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

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any time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the one

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you dress and these lovely ladies they're
from Okay and music. How are we

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doing? Very good? Happy Saint
Nicholas day, Tom it is, isn't

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it? Yes? It is Umber
six. I'm great, well, you're

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always great. We've got a lot
of fun going on today with Saint Nicholas

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dies if we do, we're the
busiest busiest did okay? Am? So

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please if you've ordered yours, your
Chris Kendle niggas bags, Chris Kendle,

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it all runs together, bags,
please stop by and join us this evening.

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We have a whole lot of activities. Really what's going on from five

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to six thirty if you will stop
by Ambler Hall. It's free to the

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public, primarily targeted for children and
families. But we have three different types

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of crafts. You can make button
tree ornaments. You can do can cane

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beads or beaded candy canes. Maybe
I should say you can do coloring books.

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You can listen to the Bartlesville Choir, come and seeing they're going to

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do some singing, some readings,
we're going to have Saint Nicholas there.

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We're going to have lots and lots
of sweets. So we have cookies,

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we have trees, we have chocolates
and candies in honor of Saint Nicholas.

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And of course every child will also
get an orange that comes in a peppermint

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or a candy cane, I should
say, And so it's going to be

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really nice. But the kids are
going to read several stories. Saint Nicholas

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will read a story about himself.
And so today is not only a celebration

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of Saint Nicholas and all of the
good that he did, but it's just

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a celebration of giving back to the
community and giving to the children in our

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communities. So we are so thrilled
to be able to do that, and

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I think it's going to be a
really special evening. So yes, please

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come out. It's free to the
public. We do still have four Saint

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Nicholas bags left. If anyone wants
to purchase those, they're ten dollars apiece.

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You can call off Fish, she
could go online to do so.

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If you have purchased them, like
Roast said, please come by pick up

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your bags. Don't forget them.
Rose will be calling you or you can

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pick them up tonight as well.
Oh that'd be great. This is gonna

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be a lot of fun. You
know you mentioned you mentioned the orange.

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When I was a kid, that
was a big gang deal because orange is

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well, you know, they came
from Florida and California, and the exportation

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wasn't I mean, it was okay
in the early nineteen sixties, but you

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know, it wasn't like an everyday
thing, so you know what you take

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for granted now, you know,
it was kind of a big deal.

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So it's a big deal that for
Christmas. It's symbolic, it's special.

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Of course, the candy cane is
symbolic of Saint Nicholas was a bishop and

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so of course he had his Yeah, he had his staff, his kirks,

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so of course it's shaped like the
candy cane. And of course we

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do have chocolate coins tonight, unfortunately
not real gold, but they're a delicious

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other kind of gold. And so
some of what Saint Nicholas maybe would have

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given to someone in need back in
his day in Maira. And so we

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are just hoping that kids can kind
of pay it forward by learning the gift

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of giving. That's something special,
it's something that you know, it's it's

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a wonderful joy to give, and
it's a wonderful joy to receive. And

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so we hope that we can teach
the kids a little bit about that and

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all the time while they're enjoying doing
crafts and singing and having a good time.

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So yes, we're very thrilled.
This is our last calendar event for

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the year. So after tonight Rose
and I might take a little bit of

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breath and side. I then have
a wedding coming up for my daughter,

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and after that will be back hard
at work for the festival coming in June.

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Oh my goodness sakes, Rose,
I like know where you get the

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energy because you do all of the
things with the kids and everything. And

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I think we all know that when
it comes to OKM, we kind of

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all become kids at heart. We
do, we really do. And it

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is fun being with all the children. And the other day some of the

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parents had stopped in and they go, oh my gosh, the kids,

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I'll love you again, and some
of them even remember what they did during

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the summer. I hope that's really
good. It's good, and I hope

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that tradition stays forever. It's all
about kids, it is. It is

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give them a good start and they
finish well usually this year and the St.

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Nicholas Bags, talking about that.
This summer we gave away so many

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different kinds of instruments, but this
time in the Saint Nicholas bags, we

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have a really fun they're high quality. They're from the music store in Tulsa.

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We love Larry, He's always very
good to partner with us. But

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this year he gave us green recorders
which are super fun and red harmonicas,

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and then we have jingle bells in
each bag. So yeah, there are

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craft books. There are actual hardback
books that are really nice for the kids

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to get to read. From the
summer festival. We have books that we've

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thrown in there. There's Code of
many colors. There's eighty eight instruments.

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Eighty eight instruments. Yeah, we
have a John Lithgow but it's they're really

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good books. And then of course
we have an activity book about Saint Nick,

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a coloring book about Saint Nick and
sort of the Christmas season, and

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then a book that's the story.
It's the Baker's Dozen that is also about

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Saint Nick. So the backs are
pretty cool. And then there's some other

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surprises in there that I won't run
always every you know, of course,

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we wouldn't be doing our job if
we weren't trying to educate the kids about

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music. Sure, so it always
has a music spin to it, and

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so I think it will be fun. Parents may not be happy with us

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in a couple of days, but
I think the kids are going to have

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a really good time playing and learning
their musical instruments. Well. With the

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recorder. I remember being a fourth
grader that was a big deal our little

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grade school. Once you got to
be a fourth grader, you were a

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big time. You got the musical
instrument. Yes, now, the first

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few days people are just making a
rock us. But after that, you

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know, they learned a couple of
notes and wow, you can really play

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that thing. Yeah you can't do
it in the book, that's right.

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I remember having a recorder. I
do remember that. That was fun.

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We hope the kids these are you
know, I think the recorders we all

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had were probably not sort of our
ivory color. Yeah they were are right

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green. They are so fun wow
and bright red. Yeah. Wow.

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So what I did for the bags. You got one color of each one,

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okay, you know, like if
you got a red, you got

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a green. Okay. And Christmas
there you go, keep it, keep

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it lively, that's right. I
like that. I think I think the

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kids will have fun with them.
I think they will, you know secretly

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Mom and Dad every now and they'll
take that recorder and nobody's looking there you

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go try to figure out how.
Yeah, they do. They won't admit

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it, but they do. I
caught my mom in the kitchen. She

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was what you doing? Nothing,
just making sure it was clean, Okay,

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anything you need to know. And
we can send families our way five

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to six, five to six Ambler
Hall, which is out four fifteen South

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or five to six thirty. I
think he rose five to six thirty.

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It's on December sixth Yeah, and
it is free to the public. And

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you know, Rose and I need
some coffee and we have we haven't had

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the chocolate coins yet, you know, we need some coffee. You go,

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just coffee, coffee there. Oh
my gosh, this is so good.

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And once again it's the last big
event of the calendar year is for

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the children. For the children.
Yeah, and then boy, I just

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it's going to be just like that, like a snap of the fingers.

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Will be right into the middle festival
and the children's programs in June. Right,

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you will be here first literally out
about nine days of children's programming,

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three days for the festival fortieth anniversary. So we've taken the original part of

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the festival, We've taken back to
its roots and said, Okay, we're

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going to do some really big,
really fun things, really cool things for

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that part of the festival, and
then the kids festival we've expanded by a

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couple of days, added a bunch
of new things, and have some really

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exciting things to announce at the beginning
of the year. So you will be

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seeing a lot of Rose and I
like the fortieth anniversary all right, you

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know with the kids, I imagine
you had to expand because from what I've

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been told, you guys have had
full classes and almost like a little weight

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going on there. So this is
going to help things out, isn't it.

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It is. I can hardly wait. We have been planning, We

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have most of our events scheduled.
It's just now the finalization of each one

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of them. So they are ready, that's right. I can tell she's

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ready. She's excited. I'm excited
because I love. If you touch one

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child's life with music, it is
a miracle. It is, it is,

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and that's like every child I would
like to have. Every child is

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a child at heart. One thing
that I thought this was silly until I

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started realizing it. Music makes you
better with numbers, that's right, Absolutely,

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it really does. Math and me
were not even close relatives when I

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was a little guy, but once
I got my first guitar and I had

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to meet her out different things for
different notes, for you know, for

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holding for different times and this,
and all of a sudden, you know,

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fractions got real easy, timing got
real easy. Everything that you counted,

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what had to go in where this
right, All of a sudden,

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it just became applied science and dog
gun And if it wasn't fun at the

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same time, I hate it when
they tricky you like that. But music

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absolutely has spatial connotations, it has
cognitive I mean, it is so important

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and there's a reason why different cultures, you know, will put on maybe

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Beethoven or remote Sart while you're doing
your math, while you're trying to do

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your science. It absolutely works hand
in hand. And you know, if

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you can have fun and learn at
the same time. Why not? Why

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not? And I mean music makes
everything better. I always tell people.

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Can you imagine a wedding without a
march? Can you imagine Jaws without Donna?

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And you know, just music brings
everyone together. It's a harmon harmonious

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language, there are no barriers to
it, and it's something for everyone.

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So tonight again, if you love
music, please adults too, come out

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and hear the Bartlesville High School choir
seeing they're going to be doing some Christmas

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carols, some nice storybook reading and
then the kids will be singing along as

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well. Alrighty well, I thank
you for being here tonight. Oh,

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thank you, thank you, And
the schedule is all clear for you for

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this spring because we're going to be
busy. We are going to be busy.

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We'll be there to tell you all
about it. So come see us

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tonight, Tom. We'll give you
some hot chocolate. All right, sounds

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great. Thank you folks. You
have been watching and listening to our community

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