Editor’s Note: October

This month, Ponca City Monthly is helping Ponca City Main Street kick off a new annual tradition by highlighting five young professionals who are helping progress our city forward. The five selected are leaders in their respective fields of technology, construction, social services, film making and energy. Our exclusive feature story on the “Five Under Forty” provides an indepth look at who they are, what they do and who has helped them become who they are today.

It’s important to recognize and celebrate innovation. But more importantly, to try and understand what factors helped shape the innovators. The old saying, “It takes a Village,” is true.

A few months ago when Ponca City Monthly agreed to feature the “Five” on our cover, I did not know I would be among them. I’m so glad I could check “grace the cover of my own magazine” off my bucket list, and get it out of the way. I’m truly honored to have been selected, and I’m already looking forward to next year’s group.

Ponca City is blessed to have so many people working toward a unified goal and investing in the future of Ponca City.

Sincerely, Kelsey Wagner Editor-in-Chief Ponca City Monthly

Editor@poncacitymonthly.com