Watonga Community Corner

Happy National Donut Day! In this weeks episode we discuss all the summer programs the City of Watonga Library is offering to our community. Beginning today at 11:30 is Extreme Animal’s! We also share a wide array of topics including an upcoming community coffee at the new CTTC CDL training location, a Pet Adoption Event hosted at The Watonga Lumber and Hardware Store, special City Council meeting, offices closing for Juneteenth, and a huge upcoming 4th of July Celebration! Join us and get informed! #BetterTogetherWatonga

Watonga City Manager, Karrie Beth talks to Watonga Regional airport manager, Jena Ohman about the upcoming Watonga Regional Airport (JWG Watonga’s call letters) Fly In/breakfast May 27th. They also highlight and discuss the improvements over the last 6 years, including the AWOS Weather 3 System. This and other improvements that have been made to our Airport, and this past years appropriations made by a 2 million dollar grant to improve our new runway and the airports future plans. Also Karrie Beth updates us on the grand opening of “The Lookout!” Roman Nose State Parks new restaurant. The restaurant is set to have the Grand Opening Tuesday, May 23rd at 6pm. Saturday, there is also a Re-Opening of the Ferguson Museum #BetterTogetherWatonga

Karrie Beth and I chat with special guest, Watonga Community Library Director, Terri Crawford. Terri talks about her 30 years of service with the library, the upcoming summer programs for our youth and the ongoing adult programs and classes offered through our local library. Join us as we walk through 30 years of positive changes Terri has seen during her service to our community. Terri will be retiring from her duties the end of July, 2023! We will miss you Terri! Thank you for all you have done for our library and community! #BetterTogetherWatonga

Karrie Beth and I discuss the upcoming week and the future plans to improve and develop Watonga’s infrastructure and beautification. Did you know about Watonga’s trivia game? Listen to todays podcast for a little fun lighthearted conversation!

Todays episode Karrie Beth highlights this months upcoming city events, and discuss the positive outcome from this past weekends Watonga Bike and BBQ festival along with the success of the Watonga Community Banquet last week. Our main discussion covers setting the City of Watonga’s financial Budget, how the city of Watonga is funded and how Karrie Beth disburses each department with the funds.

In todays episode, Watonga City Manager, Karrie Beth Little chats with long time community member and former business owner, Mike House. Mike shares with us his perspective on life here in Watonga over the last 60 years and highlights his top three topics that he feels are the catalyst in building a better community. Listen as Karrie Beth and Mike dive into the discussion of infrastructure, commerce and what enhances community quality of life and what the city of Watonga have developed within our roadmap to achieve the goals in reaching and enhancing each of those key points. #BetterTogetherWatonga #WatongaOklahoma #WatongaCityManagerMinute

Watonga City Manager, Karrie Beth Little, highlights this week and this months upcoming citywide events. She also explains and educates on the changes made with our civic government, voted on back in June of 2019, from an aldermanic Government to a council- manager form of Government. Explaining that within this new form of Government, there are specific statutes in place over the execution of City of Watonga’s policies and procedures. Karrie Beth, along with detailing those statutes, also explains the city managers and city councils responsibilities and procedures. #BetterTogetherWatonga

Watonga City manager, Karrie Beth Little hosts special guest, Watonga City Clerk employee Debbie McGee. Debbie shares her perspectives on the city government and how these perspectives have changed since her role as a Watonga citizen to the newly hired city employee. We talk city government responsibilities; Debbie’s pulse on the positive changes over the last year and the overall ‘health’ of our city government. Episode you don’t want to miss. #BetterTogetherWatonga