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And good morning, good morning,
good morning. Welcome to part two of

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our community connection right here on K
one, the one you try. Scherry

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Welt is all built up, and
Sherry, we've been having fun with Christmas

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in the bill. How are things
going at the Chamber depot these days?

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They are going great. That's been
a really good season. We've only had

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two days where we struggled with melting
ice. So and this weather right now

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is perfect, pretty perfect. You
got the better part of a week left

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we do. We will close what
is today Thursday? This is Thursday.

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We close next Tuesday, January second, when the kids go back to school

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on the third, will be closed. So we went to every day once

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school was out on the twentieth.
So we've been up in every day from

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one to night, except we were
close Christmas and we did have to close

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because of the rain on Christmas Eve
Day. We were going to close it

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five anyway. But so it's a
good day to rain and we Lord knows

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need the rain, so it was
it was a blessing get us back up

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a little bit, no, thank
goodness. And hopefully we're gonna get a

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bunch more this spring and the next
few months. And I know, it

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might be a little too soon to
ask this question, but how popular has

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the bill been? I I time, every time I've been down in the

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area, it's just been you know, busy. It's it's like I said,

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it's been a really good season.
We've seen an increase in numbers.

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I'm real anxious to get with Maria
from visit Bartlesville and she's got the little

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magic people, the magic thing that
you know, the track we're zip codes

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because it's mostly when they fill out
a way reform and put a ZIP code

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at the bottom. But one gets
crazy busy. A lot of times they

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don't do it, they don't see
it whatever, and the workers are you

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know, they're just getting skates and
going. So they did they move the

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line so but you know, just
just looking at them, it's there's a

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lot of out of town people that
have come. And when I say out

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of town, I mean out of
Washington County and those are the those are

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That's one of the reasons we did
this was, you know, as a

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gift to our own community, which
you know, obviously the majority of the

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skaters are from our community, are
immediate area, but we also wanted to

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draw people to our community because when
they're here, obviously they're at least going

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to eat more than likely. Ice
skating makes you hungry, especially out of

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the cold, and then you know
a lot of times they'll stop and shop

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weather here. So that's that's what
we want. We want to increase outside

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sales tax money coming in. We
always love outside dollars coming in and then

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going back home wherever they they're from
and having fun. And now, I

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this is highly unscientific, but sky
Took and Colinville were kind of like the

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areas that I was kind of getting
from a lot of the folks as well

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as our friends up in Kansas.
Yeah, Southeast Kansas is great. They

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We've had a lot of Southeast Kansas, I know, and I've seence of

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Collinsville, and like I said,
I haven't gone through the but you know,

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we did. We were able to
put one of our best ways of

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advertising is through school flyers because obviously
it's the kids that want to skate,

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and we were able this year we
expanded out the sky Took Collinsville and you

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know, of course a lot of
the Southeast Kansas. There's only one one

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school that doesn't let us, but
I know they're missing out. But I

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mean, we just want people to
know it's here. It's not you know,

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but and it gives kids something to
do, especially right now, you

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know, you're kind of bored.
It's after Christmas and now what you know.

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And yesterday was great. It was
it was I want to say,

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I don't want to say it was
slow, but it was not crowded at

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all. It was a good day. It was a good pace, and

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people were able to really really get
out there and just really enjoy skating.

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So it was it was a lot
of fun. Just dress warm. I

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mean, that's you know, we
were in this cold spell, but it's

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not it's not like, you know, twenty degrees out there, exactly.

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I worked in the hut all afternoon
yesterday and I was fine. I just

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you know, I had a couple
of layers on and I was fine.

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So it's just dress warm. It's
it's cold, it's the holidays, it's

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supposed to be cold. We've got
a few things that are going to warm

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up the community here with the chamber. You guys are busy right soon than

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New York flips over interest we are
Christmas or December. We always well,

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take a break, take a break
from regular regular programming, sure, and

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you know we just focus on Christmas
and keeping that up and going. And

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but in January we start back.
We'll have Business after Hours on January eleventh

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at Tri County Tech. They're going
to show off their new totally remodeled cosmetology

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department in that whole area. Big
you know, it's very popular program for

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them, very so anyhow, that
will be on January eleventh. Business after

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Ours is usually the first Thursday,
but with the holidays and the way they're

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falling, we just thought there's still
gonna be so many people on vacation and

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you know, just taking the to
that week off the way they, like

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I said, the holidays fall.
So this month's Business after Hours will be

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on the second Thursday, January the
eleventh, that Try count Tech. And

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then the following week on Wednesday,
we have January seventeenth is our will start

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our next series for women in business
luncheons, and those are fun. Those

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are at Hillcrest Country Club and it's
over the neon hour eleven thirty to one

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and just yeah, a lot of
good networking, a lot of fun with

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the women. And this topic is
do women make better leaders? So it

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should be interesting a mom, I
think it probably figure out, yes,

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you know, and it it depends. But there's a lot of topics,

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or not a lot of hot topics, but a lot of things she's going

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to cover from you know, how
we listen to, how we interact,

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just different things and you can't stereotype
all women. Anyhow, it'll be interesting.

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So I'll refrain from my opinion.
But being the leader of the chamber,

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well the great stats so but anyhow, so that starts off, and

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then we have another form coming up
in February that I'm really excited about.

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Pat McFerrin will be here and he
has a polling company and he pulls for

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all over the US. He's pulled
national, he's pulled like polling. I

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say it funny, you know who
are you voting for? What do you

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think about this? What do you
think about that? And very scientific and

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so he's going to kind of give
a little bit of background history of of

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some things and talk about just uh
relevant issues and kind of where we how

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how Oklahomas feel about different things,
how it's pulled at, how it has

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polled with with Oklahoma's so anyhow,
I'll have a lot more detail on that,

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but I think it's gonna be really
a very interesting one. Something a

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little bit different. We try to
find. We always try to find one

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each year that's a little different than
you know, we usually we have a

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you know, we have the update
with Conco and Phillips and usually have like

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a congressman or senator. This year
we had the governor. So you know,

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we try to find something a little
bit different than the typical speakers that

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we usually have. So I think
this will be a very very interesting and

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that'll be on February fifteenth. I
think it will be too because it's a

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well it's a it's a big election
year and people are always wondering just how

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do you go about doing that?
Yeah? Work, And I will tell

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you he is spot on. I
have followed him and what he's predicted,

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and it's amazing, you know,
the whole all the other media may be

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saying one thing and he's over here
saying another thing, and he has been

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spot on it. I don't know
how. I don't have his how they

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do that, but he has been
really really really close with with with his

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with his predictions for you know,
outcomes on different things or how votes are

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going to turn out how state question
votes are going to come turn based on

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polling, So yeah, some of
it. It'll be very very interesting.

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And he's a great guy. He's
actually local. Well when I say local,

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he's actually a no lot of boy
mcfairn meets over, he's I should

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know this. He's related to them
somehow. I don know if it's their

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son or or what, but anyhow, he's he's a he's a local boys,

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i'd like to say from Nowada.
So yeah, nice. What else

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we got cooking? I know we
got a bunch. Well, Judy is

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our membership development specialist and she would
love to talk to anybody that's interested in

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the chamber. You know a lot
of people are like, well what do

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you mean be a member of the
chamber, And she can, you know,

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go through and just tell you the
benefits of it, tell you what

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you might be able to take advantage
of it. Kind of depends on your

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business, what you're looking for,
what you need. You know. Some

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members join and we don't ever hear
a peep from him, We never see

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him. They they just they just
kind of want to be more of a

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community supporter and player. And then
other ones they want to take advantage of

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all sorts of things. They want
a network, they want to make connections,

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so it kind of depends what a
business is after what they're looking for.

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But if you're interested, either give
Judy a call at three three six

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eight seven zero eight, or if
you want to just kind of look at

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it online and kind of see,
I would encourage you to go to Bartlesfield

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dot com, which is our new
website. It's only been up. We

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redid a new our site. Gosh, I don't know three months ago,

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maybe now two months ago on time
flies when it's this timing year, I

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don't know what time it is,
but yeah, new website. So it

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gives you all the benefits different things, our mission, that kind of thing.

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So go check that out and we'd
love to have some new members starting

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off twenty twenty four. Well,
very good, very good. Chamber does

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all kinds of great things and like
you say, everything from networking to you

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know, letting people know just what's
going on, what to watch out for

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your darn good advocates for our business
community. Well, thank you, We

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try hard to do that. Well
you succeed very very panity. Thank you.

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The Chamber, of course could always
use a little bit of help every

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now and then, and that's why
I'm taking warm weather stuff. You got

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the golf thing ready to go yet, well you know what, we change

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that to October. That's right,
because it was way it was way too

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hot in August. Oh againness,
yeah, we do our legislative golf tournament

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used to be in August for years
and years and years. This is like

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our thirty This will be our thirty
third annual. I think it is thirty

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third legislative golf tournament. And we
always did in August and it was so

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hot. I was like, why
are you doing this? Let's do it

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till the fall in October when it's
beautiful. It was gorgeous this year.

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So that is so we do have
another golf outing till October. What am

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I saying? We do have one
in April? You do? Yes,

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thank you? Where it's nice and
bearable and bearable. Yes, last year

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was a gorgeous day. It was
absolutely beautiful. And that one's at Hillcrest

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Country Clubs. So if you want
a chance to play on a member course

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but you know a member, this
is a great opportunity. So that's coming

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up April twenty third on the website. Yes, it is on the website.

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And by the way, your website
is very cool, very easy to

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navigate. Thank you. I like
those little movie things. I know.

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I love the top movie. If
nothing else, just go check out bartleswol

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dot com and watch the little video
banner at the top of the of the

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of the website. I love it. It's a great, nice panoramic flyover

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of just all sorts of clips from
Bartlesville. So we really like that one.

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Was that done with drones? By
the way, I think some of

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it was Trussa, who's our graphics
person, put that together with we won't

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we won't ask about the magic I
don't ask the website by the way,

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Yes, but TRUSTA put our community
guide together and that will be coming out.

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Our twenty four community Guide will be
coming out. We delayed just a

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little bit, but it should be
out late January, so we will be

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delivering those to all our chamber members. They're all listed in the back by

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their business category. The front of
the book is wonderful for new folks to

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town. Tells everything about our community, all sorts of you know, from

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education to healthcare to housing to things
to do with your kids. Different activities.

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You don't list all the different organizations
kids can be involved with, things

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do with family parks, wreck just
I mean, it covers the community,

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gets a really good overview of the
community. So it's one hundred and twenty

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pages, so gorgeous book, full
color. And that is thanks to the

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advertisers in the book, obviously,
and we appreciate each one of those that

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do that. So you know,
when my mom moved here, we've got

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a copy of that book. She
said that's the best reference thing that she's

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ever had, ever lived in.
And she said it was easy to follow,

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it was easy to find, and
she said it harkened her back to

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the good old days when folks really
welcomed you. So I'm saying, well,

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yeah, well that part really hasn't
changed here. We welcome new people

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all the time. And where was
I at, somebody was saying what they

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I can't remember, but how friendly
our community is. And you hear that

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a lot and sometimes just take it
for granted. You just think everybody's like

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that, but people take a vacation
out of town. Yeah exactly. I

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was on the East Coast. Although
they it wasn't as unfriendly as I thought

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it was going to be. But
anyhow it was. But people always comment

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how friendly everyone is in Bartlesville,
and we were really I love that makes

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me very proud of Bartlesville and just
I love it. I love this community.

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Well. When I moved here about
four and a half years ago,

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I never lived in the community where
total strangers were rooting for your success.

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Uh, they wanted everybody to be
successful. They didn't care you know anything

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your new person in telling they wanted
you to do well. And you know,

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I can tell you that living in
some other communities that wasn't necessarily that

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way. See if we can knock
that fella out of here, and it's

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like, wow, you know,
what a what a eye opening experience it

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is to be here in Bartlesville.
And uh, you know, I like

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what our friend Maria often says.
It visited Bartleville and it all starts with

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the business. It does start with
say, you know, people move here

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and they started up businesses. I
know several I can give several instances of

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that. They came to visit and
then then they moved here and then they

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started a business. That's exactly true. So it does start. It does

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start with a visit and That's why
things like ball tournaments, you know,

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events that draw people to town.
It's important because it brings people to our

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community. They see it, they
experience, and they're always so surprised at

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oh wow, you guys got a
downtown. I mean there's high right,

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and how clean it is, and
just how beautiful our downtown is. I

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mean, if you have not been
downtown yet for Christmas, okay, we're

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done, But if you have not
been downtown yet, you need to come

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downtown and see the lights. It
is absolutely spectacular downtown. It looks beautiful,

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So come down, hey, Sherry, thank you for being absolutely We

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sure appreciate y'all