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VOL 21 ISSUE 12
December 2014
TULSA
NE Oklahoma’s Leading Consumer Newspaper
Giving the Gift of Home Donating Dental Services Choices for Life Foster Care spreads the love of the season to therapeutic foster children during the holidays and year-round.
By Deanna Rebro
Many area children will not feel the love of a family this Christmas morning. They may have a tree to share with
others just like them, and they will have food and safe shelter, but they won’t have the special support and care they need.
Every day, Phyllis Bowen, supervisor/therapist, Choices for Life Foster Care, gets calls
Eastern Oklahoma Donated Dental Services provided $4.4 million in no-fee dental treatment last year to disabled and elderly low-income clients. By Duane Blankenship
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Choices for Life staff members (front row) Phyllis Bowen, Suzanne Cunningham, Beverly Litterell, (back row) Cynthia Stubblefield, Lisa Bohbrink, Keith Griffin and Kimberly Cardwell help children in therapeutic foster care become successful adults.
In 2003, after severing relations with D-Dent, an existing donated dental service organization based in Oklahoma City, two women representing the Tulsa branch came to the executive board of the Tulsa County Dental Society (TCDS) with a plea to maintain a Tulsa office and provide local residents with donated dental services. A task force committee was established to research the feasibility of establishing a new organization in Tulsa and to determine the demand to provide local residents with donated dental services. Michael A. Kincaid, DDS, was vice president of the TCDS and acknowledged that Tulsa should have an organization to administer care for resi-
dents 65 years of age and older who were physically or mentally disabled and financially challenged. After determining the overwhelming need for an active Tulsa-based donated dental services organization, Eastern Oklahoma Donated Dental Services, Inc. (EODDS) was established. The non-profit was formed to serve the eastern half of Oklahoma and was granted 501(c)(3) status by the end of 2003. EODDS Executive Director Michael Smith, PhD, says, “Running full speed ahead, the newly formed organization enlisted approximately 140 Tulsa area dentists volunteering to work in conjunction with EODDS (continued on page 24)
20 Years of Excellence J. David celebrates 20th anniversary in the jewelry business. By Duane Blankenship
Twenty years ago, Joel David Wiland and his wife, Kendra, started a jewelry business in their home. “We started our business with three rings, $500 cash and a lot of faith,” says Joel. “The first year we did $6,000 in gross sales. Yes, it was a ‘gross’ year and we ate a lot of macaroni and cheese!” Today the couple has two J. David Jewelry stores located in Broken Arrow and Tulsa and a Pandora store at Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa. The business is family owned and operated; their son Landon is the company’s marketing director. “Although we started with little,” says
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Eastern Oklahoma Donated Dental Services staff members include (L to R): Financial Department Manager Terry Hadley, Executive Director Michael Smith, and Program Coordinators Jill Ann Meador and Jade Ward.
Owner Joel Wiland and his wife, Kendra, opened J. David Jewelry 20 years ago.
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