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

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It's time for part two of our
community connection. Right here on K

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one, the one you trust,
and we have a sunny fixico and he

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is with the Delaware Tribe Indians.
How you doing, Sonny, I'm fantastic.

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Well, of course you are.
Yeah. You know, we have

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the members of the Delaware Tribe in
usually about once a month and we kind

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of catch up on a lot of
things that are happening. And I got

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to tell you a lot of things
have been happening. But you run the

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food pantry right there. You've been
busy, haven't you. Yes, we're

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always now busy. In the last
thirty days, it's started about nine hundred

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households in the last thirty days.
Wow, that's amazing, all walks of

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life, whether it's the elderly,
the children, families and anything in between

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and anything in between. We had
the younger generation shopping for the older generation.

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Yeah, that's a good thing that
they do that, you know,

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shows a little honor. And you
know, the thing that's kind of cool

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is that this way of helping out
with your tribal members. You know,

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if folks who aren't tribal members want
to chip in. The door's open,

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isn't it. Yeah, Well,
you got a little box inside the building

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there on Tuxedo where folks can make
donations. Yeah, they can make monetary

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donations, or you can bring in
ken goods or produce items and bring them

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in and we'll take them and take
them as a donation. Now, one

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thing that's really cool about your pantry
is that it's just not boxes and cans

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you mentioned produce, but you also
have meat that's available because you've got all

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the equipment there to store. Yeah, we have a really nice cooler and

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a really nice freezer, and you
know, you can take care of things

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like dairy products too. We were
just talking about I wasn't even weare until

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you told me. Do you actually
go shopping from milk, yes, sir,

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not that cam stuff. Yeah,
we've got milk and fresh meat,

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chicken breast and ground beef and poor
chops. Now, you got some pretty

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powerful alliances when it comes to being
enabled to get a good line on your

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meat products, right right, and
that and that helps the bottom line greatly,

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right right. Yeah, we get
a lot of our meat from the

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Osage tribe. They have a butcher
House in Hamony, Oklahoma, and they

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give us a really good deal.
Man. That's good. Everybody working together.

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Yeah, well that's super. Now
when you see so many people needed,

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I think we all know everybody.
You've got a big household. I

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had a big household. We got
to know that every penny got a name

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on it. It's going to place
and when it gets tight like this sometimes

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you know, folks need that help. And that's what the pantry's for.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's for all
travel members give you. It's a nice

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supplement to your budgets and everything.
So we're not going to let anybody go

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hungry. No, that's the whole
mission. You've got a wonderful facility there

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on East Tuxedo and Marbara Lane.
I guess is what it's called a little

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huh Now, that building looks just
fantastic from the outside. I gotta get

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I gotta get over there and visit
because I keep promising a wheel just to

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say hi to folks and everything.
But that is a beautiful campus you have

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there. Yeah, this sure is. We completed a memorial this year.

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You did. Yeah Acrsous Street over
by the pond. Oh yeah, yeah,

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that was completedbe about six months ago
or so. Guys. And you

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know that pond is a beautiful setting, and you know to put the memorial

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right there where it's nice and peaceful. Right, Yeah, it's fantastic.

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I like walking around that pond.
I'll tell you what, it is,

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gorgeous. The tribe, the Delaware
Tribe, we do have a lot of

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members right here in Bartlesvielle. But
you're not restricted to We got folks up

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in Kansas and all around, don't
you. As long as your tribal memory,

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you can shop there. Yeah.
The only thing is we we are

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partnered with the Food Bank of Eastern
Oklahoma. Huh. And if on those

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items they are restricted to only Oklahoma, you have to live in Oklahoma for

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those little Yeah. Yeah, I'm
from here. Yeah, I get that.

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I understand because you know, whenever
you do things with other folks,

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there is alway is an agreement that
you have to follow. And yeah,

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there's a partnership. You got to
make it work, to make it work.

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So this is open to tribal members. And like I said, we

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we have a lot right here in
the Bartlesfield Dewy area. And I think

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one of the tribal members last week
said Bartlesville's own because with someone of you

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Delaware live right here in the area. So this is really pretty cool.

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So if if once again folks are
needing food in the in the tribe,

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what times are the pantry doors open? We are open from four to eight

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on Tuesday through Friday, and ten
to two on Saturday. On Saturday,

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it's right, I imagine you get
crushed on Saturday. Pretty good. Yeah,

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we eat a lot of a lot
more out of town people on Saturday.

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They come through and ye make it
happen there and yeah, it's really

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good. So long did it take
you guys to get these partnerships together,

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because that's not an easy undertaken.
I imagine it took a little while,

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a lot of yeah, face to
face, a lot of phone calls.

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I'd say it took about four to
six months. And we had to be

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operating for a year before anybody would
start to partner with us. So they

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wanted to make sure it was going
to last, right, right, man?

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That for year had to be rough, trying, I should say,

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challenging. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah that what does not kill me makes

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me stronger. Oh my gosh,
Well, how many people you got to

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helping you out. You can't be
a one man show and take care of

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nine hundred people every thirty days.
We have five little employees including me,

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and two of them mark nights and
two of them more days. I see,

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So you're always making sure that everything's
fresh, taking care of being handled.

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I just didn't even have volunteers.
We have had a few, Yeah,

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we have volunteering. Would some of
the younger ones, I understand,

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like to help out there, just
to get some service hours and take care

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of the elders as well. Volunteering
would consist of bagging groceries up for tribal

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members, stocking shells, and or
breaking down cardboard. Well, easy enough,

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I think we've all done that.
Yeah, I worked at grocery store

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once. But I don't wear you
out like breaking down cardboard. Yeah that'll

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that'll give you some Yeah, it'll
get you going. But this is all

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a part about how the tribe takes
care of itself and you know, self

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sustaining, and then that's really kind
of a hallmark of the Delaware tribe.

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You guys really take care of your
Yeah, I think it's really awesome,

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and work together to take care of
everybody. Yeah, sure, that's something

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that a lot of folks could learn. Right, So where did you get

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the the idea that this maybe is
something that Sonny wanted to do? Is

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it just is it something that it
was always in your heart to help in

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some way? I do like to
help people. Yeah, for sure.

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I've always done grocery, and so
walking into the pantry was a little different

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for me because you're, you know, giving it away and you're not selling

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it. But it's been good.
I always kind of looked at it like

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it was almost volunteer work anyway.
So, well, you had a good

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grocery background, that's that's that says
a lot right there, So you know

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how to get the lines together,
you know how to get the process together

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for the workers and everything else.
Like right, yeah, I've got about

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ten years the grocery behind me.
Wow at thirty. Yeah, I just

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got to say, you're you're not
you're a very young man. Pretty much

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all I've done, Well, well, this is good because this is really

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helping out. This is great.
You got some young'uns too, don't you.

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Yeah, young young kids, and
are they helping dad out? Yeah?

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Oh wonderful. You're pretty good.
Yeah. Oh, man, that

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is super sweet. So if we
want to find out more about the pantry,

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sort of just dropping by and saying, hey, is that on your

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your your Facebook page or and on
your website some of the some of the

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like the hours and and things like
that. Well, you can always come

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in, or you can email me
at s fix itic at doltribe dot org.

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Okay, and I'll answer any questions
you got. Well, I bet

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you will. Yeah, for sure. Well, this is really good and

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it's nice to know. So if
you're a tribal member and you weren't aware

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that the pantry existed, it does. All you have to do is ask

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a couple of questions and just stop
buying. When when you're opening it's Tuesday

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through Friday, and what are the
hours four to eight? Four to eight

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and then on Saturday ten to two. And then you can just drop by

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and you know, talk to Sonny. Hell, I answer any questions you

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got, and we'll get you up
and get you taken care of. Yeah,

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we'll get you some groceries. All
right. Well, that's good,

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that's good news. And the thing
that if the folks who just tuned in

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didn't know, you do have available
fresh dairy fresh produce and meat because of

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the coolers and the freezers that are
available there too. So it's not like

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you're going to be, you know, going to boxing cans only. You're

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going to get You're not going to
be in a food desert. You've heard

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that before. Yeah, this is
a little oasis out there. You get,

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you get all the food grips here. And that was very good planning

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and very good strategic planning to get
this all taken care of. Take care

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of people like that. That's great. All right? Is there a phone

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number of folks can call if they
want to just hit you up with the

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email. You can also call me
at nine one eight nine one four three

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one sixty two. Alrighty, alright, we got that. All right.

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I want to thank you for being
here with us today and Sonny, always

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a pleasure. Thank you. Do
not be a stranger in good luck folks,