SUMMER IS COMING.......and your economic development office is thinking call trips and upcoming conferences while the rest of you are thinking graduations (make sure to buy your gifts here in town);  And vacations (have you thought about a staycation?); and holidays (Ponca Lake is beautiful in the summer with the playgrounds, frisbee golf courses and the sandy beach.)   This week, PCDA staff attended Weld to Work, Kaw Lake Day at Dorada Foods, talked with inventors, congratulation Gatehands on being the newest business at the Pioneer Technology Center Incubator and wished many mothers Happy Mother's Day.  All of this information and more was shared with the PCDA Board of Trustees at the regularly scheduled Board meeting on Thursday. Other Good news shared included:  The Sykes road project and the Cookshack parking lot projects were accepted; Gatehands presented their high scoring business Pitch and the roof replacement bid for the PCDA hangar will go out for bid in June.  Hooray!  And there was much rejoicing.  Check out our week in pictures below.

THINK ABOUT INTERNSHIPS.....Is your company looking for some summer help around the office? Have a specific project that needs extra hands and brain power but you really don't need a full time employee or even someone for longer than a week or two?  Give Liz Pershing at PoncaWorks a call or e-mail.  There are students wanting to learn from YOU this summer.  Here is your opportunity to possibly recruit your next rock star and give a starving student an opportunity.  Well, they probably aren't starving. 

MAKE SURE TO....wish your favorite Mom, Mother, Mother in law, sister daughter, well, you get the idea.  Wish them all a Happy Mother's Day.  And remember to shop early, shop often and shop local for their gifts, cards and flowers.