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You know, I had enough of this cold weather already, and I
got Misty Wish haul in here and SE's with Mary Martha Outreach of Catholic Charities,
and we've got kind of a warmer event we're going to be talking about.
That's right, what we got going on. Let's hope it's warm.
Yeah, time for Shamrock the bill. It is time, believe it or
not. Yeah, you know, I always get a kick out of this
because, first of all, I never know what you're going to be dressed
in. You never know. A couple of eights a couple of years ago,
just adorable. And of course the folks dress up for this as well,
and they just have a lot of fun. It is. It's fun,
but it's also set for such a good important cause it is. And
tell us just what the money goes toward from the money raised. Yeah,
So like you said, we're with Catholic Charities, Mary Mark the outreach and
we are a food pantry and we also have clothing and crisis and we help
the citizens and community of Bartlesville who are in need. And you do a
great job of it too, thank you. And it seems like there it
seems to be ebbs and flows, but we're in one of these things where
it seems like a lot of people are just getting kind of caught unaware and
suddenly, through no fault of their own, they're really kind of struggling.
Yeah, times are tough right now for everybody, so especially for that sector
of the community that have a hard time making ends meet anyway, they've really
seen it be hard to put food on the table. So gosh, yeah,
and sometimes you never want to go make that decision between food medicine.
No, that's why you're there exactly. And you know the clothing, you
know, just everything has risen and so we're able to help with so many
different needs of the community. Well, one of the things you guys did
recently with Salvation Army was coachs and look they're paying offf dividends. They needed
them today for sure. Yes, So this is our third year to do
that and we have grown. The first year lit around three hundred coats.
Last year is around six hundred, and we had a request for almost a
thousand coats this year. So now Shamrock the Bill is coming up and everybody
has a good time with this. We do this early in the morning before
it gets way too hot, that's right. And it's very colorful, and
we do have a sign up. When can folks start to entering yesterday?
Well, there you go, Yes, the sign up is open. It's
at shamrockthviille dot com. And I mean, they're not doing anything today,
so might as well jump on the computer and register you ben you that's right.
So there's a lot of time, that's right. And this is a
big year. This is our fifteenth anniversary. That is that's a significant marker.
It is. So we've got extra special shirts. You know, we're
kind of proud of our shirts. These are collectors item. They are they
are And one of our volunteers actually put together a quilt for a couple of
us on the committee. It was pretty fantastic. But this year we had
a donor that donated a little more to get even better shirts. They're super
cool. It's a surprise. But yeah, so we're really excited. She
man need. Yeah, you know, the way this is carried out,
you do it. You started off out there at the tower, at the
Price Tower, at the Green Spaces and everything. But there are a lot
of people who show up, There are a lot of vendors that show up
to and it looks like a big city event. You'd swear you were in
a Tulsa at Kansas City. The way, first of all, the number
of people that participate, and the way it's handled and the way that people
just have a great time doing this, it carries off very very well.
That's what we want. So we you know, we want Yes, it's
a five K, so of course you hear five K. You think you're
out there to be competitive, but we also have a fun run. We
have people that walk the five k. Those are people who have the most
fun they do exactly. I mean you always see smiles on their faces when
they come across the finish line and they don't even realize what good they're doing
exactly. So they're the ones that usually come in costumes. That's right,
Oh, we get some fantastic costumes. Yes. Now, also, you
know, if you're in a situation where maybe you have an injury or something
is prohibiting you from money, whether it be distance or or you know just
uh, you just can't do it anymore. We can still participate, can
we Absolutely? You can sign up to run from the couch, or you
can come out and get a T shirt. Yeah, you can come on
and get a T shirt. Or we just have a lot of people that
just come out and want to watch and participate and cheer the runners on.
So it is a lot of fun. Now what's the course. What's the
course? Yeah, so it goes down. It's five k. You would
ask me that I have a race map on the on the website. Okay,
we'll just refer to that. Do you know that we have south I
don't leave my little podium, No you don't. You woman that thing marvelously.
But we do start at sixth and Keeler or sixth and Dewey, I'm
sorry, and then we go south and then down around downtown and then back
up and join around and the police have as much fun as the runners do,
because you know, sometimes they just get a kick. You just see
them kind of smile and shake their heads at the at the folks that with
the costumes because they always wave and everything. The little kids in the strollers,
yes, and what have you got, moms and dads just walking the
course. It's really great, it really is. It's just for such a
good time. It's it's Saturday, March ninth, and the race starts at
nine am. But preregistrations are going now until Wednesday, whatever that Wednesday is,
and then we do race pick up or packet pick up early and then
we also will be out there by seven thirty for people that decide at the
last minute that they want to register. It is five dollars more. It's
twenty five dollars for pre registration than thirty dollars a day of say five bucks,
folks make it. Yeah, there you go, or donate five and
you know for the cause for the car. There you go, kIPS would
be all right. And once again this goes for the fine work at Catholic
Charities Mary Martha outreach. Now, yeah, you were mentioning that you've got
it stellar volunteers. We are so blessed with that. Absolutely. We usually
get a good mark for fifty volunteers because we try to put them at each
of the corners of the route, so every safety is first, but we
need so many volunteers throughout the time. We have a fantastic race committee,
so there's a lot of behind the scenes, but to pull it off that
day is the rest of the volunteers as well. So sign up at the
same thing, right, That's right, So yeah, you can go there.
There is a sign up for the volunteers as well, and we're doing
that now. We're also we send out our donation letters so we can get
on the back of those fabulous T shirts. If you can send in your
donation by January thirty first, that'd be great. Yeah, that'd be great.
You know, one thing about Mary Martha is the outrage center. You've
learned to adapt with the times and with COVID it kind of changed your process,
but for the better and for the it made it easier for everyone who
would think that a pandemic would do that. There was one good thing that
came from it, that's for sure. The only thing. Yeah, we
switched to a drive through physically drive through facility now and it's contact free and
it just made it so much more efficient for our clients and for our volunteers.
So we've continued to do so they come in if they want to shop
for clothing or sign up for services. They came in absolutely every day that
we're open. And but the food portion is drive through. How efficient is
that? It's fantastic, good grievy. We'll have anywhere from two point fifty.
We've had days of three hundred families in that two hours day of our
pantry being open. Those those are nine to eleven, yes, nine to
eleven Monday through Wednesday, and noon to two on Friday, I'm sorry Thursday.
Yes, yeah, yeah, we do, which we're we're a nine
a way partners. So we get a lot of funding from the Barsool region
you know, in a way and the Warmart distribution center. They give us
a lot of fresh fruit and produce. So not only do we give them
food, we give a healthy selection of food. Yeah, this is don't
mistake this is something where you're not going to get something like fresh fruits and
vegetables, because you absolutely will. You're going to get a very healthy,
rounded supply growth. We do absolutely. You know, it's great that we
have partners like that that can help out identify a need and then help you
fell it right. Yeah, Bosville is just a very rich community when it
comes to nonprofits. Oh, Golley, what do we have? A couple
of hundred? I don't know the exact amount, but we have, especially
in the close proximity because we're pretty small. But we just have a wonderful
group on the west side over there. Oh yeah, you do west side.
The best side is what folks are saying. And I got to tell
you you got a heart for giving and a heart for caring. And if
folks, if you want to have a little heart for sharing, you can
share your talent and some of your treasure with Shamrock Theville and coming up on
March the night we get this a little we get this a little little,
going a little early so that you know, you can you know, rest
up for St. Patrick's. Now we start working on it in November ish
our committee and it'll be here before we know it. So there's a lot
of a lot of work to be done. So yeah, well you know,
once you take that big dibit of Christmas in New Year's work, that's
exactly exactly it'll be here. Reorganize. I want to thank you for coming
in and what skin is the website there for Shamrock Shamrocktheville dot com. That's
it, Yes, And we have a Facebook group page that you can go
follow and we announce announcements and activities there. And so it's our biggest fundraiser,
our only fundraiser of the year, so it's very important. And this
is number fifteen, folks. So if you've been kind of putting it off
a time or two and you're thinking, oh, maybe this year we'll do
it on lucky number fifteenth. There you go, ye might as well.
Misty wish all. Thank you for being with, Thank you for having me.
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