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

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welcome. It's time now for a
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. Charlene Doo
is with us and bowl me over.

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I mean, yeah, we're bowling
for kids. Say that's what we're

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doing. That's what we're doing.
How are you doing, young lady.

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I'm doing great. It's nice to
see a little warmer temperatures. It is.

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The rain is welcome. Oh it's
I was told that if you get

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rain in January around here, it's
like stealing. So I didn't see nothing.

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There you go. We need to
get some bowlers already to get going

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here for a ball for kids sake, don't we both? Kid good?

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Both for kid's sake. Is is
in full swing and we want to take

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a minute to thank all of our
sponsors. We're over goal on sponsors,

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so that is awesome. We still
have room for for some new sponsors if

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you're interested. Our presenting sponsor again
is DSR and our kingpin sponsors this year

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are Chronical Phillips and Cutterfield Financial.
Nice. So we've got fifty eight teams

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registered and our goal is ninety eight, so we're almost we're halfway there,

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and our early Bird Team Captain's winner
team captains that had registered by January nineteenth,

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we're in a drawing for one hundred
dollars visa card. And the winner

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of the early Bird Team Captains drawing
is Bobby Bailey from a Trudy Way to

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Go. Bobby Bailey has been a
longtime supporter of both for kid's sake.

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So our new incentive is for teams. So if all six members of the

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team have signed up by January thirty
first and made a twenty five dollars contribution

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to their own personal pledgsheet, then
they're in a drawing. All the team

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members are in a drawing for one
hundred dollars visa card. And so we

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encourage everybody to get your team fully
registered by January thirty first. You can

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always register after that, but you
know, there's no one hundred dollars visa

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card on the table, might as
well might as well get it done as

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we get in there with the carrot. Yeah, so our goal is one

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hundred and fifty five to five two
thousand this year, and so we're really

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optimistic that we're going to do that. And I just encourage everybody. If

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you're if you're interested in sponsoring,
there's room for new sponsors. If you

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want to do a hosted team where
the company pays the nine hundred dollars to

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sponsor the team and then they pick
six people to come and bowl, we

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have that opportunity. If you have
some other grand idea, call me and

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we'll see if we can make it
work. All right, you open to

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suggestion. Oh we like to be
resourceful. Awesome. Well, you know

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one resource that we need with big
brothers, with big sisters is mentors.

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We always need mentors. The ones
we have are great, but we could

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use a few more. Yes,
we always need mentors. We have thirty

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nine children on the waiting list.
We had a surge of referrals in the

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fall, and seventeen of those are
girls and the rest are boys. So

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our target for mentors is men or
couples that can be matched with a boy.

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And then we always need women.
So there are children waiting for you.

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You know, it's really about just
taking a little bit of time sharing

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your life experience with a child.
It's not complicated if you just think about

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what am I doing today, what
am I going to be doing on Saturday

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that I could involve a child in
and then share that time with the You'll

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change both of your lives. That
sounds pretty dark cool. And all you

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have to do is give you a
call and you answer the phone by the

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way I do answer the phone.
You do. It's a welcome thing.

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And also go to the website.
It'll tell you a little bit more into

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detail about what right all about.
The website is big Oklahoma dot org.

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My phone number is nine one eight
two one three four five two four,

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and we'd be happy to talk with
you answer any questions. If you have

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a club, an organization, a
business that you would like me to come

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and do a presentation, and be
happy to do that as well. We've

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done virtual things we can do in
person. So we just need to get

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more people in the community to be
aware of what the need is and how

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easy it is really to be a
friend to a child that really helps them

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change their life and achieve their potential. So many lives have been turned around.

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I've seen this firsthand from people who
participated. My uncle was a big

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He was a bone s urgent and
he says guys were going on a canoe

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trip and he says We've got a
few other guys come along with us.

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I said, oh, wow,
more kids. He said, yeah,

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more kids, and all these bigs
it took their littles and he didn't have

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kids yet. My cousins weren't around
yet. So he took his little plus

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us and we did a little canoeing
in Big Old River in Ohio. And

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I was asking these kids, and
he said, well, what's this big

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and little business all about? It
says, don't really understand it, but

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it's pretty cool we get to do
fun stuff like this. I said,

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all right. But as it turned
out, you know, many of them

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had lifelong relationships with their bigs.
As it turned out, we have many.

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Because I've been here for ever,
the I run into people who still

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have really still have connections to their
to the little they were matched with years

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and years ago. You know.
Actually, Big Brothers Big Sisters has served

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Washington County forty years in May.
Goodness, say that's a big deal.

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Yes, imagine it'll be a big
old celebration about that. I'll detall it.

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At least we should at least get
a cookie year something. Im sure

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they will. But you partnered up
with another a great mentoring program as well

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with the Young Scholars of Bartlefield.
Right when Young Scholars started in two thousand

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and six, we met with them
and said, you know, we're like,

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we can bring your vision and your
generosity because at that time they were

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made had made the late very Low
and Karen Low had made a significant contribution

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to OSU for scholarships for children of
the working for that's basically the target.

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And and because mentoring is what we
do, and mentoring is a component of

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their programs, so we partner together
and Big Brothers Big Sisters provides the mentoring

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component of the Young Scholars program.
Which Young Scholars focus is on academic achievement

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and preparing youth for that college education, helping them secure the find the scholarships

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to be able to go to college. And for many of those children they

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will be first generation, they'll be
the first in their families to attend college.

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And then they support them through that
college experience. So Young Scholars does

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quarterly community service projects, they track
academic achievement very closely. And the really

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nice part about it is that the
partnership has evolved where youth that are in

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the Big Brother Big Sister program already
that meet the criteria for the ak Demo

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criteria in terms of grade point and
income level. Four young Scholars have been

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accepted into the Young Scholars now,
being that partnership is truly working to help

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a child that was already in our
program had had a mentor be able to

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achieve that academic the college scholarship as
well. And so it's really wonderful to

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see these kids who realize their dreams, and that's what we're working together to

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do. In fact, i was
Briannazinsky was the director, was supposed to

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be with me today. I've missed
her already. She's such a nice gal.

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But she called me at seven thirty
and has succumbed to the virus that's

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running around as many of us somehow
in this month. Tells me she's got

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little ones right, yes, yes, kids. And in fact, we

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were having a conversation yesterday and her
kids had been sick, and I'm like,

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are you sure you're not going to
take No, I'm fine, And

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I'm like, yeah, well story, yeah, Well I'm I'm sorry you're

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sick, but I'm glad it's today
and not tomorrow. So that radio station

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is a pretty small space. Oh, it is quite so the Young Scholars

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and Big Brothers Sisters partnership is has
been beneficial in many many ways. So

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Young Scholars brought in fourteen new students
this Yes, they accepted fourteen new students

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into their program and there's still nine
of them that need mentors. So anybody

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who's listening that particularly has a heart
for education and the academic side, that's

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an excellent program to get into.
I mean, we still do all the

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screening, we do, the match
selection, we do all the match support

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Big Brothers Sisters does, but Young
Scholars helps to recruit their mentors, and

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so anybody that's really interested in helping
with a youth with academic achievement, that's

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a good fit for them as well. We have kids waiting that range an

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age from six to sixteen and all
different interests. So it really is life

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changing, and I would encourage people
to just think about how are you spending

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your time and do you have some
time to share. One thing that it

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hits me with this is that if
you're a child, you only know what

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you're being around, you only know
your environment. And with Big Brother Big

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Sister, this gives you the big
opportunity to give a child maybe a different

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perspective on how life is beyond that
environment and maybe in different environments and maybe

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just maybe you could catch that dream
that the kids might have things. Well,

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we've gone from the impossible to hey, I think this might work.

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You know, that's so true.
We only know what we know, and

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then when we know more, we
can dream more, right, and and

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somethings, that's the simple things there
are. There are kids who have never

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been out of the city. There
that have never been to a production at

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the community center, who never baked
cookies or made bread, you know,

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or even had the resources to even
think about or yeah, to have the

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resources to even think about doing that. And so it's really about sharing life

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experiences and helping kids to see that
things. Sometimes when we ask kids when

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we're doing enrollment interviews what they want
to do or what do they like to

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do, it's like they don't really
know sometimes because they have not had the

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opportunity to do lots of different things. So the boy, you get a

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a nice exposure to the wide variety
menu of life once you get the chance

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to see it with perhaps a different
perspective, for a different lens. Yeah,

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it's it truly is a life changing, and most of our volunteers will

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say I came in to help a
child. I didn't realize how much I

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was going to gain out of that, out of that experience. We've had

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many of them sitting right there beside
you will who say the same thing and

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they're like a dog gone at a
hidden benefit for me. Wow, I

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didn't see that coming. Well.
Yeah, and we've got a couple of

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kids who have been on the waiting
list. I think there's six of them

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have been on a waiting list for
longer than a year, and that's a

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long time in a life. So
we're really focused on those kids. But

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our top priority always is child safety
and making the best match indeed, you

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know, like we would Daniel,
who is our program specialist, I did

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a match selection yesterday and there were
two youth who matched with who were good

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choices based on you know, personality
and interest for this one volunteer. But

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one of those children is at a
really pivotal point in his life where if

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there isn't an intervention, he it's
he may not end up in a positive

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place. And the other one is
doing okay, but he's been waiting longer,

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you know, so if you look
at, well, the waiting longer

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ways, but but the but the
one who's at the crossroads is the one

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who really needs this big and he
needs him now, not six months from

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now, not a year from now, but he needs them now because of

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the struggles that he's having and academically
and just making life choices. And so

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that's the one we chose. You
know, they both match on interest,

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and they'll both they both be good
matches. But the one who's going to

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be right, you know, because
it's like I'm like, okay, so

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which one you know, Like,
if you look at length of time waiting,

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it's this one. But if you
look at the crossroads that which one

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is going to have the most immediate
impact. It's this one because that child

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really does need somebody who can say, hey, let's think about some of

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the decisions that we're making and make
better ones. And a lot of times

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kids only need somebody in their corner
that they feel like is is their champion

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and is listening to them and is
showing them, you know, because sometimes

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they get caught up in all that
struggle within their family and then they don't

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see the forest for the trees.
No, they're just trying to manage the

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Yeah, I understand that we're speaking
with Charlie Due and she's with big Brothers,

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Big sisters, and once again we
have both for kid's sake. Where

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can people find out more about both
for kids? Say? The website is

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is think about Both for Kids Sake
SOS b F k S Bartlesville dot org

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or call our office. If you
go out to Big Oklahoma dot org and

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click on events, you'll see the
graphic out there for Bartlesville. Both for

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kid's sake, very easy to find. Let's make good use of it,

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folks. Let's get to uh,
let's get to one hundred with our team.

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I'll be happy with eighty eight,
but one hundred be great. Got

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a dream, big sister, And
if you're listening and you're a small business

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owner or you have a group of
uh, you know, you're you're like,

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yeah, i'd really like to do
that, but you know, and

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I would just like to host the
team and then invite six people to come

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out and bowl. We have a
few of those teams and they work well

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for those companies. They do.
Yeah, and so it raises the money.

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It provides an opportunity for work group
or to get together and just do

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some team building. Yeah, well, there you go, Charlene. I

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want to thank you very much for
being with us and sharing time with us

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today. Thank you Tom for the
opportunity. Alrighty folks, you've been listening

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and watching to community connection