Tulsa Area Travel Group Meetings on Hold

I know some of you have had good luck with Zoom meetings, but we've put out feelers, and have decided not to go that route, at least not yet. For some reason our computer system (running on Linux Ubuntu) doesn't run Zoom reliably, and nobody else seems much interested in Zooming anyway.

Jane it seems prudent for your meetings to take a winter pause. Stay safe everyone! Maybe you’ll be able to have real travel planning when you resume in the spring!

We had to do the same with our St Louis area meetings. :( The weather doesn’t really work for meeting outside this time of year and it’s not a good idea to meet indoors now. This is a good idea to have a post that they are on hold. I should do the same for ours.

I am sorry that y’all can’t meet but agree that it is prudent to put the meetings on hold. And I understand the lack of desire to Zoom.

Thanks you ladies, for your support. Karen, I see you've decided to do the same thing in St Louis.

Here's hoping things settle down, and we can get back to communing with our travel friends, sharing our tips, experiences, plans, and dreams.

I just finished reading an article about the stupidity of the Jenks HS football fans. I hope they they stay out of Sapulpa.

EP, at least Jenks has a mask mandate; the largest suburb in the Tulsa area (Broken Arrow) has refused to even recommend wearing a mask.

The Jenks school system says they're on it, after the horse has left the barn. Same for the venue where the game was held. I understand kids being excited about winning the championship, but someone should have blown a whistle on the fans.

Don’t get me started on our Broken arrow city Council. They are idiots....

Kim

Kim, even Sapulpa finally voted for the mandate. After months of turning it down ... But I was stunned at BA's vote. To not even recommend???

what happened at the high school?

Nigel - I just copied and pasted an article with the details. At a high school football championship game, there was basically a total disregard for any Covid guidelines. Now the school officials are sorry!

"After winning the state championship, an Oklahoma school district is now responding to criticism regarding a lack of coronavirus precautions.Last weekend, Jenks High School defeated Edmond Santa Fe High School 41-14 to win the 6A-1 State Championship game. After the win in Edmond, photos and videos were taken of the celebration.

Now, officials with Jenks High School are responding to some controversy after those photos and videos showed very few people in their student section wearing masks.

“The photo of the Jenks High School student section included in a post on Saturday from the state championship football game has been widely criticized. Jenks Public Schools acknowledges and accepts this criticism. There were too many high school students without masks and too many high school students in close contact with one another. This is not the kind of safe environment JPS seeks to create for students and staff members. JPS understands the importance of social distancing and masks. At future secondary events, Jenks Public Schools pledges to do more to maintain stricter safety protocols. The lack of safety protocols at the state championship game was not up to the standard that is expected. Jenks Public Schools and Jenks High School sincerely apologizes for this mistake,” the district posted in a statement."

thx

Nigel, the photos showed hundreds of high school aged kids, crammed together in to a relatively small space. Cheek to jowl, hip to hip, with very few wearing masks. As I said, I understand the excitement; in our area, winning a football championship is a really big deal, and kids of that age have no frontal lobes. But the photos were disturbing.