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Two principals at EPIC Charter Schools are the driving force be-
hind more than $10,000 in donations collected to provide 640 meals
to frontline medical staff at 13 hospitals and two EMSA sites in Okla-
homa.
EPIC principals Lealon Taylor and Tonya Mann had the idea
when they learned a colleague’s wife, an ER nurse, was struggling
under the weight of long hours and intense working conditions amid
the coronavirus pandemic.
“We wanted to do something nice for her and her coworkers, who
are under a huge amount of stress and working incredibly long hours
right now,” Taylor said, adding that what started as a small gesture
of 19 meals quickly grew once the word got out to other EPIC em-
ployees. “It just grew from there and morphed into something quite
special.”
Meals and beverages were provided by locally owned restaurants
and bakeries across the state and distributed to healthcare workers in
Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Muskogee, Lawton, Norman and Ponca City.
The following restaurants provided food for the effort:
Oklahoma City: Rococo; Tulsa: Trencher’s Deli; Norman: Aunt
Pittypat’s Catering; Lawton: Mike’s Sports Grille; Ponca City: Dan-
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Frontline medical professionals at the following healthcare facili-
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ties were recipients of meals:
Tulsa: Ascension St. John Medical Center, Oklahoma State Uni-
versity Medical Center, Saint Francis Hospital, EMSA; Ponca City:
AllianceHealth; Muskogee: Saint Francis Hospital; Lawton: Coman-
che County Memorial Hospital; Oklahoma City: SSM Health Saint
Anthony Hospital, OU Medical Center, Community Hospital, INTE-
GRIS Baptist Medical Center; Norman: Norman Regional Health
System, J.D. Mccarty Center.
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care for frontline essential employees when they need our support is
part of our school’s culture.”
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