Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection. And joining me today is Sherry
Wilton with the Martblesville Chamber of Commerce Greater Martlesville Area Chamber of Commerce. If
we want to be specific, because you number an area, big area there.
How are you doing today? Doing good? Doing good? Looking forward
to a new month. I am it's going to be a busy month April,
and no fool and you're going to be busy. We are going to
be busy, and it's gonna be warmer weather. It's finally for a change,
it'll stay warm. We get these period we get I can't figure out
if it's sprinter or wing. That's good exactly. It's like we go from
eighty to fifty and yeah, and some days we go from freezing to eighty
five in the same the same day. That's such a welcome to bartles Bell.
But that only happens in the spring and fall, the winter, in
the and the I'm pretty pretty concert yeah, pretty constant. Well we have
cooking well, let's see, we've got lots. This next Friday, we
have partnered with the Young Professionals of Bartlesville who fall under our umbrella, and
I'm real excited about this event. It's the first it's an inaugural event for
emerging Stars under forty and they're going to be honoring or we're going to be
honoring together ten different individuals in the community who are under the age of forty,
who are leaders in the community, have given back to the community,
and it's just I'm real excited about the event. It is. Yesterday she
said they had like ten tickets left, so it's it's a yeah, like
a I almost sold out event. And I was really excited that the response
they got. Of course they put it on you know with social media and
everything too, but you know, I told them you're probably not gonna get
that many nominations. People just don't seem to nominate, and by gosh,
they got I think it was over sixty. And then they were sent some
paper, you know, form to fill out and we got four nine of
them back. So the selection committee had a really tough tough time. But
the goal was, you know, I've wanted to do this for probably three
four five years, been rolling around in my head. I wanted to do
this because you know, at our annual awards in Galen May. You know,
we owned just a few people, and there's so many up and coming,
really strong younger folks in our community and they're gonna be the ones taking
the helm, they're gonna be the ones, you know, going to be
leading, and just wanted to, you know, have a chance for them
to be honored. So there's ten great candidates and there's probably well they were
all really good, but I mean it got down to it was just really
hard on the selection committee. I mean there was about six that we had
to cut that we were all just dying. It's like no, I mean
we only have ten. So anyhow, so that we're excited about that.
That is next Friday night, and just really excited to honor some folks.
And then April fourth is our next business after ours always the first Thursday of
the month, and it's gonna be at Hillcrest Country Club. So that's why
a good one. They always have great food, great drinks, and just
a really good time to connect with some other businesses, meet some folks,
and so come out for that. It's free for our members, or if
you want to just come as a guest, you're more than welcome just to
kind of come check it out and see what the Chamber's about, talk to
some of us, and we'd love to love to have you. And then
April tenth is our I don't know how many years we've been doing this,
but it's a long time. It's our Bartleswiel Day at the Capitol and we
runt a charter bus and we take our leadership Bartlesville group as well as some
other chamber members down to the capital and spend the day down there. We
have most of the top leadership. Unfortunately Mett Panel, who's one of our
favorite speakers, is out of town that day, but we do have the
governor and just a lineup of some of the top leadership coming in and they
come to our group, they speak to our group, we have lunch with
our legislators, and just this is a really good day. So if anyone
is interested in that, we still have some seats left on the bus.
And like I said, it's a charter bus. We're not going down there
on a school bus. It's a very nice, nice bus. Yes,
it's it's great. We stop at midway on the way there, and anyhow,
we have lunch while we're there, and it's just a really good day,
So if anyone is interested in that once again, it can be found
at Bartlesfield dot com can register for that. It's sixty dollars and includes transportation
and lunch and all the different things that come with it. So and then
in April seventeenth, seven days later, is our last Women of our Women
in Business luncheon for the year. We kind of close it down starting in
May for the summer, and then we'll kick back up back in the fall.
But summer just just kind of kind of a crazy time. But I'm
really excited about the topic. It's Anna Erwin, who we've had before.
It's been several years, but she is going to be talking on Boost your
Conversation IQ. And as you know, so many of us communicate via email,
text, God help us with social media, but you know, it
seems like so much communication happens that way, and really, you know,
your relationships are really form more the good relationships are formed with actual conversation,
face to face, talking to people, and so it's gonna be interactive,
it's going to be engaging. She's a she's a good speaker, so we're
excited about that. And that is, like I said, April seventeenth.
That's at Hillcrest Country Club and it's just a way for our women to get
together and just make connections, meet each other and then some professional development or
just some motivational type you know speakers. Last month was really interesting. She
was really really good. It was just so motivational. But so anyhow,
that is April seventeenth, So can we take a quick break. I was
just going to ask you do we need to take a break, because I
keep going we do. We need to make an announcement here, folks.
It's been an accident, a five car accident that Bison Road, no water
road. You're asked to avoid the area for the time being. We'll let
you know when it gets a little better. So here we go once again.
It's a five car accident at Bison and no water roads. Avoid the
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We're back with our community connection Sherry Wilt, and we were talking about
chamber events coming. We got about halfway through the month event we did Lot's
going on in April, busy Spring. We do have another event that's designed
for our members and it's a small event by design, and it's called speed
Networking. I always say it's like speed dating, not that I've ever speed
dated, but it's it's usually about I don't know, fifteen to twenty,
but they go around and they all introduce themselves to each other and by the
end of the night, everyone's laughing and carrying on. And it's from four
to five, so it's just a great way to endure day. But some
really good connections. There's really fun stories that have come out of that of
businesses that have connected with each other. And that's the whole point. And
I always tell people it's same thing with business after hours. You may meet
someone at after hours and you may not need the service or whatever it is
they do, but later on you may you know, your your aunt needs
something or you know, and you can oh, you know somebody, you
know, family member, whatever, and you're like, oh, I need
I met so and so you ought to call you know them, and give
them a shout and see what they can do. So it's all about,
you know, making the connections and trying to give our members who are looking
for that those opportunities. So both of those are free events, and like
I said, speed networking is that from four to five, it's at the
chamber and it's just a fun way to kind of end your day. And
then we end the month with a pretty big event and it is our classic
golf tournament. There are always lots of work, but this is out at
Hillcrest Country Club, so it does give folks who aren't necessarily a member or
chance to play at the club. And I always tell people this is our
only really true blatant fundraiser because everything we do is not it's for there's a
purpose, it meets a goal for members, but this one pretty much.
I mean, you can network on the golf course, of course, but
it's a fundraiser for our maintenance fund. And we are housed if you don't
realize, in the train depot downtown and it was built in nineteen oh nine,
so anytime there are issues, maintenance issues, they're never cheap to fix
or islam a major expense type thing. So and every year I think we're
going to skate by and not have something, and every year it's something.
So anyhow, the funds raised from that tournament go to support, you know,
maintaining the land. People also don't realize that that park that's right there
with the gazebo the south south of the chamber. You know, we maintain
all of that whole area from the lower Christmas of the villa is from the
south park all the way to that parking lot and it's just a lot.
And we want to keep the integrity of the building and you know, really
keep up with the land. And we like having the green space down there.
People like to use it Farmer's Market. We let them use it all
summer fall and it's just it's great, you know, for the community.
But it does take money to upkeep all that. So anyhow, so that
is a tournament, a golf tournament April twenty fifth, like I said,
at Hillcress Country Club, and we would love to have you play. You
can play solo or you can get your own team together. It's one twenty
five to play or five hundred and four team. So we would love to
have people come out for that and you can find out more at the website,
as all of these events are listed on our website Bartlesville dot com.
Also check out our website if you are interested or curious about, you know,
mission of the Chamber. Some of you know what we do, what
our programs are. Just it's all the informations on there. It's pretty pretty
easy to use. I'm not a real techy person and to me, I
can navigate pretty well around it. So and I really don't say there you
go, So it's it's a it's user friendly, I guess that's the corrector.
It's user friendly, but it gives a lot of information and we would
love to talk to anyone who's interested in joining. We have right now seven
hundred and shoots. I had boardmanting yesterday seven seventy two. I think members
in the community some you know, most of our businesses, but we do
have some individuals. We have a lot of nonprofits, so it's just a
variety of businesses. You know, from the one man, one person shop
to you know, major corporations, so it's just a real mix of businesses
and we all unite to try to enhance quality of life, work on things
like that. For Bartlesville, and you do a great job. We're really
blessed to be here and really blessed to have your organization kind of kind of
coordinating a lot of different things that go along. How's that book doing,
The one you put together every year comes out at the first of the year.
You've got an elect I imagine a lot of them went out. Oh
yeah, we did deliver our community as a twenty twenty four community guide,
and yes we have some. I mean we print purposely so that we can
give them out throughout the year. They're designed specifically for newcomers to the community,
and it's a great selling piece for the community. So I always encourage
if you have anyone, you know, friend, family that's thinking about moving
here or has moved here it stop by the chamber and get one. They're
free. It's one hundred and twenty I think it's a hundred and twenty page
book. Then it's full color. But it gives all sorts of information about
Bartlesville. I mean, it's very comprehensive, and you know, it's really
good books, So you got to see it to really appreciate it. It's
a mixture of the old fashioned YELP pages with the nice glossy pictures about everything
that's going on maps and you know where to find, how to get to
and all that. And when with all these folks coming in from Blue Whale,
ABB and the new electric company it's Lincoln, Lincoln, it's coming into
town too. I imagine a few of those have gone elsewhere. Yes,
we're excited to get some some new folks in town. And the expansions that
are going on, the ABB expansion, just there's some good things happening.
So it's a good time to good time to be in Bartlesville. And just
remember, folks, if you were listening long distance today online and you're trying
to get a fix on what Bartlesville is all about with the chamber, Christmas
in the vill is pretty dark cool, thank you. I just signed the
contract for next year, so well, a couple of weeks ago, before
spring break. I signed it and sent it off, So we're locked in
for this coming year. You don't let anything get passion well, you know,
I sat on that one for a while. But we're opening earlier,
so of course the price went up, so I was like, oh,
this is killing me. But we're going to open November weekends, not November
Thanksgiving weekend, on that Saturday after Thanksgiving. So yeah, we're going to
open a little bit earlier and give people a little bit more time and just
we're curious to try that. So all right, we'll see how that flies.
Yeah, I think it'll be good. Actually, all right, he
surey. Thank you for being here as always, absolutely we appreciate y'all.
Have a great holiday weekend you too. Happy Easter, al right, Happy
Easter eggs everybody. We've got more coming up right here on K one.
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