Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome walkome, welcome,
and is the time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you Dryston's brought you in, parked by our more Knee camp at
funeral Home. And we've got the Kowana's in here. And I got to
tell you guys, it's a beautiful day to get to almost kick off May,
isn't it? It is BEAUTI And now we have Jim Sweezey. We
also have Wayman White, the club president. And we got a couple of
things going well. You guys never stop, we never stopped. We got
a lot of energy. Well, first things first, we got the we
got the golf course opening up, the mini golf that's right this coming Friday,
six o'clock, six BM Friday night will be open. It's our season
opening. This is great. And Jim, last year you were working on
the fairways like crazy. We were finishing up projects out there, that's for
sure. We had a new turf going down on a few holes after more
concrete work. So it's always new and improved every year. Oh indeed,
And this is a lot of fun. Not only do the kids have fun,
parents have fun too. Speaking and I'm a grandparent, I have a
ball. It's great for grandparents, parents, the kids, the whole family
family. You see a lot of smiles out there every time we go out.
We sure do. Now. Along with the beautiful setting that we have
out there at Soudent Park, we've got probably the nicest accommodations you're gonna find
anywhere around it. And on top of that, it's just it's fresh air.
Man, it's out there where it's nice and you got the evening air.
And we also raise a little bit of money, don't we that we
do. Yes, We've been operating that since two thousand and two and use
the proceeds for scholarships for high school kids, for our Fourth of July fireworks,
all kinds of projects to help the kids in the community. Now,
this is a great way to have fun and raise funds at the same time.
Way right it is it is, And it's a great place for birthday
parties. We have a lot of folks that call in and reserve the facility
for parties. We've got some nice tables there under the shelter of the roof
and they can have a birthday party and then go out and play miniature golf
and just enjoy that whole area. So it's really great. And all they
have to do to reserve the park and the golf course is to just call
in. That's it. That's it, and they'll give them a date and
if it's open, then they can reserve it and it'll be locked down just
for them. So it's a good private club and private place for a party.
A lot of corporate parties out there too. That's way here. Companies
go out and have a glass out there, just hanging out and relaxing and
having a good time. Do we have a wedding out there once? You
know? It? Was it this year? We've had one this year.
I believe that's pretty cool. Well, you know it. Welcome to America.
It's a great place to take care of it. Now. Another great
thing that you do, and this really brings a lot of different generations together.
That's the fishing derby out there at the at the lake. Yes,
at Joe Allen Park. Yes, since nineteen fifty one. Yes, it's
been a long time a tradition here in town. I can imagine he's a
youngsters going out with the maybe somebody that was around for the first couple.
Yeah, and we've had the kyption pointers. You know, we've had a
gentleman out there with is that I was a kid when this started and now
I'm bringing my grandkids out here to fish. So we've had those testimonies about
how long we've been there. That's this May eleventh. It's coming up the
Saturday, just a week from this Saturday eleventh or twelve. It's that a
week from this Saturday, so May eleven. Okay, wow, this is
going to be be big. Now what do we have to do for this?
You bring a ride and yourself and your kids, that's right, right.
We ask the kids to all bring someone with them, a family member
to be well. You got to say if somebody show off that fish too,
that's right, that's right. So that's all they need. We we
provide a bottle of water if it gets too warm out there. They have
a good time. We provide prizes for all the kids. We have trophies
for the longest fish in each category. We have three different age groups,
so wow, we get to compete against others their age and see who can
get the longest fish. So we've got a boy Scout Troops six will be
out there measuring fish. They're everywhere. Ye're helping, so it's it's a
good time for all. This is great. What kind of fish do we
have out there in the in the in the pod there are a lot of
sun perch, a lot of sun perch. There's some small bass and catfish.
There's three different categories. Occasionally we'll see big fish. Sometimes people bring
their fish they've caught in the lake and throw in there and we'll get a
surprise. Some of them catch a big one. So we've had some nice
catfish caught up there. Well, you know, those things will lurk around
for a while and you know, a point the hooks until one day you
got something that's almost as big as the kid coming out of the water.
A lot of excitement when they catch the big fish. Oh yeah, yes.
Now, registration for that starts at eight thirty that Saturday morning. They
can show up early and register and then the fishing will actually kick off at
nine o'clock. And we do ask the parents that come, We want them
to come and assist the kids, but we really want the kids fishing,
and it's all about them fishing and reeling in the catch and the excitement and
all that. So the fishing will start at nine and then go on till
eleven thirty, and then at eleven thirty. After that we call them all
back to the register and then award the awards and trophies, and then we
have gifts for all of the kids that have come to fish and they get
to pick out fishing tackle and stuff like that. So it's it's it's quite
a celebration. Well, that's really pretty cool, you know when you can
put generations together and just have that that bonding moment and just have a good
I tell you what, you can't go wrong with fishing, even if you
don't catch anything. You can't go wrong with fish, having a great time
just outside, yeah, and stinking of things going wrong. Occasionally it will
rain on us out there, so we did have a rain date in mind
the following Saturday. In case it does turn bad, we'll we'll let you
know here at the radio station that morning. If it does look too wet
to have it, or if there's too much lightning or something, well,
I'll be here taking your call if when that happened, so just call me.
We'll take care of it. But here's hoping that we can get it
off without it well, Hitch, we want you to catch m Yeah,
we're trusting for a beautiful day like even today really nicely. We're really proud
of Troop six. They come out and we have measuring sticks for each one
of them and we've got walkie talkies for them to communicate the fish and the
link the size and it's all recorded. So the Dewey Key Club will be
there for registration and recording all the fish and the sizes and the categories.
So it's going to be a great day. You got this thing button down
pretty good, don't you. A lot of kids looking for service hours and
everything else all kind of comes together. Does it's good to work together with
these other groups? Oh? Yes, it is. It is now when
we talk about the Quantas has a bit of a mission we do, and
our mission is servicing the children. The mission of the organization is the children
of the world. We are really focused on men string and working too and
four children of our community, and we have these events and things for them
to participate in. But we also like to recognize them and here it is
coming up the month of May, we'll be recognizing them with scholarships and we
have an event planned at sooner Junior where we're going to have the recipients come
and we'll be having a cookout and then giving the sophomores and seniors and the
eighth grade outstanding students awards and certificates and scholarships. Jim, you've been at
this a little while. This is labor of love for the most for all
the quanities, isn't it. It certainly is. We've got members that have
been in our club for over fifty years. We're all dedicated. We have
a mission to serve our community and to serve the kids of the area.
So these scholarships include all the schools in the county and yes, yes,
we like to reach out to the neighboring communities at schools and make sure those
kids are recognized. Also, now, when I was joking a little bit
when I said, you guys are everywhere, but you are, I mean
you've got the Freedom Past, you got fish and every You've got Christmas Parade,
you got the Christmas Parade and wow. And then in the meantime you're
planning for the next event coming up, and and also talking to new in
perspective, Kandians, where do you guys meet, Well, every Wednesday.
Currently we're at Tri County Tech. We are there from noon to one.
All right. Uh. If in fact because of Tri County spring break or
summer break or whatever and we're not able to meet there, we find a
location somewhere downtown, so we always are meeting every Wednesday. Now, how
do you get in? You have secret handshake? What do you yeah?
You know, we don't have a big hazing period or any Hey, welcome
anybody that has a heart for serving their community and serving kids. We would
welcome then to come and see what we're all about and and just join us
at noon out Try County Tech. That people at the front door let you
know which room to go to, and we'd be glad to let him see
what we do. Alrighty, and pretty much what you see is what you
gear all over the place that is just amazing. Everything that they you're able
to kind of pull together and draw the community together and then you know,
in the end share it with the kids. That's great. Yeah, great,
gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us today. You're very
welcome. Folks. You've been watching and listening to our community connection. How
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