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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. Media's time now for a
community connection. If we can ever get

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our TV thing to do right here, we'll get things rolling. Here.

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We have Tara Galtwalt with us here
and Tara, welcome to the show today.

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Lots going on if you get ready
for school huh absolutely, Tom,

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It's an exciting time of the year. Tri County Tech's ready to welcome a

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whole lot of new students and some
returning students. So this is this is

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kind of what we get excited about
as the year rolls rolls, summer rolls

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to a close, school year kicks
off well, super duper. Now,

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we've got just about anything and everything
to do with Try County Tech that we're

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going to touch on today. Yes, yes, I have quite a list

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for your talk, Tara. Let's
get rolling. Okay. One of the

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things that I want to share that
is an exciting update to our short term

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programs is that we have decided to
integrate a national certification into our phlabotomy certition

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that we offer. Yes, and
so we are in the process of working

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with Ascension Saint John Jane Phillips,
and we're going to add some clinicals to

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our phlebotomy program that will make the
people that come out of that more employable.

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Of course, that's what we're looking
to do, and so a national

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certification, as we gathered feedback from
past students and from industry, seemed to

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be the direction we needed to go. So people will see that rolling out

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this fall. That's very good.
I mean, that is very good and

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quite useful for folks. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Another thing that we've got going

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on is tonight we have a CPR
renewal class for first responders that they can

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do for free, Tom, because
you remember Mikey Smith, the gentleman who

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loved our community so much. Yes, well, a foundation scholarship was set

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up for Mikey Smith from donors from
the community and his family and lots of

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people who just loved him. And
we're able to offer a CPR renewal class

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for first responders at no charge so
they can be there tonight at five thirty.

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That is amazing. And so many
people showed up when he was sick

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and we had that nice parade of
our first responders is like, oh yeah,

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and you know that just kind of
tells everybody how important and how how

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much everybody loved this young man,
and now to have him kind of live

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on with us with this type of
event is even better. It's great,

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it's wonderful. We're so blessed with
that. And we'll hold with our new

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focus on fire training with our rescue
tower that we have on our campus.

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You know, Judge Stroum helped us
with that and all the good stuff.

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Tom, Well, Judge thought it
was going to be a treehouse. Well

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it's a pretty amazing treehouse. I
kidding. That is awesome. And what

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that has done for not only our
community but also for our school is really

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it pained big dividends. Yeah,
it's wonderful. And so we're offering Thursday

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trainings to firefighters every month on the
third Thursday. We're going to offer trainings

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extended it at no costs as often
as we can do it at no cost

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to the volunteer training excuse me,
volunteer fireman in our area. So that's

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an awesome advantage that people have for
for being here in our communities. Well,

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Terry, I'll tell you what.
The Craig County Tech has been such

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a great resource for our community and
it just keeps un giving. But it's

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a partnership. There are a lot
of different hands at play that make all

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this work, and it's it's it's
hands extended out in friendship and cooperation one

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hundred percent. Tom. I tell
you that as we move forward, our

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partnerships with the businesses, the community
organizations, the volunteers, the families,

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it is so important to us at
Tri County Tech. We we know the

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value of that and really we're here
to be a resource for communities. We

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serve oh wow, And I gotta
tell you goes hand in hand. We

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supply the community with a lot of
talent once they get their certifications and sometimes

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their degrees and get them out there. And it's a great way also and

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to kind of keep our kids kind
of close by too. Speaking as a

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parent, you always want to be
able to watch your grandkids grow up.

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You don't want to do it on
FaceTime when they're out in Los Angeles or

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New York. You like to have
them kind of close by. This is

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a great way to kind of do
that too. Yeah. Our children,

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both of our boys, went through
programs at Tri County and you know,

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I just wrapped up my thirtieth year
there, Tom, and it's just been

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part of my life. Oh yeah, very nice, very nice. So

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some more things we have going on
there. I think that the community has

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probably heard a little bit about our
partnership with the Bartlestl Police Department. Yes,

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that's a very good, solid partner, it is, and we have

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been working behind the scenes to be
able to bring what is referred to us

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BEPAC Basic Peace Officer Certification Academy to
our local area. And I will tell

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you that this will be so advantageous
to both Tri County Tech and the city

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of Bartlesville. When a police officer
comes on to the team the department in

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Bartlesville, they have to go through
cleet training and previously they had to do

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that out of town and it caught. It was four months long, Tom

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and we're able to be able to
bring that to hear local later on this

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fall. So we're excited about that. And other folks are needed are going

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to miss us, Yeah, absolutely, their hotels might, but it's great.

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You get to stay home in your
hometown, do your training here,

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conserve your hometown. Yeah, that's
what we're all about, you know.

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Trying to strengthen our community is real
important to us, just like it is

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to you at the radio. Another
date that we have, we have an

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orientation for our beginning the new high
school. Students and their parents are asked

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to please attend an orientation at Tri
County Tech on August this seventh at either

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two thirty or four thirty. They
pick one and this will be a way

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that we can inform them so they
feel like they are in the know as

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they show up for school. It's
always a good thing. Yes, kids

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get the jitters a little bit.
They want to come in fully prepared and

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ready to go, like like they
don't want to be spotted as somebody doesn't

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found that's right. We you know, I stand out there on the first

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day of school and watch them come
in, and that's one of the highlights,

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you know, of being an educator
is that you see them so excited

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to be there, yet they're so
nervous. So we wanted to be prepared.

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And our first day of school for
full time programs is August the ninth,

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so that is coming up very quickly. Bartlesville, as Chuck said yesterday,

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starts on August tenth, so we
are August ninth for our our programs

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to start. The other thing we
have coming up is our Tri County Tech

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Foundation, which is really important to
us. It provides tuition assistance to and

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emergency assistance to students who otherwise would
not be able to attend Tri County Tech.

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And we have our first ever golf
tournament coming up through the foundation.

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I think Champagne came and talked about
that a little bit. Yes, she

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is her and Kim Smith and so
that is October fifth, and I just

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want people to remember that that's coming
up out there. We've got a lot

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of great sponsors already. And if
people want to check that out, they

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go to Tri County Tech dot edu
backslash golf, so that's the website for

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it. Yes. Yes, another
thing that Chuck mcaulay yesterday referenced when he

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was on here, I do love
the radio, tom So. I listened

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to you guys. Yes, yes, the news for me comes from the

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radio. And he referenced that the
school Resource Officers are ready to roll for

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Bartlesville and reflecting back again on our
partnership with Tri County in Bartso Police Department,

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we are going to have a full
time SRO this year on our campus.

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So that is wonderful. We're very
very pleased of that with that partnership

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with Bartleswoll Police Department in the City
of Bartelsville. Nice commitments we got from

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our community. That's great. Yeah, yeah, this is going to turn

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out to be a one whale of
a semester. It really is. We've

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got a lot going on. Another
highlight that we had a few months ago,

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we received a grant from our Progrants
and that was for broadband training and

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we have conducted one round of broadband
training over in Pahuska at our facility at

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the pahusk Business Development Center. But
we are going to be scheduling one of

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those here in Bartelsville this fall.
That is a short term training for broadband

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and will offer skills to the people
to be hired in broadband. I great.

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You know our footprint because keeps getting
bigger and bigger. We're in pa

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Husking and that's been very well received
over the last few years. And of

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course over No Wada, they're new, little, yes place we have over

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there. It's really not that little, that's not that little beautiful facility.

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Tom and we have had a lunch
and learn one of the things through our

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workforce and economic development, we're going
to focus on some more lunch and learns,

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So we will be having those in
no Wada and we will be having

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lunch and learns in Pawhuska as well, so that the communities can come out,

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we can offer some information, perhaps
some topics of training that they may

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be interested in, and really start
to be more visible in both of those

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places with that. Nowada of course
has a big project coming their way with

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APEX, which is the Hickory Creek
project with the wind turbans. And one

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of the things that we're going to
do with a lot with a grant that

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we got from ARPA, we're building
a polelyard on our campus in Bartlesville.

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And the ripple effect of that tom
is to be able to focus on training

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for skill sets that will work for
linemen, for broadband and for the wind

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turbine industry. And so that's that's
another piece of the puzzle. Wow.

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I tell you, every time Drake
County Tech shows up, there's something new,

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there's something that you're like, wow, Wow, nobody thought about that.

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Well, you'd already thought about it. I mean, it's like,

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what a nice little thing. Yeah. We try to keep you know,

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our ears and our eyes open to
see what's needed in the industry, and

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we know that there's a lot of
still some gaps with the skills as far

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as construction trades and some of the
hands on trades, and so we feel

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that this Poleyard will be an asset
to help us along those lines. I'm

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sure that it will. And do
we stall flex class availabilities? We do

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because I get kind us tight.
Yeah, we have a little bit of

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um, we have a small amount
of space left in our flex programs.

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Our high school or full time program
excuse me, are very full, they

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are. There's just a few slots
literally left in that and so a little

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bit left in flex and we are
we are excited about a full year.

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One thing you got to know about
try County Tech. The people who work

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there stayed there for a good long
time. Why because it's a great place

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to be. It's a great place
to watch people learn, it's a great

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place to help people learn. In
fact, Right County Tech has won numerous

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awards in that regard over the year. Yeah, Tom, I tell you

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it's it's a fantastic place. We
really do care about our people and we

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care about our communities, and that
right there helps us be successful and there's

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only something new, so you can't
get bored on the job. No,

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there's not, there's not time to
be on your tools. Yeah, I'm

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so proud of I'm so proud of
our staff at Tri County and I just

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love the community being there to support
us at all levels. So you guys

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are absolutely amazing. And where can
we find more on Tri County Tech on

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the world Wide Web? Back It
is simply tri County Tech dot edu.

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Tom, and you can come out
and visit us, and we're happy to

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lead people on tours, answer questions
whatever it might be that the need is.

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We're happy to assist. Well,
we're happy to have you here in

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our own backyard. Thank you so
much, God bless you. Thanks for

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coming in and giving us all this
great news. Absolutely, Tom, you

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have a wonderful day. Okay,
you take care. Oh, Jeff Fox

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