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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in this time now for our community
connection. Brionna Razinski is here with you

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with the Bartlesfield Young Scholars. How
are you ready to uncork? I am

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ready to uncork, and I hope
that your listeners are too well. They

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should be by about now. By
golly. This is a this is a

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big fundraiser for young scholars. Absolutely, yes, Now tell us a little

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bit about this because I know that
your window to purchase tickets is running up

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like tomorrow, it is, yes, the window closes tomorrow, so this

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is your last chance to get tickets
for the Enquirk your support event. It's

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going to be held over at Father
Lynch Hall, Big Hall, huh,

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big hall, and we're going to
have four wines and four tasty tasty meals,

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so it's going to be an amazing
outing. And of course we have

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our silent auction event items. Huh. We've got some really good ones this

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year. You can actually check them
out already and start bidding online just by

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going to Young Scholars dot org.
My goodness, Aks, you got this

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all ready to roll and it's coming
up this Saturday, This Saturday, Yes,

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six thirty. That's when the door
is open. Yes, and we're

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going to lock you in at seven. I'm kidding, but anyway, it's

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great to tell me. Now.
Young Scholars is a name change from something

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that we've known as the Low Family
Young Scholars, which was a bit of

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a mouthful, but it was you
know, but that's that's the way it

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was. But now we've changed the
name a little bit, but it's still

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the same program showing a lot of
youngsters a lot of great benefits. Tell

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us a little bit about it.
Well, right now, we have thirty

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seven that are in our program between
sixth through seniors in college. We have

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had fifteen now graduate from college,
which you know, sometimes people go,

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well that's not a very big number, but if you know the history back

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in two thousand and seven when it
came to fruition, you know, the

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first group was in fifth grade,
So they were in fifth grade and they

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went all the way through our program
six seventh, eighth, nineteenth, twelfth,

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you know, all the way through
twelfth and then off to college and

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then our first graduates and so it
you know, those numbers are starting to

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grow each year, obviously, and
it's exciting to be able to be a

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part of these, you know,
students' futures and helping them be successful.

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One of the ways that you've had
this program really blossom and expand a little

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bit is your partnership with the boys
and Girls now Big Brothers, Big sit

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Arlene's out there, Big Brother's Big
Sisters right here in Bartlesville, and it's

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a mentoring program. And this is
very much about what you you're doing.

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Yes, so, Big Brothers,
Big Sisters is our community partner. They

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help us with, you know,
being able to do background checks, making

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sure that our students are right,
you know, our safety first for our

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students. You know. We but
we are definitely looking for new mentors.

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But more than anything, we're looking
for a few more people to come join

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us at an event. We've got
a guest speaker coming, one of our

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former students. Well, this is
going to be good. Yes, yes,

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so, I was on here the
other day talking about it. But

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for those that didn't hear it,
we do have a college student it's going

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to come back and kind of talk
about his impact from the program. And

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we're looking forward to a fun,
lively night and hopefully you can join us.

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Tickets are one hundred dollars each Again, you can call me at nine

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to one eight seven six six six
six seven five, or you can go

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online to purchase tickets at Young scholars
that's plural dot org. Wow, this

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is going to be incredible. Now
there's a theme to this. Yes,

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this is Ireland, something special from
Ireland that can be bidded on. So

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oh yeah, well I guess I'll
have to go online here in a second.

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See what that's all about. Yes, yes, and you don't have

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to attend. If you can't attend, you know, you can still bid

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on those items. All of that
money goes towards our program to help us

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pay for these programs that help expand
the life skills of these students. It

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also helps pay for the scholarships.
So yeah, but if you're going to

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bid, you might as well go
to the Oh yes, it's going to

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be so much fun. And I
would love to meet you when you get

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there. And well, this is
really going to be a f ambulous night.

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Uh. You know, Father Lynch
Hall is is a very good sized

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hall, so we're gonna we have
plenty of rooms, so don't worry about

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being cramped. I don't think that's
going to be a problem, but we

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are going to have a lot of
fun. And of course you are going

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to hear from a student that is
going through the entire program. And I

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think that's going to bring a great
deal of understanding to a lot of folks

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who are kind of hearing about this
and saying, hey, this sounds pretty

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good. Well you're going to hear
You're going to hear a success story from

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a successful student. Yes, that's
really going to be kind of cool.

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Yeah, because our mission is to
help students go to college and earn a

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degree and not you know, to
better their lives and to improve their chances

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out in the real world. And
so oh yeah, those are you know,

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our goals from the from the organization, the very bottom, you know,

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message is that we want them to
go to college and be successful.

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Now, when when you're you're a
child, you're fifth grader, sometimes you

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the idea that, well that college
sounds like a great thing. But I

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don't know anybody who's been to college
except my teachers. You know, there's

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nobody in my family it's done this. You know, this is going to

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be a road to maybe a little
too far, and kids sometimes kind of

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put that off to the side thinking
that it's not a realistic goal, and

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that's not true here. No,
every kid can go to college and every

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kid can be successful. You know, we surround them with a bunch of

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people and resources to help, you
know, provide the opportunity and to provide

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that you know, structure on how
to get there. So, yes,

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that is very important. Well,
being the oldest in my family, I

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got to tell you my parents did
not attend college, so I had no

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idea what I was getting into.
Boy, if this who had been around

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when I was young, But you
know, I muddled my way through and

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got through. But boy, sure
would have been a lot easier had to

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program like that been around, and
now that it is around. If you're

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a parent, yes, who has
a student that's showing a great deal of

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promise. This is something you need
to really kind of get on the stick

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and get integrated on. And we
don't want anybody to be screwed of it.

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It's not like your fifth grader has
to know mechanical engineer when they grow

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up. You know. In fact, we challenge our students to come up

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with every year maybe what they would
like to be, and then we get

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to send them to camps so that
they can I didn't know. Oh yeah.

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So for example, I had a
little guy in our program. I

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say little. He's actually bigger than
me, but a little guy in our

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program here and I'm five eight,
so I'm not a short person. But

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a little guy in our program.
And he thought he wanted to be an

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engineer. So we sent him to
an engineering kind of summer camp and he

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came back and he goes, that
was fun, but I don't want to

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do that, And that's okay,
because well, at you know, now,

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yeah, exactly, we want to
send you off having ideas of what

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you want to be so that you're
not changing majors and costing yourself more money.

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And so we give these students plenty
of opportunities to explore what kind of

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fields. They do internships, they
get to do different things that kind of

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give them the knowledge that, yeah, you know, I think I want

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to be a vet. And then
you get there and you're like, yeah,

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this is really what I wanted to
do. You know, I thought

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maybe it was, or maybe it's
like, yeah, I didn't know I

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was gonna have to touch snakes or
you know, I mean personally for me,

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but you know, this is great. You can explore, you can

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figure it out, and you've got
mentors there that serve as guides. It's

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just you on your journey. And
that's the beautiful part because you know mom

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and dad want to be there with
you too. But if they don't know

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the road, yes, you know
they're going to be the best guide they

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can possibly be. But to have
those mentors who've been there, done that,

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got the T shirt, Yes,
that's money in the bank. Yes,

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absolutely, talking about mentors, we
definitely are looking for mentors that you

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know, you're thinking about how waste
that you can get back to your community

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and maybe you know, improve somebody
else's life. And yeah, you have

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been to college and you know how
to you know, go even if it's

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been twenty or thirty years old,
how to you never forget how to go

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on and get your bursar's account set
up and find out how to get the

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maps of the university and walk it
and figure out you know, how to

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get from class one to class two, and you know things like that setting

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up your dorm and you know,
we give money to help set up the

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dorms, and we you know,
we have a lot of helpful resources we

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have scholarships so that you can potentially
go to school for zero dollars. And

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there's even you know, at RSU. If you attend to RSU, which

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is one of our endowed universities,
we have students that they pay the student

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to go to school. They give
them a twenty three hundred dollars check every

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summer because they have gotten all of
the credits that they need, they've gotten

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all their scholarships, and it's just
money out there. Wow. Okay,

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okay, now you got mom and
dad paying attention. Yes, and now,

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if you are interested in making sure
that the children who are our future,

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they're coming up behind us, they're
the ones that are gonna take care

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of us in our old age,
this is something that you may want to

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investigate a little further and try to
get yourself involved in. And the best

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way to do it is by having
fun. Coming up this Saturday night,

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Yes, please come out this Saturday
night. You know, one hundred dollars

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will get you that ticket, get
you a lot of fun for four glasses

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of wine and some really delicious food. And on top of that, you

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know you're doing something great for a
gaster who could really use the help.

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Absolutely, good gravy. That is
awesome. Let's write a success story to

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coming up Saturday night. Let's do
that, and then we're going to hear

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a success story too with one of
the speakers who will be a student that's

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gone through the entire process. But
you can start your journey into being part

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of the success with your financial support. And if you're so moved to be

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a mentor, well, you know, Brionna can help you out there.

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That is for and we can get
things underway here to ensure that more kids

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have this valuable resource in order to
get their future started. Yes, goodness,

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Okay, what's your website again?
It is young scholars dot org.

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That's it. That's it. Wow, yeah, not too complicated. No,

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good, because which is good?
Kis centering. The other day I

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just drew a blank and forgot it
all of a sudden Young Scholars dot Org

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on the radio. You kind of
go, oh no, I just thought

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that was me. No, no, you know this is this is always

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a good dialogue that we have when
you come here and you give us the

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information and of course the tickets.
The tickets are available through the website.

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Correct, yes, absolutely, and
you know, thank you for helping us

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reach the public and you know,
get our plea out there that we've got

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some young ones and we are seeking
to help them be successful in their future.

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Rihanna, thank you for being