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

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in his time. Now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, mister Wishall
is here with us and you're from Mary

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mart The outrage among other things,
because you're all over the place, Well,

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I try to be. I'll tell
you what. We have probably picked

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the best day to get this kicked
off here. We knew that was going

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to happen. Yeah, yeah,
we planned this weeks ago. So because

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you can plan so appropriately in Oklahoma
for the weather, right, Yeah,

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you get all four things in one
day if you play it exactly. But

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mistery, it's cold outside and there
are youngsters who don't have the appropriate covering.

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Yes, that's correct. So this
is our third year to do this.

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We teamed up with Salvation Army and
doing a code drive. So that's

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our third annual. We've grown it
each year. The first year we had

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a little around three hundred. Last
year, a little over six hundred.

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This year, close to one thousand
requests. So the need is there.

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Now we're not asking folks to go
through your closets. We're giving new right

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from the factory, brand new,
brand new. The kiddos deserve the best.

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We've already purchased the coats, but
we're still trying to fundraise, yeah,

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because the need has grown so significantly. We added Osage Hills last year

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and then this year we added Dewey, so again that helped with the numbers,

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but the need is still there,
so we're trying to do a little

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more fundraising because we want to continue
this because it's obviously very important. Now

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you get a great deal every year. I don't know who you're doing business

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with, but they're saints because they're
giving you brand new coats at cost,

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maybe sometimes a little bit below costs. Yes, and these are nice,

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big like shelf coat. Yeah,
puffy puffy coats with the hood on them.

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The Knights of Columbus we did purchase. They have a coat drive or

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a coat facility. Not sure the
internal workings of that, but they help

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donated a few cases to us and
we purchase from them. And we also

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purchased from a nonprofit out of Oklahoma
City. Well nice, tell you what,

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I've been a night before. They
have fun doing that. Yees,

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handa door, They just smile.
They don't ask for thanks, They did

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you begin. They're always willing to
help, that's for sure. Barnsbell Community

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Foundation has helped Truity and then of
course we're members of the Barswoo Regional United

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Way, so they've helped. And
this is part of our clothing program that

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we're funded with from the United Way. But we do also are back to

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school clothing. So we don't have
one hundred percent of the funds, but

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we try to raise more money to
meet the guy. How do we do

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this? I mean, right now, we've identified the problem. They're cold

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kids, yes, and we've got
coach to go out and we need a

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little bit more to kind of get
the bills paid and everything else like that.

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How do we help you help them? So we're taking the money through

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the Salvation Army website. It's kind
of long. It's give dot Salvation Army

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Aoka dot org, forward slash give
or you can mil a check to one

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on one North buc at Salvation Army, Okay, and they're handling the fun

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side of it. You can always
send a check to Mary Martha peeterbox three

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fourteen. We'll make sure to put
it where it needs to be. But

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so, like I said, we're
still trying to raise some money to help

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and to also help for seed money
for next year as well. Okay,

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how much do you need. Well, we spend close to fifteen thousand on

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coats. Oh my goodness. Okay, yeah, so we we have a

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good, good bulk of it,
but we're still a little short on the

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case we do we need the cherry
on top. The reason I'm asking about

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this because there are folks who haven't
made up their mind at this stage in

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time. You know, they're getting
ready to do their taxes, and they're

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they do their giving at this stage
of the game. And if you know

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there's someone who's feeling the need to
be generous to do something great with the

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community, this is something to consider, right And it's a Tangi product.

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And the kids they're they're in need. Like I said, so we're we

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haven't gotten them in yet because we're
a little backed up because we did order

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so many. They should be here
within the next week or two. And

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then we'll send out a message to
all the families that ordered and we'll do

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two evening pick up at the drive
through at Mary Martha Wow, identifying cold

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kids and families in need. That's
it's kind of a hard thing because there's

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a lot of pride involved in our
community. But you can't let your children

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go cold. You can't. And
they're the future. There are future,

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and they're so important. But we
have worked with the counselors that Dewey and

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os Chill's and Bartlesville Sarah Row specifically, and she's helped organize this and we

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just couldn't do it without them.
It's just been a big teamwork process.

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But it definitely it pays off and
those kiddos to have a new coat,

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they're they're so deserving of that.
So I remember three years ago, it

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might have been three years ago,
you and a lady from Salve game in

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here and you told me the story
about how this idea got hatched. And

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had you not showed up at a
United Way meeting right and just say how

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you doing this might not be happening. Yep. We just have great partner

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agencies, but in the community and
the collaboration, it's it's huge. It's

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one of the things that we really
pride ourselves on and we all have the

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same goal in mind. We all
do different things, you know, Food

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Salvation Army does different things, all
the different agencies, but we all have

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the same mission in mind, so
we're always happy to work together. Happy

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hearts, that's right, Happy hearts
Now. Mary Martha Outreach is out on

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the west side of town, over
by United Grocery and the Phillips Plant and

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Research Center, and it's a big
blue building. It is you can't really

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miss it, no you no,
you can't. And it's and it's thereby

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design because we don't want people to
miss it. Right now, Your mission

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there is a little bit different than
the coach. This is a fru it

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is our main Our main goal is
to feed people. So we feed people

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daily Monday through Wednesday, and we
feed on average anywhere from two hundred and

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twenty five. We've had days of
three hundred and so we're very busy.

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But we also have the mission for
Clothing and Crisis, so that's a that's

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a big piece of us as well, the mission as well. Absolutely absolutely,

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Now, mister you learned something the
hard way. It took COVID to

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do it, but you found a
more efficient way to get people's needs met

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as they visit you. There were
a few good things that came out of

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COVID, believe it or not.
Eventually when I said that, but yeah,

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we did, we're doing the drive
through. We did. We implemented

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that during COVID to be able to
have a drive through contact free food distribution,

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and it was so efficient. The
clients loved it, the volunteers loved

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it, and we've kept it.
So we do. We we like to

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have them roll their windows down and
chat with them, because that was we

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really loved to visit with our clients. So that was kind of hard,

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which we were all adjusting to that
during COVID where you couldn't really have as

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many personal one on one conversations.
So we encourage people. They still come

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inside to shop for clothing and to
sign up for services, but so we

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definitely encourage them to roll down their
window and chat with us. Now,

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oh that's good, that is great. Now the codes here, they're coming

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here in just a matter of days. Yes, But what we do want

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them paid for, and we do
have the bulk of it taken care of.

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We just need a few extra dollars
here to ensure that everything's good,

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everything's solid, and we're in good
shape. If we could raise at least

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four thousand more, I would be
a happy camper. Well, well,

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we're putting the word out right now
there you go. I put a target

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on it. Okay, very good, and we'll have a new story that's

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going to go out all over the
place here in a little bit. And

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of course people are going to be
watching the video that we're making here with

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Facebook Live, and some of you
are watching live. And you know,

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if that's something that you think is
going to be the best way to spend

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your dollars for helping, this is
probably I could say one of the best.

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It is. Those kiddos get so
excited and we get nice coats again

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in pretty colors. They're not just
a simple windbreaker. They're very nice,

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warm coats that on days like today
they need. So hopefully we get them

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here soon. We actually saw these
things in action when it got ridly cold

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about it eight years ago. Those
first year. Yes, those kids were

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ever so thankful. We always try
to Our goal is to always have them

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out before fall break, which fall
break was a little early this year,

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and then again with the excessive quantity, it kind of held things back.

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But we need them, we need
them quick. So yeah, it's time.

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But I would say within the next
two weeks that we'll be able to

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do a distribution and get those delivered. I like the way that this works

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out because these kids can go to
school with a new coat that fits them,

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it's absolutely warm. They have to
worry about holes in it. They

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don't have to worry about a previous
order. You don't worry about somebody going.

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Yes, they take pride in it. They again, they deserve it.

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Yeah, you're just kids, absolutely, just kids for little blessings,

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and we need to treat that way. They sure are, they sure are

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now. Mary Martha Outreach is a
part of Catholic Charity. We are We're

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Catholic Charities Fastern Oklahoma, and so
we've been there coming up on twenty five

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years. We've been part of Catholic
Charities for coming up on six years now.

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So it's been a good collaboration and
we definitely love our community and love

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our other partner agencies. So it's
just it's it's for a good cause,

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but also does your heart good.
It does your heart good. I'm missy,

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I tell you you're you're one of
the more active people I've seen around

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town. Do you ever take a
break because it seems like, yeah,

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I try, I try. I
do stay on my toes quite a bit,

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but I can be lazy. If
I have a good thirty minutes.

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If I need to be well,
pray for thirty minutes for missy. But

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you know one other thing, you
do something in the with the running people.

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I call them the running people because
I'm a watching people. That's right,

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me too, That's why I MC
Yes. But Shamrock the Villa,

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it's coming up March ninth, and
registration is open. Yes, it's open

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already. Yes, So folks,
if you're looking to kind of get the

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winter rushed off and really get things
rolling, that's the that's the time to

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do it. And prior to that, we're doing on December twenty second,

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our first annual Day of Blessings,
we're going to provide our clients. We're

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going to open registration I believe the
fourth of December, but we're looking for

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other partner agencies and nonprofits throughout the
community to set up a booth so our

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clients can come and see what all
opportunities we have in the community. And

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so not like a job fair,
but an agency fair basically on the day

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of Blessings, and we won't have
the drive through open that day. It's

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going to be very personal and provide
a very nice Christmas dinner. All that

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is great that it's on the twenty
second, twenty second of December. Reach

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out to me up there at Mary
Martha on the phone at nine one eight

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three three seven three seven zero three
or email me at m Wishall at CCEOK

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dot org and we'll get a booth
set up and we would love to have

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as many agencies there as we can
get. So, oh, that is

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great. Volunteers to hint, you
know what, we were only going to

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talk about a couple of things,
but all in there we've got we've got

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so many great things going on,
that's right. But Mary Martha Outreach and

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also Salvation Army, you're going together
on these coats. Now, if you

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go to the Salvation Army website or
Mary Martha's website or Facebook page, you'll

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probably find those links. Yeah,
we'll make sure to post the links.

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I believe they are posted there,
but yeah we can. Or like I

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said, just if you want to
drop a drop a check in the mail,

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that's right, we'll take it.
I'll come get it if you need

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me. I'll do a special pick
up while she's out doing ten thou what's

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ten THOUSANDE on there. That's right, no big deal, but that is

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really cool. That is really cool, Mary Martha outreach of been in the

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community for almost a decade now,
right, Well the building, the building,

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yeah there, I believe since two
thousand and five, the building since

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twenty five years. Twenty five,
yes, yes, so well established.

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Okay for my time, as they
say, but good to know. I

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got to crush up on my history. That's right. Come on, I'm

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getting with the program. But right
now, we do ask that if you

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do have a spare ten, twenty
or thirty or even a thousand, it's

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just burning a hole in your pocket. Twenty dollars will buy a coat.

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Twenty dollars will buy a coat.
That's about. We'll tell little donations as

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far as no donation is too little, down to twenty dollars will buy a

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child of coats. It's all meaningful, that's right. Every dollar hands a

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name. So this went on to
be a This went out to be a

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name for a kid. That's right, all right. I want to thank

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you for being with us here today
and sharing with is the coat drive and

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of course the need to make sure
that we have enough funds to make this

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all work, and also remember on
the twenty second, we're going to have

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a very special day of blessing I
think, and you contact Mary Martha Outreach

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and contact Misty if you wish as
well in order to get some more information

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on that. And when that gets
closer, we'll be talking a little bit

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more about that on the radio and
we'll let people know more about that.

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That's right, so much, so
much, so so much so many irons

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in the fire, irons, but
they're very good. Irony. Hey,

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thanks for being with you, Thanks
for having me. All right, folks,

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