Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
in here to say that time now for our community connection right here on K
one, the one you trust. We have the kawanas in today and Conrad
and Karen, you look festive, looks like maybe we've got something coming up
here. Absolutely things that go boom. Comrade, yes, we've got Freedom
Fest and she let me guess, I'm gonna see help me hear Conrad,
July fourth, Yeah, always tay, yeah. I started to say,
so, let's let's just get it out of the way, clear it up.
We know that July fourth is on Tuesday this year changes every year.
And guess what the billboard that is in a strategic location that most of Bartlesville
has seen, says Monday. Oh but we got we got comments, so
we know people are We know people are looking at the real checking to see
if you exactly exactly and if you check it out later this week, you'll
notice that it says the correct day, Tuesday, July fourth. It's funny
though, even without the billboard, every year we get questions about when is
the fourth of July Freedom Fest? I'm guessing yeah, And you know what,
it's great that in the community. There's fireworks like for days. That's
awesome, but the best day is the fourth of July. Wow, Conrad.
We go out to the Suonier Park and we used to do it downtown,
but we did it at Suoner Park before downtown. Now we're back Suoner
Park. We've been there for a few years now, that's correct. This
is a big, vast expe green spaces, nice shade trees, some rolling
little hills. Great to take a little walk and have a little fun.
And what can we expect during our Freedom Pass this year? I know we've
got some activities. So most of the activities takes place by the band show
and NAT always start at roughly six pm. Obviously we have opening ceremonies and
things of that nature. We will start the registration for the kids Patriotic Parade
that's sponsored by DSR starting at six fifteen. At six forty five, we
will do the kids Patriotic custom contests and parade, and then the live band
will start at seven pm and that's Anna Jennings and Palomino Playboys. That's an
Americana country with a little hint of rock. And then of course the finale
nine thirty. You know, fireworks at nine thirty and all from roughly five
thirty to nine thirty we have food vendors. Oh my gosh, to have
food festivals cleared the decks right and and oh by the way, at six
o'clock also, um, the inflatables open and those are always hugely popular and
sponsored by Truity Credit unions. So we really appreciate Truty has done that for
years and years, you know, since we were downtown, and we really
appreciate them, and and DSR and the kids parade is becoming quite a tradition
too, so um, we look forward to that being bigger and better this
year. So we've definitely invite invite the kids and invite your parents to help
you get all um, get all patriotic and your ware, and we we
do welcome bikes and wagons um, so um, it'll be lots of fun,
it will be. And also you know soon as you will be open
for a miniature golf, so oh yeah, always go across the park to
that part and enjoy a little bit of miniature golf and then come back over
have some food and entertainment. Again. You know, we want to thank
DSR and Truerty as being the top sponsor for Freedom Fests this year. But
we want to also thank Patriot, Otto, Chronical, Phillips, Phillip sixty
six, First Investment Corps, Sutter Fields are also UM good sponsors for Freedom
Fest and I think we also had Green Country Village, spark Light, Our,
vest r h A D Manufacturing and Stride Bank. But we're always looking
for more sponsors. So you want to do a little good will folks,
Yeah, it's yeah, it's definitely not too late to become a sponsor and
UM and get a big thanks from not only Kawanas but the community. Um.
You know, lots of folks still don't realize that the Bartlesville fireworks display
is led by the Kauanist Club of Bartlesville. It's not a it's not a
city thing. It is a community thing thanks to lots of businesses in town
and UM, you know, for for the Kauanist part. A lot of
our proceeds from Sooner Junior go to UM to bring the fireworks every year.
Oh my, and they're so spectacular. Last year we just had a b
Oh can't I say that? But you know we're always up there clacking it
close to the pool because that's where we do our broadcast BROM but I mean,
wow, those were spectacular. Yeah, you guys always do a great
job presenting the event, and then you do a live show when the fireworks
synchronize with music, so that's always a good hit. And and we hear
people in the community sometimes don't come to the festival, but they stay home
and watch the fireworks from a distance. So you know, then the guy
on the radio, we're always on KYFM, our sister station one hundred point
one, and you can hear the patriotic music. In fact, if you
if you find yourself kind of parked way back in the park and you can't
hear it over the loudspeaker, just turn on your car radio. And that's
what I really kind of wish more and more folks would do, is just
to crank it up on your car your truck and listen there and it kind
of synchronizes a little bit better, right right. I tell you, I
don't think there's a bad fireworks display myself. I know, man, I
know, Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays, and I love
fireworks of any kind, you know. I know there are a lot of
folks who you know, feel like some are better than others. But to
me, any fireworks display is great, and it'll be great again this year.
All right, we're gonna take a quick breaking We're gonna be right back
with our friends from Kawanas after these words were Martin Moreton Niecampion Home. How
does ten at Arnold Moore and he Camp Funeral Home? No, he's done
a good job. After a funeral, I'll come in and say, guys,
great job. We really hit that out of the part today. The
family was well pleased. And that's the phrase right there, when a family
member tells me, you made this experience so much easier than I thought it
was going to be. Thank you. That is the high five moment right
there. And then six months later you run into them in a store or
a restaurant and they come up to you and shake your hand, put their
arm around you, hug and say, this is our funeral director. He
helped us so much when dad died. He is a nice guy. His
staff is so compassionate and so caring. They did a great job. That
is the ultimate experience. They've had time to grieve a little bit and reflect
on what you've done, and they come in and they're still on cloud nine
because you helped them pay tribute to someone they really cared about. It'll be
all right. We'll walk through this together, Arnold Moore and the Camp Funeral
Home, seven Dewey Bartels of it. We'll walk through this us together and
welcome back. And we are speaking with our friends from Quantas. We have
Conrad Karen here with us in studio and they're just right for freedom. Fast
work in the red and white blue here, you know, and really looking
good. Conrad. I don't know if we can do the wave or anything
like that, so it looks like a fluttering flag, but you know,
maybe maybe another time. Okay, thank you, we're not doing Yeah,
come out, come out to Sooner Park on the fourth of July. There'll
be plenty of flags. Oh golly, yeah, there will and all kinds
of fun. Like we mentioned the parade there, we've got entertainment at the
band shell. And what time were the food trucks and not I'm asking for
a friend. When to the open up? Roughly five to five thirty,
got you, but the festival opens at six. Got you? Hey.
By the way, if any food trucks within hearing distance are not busy on
the fourth of July. Get in touch with us because we never have enough.
I mean, the lines are so long, and you know, there's
really nothing we can do about that except for try to try to get more
food trucks out there. So get in touch with us. Either go to
the website Barslookwanas dot org or give us a buzz at nine eight nine seven
seven thirty four hundred. And it's not too late. We can always use
more food trucks, all right, god Red, we got a lot of
things going on. We've mentioned a lot of our sponsors. We do have
room for more, right, we have room for more, yep. Contact
us on our Facebook or our website and we'd be happy to bring them on
board. Absolutely. I'll also shout out to the Boy Scout Troop six.
They're great volunteers of us and help us with the event every single year.
And you know, you have to thank the city for allowing us to put
it on. The police reserves make sure the traffic flow is fine when we
exit the thing, and that's not an easy job and I really hats off
to those folks. To Park and Wreck Department obviously provides us with trash cans
and things of that nature. And of course the fire department has to authorize
the firework, so hopefully we won't have any fires and have a good show.
That'll be great. You know. I will say folks that the folks
who do the traffic in and out, they do a great job. And
it's one of those things where you know you're going to see a lot of
folks. And one thing that really surprises me is everybody's pretty darn calm on
the way out. They really are everything pretty darn patient. And it is
a lot of fun. It is just a lot of fun to come out
and enjoy the fireworks under the stars, grab some food you might not normally
have in your refrigerator, and enjoy some music you're not going to hear from
anywhere else. Now, this young lady in her band, did they play
last year or sometimes? Yes, they did. Wow, they were amazing.
I'm glad you got him back. Yeah. Yeah, they crowd favorite.
I think I think that's any plus Yeah, anything else you oh gosh,
you know, like I said, the fireworks are the best and and
um and we mentioned you know a lot of people don't even come, you
know, into the park, particularly they they early go grab their good parking
spot and kind of, you know, camp out there with their lawn chairs
and picnic baskets. And that's okay too. Um. You know, in
addition to the folks that live in the neighborhood and they're able to even see
it from their backyard, so that just that just brings in more and more
people. But coming to the park is fun. It is right and and
you know the reason we moved it back to Sooner Park is because of the
shade. Yeah, I mean that that concrete downtown got awful hot. So
it's just a lot more comfortable out in the park. And if we're fortunate,
we'll have a good breeze. We know it, we know it'll be
hot. Hey, it's the fourth of jel You know, when we were
downtown and it looks spectacular, are you really good? We loved it?
Oh yeah, but do you get a little warm down there. I noticed
that Nathan Thompson lost fifteen pounds in an hour just just walking around. He
was like, how you doing? He was running the stage and everything.
I'm telling you, it was tough. It was tough. So Sooner Park
is just such a great environment, and especially since the city added the new
playground. Oh yeah, for the kids there, um you know, and
like we said, we'll pitch the miniature golf again too, So while you're
waiting for the fireworks, feel free to come up to sooner junior, and
and uh play around a miniature golf. Oh that is so relaxing and it's
a lot of fun, family fun. That's right, all right, Well,
thank you for being with us. We'll see you on