Where: 6609 S. Chestnut Avenue, Broken Arrow (directions below)
When: Friday, June 11, 2021. Social hour starts at 7PM, meeting starts at 7:30
CDC Guidance: No special precautions will be required for this meeting.
Meeting Agenda:
- Comments by President
- Vice President’s Report (if any)
- Treasurer’s Report (if any)
- Ritual Questions…Did you sell anything? Publish? Get paid? Submit? Get a good Rejection? Write? Have a GPIC-related item or other news? Bring anything to read?
- Member Readings. We try to give priority to people who brought something to the most recent in-person meeting but didn’t get to read.
As a reminder, our by-laws say that members should try to limit individual readings to 30 minutes or less. The President will keep track of the time and advise when 30 minutes have elapsed. At normal speech rates, you can read about 3900 words in 30 minutes. We will also have a short discussion after each reading. These generally run 10 minutes or less. Remember, the longer you read, the fewer people get to read. Our meetings generally end between 9:30 and 10:00 PM. If everyone takes 30 minutes, we will likely only have time for three or four readings.
As hosts, we will provide soda, wine spritzers, plastic plates, plastic flatware, plastic cups, and napkins. I expect to provide a couple of hors hors d’oeuvres. For sodas, we will try to have refrigerated Coke Zero, Real Coke, Real Pepsi, Real 7Up, and diet 7UP, although availability in stores of some of these has been sporadic. Coffee, including decaf, and espresso are available if anyone wants either. If we’ve missed your must-have soda, let me know and we’ll try to get it for you. We’d be grateful if someone would bring ice, although ice is available from our refrigerator door. We have a small cooler available if needed.
Directions to 6609 South Chestnut Avenue, Broken Arrow.
Take the Creek Turnpike to the Aspen Avenue Exit.
Go SOUTH on Aspen Avenue approximately 0.3 miles to the stoplight.
At the light, turn RIGHT (WEST) onto Tuscon/121st Avenue.
Turn LEFT (SOUTH) in 0.2 miles onto Chestnut Avenue–the first street on the left. The name of the subdivision is the Reserve at Spring Creek.
6609 South Chestnut is about 0.1 miles on your left.
Alternate routes that avoid the Turnpike.
From Midtown.
The simplest route from Midtown is to get on Riverside heading south and stay on it. South of the Creek Turnpike, it makes a long, gentle curve to the left and eventually becomes eastbound South 121st Street. You can follow this all the way to our subdivision, a little over six miles after the street becomes east-bound. From Memorial Avenue, it’s 3.9 miles to Chestnut Avenue and our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. Turn south on Chestnut, and our home is on the left after about 0.1 miles.
Many Tulsa streets also connect through to 121st Street, and so there are variations of this route depending on where you connect with 121st Street. Yale, Sheridan, and other streets further east all continue to 121st Street. Note that Harvard and Lewis dead-end and do NOT connect to 121st, while Riverside actually becomes 121st Street.
From the north via 169.
Get off 169 at 91st Street. Go east about 2.5 miles to Aspen/145th Avenue and turn RIGHT (SOUTH). Continue south on Aspen 3 miles to 121st/Tucson Avenue. Turn RIGHT (WEST) on Tucson, then in 0.2 miles turn left onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 mile on the left.
From Keifer/Glenpool
Take 67 east to US 64 (Memorial Avenue) in Bixby. Turn LEFT (NORTH) on Memorial and proceed north 3 miles. Turn RIGHT (EAST) on 121st Street/Tucson. Continue 3.9 miles to our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. At the subdivision, turn right onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 miles on the left.
Street Names in Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow and Tulsa are now adjacent to each other, but this wasn’t always the case. Because of this, their street names are different. To help with way-finding, Broken Arrow has given most major streets two names. One is the traditional BA name, and the other is the corresponding Tulsa name. Most–but not all–street signs in Broken Arrow show both names. For the purpose of these directions, here are the dual names you need to know:
Tucson Street in BA is also 121st Street South.
Aspen Avenue in BA is also East 145th Avenue.