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

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the

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one you trust. I hope it
is a good morning for everyone. It's

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a great morning here. We have
doctor Shelley Holdman here with us, and

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Safe Now is a group that you
represent and tell us first of all a

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little bit about yourself and then it's
safe now. Oh well, good morning,

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thank you for having me here.
So my name is Shelley Holdman.

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I am the president of Safe Now, been in Bartlesville now for over fourteen

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years and we just love this community. So safe now is an acronym for

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Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners for no wata
O sage in Washington County. That's a

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whole mouthful, I know. Yeah. We provide forensic medical EXAs for victims

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of sexual assault, rape, domestic
violence, child abuse, and strangulation.

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My goodness sake say that it's a
service that's needed, and we kind of

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wish what we do. Wish is
in society. We wouldn't have to use

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the service, but it is there
when trouble arrives. We're going to kind

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of do our best here. I'm
open Mother nature really helps us out here.

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We've got an event that's coming up
soon that draws attention to this,

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but we're going to put some fun
into it so that folks will remember it

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but also remember how important it is
tell us a little bit about what we

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have going on. Absolutely, So
on Saturday, April twentieth, we'll be

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hosting our seventh annual Walk a Mile
in Her Shoes. Now. The Walk

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Them Out Foundation was started a long
time ago, and it was started as

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a men's march where men would walk
a mile wearing red high heels and this

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was in solidarity with victims of sexual
assault for sexual Assault Awareness Month. With

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his April April is Sexual Assault Awareness
Month. It's also Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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So the idea is just to have
fun and it makes it a fun

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way to talk about a very difficult
come a very difficult subject. So we

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want people to walk and have conversations
with their kids, with their teens about

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sexual assault, about child abuse,
about safe dating. And this will be

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held downtown just right there, what
in Phillips Park, Right, Yes,

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the Frank Phillips Park which is to
to to southeast Frank Phillips Boulevard, right

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next to the Chamber of Commerce.
We just had Shelley sharing wildy in just

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a little bit ago. She said
they used that green space for an awful

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lot. So this is going to
be one of those great things. Now,

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how do we find out about this? And how do we sign up?

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So to register, you can go
to run sign up dot com slash

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okay safe Now, or you can
go to our website at okaysafenow dot org.

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That's okaysafenow dot org and there'll be
a link there to the walk.

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It's twenty dollars and it's for all
categories. You don't have to wear the

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high heels, but we have high
heels you can borrow if you want to

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wear them, and the high hills. We have men sizes from nine to

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fourteen. We have all different size
heels. We have from ballet slippers up

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to four inch heels if you want
to walk in them. Well, this

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sounds like it's going to be a
great way to draw attention to a very

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very serious subject. And if I
say I'm a little bit impaired and you

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know, walking is maybe not the
best strategy between my doctors, can I

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just write you a big old check? You can? We are always happy

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to accept donations. All of the
services we provide are free of charge.

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We never charge a victim or their
families for any of our services, so

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we depend on grants and donations.
And you can donate on our website if

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you'd like again which is okay safe
now, or you can send us a

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check in the mail our addresses on
the website, or you can just come

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and show up to our walk and
support us. There at the walk,

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we will have some really good pull
pork sandwiches that will be available for a

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donation. And again, you don't
have to wear the heels to walk with

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us. You can wear your tennis
shoes. We have some red shoe covers

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you can pull over your tennis shoes
so you're still so you're still representing the

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red high heels, but you're just
not wearing them. But we'll have police

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officers, firefighters, medical professionals.
We're hoping to have the Chronicle Phillips swim

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team again this year, and some
of those teams they actually run in the

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high heels. We don't recommend you
run in the high heels, but they're

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athletes so they can do that.
And it's it's really only half a mile

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on the sidewalks of downtown Barnsville.
It's not a whole mile, so it's

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it's a little a little bit more
fun. Now, aren't we here go?

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I see, we have some great
sponsors here that we'd probably like to

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mention, with Phillip sixty six being
one of them. That's just right there

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in the neighborhood. Oh yes,
we've had a fabulous sponsorship for the last

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seven years, Phillip sixty six,
Primary Care Associates, Grace Community Church,

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Restorations, Medical spa osahe Casino,
Hotel, macanof Family Foundation, DSR Bank,

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First Trudy Credit, Union, City
Church, Bartafield, Allons Clubs and

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Stride Bank. And we would like
to thank all of them for being just

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great sponsors. Well, this is
great and it's really something worth the time

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and effort to be a part of
and to get behind as well. Once

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again, you don't have to wear
the high hills, but hey, you

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know you don't want to stand out. You don't have to be like everybody

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else. Go on, get into
it. Walk a mile in her shoes

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twenty twenty four with Safe Now you've
been with this group for how long?

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Now? I have been with a
Safe now since twenty eleven, and I've

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been president since twenty eighteen. My
goodness, Eggs, this is a wonderful

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organization and it draws such attention to
what many people would say is, well,

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we don't talk about that. Well, now it's the time that we

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should probably at least entertain a conversation
or two, especially with your children,

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about what this looks like, what
this is, and how this can really

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affect you to the negative. Sometimes
it costs people their lives, other times

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it's their mental and spiritual health for
years, exactly exactly. And the idea

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behind the walk is that you don't
know what someone's going through until you've walked

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a mile in their shoes, like
your little adage says, So we have

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men who are willing to walk just
a half mile and suffer pain just for

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a little bit in solidarity for the
pain that victims suffer for the rest of

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their lives. Very good. I
like the way this has been put together,

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the imagery, and I really love
for what it stands for. And

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I tell you what the area would
be a poorer place without the services that

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your group is providing, because when
this happens to anyone male, female,

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adult or child. There are no
answers. You're just numb, and then

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the pain kicks in physically and mentally
and spiritually, and the person feels broken

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beyond repair at times, and it's
nice to know that you're there to lift

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them up and help them and address
this situation and get them on a path

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to a better place. Absolutely,
and it's kind of the first step to

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getting them some justice. We provide
our services twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week, three hundred
and sixty five days a year, so

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if someone has been assaulted, our
nurses will come out in the middle of

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the night to perform that exam,
try to get evidence, photo documentation,

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and just try to get them on
the right path to healing. So you

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work handed hand with law enforcement groups
too. We do. Yes, we

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work closely with the Barsfool Police Department. All of the area officers know where

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we are. We are located on
the hospital campus, so we work with

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Jane Phillips Hospital. We also work
with Rey of Hope with child Advocacy Censor,

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other good friends of the radio station
too, very good friends of our

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community as well. It's nice that
we do have a community like this that

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does interlace and really walk hand in
hand with one another in order to make

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sure that no one gets lost in
the cracks. Absolutely. Absolutely. We

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have a great community here and we
want to keep it safe. We want

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to keep it a great community,
but we want to make sure that things

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done in the dark are being brought
to light, and this is a great

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way to do that. We don't
want things to stay in the shadows,

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because when things stay in the shadows, they thrive. So we want to

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shine a light on the things that's
done in the dark. That's why we

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want to have something fun and make
it a safe way for parents to talk

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with their kids about sexual assault,
safe dating, domestic violence. This is

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going to be Saturday, April twentieth, Ladies and gentlemen, It's going to

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be from ten am to noon the
Frank Phillips Park at two twenty two southeast

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Frank Phillips right there at the chamber
depot. Can't miss it. And if

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you want to sign up, just
put down there this address, run sign

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up all one word dot com,
slash okay, safe Now and it's being

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brought to you by safe Now and
it's called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

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twenty twenty four. I want to
thank you, want to thank all your

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volunteers and everybody on your staff and
board for putting this together year in and

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year out. Yes, and we
enjoy doing it. We enjoy our community.

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We have a great board. We're
small, but we're mighty, and

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we just really love our community.
Well, that is great, and once

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again, folks, be a part
of this. Come out and support.

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If you can't, if you physically
just can't do it, you can always

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make that donation. And will you
take donations at the event. We will,

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Yes, I'll take donations. I
mean, just come on out,

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and even if it's just to chair
somebody on while they're walking across the finish

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line. It's open for ages,
you know, zero up to one hundred

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and two, So just just come
on three. We're going to make you

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use a cane, okay, yeah, but but well anyway, it's going

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to be great and it's you by
safe now. Doctor thank you for being

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our guest. Well, thank you, thank you for having me. Do

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not be a stranger. We like
to have you back next year around this

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time and demote this again. We
will do it all right, thank you.

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We've been listening to doctor Shelley Holdman
President, We're safe now and this

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has been our community connection on K
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