Good Bundy, good Mornny, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
in his time. Now for our community connection right here on K one,
the one you trust. Hey, we've got Sherry Wilton the house. How
are we doing, miss Sherry? I am great? How are you?
I'm grand? Thank you very much after fresh Alpha, big weekend, and
I know you are too. I am Alrighty. We got a lot going
on here as we close out the month to get into another one. Yes,
May, we're closing out. I cannot believe it is almost June.
Two days. It's unbelievable. But yeah, we're gonna kick off. I
know, I'm still kind of in March, actually, but here were I
know, I know, I know. Although this has been perfect, no
humidity, I mean, it's just been great weather, love it, love
it. But anyhow, so yes, June kicks off and we kick off
actually June the first our Leadership Bartlesfield program. The application process opens up,
so if anyone is interested in more information about that, you can find that
at Bartlesfield dot com. And there's an application, an interview process. But
it is a wonderful program designed to take a select there's usually twenty five maybe
twenty seven issuares class with twenty seven individuals and they go through each month they
take a different part of our community, whether it's community services, whether it's
our city services, healthcare, education, and they dive deep into all the
different things that make up our community. It's just it's very very interesting.
They get to see a lot of things that most people don't see, meeting
with the leaders, community leaders in the in the community and hear firsthand about
different aspects of our community. With the design the goal to be when they
are done, they'll know very in depth about our community, but be able
to go out and volunteer, be able to serve our community with that wealth
of knowledge. So it sparked a lot of interest in people. Some turn
around they want to serve on a city committee. Some turn around they find
a nonprofit because we weave those through the program that they'd like to be involved
in. So anyhow, it's it's a great program and um, like I
said, the applications open up June the first, they'll close June thirtieth or
July one, and the class will start in August with the welcome reception and
orientation and they kick off and meet once a month, so it's all day
out of the office on one day or once one day out of a month.
So um Anya, it's a commitment, but it is. It's a
wonderful program. We love it. It speaks volumes because you know, every
class we've had just been stellar. It's there are great people going through and
it's always foe. Whenever we're an event and I like promote leadership, Bards
will always ask, you know, raise your hand or stand up if you've
been a graduate of Leadership Bards one. That's always fun because you know half
the room will stand up. So it's you're doing a great great group of
alumni. But UM and then UM. So that opens up June first,
and then next week it's gonna be a very busy week for us. A
week from today actually is our annual awards in Gala. It's our hundred nineteenth,
which is so weird to think about one hundred nineteen UM annual meetings that
they've had. UM and this is going to be held at the Hilton Garden
in there's a reception from six to six thirty and then the dinner doors open
at six thirty and it is just a really fun evening, inspirational Leadership Bartleswell
Graduate Satday evening. We hear from our young professionals, we hear from our
incoming and outgoing Chairman of the Chamber on the Chamber Board, and then we
do community Awards. We honor several businesses and several individuals in our community.
Outstanding Citizen, a couple of awards that are named after people that have passed
Tom's Shoemake and Ernie McKenna Award and anyhow, just we've got some great winners.
It's a really fun We try to keep them a surprise. We have
a Frank Phillips Award and then the Small Business of the Year and Business of
the Year. So just a very fun evening, very inspirationally as you hear
about the different individuals and businesses and things like that. So that is at
like I said, June the six next Tuesday at Hilton Garden in So information
if you want tickets for that can be found at Bartlesweld dot com as well.
That is the big That is a biggie, that's our biggest event of
the year. Yeah, there's a lot that goes into that event. Um,
a lot of logistics, a lot of behind the scenes, a lot
of Um, just a lot of logistics because like I said, we try
to keep the awards a surprise. Some people may kind of wonder, but
um, and just trying to get you know, their family, their friends
there without them knowing and just I mean that's kind of fun. But it's
there's a lot of logistics that go into it, a lot of script writing,
um, you know, because the presentations and anyhow. It's just a
lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. A lot of people
think we just make that stuff up. We skept there and wing it.
Well, so we do not wing it even I don't do that when I'm
doing things like that. There's a script there for a reason, for a
reason. And yes, so it's it's a well run, it runs smoothly.
It's it's um, it's a it's a fun evening, but lots of
our goes into it, and it is our biggest event of the year.
So UM, we encourage, um, anyone who's interested, we'd love to
have you attend and enjoy the evening. Hey, do we have any business
after hour coming up? We do, um to that. Well, this
Thursday, I've been on vacation. Um, I'm gonna get back. I
know it's so fun. Um. Yes, So we have this apter houris
June the first, which is this Thursday, um, and it is at
Cliff's Design House and that will be a fun one. Um. They have
done a wonderful renovation of that building. It um, but it'll be a
great way to showcase what all they've done to that building. If they're in
the old Cooper Harrington building, took down that blue awning metal whatever. Anyhow,
they've just really done a great renovation of that. And um, that
street's looking great. Um. What is that Dowey Dowey? Yes, Um,
anyhow, it's really looking good of it is it really is right across
the street. There's some things happening. So anyhow, that will be our
business after hours from four to seven or not four to seven, four to
five ish. Um. People are more than welcome to stay after that,
but a lot of people like to get home at five. But it's great
way to injure day free event for our members. We always invite guests to
attend if they'd like to just kind of check it out, check the chamber
out. We'd love to have you. But we're looking forward to that.
One should be a good one. All right, dad, that is just
absolutely grand. Now, you know, you've come off a busy bunch of
deals. Everybody to the state capitol to see how things come to a standstill,
I mean, no work. It's amazing how they got a deal done.
But yeah, yeah, it's to think about forty eight down to the
capital. I think it was this year. I understand that they got treated
pretty well, and they did. We saw all the top brass m They
all came to our to our meeting room and met with US governor, Lieutenant
governor, Supreme Court, um speak of the house. Who I'm missing somebody
else anyhow? That seems ages ago now, but yeah, they all came.
We heard from our local delegation, had lunch with them, and then
we got to go out on the house and send it in the gallery.
We were induced and just watched a little bit of the action, which has
always fun um. Its acoustics are so bad though, it's hard to really
hear a bit. Yeah, I someone would get a really dicey bill and
get really spicy debate, and there was a little there was debate going on,
but it wasn't was It was all cordial. It was very cordial.
Yes, but but it was fun just to see the process a lot of
people. It's always amazing how people have never been to our state capital.
Probably half our group had never actually been in the state capital, and most
of them, there's a few exceptions, had not seen the renovation. So
it's a big difference from when it was, you know, before and the
renovation. It is an absolutely gorgeous building. Night yeah, night and day
difference. Um, and now they find this is the first year and I
think three or four years finally you know, everything's done, the artworks.
I mean, I look like everything was done, but the artwork was back
up last year we went, but the artwork wasn't up. And that's just
what makes it so it just so so so beautiful, so rich with history
and everything. Now, speaking of that, do we have a wrap up?
That's what I just we're on the same same line there, Yes,
excuse me. Now session is over. We have a legislative wrap up two
days after our annual gala on June the eighth, and that is our last
in our series forum series. We have a forum series every year where we
have six different kind of more major speakers come in and we always end our
year with a legislative wrap up one with our local delegation. So we'll have
Senator Daniels and Representatives Straw and Cane and kind of give a wrap up,
kind of behind the scenes, what happened, what didn't happen, what may
be on the agenda maybe for next year that they're still working on. But
it's always interesting and there will be time for Q and A as well.
So that is going to be actually hosted by Tri County Tech at Tri County
Tech in their Events Center, and that's a nice place. It is I
really like, We enjoy working with them, do a great job, very
easy to work with them. And it's a noon so eleven thirty to one.
Buffet line will open at eleven thirty and then the program starts at noon.
So should we should be interesting? I think they're thankful for Yeah,
they don't to get up so early. Well, every little community all of
a sudden stole that from you, you know, hopefully from us. But
but yeah, most chambers do that. They want it, they wanted.
One of our goals is to give our members access and direct access to our
local leaders um locally as well as statewide and federally. That's why we bring
in Um, you know, we had Josh ber King, our congressman here,
our new congressman um in May as well. Um, he does know
a lot of words. Um. We're working with Senator Langford's office, Senator
Mullin's office to get them next year with our new year. Our new year
starts July the first, so new fiscal years. So anyhow, UM,
you know, that's one of our goals is to give our members direct access
to to leadership, like I said, whether it's local, statewide, or
federal. Um. And I love that these guys always, our leaders always
opened up for Q and A, which is because you never know what you're
gonna get, you know, And um, they're they're always very willing to
do that. And I appreciate that there are communities across the plain where I
work where that didn't happen. Yeah, well I'm done, thank you,
good night. I need to track and but then no, they're very personable
and they'll tell you everything that you know you want to know, and they're
very open and I really appreciate that, and of course given them a great
form like that, that's wonderful for the chamber. You had a golf out
recently here we did and the weather was great. Who we were there.
It's like the one day and we don't want rain. The only day I
didn't want rain because we want rain. This weekend with SunFest, everybody go
out and support SunFest. Great. I mean, gosh, what year is
this for them? Thirty forty Oh my gosh, okay, yeah forty one.
Um, so everybody go out Center Park this weekend. But yes,
we had a great golf tournament UM out at Hillcrest and uh, that's a
that's a really only one. We don't do fundraisers. We don't do.
I mean the events we have have a purpose, have a goal to them.
Yeah, I will say the tournament at Hillcrest is, I'll blatantly say
it. It's a fundraiser, but it's for our depot um our maintenance.
Keeping up with that um every year. I always whenever i'm budgeting, which
I'm working on right now, it's like, oh gosh, what do I
put in the maintenance line? You know, because you just yeah, no
idea. Last year we were digging up our jackhammering the what we weren't but
we were watching people jackhammer our conference room FLOORA part of it so we could
redo piping for the plumbing that's you know from nineteen o nine and um,
so you just never know what surprises are going to hit you. And we're
really story building. Yeah, you know you're going to get surprised, and
we want to be a good steward of the building and take good care of
it. And it's just there's just a lot of maintenance. People don't realize.
We own from that South park where the gazebo area is, you know,
all the way to the North Park kind of where we do the ice
rink. Um. So it's just a lot to keep up with. And
so um that that golf tournament was was fun. We had twenty two teams
I think, and yeah, it was good. It was a good day.
And like I said, it's a fundraiser for that and we appreciate all
the players that came out and played and supported it and our sponsors. No
another thing that happened between last time we saw you in this type you had
a crane come down and play with the train cars. I but noe work
got done. Everybody's looking out the window. Yeah, were staring out the
window all day. That was just amazing to watch. Um, Actually the
chamber is not in charge of the train. People miss have misconceptions of that's
it's on our property, but I believe the city owns it. But the
depot, what are they called nine forty there's a name, Tom Burkes,
Julie Daniels, um dan DRO's. Anyhow, a great group of individuals.
Train enthusiasts are the ones who um got that and and have just added the
cars to it, and now they're in sequence the way they're supposed to be.
There's always been a caboose and then the cattle car or whatever it is.
I know, it's like, I'm not gonna move that. And I
thought they're gonna move up before the last Christmas. But I mean, it's
hard to get a crane. So it's great that that worked out with the
bridge crane and all of that. Hope. Yeah, So yeah, that
was amazing. I got a call. We were actually at a conference when
I got a tech saying that we need to we're gonna be moving the train
tomorrow. And I'm like, oh great, we got parkers in there because
we rent parking spaces in there, and I'm like and I was like seven
o'clock at night, but Anyhow, it all worked out. The sign we
needed wasn't where most of our parkers were, so it worked out. And
I was just so glorried that there was gonna be like a rogue parker,
that we didn't know who they were, that we weren't going to be able
to the crane wasn't gonna be able to get where it needed to go.
But all worked out, and it was amazing. I saw pictures, Like
I said, we were out of town. We were at it, like
I said, a conference, three of us for at a conference. But
I saw lots of pictures of it and some video, and this is amazing
to see this big old train car picked up and moved and it was like
moving little dominoes. No big deal, but it was amazing that if people
want to know more about the chamber and maybe how to be a part of
it, how do we do that? I would encourage you to go to
our website Bartlesfield dot com. We are in the process of switching our software
and we'll include a new website, so we're right now we're still with our
old site, which is a great site. I've always I love that site.
It's easy to maneuver and our new one will be too, but it
will hook in with our new software. But bartlesil dot com and just click,
poke around and if you've got questions, we would love to sit down
and meet with you. But I know some people, I know I feel
that way what I meet with somebody always feel obligated. But you know,
go to the website bartleswold dot com, look around and then if you've got
questions, we'd love to sit down. We've got a great membership person,
Judy Williams, and she'd let sit down just kind of answer questions, talk
to you, give you a little more details, that kind of thing.
And we would love to have any business who is not a member or individuals.
We have about thirty individual members too, so you don't have to be
a business. And we have anywhere from home based businesses to you know,
small local businesses, nonprofits, individuals, so it's not just you know,
for profit storefront businesses. We've got just a variety. So we would love
to have you. We'd love sit down and talk to you and have you
as a member if you'd like to be a part. All right, Hey,
thank you for dropping absolutely Oh right, you've been listening to sherry wild
with our Chamber of Commerce right here on K one. The one you try
needs dark and