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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, welcome, welcome, welcome time

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now for our community connection right here
on K one and one do you trust?

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And it's a kind of short on
the days here for Bartinsville Public Schools.

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We have a superintended druckmcaullie. How
you doing, Good morning, tom

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Thanks for having me and you're right. Yeah, Tomorrow Tomorrow is our kids

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last day of school and teachers will
be working on Friday and then they'll finish

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up and we're going to end the
week with graduation Friday night. So yeah,

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it's here. It's been fast and
furious, but we've had a really

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good school year. So I'll just
start off talking about graduation. Yes,

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do that, because everybody's got the
family coming in. Sure, that's exactly

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right. Yeah, So we're going
seven o'clock Friday night at Custer Stadium.

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We'll have graduation and it'll last less
than an hour and a half. For

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those that maybe have not been or
maybe fearful of a real long speaker,

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that's not the way we're in graduation. So we encourage everybody to come out.

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We do have a scheduled at seven, but just for people to be

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aware, hopefully the weather will allow
us to have it at that time.

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But uh, if there is some
uh you know, if we do have

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some inclement weather, we could delay
that that ceremony. So we'll let people

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know obviously, but our plan is
to have it at seven, but it's

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possible we couldn't lay it to eight
or nine o'clock, just depending on the

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weather. But we yeah, we
look forward to Friday night, uh,

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and and celebrating our kids. It's
really a lot of fun. It's just

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a beautiful setting at our stadium that
time of year, and so it's going

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to be a great event. You
know, this group of seniors, this

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class, they were eighth graders when
COVID hit. You know, they were

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in the eighth grade, so they
were in their last year of middle school

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when when that's right, we all
remember that time right before spring break.

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Uh and you know for school folks, that's when the you know, the

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governor shut schools down across the state, really across the country. But uh,

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and so these kiddos, you know, they didn't have their normal end

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of their eighth grade year, you
know, when they transitioned middle school,

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and and so it was really neat
this week they go back and visit their

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elementary schools and uh, they also
go back and they walk through the middle

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schools this week. We can get
to have that experience. So I'm really

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glad they're I'm just really glad.
The world's in a better place and we're

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having just a normal end of the
school year and and it's going to be

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a lot of fun. So encourage
people to uh, people to come out

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and uh. But you know,
so we're in the just finishing up those

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end of the year things right now. Our uh, you know, our

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spring activities have all concluded. Uh. You know, we've got our special

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Olympics kids took off this morning,
headed down to still Water. We got

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a large group of kiddos going down
there and sponsors and they've really done a

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nice job. You know. We
host that grand that grand area event at

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the high school and we're glad to
offer that here and those kids will have

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a great experience. Uh. But
on our our spring activity side, a

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couple of things. You know,
we had our typical great uh uh finishes

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and lots of different spring things.
You know, our girls tennis team won

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the academic state championship. They had
a four point zero team great point average,

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which is obviously pretty strong. Our
complete boys, our boys and girls

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teams all qualified for the state meet, and you know, our slow pitch

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softball team they qualify for state got
to play down. It was really fun.

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They played down at the same venue
where the Women's College World Series is

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and so I'd never been there.
It was really neat, really proud of

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our kids to have that experience.
I mean, that's something that's once in

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a lifetime. Well hopefully it won't
be once in a lifetime for young girls.

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Hopefully we'll go back. But I'm
glad they got to do that.

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I know. I was really proud
to see them out there on the field.

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Was really a lot of fun.
Uh. Of course, our track

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teams just finished up and something that
I think is really pretty amazing that I

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haven't heard a lot of folks talking
about. You know, we had a

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brother and sister and win a state
championship on the same day in track,

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and that I mean, I don't
know if that's ever happened. It can't

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be very common. You know Gentry
Turner, who a lot of people are

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familiar with. Gentry she's our star
distance runner and she is she won the

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state championship in the two mile on
Friday, which is she's a senior.

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Is probably not a big surprise that
she won it. You know, she

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just signed with Oklahoma State to run
there, so she was probably the favorite

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going in and really proud of Gentry
worked really hard to do that. But

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her little brother, Wesley is a
freshman and he he won the pole vault

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state championship and he ya, which
is you know, it's really rare,

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and they did on the same day, which is really cool. So we're

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talking, you know, six a
I think he jumped fifteen feet six inches,

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you know, at any level,
but especially for a boy that's a

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freshman to win a state championship athletically, there's a big difference between boys when

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you're fourteen, fifteen or eighteen and
nineteen year old. So that was just

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really neat Wesley and Gentry and so
really great family too. I mean mom

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teaches Melissa at the he's English teacher
at the high school, and dad helps

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helps coach for the track. But
it was really fine. So brother and

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sister won a state championship. I
thought was pretty was pretty cool and freshman,

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yeah, exactly, senior freshman.
Yeah, I was really really a

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neat neat deal. You know,
golfers. We had one boy and one

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girl finished. But you know I
had a freshman boy, Jay wasass Miller,

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who's a I've known him since before
he was born, and he,

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you know, he finished that ninth
at the state at the Golf State Golf

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Tournament, and really really proud of
him. You know, I went down

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to watching him play at the conference
meet, and you know, at this

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level, you're playing with high level
players. I know he was playing with

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the group at conference. I know, with a young man that was going

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that's going to Seaton Hall and the
other one's going to Roberts University, and

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then there's Jay and Jay he just
plays right with him. And to finish

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ninth at the state's really impressive.
We've got a really strong group of athletes

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coming up underneath him that that will
help fill up that that team. I

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know they'll be really competitive at the
state level. Well, that group's really

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going to be competitive at everything they
do here for years to come. It's

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gonna be a lot of fun,
a lot of fun to watch. But

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anyway, it was a lot of
fun having those kids have those experiences.

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End of the year spring stuff.
I hope everyone was able to get out

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and see our spring show that I
was put on LST at the beginning of

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the month too. That was really
fun. It was those kids do a

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great job. I know your daughter's
involved with that, but really really enjoy

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Yes, that's right, Yeah we
went. Remember I went Sunday afternoon actually,

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so I guess that was the third
showing and it was still packed.

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It was really really really a lot
of fun. And I guess I should

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mention too, Tom, I should
have started with this too, but just

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with the sort of thank everybody with
the with the with the weather that came

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through. Uh. You know,
obviously our our prayers go out to our

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friends over at Burns Doll. But
uh boy, did we were we was

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we fortunate? We really are schools. I know I get to being asked

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often about what kind of damage at
our schools, and we really, uh,

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very very minor. We had we
had power over Wilson for a couple

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of days and which led to some
internet issues over there. You know,

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Wilson Elementary missed a couple of days
of school. Our district we had to

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miss a day. Uh, but
you know that's minor when you start thinking

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about yeah, you see just the
devastation over it over at Barnes doll and

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help what could have been? You
know, And I'm I know the way

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that was tracking. I mean,
I'm just thinking about it up, no

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kidding, you know, you think
about that path and the pathfinder, and

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you know we've got our brand new
act facility. We just finished with these

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world class greenhouses. I mean,
so anyway, thank the Good Lord for

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helping us get through that. But
anyway, I appreciate everyone's support with that,

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helping us get through those challenges that
you just face sometimes at Oklahoma one

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mentioned a couple of It seems like
every time I'm on here, I'm talking

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about donations that have come to the
district. So a couple that I want

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to mention this week CP KIM they
donated ten two hundred dollars to our aviation

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program. They did that check presentation
on Monday, so really thank them for

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their support. And then Phillip sixty
six at our school board meeting on Monday,

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they're donating twenty thousand dollars for safety, which the district is going to

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use for our school resource officers for
training. We you know, as everyone

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knows, we have a school resource
officer at every school building full time.

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We planned for this upcoming school year
we'll have two at Marlsville High School,

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so we have a total of ten
officers in the district that we really appreciate

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Phillip sixty six and that's one of
their core values of safety and appreciate their

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willing to willingness to help support that
too. And then on a bore mini

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coming up as well, we've spotlight
a lot of things, a lot of

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things I just talked about with our
activities this this Phillip sixty sixth donation.

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And then over at Richard Kine Elementary
our fifth grade leadership students with Principal Cross,

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It's going to bring those fifth graders
over and talk about some of the

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things they've been doing leadership wise,
which is really a lot of fun listening

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to the kids talking about their experience. And then also hit on finish up.

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As we finished up the year two, our our Advanced Placement testing that

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we've completed, we had almost four
hundred kids, actually three hundred and ninety

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eight kids taken AP test and so
which is a really testament to getting our

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kids prepared for that next step.
Kids that are on that college bound track

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as well. So and as we
do prepare for next year, you know,

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I run the numbers often on our
student enrollment, and we're up.

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We're up today we have three hundred
and three hundred and eleven more students than

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we did five years ago. So
so we've we've prepared for that facility wise,

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our Wayside facility, we are moving
into that new edition right now,

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and then they're gonna be renovating some
of the spaces that we're going to be

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moving out of here, but we'll
be in that facility in August. Last

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week we approved the guaranteed maximum price
for basically the same project over at Ranch

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Heights Elementary, So we're adding spaces
at those two schools. And then the

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summer, not this summer, but
next summer, once we get the Ranch

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Heights project complete, we will do
some redistricting to move some Wayside students over

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to Ranch Heights because they have the
capacity for them. So and then I've

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just mentioned brief I talked about the
act facility in the storm, but we

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were safe there too. We will
have an event when the school starts.

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Were kind of shooting for September fifteenth, having an open house, but really

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excited for people to see that we
are legislators were able to get in a

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few weeks ago they were and yeah, it's something I know. They shared

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with us that our greenhouses, for
example, that they were the largest ones

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in the state of Oklahoma. So
really, really thankful that our community supported

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that to give these opportunities for our
kids. Very good, my goodness.

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So we'll see everybody Friday night.
Graduation, all right, graduation, orderly

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walk, orderly running. Yeah,
yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah,

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Friday Friday at seven o'clock. I
think we open the gates at six and

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then we'll spread the word if we
need to make any adjustments at that time.

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We're planning on Friday, seven o'clock, Custer Stadium. I hope everyone

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will attend, all right, Chuck
McCauley, thank you for being with us.

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All right, folks, you've been
watching and listening to