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

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to any this time now for our
community connection right here on Kay one,

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the one you trust, and it's
being brought to you in part by get

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Real Ministries, also Tall Grass Motors
and Arnold Moore and Ni Camp Funeral Home.

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You know, I had enough of
this cold weather already, and I

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got Misty Wish haul in here and
SE's with Mary Martha Outreach of Catholic Charities,

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and we've got kind of a warmer
event we're going to be talking about.

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That's right, what we got going
on. Let's hope it's warm.

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Yeah, time for Shamrock the bill. It is time, believe it or

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not. Yeah, you know,
I always get a kick out of this

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because, first of all, I
never know what you're going to be dressed

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in. You never know. A
couple of eights a couple of years ago,

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just adorable. And of course the
folks dress up for this as well,

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and they just have a lot of
fun. It is. It's fun,

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but it's also set for such a
good important cause it is. And

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tell us just what the money goes
toward from the money raised. Yeah,

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So like you said, we're with
Catholic Charities, Mary Mark the outreach and

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we are a food pantry and we
also have clothing and crisis and we help

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the citizens and community of Bartlesville who
are in need. And you do a

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great job of it too, thank
you. And it seems like there it

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seems to be ebbs and flows,
but we're in one of these things where

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it seems like a lot of people
are just getting kind of caught unaware and

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suddenly, through no fault of their
own, they're really kind of struggling.

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Yeah, times are tough right now
for everybody, so especially for that sector

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of the community that have a hard
time making ends meet anyway, they've really

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seen it be hard to put food
on the table. So gosh, yeah,

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and sometimes you never want to go
make that decision between food medicine.

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No, that's why you're there exactly. And you know the clothing, you

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know, just everything has risen and
so we're able to help with so many

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different needs of the community. Well, one of the things you guys did

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recently with Salvation Army was coachs and
look they're paying offf dividends. They needed

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them today for sure. Yes,
So this is our third year to do

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that and we have grown. The
first year lit around three hundred coats.

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Last year is around six hundred,
and we had a request for almost a

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thousand coats this year. So now
Shamrock the Bill is coming up and everybody

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has a good time with this.
We do this early in the morning before

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it gets way too hot, that's
right. And it's very colorful, and

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we do have a sign up.
When can folks start to entering yesterday?

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Well, there you go, Yes, the sign up is open. It's

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at shamrockthviille dot com. And I
mean, they're not doing anything today,

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so might as well jump on the
computer and register you ben you that's right.

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So there's a lot of time,
that's right. And this is a

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big year. This is our fifteenth
anniversary. That is that's a significant marker.

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It is. So we've got extra
special shirts. You know, we're

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kind of proud of our shirts.
These are collectors item. They are they

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are And one of our volunteers actually
put together a quilt for a couple of

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us on the committee. It was
pretty fantastic. But this year we had

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a donor that donated a little more
to get even better shirts. They're super

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cool. It's a surprise. But
yeah, so we're really excited. She

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man need. Yeah, you know, the way this is carried out,

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you do it. You started off
out there at the tower, at the

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Price Tower, at the Green Spaces
and everything. But there are a lot

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of people who show up, There
are a lot of vendors that show up

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to and it looks like a big
city event. You'd swear you were in

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a Tulsa at Kansas City. The
way, first of all, the number

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of people that participate, and the
way it's handled and the way that people

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just have a great time doing this, it carries off very very well.

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That's what we want. So we
you know, we want Yes, it's

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a five K, so of course
you hear five K. You think you're

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out there to be competitive, but
we also have a fun run. We

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have people that walk the five k. Those are people who have the most

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fun they do exactly. I mean
you always see smiles on their faces when

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they come across the finish line and
they don't even realize what good they're doing

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exactly. So they're the ones that
usually come in costumes. That's right,

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Oh, we get some fantastic costumes. Yes. Now, also, you

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know, if you're in a situation
where maybe you have an injury or something

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is prohibiting you from money, whether
it be distance or or you know just

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uh, you just can't do it
anymore. We can still participate, can

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we Absolutely? You can sign up
to run from the couch, or you

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can come out and get a T
shirt. Yeah, you can come on

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and get a T shirt. Or
we just have a lot of people that

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just come out and want to watch
and participate and cheer the runners on.

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So it is a lot of fun. Now what's the course. What's the

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course? Yeah, so it goes
down. It's five k. You would

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ask me that I have a race
map on the on the website. Okay,

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we'll just refer to that. Do
you know that we have south I

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don't leave my little podium, No
you don't. You woman that thing marvelously.

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But we do start at sixth and
Keeler or sixth and Dewey, I'm

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sorry, and then we go south
and then down around downtown and then back

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up and join around and the police
have as much fun as the runners do,

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because you know, sometimes they just
get a kick. You just see

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them kind of smile and shake their
heads at the at the folks that with

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the costumes because they always wave and
everything. The little kids in the strollers,

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yes, and what have you got, moms and dads just walking the

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course. It's really great, it
really is. It's just for such a

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good time. It's it's Saturday,
March ninth, and the race starts at

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nine am. But preregistrations are going
now until Wednesday, whatever that Wednesday is,

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and then we do race pick up
or packet pick up early and then

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we also will be out there by
seven thirty for people that decide at the

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last minute that they want to register. It is five dollars more. It's

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twenty five dollars for pre registration than
thirty dollars a day of say five bucks,

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folks make it. Yeah, there
you go, or donate five and

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you know for the cause for the
car. There you go, kIPS would

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be all right. And once again
this goes for the fine work at Catholic

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Charities Mary Martha outreach. Now,
yeah, you were mentioning that you've got

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it stellar volunteers. We are so
blessed with that. Absolutely. We usually

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get a good mark for fifty volunteers
because we try to put them at each

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of the corners of the route,
so every safety is first, but we

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need so many volunteers throughout the time. We have a fantastic race committee,

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so there's a lot of behind the
scenes, but to pull it off that

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day is the rest of the volunteers
as well. So sign up at the

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same thing, right, That's right, So yeah, you can go there.

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There is a sign up for the
volunteers as well, and we're doing

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that now. We're also we send
out our donation letters so we can get

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on the back of those fabulous T
shirts. If you can send in your

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donation by January thirty first, that'd
be great. Yeah, that'd be great.

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You know, one thing about Mary
Martha is the outrage center. You've

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learned to adapt with the times and
with COVID it kind of changed your process,

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but for the better and for the
it made it easier for everyone who

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would think that a pandemic would do
that. There was one good thing that

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came from it, that's for sure. The only thing. Yeah, we

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switched to a drive through physically drive
through facility now and it's contact free and

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it just made it so much more
efficient for our clients and for our volunteers.

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So we've continued to do so they
come in if they want to shop

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for clothing or sign up for services. They came in absolutely every day that

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we're open. And but the food
portion is drive through. How efficient is

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that? It's fantastic, good grievy. We'll have anywhere from two point fifty.

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We've had days of three hundred families
in that two hours day of our

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pantry being open. Those those are
nine to eleven, yes, nine to

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eleven Monday through Wednesday, and noon
to two on Friday, I'm sorry Thursday.

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Yes, yeah, yeah, we
do, which we're we're a nine

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a way partners. So we get
a lot of funding from the Barsool region

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you know, in a way and
the Warmart distribution center. They give us

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a lot of fresh fruit and produce. So not only do we give them

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food, we give a healthy selection
of food. Yeah, this is don't

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mistake this is something where you're not
going to get something like fresh fruits and

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vegetables, because you absolutely will.
You're going to get a very healthy,

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rounded supply growth. We do absolutely. You know, it's great that we

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have partners like that that can help
out identify a need and then help you

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fell it right. Yeah, Bosville
is just a very rich community when it

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comes to nonprofits. Oh, Golley, what do we have? A couple

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of hundred? I don't know the
exact amount, but we have, especially

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in the close proximity because we're pretty
small. But we just have a wonderful

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group on the west side over there. Oh yeah, you do west side.

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The best side is what folks are
saying. And I got to tell

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you you got a heart for giving
and a heart for caring. And if

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folks, if you want to have
a little heart for sharing, you can

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share your talent and some of your
treasure with Shamrock Theville and coming up on

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March the night we get this a
little we get this a little little,

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going a little early so that you
know, you can you know, rest

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up for St. Patrick's. Now
we start working on it in November ish

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our committee and it'll be here before
we know it. So there's a lot

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of a lot of work to be
done. So yeah, well you know,

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once you take that big dibit of
Christmas in New Year's work, that's

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exactly exactly it'll be here. Reorganize. I want to thank you for coming

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in and what skin is the website
there for Shamrock Shamrocktheville dot com. That's

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it, Yes, And we have
a Facebook group page that you can go

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follow and we announce announcements and activities
there. And so it's our biggest fundraiser,

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our only fundraiser of the year,
so it's very important. And this

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is number fifteen, folks. So
if you've been kind of putting it off

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a time or two and you're thinking, oh, maybe this year we'll do

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it on lucky number fifteenth. There
you go, ye might as well.

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Misty wish all. Thank you for
being with, Thank you for having me.

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