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Good morning and welcome, Welcome,
welcome. It is time for our community

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connection right here on K one,
the one you trust, and today we

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have miss Charlene in here with the
big Brothers, Big sisters. You brought

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a friend, Good morning, Good
morning. You did bring a friend.

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I did bring a friend. Yes
with me this morning is Mitch Tate.

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He is the Bartlesville Resource Board chair
and I wanted him to share with everyone

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some of the successes we've had in
twenty twenty three and launch bowl for kid's

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sake. Oh right, well,
I'll tell you what Mitch. First of

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all, your first success is that
you met up with Charlene, because that's

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where kind of success begins. She
knows where to find good people to make

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that way to appoint me for sure. Yeah, well tell us a little

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bit. We got a lot to
cheer about. Thank you, Thank you

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for having us. My name is
Mitch Tit. I'm born and raised here

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in Bartlesville. Spent a whole life
here playing sports in and out of our

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family tire shops, tape boys,
tiring service, and then went to the

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University of Oklahoma, came back,
worked at the family business, and had

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a phone call from Charlene, one
of the gentlemen that worked with me,

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was applying to be a big brother. He was taking that big leap forward

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to step up and help some of
the youth of Bartlesville. And so Charlene

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called me and we had a conversation. I learned in depth about what Big

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Brothers and Big Sisters was about,
and I knew I had to be involved.

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I knew it was something that I
wanted to be a part of.

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I've been a part of a bunch
of football programs and I've got to coach

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a bunch. I have kids that
are now growing up going through youth football,

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and I see the impact that a
positive mentor can have on the youth

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of Washington County and beyond that,
Big Brothers Big Sisters takes it one step

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forward with the one to one mentor
and so it's not a coach where it's

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one to eighteen and so, just
coming to understand the impact that Big Brothers

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Big Sisters has had and it's continuing
to have in Bartlesville. I knew something

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I wanted to be a part of, and so I joined a couple years

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ago go and uh last year I
took over as the board chair and it's

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it's just been an awesome experience for
me UH to learn more about the youth

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of Washington County the needs, and
UH I hope to explain a little bit

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of that to you guys today.
Well, Mitch, Firstwall, kudos for

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stepping up, and double kudos for
your enthusiasm. Charlene, you know how

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to find enthusiastic people, Well,
Mitch's. Mitch has done a great job.

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And as the leading the board,
he brings his UH coaching leadership style

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that sounds like a coach around.
Yeah, and that's helping to get everybody

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engaged and working towards serving more more
children. And you know, when we

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have people who participate like Mitch and
like anyone really it branches it out.

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It creates a little bit more awareness. And of course, when more people

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understand what Big Brothers Big Sisters is
all about and the positive impact that it

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brings not only to the kids but
to our community, you know, good

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things start to happen. Well,
and because I've been here thirty four years

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this month, I thought she was
only twenty nine. I know, it's

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okay, amazing what I've becompressed.
I've been in one place long enough to

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see kids that we matched that you
know, people that I matched before they

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were even married, and now grandparents
and are some of them I've been hearing

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in this last month or two several
people who are still in touch with their

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littles and they haven't been matched for
years, you know. And so it

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really shows the life long impact that
some matches happen. Not every match is

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a life long one, but some
of them, some of them really are,

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and all of them are life changing
on some level, you know,

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the longer the relationship, it's just
like having old friends. But so you

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really begin to see the impact of
the match, and you can see it

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over time where you see, ah, somebody who comes in and says,

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I was a high school mentor and
I want to be I'm back in the

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community and I want to be a
mentor now as well, you know.

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So, yeah, it's so it's
really gratifying to be able to see that

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now, Mitch, you get to
witness some of the changes in these young

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people kind of firsthand. That's got
to be kind of cool to see that

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that light come on. It's a
it's a special feeling. And to see

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the impact and to see the data
that comes out of it of the true

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impact that this program has on the
kids and success they go see beyond their

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matches and the and you know,
we talked to everybody about it. The

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improved scores and classes, the improved
attitude, the proof self esteem, and

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there's all this data behind it that
they've been able to collect, and that's

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really what keeps me going. And
that's what our board is a fantastic group,

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and that's something we're constantly looking at
and reminding ourselves, this is why

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we do it. Oh, and
that's I mean, and there's so many

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different ways that it happens. But
both are Big Brothers Big Sisters. I

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don't think there's a better mentoring program
out there. There are a million ways

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that a person could go wrong,
in a handful of ways where a person

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can go right, and Big Brothers
Big Sisters is one of those ones that

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puts you in the right direction,
whether you're the big or the little.

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I've seen the Bigs come out of
it saying that I've become a better person.

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I listen more, I'm more attuned
to others around me, I'm more

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in tuned to my environment with other
people. And they feel that it's been

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a growing experience for them as well
as for the child. We frequently hear

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that I came into thinking I was
going to help a child, and I

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didn't realize how much I was going
to learn in that relationship. So oh

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wow. And Charlene, how does
a person who's listening in today, who's

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maybe thinking about this been on the
bubble a bit? How do we how

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do we get them into into big
brothers, big sisters? How can they

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take that first step? Well,
I would say now is the time,

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stop thinking and just call us and
we'd be happy to answer any questions.

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They can go online to Big Oklahoma
dot org and apply if they're ready to

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do that. If you know,
if you know how to be a friend

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and you have a heart for kids, then you know how to be a

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mentor. And it's not it's it's
just about sharing your life experience and opening

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up opportunities for kids. It's not
not fancy. It's just being there,

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being consistent, building a relationship,
listening, going to the Christmas pree,

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whatever, you know. It's doing
ordinary things and involving a young person and

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stuff you're already doing. And I
would encourage you if you're even considering it,

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call and get more information. It's
not as daunting as task as you

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would think. It really is simple. It's be a friend, be there

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for them. There's Charlene in the
program does an excellent job of keeping it

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structured for you, so it makes
it easy on you. So if you're

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considering it, just pick up the
phone, go to the website, learn

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some more about it. Because it's
a really compelling case for somebody to go

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and change somebody's life here in Bartlesville
or Washington County, and too easy to

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overthink, isn't it. Well,
and we've got thirty five children on the

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waiting list. We've done a really
good job of reducing down the kids that

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are waiting more than a year.
We're down to only four kids who are

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waiting more a year. But a
year is a long time. It's a

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long time. Well, we used
to think it was a long time in

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our lives. I'm not sure how
we got to November thirtieth this year,

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but because I feel like we just
did Bowl like a couple of months ago,

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here we're starting again. But for
a child, there's a lot that

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happens in that and so we really
need people to step up and say hey,

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I can do this. Our greatest
need is for men or couples to

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be matched with our boys, because
out of the thirty five, about thirteen

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of those are girls and the rest
are boys. Wow. And we've got

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some site based kids that if you're
like, you know, I just want

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to go one day a week for
an hour to the child's school and mentor

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there and that works with your time
and your lives, then we've got kids

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that need that and we are serving
kids in Dewey, Jane Phillips, Wilson

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are our target schools right now.
And for site based, and then the

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community based is going to be the
activities are in the community, so they're

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going to be as varied as the
people. So I would just encourage people

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to to there's a lot of ways
we spend our time. There's probably not

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a lot that we do more than
spending that hour or two with the kid

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once a week to just be the
cheerleader in their life. Wow. To

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use a sports team. Well,
speaking of sports, and I knew we

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were going to do this, Let's
get ready to bowl tumble those pins over.

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We've got bull for kids, say
coming up, it is weird.

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We're peppering. We're getting all the
word out this week and early bird team

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Captains ends January eighteenth, and so
every team captain that gets themselves signed up

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before then and gets into a drawing
for one hundred dollars visa card and then

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we'll have an incentive for getting your
team squared away by the end of January

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so that we can raise one hundred
and fifty five thousand that we have as

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a goal. Our goal is eighty
four teams. Last year we had sixty

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four, I believe. So we're
slowly coming back from the COVID nightmare and

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we need to get back to eighty
four. We'll be back to where we

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were in twenty twenty twenty. Oh
wow. So that's where that's where we're

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trying to get that participation level back. And you know, this is a

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great time to put a team together. If you're thinking about putting together some

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of your friends that might make good
bigs or not, this is a great

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time to kind of share the enthusiasm. Mitch, Yeah, this is one

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of the best events that bartoswol does. I think both kids take It has

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been around for a long time.
It's been while successful thanks to you Bartlesville.

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So please continue to support us,
and there's a couple of different ways

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you can do it. So get
a group of friends together, come bowl.

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It's a group effort on raising money
for these kids. One of the

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great things about this event is this
money stays here in Bartilsville and goes to

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support the matches that are made here
in Bartlesville. And then the second one

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that we always did at Tate Boys
was we would get a you know,

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we would get our team together and
we would put Tape Boys teammates on the

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on the team for Bowl. And
it's a great way to get people out

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of work and get them together in
a social setting and really help build that

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team chemistry. Sports guy, We're
keep saying team even though we got OSU

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in here. So but it's a
great opportunity to get outside the office,

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get your team together, have some
fun. It's a really great event,

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a ton of fun and a great
way to keep building that team chemistry.

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Or if you just want to get
a group of your friends together, it's

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a fun time to come out bowl. I hold the record for both for

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Kid's Sake for highest going score and
that's not recorded, so I can say

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confidently that I do have it,
because nobody will be able to say I

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don't. And we also have the
opportunity for virtual bowlers, and because we

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had about ten people and it's growing
the number of people who are like,

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I love the mission, I want
to support it. I'll raise I'm going

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to sign up. I'll be a
team of one and raise money. But

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I'm not the bowl party. I
don't want the bowl party, for whatever

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reason that might be. And every
one of those virtual bowlers last year raised

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over one thousand dollars. And you
know, when you think about that,

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that's ten thousand dollars that was raised
by individuals with no bowling involved, but

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because of their heart for the mission. So if you're thinking, you know,

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I'm over bowling, I never was. You know, I can't bowl,

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I'm a bad back. Whatever might
hurt people. Yeah, well there's

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that, you know, whatever that
that reason is. If you have a

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heart for the mission, there's still
a way for you to raise money.

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Ask the people in your network to
support your passion for the mission and help

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to support the cause. Very good. Now, how do we get the

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information? How do we sign up? We can go that on the website,

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can't we? Yes? It's it's
a little more complicated to read on

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the air, but it will be
in the newsfeed. It's so think Bowl

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for Kids Sake. So that's b
FKS Bartlesville dot org and that will get

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you there. If you need help
of any description, and you can call

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an office nine one eight two one
three four five two four, we'll be

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happy to help you. That is
great. I want to thank you both

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for coming in here today. This
is this has been fun. Yeah,

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thank you so much, and thanks
for all the enthusiasm and all the information.

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And let's get our teams together and
let's make this a record breaker.

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Well, yes, we need to
need to do that because twenty twenty four,

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we will have served Washington County for
forty years in WOWL. So this

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is a great way to roll in. And I came in well whatever,

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thirty four years ago and both for
kid's sake. They had had one maybe

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two before that. Just a little
historical note, they raised eleven thousand dollars

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the year I came. We raised
thirty and we've raised we raised more per

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capita than anybody in Oklahoma and probably
most bowls in the states. Wow.

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We and we've held that title for
a long time. Let's put some times

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between us, folks. That's just
kind of really yeah, So this would

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be the probably thirty fifth anniversary a
bowl for kid's sake, forty and so

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for here. So let's let's do
make it a record breaker. I'm on

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board, all right, Thank you
very much, folks. We'll have a

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story out on our website and you'll
see a little bit on Facebook too with

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all the links on how you can
be part of big brothers big sisters,

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both for kid's sake and perhaps you
got the hard for it, folks,

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to become a big couple, big
brother or big sister. Yes, because

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we're looking to make twenty twenty four
a record breaker for the number of new

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matches, number of children served.
We served more kids this year than we

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did last year. So we're back. We're back on the trajectory of growth

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that really got stymied for about two
or three years. All right, let's

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make it happen. Hey, thanks
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Folks, you've been listening to and
watching our community connection right here on K

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one, the one you trust