City offices will be closed on November 28-29 to celebrate Thanksgiving. Emergency responders will still be available. City offices will be closed on December 24-25 to celebrate Christmas and January 1 for New Year’s Day.
On December 13, the nonprofit Circle Cinema presents the 1954 musical/comedy White Christmas. In addition to regular film screenings, there will be special sing-along screenings with trivia and live Christmas music played on Circle Cinema’s original 1928 theatre pipe organ for select screenings. A regular engagement of White Christmas film screenings (non sing-along) begins December…
I am writing to thank Tulsa residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Because of the generosity of donors in Tulsa and across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.8 million shoeboxes in 2018. Combined with those collected…
The City of Tulsa trash collection will not take place on Christmas Day (December 25) or New Year’s Day ( January 1). Collection days will be moved back a day in the case of these two holidays. Customers who have a Tuesday collection day will get service on Wednesday (December 26 and January 2). City…
Christmas is not about giving. Christmas is not about peace on Earth. Christmas is not about family. Christmas is not a little baby. These are all of elements of how we celebrate Christmas in America. But the core of Christmas is that God took the form of man and in humility was born of a…
As we come to the final days of the year 2018 we find the major observation of importance to those of us in the Christian family of believers, with Monday marking Christmas Eve. The event that has become, in my opinion, far too commercialized with emphasis on parties, gifts and other diversions from the true…
It’s no secret that I love this time of the year, especially the music that accompanies it. For reasons known only to God, each year, a single song resonates through my heart and soul. It is never the same song two years in a row; last year, it was Little Drummer Boy. The “Pa rum…
Now that the celebration of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, we turn to some more serious observances in the month of December. This began with the first Friday this year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. In my family, it has been nine years since my wife Anne was released…
Because the first two sing-along screening of White Christmas sold out, the Circle Cinema had added two more at 7 p.m. December 21 and 2 p.m. December 22. There will be pre-show trivia and a free Christmas bell at both sing-a-long screenings. They will be hosted by Circle Cinema board member Jody McIntyre. Exit Christmas…
It’s time for Christmas parties. I love this time of year. The weather is crisp, people are in good moods and it’s a good time to reflect on the past year. We usually go to a few Christmas parties. Several Sunday School groups at our church are going together for a party and that should…