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And welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
It is a time for part three of

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our community connection right here on K
one though one you trust and it is

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a nineteen thirty three we're talking with
the Delaware Tribe of Indians today. Devin

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Witt is here and he's a housing
specialist. But you've got a lot of

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other things going there's more stuff on
that title that you can fit on a

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badge. I'm imagine. Absolutely,
how are you doing today? Fantastic,

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No, I'm super thankful to be
here and be able to represent the Delaware

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Tribe. A lot going on,
absolutely, and that's actually one of the

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most incredible things about working out the
Tribe is that there's always something. So

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like this week coming up, we're
going to have the healthfare going on,

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and so if you're not familiar,
it's basically going to be a lot of

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different vendors, mostly from Osage Nation
and Cherokee Nation as well as some of

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our departments, and we're really just
trying to give back to the community and

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spread that whether it's about mental health
awareness, but also just health and fitness

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as well. So it's incredible and
so things like if you have children or

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something, we have Smokey the Bear
coming and Captain Supertooth from Delta Dental.

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So it'll be a really good family
friendly environment. So I'm excited. Well,

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this is great, and you know, the Delaware Tribe has been a

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big part of the community for a
long time, but you've really been branching

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out a lot here that in the
recent last couple of years i've been here,

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I've noticed you a lot more the
trimpe you had the cooling centers here.

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Oh my gosh, you guys probably
saved some lives this summer. Yeah,

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absolutely, it was. I'll tell
you, it got super hot out

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there, and I was so glad
that we were able to help out the

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community like that. And they actually
just recently opened up the Health and Wellness

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Center to open up more equipment,
and so that's also given people more opportunities

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to work out, which you know
doesn't really get talked about too much anymore.

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So it's really nice. Our director
there, she has a really good

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she can make personalized workouts, and
some of the equipment too that you'll find

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up a health and wellness center is
pretty what's the word I'm looking for.

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You can't find it anywhere else.
Besides, like Kobe Scoby or the hospital.

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It's a called a recumbent stepper and
it's really to help people that are

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going through physical therapy. Well,
you know, when you've got something that's

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pretty much, you know, almost
unique, rare, you know that that

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is that is nice to know that
you have it there. Well, and

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that's what's really nice, is uh, you know, sometimes it's taking those

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little things and finding the gap.
And so I feel like that's what the

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Delaware tribe does best, is you
know, where does the community have a

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need and how can we fill that? And you've been feeling it quite nicely.

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I might add too, a lot
of things going on. I do

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know that we have the issue metness. They mentioned the health and fair that

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it's going to be there today.
Lots of vendors too, and like you

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said to mascots. But the thing
is it's about getting well, staying well,

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and you know, just maybe even
get a little education on how to

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keep yourself in a better frame.
Well, and that's you talk about health

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them on ess too. You can't
help but bring up free giveaways, you

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know, And I think that's something
that's so. I know yesterday some of

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the stuff that I saw was like
thermometers and just kind of like general it's

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incredible and so we've had a lot
of help from the community and now we're

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just ready to give it back.
This is really good. This is really

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good. You know, once you
go to a thing like this, you

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kind of get a feel for what's
going on, and you also pick up

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a couple of gentle reminders that maybe
this is the way you should start leading

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your life. Because you pick up
an unhealthy habit early, oh yeah yeah,

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and pretty soon you know it's going
to dog you the rest of your

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life. I'm speaking from experience,
So pay attention to your healthcare professionals and

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go in with an open mind.
And we will have a tendency to be

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stubborn, don't we. Oh absolutely, I'm the worst. It's actually it's

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kind of incredible too. They started
this for their employees, but they're doing

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like a walk upon challenge. Okay, so thirty minutes every day we're being

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challenged to get up and move around, and you know, I think that's

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incredible. Even if it was just
thirty minutes of walking around. You know,

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you feel great after you're done,
and I think you know, you

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can't spread that message enough of you
know, there is something that comes with

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physical exercise that helps your body and
helps your mind. You gotta love it.

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You gotta love it. This is
really pretty cool. I know that

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there are a couple of other things
you probably want to get into as well,

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being with the you know, being
the housing specialists. I understand we

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got good word, I guess from
the city council last night. Housing.

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Oh, I haven't seen anything about
what city council will say. Okay,

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well it didn't meet a surprise.
No, no, you're totally fine.

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But the campus is boomed. Well, I'll tell you yeah, they're always

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expanding. That's one of the great
things is that we always have this growth

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mindset going on, and you know, from the housing side, we're always

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there to meet the needs. I'm
super thankful that we're able to help kind

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of low income communities to find homes
and then get them back on their feet

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so that way they can continue to
move on and move forward in life.

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Now, the tribe, you have
tribal members all over the area here in

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Kansas and and what have you,
after being resettled from New York. Oh,

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that's a long way. Well,
but the way that the tribe communicates

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is really exceptional and the way the
tribe pulls together is pretty dark unique in

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its own way. And then that's
what's beautiful about it is that we don't

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just help out Delaware travel members only. We try to keep it as open

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as possible, you know, like
we have our family and children's services as

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well, and let's talk about that
because that is really gold star. That

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is top notch. It is insane. I can't say enough great things about

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the women that that work there and
the work that they do. It's i

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know, it's changed so many different
lives every day, and it's one of

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those things the type of work that
they do, you know, all the

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it's very serious. The impact that
it has on community members and families specifically,

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you know it it's needed, especially
in the community like this, Oh

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wow, And it's always a phone
call of way, isn't it well?

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And that's the great thing about it
is that we actually keep it open to

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it doesn't matter whether you're tribal members
or non tribal members. So the only

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thing that they do is specifically for
tribal members is Indian Child Welfare. But

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but beyond that, the child support
services, domestic violence, advocacy, So

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whether that's helping you get a protective
order, getting resources, referrals, you

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know, domestic violence education, all
those kinds of things. It's a tough

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topic that how many people want to
talk about, but it happens, and

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having a resource there, especially in
the community, like this is incredible.

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Let's go back to the campus here. There's a new gym facility that's kind

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of being is it being redone or
just expanded a brand new Where are we

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We're adding more equipment to really trying
to expand on the program and getting more

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people involved. You know how it
is with a gym. You know,

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at the start of the year,
everyone's there, but by the end of

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it, you know, it's obvious
you could shoot a cannon off and not

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hit anything. Yeah, exactly.
So really that's what we're trying to douse,

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just revitalize it. U Now,
I do know for like non Delaware

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or Cherokee members, there is a
small fee. It's like two dollars a

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day or twenty dollars a month,
I believe, if no contract. Well,

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but beyond that, you know,
they do offer things like they have

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a shower and a full locker room, and I use that full body massage

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chair as much as I possibly can. And sweet, I didn't know you

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had that at going on in there. Yeah, I'll tell you. You

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know, it's it's one of the
most sought after items after goodness sake.

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Well, this is absolutely tremendous.
You guys have a web page to trybe

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has a web page, and I
gotta tell you that is stacked with a

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lot of information everything from politics,
to social to cultural to you know,

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just what's happening in the neighborhood.
Well, and that's what I really like

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about. We're actually trying to find
different ways that we can communicate with tribal

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members. So we actually do have
our our own app that we use.

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H it's called Lenape Connect and it's
for especially Delaware tribal members and maybe aren't

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in the Bartlesville area, should still
be able to get news and information and

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also interact with each other on a
kind of a social level. And so

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I think it's incredible and very unique, to say the least. Well,

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you know, you got a lot
going on. You have Lenape Reserved that's

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always busy. Yeah, oh yeah, and everything. And I understand there's

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also going to be an electronics pickup
or a drop off. This we get

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as well, so I'm not too
familiar with that one here, but but

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we are going to talk about,
of course, the healthfare and the big

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event and the vendors and everything,
because this is this is the big highlight

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here as far as just keeping people
well and putting on the path to stay

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well. Now, most people are
like me, do they like their doctors

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socially really don't want to get poke
and prodded. But you know, if

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you pay attention to what you're gonna
witness at the healthfare, chances are you

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won't have to make that appointment for
that hey what's this because you've kind of

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stayed away from hey, what's causing
this? Well? And I also feel

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like, dude, having a group
setting, you know, it's not that

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that one on one like a super
personal experience, and so you know,

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I think it's more inviting and welcoming. And then whenever you have a wide

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range of vendors that are going to
be there from different departments, whether it's

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from the tribe or Cherokee Nation,
you know there's gonna be a lot of

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resources, there, a lot of
information, and that's one of the great

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things about what all of the tribes
are doing is that they have these programs

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ready to go. You know,
they just need people to sign up and

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and really know, the have to
do is ask a question. You know,

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it's not like you're going to be
around strangers. Yea, yeah,

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going to be pretty much around family
and friendly and you know, the anxiety

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threshold lot to be pretty much next
to nothing because it's although it is a

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health fair, there's also a social
aspect to it well. And forsythe Hall

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is a very welcoming place. You
know, I can say personally because I

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got married there a few years ago, but no, it's it's a really

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good place. And Trudy the title
sixth director there, she's doing great work.

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They actually offer elders classes saw on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from ten

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in the morning till eleven. You
can come in and do some exercises kind

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of get you staying in shape good. And then for anybody that doesn't know,

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on Thursdays from one to two we
actually have bingo for our elders and

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I'll tell you that's a great time. That's fun. I just don't walk

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in there as they're playing kind of
get serious, there were a little bit.

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Oh it does. It's incredible,
you know, you can't happens out

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there is absolutely beautiful and when I
see the size of the building, it's

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a good size building, but it's
just hard to imagine how much is contained

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right there on your campus. You
got that beautiful pond there, You've got

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a nice walking space, green space, and then the inside buildings are how

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is it just a whole wealth of
important things for the trial and they just

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remodeled a lot of it too,
So it's a beautiful walkway as you come

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into the travel headquarters the Lenape Early
Learning Center. I can't say enough great

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things about them either. I think
they're in the race for the number one

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daycare in Bartlesville. Make sure you
guys vote for that. There you go.

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So let's get the time of the
date again for the healthfare. Yes,

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so it's going to be September fifteenth, from nine to noon for kind

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of kiddos and stuff like that's worth
smoking. The Bear and Captain two fair

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will be there, and then from
twelve to three it's going to be for

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everybody else. I do believe we're
going to be serving lunch there as well.

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So if you're hungry healthy lunch.
Yeah, yes, sir, So

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I would highly encourage everyone to at
least stop by, say hi, and

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just see what we have to offer. And if people have questions, can

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they just go to the website or
do they need to call some Absolutely so

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all of our resources are right there
on the website on the home page.

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If you do have any questions,
I always highly encouraged just call the front

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office and they can get you connected
to whatever department that you need, whether

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it's community services, family and Children's
services, housing enrollment. So we've got

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a lot to offer. Dvin Witsman, our guest, he's with the Delaware

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Tribe of Indians. Anything we might
have missed. I think we covered a

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lot. Well, we did.
We tried to get the as much as

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we possibly can't. I told him
it's not sixteen minutes, it's more like

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sixteen over a cup of coffee.
I think, yes, sir. And

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you got a podcast going on,
can you? Oh? Yeah? Yeah,

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So I have my own podcast that's
a local show called Whitson Podcast w

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I T T S. And I
really enjoyed doing I wanted to call it

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entertainment, but it kind of turned
into social political commentary, but it's from

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the unique perspective of a father and
son younger generation, kind of older generation,

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and that different ideals. All right, well, I thank you for

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being with us here today. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you

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for having me Tom. Alrighty