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

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we can all scooched into the into
the camera just a little bit, that'd

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be great. There we go.
We got all the bright spiley faces here

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today. Oh my goodness, akes, Hi, I'm Tom and in his

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time now for our community connection right
here on K one, the one you

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trust. And my goodness, akes, we got a house full today.

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And boy, we're gonna have a
little bit fun talking about the west Side

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Community Center. And uh boy,
oh boy, oh boy, we have

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a big celebration coming up. Shirley, tell us what's going go ahead,

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I would love to tell you what's
going on. First of all, the

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introduce yoursel. Yes, my name
is Shavan Ogless. I am the new

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executive director of the Westside Community Center. And I am super excited because after

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a brief closure this Saturday, June
fifteenth, from four to eight pm,

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we're having our June teen celebration and
grand reopening. Nice. Now, how

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fun is this? What's to be
going on? What do we expect?

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So many great things. We are
gonna have free food, We're gonna have

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prizes, We're gonna have a dunk
tank, We're gonna have a inflatable kid

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zone. We're gonna have face painting. We're our very own Drew here,

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who is ten years old painting faces. You're gonna have too much fun.

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Yes, he was out at sunfestis
past weekend and he just had a blast

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doing it. But we have so
many great things going on with that.

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And then we have been surely here
because we are going to have voter registration

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for tribal members. We're part of
Cherokee Nation. You can tell us a

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little bit about how this is going
to work. Well, So the tribal

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we have very low voter registrations,
and so we thought that we would find

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all the freedoms out there that was
not voted yet and to get registered because

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they think because they are a member
that they're already registered to vote. Just

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because your memory, you have to
have registration. So at this time when

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we can registration for both, oh
great. So I'm really looking forward to

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that and working with so you can
mix a little fun with business, right,

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business with fun. Yes, that
way, it doesn't feel like you're

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going I gotta go registered. It's
like, hey, I can register the

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vote while I'm having them all.
Absolutely, you get to register the vote

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while you are enjoying free food and
games and prizes. We're gonna have cake

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walks and one of the funnest things
that I'm so excited about. Or we're

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gonna have a little mini car show
with corvettes ranging from classic corvettes to some

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of your newest corvettes that are going
to be there as well. Take my

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breath away. I'm a car officionado. My dad had a Corvette when I

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was a kid, and I've been
going to car shows with him all my

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life. So I tell kids of
all ages, even grown kids who love

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to see cars, please come out. There's so many things to come and

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see and do and have fun and
just celebrate the west Side Community Center reopening

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and learn about all the wonderful programs
and initiatives that we have coming up as

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well. Now this has got to
be from four to eight on Saturday at

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the west Side the Community Center.
Now you've been running it now for two

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whole weeks, I mean two whole
weeks, and the first time, let's

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have a party. The first thing
was let's have a celebration and a grand

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reopening. And so I just want
to commend each and every volunteer from the

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community has stepped up. The West
Side Community Center has impacted so many people

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over its eighty years of being an
exait yes in Bartlesville. Yes, And

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so people came from all over just
to make this event happen. And so

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two weeks we were able to have
this June teenth and grand reopening. That's

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a testament to just our volunteers and
the impact that it's had within the community.

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Well it is you know, I
will tell you the West Side communities

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that probably saved a lot of lives. I remember a couple of years ago,

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we had a colt snap that was
just ferocious and it wouldn't let up,

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and it warmed up and it took
it like a week and a half

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for things to warm up. And
they took in people and they turned that

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into a warming center and I and
I think I remember how it went.

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Not sure how we're going to do
this, but we're going to do this.

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We're going to do it, and
they did, and they did and

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they did well. And also this
has been a place of celebration for a

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good long time and many over many
many years. And it's a good place

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for recreation too for the kids because
you're always gotta find kids there. It's

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busy, absolutely when we have after
school programs. We're going to have like

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a summer fine arts program, robotics, We're going to have a game room.

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We have so many great things for
the kids to do. There so

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many initiatives for the kids. Yeah, so you talk about art and stuff

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like that, you're gonna be teaching
a painting class there on face. I

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don't know, you don't know,
Yeah, yeah, check on that.

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You may have been volunteered. Well, and they both painted faces. We

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have Drew who's ten, we have
Mia who's fifteen, and they were both

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painting faces. Even though at SunFest
and so both of them when they came

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in they were a little a little
unsure of how they're how they're face painting

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skills were. By the end of
that time, we had kids that were

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and happy with just with all the
different creations that they made for them.

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Well, I thought that was a
master class going on there, because I

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was there the whole weekend. There
are hardly anybody under the age of town

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that didn't have a painted face.
It's very much so, very much so.

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So some of those beautiful drawings came
right from our arya and they're going

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to be there on Saturday, June
fifteenth. We're going to have a big

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celebration there for the grand reopening,
and of course for travel members of Cherokee

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Nation, you can register to vote
while you having fun. You might be

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having fun and registering at the same
time. I've seen it done before,

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I think so. And at six
pm we will have a presentation for those

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people who may be driven by the
Westside Community Center wonder what was going on.

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At six pm we'll have a presentation
by myself and our board of directors.

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We're just going to let the community
know what the future is at the

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west Side, all the different great
programs we have for kids, for members,

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and also how volunteers can get involved. And we're also open for donations

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as well. You know, I've
seen positivity before, but I haven't seen

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so much positivity and concentrated in one
room like this in a law long time.

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And I'm old, you know.
So the kids are happy, you

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guys are bubbling. Everybody's ready to
go. The weekend's just about here.

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I mean it's Wednesdays. Some people
have already kind of mentally checked out,

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I know, And so this is
going to be a great one too.

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And the weather's going to be great. I'm looking at it on Saturday,

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gonna be mostly sunny. You want
to worry about rain, you want to

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worry about tornadoes, no hail.
Yes, So we're gonna have some sunshine

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and some fun. Absolutely. And
what's the cost. It is free for

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everyone to come out, free food, and we have prizes, cakes,

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silent auctions. I mean, there's
going to be so much stuff for people

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to do that you don't want to
miss it. Do you have a Facebook

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page that people can check in case
they kind of like forget you know,

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you heard about it, I want
to know more. Yes, it is

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w CC Bartlesville. So if you
go to Facebook dot com backslash w CC

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Bartlesville you will find us. We're
gonna find some of the silent auction things

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on there, you think you Yes, we were posted. If it's not

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on today, If it's not on
there right now, it will be later

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today. Oh great, that's going
to be wonderful. All the things that

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they can do, the silent auction
items, the different people that are going

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to be there. I mean,
yeah, it's ready to overwhelm you.

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What fun you're you're coming in on
this. You know, a day after

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pay day, plannings everything. You
know what I'm saying. I didn't know

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that, So that makes it festivities
even better. Oh yeah, it's been

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free even after pay day. Go
money. Well we're talking to silent auction.

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That's true silent auction. And then
you know we're always open for donations.

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Yeah yeah, I get turn that
away. If somebody's got like ten

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thousand dollars in the pocket, can
you put this to good use? We

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would put it to great use.
I bet you would, absolutely. Oh

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man, this is this is something
else. So we've got the voter registration

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for the tribal members. We've got
a big Old g teenth celebration coming up

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here, and it's all at the
West Side Community Center. It's the reopening

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after that brief closure. And yeah, folks were asking what's going on because

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they've cars and and they thought it
was closed well temporarily, and now it's

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opening reborn. It's reborn, and
that's what we want people to come see.

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We are rising from the ashes and
in a great positive way. Well

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I'll tell you what. I at
buy your enthusiasm. If you could bottle

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that, I'd buy case I need
some enthusiasm. Some days I'm sitting here

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going like, how do they do
that? You know? But that's wonderful.

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So if this is just a sample
of the fun that we're going to

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have on Saturday, everybody put it
on the calendar. Let's go four o'clock.

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Be there. Put it on your
dance and shoes or dentis shoes or

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flip flops or whatever you don't you
put on your dance and shoes. We'll

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have a live DJ outside and we'll
have actually like live music inside. So

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we have our local pastors, Pastor
David Stroup who's going to be playing the

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organ inside. We have Greater First
Baptist that's gonna come and sing. I

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think we have some great things that
are happening inside as well. Yes,

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I mean, whatever you want,
we have it. It's the place to

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be. I'm telling you, you
didn't miss said beat. We didn't miss

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a beat. This is pretty good
for two weeks in business. You know,

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folks are going to be paying a
lot of attention to you now.

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I'm just saying it, saying I
want to thank you for coming in and

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that are you going to be painting
at the at the festival? Maybe maybe

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you have to ask permission. I
guess she has multiple things. She's going

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to be running all kinds of things
that day, so painting faces, she's

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going to be selling t shirts.
I mean, we've got her busy.

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How to start him young and learn
to teach about commerce, communication, all

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of that great stuff and interpersonal relationships. Absolutely, my gosh, this is

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great. I like to add the
address is five for one South Bucy,

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Yes and those who want to know. And it's also right across the street

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from Magafy Mission. It is it
is. I keep seeing it out there

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in like this big old green open
space with basketball courts and the building and

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everything, and usually I smell some
food cooking, but when I've been by,

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but yeah, that's exactly where it
is. It is. But I

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usually just follow the fun, and
that's where it's. Follow the fun.

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Like we said, five on oneself
UC Avenue. You can catch us online

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at Wccbartlesville dot org to learn more
about what we have going on and all

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the great things we have coming up
as well. Okay, great, this

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is going to be wonderful. Follow
them on the Facebook. We're gonna have

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a little news story on this here
in just a little bit as well,

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and of course we will you can
always take home with you the video that

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you've been watching that's going to be
on Facebook Live for a good long time.

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And also you know, we'll just
keep in touch. We're going to

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have you in here pretty much on
the often. All right. I've love

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that we always have great stuff to
share to get the community excited about.

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Well, this is where we share
right here on Community Connection. All right,

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absolutely, thank you. You've got
to come back to all right,

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sure are you coming back? All
right? Over there? It is smile

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makes up for it absolutely. But
I also like to say we will not

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be turned away the homes that area
is that you filtered with homeless people and

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they will be accepted. Absolutely,
I don't want that makes that very good

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and they will be fair. So
when you say it's open everybody, you

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mean everyone. That's great. We
are Bartlesville is a multicultural hub and resource

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center and we want everyone to come
check us out this weekend to find out

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why. I like that. Yes, so you've got to come out and

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you got to do you got to
do your homework and have fun. Absolutely

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absolutely, So that will be when
they accept memberships there to be paid.

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They will also be given a free
T shirt. Absolutely wow, that's cool.

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All right, well, I want
to thank you all for being here

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today and being with us on our
community Connection