Volunteers, nonprofits add 200 trees to city

Thirty-five volunteers joined OKC Beautiful on Feb. 11 to kick off a project to plant 200 trees throughout downtown and midtown areas of Oklahoma City as part of OKC Beautiful’s Tree OKC program. This project is made possible through the nonprofit One Tree Planted, with funding provided by FedEx. To volunteer for this project and other initiatives, go to okcbeautiful.com. For more information, go to onetreeplanted.org.

Luncheon raises almost $400,000 for Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma

Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma’s Juliette Low Leadership Society raised $398,785 during its 19th annual luncheon Feb. 16 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Proceeds from the event, themed “Building Brighter Futures,” will help fund programming and scholarships to enable Girl Scouting across central and western Oklahoma.

Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of the award winning children’s multimedia company GoldieBlox, served as keynote speaker. Known for disrupting the pink aisle in toy stores globally, GoldieBlox challenged gender stereotypes with the world’s first girl engineer character.

Museum’s Renaissance Ball returns Sept. 8

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art announced the 47th Renaissance Ball will return from 7 p.m. to midnight Sept. 8 at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. This year’s black-tie gala will be chaired by Bobby and Meredith Wegener, and the theme will reflect the museum’s summer exhibition — “True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism.”

To learn more about sponsorships, contact Sara Miller at smiller@okcmoa.com or 405-278-8216, or go to okcmoa.com/visit/events/renaissanceball-2023.