Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome to time now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust, and we're talking Boy Scouts of America and we got
the right stuff in here. How you doing this right? Oh, Je's
great, wonderful be here. Thank you so much for having especial Thanks for
making that journey all the way down the road. Everybody knows where the Boy
Scout Council's right there on up all right down to run. But we've got
a lot of good things going on here. First of all, we do
have a Scouting golf tournament, but we also have a beautiful story to tell
because you provided me with our annual report for twenty twenty two, and this
year has been another banner year for Boy Scouts locally. Yes, yes,
And I want to start off number one. I want to say big thank
you to Unite Away. Unit Away is a great supporter, and we just
want to say thank you to all of our board members, all of our
volunteers. It literally takes a village to keep Scouting a lie even to make
sure that our youth have the best, strongest quality program to grow in this
community. And you know Our golf Torment is part of that process. It
allows us to raise funds so that this fall, I'll go this fall to
get three hundred and six new Scouts, and so to do that it takes
all of us, and golf Terment is one of the ways in which we
start that process of providing funding to help our youth. And so wow,
yeah, three hundred, how many? Three hundred and six? I'll go
with three hundred and sie undred and six? Okay, I know that there
are communities that can't get that in five years. Yes, and we're very
blessed here in Bartlesville because you know, we take care of our Scouts and
the Scouts take care of us. That's right, that's right. We of
course, you got a beautiful year in review. Fourteen recipients of the Supernova
Award. Correct, tell everybody what that's all about. Yeah, So the
Supernova Awards. So a lot of a lot of us have famide with the
Eagle Scout Award. Yeah, at a Scout BSA level and and and these
all teenagers, uh um. But the Supernova UM this one is at the
Cup Scout level. So these are UM fifth graders, uh, these are
fourth graders. Um. That are working and going the extra mile. UM.
They don't just work with a supernova counselor. They have to do projects,
they have to work on science. UM. The percentage of Scouts that
get a supernov um to the print perspective UM. Last year in the state
of Oklahomer less than a hundred cup Scouts received a supernov award. So first
at fourteen in this Council's just amazing and I want to I want to thank
the great leaders uh Becky Rays and her team UM cup Masters d lan Um
Uh that really came in and took the supernova program and gave the Scouts the
opportunity to earn and work and continue to work on the require means that again
because it's a lot of work, it's a lot of sacrifice. The parents
have to help and UM. But once she achieved it, it is It
is one of the highest honors for a Cup Scott of weed Blow Scott at
this level to earn. Philip, you also did something that's really outstanding too.
You began your sustainability and recycling initiative. Oh yes, and you guys
want a big award for that. We did, We did, we did.
Uh been Country Nonprofit of the Year last year. UM. Uh.
And again it takes a team. We have a wonderful team. UM.
It was about it, probably about eighteen months ago that one of our staff
member, Stephanie Cook, came nothing said hey, look we you know we're
teaching sustainability. Um, what can we do to to to project that and
do more? And so um from small meetings, we basically not have two
recycling centers, one here on Quapa and then one at Kemmi Clintock. And
we went from basically recycling and recyclings a lifestyle us you know, UM our
staff meetings or paperleists. You know, we we we we try our best
to reduce our waste. UM. We went from basically zero recycling to everything
about two or three sacks, those big sacks per week. And so it's
the community coming together and and uh finding ways to be uh to to reduce
our waste. Uh and and to conserve and and uh. Um it's a
lifestyle. Some other things I'm reading here because I'm not sure. I don't
know, I know the h the jargon. UH. The Council was the
first in a market share with NST eight with three point three nine percent of
available youth Northeast Oklahoma where the standard is two percent. What does NST stand
for? Yeah, that's our National Service territory Okay, yeah, there are
sixteen of them across the United States. And I was a NST eight.
That's Service Ortory eight, which covers all of Oklahoma, Arkansas and then part
of Texas North Texas. So we have in our territory. We also have
like Dallas, which is circled ten so for us to have a market share,
um, Dallas. Yes, wow, yeah, yeah, I knew
that there was something big in there, and thank you for finding that one
for also top ten percent in ethnic diversity correct area too, correct as a
moustone and uh, we have this great leadership. Our goal as a council
is to go to every community and and and give every commune opportunity to be
in scouting and so um, you know we have a great team of leaders,
uh scout Masters and cup Masters and and they're volunteers as well. And
so with training, um, we continue to push the envelope to go into
more and more communities. And you have a repeat here with the highest female
diversity correct. Yes, yeah, we're very very proud of as a matter
of fact. Tonight it's our annual council UH banquet and we have sixteen Eagle
Scouts that earned the rank of Eagle Scouts, Yes, and UH two of
our female We're very proud of all of our Eagle Scouts. Now we have
three female legal Scouts in the council and UH female diversity along with ECNO diversity
again, continue to continue to bring Scouting to more youth in our communities.
Now you're a scholarship program or something else too, that's a big Oh.
Extremely proud of our scultarship program. Again, the community helping and UH it
takes all of us and UH this year at the Natural Jamboree and we have
eighteen Scouts and parents going to the jamboree, and we're very proud of the
fact that over eighteen thousand dollars was raised for UM scholarships for for our youth
to go to jamboree, which is a very UM expensive but very worthwhile.
Oh. Yeah, I beent you that you'll remember for the rest of your
life as you will. I'm going to tell you what. We're going to
take a little bit of a break here and we're gonna tie it up dare
I say that tee it up here in just a moment here as we talk
about the big golf tournament coming our way to help the Boy Scouts of America
right here in Bartlesville and in our area, to keep going on the path
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of It. We will walk through this together. Okay. One news time
is eight forty two. It's community connection right here on K one and we're
talking with Philip right here from the Cherokee Airing a Council Boy Scouncil of America.
We told you the big success story of this past year. But we
got to keep these successes going and we need a little help. And when
we ask for help, we also asked that you have a little fun.
But you got you gotta cooked that beer hose. So so while we have
an annual golf tournament, special thank you to the team. Um. We've
got Howard Dale, We've got Mark will Burne, We've got Tiffany Cook,
John mim Um, just just a great group of volunteers, and and uh,
this golf tournament is going to be on Friday, June a second,
um at Adams Municipal Golf Course. Um, we're gonna have our opening and
lunch at eleven thirty and then shotguns start at one pm. Oh wow,
this is great. Now I understand it's a four person scramble, no hendy
kaff restrictions, and uh wow, this is gonna be This is gonna be
cool. One hundred and thirty five daughter is a player. That's right.
That's that's pretty darn good. It's a great investment too, that's right.
Include green and cart and range involved in lunch, drank them some prizes.
Uh, come and have fun, come and join us. On top of
that, you get a little drawing and a holding one contest. Anybody ever
knock a holding one in your tournament? Yet not yet? Not yet,
still waiting, it's still waiting. Still wait at least one the last five
years. Place not in the last five years. Well, you know,
watch out, jim courage is good for knocking one in, so we might
get You have to recruit Jimmy to be involved with this. But this is
great, this is really great. We're still taking sponsorships. They get a
hold of you have to be a sponsor. Yeah, just just call the
Council Service center nine eight three three six nine one seven zero. UM,
come to our website. UM, sign up on our website. UM and
UM. Wait just to calls at the office and I'll go to our website.
Okay, and I forgot one thing here because you know, I just
go nuts for nuts and you've got a thing going with the Miller Company these
days. To tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, so UM.
So this fall, UM, we have our milpy con um Um program
for fundraising, which is part of the fall product sales. So we have
we have the popcorn program. We also have the Mility Conference, which is
a local company right here in Oklahoma, and so we're very proud of it.
Last year was our first year doing it, so UM and especially with
Thanksgiving and the fall and all that, we just know that it's a very
good product. And then we also have our calendar. We have a Coundar
program that we we're adding to it which allows for the Scouts to earn more
commission with the counter program because the local program. But we're just excited about
our product mix for this fall and again allows our youth to help earn their
way as well. And then that's probably one of the values in Scouting um
is that you're earning your way and that's a lesson that you'll care for the
rest of your life. I don't want it develops a confidence, develops,
a you know, great great deal of interpersonal skills and things like that.
So you know, you guys are on such a hot streak. We have
a great board. We have a great board and great staff and uh,
you know, and a great community and we want to thank everybody and thank
you not a way again and all of our board members and our volunteers because
it's amazing. We look at the longevity about Scout Masters, the longer about
cup Masters and UH and what they bring, the quality of programming that they're
bringing back, and just the support of the community on the board and our
team. Our staff have a great staff, and that's what makes you know,
Bartslis a wonderful place to live in and for while you have to grow
into all right, man, thank you very much, and go to the
website too, and you can register for the golf A Classic right there.
That's Cherokee BSA dot dot org, Cherokee BSA dot org. Take it right
there. Thank you, Hey, thanks for making the trip. Thank you,
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