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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome into

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

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trusted in studio today. Rachelle Wilson, how are yah? I'm doing well,

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Tom, how are you today?
Every time you hear I know it

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is really spring boarding on summer because
with the Kawanas Bartelsville, you got a

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big, big, big responsibility.
We do have a big responsibility which happens

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those time, several several responsibilities.
This time of year, we have the

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good news of talking about something that's
opening up. That's right sooner, Junior

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Miniature Golf. We will be opening
May third, and we'll be open Fridays,

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Saturday and Sunday evenings from six to
ten. We also host parties and

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this year, since we didn't have
to do any major renovations at the course,

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I actually hosted my first party in
February. Nice. It was nice.

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It was nice. Yeahs yes,
yes, not yet at all,

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but this is great. Now you're
in charge of getting everything kind of green

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and spruced up around there too,
and it really looks nice. It always

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does, and it seems like like
blast year. You rub to your ears

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and marry Gold's and all kinds of
We love to keep the course looking good

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and that that includes, you know, the turf presentation, the sidewalks.

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We have a loop on a whole
six and I took it to K and

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B Coatings. They did a great
job. They sand blasted it, powder

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coated, clear sealed, and I'm
calling it the Purple Wave. It's a

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lot of fun. It's really pretty. It's got a little iridescence to it,

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and you know, looks really nice, really nice on the green.

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And you know, I'm continuing to
work on the beds. I've got Jim

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Sweezy, He's done some concrete repairs. You know. Several members of the

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club came out on April sixth and
we emptied the clubhouse and cleaned all the

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cobwebs out, you know, and
wiped the toads off and got everything organized.

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I had some special help this year
from Jake Simpson. He goes to

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Dewey High School and he came and
helped to do some pool repair and painting

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and emptied pots from last year,
just the old soil. And then Adeline

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Crouch, she's a member of the
National Junior Honor Society. She repainted our

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putter cart. It looks beautiful,
absolutely beautiful, and she's working on some

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other projects. So just you know, getting in some volunteer hours and it's

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nice to have the kids you know, there and ready to help. Very

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good and of course you're open for
your regular schedule, but you also have

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parties, so you take care of
during the week. We do have parties.

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We you know, people can book
Monday through Thursday, any time during

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the day or evening, and then
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday that can

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they can as long as we get
the party started at four, we can.

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We can take parties as late ast
as late as four o'clock. And

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honestly, we're going to host our
first wedding event this year. It's very

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exciting and so I'm just I'm looking
forward to that. We want to want

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to make the course look look really
special for that. So that is that's

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something that you just don't have that
every day. No, no, but

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it's a it's going to be a
blended family, you know, and so

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you know, the kids will be
able to cut loose and you know they

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can do a quiet ceremony you know
with the adults, and so yeah,

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it'll be it'll be a really fun
event. This sounds great now, the

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kawanas Uh, you're going to be
doing something here with the recipients of scholarships.

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Pretty that's correct. So sooner Junior
functions as our fundraising operation. So

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with the funds that we raise throughout
our season, which runs you know,

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May through September regular hours, public
play and then we do go into October

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for parties and our Halloween bash.
But with that money, we designate one

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thousand dollars for each of the five
high schools, and we accept applications for

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Senior of the Year and we award
a one thousand dollars scholarship for those you

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know who put in a really good
essay. We also do Sophomores of the

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Year, so those are one hundred
dollars awards and the purpose of those is

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to get students thinking about the scholarship
process and to understand, you know,

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you've got an application. There are
very specific instructions generally with those applications,

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but just to get them familiar with
the process so they can do that.

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We also award fifty dollars awards or
scholarships to eighth graders of the year.

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Eighth grade boys and girls. So
just recognizing those students who they are actually

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being recognized by their principals and their
teachers, and then Tri County Tech we

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provide a five hundred dollars scholarship to
your traditional students who are high school seniors.

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And then the adult education we award, you know, so that if

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they want to pursue five hundred,
you know, they're more education or maybe

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buy some equipment, a laptop or
something, they've got some funds to move

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forward with. Now this is where
the fund begins, because not only do

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the recipients get the award, the
cash award, but you have a little

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ceremony that you do and it kind
of ties it all together. On May

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twenty second, we will do a
big Hamburger cookout. We can do veggie

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burgers to but we're gonna grill out
at Sooner Junior and invite everyone to come

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out and join us for a meal
and do the awards ceremony and then invite

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everyone to stay and play a game
of miniature golf. That's so nice,

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that's cool. You know. The
Kwanians also drop a line and then into

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the water and hope for nibble at
the other end. You got that coming

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up too. We do. On
May eleventh, we will be hosting our

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fishing Derby and I think we've got
to be approaching seventy years, but this

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is open to children from three years
to twelve years. The age brackets are

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three to six, seven to nine, and then ten to twelve, and

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we award prizes for just varying you
know, large fish, you know,

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interesting fish, and you know,
we just recognize all of the students.

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It's a great time for you know, families to come out and we often

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see you know, grandparents, parents, you know, maybe an aunt or

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an uncle out, you know,
but it's it's just a really fun time.

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It's out at Joe Allen Low Park
May eleventh. We'll start registration between

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eight fifteen and eight thirty and the
fishing derby begins at nine. There you

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go, promptly. What's cool is
that many of those adults you were talking

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about, Ann's uncle's grandparents, they
did this when they were kids. That

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is true, that's true. Yes, this is one of those very fine

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traditions. It is. It is
a fine tradition. Absolutely. Now,

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do you have a Facebook page where
folks can maybe kind of refer to it?

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In order to get some details for
everything that goes on with we do

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we do you can Kawanas has a
Facebook page Kuwanas of Bartlesville. Sooner Junior

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has Facebook page and Instagram, so
you can Beville Sooner Junior. You know,

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just put in Sooner Junior and you'll
find it there you go. Yeah,

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Now, are you looking for Kawanians. Absolutely, you know, We're

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always looking for people. I mean, our mission is serving the children of

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the world. So if you have
a passion you know for kids and want

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to you know, enhance their lives
through education or fun events. I mean

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we in addition to Sooner Junior the
Fishing Derby, we do the Fourth of

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July, we you know, throw
up the fireworks, and we do the

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Christmas Parade. So we really are
focused on community and you know, and

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family. So you know, you
can We've got meetings at Tri County Tech

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every Wednesday at noon, and if
you're out at Sooner Junior and want some

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information, just you know, go
to the host at the clubhouse and we

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can share information there. We can
also call nine one eight nine seven seven

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thirty four hundred, leave us a
message, or go to you know,

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our website and there's a contact UK
for you know, just Kuanas Club of

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bartles Fille. What I like about
the Quantis is that you're always involved in

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something, and it's always something positive, and it's always something that's very much

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in the warfront here in our community. And you know, it's always nice

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to know that you've got signature events
year round. It's not like you guys,

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you know, take the win or
off or or something like that.

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You don't hibernate or anything like that. You guys are just cooking all the

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time. We are, we are, we are planning all the time,

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you know in the you know Karen
Wilson and Conrad, you know, they

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do such a great job of getting
you know, celebrate giving and you know

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just kind of organizing the Christmas parade
and they're they're also on the SunFest board.

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So you know, we've got our
members are very involved in the community.

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Your members, I see them all
the time at SunFest. So yeah,

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you're just everywhere. Yes, now
you have a little tournament, don't

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you, right around SunFest with the
Center Junior Golf. Well we're looking at

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that to possibly revamp it. So
I'm going to sit tight on that one

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until we finalize all the details,
but we've got ideas to kind of change

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it up. So yeah, well
that'll be a surprise, all right,

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that'll be a surprise. Okay.
You just keep it right here, folks,

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and keep looking at their Facebook page
for updates on that. I want

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to thank you very much Rochelle for
being here with us today and talking about

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the Kuanas Club and all of the
positives that come out of it. Thank

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you, Thank you, Tom.
I appreciate your time, appreciate yours.

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