Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on Kate one, the
one you trust in. Today it's the good, the Bad, the Barbecue
do a benefit, Elder Karon. We've got the chairperson with us, Julian
Mercy. How are you doing yet, ladies? Do you? And Gray?
We have an exciting event coming up and so I'm happy to share about
that this morning and kind of put the save the date on people's calendars and
and fight everybody out for the good of bad and barbecue this year. And
I got to tell you, this is an annual event and it is one
of the darn best you'll ever find yourself involved with. It is so fun.
We expect you to show up in your best Western attire and it's rain
or shine, so just like if you're working the ranch, you might have
to switch to your muck boots instead of your best cowboy boots. But we'll
be out there on May eleventh. It's always on Mother's Day weekend. It's
rain or shine. We'll be at Hughes Ranch this year again, and that
the family is expecting us and inviting us to have a great time. I
was out there last year and I had a blast. It was it was
wonderful. It started writing towards the very very very end, but up until
that time, people were just they were bidding on things. They were having
a fun time, dancing and having a good time. We're going to it
is so so fun, and we're going to add a few things. The
iconic Clydesdalees are going to join us this year. Yeah, it's going to
be so fun. They're going to be out there. We're excited to host
them and Express has been so gracious to get them there for us. And
then we're going to add a couple of things. We're going to have a
great bourbon bar up on the hill. We're going to do a horseshoe toss
for some wine and some bourbon. We're going to have a great barbecue.
Of course, that's that's it. And you're going to have to decide this
year you're going to be part of the good? Are you going to be
part of the bad. I'll be a part of the barbecue. That's perfectly
fine too. But this is going to be an outstanding thing. And this
helps to benefit Eldercare and my technistas. What a great resource elder care is
in our community. Is they help seniors live independently. They do agent places,
they they do even more than that. They have a great physical therapy,
occupational therapy, speech therapy group there led you know by some of the
best I think in town. I have some personal experience with that. They've
got a community health clinic now that they're expanding and organizing, and so if
you're looking for primary care, they're doing that. So it's not just elderly
anymore. Tom. I don't consider myself elderly, but I have had to
use some of their services there, and it's important organization for our entire community.
No, you're far from elderly, but you did. I am in
that, in that group, and I probably will be using their services very
very soon you And in fact, I'm going to be out there in May
thirty. I'm gonna be performing out there. Anyway, that's another story for
another day, but let's get back to how they help everybody. You know,
with the Foundation Therapy, they opened a whole new door for you.
Really, they really did. And I have some personal experience. They're working
with the speech therapists and physical therapists. When I had a brain injury in
twenty nineteen, and so there really weren't the neurological rehab resources outside of Tulsa
until I found the elder Care does do that. So excited about their expansion.
You know, they do daybreak services, they feed, they do a
meal service, and they do a lot of things to find in home care
and as well as care for the caregivers because we know as a caregiver of
someone, it's a stressful time and we're never prepared to take care of our
parents or you know, an elderly friend or neighbors sometimes and they assist in
that. So anything that a community member might need in terms of support and
services, we want them calling Eldercare well. And that's what Eldercare does,
and they do it so well. Been around now for forty years, they
have going through They just had the birthday party just a few months ago.
They sure did a Tray County Tech And now here's your chance to make sure
that elder Care stays around well on its way to another forty Yeah. And
Christina, the executive director, Christina Bishop, she has a big goal.
I asked her when I sat down, I said, if you could dream
big, what would it be, and she really hopes to bring in two
hundred thousand dollars. I think she can do now. That is that's a
huge responsibility for our entire community to step up and help with that. But
I can tell you the dollars are well spent. This is a facility and
a place that is very unique. Most communities don't have anything like elder Care.
It was unique in its inception, it's unique in the services it provides
now and we need to support it. So whether you come to barbecue or
not, we want your financial support too. Now. The tickets are one
hundred dollars per person for the dinner in the evening activities and if five hundred
dollars for the VIP experience, and that includes the patron party yeah, bet
t shirt, tak nature mug as well as the evening activities. And you
can get a table of eight if you'd like to. And of course there's
everything that you want to know about that you can find it the website.
Yeah, absolutely, the website. I want to make sure I say about
Eldercare dot org, forward Slash, bbq that is their website, to make
sure and you can you can order those tickets online but I want to tell
you we're setting up the big white tent and each table is going to be
filled with some really fun people. Will have live music and so a ticket
is one hundred dollars for dinner. And then the Hughes family home is beautiful.
They have artwork in there that's just really spectacular. So we aren't going
to offer a VIP experience to get a tour into the home. That will
include heavywer dirves, catered in drinks for the evening, and some merchandise that
we're going to provide while we're there. So it should be that's an experience
that some people really want to be part of. And as well as our
big patrons are big donors, they'll be there as well as well as the
board members and some of the directors at Eldercare. It'll be a great time
to mingle and just have a really good experience to get to the heart of
Eldercare. You know, I did the patron thing last year, Yeah,
and that was out of this world because you got to meet, like you
say, a lot of the folks who make the decisions out of elder Care
and the folks who work out there. Diligently being in and day out,
and you know, if you had a question, it's a nice open place
to ask one. It is becaurse. You can always get them by the
phone or make or an appointment any other day. But in that kind of
an atmosphere, it was laid back. There was no tension or anything,
and it was just it was just a great way to learn more about the
services at the offer and just really what a great, great entity we have
here. It's really awesome. And I think they had the patron party in
the party barn last year, so we're going to move it into the home
this year. It's been I've done some renovations. We're going to have the
porches open, we'll sit outside. There'll be some music, of course,
you got to have a little bit of that, and just like you said,
a really casual time and kind of relational time to get to know the
people that are there. Now, this is pretty easy to find. It's
right out there, right off Highway one. It is. It's on your
way to Warrock. We all kind of know it's gonna be on the right
hand side. We're gonna have a great banner. I don't think you can
miss it, but we're across the bridge looking for then it's gonna be on
your right hand side as you're headed towards wool Rock, and we will include
directions out to the ranch with every ticket that's purchased, and we'll get those
to you and we'll also post those online. Now, Julia, you're the
event chairman. This is really a big thing for you, and I know
that this is very personal and you know you're putting your heart and soul into
it. So folks, I want you to show up and really appreciate all
the effort that everybody is putting into this, and of course support our good
friends at elder Care. That's right, and you know it's I'm just I'm
just connecting the pieces. There's a fabulous committee of about twenty of us.
Claudia Dillbeck is our vice chair and she's amazing. She's worked with the population.
It has great connections in the community and you're going to see some other
big community leaders as well on that and we all have a heart to really
dig in, kind of freshen up, update, kind of look forward and
what Eldercare looks like over the next you know, maybe decade or so and
continue to help bring those funds in. In the meanwhile, have some fun.
Absolutely, put your boots on. We're gonna have We're gonna have a
live band there and it's always fun after you're done bidding. Our auctions are
incredible. We'll have a live auction of about ten items Roger Skelley. Of
course, we'll work the crowd a little bit and have you open up your
pocketbooks and the silent auction. So that's right, and then we're gonna we're
gonna turn up the music and dance and really celebrate what Eldercare does and what
what evening looks like. Wow. Once again, the website is about Eldercare
dot org, forward slash BBQ. That's it. And make sure you get
your tickets early. You don't want to get left out because sometimes sometimes we
get down to the point where it's like this, Yeah, I don't think.
I don't think you want to wait too long. You know, get
your friends, get a table at eight and just come have a great evening
and you know, just celebrate. If it's Mother's it is Mother's Day weekend,
so hey, take that's a great Mother's Day gift, right, take
it, wife out right right across from us. Last year, we had
a nice business woman brought her mom, Oh that's sweet, and brought her
out there, and both of them just had a great I think mom might
have had a better time. She might have, but it was It was
a lot of fun. We had great conversation and of course great fellowship is
we were bidding on things, Oh yes, please, yes, and then
the bid went on and of course, you know, some folks like walk
home with something nice and maybe you could be that lucky. I love it,
so mark your calendar's May eleventh, Julie, thank you for being with
Thank you, Tom, thanks so much.