A local company, Tulsa Biofuels are recycling your old cooking oil into biodiesel. Instead of pouring it down the drain, take it to 81st & Lewis in the Wal-Mart parking lot where they’ll take it and convert it to a much cleaner burning fuel.

Tulsa, Oklahoma seems to be filled with individuals who love to get outside: running, riding, walking, and playing around. Being said, September is a perfect month to get off the sofa and get active for a good cause. If you have been in Tulsa, Oklahoma for your entire life or just a few months, we do not discriminate, Tulsa based organizations could use your help! With the fall season drawing near and the weather cooling off, Tulsa citizens finally have no excuse for not going outside; no more filling up six buckets of sweat per person!

If biking is your thing, September 13-14, Tulsa’s own SemGroup, and nearly 30 other Tulsa based businesses and organizations; are sponsoring 2008 Bike MS Oklahoma Ride. You have always been up for a good challenge and Ride MS 2008 in Oklahoma is sure to provide one. This meeting can make a world of difference — unlike any other! A distance of 150 miles, across two days through beautiful Oklahoma that will challange you and reward you at the same time. Your will power tested. Being active versus chilling on the sofa. It’s the 2008 Mike MS Oklahoma Ride!

Go on.. RIDE!

The bike riding fanatics will begin with breakfast at SouthCrest Hospital in South Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 13^th and start riding at an early hour; 7:30AM.
Riders will have plenty of opportunities to meet fellow Tulsa citizens and regional attending bikers during the event. Riders will bike through Northeastern Oklahoma visiting: Broken Arrow, Catoosa, and Sageeyah. Ending the first night of 2008 MS Oklahoma Ride will be dinner provided at Pryor Creek Recreation Center in Pryor, Oklahoma. Entertainment will also be provided at the Tent Village.

September 14th at 2:00PM kicks off Mile 151 Party in the parking lot at SouthCrest Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma. You, your team, and all the awesome individuals you met along the way; chilling, celebrating, and congratulating your 150 mile journey for an incredible cause!

Register for BIKE MS 2008

For online registration visit www.nationalMSsociety.org/oke
Fax registration: 918-488-0913
Voice registration: 800-FIGHT MS or 800-344-4867 (press 2)

If you are old school and refuse to conform to the advances in technology, you can mail your registration in:

Oklahoma Chapter – NMSS
4606 East 67th Street, Suite 103
Tulsa, OK 74136

“The National MS Society helps people affected by MS by funding cutting edge research, driving change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, and providing programs and services designed to help people with MS and their families move their lives forward”.

With the sun straight overhead, blazing heat, and plenty of water to go around; volunteers began to walk up. At 3:00PM today we arranged to assemble at the Tulsa Centennial Park time capsule between Peoria and Madison on Sixth Street. Today marked the day ThisTulsa.com put into motion a group of volunteers to assist in keeping Oklahoma beautiful.

With assistance from organizations like Tulsa MET and TulsaNOW we were able to gather many citizens to help with our goal of keeping the park in pristine condition.

“The park does not seem to be too dirty,” one volunteer stated, but by the end of our day at the park, you could definitely see a difference. The garbage that had collected near the outside of the ponds and water features was no longer there; the remains of once smoked cigarettes no longer called the sidewalks home; and the debris and garbage shoved between the stones were no longer there.

“The park looks great, I’m sweaty, and I still have a smile on my face,” said volunteer Nick Switzer, “this is something that definitely deserved my attention and it got me out of bed today.” Everyone seemed to really have a great time while assisting in the objective of cleaning up the park.

We had plenty of water and Redbull™ available to keep volunteers hydrated and Michael from Tulsa Metropolitan Environmental Trust gave us plenty of bags and gloves to help out.

We had a surprise visit from KOTV – Channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma who did a 30 second clip on the local 5:30PM news tonight. To quote myself, “it’s great to see people taking this project serious.” We know we’re doing something wonderful for ourselves and our community — it is awesome to meet new people and make new friends in the process.

You can see the video on newson6.com and read their article here. Both on newson6.com.

If you missed out on the opportunity to help us clean up Tulsa Centennial Park, do not worry my friends, we will be doing more around the city in upcoming months. We have many new plans and projects in the pipe and we are just working on keeping things organized.

If you want to help support us, fundable.com has our current fund-raising objective which will help us finish up some legal paperwork and get our first set of T-SHIRTS printed.

Thank you to everyone who helped!

A special thank you to everyone who came out and assisted in the clean up today and to everyone supporting our cause.

Nick Switzer, Kristin Hatfield, Brad Vernon, Amanda McConnell, Travis Quinnelly, Carlos Morena, Broc Randall, Michael Patton, Shelley Umezawa, Mark Riddle, Pamela Curtis, Ryan Boyls, Lindsey Boyls, Lou Ann Lissonnet, Jesse Scott, Justin Kerr, Shannon Carpenter, Chris Speegle, Johnathan Bartlett, and everyone else who I might have missed.

Names above in no particular order and if you were left off the list please email justin {at} thistulsa {dot- com} with your name and I will add you.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for future projects or any area of the city that could use our attention, contact us immediately.

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!