And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. It is eight thirty two. Time for our community connection right here
on kay want do you want you drest? And well, I can't believe
it's coming up this soon joining us from Eldercare. It is our good friend
and I gotta tell you, Angie Thompson, I got I got barbecue on
the brain. Yeah, and the good, the bad. The barbecue just
such a short time away. I don't know which is better, the location
where we are at Hughes Ranch or the barbecue from Dinks. Call it a
marriage maid in Heaven. Yeah, it's going to be fantastic. And yes,
that is coming up on Saturday, May thirteenth at the Hughes Ranch at
six o'clock. Lots of great activities being planned, Silent auctions with amazing items.
An original painting by John Lynn Bloom will be in the silent auction and
in the live auction. We have a whole great number of experienced packages,
you know, like a dinner for twenty five at the Rustic Loft, catered
dinner with Melody's Cuisine Italian meal. Yeah, the food truck and the bruise
at the Cooper Mill parking Lot. And then Carolin Mock has a painting.
It's stunning. It's an eagle with an American flag called Spirit of Freedom and
there's something for everyone. I'm just so excited to present it to everyone in
our community. This is really gonna be a celebration. It's what twenty five
years. Twenty five years, I can't believe it. That's almost as old
as you are, little, Is that kidding? Yeah? Kid? But
no, it really is a nice story behind it, you know, and
um yeah, And let me just tell everybody. People ask, well,
why is it always on Mother's Day weekend? You know, that's the question
to that most folks ask me. But you know, the reason we do
it on Mother's Day weekend is kind of a special story. Kathleen Boorn Mullendor
was. She benefited from our programs at Eldercare, several of them, and
she was able to live a long and happy life because of the programs at
Eldercare. So when we were talking about fundraising event, the Mullendors asked if
we could hold the event at their ranch in honor of their mother. So
Katsie kept the tradition going and she wanted to hold it on Mother's Day,
the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend in honor of her mother, and so that's
how that tradition began, and all of the Mullandor kids came home that weekend
and we had our big party out there. So when it came time to
find a new location, because the mullendor ranch wasn't the Mullandor family had sold
the Cross Bail ranch and we weren't going to be able to go out there,
we chose the huge ranch, but we wanted to keep it on the
same historic weekend that we've always held our barbecue, which is the Saturday of
Mother's Day weekend, and this year it's May thirteenth. Well, sweet,
Now there's a reason we do this too, not only because of that beautiful
story but which is celebration enough, but also because this is the biggest fundraiser
of the year for Eldercare to keep the programs going right. It's our signature
event. So everything we raise on May thirteenth will help underscore our general operating
which is really important and those who are in the community know how important it
is just to have the basics covered, you know, electricity and administrative costs
and that kind of thing. So the funds we raise of the Good Bad
the Barbecue every year help us fund just those general operating costs. It's really
important to the work we do. It is now elder care for folks who
might be newer to the community is not a nursing home. It's it's it's
not a senior living center. We're here to make sure that you stay happy
and healthy at your home at home, right, you know. And if
they're living in a retirement community or even in a nursing home, yes,
absolutely, and assisted living, we can meet them where they are. If
that's their home, then we can help them. You know. Some folks
even come to our daybreak program for the day, but they sleep at night
in a nursing home. So you know, it's it's uh, we're here
to help the community wherever they are. And our target audience, as you
mentioned, are those folks sixty five and older. Well that's me so you
know folks all right, yeah, you know, And we can go into
the homes with Brighter Living, which is an important program that will help with
caregiving and companion service. Some of our staff and Brighter Living our nurses so
they can go with a client to a doctor's appointment. If someone is wheelchair
bound and they need help getting to a doctor's appointment, if they're a brighter
living client, we have wheelchair accessible van and our nurses can go with them
to a doctor's appointment, relay everything back to the family, or if you
just need a companion, you know, we can go into your home and
stay for as little or as long as you need us to be there,
you know. And that's a great comfort for families, especially adult children who
are living out of state or out of the country and they want to take
care of mom and dad, and this is a way to do it.
And it really, it really fits the bill here. We've got a nice
footprint here in Washington and Osage and no water counties and plenty accessible just phone
call away. Really it is, you know. And if folks need a
physical therapist, so I know we've talked a lot about our physical therapy,
but you know, physical therapy is one of the programs that keeps us active,
you know, keeps our joints going. And you know, if you're
just in so much pain, you don't know what to do. Oklahoma state
law will allow an individual to see a physical therapist without a doctor's referral for
up to thirty days, so you could call us at our Foundation Therapy Specialists
and come in and see one of our physical therapists. Let them get you
on the right track, so you know, you can get up and do
those things that you used to do. You can go play golf and do
those walks with your dogs and your grandkids. There's nothing stopping you. When
you really think about the excessibility of what elder care can provide, there's nothing
that will stop you. And it doesn't stop with a physical and emotional needs.
So we also have things to help the memory too, right. You
know, we held a panel last week with a panel of experts and we
discuss the topic of dementia and Alzheimer's in our community, and we plan to
hold another panel really soon, so we encourage people to check our website and
our Facebook page. But you know, we had a neurog a neurological specialist
and Alzheimer's Association specialist, Father John from before the Latin Gate was there bringing
up the spiritual components. Mary lou Bourg, one of our founders, as
a licensed clinical social worker, and she talked about how do you communicate with
your family and with the person that you think may have a dementia or Alzheimer's.
And then Christina Bishop, our director of operations, talked about our programs.
But you know, Daybreak is there for those folks who may have may
show signs of cognitive impairment, they may have been officially diagnosed with dementia or
Alzheimer's, or they just you know, think that they need a little support
during the day. That's what Daybreak is there for. Monday through Friday,
seven thirty to five thirty. We had plenty of Cenna's activities, exercise,
painting, lots of games that are cognitive cognitively stimulating. We serve a lunch,
a fabulous sixth course lunch that's brought over from Green Country Village and our
chef chef Pam beam Guard prepares it for all the participants, and then we
have two snacks. So it's a day activity adult day health and activity center
that keeps our brains going, keeps our bodies and minds, and socialization,
all those engagement tools that just kind of say fun. Yeah, you know,
you might not think anything of it more than just fun. If you're
the one who's getting the benefit of the receiving this at great gift. But
I want to encourage the children who have parents who are of a certain age
to look into this. It didn't you know, mom and dad day get
a little bit of help. Hey, this is a fun way to do
it. You engage it from the angle of fun, and you know what,
going to have too much of an issue, you know, relatively a
little somewhere. Just thankful for thanking really, you know. And I think
that this is one of the hidden resources in our town that we just want
to continue to share with people that this is a resource for Bartlesville, for
all of the community. Some of the programs are designed to help those who
are need a little more help financially, and some of them are private pay.
But there should be no reason for not calling elder Care. It doesn't
cost a thing to call and ask. In the moment, we're gonna take
a quick break, but we're going to kind of revisit the big barbecue,
and we're going to also tell you a little bit about maybe it's just some
last moment details. Yes, okay, well that's coming up right after these
words from one of the morning Need Capital Home. Oh my freshman roommate.
His mother called one day and she said, Tim, I can tell about
her voice something wrong? And I said, what's wrong? Can you get
my boy home from California? He's passed away out there. And that crushed
me, but I said, I sure will. I'll take care of it.
I said, I'll figure it out. I will get your son home.
If that's what you do when your loved one dies, it doesn't matter
if it's three in the morning. You call your funeral director and say,
tim, my loved one just died. What do I do? And I
tell you one of my greatest stories I could tell. Six o'clock one Christmas
morning, a lady calls me. She said, they came over to get
my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her dead in her home. What do
we do? I said, Let me get dressed. I'll be right there
and we'll just walk through this together. It's gonna be all right. I'll
take good care of her. Years later, she told me that was the
single most comforting phrase she'd ever heard. It'll be all right. We'll walk
through this together. Arnold Moore and me Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey Martel's
Ville. We will walk through this together eight forty three and it's our community
connection. I ain't had the good to bad to barbecue coming up on a
Saturday, next Saturday, next Saturday, we still have sometimes do we have
any tickets left? Angie? You know that, And people can call our
Eldercare receptionists and we'll get tickets to you. You may need to pick them
up if you call later than next Wednesday, but that numbers nine one,
eight three three six eight five zero zero. Tickets are one hundred dollars each,
or you can buy them on our website about Eldercare dot org, forward
slash BBQ. Very good, very good. We'll see out there at the
Hughes Ranch and that's at six o'clock. You want to start hitting out there
a little bit early. Silent auctions open at five forty five. There you
go, There you go, And you heard it right there from Angie.
I want to thank you for coming in here and telling us about Eldercare and
also about the good, the bad, the barbecue in our way of making
sure this precious gem in our community gets well taken care. All right,
Thank you, Tom, appreciate it all righty have you've been listening to community
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