HEALTHY COMMUNITY....Lunch & Learn is just around the corner and your business, church or community organization is invited to attend.  Join the Ponca City Healthy Community Coalition (did we mention Ponca City is a certified healthy community?) on Thursday, August 7th at 11:30 a.m. in the City Commission Chamber at City Hall.  RSVPs would be appreciated as a free lunch will be served.  Just call the Chamber of Commerce at 765.4400 to reserve a seat at the table and become an active member of this healthy community.     

THIS WEEK...It's great to watch construction take place in front of your eyes. It's not as much fun as when it is happening indoors and you can't see it. That's what is happening at Log10. Interior improvements were carried out this week including office improvements, the start of a new lab and other things. If you want to drive by and ooh and aah, that's up to you 'cause it still looks like the same metal building from the outside. PCDA was also in several companies talking workforce and hearing about the lack of housing (see story above). Three (at least) are trying to hire a lot more people but they may hold off due to the lack of housing. PCDA has written notes using terms like "concerned" about the lack of housing and "would grow more" and so forth to show housing developers (see above, is there an echo?). We did a lot of marketing on the Sykes building this week, meeting with the question "and just who is going to fill those jobs?"  

DID YOU KNOW.......road trips are important.  PCDA staff packed into the car on the only sunny day this week and went and checked out land holdings in the Ponca City area.  Maybe "field trip" is a better phrase to use since we were essentially checking out large land parcels (fields).  Why were we conducting such trips?  Being good stewards of available land as well as keeping up with available buildings is how PCDA staff stay "in the know" when asked that all important question "What commercial land/buildings are available for my company to lease/buy?"  And we get these calls pretty frequently nowadays.  For those wanting to also know what we know, when we know it, check out the GoPonca.com website for all that we know about available properties and land.  Because you know, you want to know; ya know?