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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It is time now for
our community connection right here on gay one,

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the one you'd prosted. It is
now eight eighteen and we have our

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friends in from Saint John's School and
we are going to talk about the annual

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gala. We have Amanda and Ashley
in here with us today and ladies,

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first of all, welcome to the
show. Thank you. It's great to

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have you on board. Now.
This GAYLA is a big thing and I

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understand that you're kind of new it, you know, filling in some holes

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there, but you know what your
recent hires. But this is going to

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be a lot of fun. It
has been a lot of fun, hasn't

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it. It is. It's the
largest fundraiser that the school does throughout the

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year. Our HSA does a great
job of fundraising for their things for the

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parents and they always like to give
back to the school, but this is

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our fundraiser for the school to use
for so many different funds and needs that

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we have. It's this Saturday,
April twentieth, and we've been working really

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hard. The Committee of Parents has
just been going above and beyond to get

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things done. And like you mentioned
before Elizabeth. Elizabeth retired this last year,

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so we are new hires and we've
both kind of taken on and she's

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left a great path for us to
follow. Yeah, I understand you have

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an honorary chair person who is this, Yes, the mim Hawk family are

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honorary chairs, so mister John mim
Mary Lynn and John mim Hawk and then

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their daughter Cassie mim who was recently
married in December. She and Schaefer Kimball

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are all serving as honorary chairs and
they've been doing a fantastic job getting sponsor

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tables, live auction items, regular
auction items. Cassie is going to be

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mceing the event and she's a Saint
John alumnus, so she's happy to come

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back and give to the community and
be back at the school. This is

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going to be a lot of fun. How fun has it been for you

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so far? It's been really great. I started actually my kids have been

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attending Saint John for four years,
so I came on as a parent and

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it's great that the parents are great, the teachers are great, everybody's great

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to work with. So it's been
a lot of fun. Now with the

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gallup, I know that we've got
tickets, but we've got tickets and other

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tickets. We got prizes, do
we not? Yes? So I mean

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you can come on as a sponsor
and get a table, and then tickets

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are available to just online or it's
easy to navigate through the Facebook or through

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the Saint John website. And the
evening is going to be full of just

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auction items and raffles. What are
some of the big auction items we might

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want to take a look at here
because folks, you say auction for charity,

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folks get excited about that. Yes, we have lots of great items

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for our live auction. So one
being from Bell Camper Sales. They have

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donated a classy motor home so for
a four night's stay and they'll show you

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how to drive it and all the
upgraded things that you could have for a

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great night's vacation. Nice. And
then we also have Honey's Flowers donated one

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bouque a month for a year.
And then that one I know doesn't want

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to happen. And then Polo Grill
is paid for for a private dinner for

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eight and then Discount Tire has donated
some tires, set of tires, a

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Halo car charger and a gas card. And then we also have a his

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and Hers package which includes wine and
some brand new golf clubs nice. So

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those are big items. Then we'll
have silent auction items throughout the night,

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and then currently up until today,
we have an online auction available at our

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school website. Nice that has good
items for kids and parents. There's a

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couple of things to ride home in
a fire truck or a police car.

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I think those are getting some nice
bids on it because who wouldn't want to

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do that? Who? Quite a
few other things, lots of gift cards

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parents have chipped in. I know
that you can get fresh farm eggs,

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fresh farm vegetables delivered to your house, Sautesian breads, like, there's all

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kinds of things and they're usually I
think they're all three months, like you

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get three months worth. So well, that's good enough for me. I

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don't take that any old day now. Once again, this is coming up

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on this Saturday, the twentieth.
Yes, and tickets are still available.

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Now do we just go to the
website? Is that where we go?

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Yeah, school website. They're available
online. That's undergetting the easiest way.

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It's all done online. You could
call the school and we could take care

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of you that way. But we'd
love to have people come out and support

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the school. Have a good night. It's going to be Roaring twenties themed.

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We've been done in the past and
we've got it all set up.

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It's going to be great. Well, this is going to be fantastic and

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it all benefits Saint John Catholic School, which, by the way, you's

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been around a good long time.
It's the oldest Catholic school in Oklahoma.

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It is that it's got that marker
going on forward there and of course it

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goes all the way up to eighth
grade, I believe yes. And the

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students there, they'll every time I
go to the gala, the students will

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assist you. They'll show you around
a little bit, you know, and

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where to go where you need to
be student. And what I get a

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kick out of was just I know
that they're youngsters, but they're just so

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much sure and there's so much more
mature acting and they really present well and

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really speak volumes for the school.
I think the students take a lot of

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ownership of the school. We have
about one hundred and fifty students and small

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class sizes, really loving teachers,
and they have become their own community and

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you know, love being there.
Well. The way they have their confidence

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that really projects well, their confidence
when they're showing you around. That that

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has always been really something I kind
of pay attention to. I've got seven

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kids, and I don't think when
they were that age they were well,

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they're more like the old man.
But you know, it's great to hear

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because as we said, Ashley has
three children, Yes, what great,

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and they're in eighth grade, fifth
grade, and third grade. So my

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eighth grader is the one that would
probably be the one to be seating you

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or doing those types of things,
and he definitely takes pride in that.

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I have one student Saint John's,
So my daughter's in pre k Ah,

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so she's just starting her her journey, just getting going well. You see

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with this gala, if we if
we do it right, it'll still be

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standing around doing really well if we
keep the gala going. Yeah, and

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that's being said, we can't do
an event like this without such wonderful sponsors.

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So if I can just take a
moment, let's do that, because

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we can't get it done without him. Yeah. So We've got mister John

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Mim John and Mary Lynn Hawk coming
in doing also generosity, Doctor Ben and

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Karen Baker. Karen's also on the
gala committee. She'll be doing the decorations,

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working really hard on that. We
always have the support of Conico Phillips

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and Phillip sixty six. Something nice
that they've done is that they have let

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us fill their tables with parents from
Saint John, so that way it can

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go right. That's great. We
have Senator Julie and mister Charlie Daniels,

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Skyway, Honda, Kellor Her Architects, Megan Sneed of Keller Williams Relatives,

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Father John, Mark and Debbie Haskell, four Stone Wealth Management, Cassie and

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Schaeffer, Kimball, Truity and Belle
Camper Sales, and then also Jane Phillips

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Medical Center, John and Kathleen Donahue, Arnold Moore, Neecamp Funeral Home,

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Stride Bank, Teresa John Wirtz Bank, First Our Best Bank, the Painted

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Horse, and Mike and Nicole Young. So lots of people coming in to

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help make this event successful and to
continue the school legacy and letting us grow.

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Asking for a brand now his father
John I'm gonna pull out his guitar

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and play. I don't know us
suppose he could be encouraged. We wouldn't

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take much. Hey John, do
you forget Yeah? Here it is.

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I think I think he plans to. I think so. Something cool that

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he has done is, if you
know Father John, you know he is

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the lego connoisseur. He has designed
lego creations of Saint John and James churches

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and those are going to be on
display at the auction. How nice is

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that? Yeah, my goodness sakes. So you know he puts them to

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good use. I can't say that
always happens with the grandkids because I wind

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up stepping on him. But you
know, it is great. They're intact,

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They're all good. This is going
to be great. It's going to

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be coming up Saturday night at Saint
John at the school, YEP, and

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right there at Previidence Hall, in
the gym, in the gym. Oh

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in the gym, not at the
hall. Yeah, I know. The

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decorations committee. Their goal is to
make it not look like a gym,

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which they've always done so success.
That is true. But it's great that

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we can use our space and lower
our costs and so the money that goes

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to the gala as sponsorships and tickets
is really going towards the school. This

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is great, This is going to
be awesome. I and hope to see

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you both there, and I hope
see all you people in radio land there

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too, because if you're not there, you're going to miss the event of

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the season. It really is good. Thank you for being with us.

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You're on our community action. Thank
you thanking us alrighty folk,