Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,
and it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It really truly is a
little chilly, but I'll take it. And we've got the Kawana's in house
right here with our community connection. And it's brought to you by Arnold Moore
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kids, good morning. You've been busy, haven't you? Very busy?
Now we're showing you and Jim been working out at the at the at the
golf course. Sooner junior golf. That's great, soon golf. Well,
there's a lot that's been going on less fall. We were contacted by an
Eagle Scout candidate, Tatiana Naylor. She decided that she would like to paint
and do some exterior improvements on the clubhouse. So she managed the project with
Troop six family friends volunteers and did a remarkable job improving the you know,
painting and caulking, shoring up our support beams. Jim designed a special gutter
to come off for rain coming off the roof so that it keeps it out
of the building. So we employed Timmins sheet metal to take care of that
design, and then they did some sheet metal caps on our structure beams which
Tatiana and them then painted. So it is it's good to go. It's
good to go for a couple of decades now. Jim, you did some
Fairway reconstruction last year. We did a whole eighteen we rebuilt last year to
get it ready and it's a long term design so it should be good for
many years now. Now with all the touch ups it's been going on,
that sounds more like a major project than a touchhop. You got Mitch Kays
are just ready busted it. It seems to open it up and let people
have some bot We are ready. We know the community really enjoys that as
a place to get out and have fun with the family. So we're ready,
and I think yesterday Rochelle got flowers planted, so it's going to be
looking great. All right. Now we got we're ready to open the door.
Are we have some fun? We are. We're going to open a
preseason for Big Brothers Big Sisters. They're going to have a big little event
on April twenty seventh, So if you're interested in considering being a mentor through
Big Brothers and Big Sisters. I would show up at five thirty or six
and talk to Charlene dou So they'll be out there on the twenty seventh.
Our formal opening date is April twenty eighth, Friday, so it looks like
it'll be a little cool Friday and Saturday. Sunday. Looks really awesome though,
I think that will people will be. We've gotten a lot of good
feedback and people seem excited. We've got the perennials planted. We'll do annuals
tonight, so get the course really looking nice. New turf was put on
whole two and whole seventeen last week. We've just scrubbed and cleaned everything out
there in preparation for our guests. So, Jimmy, is the artificial turf
ready for some artificial rain? Is ready for any type of rain we can
get it. I'll tell you all right, well, this is going to
be good. A lot of hard work goes into this every year. But
this is a big fundraiser for the Quantus Grant. That's correct. This does
this funds all of our giving. So we'll be preparing to distribute five scholarships
to areas seniors. Those are each one thousand dollars. We do Sophomores of
the Year, so those are one hundred dollars each. That's just to get
sophomores thinking about the process of applying for scholarships. We also recognize eighth graders
at Central and Madison, so they'll get a small award. On May thirty
first, we'll have a special awards ceremony out at Sooner Junior where we'll invite
the recipients their families and we'll also invite Tatiana Naylor and her family and friends
and Troops six to come enjoy Hamburger cookout and get games of miniature golf after
we do our awards presentation. You see in a few of these celebrations,
these get better invert. That's right. Certainly today this is our twenty second
season we're kicking off since we took over operation out there, and we've enjoyed
improving the facility every year, getting it ready for a lot of fun.
So and looking forward to another season. Well, this is gonna be great.
It's gonna be great, right, and I think the weather is going
to cooperate. Well, Oklahoma, we'll check it back on that. But
we're gonna have some fishing coming up here in a little bit, and we're
gonna take a little break and we're gonna go talk about the annual fishing derby
that everybody looks forward to almost as much as the golf as well. So
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six thirty and welcome back to our community connection. We're talking with the Kawanas
right here Bartlesville, and we've talked a little bit about sooner junior mini golf,
and we're going to talk a little bit more about that a little later
on. But coming up, we got a derby, a fishing derby.
Tell us a little bit about it. Well, that's an annual tradition that
our Kauanas club has sponsored since nineteen fifty one, so we are proud to
continue that and the kids of this area really enjoy getting out and having a
fun day and they come out with their parents and bring their own fishing gear.
But we provide lots of prizes and trophies for the winners in each category.
We've got three categories, starting at age three and going up through age
twelve. So we'll have a lot of fun with that. And we've got
Scout Troop from let's see which troop is a Troop six Again, they're helping
us with measurement on those fish and report them back to headquarters desks. So
we're going to have a lot of fun. That is Saturday morning, the
thirteenth of May, coming up in three weeks, and what we're going to
do this for shell Joe Allen Low Park. Beautiful beautiful little pod right there
off Price Room. Yes, and the city has made a lot of improvements.
They took some of the trees and put some new sod down, so
it's it's really improved, you know, the look, the look of the
of the park. The registration will begin at eight thirty. We'll have members
of our Dewey Key Club there to help get the kids registered and then they
can find their spot around the lake wherever they want to throw their line in.
Now, this gets packed, doesn't it. Yes? Sweet Sometimes we'll
get one hundred, one hundred and fifty people out there at times, but
there's plenty room and it's a lot of fun. Well, you know,
it's one of those things, so like you said, it goes back to
nineteen fifty one. So this is a generational thing here in Bartlesville, and
uh, you know, it's something that families look forward to, especially when
they get the three year old who's interested in being rambunctious. And finally we
can go to the pond, hey, you know, and then it's and
then it begins, and then it stays, and then you bring the grand
kids along until the kids have kids, you know, and then it's great.
It's a lot of the grandparents that come out and bring the kids they
remember fishing when they were kids out here. Soon it's great and this is
just a good time for everyone. What kind of prizes are we looking at
here? We have all kinds of for the younger kids, a lot of
toys and things, but we have fishing gear to give to the older kids.
And everybody gets a prized, so we'll have a bottle of water and
some kind of prize for everybody. It's it's a lot of fun, and
the real prize is catching that fish you've got. Man, you know the
kauanas. Does it all tell us a little bit about the kuanas and what
it means to a community. I know, you guys got started back in
Detroit. Yes, time ago, a long time, a long time ago,
fifteen and the Bartlesfook Club has been in existence since nineteen twenty. So
yeah, so one hundred and three years that our clubs has been going.
We just focus on children. That is our mission, serving the children of
the world. So we you know, we start with Sooner Junior that's our
fundraiser. We moved to the Fishing Derby in May. During SunFest, we
have the SunFest show Down, so that's a miniature golf tournament. We do
the Fourth of July celebration at Sooner Park. We do the Christmas Parade,
we recognize nonprofits in November, just kind of a day of giving, you
know, meet the community event. It's you know, we love the large
community events, especially the Fourth of July and the Christmas Parade just bring bringing
everyone together. And it seems like we just wrapped up the Christmas Parade.
Time flies by it. That thing was huge as past year. That was
awesome and spectacularly. It seems like every year we bring more lights, more
color, and a little bit more sound to it. I was talking to
some folks who were along the route, namely Kevin Potter because he was driving
the Grand Marshall. He says, I don't think I saw a blank spot.
Everybody, every piece of that rote was filled. So that's that's an
awesome good audience. It's another one. The kids really enjoy going out and
seeing Santa Claus and all the floats and lights and here in the Christmas music.
So it's a lot of fun, great tradition. Well, and the
adults who put their floats together in the competition, they really enjoy it.
The theme this year is like Christmas at the movies, so we expect to
see some great floats. There's a lot of creativity. Well all right,
I can't wait. Now let's get back to as junior mini golf. What
are the prices? So for an adult it's six dollars. For senior citizen
or a teen from the age of twelve to seventeen, it's five dollars.
Children six to twelve is four dollars, and then five and under is one
dollars. It's a bargain. How do you make money? So, well,
we are. It's all volunteer. We don't hire anyone to work.
You know, the courses we all put in our time and otherwise we wouldn't
be able to give away any money, you know, if we had to,
if we had to pay for labor. We also do parties, so
these can be birthday parties, corporate events, church events, family unions.
The course can be rented for an hour and a half for sixty dollars,
two hours seventy five dollars, and if it's longer than that, it's just
fifteen dollars for each half hour that is requested for the course to remain open.
So we have a compressed time. What three days, Jim, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday we're open regular hours and then we have all the other
events the other nights a week, oh wow, or during the day.
Well, not tell you what that makes it work? The right, nice
good, good Strateguerry you got going on there? Andy, tell us a
little bit more. Where can we find out more about Quatas got a great
website. It's it's in the process of being a revamped. Yes, oh
yes, Kyle Marjoram is working to bring our website up to date. But
our Facebook page is very current that we always list our current the speakers,
upcoming speakers for our meetings. We meet at tri County Tech. We do
special speaking engagements the first and third Wednesdays of each month. If there's a
fifth Wednesday, we do a social engagement. We post that on our Facebook
page also, so I would say for the most current information, seek out
our Facebook page. Yes, Juanese Club of Bartlesville. We've been talking to
the Kawanas. We've been talking to Jim Sweeze and Rochelle Wilson. I want
to thank you both for being here today. Thank you all right, but
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