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

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any time now for our community connection, and we're talking with Martinlsville, Superintendent

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of Public Schools, and Chuck McCauley, and we're off to a great start

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here with schools. Seemed like we
just opened the doors. We got homecoming

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and all that stuff coming up and
everything. Yeah, has been flying for

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you. Sure, I agree,
it has been flying. And I'm just

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so glad the weather is much better
now than it was last time I was

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here. Oh yeah, yeah,
one hundred and seven, I believe.

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So we got a lot cooking we
do. We did a lot of things

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we do. Yeah, we're are. We're about six and a half weeks

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into the school year and we're off
to a really good start. We had

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our our September school board meeting and
we were able to start that this week

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by recognizing some students, which is
always fun. The College Board, which

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administers the Advanced Placement Program and National
Merit Score competition, they recognize students annually

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and we had eight kids that were
recognized, eight students, one of which

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Lauren Lee, was named a National
Merit semifinalist, and then we had seven

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other students that qualified, they're recognized
from. They had to have a certain

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GPA, but to qualify, they
had to either score very well in their

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PSAT or score three year better on
two or more of their AP Advanced Placement

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test. And so I just went
to visit just a little bit, share

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a little bit about our AP program
Advanced Placement program. That is kids that

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take the course. Typically it's juniors
and seniors in high school. It's a

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college level course. The College Board
has to audit. They audit the curriculum,

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make sure it's taught at the college
level, and then at the end

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of the course, kids take a
test and if they pass, they score

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three, four or five, then
typically they at college credit. And so

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that program is continuing to flourish.
We shared with our board on Monday night

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that this past this year we had
more students score a three year better than

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that even took an AP class before
the pandemics. So those numbers continue to

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increase. Kids continue to perform well. So really proud of them. It's

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always fun to start that meeting,
you know, with our kids. But

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we are yeah, we are definitely
into the into the school year with all

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the different fall activities, and I
appreciate you having on We've got our first

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play coming up here next week.
I know you had Miss Roddy and some

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kids on that's coming up. We
do have homecoming you mentioned earlier. That's

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coming up here and it's the first
week in October. Oh yeah, yeah,

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so that's coming up, and we're
having a parade that's gonna be on

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that Thursday night. I think that's
the Thursday night, the fifth. The

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parade will be at six pm and
it's and people if they're interested in being

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in the parade, they can go
to our website. There's a Google form

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they can fill out. That deadline
is Friday, So if anyone's interesting being

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in that that parade, it's going
to be on Thursday, that Thursday night

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before the game. So it's really
going to be really look forward to that.

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That's gonna be our next home game
as well. We should have our

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We've got a new videoboard at our
stadium that hopefully will be operational for that

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that game, which our kids are
really excited about. I meet with I

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have a student advisory committee of four
juniors and four seniors, and that was

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one of the things they were really
excited about. With homecoming and a matter

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of fact, they're planning to do
I think a movie night sometime that week

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Homecoming week, Yeah, which will
be fun, you know October and it's

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really it's really a fun time of
year. But yeah, fall activities are

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going well. Uh. I mentioned
the play. I mentioned homecoming. Obviously,

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we're in the kind of just starting
in district play with our on football

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and then our Bruin brigade. Our
band is doing great. Really proud of

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them, Chris and Heather Keane's leadership. They had a contest Saturday and more

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at more More High School and they
finished third, the highest finish they've had

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in years, and so really pleased
with I'm not surprised with how hard they

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work. They've been going at it
for months now and so I'm glad to

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see there to receive that recognition for
all the work that they're putting in and

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so really representing us, really representing
us well, you know, other fall

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activities on the over on the athletic
front, I mentioned football is going on,

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starting district play this week. Volleyball
is having a great season. They

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are they had you know, they
lost the number one team Jinks last night.

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I think we won our first set, but ended up losing the match.

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But they're ranked I think tenth or
eleventh and six A and coach war

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has done a great job. We
have a lot of girls throughout the community

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that are involved in volleyball lead leading
up to that program, so they're doing

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really well. Softball is in mid
season and then cross country those kids are

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They're seasons a little different because they
run, you know, each run once

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a week and they travel and they
get a later start on their actual competitions.

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But they're doing really well. Our
girls, i think have won their

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first two meets. Gentry Turners a
senior, and she's won every race she's

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ran in and she does a She's
a tremendous athlete for US. Our boys

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are having a real good year.
I noticed we had Will Bolding, one

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of our seniors who's a great student. We good tennis player for US,

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is out for cross country and kind
of leaving that team, which is exciting.

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So those kids I think will really
have a chance to be successful here

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at the end of the year as
well. So a lot of activities,

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a lot of stuff going on,
and we uh, it's just been it's

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been fun y'all sharing with you earlier, just thinking about what's going on at

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school. I do a drawing for
our teachers at the beginning of the year

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where I will give a free vacation
day, and so I do one elementary

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teacher and one secondary teacher. So
I went and substituted on Friday over at

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Madison in an eighth grade English class, and let me just tell you,

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of course, and you know,
I schedule that, and then that week

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week, that day gets closer,
I'm thinking, why did that schedule this?

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I've got too much to do,
But I'm so glad that I did.

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I mean, those kids are great. They came in teachers obviously got

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them well trained. Uh you know, we were doing some they were reading

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The Outsiders, which I hadn't read
since I was in eighth grade, which

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has been a minute. So that
was fun to kind of go back and

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think about those things. And I
was really impressed with how well kids are

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behaved and talking to the other teachers
out of there. So it's really a

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lot of fun. I'm going to
be in a fifth grade classroom over Wilson

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Elementary here I think in November,
and they've told me I need to make

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sure I'm up to speed on Harry
Potter. So I think I've got some

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work to do on that, but
it's really yeah, it's really really really

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fun times and so so it's going
really well. It's good to have all

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those kind of you know, talking
about homecoming and events and you know,

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all these kind of normal activities that
kids need to be involved in. And

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so especially as we've as we're getting
further and further away from COVID and all

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the different types of things that we're
challenging to do just normal activities and those

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are those are well in our rearview
mirror, and so our kids are really

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I can see the maturity level with
them as improving each year and getting them

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where where they need to be.
And then to I'm also mentioned just on

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the construction side. You know,
we have a lot going on. Our

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Our agg facility continues to progress very
well. We meet with Manhattan Construction every

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other week and we had our meeting
yesterday and they're on schedule. It's almost

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completely dried in that building. So
case you're not familiar, overrun by the

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high School off of Shawnee by the
Pathfinder entrance, and I know are people

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that live downtown that use a pathfinder. Are aware of this, but make

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sure everybody knows there is a parking
lot that there is access to the pathfinder.

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So if maybe folks don't use that
very often, that still is available

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for people to use. But that
facility is on pace we're looking at should

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be hopefully be finished right around spring
break. So we're hoping we're in that

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building and using it in the fourth
quarter. I went up a couple of

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weeks ago at the Washington County Free
Fair and and our kids were showing cattle,

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and so I'm just so glad that
we have a marbles well has an

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FFA program and were able to participate
Lexi Vick. I don't took a picture

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with our whiles there too, but
anyway, I was really glad to see

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our kids have the opportunity to participate
in the program. And then over at

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Wayside Elementary, you know, to
address our growth, we've got we've got

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an expansion project going on. It's
going very well to a very aggressive timeline.

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You know, we plan to be
in that building when school starts next

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year. And just as reminder of
what that entails, we're going to have

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building a new pre kindergarten and kindergarten
wings, so that'll be five pre K

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and five kindergarten classes over on the
north side of the building. And there'll

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also be a new art and music
room a well as additional bathrooms. And

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so that's the first phase of it, which is going on right now and

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it's been so be I encourage everyone, if you have friends that teach at

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Wayside, be nice to them because
they're living in a renovation. The miss

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station is doing a great job all
they can get, yeah, and doing

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a really good job with their pick
up and drop off, and thankful for

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our parents. But so they'll work
on that addition phase first, and that

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phase is scheduled to be finished right
around spring break. And then the next

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phase of it, which will go
out to bid. Hopefully our board will

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award that bid in December. The
next phase will be the renovation project,

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and so that will entail renovating,
for example, in our pre K and

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K classrooms moving into their new sites. We're going to renovate those spaces and

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so those are going to be exciting. Those those pods in front of the

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building. One will be a library, which is going to be great.

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So I have a library that will
really fit the meet the needs for that

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number of students that we have at
Wayside, and then the other pod will

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be renovated into an office space.
You know, we have additional adults there

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because their enrollment has grown. You
know, we have additional office staff as

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well as a school resource officer and
full time nurse and they are crammed into

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some tiny, tiny spaces and we
have lots of parent volunteers as well.

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So we'll work on renovating renovating those
existing spaces that we're moving out of,

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and that's going to be a race
getting that done fourth quarter and also all

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summer, so when we get started, get started in August, and then

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over at Ranch Heights Elementary, which
we haven't started yet, we'll follow a

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very similar timeline as Wayside, and
that we our plan is to get started

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on that in the summer of twenty
four, which we would open up a

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new building in the August of twenty
twenty five. So quite a bit going

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on working working through that, but
it's all good stuff. These were all

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good you know, when you have
a when you're student pipe relation has grown

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and meeting the needs of your kids, and obviously what we want to do

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when to make sure our class sizes
are good, we have a good ratio

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of student teacher ratio, and the
bottom line is to make for us to

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make that happen, we need some
more space. And so we felt like

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this was the best plan for us
because we can do that without having to

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add you know, some of those
administrative functions like that you have to do

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when you add add a new school. So anyway, exciting times, a

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lot of a lot of a lot
of good stuff going on, and we're

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just glad to I'm just I know, I'm so thankful thinking today. I

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did give a presentation down at the
State school Board Association conference last month,

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and I think there was there was
standing room only. We talked about building

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district culture. There was one hundred
and fifty people there, but we were

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talking about all the different things and
really that we've accomplished here in the last

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few years from new programs like AGG
and our nationally recognized STEM program, you

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know, aviation. You know,
we're now in the early stage is talking

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about adding a construction class and you
know, with different bond issues, being

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successful in building. But just really
thankful for our community. No, Bartlesville

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is a really special place. Because
we've been able to do a lot,

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especially during challenge, even during these
challenging times with the pandemic. And it

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all goes back to having, you
know, living in a great community that

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really supports our kids. So really
just thankful to be here. Oh indeed,

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I'll tell you what, winning just
spawns more winning and that's how the

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culture is going to go. And
thanks for your hard work. Thanks Tom.

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All right, we've been speaking with
Czech McCauley, president of Bartlesville Public

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Schools, right here on K one. How does Tim Howell at Arnold Moore