Reasor’s is helping the environment and helping local children in need with their reusable bag savings program, which kicked off one year ago and has since collected a total of $22,052.65 for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.
The program is called Recycle Hope and it was created by Reasor’s to give customers the option of donating their reusable bag savings to the Food Bank.
All Reasor’s shoppers who use reusable bags for their groceries at checkout automatically save 6¢ off their total purchase per reusable bag used. Recycle Hope is a convenient way to pass along those savings to those in need.
“Our customers have really stepped up in a big way to support this program. At Reasor’s we want to be involved in opportunities like this when it benefits others in our community. We are committed to be involved in some capacity to help meet all of the needs of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma,” said Steve Lehto, vice president and chief operations officer of Reasor’s and CFBEO board member.
Recycle Hope proceeds benefit the Food for Kids Backpack Program at the Food Bank, which provides weekly sacks of food to elementary school-aged children who would have little or no food to eat on weekends. The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma currently provides food to more than 4,100 elementary school children a week in 8 school districts across Tulsa County.
In addition, the Food for Kids Backpack Program continues to expand to communities across the remaining 23 counties of Eastern Oklahoma the Food Bank serves with the help of Partner Programs. These Partner Programs provide sacks of food at their local schools to more than 3,100 children in their communities.
“Twenty- two thousand dollars buys a lot of food, and I love the fact that it allows even those on very tight budgets to help feed the hungry in our community,” said Eileen Bradshaw, executive director of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. This program has a big impact on the hungry, but a small impact on individual donor budgets- Reasor’s has come up with a great plan.”
The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is a non-profit organization founded in 1981. The food collected comes into the Food Bank, is sorted and boxed by volunteers, and then made available to their 450 Partner Programs throughout 24 counties in Eastern Oklahoma. These Programs include food pantries, emergency shelters, after-school programs, soup kitchens and senior citizen centers.
Reasor’s was founded over 49 years ago in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It was family owned until 2007, when Reasor’s became an employee owned company. Today, Reasor’s has 16 locations and two convenience stores with an additional location planned for 2012. The company employs nearly 3,000 people in Northeastern Oklahoma. Supermarket News ranks the company #34 on its Top 50 Small Chains and Independents in the U.S. for 2011.
World Net Daily’s Bob Unruh is reporting that a jihadi writer who has praised the murderer of a Dutch filmmaker is offering a suggestion to cut down on the criticism of Islam around the globe: Behead the critics and post their heads along roads. 
“While expressing respect for those calling to boycott European and American products over the release of the film ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ which negatively depicts Muhammad, Muhib insists that the best way to deter people from insulting Muhammad and his wives is to implement his proposal,” the terror monitor report said. 
Multitasking may be overrated. Dr. Clifford Nass of Stanford University has conducted research which indicates that people who are simultaneously working on two or more complex tasks are often affected by stress, irrelevant stimuli and lack of concentration. All these factors can combine to lessen achievement levels. This could be why I must choose to either walk or chew gum.
Seventeen nations have collaborated to develop a technological marvel called the James Webb Space Telescope. The huge device (21 foot primary mirror) is to be placed in an orbit approximately 930,000 miles from Earth in the year 2018. Astronomers are very excited and anticipate receiving data that should “inform us of many wonders yet unknown.” Gee, scientists have already discovered more stars than I can keep track of (over a hundred).
Today, the first application for the Tulsa Christmas Parade 2012 is being withdrawn. As the organizer of the 2011 Parade, I had continued throughout the year to plan, organize a volunteer team and prepare for 2012 event. We filed an event permit September 18. A day later, former 2011 committee members filed a separate permit and promoted to media a slanderous and factually inaccurate press release. The choice they offer is to battle or withdraw. For the best interest of Christmas, we withdraw.
An ownership dispute was declared at the first meeting after the 2011 parade when Mark Croucher revealed that, contrary to the instructions of the committee, he had registered the business “Tulsa Christmas Parade, LLC” in his name rather than listing all committee members. Thus, he asserted, that he alone owned the collective effort and result.
Croucher as a radical Republican is more comfortable with the John Birch Society and Ron Paul groups than with regular Republicans. There are more stories others may write about his campaign funding and integrity, but he is an insurance agent and used car dealer very angry with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act because it directly impacts his insurance business.
I was amazed as Huff revealed during committee meetings that he had once been a Radical Leftist and when speaking to a college group years ago, started just uttering Leftist phrases as red meat for the crowd. They loved it, he said, thus he said he learned it didn’t matter what he says. Some suggest that he is doing the same thing now on right-wing radio, but he does often reference himself as a Black Christian Conservative.
I sincerely thank the volunteers that were working in the 2012 Parade’s advance preparation. They are a great team and we will work together one day on another project. We withdraw our permit without compromising on any dispute.