize all you do and thank those who are called to serve.

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A

s a kid, when deliveries were rare

The three Cs. Is there anything else in the world?

compared

online

On p. 37 Natalie found some favorite local busi-

ordering habits, a rather large box

nesses to do some shopping for the food lover in

with

today’s

would arrive on our doorstep a few weeks before Christmas. From it my sister and I would unwrap our yearly dose of gingerbread cookies.

Also in this issue, the artistry being done at Le Louvre with yule log cakes (p. 73) is just what I needed to ditch my humdrum spice cake for a

these gingerbread men were large and small,

visual stunner. Plus, the artists at Tulsa Glass-

smartly dressed with three cinnamon candies or

blowing Studio have created snowmen, trees,

raisins for buttons. Each year we clamored for

ornaments and more for some gift-giving inspi-

the nostalgic sweets that were a perfect blend of

ration (p. 59).

Years later, our gingerbread men gave way to a couple dozen pieces of baklava gifted to my dad

Tulsa Ballet’s gift to Tulsa this year is a new production of “The Nutcracker.” On p. 28, learn how the company created this masterpiece.

by a friend with Greek heritage. The little dia-

I must give a special shoutout to our wonder-

monds of phyllo dough, honey and nuts fi lled our

ful intern this semester, Deborah Laker. The

treat trays when family and friends stopped by for

Uganda native graduates from Oral Roberts Uni-

the holidays.

versity this month with degrees in convergence

There’s something about food-focused gifts

journalism and political science. Deborah has

during the holiday season. I love to bake sweets

truly impressed us this semester — I can say with

during the weeks leading up to Christmas. I’ve

confidence the entire editorial team is convinced

tried time and again to perfect my aunt’s biscotti

she’s going to change the world one day.

recipe, gifting it to friends and co-workers over

Deborah pitched a well-developed feature

the years. A cookie swap a few years ago allowed

that shares how Tulsans, originally from differ-

me to embrace chocolate sandwich cookies envel-

ent parts of the world, celebrate Christmas with

oped in white chocolate and crushed peppermint

traditions from their native lands, while merging

candies as a new go-to. And have you ever had a

with American culture. Her feature starts on p.

pretzel topped with a melted chocolate caramel

53. Great job, Deborah.

candy topped with a pecan? Delicious. These particular pastries are indulgences this time of year.

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A new recipe I’m sure to try this year is from food writer Natalie Mikles. Her eggnog snowball cookies on p. 79 are a treat for the senses.

If the hustle and bustle of the holiday season leaves you little time to make something yourself — don’t fret. We’ve come up with some top-notch food-centric gifts to give this season. Cookies? Check. Cheese? Check. Cobbler? Check.

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S AY N O T O H A T E

The outer row of horses were handmade in the late 1930s and early ’40s in New York, while the inner row are replicas made in Mexico out of melted-down beer cans, according to operator Gary Hood. Its covered wagon is more popular than any one horse.

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GREG BOLLINGER

oodland Hills Mall offers a convenient ploy for parents of tiny tots: “If you’re good, we’ll ride the carousel.”

Gary Hood, longtime carousel operator, is familiar with — and grateful for — the bribe. But he says young children aren’t the only ones who want to ride his colorful horses.

“We have the girls who are all dressed in their finery (for Mexican quinceañeras) who will come in and ride and take pictures,” Hood says. “Every two or three years we’ll get a dozen or so oldtimers. And they want to buy tickets and ride and bring back memories.” TP

FOR MORE ON HOOD AND HIS CAROUSEL, SEE P. 18.

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BY MORGA N PHILLIP S

BY THE NUMBERS

Lime scooters Lime’s shared electric scooters highlight the bright future of micromobility in the city, the state and the region, according to these statistics provided by the company in October, three years after its Tulsa rollout.

1 MILLION rides taken in Tulsa 240,000 local riders 99 metric tons of carbon emissions saved 1.2 MILLION miles traveled 250,000 car trips replaced

COFFEE TALK A

lthough Tulsa-based Topeca Coffee Roasters has three local cafes and sells its products in grocery stores, fans might not realize the bulk of its business is in the wholesale roasting market. Ian Picco, Topeca’s director of coffee, recently gave TulsaPeople a tour of the roastery at 1229 E. Admiral Blvd. He also chatted about forging a path in the coffee industry.

WHEN YOU BECAME A BARISTA IN 2004, DID YOU IMAGINE MAKING A CAREER OUT OF COFFEE? Absolutely not. I was a barista for about five years off and on. At the end I was pretty tired of the service industry in my mid 20s, and just kind of felt like I was spinning my wheels. I don’t know if you’ve ever worked a service industry job, but it can wear on you.

I remember at one point being behind the bar (and thinking), “I think I may explode if I see another face walk through the door,” because of the sheer number of people you have to greet and serve in a day’s time in a busy coffee shop. I just felt I had no more physical space in my brain to process another face.

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At that point I was actively seeking a job in coffee production, and I was interested in what was going on behind the scenes. So I started looking for that job where I was in Portland. It was quickly becoming a very saturated market there in 2009, and so those opportunities weren’t readily available. One just happened to pop up in my hometown.

YOU MOVED BACK TO TULSA IN 2009? I found a job with Topeca at the roastery. They were just getting into Reasor’s Foods at the time, and they were needing extra help. So I came on board, first just demoing coffee in stores during the holiday season, getting people aware of our coffee, brewing samples; then getting into production as a packager; and then learning roasting; and then, as we grew, I assumed a position tackling production operations and logistics, and then purchasing and quality control. Generally in the coffee world that can be summed up in one title, which is a director of coffee.

SEE P. 16 FOR MORE ON TOPECA COFFEE.

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Voices of Oklahoma “When you get the terminal diagnosis — when you get the, ‘Hey, you know what?

This one’s undefeated,” — all of a sudden you realize Coach Trimble doesn’t have those answers. There’s not a vitamin, there’s not a Gatorade regimen or a pushup regimen that gets you through that. … There are quiet, tough times behind the scenes, and there’s no doubt that my faith and prayer life is what carries (me).”

— Allan Trimble, who won more state high school football championships in his 22 seasons with Jenks than any head coach in Oklahoma history. After a battle with ALS, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, Trimble died Dec. 1, 2019, at age 56. His legacy lives on through the Trimble Strong Foundation.

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I AM READY TO PARTY HARWELDEN PARTY IS AN ANNUAL TRADITION FOR SOME IN LGBT COMMUNITY.

BY TIM LANDES

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Above, Michael Brecht-Smith at the venue for the Dec. 11 Harwelden Party. Below, party patrons in 2019 included Brecht-Smith, Gayelynn Head, Palmer Johnson, Dr. Blane Snodgrass, Kris Wilmes, Shawna Baker (sitting red dress), Monique Washington, Debra McDaniel (sitting white dress), Dr. Tim Cole and Dr. Janelle Whitt.

they convene over happy hour martinis to eliminate duplicates and add more people. Most are LGBTQ , but Smith says many allies are invited.

“It’s a very low-key cocktail party with light hors d’oeuvres, where everybody just gets to go around and say ‘Merry Christmas’ to all their friends,” says Brecht-Smith, who is an attorney at McAfee and Taft. “We don’t ask for money. We don’t ask for donations. Th is is not to support any nonprofit cause. Th is is a party just to say ‘Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays’ to the LGBT com-

munity and our allies.”

As Brecht-Smith describes the night, a mischievous smile forms on his face. He mentions after a couple of hours playing “Jingle Bells” and other Christmas classics and “after everyone’s had a cocktail or two or three,” the DJ switches to dance music. That’s when some black ties and high heels come off and the party really gets started.

“It’s so much fun,” Brecht-Smith says. “I can’t wait to celebrate and be surrounded by our community.” TP

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he fi rst time Michael Brecht-Smith attended the Harwelden Party was in 1995. It was then known by partygoers as the “Tulsa Gay Christmas Prom.”

“You’d walk into this big party, and instead of seeing a bunch of heteronormative individuals, you saw LGBT couples,” Brecht-Smith says. He was invited by Dr. Blane Snodgrass, who continues to invite people each year as a party host. “It was just a very welcoming environment where we were all accepted as couples rather than as roommates or just individuals that were hanging out together.

“During that timeframe we were fighting really hard for equal rights, so it was just affirming to see so many other LGBT couples at the event.”

As Tulsa has grown, so has the black-tie party.

The party started small in the mid ’80s and then over time Brecht-Smith says the celebration became so big “the mansion would be busting at the seams. We would open the doors, and people would spill out onto the patios.”

Over three decades later, the party will move Dec. 11 to the Mayo Hotel’s ballroom. About 600 guests will come and go through the night to celebrate the holidays and their friendships. In 2018 and 2019 it was held at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic became the first thing to keep the party from happening.

“To bring it back at such a spectacular event space at the Mayo Hotel is just a great way to relaunch it after COVID,” Brecht-Smith says. It will continue to be called the Harwelden Party because of tradition.

Brecht-Smith went from annual attendee to a party host in 2012 in response to the growth. He says there are 12 hosts, six men and six women, who each spend $1,500 to ensure their guests have a night to remember without spending any money out of their pockets while celebrating.

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Creative Capital and its clients. tedcnet.com Clockwise from left, creative entreprenuers Kathryn Shackelford, Debbie Hill and Kim Eddy operate from the Pearl District Design Center.

DESIGNING WOMEN

THREE BUSINESSES SHARE ONE ROOF IN THE PEARL DISTRICT.

BY JULIE WENGER WATSON

T

hey say necessity is the mother of invention. For Tulsa interior designer Kathryn Shackelford, it’s also the mother of a new business.

In 2013, when Shackelford discovered her go-to upholsterer, Tulsa Upholstery Supply, was closing, she decided to purchase the building and its contents and start a new company. Nearly a decade later, Shackelford owns and operates Davenport Cloaks Inc., a custom furniture and upholstering business near East Seventh Street and South Troost Avenue.

The Pearl District Design Center, as the 18,000-square-foot building is called, also is home to Secrets in the Pearl, a fabric and wallpaper business owned and operated by Kim Eddy, and Debbie Hill’s Pearl District Custom Embroidery. Though Shackelford had worked with Eddy for several years as a designer, she met Hill through friends who were working on another property in the Pearl District.

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While Shackelford’s and Eddy’s businesses are “to the trade,” meaning their customers are interior designers, Hill’s is open to the general public.

According to Shackelford, all three companies utilized the resources of Tulsa’s TEDC Creative Capital, a Tulsa nonprofit that assists small businesses, when fi rst getting started. TEDC made the initial loan that enabled Shackelford to purchase the building.

“They’ve been great to work with and very supportive,” she says.

The long-term plan for the Pearl District Design Center is to become a business incubator for professionals in the interior design trade.

Shackelford envisions a creative, collaborative space, which includes tenants from related businesses for “one-stop shopping,” as well as spaces for designers to meet comfortably with their clients and industry representatives.

Shackelford will celebrate eight years in business in February. To see Davenport Cloaks’ latest projects, visit facebook.com/custom2thetrade. TP

When photographer Brenda Horan and her labradoodle Marty graced our cover in May 2013, Horan worked out of a 4,000-square-foot studio and had four employees. Make that five, including Marty, who greeted clients and set children at ease.

Horan’s business continued to grow, but in 2016 she decided to reduce her workload. She worked from home for a time and in 2018 opened another studio near East 71st Street and South Yale Avenue. “Marty came to work with me often that year and loved seeing all the little kids,” Horan recalls. “Lots of them grew up petting Marty, so they looked forward to seeing him.

In January 2020 Horan got married and adopted her husband Ken’s two grown Labs.

Then, Marty died in March 2020.

Around the same time, Horan was dealt another blow when COVID-19 destroyed newborn photography, the bulk of her business. She says most new parents quarantined their newborns at the recommendation of their doctors.

Since work has slowed down, Horan has taken up pickleball. She and Ken travel a lot and enjoy his lake house. Her children are college graduates. Her daughter recently married, and her son will marry in 2022.

Although Ken’s dogs are well behaved, Horan doesn’t bring them to work because they aren’t as gentle as Marty. “Labs also shed like crazy,” she says. “With COVID I’m having to clean, mop and disinfect all areas of my studio, so bringing dogs to work isn’t really something I can do.”

Horan, who plans to close her studio in February, says her favorite thing about being a photographer has been preserving her clients’ lives through photos. “I love all my clients and the relationships we’ve built year after year,” she adds. “Many of my clients have become some of my closest friends.” — MORGAN PHILLIPS

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MEET AND GREET NAME: Kathy Vancuren KNOWN AS: American Heart Association’s Tulsa Chapter executive director since July. Prior to her current role, the Tulsa native spent 30 years in the financial services industry. She returned to Tulsa from Dallas in 2012.

On Oct. 8, Lindsey House officials, including CEO Maggie Hoey, right, celebrated the opening of the transitional living center that more than doubles the number of program participants the nonprofi t can house.

IT’S A NEW ERA FOR NONPROFIT LINDSEY HOUSE. STORY AND PHOTOS BY TIM LANDES

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or more than a decade Lindsey House has helped single mothers with children transition from situational homelessness by empowering them with knowledge and skills to live successfully and independently as a family.

The nonprofit started in 2010 in a small apartment building at East Sixth Street and South Elgin Avenue, where up to a dozen families lived.

Today Lindsey House, 1607 N. Hartford Ave., can serve up to 24 families at a time in a new 22,000-square-foot facility that features numerous amenities, including a playground and backyard bike pad for the 40 children who call Lindsey House home.

“Every single day is so incredibly rewarding,” says CEO Maggie Hoey, who joined Lindsey House in August and celebrated the completion of the building with an Oct. 8 ribbon cutting.

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“These women and children have been through so much, and they’ve seen things that are truly unfathomable, based on my own life experiences, but they are truly thriving here.

“It’s so exciting to see we can provide that place where their family can heal and learn the skills necessary to live a successful independent life after they move out of here. These women are resilient. They’re hard working. They have so much love for their families and their children.

They’re so hopeful for the future that they can create, and they are creating it together here.

“Every day I leave thinking, ‘Gosh, I’m so lucky to have a front row seat for the stories these families are writing here.’”

VISIT TULSAPEOPLE.COM TO READ A Q&A WITH HOEY AND SEE A PHOTO GALLERY FROM THE RIBBON CUTTING AND FACILITY TOUR.

What lessons or skillsets do you bring to your new role? I’ve definitely brought my desire to build relationships with clients and internal business partners, along with my drive to motivate people to take action. I co-chaired Green Leaf Gala for Up With Trees a few years ago, and that gave me the bug for this sort of thing.

What drove you toward AHA in particular?

Within the past year I’ve lost several people very close to me, and when I look at the American Heart Association’s mission statement, it reads, “to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.” I want to help my friends and family have as long a life as possible. — BRANDON SCHMITZ

VANCUREN: GREG BOLLINGER

NEXT STEPS

Having come from the world of fi nance, what prompted this career shift? I started out as a stockbroker for Dean Witter Reynolds, and someone I knew there advised me to get involved in my community. Through the contacts I made over the years, I became very passionate about the nonprofit space. I would often say to myself, “You know, one of these days, I might do something like this full time.”

Since the pandemic broke out, many people have taken a step back and re-examined where they’re at in their lives. I definitely asked myself, “Am I doing what I want to do?”

HOW IT’S MADE

FARM TO CAFE BEHIND THE SCENES AT TOPECA COFFEE ROASTERS

BY MORGAN PHILLIPS

ORIGIN STORY In 2001 Tulsans John and Margarita Gaberino joined Topeca, founded by Margarita’s mother the year before in El Salvador. The couple established a branch of the company in Tulsa, first importing packaged coffee that had been roasted on the farm.

Due to rising costs and complicated logistics, the company moved roasting to Tulsa, in the unrenovated Mayo Hotel. It soon purchased a facility at 1229 E. Admiral Blvd.; that roastery now has a 7,000 square foot expansion in the works.

SMOOTH OPERATOR Topeca owns its coffee farms in El Salvador: an original farm in Margarita’s family since 1850 and another purchased in 2003. Some of the coffee grown is milled and roasted there for the El Salvador market, while other beans are shipped unprocessed to roasters all over the world. “Basically we’re cutting out the middlemen and being in control of the quality of the product,” says Director of Coffee Ian Picco. The coffee that arrives in Tulsa is first milled in El Salvador to separate the fruit and seed (bean), and then dried.

DAILY GRIND After harvest, which runs from October to February, Topeca receives multiple container loads of coffee, each containing 40,000 pounds of green (unroasted) coffee.

Up to 1,500 pounds of coffee can be roasted in an eight-hour shift. Beans reach 400 to 450 degrees before cooling, and each batch is sampled in the cupping room to ensure the beans match the proper flavor profile for consistent quality.

ART MEETS SCIENCE Growing conditions like altitude, as well as roasting conditions, affect the flavor of Topeca coffee rather than additives. “The flavors you taste from the coffee are just the natural flavors that are in that seed,” Picco says.

THE WHOLE BEAN Topeca operates three Tulsa cafes and sells its products in local grocery stores and at topecacoffee.com. However, “We’re not hugely retail focused,” Picco says. “We primarily focus on wholesale roasting, and selling that coffee and supporting other cafes and restaurants and businesses that use our coffee.” TP 16

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DAILY GRIND One Topeca coffee plant generally produces an annual harvest for 10-20 years, Picco says. The farms are currently being replanted to ensure coffee for years to come. In addition to the coffee it grows, Topeca imports beans from farms in Brazil, Colombia and Ethiopia.

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Chantelle Lott is one of nine entrepreneurs in ACT Tulsa’s first cohort. Her products are available to purchase at bounceless.com.

Gary Hood owns the carousel at Woodland Hills Mall. He worked out a deal with the University of Tulsa library to add photos of early Tulsa to the carousel scenery. A TV screen at the ticket booth also loops historical Tulsa images.

THE CAROUSEL MAN GARY HOOD KEEPS MALL MEMORIES ALIVE.

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ary Hood has had a colorful career, fi rst as a bar and nightclub owner, and then as a traveling carnival operator. For 30-plus years, he’s been happy to be known as the carousel man. He calls it “the most legitimate fun I’ve ever had.”

“At 77, life is good,” he says.

The 1962 Central High School graduate started operating a mall carousel in Oklahoma City in the ’90s, followed by another in Bentonville, Arkansas. In 2009, after about five years of trying, he won the carousel contract at Woodland Hills Mall. He’s been here ever since.

Hood works open to close Friday, Saturday and Sunday each week, and his employee Tim Moreland works weekdays. The gig is pretty simple: Ring up customers on his 1912 cash register, accept their paper tickets at what he calls “the VIP entrance” — it’s the only entrance — and walk around the carousel to tell riders

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their horses’ names. Though riders appreciate the special attention, Hood says the real reason he does it is to make sure everyone’s following the rules.

Over the years, he’s run into old classmates and many adults who used to ride the mall carousel as kids. He also sees a good number of outof-towners. “The machine is an attraction,” Hood says. “It’s not necessary to complete a life, but we try to make it as pleasant as possible. We don’t sell the steak; we sell the sizzle.”

Hood is full of one-liners. “From time to time, I’ll have a customer come by and ask, ‘Gary, why don’t you sell me your carousel? Don’t you want to retire?’ Everybody gets the same answer: ‘I can’t retire. I spent most of my money on slow cars and fast women. The rest of it I wasted.’

“You know, all day long I just keep repeating the same old jokes. And my customers keep coming back.” TP

This month ACT Tulsa will complete its first sixmonth accelerator program intended to cultivate innovation and investment in Black- and brownled startups in Tulsa. This program is a joint venture between i2E, a private nonprofit dedicated on growing small businesses in Oklahoma, and ACT House Inc., a B-Corp with a national lens on helping innovators find their founder DNA, create well balanced teams and accelerate their dreams through a team-centered incubation model.

“ACT Tulsa focused on investing in founders and teams whose innovation is focused on growth across consumer packaged goods, tech-enabled and software innovation,” says Dominick Ard’is, CEO of ACT House Inc. “ACT Tulsa is focused on rebuilding the intellectual property — patents, trademarks and copyrights — that was once at our nation’s highest in Greenwood.”

Bounceless, formerly known as Concept C3, is one of nine startups participating in the initial cohort. Bounceless was founded by Tulsan Chantelle Lott, who created a quality sports bra for well-endowed women with her patented technology. Lott says the program has helped her refine her brand and has given her confidence in knowing she is prepared to meet the needs of her target audience.

Starting in 2022, ACT Tulsa plans to run two cohorts per year, accepting up to 15 startups at a time. Through investment partnerships, the network has invested $70,000 into each of the businesses participating in the accelerator program.

“I have already experienced my business growing by participating in ACT Tulsa,” Lott says.

“I feel honored to be a part of this cohort because I believe it is history in the making — from the model set forth to the emerging businesses that will come out of it.” — HANNAH MARSHALL

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Toni Moore, president/CEO and founder of Hospitality House of Tulsa (center) at DoubleTree by Hilton at Warren Place, Lodgingly’s first hotel partner. Also pictured are HHT staff and board members and hotel staff.

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This year, Hospitality House of Tulsa celebrated its 15th year of providing comfort when it is needed most. And though it has served over 16,000 individuals since 2006 — providing lodging and other support services to those traveling to Tulsa with a loved one who needs extended medical care — Toni Moore, HHT president/CEO and founder, and her team are always dreaming of how they might do more.

When COVID-19 eliminated the option for families to sit or sleep in a waiting room, Moore knew they needed to expand beyond their facility at 1135 S. Victor Ave.

“COVID certainly exposed the need for medical lodging even more,” she says. “Families absolutely have to have affordable lodging options.” However, 85% of families and caregivers served by HHT cannot afford to stay in a local hotel to rest and recover from long, harrowing hospital days.

Thus, HHT launched the Lodgingly program in September that partners with local hotels to allow traveling families to book at discounted rates. Lodgingly guests also receive local restaurant discounts, optional prayer support and other perks. The funds generated through Lodgingly allow HHT to provide no-cost lodging to even more families in need.

A Lodgingly referral code can be supplied by a medical provider and is available to anyone traveling to Tulsa for any medical reason, whether emergency, elective, outpatient or otherwise. Visit lodgingly.com for more information.

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Emmit J. McHenry lives in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He returns to Tulsa for family affairs or events such as the Booker T. Washington Distinguished Hall of Fame ceremony Nov. 4, at which he served as keynote speaker.

ow do you follow up one of the biggest accomplishments ever? It’s a question that has hounded creatives for ages. Sometimes success can be sustained over the long haul, as in the case of Emmit J. McHenry — inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, veteran.

Known as “the creator of .com,” McHenry is a 1962 graduate of Tulsa’s Booker T. Washington High School. He earned a degree in communications from the University of Denver in 1966; worked as a systems engineer at IBM; was drafted and joined the Marines, then went to Officer Candidate School.

Following the Marine Corps, he held various corporate management positions, including as regional vice president with Allstate.

But it was in his role as founder of Network Solutions that McHenry helped shape the modern world. His company secured the rights to create the system that granted the fi rst domain names of the fledgling internet in 1993, initially setting up the suffi xes of .com, .net, .edu and .gov; managing the world’s fi rst domain registry; and laying the groundwork for everything that came after.

“We were the fi rst people who made a product (OpenLink) that allowed different manufacturers’ equipment to communicate,” explains McHenry, who calls the development “the secret sauce to the internet.” He and his partners sold Network Solutions at a significant profit a few years later.

Since then, he has helmed multiple companies on four continents and is now chairman and CEO of Cycurion, which provides technology-enabled cybersecurity services to governments and commercial clients. McHenry also serves as chairman of PRUVE Systems, which focuses on personal identity management.

“I’m fully aware of other people who made billions, and I made a few bucks, but I’m still creating, so I’m not adversely affected,” says McHenry, who was inducted into the BTW Distinguished Hall of Fame in 1998.

Though he has traveled and done business all over the world, McHenry still feels a connection to the area he once called home. “Tulsa and Booker T. Washington had a real impact on what came after,” he says. TP

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Vision Dinner The Vision Dinner on Sept. 25 hit a historic goal, raising more than $475,000 for the Tulsa Community College Foundation to fund scholarships, leadership development opportunities, engagement and mentoring with academic scholars and leaders, and technology and equipment.

This year’s event was chaired by Michelle Hardesty, Andy Kinslow and Russ Kirkpatrick at Cox Business Convention Center.

To celebrate the college’s 50th anniversary, 50 Notable TCC Alumni were recognized at the dinner. Selected because of their professional and personal achievement, the 50 represented a diverse group of leaders who have dedicated their lives to public service, influenced our health and wellbeing, and impacted future leaders.

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1. Lisa Riley, one of TCC’s 50 Notable Alumni 2. Ramona Curtis, director of workforce programming at TCC 3. Elli Johannsson, one of the 50 Notable Alumni, with wife Lisa Frein Johannsson 4. Evan Burke; Gayle VanTrease and Tim Bart, two of the 50 Notable Alumni; Dariana Esparza; and Goretti Anangfac 5. TCC President Emeritus Tom McKeon, current TCC President Leigh Goodson, TCC President Emeritus Dean VanTrease and Greg Stone, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

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1. Players welcomed the return of the tournament, which was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.

2. Andrew and Amanda Therrell, Derek Reiners, Dave Johnson, Phil Houchin, Micah Alexander, Eric Griffin and Garrett Mills 3. Mills is president and CEO of Rib Crib and Chandler Hospitality Group.

4. Danielle and Chad Palm, and Mills 5. Golfer Keith Stitt

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The 18th annual Rib Crib Pitmasters Golf Tournament raised $85,000 for four Tulsa charities Oct. 4 at the Oaks Country Club, pushing its alltime fundraising over $1.1 million for a variety of Tulsa nonprofits. The tournament’s 2021 beneficiaries were the Foundation for Tulsa Schools, 12&12, the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis and Pet Adoption League.

The golf tournament was a sell-out for players. Patrons enjoyed a Foxy Tacos breakfast and bloody mary bar, an all-you-can-eat barbecue lunch with smoked tenderloin on the course and an outdoor after-play awards party.

Special contests were held for the longest and straightest drives and “closest to the pin.” A raffle replaced the live auction; prizes included a travel package, a catered event for 100 and a Hasty-Bake Legacy charcoal grill.

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oyce Horton makes people happy. As Cobbler Mom, she puts smiles on people’s faces every day, giving them only one hard decision: choosing among apple, peach, blackberry or cherry.

But Horton was making people happy long before she became Cobbler Mom. She’s the kind of person who connects with everyone she meets. When she worked in the auto industry years ago, she brought homemade cakes and pies to her co-workers.

It was around that time she realized people really loved her cooking.

When her son saw cakes made in little glass jars were trending, he asked his mom if she could package her pies the same way. She experimented, and Cobbler Mom was born.

These days, Horton ships her cobbler all over the world. Earlier this year she was in conversation with Facebook. In February, she’ll be making her cobblers at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles for players and their families.

But her roots remain in Tulsa, where she grew up. Last year, Horton expanded her local footprint, adding a dine-in location in the Greenwood District, 10 N. Greenwood Ave., where she serves her famous cobbler along with beans and cornbread, beef tips and cabbage, turkey burgers and turkey pastrami.

“Knowing the history of the people who laid the groundwork for me to be here now is important,” she says of the location.

Horton says she daily looks around to see who she can uplift. Her grandmother’s saying, “It’s nice to be nice,” rings in her ears.

She often feeds people struggling for a meal. And it’s not just the meal that matters, it’s Horton’s encouragement, her smile, her connection with people. She’s everyone’s Cobbler Mom. — NATALIE MIKLES FOR MORE FOODIE GIFTING IDEAS, SEE P. 37.

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Cobbler Mom treats make a great holiday gift. They can be picked up downtown or shipped to friends and family far and wide. Dine-in cobblers range from $8-$9. Online, fourpacks of cobblers are $48. Pan-size options are available, too. Each cobbler is a mix of fresh fruit with a buttery golden crust.

Order by calling 918-561-6599 or visit cobblermom.com.

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DECEMBER Dec. 5

Fire up your engines as the Tulsa Dream Center hosts its annual Christmas Toy Run. Bring an unwrapped toy and cruise from Gathering Place to the Dream Center, where donations will be sorted and distributed to those in need.

Ashley Ramirez, Gabe Masterson and Syreeta Burrell assisted in Tulsa Dream Center’s 2019 Toy Run.

Broken Arrow Museum hosts its annual decorated Christmas tree exhibition: “Big Spirit, Little Trees.” Trees are decorated by local organizations and individuals, then donated to Broken Arrow Neighbors and dispersed to its clients starting Dec. 12.

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Have that Hollywood itch? Tulsa Community College’s “I Can’t: Film Edition” series continues with “I Can’t Act for the Camera.” This free, virtual series continues Jan. 26 and Feb. 9.

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Postmodern Jukebox takes to the stage of the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center to showcase and perform its unique style of reworked modern and vintage pop music.

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German-American Society of Tulsa’s Christkindlmarkt — a shopping and holiday festivity destination — returns with German merchandise, food music and decor.

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Head to Kendall Whittier for the Holiday Market presented by Tulsa Farmers Market. Also Dec. 11, 18.

It’s Dog Day at the Keystone Ancient Forest. Bring your furry friend for a hike along the cedar and oak trees in this preserve just west of Sand Springs. Also Dec. 19.

The 39th annual Darnaby Arts and Crafts Show offers holiday shoppers handcrafted items, baked goods, decorations and other gifts for friends and family.

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American Theatre Co. begins its string of performances for the holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The musical rendition is a local adaptation of the beloved Charles Dickens novel. Also Dec. 11-12, 15-23.

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Learn to make a traditional, 14-inch, 3-D woven star in a one-day class at Water Works Art Center.

No experience necessary; kit fee applies.

Catch some hardcourt hoops action between University of Oklahoma and University of Arkansas at the BOK Center.

Its the first game in an annual series between the regional powerhouses.

The full Signature Symphony orchestra returns to the stage of the Tulsa Community College Performing Arts Center for Education for the annual “Christmas in Tulsa” performance, including holiday favorites and renditions by past Tulsa Sings! finalists.

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Learn to decorate holiday cookies with royal icing during a two-hour class at All Things Cake. All skill levels are welcome in this class. The best part? Take the cookies home when you’re done. Also Dec. 14, 18.

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Oklahoma’s premier high school girls and boys basketball teams — including Jenks, Owasso, Memorial, Victory Christian, Bixby, Holland Hall and Lincoln Christian — compete in the 56th annual Tournament of Champions at the BOK Center.

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The Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout, the largest micro sprint racing event in the world, returns to the SageNet Center at Expo Square.

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Lace up those running shoes and bundle up for the tradition of “Race into the New Year,” a 5K at River West Festival Park. TP

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1 LITTLE RIVER BAND Hard Rock Live

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3 FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS The Cove at River Spirit Casino Resort

15 A DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS Tulsa Theater

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17 FLATLAND CAVALRY Cain’s Ballroom

Tulsa ER & Hospital was created to bring around the clock, concierge-level, quality adult and pediatric emergency care for our community.

4 KYLE NIX AND THE 38S Cain’s Ballroom TRAVIS TRITT Hard Rock Live 5 WYNONNA JUDD Osage Casino Skyline Event Center ZZ TOP The Cove at River Spirit Casino Resort 8 DIAMOND RIO Hard Rock Live 9 JOHNNY MATHIS The Cove at River Spirit Casino Resort 10 RANDY ROGERS BAND Cain’s Ballroom 11 HOME FREE Cox Business Convention Center JD MCPHERSON Cain’s Ballroom 12 TODD SNIDER Cain’s Ballroom

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ON STAGE Madalina Stoica as Sugar Plum (principal), Arman Zazyan as Cavelier (principal), Maine Kawashima as Marie (soloist) and Jun Masuda as Nutcracker Prince (demi-soloist)

Moving the bar TULSA BALLET MARSHALS DYNAMIC TEAM FOR A GRAND NEW ‘NUTCRACKER.’

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n Act One of “The Nutcracker,” a cozy and familiar world is upended. Toys come to life.

Angels, mice and soldiers swarm the living room. A tree grows right through the ceiling.

Much like Herr and Frau Stahlbaum’s house on Christmas night, the world of performing arts was transformed in 2020. Well-worn ways of working were turned upside down. And dance, perhaps the most “in-person” of all the arts, had to figure out how to move in this unfamiliar new zone. As with Clara and her Prince, it’s taken grit, grace and teamwork to get to the other side.

This holiday season, a new “Nutcracker” will grace the Tulsa Performing Arts Center stage, and it’s a fitting synchronicity. Against huge odds, Tulsa Ballet presents a hard-won gift to a city much in need of some magic.

As the company celebrated the 50th anniversary of “The Nutcracker” in Tulsa in 2019, plans were already underway for overhauling the production created by Artistic Director Marcello Angelini in 2003. “That version, set in 1920s Paris, was built for a lifespan of 10 years; we never anticipated it to last 17,” Angelini says. “Backdrops were fading and ripping, costumes were tearing everywhere. Rather than spend a fortune on refurbishing it, we decided to change it.”

The new version returns to a more traditional take on the ballet, aiming to be accessible to a wide range of viewers. “Tulsa has come a long way in nearly two decades,” he says. “We are way more diverse than we ever were; because of social media we are way more connected and integrated with the rest of the world. In 2003 we wanted to take our audience for a magical trip to a faraway place, on the magic carpet of dance. Today we don’t need to do that; that’s what the internet is for.

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with impetus and conviction,” he continues. “We will continue to push the cultural boundaries of our community — just not with ‘The Nutcracker’ anymore.”

But “traditional” doesn’t mean old hat. Determined to create a “Nutcracker” that could speak to today’s audiences and last into the next generation, Angelini marshaled $1.5 million in funding and an international creative team. “It was vital that the driving forces behind it were people who knew the community, knew what worked here and what didn’t, and were committed to the success of the company through the success of the show,” he says. Audiences will see choreography

by Tulsa favorites Ma Cong and Val Caniparoli, world-class multimedia projections and animations by Shawn Boyle and stage design by Tracy Grant Lord (whose ever-shifting sets for TB’s “Tchaikovsky: The Man Behind the Music” still have people talking).

Working closely with the technical team, the choreographers forged a dance narrative that would take viewers inside the familiar tale in resonant ways. “We’re aiming high, all of us,” says Caniparoli, who has made versions of the ballet for four different companies. However, he says this one pushed him into new creative territory thanks to dynamic collaborations. He has deep ties with San Francisco Ballet, which premiered the nation’s first complete “Nutcracker” in 1944 — “that traditional version is in my DNA,” he says — and a longtime artistic connection with Cong, who succeeded him as resident choreographer at TB. (Cong performed in nearly every work Caniparoli created here in Tulsa.)

“Val understands the ‘Nutcracker’ recipe that works so well in the U.S., and is a natural storyteller,” Angelini says. “His party scene is absolutely heartwarming. And Ma is a whiz at creating dynamic, exciting dancing. His Mirlitons dance is fast, complex, textured, stunning to look at. I love the mix of traditional and new.” The popular Dance of the Mirlitons movement in “The Nutcracker” begins with playful flutes.

Across generations and across the world (and, of course, over Zoom), the dancemakers developed their visions in tandem with those being worked out on the technical end. “It takes constant communication,” Caniparoli says. “We all have to be on the same wavelength, and everyone contributes. It’s all for one goal.”

Production started before the pandemic hit, as seamstresses and set builders at the Royal New Zealand Ballet were charged with creating 1,400 garments and accessories and elaborate moving scenery for the Tulsa show. Ongoing disruptions in personnel, supply chains and shipping meant the story of the making of this “Nutcracker” was almost as suspenseful and exciting as the ballet itself. (In October, the costumes of the show were still en route, stuck on a cargo ship in South America.)

In both process and execution, Tulsa Ballet’s new “Nutcracker” promises an exhilarating journey of adventure, perseverance and joy — one that links past and future in a collaborative present. TP

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12&12 Chief Marketing Officer Ron Brady, Executive Assistant Leah Harrell, CEO Larry Smith, COO Josh Cantwell, longtime volunteer Mary McMahon and Clinical Director Kim Hill-Crowell

SEASON OF GIVING HOW TO HELP 12&12 0N DEC. 12.

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or nearly four decades, 12&12 Inc. has helped Tulsans overcome substance abuse disorders and has diverted many from incarceration.

“So many who come seeking help at 12&12 walk in with just the clothes on their back,” CEO Larry Smith says. “A warm winter coat or a pair of shoes is often at the very foundation of their recovery journey. We are so grateful to all our 12&12 Day supporters and wonderful volunteers, too.”

In an effort to help bring some comfort and joy to clients, the nonprofit is hosting the fourth annual 12&12 Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Dec. 12. Drive-up donations can be made at 12&12, 6333 E. Skelly Drive, at the northwest corner of the building.

ITEMS NEEDED: Winter coats, hats and gloves (men and women) Clothing items (men) Shoes (men)

Personal care items (shampoo, soap, deodorant, etc.) need to be new. All other items can be new or recycled.

They also are collecting holiday cards for clients with words of hope, inspiration and encouragement written inside. All holiday cards will be displayed in resident hallways.

The nonprofit launched 12&12 Day in 2017 to aid those suffering from addiction in our community while bringing awareness to this disease.

12&12 provides levels of treatment, including detoxification, intensive residential treatment, outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment, counseling, transitional living and sober living. In 2020 over 1,800 Oklahomans received treatment. TP

Socks and underwear (men and women) Personal care items (shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, hairbrush/comb)

Arts and crafts materials (gel pens, appropriate adult coloring books) Games (playing cards, board games, puzzles) Books

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BOOKWORM

SEASON’S READINGS

FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY CURLING UP BY THE FIRE IN THE COLD WINTER MONTHS, A BOOK IS AN IDEAL GIFT. HERE’S A LIST OF BOOKS BY OKLAHOMA AUTHORS OR ON LOCAL TOPICS JUST IN TIME FOR THE GIVING SEASON.

BY BLAYKLEE FREED

ALL GOD’S CHILDREN

by Aaron Gwyn Set in 1827, “All God’s Children” brings to life the American frontier and African Americans’ fight for freedom. A woman fleeing enslavement in Virginia teams up with a frontiersman and escapes to his homestead in Texas — but their life is already intertwined in ways they will soon discover. Gwyn’s novel won the 2021 Oklahoma Book Award for fiction.

POET WARRIOR: A MEMOIR

by Joy Harjo A follow-up to “Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior,” this book tells how Harjo — U.S. Poet Laureate since 2019 and Tulsa Artist Fellow — came to write poetry that has the power to heal, uncover truth and seek justice. Through prose, song and poetry, the Muscogee citizen and Tulsan shares her influences and reconciles her pain.

KOKE GOES TO OKLAHOMA

by Sharon J. Beard Follow the fun-loving German Shepherd Koke for a tour of Oklahoma. Photographs and drawings tell kids about regional life past and present — from the corn Native Americans grew near the Arkansas River to the Oklahoma land run of 1888 to the present. Spiro resident Beard is a retired speech pathologist and special education teacher who writes books, poems and songs.

A LIFE ON FIRE: OKLAHOMA’S KATE BARNARD

by Connie Cronley Oklahoman Kate Barnard was the first woman elected to state office before women had the right to vote, helping create laws that required education, restricted child labor, and uncovered the abuse of prisoners and mental hospital patients. Cronley, TulsaPeople’s resident columnist who observes everyday life with wit, eloquently dives into this little-known Oklahoman’s story of political reform and progress.

HAND-DRAWN RENDERINGS OF ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

by Rick Bartholomew You’ve probably seen Bartholomew’s detailed sketches for Tulsa’s Designer Showcase projects.

This compendium of interior design and architecture features his illustrations of residential and commercial architecture and interior design in Tulsa. Bartholomew taught interior design at Oklahoma State University for 20 years.

HIKING OKLAHOMA: A GUIDE TO THE STATE’S GREATEST HIKING ADVENTURES

by Jamie Fleck From Black Mesa to Beaver’s Bend, Fleck — a Tulsa resident for 15 years — serves as a helpful guide to Oklahoma’s best hiking spots. Striking photos provide a sneak peek of the state’s diverse ecoregions, and the details provided will help hikers find trailheads without fuss and come prepared for adventure.

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MUSIC NOTES

SO, THIS IS CHRISTMAS

by Tracy Andreen Finley Brown has just returned from boarding school, and all is not well — her parents are splitting up, her best friend is dating her ex-boyfriend, and her nemesis is working for her grandmother. But she just might get the best Christmas present of all: love. With over 20 Hallmark movies on her resume, Andreen, a former Tulsan, is an expert at delivering joy.

Travis Carter (bottom row, second from left) with his team at Big Loud Records.

WHY AM I ME: SCHOLASTIC, ART BY SEAN QUALLS AND SELINA ALKO

RENEGADES: BRUCE GOFF AND THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE edited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat and Angela Person; foreword by Aaron Betsky A collection of essays from leading scholars pairs with striking images, including rare sketches and models published for the first time, showing the work of the “American school” of architecture. Architects teaching at the University of Oklahoma, including Bruce Goff, Herb Greene and Mendel Glickman, forged the path for this uniquely American style in the 1950s and ’60s.

WHY AM I ME? written by Paige Britt and co-illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko Two characters explore identity through thoughtful questions in this poetic tale that celebrates differences.

Join Tulsa County second-graders who received a copy of this book as part of the Books to Treasure program. Tulsa City-County Library children’s librarians have developed specific lesson plans using Alko’s books. Additional titles at tulsalibrary.org/kids/books-to-treasure. TP

FROM TULSA TO TENNESSEE

HOLLAND HALL ALUM REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY BREAKING INTO NASHVILLE’S MUSIC INDUSTRY.

BY JULIE WENGER WATSON

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ashville is built on dreams, many of which never come true. For those that do, reality doesn’t always match the fairytale of overnight success.

Travis Carter knows fi rsthand.

After stints at Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Chappell Music, the Tulsa native and Holland Hall graduate now works with Big Loud Records as an A&R (Artists and Repertoire) consultant — a position responsible for talent scouting and management — as well as day-to-day manager for hit singer-songwriter Ben Burgess. In the new year, Carter will step away from A&R to focus solely on Burgess, whose debut album will come out fi rst quarter 2022. Carter couldn’t be happier with his job, but he’s quick to tell you the journey wasn’t always easy.

“That six-year span from 2004 to 2010, I mean, there were some very dark years,” says Carter, who waited tables after moving to Nashville in 2004 before eventually breaking into the industry.

Carter credits his “amazing family and

support system” for keeping him going.

Ironically, he’s particularly grateful that one now-famous family friend, Ronnie Dunn, wasn’t part of that. Carter’s dad was Dunn’s drummer back when Dunn lived in Tulsa, before the country music singer-songwriter, one-half of the hit duo Brooks and Dunn, made it big in Nashville. When Carter arrived in Music City, Dunn made it clear Carter had to earn his own way — and that’s what he did. “(Dunn) was like, ‘No one helped me, and I’m not going to help you,’ but it was in a very genuine, sweet way,” Carter recalls with a laugh. “He told me if I wanted it, I was going to have to track it down. I proceeded to do that, and he proceeded not to help me, which, in hindsight, was the biggest blessing ever.

I’m forever thankful for it. It’s much better to have gotten it on my own.”

Carter is passionate about his work. He’s always loved the process of taking a song from conception to recording to, ideally, a hit, focused on the creative side of the business. TP TulsaPeople.com

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Jim Halsey

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usic has always been a part of my life,” says musician Brandon Bethel.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Bethel grew up in the church, testing his vocals in the kids’ choir before moving on to solos. He was 7 or 8 when he remembers hearing country music for the fi rst time. He loved it, but as a young African American boy, he didn’t think it was for him. All that changed when he discovered Charley Pride.

“It was a shocker when I found out the late, great Charley Pride was an African American country singer,” Bethel says. “It just blew my mind. I was like, ‘What?’ I was inspired and I thought, if he can do it, I can. And then, of course, I found out about Hootie, Darius Rucker, and that was another influence.”

Bethel moved to Oklahoma after high school where he attended Muskogee’s Bacone College before transferring to Oklahoma State University, graduating with a degree in criminal justice. The Fort Gibson resident writes his own songs, and he has a real appreciation for the musical history of his adopted state.

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“It’s had an influence on me, especially once I really became aware of all the great artists who came from the area, being in Stillwater and fi nding out about Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton from Ada,” he says.

After years as a part-time musician, the now 30-year-old Bethel recently began pursuing his passion full time. He released a new single, “How to be a Man,” in October. “I wrote the song about my dad and how he raised me,” Bethel says. A five-song EP is expected around New Year’s Day. The pandemic presented challenges, but Bethel, like many musicians, found creative ways to keep moving forward.

“We figured out a way to still give people music,” he says. “We did a lot of live streaming on social media and, slowly but surely, things started opening back up.”

You can fi nd Bethel and his band performing in Tulsa and surrounding towns at bars, clubs and casinos. He will play Dec. 10 at Margaritaville’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar. TP

A new memorabilia exhibit at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino celebrates the career of country music industry legend and Tulsa native Jim Halsey.

The exhibit inside Hard Rock’s Track 5. venue spotlights Halsey’s achievements promoting legendary country musicians, more than 30 of whom are in the Country Music Hall of Fame. He’s credited with guiding icons Roy Clark, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Hank Thompson and countless others.

Halsey also is noted as signing the first long-term Las Vegas country music contracts and for managing the first agreement for U.S. musicians to play in the Soviet Union in 1976.

Artifacts in the exhibit span more than 70 years, including an autographed Oscar Schmidt guitar gifted to Halsey by Clark, a jacket worn by Thompson, and a 1986 contract between McEntire and Jim Halsey Co. Inc. Halsey attended the October unveiling and was presented with a cake to commemorate his 91st birthday.

“I am so humbled to have a piece of history included here at Hard Rock,” Halsey says. “My hope is that someone who comes in for a show or a dance will be inspired by one of these pieces and say, ‘I can do that, too.’”

The Halsey memorabilia expands the current collection of 1,200 relics of music history on display in Tulsa. Track 5. and Hard Rock’s other venues host live music every week Thursday-Saturday. For more information, visit hardrockcasinotulsa. com. — BLAYKLEE FREED

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“Engraved Mirrored Forms” (2021), blown, mirrored and engraved glass

ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES TULSA ARTIST ADDS PAINTING TO HIS LIST OF SKILLS, EXHIBITING WORK ON BLACK WALL STREET.

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rueson Daugherty’s fall art exhibition at the Greenwood Gallery showcases just the latest of his artistic abilities: painting portraits.

“I’m a very jack-of-all-trades type of person,” Daugherty says. “I have been my whole life.”

Some of these trades include musician, break-dancer, auto mechanic and competitive racer, boxer, textile artist, “Dance Dance Revolution” enthusiast and user experience designer. He also skates and has designed boards with custom grip tape.

A lifelong illustrator, Daugherty started painting in 2020, taught by his wife, Zia Daugherty, a skilled painter with a degree in fine art. Before long he produced the initial pieces of “Leaders in Color,” which was on display Sept. 3-Oct. 4 at the Greenwood Gallery.

The series includes explosive, eye-catching portraits of influential Black American figures, including Muhammad Ali, Nina Simone, Angela Davis and James Baldwin, to list a few.

Daugherty is biracial, identifying as both Black and white. He was moved to paint the series after perceiving in the art world an overwhelming tendency to present “Black suffering” whenever Black figures appear at all.

A Tulsa transplant in 2011, Daugherty forged connections with local organizations like the

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Black Wall Street Times and the Greenwood Gallery, expanding his skillset by designing the BWST logo and his artistic reach showing “Leaders in Color.”

Daugherty’s general aptitude was evident at a young age. At 16 he took his fi rst course at a local community college in Virginia, a drawing class, reflecting his lifelong interest in creating art. But art wasn’t his ultimate pursuit as he continued his education.

“Since I was a very young age, I wanted to do fine art,” he says. “I just never thought I had the opportunity to take it seriously.”

Daugherty has focused his aesthetic sensibilities on designing the user experience at J.B. Hunt, a freight transportation company.

“I have some of the bigger things in life taken care of financially,” he says. “I feel two things.

One: (I’m) obligated to return that back to the community. … The other part is I have the opportunity to fail.”

As of press time, eight of the 11 “Leaders in Color” paintings have sold. Daugherty will donate all proceeds from Ali’s portrait to the Reed Community Foundation, where Daugherty boxed when he lived in north Tulsa.

“The work Keith Reed does is incredibly important for north Tulsa,” Daugherty says. TP

Light catches the organic curves and sharp edges of ornate glass sculptures at Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, 2021 E. 71st St., casting colorful shadows that reflect and radiate around the pieces.

“New Patterns,” the striking display of handblown glass, metal and wood pieces by Dallasbased artist Simon Waranch, is monumental for the museum for a couple of reasons: It is the first solo glass exhibition in SMMJA’s more than 55-year history; Waranch, 22, is among the youngest solo exhibitionists to show work at the museum; and despite the fragile medium, visitors can touch the art.

“Waranch is totally focused on what he’s doing, but he’s still lighthearted about it,” says Mickel Yantz, SMMJA director of collections and exhibitions. “He actually encourages people to interact with (the pieces).”

“For me, the more people can be engaged with the work, the better,” Waranch says. “I love to have people touch the work because I feel it brings the viewer in closer, and it’s something they never expect. It offers a new experience.”

That tactile experience can reveal aspects of the art that viewers might gloss over, like the multidimensionality of the piece “Engraved Mirrored Forms.” Yantz carefully runs his fingers across intricate etchings on the vibrant crimson piece, noting how it and the other two forms in the set reflect the lines, consciously weaving but never intersecting, along the surface.

SMMJA shares work by Jewish artists and art that explores Judaism. For updates and information on future shows, visit facebook.com/ thesherwinmillermuseumofjewishart.

— BLAYKLEE FREED

TRUESON: COURTESY; GLASS EXHIBIT: TIM LANDES

Muhammad Ali is one of the featured portraits in Trueson Daugherty’s “Leaders in Color” series.

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ART SPOT

Samantha Jezek with her work for sale at Shoppe Sasha, 1307 E. 35th Place

“Tell Me Turtle Stories” by Renée Hoover, the 2021 Cherokee Art Market featured artist, earned Best of Class at the 2020 event. Read more about the piece at tulsapeople.com.

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JEZEK: GREG BOLLINGER; HOOVER: COURTESY

Virtual VIRTUOSOS One of the biggest opportunities to come from Cherokee Art Market’s virtual format has been interaction from the expanded audience.

“Though the Cherokee Art Market is virtual (and was last year), I had wonderful conversations with many individuals as they asked questions about my work,” says this year’s featured artist Renée Hoover (Cherokee). “This art market offers me a way to share my work with a large audience — one I wouldn’t reach otherwise.”

The 16th annual Cherokee Art Market kicks off Dec. 6 for its second year of virtual programming to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Virtual visitors can view and purchase work from dozens of Native American artists online, with examples of beadwork, pottery, paintings, basketry, sculptures, textiles and more through Dec. 17.

Participating artists can showcase up to 10 items in the virtual market; two are eligible for competition. Cash prizes are awarded by class, including the annual Best of Show award and the Best of Class award. Hoover’s woven basket “Tell Me Turtle Stories” took the 2020 prize in Best of Class.

The online market also will include live demonstrations and conversations from some of the top Native American artists like Tulsan Johnnie Diacon (Muscogee), presenting “From Painting to Graphic Novel.”

Visit cherokeeartmarket.com for more information. — BLAYKLEE FREED

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t’s hard to look at Samantha Jezek’s art without imagining a big smile on the artist’s face during its creation. Described safely as “abstract,” Jezek’s art reflects her enduring love affairs with colors, textures and faces.

On nearly every canvas is a face staring back at the viewer, one constructed with a handful of bold lines. The paintings range in size from 4-by4-inch pieces that fit on a bookshelf to larger ones that hang on walls.

“Whenever I started doing the faces I thought it was so cool how you could make a mood with such simple lines,” Jezek says. “With just the curve of a line you can set the mood for a whole painting. It’s just really neat.”

“Neat,” of course, is a humble way of putting it. The neophyte might find it difficult to pin down why and how each Jezek piece feels unique — like a new individual — but there’s an ordered mind behind each one.

It’s no surprise Jezek went straight to Picasso when asked about her influences. A special memory is seeing her fi rst Picasso in person: “The Guitarist” at the Dallas Museum of Art. “It was so massive — I mean, it was huge,” she says of the painting. “I’d studied it, and it’s not the same when you walk up to it.”

Jezek is from Thomas, Oklahoma, and studied fine arts at Oklahoma State University; she also spent time in Tuscany, Italy, studying landscape painting, and moved to Tulsa five years ago.

Even with three children, Jezek finds time to paint every day. “Some days are harder than others but when you really love what you do, you make time for it,” she says. “Since day one I’ve always loved (it).”

Jezek’s work is available to purchase through Instagram and a handful of storefronts, like Shoppe Sasha at 1307 E. 35th Place, an interior design store in Brookside operated by Sasha Malchi. For both Jezek and Malchi, this local connection of artists and businesses is an enthusiastic one.

“I always thought it would be nice, but I didn’t realize how vital it was until it started happening,” Jezek says of being able to sell her work in a local storefront. “People love supporting local.”

“We love to have local art in the shop,” Malchi concurs. “Art makes the room,” she says.

“It’s different than a pillow, or a lamp, or something else.”

The pair forged a truly Tulsa-centric design operation, which is gratifying for both women.

“It’s just so nice the love you can have in a community (with art) locally available, helping another business out, as well,” Jezek says.

Both Shoppe Sasha and Jezek are on Instagram, @shoppesasha and @samanthajezekart, respectively. In addition to her paintings, Jezek makes holiday ornaments, which are on sale all month. TP TulsaPeople.com

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Tasty treats SANTA’S GOT NOTHING ON OUR HAND-PICKED LOCAL FOODS FOR HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING. STORY BY NATALIE MIKLES PHOTOS BY MICHELLE POLLARD Gifts of food are perfect for family, friends, neighbors or co-workers. They’re special enough to be some of the best gifts of the season, but they’re general enough that you don’t need to ask someone’s shoe size for the umpteenth pair of slippers they’ll find under the tree.

We can promise most people on your list would rather have aged balsamic vinegar, honeysoaked pecans or a great barbecue rub over another pair of socks.

Here are some of our favorites, all of which can be purchased locally, and most can be shipped to relatives outside of Tulsa.

BARBEE COOKIES Skip the hard work and have Barbee Cookies do the decorating for you. Decorated holiday cookies are available individually or by the dozen. Need to send cookies to loved ones far away? Barbee Cookies ships its signature “favorites,” including raspberry shortbread, iced sugar, snickerdoodle, double chocolate and heavenly cinnamon roll, around the country. $47 for a dozen decorated cookies; $35.20 for a dozen Barbee favorites. 8393 S. Memorial Drive or 415 S. Boston Ave. | barbeecokies.com

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ROARK ACRES HONEY SOAKED PECANS Just a look at the honey pecans from Roark Acres brings oohs and ahhs. Oklahoma native pecans ($12-$20) are enveloped in Roark Acres local honey — a sweet and nutty decadence. You can snack on these pecans, slowly savoring the flavor, and then you’re left with the best honey you’ve ever tasted, with a hint of pecan. Flavors include original honey and cinnamon. Even the packaging is cute in an upside-down mason jar. Try Roark Acres’ other products, like creamed gingerbread honey, which is especially great for holiday giving. 217 E. Main St., Jenks | roarkacres.com BOHEMIA’S CHOCOLATE ALMOND TOFFEE Teri Fermo’s Chocolate Almond Toffee: If you know, you know. If you’ve been lucky enough to have been gifted this toffee around the holidays, then you must be special. Fermo, caterer and chef of Bohemia, has been making the decadent treat for 45 years and selling it for 16. What started as something whispered about, “Have you tried this stuff?” has turned into a Christmas tradition for many. Miss Teri’s Naughty Chocolate Almond Toffee is called so for good reason.

The almond roca-like toffee is full of roasted almonds and encased in rich chocolate.

Choose between dark or milk chocolate. Fermo also makes stretchy pecan pralines with maldon sea salt, mini pies and brittles for holiday gifting. $28 for a 1-pound bag, or $40 for a lock box with key (great for keeping kids and spouses out). By appointment at Bohemia, 3309 S. Harvard Ave. | bohemialove.com LIONESS COFFEE ROASTER Coffee always makes a great gift. But a monthly subscription to locally roasted coffee — that’s a dream come true. Listening to Taylor Weigant, head of coffee operations at Lioness, talk about coffee makes you want to savor each sip of this coffee made in downtown Broken Arrow.

Beans are roasted to order and shipped within hours of roasting, guaranteeing subscribers receive incredibly fresh coffee at their doorsteps. Lioness is intentional about highlighting the work put into the coffee by its producers, allowing the climate and origin of the beans to be represented in each cup. Subscriptions start at $44 a month. 224 S. Main St., Broken Arrow | lionesscoffeeroaster.co 38

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BUBBA-Q-BOYS BARBECUE RUBS If you know someone whose love language is barbecue, they’re always excited to try the latest seasonings and gadgets. Bubba-Q-Boys is a rub created by competition barbecuers Kristy and Josh White. Since they’ve been on the barbecue scene, the Whites know how to turn decent barbecue into amazing barbecue. Their latest rub is Chipotle Sweet Heat ($9-$12). It has a smoky heat and is great on chicken wings, shrimp and in chili. The original rub is salty and sweet with just a little heat, and it is good on everything from brisket and ribs to burgers, salmon, tofu and corn on the cob. Look for a new rub — Honey BBQ — soon. Find at Reasor’s, Okie Spice and Trade Co., Cook’s Nook, Ida Red, Midtown Hardware, Meats ‘n’ More and Local Farm OK. | bubba-q-boys.com CHEESE FROM OKIESPICE AND TRADE CO. Owners Kim and Steve Zieg created a shop filled with everything they love: local food, cocktail mixes, kitchen tools and other delights. Their artisan cheese ($8 for a block of cheese) is created on site and includes flavors like black peppercorn cheddar, roasted green chile cheddar, spinach and artichoke cheddar, and blackberry cheddar. A special cranberry cheddar is especially tasty during the holidays. Create a charcuterie spread with a great cheese and crackers alongside locally made jams, spreads, nuts and chocolates, all of which you can find at OkieSpice. 107 N. Main St., Sand Springs | okiespiceandtrade.com OILS AND VINEGARS FROM MECCA COFFEE CO. Anyone who cooks will appreciate a bottle of one of Mecca’s great oils or vinegars. The flavored extra virgin olive oils and balsamic vinegars come in so many varieties ($5.95-$29.95 per bottle), it’s hard to pick a favorite. Owner Michell Culbreath says customers love the fig balsamic and cinnamon pear vinegars around the holidays and for gift giving. Good oils and vinegars are something cooks won’t always splurge on for themselves, so these will be a treat.

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Ronald Looney STEEL MANUFACTURING AND REAL ESTATE BUSINESSMAN AND LONGTIME TULSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE REGENT

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Ronald Looney is a longtime Tulsa businessman whose many accolades include earning the 2017 NAIOP Lifetime Achievement Award for his positive impact in the industrial and office real estate industry. Earlier this year Looney finished 36 years of service on the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents.

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onald Looney’s Tulsa roots were planted in 1927, when the sheet metal business his dad and grandad established in Muskogee 10 years prior moved to Tulsa. The 84-year-old Looney remembers the family business installing air conditioning, duct work and cooling systems at Tulsa’s historic Philtower Building. Looney says he was always impressed by how the business survived the dark days of the Great Depression.

Decades later, Looney founded his own sheet metal business in Tulsa that would stand the test of time. Tri-Angle Development Co. was formed in 1967 on a piece of land he purchased at 5555 S. Garnett Road. Over the years, it transitioned to steel manufacturing and has evolved today into a real estate company that constructs industrial and commercial buildings.

Looney also is known for his 36 years of service as a member of the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents, a role he held until retiring in June. Although he has participated on two dozen leadership boards and committees in the Tulsa area, Looney says, “None of them even start to compare to my service at TCC.” Now semi-retired, he’s proud to watch his son and daughter handle the family business. Looney and his wife, Susie, have been married for 60 years and raised three children.

Th rough both tragedy and joy, the Looneys have called Tulsa home while driving local economic development and supporting the city’s vast education network.

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU COME FROM A LONG LINE OF ENTREPRENEURS. HOW ARE YOUR CHILDREN INVOLVED IN YOUR COMPANY? A lot of the products we built were welded together to make items like bomb racks for the Navy, and they had to be galvanized. We built a hotbed galvanizing plant out on Garnett Road. It was quite an experience. Then we bought the 10 acres just south of there and started Tri-Angle Industrial Park. Starting in the late ’90s, we built a total of 165,000 square feet of industrial steel concrete buildings, and they’re still just super buildings today. We’ve got them all leased. My son, David, keeps them fi lled with tenants. He has his own real estate business while trying to keep mine going. He does a great job. My daughter, Gina Harris, manages the books and keeps everybody in line. She’s a cracker jack. She’s super at math. She keeps me in line, too. My brother, Burt, was in business with us. He was the builder of all our buildings. He loved to design them and then build them.

WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY? WHY? I went to the University of Oklahoma. I loved it but had too good a time. My dad and brother had gotten several large sheet metal jobs in Tulsa, and I did a lot of the drafting and detail work to prepare for those. It gave me a chance to go to work for them in the afternoons after school while I attended the University of Tulsa for a year. My dad also had a ranch up on Grand Lake, and I thought that was the neatest thing since a pocket on a shirt. I went to Oklahoma State University for a year and a half to learn all about raising cattle and planting pastures.

WHAT WAS ONE OF YOUR MOST DEFINING MOMENTS? I’d have to say that was the time I accepted Christ into my life. He’s never left me. It’s always been an important part of my life and my family’s life.

HOW WOULD YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBE YOU? Probably as outgoing, friendly and confident.

IF YOU COULD WITNESS ANY EVENT OF THE PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, WHAT WOULD IT BE? The thing that used to excite me so much was the oil shows back in the ’40s and ’50s at the fairgrounds. They were just outstanding. They had oil derricks there and all kinds of oil equipment. Since we ran a steel fab business, it was kind of all related, and I had an interest in it. I had an uncle who was involved in the utility business, and somehow he was always involved in the oil shows. My brothers and I always went out and walked for hours out there to see all the stuff they had. Those shows started to fade about the mid-’50s. They moved to Houston and Dallas and ran out of steam.

WHAT WAS A “WORST TIME” AND HOW DID YOU PULL THROUGH IT? Losing my son, Paul, was a terrible time. Also, since we were in the construction and real estate business, the 1980s were terrible times. Th rough my faith and staying in there, we worked through it.

Ronald Looney, left, at a 1996 Board of Regents meeting when Tulsa Junior College changed its name to Tulsa Community College

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? My personal success is through satisfaction in giving and serving. When I was appointed to the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents in 1985, it was the greatest thing ever for me. I had done a little bit of serving but not much and that gave me an opportunity to get involved and stay for 36 years. It was just an absolute joy to give back to the educational community.

YOU’VE BEEN ON SEVERAL PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEES FOR TCC SINCE 1985. ARE THERE ANY BIG MILESTONES FOR YOU WITHIN THOSE YEARS OF SERVICE? When we built the west campus, it was from the ground up. It was just a huge and satisfying project. I headed up the construction committee. We built several new buildings on the Metro Campus, like the Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity.

In 1989, Al Phillips was president. He called me one day and wanted to meet. After small talk through dinner, he said, “Well, I want to let you know that I’m going to announce my retirement.”

I was just a wet-behind-the-ears regent, but he asked if I wanted to appoint the search committee and appoint myself as chairman. I said I would do everything I could to make that happen. We selected Dean VanTrease. He was just an outstanding president. He was what we called a bricks-and-mortar president. He was in charge of the west campus, the VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education and a lot of building areas. He did a wonderful job.

Then VanTrease retired, and the same thing happened again while I was chairman. It seemed like whenever I was chairman of the Board of Regents, one of our presidents announced their retirement. We selected Tom McKeon, and he was another outstanding president. He had started as a young man in the horticulture school. At the Northeast Campus, you would see him throughout the summer out on a tractor mowing the grass. Th is was before he was president, of course. I asked one of his righthand people one time why they all announced their retirement when I was chairman. They said

it was because they wanted me to search for a new president. That’s a lot of responsibility. Then, we selected Leigh Goodson, and she’s just been phenomenal.

THERE ARE OTHER UNIVERSITIES IN TULSA, BUT WOULD YOU SAY THERE’S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT HOW TCC SERVES THE COMMUNITY? Yes, I go back every so often and take a class. I took one in photography. We used to teach up to 16 languages at one time. It was something else.

WHAT IS A FAVORITE TULSA MEMORY? Probably going to Pennington’s Drive-in on Brookside on South Peoria. We’d go out there and have a milkshake and a slice of black bottom pie in high school.

DESCRIBE A PERFECT WEEKEND IN TULSA OR ELSEWHERE. We used to go out and have a game of golf and then maybe three or four of us couples would go to the lake after that. We enjoyed it.

It was a great time. The kids would be there. We used to have a houseboat. That was more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

WHAT PLACE IN TULSA DO YOU MISS THE MOST? I think maybe the old Coliseum downtown. It burned down. It used to be the place where everybody held their formal dances. Sigma Chi always had a big Christmas formal there. They skated there at the ice rink. It was just a wonderful place.

It’s never really been replaced. They’ve tried to, but it’s never really been the same.

WHAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGES YOU’VE EXPERIENCED IN TULSA? One of my favorite pastimes is to walk out on one of our jobs and see a building rise out of the ground. It always gives me a thrill. Tulsa’s growth has been slowed by depressions and recessions because of the oil business and some of those things, but it’s always been a nice, growing city. We built over 2 million square feet of industrial buildings and some commercial thrown in there in our lifetime, and that was quite a business. I got to see a lot of buildings come out of the ground. TP TulsaPeople.com

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Dr. Alessandra Morello Gearhart encourages patients to plan for their sleep routine just as they plan for their day.

Restful routine NOT PLANNING FOR SLEEP IS PLANNING TO FAIL.

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ccording to the National Institutes of Health, sleep deficiency is a common public health problem. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 35.2% of adults in the U.S. sleep less than the minimum recommendation of seven hours per night.

“Sleep is vital for our physical health and mental well-being,” says Dr. Alessandra Morello Gearhart, who specializes in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Oklahoma State University Medicine in Tulsa.

“While we sleep, our bodies are healing and our brains are processing the vast amount of information we receive throughout the day, including organizing our emotions and newly made memories.”

Experts in the field of sleep medicine promote sleep hygiene as an important tool for optimal rest and recovery. Sleep hygiene is a set of behavioral and environmental recommendations intended to promote healthy sleep.

“Most people should plan for their sleep just as they plan for their day,” Morello Gearhart says. “That means allowing yourself enough time to wind down in preparation for sleep, avoiding the use of electronics one hour prior to bedtime, making sure that the environment is appropriate for sleep (cool temperature and quiet), and avoiding smoking or drinking alcohol close to bedtime.”

Morello Gearhart also recommends regular exercise as part of any sleep hygiene routine.

“A great way to maintain a good sleep schedule long-term is to have a consistent wake-up time daily, which includes having a similar wake up time on weekdays and weekends,” she says. “This 6 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021

helps to keep our circadian rhythm aligned with your body’s natural sleep needs.”

Chronic insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in the world. “If the sleep deprivation becomes chronic, the risk to develop mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety increases significantly,” she says. “Our body’s immune system can become weaker and make us more prone to infections. Medical conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure also are more common in people who are chronically sleep deprived.”

But it’s not just one condition or reason that affects the ability to sleep.

“Apart from insomnia, other common sleep disorders are obstructive sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome,” Morello Gearhart says. “People with symptoms of loud snoring, episodes of gasping for air or trouble with frequent leg movements before or during sleep should discuss these symptoms with their doctors.

Other conditions such as psychiatric disorders, asthma, COPD, heart failure, stroke, obesity and chronic pain are some examples of medical problems that can significantly affect sleep, as well.

“Most of us will eventually go through a time when sleep becomes more challenging,” she adds. “Work-related stress, anxiety about deadlines or long to-do lists are common culprits that can lead to trouble falling or staying asleep. If this happens for a few days or even a few weeks, it doesn’t mean it will last forever. Accepting this is a normal part of life and taking care of your sleep hygiene habits will help you get back on track.” TP

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ore than 34 million people in the United States are diabetic.

Eighty-eight million (one in three) are prediabetic — what is often referred to as impaired glucose tolerance — and a whopping 84% of Americans who are prediabetic don’t know it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S, and is likely underreported.

The numbers are disturbingly high, but they don’t have to be. Dr. LaMont Cavanagh, physician and chair for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of OklahomaTulsa, sheds light on what many deem the cornerstone of maintaining lifelong health: annual exams.

Even when you’re not physically sick, it’s important to see your primary care physician at least once a year, no matter your age. With yearly checkups, doctors have a better chance at catching any underlying issues such as high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes — issues that pose a lower threat to your health if caught early.

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establish a relationship. Your doctor gets to know you and your family history, which plays a huge role in our overall health.”

Cavanagh stresses the importance of finding a physician you trust and maintaining that patient/doctor relationship for life, if possible. “Health is so much more than our physical makeup,” he says. “It’s psychological and social, too.” Things such as sleeping poorly, living in a high-stress environment, experiencing financial strain or psychological trauma, etc., can deeply impact a person’s health. Your doctor should be aware of these factors and take into consideration when treating you. But your doctor won’t know these things if you only visit when you’re sick, Cavanagh says, which is why it’s important to build rapport with a physician and see them yearly, regardless of health status.

Annual visits also give your doctor the opportunity to hold you accountable for things like seeing a dentist twice a year and annual vision screenings, which Cavanagh stresses are necessary for longterm health. “As we get older, we tend to value our health more and more,” he says.

“We want to have clear thought, mobility and our wits about us in old age. Consistent preventative care is how we get there.” TP

“Annual visits are good for many reasons. The big one being you establish a relationship. Your doctor gets to know you and your family history, which plays a huge role in our overall health.”

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BEST SHOT V accinations have been a routine part of maintaining good health and preventing disease in the U.S. since Edward Jenner’s introduction of the smallpox vaccine in 1796. Smallpox, once known as the deadliest disease to humans, has since been eradicated with the breakthrough of immunizations, according to the World Health Organization.

Ellen Niemitalo, clinical services manager and nurse for the Tulsa Health Department, says starting from birth, immunization schedules are formulated based on studies that include vaccine efficacy, risk of disease and immune response. “Vaccines are safe, effective and prevent serious illness from numerous vaccine-preventable diseases,” Niemitalo says. “Receiving a vaccine not only provides protection for the individuals, but also those around that individual.”

Adhering to the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedule provides the opportunity for children to build immunities to serious illnesses before being exposed to them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the following immunizations and boosters from birth to 18 years of age: HEPATITIS B: At birth, 1-2 months and 6-18 months ROTAVIRUS (RV): At 2 months, 4 months and possibly 6 months DIPHTHERIA, TETANUS AND PERTUSSIS (DTAP): At 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15-18 months and 4-6 years HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B (HIB): At 2 months, 4 months, possibly 6 months and 12-15 months PNEUMOCOCCAL (PREVNAR): At 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 12-15 months POLIO (IPV): At 2 months, 4 months, 6-18 months and 4-6 years INFLUENZA: At 6 months, then once a year (ideally by November) MEASLES, MUMPS AND RUBELLA (MMR): At 12-15 months and 4-6 years CHICKENPOX (VARICELLA): At 12-15 months and 4-6 years HEPATITIS A: At 12-23 months with a second dose six months after the first dose MENINGOCOCCAL CONJUGATE (MENACWY): At 11-12 years and 16 years SEROGROUP B MENINGOCOCCAL (MENB): At 16-23 years (as needed, discuss with your child’s physician) TETANUS, DIPHTHERIA AND PERTUSSIS (TDAP): At 11-12 years HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV): At 11-12 years with the second dose six to 12 months after the first Factors that determine what immunizations you need as an adult include your medical and immunization history, lifestyle, traveling habits and more.

That’s why it’s important to discuss adult vaccines with a physician you trust, Niemitalo says. That said, healthy adults should get a tetanus (Tdap) vaccine every 10 years. Additionally, COVID (5 years and older) and flu (six months and older) vaccines are recommended yearly, according to the CDC. Other immunizations to consider are Pneumonia (Prevnar and Pneumovax) and Shingles (Shingrix), but adults should discuss these with their doctor.

Niemitalo stresses that some individuals cannot be vaccinated for varying reasons, so “the (best) way to protect these individuals is for those around them to be vaccinated.” — LAURA DENNIS

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Utica Park Clinic pediatrician Dr. Theresa Horton advises parents that there is “no one answer to most anything in parenting.”

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here’s no manual when it comes to parenting. Determining when and how to socialize your child is no exception.

“There is no one answer to most of anything in parenting, because it’s all going to tie into the child’s temperament, stage in social development, and so on,” says Dr. Theresa Horton, a pediatrician with Utica Park Clinic.

Socialization starts from birth, and Horton tells families, “You can’t spoil a baby. You can’t hold a baby too much.”

It’s important for infants to bond with parents and caregivers and know they can rely on them.

“Starting at 1, definitely by 2, they should be very interested in other children, but they don’t usually play interactively,” Horton says. “They do what we call parallel play — I’m interested in you, you’re my size, and I’m going to play next to you.”

Horton says children should definitely be having play dates by age 3 “because that’s when they should be wanting interactive play and beginning to learn taking turns and sharing.”

While she believes starting preschool by age 3 is reasonable, Horton says deciding when and where to enroll in additional 12 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021

schooling is difficult because, “no child is alike, and the curriculum is pretty set. Ideally, if they are going into a school situation that can adapt to the individualities of each child, that is really important.”

There’s a lot of value in securing opportunities for children to socialize with peers. Horton says they provide space to problem solve and understand others, and they teach “no two people are alike, no two families are alike, and the more practice you have, that can be really helpful.”

These interactions pave the way for independence.

“As parents, it is important for us to provide developmentally appropriate opportunities for our children to venture out from us, starting small at a park or in the backyard and working up to sleepovers, weekends away, or summer camps,” Horton says.

“Providing opportunities for our children to separate and practice independence helps on their journey to being independent adults.”

Horton recommends the American Academy of Pediatrics’ parenting website, healthychildren.org, for more information on social milestones. TP

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Patients are referred to specialists through their primary care physician.

Long, winding road FOR SOME, COVID-19 COMPLICATIONS AND MALADIES PERSIST MONTHS AFTER TREATMENT AND RECOVERY.

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or some undetermined number of COVID-19 survivors, a disappearing cough, broken fever and two negative tests might not mean the end of the virus. This group of thought-they-had-recovered patients — referred to medically as long haulers — experience the effects of COVID for weeks.

Months. Possibly forever. Welcome to Long COVID. Mayo Clinic describes long haulers as “people who develop long-term and ongoing complications.” Even more disturbing, this condition can affect patients who had mild or moderate cases or were asymptomatic, as well as those with more severe cases.

Dr. Frank Gaffney of Hillcrest Hospital and Oklahoma Heart Institute reports “an overriding misunderstanding of what it is.”

He describes Long COVID as medical conditions persisting after hospitalization recovery, keeping patients from returning to full function. Treatment for this condition is the crux of Hillcrest’s Post-COVID Clinic.

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Long COVID falls into two categories. The first involves damage to specific organs, most often heart or lungs. Cardiovascular complications can include blood clots, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms and stroke, even in younger patients.

The second type is slightly vague. Patients who were never hospitalized can experience brain fog, profound fatigue, migraine headaches as well as muscle or joint soreness.

Fatigue, in this case, doesn’t mean no more running marathons.

Patients can’t brush their teeth or keep up with their kids. Hillcrest’s Dr. Emily Grewe-Nelson has patients who had to go on disability, and whose duties were not overtly physical. Some with desk jobs.

Saint Francis cardiologist Dr. Aaron Kelkhoff sees patients after months of recovery “when they can’t climb steps,” he says. Some report their “post-COVID symptoms are worse than those during the acute phase.” Kelkhoff uses MRI to look for inflammation or scarring of the heart muscle during or after COVID.

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Bob Silvis, a home health registered nurse, contracted COVID-19 in November 2020.

He has had multiple hospital stays and is still managing s ymptoms of Long COVID.

Lushean Jones spent 39 days in the hospital with COVID-19.

After three weeks at home, he was still tired, still on oxygen. Jones, who also suffers from diabetes, describes his fatigue: “I can’t walk but 30 or 40 feet. I get very tired taking a shower. I can’t wash my hair.”

Neither Lushean nor his wife, Robyn, who also contracted the virus, are vaccinated. “We just had reservations about it,” she says.

Robyn recommends those who test positive get the infusion therapy, as she did. He is in pulmonary rehab.

Bob Silvis, a home health registered nurse, got COVID in November 2020, before vaccinations were available. He didn’t feel well. A rapid COVID test came back positive. A day later, he called 911.

During 20 days in ICU, he refused a ventilator four times. “I prayed to God to let me die,” Silvis recalls. “I couldn’t breathe.

You’re basically drowning. You’re struggling.”

When his condition improved, he convinced his doctor he could rehab at home and go back to work. He was hospitalized three more times. He tells his COVID-19 patients he knows how it feels. “Some recover, some pass away, and some will be like me,” he says.

Silvis is now fully vaccinated. His wife, Jennifer, says the vaccine is against her beliefs. She contracted COVID later but recognized it early enough to get the monoclonal antibody therapy.

She’s back at work.

Gaffney says, “This is not like any viral infection we’ve ever faced.” Although he describes Long COVID as a small subset,

its damage can be devastating. His patients’ reactions range from “incredibly frustrated” to disappointed. “They’ve already suffered so much.”

“Especially those who were healthy before and weren’t that sick with the virus,” Grewe-Nelson adds. “You don’t necessarily return to health. Younger people can have same effects. Kids are the unprotected group, and not by choice.”

“It can take several months to get back to normal, especially if a patient has been on oxygen or on a ventilator,” Grewe-Nelson says. “We don’t really have a good treatment for Long COVID. It’s helpful to treat the symptoms.”

Medical professionals and providers agree: The best defense against long-term COVID is prevention. Don’t get COVID. “The No. 1 thing is to get vaccinated,” Grewe-Nelson says. “It’s the most beneficial treatment, and now FDA approved.”

THERAPY TREATMENT Lushean Jones tested positive for COVID-19. His wife, Robyn, was administered a test and five days later received news of a positive COVID result. Six days after her test — and two days after her husband was taken to the hospital by ambulance — she received monoclonal antibody therapy at Okemah Creek Nation Hospital.

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on oxygen — two factors that excluded him from receiving the monoclonal antibody infusion. His recovery is ongoing.

“We’re lucky here,” says Dr. Anna Wanahita, president of Regional Brain Institute whose team provides care to citizens of the Muscogee Nation. “Creek Nation cares about citizens and wants to make all citizens better. We can get (monoclonal antibody therapy) for the community, too.”

“The body produces antibodies anytime you get sick or vaccinated,” explains Dr. Mark Blubaugh of Tulsa ER and Hospital. “This is a synthetic antibody that doesn’t wait for the body’s own to work.”

Without this intervention, symptoms could get worse before the body can build its own defenses. This therapy “neutralizes the virus,” he says, “and has shown to prevent patients from getting sicker or having to be hospitalized.”

At Muscogee Nation, the infusion process takes about two hours, which includes time to register, the 20-minute infusion and 40 minutes for observation. Patients must schedule an appointment.

“You’re back home within an hour or hour and a half,” says Blubaugh, whose hospital has administered more than 1,000

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infusions. As of press time, Muscogee Nation had done 800 infusions of Native and non-Native citizens, including at its newest health care facility — Council Oak — in Tulsa.

Most patients report feeling much better within a day or two. “It seems to be doing the job,” he says. He estimates “a good 20-25% (of those patients) would have been hospitalized without this therapy.”

The federal government gives the medication to states to distribute. Although the therapy is common practice now, it is not in every doctor’s office or urgent care. Even big hospitals might have a limited supply. “It’s not ubiquitously available, but (a patient) should be able to get it somewhere,” Blubaugh says.

The key to antibody therapy is to get it early — within the first 10 days of symptoms. “If you get sick, test early. And get seen by a doctor early. Waiting one or two weeks puts us way behind the eight ball, making it much more difficult to treat,” he adds.

Wanahita says it is too early to determine the success of monoclonal antibodies, “but doctors are seeing decreased severity, decreased chance of hospitalization and decreased chance of mortality” in patients who have received the infusion. TP

SINCE THE FIRST LOCAL CASES OF COVID-19 HIT IN MARCH 2020, the Saint Francis COVID resource page has become the health system’s “main source of sharing information as it became available,” says Lauren Landwerlin, executive director of corporate communications.

“It’s our responsibility to be the leading voice,” she adds, referring to how Saint Francis has kept its community up to date on COVID news and information.

By July 2021, when it became clear the second surge had the potential to be worse than the previous winter, Saint Francis added census numbers to convey the full impact of the virus.

Updated each weekday, the numbers represent hospitalized COVID patients at Saint Francis inpatient facilities, excluding outpatients and those diagnosed at home.

- Total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Real-time indicator of spikes and drops in local cases, and expectations put on the Saint Francis medical staff.

- Total number of pediatric hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Added as more children became affected by the virus.

- Percentage of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are not vaccinated. Added when vaccines became available earlier this year; now the clear majority of hospitalized patients.

- Average age of hospitalized COVID-19 patient.

- Average age of hospitalized COVID-19 patients on ventilators.

- Average age of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in isolation.

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At the beginning of the pandemic, most COVID patients were 65 and older. As vaccines became available, older Oklahomans were among the first groups to be inoculated, bringing down the average age considerably. With younger men and women being affected, the average age dipped to 51 at its lowest point.

Landwerlin says the data will continue as long as necessary.

“Being a resource — a source of truth — during chaos or crisis is our job,” she says. “This crisis is no different.”

Tulsa Eye Associates Eye care

The caring and compassionate physicians at Tulsa Eye Associates are committed to providing exceptional eye care to all their patients. The highly trained eye care team consists of Dr. James Ronk, Dr. Julie Soto, and Dr. Thomas Briggs.

Dr. Ronk graduated from Creighton University Medical school, completed his internship in Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, ophthalmology residency at Tulane University, and cornea fellowship at University of Texas-Houston.

Dr. Soto is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, internship in Internal Medicine at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center, and ophthalmology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

Dr. Briggs graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, completed his internship at OU’s School of Community Medicine, and ophthalmology residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

The Tulsa Eye Associates team specialize in advanced cataract surgery, LASIK surgery, multifocal and advanced technology lens implants, as well as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic eye care.

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big bowl of ice cream. A juicy red apple. Both are delicious snacks, but for someone with sensitive teeth, even their image can strike an actual nerve. Tooth sensitivity can interfere with daily life and require work-arounds for enjoying tricky foods, sometimes even causing us to avoid them all together.

The root cause of why teeth are sensitive isn’t always easy to pinpoint because it’s not always just one culprit. “Unfortunately the answer to that question can be quite complex,” says Dr. Lindsay Smith, an Oologah native and University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry graduate who has been in private practice in Tulsa for 14 years.

Cavities, cracked teeth, clenching and grinding, recession of gums, or loss and breakdown of enamel of a tooth can all be causes of sensitive teeth. “It’s important to note the protective coating of our teeth that we can see is called enamel, and it covers the softer, more susceptible dentin layer that houses the nerve of the tooth,” Smith says.

For those experiencing sensitivity, the fi rst step is to talk to a dentist to see which of the reasons might be at the root of your specific problem. The good news is for as many causes of tooth sensitivity that exist, there are nearly as many appropriate remedies.

Treatments could involve fi llings or crowns if the issue is a cavity. For night-time jaw-clenchers or teeth-grinders, an occlusal guard might be the cure. “Most commonly, mild gingival recession-causing tooth sensitivity can be treated with a noninvasive, topical treatment that can be applied professionally by your dentist.”

For more severe gingival recession cases, patients may have to consider a surgical grafting procedure where gums are placed back over the exposed root surfaces. However in most cases, Smith reassures patients most options are non-invasive, quick and inexpensive. Sometimes incorporating the regular use of desensitizing toothpastes and fluoride rinses is just the trick to have you back to biting into that apple. — JORDAN COX 18 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021

Dragon slayer

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ad breath is an embarrassing faux pas that impacts everyone occasionally, but for nearly 30% of people, the battle is chronic. Looking deeper into what causes bad breath doesn’t make the picture any prettier.

“The primary cause of bad breath is bacteria or germs,” says Dr. Wesley Black, practitioner and owner at Dental Studio of South Tulsa. Bacteria sticks in between our teeth and on our tongue, creating volatile sulfur compounds. But it gets worse.

“Basically the bacteria eat sugars and carbs, and they burp or fart,” Black says. Bad breath is essentially the chemical let-out from a bacterial burp. Super.

Those with ongoing bad breath might be dealing with issues such as periodontal disease, diabetes, decay or other chronic conditions that should be treated professionally. “With bad breath, you can get an idea if someone is healthy or not,” says Black, who grew up on a peanut farm near Atwood, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State University graduate attended dental school at the University of Oklahoma and has been practicing in Tulsa for the past 20 years.

Recently, people have gotten a whiff of their own bad breath through mask-wearing. The mask doesn’t cause it, but people notice because of the recirculated air. One major factor is dry mouth, which could be caused by mask-wearing, certain medications and other factors. “Without enough saliva, the oral microbiome gets thrown out of balance and allows flatulent bacteria to go haywire and overtake the good bacteria.”

For Black, “Proper hydration goes a long way.” Drinking plenty of water, brushing two to three times a day, and flossing daily can beat back flatulent chemicals. He also recommends over-the-counter mints or gums containing Xylitol, which inhibit bacteria’s ability to reproduce.

For those experiencing chronic bad breath, though, he recommends a proper diagnosis, starting with a trip to the dentist. Chronic bad breath and oral disease have been linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s.

The peanut farmer turned dragon-breath slayer has a lot to say about the value of proper dental hygiene: “I can’t get you a set that’s better than the teeth you were born with.” — JORDAN COX

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Eastern Oklahoma Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Oral Surgery Eastern Oklahoma Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (EOOMS) is committed to providing comprehensive oral surgery care. They practice the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Common procedures include wisdom teeth and dental extractions with intravenous anesthesia for patient comfort. They specialize in all aspects of dental implant surgery, bone grafting and jaw reconstruction. As a group they offer 24-hour practice coverage and take trauma calls for local hospitals.

EOOMS is comprised of four experienced oral surgeons: Todd Johnson, D.D.S.; Gregory Segraves, D.D.S.; M.S. Heath Evans, D.D.S, and Chris Ray, D.D.S. All EOOMS surgeons hold memberships in numerous dental societies including the Tulsa County Dental Society, Oklahoma Dental Association, American Dental Association, Southwest Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

For patients’ convenience, most of the group’s services are provided in the EOOMS offices. The offices are board certified for office IV anesthesia to ensure patient comfort. Quality of care and patient safety are always the group’s primary concern.

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Dr. Sean Riley is a chiropractic physician at Tulsa Spine and Rehab. For better posture, he encourages movement and being mindful of our body’s position when doing everyday tasks like working at a desk or scrolling through a smartphone.

Neutral position RESET YOUR POSTURE TO REDUCE STRESS ON YOUR BODY.

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he slump: It’s got us. Bad posture, which leads to sore shoulders, cramping backs and necks, which begat headaches and poor sleeping. It’s a bad cycle and it’s clearly no small thing, but some small remedies can adjust the situation.

“Keep moving.” That’s what Dr. Sean Riley, a clinic chiropractic physician and owner of Tulsa Spine and Rehab, tells his patients. “Effectively, many of us do the same things day in and day out. It’s cumulative trauma from prolonged sitting. Our bodies aren’t wired to sit for that period of time,” he says. Sitting in a chair for six to 10 hours a day is a routine that needs to be interrupted.

So what does the doctor order? Movement. Two to three times an hour. It doesn’t have to be major — just a few quick steps to reset the position. The goal is to interrupt the compressive load of gravity on our spine, joints and soft tissue.

“Literally just get up move around for a few seconds and get back to it,” says the Union High School grad who’s been practicing for 21 years. The interruption provides a body reset and the opportunity to re-establish a proper position focused on better posture. Finding stretches that involve the hips or neck muscles can be a great way to reset posture and alleviate stress in these muscle groups.

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working at a computer, place the monitor at eyeline.” He says many patients describe a desk and computer set-up that requires them to move their head one way or another to see their monitor.”

Other placements to be aware of are your mouse and your phone. Using things like a head set for phone calls to relieve a dramatic shoulder or neck tilt, or making sure a mouse is placed in a neutral position that doesn’t cause you to elevate your arm will lead to less stress in these areas.

Being aware of our posture and body position is beneficial when we’re using a smartphone, too. We tilt our head down when we scroll on tablets or phones. Setting limits on time spent doing these activities and being mindful of your arm, neck and back positions might help.

Although all of the options Riley mentions are free and easy to employ, he does encourage patients to spend some money to ensure they have a good chair. There’s not just one brand, but a chair that promotes good posture and has lumbar support and the option to move up and down are all features worth investing in.

These might seem small, but movement, positioning and stretching are Riley’s trio of tweaks to help lighten our loads.

“The longer you sit, gravity is working against you,” he says. So shake it up and move around. TP

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BY JORDAN COX

TULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY MEMBER PHYSICIANS BY SPECIALTY

ADDICTION MEDICINE Todd Redding, M.D. 2840 E. 51st St., Suite 200 918-728-4805

Thomas M. Butcher, M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., Third Floor Surgery 918-744-2345

Bryan A. Van Doren, M.D. 1751 N. Aspen Ave., Broken Arrow 918-794-6008

Graham D. Chadd, M.D. 3433 S. Atlanta Place 918-742-7662

ALLERGY-IMMUNOLOGY James Tyre Love, M.D., Ph.D. 9311 S. Mingo Road 918-307-1613 Timothy J. Nickel, M.D. 9311 S. Mingo Road 918-307-1613

Bradley G. Christianson, D.O. 1120 S. Utica Ave. 918-579-6100 Robert M. Coon, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612

Bradley Dean Lambrecht, Gisele C. Wilke, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. M.D. 918-494-0612 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 Julie Z. Woosley, M.D. 4500 S. Garnett Road, Jeff D. Lindsay, M.D. Suite 919 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-664-9892 918-494-0612 Brian W. Macha, M.D. 7380 S. Olympia Ave., Suite 316

David S. Young, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612

Kelly R. Mercer, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612

BREAST SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Laurie W. Flynn, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. 918-619-3999

Dennis W. Morris, M.D. Major J. Cunningham, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 Jane Purser, M.D. Heidi Prince, D.O. 9311 S. Mingo Road 6839 S. Canton Ave. W. Powell Dudney, M.D. 918-307-1613 918-392-4685 5125 E. 104th Place S. 918-293-3184 ANATOMIC-CLINICAL Jeri L. Ramey, M.D. PATHOLOGY Christopher D. Emerson, 6839 S. Canton Ave. L. Rodrigo Soto, M.D. 918-494-0612 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-712-5571 Michael G. Royce, M.D. 918-494-0612 6839 S. Canton Ave. ANESTHESIOLOGY 918-494-0612 Eric D. Engles, M.D. William P. Bailey, M.D. 4217 S. Wheeling Ave. 6839 S. Canton Ave. Stephen W. Sawyer, M.D. 918-747-2118 918-494-0612 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 Thomas D. Barefoot, M.D. Thomas D. Gillock, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 6839 S. Canton Ave. Reginald G. Scott, M.D. 918-494-0612 918-392-4685 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 Bobby Golbaba, M.D. John R. Barnes, M.D. 1924 S. Utica Ave., 6839 S. Canton Ave. Neal W. Siex, D.O. Suite 400 918-494-0612 1611 S. Utica Ave., PMB 217 918-744-3664 918-744-2618 Todd C. Beasley, D.O. Mark W. Halterman, M.D. 4500 S. Garnett Road, Charles V. Stewart, M.D. 10003 S. Jamestown Ave. Suite 919 6901 S. Olympia Ave. 918-453-2270 918-728-6145 918-388-2737 James G. Hansard, M.D. Jason P. Biggs, M.D. Matthew L. Swenson, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. 4500 S. Garnett Road, 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612 Suite 919 918-494-0612 918-744-2618 Kevin M. Hook, M.D. William G. Watson, M.D. 6839 S. Canton Ave. Joshua G. Black, M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., 918-494-0612 6839 S. Canton Ave. Third Floor Heyman Tower 918-494-0612 918-744-2333 Lynne H. Imhoff, M.D. 3029 W. Main St., Jenks Gary W. Breipohl, M.D. Luiz Weksler, M.D. 918-701-2300 8131 S. Memorial Drive 3029 W. Main St., Jenks 918-691-2335 918-810-7814 Collette Jones, M.D. 1611 S. Utica Ave., PMB 217 Scott E. Burns, M.D. Matthew A. Wenger, M.D. 918-744-2618 6839 S. Canton Ave. 4500 S. Garnett Road, 918-494-0612 Suite 919 Rainer Kohrs, M.D. 918-664-9892 6839 S. Canton Ave. 918-494-0612

LaNette F. Smith, M.D. P.O. Box 4745 918-585-5658 CARDIOLOGY Heather Cha, M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., Fourth Floor 918-748-7650 CARDIOVASCULAR Edward Martin, M.D. 9228 S. Mingo Road, Suite 200 918-592-0999 J. Frederick McNeer, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 317 918-809-4304 CHILD NEUROLOGY David J. Siegler, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 320 918-493-3300 COLON-RECTAL SURGERY Rodney L. Clingan, M.D. 1705 E. 19th St., Suite 502 918-748-7800 Scott A. Fengler, M.D. 4735 E. 91st St., Suite 200 918-794-4788 COSMETIC SURGERY Angelo Cuzalina, M.D., D.D.S. 7322 E. 91st St. 918-392-0880

CUTANEOUS ONCOLOGY/ DERMATOLOGY Janelle M. Pavlis, M.D. 800 W. Boise Circle, Suite 400, Broken Arrow 918-307-0215

J. Creed Stewart, M.D. 2121 E. 21st St. 918-749-2261 Ashwini K. Vaidya, M.D. 2121 E. 21st St. 918-749-2261

DERMATOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Jeff Alexander, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 503 Jerome W. Larson, M.D. 4111 S. Darlington Ave., 918-494-8333 Suite 700 405-397-0376 Lynn A. Anderson, M.D. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 340 EMERGENCY MEDICINE 918-728-3100 Charles A. Farmer, M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., John R. Ashley, M.D. Emergency Dept.

6565 S. Yale Ave., 918-625-7313 Suite 1200 918-502-3376 W. Craig Sanford, M.D. St. John’s Sapulpa Mary Christian, M.D. Emergency Room, Sapulpa 9306 S. Toledo Court, Suite 100 ENDOCRINOLOGY 918-494-0400 Tobie L. Bresloff, M.D. 1265 S. Utica Ave., Christina G. Kendrick, Suite 101 M.D. 918-592-0999 2121 E. 21st St. 918-749-2261 Andrew S. Khouw, M.D. 6160 S. Yale Ave. Emily L. Kollmann, D.O. 918-497-3140 2121 E. 21st St. 918-749-2261 FAMILY MEDICINE Gaurangi M. Anklesaria, Mark D. Lehman, M.D. M.D. 2121 E. 21st St. 817 S. Elm Place, Suite 104, 918-749-2261 Broken Arrow 405-241-9022 Kelli A. Lovelace, M.D. 2121 E. 21st St. Brian K. Berryman, D.O. 918-749-2261 7912 E. 31st Court 918-743-8200 David B. Minor, M.D. 1516 S. Yorktown Place Simone Bigelow, D.O. 918-712-8888 1111 S. St. Louis Ave. 918-660-4726 George W. Monks, M.D. 2121 E. 21st St. Jeffrey E. Chasteen, D.O. 918-749-2261 7912 E. 31st Court, M. Melissa Morgan, M.D. Suite 220 918-743-8200 1621 S. Eucalyptus Ave., Suite 202, Broken Arrow Christopher Y. Chow, M.D. 918-459-7546 1551 N. Ninth St., Broken Arrow Kristen R. Rice, M.D. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 340 918-355-7900 918-728-3100 Debra S. Colpitt, M.D. 10512 N. 110th E. Ave., Donald R. Seidel, M.D. Suite 300, Owasso 2121 E. 21st St. 918-376-8900 918-749-2261

CUTANEOUS ONCOLOGY AND MOHS SURGERY Carlos Gomez-Meade, D.O. 800 W. Boise Circle, Broken Arrow Miranda E. Smith, M.D. 918-307-0215 3915 E. 51st St. 918-749-5714

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Lauren Y. Devoe, M.D. 8803 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 100 918-579-2791

Darwin Dee Olson, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Second Floor 918-743-8200

Michael C. Foster, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, First Floor 918-743-8200

Hillary Pane, M.D. 4500 S. 129th E. Ave. 800-993-8244

John K. Gearhart, M.D. 6528 E. 101st St., Suite I 918-392-5588 Larissa F. Giuliano, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Suite 220 918-743-8200 David W. Griffiths, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Second Floor 918-743-8200

Rachel R. Ray, D.O. 402 W. Morrow Road, Sand Springs 918-245-1119

FAMILY ORTHOPEDICS Michael D. Gorman, M.D. 8165 S. Mingo Road, Suite 103 918-346-0096 GASTROENTEROLOGY Paul D. Stanton, M.D. 4200 E. Skelly Drive, Suite 700 918-438-7050

Harvey A. Tatum, M.D. 1145 S. Utica Ave., Richard A. Reinking, M.D. Suite 701 6600 S. Yale Ave., Suite 700 918-582-6544 918-502-7300 GENERAL SURGERY Lawrence Brotherton, Jess T. Roy, D.O., M.P.H. M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 800 Suite 220 918-301-2505 918-743-8200

Stephen Bruns, M.D. Scott H. Sexter, M.D. 6600 S. Yale Ave., Suite 700 4121 S. Wheeling Ave. James M. Herman, M.D. 918-810-4084 4502 E. 41st St., Suite 2B32 918-502-7300 918-660-3077 Geoffrey S. Chow, M.D. Patrick A. Sharp, D.O. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., 7914 E. 106th St. Paul M. Krautter, M.D. Suite 600 918-392-8686 7912 E. 31st Court, 918-634-7526 Second Floor David S. Sholl, M.D. 918-743-8200 Steven A. Feher, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, 10505 E. 91st St., Suite 203 Suite 220 Brent W. Laughlin, M.D. 918-307-3120 918-744-0225 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 700 William A. Hanner, D.O. Sharon C. Smallwood, 918-986-7979 5555 E. 71st St., Suite 7250 M.D. 100 S. Bliss Ave., Tahlequah 918-600-0025 Lawrence Lieberman, 918-458-3100 M.D. James A. Johnson, M.D. 7912 E. 31st St., Suite 200 2534 S. Birmingham Place Jack M. Sommers, M.D. 918-743-8200 918-625-3300 2617 S. Elm Place, Robert M. Mahaffey, M.D. Broken Arrow Michael S. Lowe, M.D. 7912 E. 31st St., Suite 200 918-455-4541 1809 E. 13th St., Suite 400 918-622-2057 William E. Stringer, M.D. 918-599-8200 13600 E. 86th St. N., Terry L. Mills, M.D. J. Michael McGee, M.D. 2 W. Second St., Suite 100 Suite 400, Owasso 8803 S. 101st E. Ave., 918-272-2247 918-594-5253 Suite 320 Kenneth A. Muckala, M.D. Patrick VanSchoyck, M.D. 918-294-8000 7912 E. 31st Court, 7912 E. 31st Court, M. Timothy Nelson, M.D., Suite 140 First Floor F.A.C.S. 918-250-9067 918-743-8200 4502 E. 41st St., Suite 2B32 Brent A. Wakefield, M.D. 918-660-3466 Ronald N. Oglesby, D.O. 615 E. Main St., Jenks 1551 N. Ninth St., GERIATRICS 918-299-8080 Broken Arrow D. Price Kraft, M.D. 918-355-7900 10507 E. 91st St. S., Susan C. Willard, D.O. 6532 E. 71st St., Suite 150 Suite 210 Aletha C. Oglesby, M.D. 918-307-5450 918-740-4630 1810 E. 15th St., Suite C 800-993-8244

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GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY Michael A. Gold, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 A. Dwayne Jenkins, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Daron G. Street, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Eric D. Thomas, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 GYNECOLOGY Morgan N. Richards, D.O. 1111 S. St. Louis Ave. 918-619-4600 GYNECOLOGY-WOMEN’S HEALTH Kathleen A. Glaze, M.D. 6136 E. 32nd Place 918-627-3693 HAND SURGERY Carolyn M. Berg, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665 HEMATOLOGY-ONCOLOGY Scott W. Cole, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Melinda S. Dunlap, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Christopher M. Manus, M.D. 3470 E. Frank Phillips Blvd., Bartlesville 918-200-0800 Mark R. Olsen, M.D., Ph.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Christopher N. Thompson, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 918-712-5571 INFECTIOUS DISEASE Debra L. Murray, M.D., Ph.D. 7107 S. Yale Ave., Suite 286 918-493-8068 David Scheck, M.D. 1245 S. Utica Ave., Suite 203 918-579-3875

INTERNAL MEDICINEPEDIATRICS-MEDICAL INFORMATICS David C. Kendrick, M.D., M.P.H. 201 W. Fifth St., Suite 600 918-660-3116 INTERNAL MEDICINEPEDIATRICS Darren A. Thomas, M.D. 6161 S. Yale Ave. 918-502-1900 INTERNAL MEDICINE/ GERIATRIC MEDICINE Lisa L. Duckett, M.D. Medical director for Life Reinsurance Company

Michael L. Hubner, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 108 918-712-8111 John E. Hubner, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 108 918-742-5533 Martina J. Jelley, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St., Internal Medicine, Third Floor 918-660-3456 M. Byron Jennings, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200

Jerome M. Long, M.D. 9322 E. 41st St. INTERNAL MEDICINE 918-764-7299 Audrey J. Corbett, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St., Suite 3J40 David M. Nierenberg, M.D. 918-691-1186 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Stephen G. Fincher, M.D. Suite 700 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 704 918-984-4999 918-502-4250 Jabraan S. Pasha, M.D. Christine E. Franden, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. 918-660-3467 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 1120 Anu R. Prabhala, M.D. 918-794-0224 6160 S. Yale Ave. 918-497-3140 Jeffrey Galles, D.O. 1245 S. Utica Ave., Jesse R. Richards, D.O. Suite 301 4444 E. 41st St. 918-579-3900 918-619-4440 Stephen J. Gawey, M.D. 1819 E. 19th St., Suite 302 John H. Schumann, M.D. 4444 E. 41st St. 918-742-0552 918-619-4400 Michael S. Gebetsberger, Tracy T. Smith, M.D. M.D. 1444 S. Owasso Ave. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., 918-779-4106 Suite 200 918-392-5470 Edward L. Taylor, M.D. 2448 E. 81st St., Suite 3711 Robert B. Hauger, M.D. 6600 S. Yale Ave., Suite 600 918-392-9968 918-491-5990 David A. Traub, M.D. 7614 E. 91st St., Suite 180 Philip J. Hess, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 704 918-494-9994 918-502-4250 Michael A. Weisz, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. Donald J. Higgins, M.D. 6600 S. Yale Ave., Suite 900 918-660-3460 918-481-4944 Jill Wenger, M.D. 1705 E. 19th St., Suite 302 T. Karl Hoskison, M.D. 918-748-7599 4502 E. 41st St. 918-660-3467 Continued on p. 24

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Continued from p. 22 Steven R. Wiseman, M.D. 2622 E. 21st St., Suite 1 918-878-1389 William H. Yarborough, M.D. 2811 E. 15th St. 918-935-3240 INTERNAL MEDICINEPEDIATRICS Christopher L. Sudduth, M.D. 5014 E. 101st St., Suite 200 918-859-7795 Melita L. Tate, M.D. 7901 S. Sheridan Road, Suite B 918-948-8093

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Frank J. Tomecek, M.D. 6802 S. Olympia Ave., Suite 300 918-749-0762

Jennifer L. Butler, M.D. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 350 918-293-6200

Jon C. Calvert, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Scott T. Dull, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 710 Suite 300 918-749-0804 918-502-4900

Marsha K. Howerton, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 300 918-794-0701

Kelly K. Wisley, D.O. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 350 918-293-6200

Lori A. Hubbard, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 800 918-747-9641

Cate Hildebrand, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 700 918-712-8700 ONCOLOGY-HEMATOLOGY Edwin L. McCreary, M.D. 1245 S. Utica Ave., Suite 100 918-579-3850

Daniel M. Harwell, M.D. 6802 S. Olympia Ave., Suite 300 918-749-0762

Grant R. Cox, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 700 918-712-8700

Tracey L. Lakin, M.D. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 350 918-293-6200

David G. Malone, M.D. 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 706 918-794-5542

Joseph R. Cunningham, M.D. 1400 S. Boston Ave., Blue Cross 918-551-2421

T. Lance Lane, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 800 918-747-9691

John S. Marouk, D.O. 2128 S. Atlanta Place 918-583-5131

INTERNAL MEDICINE/ HOSPITALIST Maureen H. Azarian, M.D. 6161 S. Yale Ave. 918-502-1900

Melissa A. Dietz, M.D. 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 401 918-749-1413

James A. Rodgers, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 709 Jennifer H. Donnelly, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., 918-481-4965 Suite 800 918-747-9641 Michael Thambuswamy, M.D. INTERVENTIONAL PAIN Paul J. Gehring, M.D. 6802 S. Olympia Ave., MANAGEMENT 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 300 Andrew F. Revelis, M.D. Suite 700 10810 E. 45th St., Suite 400 918-749-0762 918-712-8700 918-742-7030 NEUROLOGY Jennifer W. Gibbens, M.D. John E. Cattaneo, M.D. MEDICAL ONCOLOGY 4502 E. 41st St. 591 E. 36th St. N. Alan M. Keller, M.D. 918-660-3460 918-634-7817 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Rachel L. Gibbs, M.D. Gregory S. Connor, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 620 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 508 Ali H. Moussa, M.D. 918-502-4040 918-481-4781 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 Jeanne M. Edwards, M.D. Karen P. Gold, M.D., M.S.C.I. 1717B S. Utica Ave., Charles W. Taylor, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. Suite 200 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-619-4203 918-712-7900 918-505-3200

Lora J. Larson, M.D. 6161 S. Yale Ave., Labor and Delivery 918-640-4967 Darla J. Lofgren, M.D. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 350 918-293-6200 Stacy L. Noland, D.O. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Suite 350 918-293-6200 Daran L. Parham, M.D. 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 401 918-749-1413 Spenser H. Perloff, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. 925-330-3829

OPHTHALMOLOGY Ray M. Balyeat, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 501 918-749-2220 Todd A. Brockman, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 403 918-744-1723

James F. Ronk, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 215 918-492-8455 Jamal D. Siddiqui, M.D. 7171 S. Yale Ave., Suite 103 918-499-3937 ORTHOPEDIC SURGERYHAND SURGERY Elizabeth Weldin, M.D. 4800 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-392-1400 ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Kasra Ahmadinia, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665 John C. Balbas, M.D. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-392-1400

Kali B. Cole, M.D. 1826 E. 15th St., Suite B 918-574-2297

Bradford L. Boone, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665

Daniel J. Corbett, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 1010 918-584-4433

R. Tyler Boone, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665

Thomas A. Finley, M.D. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 200 918-949-4577

Christopher A. Browne, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665

Lars Freisberg, M.D. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 200 918-949-4577

James D. Cash, M.D. 2448 E. 81st St., Suite 1520 918-900-2520

Cheryl C. Razdan, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 610 Marc A. Goldberg, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., 918-556-6500 Suite 1010 Lauralee H. Ribaudo, M.D. 918-584-4433 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Gena C. Gray, M.D. Shashi A. Husain, M.D. Kevin S. Weibel, D.O., Madeleine A. Hasbrook, Suite 800 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., 1145 S. Utica Ave., F.A.C.P. M.D. 918-747-9641 Suite 700 Suite 520 12697 E. 51st St. S. 7171 S. Yale Ave., Suite 103 918-712-8700 918-587-5534 918-505-3200 Sarah M.L. Shepherd, D.O. 918-499-3937 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Mark L. Harman, M.D. Kevin J. Klos, M.D. MUSCULOSKELETAL Alan R. Hromas, M.D. 7134 S. Yale Ave., Suite 205 4444 E. 41st St., Suite 1700 Suite 700 RADIOLOGY 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 200 918-712-8700 918-582-0884 918-392-4530 James R. Webb, M.D. 918-949-4577 6550 E. 71st St., Suite 200 Kathleen A. Heffron, M.D. Shelley D. Shoun, M.D. OB-GYN 918-260-9322 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 815 Justin K. Parschauer, D.O. 9001 S. 101st E. Ave., Taniesha L. Buffin, M.D. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 200 918-743-8200 Suite 350 2617 S. Elm Place, NEPHROLOGY 918-949-4577 918-293-6200 Broken Arrow Robert M. Gold, M.D. Kyle A. Wilson, D.O. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 507 405-657-9434 Monica S. Henning, M.D. 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 401 Walter J. Peters, M.D. 918-712-5000 7171 S. Yale Ave., Suite 101 4444 E. 41st St., Third Floor, 918-749-1413 J. Clark Bundren, M.D. 918-307-0496 Suite B 5555 E. 71st St., 918-619-4200 Suite 7200, Bldg. 7 918-492-6000 24 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021

B. Ben Pettigrove, M.D. 6606 S. Yale Ave., Suite 220 918-492-4122

Jessica R. Childe, D.O. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-392-1400 William C. Clark, M.D. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., Suite 300 918-392-1400 Marcy W. Clements, D.O. 4812 E. 109th E. Ave., Suite 300 918-392-1400 Scott D. Cochran, M.D. 4140 S.E. Adams Road, Suite 103, Bartlesville 918-214-8232 Thomas G. Craven, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665

TULSA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY MEMBER PHYSICIANS BY SPECIALTY

George S. Mauerman, M.D. OTOLARYNGOLOGY 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 Stephen M. Brownlee, M.D. 918-494-2665 5020 E. 68th St. 918-492-3636 David B. Mokhtee, M.D. Brent A. Dressler, D.O. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Jeremy G. Foon, M.D. 918-392-1400 918-392-1400 5020 E. 68th St. David E. Nonweiler, M.D. 918-492-3636 Kevin M. Dukes, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Alen Munson Fuller, M.D. 918-494-2665 918-392-1400 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 100 Brent C. Nossaman, D.O. 918-742-7376 Scott J. Dunitz, M.D. 2448 E. 81st St., Suite 1300 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. David W. Hall, M.D. 918-550-8950 918-392-1400 5020 E. 68th St. 918-492-3636 Jennifer Peterson, M.D. Gwendolyn B. Emerson, 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. M.D. Bruce E. Hudkins, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-392-1400 6802 S. Olympia Ave., 918-494-2665 Suite 200 Preston J. Phillips, M.D. 6475 S. Yale Ave., Suite 201 918-288-2398 Jeff A. Fox, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 200 918-494-4460 Anthony E. Loehr, M.D. 918-494-2665 5020 E. 68th St. Scott E. Rahhal, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-492-3636 Jason J. Griffin, M.D. 918-494-2665 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Landon J. Massoth, M.D. 918-392-1400 5020 E. 68th St. J. Scott Reid, M.D. 918-492-3636 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Bryan J. Hawkins, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-392-1400 Evan R. Moore, M.D. 918-494-2665 5020 E. 68th St. Blake E. Shockley, M.D. Randall L. Hendricks, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-492-3636 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665 William Perry Sawyer, 918-494-2665 M.D. James C. Slater, M.D. 5020 E. 68th St. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Antoine I. Jabbour, M.D. 918-492-3636 918-392-1400 4802 S. 109th E Ave. 918-392-1400 Christopher R. Siemens, Wesley M. Stotler, D.O. M.D. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. David O. King, D.O. 5020 E. 68th St. 918-392-1400 4140 S.E. Adams Road, 918-492-3636 Suite 103, Bartlesville Henry F. Stroope, M.D. 918-214-8232 Atul M. Vaidya, M.D. 4140 S.E. Adams Road, 5020 E. 68th St. Suite 103, Bartlesville Sarat C. Kunapuli, D.O. 918-492-3636 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-214-8232 918-494-2665 Richard D. Thomas, M.D. OTOLOGY David W. White, M.D. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., Jay D. Lorton, M.D. 5020 E. 68th St. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 Suite 300 918-492-3636 918-392-1400 918-494-2665 Richard L. Drake, D.O. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-392-1400

Lam D. Nguyen, D.O. 9320 S. Mingo Road 918-901-9701 Hugo S. Salguero, M.D. 3840 S. 103rd E. Ave., Suite 100 918-921-9700

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Shelly B. Mercer, M.D. 4444 E. 41st St. 918-619-4803 PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY Gary T. Denslow, M.D. 4606 E. 67th St., Suite 400 918-949-9898

PATHOLOGY Tamara L. Chaney, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY 918-712-5571 Terence L. Carey, M.D. 7125 S. Braden Ave., Suite A Neil E. Fuehrer, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 918-481-8100 918-712-5571 PEDIATRIC SURGERYPEDIATRIC CARDIAC Ashley D. Gable, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 SURGERY Richard D. Ranne, M.D. 918-781-7844 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 606 Henry D. Haskell, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 918-748-7878 918-712-5571 PEDIATRICS Suresh A. Bharani, M.D. Anne V. Herdman Royal, 3300 S. Aspen Ave., Suite B, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 Broken Arrow 918-455-4140 918-712-5571 Cheryl A. Boyd, D.O. Cynthia L. Holmes, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 8439 N. 117th E. Ave., Owasso 918-712-5571 918-272-8989 Sean L. Smith, M.D. Kathleen A. Boyls, M.D. 4142 S. Mingo Road 817 S. Elm Place, Suite 106 918-744-2553 918-928-5437 Cindi R. Starkey, M.D., Patrick J. Daley, M.D. Ph.D. 1589 E. 19th St. 4142 S. Mingo Road 918-743-8941 918-744-2553

Jean E. Feghali, M.D. Sigrid Wayne, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 410 6160 S. Yale Ave., Third Floor 918-712-5571 918-497-3004 PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Jerry W. Freed, D.O. Matthew T. Kimberling, 7512 E. 91st St. M.D. 918-728-2505 6151 S. Yale Ave., Suite 2402 Sherri M. Gordon, M.D. 918-495-2629 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., PAIN MANAGEMENT Garrett E. Watts, M.D. Brian E. Lovelace, M.D. Suite 300 Allis Y. Kliewer, M.D. 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 350 Christopher R. Martin, 12455 E. 100th St. N., 918-747-7544 6151 S. Yale Ave., M.D. 918-451-3000 Suite 120, Owasso Suite 2402 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., 918-272-9464 Gabriel T. Griffin, M.D. 918-481-4600 Suite 300 Christopher Wild, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., 918-392-1400 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. Mark J. Maguire, M.D. Suite 300 Cynthia R. Lundt, M.D. 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 450 918-392-1400 Martin L. Martucci, M.D. 6151 S. Yale Ave., Suite 402 918-747-7544 918-307-3170 10810 E. 45th St., Suite 400 918-481-4600 Kelly R. Harmon, M.D. 918-742-7030 Robert S. Marsh, D.O. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 201 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-5170 918-494-2665

Lisa E. Hart, D.O. 715 W. Main St., Suite S, Jenks 918-745-0501 Sarah R. Hayden, D.O. 1589 E. 19th St. 918-743-8941 Jeanne O. Hayes, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. 918-660-3400 Janet K. Jones, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Suite 120 918-743-8200 Jessica L. Keller, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 300 918-747-7544 Lisa D. Macek, M.D. 1801 E. Kenosha St., Broken Arrow 918-607-1162 Laurie E. Mickle, M.D. 10512 N. 110th E. Ave., Suite 300, Owasso 918-376-8901 Franz Moncada, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 408 918-481-4880 Cashel P. Newhouse, M.D. 7912 E. 31st Court, Suite 120 918-743-8200 Carl E. Pfanstiel, M.D. 1220 N. Elm Place, Broken Arrow 918-258-1955 Valerie N. Ritter, D.O. 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 150 918-806-8800 Kristin M. Stevens, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 715 918-481-4750 Douglas W. Stewart, M.D. 1106 E. 34th St. 918-551-3089 Susan Studebaker, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. 918-810-2152 A. Heather Thompson, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 715 918-481-4750 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021 25

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S. Sandra Wan, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 300 918-747-7544

PSYCHIATRY John C. Chelf, M.D. 6609 E. 113th St. S., Bixby 918-298-9006

Donald F. Zetik, M.D. 2000 S. Wheeling Ave., Suite 300 918-747-7544

Ondria C. Gleason, M.D. 4502 E. 41st St. 918-660-3511

PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHAB Jeffrey S. Halsell, D.O. 9308 S. Toledo Ave. 918-728-8020 Ashok Kache, M.D. P.O. Box 52593 918-584-3548

Alan A. Hasegawa, M.D. 6655 S. Yale Ave. 918-491-3700 Tessa L. Manning, M.D. 4444 E. 41st St. 918-660-3130 Jacob R. O’Meilia, M.D. 6655 S. Yale Ave. 918-491-3700

Timothy G. Pettingell, M.D. 4735 E. 91st St., Suite 100 PULMONARY W. Mark Boomer, M.D. 918-252-7952 2832 E. 101st St. 918-771-4455 Sri Reddy, M.D. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., Richard M. Bregman, M.D. Suite 300 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 650 918-392-1400 918-502-5600 Kathleen M. Sisler, M.D. Andrew Gottehrer, M.D. 12800 S. Memorial Drive, 1245 S. Utica Ave., Third Suite D, Bixby Floor 918-394-2767 918-382-2560 Isaiah W. Wilson, M.D. Suzanne R. Olive, M.D. 1120 S. Utica Ave., 1725 E. 19th St., Suite 200 Suite 3074 918-748-8381 918-579-7200 PLASTICRECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Paul R. Callegari, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 1050 918-494-8200 E. Bradley Garber, M.D. 1784 S. Utica Ave. 918-745-2117 Mark L. Mathers, D.O. 1844 E. 15th St. 918-749-7177 Stephen M. Paulsen, M.D. 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 1020 918-481-2900 Greg E. Ratliff, M.D. 2107 E. 15th St. 918-712-0888

M. Connie Nguyen, M.D. 12697 E. 51 St. S. 918-505-3200 Stephen Z. Sack, M.D., Ph.D. 11212 E. 48th St. 918-497-3800 Charles E. Stewart, M.D., Ph.D. 6161 S. Yale Ave., NWBCC 918-494-1585 Terry J. Styles, M.D. 1120 S. Utica Ave., Radiation Therapy Dept.

918-579-8200 Leslie T. Yonemoto, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 RADIOLOGY Sharon D’Souza, M.D. 4111 S. Darlington Ave., Suite 700 918-625-6028 Anne E. Kozlowski, D.O. 4111 S. Darlington Ave., Suite 700 918-743-8943 Richard L. Laughlin, M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., Radiology Dept.

918-744-2171

Jonathan C. Schnitker, E. Joe Schelbar, M.D. 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 812 M.D. 1923 S. Utica Ave., 918-494-9288 Radiology Dept.

918-744-2171 PULMONARY-CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Hassan Abou Houli, M.D. Robert A. Streight, M.D. 10505 E. 91st St., Suite 205 1120 S. Utica Ave. 918-579-4200 918-264-4784 RADIATION ONCOLOGY Joshua D. Garren, M.D. 12697 E. 51st St. S. 918-505-3200 William C. Goad, M.D. 2408 E. 81st St., Suite 109 918-392-7180 Diane M. Heaton, M.D. 1120 S. Utica Ave., Radiation Therapy Dept.

918-579-8200 Grenville H. Jones, M.D. 12697 E. 51 St. S. 918-505-3200

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Thomas W. White, M.D. 1819 E. 19th St., Suite 410 918-744-2442

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY Shauna L. McKinney, M.D. 115 E. 15th St. 918-584-2870 RETINA AND VITREOUS SURGERY Kyle T. Piwonka, D.O. 2424 E. 21st St., Suite 200 918-949-4577 RHEUMATOLOGY Manuel J. Calvin, M.D. 6160 S. Yale Ave. 918-495-2685 Lindsay M. Cunningham, D.O. 4812 S. 108th E. Ave., Suite 200 918-236-4567 Michael A. Malloy, M.D. 6160 S. Yale Ave. 918-495-2685 Alan L. Martin, M.D. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., Suite 200 918-236-4576

Caleb A. Nunley, M.D. 12455 E. 100th St. N., Suite 120, Owasso 918-272-9464 Keith L. Stanley, M.D. 4802 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-392-1400 THORACICCARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Robert C. Garrett, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 910 918-502-3200

Oren F. Miller, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 J. Steve Miller, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Marc S. Milsten, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Sunshine Murray, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Joseph L. Padalino, M.D. Paul W. Kempe, M.D. 6465 S. Yale Ave., Suite 910 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 918-502-3200 UROLOGICAL SURGERY W. Todd Brookover, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Robert R. Bruce, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Curtis R. Powell, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Charles R. Pritchard, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Jeremy C. Carrico, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Clark J. Tingleaf, M.D. 10512 N. 110th E. Ave., Owasso 918-376-8926

Stephen D. Confer, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Joshua Z. Vicena, D.O. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

William J. Cook, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Michael N. Wilkin, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Ellen I. Zanetakis, M.D. 1430 Terrace Drive 918-748-8024

Cole B. Davis, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

SPORTS MEDICINE Christopher S. Crane, M.D. 3917 S. Highway 97, Sand Springs 918-607-4818

Sean M. Doyle, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

UROLOGY James O. L’Esperance, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

Sara L. Newell, M.D. 6160 S. Yale Ave. 918-495-2685 William L. Surbeck, M.D. 4812 S. 109th E. Ave., Suite 200 918-236-4567

Jeffrey L. Cunningham, M.D. 2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 918-494-2665

REHABILITATIONEMERGENCY-PAIN Anil K. Reddy, M.D., M.B.A. Britney M. Else, D.O. 9725 E. 79th St., Suite A 4812 S. 109th E. Ave. 918-252-0112 918-392-1400 REPRODUCTIVE Steven R. Hardage, M.D. ENDOCRINOLOGY2488 E. 81st St., Suite 290 INFERTILITY 918-494-2665 Stanley G. Prough, M.D. 115 E. 15th St. 918-584-2870

Kevin J. Gancarczyk, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Shaun G. Grewal, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 Scott E. Litwiller, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765 James B. McGeady, M.D. 10901 E. 48th St. S. 918-749-8765

TULSA COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY MEMBER DENTISTS BY SPECIALTY

ENDODONTICS Christopher DeLong 12899 E. 76th St. N., Suite 108, Owasso 918-272-2488

Bonnie Arnould 7311 S. Lewis Ave. 918-496-3377 Forrest Arnould 7311 S. Lewis Ave. 918-496-3377

Eugenia Johnson 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 340 Kolten Astle 918-994-6000 4955 S. Peoria Ave. 918-895-6568 William Johnson 7420 S. Yale Ave. Lauren Avery 918-493-5001 4329 S. Peoria Ave., Suite 335 Michael Kubelka 4606 E. 67th St., Suite 212 918-346-6016 918-494-4144 Benson Baty 7335 S. Lewis Ave., Zackery Ritter 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 712 Suite 206 918-496-1051 405-612-7797 Laurie Southard 5010 E. 68th St. 918-493-3880

Kathryn Beller 7711 E. 81st St. 918-461-2766

Terry Bennett Amy Stone 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 712 1616 S. Denver Ave. 918-582-8651 918-481-6622 James Strand 4420 W. Houston St., Broken Arrow 918-615-3600

Steven Berklacy 6144 S. Lewis Ave. 918-743-0700

Seth Bingham 6565 S. Yale Ave., Byron Tucker 5555 E. 71st St., Suite 9210 Suite 1100 918-492-7010 918-524-3366 GENERAL PRACTICE Aliakber Akberali 550 S. Peoria Ave. 918-594-4865

Wesley Black 6112 E. 61st St. 918-745-0500

Toby Allen 8194 E. 111th St. S., Bixby 405-692-5551

Melissa Bowler 1310 W. Main St., Collinsville 918-371-3774

Addie Allen-Steed 225 N. Highway 169, Oologah 918-443-9900

Karla Boyd 8415 N. 125th E. Ave., Owasso 918-272-0031

Richard Amilian 6911 S. 66th E. Ave., Suite 300 918-493-1886

Bobby Bratton 9 N. Atlanta St., Owasso 918-272-1256

Mark Argo 8500 N. 129th E. Ave., Owasso 918-274-8500 Jamie Ariana 4329 S. Peoria Ave., Suite 335 918-346-6016

Conrad Casler Jeffrey Broermann 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 510 6911 S. 66th E. Ave., Suite 300 918-492-1106 918-477-7677 Richard Brown Carolyn Caudle 7115 S. Yale Ave. 401 S. Boston Ave., 918-492-8675 Suite 1800 918-582-3877 Andrew Bubert 6918 E. 65th Place Jerome Cha 918-671-9759 9445 S. Mingo Road 918-286-7776 John Bubert 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 910 Trischa Clarke 918-743-3503 427 W. Stone Wood Drive, Broken Arrow Craig Buntemeyer 918-615-3580 9113 S. Toledo Ave. 918-743-9275 Raymond Clock 3419 E. Admiral Place Rozan Burkan 918-834-1587 5510 E. 41st St., Suite C 918-641-4635 Evan Clothier 300 N. Aspen Ave., Jennifer Burkitt Broken Arrow 9729 E. 79th St. 918-251-3333 918-250-5030

Todd Davis 13101 E. 96th St. N., Owasso 918-928-4747 Steven Deem 2522 E. Kenosha St., Broken Arrow 918-355-1391 Brett Dieterlen 3015 E. 91st St. 918-299-2400 Bruce Dieterlen 3015 E. 91st St. 918-299-2400 Myrna Domoney 1621 S. Eucalyptus Ave., Suite 101, Broken Arrow 918-250-0624 Caytlin Eidson 710 W. 71st St. 918-262-8925

Robert Flint 9201 S. Toledo Ave. 918-749-3600 John Fonder 1444 S. Norfolk Ave. 918-747-8802 David Freet 9006 E. 62nd St. S. 918-249-0249 Mark Gaches 11492 N. 137th E. Ave., Owasso 918-928-2383 John Garrett 6128 E. 61st St. 918-982-6644 Todd Gentling 1100 E. Lansing St., Broken Arrow 918-251-8141 Dalia Georgy 12136 S. Yukon Ave., Glenpool 918-216-1000

George Bussman 6716 E. Pine St. 918-836-6884

Russell Coatney 110 S. Date St., Jenks 918-299-4477

Michael Engelbrecht 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 1104 918-492-9420

Kevin Bybee 9551 N. Owasso Expressway, Suite 100, Owasso 918-376-6363

Jan Cobble 3920 E. 91st St. 918-496-2481

Ariel Espinoza 6634 S. Memorial Drive 918-872-7140

Ben Gerkin 4604 S. Harvard Ave., Suite A 918-493-1005

Jennifer Cook 2450 N. Harvard Ave. 918-508-7155

Beau Evans 8149 E. 31st St., Suite D 918-665-2676

Warren Good 2112 S. Atlanta Place 918-743-6151

Neil Cornell 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 1105 918-481-4949

William Evans 8149 E. 31st St., Suite D 918-665-2676

Brian Gosnell 9146 S. Sheridan Road 918-794-0099

Randy Fagan 4710 W. Urbana St., Broken Arrow 918-455-6406

Matthew Gray 11920 E. 86th St. N,, Owasso 918-272-9519

Londel Fields 6281 E. 120th Court, Suite 400 918-740-0454

Daniel Griffiths 3345 S. Harvard Ave., Suite 102 918-743-8539

Gary Fincher 6971 E. 71st St. 918-492-7010

John Groves 9119 S. Toledo Ave. 918-299-7474

Walter Davies 7614 E. 91st St., Suite 120 918-477-7774

Jerry Finnell 1623 S. Peoria Ave. 918-585-2254

Matthew Hall 9101 S. Toledo Ave., Suite A 918-523-4999

Mark Davis 5301 S. Lewis Ave. 918-742-8100

Cheryl Fleming 7810 E. 121st St. S., Bixby 918-299-7750

Neslihan Hargett 3808 E. 51st St., Suite E 918-749-5033

Tricia Cannon 4720 W. Urbana St., Broken Arrow 918-455-4242 Changa Cannon 7458 S. Olympia Ave. 918-559-5070 Creed Cardon 400 Riverwalk Terrace, Jenks 918-872-7140 John Carletti 2808 E. 101st St. 918-299-5399

Dennis Carlile 901 W. Kenosha St., Allen Braumiller 30273 E. State Highway 51, Broken Arrow 918-258-8658 Coweta 918-486-6516 Jacob Cary 8500 N. 129th E. Ave., Michael Breland Owasso 20 W. Lee Ave., Sapulpa 918-274-8500 918-224-0551

Ryan Coursey 7891 E. 108th St., Suite X4 918-364-8180 Cameron Craig 9671 Riverside Parkway 918-394-5420 Mark Curtis 9050 N. Garnett Road, Owasso 918-272-5387

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TULSA COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY MEMBER DENTISTS BY SPECIALTY

Mark Harwood Melissa Jackson 122 E. Chestnut St., Coweta 6939 S. 66th E. Ave. 918-486-3266 918-492-3771 Lindsey Helmerich 427 Stone Wood Drive, Broken Arrow 918-615-3580

Larry James 5011 S. Fulton Ave. 918-665-0015

Franklin Henrich 7905 E. 106th St. 918-528-6555

Courtney Johnson 7901 S. Sheridan Road, Suite A 918-492-0412

Kathryn Henry 5319 S. Lewis Ave. 918-742-1987

Stephen Knox 4770 S. Harvard Ave. 918-215-2858

C. Mike Hinkle 1720 S. Utica Ave. 918-712-0000

Beena Lad 725 W. Main St., Jenks 918-528-3230

Mark Hodge 8701 S. Garnett Road, Broken Arrow 918-250-9520

Ronald Lamb 609 N. Main St., Broken Arrow 918-251-2612

Steven Hogg 423 W. Washington St., Broken Arrow 918-645-3924

John Landers 9006 E. 62nd St. 918-249-0249

Arthur Holleman 550 S. Peoria Ave. 918-382-1255 Valerie Holleman 1656 N. Ninth St., Broken Arrow 918-893-3414 Amelia Hopper 202 S. Second St., Jenks 918-299-2182 Bruce Horn 7990 S. Sheridan Road 918-492-9090 Kevin Howarth 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 1100 918-492-7010 Michael Howl 3323 E. 46th St. 918-749-1626 Nicholas Hunter 5319 S. Lewis Ave., Suite 222 918-742-1987 Gilford Hutchens 4105 N. Lions Ave., Broken Arrow 918-627-8366

Marti Levinson 3124 E. 71st St., Suite 100 918-496-1358 Steve Lusk 9815 E. 51st St. 918-664-9995 Brittany Macleod 12136 S. Yukon Ave., Glenpool 918-216-1000 Kevin Mailot 221 W. First St., Claremore 918-341-3008 Ted Marshall 8830 S. Yale Ave. 918-492-6200 Molly Marshall Hays 8830 S. Yale Ave. 918-492-6200 Joseph Massad 302 S. Lewis Ave. 918-749-5600 Mark Massaro 3150 E. 41st St., Suite 141 918-743-9924 Dale Mathis 5404 S. Memorial Drive, Suite A 918-663-5215

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Clinton Stevens Jerry Schoeffler 5416 S. Yale Ave., Suite 100 616 S. Boston Ave., Suite 308 918-492-9711 918-587-1303 Drake Sellmeyer Gene McCormick 102 S. Cherry St., Skiatook Daniel Stos Nehal Patel 6281 E. 120th Court, 3100 S. Elm Place, Suite D, 918-396-7373 1125 E. Cleveland Ave., Suite 400 Broken Arrow Sapulpa 918-364-7873 918-455-9444 Meghan Sellmeyer 918-224-9310 102 S. Cherry St., Skiatook Randall McCormick Scott Street 918-396-7373 Rajesh Patel 1701 S. Peoria Ave., 6565 S. Yale Ave., 10130 S. Memorial Drive Suite 100 Suite 1107 Timothy Semon 918-369-3024 918-743-2346 918-481-4922 1420 S. Lewis Ave. 918-621-0509 Brian Patten Hugh McDougall Carla Sullivan 100 Osage Ridge Drive, 4433 S. Harvard Ave. 3124 E. 71st St., Suite 100 Carrie Sessom Sand Springs 918-742-8775 918-496-1358 400 Riverwalk Terrace, 918-853-2018 Suite 200, Jenks Thomas McGinnity Marc Susman 918-392-7654 Adam Pfeifer 3747 E. 11th St. 5510 S. Memorial Drive 1502 W. Blue Starr Drive, 918-834-2330 918-663-9990 Wade Sessom Claremore 4415 S. Harvard Ave., 918-342-4444 Parnam Mohanna Shane Tewis Suite 102 12136 S. Yukon Ave., 1137 E. Kenosha St., 918-742-2096 Douglas Pittman Glenpool Broken Arrow 6139 E. 91st St. 918-216-1000 918-259-0239 Joseph Shoop 918-492-8577 2443 W. Kenosha St., Robert Mongrain Dirk Thomas Broken Arrow Clark Plost 8701 S. Garnett Road, 12406 E. 86th St. N., 2738 E. 51st St., Suite 120 918-872-9030 Broken Arrow Owasso 918-749-1747 918-250-9528 918-376-2700 Gary Smith 5424 S. Memorial Drive, Jillian Prather Mohsen Moosavi Reggie Thomas Suite D1 12814 E. 101St Place N., 6716 E. Pine St. 2109 W. Washington St., 918-280-0880 Suite 102, Owasso 918-836-6884 Broken Arrow 918-900-6337 918-455-0123 Brice Smith John Mose III 4606 E. 67th St., Suite 212 Terry Reavis 5602 S. Memorial Drive Dean Todd 918-494-9070 13302 S. Memorial Drive, 918-294-9750 7134 S. Yale Ave., Suite 100 Bixby 918-493-2444 Lindsay Smith 918-369-3990 Nicole Nellis 2538 E. 21st St. 9314 S. Delaware Ave. Shannon Toler 918-742-6321 Chad Reid 918-518-6305 2100 S. Utica Ave. 29933 E. State Highway 51, 918-747-6453 Gregg Smith Coweta Lauren Nichols 3912 E. 31st St. 918-279-7100 12020 E. 31st St. Michael Toole 918-747-0850 918-794-0070 4322 E. 51st St. Angela Rhodes 918-743-9946 Jonathan Soetandio 2311 N. Ninth St., Eric Nielsen 5510 E. 41st St., Suite C Broken Arrow 6634 S. Memorial Drive Ali Torabi 918-641-4635 918-994-2100 918-872-7140 1502 W. Blue Starr Drive, Claremore Wrany Southard Terry Rigdon Oluwaseun Olaniran 918-342-4444 6333 S. Memorial Drive, 10010 E. 81st St. 2145 S. Sheridan Road Suite G 918-494-8666 918-948-6965 Vic Trammell 918-294-1144 423 W. Washington St., Tia Rinzel Samuel Owens Broken Arrow Rachel Standlee 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 410 3101 S. Sheridan Road 7810 E. 121st St. S., Bixby 918-455-8899 918-551-7216 918-455-7700 918-299-7750 Christopher Tricinella Jerry Robertson Jeff Parker 6130 E. 61st St. Richard Stephens 9224 S. Toledo Court 1508 S. Denver Ave. 918-628-0834 8011 S. Sheridan Road 918-492-7263 918-744-6080 918-494-7055 Corbyn Van Brunt Robin Ross Kylie Parrish 6565 S. Yale Ave., 201 N. Lynn Riggs Blvd., 765 N. Aspen Ave., Suite 1103 Claremore Broken Arrow 918-481-4910 918-343-4300 918-251-1521 Lesley Maxwell 635 S. Main St., Sapulpa 918-299-5399

Karen Pate 5510 S. Memorial Drive, Suite D 918-627-6364

TULSA COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY MEMBER DENTISTS BY SPECIALTY

Jonah Vandiver 900 E. Will Rogers Blvd., Suite A, Claremore 918-341-6900

Michael Wynn 4608 S. Harvard Ave., Suite A 918-742-7351

Dennis Vo 6023 E. 128th St. S., Bixby 918-251-1521

Rachel Young 1950 W. Kenosha St., Broken Arrow 405-357-1980

Jayson Voto 8819 N. 145th E. Ave., Owasso 918-272-5381 Scott Wagner 9035 E. 62nd St. 918-622-3915

Justin Young 5319 S. Lewis Ave., Suite 222 918-742-1987 Xuemei Zhao 300 N. Aspen Ave., Broken Arrow 918-251-3333

Matthew Walls 12627 S. State Highway 51, Coweta ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL 918-486-0039 SURGERY Daniel Cannon Sharon Wann 3345 S. Harvard Ave., 1321 E. 35th St. Suite 103 918-743-2928 918-743-1351 Christopher Ward 5522 S. Lewis Ave. 918-906-2525

Lawrence Cuzalina 7322 E. 91st St. 918-392-0880

Katie Warlick 129 S. Broadway, Coweta 918-279-8880

Heath Evans 4716 W. Urbana St., Suite 100, Broken Arrow 918-449-5800

Daniel Warlick 9908 E. 21st St. 918-384-0032 Matthew Warlick 4712 E. 51st St. 918-459-9090 Jason Weilacher 3520 E. 31st St. 918-742-2488 Lauren Whenry 11916 S. Oxford Ave., Suite 103 918-994-7645 W. Scott White 301 E. 141st St., Glenpool 918-291-6000 Steven White 8126 S. Mingo Road, Suite 105 918-663-5538 Jacob Wood 11720 E. 21st St. 918-437-9111 C. Rieger Wood 3520 E. 31st St. 918-742-2488

Jerry Greer 2105 E. 21st St. 918-747-4760 Lloyd Hudson 7316 E. 91st St. 918-491-9996 Donald Johnson 4716 W. Urbana St., Broken Arrow 918-499-5800 Larry Lander 4716 W. Urbana St., Broken Arrow 918-808-6912 Michael Lloyd 1230 E. Hillside Drive, Broken Arrow 661-860-5374 Christopher Mastin 9118 S. Toledo Ave. 918-495-1800 Christopher Ray 4716 W. Urbana St., Suite 100, Broken Arrow 918-449-5800

Thomas Rogers 2105 E. 21st St. 918-747-4760

Douglas Kirkpatrick 5304 S. Harvard Ave. 918-747-1346

Mark Morrow 2930 S. Pittsburg Ave. 918-742-9810

Gregory Segraves 4716 W. Urbana St., Suite 100, Broken Arrow 918-449-5800

Joseph Lai 5304 S. Harvard Ave. 918-747-1346

James Owens 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 410 918-455-7700

Kenner Misner 3916 E. 91st St. 918-488-8889

Michael Riggs 9908 E. 21st St. 918-384-0099

Ryan Nowlin 11910 S. Memorial Drive, Bixby 918-369-6100

Ryan Roberts 8222 E. 103rd St., Suite 133 918-970-4944

Vic Trammell 4716 W. Urbana St., Suite 100, Broken Arrow 918-449-5800 Donal Woodward 6143 E. 91st St. 918-492-6994 ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS Emily Carter 3232 E. 31st St. 918-986-9986 Llon Clendene 3305 E. 45th St. 918-932-2707 Jonathan Cooper 3916 E. 91st St. 918-488-8889 Brent Dobson 12813 E. 101st Place N., Owasso 918-272-4242 Kevin Duffy 1621 S. Eucalyptus Ave., Suite 201, Broken Arrow 918-249-1818

Van Nowlin 11910 S. Memorial Drive, Bixby 918-369-6100 Anand Patel 4550 S. Harvard Ave. 918-749-8817 Kyle Shannon 3516 E. 31st St., Suite C 918-743-2321 Kyle Vroome 2117 S. Atlanta Place 918-742-7361 PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Jeffrey Ahlert 14600 E. 88th Place N., Owasso 918-272-1444

Johnny Starkey 4404 W. Houston St., Broken Arrow 918-392-0575 James Steyer 10127 S. Yale Ave. 918-299-1600 PERIODONTICS Ray Beddoe 2619 S. Elm Place, Suite A, Broken Arrow 918-451-2717 Christopher Brett 9607 E. 95th Court S. 918-288-0818 William Burchard 2902 S. Pittsburg Ave. 918-748-8868

Trung Tran 9607 E. 95th Court S. Gary Fisher 10507 E. 91st St., Suite 410 918-288-0818 918-455-7700 Clinton Emerson David Wong 800 W. Mission St., 4545 S. Harvard Ave. Sarah Fox Broken Arrow 6585 S. Yale Ave., Suite 510 918-749-1850 918-459-0092 918-492-1106 William Wynn Thomas Griffin 6565 S. Yale Ave., Mark Gilstrap 3308 S. Elm Place, Suite 1008 404 S. Elm St., Suite 108, Broken Arrow 918-492-0737 Jenks 918-455-0976 918-417-2417 PROSTHODONTICS Robert Herman Roman Lobodiak Charles Keithline 6565 S. Yale Ave., Suite 510 602 S. Utica Ave. 6565 S. Yale Ave., 918-492-4822 Suite 1012 918-895-6933 918-743-1558 Phyllis Higgins Kerry Kitterman 3232 E. 31st St. 2930 S. Pittsburg Ave. 918-986-9986 918-742-9810 Jeffrey Housley 12813 E. 101st Place N., Owasso 918-272-4242

April Lai 2930 S. Pittsburg Ave. 918-742-9810 Feiya Li 602 S. Utica Ave. 918-585-3744 TULSAPEOPLE WELLNESS 2021 29

TULSA OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY MEMBER PHYSICIANS BY SPECIALTY CARDIOLOGY Steve Kim, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5920

Charles Harris, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000

James Herrington, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. Daniel Wildes, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 225 918-599-1000 918-582-7730 Shane Hnatusko, D.O. CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5373 John Carabello, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave. Aaron Lane, D.O. 918-582-7711 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5373 CHILD/ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY Rebecca Massey, D.O. Ranelle Bracy-Lewis, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 550 S. Peoria Ave. 918-599-1000 918-588-1900 CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY Sara Coffey, D.O. 2448 E. 81st St., Suite 3700 918-660-3130 EMERGENCY MEDICINE Bobby Abernathy, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Yakiji Bailey, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5100 Dennis Blankenship, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Tyson Bryant, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Michael Cannon, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5100 John Carlson, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Tyler Evilsizer, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Anastasia Fisher, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 Gavin Gardner, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-382-5064 David Gearhart, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5373

James Pritchett, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000

Lora Cotton, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave. 918-584-5364 Linden Cowley, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave. 918-599-1000 William Eddy, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-582-1980 Emily Grewe-Nelson, D.O. 4314 S. Utica Ave. 918-749-3533 Chelsey Griffin, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-392-3444 Sarah Hall, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-582-1980

MIDWIFERY, NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL MEDICINE Jennifer Wilson, D.O. 3345 S. Harvard Ave., Suite 201 Hal Robbins, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 505 918-748-8111 918-747-5322 NEUROLOGY Jay Johnson, D.O. HOSPITALIST 7134 S. Yale Ave., Suite 450 Temitayo Oyekan, D.O. 918-743-2882 10501 E. 91st St. 918-307-6000 NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL MEDICINE INTERNAL MEDICINE Robin Dyer, D.O. Damon Baker, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-561-1131 918-382-3100 GENERAL SURGERY Brian Diener, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 505 918-747-5322

Mark Thai, D.O. Justin Chronister, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-561-1131 918-382-5064

OB-GYN Stacy Chronister, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 Kimberly Sorensen, D.O. 12455 E. 100th St. N., Suite 918-382-5064 220, Owasso 918-494-2226 Katherine Cook, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 Leroy Jeske, D.O. Michael Schiesel, D.O. Erin Brown, D.O. 918-382-3100 3100 S. Elm St., Suite A, 744 W. Ninth St. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 Broken Arrow 918-810-5868 405-271-8787 Micah Derby, D.O. 918-455-7777 205 W. Main St., Collinsville Matt Stiger, D.O. Angela Christy-Lovell, D.O. 918-382-5065 Jenny Lessley, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 7912 E. 31st Court 1919 S. Wheeling Ave., 918-599-1000 918-743-8200 Angela Nicole Farrar, D.O. Suite LL100 1705 E. 19th St. 855-634-5748 FAMILY MEDICINE Joseph Johnson, D.O. 918-748-7585 Jenny Alexopulos, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 200 Lana Myers, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-586-4500 Teresa Hardesty, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-584-5364 140 W. 151st St. S., Suite 202, 918-584-5364 OSTEOPATHIC Glenpool Stephen Barnes, D.O. MANIPULATIVE THERAPY 918-321-7400 Marinn Rank, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

Julie Dionne, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-582-1980 2345 Southwest Blvd.

Madhuri Lad, D.O. 918-582-1980 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 300 918-582-1980 James Campbell, D.O. 918-382-3100 Richard Schafer, D.O. 510 N. Elm Place Erin Kratz, D.O. 550 W. 125th Place S., Jenks 918-251-1391 2345 Southwest Blvd.

Paul Rock, D.O. 918-367-6533 918-582-1980 744 W. Ninth St. Amanda Carey, D.O. 918-599-5874 Tom Schooley, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

Regina Lewis, D.O. 100 S. Fifth St. 918-582-1980 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 420 Brie Roepke, D.O. 918-528-4897 918-582-1980 744 W. Ninth St. Steffen Carey, D.O. 918-599-5874 Susan Steele, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

PAIN MANAGEMENT 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 420 918-582-1980 Gerald Hale, D.O. Gary Slick, D.O. 918-584-5364 1448 E. 81st St. 1111 W. 17th St. Cass Cherry, D.O. 918-477-5950 918-582-1972 Chuck Thurman, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-382-4600 PATHOLOGY Mousumi Som, D.O. 918-582-1980 Eric Harp, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave. Tessa Chesher, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 918-382-3100 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 Glennda Tiller, D.O. 918-582-1972 14002 E. 21st St., Suite 1130 918-236-4000 William Woods, D.O. 918-439-1500 William Zaloga, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. Laurie Clark, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-1000 1111 W. 17th St. 918-599-1000 918-582-1972 Jonathan Robins, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-599-5922

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Tara Hasenpflug, D.O. 9101 S. Toledo Ave., Suite B 918-392-3444

PEDIATRICS Laura Bode, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-382-3100 Travis Campbell, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-382-3100 Rhonda Casey, D.O. 2345 Southwest Blvd.

918-382-3100 Christel Dixon, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave. 918-382-3100 Amanda Foster, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 918-382-3100 Colony Fugate, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 918-382-3100 Binh Phung, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave., Suite 400 330-493-4443 Heather Rector, D.O. 717 S. Houston Ave. 918-382-3100 PHYSICIAN Gary Cannon, D.O. 13600 E. 86th St. N., Suite 400, Owasso 918-272-2247 PSYCHIATRY Jason Beaman, D.O. 744 W. Ninth St. 918-619-4400 Aaron Pierce, D.O. 4444 E. 41st St., Suite 3100 918-619-4400 RHEUMATOLOGY Carrie Gilstrap, D.O. 1111 W. 17th St., Office A-113 918-561-1458 SURGERY Adam Bradley, D.O. 802 S. Jackson Ave., Suite 505 918-747-5322

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Owning THEIR FUTURE A CITY OF TULSA MASTER PLAN IS GIVING NORTH TULSANS HOPE TO OWN LAND AND BUSINESSES TAKEN FROM THEIR PREDECESSORS.

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s a young girl, Damali Wilson spent a lot of time at her grandmother’s house, one of many along Greenwood Avenue in the years before Interstate 244 was built through the heart of the neighborhood.

In nice weather, she and her cousins slept on the enormous porch, dozing off to the sounds of the brickyard across the street. Wilson often went to the store next door for her grandmother’s groceries and left with full arms, having exchanged no money. “Grandma took care of the bill whenever she got her check,” Wilson says. “I can remember that sense of community.”

Greenwood declined after urban renewal, but Grandma’s house was still a haven until the late 1980s, when the University Center at Tulsa Authority used eminent domain to force her landlord to sell the land. The house was bulldozed.

“It just broke our hearts because it was gone — everything we knew,” says Wilson, whose grandmother moved further north.

The property and surrounding land — 200 acres just north of the Inner Dispersal Loop — were intended to become a higher education campus called University Center at Tulsa comprised of Langston University, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and Northeastern State University. However, more than 30 years later, Langston and OSU are the only universities there; much of the land remains undeveloped.

Through a court settlement in 2018, Tulsa Development Authority and the City reclaimed 56 acres of the UCAT land and identified three “opportunity sites” for redevelopment (see map). Led by a national urban planning firm with help from local engagement partners, including Wilson, the City has begun a master planning process for the three sites — collectively called Kirkpatrick Heights — to ask north Tulsa citizens what redevelopment should look like.

The City also has publicly committed to exploring options related to the long-term governance and ownership of the sites, including the possibility of “communal ownership.”

For many north Tulsans, that means a chance at rebuilding generational wealth in their families and their community.

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The project’s three opportunity sites, marked in red, comprise 56 acres.

THE ASK

On a rainy October evening, tables and chairs are grouped around colorful foamboards at the Greenwood Cultural Center. On one table are cut-out words like “intentional,” “renewed” and “power” as well as images of happy Black families, Black graduates and a young Black girl in an astronaut suit — all possible choices for a north Tulsa vision board. The event is the first of many community workshops aimed at gathering ideas for the three sites from members of the community.

Dozens in the room have gathered often in the past 10-15 years when the City of Tulsa asked for input from residents of north Tulsa. Many others stopped coming long ago, frustrated when the City didn’t heed their suggestions.

Kian Kamas, executive director of the Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity, says this time is different.

“From the beginning we recognized this couldn’t be an effort where the City, the planners, just kind of led and engaged the community, and then ultimately we put everything together, and then presented it to the public,” she says. “We knew this had to be a much more collaborative process where it wasn’t just one-way communication, where it was much more two-way communication, and in many ways a shared level of decision making.”

First, the City gathered an 11-member Leadership Committee comprised of north Tulsa leaders past and present. The group is tasked with steering the process, specifically details surrounding long-term governance, through leveraging their networks and making recommendations for local engagement.

Led by the Leadership Committee, the City hired Philadelphia-based WRT LLC to facilitate the Kirkpatrick Heights Addition and Greenwood Site Master Plan. In turn, WRT retained two local partners with roots in the north Tulsa community — World Won Development and Standpipe Hill Strategies — to support outreach and engagement, an essential step to building trust among residents and stakeholders.

Charles Harper, executive director of WWD, says many people came to the community workshops out of “love and respect” for him and Wilson, who is his business partner. “It’s kind of humbling when somebody says, ‘We don’t even trust the City, and we wouldn’t even come because we’ve been on this roller coaster before. But if you and Damali are heading this up, we’re going to come and look because we know Damali asks 1,000 questions, and Charles asks 1,000 questions, and Greg Robinson (Standpipe Hill Strategies) does, too.’

“We appreciate that even if they have some doubts about the process with the City, they trust World Won Development enough because of what we do.”

As thoughtful as the discussion tables appear at the workshop, this format for community engagement isn’t new for the City, says Ashley Philippsen, co-chairwoman of the Leadership Committee.

“The range of input is what is unprecedented,” Philippsen says. “There will be months-long engagement

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and not just, ‘Give us all of your ideas.’ There’s this charge to build capacity at the community level for the implementation that comes after the design, in terms of how residents benefit from whatever is developed and have a stake in the ownership of whatever comes out of this process.”

THE PROCESS

Project Director Garlen Capita of WRT is one of a few Black urban designers at her Philadelphia firm. She’s one of few Black designers, period. She says she was drawn to the field due to a lack of representation and because she wanted to have an impact in building healthy communities.

“It’s a huge challenge because the same structural inequities that have created the challenges that we’re trying to address here in north Tulsa are the same things that have impacted the fields of architecture, planning and urban design,” Capita says.

Although many in north Tulsa would have liked to see a Black-owned firm considered for the master planning process, state law prevents hiring based on race. Beyond that, few exist because diversity is lacking in those fields.

Philippsen drafted the Request for Proposal, to which 46 firms responded. “The process made sure the people we hired had an ability to meaningfully engage with the community, they demonstrated an ability to build capacity in community members with their outputs, and they understood how serious an undertaking this was.”

Multiple community engagement events are planned over the next 10-12 months, after which feedback is summarized to identify major themes, issues and opportunities that will drive the creation of a conceptual master plan, Capita explains. Then her team will present detailed sketches and renderings that reflect community priorities on redevelopment. Once the community agrees on the path forward, the City will write one or more RFPs to which developers can respond.

“A future developer doesn’t have to be 100% tied to what is in the plan, but they have to work within that overall framework and structure of what the community decided on together,” Capita says.

As downtown development expands from the city center, the blank opportunity sites increase in value by the month.

But Kamas says the City is committed to engaging the public more broadly in all of its projects, particularly those in north Tulsa. “I don’t think you can set aside the national dialogue around the historic impacts of urban renewal and ongoing disparities, particularly those that fall along racial lines, and not think about the policy frameworks that have maybe led to or helped exacerbate those disparities,” she says. “Ultimately our role is to try to figure out, how do you respond to those in the modern day?

“With this land in particular we thought, we have this unique opportunity to really be creative and inventive in how it is developed and redeveloped.”

THE POTENTIAL

Despite hesitation by the community at large, Leadership Committee Co-Chairwoman Lana Turner-Addison observed those attending the October community workshops seemed eager to share their perspectives. “A lot had helpful information in terms of the past and questions about, ‘Is this process real? Or is it a facade?’” she says. “I would say there’s a healthy mix of those who are cynical, those who are kind of neutral and just waiting to see what happens, and those who are hopeful.”

At the Leadership Committee’s suggestion, the master plan will draw on previous feedback from residents of north

DREAM TEAM

MEET THE PLANNERS AND LOCAL PARTNERS HIRED TO HELP GUIDE THE MASTER PLANNING PROCESS.

WRT LLC

FOUNDED: 1963 PROJECT TEAM: Garlen Capita and Nancy O’Neill of Philadelphia ROLE: Lead the master planning process BACKGROUND: WRT employs approximately 100 people, including architects, planners, urban designers and landscape architects, for projects that range from large master planning processes like Kirkpatrick Heights to implementing specific projects that come from those plans. For the past 12 years, Capita’s work has focused on revitalization of urban neighborhoods impacted by urban renewal and divestment, including how residents, stakeholders and commuWRT Project Manager Nancy O’Neill nity leaders can lead strategies for reinvestment. and Project Director Garlen Capita CONTRIBUTION: “As project director, I’m the professional in charge of the overall strategy and leadership of the project,” says Capita, a landscape and urban designer. “Nancy is the project manager, so she does the day-to-day coordination making sure the different aspects of the work move forward according to the timeline, and that the deliverables are met. We have a much larger team that includes planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects and economic development specialists, as well.”

WORLD WON DEVELOPMENT

FOUNDED: 2001 PROJECT TEAM: Charles Harper and Damali Wilson of Tulsa ROLE: Local community engagement BACKGROUND: World Won Development is the community development arm of World Won for Christ Family Life Ministries. WWD’s other projects include operating Edurec Youth and Family Fun Center and the 36th Street North Event Center, both north Tulsa hubs for activities, resources and information. WWD’s longest-serving ministry is the Fitting Back In prison re-entry program. WWD also facilitated diversity, equity and inclusion training and hiring for Oasis Fresh Damali Wilson, executive director of Market, and it is working on community engagement for the Evans Fintube site operations for World Won Development, development. and Executive Director Charles Harper CONTRIBUTION: “I’m the coalition guy,” says Harper, who is over finances and infrastructure for WWD. “I’m going to pull everybody together. Damali is going to keep the trains on the track because she’s the logistics.”

“We’re used to working under pressure,” Damali adds. “When you do this job, and you wear as many hats as we wear, there’s always some crisis that comes up, and you’ve got to think on the fly and be able to deliver. And I think that’s why the recommendation kept coming up that World Won Development was someone they needed to talk to, because we always are thinking on the fly, and we just make it work.

“When people come to us, if we don’t know the answer, we’re going to go find the answer. We’re going to find resources. We try to be a connector for resources to the community.”

STANDPIPE HILL STRATEGIES

FOUNDED: July 2021 PROJECT TEAM: Greg Robinson and Kristi Williams of Tulsa ROLE: Local community engagement BACKGROUND: Robinson and Williams previously worked together at the Met Cares Foundation. Since leaving the organization earlier this year, they have worked with Growing Together Tulsa and Tulsa Changemakers to build power within the Kendall-Whittier community by educating youth and adults on the fundamentals of organizing. The pair also has worked with My Brother’s Keeper Tulsa to improve outcomes for boys and young men of color. The Kirkpatrick Heights Master Planning process and the Evans Fintube site development are Standpipe Hill Strategies consultant Kristi Williams and Greg SHS’ first two major economic development projects.

Robinson, founder and senior consultant CONTRIBUTION: “The ability to bring people together from all perspectives who need to be at the table, and to do that in a culturally inclusive way so that people feel as if they have true ownership of the project,” Robinson says. “We are authentic to the groups we’re serving, and we strive to work with the development team, the organizing entity, to really ensure the spaces we create are comfortable for the communities we’re trying to engage.

“We’re very upfront with the folks we work with, particularly on this project with the City of Tulsa/WRT, that it’s critically important there’s an entity holding them accountable to the expectations they provided to the community they’re trying to serve.”

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THE WORK AHEAD

All parties agree work will continue to find more opportunities to engage a more diverse group of citizens, including young students and professionals. Tulsans will continue to see pop-ups for sharing feedback at community events such as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade on Jan. 17. They also can visit ourlegacytulsa.org to provide input.

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and our north Tulsa community — Black Tulsa — has long been viewed as the weakest link, and often by design,” Turner-Addison says. “But our city is not going to really reach the point it could reach if we’re not inclusive, and if we don’t try to right some wrongs as we move forward to building that ‘One Tulsa’ that’s always talked about.”

Wilson is pleased to witness and play a role in that sanctification.

“It just gives me great joy to know I will have something to do with the renaissance, the redevelopment, the rebuilding of this area once again because it’s going to affect the kids coming up behind this,” Wilson says. “It’s going to give them an anchor, something they want to come back home to ... to reinvest their talents and skills into the community for those next generations.” TP 52

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An Oct. 28 community workshop invited those present to envision the future of Kirkpatrick Heights/Greenwood. The name Kirkpatrick comes from one of the original plats within the plan area.

WHAT IS THE TULSA AUTHORITY FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY? In early 2021, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, the Tulsa Parking Authority, the Tulsa Industrial Authority and the Economic Development Commission merged into one entity: the Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity. Its focus: increasing economic opportunity in Tulsa.

“The goal was really to create a much more efficient and effective economic and community development organization,” says TAEO Executive Director Kian Kamas, who formerly held the position of Tulsa’s chief of economic development. “The previous way of structuring the City’s work meant we had limited resources tucked away in different spots and locations. You had siloed staff, you had siloed boards. It really made it much more difficult to ultimately identify and execute on a shared vision, and also to have the resources to really make that vision a reality. “(TAEO) centralizes all of the City’s tools and resources that ultimately support implementation efforts like the Kirkpatrick Heights Master Plan.”

TAEO employs 15 economic development staff, some of which do the work of the Tulsa Development Authority. TAEO also has a board of trustees, which includes the TDA commissioners.

THE MASTER PLANNING PROCESS HAS BEEN BRANDED “OUR LEGACY TULSA.” TULSANS CAN SHARE THEIR INPUT AT OURLEGACYTULSA.ORG.

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Tulsa. Some of that feedback? “Ownership, ownership, ownership,” says Turner-Addison, referring to a priority of north Tulsa residents to own homes and businesses and build back generational wealth.

It remains to be seen how the City might get there.

One option is a land trust, which might involve a nonprofit structure owning and managing the land; people could then own properties on that land.

In 2019 the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation purchased the former Dollar Thrifty campus at East 31st Street and South Yale Avenue. The nonprofit spent $30 million to redevelop the property into modern office space, which it gifted to seven social service organizations.

When asked about the possibilities of such a philanthropic partnership for Kirkpatrick Heights, Kamas says it’s too early to tell if such a plan is feasible. However, she says implementing a plan of this magnitude will undoubtedly require public-private partnerships. “I think it’ll require the involvement of private developers, hopefully with support from the corporate community, and I would envision the philanthropic community, as well,” she says.

Kristi Williams, a consultant with local partner Standpipe Hill Strategies, says she thinks the community would support such investment if there are no strings attached.

“I know the community is going to want to know the intentions behind it,” she says. “Because again, supporting is just writing a check and saying, ‘There you go, you guys do what you will with that.’ Not coming on our boards, not coming in taking over and dictating what goes in our community.”

Though there are many unknowns, north Tulsa leaders agree the potential is exciting for their community and for the city at large.

“The idea that there would be an ownership and management structure that is community based is a very, very unique opportunity for Tulsa,” says Capita, who has worked on urban revitalization all over the country.

“There’s the ability for this, if it’s done well, to be a model of what other places should be looking at and copying. So we have an opportunity to do something right, that can really set the framework for lots of other communities who have dealt with exactly the same issues in terms of urban renewal and those kinds of impacts.”

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s carefully decorated Christmas trees are set up in houses throughout Tulsa, immigrant families adapt their home traditions to fit their new setting. The Galvez family searches for the right ingredients to recreate Honduran tamales. At Woodland Hills Mall, the Odiokos purchase their daughters’ red and green dresses instead of ordering them from Nigeria. Worship Director Amy Naw practices carols on the piano for the Myanmar Christian Assembly service.

Over the past three decades, the metropolitan area has welcomed a rising number of refugees and immigrants. The Census Bureau reports Tulsa is home to 44,933 foreign-born individuals.

Hispanics or Latinos make up 16.5% percent of the population spread throughout the city. In south Tulsa, a flourishing Burmese community of approximately 7,000 individuals resides, according to some reported estimates.

At different times in the past decade, the Galvez, Odioko and Naw families were drawn to move to Tulsa by the faith-based communities in the city.

“Although most of us have become Americans and even have citizenship, we never forget our heritage,” Naw explains.

Blending Nigerian celebrations with American customs

Deborah and Morris Odioko with daughters Royalty Grace and Joy Ellie in ankara clothing worn during the holidays in their native Nigeria

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JUST LIKE

home

Three Tulsa families celebrate Christmas with traditions from their home countries.

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The streets of Lagos, Nigeria, are buzzing with vendors and Christmas shoppers bargaining over poultry, vegetables and spices. “Auntie, abeg (I beg you) come! I have good price,” says the shopkeeper, pointing to sacks of basmati rice.

Anthonia Elomobor already has rice at home, so she ignores him, pushing through the crowd to her tailor’s shop.

Once at the stall, she shares the measurements of her three children with the seamstress. Handing her 6 yards of African print ankara fabric and lace, Elomobor describes the outfits she wants.

She will return to pick them up the week before Christmas.

Upon returning home, she finds a cow gifted to them by members of their church. In the days leading to the holiday festivities, the Elomobor household is busy with chefs cooking spiced long-grain jollof rice simmering in tomato sauce, roasting meat and stirring peppered stew. Outside, the soon-to-be-slaughtered chickens run freely. On Dec. 25, the Elomobors will wear tailormade patterned outfits to church and return to a home fi lled with friends and family feasting on an abundant meal.

Deborah Odioko, daughter to Elomobor, remembers this 1995 Christmas in Nigeria as a great bonding time. Her husband, Morris Odioko, explains, “Christmas traditions back home revolve around family coming together.

And when I say family, I mean your church family, friends and your extended family.”

Morris works as a software engineer while Deborah is a stay-at-home mom who also serves as a marriage and family counselor.

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Traditions of unity, love and compassion

Tamales, tortillas fi lled with queso and refried beans called baleadas, along with a colorful assortment of fruit, cover the dining room table in the Galvez household. It’s Christmas Eve, and all of El Progreso, Honduras, is feasting.

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Above, members of Tulsa’s Myanmar Christian Assembly at a past Christmas potluck.

Below, each Christmas, Grace Galvez’s family attends services that include collecting food for those in need.

The evergreen tree planted outside at the start of the year is decorated with lights. The recently tailored clothes are washed and pressed. Abuela’s freshly baked pastries fi ll the home with a hearty aroma.

At sunset, the Galvez family drives to their nondenominational church. Eleven-year-old Grace Galvez is dressed in her white angel costume. From her place on stage, she sees a sea of faces. Everyone comes to church on Christmas.

After the children, dressed like little sheep, sing “Con mi burrito sabanero (riding on my donkey),” the choir leads the congregation in carols. Around 9 p.m., the singing and preaching end. It is time for feasting.

“In Honduran culture, Christmas is food,” Grace, now 19, explains. “Everything we do is around food.”

Home-cooked stews, cookies, pies, grapes,

apples and Welch’s juice bottles pile the table in the common area. Churchgoers greet each other while serving themselves the food. No one goes hungry on Christmas.

“Many people would come from broken homes,” Grace recalls of past Christmas feasts in Honduras. “So we were intentional to show them how much Christ loves them. Some of them would receive Jesus in their hearts.”

Back at home, cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents gather for an abundant meal. Fireworks light up the dark sky. For the rest of the night, Grace plays with her two younger brothers, David and Juan, while the adults talk. At sunrise, pan de la abuela (grandmother’s bread) is enjoyed with coffee.

“Our traditions model unity, love and compassion, so it is so important to show these values wherever we go.”

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Together they have two daughters, Royalty Grace, 3, and Joy Ellie, 2. The couple met while pursuing their undergraduate degrees in Lagos.

They moved to Tulsa in January 2017.

Both Morris and Deborah grew up in homes with parents who were ministers. Therefore, attending church was a major part of their Christmas celebrations. “If Christ had not been born, then I would still be in living in my sin,” Morris explains of the holiday’s significance to him. “He had to be born fi rst before he could die.

And his death brought salvation to me and many around the world.”

Deborah recalls, “Even though some people were not churchgoers on a regular basis, every Christmas they would come, and some would even give their lives to Christ.”

After a joyful service of carols and a sermon on the birth of Jesus, Deborah enjoyed putting on Santa hats and taking pictures with her friends.

“Christmas in Nigeria is not really about getting presents like here in America,” she says.

“But you will find a lot of food hampers (given to ensure every family has a good meal). These are gift bags that have a lot of raw foods like yams and rice, along with desserts and sodas. It is not uncommon to be given goats and cows, as well.”

In Morris’ neighborhood, Christmas was the only time many families could afford to cook chicken. “All year long you looked forward to eating chicken on Christmas,” he laughs.

Compared to the music and fi reworks that went off throughout the night in Lagos, Christmas in Tulsa is mellow. In preparation for the holiday, Deborah orders ankara clothes from Nigeria through DHL or a family friend who is traveling abroad. The Odiokos usually spend the holiday with their adoptive parents, Karen and David Wilson. They enjoy opening presents, calling relatives and eating jollof rice with peppered stew. The day ends with watching a Hallmark movie.

In the coming years, Deborah wants to introduce her daughters to the family gatherings she enjoyed growing up in Nigeria. She plans on getting together with relatives in other states to celebrate Christmas. As her children get older, she hopes to decorate the Christmas tree with them and wear matching pajamas as they open gifts.

Morris is determined to keep Jesus at the core of their celebrations by reading the Nativity story with his daughters.

“Our duty as parents is to make our children aware of what the season is all about,” Morris says. “I want them to know that Christmas is more than just a time for fun. It is about the birth of Jesus Christ.”

Grace’s parents, Rigoberto and Gabriela Galvez, moved to Tulsa in July 2019 when Grace began studying international relations at Oral Roberts University. The Galvezes, who are involved in a nonprofit ministry, divide their time between Tulsa and Honduras. Th rough World Empowered Unlimited, they organize mission trips as well as clothe and feed lowincome families.

Their fi rst Christmas in America was much quieter than the celebrations back home. Rather than spending Christmas Eve with a group of relatives, the Galvezes attended a church service in Tulsa. They shared a meal together and went to bed early instead of partying through the night. The next morning, while American families gathered around the Christmas tree opening presents, the Galvezes made phone calls to loved ones in Honduras. “Feliz Navidad ” greetings were exchanged along with stories of the previous night’s celebrations.

In 2020, the Galvez siblings were reunited with their grandfather and grandmother when they came to Tulsa to visit for Christmas. They shopped for tamale and baleada ingredients at Supermercados Morelos and used Honduran salted sour cream brought to them by their grandparents. Abuela made her special bread paired with coffee. Rather than limiting their dinner to relatives like in Honduras, they now invite their American friends to join them. Grace says sharing meals from both countries is a great fusion of cultures.

Although she misses the lively Christmas celebrations in Honduras, Grace is proud of how her family has adjusted to the slower pace of life in Oklahoma.

“I don’t think we’ve left our traditions,” she says. “I think we got the chance to expand them and share our culture with people here in the States.”

Feasts, music and practical presents

In her new Christmas dress, Amy Naw stepped onto the church pulpit. She tucked her violin under her chin and began to stroke the strings with her bow, fi lling the auditorium with the soothing melody of “Silent Night.”

Naw fondly remembers this performance as one of her favorite Christmas memories from Myanmar.

“I was probably out of tune,” she laughs, “but it was memorable because after I played, the toddlers imitated me by pretending to play the violin.”

She was 9 years old at the time. Th is now 23-year-old says celebrating Christmas in Yangon, Myanmar, was delightful.

Despite having been raised in a country where Buddhists make up 88% of the population, Naw had a close-knit Christian community. Religious holidays like Christmas and Easter were often celebrated in church.

On Christmas Eve, the women of the church got together to cook for the after-service potluck. Naw played with the other children in the upstairs sanctuary while the mothers prepared chicken curry, roasted pork, rice and fruit salads. Scents of turmeric and Thai basil enriched the air.

By 10 a.m. the next day, the Naw family was seated for church service. Nativity performances, singing and a sermon on the birth of Christ led to the long-awaited Christmas feast. Long tables were placed side-by-side and covered with steaming pots of stew and trays of fruit. The balloons that decorated the sanctuary were in the hands of playful children. Over the microphone, one of the church elders invited everyone to eat. Her voice echoed through the corridors calling the gleeful children to settle down.

Before everyone returned to their homes, the congregation had a gift exchange. The most common gift was colorful Burmese fabric known as longyi. Since most people could not afford extravagant gifts, Naw usually received helpful household goods.

“It would usually be bowls, towels, toothpaste and other practical things,” she reminisces. “I’ve even had salt as a Christmas gift.”

On Sept. 9, 2009, Naw and her mother, Agu Khur Zi, immigrated to Tulsa. There, Naw was reunited with her father, John Dai Khaung.

Khaung, a pastor, had come in 2001 to study for a Doctorate in Ministry at Oral Roberts University. He served in Tulsa as a minister, frequently sending money to support his family in Myanmar before fi nally bringing them to America.

Nowadays, Naw serves alongside her father as the worship director at Myanmar Christian Assembly on South Union Avenue. She is pursuing a master’s in music and worship studies from Liberty University through online classes. She also works as a private piano and voice instructor.

During Naw’s fi rst Christmas in America, she recalls being excited to go to the mall and get a present from Santa.

“As an 11-year-old, I thought Santa was real,” she says. “I was a late bloomer.”

Finding out Santa at the mall does not hand out gifts was not Naw’s only surprise that holiday season. She also experienced her fi rst snowstorm, walking on the frozen pond next to her apartment complex and building a snowman, which fi lled her heart with joy.

Although the weather is colder here during the holidays, the warmth of celebrating with church members is still the same. Since most of the members work factory jobs, Pastor Khaung plans the Christmas service around their shifts, usually in the late afternoons. In recent years, they’ve hosted the service on the Sunday preceding Christmas. For their potluck lunch, curry, rice and salads are served along with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The young girl who once nervously played her violin now accompanies the choir on the piano. TP

“I don’t think we’ve left our traditions.

I think we got the chance to expand them and share our culture with people here in the States.”

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IN PROTECTION

Visit TulsaPeople.com for a photo gallery from the ridealong with Tulsa Police Department and officer John Shelton in Tulsa’s busiest police division.

TULSA POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND EMSA ARE LIKE MANY OTHER WORKPLACES IN TULSA: NOW HIRING. HERE’S HOW THEY’RE WORKING TO FILL POSITIONS AND CONTINUE RESPONDING TO CALLS FOR HELP. STORY AND PHOTOS BY TIM LANDES

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here are reports of a man with a gun walking near Roy Clark Elementary School and Epic Schools at South 103rd East Avenue just north of East 41st Street.

Tulsa Police Department officer John Shelton flips on the reds and blues and siren and accelerates away from the scene of an attempted auto theft a few miles north. As he navigates around cars of inattentive drivers headed south on Memorial Drive toward the Broken Arrow Expressway, officer Isaac Marquez, less than two years on the job, can be heard on the radio yelling updates while he pursues the suspect on foot across soccer fields, moving quickly toward U.S. 169.

Shelton, a patrol officer two and a half years into his second career, has unlocked his AR-15 from behind him and has positioned it between his legs as he accelerates over 90 miles per hour on the BA before merging onto the northbound lanes of 169.

“We got him,” Marquez’s voice blasts through the speaker.

“Hell, yeah. Way to go,” yells Shelton, a former Bible teacher. Seconds later he has parked and is out of his car to assist other officers in looking for the suspect’s gun. Inside the car, Shelton’s laptop screen is filling with a queue of calls from citizens needing assistance.

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Shelton works in the Mingo Valley Division, which is the busiest in terms of calls. There are about 20 officers on second shift patrolling the most heavily populated and most traveled section of the city, according to TPD. Shelton is a part of MVD’s David Squad, which on this day is comprised of about six officers covering the area between Interstate 244 and East 51st Street and U.S. 169 to South Sheridan Road.

Most call responses require at least two cops. An arrest takes them off the street for an hour or more. Figure in training, vacations and sick days, and there might only be one or two officers patrolling their beat at any given time. This evening, the calls never stop coming. Shelton constantly scrolls through them trying to determine which is the highest priority as dispatch puts another request out for a quarterback to take the latest call for help.

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TPD has felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a national conversation on policing following the murder of George Floyd and a good state pension plan that motivated many officers to exit the profession.

“I think the pandemic left a scar on society, if you will, and that has certainly hurt us in workforce,” says Police

Chief Wendell Franklin. “It’s hurt us in the morale of the department. Officers have had to deal with so much over the past year, and we keep piling more and more and more work on to them. They are cracking.

“We have seen an exodus from law enforcement all across the nation, and Tulsa has been no different.”

The department has an authorized force level of 943 officers. As of Nov. 17, Franklin says there are about 820 officers, which includes 40 officers in training. Count in sick time, vacations, training, administrative leave and on any given day “we’re hovering in the low 700s,” he says.

In August, Mayor G.T. Bynum announced a starting pay raise increase of $8,731 for Tulsa police, bringing the starting salary to $57,942. A $3,000 bonus for new hires goes into effect with the next academy class, slated to begin in January. A 4% retention bonus for all officers who have worked at least one year also went into effect with the payout and likely more exits coming next month.

“2021 is coming to an end. They will collect that stipend on Jan. 1, and then the doors will open,” says the police chief who is in his second year on the job. “I expect to have lots of officers decide to retire.”

Inside the TPD Training Division, officer Khara Bresee is hard at work. She says the pay raise and new hire bonus has made TPD more competitive in a tough job market.

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case, and we have a budget we have to fall within, so it’s definitely a challenge,” says Baker about the arbitration process that could go to a vote of the people if there is no agreement at the negotiating table.

In the meantime, TFD has received a $12 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant from FEMA to cover the cost of a new academy of 60 candidates, including seven women, slated to begin in early 2022.

Baker says some of those applicants are coming from other industries, like petroleum, looking for a career change. He says TFD has updated its recruiting, interview and operations to bring it into the 21st century and help it find people who want to work for the department over the next 25 years.

“We’re less fire service, more health care service with 75% of our workload being emergency medical calls,” says Baker, a former paramedic and member of the EMSA board. “We offer a lot of opportunity for folks through specialized teams, and there’s a lot of opportunity for promotion.”

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“Especially for people who switch jobs or come in from out of state,” she says. “The bonuses really help with that and some equipment purchases.”

It’s Bresee’s job to help fill the academies and find officers who want to relocate to Tulsa. She says the pandemic forced TPD to pause recruiting trips to regional colleges and cities in the southwest to bolster Spanish-speaking officers. Time was devoted to updating and streamlining the application process for candidates, Bresee says.

The department is one of a few in the country requiring applicants to have a bachelor’s degree. According to a 2017 study of 958 local police departments conducted

by Christie Gardiner, professor of criminal justice at California State University — Fullerton, only 1.3% of U.S. police departments require a bachelor’s degree.

Recruitment officers turned to social media and jointpd.com to engage with people interested in joining the force. Bresee says the City’s recent efforts have strengthened its message to potential recruits.

“What I like to stress to people is with all these other agencies talking about defunding police, our mayor, our council members, our community leaders, they’re supporting us, and they say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to defund, we’re going to bump this up. We’re going to give you more budget, we’re going to give you more pay,’” Bresee says.

“I think that’s the biggest impact. People are seeing we have the support, whereas a lot of other agencies don’t.”

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Similar to TPD, Tulsa Fire Department saw many of its firefighters leave the force in the past 18 months, creating staffing issues for a department that needs 725 firefighters working out of 30 stations to cover a city that averages more than 60,000 calls a year.

“We are just shy of 70 short due to a good retirement package and performance of the pension system over the last year,” says TFD Chief Michael Baker, who took over the post in June 2020. “We lost a lot of long-term firefighters due to retirement, and that’s opened up a big gap.”

Not only did it lose nearly 10% of its workforce, the pandemic forced TFD to halt candidate testing and interviews.

“It was a little bit of a problem because we had a lot of candidates that we were kind of ‘dragging along’ for a year, and we didn’t think we were doing very good justice to them,” Baker says.

While Tulsa Police Department received an $8.4 million injection to help fill and retain positions, Tulsa Fire Department is in arbitration for more funding. It has been 15 years since it saw a boost in pay higher than 2%. The average starting salary for a Tulsa firefighter is just over $40,000. There are equipment needs and trucks to be repaired. Many firefighters are pulling double shifts.

“I would love to say we could fix everything overnight and the world would be perfect, but clearly that’s not the

Throughout the country, emergency medical service agencies are struggling with staffing partly because the pandemic stopped EMS educational institutions from training. In Oklahoma 1,500 fewer state liscensure tests were taken in 2020 than 2019, according to Adam Paluka, EMSA chief public affairs officer.

EMSA’s Tulsa division is 20 people short of fully staffed, plus there’s training, PTO, and a 70-minute call response average that limits how many responders are available at any time. Regardless, EMSA figured out a way to improve services.

“What we’ve really tried to do is take a really holistic approach,” Paluka says. “Staffing isn’t just getting more emergency medical technicians and paramedics. It’s really taking a look at how we’re utilizing the EMTs and paramedics we have and making sure we’re deploying the appropriate resources to the right calls.”

EMSA’s board and the Tulsa City Council voted in November to eliminate the requirement that each EMSA ambulance be staffed by a paramedic. The changes are expected to go into effect immediately.

A new tiered system will have ambulances operated by two EMTs respond to 110 nonlife-threatening call types, determined by the Office of the Medical Director, that previously would have required a paramedic to be on board. “(These patients are) low acuity, they’re not critical, and they are taking an Advance Life Support unit away from what might be a more critical patient,” Paluka says.

“They’re like broken bones, where yes, you’re probably in pain, but if we get there in 20 minutes, as opposed to eight minutes, it’s not going to affect the eventual outcome in 99.9% of circumstances.”

EMSA also is offering a $20,000 sign-on bonus for paramedics and $15,000 for dispatchers for a two-year commitment. The annual base minimum is $33,124 for EMTs and $55,540 for paramedics.

About 75% of Tulsa single-family households pay a $5.45 monthly fee for EMSA services.

“Even though we are first response, we’re first and foremost a health care agency, and our citizens are actually our patients,” Paluka says. “If they call, we’re going to do everything we can to respond to their needs as quickly as safely and as compassionately as possible.” TP TulsaPeople.com

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ne of the hottest fashion trends these days is tie-dye. It’s on everything from T-shirts and backpacks to hair accessories and shoes.

Amid the pandemic lockdown, fashion fiends and Tulsa sisters Ellie and Anna LaGere needed a creative outlet and wanted to try their hand at the trend, as well as learn how to stitch phrases and doodles on the pieces. “We quickly realized there was a demand for our pieces outside of our friends and family,” Ellie says. “We started receiving orders from across the country from complete strangers, which was exciting. It was cool to see our quarantine project grow into something we never expected.”

Grateful Threads was born. The apparel line includes sweatshirts and T-shirts for children and adults, as well as several baby and pet items. Each item is made by hand and no two items are alike, Anna says. Shoppers can choose from pre-stitched sayings, school mottos and doodles, or custom order.

“Our family put an emphasis on gratitude and kindness our whole lives, so it has been second nature for us to project those sentiments into sayings,” Ellie says. “Our best sellers are pieces with words like ‘optimism’ and ‘grateful.’”

After a year and a half in business, the LaGeres report their crewneck sweatshirt is a customer favorite, especially in pink and orange tie dye with the phrase, “Be Happy.”

“I think it does so well because it’s a great reminder to stay positive and makes a great gift,” Ellie says. “A friend who owns this sweatshirt says she likes to wear it on cloudy days. It is pretty encompassing of our brand as a whole.”

Shop Grateful Threads items at J.Cole Shoes and Ribbons, as well as online at gratefulthreadstulsa.com and on social media @gratefulthreads_. TP

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If you’ve ever been to Guthrie, you know its downtown is full of history. The district is the largest historic urban district in the state, encompassing hundreds of buildings.

This renowned backdrop makes it the perfect spot to experience an old-fashioned CHRISTMAS WITH VICTORIAN WALKS during the evenings on Dec. 4 and 11, complete with carolers and revelers in periodauthentic clothing. In fact, visitors are encouraged to join in on the fun and come dressed for the days when Guthrie was the state’s Territorial capital. Many of the local storefronts decorate for the occasion to further immerse people in the era of 1907-1910.

Best of all, it’s free.

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or over three decades, Oklahoma’s original capital city has been known for providing a magical experience during the holidays. Its Christmas celebrations take visitors back to the days when the area was known as Oklahoma Territory and statehood was just a topic of discussion.

A nice add-on to the Victorian Walk experience is the DISTINCTIVE HOMES TOUR on Dec. 4.

Select homes, businesses and churches are decorated for Christmas and invite people to look closer at the town’s architectural uniqueness.

Tickets are $15 for the self-guided tour. Purchase tickets and find out more at guthrieterritorial christmas.com.

THE POLLARD THEATRE, 120 W. Harrison Ave., was originally a dry goods store, but in 1919 it was converted into a vaudeville stage. A formal theater company was formed in 1987, and it’s still going strong today. Th roughout much of December, the Pollard Theatre Co. will perform “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.” An ensemble cast presents a unique telling of this classic holiday story as a 1940s-era radio broadcast.

Tickets, which are $35 for adults, can be purchased at thepollard.org.

KATIE’S DINER, 120 W. Cleveland Ave., doesn’t have history going back to the Oklahoma Territory days, but that doesn’t mean it’s out of place.

Th is kind service and excellent food are welcome no matter what year it is. Small businesses like this have always been the backbone of the community. Katie’s Diner is only open for breakfast and lunch; time your visit right and be sure to stop in for some of Guthrie’s best hospitality. Try the chicken fried steak breakfast platter or the signature BLT or burger for lunch. Check out the full menu at katiesdinerguthrie.com.

For a long weekend getaway, check out the DOMINION HOUSE, 602 E. College Ave., for a real treat. Th is elegant property started as the Masonic Children’s Home in the 1920s; today it’s a boutique hotel surrounded by beautiful gardens. It’s the perfect spot for a quiet weekend away from it all in yet another picturesque location that harkens back to an earlier time. The hotel also offers a bike share program so you can explore the rest of town with ease. TP

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BEAUTY & WEIGHT MANAGEMENT Paula and William Jacobs own Owasso Christmas Tree and Berry Farm. This year, the cut-your-owntree farm is open 1-7 p.m., Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. To keep trees looking fresh at home, William says to keep the tree away from heat sources like a fireplace, heater vent or west-sun windows. He also encourages to check and add fresh water daily.

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here’s no shortage of holiday cheer at the Owasso Christmas Tree and Berry Farm, located at 10939 N. 129th E. Ave., Owasso. Owners and founders William and Paula Jacobs have been growing Christmas trees and slinging holiday spirit for the Tulsa community since 1987. “Our first year’s goal was (to sell) 100 trees,” William says.

“We sold 300. Our second year’s goal was 300, and we sold 500. The rest is history.”

From Nov. 20-Dec. 22, shoppers can choose from nine varieties: Virginia pines, Leyland cypresses, Carolina sapphires, Noble firs, Douglas firs, Fraser firs, Nordmann firs, Grand firs and Balsam firs. When it comes to choosing the perfect evergreen, the Jacobses claim the freshest tree you can get is the one you cut yourself, which is an option. But if you don’t have an interest in chopping down your own tree in Clark Griswold fashion, don’t fret. You can select your tree while traipsing the farm, and the staff will cut it, shake loose needles out, bail it, drill it for the stand (if necessary) and will secure the tree to the top of your car for your convenience. Or, you can select one of the pre-cut firs the staff cuts at the beginning of each week.

To keep a tree fresh, an additional cut to the trunk an hour or two before placing it in the stand is a good place to start, the Jacobs say. This will open up the pores and allow for better water intake. A tree may drink up to 1 quart of water per inch of trunk diameter each day. Your stand should hold, at bare minimum, 2 gallons of water. If your tree ever goes dry in the stand, it will die; so keep the fresh water coming.

Trees range in size and grow anywhere from 18 to 45 feet tall when mature.

Although many are drawn to the large, full fir trees when perusing, the Jacobs emphasize measuring your space before selecting your tree. “Make sure you know how much room you have to display your tree,” William says. “They seem to grow when you get them home.”

The farm tags each tree with its height, variety and price for your convenience. The store also offers free apple cider, candy canes and hayrides to and from the tree fields during the season. Plus, shoppers can find a variety of seasonal greenery, wreaths, ornaments and trinkets for decorating inside the store. “We’ve had some (customers) for 30 years,” William says. “We’re always excited to welcome the old and the new.” TP

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hat I remember most about the simple Decembers when I was a little girl is (a) the toys on display at the nearest Otasco store and (b) Gene Autry singing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” on the radio. Oh, how much more complicated and glorious the month has become. So many more faiths and cultures to celebrate.

When I worked at Tulsa Ballet Theatre, December was a numbing month of fatigue after a month of tours of “The Nutcracker” throughout the region, two weeks of performances at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center and an annual year-end sinus infection. In the midst of this, some enterprising journalist always called to ask the cost of ten lords a-leaping.

That’s because PNC Bank had introduced its whimsical economic indicator for the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” calculating the cost of all the gifts of the carol. In 1984 it was $20,069.58; in 2019, $38,993.59. Detailed numbers are not available for 2020 because COVID closed down performances of symphonies and ballet companies, so no drummers, pipers or lords. Back when I was knee-deep in sugarplum fairies, waltzing flowers, toy soldiers, little angels and rascally mice, reporters wanted local numbers, hence a call to me.

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the Feast of Epiphany (Jan. 6) and the visit of the Magi. It is an English carol, maybe of French origin, fi rst published in 1780. Most considered it a memory song for fun, but in that way humans have of complicating things, some claim it was a secretive way to teach young Roman Catholics the catechism when Catholicism was prohibited in England from 1558 to 1829. That would include hidden meanings: The ten lords a-leaping referred to the Ten Commandments, the six geese a-laying were the six days of creation and so on. Too hard for me. I can barely remember where I put the eggnog recipe.

In December I’m glad to see the last of pumpkin spice, and I begin hoarding bags of cranberries. I value traditions, rituals, symbols and signature foods because they enrich life. Some psychologists say these contribute to our mental and physical wellbeing by giving us a sense of identity and community.

Some things do change, even with centuriesold carols. Most authorities agree that on the fourth day, the true love sent four colly birds: black birds. Not calling birds, but colly, from old English colliery, meaning “black as coal.”

Tradition can be augmented with new things.

Recent bloggers have coined the word “thanksbeing,” urging us to be thoughtful and grateful. I’m jumping onto the thanksbeing bandwagon with this prayer for the humble and ubiquitous animals of my yard.

Thanksbeing for the squirrels that provide my earthbound dogs with eternal hope that today will be the day they catch the airborne creatures leaping from tree to rooftop. Hope is a wondrous thing.

Thanksbeing for the squirrel who teaches me the pleasure of satiation by eating two entire pumpkins left outside from October. Although he grew so plump he got stuck trying to wiggle through the picket fence, his regret was fleeting.

Thanksbeing for the squirrel that demonstrates resourcefulness prized by the lazy. Not for her to hang upside down to eat from the birdfeeder. Shake the feeder, and the sunflower seeds fall to the ground to be eaten leisurely. Ease is a luxury.

Thanksbeing for the squirrels who reinforce the importance of creature comforts by upholstering their nests in the giant sycamore tree with stuffi ng from the cushions of the outdoor lawn furniture. A warm home is a blessed thing.

Thanksbeing for the squirrels who show me the wisdom of oblivion, ignoring the clamor of dogs and the failure of humans who do not supply pumpkins and sunflower seeds on a timely basis.

Onward and upward the squirrels go, leaping, flying and landing with gravity-defying precision. Thanksbeing for the squirrels who rise above it all, surely singing their own version of the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” TP

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To donate: Chris Siemens • 918-742-4947 csiemens@fosteringconnectionsok.org fosteringconnectionsok.org 3326 East 51st St., Tulsa, OK 74135

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Copy paper - letter and legal Bottled water AA batteries Laundry detergent Clorox wipes To donate: Samina Dillihay or Debbie Weierbach 918-663-2152 or 2157 sdillihay@jaok.org or dweierbach@jaok.org | jaok.org 3947 S. 103rd E. Ave., Tulsa, OK 74146

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To donate: Katie Schmall • 918-893-6150 kschmall@clarehouse.org | clarehouse.org 7617 S. Mingo Rd., Tulsa, OK 74133

• Children’s art supplies (markers, construction paper, clay, pipe cleaners) • Play therapy supplies (bubbles, crepe paper, balloons, fun bandaids) • Kleenex • Copy paper • Monetary donations

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To donate: Rickye Wilson • 918-664-9000 rwilson@lifeseniorservices.org | lifeseniorservices.org 5330 East 31st St., Suite 800, Tulsa, OK 74135

Non-perishable food (canned/boxed) Adult sweats (all sizes) Underwear for men & women (all sizes) Feminine hygiene products Hand sanitizer/sanitizing supplies To donate: Suzann Stewart • 918-742-7480 dir@fsctulsa.org | fsctulsa.org 600 Civic Center, Suite 103, Municipal Court Building Tulsa, OK 74103

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Canned tuna or chicken Peanut butter and jelly (plastic jars, please) Protein-rich soup Canned fruits or vegetables Pasta and/or rice To donate: Carrie Vesely Henderson • 918-879-1702 chenderson@irongatetulsa.org | irongatetulsa.org 501 W. Archer St., Tulsa, OK 74103

To donate: Kati Ellis • 918-893-4811 kati@happyhands.org | happyhands.org 8801 S. Garnett Rd., Broken Arrow, OK 74012

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To donate: Kim Baker • 918-488-8002 kim@familyhopehouse.org | familyhopehouse.org 5840 S. Memorial, Suite 111, Tulsa, OK 74145

To donate: Jessica Hayes • 918-600-3815 development@fcsok.org | fcsok.org 650 S. Peoria Ave., Tulsa, OK 74120

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To donate: Diana Denny • 918-695-3987 diana@tulsapolicefoundation.org tpdfoundation.org 4613 E. 91st St., Tulsa, OK 74137

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To donate: Tim Newton • 918-430-9984 info@tulsadreamcenter.org | tulsadreamcenter.org 200 W. 46th St. N., Tulsa, OK 74126

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To donate: Michelle Reagor • 918-582-5766 mreagor@restorehope.org | restorehope.org 2960 Charles Page Blvd., Tulsa, OK 74127

To donate: Linda Holland • 918-298-0104 cats@streetcatstulsa.org | streetcatstulsa.org 6520 E. 60th St., Tulsa, OK 74145

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Men’s winter coats New socks and underwear Gloves and hats Hygiene products Reusable grocery bags To donate: Carly Senger • 405-531-8519 carlys@tulsacares.org | tulsacares.org 3712 East 11th St., Tulsa, OK 74112

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NEW blankets, towels, sheets Purina ONE dog or cat food Paper towels (home use kind) Dog and cat toys Puppy pads To donate: Lori Long • 918-428-7722, X 1037 llong@tulsaspca.org | tulsaspca.org 3000 Mohawk Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74110

Non-perishable, nutritional food Toilet paper and paper towels New household items; kitchen, towels, full-size sheets Cleaning supplies Monetary donations, gift cards, bus passes

• Gift cards (Walmart, Ross, Morelos, etc.)

• Bilinqual books (Dari, Pashto, Spanish, Burmese, Arabic, Russian, Aldi) • Laptops, Chromebooks, hot spots and tablets • Cell phones, calling cards • Monetary donations

To donate: Holly Yeagle • 918-307-1500 development@voaok.org | voaok.org/wishlist 9605 E. 61st St., Tulsa, OK 74133

To donate: Kyle Rutledge • 918-858-2372 krutledge@ywcatulsa.org | ywcatulsa.org 1910 S. Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74104

Please visit TulsaPeople.com for additional wish lists from other local nonprofits. Thank you for giving!

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May you find joy in the little things and kindness pave the way,

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LauraBryant 1621 E. 29th St.| 4 Beds | 6.5 Baths | 6,992 SF | Spectacular estate on prestigious street. Exceptional custom build by Mike Dankbar. Timeless and classic. Impeccable interior with stunning features for luxury living. 0.97 acre lot backs to Philbrook. Incredible privacy. Multiple living spaces office/den, exercise space. Additional square footage over the garage can be converted to living space(26’x36’). Elevator & Safe Room. Whole-Home Water Softening/ Filtration Circulating Hot Water. 50-year architectural roof. Buried electric service Whole-home Generac generator. $3,200,000 Laura Bryant

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he pastry case at Le Louvre is always a delicacy for the eyes. Owners Yakham and Micheline N’Gom really turn up the festivities come Christmas when customers can order customizable buche de noel cakes for their holiday tables. The 10-inch cakes have three layers, the base being a genoise sponge. A “heart” of chocolate, lemon, raspberry, strawberry or mango is then encased in mousse, which can be chocolate, raspberry, strawberry, mango, apricot or pineapple in flavor. Fruit-forward cakes are $59; chocolate cakes are $64. Place holiday orders by Dec. 17.

The N’Goms have operated the south Tulsa bakery and deli since 2017 and serve sweet and savory crepes, salads, soups, sandwiches, breakfast pastries and coffees. Catering options are available, too. TP

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he beautiful chaos that is December leaves us sometimes frazzled and wiped out by the end of the day.

With all there is to do in preparation for the holidays, it’s nice to have a few go-to recipes everyone can agree on and that you know will be winners.

Cajun dirty rice is a great one. Everything, including the rice, cooks in one pot. A warm bowl of this rice is such a comfort — and even better with a few shakes of vinegary hot sauce and buttered French bread. Dirty rice was traditionally made with leftover meats, whether ground sausage or beef, chicken livers or thighs, or even a bit of shrimp. We’re using ground sausage and chopped chicken thighs, but use whatever you prefer.

You’ll love the sweet richness from the tomato paste, apple cider vinegar and garlic. Cayenne pepper gives it a little heat, and plenty of chopped parsley gives it a fresh, bright finish. — NATALIE MIKLES

DIRTY RICE Serves 6

In a Dutch oven over medium heat, melt butter. Add chicken and sausage, cooking until browned and cooked through. Remove meat from skillet, leaving behind any fat.

In the same pot, saute onion, celery and bell pepper over medium heat. Cook until tender, about 5 minutes.

Add salt and garlic and cook another few minutes. Add apple cider vinegar and tomato paste and cook until the liquid has reduced, about 2 minutes.

Add back chicken and pork. Stir in rice, combining with other ingredients. Add cayenne and broth, and bring to a boil. Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and let sit, covered for 5 minutes.

Give the mixture a stir, then add parsley to the top.

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2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 pound chicken thighs, meat removed from bone and chopped 1 pound ground sausage ½ yellow onion, chopped 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup chopped bell pepper 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 garlic cloves, chopped ¼ cup apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 cup long-grain rice 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 cups chicken broth ⅓ cup chopped parsley

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Hop the Griffin’s mistletoe martini, made with elderflower liqueur, vodka and lime juice

MICHELLE POLLARD; CHEESE: TIM LANDES

HOP ON OVER A new microbrewery and wine bar has opened in south Tulsa in the former longheld location of French Hen. Hop the Griffin, 7143 S. Yale Ave., is a family business owned by Steve Griffin, brother Nick Griffin and father Michael Griffin. Steve is the master brewer and brews craft beer on site.

Hop the Griffin specializes in highquality craft beer, a nice wine selection, cocktails, appetizers, charcuterie and pub food. It’s open 11 a.m.-10 p.m., SundayMonday, Wednesday-Friday; 11 a.m.midnight, Saturday.

Steve began as an amateur brewer, learning to brew beer for fun with his dad in his garage. When friends told him his home brews were good enough to compete with the best of other Tulsa taprooms, Steve took the leap to open the brewery. The south Tulsa site is the only place to taste Griffin’s goods.

Beer lovers will like Hop the Griffin’s variety, especially of IPAs. Beers on tap are ever changing, but a few popular ones include Triple Honey Ale, Irish Red Ale, Pacific Typhoon and Mana Tree.

— NATALIE MIKLES

The holidays are a time when we come together and enjoy delicious food, whether it be a corporate event or family gathering. And what’s a party without a photo-worthy charcuterie board everyone hovers over?

This month, party hosts can take their grazing boards to the next level by purchasing hand-selected cheeses, meats and spices that can only be found at the Meat and Cheese Show, 1306 E. 11th St., Suite H. Operated by chefs Joel Bein and Amanda Simcoe, the Meat and Cheese Show offers a rotating selection of cheeses that come from small producers from across the country and internationally. Some have never been available in our area.

“Our goal is to bring something cool and unique to Tulsa and Route 66 that allows us to offer hard-to-get artisan cheeses, meats and grocery items, while expanding our catering options,” says Bein, who also operates Rub Food Truck and Catering, which will be located across the street for daily service at Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curious on 66 starting this month.

The Meat and Cheese Show is taking holiday orders for prime rib, whole beef tenderloins, smoked salmon and grazing boxes. Its popular truffle mac and cheese and other sides also will be available. Bein says to order as soon as possible before they sell out.

Simcoe, also known as the Cheese Wench, will be teaching Cheese 101 classes and will help customers curate their grazing boxes available in multiple sizes.

There also will be wine and cheese classes, private dinners and high-end tastings.

The store’s open 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday.

Visit facebook.com/themeatandcheeseshow or call 918408-9626. — TIM LANDES

NEW VEGAN MARKET DOWNTOWN Emily and Tony Galvez

Hooligans Hero sandwich Sandos Modern Deli and Provisions is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday; noon-4 p.m., Saturday.

The options for great vegan food in Tulsa have just expanded in a big way.

Emily and Tony Galvez and their children have been vegan for more than four years, and had dreamed about opening a market where vegan options weren’t relegated to a dark corner. Sandos Modern Deli and Provisions, 522 S. Boston Ave., is the place. It’s located just east of the Galvezes’ downtown restaurant and bar, the Local Bison.

Chef Joey Guns has created vegan meat and cheese alternatives; sandwich options; fresh sides; soups; and frozen vegan meals, including lasagna, pot pies, vegan ribs and more available soon. Sandos also offers omnivore meats, cheeses and sandwiches, as well. Chef Mary Sorensen makes fresh breads and other baked goods.

Executive Chef Nicholas Andoe is taking care of the Local Bison as well as developing a menu for the Galvezes upcoming concept, Copaneazi’s Pizzeria and Stone Fire Kitchen, to open this winter.

“It’s truly a group effort from our super talented crew that features everyone’s strengths and passions,” Emily Galvez says.

The market also has a selection of kombucha, salads, local beer and wine, and fun items like “adult lunchable” snack packs and “char-kid-erie” boxes for kids. Both vegan and omnivore meats and cheeses are available by the pound, too. Look for the sandwich of the week, as well as signature sandwiches and a rotating menu of graband-go foods. The made-to-order sandwiches are a great way to choose your favorite vegan and omnivore favorites.

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Noodle on this THREE PLACES FOR PAD THAI

Pad thai at Keo isn’t only one of the best in town, it’s also the prettiest. Many of Keo’s dishes are Instagram worthy, including the pad thai ($13-$15). And if you can make a noodle dish in a brown sauce look pretty, that’s a feat. Rice noodles combine with a colorful mix of carrots, celery, scallions, bean sprouts and egg. Then, add Wagyu beef, chicken, tofu, shrimp or duck. 3524 S. PEORIA AVE., 918-794-8200 | 8921 S. YALE AVE., 918-794-0090 | KEORESTAURANT.COM

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If a Thai restaurant is measured by its pad thai, then My Thai Kitchen gets a gold star. This pad thai ($14.99) is a bowl of comfort food for when you need to sink into a warm noodle dish. My Thai’s touch of chile peppers combined with ground peanuts, scallions and cilantro come together for a classic pad Thai. Choose from chicken, shrimp, beef or barbecued pork to add to the dish. My Thai is an unassuming little restaurant, with a small but inviting dining room. 3023 S. HARVARD AVE. | 918-794-7093 If your first taste of Thai food was from Lanna Thai, you’re not alone. Lanna Thai has been serving authentic Thai food to Tulsans for more than 20 years. It’s hard to choose what to order here, between the panang curry, drunken noodles and tom kha gai soup, but the pad thai is among the best. Lanna Thai’s pad thai ($17.95) is delicious with jumbo shrimp. Fresh bean sprouts and lime are served on the side. 7227 S. MEMORIAL DRIVE | 918-249-5262 | LANNATHAITULSA.COM — NATALIE MIKLES

Savory SENSATION Slow cooked for 20-24 hours with real hickory wood, Honey Baked Hams products, including its signature honey cured and glazed hams and turkeys, have become synonymous with the holiday season.

“It’s the same process Harry (Hoenselaar) invented in 1957 when he opened his first store,” says Lee Griffin, owner of Tulsa's Honey Baked Ham store. “He invented the spiral slicing machine. It’s just a special product that is a time-tested recipe.”

Griffin encourages customers to place their orders early, but with at least 24 hours notice. “If you walk in we’ll have ham — I just can’t guarantee you a size,” he says.

Along with the main course, the shop offers side dishes like the maple sweet potato souffle — a No. 1 seller — as well as loaded smashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and cinnamon apples.

“COVID has changed the way we live and operate,” Griffin says. “And good things have come out of it, too.” Now you can place and purchase your order online. Last year, Griffin’s team created a curbside delivery system so customers don’t have to get out of their car. “It’s more convenient and safe,” for both Griffin’s employees and customers, he says, “rather than have a line that goes out the door and people packed in like sardines.”

Honey Baked Hams is located at 8228 E. 61st St., Suite 116. Call 918-254-6339 or visit honeybaked.com and choose the Tulsa location to place your holiday order. — ANNE BROCKMAN

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817 E. THIRD ST. | 918-960-7349 | LOWOODTULSA.COM PAIRED UP Fresh pasta and wood-fired dishes are signatures of the East Village restaurant, which also boasts a chef’s tasting menu.

TODD JONES Waiter at Celebrity Restaurant, 3109 S. Yale Ave., which will close after the 2021 holiday season.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED AT CELEBRITY? 11 years.

HOW MANY CUSTOMERS HAVE YOU SERVED FRIED CHICKEN? Easily 12,000 plus. I would say at least 40-50% of customers order fried chicken.

FAVORITE PART OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON AT THE RESTAURANT? The decorations and being a part of all the guests’ holiday celebrations and experiencing the fun family times.

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PASS THE PLATE Find this pizza on the starter menu, where toppings adapt to the season.

YOUR FAVORITE MEAL IN TULSA? The meatball pizza from (East Village) Bohemian. I could honestly eat it every day.

A TOURIST ASKS WHERE TO EAT BREAKFAST. WHERE ARE YOU SENDING THEM? Bramble, of course! I go for the brunch, but stay for the mimosas.

— TIM LANDES

TRY THIS: MICHELLE POLLARD; SOUND BITE: TIM LANDES

FRESH IS BEST Fire-roasted olives, radish, fennel, roasted garlic, burrata, ricotta salata and lemon make for a colorful flatbread of flavor ($16).

WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU’LL NEVER FORGET ABOUT WORKING THERE? I will miss all the customers and employees and the family I have created with them all. I’ve never thought of it as work, but rather as spending time with family and friends.

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It’s the best part of the weekend: brunch. Here are the tops in town — the winners from TulsaPeople’s annual A-List Readers’ Choice Awards.

Bramble Breakfast and Bar 121 N. Ash, Broken Arrow; 539-367-1419 1302 E. Sixth St., 539-664-5635 400 Riverwalk Terrace, Suite 100, Jenks; 918-528-3054 bramblebreakfastandbar.com Neighborhood JA.M. 4830 E. 61st St., Suite 300 | 918-508-7744 thatsmyjamok.com Doc’s Wine and Food 3509 S. Peoria Ave. | 918-949-3663 docswineandfood.com Brookside by Day 3313 S. Peoria Ave. | 918-745-9989 brooksidebyday.com Wild Fork 1820 Utica Square | 918-742-0712 wildfork.com

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Waterfront Grill 120 Aquarium Drive, Jenks | 918-518-6300 waterfrontgrilljenks.com SMOKE. Woodfi re Grill 1542 E. 15th St., 918-949-4440 201 S. Main St., Owasso; 918-401-4343 smokewoodfiregrill.com

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e can’t get this close to Christmas without a cookie recipe. You might have your family recipes or traditions you can’t live without, but it’s also fun to throw a new recipe into the mix.

Th is eggnog snowball cookie is a fun take on a holiday favorite, the snowball cookie, also called a Mexican or Italian wedding cookie, and sometimes called a butterball. It’s a delicious buttery cookie tossed in powdered sugar when it’s warm out of the oven. The cinnamon-nutmeg flavor from the eggnog makes this version extra special. — NATALIE MIKLES

EGGNOG SNOWBALL COOKIES Makes 2 dozen 1 cup pecan halves ¾ cup unsalted butter, room temperature ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ½ cup powdered sugar ¼ cup eggnog 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ¾ cups flour Additional powdered sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Toast pecans by placing in a single layer on a cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes. Watch closely to make sure they don’t burn. Set aside and allow to cool. Chop pecans into pieces.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Cream the butter, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar with a mixer for 2 minutes, until creamy. Add the eggnog, and blend for 1 minute or until the dough begins to come together.

Blend in vanilla. Add the flour ½ cup at a time and mix until the dough starts to come together, about 3-4 minutes. If dough feels dry, add another tablespoon or two of eggnog. Fold in the pecans.

The dough will be fi rm. Form 1-inch balls with a dough scoop or with your hands. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes or until done. Check for a light brown bottom on the cookie.

Allow cookies to cool, then roll in powdered sugar.

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A group of Tulsans, including 20th Mayor Dr. T.A. Penney (sixth from left), on Dec. 23, 1936, near a monument at West 11th Street and South Boulder Avenue that commemorates Tulsa’s “first street marker.”

The street sign no longer exists, but the concrete base remains.

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any of Tulsa’s street names date to 1901. A map or personal guide was needed in those earliest days to efficiently navigate the young town.

In 1918 Tulsa’s fi rst metal street signs were ordered. These fi rst renditions were placed on the corners of buildings or on metal bases if no building existed.

These labels were scarce and only in the downtown business district. Residential areas would be labeled once more funding was available. However, a bigger issue at the time was the dramatic inconsistencies of street numbers and names across town due to the rapid growth of the city.

A city ordinance was passed in 1920 to revise the street naming system to make it more uniform.

Over 100 street names were changed to comply with the mandate. However, due to lack of money for street signs, in 1926 black and white street names were painted on curbs instead.

Two days before Christmas in 1936, the fi rst official street sign was placed on West 11th Street at South Boulder Avenue. The new blue and white street sign sat atop a 2-inch steel post. Alongside it was a large stone monument commemorating the event.

These new and universal street markers were considered Tulsa’s greatest city improvement for 1936 and earned it a national award. TP

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