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

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meetians at the time now for our
community connection right here on okay,

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one the one you trusted. I
am blessed here but two of the nicest

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ladies loved our community. It's always
great to have him here. First of

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all, we have a Julie and
Christina and we're talking about Elbow your care

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today. First of all, Christina
Bishop, excuse me here, Julie,

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congratulating becoming the executive director of Eldercare. We have the news story on there

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today. Yay. We'll give you
our hand for that. I'm honored.

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Well, you know you've been around
the building about that a little while,

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about seventeen years. Yes, And
you're not moving your office, are you.

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I'm not. That's good. I'm
going to stay put perks of the

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job. I'm not moving. She
has the big corner office. Well congratulations.

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Well I appreciate that. Tom.
We are going to do some great

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things. Oh indeed, one of
the great things is kind of coming up,

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isn't it. We have the good, the bad, and the barbecue.

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We do, we do, we
do, We're sided. Christina just

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told me it was thirty eight days
away. Yesterday, and so I know

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it's like you're playing the big event
in those last few weeks. It's hot

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and heavy and bringing it home and
having a good time when we get there.

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Well, it is going to be
great. Tell us a little bit

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about it. You're the chair.
I am the chair this year. I'm

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so glad to work alongside Christina and
her entire team, and our committee is

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wonderful too. So we've got some
of the top community leaders on that committee

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and we're dividing things out and working
with our community and the local businesses and

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providers and putting together a great event. So mark your calendars. It's always

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Mother's Day weekend and it's always rain
and shine. So this year it's May

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eleventh. We're going to be out
the huge ranch. We will be out

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with the Hughes Ranch. They have
welcomed us again this year and it's a

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great property. They've done a lot
of updates. Beautiful, Yeah, they've

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done some great updates. We'll be
offering a VIP experience in the main house

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there. There's artwork, just a
beautiful collection of I think Julie and I

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were doing and awing as we went
through there. We were and so we

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wanted to offer that as an experience
this year. So dinner is one hundred

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if you want to join us at
six pm. If you want to be

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a VIP and enjoy the entire ranch
experience that starts at four point thirty,

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it's a five hundred dollars ticket to
have that VIP experience. But it's an

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awesome Yeah, I mean they're paying
how much to go see what's her name,

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miss Swift? Yeah, let's go
see. Let's go see the huge

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ranch and then benefit Eldercare by doing
that. There you are, and of

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course the Eldercare has a one mission
and one mission only, and that to

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make sure that seniors can age in
place with dignity and all the help they

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can ever want. A quality of
life. That's what's important, it is,

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and this is a great way to
kind of celebrate Eldercare as well as

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kind of help take care of some
of the bills. Absolutely, we need

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those funds. So it's a fundraising
event and we're counting on our community to

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really get in there and have fun
with us and raise some dollars. Now,

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truly, how do we get the
tickets? The tickets are online so

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at about Eldercare dot org backslash BBQ. You're going to see a billboard coming

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up. We've had some community announcements
and so you can even stop buy elder

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Care to the front desk. They'll
take care of you. They're prepared to

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welcome you in. And so the
easiest way is probably online to do that.

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And you'll see an icon even on
the landing page if you just put

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in Eldercare Bartlesville. It's right there
on the front page. You'll take you

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down to the event and please pretty
simple, please join us. Yeah,

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it's pretty simple these days. Well, there you go. I know you've

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got other experiences too that are going
to be kind of intermeshed with the big

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bad bartel we do. You know, I sat down with Christina pretty early

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on and she has a big goal
and a big vision, and to do

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that, we have to provide an
event that's really intriguing and fun. So

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it takes it all in. And
so the Express Clydesdale is are going to

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bring two of their iconic horses to
the ranch. I mean, how appropriate

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is that. So Express has been
a great supporter here and so we'll have

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the We're going to have a horseshoe
toss for some bourbon and some wine and

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things like that, and then if
you can throw a horse shoe, you're

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gonna win something. We're going to
have a raffle, so that's gonna be

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fun for a trip or a small
ATV kind of experience. So one hundred

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tickets at one hundred dollars apiece.
Somebody asked yesterday what if one person wants

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to buy all of them? So
that's a that's a ten thousand dollars donation.

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That's pretty wise because you're gonna get
something out of that. So I

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thought that was a great question to
ask. That's called luck of the draw.

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And then they are known for their
live auction. We'll have ten fabulous

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items including dining experiences, an event
out, another trip, an event out

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at wool Rock for fifty people that
will be provided by Dinks and wool Rock,

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and we're gonna have dining with some
chefs. We're going to have some

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great jewelry pieces from McCoy's and windows
and so I'm the silent auction too,

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so we'll have anything from We got
some art pieces from previous clients, the

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Elder care as they're beautiful, really
really great pieces that I think symbolize what

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elder Care is and the creativity and
just the provision of continuing to provide life

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for our people in the community.
And then we'll have things, you know,

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Kindrick Scott and some you know,
gift cards and things like that.

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And then you guys know, it's
the good, it's the bad, and

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it's the barbecue. And Dinks has
always been our barbecue provider, and so

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we're gonna have I think we decided
to meet meat more meat. So the

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Curds have been wonderful. Sat down
with them and kind of talked through that

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last week to make sure we're serving
and providing a great meal. There's also

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gonna be some live music. So
after we're done doing some auctions and and

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and you know opening up the park, uh the pocket book. Like Christina

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said, it is a fundraiser,
then we're gonna have a good time and

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just celebrate. Well, this is
going to be fun, lots of fun.

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Yeah. Now, Christine, I
understand you got a little construction going

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on. Little CONSTRUCTIONCHC on Swan Drive. Yes, So CHC, who is

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in our clinical space provides those clinical
services. They are expanding. We're going

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to have more docs and so we
need more exam rooms. Well there you

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go. Yeah, I'm excited.
That's been a quick year, hasn't it.

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We have had a fast paced year. It has been fast. But

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that's only a proc Well, you
know, I took into count the last

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six months. You know, it
depends on when you start your year.

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Yeah, of course, but this
is great. Adding on and growing is

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always a good thing. It is
always a good thing. And you know,

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Tom, every day in the United
States, ten thousand people turned sixty

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five and by the time we get
to twenty fifty, twenty percent of our

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population will be sixty five or older. And so I look at this as

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an opportunity, an opportunity to really
make a difference in the aging population,

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the services, quality of care.
And you know, when you think about

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it, sometimes people think, oh, that's my grandma or that's my mom

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and dad, But truly we're all
aging and we need to start thinking about

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that earlier because right now, with
the numbers the way they are, I

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am I'm excited because it gives us
that voice, and we need to think

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about our children and our grandchildren and
what we want their aging to look like

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because we're all doing it. We're
all aging every day and we're going to

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have quality services and that's what elder
Cares all about, living well, quality

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of life. So we're going to
do this, do right, do right.

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So my elderly okay, because I've
been a patient at elder Care so

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in my turn fifty and even today, and so I think even the elderly

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and then you're seeing some specialty services. Their physical therapies be therapy and occupational

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therapy. It's called Eldercare. But
you can walk in there, yes,

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eighteen and over right, eighteen and
over, eighteen over, and it's nice

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to see those fresh faces. The
elderly population actually likes to see the youth

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come in. And so I've personally
been served by elder Care, and then

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with some of the specialty docs coming
in, that's going to expand to There

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was a little baby in there with
his mama yesterday and his grandma. So

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grandma came in with her daughter and
her grand baby, and that was really

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neat to see the entire family generational. You know, that's cool and really

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start taking care of yourself early on
to live well into age. Well.

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So we want to be a part
of all of that. No. With

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Eldercare, you have all kinds of
great services. You know, when we

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talk about getting ourselves back together after
like say a ball or maybe illness or

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something like that, Doctor Josh and
everybody can take care of you. He's

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incredible. His team is amazing.
They're awesome. Foundation therapy service. It's

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wonderful. And of course when you
we think of maybe slowing down a little

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bit in our thinking and things like
that, we've got the brain gym go

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yes we do and Abby and you
know, you've got to stay cognitively well.

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Just like you exercise your body,
you've got to exercise our brains.

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And research now says that one of
the things we can do is if we're

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doing two activities at once. So
if you're walking and you've got someone with

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you and you're talking, that's only
going to help increase that cognitive wellness.

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And so we've got to think about
those things. It's not just doing the

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crossword anymore. It's really challenging your
brain and doing multiple things. And we

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want to bring those services and programs
to you. So get ready, low

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ruming, Well, this is a
pretty darn cool. I'm really liking it's

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good to bed the barbecue FIRS Day
weekend. Yeah, man, huge,

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thirty eight days, thirty seven.
So it's fun to get your tickets.

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I mean, great Mother's Day gift
again. We talk about multi generation.

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Get your mom, get your family, get a table. You know,

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it's fun. It's gonna be fun, and you're gonna want to wear your

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best Western attire. I hear there
are some really amazing outfits that show up.

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There's a bit oh, I mean
yeah, last year that was good

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stuff. I think it's worth a
dinner ticket just to maybe do some people

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watching and shop a little bit at
the Silent auction and see your friends,

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see your friends. Yes, and
we want to invite in the younger population

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too. We want those young professionals. I mean, they're the ones that

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are going to inherit this organization even
after after I'm gone. Yeah, so

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we want those young professionals in there. I know leadership Bartles Will comes by

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to tour and it's just such a
wonderful community asset that most communities don't see

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anything this unique like what elder care
provides. You know, here in that

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twenty five to forty four group,
this is something you really need to witness.

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This is something you got to be
a part of. And if you've

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been thinking about it too, I
don't know, Well, come on out

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there. I can tell you right
now that I used to be twenty five,

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I used to be forty four,
and I would have had a blast

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that either of those ages or anywhere
in between. Because when we went out

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there last year for the very first
time, it was most fun I had

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in a long time. Oh,
it's right, Well, thank you for

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saying that. That's amazing. It's
one of one of the well known events

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in our community for fundraising, and
Christina has a big goal. I mean,

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she'd like to see a ticket come
in. She wants two hundred thousand

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dollars. You know, if you
look at that for Daybreak, that's significant.

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So we want to support them.
And Daybreak is one of our signature

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programs. It is, it's one
of our flagship programs, and you know,

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it's just critical to have services like
that in the community, and it's

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one of our programs we're going to
be expanding on. So we really do

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need the help of the community.
For folks who aren't sure they've heard the

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term Daybreak, but they don't know
what it is, give us a little

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topic. It's an adult day activity
and health center, so that means there's

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all sorts of cognitive X exercise,
stimulation programs. We just have fun.

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It's eighty A compliant, which means
anybody can come. We can help,

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you know, support them, support
people who are caregiving by providing respite.

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We have medical oversight, We have
an LPN on staff, and you know,

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we have the clinic in the building, so we can help kind of

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transition through the different programs. But
it's one of those things that you got

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to get in and get in early. And we're going to be developing some

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programs for early diagnosis. So if
someone's having some memory loss, we want

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to target that and help them stay
better longer. And it's one of the

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ways you really do that. You
got to get in programs, support groups

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right when you get that diagnosis or
you start feeling like, oh, I'm

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maybe having some challenges. The earlier
we can address those things, the better

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off we're going to be. But
I understand the daybreak. Actually we're the

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cool kids hanging. I was in
there yesterday and they were doing art and

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then a group was doing their exercise
and stretching, and we have a.

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It was like national hot chocolate something. It's always a national holiday there too.

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So I mean, if you want
to have fun and hang out with

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the cool kids, socialization parties,
we want to have fun, and I

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think that's what we do at Eldercare. We love on people. We try

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to have fun in every department.
We want to be a part of your

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family and in so many ways over
the past forty plus years you have been.

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We want that to continue, and
we want a thousand people out there

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at the event this year. We
really really want to see everybody. If

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it's not worth one hundred dollars to
join us for that, and I don't

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know, that's the best hundred dollars
you can spend. I was just going

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to say, that's the best one
hundred bucks to get ever fly out of

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your wallet. It really is paper
itself. Big dividends not only for elder

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Care. But you will walk away
with the biggest smile on your face.

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So hit that website, buy those
tickets. We'll send you a ticket,

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get you in the gate and take
it from there. It'll be it'll be

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a great night, amazing. I
want to thank you both for being here.

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Conank you. Thank you so much. Yes, engratuation have be in

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the chair and my honor, it's
we are blasted, it's my honor.

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Oh my gosh. Well, thank
you folks. You have been listening and

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