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No money. Good morning, good
morning, I'm welcome uncle, welcome media.

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Set time now for our community connecttion? Isn't it right here on kay

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one, the one you try to
stand. We have the Chamber of Commerce

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in here. Sherry, Well,
how are you today? I am great.

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I'm loving the rain. Yes,
she couldn't stop talking. Oh my

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gosh, I got it surely to
watch rain. Hadn't seen it uch a

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long time. I kept thinking of
my dreaming and my hearing rain. I

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think I'm hearing rain. Had to
get up and look, I'm so excited.

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Yeah. I got to check the
lawn when I get home and it's

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like really thirsty. Oh, like
I said, it was like a little

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blonde. Oh. So what have
we got going on with the chambers here?

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Oh goodness? Well July we kind
of slowed down this a little bit.

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It's kind of our month for planning, getting the yeared ready to go

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because our fiscal year starts to li
first. But I will one thing I

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do want to point out that if
anyone is interested in our leadership Bartiwall program,

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which is just a very popular program
that we do, the deadline for

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applications is June or July. June
thirtieth, spit it out there June thirtieth

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Sunday. So it is a great
program. There are so many alumni.

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We're now on class thirty four and
we've been doing it since the mid late

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nineteen eighties. I was actually class
five. So anyhow, they but it's

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a wonderful program. It's really evolved, and it is a commitment. It

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is one month. It starts in
August with the orientation and then each month

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we meet one day a week or
one day a month, and it's an

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all day out and you focus on
different aspects that make up our community,

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whether it's we start off with community
services. Learn a lot about our community,

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our community needs. A lot of
the organizations that are here. Next

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month is local government, City government, which is very it's eye opening.

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People learn a lot about the city
that you don't really lies. And I'm

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like to go through every session,
but there's one on healthcare, one on

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our education system, small business,
large business, economic development, tourism,

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and the arts. I'm skipping.
Oh, criminal justice, that's always fascinating.

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Really learn a lot there because that's
an aspect of the community. A

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lot of people just don't have a
lot of experience with and to learn about

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things like like drug cort and just
things that are that are here to help

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folks get on and succeed. So
anyhow, it's it's just it gives you

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really good insight. You get to
see a lot of things that the normal

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you know, just Joe Blow walking
in is not gonna be able to see

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your tour, meet the decision makers
in the community, that kind of thing,

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and so anyhow, it's it's a
great program. We're gonna start with

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orientation and the second day of orientation
is just half day, but we are

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bringing in a trainer and actually I've
heard wonderful things about about him, and

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it'll be on leadership and so the
rest of the time it's more your immerse

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yourself in the community. So anyhow, that is, applications are opened,

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but like I said, applications closed
June thirtieth, and so it's a fairly

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competitive process and I'm always glad when
it's over. It's limited. Yeah,

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it does make it hard. I
it's you know, obviously, if someone's

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applied, they'd like to go through, but we also can't have you know,

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fifty people in the class, so
we like to keep the class sizes.

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You know, thirty or less just
to for tours and that kind of

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thing. It's it's it's easier to
manage. So anyhow, that is coming

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up. If you have any questions, give us a holler. But all

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the information for that date, schedule, everything is on the website at Bartlesfield

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dot com. So great. Yeah. So we also this month are starting

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a new program and I'm really excited
about. In fact, I was just

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working on so it's almost late.
I was like, Oh, luckily we're

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so close, we're neighbors. Yeah, I can go that back road get

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here in two minutes. But and
it's called pastries and Perks, and I'm

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really excited about it. It's and
going through it's like, oh, guys,

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you forget about this or you forget
about this. And some of them

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are just minor perks, little things, but things that members, if they're

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part of the chamber can take advantage
of. A lot of it is for

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just exposure opportunities, ways to get
your name out there, way to make

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connections, that kind of thing.
And we have the obvious ones and we

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will talk about them probably every month. You know, business after hours,

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and we do have business after Hours
coming up August first, and you know

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that's just a historical we've had that
event since I think it started in nineteen

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eighty something and this a August first
actually be at Palace Rooms downtown. Yeah,

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I'm excited about that. If you
have not been in there, it's

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absolutely gorgeous to hear. The pizza
is phenomenal. I'd keep meaning to go

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in there, and then I'd get
home and my husband's got a great meal

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cooked. But anyhow, it's that's
where business after ours is going to be.

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So but pastries and Perks is for
designed for non members people who just

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want to find out about the Chamber, because you can go to the website

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and you can look at it and
it is very self explanatory but doesn't have

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everything on there by any means.
And this is just a hey, come

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have some pacers with us, and
it's I don't know if it's going to

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turn out to be fifty slides in
fifty minutes, but that's kind of how

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we're billing it. But just very
quick, very easy, not just talking

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about all the perks so to speak
of being a chamber member and what's important

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about the chamber, what our mission
is, that kind of thing. So

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I'm really excited about that. That'll
be July the thirtieth. I think we're

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doing it eight to nine, so
you can just you know, get head

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to work. And it's a free
event, so we'd invite anyone who's interested

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in finding more about the Chamber to
tend that as well as a newer members

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and even members that event for a
long time because lots of things have been

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added, there's new things, you
forget, management changes, whatever, so

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it's it's just an open event for
really a vast amount of our membership as

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well as you know, hopefully potential
members. So that's a new program we're

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going to be doing. All right, We're going to take a quick break.

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We'll be right back with Sure you
will with the Greater Bartlesville Area Chamber

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of Conference. After these words from
tall Grass Motors, Wesley and Kitty College,

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aren't Lauren niecamp f you home Man
gat Real Ministry, Craig Dmouth Tall

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Grass Motors, tall Grassmotors, we're
covering a little bit from the tornado mixedtorms

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we've had. We've got some great
organs for you. We've gotten new cars

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that have went out and bought and
trucks so we've got new inventory in so

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we got a little bit of both. We've got some bargains, we've got

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new inventory. You know, we've
been here eighteen nineteen years doing this and

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we're going to be here. We
want to provide great service and cars to

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whoever wants to come in and buy
one three forty one Northeast Washington Boulevard.

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That's Highway seventy five across from AutoZone
and Haarber Freight. Phone number is nine

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one eight three three three zero zero
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children, it choosing the right daycare
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knowing you're putting your child in the
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ECPA and offer programs where each child's
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eighties Silver Lake Road and see what
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comfort because your role is to help
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their life and they're counting on you
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get them through this. That's what
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is walk hand in hand with our
clients and say, you know what,

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we've been down this road, will
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learned, here's the benefit of our
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with this. Do you have suggestions? Our job is to relieve the stress

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so you can grieve and you can
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at six thirty pm. All right, we're back after those commercial announcements and

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showing that we picked off there with
the pastries and perks and day where we

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got coming up. Also, I
know that we're coming in that time here

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where you got to get the books
together. You've got to get the planning

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all out for the next fiscal year. Something tells me Christmas in July might

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be on your mind. Oh yes, Christmas. Christmas is big back today.

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As soon as I leave at aine
o'clock, we're having a half day,

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actually little more than half day work
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you know, with staff and Christmas
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just looking at how to enhance it, how to keep growing it. A

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lot of pieces have fallen into place
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that goes into that. So yeah, we're you think, oh, it's

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never going to be cold again.
It's never going to be you know.

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But it's what I see twenty twenty
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saw that the other day is like, holy cow, no, no,

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no, but it'll be here for
you know. It's so you know what

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we need. We need to have
a little contest there for a major award.

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I'm thinking a leg lamp lamb.
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one. Well if our atmosphere we're
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what kind of we're beyond that.
We are beyond that. Ours is classy

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and very much so. You know
what I really like is that people get

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to come to our town and they
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It's like, I didn't know that
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this, I didn't. You know
why, It's because they're driving, and

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when you get out and you walk, you get a chance to oh,

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I didn't know that was there.
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because a lot of them are having
to park. They're not you know,

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obviously parking right there where the ice
rink is having to walk in and a

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lot of them are visitors. Our
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so I mean, granted, it's
not like they're spending the night here,

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you know, but a few do. But was up forty four and a

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half percent over the year before,
so we were really excited. It was

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four Yeah, it was. We
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of that range. So you think
about that. Those are people, and

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this is one of the reasons we
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we started it. Those people are
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you know. I mean they've skated, they've done a horse you know,

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drawn carry ride, they've you know, taken pictures. You know,

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they've been down here for a while. They're gonna at least eat. And

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a lot of them are gonna shop
while they're here. You know, Hey,

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let's let's swing by. Even if
you know, just Walmart whatever,

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that's still tax money in our I
mean, we're hoping they'll go to our

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local you know, more locally owned
businesses. But you know, we can

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we can say that all day long, but tax money is tax money,

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and you know, sales tax from
from the Walmarts of the world are just

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as good. So but there you
know, a lot of them are gonna

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shop while they're here. So it's
it's a great opportunity for our community showcase

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itself. Well they do, that's
an We talked to them and they definitely

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see a spike in December, you
know, and it's and that's I love.

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I love that. I love getting
reports from them. They are and

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and in the restaurants, you know, it just they're they're just they boom

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during December. So I love that. I love Christmas in the Ville.

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I mean, it's a lot of
work and you kind of approach it with

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you know, a little bit of
dread because you're so weather dependent, which

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is always say that so far we
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weatherwise, it was it was it
was great. We only had you know,

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a couple of days we were sweating, actually melting, and didn't you

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get bitter bitter cold. I mean, it was just it was a really

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good season. But that is the
importance of why we need sponsors, because

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you know, if we lose you
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hit. And it's it's weather dependent. There's a lot a lot of times

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we can't you know, control but
we can't control the weather obviously, but

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it's it is dependent and when we
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it's it's a hit. I know, we already have several sponsors and then

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many of them right soon's they witnessed
the first one and they next ye,

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well yeah, and I think,
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Oh yeah, we do have a
couple of openings. If anyone's opening,

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we have the decals. Just we'll
make up something, but we do

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have I think there's two decals left
that are on the rink and people love

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those, and I think we're down
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doing private parties. I mean,
I know it seems a long way to

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plan your holiday party, but if
anyone's interested in private parties, we actually

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have an extra week this year because
we're opening earlier this year, so you

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can have the whole rink to yourself
for your family, friends, company.

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How you know a lot of people
use it for company parties. But if

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you want your selection of date and
time, because we do do parties at

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night, you know, book it
now, get your date you want,

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get the time slots you want,
and you know all the information for that.

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We do have a separate website for
that. It's Bartlesville Christmas dot com.

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And our information is up to date
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this point, I don't have Santa
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but you know, if you want
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the information's on there for that kind
of thing. So I would encourage people,

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if you're interested, check it out. Getting on the calendar early,

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so very good. One last thing, not Christmas, but July twenty third,

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if anyone's interested in speed networking,
that is another event we do.

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It's free, it's from four to
five at the Chamber. Just kind of

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a fun event. Get to connect
with other business people and meet some new

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folks and may turn into customers.
So I would just like to be a

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little fly on the wall when that
goes on, because I imagine folks actually

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have fun doing that. They do. You know, it starts off a

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little bit. Maybe some people are
a little hesitant, you know, you

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don't know, but kim Owens reports
back she goes by the end of the

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you know evening, you know,
five o'clock whatever, five fifteen, when

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they're done, everybody is laughing and
carrying on and a lot of times you

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know she's trying to get them out
the door because she wants to go home

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and they're still just talking and you
know, making connections afterwards, and it's

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it is it's a fun event,
and it's small by design. It can't

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have fifty people at something like that. There's usually i don't know, fifteen

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to twenty, So it's it's a
it's designed to be small and more intimate.

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But the connections you make are they're
they're good ones. You know,

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people have actually met you and talked
to you for a few minutes and gotten

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the field and know so you've gotten
to know that many other people in the

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rooms. So it's it's a fun
event. And if anybody wants to know

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any more about the Chamber, You've
got a beautiful website we do bartlesviielle dot

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com. We encourage you to check
it out. We'd love to talk to

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you if you'd love to be a
part of the chamber, be a member.

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It's just the more member we have, the stronger our voices with different

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areas in the community. So take
care stayed dry. Oh no, I

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want to I want to be let
it rain. I am, I want

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my rain. Sure. Thank you
very much for being with the Sherry with

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the Greater Bartlesville Area Chamber of Commerce,