We recently explored Tulsa Centennial Park and realized that the park is an absolutely gorgeous addition to downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and the surrounding area. However, one aspect we noticed was the abundance of garbage located near the edges of the ponds and around the grounds. With the City of Tulsa and Public Works divisions working their bootys off trying to keep Tulsa together: roadways, construction, and various other projects; we’ve decided to provide a service to cleanup the park ourselves!
What we need from you?
We could definitely use all the assistance help we can get trying to clean-up the park! We could use anyone who has the ability to help pickup some garbage and haul it away. There are numerous garbage canisters around the park grounds, but obviously people are not using them. If we can get the park cleaned up, maybe people will help maintain the cleanliness by junking their garbage away in the appropriate location.
Sunday, August 31, 2008 from 3:00PM to 5:00PM
The time and date hopefully will not be an issue; The Gathering is located at 6th and Madison, so if you want to attend a late service on Sunday, they’re available for worship. If not, stick around and I’m sure we’ll all be hanging out doing something nearby!
Meet at Time Capsule on Sixth Street
Located on Sixth street across from the VFW is the Centennial Time Capsule, we can all meet there and begin. If you’re running late or early — we’ll be around the park I’m sure.. just look for the people picking up trash!
If this is not your cup of tea, hey we don’t hate you! But if you’re down for helping our city stay beautiful and need something to do with your Sunday time, hit us up!
Bring some gear!
If you have gloves, a net from your pool, extra gloves, gloves, more gloves, and garbage liners — bring em! We’ll likely need just about anything you can think of to make this happen. If you have waiders(sp?) those pants made of rubber to walk into water.. might bring those too!
Let us know if you can make it!
To keep us informed on how much water and beverages to bring, please leave a comment on this thread (scroll down a bit for the form). This way we can have a some-what accurate number of how many people we can corrupt and put on liquid speed (aka Redbull)!
ThisTulsa.com will bring bottles of water and RedBullRoundUp.com will provide RedBull™ for everyone — in moderation (No killing six in less than a minute Justin..)
Press release information
We have a Press release that is available for immediate release! Send it to everyone you know and lets get some people together!
August 19th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I will provide free trash bags, gloves and safety vests and haul away anything picked up.
Michael Patton
August 20th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I will be there. I will bring a rake so I don’t have to go swimming, don’t really feel like swimming in a pond! But I am glad I get to do some community service with some friends!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I’ll definitely be there.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I’ll be there, and maybe Joey too… We can make her fetch the stuff we don’t want to touch
. Just kidding. She’s too lazy.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I will be there, I’ll bring my (fishing-hunting-trash gathering) waders. I wonder how deep the pond is?
August 21st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Sounds like a great idea. I’ll be there and I’ve invited some friends to come too.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
My husband, daughter, grandson and myself will be there. No RedBull for the grandson please. He has enough natural energy. Will also bring bags, gloves and old pool net. Can haul off little bit of trash.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I will be more than happy to help. I would suggest that groups randomly get together to mow areas the city takes too long to get to. Like the areas by some peoples houses that think they don’t have to mow that part; really are they serious? The weather is cooling down, so let’s get to it.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I regularly walk this park and enjoy the beauty and hate the trash, so count me in to help!
August 31st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
thanks for putting this together Justin! It was great meeting you. I”m looking forward to next time. Let me know if you need any thing man.
mark
August 31st, 2008 at 7:33 pm
had a ton of fun! …and it felt good doing something for a good cause, etc. would love to see this kind of awesomeness continue.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
It was a lot of fun to have everyone out supporting the clean-up! We definitely need to get together and do it again. I have most email addresses for those who came out but if you did not get to sign the registration sheet we had, please email me justin {at} thistulsa {dot-com}.
We would love to keep in touch with everyone and let you know when we do it again!