A healthy rural Oklahoma makes a healthy urban Oklahoma! In todays special broadcast, Karrie Beth highlights upcoming Watonga Events: town-wide cleanup through the 19th and tonight only open until 7:00PM Main and Forrest Plus have you heard Rex’s Ex’s are in town this weekend! Get your tickets for some Comedic entertainment! Watonga theatre showings, Saturday, Sunday and Monday afternoon. Also this upcoming Saturday night, local Watonga HS seniors are having a downtown block party! And mark those calendars for next weekends events; Watonga Bikes and BbQ, RomanNose trail ride, and Watonga’s first farmers market Saturday, also next Saturday the Watonga Masons are cooking breakfast at the Senior center. Looking ahead, the Ferguson Museum is hosting a tea May 4th and Watonga will be hosting a Fly In with free plane rides May 25th. That Memorial Day weekend the Former Watonga Students association are having an event at the new HS. So many great events coming up in our city! Tentative date has been set for the City wide Garage May 31 to June 1st, keep listening for more details. Today’s special guest is Mike Sanders, Executive Director Oklahoma Broadband. It’s been a little over 1 year since Director Mike Sanders took the reins at the Broadband Office. In this time, he has visited over 30 cities and towns hearing directly from Oklahomans, he launched the first grant program. “High speed internet is a way of life,”he shared; in economics, tourism, healthcare, and educationally. Currently, 600,000 Oklahomans do not have high speed internet. Closing the digital divide; there has been 1.3 billion Federal dollars appropriated for this Oklahoma project. Currently, 2906 individuals, that’s 35% of Blaine county that does not have high speed internet. The Legislature designated ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to create and administer the broadband investment grant program. Grant funds of $374 million will be coupled with more than $90 million in matching funds from 31 internet service providers (ISPs) that submitted approved proposals for service expansion, that includes 57 of the 77 counties in Oklahoma. Access to high-speed internet builds connections not only in business and education, but also families. With new digital technologies, families can stay in touch while grandparents visit with grandchildren via face time technologies. Connectivity is how we make a better tomorrow!

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…to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. It is a tree of life to those who grasp her, whoever holds onto her is happy! In today’s episode of The Watonga City Manager Minute Podcast, Karrie Beth Little reminds us that in recognition of Earth Day, the City of Watonga is doing their part to help keep our community green! Roll offs are set up and being manned at Main and Forrest 9a-5p Monday thru Friday 15th-19th. Being Mindful of our Words and our Earth Footprint brings quality of life and immeasurable joy! We also highlight this weeks and next week’s upcoming events and full weekends! Between Community Coffee; Bikes and BBQ; the Roman Nose weekend Trail Ride and a Community Farmers Market, there’s something for everyone to check out! Listen to find out details! Every clever person acts knowledgeably, but the foolish exposes their ignorance. Let us do our part to build a better future and tomorrow for future generations! We are #bettertogetherWatonga

Don’t Look Straight at the Sun! Just one of the positive tips Karrie Beth Little shares with the listening audience today in the Watonga City Manager Minute Monday Podcast series. She also points out that community members can head down to the Watonga library today at 1:30p to watch the Solar Eclipse safely. They have approved glasses they will be handing out! This is a big event nationwide and you can watch safely at the Watonga Public Library! And did you know next week April 14th is Earth Day? All week long April 15-19th from 8a-5p Watonga will have roll offs set up at Main and Forrest along with staff members to help you discard your bulk trash. It’s time to clean up and improve your dwelling and community. Karrie Beth wanted to speak about our very own Carl King and the legacy he’s brought to our community! To thank him and honor him, the City of Watonga have announced “April 6th” as Carl King Day! Join me in thanking Carl for his efforts in raising community members to become the leaders of tomorrow. You are a treasured gift Mr. King and Watonga is honored to have you as a shining member! Remember to recycle and do your part! #BetterTogetherWatonga

Watonga City Manager, Karrie Beth Little updates the community on today’s possibility of extreme weather conditions, preparations to make in the event of an emergency, and where to get weather alerts! She also highlights Ordinance 688; regarding utility rates. She and the staff can assist community members on calculating utility rates, help you find OMPA rebates and provide you other resources for assistance. Great information on today’s podcast! #bettertogetherWatonga

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Today, your podcast host Watonga City Manager Karrie Beth Little, supports Women’s History Month by celebrating a few female guests that are making history here in Watonga. Kenya Smith, first “hired” Watonga City Treasure, Tina Willis, Watonga Council-Woman and Debra McGee, hired Watonga City Clerk. Listen to each of their words of encouragement and shouldered support for women to recognize their influence upon each other and to their community. Each lady brings a great perspective on women’s gifts and influence. Karrie Beth shares eye opening facts about women’s role in history and where we sit today and the history women are making here in Watonga. Don’t miss this impactful sharing of women’s voice’s advocating for a better tomorrow. #BetterTogetherWatonga #Women’sHistoryMonth #BringAFoldingChair

In today’s episode of the Watonga City Manager Minute Monday Podcast, your host Karrie Beth Little, shares her vision for the City of Watonga and goals for our citizens for 2024. We talk about what continued community care looks like and the leap forward for our community members. Have you heard of Chazone (chazown)? We each have one and can discover it. Listen and find out how you can plug in and share in your vision for the future of Watonga. #bettertogetherwatonga #leapmorein24 #continuingourcommunitycares #defineyourvision #gogiver #chazown #visionquest

In today’s Watonga City Manager Minute Monday podcast, you host City Manager Karrie Beth Little shares about the many roads that lead to the Bridges of a sustainable future for our community. The city of Watonga hosted a workplace sustainability workshop and had a back to back session with WOWDB -Western Oklahoma Workforce Development Board- on the community impact sharing resources on “Bridges out of Poverty” workshop. She also brought as her special guest Watonga Fire Chief Robert Daugherty. He speaks about control burns and the information you need to know as a citizen and best practices for our community. Join us! We are #BetterTogetherWatonga

Can you still feel the Energy? It’s palpable! In today’s City Manager Minute Podcast, you host, Watonga City Manager Karrie Beth Little, WEDA coordinator, Kim Jenkins and myself, BrandLogix Mobile Marketing Teresa France, chat about March 2024 in Watonga Oklahoma and the upcoming Events planned for our city. We still feel the energy felt at the Community Dinner, “Leap More for 2024,” held at the Foley building last Thursday. If you missed it you missed an incredible evening; great food, incredible speakers, fellowship with conversation and you also missed the winning announcement of the “Watonga Lifetime Citizen Award.” Listen to the podcast and find out who was honored and all this persons contributions to the community of Watonga; and who also said “You can achieve anything when two people come together!” Listen to The Watonga City Manager Minute Podcast today! #BetterTogetherWatonga

In the Watonga City Manager Minute Monday Podcast, Host and City Manager, Karrie Beth Little talks about this weeks Community Events, highlighting the upcoming Community Dinner and tomorrow’s cooking class partnership with OSU Extension, Watonga Public Library and Watonga High School. Karrie Beth chats with special guest Friends of Roman Nose board officer, Mary Ann Teply about the upcoming March Trout Derby hosted by FORN and Roman Nose State Park. Don’t miss all the great details to enter for a chance to win a John Deere 8000 Watt Generator. You don’t have to be an angler to enter! So much great info on today’s Watonga City Manager Minute podcast. #BetterTogetherWatonga #RomanNoseStatePark #OklahomaDayTrip #FriendsofRomanNose #WatongaOklahoma #BlaineCounty #CityManagerMinuteMondayPodcast #TroutDerby

In this week’s Watonga City Manager Minute podcast episode; your host Watonga city manager, Karrie Beth Little, and BrandLogix Mobile Marketing Podcast Site host Teresa France, talk about the next few upcoming weeks in Watonga Oklahoma. There are some special event dates you don’t want to miss! We take a look back at the Community Cares Event this past weekend and the wonderful resources brought to our community and a quick look ahead this week. Don’t miss our short talk about these upcoming dates! Please reach out for Watonga City Mgr Min. episode ideas to BrandLogix Mobile Marketing at 918.884.5550 We are #BetterTogetherWatonga