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And welcome, Welcome, welcome in. It's had time now for our one.

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I'm sorry it's starting out for communic
connection with okam. How you doing,

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Mary Lynn. I'm a little bit
frazzled here today, but it's nice

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to have your calm reassuringself in here
with me. You're here, we're here,

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We're ready for tuber fess. It's
better be because it's only a couple

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of days away, I know,
and through five hundred different weather cycles,

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it looks like it's going to be
beautiful. I have sixty six super sunny

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is what the weather forecast was this
morning, and I think it's going to

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be lovely. So it should be
good beer drinking, good braught, eating

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good bunt cake, apple strudle,
you name it, we got it.

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Oh, game playing and all that
good stuff. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

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you're looking at the dynamic crisp but
fall weather here, it's really going

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to be absolutely It's going to be
on Dewey between fourth and fifth Street,

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right in front of our office,
just like that has been for the last

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couple of years, three to nine
on Saturday. So we will all be

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there. We hope everybody will come
join us. We have two tents,

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so lots of seating. We have
three bands, Mack Schnell, Blas Capella,

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and King Cabbage. To finish it
off, we have the German American

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Society Dancers, so we're super excited
about those guys. If you like the

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Chicken dance, you have to come
out and do the Chicken dance. If

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you don't like the Chicken dance,
they'll make you come do some polka and

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you'll learn how to do that.
It's lots of fun. We have games

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out the wazoo. We have corn
fun. Yes, we have cornhole,

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acts, throwing, root beer pong, giant Game of Life, pot put

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goff, the Zoo Fall, which
is like a cake walk. Those are

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all family friendly because this is,
after all, the fan venturous Octoberfest of

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Oklahoma. We are very family friendly. Then for kids, we have schlute

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bags, jumpy houses, wooden woodland, animal painting, Shrinky Dink art,

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ceramic pumpkin painting, giant duck pick, and we hope we'll have face painting.

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It's a little bit undecided, but
she's she's had I guess the flu,

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and so we'll see if she's okay
in time. Obviously we don't want

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her anywhere near any of us if
she's not feeling good. By the way,

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thanks for sending me that picture of
the Shaluti bag because im trying to

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imagine this. That looks pretty darn
handy. Yes, it's a cone shape

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bag typically in Germany, filled with
all kinds of school supplies. Ours is

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a little bit more Carrey friendly.
It's a little nice bag with a handle

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and the kids get to put things
in there like erasers, pencils, temporary

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tattoos. They have stickers, they
have candy, there's all kinds of good

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stuff. That's as it is fun
and the good news is kids twelve and

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underget in free. People can go
to okayamusic dot org click on the Octoberfest

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link. It's both on the slider
screen on the front page. It's at

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the top. All they need to
do is click on there. They can

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buy their tickets in advance. It'll
just speed up the check in process,

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so super super easy. Yeah,
we got some games for adults too.

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We do have games for adults.
We have a Hummer slogin and then of

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course the Zoo Fall again is really
family friendly. We have the beer Stein

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Relay competition and then the Beerstein Competition. Relay, you just need to get

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four people, so three of your
best friends and yourself could be family members.

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You're going to do relay, just
have to be twenty one and older.

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And then the Beerstein competition is the
one that everyone anticipates where they have

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to hold the one leader Stein of
beer and not spill any can't binger arm.

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There's all these rules and the winner
will get one hundred dollars in cash,

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so you can't go wrong with that. The relay team gets two hundred

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dollars in cash. They get to
split it, so not too bad,

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and a fun Octoberfessed T shirt.
There you get one of a kind collectors

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absolutely IMC and it's somebody I know. It's somebody we both know. I

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know. We revealed that last week. We wanted to give a big shout

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out to Bartlesville Radio and our very
own Tammy Brink. Mandy is on the

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board and she will again be our
MC. She always makes it super fun

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and she gets everyone to play the
games and so it makes it a hooped.

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She has a lot of what it's
gonna be great. Yeah, no,

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you know you're talking about some of
the food that we're going to have

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here, yes, you know,
and I see Prices Mark met Market.

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It's going to be involved. See
I'm salivating already. Yes, Prices book

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Market, who brings all the wonderful
brats and Knockwurst and all the different typical

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German food. We have nothing but
cakes. We have Frey Meat to Heaven

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who does like a fried cheesecake,
which is pretty cool. The Noodle Truck

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which has the most amazing Macaranie cheese
ever, Tats tater Truck, who I

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hear is just super super popular,
and barbas Are everyone loves their potatoes,

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and she also has nachos. We
have the ok Who's which is us?

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And we have the apple strudle,
so come get your apple strudle. And

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then we also have freeze dried candy, which I hear is like super popular

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with the kids, tea, teenagers, young people. All of the interns

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that work for me during the festival
couldn't get enough of the freeze dried candy

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at SunFest. Okay, now I
got to get into the loop here because

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I'm listening something. So we got
to do the freeze riede candy. I

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gotta I gotta taste test. Yes, you've got to come out and try

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it. I'll let you all know. Apparently there's all kinds of left over

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like skittles that are freeze dried.
Really yes, wow, I know it's

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super cool. And then of course
it's it's I don't think it's cold,

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it's just freeze driede gotcha. The
beer and wine, of course, is

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always an important popular thing at Octoberfest. Ele We have palace rooms who will

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be serving the wine and of course
pretzels. We have Scissor Tail Brewing Company,

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Fat Toed Brewing Company and our very
own local Cooper and Mill, which

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we're very pleased to have, and
they will all have wonderful delicious beers that

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they have broods specifically for Octoberfest.
So yay, yay that from right down

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the street exactly the very very exciting
and of course they will help us play

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all the games. They'll be filling
all those big one leader steins, so

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you can't go wrong, Tom,
you can't, you can't. You know.

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It's nice. So we get our
local people that are involved with this

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too. They have just as much
fun as OK does. Absolutely we keep

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coming back. We have over fifty
volunteers, and of course there is still

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time to sign up. If you
want to volunteers, just go to the

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okmusic dot org page. If again
you click on Octoberfest, you'll see a

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link to volunteers. We have a
few spots left. Why would you want

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to volunteer? Well, Number one, it's the nice thing to do.

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It's a way to make a difference
in your community. It's fun. It's

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fun, it's a way to make
new friends. And we give you a

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free food voucher so you get in
free. You'll also get to eat for

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free, so you can't really go
wrong in that. So come on out

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and help us. Okay, Oh, this is going to be a lot

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of fun. Now, we have
some great sponsors, and I see that

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DSR is one of our big ones. DSR is our huge sponsor. Talked

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about that a little bit with Nathan
last time I was here. Of course,

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we could never replace John Bond and
all that he did for the Bartlesville

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community, but we are so blessed
and so grateful to have DSR be our

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big corporate sponsor for this event.
They are also our big corporate sponsor for

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Chris Kendle Market, which is also
coming up November eleventh and twelfth, and

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so a huge shout out to DSR
and a huge shout out to John and

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just saying thank you for all that
you did for our community and for OKAM

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music. John's gift for yes,
absolutely his legacy most definitely will and so

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that's why we want to honor him. And we are very excited to be

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able to do that and very proud
to be able to do that. Oh,

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very very good, very very good. Now this is this seems like

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there's just so much going on here, and we're going to fit this in

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in four hours. We're going to
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I've seen things kind of go but
that that can happen. That can

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happen. But it's always a good
time and it's always a lot of fun.

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And except for maybe one year,
every time the weather has been picture

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perfect I can remember. It's you
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rained a few times and then stopped
right before the event. We've had a

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little bit of wind occasionally. Last
year was a little windy. But this

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year, knock on wood, seriously, knock on wood. I think it's

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going to be a beautiful evening.
So we invite people to come out again.

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Where on Saturday, October seventh,
three to nine pm between fourth and

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fifth Street on Dewey if you don't
know where that is. We're right next

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to the RSU building downtown Bartlesville.
And it seems like the TV stations from

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Tulsa like to come up and take
a look, see, don't they every

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once in a while. How you
doing exactly? So be prepared you might

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get to be on TV and you
can also come out and hopefully, depending

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on what's going on at the Capitol, you might get to see Senator Daniels

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out there, ask her what's going
on. Representative Kane, and thank them

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for all that they do. They
are a huge supporter of the arts.

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We are very grateful to them.
They help us secure funding and help let

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the legislators know that the arts are
extremely important to all communities throughout Oklahoma.

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So thank you to both of them. Now, ok music is a very

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beautiful facet of our community because our
community is just a big like a fabric

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here that's all woven together here.
But this is this is something that's really

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kind of magical. Now we do
the festival each and every year and those

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go off and it's just splendid but
year round we have fun and we kind

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of remind ourselves that the festival is
not exactly free. We have to kind

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of maintain what we're doing not only
for entertainment, but all for our education

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for our kids too, and that's
why we have fun events like october Fest,

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like Chris Kindlemarket and a few others
along the way to kind of keep

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it a top of mind that we
got to take care of this correct.

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It is a fundraiser for us,
So of course we appreciate everyone who comes

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out and supports Octoberfest, supports the
art, supports, supports OKM, because

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all the funding does go for children's
programming for educational purposes as well as the

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festival programming that we bring. And
you know, we try very hard to

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give back to the community. So
that's why children twelve and under are free.

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Children are free at the festival,
Children twelve and under are free at

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Chris Kendall, and so we really
do try to give Most of the games

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are also free, and the act
all of the crafts are free for the

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kids at Octoberfest. So again it's
a way to give back to our families

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and we thank them for spending their
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education is extremely important. You know, think about a world of silence with

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no Mo's art or no you know, country music or no theme to Jaws

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if if you did have music,
you know, and and it is very

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important. And the cultural aspects of
learning about other countries, I think is

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also equally important. And so this
is a way for children to get introduced

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to that in a fun way.
You don't even know that you're maybe being

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educated, you're just experiencing something really
fun. And we hope it's also a

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unique way for those in Bartlesviield to
get you introduced a little bit into polka

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dancing, into the German Verian traditions. It's just a it's a special date

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and so we welcome everyone to come
out and participate in that. It is

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a lot of fun. Yeah,
I will tell you. Growing up near

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Chicago, I got introduced to all
that different cultures pretty quick because people were

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inter marrying into different families for like
one generation off the boat. And now

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to see this kind of all right
here on one city block, it's really

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a neat thing. It kind of
brings back so many good memories of being

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a kid and just all the fun
that way music is awesome, so I

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can take it. You're going to
be out there, Tom, You're going

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to join us. Awesome, you
know, excellent for the world. I

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want to thank you for being here
with this, and I want to thank

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everybody at OKAM for all their hard
work. Thanks. And not only are

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the great friends in our community,
are the people we know, and they

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are people who care about our community
too, and they just do such an

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awesome job everything from the interns of
the volunteers they do folks who will do

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all the wheeling and dealing. We
could not do it without them. So

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please come by. Say hi to
the staff, Say hi to Rose who

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will be at children's programming, and
thank you again to Bartlesviell Radio for supporting

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us. Mary Lynn, always a
pleasure. Don't make it so long next

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time, Okay, I won't,
alrighty? Thanks who has been listening to community Connections