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Hay, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome

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hoo. We're a little early on
our community connection today. It's because we've

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got to two for the price of
what today. But first of all,

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we want to talk with Superintendent Chuck
McCauley. Just kind of a bigger week

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than usual here at the old High
School and at school in general. Hi,

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how are things going. It's going
great, having a lot of fun

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here this last week. As we
get a little bit closer that last day

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of school on Friday, and hopefully
we'll end up with our graduation ceremony on

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Friday night at eight o'clock on Custer
Stadium. Yea, that's our plan.

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Just as a reminder, I'll kind
of start there. Yeah, let's do

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that. That's an outdoor event,
and obviously this time of year, we've

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got to be weather aware. We
may at just the time of that depending

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on the weather forecast. For example, last year, we moved up the

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ceremony an hour. We did that
on Friday because that looked like it give

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us the best window. So but
we're planning on Friday at eight, so

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we could move it up a little
bit. We have a little bit later.

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We want to do everything we can
to have it on Friday night.

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However, if the weather is just
not going to allow it, we will

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move it to Saturday so that we
can have an outdoor event. And most

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likely that if we had to move
it to Saturday, that would probably be

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an afternoon, probably like a three
o'clock if we did move it to Saturday.

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But we're not ready to make that
decision yet. Obviously a lot of

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things can change between now and Friday
night, but there is a chance we're

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in on Friday, but Saturday looks
like a beautiful day as well. But

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we're going to have that graduation.
We have learned that we like to have

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that it's best to have it outdoors, just we don't have to limit the

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number of people that attend. Then
everyone can come and just really make it

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a special event. And it is
going to be a special event. Yeah,

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we're going to carry that on k
one TV dot com. So if

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you're like you have relatives far far
away you just can't make it, tell

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them to tune in they get it
on Roku and Apple TV. We can.

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We can sure do that for you
as well. I appreciate that Tom

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and our project Graduation, which is
for our graduates. Kind of a fun,

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safe event for ours that's going to
happen either way, even if we

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don't have the let's kind it on
Friday night either way. So that's kind

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of that kind of plays in to
our decision if we do move it to

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Saturday, what time to do it. So we think that if we can

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on a Friday night, we'll move
it to Saturday afternoon and we'll have that

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ceremony in and put a bow on
the year. But yeah, this year,

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this week has been it's a lot
of fun. There's a lot of

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different activities going on. You know, yesterday we had our elementary all school

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track meet over at thet High School
football field of our customer stadium on the

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track and it's it's a wonderful event. It's good to see all the kids

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running around. We had a great
time over there. So yeah, it's

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been a lot of fun getting in
all those end of the year activities.

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And this year, you know,
as we've talked about before, has been

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you know, it's been it's been
the first year that we haven't had some

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disruptions in several and so because of
that, we've been doing all the things.

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So I think I think this is
the way we used to do it.

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Yeah, I kind of remember now, yeah, we've kind of been

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out of shape or doing all those
different activities too. But yeah. But

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so Monday night at our May School
Board meeting, collect the start off with

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our spotlight the Rvest Foundation, they
came and they donated fifteen thousand dollars to

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the Public School Foundation. Really appreciate
their support. The majority of those funds

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are going to be used for teacher
daycare. We you know, I think

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we've talked about that before, but
you know, childcare is a big challenge

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here in Bartlesville, and our teachers
also struggle with that as well. But

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we've worked with Tri County Tech in
particular Joelene Bryant over there. They have

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a great program and they have they're
going to give a discount to our teachers,

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and then in the public school we're
also going to give our teachers a

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discount for that program, and they're
going to raise their priority level of getting

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our staff into that program. I
think we already have thirteen teachers signed up

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with to have their kids in next
year. And you know that makes a

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difference on whether you know, our
parents, society and our teachers if they

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want to come back to work or
stay home with their little ones, and

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so we're very appreciative of that.
So that our best foundation, that check

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is going to help cover that discount
for the districts. The district won't be

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out any funds there that for year. And also we're gonna use a portion

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of those funds for our Ruins on
the Run program. So really thankful to

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our vest Kim Moyer, the CEO
there. She's a big proponent of of

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bartles of public school. So appreciate
everything that they do. Uh, they

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do for us. It's always a
fun way to start the meeting. You

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know. We spent about half of
our meeting recognizing students, which is fun.

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Really, it really is a lot
of fun, of course, and

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seems like Joyce Shang comes to every
meeting. She keeps somebody wrote a book

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it's called Everywhere. Yeah. Uh, she she is wonderful and so we

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just found out last week that she's
a Presidential scholar Um, which there's I

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think Principal Harp reported there's one of
one hundred and sixty two I think in

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the country. But basically there comes
a boy and a girl from each state.

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We had known that she wasn't win
the final five, and so we

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found out last week that she won
the award. So that's really a big

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deal Barbles. And we haven't had
a winner of that award since nineteen eighty

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six, so it's been a bit. Joyce announced at the meeting that she's

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going to go to Princeton. She
was accepted to I think all of the

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Ivy League schools and and you know, not only is she an excellent student,

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but she's a musician. Uh,
she's president of the student body.

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She's a sweet kid, and she's
going to do wonderful things. So it's

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fun to recognize her one last time. It's your brother. Yes, that's

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right Stone, Yeah, that's right, right, good memory, Tom,

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Yes, Stone is that's Stones at
Princeton as well. And Joyce will be

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matter of fact, she she let
us know that she'll be giving a speech

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of graduation whenever we have that ceremony. She's she's going to be given us

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a speech. So that'll that'll be
fun. Uh. You know. We

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also had our principal, Tammy Krous
from Richard Kane Elementary. She bought five

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of her fifth grade leadership students came
and they led us in the pledge and

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talked about some of the things they've
been doing with Miss Carolston. Those kids

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are going to do great things.
They are they are. It was really

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a lot of fun to uh far
aboard to get to see them. I

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know, I've been, I'm over
there quite a bit. I get to

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see a lot of the different things
that they do, so it's fun to

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recognize them. UH. And then
we've had a spring. Sports had a

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very wildly successful, wildly successful season
from soccer to golf and tennis, and

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UH, you know, we won
not only had a lot of kids qualify

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for state meets and state tournaments,
but we won two academic state championships.

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You know, our boys tennis team
UH and girls golf they're both academic state

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champions as well as qualifying for the
state TOURNAMENTUM and our boys mentioned our soccer

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program, our boys soccer coach Brandon
Willis. This is a second year with

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US and he does a great job
for US, has a great accent as

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well. But he had our boys
come. They qualified for the playoffs for

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a second year in a row.
They lost in overtime. They lost in

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overtime the last two years in the
first round they lost Edmund North. This

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year's got a real strong program,
but they're doing a great job and it

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was really a lot of fun having
those kids. I know it takes some

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time. I appreciate our board giving
up their time to do that because it

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doesn't make the meeting a little longer, but I think it's you know,

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it's meaningful for our kids and meaningful
for our parents for those folks to be

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recognized. You know, in one
group, we didn't recognize our in terms

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of spring sports as our baseball team. They didn't. They didn't qualified for

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the state tournament. They got beat
to go, but you know they've won.

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I think this group of seniors won
seventy six games over the last three

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years. Pretty darn good and pretty
darn good. And you know, our

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our district saw the state championship game
was bixbyon Enid who are both in our

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district, and so we play everybody
and they've done a great job. Coach

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Price has been an amazing That program
is going to continue to thrive. So

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anyways, we had a large spotlight
which was a lot of fun to recognize

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all those folks, and then kind
of the rest of the meeting. We

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did announce on our personnel report.
We had our last leadership position that we

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feel to have. An assistant principal, Damon Harold is going to be an

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assistant principal at the high school.
He's replacing Matt Hancock who's moving over to

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Central to be the principal there.
And then also it proved some other things

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that our concentage into, including kind
of that final step. We're going to

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replace all the lighting in the district
with LED more efficient lighting, so we

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approved kind of the final step in
that process. As well. We had

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some miscellaneous pay rates that we approved. Then probably the biggest piece of that.

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Those are some pay rates that aren't
included in our bargaining room with our

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teachers. The biggest one change was
in our speech language pathologists we have.

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We needed to increase our pay to
be more competitive. We were gonna have

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to do some contract services, and
we think it's better to have those folks

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work for us so that they're more
available to work with our kids. We've

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had, you know, I've seen
it's COVID related, but in terms of

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there's more kids that are qualifying to
need those services, and so we need

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to make sure we have competitive salaries
to keep our ones that we have and

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also to expand we need to add
some speech language pass in our district as

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well. And then moving on a
couple of action items, but probably the

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one big thing was over at you
know, Wayside, we have we're getting

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construction started next week and so we
approved the first the first phase of that

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guaranteed maximum price with Manhattan, and
so what that's going to do is basically

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get them coming out of the ground. And so because they need to get

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started next week, we've got a
lot of things we get really, I

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know some folks think that there's not
much going on at school. In school

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in forts and kids go home it's
straight, but it's really the race is

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on to get some work done.
So they proved phase one, so we're

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gonna get started next week. They're
at Wayside next month they're going to prove

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the second part of phase one for
that edition. We'll prove that in June.

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So a lot of work to be
done this summer. We will be

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um. We've we've acquired some additional
land so that we have additional parking so

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that we'll be ready when school starts
in August. So we'll get that project

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going. Really appreciative of the community
support so that we can do that at

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Wayside and then we'll be oh,
about a year from now, we'll be

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doing the same thing over at Ranch
Heights Elementary and then yeah, that's right.

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Yeah, yeah. Wayside is a
little bit trickier just because that's why

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we had to purchase some land.
We shouldn't have that much real estate around

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there too, But been fortunate we've
been able to come to close with some

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of those properties, so let be
loss of activities folks. People, we'll

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be able to monitor going on over
at Wayside. And then lastly, construction

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wise, on our agg facility.
We did our groundbreaking here a couple of

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weeks go. I guess I was
last week and that that continues to go.

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Well. Those guys are getting up
out of the ground and they are

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scheduled to be opened in March of
next year. Wow, that's great.

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Yeah, busy week, It has
been a lot going on. Oh and

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by the way, the Special Olympics
team got the police s court. Now

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that's right. I had the big
Yeah, I had the big send off.

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Today they're on their way to still
Water that we did u this morning

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at seven o'clock, so that's always
a great way to a great way to

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celebrate. It was a great event. Oh super and mister macauley, thank

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you very much for being with us
today. Stay tuned, folks, we're

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gonna have Marylynn Men from Okam and
she's got the big grand lineup of the

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festival coming up for us in a
moment