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

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and it's a beautiful day in the
neighborhood. It really truly is a

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little chilly, but I'll take it. And we've got the Kawana's in house

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right here with our community connection.
And it's brought to you by Arnold Moore

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and Nicamp Funeral Home. Call Grass
Voters in Wesley and Kitty College. Hi

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kids, good morning. You've been
busy, haven't you? Very busy?

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Now we're showing you and Jim been
working out at the at the at the

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golf course. Sooner junior golf.
That's great, soon golf. Well,

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there's a lot that's been going on
less fall. We were contacted by an

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Eagle Scout candidate, Tatiana Naylor.
She decided that she would like to paint

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and do some exterior improvements on the
clubhouse. So she managed the project with

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Troop six family friends volunteers and did
a remarkable job improving the you know,

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painting and caulking, shoring up our
support beams. Jim designed a special gutter

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to come off for rain coming off
the roof so that it keeps it out

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of the building. So we employed
Timmins sheet metal to take care of that

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design, and then they did some
sheet metal caps on our structure beams which

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Tatiana and them then painted. So
it is it's good to go. It's

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good to go for a couple of
decades now. Jim, you did some

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Fairway reconstruction last year. We did
a whole eighteen we rebuilt last year to

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get it ready and it's a long
term design so it should be good for

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many years now. Now with all
the touch ups it's been going on,

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that sounds more like a major project
than a touchhop. You got Mitch Kays

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are just ready busted it. It
seems to open it up and let people

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have some bot We are ready.
We know the community really enjoys that as

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a place to get out and have
fun with the family. So we're ready,

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and I think yesterday Rochelle got flowers
planted, so it's going to be

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looking great. All right. Now
we got we're ready to open the door.

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Are we have some fun? We
are. We're going to open a

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preseason for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
They're going to have a big little event

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on April twenty seventh, So if
you're interested in considering being a mentor through

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Big Brothers and Big Sisters. I
would show up at five thirty or six

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and talk to Charlene dou So they'll
be out there on the twenty seventh.

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Our formal opening date is April twenty
eighth, Friday, so it looks like

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it'll be a little cool Friday and
Saturday. Sunday. Looks really awesome though,

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I think that will people will be. We've gotten a lot of good

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feedback and people seem excited. We've
got the perennials planted. We'll do annuals

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tonight, so get the course really
looking nice. New turf was put on

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whole two and whole seventeen last week. We've just scrubbed and cleaned everything out

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there in preparation for our guests.
So, Jimmy, is the artificial turf

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ready for some artificial rain? Is
ready for any type of rain we can

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get it. I'll tell you all
right, well, this is going to

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be good. A lot of hard
work goes into this every year. But

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this is a big fundraiser for the
Quantus Grant. That's correct. This does

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this funds all of our giving.
So we'll be preparing to distribute five scholarships

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to areas seniors. Those are each
one thousand dollars. We do Sophomores of

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the Year, so those are one
hundred dollars each. That's just to get

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sophomores thinking about the process of applying
for scholarships. We also recognize eighth graders

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at Central and Madison, so they'll
get a small award. On May thirty

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first, we'll have a special awards
ceremony out at Sooner Junior where we'll invite

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the recipients their families and we'll also
invite Tatiana Naylor and her family and friends

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and Troops six to come enjoy Hamburger
cookout and get games of miniature golf after

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we do our awards presentation. You
see in a few of these celebrations,

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these get better invert. That's right. Certainly today this is our twenty second

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season we're kicking off since we took
over operation out there, and we've enjoyed

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improving the facility every year, getting
it ready for a lot of fun.

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So and looking forward to another season. Well, this is gonna be great.

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It's gonna be great, right,
and I think the weather is going

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to cooperate. Well, Oklahoma,
we'll check it back on that. But

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we're gonna have some fishing coming up
here in a little bit, and we're

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gonna take a little break and we're
gonna go talk about the annual fishing derby

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that everybody looks forward to almost as
much as the golf as well. So

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we'll take his time out and we'll
be right back after these words from Martin's

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born Kneecamp Funeral Home, Tall Grass
Motors at Wesley and Kitty College on K

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one the one you trust. The
first conversation I have with someone's loved one,

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I don't care if it's three o'clock
in the afternoon or three o'clock in

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the morning. That first conversation is, mister X, this is Tim how

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with Arnold Moore and knee Funeral Home. First of all, sir, let

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me say I'm very sorry we're having
to have this conversation right now, and

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to the nth degree, those people
always appreciate you taking a moment to just

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pause and say I'm aware that someone
you care about very much has just left

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you, and I'm sorry that we
have to do this, but we have

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to do this. And if it's
three o'clock in the morning, I try

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to be brief but concise, and
say do you have any questions or anything

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I can do for you right now
before we meet at our arrangement conference.

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And sometimes I say, you know, can you call my priest? Can

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you call my pastor? And I
don't mind doing that. It'll be all

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right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and me Camp Funeral Home,

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seven ten Dewey, Bartlesville. We
will walk through this together. Is

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it time to start thinking about a
new car? But the thought of dealing

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with the large dealerships is just too
intimidating, too confusing. There is an

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easier way tall Grassmotors. Tall Grassmotors
doesn't play all the confusing games a large

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dealerships play. Tall Grassmotors has continually
been voted Bartlesville's best used car dealer year

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after year. Go by tall Grassmotors
today and enjoy looking at over sixty used

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cars, trucks and SUVs. All
prize to save you money. Tall Grass

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Motors Highway seventy five North in Bartlesville. Twesley and Kitty College is now hiring

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for part time positions. Wesley and
Kinney College is a daycare center and as

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a Christian based morals facility. And
their goal is to not only teach children

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academically, but to train them spiritually
in Biblical truth. This is the perfect

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opportunity for high school students who are
looking for a part time job that is

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fulfilling and rewarding. Applicants would need
to apply at seventeen eighty Silver Lake Road

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and Bartlesville. For more information,
called nine one eight three three three eighty

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six thirty and welcome back to our
community connection. We're talking with the Kawanas

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right here Bartlesville, and we've talked
a little bit about sooner junior mini golf,

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and we're going to talk a little
bit more about that a little later

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on. But coming up, we
got a derby, a fishing derby.

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Tell us a little bit about it. Well, that's an annual tradition that

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our Kauanas club has sponsored since nineteen
fifty one, so we are proud to

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continue that and the kids of this
area really enjoy getting out and having a

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fun day and they come out with
their parents and bring their own fishing gear.

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But we provide lots of prizes and
trophies for the winners in each category.

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We've got three categories, starting at
age three and going up through age

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twelve. So we'll have a lot
of fun with that. And we've got

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Scout Troop from let's see which troop
is a Troop six Again, they're helping

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us with measurement on those fish and
report them back to headquarters desks. So

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we're going to have a lot of
fun. That is Saturday morning, the

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thirteenth of May, coming up in
three weeks, and what we're going to

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do this for shell Joe Allen Low
Park. Beautiful beautiful little pod right there

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off Price Room. Yes, and
the city has made a lot of improvements.

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They took some of the trees and
put some new sod down, so

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it's it's really improved, you know, the look, the look of the

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of the park. The registration will
begin at eight thirty. We'll have members

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of our Dewey Key Club there to
help get the kids registered and then they

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can find their spot around the lake
wherever they want to throw their line in.

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Now, this gets packed, doesn't
it. Yes? Sweet Sometimes we'll

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get one hundred, one hundred and
fifty people out there at times, but

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there's plenty room and it's a lot
of fun. Well, you know,

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it's one of those things, so
like you said, it goes back to

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nineteen fifty one. So this is
a generational thing here in Bartlesville, and

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uh, you know, it's something
that families look forward to, especially when

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they get the three year old who's
interested in being rambunctious. And finally we

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can go to the pond, hey, you know, and then it's and

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then it begins, and then it
stays, and then you bring the grand

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kids along until the kids have kids, you know, and then it's great.

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It's a lot of the grandparents that
come out and bring the kids they

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remember fishing when they were kids out
here. Soon it's great and this is

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just a good time for everyone.
What kind of prizes are we looking at

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here? We have all kinds of
for the younger kids, a lot of

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toys and things, but we have
fishing gear to give to the older kids.

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And everybody gets a prized, so
we'll have a bottle of water and

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some kind of prize for everybody.
It's it's a lot of fun, and

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the real prize is catching that fish
you've got. Man, you know the

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kauanas. Does it all tell us
a little bit about the kuanas and what

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it means to a community. I
know, you guys got started back in

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Detroit. Yes, time ago,
a long time, a long time ago,

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fifteen and the Bartlesfook Club has been
in existence since nineteen twenty. So

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yeah, so one hundred and three
years that our clubs has been going.

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We just focus on children. That
is our mission, serving the children of

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the world. So we you know, we start with Sooner Junior that's our

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fundraiser. We moved to the Fishing
Derby in May. During SunFest, we

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have the SunFest show Down, so
that's a miniature golf tournament. We do

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the Fourth of July celebration at Sooner
Park. We do the Christmas Parade,

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we recognize nonprofits in November, just
kind of a day of giving, you

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know, meet the community event.
It's you know, we love the large

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community events, especially the Fourth of
July and the Christmas Parade just bring bringing

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everyone together. And it seems like
we just wrapped up the Christmas Parade.

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Time flies by it. That thing
was huge as past year. That was

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awesome and spectacularly. It seems like
every year we bring more lights, more

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color, and a little bit more
sound to it. I was talking to

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some folks who were along the route, namely Kevin Potter because he was driving

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the Grand Marshall. He says,
I don't think I saw a blank spot.

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Everybody, every piece of that rote
was filled. So that's that's an

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awesome good audience. It's another one. The kids really enjoy going out and

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seeing Santa Claus and all the floats
and lights and here in the Christmas music.

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So it's a lot of fun,
great tradition. Well, and the

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adults who put their floats together in
the competition, they really enjoy it.

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The theme this year is like Christmas
at the movies, so we expect to

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see some great floats. There's a
lot of creativity. Well all right,

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I can't wait. Now let's get
back to as junior mini golf. What

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are the prices? So for an
adult it's six dollars. For senior citizen

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or a teen from the age of
twelve to seventeen, it's five dollars.

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Children six to twelve is four dollars, and then five and under is one

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dollars. It's a bargain. How
do you make money? So, well,

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we are. It's all volunteer.
We don't hire anyone to work.

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You know, the courses we all
put in our time and otherwise we wouldn't

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be able to give away any money, you know, if we had to,

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if we had to pay for labor. We also do parties, so

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these can be birthday parties, corporate
events, church events, family unions.

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The course can be rented for an
hour and a half for sixty dollars,

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two hours seventy five dollars, and
if it's longer than that, it's just

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fifteen dollars for each half hour that
is requested for the course to remain open.

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So we have a compressed time.
What three days, Jim, Friday,

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Saturday, Sunday we're open regular hours
and then we have all the other

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events the other nights a week,
oh wow, or during the day.

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Well, not tell you what that
makes it work? The right, nice

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good, good Strateguerry you got going
on there? Andy, tell us a

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little bit more. Where can we
find out more about Quatas got a great

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website. It's it's in the process
of being a revamped. Yes, oh

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yes, Kyle Marjoram is working to
bring our website up to date. But

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our Facebook page is very current that
we always list our current the speakers,

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upcoming speakers for our meetings. We
meet at tri County Tech. We do

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special speaking engagements the first and third
Wednesdays of each month. If there's a

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fifth Wednesday, we do a social
engagement. We post that on our Facebook

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page also, so I would say
for the most current information, seek out

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our Facebook page. Yes, Juanese
Club of Bartlesville. We've been talking to

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the Kawanas. We've been talking to
Jim Sweeze and Rochelle Wilson. I want

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to thank you both for being here
today. Thank you all right, but

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see out there will be yelling bart
put all. Our program today has been

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brought to you by Wesley and Katie
College also called Grass Motors and Arnold more

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Ncamp Funeral Home right here on K
one, the one you trust