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Okay, morning, morning, came
moning. Welcome malchoelm WelCom. It's time

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now for our community connection right here
on K one, the one you trust

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in the vision of leveling as we
had with these years, Miss Angie Thompson

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and James with Eldercare. How you
doing. I'm doing well. It's good

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to see you today. It's great
to see you always. We've got some

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great news about Eldercare we need to
share today. We got a big birthday

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bash coming up sorta yeah, sort
of, but yeah, it's our fortieth

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year. We're excited about all the
great things we've been able to do in

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our community for aging adults for the
past forty years, and we are celebrating

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in a big way on November eleventh. We're calling it our Giving Day and

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our Celebration days. Wow, and
talk about celebration. You've got quite a

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lineup and you got it quite an
advantage. Where are we holding this Well,

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we're going to do the Tri County
Tech Event Center. That's the one

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space we believe we can put everyone
in and everyone be comfortable and safe and

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that kind of thing. But yeah, it'll be at the Trick County Event

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Center and that's on Nowater Road,
and it begins at nine point thirty on

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November eleventh, and it starts with
a fundraising breakfast. Will also honor our

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veterans right off the bat that morning, because it is Veterans Day on November

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eleventh, it is. We've got
some special guests also, not only the

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veterans, but we have some familiar
names, yes, you know, for

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those who have lived in Bartlesville for
a number of years like I have.

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I'm one of the natives in Bartlesville, you know, who still live here

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and love our community. But you're
going to recognize names like Mary lou Borg

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and Betty Sammer. They're going to
be with us. They were two of

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our founders at Elder Care, so
we're going to have them there. Everyone

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will have a chance to meet them
and show them some love for all of

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their great work in nineteen eighty three. Cool. We have a guest speaker

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too, yes, at the breakfast. It's Jim Bridenstein, and we were

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so thrilled that he wanted to come
and help us with this special event.

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You know. The theme for our
event is setting New Heights, Yeah,

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you know, and we chose that
theme because for forty years we've been helping

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aging adults. But we're excited about
what we're going to do next. And

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in twenty twenty four we have enhanced
programming and other things that the community will

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really really be excited to learn about. In twenty twenty four, we're calling

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it setting New Heights. And Jim
Bridenstein, you know, is the former

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NASA administrator New Heights. Yes,
and of course he was a US Congressman

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from Oklahoma. But he's going to
be sharing some stories about his days as

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a Navy pilot, you know,
and his days at NASA. So it

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will be a really fun day to
hear him speak, to meet Mary lou

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Borke, Betty Sammer, have photos
taken with former board members who will be

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their former employees who are coming to
be part of the experience. But we

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invite the entire community to come help
us fundraise that morning and also celebrate Eldercare.

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Oh this is great. Please you
have an online component that's really cool,

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right, you know, with a
giving day? What giving day is?

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An organization can choose a twenty four
hour period where they will accept donations

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online to benefit the work they do. And in our case, it's November

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eleventh, so you know, not
everybody likes the online giving experience, and

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they can continue to give that day, either at the breakfast or if they'd

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like to mail us a check or
drop a donation by Eldercare they share can,

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but I'll be glad to see it. Yeah. The online component will

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also be available for those who'd like
to give online, and the space for

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giving online will be found on our
Facebook page and on our website. I

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understand we have some generous sponsors already
for this, Oh gosh, you know,

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yeah, absolutely, you know,
you can't do any fundraising event without

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amazing sponsors, and we have amazing
sponsors this year for our Giving Day.

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Our signature sponsors are Conico, Phillips
and the Richardson Foundation. We also want

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to give a shout out to Mary
Lou Bork and Karen Waddell, who are

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our Mock five sponsors. Betty Caine
and Truity Credit Union are above the cloud

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sponsors, Mary and John Ford and
the ks Adams Foundation are gliders, and

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Steve and Tanna Grogan and Jerry and
Beth Maddox are skippers, along with Meredith

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and Bob Frasier. And of course
we can't do it without our media sponsor

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KWN, Tri County Tech, the
Dungeess Family of Autos, and our best

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Wealth Management. Just amazing group of
organizations and individuals. I love how our

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community comes together for these things.
It is really wonderful. Now. Elder

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care we've been around for forty years. Yes, but we need to remind

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folks that this is not a residential
care facility. No. In fact,

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it's quite the opposite. We want
you to have fun as best you can

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at home. At home, you
know, it's about aging in place,

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and everyone wants independence as we age. You know, we want to be

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able to drive our car, go
to church, and go to these community

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events if we want to. But
sometimes we do need a little extra help

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in our home, you know,
and that's what our in home program is

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about. We also have adult day
Health for individuals who'd like to have structured

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and organized activities therapeutic art and exercise. They can come to our daybreak program

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Monday through Friday, seven thirty to
five thirty. And of course we also

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have a health clinic for adults of
all ages with doctor Brad Jerrell who's a

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Jerry and titian here in Bartlesville,
and also our foundation therapy specialists. They

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treat adults of all ages. Wow, we that's a quite a big component.

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We got there, Yes, indeed, and you're out there at twelve

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twenty three Swan Drive, beautiful yard, beautiful facility. But the fundraiser is

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going to help make sure that we're
around for another forty years to can care

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the needs of the seniors who wish
to age in place. You know,

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that's right, Tom, and folks
can purchase tickets online at our website which

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is about eldercare dot org, Forward
Slash Breakfast. They can purchase our commenity

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t shirt, our tag holders,
or tickets to the event, or they

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can call us at nine one eight
three three six eighty five hundred. That

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is great. You know, we
were talking a little bit about all the

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different amenuities we have going on out
there. I want to go kind of

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to the foundation folks, because they're
wonderful. You want to talk about being

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able to age in place. Say
you're not moving as well as you used

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to, or perhaps you had an
accident, or it's something that's giving you

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a trouble where maybe you can't move
your feet or your hands the way you

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used to. But the folks at
the Foundation Therapy right there at Eldercare,

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they work miracles every day, little
ones. But yeah, you know they

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do. And I think that that
is a hidden jew will at elder Care.

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Folks don't realize. We have four
doctors of physical therapy too, physical

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therapists, assistance and a physical therapist
including certified hand specialist as our occupational therapist

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and a speech language therapist. So
we're an outpatient facility and we're available to

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all adults, whether you're wanting to
recover, maybe get back on track.

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You've had surgery, maybe you've had
a stroke or some kind of cognitive incident

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and you need a little help getting
back on track. That's what Foundation Therapy

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specialists can help you do. Oh
indeed, and they're very fun. Yes,

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you know, you're not looking at
somebody who's going to come in there

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with you know, kind of sober
pasion. Ok, here we go.

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You know, they engage and the
folks, the patientsing, they engage right

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back. It's really a fun kind
of element. You got there well.

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And I think our educational component,
our physical therapists are so highly trained and

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specialized. I'll tell a quick story
someone told me that they were working with

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Josh Lynn Bloom, he's our director
of therapy, a nice guy. Yeah.

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Her husband had Parkinson's and Josh was
working with him on one on one

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therapy, which is our specialty one
on one therapy. Working with him.

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He was struggling one day and Josh
just simply asked, well, is there

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some activity that you really love to
do that you are not able to do

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anymore? And he said, well, I really love to dance and I

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can't dance anymore. So we pulled
the wife over and he said, well,

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let's let's dance right now. And
he was able to integrate his therapy

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session with dancing because that's what this
individual loved to do, you know.

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But that's the kind of out of
the box thinking our therapists do to engage

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people, to get them back on
track, get them mobile. You know.

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That's a pretty clever thinking. Yeah, and it's great for the mind

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too, in the heart, yes, ah, and the soul. That

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is really something else, you see, folks, is why we invest in

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Eldercare, and that's why we have
the big forty you bet coming up.

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Let's give folks in case they just
caught the little piece of it. It's

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coming up on November eleven. November
eleventh, Tri County Tech begins at nine

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thirty with a breakfast. The guest
speaker is Jim Bridenstein. Will have individuals

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important to Eldercare from our past.
The cost is fifty dollars per person.

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They can buy tickets online at about
eldercare dot org forwards last breakfast or call

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us at nine one, eight,
three, three six eighty five hundred great

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anything else we may have missed,
well not for now. I know we'll

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be back talking. Oh yes we
will, because we do that about every

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three or four weeks. We get
together and we catch up on all the

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activities that are coming up with Eldercare. But this is the big one.

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Folks will make plans. It's already
marked on your calendar. Veterans Veterans Day.

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Yeah, Eldercare Solute the bed Sea. We will right check circle it

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with a big heart. Lets go, Angie. Thank you very much for

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being with us. Tom all right, folks, you've been listening to our

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community connection. Thanks for listening to
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