No money. Good morning, good morning, I'm welcome uncle, welcome media.
Set time now for our community connecttion? Isn't it right here on kay
one, the one you try to stand. We have the Chamber of Commerce
in here. Sherry, Well, how are you today? I am great.
I'm loving the rain. Yes, she couldn't stop talking. Oh my
gosh, I got it surely to watch rain. Hadn't seen it uch a
long time. I kept thinking of my dreaming and my hearing rain. I
think I'm hearing rain. Had to get up and look, I'm so excited.
Yeah. I got to check the lawn when I get home and it's
like really thirsty. Oh, like I said, it was like a little
blonde. Oh. So what have we got going on with the chambers here?
Oh goodness? Well July we kind of slowed down this a little bit.
It's kind of our month for planning, getting the yeared ready to go
because our fiscal year starts to li first. But I will one thing I
do want to point out that if anyone is interested in our leadership Bartiwall program,
which is just a very popular program that we do, the deadline for
applications is June or July. June thirtieth, spit it out there June thirtieth
Sunday. So it is a great program. There are so many alumni.
We're now on class thirty four and we've been doing it since the mid late
nineteen eighties. I was actually class five. So anyhow, they but it's
a wonderful program. It's really evolved, and it is a commitment. It
is one month. It starts in August with the orientation and then each month
we meet one day a week or one day a month, and it's an
all day out and you focus on different aspects that make up our community,
whether it's we start off with community services. Learn a lot about our community,
our community needs. A lot of the organizations that are here. Next
month is local government, City government, which is very it's eye opening.
People learn a lot about the city that you don't really lies. And I'm
like to go through every session, but there's one on healthcare, one on
our education system, small business, large business, economic development, tourism,
and the arts. I'm skipping. Oh, criminal justice, that's always fascinating.
Really learn a lot there because that's an aspect of the community. A
lot of people just don't have a lot of experience with and to learn about
things like like drug cort and just things that are that are here to help
folks get on and succeed. So anyhow, it's it's just it gives you
really good insight. You get to see a lot of things that the normal
you know, just Joe Blow walking in is not gonna be able to see
your tour, meet the decision makers in the community, that kind of thing,
and so anyhow, it's it's a great program. We're gonna start with
orientation and the second day of orientation is just half day, but we are
bringing in a trainer and actually I've heard wonderful things about about him, and
it'll be on leadership and so the rest of the time it's more your immerse
yourself in the community. So anyhow, that is, applications are opened,
but like I said, applications closed June thirtieth, and so it's a fairly
competitive process and I'm always glad when it's over. It's limited. Yeah,
it does make it hard. I it's you know, obviously, if someone's
applied, they'd like to go through, but we also can't have you know,
fifty people in the class, so we like to keep the class sizes.
You know, thirty or less just to for tours and that kind of
thing. It's it's it's easier to manage. So anyhow, that is coming
up. If you have any questions, give us a holler. But all
the information for that date, schedule, everything is on the website at Bartlesfield
dot com. So great. Yeah. So we also this month are starting
a new program and I'm really excited about. In fact, I was just
working on so it's almost late. I was like, Oh, luckily we're
so close, we're neighbors. Yeah, I can go that back road get
here in two minutes. But and it's called pastries and Perks, and I'm
really excited about it. It's and going through it's like, oh, guys,
you forget about this or you forget about this. And some of them
are just minor perks, little things, but things that members, if they're
part of the chamber can take advantage of. A lot of it is for
just exposure opportunities, ways to get your name out there, way to make
connections, that kind of thing. And we have the obvious ones and we
will talk about them probably every month. You know, business after hours,
and we do have business after Hours coming up August first, and you know
that's just a historical we've had that event since I think it started in nineteen
eighty something and this a August first actually be at Palace Rooms downtown. Yeah,
I'm excited about that. If you have not been in there, it's
absolutely gorgeous to hear. The pizza is phenomenal. I'd keep meaning to go
in there, and then I'd get home and my husband's got a great meal
cooked. But anyhow, it's that's where business after ours is going to be.
So but pastries and Perks is for designed for non members people who just
want to find out about the Chamber, because you can go to the website
and you can look at it and it is very self explanatory but doesn't have
everything on there by any means. And this is just a hey, come
have some pacers with us, and it's I don't know if it's going to
turn out to be fifty slides in fifty minutes, but that's kind of how
we're billing it. But just very quick, very easy, not just talking
about all the perks so to speak of being a chamber member and what's important
about the chamber, what our mission is, that kind of thing. So
I'm really excited about that. That'll be July the thirtieth. I think we're
doing it eight to nine, so you can just you know, get head
to work. And it's a free event, so we'd invite anyone who's interested
in finding more about the Chamber to tend that as well as a newer members
and even members that event for a long time because lots of things have been
added, there's new things, you forget, management changes, whatever, so
it's it's just an open event for really a vast amount of our membership as
well as you know, hopefully potential members. So that's a new program we're
going to be doing. All right, We're going to take a quick break.
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showing that we picked off there with the pastries and perks and day where we
got coming up. Also, I know that we're coming in that time here
where you got to get the books together. You've got to get the planning
all out for the next fiscal year. Something tells me Christmas in July might
be on your mind. Oh yes, Christmas. Christmas is big back today.
As soon as I leave at aine o'clock, we're having a half day,
actually little more than half day work session, planning session, strategy planning,
you know, with staff and Christmas is definitely part of that. So
just looking at how to enhance it, how to keep growing it. A
lot of pieces have fallen into place already, but you know there's a lot
that goes into that. So yeah, we're you think, oh, it's
never going to be cold again. It's never going to be you know.
But it's what I see twenty twenty five fridays till Christmas or something. I
saw that the other day is like, holy cow, no, no,
no, but it'll be here for you know. It's so you know what
we need. We need to have a little contest there for a major award.
I'm thinking a leg lamp lamb. Yeah, we could get a giant
one. Well if our atmosphere we're a little bit beyond that little you know
what kind of we're beyond that. We are beyond that. Ours is classy
and very much so. You know what I really like is that people get
to come to our town and they get to discover everything that's going on there.
It's like, I didn't know that shop was there. I didn't know
this, I didn't. You know why, It's because they're driving, and
when you get out and you walk, you get a chance to oh,
I didn't know that was there. Actually actually see because you're having to walk
because a lot of them are having to park. They're not you know,
obviously parking right there where the ice rink is having to walk in and a
lot of them are visitors. Our visitor from outside a ten mile rate is
so I mean, granted, it's not like they're spending the night here,
you know, but a few do. But was up forty four and a
half percent over the year before, so we were really excited. It was
four Yeah, it was. We were at almost nine thousand that were out
of that range. So you think about that. Those are people, and
this is one of the reasons we wanted to do the you know, when
we started it. Those people are at least are gonna eat while they're here,
you know. I mean they've skated, they've done a horse you know,
drawn carry ride, they've you know, taken pictures. You know,
they've been down here for a while. They're gonna at least eat. And
a lot of them are gonna shop while they're here. You know, Hey,
let's let's swing by. Even if you know, just Walmart whatever,
that's still tax money in our I mean, we're hoping they'll go to our
local you know, more locally owned businesses. But you know, we can
we can say that all day long, but tax money is tax money,
and you know, sales tax from from the Walmarts of the world are just
as good. So but there you know, a lot of them are gonna
shop while they're here. So it's it's a great opportunity for our community showcase
itself. Well they do, that's an We talked to them and they definitely
see a spike in December, you know, and it's and that's I love.
I love that. I love getting reports from them. They are and
and in the restaurants, you know, it just they're they're just they boom
during December. So I love that. I love Christmas in the Ville.
I mean, it's a lot of work and you kind of approach it with
you know, a little bit of dread because you're so weather dependent, which
is always say that so far we have and last year was a great year
weatherwise, it was it was it was great. We only had you know,
a couple of days we were sweating, actually melting, and didn't you
get bitter bitter cold. I mean, it was just it was a really
good season. But that is the importance of why we need sponsors, because
you know, if we lose you know, two three days, it's a
hit. And it's it's weather dependent. There's a lot a lot of times
we can't you know, control but we can't control the weather obviously, but
it's it is dependent and when we lose days and hours of being open,
it's it's a hit. I know, we already have several sponsors and then
many of them right soon's they witnessed the first one and they next ye,
well yeah, and I think, yeah, we've got a couple of openings.
Oh yeah, we do have a couple of openings. If anyone's opening,
we have the decals. Just we'll make up something, but we do
have I think there's two decals left that are on the rink and people love
those, and I think we're down to just two of those. We're also
doing private parties. I mean, I know it seems a long way to
plan your holiday party, but if anyone's interested in private parties, we actually
have an extra week this year because we're opening earlier this year, so you
can have the whole rink to yourself for your family, friends, company.
How you know a lot of people use it for company parties. But if
you want your selection of date and time, because we do do parties at
night, you know, book it now, get your date you want,
get the time slots you want, and you know all the information for that.
We do have a separate website for that. It's Bartlesville Christmas dot com.
And our information is up to date as we can have it. At
this point, I don't have Santa hours posted and the carriage hourds posted yet,
but you know, if you want to do a private party, all
the information's on there for that kind of thing. So I would encourage people,
if you're interested, check it out. Getting on the calendar early,
so very good. One last thing, not Christmas, but July twenty third,
if anyone's interested in speed networking, that is another event we do.
It's free, it's from four to five at the Chamber. Just kind of
a fun event. Get to connect with other business people and meet some new
folks and may turn into customers. So I would just like to be a
little fly on the wall when that goes on, because I imagine folks actually
have fun doing that. They do. You know, it starts off a
little bit. Maybe some people are a little hesitant, you know, you
don't know, but kim Owens reports back she goes by the end of the
you know evening, you know, five o'clock whatever, five fifteen, when
they're done, everybody is laughing and carrying on and a lot of times you
know she's trying to get them out the door because she wants to go home
and they're still just talking and you know, making connections afterwards, and it's
it is it's a fun event, and it's small by design. It can't
have fifty people at something like that. There's usually i don't know, fifteen
to twenty, So it's it's a it's designed to be small and more intimate.
But the connections you make are they're they're good ones. You know,
people have actually met you and talked to you for a few minutes and gotten
the field and know so you've gotten to know that many other people in the
rooms. So it's it's a fun event. And if anybody wants to know
any more about the Chamber, You've got a beautiful website we do bartlesviielle dot
com. We encourage you to check it out. We'd love to talk to
you if you'd love to be a part of the chamber, be a member.
It's just the more member we have, the stronger our voices with different
areas in the community. So take care stayed dry. Oh no, I
want to I want to be let it rain. I am, I want
my rain. Sure. Thank you very much for being with the Sherry with
the Greater Bartlesville Area Chamber of Commerce,