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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection right here on Cape one,

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the one you trust. Alrighty,
we're going to tee off today, I

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guess a little bit. We have
the eighth annual Logan Cochrane Charity event coming

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up on Saturday June first, ladies, First of all, welcome, we

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have Claire Bartley also Janet Morland in
here and Janet, you're the founder of

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the charity. Tell us a little
bit about this for the folks who don't

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know. Okay, this started eight
years ago for Logan. He was having

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difficulties with his heart. He had
three open art surgeries lotmark, so we

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started a charity for him and then
it just everybody kept wanting. They had

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such a good time that they wanted
to keep continuing it to grow. And

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then we found out that he was
autistic. So we decided that this will

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all go to the path of Independence
to help all the kids. Well that's

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great, and Claire, of course
under paths Independence. I love your story

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too. Just two gals wanted to
start at school and yeah, bang we

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got it. Amazing what can happen? A lot of love and a lot

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of hard work and both take place
here. This is great. Tell us

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a little bit about Pasta Independence and
your association with this and how how you're

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helping out with the golf room.
Yeah. So Past Independence is a private

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school for children with autism. We
are a nonprofit and we serve kids from

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ages three all the way through high
school and even have a few adults.

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Janet has approached me many years ago, probably six now, and she had

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had the golf troom before I had
even heard of Logan Cockran Charity or Logan

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Cochrane, and she had brought in
a donation that she had raised through the

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golf tournament. And then over time
the golf tournament has gotten bigger and bigger

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to where she's involved you players.
And this year I think for the first

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time, we're going to have the
Osage Casino involved. They're going to sponsor

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a reception the night before and they're
giving away a lot of nice things to

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help out with the golf tournament.
No, Janet, this is something like

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you say, it's been growing and
it's a lot of hard work, but

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it's like it's paid off. It
has, So tell us a little bit

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about it. Who all's partnering with
you to help this take off. Well,

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Dwayne Bryan right now on the road, I can't be here that I

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had taken a flyer out to the
Osage Casino to see if they would put

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up our guests, because we have
Charles Thompson and his son coming in Casey

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Thompson, and then we have Bill
Kaufman his son j T. They're they're

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the Sooner Magic guys, and then
Antonio Rick mister Ou himself. They'll all

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be there where the Anyway, I
took that out there and they got a

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hold of me and Clara wanted us
to come out and have a visit.

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So they wanted to host a big
party the night before and it's gonna there's

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gonna be four bands, a live
auctioneer. We've got some great gift items

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that's gonna be auctioned off. Skuyler
Thompson and then from American Idol, Carly

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Nash, Hass Miller Band and Austin
Dixon will all be there Friday night,

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that's May the thirty first. It'll
start at six o'clock. Wow, that's

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gonna be great. How does a
person get a ticket to this? You

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don't get a ticket it's open to
the public. It is. We will

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have will have some donation drop offs. I'm sure you will. You show

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people a good time and everything.
And next thing you know that that while

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it just flies wide open, it
does. This is really Yeah, this

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is a big thing, isn't red
It's it's got it's overwhelming. But I

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just the staff at path in Pennis
and the teachers, they deserve a big

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shout out. They do, yes. And my buddy Barry Blevan's he brought

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it on for me. I mean
he he's right there and got my back

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all the time at Simple Simons Pizza
my goddess sake. I tell you what,

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when you reach out to friends,
things happen, don't they. And

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this is really this is really something
else. Now, this is a four

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person scramble and it's going to be
a shotgun start at eight thirty am.

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Yes at Adams, So Adams he
prepared folks, it's going to be.

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It's all and the way those stages
talk, they want to continue to help

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every year, so it'll be it'll
be just a good time for Barters Film

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what community Living And we have sponsorships
still available. Yes, you can get

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a hold of Berry or me or
Claire. Okay, now, Claire,

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are you a golfer? I gotta
ask because you do just about everything.

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You were grilled cheese cheff the last
time I saw it, so I'm thinking

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you probably do a little bit of
everything. I actually have never played golf.

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Oh really, Okay, it's time
to watch this. Maybe I should

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be like if they don't, if
they don't donate enough, and I'll golf

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for them. Yes, yes,
yeah, yea. Now they aren't gonna

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want me, so maybe I get
lucky beginner's luck. Well, this is

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great, This is great. And
of course this has been going on now

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for for several years, and this
partnership has really been amazing, especially for

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you guys. Yes it is.
It's been really nice for PTI because Janet's

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taking care of everything every year and
she does a great job and we just

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kind of show up and cheer everyone
on. She's great, wonderful. You

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got a big mouth, you got
to. You've got a very very genuine

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way about you, and I think
that's why people want to be with you

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and help you out in your endeavors. We try hard. Well, you've

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been succeeding, and we want this
to be a flying Sussex once again.

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The tournament itself is coming up on
Saturday, June first at Adam's Golf Course

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and the reception is the night before
and it's going to be out at the

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new oce Age Casino Hotel. And
this is going to be a stellar lineup

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with all those artists. And yes, just walk in and have us.

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If you have anything you want to
autograph, bring it. Okay, mm,

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she ain't shy, I got my
mama's mouth. Well, bless you

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and bless everyone. Now, do
you have a Facebook page or a website

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or maybe a little bit of both
where folks can take a look at this

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right, go to Logan Cochrane's charity
event page. Okay, Facebook, and

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then they can register also on PTI's
yes page if they want to register for

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the tournament. Oh really, Oh
nice, very good. You make it

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easy. Your website is real easy
to get away. Yes and click there.

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You're making this way, but this
is going to be a lot of

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fun. You have not only O
Sage Casino, but you also have the

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folks from Steadfast who are helping you
out too. That is now Roger Link

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and they have they're always our number
one sponsor and we have a guy from

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Edmund, Oklahoma, Myers and Myers. He always donates a real good check

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for it. That's great help out. You see, these things are personal.

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Everybody's got a story, not everybody
shares it, and everybody's got a

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spot in the heart for something,
and when they find it, you know,

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they make sure that everyone else can
do a little bit better. And

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I really find that that's kind of
neat PTI is. I think everybody needs

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to go and have a visit with
PTI. Don't see what this is all

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about. That's what Dwayne said.
He said he didn't have a clue until

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he got to meet Claire and go
into PTI, and it changes your whole

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world. Like Logan, he is
so smart. And everybody said you taught

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him, you taught him. I
said, no, he taught me.

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Wow, that's amazing. He's nonverbal, but he's he's coming up some words,

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talking a little bit. Yeah.
Now it depends in the independence.

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You've got some construction going on and
it's happy construction. Wow. You should

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see it today where they're putting in
the concrete. I don't know if you

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drove by this morning, but it's
it's uh, yes, we're going to

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have our cafeteria built for hoping for
August first that they're putting. They've got

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the the plumbing done and now we're
getting the concrete in and then next week

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they can start building the walls.
Oh that'd be great. I'm excited.

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I cannot wait. You know something, it's like watching your child grow.

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Yeah, you know, because you
know, you got this from the school

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and we was Will Rogers School and
uh, and then you know, over

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the years, things started taking place
and started shifting, started growing, and

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now you're adding ont I know.
It's amazing and we're we're so excited.

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We just think that there's going to
be so much to offer to the kids,

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addition for sure for your staff,
my gosh, car and it's a

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tornado shelter too, so we're pretty
pumped about that, especially after the recent

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tornadoes. No, see, we
didn't know this. We just thought we

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were building a nice little cafeteria show
kids had to cook and you know,

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I have a nice meal on a
daily basis. You didn't tell it that,

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you We definitely we decided that we
needed a better tornado shelter in the

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building because of our numbers, and
so we made it into a tornado shelters.

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She'll be excellent for us, and
it could be potentially a good thing

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for the community. The more you
know, I know, people, let's

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get out there and help happen.
Let's get it going here. And we're

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going to have a story up on
our website about the Logan Concher and charity

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event, and we're going to direct
you to the different places where you need

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to go to sign up or find
out some more information. You might not

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be able to play golf, but
you might have a spot in your heart

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where this is going to fit just
nice, and maybe a spot in your

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pocketbook too. And this is a
charitable donation and the work wonders for a

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great deal more kids to come clear, people actually move here to our community

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simply because of the availability of your
school. Yes, we have more and

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more families moving to Bartlesville from further
away because it's just too hard to drive

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it on a daily basis, so
they'll move so their children can get services,

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go to school. Yeah, it's
amazing because I heard just a few

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of the numbers about a year or
so ago, and I'm like, and

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now knowing some of the parents,
it's like you made a good call.

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Thanks for being here, of course, I'm glad to be here, and

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thanks for introducing yourself to me here
because this is a I wasn't aware of

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your event until just a little bit
ago, and now this is eighties.

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Well I've only been in town a
couple of years, so you know,

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I'm not in a long timer,
but this is one I'm going to keep

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an eye out for and keep following. We're going to put this on the

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face We've already put it on the
Facebook, but we're going to have the

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the website story on there too.
I want to thank you very nice being

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you and Claire always a pleasure having
she's our neighbors. You know, the

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school is just right down. I
keep an eye on the speeders. Boy

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throw some You got the officers out
there now, they mean business. But

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thanks for being with us on community
Connection. Thanks