Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection. The little thing we call city
matters because of it matter to you, it matter to the city. Billy
Rone and is here and she's as city councilor, and by goodness sakes a
lot going on in our community. Oh my word, that's to put it
mildly. Well, I think we're going one hundred miles an hour, Like
we were talking earlier, I think once we get back to school September and
October, we try to cram everything in there. Well, the weather gets
nice, that's true, so we can get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Indeed, I mean we're going one hundred miles an hour all over the city
and every area. Big discussions on water. What are we doing here?
Well, you know that is the Water Commission is back up and running.
That you talk about a great group of individuals, very knowledgeable. We have
folks on there who have been through two thousand, two thousand and one haven't
been so helpful. And so we've met twice and we will meet one once
again before the council meets to make a recommendation to the council and so as
you all have reported, you know, we have three distinct recommendations that I
believe we're going to go to the council that have to do with Huti Lake
and Copan Lake in uh doing a reallocation of the flood control by ten percent,
which will add let's see here it's a pretty good water yield ten million
gallons per day and then twelve point five million gallons per day. And of
course Copan Lake. We're all brained for Copan. You know, they need
some rain and we need a rain cloud right over there right now. I
think toy much about that exactly. And so and then also what's really interesting
is about ada AMusA, that particular aquifer which is in O Sage County,
which not much is really known about the extent of it. And so for
a price, we're going to do a water well survey and see if we
can find out how deep that is, how far that goes the state of
that and so that might be another opportunity that working together with those Age County,
that we might be able to find another watershed. And and of course
aquifers are amazing. I come from western Oklahoma, and that's really what saves
the little town that we lived there was the aquifer, and so that's something
else that they're going to look at. And whole state of Nebraska is quite
thankful for an aquifer. The one about the size of a great lake consunder
all that farm grounds, yes, absolutely so, yeah, those we yet
we won't know till we take the survey, that's right. And then of
course we were at sixty five point seven I think percent Monday, but Hill
the lake is still at ninety around ninety eight percent full, so which is
kind of our immediate go to right now, that coming through Hudson, and
so very grateful for that that's still holding in there after that amazing, miraculous
twenty four hour fill up we had there last month. That still it's uh,
that was quite a feat. So we're also going forward on the comprehensive
plan for the city. This is something where everybody who wanted to could put
there. They're a little two cents in and those two centses added up because
there are a lot of fine ideas came from our citizens. Well, that's
true. That was our strategic plan just for the city that we did earlier
this year, and the comprehensive plan will is a much wider scope of looking
at our city and looking towards our future, looking at what we're doing now,
and looking at what we've learned from the past. And so today not
only will we will meet on that. As a matter of fact, at
nine o'clock this morning, that's another group that's been pulled together out of City
Planning, Community Development and then on City Council to make some decisions about selecting
a comprehensive plan developer. And so we were we were given there. I
don't recall the exact number, but it was in the teams that applied filled
out the application for that, and then it was narrowed down to six and
then we're narrowed down to two today that we will hear in person, and
so I'm looking forward to it. The plans were amazing, the things that
people have done in their cities to help their citizens be well informed and really
connected. There are a lot of innovative ideas on how to do that.
I think that's the most important thing, because when people have the information,
they can make good decisions. They're not looking at Facebook as this is the
end all beyond, and you know, we all feel a lot more confident
when we know what we're talking about, we know what's happening, and we
have some input and so those are all to me the most important things that
occur for our city going through this conference and plan. Now we have a
new company that may land here in Bartlesville. I'm kind of excited about that.
It's called Blue Whale Materials. What is this company and what's it all
about? Well, I'll tell you. Even though we had a late night
last night with a big meeting in town, I went home and went to
their website. I would encourage anyone to go to that website if you want
to see exactly the process that if they do come through here. Excuse me,
but they will about how that's going to work. It's very very interesting
and so you know what they're what they do is actually recycle a small portion
of recycling lithium batteries and there's quite a process, but it's goes full circle,
which is amazing to me. How that's always a good thing to me
that we're not throwing stuff in the dump and uh, and so it's very
interesting. They they what's what we need is cobalt, nickel and lithium,
and where our hands are tied because of not having those available to us here
in the United States, and of course we have to go across the ocean,
and I don't think we got to keep doing that personally. So I
like it when we can be self sustaining. There is there's a certain a
surety and being self sustaining. And so the process they go through they do
the just kind of like the beginning and where they grind they first they discharge
them and they grind them and then they make black sand, which is those
three properties, and that goes from there to a refinery and that's where they
begin the second step. And there's like four steps to that process to come
out with recycled batteries. And so it's very very interesting. And of course
you know, I've had several emails and text messages late at night about what
happened with the with the recycling center in Tulsa due to one battery. Well,
I would encourage people to remember that wasn't a discharge battery. That was
a battery that got into their their recycling process by accident. And so this
is a professional this is what they do. It is living proven that's exactly
right. This is a proven process that they've used in Asia, and so
personally, especially after doing some research, I feel very confident they know what
they're doing. So we'll see what will occur today. The meetings at noon
in city Hall. It's a public meeting. I would encourage anyone who has
qualms about this or I would like to address the council. There will be
citizens to be heard opportunity, and so I would encourage you to go to
Bluewell Materials see what they do, and then come today at noon. I
mean, if you work, come on your lunch hour because we have seating
and we will be there. And this is also the Bartlesville Development Authority and
the City Council that will be meeting together joint me. That's exactly right.
Hey, we've got the return of the fly in. Oh my goodness,
this is super exciting. I am privileged and honored to be on that steering
committee. And I had met Kevin and Matt. Kevin Connors and Matt Matt
from the World War two airborne demonstrate a team two years ago when they first
brought this see forty seven here and hangered it. They actually hanger that here,
and it's a World War two plane model plane and they have a school
in Frederick, Oklahoma where they teach World War Two parachute jumping, and so
they actually use these planes to jump from. And it's with the old static
line if you. I grew up watching war movies with my dad, more
movies and westerns, and it's very exciting. It will be very exciting because
on Saturday at noon between twelve and two depends on the air space, that
they will actually re enact a World War Two parachute jump. And so it's
going to be very exciting to see that in living color instead of black and
white television. Wow. We it is, yes, And so as well
as we have a youth come like an honor cores that will be presenting flags
to the pair shoot jumpers which are dedicated to our World War Two veterans living
in and past in honor of them. So there will actually be a veteran
ceremony at that same time to honor our veterans in our local area. They'll
also be set up a display tents that will have the Women's Air Corps the
WASP a very interesting display learning about them and from what I understand, they
will actually have a plane doing rides. We will have our history from our
Barlswell History Museum. The presentation that was done back earlier this year, which
talks all about a lot about Billy Parker, but about the airplane factory was
here, what came out of that for the United States of America during World
War One, And so it's very excuse me, interesting about the very rich
history that we have in aviation. You're going to see that as well as
planes. Biplanes Blanca will do as doing. They're flying in the same same
weekend. The doors open at eight, they close at eight. It's ten
dollars a carload. You can't miss it, no, And I would say
children and grandchildren, they need to be there. This is going to be
a We hope this is an annual thing, but we know this year it
will be the only place they're going to be able to see such a display
patriotism of all different kinds of planes talked to the pilots. We will have
food trucks and from what I understand the Oklahoma Aviation Commission, they will have
a table set up. They'll be handing out toy airplanes and some things to
the children. And it is going to be a very very exciting time.
And as I said, the flying has not been here since two thousand and
nine, so it is definitely a back to Bartlesville and many many people in
Bartlesville are excited about it as I am. And you can go to our
story on that at Bartlesville Radio dot com because we have the list of events
and of course all of the displays and all of the participating I just said,
the participants in this too, because it's really going to be cool.
Now, we do have some openings at the city. We're going to go
over that in just a moment. For it's this word from Arnold morn Knee
camp fun Well homemind gay one I'll never forget this, called my freshman roommate.
His mother called one day and she said, Tim, and I can
tell by her voice something wrong. And I said what's wrong? She said,
can you get my boy home from California? He's passed away out there.
And that crushed me, but I said, I sure will, I'll
take care of it. I said, I'll figure it out. I will
get your son home. But that's what you do when your loved one dies.
Doesn't matter if it's three in the morning. You call your funeral director
and say, tim, my loved one just died. What do I do?
And I'll tell you one of my greatest stories I could tell. Six
o'clock one Christmas morning, a lady calls me. She said, they came
over to get my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her dad in her home.
What do we do? I said, let me get dressed. I'll
be right there and we'll just walk through this together. It's gonna be all
right. I'll take good care of her. Years later, she told me
that was the single most comforting phrase you'd ever heard. It'll be all right.
We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and the Camp Funeral Hall seven
ten Dewey, Bartelsville, we'll walk through this together. And we're back with
community connection. The city matters, and we have city councilor Billy Rown here
with this and councilor we've got some openings at the city And this is really
kind of cool because if you're ever wanted to figure out how your city works,
this is where you get in. That's exactly right. You know,
Bartlesville has twenty plus commissions, committees, trust authorities that are all citizen involved,
and so it gives you an opportunity to not only learn about how the
city works together, but also to be a part of making a difference in
Bartlesville. OCA home a big part. And so we have openings on the
Ambulance Commission, on the Bartlesville Library, Trust Authority, Community Center Trust Authority,
the park Board, and street in Traffic that I believe the new and
I hadn't seen that one on there before. But anyway, Oh, everybody
exciting. That's right that I would think that's do you know, I'm going
to visit that because they haven't met in a little while, and so I
would think that's very exciting, and especially with citizens input, that's really makes
all the difference. I did also want to mention Tom, you know,
there is another activity going on Saturday, thankfully it's in the evening from and
that's going to be going on down at Unity Square and that is our It
has a special name, which is Community Fest. And so what's exciting about
that? You know in Bartlesville we have all kinds of cultures and of course
food. I'm all about the food, you know, I'm fluffy. I
like food, and so music and it is just really a celebration in Bartlesville.
In our community and it's diversity and the different cultures that we have,
and so I think that will be a lot of fun. I'll encourage everybody
to come out for that and uh five, I think it's five thirty or
five to ten something like that down at Unity Square and that is after the
Bartlesville fly in, so you can you can do both exactly right. A
packed weekend for sure. Indeed, Hey, thank you very much for being
with us today. Thank you, Tom, I appreciate it. All right,
folks, you've been listening to City