Good morning, good morning, morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in.
It's time now for our community connection right here on Kay one, the
one you trust. You know that sounds kind of bright. It kind of
reminds me of one of my favorite nonprofits, Ray of Hope. How are
we doing there, Gentlemen's wonderful. We're doing great. We have Ben Ames,
he's the director of outreach for Ray of Hope, and also Michael Kohlaw
Ray of Hope board member and Hops for Hope committee member. Guys, it
just seems like we did this a couple of weeks ago and here it is
full circle. We're ready to do this again. Yeah. So Michael tells
us a little bit about the big event. So Hops for Hope is coming
up this Saturday, November fourth. This is year fourteen. It's the key
fundraiser for Ray of Hope and it's a homebrew competition with homebrewers from around the
area. We have them from Oklahoma City, we have them from up in
the Kansas City area coming. We've got twelve homebrewers this year, twenty eight
beers that they will have combined brood and so the eight hundred and fifty patrons
there will get to taste all those beers and then vote on their favorite.
I don't know what you and Ben did, but you got this workout so
that this starts right after Bedlam. I mean, it's exactly right, No
excuses. Now that game's over at six o'clock at the latest. Hops for
Hope six point thirty to get your tickets. Are there any left because they
usually go pretty fast. Yeah, we are just under about one hundred and
twenty left and we'll be gone tomorrow. Yeah. I think a lot of
folks were waiting to see what time the Bedlam game was going to be for
Saturday and kind of waiting on that. So we fully expect a full rush
in the next couple of days. Ben tell us a little bit about Ray
of Hope because a lot of people are familiar with the name. Most people
are familiar with what you do, but some. In fact, we have
new people moving into town every day, as you know, so let's kind
of bring people up to speed. Sure, So, Ray of Hope is
a nonprofit here in Bartlesville. We are a child advocacy and a domestic violence
resource center. We're able to provide a sense of hope to child and adult
survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, teen dating violence,
strangulation, and yeah, there's there's a lot of a lot of things that
that bad things that happen to good people, and we we want to be
able to kind of help folks work through those things. And you do.
You have so many resources, but it takes a fundraiser like this in order
to keep the doors open and the services flowing. Absolutely these so we the
funds that we raise goes directly back into our services helping helping our survivors.
It may be relocation assistance, helping them with housing, or just getting by,
just getting by because that that that in and of itself is a big
task when you're based with those kind of odds. Yeah, yeah, it's
it's a it's a tough deal now, Michael. It's got to be an
easy ask when you ask people to participate and you tell them the story of
Ray A Hope, Let's say they just say, well, how much do
you want? You know? Sure, yeah, No, Ray of Hope
is an easy ask. It's an organization I'm very passionate about and honored to
be on the board and on the committee for hops. So fifty dollars for
a great evening with eight hundred and fifty of your closest friends, a lot
of great beer to taste, silent auction that is magnificent. Tell us a
little bit about this now. You know you're gonna get the pocketbooks loosened up
here. Yeah, yeah, but it's all going to be great because with
the silent auction. I understand you got some dandies. Oh man, I
really do think that we have more items this year than any year ever for
Hops for Hope. Some of our favorite items that are you know, doctor
John lin Bloom always paints a wonderful painting for us. And you can go
to the Ray of Hope Facebook page and look at several of the items that
have been donated already, and uh, what did John do? He did
Jimmy Hendrick's painting, which is pretty fantastic. So I would go check that
out and get there and bit early and bid off and on all. We're
gonna go from Purple Hasty, Purple Rays for this. I mean, we've
got we've got a slew of artists. We've got Jimmy, We've got Bob
Dylan coming from Lady Finch Art. He's making a trip all the way from
California to US, and uh, yeah, we've got we've got an insane
amount of art, but also some really cool and unique items. We were
fortunate enough this year to receive a Hasty Bake, a brand new Hasty Bake
grill, and then I believe, an electric leather recliner. So we've got
some items that we've never had before and just time for Thanksgiving reclining. Absolutely,
cook your turkey on the new charcoal grill and go hang out in your
new easy chair. Yeah, life's good and we're thinking on this one,
that's for sure. So you know, with the silent auction, bids open
as soon as you walk in, right, absolutely. We usually have the
bidding close in two sections, So I think event starts at six thirty,
the first silent auction closes at seven forty five, and then the second round
eight fifteen, I believe, And then yeah, we and then we have
a raffle, So two raffle items this year. So usually we've done in
the past where we're raffling a bunch of items, we're just doing two.
This year. We had someone generously donate thirty bottles of wine, and so
it's a wine starter kit for your homey or for Thanksgiving or for whomever you
know, whatever you want to do it for. And then we've got a
mini fridge that will be full of craft beer. And so you can buy
a raffle ticket for either of those items and then go home with your own
craft beer fridge and plenty of brew as well as wine if you'd like.
So it's fantastic. Yeah, okay, you may have sold a ticket.
So this sounds great, And this is for Ray of Hope. Now we're
doing this at an airplane hangar out at the airport, right, Yeah,
it's in Hangar one at the Bartlesfield Unicipal Airport. Like Michael said, it's
this Saturday at six point thirty. We're super excited about it. We still
have a few to have some tickets left, and they can go to our
website Ray of Hope ac dot org and click on events, hit the Hops
for Hope button and it'll take you directly to our ticket site. Now some
of you may have gone, oh gosh, it's cold, it's going to
be cold forever. It's not because we just took a look at the forecast
here and if it holds true and I'm pretty sure it will. Saturday,
you're going to be in the seventies and the evening temperatures are going to slowly
go down to fifty one. It won't be like fifty one till like four
in the morning when I get up and get moving around. So we also
have the wind from the south, so that's not going to affect the open
area of the hangar. So you know, what are you waiting for?
Buy a ticket? There's only one hundred, probably only one hundred left now
since we started. Yeah, so anyway, they're all gonna we're not gonna
jack up the price just because we have one hundred tickets. They're all gonna
be the same. You know, when bedlam is, you know what the
weather is, you have no excuse. I'll stand for no excuse exactly where
you go. So raise raisin Ale and let's raise some funds and also bring
a little extra here for the silent auction for the raffle tickets because those all
go into help as well, a ray of hope where you located. So
we're at seven o six East Third here in downtown Bartlesville. Folks can get
a hold of us if they're just needing just some regular just some support.
Our office number is nine eight three three seven six one seven seven. And
if they need after hour support, we do have a twenty four hour crisis
line and that number is nine one eight two one four eight eight eight six.
And you know, although folks might not come right out and say it,
you're actually saving lives absolutely for sure. Yeah, because if you weren't
around, right, yeah, folks wouldn't know, they wouldn't have a place
to go for resources, to find help, to find help in a manner
that's safe and you know, keeps everybody in a good way, and that
you're doing God's work on that you really are. And there are so many
people who are so appreciative of Ray of Hope, and of course you're One
of of the ways that you can help out is to participate in Hops for
Hope which is coming up to Saturday at the airport and have yourself a little
bit of fun. Now, if you can't make it, you got to
be out of town. You got one thousand dollars just kind of laying around
and going, gee, you know, let see something worthier? Do I
want to pay tax? I'm not saying that the government's a black hole where
your money goes down. But I mean you could probably spend it more locally
here and help out Ray of Hope and make sure these resources I Hope and
haven't disenfranchised anybody. That's part of the reason we do some of these things
to fall because sometimes you're looking for a way to help someone before the end
of the year, and you know, this is just as worthy as anything
I can think of. So please put that on your list if you're looking
to make a charitable donation this time of year. It really works. Now
you're telling me what twenty eight to thirty different kinds of beer you can take?
How big are the cups? So they're just tasters. I think they're
six ounce so's it's a six ounce taster and they don't fill it to the
top. So between that and with Cooper and Mill and Scissor Tel Lot of
Dewey, they will both be there as craft brewers who actually started at Hops
for Hope Homebrewing that's rights and years ago. Yeah, and now they have
their own craft breweries, so they'll be there giving out samples as well.
So you know you can taste between thirty and thirty five beers on Saturday and
again home brew is a little bit more robust. Robust sure has a little
bit more kick than a lot of other beers, and it has a whole
lot more flavored than some of that water down business you never mind they call
beer. You can't tell that. I'm I'm from a corn and wheat country
canyon. A little bit of barley, a little bit of barley. But
now, this is really going to be a good time. And it's like
I said, it's money well spent. You're going to have a fun time.
And you might even walk home, oh door, drive home or uber
home with a great piece of art, a wonderful auction item. And even
that mini fridge or the electric recliner. Yeah, do they have a little
warming thing in it too. We don't know, not for sure, but
I'm sure it's Uh. I just asked it for a friend. Asking a
friend might be cold right now. Well, gentlemen, I want to thank
you. Oh yeah, tickets, Where can we get them? That'd be
nice, since we've talked about the whole thing. Where can we get tickets?
So they can go to our website Ray of Hope ac dot org,
navigate over to the events tab and click on hops for Hope. It'll direct
you where to go to get the tickets. They can also check out our
Facebook page and the events page. It's we've got them plastered all over the
place. Yeah, they do, they do, and get them a while
there. They're still available because now that you've got the weather, you've got
the bedroom time, you know how you can arrange your weekend. And if
you've been waiting on those two things, we've got them situated here so you're
a got your goat green light. Go all right, Thank you guys,
appreciate you being here with us today. And also Ray of Hope once again
that website, so if folks really want to get some more information on how
they can get help or maybe share that with some folks who might need help,
go ahead and give us a Ray of Hope ac AC dot org dot
org. All right, that is yet, and of course check out their
Facebook page as well. Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure. Let's get
you caught up on the weather right here on K one.