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

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Media's time now for our community connection
right here on Kay one, the

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one you trust. And today we've
got a very special guest in here.

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Today we have Whitney Doolan and she's
the executive vice president of our Best Bank.

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And Whitney, first of all,
welcome, thank you so much.

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I'm glad to be here. I'm
glad you're here too, because you're going

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to talk about something that our Best
Bank does pretty darn well. Now,

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you take care of great customers like
you, truly, very very well,

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but we also take care of our
friends in need too, and with this

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one million meals, that is something
that has really been a big benchmark here

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in our community for a good number
of years. Yes, tom So,

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this is our fourteenth annual one million
Mails cam Hay fourteenth, Yes sir,

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and we're so happy to do it
every year, citing time for us.

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We feel like this is a really
valuable community project that we do every year

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to raise funds for folks who have
food insecurities. And here in Oklahoma where

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the sixth ranth state that has the
most food insecurities, and so we feel

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like it's a very valuable cause for
us, and so to be able to

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help those folks in need, we
just really value that. So we're excited

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to get started. It starts April
the first and it runs through May the

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thirty first, and so lots of
things that our community can do and our

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customers can do. Folks out there
who want to get involved, we would

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love for them to participate in some
of the events that we have going on.

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Who is our food partner this year. Yeah, so here in Bartlesville

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it is Mary Martha Outreach. We've
been working with them for several years now.

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They do great work, excellent work
in this community. Their goal is

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to get really healthy foods to folks
in need, not necessarily all process foods

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to folks, because sometimes that's only
what people can afford. And so they

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do great work. And we work
with Missy wish All, the director there.

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And then in no Wada County we
work with a food pantry called Loaves

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and Fishes over there who are also
doing excellent work to help folks in no

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Wata. That is absolutely wonderful.
Now, how do we help provide one

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million meals? How do we just
Joe and marry a citizen how do we

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do that? Absolutely? So for
every dollar we raise, that is five

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meals that we can provide a family. Oh wow. And so whether you

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are going to make a donation through
check or through cash or even you can

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go to the Harvest app huh and
download transfer money from your from your Harvest

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account directly to those that just want
to let everyone know that all the funds

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that we raise here in Bartlesville or
in no Wada stay directly in this community.

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And so that one hundred percent of
the fund. So there's multiple ways

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you can you can donate, and
we'd love for you to take advantage of

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one of those. I have that
app and that's about the dandiest thing ever.

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I'm not all that technically inclined,
but I can work that thing,

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yes, and it's like today magic. And to know that I can make

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my donation through that app, yep. Really it's good. Not that I

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don't mind going in and saying hey, JD and everybody else there you know,

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at the East branch and say in
body and whatever. I'll probably do

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that too and throw a few dollars
in as well, you know, just

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because yes, you know, so
this is a this is a good thing,

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and you know it, like you
said, one dollar provides for how

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many meals? Five meals for a
family? Absolutely, and so over the

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fourteen years that we've been doing this
across our four state footprint, we raised

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over twenty two million meals for families
and needs. So it's an awesome opportunity

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for us to get involved, but
we know that the work is really going

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to folks who really need it,
so really really happy to support the commune

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any way, this is great.
You know, our invest has been always

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such a good partner here in our
neighborhood and your footprint here and Dewey and

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Bartleville also know what accounting and everything. You know, it just seems like,

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you know, it's just one more
good thing that people have come to

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expect. Yeah, and it's a
lot of fun. We're doing some things

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in our branches. This week,
we're doing a bake sale, so if

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you have a sweet tooth and you
want to come by and grab some cookies

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or a cake or something fun,
you're more than welcome to do that for

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a small donation. We also next
week we're trying to make sure there's something

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for everyone. Next week is our
Cutest Pet Contest. So we'll have an

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opportunity for our folks to vote on
the cutest pet that they think is worth

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their dollar or two. And then
the twenty second through the twenty six we're

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going to have a silent auction over
at our East Side location. So lots

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of things that you can get involved
with, and they're fun and associates do

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a great job putting on those activities. You know, nothing so fun like

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going to the bank when they got
popcorn popping and coffee Perkin, and you

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know, it's just one of those
little extras. I know that I go

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to the bank to take care of
my financial things and what have you,

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but it's just nice to know that
you can smell that popcorn and popping and

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smell that coffee perkin and everything else. You just know that that says home

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there absolutely. You know, we've
been a part of this community for a

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very long time and we're so happy
to help folks here, to be a

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part of the community, to be
a good community partner and steward of a

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lot of folks money and help and
help any way that we can to find

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financial solutions for folks. So if
you're not a customer of ours, we'd

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love to do business with you.
And like you said, we try to

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make a friendly family atmosphere where people
want to come and do business with us.

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And so don't forget we serve popcorn
on Fridays, but you can have

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coffee any day of the week.
But it's just another fun way for people

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to hopefully break down some of those
barriers and not feel so intimidating to come

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into the bank. And don't forget
you got the Sunrise reporter that we put

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out. There's there every day,
so if you're waiting for your appointment,

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you can take a quick read and
then you can go on in and say,

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hey, I feel fully important anyway, your professionals that you have there

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as far as getting you taken care
of, as far as establishing an account

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or perhaps maybe getting something straightened out, or even better yet, helping you

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get that home loan, absolutely automobile
loan. Those folks are I tell you

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what, I don't know where you
find them, because they're about the friendliest

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people ever. Well, we have
great associates who are doing for us that

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are experienced and have the knowledge and
the industry, and I think one of

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the things that is just they all
live our mission statement, and that's just

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people helping people find financial solutions for
life and they want to go above and

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beyond for people. And so I'm
just really proud of the work that we

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do. I'm proud of our associates, and we continue to find great people

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to live out that mission. And
one of these fine missions that we got

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coming out here too. Once again, it's an initiative here, it's the

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one million Meals and the food partner
here locally is Mary Martha Outreach. And

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just remember you can go to the
branch, you can use your app,

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you can do a whole lot of
different ways to make a contribution. Absolutely,

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and remember one dollar provides for five
meals and we're trying to raise a

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million meals. How many meals have
we raised over the years, so twenty

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two point nine million meals over the
last fourteen years. Last year we did

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two point two nine million meals,
so we got to make three I know,

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and we're triving to it's there,
yes, And if you've already made

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a donation, I just want to
say a big thank you for that.

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We've had several people already make donations. Last week we were selling eclipse glasses

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and those were going like hotcakes.
And so I just really appreciate anyone who's

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who's made a contribution already. No, I gotta tell you what the thing

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is around here. A lot of
folks remember maybe a time in their life

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where food may have been a little
scarce, absolutely, and now they're doing

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okay. And it's really not a
hard ask, you know. And I

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think a lot of folks will just
quietly just go here some stuff that don't

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click paper and even if it's changed, you know, I mean, it

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goes absolutely, it all goes long
way, absolutely, and so just whatever

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you can give, we're so grateful
that you've taken just a little bit of

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money and set it aside for folks
that need That is really wonderful. That's

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the one million meals. And this
is with our best and the local partners.

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Mary Martha Outrache, I want to
thank you for coming in and sharing

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with this no other than just we
appreciate your business and thank you for allowing

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us to be members in your community. We all of us live here locally

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and we just appreciate the opportunity to
serve you. Thank you very much.

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Whitney Dooland Executive Vice President arbas Bank, Thank you for being with us here

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on community Connection. Thank you