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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome in this time now for our
community connection right here, I'm k one,

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the one you trust. It is
a beautiful day in our neighborhood.

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It's always a beautiful day when we
have our friends drop by. How you

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doing, Debbie, I'm doing great, sir. How are you this morning?

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I'm doing wonderful. Miss Album.
We've got the Hopestone that Cancer Support

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Center, the Art of Hopstone coming
up. This is a biggie Yes,

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yes, it is huge. It's
a huge piece of our budget. So

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it's a great event. It's a
really fun event, two hours long.

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Come on in see the amazing artists
we have in town. We have a

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lot of one of the kind pieces
that are made actually right there at Hopstone

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by our Hopestone potters. Wow.
We are blessed to have a master potter

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who worked a lot with Frankcoma Oravile
Night and he is in charge of our

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pottery program and he has created some
amazing, amazing potters, so all kinds

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of pottery. We have our local
Safari smiles Dennis sam Limblue who's gonna provide

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us with a piece. Our friend
Chris Mantle from Tulsa will give us a

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piece some just a lot of local
people participate, so that's really kind of

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cool. We get to feature their
art and raise money for our Hopestone programs.

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So our meal program, which is
huge, I've talked about that several

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times. Well, we need to
keep it in the forefront because it is

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huge. It is huge. It
is huge. So over two hundred meals

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a week we make and package delivered
to our cancer patients and their families.

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And then our prescription drug program where
we partner with Ascension Medcare Pharmacy to ensure

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that our cancer patients are getting their
antibiotics, anti nausea meds, any medication

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that their on collages feels they need, we have to ensure that they get

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that so that they have a successful
treatment. Samaritan Counseling we partner with Samaritan

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on counseling services. I'm big on
partnerships. You know, we need to

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help each other to make sure that
we take care of the people in our

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community. And so that's kind of
what I'm all about. Making sure our

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patients can get to and from treatments
with gas cards and helping with rides and

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helping with airline vouchers if their doctor
refers them, you know to M d

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Anderson or Mayo or whatever. So
those are the big east that we use

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the funds for now with the helps
to remind folks when we can kind of

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enjoy this and it also help you
at the same time help our cancer people.

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Yeah, and there's a lot of
them, are a lot of day

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yes, yes, and younger and
younger. So our event is November fifth,

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which is the first Sunday in November
from four to six pm. And

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it's great. We have drinks and
we have food, some finger foods,

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and just a time of community,
you know, so bonding and seeing what

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we have to offer in the community. People can feel free to take a

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tour, walk around the facility,
see what it's all about. So we're

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very, very very excited about that. That's this is our eighth year of

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doing this. Oh we and we
raise a lot of money. We raise

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a lot of money. Well that's
great because people know that this is a

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very noble cause and this is something
that could happen to anyone in any time.

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Answer doesn't know race, it doesn't
know it doesn't know gender, it

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doesn't know anything other than it's going
to be very painful. Yeah, and

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it doesn't care, you know,
it truly does not. It's a really

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horrific disease. And it affects more
people in our community, I think than

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people realize. You know, when
we service from Tulsa up to Independence,

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Kansas and so people can Yeah,
we have a lot of people north of

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here, mostly people that are treated
here in Bartlesville because there isn't any other

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Hopestone so you know, at this
point in time, we're the only entity,

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and so we have to make sure
that we're taking care of each other.

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Folks need RSVP or get tickets for
this event, they can go on

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to our website at www dot Hopestone
cancer dot org and the information is there

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to buy tickets. They can buy
tickets right online. You know, call

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our office telephone still telephone still works, you know, they can call us

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at nine eight eight seven six seventeen
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him out with that. Well,
that is great, and this is a

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beautiful way we celebrate with art to
conquer something as ugly as cancer, and

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they really kind of put cancer in
its place if it can. We have

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another thing that's coming up. It's
it's a different event. It is a

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different events. It is where people
go around and walk like their dad.

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That would be funny, that would
be interesting. But it is a challenge.

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Yes, it is a challenge.
And we have a wonderful friend.

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He is a retired veteran. He's
was a master chief in the Navy.

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His name is Dwayne Brian. Yeah, he lives in Claremore and this is

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his third Dad walk, his second
one for us. So what he does

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is he walks from Claremore to Copane, which is probably like sixty five miles

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somewhere. It's not an easy trick. So day one he starts out in

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Copan and he walks to Noada,
and then he stays in Noada, and

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then he walks from Noada to Bartlesville, and then he'll be staying here in

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Bartlesville. And then the following day
he will walk from Bartlesville up to Copan

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and he does a huge bash in
Copane, food and entertainment, live local

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musicians. It's just always a great
time with Dwayne. He just really puts

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on a fabulous event and we're so
so blest. His dad passed away from

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cancer. His beautiful sister in law
who's a dear, dear friend of ours.

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Lisa is currently fighting her battle,
and I believe his father in law

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is also been affected. But he's
just got a huge heart and he does

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and he puts one foot in front
of the other for those that can't.

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And we're just so so blast.
How do we help him? Help you?

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So there's a couple different ways to
help him help us, So we

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You can go on to our website
and donate to Dad's Walk. Yes,

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that's the easiest way to do it. You can drop a check in the

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mail and just put in the memo
Dad's Walk, and as easy you can

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go on to Facebook. There's a
poster that his lovely wife Anna creates that

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has some QR codes on it.
You just scan that QR code brings it

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to our website. If you don't
know how to work it, just get

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one of the grandkids. He took
me a minute or two two. And

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this year he's not only supporting us, but he's also supporting Past Independence,

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which is a phenomenal organization. Here
is just he blows me away. He's

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an amazing, amazing human being.
He really truly is, and he's all

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about giving and he does it just
because he cares. There's no ulterior motive.

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He gets nothing from it other than
the joy of giving back Dad is

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amazing. Now Hopstone once again right
downtown in Arts. People drive by it

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each and every day. Some people
know what you do. Some people don't

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know what to do, but they're
always curious because there's something in the window

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that says, I wonder what they
do in there? Now, what you

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do a lot of work that other
folks can't do for themselves. Yes,

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for their family members, Yes,
we take So we're a five O one

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C three. So we just basically
provide all kinds of support services for cancer

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patients. You know the programs I
mentioned, the meal program, the prescription

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program, the transportation program, you
know, hook them up with counseling services.

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We have all kinds of supplies.
So, uh, persons diagnosed and

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doesn't have insurance or it takes a
while for their insurance to kick in.

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Yeah, they may be on have
to have a temporary feeding tube or something

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like that. We have all of
the things that they need to tie them

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over. We have tons of nutritional
supplements for feeding tubes. We have all

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the tubes, everything they need,
syringes, all the types of things they

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need for that. We have all
kinds of cost supplies. We have all

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types of wound care things. We
have of course, wigs and hats and

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scarves. You know. We can
assist them with some over the counter medications

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that they need to help them,
such as the cleraton and the tile and

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all. We always have things like
that to help get them started. Each

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person gets a care bag. When
they come in, they fill out a

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card, and as they begin their
journey, they get a care bag.

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And in that care bag is a
blanket, a journal, a port pillow

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to help protect their ports. Yeah, hope, stones, you know,

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things you don't think you need,
like lip bomb and hand sanitizer and things

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that are pretty darn crucial if you're
you know, going through the cancer process.

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Yeah, and then we have little
bags that a lot of different organizations

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and so actually this come two weeks
from now. I'm actually going to go

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down to the research center and the
Research Center is creating what we call our

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chemo care bags. And in those
chemo care bags are all kinds of snacks.

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It's just a little ziploc bag that
the patient can bring with them to

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chemo. So if you're there for
eight hours. You're gonna get hungry,

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you are, and so peanut butter
crackers, some liquid hydration things, energy

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and yeah, just kind of gets
you a little bit, give you some

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energy, give you, you know, nutrition bar those kinds of things,

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you know. And we also provide
them to a couple of different cancer centers

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in the area. They can just
have a basket there for their cancer patients.

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So we have our friends at Phillip's
Researcher doing that for us. And

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then East Cross Methodist Church provides us
with a lot of different things. First

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Church provides us with a lot of
different things. So we're just really blessed,

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like you partner since it's all about
in our community, and I've never

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seen a community that partners as well
as this one does. Yes, show

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me any big city, I say, got you be here. Yeah,

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we are so so blessed. And
who hasn't been touched by cancer in some

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way? We all have, you
know, so every every It's just amazing

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to me because we don't receive government
funding or anything like that. It's strictly

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an organization based on people helping people. Man. So yeah, Westland Church

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is going to come and clean our
building in a couple of weeks. So

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nice, Yes, so we are. We are. You know, the

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LDS community makes pillows and blankets and
stuff for our kiddos and so just everybody

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just does a little peace and it
works. It could learn a couple of

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lessons from how y'all get along?
Yes, you know the kind of model

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after this, it's like, hey, you know, it's not so hard.

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No, and think about it.
Why are we here? We're here

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to take care of each other.
And that's what it's all about, you

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know. That's why Dwayne does what
he does. That's why you know the

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multitude of people in this community do
what they do. They get it.

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We're just here to take care of
each other. It's not about you know,

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who's the bigger fish in the pond. It's about let's all do our

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pond to make sure that that pond
stays happy and healthy. Now, November

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fifth, that is going to be
the arts for Homestone, And I want

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you to go to the website there
for Homestone Cancer Support, and I want

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you to take a look at what's
going on there and you'll find everything that

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you need in order to get your
RSVP and your tickets to and if you

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want to contribute to Dad walk.
We've got a section right there for it.

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But more than anything else, I
mean these are important, Yes,

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these are. But if you're not
familiar with Homestone, what they do and

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how they do it, please just
spend some time on the website and the

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just kind of kind of give yourself
a little education. I think you've got

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to find it well worth the time
and energy to look forward to get that

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done. I think so the rest
will come together. It does, it

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always does. You know. We
just put it where it belongs and it

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takes care of itself. You know, you have a wonderful staff, and

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your volunteers are incredible, and your
your partnerships throughout the community. I just

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flat out, as Larry the Cable
Guy would say, get or done.

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Yes, And this is a twenty
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a year operation. And cancer doesn't
sleep neither to you. No, No,

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ask my husband when that phone goes
off in the middle of the night

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for you see you later. I
want to thank you for coming in and

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thank you, thank you so much, and we hope to see everybody either

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at Art's a Hopstone or join Dwayne
on his walk somewhere along the way,

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Debby, thank you, thank you,