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Welcome. We've got a two partner
today for our community connection. First up,

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we have the Boy Scouts of America
and Cherokee Council and the right stuff

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is in the studio here Philip right, how are you doing there, young

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I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Thanks for having us. You know,

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wanted to close out the year by
saying thank you. It's been a

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wonderful, blessed year. And we
just couldn't lead this year about saying thank

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you to our community. Thank you
to United Way, thank you to our

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Cherokee Council board, thank you to
our scouters, thank you to our staff.

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It has been a great, blessed
year. We wanted to just come

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and say thank you. You've got
a lot to be proud of. And

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of course with the Boy Scouts,
you know, there's a lot of humility,

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you know, and humbleness. But
sixteen eagles, that's amazing. Yes,

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yes, sixteen eagles this year.
I mean a lot of hard work,

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a lot of service hours, a
lot of volunteers helping our young Scouts

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get to that level of achievement in
scouting. My goodness sake. You know,

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we talk talk about just how much
Scouting has grown in our area,

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it's been it's been very very good. In some areas scouting has been all

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but forgotten, but here it's thriving. Yes, I mean for the for

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the in Oklahoma, we the end
of the year with a market share of

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two point seven seven Now the putt
in perspective nationally the standards two percent,

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that's the national standard, where where
as a councilor at two point seven seven

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percent, And to put in bigger
perspective, first in Oklahoma, Wow,

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you're talking about ahead of Tulsa,
ahead of Oklahoma City, and in our

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national territory, which covers all of
Oklahoma, comes to all of Arkansas,

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and also covers part of North Texas
which includes Dallas and Longhorn areas. Where

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number two for the fifth year in
a row, number two in market share.

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That is amazing. Yeah, the
stats speak for themselves. And of

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course you can't go to a function
without seeing the scouts are participating doing something.

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Yeah, they're always present. Yes, giving back is of what what

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scouts do and it's just an amazing
opportunity for youth to learn their way in

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this world by giving back. You
know, you get so much, you

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receive so much back just by getting
you do you hit a milestone. You're

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gonna hit a milestone in June.
Tell us about this is exciting news.

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You know, we're seven one hundred
and fifteen years and for the first time

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in the history one hundred and fifteen
year history of this council, we're gonna

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be able to offer national youth leadership
training. This is an amazing, amazing

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level of training that our youth now
will be able to have here. And

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I just cannot thank enough our community
thinking that away for allowing us to have

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this course for our youth here.
Now they don't have to travel to Arkansas

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or Texas or Tolsa to do what
they can do it right here locally.

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For the first time in the history
of this council, people are gonna come

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here for a change. See what
Bartlesville is all about. I like that.

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And you know when you talk about
something like this, uh, it's

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really monumental. It's not something that's
handed out like a participation ribbon, No,

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no harder. It's exactly and leadership
training now more than ever, it's

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it's what our youth need. And
to see young scouts at a young age

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to have the opportunity to learn leadership
skills, reallyship skills, how to skills,

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and then to be able to take
that back to their units and then

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back into the community. Just an
amazing opportunity will last a lifetime, it

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will. You know, we have
a lot of people who like to follow,

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and maybe you kind of just stumble
around blindly, and I don't think

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that they realize just how valuable leadership
plays a role in your future. I

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mean, if you learn that now, I mean you're you're gonna be miles

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ahead for the simple fact that not
only do you learn how to lead,

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but you also learn what's expected if
you have to follow exactly exactly. And

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and tell you we have such a
strong core of leaders here already we do

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in Barnsville. Just the leadership level
from the course director which is Jerry Wells,

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assistant court director John Copeland, and
then just the level of leadership around

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the two and then the youth recruit
being recruited right now to serve on staff.

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We're is excited. We just couldn't
be more proud of this opportunity.

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Well, it really sounds like a
golden opportunity. Now, this is going

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to be right at the second week
of June. Yes, yes, June.

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And this is going to be something
else. This really is going to

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be something else. Everybody, of
course, they're ready to be prepared.

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As the motto, that's right,
be prepared. Wow. We so a

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great year and you're starting off the
new year with something big and a lot

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of momentum. What are we looking
at as far as the spring is concerned?

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Here, we got a lot of
things left on the calendar. Oh,

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yes, yes we do. We
you know next year we got our

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patron Dinner coming up in February.
Yeah, we do that every we we

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have every year. We also have
Scouting for Food, So February, every

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February we do Scouting for Food.
And last this past year with our Scouts

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for Food program, our Scouts were
able to go into the community and and

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give our community an opportunity and a
chance to bring in food so we can

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help our food pantries and so forth. And every year. Well that is

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great. People want to know a
little bit more about the Scouts. How

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can we find out more and how
can we find out more about this program?

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Oh? Just real simple all after
just call out office or go to

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our website charity BSA dot org.
That's it. That's it. Wow.

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Wait, hey, are you guys
still taking checks for people? You know?

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We are? You know it's this
is a wonderful time and of year

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giving, reduce your taxes. There's
a wonderful time to do some any your

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giving as well. And you can
do on our website easily. Just hit

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a donate button, or you come
to the office and they'll see you.

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Yeah, they'll see they'll see that, they'll see our staff. He never

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does. The only time he ever
leaves is to come here and go home.

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Well, thank you very much,
appreciate