Bright Spots

The WesTen is grateful to volunteers from the University of Tulsa Alumni, Cristo Rey Catholic High School, West OKC Lions Club, Intrust Bank,  and Smith Farm & Garden who picked up 34 bags of litter. Our Litter Blitzes are about...

Urban Lawn and Landscape’s owner and WesTen community partner, Jeff Ebbs, was honored with the 2023 Morrison G Tucker Leadership Award from OKC Beautiful. Urban Lawn, under his leadership, works closely with OKC Beautiful and has provided extensive volunteer work...

WesTen District is honored to have Mr. Guatemala 2023 Cesar Reyes, who works at Homewood Suites, as a part of our community. Many of you may not be aware of the Guatemalan Oklahoma Pageant which seeks to promote culture and...

The Chuck House Restaurant, a WesTen Legacy Business, is giving away two dinners monthly in 2023.  Registration will be available on social media, at WesTen District web page and here. WesTen will draw a winner on the 10th of each...

In 2022, the Immigration Center at Western Oaks Church of the Nazarene (ICWO), located at N Council and NW 16, provided legal immigration services to 603 clients, which included Afghans and Ukrainians.  During the past six years, ICWO has helped...

WesTen’s Oklahoma State Senator Julia Kirt, formerly executive director of Oklahomans for the Arts, was the perfect person to provide a tour of the newly reinstalled art at the Oklahoma State Capitol.  The tour participants, WesTen residents, were the winners...

It is good to know the history and beginning points of places in the WesTen District. Capturing part of the West Side Lions Club’s, a LONG Time community partner, beginning was on May 13, 1952 when Lion’s Club president Preston...

The Moesel Family has a long personal and professional history in west Oklahoma City.  In 1963, Marjorie and Dick Moesel purchased Alex’s Florist and Greenhouses at 4315 Northwest 10th (currently O’Reilly Auto Parts) which became the iconic Moesel’s Hort-Haven, well...

WesTen has the opportunity to serve our “neighbors”, in partnership with ROC (Reaching Our City), by helping sponsor a Thanksgiving in a Box for $60 per box.  This initiative provides groceries for a home cook Thanksgiving meal.  Each box contains...

In a detached backyard garage in the mid-1950s Joe Taylor began working with primitive homemade equipment and developed one of the nation’s first EPS fabricators.  Over 70 years later, and incorporating in 1972, Taylor Foam is celebrating 50 years and...