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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Next time now for part two of
our community connection right here on K

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one to one drift, and we've
got the ladies from the Blue Star Mothers

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Bartlefield returning. How are we doing
today? All very very soft spoken but

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powerful bunch, I will tell you
that much. We've got Christina, and

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we've got Carrie, and we have
a money here with us today and morning.

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It looks like we're getting ready to
do some boxing right. Uh yeah,

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we we recently had a box packing
for a hundred at the Elks Lodge

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and now we're getting ready for Christmas. Well yeah, little bit. We

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like to send Christmas gifts to our
deployed and State side men and women,

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and that's a lot of I've forgotten
how many boxes we sent last year,

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sixty sixty seventy Christmas. Oh yeah, well, so we start collecting now

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now, Christina. These boxes are
just like little kisses from home for these

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soldiers, sailors, Ammonds and Coast
Guard and everyone else involved, isn't it

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they are? That's we love to
send love from home to our deployed service

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members, and so we include snacks
and sometimes games, fun things to do

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and just try to keep their spirits
up while they're deployed. Money. What's

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the most requested thing that the soldiers. What do they say that they really

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liked the most? Beef jerky?
What else besides beef jerky? Whitey?

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Why? Yeah, Well, when
you're deployed, do you never know where

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you're going to be. And we
had one group one time and that's all

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they wanted. We sent boxes and
boxes of baby wifes. Woo. Yeah,

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I remember when a lot we're employed
to Iraq in that area because of

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the desert conditions, that sand will
get anywhere and everywhere in your ears up

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he knows and every place. That's
really what those things we're going for.

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And uh, you know, when
it comes to getting this all taken care

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of and getting done, it takes
a great deal of teamwork. Sometimes it

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takes some resources and carry it.
One of those things is just getting everybody

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together, isn't it. Yes,
we just recently packed the hundred boxes for

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National Guard. Oh good, and
we had the help of the Elks lodge

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let us use their huge is it
the ball room? That room? Yeah,

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And not not only did they let
us use that, but they came

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out and helped us pack all those
boxes. It was It was very quick

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and a couple of gentlemen from the
Lions Club came to help, and some

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of our family members and just several
people from the community came in. We

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had it done in no time.
It's great to have nice neighbors, isn't

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it. Oh, it's great.
And Christina, the folks at the Elk

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Lodge had just been invaluable, haven't
tast Absolutely tell us a little bit about

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that partnership. So they have given
us a room in their building so that

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we have climate control for all of
our supplies that we send everyone, and

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they give us donations. But again
their volunteer work with us, like we've

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partnered well together and we're getting a
job done really well. Now. It

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wasn't always the case, was it? As far as having a place to

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set up? Oh? No,
that a premium right right? Yeah.

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We spent ten years in a garage
basically with no heat, no air,

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no bathroom, no water. But
we were very blessed to have that donated

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by Tall Grass Motors. Indeed,
get we If we hadn't had that,

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I don't know what we would have
done. And they did donate it to

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us and let us use it for
ten years. Well that was great.

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It's a great ten years well spent. And then they continue to support us

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by letting us have a We have
a drop off there, so anyone that

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wants to make donations you can drop
off at tall Grass Motors. They've been

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very, very good to ask.
And you know something that's great because when

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we have partners in the community that
help out like this, it's really a

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blessing. And you know, we
do have such a kind community, don't

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we absolutely finding that out every day, aren't you. It's great. Yeah,

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we recently had a Conico Phillips did
a tailgate and donate for us,

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which they we have a through Amazon
and then we have a QR code that

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you can donate through and so the
employees went on our wish list and we

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got cases and cases of different products
that we're on our wish list. And

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then they had an event at their
center there by the oh that pretty little

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center by the cafeteria and served us
lunch and then they give us They gave

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us um mailing, posted postage,
and then loads and loads of donations.

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Well, this is this is really
outstanding. And when we talk about our

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donations and wish lists. So we
ask everybody to kind of help out if

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they can, and carrying it pretty
easy to do, isn't it. Yes,

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it is. We were just discussing. I don't do not believe that

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our QR codes are up on Facebook. Not quite yet, but we will

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have that done. We have a
QR code for a link to our Amazon

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wish list, oh good, and
also a Walmart wish list. And you

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just follow the QR code. It's
like a like a bridal registrate and find

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something you'd like to donate and it'll
either come to my house or our po

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box and we can put that in
our shot. Well and you made that

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easy? Yes? Wow. Carries
in charge of the shop. Uh,

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and she does such an outstanding job
of shopping and inventuring and organizing and um

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because it it's a lot of a
lot of work. That's the biggest job

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of of our organization is the shop
and need at little quiet, calm as

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a cucumber. And I'm sitting there
thinking, boy, if I had that

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kind of logistics to worry about,
I'd been losing my mind. Well,

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she's a teacher, so you have
been battled tested, is what we're saying,

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and now Christina again getting people activated
and really kind of gear it up

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for an event like this. Is
it is something that that the that you've

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been doing off and on here for
the last wild guess last a couple of

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years, since you guys been coming
in your riting regular It's getting to be

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an easier ask, isn't it.
It is like we we when we get

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the community in and somebody that comes
in new and just the excitement of being

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involved in something like this, it's
really nice. So, now, if

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there's someone who's listening to our program
today and they haven't heard us before talking

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about the Blue Star Mother's a Bartlesville, how can they find out more and

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how can they be a part of
your ranks. So we are on Facebook

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Bluestar Mothers of Bartlesville, and we
do have a phone number. Oh yes

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it is nine one eight three three
seven two two one three, And yeah,

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we have our meetings the first Thursday
of every month at the Elks Lodge

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in the dining room at six thirty. So you're welcome to come and join

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us there as well. Nowmonie,
what's the requirement to be a Blue Star

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Mom? Well, to be a
Blue Star mother, you need a child

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or the step parent of a child
that is in the military, or and

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if you have UM or a veteran
or a veteran and uh, but you

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can also be an associate. If
you do not have that, you can

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be an associate member. Okay,
and so anybody can anybody can join okaineation

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there, that's that's great. Now
we help out veterans too, correct with

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our shop. We have a Veterans
outreach program and sure the Majors is over

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that, yes, okay, and
so in our asking for Christmas we do

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and we take care of all the
veterans in the local nursing homes. Every

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month we take a treat to them
and then at Christmas time we're very good

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to them and we have and Elks
Lodge helps us with that at Christmas to

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fill our bags. But yes,
every month, um, some a representative

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will be in a nursing home for
taking something to the veterans and little snack

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or something well deftly cool. You
know. I was going to add,

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speaking of the community, these one
hundred that are deployed with the National Guard,

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there's actually over a thousand statewide.
And if anybody in the community community

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has a family member that's part of
that group or knows of someone, they

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need to let us know because if
we know a specific service member that's there,

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then we can request that person to
send stuff too. We have one

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already of that one hundred one is
a young man that we that we know

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the mother personally. So if you
have a child that is deployed or a

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family member that is deployed with the
over a thousand National guardmen guardsmen, let

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us know by us on Facebook.
These are the ones that were to play

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down to the border by Governor Stant. They're mostly in Africa. In Africa.

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I did not realize we were sitting
our National Guard folks to Africa and

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see I get I'm getting an education
around yeah in that area. The more

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you know, see, you get
an education when you listen to this,

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and also when you listen to the
Blue Star Moms, because they know what's

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cooking around here. That's for sure. Well, you know, it's great

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that you're doing these things for our
deployed and also for our veterans. And

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also it's also nice to know that
you're rolling out the red carpet for everyone

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to come in and help. I
think some folks would would say that,

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you know, I'd like to do
something good for our community or good for

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somebody else, and they're not necessarily
sure where or how, but you've opened

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up the doors and that's really nice. And also, if we can back

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up a little bit, the last
time we were a couple of times super

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here, we were promoting our membership
drives and the Painted Horse donated a delicious

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meal for us, and then the
Elk Lodge donated their banquet room and it

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was just wonderful and we got several
new members from that. Yeah, but

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we want anybody that has anyone in
the military, just please contact us.

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We just talked, just talked to
Mitch out there while Ago and his son

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had been in and I guess gotten
out recently. We didn't know that and

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he apparently he didn't know about us. So just