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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome moncom.

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the one

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you trust. Something spectacular is in
the air, and here to tell us

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a little bit more about it,
we have a Larry Thrash and kristin current.

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How are we doing, Key,
it's very good for having us back.

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Well anytime you know who. The
door's always open. Christ And how

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are we doing so far on the
Sports Spectacular event? And doing great?

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We are close to sold out,
so we're It's a fun event. People

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look forward to it every year and
if you're interested in going, I would

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just say get your get your tickets. Well, where's the big she bang

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taking place? It is at the
Hilton Garden in Saturday August twenty six,

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so last Saturday of this month,
and it'll be at six pm. Larry,

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who do we have doing the speechifying
where we actually had some great timing

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this year. I'll pay people know
what Oral Roberts University did in baseball taking

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their team to the College World Series
and doing well there. And so this

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year we have the ore U baseball
coach Ryan Former and also one of our

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locals, Tim Johnson is the Athletic
director there at OREU, and so he's

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going to also speak, So we
get kind of double teaming this year and

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excited about it. We've usually done
os U, o U, K State

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a lot of different ones, and
this would be the first time that we

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kind of highlighted OREU and it's just
perfect timing with what they've been able to

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accomplish. Indeed. Indeed, and
by the way, I understand, sponsorships

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are out just through the roof this
year because of all this. They are.

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Kristen has done an absolutely unbelievable job. She's double duty. She's our

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inner director this year, but she's
also been our chairman of the Sports Back

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Character for several years. And I
mean this year we've got some great sponsors,

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some new sponsors, and it's so
it's going to be a great event.

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Now, Christin this is one of
the biggest fundraisers, if not the

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biggest fundraisers for a very important little
service in our community that really does miracles

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for a lot of people. Right. Yeah, So we've been around.

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Next year we'll be our fiftieth year
here in town. So we do counseling

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services for really anybody, individuals,
children, couples, families. We partner

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up with you know, businesses,
EAP programs, things like that. So

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now Samaritan Growth Counseling in Growth Center
is a place where folks have any walk

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of life can really get the help
that they need. Sure, Sure,

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and we this fundraiser is a big
reason. You know why we offer fundraisers

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like this is to help people,
you know, based on income, if

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they can't afford counseling. We never
want to turn people away. So United

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Way is a big supporter of US
grants. Fundraisers such as this really helpful.

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Now, Larry, you've been with
this for a while and you've been

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through a lot of different fundraising efforts
into one fashion or another or at all,

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but it still comes down to the
person. Yes it does. And

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you know this fundraiser has been one
of the most fund over the years because

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it's very casual. You wear your
sports attire. Thanks is going to service,

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a great meal and great speakers,
and we've got some tremendous live auction

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items this year. We've i know, we've got a couple of week long

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trips to some great to Burma and
North Carolina. So we've got some great

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trips lined up we've got where you
can go down and drive a NASCAR car

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down in Texas at the Texas Motor
Speedway. So we've got a lot of

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things that are kind of sports related
and we've got to I think we've got

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over fifty silent auction items this year. Yeah, who's your auction near This

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year we have Rogers Kelly well cooling
back. He always does the auction for

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us. Yes he is, so
he'll be back this year for the live

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auction. This is great and the
silent auction. Can we do that online?

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Is that something that we can particularly? So we we post kind of

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teasers some of our items online.
Some of our events we've done online.

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This one is in person, so
we will have the bid sheets out and

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give you know, about an hour
and a half at the beginning of the

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event to just kind of mingle around, grab a drink at the cash bar,

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say hi your friends, and bid
on some items. I know this

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works like you take a look at
it, you said, gotta have it,

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gotta have it, you know.
And again, the one of the

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things that makes us different is our
tickets or a lot less expensive than some

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of the other fundraisers. Seventy five
dollars for great time, a meal,

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great entertainment, and potential to buy
something you really really need or just really

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really gotta have to have. We're
gonna take a quick break and we'll be

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right back as we talk. The
Good Samaritan Sports Spectacular coming up here in

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just a little bit. And our
program here on Community Connection is being brought

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to you by Arnold Morton ne Camp
Funeral Home and Talk Grass Motors ten Howel,

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Arnold Moore and Kneecamp Funeral Home.
You have to start out giving comfort

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because your role has helped that person
walk through the worst day of their life

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and they're cutting on you and your
expertise and they trust you to get them

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through this. That's what we try
to do and do Exiting New Well walk

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hand in hand with our clients and
say, you know what, we've been

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down this road. We'll help you
down. Here's what we've learned, here's

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the benefit of our years and this. Let us help you with this.

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Do you have suggestions? Our job
is to relieve the stress so you can

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grieve and you can heal. And
that staff at seven ten South Dewey does

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a tremendous job of just putting their
arms around people and loving them. And

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they have one goal and that's to
satisfy the family and that final tribute to

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their loved one. It'll be all
right. We'll walk through this together.

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Arnold Moore and the camp you know
home seven ten Dewey, Martelsville. We'll

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walk through this together. Is it
time to start thinking about a new car?

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But the thought of dealing with the
large dealerships is just too intimidating,

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too confusing. There is an easier
way, tog Grass Motors. Tg Grass

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Motors doesn't play all the confusing games
a large dealerships play. Talk Glas Motors

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has continually been voted Bartlesville's best Used
Car. Dear year after year. Good

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bye tall Grass Motors today and enjoyed
looking at over sixty used cars, trucks

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and SUVs all price to save you
money. Tall Grass Motors Highway seventy five

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more in Bartlesville, and we're back
with more of our community connections that we're

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talking about. The Sports Spectacular being
put on by Samaritan Counseling in Growth Center

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right here in Bartlesville. And we
have Kristin Gurt Larry Thrash in studio.

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I want to get more into Samaritan
Counseling and Growth Center, Larry. So

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many people are help and it's like
the little miracles that we don't really hear

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about because it's very, very private, but their miracles all the same.

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Well, I believe over the last
few years, people have come to understand

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middle illness, Yeah, is a
thing, and it has less of a

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stigma than it did. Getting help
has less of a stigma than it used

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to have. And we serve out
nine hundred different clients and close to five

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thousand sessions one hour sessions, and
so you can see the impact. And

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when you impact the life of one
person, you impact the life of their

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family, their friends, and so
it has a multiplier effect that you know,

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you're not just helping one person,
and then as that spreads, you're

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helping the whole community become a better
place to live. Indeed you are.

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And Kristen during COVID, I believe
that Samaritan was the first in the state,

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if I'm not mistaken, that did
the telehealth sessions like right right.

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We rolled that out like right away, and we still offer telehealth today to

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some that prefer that option. But
yeah, just being able to kind of

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work with the needs of the community
and be able to support them as they

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need. And speaking of support,
this fundraiser does support the good work that

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happens every day, right and you
know so well, once again, what's

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the what's the date? The date
is Saturday, August twenty six and we're

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going to be at the Hilton Garden
in at six pm. Larry, we

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got some tickets available, I guess
we got a website there you could just

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kind of punch her in and take
care of it. We do. We

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have a few tickets left. Again
this usually it has in the last several

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years sold out, and so Kristen
can give us how to how to get

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your tickets, okay, or how
to sponsor. We're stay away for sponsors.

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Well tell you what you're going to
be seen by a lot of people,

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that's right. Yeah. So the
website for the event is www dot

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support Samaritan dot org. You can
go there, buy a ticket, read

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about the event, you can donate
online there, you can sign up to

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be a sponsor still and you know, if you're not available not in town,

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that's okay. There's still ways to
give and we might appreciate that.

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So I gotta tell you the website. It's it's really easy. So if

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you're not very comfortable with the computer, this one's not got a fool again.

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You're not gonna get lost and wind
up you know, someplace you can't

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get back. It's all right there, and it's kind of fun to look

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at. You see a lot of
people, like mostly your friends, having

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fun and one miss maybe you so
get picture. That's that's right. And

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I'm going to paraphrase Roger Skeney.
It's not what you're buying now what it's

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what you're giving to And I think
that's the underlying thing here, is that

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you're giving to help people get better. Indeed, and we're gonna do that

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with the Sports Spectacular once again in
August twenty six is going to be down

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at the Hilton Downtown and we've got
tickets available. Just go to the website

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there and we'll see there. It's
gonna be a lot of fun. I

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want to thank you both for being
here. Thank you, thank you.

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Yeah, thanks all radio station for
let us come on. Oh the door

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is always open. We do that
for our friends and neighbors, folks,

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and you're listening to give energy connection
right here on KAY one