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Good morning, Good morning, good
morning, and welcome. Welcome. Mulcommittee

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is at time now for our community
connection right here on K one, the

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one you trust, and we're talking
with our representatives today from the Delaware Tribe

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of Indians, Luanna Striking, Acts
Murphy and also Danny Fisher. First of

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all, welcome, Hello. It's
always great to have company. I like

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this. This is really good and
I know it's a brutally hot day out

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there today, but I understand the
deals are just as hot as Lenape Reserve.

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Yes they are. Tell us a
little bit about the reserve. So,

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Lenape Reserve is a tribally owned gift
shop and supply store. We're located

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on the campus of the Delaware Tarba
Indians off of Tuxedo. We recently opened

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the end of October twenty twenty two, so we're getting ready to close in

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on one year of being open to
the public. Well, what can we

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find inside? We can find fabric, we can find silver work, Native

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American jewelry, Native crafts made by
h H different artists, Native artists from

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local and surrounding areas and states,
and UH jewelry, non perishable foods,

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just a wide arrangement of goods.
And you said, a lot of this

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is designed right here locally, but
the Delaware crime. Now a little Bertie

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told me that you're a bit of
a designer an artist yourself. Yes,

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I am. I have a brand
called Native spring Flower Creations, and I'm

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getting ready to go to New York
Fashion Week September sixth through the tenth New

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York City. Wow, I like
that. Now, what's going on there?

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I mean, what's this I should
weave all about? I mean,

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so every year they have two fashion
New York Fashion Week, it's uh September

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and February. So this one coming
up in September will showcase spring and summer

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fashions. They have a lot of
different productions. And I applied probably about

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six months ago as a designer and
I'm going to be showcasing my work for

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rise New York Fashion Week, well
from Manhattan. How you like that?

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My goodness sake, don't get lost
all those big tall buildings. Okay,

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I'll try not to. All right, I understand the folks, they are

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really pretty nice. Just don't don't
don't get pre carried away. So I'm

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pretty excited because I'm a Lenape tribal
member in New York City was our original

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homelands. That's what the cheap Brad
was telling me. He said that,

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you know that you guys got moved
all the way from New York City to

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Oklahoma. So this is kind of
a homecoming. Yes, it's exciting.

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I imagine it is. I barely
get any sleep lately. I'm just sewing

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away, just sewing away. Yeah, well this is a big deal.

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I mean, everybody gets invited to
New York City for anything, you know,

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let's learned something big like this,
like fashion week. Yeah, yeah,

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I'm pretty excited. Well, well
cool. We also have Danny Fisher

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here is with us and Danny we're
talking about some environmental stuff. We're here

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with the tribe. And when I'm
talking about stuff, I mean stuff we

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kind of want to unload. Here. Get a little closer to the microphones.

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Tell us a little bit about what
you have coming up. Yeah,

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we're having a lenape E waste recycling
event September the ninth. We've had to

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change the date. We had registation
for a second that day's not gonna workforce,

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so we moved to the ninth.
This one more week to collect all

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your goods. You want to get
rid of that will be there on the

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grounds of the complex the Tuxedo Boulevard. We're gonna take items from ten am

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to two pm. We'll have a
trailer sit up there a big sign.

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You won't be able to miss it. If you drive by Tuxedo by the

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Tribal Complex, Uel, you'll see
us out there collecting. You just drive

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up, drop your goods off.
We'll actually probably tact them out of your

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your trunk, your back of your
truck, however you want to do it.

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We'll unload them for you. The
items we're gonna take, it's a

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whole a whole bunch of stuff.
Looks like you got a great big page.

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It is basically anything you think of
that has like an electronic component to

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it. We don't want those just
going in our landfills. There. There's

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precious metals in the area that we
can we can and recycle and put them

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in other other devices. So if
some of the items is any kind of

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cable, you have telephone, cable, internet, cable, anything, we'll

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take those PC tablets, computers,
old satellite boxes, anything that kind of

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has power, stereo speakers, microwave, TV, mica we will take well,

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I mean, if you got it, bring it. If you bring

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it to me, I'll take it. We'll figure out a way to dispose

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it. But yeah, digital camera, slash drives, fax machines, I

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mean, anything you can think of
the kind of the stuff that you have

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around the house. You get it's
kind of out of date, like your

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old fifty six came modem stuff like
that. You got, even that old

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internet technology stuff. Let's get rid
of that. There's no need for that

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stack of old printers. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, printers, anything like

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that, shredders, battery backup streaming
devices, any ipology and that kind of

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stuff that you know don't work anymore, or anything basically that that tucky electric

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or or as any kind of components
in it. Will take it and dispose

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of it for you. Now,
I'm seeing so these folks that go through

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the different things to get recycled this
way, and they go through it with

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them with a big magnifying class just
to get the little teeny pieces and parts

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out. And you know that that
stuff is valuable and you can use those

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little chips exactly is what they're looking
for. Yeah, and all those chips

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with some precious metals in there that
they can. You might have a big

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old fax machine, it might have
just maybe a half a hounce of precious

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metal splash to take out of it, and then they'll actually get rid of

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the plastic and all the other components
that are part of it as well.

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So that is that is amazing.
That keeps it down with the dumb and

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keeps it up and running and used
again. Yeah, because so many things

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that we have these days that that
precious metal is what makes it run.

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It is and we're in an age
we're work quick to store everything away and

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buy new two and and we don't
we don't need to do that. There's

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there's ways we can we can reuse, recycle and try to keep that waste

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from hitting our landfills. Well,
you know, it's kind of ties into

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maybe some of the aren't that has
been handed down through the tribes. Nothing

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was ever wasted, No in your
history, nothing was nothing was ever wasted.

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We used everything that we needed to
you know, cut our food,

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to make our clothing, to supply
our shelter. You know. So yeah,

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so what's everything old is new again? Yeah exactly. Well this is

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kind of cool, kind of coming
full circle here. Now you guys have

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a wonderful facility out there on Texedo, and it houses just so many different

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things, the departments, departments of
the tribe, but the campus in and

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of itself, it's just well,
it's it's breath taking, it's growing.

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I understand that. I understand to
putting a gym in there. Yeah,

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there's plans for a gym, oh
yeah, in some new houses. And

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we have a child care facility and
we have family and children's services. We

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have a gym there, we have
a gift shop there. We have an

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existing wellness center on campus already.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's not

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aware of that. The gym would
basically expanded. Yeah. We also have

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the title six Elders Lunch from noon
to one where they served elders. I

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eat there every day pretty much.
I'm excited about that. Well, I

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understand that's quite a group and a
colorful bunch, the stories and everything else

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that comes around. That's a good
sense of community there. Yes. So

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also I'd like to mention Delaware Tribe
of Indians as the owner of t Tom

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Trade Cloth by Lenape and we supply
a lot of native design fabric and rules

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and goods that are available to people
to come and purchase fabric. It's it's

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exciting. It's so if you come
to Lenape Reserve, we have a large

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assortment of fabrics, native design fabrics, not something that you would find and

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other retail stores. So it's kind
of like a specialty shop for Native goods.

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And well, come and check it
out. Super and here it's nights

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and air conditions, yeah, very
well, air condition do again, When

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is the date for our recycling September
ninth, September ninth, Are you going

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to be in New York at that
day? Yes, my fashion, my

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fashion cheer for me, My fashion
show is on September eight, so yeah,

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yeah, so will there be another
date for this next year? Next

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year, next year? But for
any members, any tribal members out there,

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we take e waste all the time. Yeah, this this event is

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just basically a big collection event for
the whole for the whole community. But

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we collect for the tribe e waste, not only e waste, but our

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cardboard, aluminum, paper, plastic. We recycle those items as well.

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For our travel members. Any actually, any Native American member of any tribe

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that's recognized can use our recycle facility. Okay, now, when we come

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up to the main campus, where
do we go with our vehicle for the

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drop off that's coming the main interests
of the complex, and you can't miss

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It'll have signs set up. We'll
have a big banner out on the trailer.

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It'll be easy to see, so
dummies like me won't get lost.

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That mean's like me, yeah,
well, this is really going to be

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great. And you have a website
too, that Facebook page it's pretty darn

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active. So if folks are Delaware
tribal members but you're not really kind of

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connected with the tribe and you're wanting
to get a little closer, you're gonna

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catch up real fast because the website
will tell you everything. Every meeting is

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in detail. Every agency has a
nice little section in there too to explain

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what's going on, how it works, and how you can access services.

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And even for folks who aren't members
of the Delaware Tribe but they're interested in

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helping out. I mean, you
got information there too. And there's some

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services that aren't just fournatives through FCS, they offer some things to some some

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non native members in that regard as
well. Okay, you know that's the

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Family and Children's Yeah, well that
is such a vital thing of what goes

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on. You guys have a very
prominent name. The tribe has a very

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prominent name when it comes to that
because the way that the word is how

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you help families and help people get
safe and remain safe. It's kind of

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legendary. So you know that that's
a that's a big deal. We're excited

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to be part of the community.
Well, very good, very good.

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You take it easy out there in
that New York. Yes, you get

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back there and we'll see you on
the ninth when we get ready to get

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things going here with the e what
we're calling that the e WA E recycle.

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There we go and that is really
going to be cool. That is

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going to be something that I think
that the whole community can get behind.

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And it's also a great wave.
If you haven't been out there to the

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tribal campus, you get familiar with
it and say, wow, it's been

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a while. Yes. Also,
I'd like to mention that Lenape Reserve has

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a Facebook page, and yes they
do, and they also have an e

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commerce store w ww dot Linope Reserved
dot com, So I can I can

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shop online? Yes, you can. So if it's a little just a

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little too warm for my delicacy.
You know, I can just sit down.

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It'll come in the truck. Yes, but you want to come in

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our store and you want to look
at it at least one time. You

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have to come and see what we
have. So I'm just being lazy.

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You don't. You don't getting the
vaily will be either. Don't worry about

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that. Well, they like to
touch before they buy. Well, you

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can come in chit chat all day. Well okay, that sounds like a

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good idea. And bring your friends, all right, and never shortage buy

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chit chat you know I'm talking about. I want to thank you both,

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Denny and Lawanna for being with us
here with the Delaware Tribe of Indians.

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Appreciate you being with us here on
our community connection