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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It is eight thirty two. Time for our community connection right here

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on kay want do you want you
drest? And well, I can't believe

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it's coming up this soon joining us
from Eldercare. It is our good friend

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and I gotta tell you, Angie
Thompson, I got I got barbecue on

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the brain. Yeah, and the
good, the bad. The barbecue just

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such a short time away. I
don't know which is better, the location

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where we are at Hughes Ranch or
the barbecue from Dinks. Call it a

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marriage maid in Heaven. Yeah,
it's going to be fantastic. And yes,

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that is coming up on Saturday,
May thirteenth at the Hughes Ranch at

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six o'clock. Lots of great activities
being planned, Silent auctions with amazing items.

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An original painting by John Lynn Bloom
will be in the silent auction and

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in the live auction. We have
a whole great number of experienced packages,

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you know, like a dinner for
twenty five at the Rustic Loft, catered

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dinner with Melody's Cuisine Italian meal.
Yeah, the food truck and the bruise

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at the Cooper Mill parking Lot.
And then Carolin Mock has a painting.

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It's stunning. It's an eagle with
an American flag called Spirit of Freedom and

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there's something for everyone. I'm just
so excited to present it to everyone in

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our community. This is really gonna
be a celebration. It's what twenty five

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years. Twenty five years, I
can't believe it. That's almost as old

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as you are, little, Is
that kidding? Yeah? Kid? But

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no, it really is a nice
story behind it, you know, and

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um yeah, And let me just
tell everybody. People ask, well,

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why is it always on Mother's Day
weekend? You know, that's the question

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to that most folks ask me.
But you know, the reason we do

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it on Mother's Day weekend is kind
of a special story. Kathleen Boorn Mullendor

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was. She benefited from our programs
at Eldercare, several of them, and

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she was able to live a long
and happy life because of the programs at

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Eldercare. So when we were talking
about fundraising event, the Mullendors asked if

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we could hold the event at their
ranch in honor of their mother. So

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Katsie kept the tradition going and she
wanted to hold it on Mother's Day,

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the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend in
honor of her mother, and so that's

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how that tradition began, and all
of the Mullandor kids came home that weekend

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and we had our big party out
there. So when it came time to

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find a new location, because the
mullendor ranch wasn't the Mullandor family had sold

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the Cross Bail ranch and we weren't
going to be able to go out there,

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we chose the huge ranch, but
we wanted to keep it on the

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same historic weekend that we've always held
our barbecue, which is the Saturday of

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Mother's Day weekend, and this year
it's May thirteenth. Well, sweet,

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Now there's a reason we do this
too, not only because of that beautiful

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story but which is celebration enough,
but also because this is the biggest fundraiser

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of the year for Eldercare to keep
the programs going right. It's our signature

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event. So everything we raise on
May thirteenth will help underscore our general operating

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which is really important and those who
are in the community know how important it

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is just to have the basics covered, you know, electricity and administrative costs

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and that kind of thing. So
the funds we raise of the Good Bad

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the Barbecue every year help us fund
just those general operating costs. It's really

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important to the work we do.
It is now elder care for folks who

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might be newer to the community is
not a nursing home. It's it's it's

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not a senior living center. We're
here to make sure that you stay happy

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and healthy at your home at home, right, you know. And if

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they're living in a retirement community or
even in a nursing home, yes,

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absolutely, and assisted living, we
can meet them where they are. If

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that's their home, then we can
help them. You know. Some folks

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even come to our daybreak program for
the day, but they sleep at night

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in a nursing home. So you
know, it's it's uh, we're here

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to help the community wherever they are. And our target audience, as you

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mentioned, are those folks sixty five
and older. Well that's me so you

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know folks all right, yeah,
you know, And we can go into

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the homes with Brighter Living, which
is an important program that will help with

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caregiving and companion service. Some of
our staff and Brighter Living our nurses so

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they can go with a client to
a doctor's appointment. If someone is wheelchair

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bound and they need help getting to
a doctor's appointment, if they're a brighter

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living client, we have wheelchair accessible
van and our nurses can go with them

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to a doctor's appointment, relay everything
back to the family, or if you

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just need a companion, you know, we can go into your home and

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stay for as little or as long
as you need us to be there,

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you know. And that's a great
comfort for families, especially adult children who

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are living out of state or out
of the country and they want to take

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care of mom and dad, and
this is a way to do it.

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And it really, it really fits
the bill here. We've got a nice

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footprint here in Washington and Osage and
no water counties and plenty accessible just phone

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call away. Really it is,
you know. And if folks need a

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physical therapist, so I know we've
talked a lot about our physical therapy,

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but you know, physical therapy is
one of the programs that keeps us active,

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you know, keeps our joints going. And you know, if you're

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just in so much pain, you
don't know what to do. Oklahoma state

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law will allow an individual to see
a physical therapist without a doctor's referral for

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up to thirty days, so you
could call us at our Foundation Therapy Specialists

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and come in and see one of
our physical therapists. Let them get you

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on the right track, so you
know, you can get up and do

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those things that you used to do. You can go play golf and do

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those walks with your dogs and your
grandkids. There's nothing stopping you. When

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you really think about the excessibility of
what elder care can provide, there's nothing

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that will stop you. And it
doesn't stop with a physical and emotional needs.

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So we also have things to help
the memory too, right. You

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know, we held a panel last
week with a panel of experts and we

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discuss the topic of dementia and Alzheimer's
in our community, and we plan to

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hold another panel really soon, so
we encourage people to check our website and

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our Facebook page. But you know, we had a neurog a neurological specialist

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and Alzheimer's Association specialist, Father John
from before the Latin Gate was there bringing

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up the spiritual components. Mary lou
Bourg, one of our founders, as

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a licensed clinical social worker, and
she talked about how do you communicate with

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your family and with the person that
you think may have a dementia or Alzheimer's.

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And then Christina Bishop, our director
of operations, talked about our programs.

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But you know, Daybreak is there
for those folks who may have may

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show signs of cognitive impairment, they
may have been officially diagnosed with dementia or

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Alzheimer's, or they just you know, think that they need a little support

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during the day. That's what Daybreak
is there for. Monday through Friday,

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seven thirty to five thirty. We
had plenty of Cenna's activities, exercise,

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painting, lots of games that are
cognitive cognitively stimulating. We serve a lunch,

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a fabulous sixth course lunch that's brought
over from Green Country Village and our

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chef chef Pam beam Guard prepares it
for all the participants, and then we

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have two snacks. So it's a
day activity adult day health and activity center

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that keeps our brains going, keeps
our bodies and minds, and socialization,

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all those engagement tools that just kind
of say fun. Yeah, you know,

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you might not think anything of it
more than just fun. If you're

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the one who's getting the benefit of
the receiving this at great gift. But

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I want to encourage the children who
have parents who are of a certain age

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to look into this. It didn't
you know, mom and dad day get

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a little bit of help. Hey, this is a fun way to do

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it. You engage it from the
angle of fun, and you know what,

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going to have too much of an
issue, you know, relatively a

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little somewhere. Just thankful for thanking
really, you know. And I think

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that this is one of the hidden
resources in our town that we just want

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to continue to share with people that
this is a resource for Bartlesville, for

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all of the community. Some of
the programs are designed to help those who

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are need a little more help financially, and some of them are private pay.

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But there should be no reason for
not calling elder Care. It doesn't

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cost a thing to call and ask. In the moment, we're gonna take

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a quick break, but we're going
to kind of revisit the big barbecue,

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and we're going to also tell you
a little bit about maybe it's just some

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last moment details. Yes, okay, well that's coming up right after these

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words from one of the morning Need
Capital Home. Oh my freshman roommate.

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His mother called one day and she
said, Tim, I can tell about

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her voice something wrong? And I
said, what's wrong? Can you get

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my boy home from California? He's
passed away out there. And that crushed

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me, but I said, I
sure will. I'll take care of it.

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I said, I'll figure it out. I will get your son home.

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If that's what you do when your
loved one dies, it doesn't matter

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if it's three in the morning.
You call your funeral director and say,

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tim, my loved one just died. What do I do? And I

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tell you one of my greatest stories
I could tell. Six o'clock one Christmas

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morning, a lady calls me.
She said, they came over to get

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my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found
her dead in her home. What do

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we do? I said, Let
me get dressed. I'll be right there

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and we'll just walk through this together. It's gonna be all right. I'll

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take good care of her. Years
later, she told me that was the

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single most comforting phrase she'd ever heard. It'll be all right. We'll walk

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through this together. Arnold Moore and
me Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey Martel's

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Ville. We will walk through this
together eight forty three and it's our community

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connection. I ain't had the good
to bad to barbecue coming up on a

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Saturday, next Saturday, next Saturday, we still have sometimes do we have

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any tickets left? Angie? You
know that, And people can call our

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Eldercare receptionists and we'll get tickets to
you. You may need to pick them

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up if you call later than next
Wednesday, but that numbers nine one,

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eight three three six eight five zero
zero. Tickets are one hundred dollars each,

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or you can buy them on our
website about Eldercare dot org, forward

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slash BBQ. Very good, very
good. We'll see out there at the

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Hughes Ranch and that's at six o'clock. You want to start hitting out there

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a little bit early. Silent auctions
open at five forty five. There you

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go, There you go, And
you heard it right there from Angie.

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I want to thank you for coming
in here and telling us about Eldercare and

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also about the good, the bad, the barbecue in our way of making

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sure this precious gem in our community
gets well taken care. All right,

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