Events

Join us as the staff from Scratch provide information on the art of mixology! Tips will be accepted via Venmo. Zoom link will be emailed out as the event nears.

Spend time meeting Johathan Winders, where he's from, how he got here, who came with him, what he does in his spare time, etc.  Have plenty of questions ready, this is an interactive program designed to get more aquainted with fellow Sooner Rotarians.

Our  next Lunch Buddies will be next Thursday, January 21, at 11:45 AM at Gaberino's on Ed Noble Parkway just south of BJ's.

Weather permitting, we will be on the patio. Otherwise we will be in the far north room.

Spouses, family, friends, co-workers, prospective members, and former members are invited and encouraged to be there.

Email me at jjbeller@aol.com to let me know how many will be in your group.

Sara King is the Community Health Education and Planning Lead for Cleveland, Grady, Hughes, McClain, Pottawatomie, and Seminole county health departments. She wears many hats, one of which includes being the Public Information Office during the COVID-19 response. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and her Master of Public Health. Both of her degrees come from the University of Oklahoma and her birth certificate from Norman Regional hospital, so when she says she’s sooner born and sooner bred- she means it."

The top 10 seminal events in Norman's growth and development

Andy Rieger is a Norman native whose great grandfather helped build the railroad through Oklahoma and then participated in the land run in 1889. He is a graduate of Norman High, and earned a bachelors degree in journalism and a masters of public administration from the University of Oklahoma. He is a part-time, adjunct instructor in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

He worked in journalism in Oklahoma or journalism education in central Oklahoma for more than 40 years and retired as executive editor of The Norman Transcript in 2015. Besides teaching part-time and continuing to write a Sunday newspaper column in The Transcript, he works as a Realtor and helps with his family's investments.

He and his wife, Karen, have three children and two grandsons. 

(Thank you Jack for the idea)

Paul Tryggestad (Director) & Linday Mace (Asst Director) from Dimensions Academy in Norman

( thank you Erin Barnhart, Executive Director NRHF)  (contact Trish Crow, Development Coordinator, Foundation)

NRHS CEO Richie Splitt will provide an Inspire Health update

(Michael Ridgeway)

KatieBeth Garnder she/her

Local Legal Initiative Attorney - Oklahoma