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

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It is time now for our community
connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. We have
the Salvation Army in with us, and

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we have Luke Antonia swayin. How
you guys doing great? Yeah, well,

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first of all, welcome to the
community. Thank you, thank you.

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We're so excited to be here.
Tony, you're liking it here so

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far. It is now. You
came over from still Still Well this on

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the east side of the day and
you've made it all the way as far

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west as Bartleshook. Congratually. Yeah. Ye. The community has really been

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receptive with the Salvation over the years, very supportive. Yeah, and I

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understand. We have the Angel tree
coming up. We do. Yeah.

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Now we used to have like maybe
one or two. We've got a whole

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bunch of angel trees this year.
We do. Yeah. Our hope is

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we've talked with different community partners and
been very receptive, and so we're gonna

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have some angels, of course at
Walmart like we normally have, but also

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at a few other locations. We're
gonna have one at Snsion Saint John down

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in their lobby, the Rogers State
University Building Bank first and Trudy. So

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yeah, they're gonna have some other
options that might drop by and see what

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you see. All right, Tony, you tell us a little bit about

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our angels, would you? Our
angels? Yeah, and you know how

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do we identify our angels? Well, it is it's a program with one

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of our highest profile Christmas efforts.
It was the Angel Tree was actually created.

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I didn't know this until nineteen seventy
nine in Virginia at a shopping mall

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to provide clothing and toys for children
at Christmas time. It was a program

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where they got the idea the local
children were riding their gift needs on Hallmark

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greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. And that's how it came to be.

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And some people would stop buying,
get these these cards, and they

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would purchase these gifts and so you
know, and just carry it on and

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carry on. And today it's our
Angeletry program. Yeah, and it's been

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going strong for a good long time, for a good long time. Yeah,

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over forty years now. Yeah,
and yeah, my kids are I

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have something that are in their forties
and yeah, last one in sixteen,

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and it's a yearly thing we do
the angel shopping in every community we've been

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in. Yeah, it's been something
that we've done and the kids get a

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big kick out. Yeah they think
that, you know, that's probably just

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as cool as anything else at Christmas. Sure. Yeah. And if you've

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not done this with your family,
I invite you to do it because it

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turns into a nice little credition.
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So tell

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us a little bit about what we
got going on down at the Citadel.

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Yeah. So, you know,
early in the fall, we did applications

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and uh, you know, we
had tried to identify the families that were

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most in need, and so you
know, we've after going through that process.

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Of course, we also try to
there's other there's other places in town

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that were offering some similar things,
and so we try to make sure that

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we're not duplicating uh yeah, those
programs and yeah, so we uh,

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you know, tried to identify those
that we can help the most. And

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uh and we're coming up November the
eighth, we'll start putting out some of

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those those uh those trees up the
angel trees, and we'll uh we'll start

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hanging some of those angels on on
those trees. At location, and by

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November the fifteenth, we should have
all the angels out at all locations.

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Yeah, and uh yeah, and
then we'll we'll just check them every few

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days and see how they're being adopted
and and uh and taken in and and

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hopefully you know, refill those trees
and get this. This year, we're

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serving over four hundred angels in this
community, and so, uh, it

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takes an army, you know as
well, that's right. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, so everybody, everybody's going
to play an important part, Yeah

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for sure, Tonny. Tell us
a little bit about your new home down

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on Ucy. I mean, the
neighborhood's is really kind of nice. You've

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got a lot of neighbors and you
got a lot of just open space there

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too, as well as some businesses
and everything. But how do you like

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your your corner of Bartlesville. We
really like it. It's just you know,

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it's quiet, but it's a it's
just a really sweet spot to be

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in. We have the we have
the lighthouse across the street, and coming

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to neighbors, good neighbors, coming
to know them pretty well. They have

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come and visited our church on Sunday
morning, and so we're just you know,

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making relationships and uh, just wanting
everyone to know that we're down there

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and we're we're alive, and we're
well and we want to help. Yeah,

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you guys have a thing called an
auxiliary. I do believe, because

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I believe I run into the folks
whenever there's a need there there you don't

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even have to ask. See this
show up right, we do. Yeah,

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it's a wonderful group of auxiliary ladies. They are hard workers. I've

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I've never been a part of a
group like that. I'm really thankful that

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us coming in that we were blessed
with such a wonderful group of ladies.

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They have just came in and just
again, like I said, the community

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made us feel welcome. Those auxiliary
ladies made us feel welcome, and they

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have just come in and like,
whatever you need, we're here to help,

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and they've just been super supportive.
We're really blessed. You know,

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you think of the Salvation Army in
times of a real major crisis, but

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it's also the day to day crisis. The Salvation Army is there too.

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I remember running into the auxiliary when, of all things, it dared to

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get hot in Oklahoma. Yeah,
but it got unbearably hot for a good

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stretch, and they've provided bottled water
and a place to cool off for folks

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who were just being distressed with that
as well. But the Salvation Army works

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in so many different ways. I
understand. You're also helping out a little

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bit little co op thing with Mary
Mark their code drive that's going on right

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now, and you break there on
your website. Yeah, if you look

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real close, you can figure out. Ah, there you go. I

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can write a check in the kids, you can get a brand new code

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that's right. Yeah. There.
The coat drive is happening next week and

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I think distribution is gonna happen midweek
there hopefully if everything happens right. And

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yeah, there's there's a lot of
people who've been supportive and uh and uh

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and it's going really well. Yeah, of course. Yeah, there's always

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been amazing, has been amazing.
Yeah, they're they're doing a great job.

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And uh yeah, just thankful for
the community support. And just like

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you mentioned, yeah, there's always
the need for support financially, and it

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goes a long way, it does, you know. And when you think

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about, uh, when you give
to a nonprofit organization, how much money

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is going to administration. How much
money is actually going to the cause.

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Uh, you'll find it all,
but just have any fraction goes to the

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cause. When it comes to the
Salvation Army. Yeah, the Salvation Army,

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we do have several layers of accountability
that try to keep us on track

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so that we're doing the most good. That's our slogan, and that's just

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the most good. Not necessarily doing
most good better than anyone else, but

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just doing the most good with the
resources that we have that we've been entrusted

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with. And so that's you know, we've tried to hold ourselves accountable to

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that end. Yeah. I want
to get back to the angel gree because

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that's the big thing coming up here. Yeah, how do we go about

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shopping for the books? You've never
done this before? They want to start

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their family tradition. Yeah, that's
right. How do we do this?

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Yeah? So you know, just
those places that we mentioned, you come

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up and you can you can look
at those angels and you can identify whatever

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might fit your family. Each one
is a single child. Each angel represents

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a single child, and there there's
usually listed on there a wish and then

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some needs some clothing and perhaps betting
or something of that nature. And and

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so you would take that angel and
you would purchase those items and uh,

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and then you just return those items
to our location. They're on one on

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one more unwrapped one on one north
with the angel. You want to make

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sure it stays with the tag.
The gifts stay with the tag. It's

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very important important and uh and yeah, and those gifts should all be back

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by December seventh, and that gives
us time to to do all the sorting

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and be ready the next week for
distribution and uh. And so those families

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will all receive those gifts. Yeah, you know, the the kids have

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no idea they do. That's the
beauty. That is the beauty of it

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because they know, yeah, you
know, yeah, and they just they

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just know that it's Christmas and wow, look at this. That's right.

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One of our few rules is no
kids at distribution day. That way,

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the parents, you know, they
show up and they they're able to take

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those gifts home and wrap them themselves
and and uh and make sure that you

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know those gifts they they are they're
coming from mom and dad. Yeah.

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That that is really the nice little
secret. You know, we were not

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about telling secrets. But keeping one
like this is kind of important, right

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right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Salvation Army works so

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many wonders for so many different people
on a day to day basis. And

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you know, the citadel down there
has been there for a good long time.

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Yeah, it's in great shape.
And you have a lot of folks

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who are very very welcome and they
know exactly how the Salvation Army helps out.

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But there are other folks who say, well, yeah, I've heard

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great things about the Salvation Army,
but what happens if I need the Salvation

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Army? How do I go about
making myself known to that? How does

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that work? Yes, so you
can come by location. You can call

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us our numbers nine one, eight, three, three, six, six

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four five four. You can ask
for either Tanya or myself and we can

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try to talk you through the process. You know, the Salvation Army,

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we you know, there's certain core
programs that we do, but there's also

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other things that we try to you
know, yeah, we try to help

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out with and we we're you know, we're huge on partnering with other community

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organizations and example, Yeah, and
so whatever, you know, whatever we

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don't do, we try to point
you in the direction of someone else is

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doing it and doing it well,
because people are doing some really great things

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in this community and doing them really
well. And so yeah, just trying

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to partner with others. And now
our donations welcome. Donations are always welcome,

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say that ahead of the rad kettle. Yes, yeah, donations are

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all talking about that a little bit
later. Yeah, yeah, but donations

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are always welcome. You know,
the needs are higher than ever. Of

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course, everybody knows inflation, the
cost of living has gone up and uh,

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and you know, donations have kind
of plateaued, and so they haven't

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kept up with it with the growing
needs of the community. And so yeah,

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donations are always welcome and needed,
and so that we can continue our

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work here. Yeah. Indeed,
how long Tanya have you and Luke been

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doing this just with Salvation Army.
Yeah, we've been. We've been working

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in around Salvation Army since to sixteen
for me, in twenty fifteen for Luke.

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Okay, and so yeah, and
we've just you know, God's just

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brought us to this point. Now, well, that's great, it's great.

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You know, I love it when
we see the families of Salvation Army,

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no matter what town you're in,
you know, you're you goings see

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that welcome base and you see you
feel the warmth from the hearts, and

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you know that that is the Salvation
Army that you guys call it. Card.

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You know, it's like Saint Francis
of ASSISI once says, go out

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and spread the word. But if
you must use words, because it's the

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actions that are speaking, and it's
doing the will of God, it really

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speaks the loudest. Yeah, and
you guys do a great job with that.

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Yeah, well, thank you,
thank you. Well that's our hope.

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Yeah, it's to keep that tradition
going. Yeah, exactly. We

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love what we do. We do. Luke, what drew you? Well,

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honestly, my brother pointed me to
the Salvation Army. I was a

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in construction and uh and all the
things that come with construction as a functioning

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alcohol alcoholic. Yeah, yeah and
uh and and so I went to one

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of their recovery programs and that's how
I met the Army and just fell in

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love with everything that they stood for. And yeah, I met met,

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uh met the Army and just turned
my life around in a new direction.

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And I actually had several job offers
to go back into construction. But it

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just the joy that I found in
serving others far surpassed, uh that that

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the joy of making money. So
yeah, that's an amazing story. Yeah,

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in and of it. So yeah. Yeah. And Tanya, how

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long have you two been together?
Oh? We just celebrated the twenty third

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September was twenty eight years Wow.
We marriage? So wow? You guys

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are so young you got was this
one of these things that you know,

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Sweethearndergarten with the comic books up,
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We're so young. Yeah, but
wow, that is great any kids

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have three kids? Yeah? Actually
even you know, early on one of

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our experiences with the Army was that
we were actually recipients of Angel Tree.

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So yeah, it's kind of come
full circle for us. Yeah. Yeah,

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you have an amazing story, and
so does the Salvation Army. And

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you know what, we need the
community to come together here for Angel Tree

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like we've always done in the past, but this year it's a it's a

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bigger challenge than what we've had before. We're going to have to really pull

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together and pull this through and make
Christmas bright for every chance, right,

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Yeah, I know we will.
Yeah, I want to thank you so

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much for being here with thanks so
much for having, thanks for having Can

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you guys come back next Friday?
Well soon, yeah, pretty such.

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Maybe the seventeenth would be okay,
we'll we'll have you on all right.

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He Thank you very much for sharing
the great word of the Salvation Army.

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Thank you, thank you,