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Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome in. It's time now home
for it. City matters. If

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it matters to you, it matters
to the city, and we've got a

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full house here today. We're trying
to get our video working here today,

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but we're having a little bit of
an issue on that. But in the

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meanwhile, we're gonna go with the
audio portion of the program, and we

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have Assistant to city Manager Tracy Rolls
here with us, and he'll be pretty

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much leading the conversation here today with
us, and to introduce the cast of

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thousands, if you will there,
kind sir, Well, it's good to

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know that we are audio well,
never mind, Yeah, I was gonna

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say, since I have a face
for radio, the audio portion is really

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really good for me. But I
brought two other guys that will make the

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video portion good for them. Our
golf pro Jerry Benedict and our director of

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our airport, Mike Richardson, are
with us today and I'm filling in for

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mister Bailey, who I was headed
to the golf course actually, when mister

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Bailey called me and said, I've
got something better for you to do,

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and I said, yes, sir, and here I am five minutes later

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with you guys. Congratulations on your
recent award. That's that's a big deal.

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Congratulations a great job. I know
that you put in a lot of

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work getting to where you are today, forty two years in the making,

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so just a couple just a few
hours of work, but congratulations on that.

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That's a full deal. Before I
turned over to these guys to talk

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about the airport and the golf course. Uh, two very fine resources in

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our city, I might add,
and I think resources a lot of people

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don't totally understand the importance of,
and so it's it's it's good for these

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guys to be here to talk about
the importance of our golf course and our

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airport. You know, some people
in Bartlesville may not even know that we

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have an airport and what our airport
is capable of doing, and what they

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do actually do on a on a
daily basis, and how important that is

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to our community for many many reasons, such as our golf course for many

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reasons, it's very important to our
community. So I think it's good for

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these guys to be here to let
people know about the services that are provided

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by those two things, and how
cool it is to have both of those

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in a community like we have.
Last Friday, the police department held their

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Finnyl form. That's their second one
in two years. And I just talked

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to Chief Eakleberry as I was coming
in the room today and he said that

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there were about a hundred people that
attended the Fentnyl forum in person, and

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then online there was another about four
thousand people I believe that who were watching

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online, probably because it was so
hot that people didn't want to get out

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of their homes, which I totally
understand. I think that they probably made

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the best decision not to get out
in the heat. But that's a big

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deal, not just for our community, but for anyone who took part in

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watching that forum in some way.
I think they had a panel of ten

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people in a wide spectrum of professions
from from the enforcement side to the treatment

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side and everything in between, and
so Chief Eachelberry said that it went very

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well. And anytime that we have
the opportunity to educate people about some issues

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or problems in our community, and
in this case, in our state,

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the better off we are. Because
the people of the city of Bartlesville certainly

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deserve to know everything that they can
possibly know about fentnyl, how it gets

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here, how it's distributed, its
effects in a negative way. You know,

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fentnyl does have a medical purpose that
is legitimate and it's prescribed by doctors.

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And that's typically not the finnyl that
we concern ourselves with the most.

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It's the other stuff that people it
illegally and oftentimes without even their knowledge of

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what they are getting and putting into
their body. So kudos to the Police

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Department in chief Eachaelberry for putting that
together and getting that information out there.

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The other thing about the police department, as part of the strategic Plan,

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the Bartlesville Next Strategic Plan that we
have put together, we task the police

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department in gaining information so that we
can better put together a plan on how

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we the city can be involved in
addressing the issue of homelessness within our community.

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And the police Department, through their
Mental Health Corresponse Unit, has done

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that and they found that in the
city of Bartlesville there were at the time

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fifty four unsheltered homeless people. Now
that that is not the total number of

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homeless that we have in the city
of Bartlesville. That's only those people who

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are unsheltered. For example, the
people that you see sleeping in the park,

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the people that you see sleeping are
are living along the pathfinder. Those

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are the unsheltered, not the people
who couch surf or stay at the lighthouse

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or some other entities that provide services
for people who need those type of services.

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But these are the people who are
living in our parks and along and

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along our our pathway in the city. With that information, that really gives

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us a chance to see the scope
of the issue that we have. Uh.

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You know, there were a lot
of rumors going on that we had

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upwards of close to a thousand homeless
people in the city of Bartlesville, and

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I'll tell you unsheltered homeless people.
That is not true. We don't have

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a thousand people. There was also
rumors that Tulsa and other communities were bussing

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in hundreds of home homeless people at
a time to our city. Again,

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not true. Those are myths.
And so through the work of the police

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department and their data collection, we
have really gained an understanding of the scope

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of the issue that we're facing here
and so now we can better assist with

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those professionals in dealing with the problem
and issue of homelessness in our community.

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So very again, very thankful for
Chief Eackelberry and his staff in gathering that

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information so we can put together a
plan that will help for our overall city

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water. Let's talk about water.
Everybody wants to talk about water. We're

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still holding study in the mid seventies
overall water percent wise for overall, so

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that puts us keeps us in stage
one. So no, nothing required of

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people. We do ask, as
we should always ask, that we all

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are be mindful when it comes to
conservation. And even if even if we're

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at one hundred percent, I still
think that it's imperative for all of us

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to conserve when we can, not
because the city's asking are requiring, but

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just because it's the right thing to
do. And so we're looking good.

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We've had some rain events that's kept
us in an area that we need to

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be in that we're more comfortable being
in. We are still moving forward with

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trying to develop a long term comprehensive
plan to deal with our water issues and

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so I'm excited to see where that
goes and what that looks like through our

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Water Resources Committee. So another update
City Hall We've done a survey within the

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employees in City Hall and have decided
that starting on September the eighteenth, city

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Hall will have new business hours.
City Hall will actually be open Monday through

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Thursday eight to five. So now
we're open eight thirty to four thirty Monday

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through Friday. The new hour starting
September the eighteenth will be Monday through Thursday

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eight to five and Friday eight to
eleven thirty. So hopefully that will allow

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some people to deal with City Hall
business that they need to deal with before

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work and after work. So we're
excited about that. Also about city Hall,

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it will be closed on Labor Day. City Hall closed on Labor Day,

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which is September the fourth, in
observation of that holiday. What do

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we do with our trash? You
know, same as always Wednesday. That's

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right, those who are on Tuesday
or Wednesday, it won't it won't affect

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them. It's only those people on
Monday. And that's always a good question,

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what do we do with our trash? So hopefully that that answers that

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and if you have any questions,
obviously call City Hall and somebody there can

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answer any questions that anyone may have. So with that, who'd I tell?

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I told Mike he was going to
go first. So Mike Richardson,

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he's the director of our airport,
and he'll visit with you guys a little

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bit about airport and the great thing
that we have going there. Thank you.

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What a beautiful morning to start thinking
about a fly in fall weather.

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Tends to make me think about uh
don patrols at daylight and from years past.

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So what we're doing is a flying
event. It'll be September the twenty

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second and twenty third here at the
Bartlesville Municipal Airport. It's a new event

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at bringing back the essence of the
great aviation events from the past. As

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many of you will remember, we
had the National Buy Plane Association Biplane Expo

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from nineteen eighty seven to two thousand
and nine, twenty three years. Had

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a great run. It was run
by a fantastic group of people, Charles

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Harris, Charlie Harris, we called
him Charlie, Virgil Gaydy, Betsy Kersey,

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many many, many, many volunteers. Charlie was an excellent person to

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organize volunteerism. That was a fantastic
event, brought in probably seventy five thousand

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people, over twenty years, fifteen
hundred biplanes as far away as the East

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Coast and the West Coast. Just
several hundred families coming hundreds of miles to

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Bartlesville to participate in that event and
spectate for that matter. This event is

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going to be hopefully similar in fashion. We'll have some biplanes at this event.

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There will be different kinds of aircraft
from kitplanes to military aircraft. We're

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going to be doing a a parachute
jump out of the DC three. That's

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probably going to be one of the
the biggest things. You'll get to witness

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a static line parachute team jump out
of the back of the DC three U

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C forty nine as the military designation. It's a eighty two year old aircraft.

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So it's amazing piece of living history
to see, just as it was

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done in Normandy, France in nineteen
forty one. So it'll it'll be pretty

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amazing to witness that. Well,
Trains should be a celebrity jumper. I

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could probably make that happen, maybe
with a couple of weeks of training.

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See how I volunteered. You like
that. I appreciate that there's probably some

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people that would jump on board for
that for sure. You know, it's

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amazing in all series, is that
how in a plane that old can still

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at number one get off the ground
and fly. So that's that's a really

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cool thing. It is amazing that, you know, it's still a flying

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piece of history. It's meticulously maintained. We're really looking forward to the event,

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you know, and being able to
showcase one of the things that it

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was very capable of doing. So
we're also going to have some displays from

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for that aircraft in the hangar.
There will be another organization from I believe

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they are from Sweetwater, Texas,
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A lot of folks don't even realize
they existed, but there were a

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lot of women, as many as
twenty five thousand women that were trained to

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fly aircraft from the manufacturer to the
different base locations across the United States.

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They're also going to have some display
and in eighteen six and a Steerman and

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we'll be selling rides at the flying
So it's a pretty unique opportunity to young

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ladies. If you have an interest
in flying, come out and visit with

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these folks. Young or that doesn't
have to be a young person. We

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have people that are retired that learned
how to fly, So take an opportunity

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to come out and visit with these
folks. It's a little bit of history

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on the airport. The airport was
originally built by Frank Phillips back in the

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early nineteen twenties and later sold to
the city for a dollar made a municipal

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airport so everyone could benefit from the
use of the airport. Very first corporate

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flight department was formed ever by Billy
Parker worked for Phillips Petroyum company, So

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there's just a tremendous amount of history
on the field. He was instrumental in

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Art Gobel flew the first travel air
five thousand. Wooler Rock was named at

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Wooler Rock who got Frank Phillips to
sponsor of the aircraft and then went on

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to the dold Derby Air Races of
nineteen twenty seven to win that race from

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Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Just amazing amount of history in the

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in the airfield. So come out. If you're interested in looking more about

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the fly in, you can go
to fly or Bartlesville flyin dot com.

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We have a website up you can
look at the If people like to be

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a sponsor, we'd love to have
you as a sponsor. But take a

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look parking. It's gonna be ten
dollars per carload per day, so it's

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pretty nominal. We'll have food vendors, you'll see fly bys, military aircraft,

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antique aircraft, byplanes, kitplanes,
helicopters and uh give anything, are

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you going to have anything more?
People can go up there. There is

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going to be some ride airplanes there. There is the Wasp for sure.

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I know are going to have a
ride in the Steerman. And if you're

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a platinum sponsor on the World War
two Airborne Demonstration side, I believe they

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will take you up on Friday.
So that's a platinum sponsor is a thousand

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dollars. So we have lots of
opportunities for sponsorship. I don't Mike was

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tarking. Mike Bailey, the manager
was dug in that as directors going up

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look overlooking the city, how beautiful
the city is up in the years,

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I might I might like the ride
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We'll have to check into that for
sure, am I what what again?

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Were the gates for the flying September
twenty second and twenty third. The

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gates will open at eight o'clock in
the morning, and I think we'll probably

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run until close till dark. So, and you mentioned a ten dollars parking

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fee. Is that is that also
take care of entry into the event or

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is there another Yeah, the parking
fee is the ten dollars. If anybody

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would like to donate anything extra,
the organization would appreciate that. We'll have

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some people hollers moving folks. You'll
come into the flying off of Sunset.

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There's a if you remember from years
past, those of you that are new

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to the community are having We're just
right off Sunset on Will Rogers, and

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you'll take you There'll be plenty of
signage there that shows you where the parking

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lot is, just right there on
the east side of the airport. We'll

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have people parking folks, and we'll
have people hollers moving folks. Might be

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a bella hay on a trailer,
but it'll save you a quarter mile walk

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back to the event and then back
out to the parking. So promises to

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be a good event, and we'll
have food vendors. I think it'll be

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a good time. Yeah, it's
so cool that we get to host something

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like that. Just the history,
like you mentioned, the history of our

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airport and then the history that's going
to be hit that fly in is pretty

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amazing. So if people get the
opportunity time, that would certainly be something

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family friendly for people in the community
or surrounding communities to take part in and

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show some of the history, if
not just Bartlesville, but of our country.

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Oh don't worry, Marie is going
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coming in from one hundred mile ra
Oh, absolutely absolutely she will. She

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always does a good job with that, and we really appreciate Marie and and

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what she does. Mike, thank
you and thank you for what you and

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your entire staff do at our airport. There's so much that goes on out

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there that I don't think people realize. And so if people are listening and

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are wondering about our airport, I
would encourage them to go out by there

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and take a look and go visit
with Mike and his staff and learn a

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little bit more about that airport and
the just the volume of things that go

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on there. I never knew even
living here for what you know as a

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police chief for almost four and a
half years. I didn't know exactly the

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depth of what you guys do out
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airport, you know, with being
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corporate flights and stuff like that,
wouldn't this be a nice little designation for

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like a historical marker out there.
Oh? Absolutely, but absolutely yeah.

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Yeah. The original terminal building is
now sitting at will Rock. It's the

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little cottage staff. It used to
be right there at the hangar five in

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the parking lot. But yeah,
that's that was Billy Parker's corporate office,

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the first corporate flight department. Yeah. Wow, that's cool, Thank you

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very much. So Tom, now
we'll talk about our golf course, Adam's

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golf course, and with us is
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visit with us about quite a bit
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Yeah. Yeah, we'll get some
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working hard trying to do a facelift
on the golf course over the next couple

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of years. But tournaments that come
to Bartleville, And of course I'm the

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golf pro, so I'm going to
brag on comportant a golf courses to the

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city, you know, but it
is very important, and we've got a

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bunch of tournaments through the year that
bring people into the city and it raises

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a lot of money for donations to
great causes the golf course does. The

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big one coming up is United Way
and the United Way tournament is a thousand

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players, hundreds of sponsors. It's
a big tournament. We're redoing the clubhouse

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inside now thanks to Tracy, and
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But I'll kind of go into that
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to talk about the United Way I
call it. It told me not to

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say this, but the largest golf
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That is number of players a thousand
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just say close to the largest.
I've researched it, and I think

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it's maybe the largest number of player
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and all the restaurants, all the
hotels will all be busy and full,

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and it just brings an awful lot
into the city. As the other golf

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tournaments do do twos. I think
there's like over three million over three million

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dollars worth of business that comes into
the city that four days, and they

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raise the United Way raises over a
million dollars, and then there's another at

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least a million dollars from the other
tournaments that are raised or causes. So,

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you know, it's very important to
have a good golf course in the

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city, a public golf course.
It brings people here, it keeps people

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here. It it keeps people here
that are working here and may want to

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live here, and so it's a
lot of different reasons, but it's very

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important. We're going through the clubhouse
and we're we're read to doing it and

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kind of get a facelifted on it
for this h for all the East tournaments,

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especially the United Way here. If
we're in a real hurry this last

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month to really do it, Tracy
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the city's doing. We've painted the
complete inside and carpeted the inside. It's

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really pretty. It's really looking good. And the outside and we're doing the

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patios. We're replenishing the patios and
just lots of little things where the entranceway

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is being redone and stuff. So
you citizens come out even if you don't

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play golf, come out and and
take a look at the golf course and

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the clubhouse. We'd we'd love to
have you, and you even take a

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cart and buzz around if you want
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want to mention the Mitch Lucas and
the maintenance division of the city how how

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good they have been. Judd Ernst
and Joel Holstrom and Noah I don't know

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its last name, but and several
other guys and the maintenance really done a

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great job work worked hard. And
also the public Works with Keith Henry and

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they've been out there doing all kinds
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So I mean Jeff Beck and Tony
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with that division. It's been really
helpful to us. And I'm just impressed

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at how hard they work, along
with my staff, the Jody Shahan,

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the superintendent. I mean, there's
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out there in the heat and stuff. So we're very precative. Also,

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the city has helped us, and
the Lion Foundation has helped us. Lion

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Foundation has promised us over a half
a million dollars this time and they've done

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it so many times for us,
really been a great help to us.

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But we're gonna completely redo the greens
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a Randy Heckencamper as a architect that
we've hired as working on this, and

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we got some great plans for the
golf course. We hope that it will

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start and we think it will June
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this all goes like it's supposed to, we'll be we'll be closed June,

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July and August for construc auction,
all those all those vehicles moving around stuff

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and redoing the greens. It's a
pretty good project. And then we'll recede

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the greens in September, early September, we hope to, and then we'll

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have temporary greens in front of the
regular greens until that until those greens grow

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in which we hope to be around
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So we got some great plans for
the for the golf course. We're we

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got really looking good out there.
So when you do the greens, I

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want to make sure that everybody heard
this right. You're gonna have the machinery

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out there for about ninety days,
but once the machinery is clear, you'll

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reopen, but with temporary greens until
the other women's come back up and make

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correct Yes, okay, I just
want to make sure I heard that.

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Yeah, And these will be uh
bent grass greens. You know, they've

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had a lot of golf courses around
here have gone to Bermuda greens and they

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got devastated last year. They put
brand new greens in Bailey Ranch Sand Springs

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Course, uh, brand new greens
in spent a little major a lot of

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money and then lost their greens because
of the winter. We lost a lot

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of grass last winter two from the
cold weather and stuff. But it's come

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back really well. The golf course
has our golf course and we didn't lose

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our greens because we have bent grass. We're just a little too far north

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for Bermuda greens, so we're staying
with the bent grass greens. And they're

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gonna have the driving range OPENO.
We got brand new range balls out there

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now and the golf carts are good
shape and stuff. So we're ready for

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ready for the big tournament here.
Crazy. It all means economy get back,

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It does it, It really does, and you know, you you

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hear from community members about how kiddos
don't have much to do here in Bartlesville.

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But one of the things they do
have to do that's underutilizes our golf

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course. Oh yeah, and what
a tremendous asset that golf course is to

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our community. And there will be
some green renovation question on the upcoming gaol

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bond that that would go along with
the foundation. The Lion Foundation donation to

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fund that. That jail bond,
of course, is on October the tenth,

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and you will see green improvements on
that gel bond. The other thing

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about the United Way tournament, the
over million dollars that that tournament raises stays

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in this area. Uh, it
stays here to benefit those agencies that that

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benefit the citizens of Bartlesville. So
that's that's a very very important thing it

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does. It does stay home.
It doesn't go with those thousand people to

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wherever they came from to get here. So that's why it is so important

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that we do a good job at
our golf course because we want that tournament

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to continue for I guess this is
the twenty year anniversary anniversary to go twenty

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more years at least and then go
beyond. So excited things happening at our

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golf course, a lot of exciting
things happening in town. It's always good

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to be in Bartlesville. Tom,
thank you for everything that you do,

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and we appreciate you taking the time
for us to be here. All right,

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I tell you what, this has
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program. You here twice sometimes three
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the one you dressed. But we
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of what's happening in our city.
Things you might know, things you might

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not know, things you might have
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eighty eight sounds baldy, doesn't it. I remember when eighty eight used to

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be warm. Now it's kind of
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