And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome in this time now for our community connection right here, I'm k one,
the one you trust. It is a beautiful day in our neighborhood.
It's always a beautiful day when we have our friends drop by. How you
doing, Debbie, I'm doing great, sir. How are you this morning?
I'm doing wonderful. Miss Album. We've got the Hopestone that Cancer Support
Center, the Art of Hopstone coming up. This is a biggie Yes,
yes, it is huge. It's a huge piece of our budget. So
it's a great event. It's a really fun event, two hours long.
Come on in see the amazing artists we have in town. We have a
lot of one of the kind pieces that are made actually right there at Hopstone
by our Hopestone potters. Wow. We are blessed to have a master potter
who worked a lot with Frankcoma Oravile Night and he is in charge of our
pottery program and he has created some amazing, amazing potters, so all kinds
of pottery. We have our local Safari smiles Dennis sam Limblue who's gonna provide
us with a piece. Our friend Chris Mantle from Tulsa will give us a
piece some just a lot of local people participate, so that's really kind of
cool. We get to feature their art and raise money for our Hopestone programs.
So our meal program, which is huge, I've talked about that several
times. Well, we need to keep it in the forefront because it is
huge. It is huge. It is huge. So over two hundred meals
a week we make and package delivered to our cancer patients and their families.
And then our prescription drug program where we partner with Ascension Medcare Pharmacy to ensure
that our cancer patients are getting their antibiotics, anti nausea meds, any medication
that their on collages feels they need, we have to ensure that they get
that so that they have a successful treatment. Samaritan Counseling we partner with Samaritan
on counseling services. I'm big on partnerships. You know, we need to
help each other to make sure that we take care of the people in our
community. And so that's kind of what I'm all about. Making sure our
patients can get to and from treatments with gas cards and helping with rides and
helping with airline vouchers if their doctor refers them, you know to M d
Anderson or Mayo or whatever. So those are the big east that we use
the funds for now with the helps to remind folks when we can kind of
enjoy this and it also help you at the same time help our cancer people.
Yeah, and there's a lot of them, are a lot of day
yes, yes, and younger and younger. So our event is November fifth,
which is the first Sunday in November from four to six pm. And
it's great. We have drinks and we have food, some finger foods,
and just a time of community, you know, so bonding and seeing what
we have to offer in the community. People can feel free to take a
tour, walk around the facility, see what it's all about. So we're
very, very very excited about that. That's this is our eighth year of
doing this. Oh we and we raise a lot of money. We raise
a lot of money. Well that's great because people know that this is a
very noble cause and this is something that could happen to anyone in any time.
Answer doesn't know race, it doesn't know it doesn't know gender, it
doesn't know anything other than it's going to be very painful. Yeah, and
it doesn't care, you know, it truly does not. It's a really
horrific disease. And it affects more people in our community, I think than
people realize. You know, when we service from Tulsa up to Independence,
Kansas and so people can Yeah, we have a lot of people north of
here, mostly people that are treated here in Bartlesville because there isn't any other
Hopestone so you know, at this point in time, we're the only entity,
and so we have to make sure that we're taking care of each other.
Folks need RSVP or get tickets for this event, they can go on
to our website at www dot Hopestone cancer dot org and the information is there
to buy tickets. They can buy tickets right online. You know, call
our office telephone still telephone still works, you know, they can call us
at nine eight eight seven six seventeen oh nine and we'd be happy to help
him out with that. Well, that is great, and this is a
beautiful way we celebrate with art to conquer something as ugly as cancer, and
they really kind of put cancer in its place if it can. We have
another thing that's coming up. It's it's a different event. It is a
different events. It is where people go around and walk like their dad.
That would be funny, that would be interesting. But it is a challenge.
Yes, it is a challenge. And we have a wonderful friend.
He is a retired veteran. He's was a master chief in the Navy.
His name is Dwayne Brian. Yeah, he lives in Claremore and this is
his third Dad walk, his second one for us. So what he does
is he walks from Claremore to Copane, which is probably like sixty five miles
somewhere. It's not an easy trick. So day one he starts out in
Copan and he walks to Noada, and then he stays in Noada, and
then he walks from Noada to Bartlesville, and then he'll be staying here in
Bartlesville. And then the following day he will walk from Bartlesville up to Copan
and he does a huge bash in Copane, food and entertainment, live local
musicians. It's just always a great time with Dwayne. He just really puts
on a fabulous event and we're so so blest. His dad passed away from
cancer. His beautiful sister in law who's a dear, dear friend of ours.
Lisa is currently fighting her battle, and I believe his father in law
is also been affected. But he's just got a huge heart and he does
and he puts one foot in front of the other for those that can't.
And we're just so so blast. How do we help him? Help you?
So there's a couple different ways to help him help us, So we
You can go on to our website and donate to Dad's Walk. Yes,
that's the easiest way to do it. You can drop a check in the
mail and just put in the memo Dad's Walk, and as easy you can
go on to Facebook. There's a poster that his lovely wife Anna creates that
has some QR codes on it. You just scan that QR code brings it
to our website. If you don't know how to work it, just get
one of the grandkids. He took me a minute or two two. And
this year he's not only supporting us, but he's also supporting Past Independence,
which is a phenomenal organization. Here is just he blows me away. He's
an amazing, amazing human being. He really truly is, and he's all
about giving and he does it just because he cares. There's no ulterior motive.
He gets nothing from it other than the joy of giving back Dad is
amazing. Now Hopstone once again right downtown in Arts. People drive by it
each and every day. Some people know what you do. Some people don't
know what to do, but they're always curious because there's something in the window
that says, I wonder what they do in there? Now, what you
do a lot of work that other folks can't do for themselves. Yes,
for their family members, Yes, we take So we're a five O one
C three. So we just basically provide all kinds of support services for cancer
patients. You know the programs I mentioned, the meal program, the prescription
program, the transportation program, you know, hook them up with counseling services.
We have all kinds of supplies. So, uh, persons diagnosed and
doesn't have insurance or it takes a while for their insurance to kick in.
Yeah, they may be on have to have a temporary feeding tube or something
like that. We have all of the things that they need to tie them
over. We have tons of nutritional supplements for feeding tubes. We have all
the tubes, everything they need, syringes, all the types of things they
need for that. We have all kinds of cost supplies. We have all
types of wound care things. We have of course, wigs and hats and
scarves. You know. We can assist them with some over the counter medications
that they need to help them, such as the cleraton and the tile and
all. We always have things like that to help get them started. Each
person gets a care bag. When they come in, they fill out a
card, and as they begin their journey, they get a care bag.
And in that care bag is a blanket, a journal, a port pillow
to help protect their ports. Yeah, hope, stones, you know,
things you don't think you need, like lip bomb and hand sanitizer and things
that are pretty darn crucial if you're you know, going through the cancer process.
Yeah, and then we have little bags that a lot of different organizations
and so actually this come two weeks from now. I'm actually going to go
down to the research center and the Research Center is creating what we call our
chemo care bags. And in those chemo care bags are all kinds of snacks.
It's just a little ziploc bag that the patient can bring with them to
chemo. So if you're there for eight hours. You're gonna get hungry,
you are, and so peanut butter crackers, some liquid hydration things, energy
and yeah, just kind of gets you a little bit, give you some
energy, give you, you know, nutrition bar those kinds of things,
you know. And we also provide them to a couple of different cancer centers
in the area. They can just have a basket there for their cancer patients.
So we have our friends at Phillip's Researcher doing that for us. And
then East Cross Methodist Church provides us with a lot of different things. First
Church provides us with a lot of different things. So we're just really blessed,
like you partner since it's all about in our community, and I've never
seen a community that partners as well as this one does. Yes, show
me any big city, I say, got you be here. Yeah,
we are so so blessed. And who hasn't been touched by cancer in some
way? We all have, you know, so every every It's just amazing
to me because we don't receive government funding or anything like that. It's strictly
an organization based on people helping people. Man. So yeah, Westland Church
is going to come and clean our building in a couple of weeks. So
nice, Yes, so we are. We are. You know, the
LDS community makes pillows and blankets and stuff for our kiddos and so just everybody
just does a little peace and it works. It could learn a couple of
lessons from how y'all get along? Yes, you know the kind of model
after this, it's like, hey, you know, it's not so hard.
No, and think about it. Why are we here? We're here
to take care of each other. And that's what it's all about, you
know. That's why Dwayne does what he does. That's why you know the
multitude of people in this community do what they do. They get it.
We're just here to take care of each other. It's not about you know,
who's the bigger fish in the pond. It's about let's all do our
pond to make sure that that pond stays happy and healthy. Now, November
fifth, that is going to be the arts for Homestone, And I want
you to go to the website there for Homestone Cancer Support, and I want
you to take a look at what's going on there and you'll find everything that
you need in order to get your RSVP and your tickets to and if you
want to contribute to Dad walk. We've got a section right there for it.
But more than anything else, I mean these are important, Yes,
these are. But if you're not familiar with Homestone, what they do and
how they do it, please just spend some time on the website and the
just kind of kind of give yourself a little education. I think you've got
to find it well worth the time and energy to look forward to get that
done. I think so the rest will come together. It does, it
always does. You know. We just put it where it belongs and it
takes care of itself. You know, you have a wonderful staff, and
your volunteers are incredible, and your your partnerships throughout the community. I just
flat out, as Larry the Cable Guy would say, get or done.
Yes, And this is a twenty four to seven three and sixty five days
a year operation. And cancer doesn't sleep neither to you. No, No,
ask my husband when that phone goes off in the middle of the night
for you see you later. I want to thank you for coming in and
thank you, thank you so much, and we hope to see everybody either
at Art's a Hopstone or join Dwayne on his walk somewhere along the way,
Debby, thank you, thank you,