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

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It's time now for our community connection. The little thing we call city

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matters because of it matter to you, it matter to the city. Billy

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Rone and is here and she's as
city councilor, and by goodness sakes a

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lot going on in our community.
Oh my word, that's to put it

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mildly. Well, I think we're
going one hundred miles an hour, Like

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we were talking earlier, I think
once we get back to school September and

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October, we try to cram everything
in there. Well, the weather gets

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nice, that's true, so we
can get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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Indeed, I mean we're going one
hundred miles an hour all over the city

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and every area. Big discussions on
water. What are we doing here?

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Well, you know that is the
Water Commission is back up and running.

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That you talk about a great group
of individuals, very knowledgeable. We have

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folks on there who have been through
two thousand, two thousand and one haven't

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been so helpful. And so we've
met twice and we will meet one once

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again before the council meets to make
a recommendation to the council and so as

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you all have reported, you know, we have three distinct recommendations that I

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believe we're going to go to the
council that have to do with Huti Lake

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and Copan Lake in uh doing a
reallocation of the flood control by ten percent,

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which will add let's see here it's
a pretty good water yield ten million

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gallons per day and then twelve point
five million gallons per day. And of

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course Copan Lake. We're all brained
for Copan. You know, they need

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some rain and we need a rain
cloud right over there right now. I

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think toy much about that exactly.
And so and then also what's really interesting

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is about ada AMusA, that particular
aquifer which is in O Sage County,

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which not much is really known about
the extent of it. And so for

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a price, we're going to do
a water well survey and see if we

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can find out how deep that is, how far that goes the state of

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that and so that might be another
opportunity that working together with those Age County,

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that we might be able to find
another watershed. And and of course

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aquifers are amazing. I come from
western Oklahoma, and that's really what saves

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the little town that we lived there
was the aquifer, and so that's something

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else that they're going to look at. And whole state of Nebraska is quite

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thankful for an aquifer. The one
about the size of a great lake consunder

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all that farm grounds, yes,
absolutely so, yeah, those we yet

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we won't know till we take the
survey, that's right. And then of

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course we were at sixty five point
seven I think percent Monday, but Hill

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the lake is still at ninety around
ninety eight percent full, so which is

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kind of our immediate go to right
now, that coming through Hudson, and

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so very grateful for that that's still
holding in there after that amazing, miraculous

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twenty four hour fill up we had
there last month. That still it's uh,

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that was quite a feat. So
we're also going forward on the comprehensive

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plan for the city. This is
something where everybody who wanted to could put

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there. They're a little two cents
in and those two centses added up because

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there are a lot of fine ideas
came from our citizens. Well, that's

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true. That was our strategic plan
just for the city that we did earlier

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this year, and the comprehensive plan
will is a much wider scope of looking

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at our city and looking towards our
future, looking at what we're doing now,

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and looking at what we've learned from
the past. And so today not

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only will we will meet on that. As a matter of fact, at

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nine o'clock this morning, that's another
group that's been pulled together out of City

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Planning, Community Development and then on
City Council to make some decisions about selecting

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a comprehensive plan developer. And so
we were we were given there. I

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don't recall the exact number, but
it was in the teams that applied filled

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out the application for that, and
then it was narrowed down to six and

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then we're narrowed down to two today
that we will hear in person, and

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so I'm looking forward to it.
The plans were amazing, the things that

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people have done in their cities to
help their citizens be well informed and really

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connected. There are a lot of
innovative ideas on how to do that.

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I think that's the most important thing, because when people have the information,

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they can make good decisions. They're
not looking at Facebook as this is the

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end all beyond, and you know, we all feel a lot more confident

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when we know what we're talking about, we know what's happening, and we

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have some input and so those are
all to me the most important things that

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occur for our city going through this
conference and plan. Now we have a

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new company that may land here in
Bartlesville. I'm kind of excited about that.

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It's called Blue Whale Materials. What
is this company and what's it all

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about? Well, I'll tell you. Even though we had a late night

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last night with a big meeting in
town, I went home and went to

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their website. I would encourage anyone
to go to that website if you want

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to see exactly the process that if
they do come through here. Excuse me,

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but they will about how that's going
to work. It's very very interesting

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and so you know what they're what
they do is actually recycle a small portion

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of recycling lithium batteries and there's quite
a process, but it's goes full circle,

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which is amazing to me. How
that's always a good thing to me

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that we're not throwing stuff in the
dump and uh, and so it's very

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interesting. They they what's what we
need is cobalt, nickel and lithium,

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and where our hands are tied because
of not having those available to us here

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in the United States, and of
course we have to go across the ocean,

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and I don't think we got to
keep doing that personally. So I

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like it when we can be self
sustaining. There is there's a certain a

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surety and being self sustaining. And
so the process they go through they do

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the just kind of like the beginning
and where they grind they first they discharge

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them and they grind them and then
they make black sand, which is those

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three properties, and that goes from
there to a refinery and that's where they

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begin the second step. And there's
like four steps to that process to come

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out with recycled batteries. And so
it's very very interesting. And of course

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you know, I've had several emails
and text messages late at night about what

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happened with the with the recycling center
in Tulsa due to one battery. Well,

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I would encourage people to remember that
wasn't a discharge battery. That was

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a battery that got into their their
recycling process by accident. And so this

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is a professional this is what they
do. It is living proven that's exactly

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right. This is a proven process
that they've used in Asia, and so

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personally, especially after doing some research, I feel very confident they know what

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they're doing. So we'll see what
will occur today. The meetings at noon

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in city Hall. It's a public
meeting. I would encourage anyone who has

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qualms about this or I would like
to address the council. There will be

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citizens to be heard opportunity, and
so I would encourage you to go to

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Bluewell Materials see what they do,
and then come today at noon. I

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mean, if you work, come
on your lunch hour because we have seating

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and we will be there. And
this is also the Bartlesville Development Authority and

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the City Council that will be meeting
together joint me. That's exactly right.

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Hey, we've got the return of
the fly in. Oh my goodness,

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this is super exciting. I am
privileged and honored to be on that steering

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committee. And I had met Kevin
and Matt. Kevin Connors and Matt Matt

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from the World War two airborne demonstrate
a team two years ago when they first

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brought this see forty seven here and
hangered it. They actually hanger that here,

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and it's a World War two plane
model plane and they have a school

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in Frederick, Oklahoma where they teach
World War Two parachute jumping, and so

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they actually use these planes to jump
from. And it's with the old static

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line if you. I grew up
watching war movies with my dad, more

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movies and westerns, and it's very
exciting. It will be very exciting because

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on Saturday at noon between twelve and
two depends on the air space, that

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they will actually re enact a World
War Two parachute jump. And so it's

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going to be very exciting to see
that in living color instead of black and

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white television. Wow. We it
is, yes, And so as well

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as we have a youth come like
an honor cores that will be presenting flags

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to the pair shoot jumpers which are
dedicated to our World War Two veterans living

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in and past in honor of them. So there will actually be a veteran

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ceremony at that same time to honor
our veterans in our local area. They'll

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also be set up a display tents
that will have the Women's Air Corps the

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WASP a very interesting display learning about
them and from what I understand, they

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will actually have a plane doing rides. We will have our history from our

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Barlswell History Museum. The presentation that
was done back earlier this year, which

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talks all about a lot about Billy
Parker, but about the airplane factory was

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here, what came out of that
for the United States of America during World

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War One, And so it's very
excuse me, interesting about the very rich

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history that we have in aviation.
You're going to see that as well as

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planes. Biplanes Blanca will do as
doing. They're flying in the same same

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weekend. The doors open at eight, they close at eight. It's ten

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dollars a carload. You can't miss
it, no, And I would say

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children and grandchildren, they need to
be there. This is going to be

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a We hope this is an annual
thing, but we know this year it

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will be the only place they're going
to be able to see such a display

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patriotism of all different kinds of planes
talked to the pilots. We will have

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food trucks and from what I understand
the Oklahoma Aviation Commission, they will have

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a table set up. They'll be
handing out toy airplanes and some things to

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the children. And it is going
to be a very very exciting time.

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And as I said, the flying
has not been here since two thousand and

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nine, so it is definitely a
back to Bartlesville and many many people in

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Bartlesville are excited about it as I
am. And you can go to our

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story on that at Bartlesville Radio dot
com because we have the list of events

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and of course all of the displays
and all of the participating I just said,

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the participants in this too, because
it's really going to be cool.

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Now, we do have some openings
at the city. We're going to go

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over that in just a moment.
For it's this word from Arnold morn Knee

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camp fun Well homemind gay one I'll
never forget this, called my freshman roommate.

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His mother called one day and she
said, Tim, and I can

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tell by her voice something wrong.
And I said what's wrong? She said,

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can you get my boy home from
California? He's passed away out there.

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And that crushed me, but I
said, I sure will, I'll

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take care of it. I said, I'll figure it out. I will

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get your son home. But that's
what you do when your loved one dies.

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Doesn't matter if it's three in the
morning. You call your funeral director

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and say, tim, my loved
one just died. What do I do?

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And I'll tell you one of my
greatest stories I could tell. Six

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o'clock one Christmas morning, a lady
calls me. She said, they came

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over to get my aunt for Christmas
breakfast and found her dad in her home.

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What do we do? I said, let me get dressed. I'll

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be right there and we'll just walk
through this together. It's gonna be all

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right. I'll take good care of
her. Years later, she told me

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that was the single most comforting phrase
you'd ever heard. It'll be all right.

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We'll walk through this together. Arnold
Moore and the Camp Funeral Hall seven

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ten Dewey, Bartelsville, we'll walk
through this together. And we're back with

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community connection. The city matters,
and we have city councilor Billy Rown here

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with this and councilor we've got some
openings at the city And this is really

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kind of cool because if you're ever
wanted to figure out how your city works,

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this is where you get in.
That's exactly right. You know,

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Bartlesville has twenty plus commissions, committees, trust authorities that are all citizen involved,

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and so it gives you an opportunity
to not only learn about how the

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city works together, but also to
be a part of making a difference in

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Bartlesville. OCA home a big part. And so we have openings on the

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Ambulance Commission, on the Bartlesville Library, Trust Authority, Community Center Trust Authority,

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the park Board, and street in
Traffic that I believe the new and

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I hadn't seen that one on there
before. But anyway, Oh, everybody

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exciting. That's right that I would
think that's do you know, I'm going

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to visit that because they haven't met
in a little while, and so I

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would think that's very exciting, and
especially with citizens input, that's really makes

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all the difference. I did also
want to mention Tom, you know,

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there is another activity going on Saturday, thankfully it's in the evening from and

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that's going to be going on down
at Unity Square and that is our It

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has a special name, which is
Community Fest. And so what's exciting about

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that? You know in Bartlesville we
have all kinds of cultures and of course

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food. I'm all about the food, you know, I'm fluffy. I

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like food, and so music and
it is just really a celebration in Bartlesville.

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In our community and it's diversity and
the different cultures that we have,

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and so I think that will be
a lot of fun. I'll encourage everybody

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to come out for that and uh
five, I think it's five thirty or

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five to ten something like that down
at Unity Square and that is after the

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Bartlesville fly in, so you can
you can do both exactly right. A

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packed weekend for sure. Indeed,
Hey, thank you very much for being

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with us today. Thank you,
Tom, I appreciate it. All right,

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folks, you've been listening to City