Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
to time now for our community connection right here on K one the one you
dressed right to impartment by Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home. Right now,
it is eight thirty three and we have a couple of lovely young ladies
here smiling for the camera. We have Angie Thompson and you brought a long
friend, Jerry Lindley. How are you doing, ladies. Ton's good to
see you this morning. It's great to see both of you. Now,
we've got a lot going on at at elder Cam. We recently just did
a news story. Now this is going to come up, so we'll get
to it first because it's hot. It's hot, it's really hot, and
we have Operation cool Room. Yeah, the Cool Room Project. We are
in our fourteenth year of offering single window air conditioning units for seniors in our
area. You know, maybe they have an air conditioner that's broken and they
can't afford to have it repaired, or maybe they don't have any air conditioning
and they need a swindle air conditioner. Well, that's what our Cool Room
Project is all about. And we had a outpouring of support financial support this
year to purchase about twenty five air conditioners, and I think we're almost out.
And Jerry's the one who oversees that. I thought it didn't be fun
for her to tell us a little bit more about the cool room project.
This is, first of all, it's a great thing. Community needs it,
Yes they do. How's a response. It's been wonderful. We have
about five left your story. Yes, it's been wonderful, My goodness sakes.
You know, you think about this kind of heat. When we were
kids, it was always hot and sometimes that's all you had was that one
room air conditioner, if you had it at all. But that was when
we were kids. Now that you know, I'm sixty plus, I can't
imagine being at a home where I didn't have at least one place to just
get away from the oppressive heat. I agree with you, I agree,
And and that's why we're able to help them, because we think of the
elderly, and you know that's where our hearts go out to. And so
that's why we did this project, was to be able to help the ones
that needed it. Now. In years past, you've always had a pretty
good outpouring, but boy, this year I guess it is phenomenal. Yes,
yes, that come to me because the radio station. Okay, really
that is that's the truth. We needed to supply of air conditioners because our
supply after COVID was very minimal and we needed more air conditioners to serve the
elderly this year, so we put a story out we're looking for funds from
individuals who have an interest in supporting that project, and it was an overwhelming
response, more than we even needed. So we were able to buy extra
air conditioners, and our supply this year was greater than we've ever had in
the past. And you guys ran a story early in the week. You
know, I think we had twelve air conditioners on Monday, and we needed
those to go into the homes seniors. You guys and some of our friends
put out a story on Facebook. Now we're down to I think less than
five, so we want those to go in homes this week, So give
us a call at Eldercare. Call Jerry and Jerry. How did you get
involved in Eldercare. I had some friends that worked there that helped me,
told me about it, and I went and I started in a different place
than I am now. Sure, and um I worked there for about five
years and then we moved. My husband's job took us to Tonkua, and
then we moved back and I've been back for about four years now. Oh
why great, this is pretty darn Yes, well this is well, but
a lot of events going on. Tell us about it. Well, you
know, this is our fortieth year. We're celebrating forty years in Bartlesville this
year. Yeah, since nineteen eighty three we've been offering services and be we're
a resource center for all things aging in place. So this year we are
launching several events to help us celebrate. And we just held our very first
downsizing after decade seminar yesterday. How did that go? Because I was looking
at that thinking I might need that a few years. It was a full
house session. One featured featured Minutemen auctions, and you know they talked about
how to set up a state sales. Now we're holding the second one on
the sixteenth, okay, and that will be a little different. It will
feature Wendell's Rock Shop. Tammy Ross, she's going to talk about valuing jewelry,
all that stuff she does, she absolutely does. And Robin Fullerton,
who's a licensed family counselor will talk about the family dynamics associated with downsizing.
Yeah, good, because that's a fragile area. Yeah, we all get
touchy about grandma's sewing machine. And then Karen Wilson from Tuesday House, we'll
talk about resell you know, and maybe you want to let your things go
to a resell shop so another family could love them as much as you have
loved them. So that'll be session two, and then session three on the
thirtieth of August will be more of a checklist. A real letor will talk
about some things they need to know a homeowner would need to know about downsizing.
A couple of the folks for in the Community clean Up, Carlos Mendez
and Spencer Peers who do that operation clean up every year, they'll talk about,
Yeah, hazardous materials in the home, how do you safely dispose of
those? Our best wealth management will talk briefly about documents that you need to
have in place, and what do you do with your beloved pets? You
know, Yeah, something to think about there. So there's something different in
every one of the panel discussions and it will shoot cover everything anyone would want
to know about downsizing, but that's happening this month. It sounds like this
might be one of those things you do every year. Should be yeah,
because you know every year. It's not like everybody thinks about it just at
once and then forgets about it for a decade or so. This is something
that comes up people doing think about it, and all of a sudden it's
like, you know, maybe it's about time we downsize here. This house
is just getting huge and uh, you know, we got too many things
here, and yeah, you know the way it goes. I mean,
we're we're looking at the last of seven leaving. So what are you doing
with all your your guitars? Tom just sold two of them. So maybe
this is this is something that's going to be very timely for everyone. Right,
some of ires that you guys have been putting out have just been really
been great, and that's the feedback we hear. And Jerry volunteers some in
supports that as a greeterer, and she does some of the back office help
for our parties and events, and she's a real blessing. She and so
many of our employees they work full time, you know, but they'll also
stay after hours or come in on the weekends and help us with our events.
But you're absolutely right. What we're talking about right now, you know,
is so critical to our community, and that's Alzheimer's. You know.
Eldercare began in nineteen eighty three as an outcry from the community for more resources
for families who were maybe they had a loved one in their home who had
been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia, and at that time the only option was
nursing home placement. That's right, And in nineteen eighty three, that's why
Eldercare was formed. We wanted to be a resource for families and Daybreak was
that very first program, Daybreak in case management. So we've gone back to
our roots this year in celebration of our fortieth and we've been holding seminars about
Alzheimer's and dementia in the community. Yeah, that's been kind of ongoing.
Yeah, oh my gosh, and let me tell you the community has really
support or that. The next one will be on the twenty fourth of August.
Mary lou Bourke, who is one of our founders, she's going to
do a book review on learning to Speak Alzheimer's And I think that you know,
when we have a family member who has Alzheimer's, or maybe a very
dear friend who's been diagnosed, we don't really know how to communicate with him.
We're afraid, so we withdraw and they isolate. But there's a way
we can continue to be friends with them. And that's what that session will
be about, learning to speak Alzheimer's. And then we're going to plan a
little party after So, folks, can you know, fellowship with each other?
Wow? This is great. We've got more coming up. Folks will
be right back with more after these words from Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Home.
First conversation I have with someone's loved one, I don't care if it's
three o'clock in the afternoon or three o'clock in the morning, That first conversation
is, mister X. This is Tim how with Arnold Moore and Knee Cap
Funeral Home. First of all, sir, let me say I'm very sorry
we're having to have this conversation right now. And to the nth degree,
those people always appreciate you taking a moment to just pause and say I'm aware
that someone you care about very much has just left you, and I'm sorry.
That we have to do this, but we have to do this.
And if it's three o'clock in the morning, I try to be brief but
concise and say do you have any questions or anything I can do for you
right now before we meet at our arrangement conference. And sometimes I say,
you know, can you call my priest? Can you call my pastor?
And I don't mind doing that. It'll be all right. We'll walk through
this together. Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey Martels of
Very Life. We will walk through this together and welcome back. Welcome back.
It is our community connection, and we're talking to our friends from Elder
Care, Very Lindley and Angie Thompson. Now we've got this very special member
community. Everyone's heard his voice, everyone has seen him favorite been out to
wool Rock or even at the Frank Phillips Home. But he's now retired.
He's too young to retire, but he's still active and boys he ever active.
He's got a new book out. Yeah, you're talking about Bob Frasier.
Yeah, the self finding he doesn't. Yeah, I'm going to retire
and write a book, you know. And he's got a podcast to.
You know, Bob is a member of our board and oh man, we're
just so proud of him. He's going to be holding an exclusive book signing
at Eldercare on the fifteenth in the evening at six, And I think what
makes this event so special is he's selling us books for ten dollars and donating
five dollars of that too elder Care. Yeah, and he's also going to
begin at six with a few behind the scene stories and talk about some things
that, um, you know, people will want to hear that may not
be in the book. So you want to show up at six and here
Bob share his personal stories, and we're offering Frank Phillip's favorite summertime beverage.
So you'll have to show up. I'm not going to tell you what it
is. I have to show up to have Frank Phillips summertime beverage. Here
Bob share some behind the scenes stories, and then enjoy his book signing books
again or ten dollars and five dollars will be dominated to Eldercare. That's Tuesday,
the fifteenth of August at six at Eldercare, My goodness, six And
it's called Frankly speaking if I'm not frankly speaking about Frank Phillips, behind the
scenes tales about Frank Phillips and historic Woolerock. Now do we have to have
an RSVP for this one? It helps just so that we can plan and
they can call us at nine one eight three three six eighty five hundred,
and that's our number at Eldercare. That's how you reach Jerry to talk about
the air conditioners nine eight three three six eighty five hundred, or to RSVP
for any of our events. Now remember five left. If you need one,
let us know, okay, right right, it's okay, and we'll
let you know. I don't think we're going to run out, but if
we do well, we'll make sure that we ask for folks to pony up
and see if we can get some more and stock here for you. Okay,
all right, we'll keep both close to halves on that ladies, I
want to thank you both for coming in here. We appreciate you, alrighty,
take care. We've got more coming up right here on K one