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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 on our nation's birthday, and with

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Eldercare, we have our good friend
Angie Thompson with is how are you today

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in the happy America's birth Independence Day? Right? Hey? Yeah, so

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happy to be here. I got
my hot dogs and hamburgers already on the

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grill. So when I get out
of here, I'm going to run home

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and have some relation all that good
stuff. Relation is a good time.

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You know something you said, independence
in Independence Day are holiday. But independence

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is a key word when we talk
about Eldercare because what Eldercare is here for,

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it's it's not a residential service right
at all. You're not living there.

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It's to help you live independently,
keep your independence as long as you

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can. You know it, And
that's true, and that's our goal.

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You know, everything we do is
to help help aging adults remain happy,

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healthy and independent for as long as
possible. And when you think about it,

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even though you and I may be
in our sixties, we still need

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a little bit of help. And
that's what elder care is all about.

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It is it's a little bit of
help, but to help from a friend

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is really what it is. Because
everyone connected with elder care is just so

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friendly and we got that common goal, and that's to help you be the

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best you you can be and help
you agent play as long as you can.

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That's right. We want everyone to
experience life to the fullest, right

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to the very last minute. Well, you know something, you got a

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lot going on there, and it's
all about being fifty plus and really kind

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of celebrating it too at the same
time. You know, And in the

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rest of the year, we've got
some really great seminars and events planned that

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I think people of all ages are
going to find really helpful and important.

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Valerie Unru some of you may remember
Valerie. She's a fine artist. She

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was here in Bartlesville for a number
of years. Recently moved to Collinsville to

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open her own art studio. But
she's coming back to hold a pain class

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for any adults who are interested.
It's a six week class. It's two

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hundred and fifty dollars and sign up
is going on now. It begins July

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seventeenth, will end on August twenty
first. It's from ten to noon.

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You know, every Wednesday, you
can come and create a landscape in oils

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and have one of the very finest
artists in our region teach you how to

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do it. My goodness sakes,
and just for two hundred and fifty dollars,

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you're getting basically a college course in
this and you're going to have a

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lot of fun. You Plus you're
going to run into people you haven't seen

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in a while and maybe even new
friends you know, And this is a

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great opportunity to bring someone you know
if maybe you're you know, your book

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club, or maybe you like to
do those fine art paintings. There may

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be several of folks who would want
to come and be a little team,

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could be mother and daughter, mother
and daughter in law, a husband and

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wife team. But it's six weeks
of really great education from Valerie. Wow,

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that's great. Other things that popping
up on the calendar all over the

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place goes. You know, we're
at the beginning of a brand new monthly

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boom it is. You know,
I encourage everyone to get online and look

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at our calendar. It's about eldercare
dot org forward slash events to see what's

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happening for the rest of the year. You know, it would take me

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a week I think to go through
everything, but I'm just going to hit

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the highlights of what's coming up.
In July, we have a fraud seminar

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with Trisha Richards from our Vest Wealth
Management and she's going to be talking about

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how to stay safe and secure and
keep your account safe. You don't have

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to be an our Vest member to
come to that. It can hits open

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to anyone in the community who would
like to avoid fraud. That's on July

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seventeenth to three. And then on
the thirty first, I'm really excited that

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Amanda French will be there. She's
going to talk tech and we're calling it

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Tech Talk with Amanda. She says, bring your questions, bring your laptops,

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your tablets, iPhones, and you
know, if you don't know how

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to use those things, that will
be the format for the day. Just

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let her help you and everyone else
in the room. That's at three on

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July thirty first. And actually those
things kind of go together, you know

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a little bit. You know,
we like to think that we're back in

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a certain time in our life where
you can trust somebody. That broad thing

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speaks volumes. You're gonna be surprised
how many trixtures. They are out out

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there, and of course with the
tech, okay, a lot of us

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are okay with the cell phone,
you know how to make a call,

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we can do a text, we
can sometimes take good pictures of our grandkids.

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There's so much more that's going on
there. And of course with the

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laptop computer, a lot of things
are going that way, your health records,

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things like that that you need to
kind of be on top of.

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So if you've got a little bit
of tech going on, this is a

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way to get into the water.
You can wade in knee high, then

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may be waist deep. We're not
gonna throw you in the deep end.

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We're just gonna get you started here. Yeah, you know. And the

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good news is it's just for an
hour. It's from three to four.

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Were on the thirty first, that
last Wednesday of the month. And Amanda

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is so much fun. She's a
young, vibrant individual with an IT background.

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She works for a major corporation here
in Bartlesville. But she said,

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have everyone bring their you know there, let's try to stump the instructor questions

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and you know, bring it to
her and let her help you that day.

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I'm excited to bring her in.
Oh, that's going to be great.

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You know, there's going to be
some folks really working on something.

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They will what else got going on? Well, listen, last year we

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did the downsizing after Decades. Yeah, it was one hundred and eighty nine

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people came through for that. We're
going to hold it again this year.

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It'll be on two different dates,
August eighth and August fourteenth. The first

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panel will include Linda and Wayne Vineyard
and Robin Fullerton. Now you know,

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Linda and Wayne are the proprietors of
the Minutemen Auctions. So they're going to

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talk about how to create estate sales
and the things you need to think about.

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And then Robin on that same day, is going to talk about the

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process of letting go. You know, she's a family counselor, she's professional

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licensed family counselor, and people had
those questions, how do I know how

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to have the talk with my mom
that I really don't want those lace doilies,

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even though she thinks I love them, you know, but how do

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you let go of things? So
that first panel will be on August eighth

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from three to four thirty, and
then the second one is August fourteenth at

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three, and it will include a
checklist. You'll have folks there on the

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panel who are professionals that help you
dispose of hazardous materials. Maybe your laptops.

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You don't know what to do with
them, but you want to get

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rid of them. Trust Officer Brandy
Roblez from Arvestworth Management. We'll talk about

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some of the key things you need
to know as you downsize. Kathy Cowen,

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who's a local real ator and she's
so much fun. She'll talk about

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what you need as a homeowner to
downsize. So it'll be a really great

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panel. That's on the August fort
August fourteenth. For that second panel in

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August eighth, both begin at three. Oh my goodness, this is great.

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Now, do we need to call
in and get reservations in on that

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or do you RSVP to make sure
we got room? You can and our

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phone number is nine one eight three
three six eighty five hundred, or if

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you want to find the sign up
link, just look at our website calendar

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about eldercare dot org forward slash events. Now, I don't want to get

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too far ahead, but I understand
that we have another one of our senior

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cannects coming up in August. August
twenty second. Andy Taylor is going to

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be the featured speaker. And Andy
is a part of the Chronicle and Independence.

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He's a storyteller. He's going to
present some really fun and interesting stories

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about VIPs from the Kansas and Oakland
and Washington County regions. So he was

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here last October and talked about Nip
van Winkle. He was really entertaining,

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and he will be there on August
twenty second. It begins at five point

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thirty and the cost is thirteen dollars
and fifty cents. I will tell you

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that's the best value for a dinner
intershell. That's right now. You can

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find anywhere. I dare you to
find anything that's going to bring you that

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kind of value for that. So
a few dollars and it's a great way

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to connect with other people. Get
a table of your friends and maybe just

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come by yourself or with someone else
and we'll pair you up. There's plenty

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of a room there, right,
And I want to emphasize that all of

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our events are open to adults of
all ages. All ages, So you

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know, if you're in your thirties
and this sounds interesting to you, we

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want you to come. You're in
your eighties and it sounds interesting. We

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want you to come. Well,
there you go. Now, speaking of

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availability, we have a Foundation Therapy. How's that going? You know,

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they serve about eight hundred individuals each
month. They have five yeah, five

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doctors of physical therapy, physical therapist
assistance, and a physical therapist. Yeah,

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occupational therapist Susan Clifton can help you
with your occupational therapy needs. And

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of course Abby is our speech and
language pathologist and she can help you if

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you need help there. And they're
going to be at the next community connections

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with you, so yeah, all
right, that'd be great. And of

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course we've got the clinics there and
a lot of people think, well,

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you have to you know, have
to be some sort of a age or

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some sort of a prerequisite to come
in there, but you don't really know.

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I mean, they are treating children
and adults. Doctor Gretchen McGee is

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now on staff. She has a
discipline in obg yn and family practice.

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She will treat families. And of
course doctor Jerald is still there. It

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will always be there. He's our
geryontologist. He's worked with seniors for many

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years and he's continuing to see seniors
there. But doctor Gretchen McGee is with

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the CHC clinic now it's right there
inside elder Care and she treats family and

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then also Ronda Lyne, who's a
physician's assistant, she also treats patients there.

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Wow, this is great. The
more we ask questions, the more

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we know things about Eldercare, and
it's nothing what you might think. We

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need to hear the name of Eldercare. So we want to make sure that

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everybody knows what's going on. Forty
years and going strong and probably for another

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you know, forty to fifty more. Thanks I can tell. But my

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goodness sake, where can we find
you? In case books want to just

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drop by and take a visit,
see what's going on. Listen, they

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can call us at nine one eight
three three six eighty five hundred, and

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I'll mention we have an open house
that's coming up on the first Monday of

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every month, so come and see
us on August fifth. But Caul,

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if you want to come and learn
more about Eldercare, that's nine one eight

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three three six eighty five hundred,
or you can visit our website. I

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like to say about elder care.
It's all one word. What do you

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want to know about elder care?
About elder care dot org. Thank you

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very much, Angie,