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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome Muggama's time

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now for our community connection right here
on Kine one of the one you Trust,

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brought to you by get Real Ministries, Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral

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Home and Tall Grass Motors. And
today we have Bartlesville Superintendent of Schools Chuck

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mccally, and also from the Foundation
we have Blair Ellis. Nice to have

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both of you in here today.
It's a beautiful fall morning. And you

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know something I was just telling you, shuck earlier, I said, this

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is about the coolest normalist school year
I've seen in the last several years.

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We even had the parade for homecoming
that was downtown. That was an awesome

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site, that was great. It
was really You're right, it's been a

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very normal school year and I think
because of that, the year just really

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flying by. There's so many activities
going on, and that homecoming prey was

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a wonderful event and it's really I
believe, I mean, it's the largest,

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the largest participation that I can remember
in my time in Bartlesville, and

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so it's always fun to be able
to do that through the downtown and for

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all the involvement for all of our
You had so many kids, so many

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youth that were involved, and they
really did a nice job. And of

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course the weather cooperated, which was
good. It seemed like we a lot

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of times we have that homecoming early
when it's a little warmer. But it

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was beautiful. Yeah, it was
really a It was really a great event.

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So I know Eric cart who organized
it, said that I think there

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are just a couple of parade floats
short of the Christmas Bred, so almost

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as big as the Christmas Bread.
Yeah. Yeah, it was really great.

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We'll start televising that TV. Well
yeah, never say never telling me

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that yeah it's been Yeah, it's
gone great. And we just finished up

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our We had our October school board
meeting this week and our spotlight that we

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had Blair come speak because she had
an event coming up and some exciting things

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with the foundation, so we invited
her to share some updates from the foundation.

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Thank you. Uh yeah. First
off, we have well Monday,

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so less than a week away.
We have our art auction for good Night

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Bartlesville. So you might remember that
we published this good Night Bartlesville book,

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the book a few years ago now, but we are releasing a special edition

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hard copy of the book, and
then we on Monday will be auctioning off

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the original artwork from the books.
We've got some great illustrations in here.

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This is kind of your one time
chance to purchase one of those original illustrations

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and bring them home. So we're
doing that at Cooper and Mill from four

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to six pm on Monday. Tickets
are still available. Tickets come with a

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hard backed version of the book as
well as some appetizers from the eatery and

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some drink tickets from Cooper and Mill. So a really great deal, really

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fun event. We don't often host
these kind of casual, fun community events

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like this, so we're excited to
do this for a one time event.

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Well, you know, that book
is the gift that keeps on giving.

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I was joking with Blair earlier.
I said, you know, I remember

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when the book came out. It
was really kind of cute and kind of

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nice. The next thing, you
know, we need to print more and

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more and more. They just I
mean, they support our schools left and

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right, and I think everybody loves
our town and all the landmarks in our

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town. So this is a great
way to feature that and support ours.

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Got a nice teacher. Yeah.
So also we have our Bruins on the

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Run program, which of course is
our after school running and mentoring program for

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fifth graders that we started. I
think we're in our fifth season. We

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started this program with just kind of
a pilot program at Caine and Jane Phillips

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Elementary. We had thirty kids and
fifteen teacher mentors at the time. This

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year we've quadrupled that. We have
one hundred and eighteen fifth graders. All

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six of our elementary schools participate fairly
even distribution, and we have almost sixty

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mentors this year, so the program
is just exploded. They started running right

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after school started in August. They're
finishing up their fall season this week they'll

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be running in the wool Rock eight
k, which is of course to run

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the streets events. It's a great
event. It's a great time of year

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to be out at wool Rock running
a very hilly five mile race. So

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we have a lot of kids in
the program. We're really focused on kids

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who aren't in extracurricular activities. We
want them to have that experience and that

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exposure to physical activity as well as
those mentoring relationships. So we have a

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lot of kids that have never run
before that are really making huge progress in

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the program, both with their mental
and physical and emotional health. So we're

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really proud of our kids. We've
got some kids who are trying to beat

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the superintendent this year, and I'm
gonna ask you about that. Check.

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Yeah, I've try training really hard. I'm sure to keep those kids behind

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him, but we'll sure have some
of those that are gonna beat him across

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the finish line. So he's been
nice enough and humble enough to let us

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award these T shirts to highlight that. But we're equally as proud of those

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kids who are just trying to cross
the finish line. Right. They've set

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a goal to finish the program and
complete this eight K, and we just

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want him to get there. So
that's really what the program is focused on,

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and we're just so proud of those
kids and the mentors and the program

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and Chrenck, this is something that's
close to your heart. This is something

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you've been doing all your life and
you know the benefits of it. I

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mean not only physical, but also
internally mentally and things like it gives you

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a certain clarity and imagine that's where
the kids are fighting too, it does,

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and so I know I talked to
our team often about just investing in

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yourself as well. It's important to
take care of yourself so that you can

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take care of others, and I
think exercise is a way to do that.

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I know it does enough. I
feel like it benefits me personally,

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probably mentally as much or more than
physically. And so I'm rarely Jennifer and

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I are big supporters of Run the
Streets. We sponsored at a level where

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our employees can participate in this race
just for the cost of the shirt,

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and so Wilson Elementary they have won
that contest. We have a contest by

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school in terms of the most participants, and they're leading the way again,

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but which is no surprise of the
most competitive people in the world, my

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friends over at Willson Elementary. But
yeah, we'll have over one hundred and

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fifty Bartlesville Public School employees along with
one hundred fifth graders participate over at wool

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Rock on Saturday, and it looks
like it's just going to be a beautiful,

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beautiful day. And really it really
warms your heart when you see our

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kids accomplish that, because, like
said, you know, a lot of

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the kids are involved in the program, you know, they're not playing football,

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or they're not playing soccer, or
they're not doing the things. We

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got a lot of kids doing that, which are wonderful things. But to

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be able to set that goal and
have that vision about something, a long

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term goal, and working towards that
and then accomplishing that really sets them up

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for success. You know. In
our cross country program, which is what

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they won several state championships, is
very successful every year, and I know

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coach Airs he talks about this is
one of their biggest recruiting things is from

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this Bruins on the Run program,
so kind of opens kid's eyes to possibilities

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for them as well. You know, I was told by a few of

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the cross country fellows that I grew
up with. He said, yeah,

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that's great that you play football in
baseball. You know, we're you going

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to get you know, seventeen other
guys to get a game up, or

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are you going to get you know, wanting some other guys to get a

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game up. I can do this
running as long as I'm fit to walk,

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and I can do this the rest
of my life until God says you

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can't do it no more. And
Wow, that's a pretty good limit,

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you know. Yeah, you're pretty
much in charge of your own limit on

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I mean we kind of we say
all the time that running is kind of

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just the vehicle, right The idea
is really just just the idea that you

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need to start a program and commit
to doing it, set some goals,

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and then finish it out. So
showing up every day. We require a

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lot from our kids in terms of
their commitment and their attitude and their effort.

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But beyond that, we don't care
again what time they cross the finish

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line in. We just want them
to finish. So that's good for the

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youngsters out there. Just remember there
are people who are in their seventies and

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eighties and some in their nineties that
are still running half marathon to marathon.

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We have one of our mentors that
can I think is in her eighties and

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she's one of our greatest mentors and
greatest assets. So she volunteers. It's

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not many volunteer too, and she's
great. She mentored my son last year,

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so and it's you know, and
I think that mentorship piece is so

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powerful for our you know, we
have, like Blair said, fifty nine

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or sixty of our adult mentors that
volunteer. They do this for nothing.

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They volunteer their time a couple after
school a week and they've been doing this

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for weeks training you know this.
We can't remember what the temperatures were like

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when they got started. It was
really tough. Uh and then so and

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and really it's so powerful for our
kids to have that build that relationship with

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adults that care about I'm not just
in the classroom but outside the classroom and

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so Uh, it's a it's a
wonderful event and and really warms my heart

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and really glad that we have that
option available for our kids. And look

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and looking forward to Saturday. It's
gonna be fun. I know. I've

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had a couple of kids ask me
how fast I run well and then,

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uh, it just pointed out to
me someone looked up my previous time and

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that's how I gotten slower the last
few years. I said, well,

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I'm gonna be a little slower this
year than I was last year, but

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I will fish that's right, and
we'll work. It's such a cool place

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and talk Kevin Hoak. Last night
we're at an event and it's uh and

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nothing else. Another reason is just
for open people's eyes to that treasure just

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right outside Bartlesville, and people need
to uh to come take advantage of that,

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and they always do a good job
keeping the bison away from the actual

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running course. Actually, that could
improve your time. That's tell you what.

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We've got a lot more to go, and I know that mister McAuley

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has a list here that good things
that we need to highlight. But we're

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going to take a quick break and
we'll be right back after these words.

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Get real ministries, all grass motors
and Arnold morning. You can't fun home.

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The first conversation I have with someone's
loved one, and I don't care

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if it's three o'clock in the afternoon
or three o'clock in the morning, that

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first conversation is, mister X,
this is Tim how with Arnold Moore and

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you can't funeral home. First of
all, sir, let me say I'm

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very sorry we're having to have this
conversation right now. And to the nth

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degree, those people always appreciate you
taking a moment to just pause and say

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I'm aware that someone you care about
very much has just left you, and

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I'm sorry that we have to do
this, but we have to do this

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and if it's three o'clock in the
morning, I try to be brief but

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concise and say do you have any
questions or in thing I can do for

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you right now before we meet at
our arrangement conference. And sometimes I say,

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you know, can you call my
priest? Can you call my pastor?

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And I don't mind doing that.
It'll be all right. We'll walk

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through this together. Arnold Moore and
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is just too intimidating, too confusing. There is an easier way, tall

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play. Tall Grass Motors has continually
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Grass Motors Highway seventy five North in
Bartlesville. Hey, everyone, this is

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Pastor Rando and Pastor Shiloh with get
reel Ministries and this is your Get real

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minute. Most everyone has heard the
scripture John three point sixteen. For God

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so love the world that he gave
his only begotten son, whosoever should believe

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in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life. I believe that that

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scripture is really of no avail if
not followed up by the very next scripture

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John three point seventeen. For God
did not send his son into the world

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to condemn the world, but that
the world through him might be saved.

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And that is the foundational scripture by
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Get one News Time is now eight
forty five and you're listening to community Connection.

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We have special guessing studio Blair Ell
that's with the Barnswille Public Schools Foundation

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and bartles Will Public Schools Superintendent.
He even got a T shirt for it

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here, Truck McCauley and Chuck.
We've been talking a lot about the foundation

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Bruins on the run, but we've
got a lot of great highlights at the

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school. Is a kind of a
milestones we've hit along the way. Yeah,

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we'll talk about kind of what's going
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also at our board meeting, had
a short meeting, but we did have

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another clean audit that was approved this
week and really really thankful for our hard

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working staff. Preston Burke and his
group does a great job with that.

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So I wanted to highlight them and
and I'll mention this a couple of things.

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Construction wise, the agg facility by
the high school is progressing very nicely.

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We're gonna be all signs look like
we're going to be in it around

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spring break, so our kids will
be able to do that. Yeah,

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the fourth nine weeks and that's gonna
be fun. That's really gonna be a

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a great thing. The Wayside expansion
is also moving along. It's similar timeline

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in terms of the expansion should be
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on the renovation side with the goal
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of next year. And then Ranch
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it's a year behind, so we
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which is opening up the August of
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on the activities front, we talked
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of that right in the middle of
October, which is I think is my

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favorite time of the year here in
Oklahoma. We talked about the homecoming piece.

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You know, softball and volleyball,
they just finished up their seasons across

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country. They have their regional other
junior high boys and girls finish up their

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cross country conference meet last week.
Our high school kids will on Saturday,

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boys and girls and hopefully we'll get
both those teams will all qualify for state.

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Anticipate that they will. And then
football is you know, we have

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three games left in the regular season
and we're vuying for our home playoff game,

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which is fun. We're at sand
Springs tomorrow. We have Muscogie coming

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in next week, which they are
probably the best team on our schedule,

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so it'll be a fun game.
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will hopefully get at least one playoff
game at home, which has been I

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think since twenty fifteen as the last
time we hosted one. So really out

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of their work. And then want
to highlight the marching band. They had

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another success. They went to had
a competition over at Branson and finished third

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overall. Nice. Our show is
really coming along. That's another great reason

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to come out to the football game
next Friday this year. Those kids work

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hard and they've done a great job
Chris and Heather Caine's leadership. They have

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tremendous numbers coming in our middle school
up to so I think that program is

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really going to flourish in the future. And then also just to mention that

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since our last time, you know, our FFA program is receiving that national

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recognition. You know, there are
top three Model of Excellence in Premiere Chapter

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Award and they're going to be at
the national National Convention in Indianapolis here in

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just a couple of weeks. And
so that's really excited for them. It's

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incredible. You know, it's their
fifth year in existence, and what a

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nice edition it he's been. Yeah, it's been really really cool. I

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think Grayson's involved in that. He
is, Yeah, he was, He

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was not interested in AG but we
put him in the program and he is

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loving it so well. There's a
lot to strive for it when the teachers

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are amazing, and Dale and Marty
Jones, you have two of the biggest

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cheerleaders of that whole school right there. Yeah, that's that's exactly right.

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Their religion is great thing. You
know that our ACT program and our aviation

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and STAM and those numbers continue to
climb and so I'm just proud to be

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able to offer those here in our
community. Blair, wann't we give an

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update on on the tax credit shore
Yeah, y, yeah. It is

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that time a year to start thinking
about year and giving. And you might

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remember I was in here last year
talking about the new tax legislation. So

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it's now been in place for a
year. But any gift to the Bartlesville

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Public Schools Foundation, assuming it meets
some basic criteria, can qualify for up

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to seventy five percent of that gift
that taxpayer gets it back in the form

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of a tax credit. Having done
it for a year, I know some

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people were kind of nervous how it
was all going to work. We did

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have about fifty donors take advantage of
it last year with our annual campaign.

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I was one of those, and
I can tell you it was easy to

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take that amount off of my taxes. I did get seventy five percent of

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my gift back in the form of
attack credit, So it's easy to do.

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People who use turbo tax will say
it's very easy to do, but

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it does in fact work. So
it's a great way to redirect your state

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income tax liability to our public schools
affecting Bartlesville, and we know exactly where

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that's going and the programs that it's
supporting. So just a reminder. If

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anybody wants more information, they can
of course visit our bpsfoundation dot org website,

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or they can reach out to me
at the Education Service Center. I'm

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happy to talk all day long about
tax credits. Can you give us a

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quick rundown on the book The Big
Yes. Just reminder, we've got our

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one time only event. It's art
auction auctioning off the original illustrations in this

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good Night Bartlesville book. This is
the Course, a bestseller a couple of

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years ago. We're printing limited edition
hardback versions of the book. You can

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get tickets to that event on our
website Bpsfoundation dot orger. That event is

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Monday. It's Monday. Thank you. It's Monday. Probably need to know

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when it is. Monday, October
the twenty third, from four to six

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pm at Cooper and Mill Super dude, Charles, anything else. Thank you.

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Appreciate your for time. Thanks for
having