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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome,

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and it's time now for our community
connection right here on K one, the

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one he drucked. Our friends from
Eldercare all right in here. And I

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say friends as in plural, because
Angie Thompson, you brought in a special

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guest today. Yes, and tom
it's so good to see you. I'm

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good, happy to me here on
February one, twenty twenty four. I

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can't believe it's February already, but
yeah, I brought Frank Danel with me

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this morning. He is our facilities
manager at Eldercare. He has just celebrated

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his nineteenth year. He was the
main guy when we were building our building

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in two thousand and six. He
was the main guy. He saw the

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walls go up, the studs go
up, the electricity go in, and

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he's still helping us keep that building
beautiful. That had to be something to

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watch that thing take shape, take
form, grow up into what it is

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today. That's a beautiful building.
Yes, sir, I'll tell you what.

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The first day I walked down into
it, I was at all I

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bet you were. And Mike Walker, which was mackinaw that was building it

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took me under his wing and showed
me every inch of it, and I

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started working on the closeouts with him
and getting a building finalized for the opening

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in March, start moving people in, and we had some punch lists we

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had to get done. And that
was the best thing that helped me understanding

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the operation of the building. And
it's quite an operation. Not only is

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it a beautiful building, not only
is it a spacious building, it's a

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highly functional building. Yes, sir, we have twenty three units of it's

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called geo thermal. We got roughly
seventy two wells in the parking lot drilled

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out of three hundred foot level and
that water circulates and six loops comes into

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three feeder loops and that's our source
of water, which is called ground source

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water clothes loop, and that's what
heats and cools our facility. So it's

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pretty efficient. It probably saves us
over sixty percent electric costs when it operates

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at a at a maximum capacity.
And our building is thirty three thousand square

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feets. Yeah, actually it's a
huge building. Thirty six thousand, thirty

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six thousand square feet. Isn't that
amazing? Wow? Yeah, And a

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lot of people don't know that.
We even have an upstairs where we keep

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all of our medical equipment. You
know, we loan medical equipment, like

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small medical equipment like walkers and canes
and wheelchairs, and so we store those

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upstairs. So Frank and his crew
every day, you know, they'll transport

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porta potties or shower chairs, wheelchairs, walkers up and down those stairs to

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store them upstairs for the next person
who needs them. So, well,

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it looks like you're ready for the
Olympics, isn't it. Yeah, well

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you took your mama's advice. Stay
active, stay active. Yes, mom

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taught me. Well, you know, I've seen her work all the way

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past seventy and she lived a good
old age and she always said, don't

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sit around. Oh yeah, that's
the worst thing for you. That's the

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new smoking. I understand. I'm
not trying to be funny, but that's

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what they say. Just be bad
for you. It's being sedentary. Yeah,

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oh, my goodness, akes,
well this is great now. I

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understand that when we have to use
the building for different purposes in different usages,

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you're the guy they call and say, hey, Frank, how do

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you think we got to do this? Yeah? My crew consists of two

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ladies and two guys. I have
one assistant that is in his eighties.

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He's military, and we worked together
on whatever Angie needs to set up these

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events, and we've had some wonderful, wonderful events. I can't imagine how

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she does it. It's just awesome. And so we tear down, we

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set up and get it exactly why
she wants. The video units, the

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sound system is all brand new this
year and it is just awesome, awesome,

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Wow, that is incredible. You
know, last year we had forty

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four events in our building. I
believe that forty four eleven hundred people came

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through New Eyes. Yeah, I
know, and there were some of those

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events. You know. The dining
room is our big room, and so

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that's where Daybreak meets every day for
lunch, and they have round tables and

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it's really restaurant style dining for Daybreak. It's so beautiful. Well, when

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we were doing the Alzheimer's in our
community events, we needed that to be

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theater style because we had eighty people
signed up for each of those. So

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Frank's team had to go in and
tear down the Daybreak tables, store them

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and then bring out all the big
chairs and set them up theater styles for

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another seminar, and then at the
end of that they came in and tore

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the theater style seats down and put
up all the round tables and table cloths

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and table decorations and chairs for daybreak, you know, to make it usable.

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But you know that happened every day
for several several weeks. My goodness

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sakes, that'll keep it going.
Speaking of Daybreak, that's one of the

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many great programs that it's offered.
Yeah, at elder tell us a little

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bit about that. Well, I
think Daybreak is one of my favorite favorite

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programs. That was the flagship program
that launched elder Care. There was a

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need that we saw in the community
for families who wanted a choice to nursing

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home placement. They were maybe their
loved one had been diagnosed with dementia or

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Alzheimer's or some other debility hating illness, and they needed care, but there

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was no place for them during the
day. Nursing home placement was the only

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place. Eldercare became a day health
center for those aging adults who needed support

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during the day. So we have
right now in our building sixty percent of

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that thirty six thousand square feet that
Frank mentioned is used just for daybreak.

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They have therapeutic programs, exercise,
art, cognitive games that they play with

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the participants to keep their brain strong. Frank mentioned the audio visual that we

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now have. You know, they're
playing movies, they're playing television programs that

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these folks remember they wanted to listen
to Elvis the other day that Sheila told

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me, and so they were excited
to hear all of the music that was

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coming through the speakers. But that
happens Monday through Friday now from seven thirty

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to five thirty and includes transportation,
a big fancy lunch, you know,

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it's a five course lunch that we
bring over from Green Country Village thanks to

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Green Country Village. And then they
have two healthy snacks. Healthy snack might

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be biscuits in gravy or pancakes or
something yummy, something yummy like that.

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And Chef Pam puts all of that
together. I mean, can you think

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of a better place to calm during
the day and socialize with people your own

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age? You know, be stimulated, lets your brain be stimulated and your

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body move and exercise. You just
feel regenerated and rejuvenated every day that you

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come. And it's daybreak, daybreak
Adult Day Health Center Monday through Friday,

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seven thirty to five thirty. My
goodness, akes, you got it all

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out there, doesn't you. Yeah. On top of that, you know

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that you were talking about some of
the things that you can do with the

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different puzzles and things that kind of
keep you going on and just having a

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lot of fun. What it's it
called the reflex Slogs reflection board, right,

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Yeah, it's a big electronic light
board and they use that in physical

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therapy. You know. It's kind
of like I call an arcade game.

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You know, those boxes are squares
or the game displays on the board in

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front of you. It's about three
feet wide led lights, you know,

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and the objective is to touch the
dots or touch the boxes and squares before

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they hit the bottom of the bow, you know. Or it is like

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an arcade game. But you know, even fun things like that keep our

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brains, our brains active. Sure, yeah, that is so cool.

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What a great resource we have.
Now you're out there at twelve twenty three

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swand drive right and nicely located.
You got the wide opens right out there

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for you, but still close to
everything. But we do want to remind

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people this is not an in house
type of deal. It's not a resident

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not residential no, No, this
is coming as you are. Bring your

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loved one out there for the day
break if if that's what's necessary. And

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you've got so many different things out
there. Got the doctor's office there,

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that's just really been expanded nicely,
right, the CHC Health Clinic with doctor

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Jerrel he's a gerontologist. He's been
an internist in Bartlesville for over forty years.

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You know, if you say doctor
Jerrold's name, everybody and now Ronda

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Line is there, you know.
And so they're expanding and bringing in other

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providers and services. Yeah, it's
a great opportunity for aging adults. And

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also let's not forget foundation therapy right, physical therapists there. Yeah, I

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got to tell you there are so
many people I know who have benefited so

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much from just the little things they
do. Yeah, and they I know

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when you say, oh, I
don't know if I want to go to

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therapy, that sounds like it's a
bother. It sounds like a paint.

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Well guess what after a couple of
visits it's like when are we going back?

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Right? Well, that's that's a
thing. Yeah. I've been there

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nine times with all my surgeries,
and Josh and Tracy and and Christie and

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all of them have brought me back
from surgeries and I've been up and running

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the minute they start, and they
do a fantastic job. I'm a I'm

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a sole laver of it. And
just look at me. I'm still go

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up the steps every day going out
and like a soldier, Yes, there

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you go, what there we go? I always say, safe, bet

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higher a vet. That's right,
and he is and great deal. Hey,

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thank you for your service, not
only for Eldercare, but to our

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country. Thank you. Alrighty,
Now, what's the best way folks can

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do to help keep our resource elder
care going in our community. Well,

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you know, we always need donations. Cash donations are always helpful. If

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someone has a qualified charitable distribution that's
coming up from their IRA and they would

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like to share that with elder Care, we can use those resources. Or

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a stock if they have a stock
they would like to get to elder Care.

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We can take stocks and cash gifts
and that helps our programs, you

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know, it helps programs like Daybreak
with the food and transportation helps us hire

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staff, qualified staff to work with
the elderly. And so that's really the

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best way that they can help us. Us with cash donations and they can

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call me if they'd like to discuss
a QCD or a stock transfer or a

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cash gift, and my number is
nine one eight three three six eighty five

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hundred. That's the main number.
Just ask for Angie. Oh wow,

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great, that's how easy it is. Hey, thanks for being with us

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here. Frank is nice meeting you, Thank you, Thank you. When

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I grow up, I want to
be you. Yeah, I'd like to

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add to that. You know,
over the years that I've been there,

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we have looked at equipment that been
around a two thousand dollars range and now

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it's up to about six or eight
thousand dollars. So it's very very important

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to keep that equipment updated. And
thanks to the donations of everybody in town

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that keeps that operation going. You
know, no matter how well we take

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care of it. A lot of
this equipment has lasted over ten twelve years.

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Wow. But as it goes on, you know, clock's ticket on

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that stuff, clocks ticking. So
every dollar helps us tremendously alrighty, so,

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folks, remember that when you're looking
to make a charitable donation, make

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sure you keep elder care in your
in your thoughts. Now, elder care

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is just you just turn forty forty. Right, So we're into forty one

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here, and we're forty one era, we're spritting to fifty. We are

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Oh, this is great. Been
around a long time. Let's keep it

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around a lot longer, folks.
Thank you both for being here with us

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today. Folks you've been listening to
and watching our community connection one K one,

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