Good morning, good morning morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you
trust and from the Bartelsville Greater Bartlesville Chamber of Conference. We have the one
the only you know where you'll ever you handled without our share. He was,
how are you doing today? I'm good? How are you well?
You know that built that build up there. Wow, boy, what a
busy month you had. Yeah. May was crazy, well May, June
was crazy. It all kind of ran together, what happened, but not
for long. I can't believe it's almost July. So yeah, we had
our annual awards in Gala, which is always a big, big event ahead
of our three hundred and attendance there and there's a lot that goes into that.
But it was fun to be able to honor Business of the Year,
which was Phoenix Rising Aviation. A lot of people don't even know it's out
at the airport. What they do. It's amazing. Um, we work
with Leard jets or not not lear I always say that Falcon fucking jets.
Um. Anyhow so, so it's an amazing company and growing and that kind
of thing. And then our small business of the year. She was finally
eligible because you have to be in business so many years. Was Moxie so
UM loved honor and Christie UM and then Um Kumar Christian was our Tom's sheemake
for for leadership. Things he's done in the community, particularly is drive with
pickleball and other things he's done. But UM that I know that's right now
is a big focus. UM. You know I'm talking off the top of
my head. UM. Oh Val Callighan with the with the community center.
UM for our Ernie Mcanal female leader. She's everywhere she is. I don't
think she goes home much. Everywhere she was she is UM. And then
Brenda Hansen. A lot of people don't know her, but she was nominated
by Hopestone for all the work she does with Hopestone. Does a lot there.
She also helps the Journey Home out Master gardner. UM coordinated for many
years and still I'm sure helps with the corner on Frank Phillips and Hiways seventy
five, you know, And that's just of course, I just don't like
gardening. It's one of those things I want to like. It's not good
at it. But you know, she's a master gardener. And um but
does a lot of things with Hoopstone. So and he was it was fun
to um oh and Crystal Sarah. We not honored the Sara family for their
work with the Johnstone Sarah building, and just it kind of was a thing
that got the ball rolling. It seemed like once they did that and the
investment they made in that and save in that building, and they didn't just
save it. I mean, it isn't it is just or just beautiful icon
of downtown. It nearly burned down a couple of times, it did,
yes, and just the ties they have to her dad actually as a child
played in that building because his dad was actually a I think it was a
janitor there. It's okay, but then he turned out and he actually was
the state representative for years and so anyhow, I mean it was it was
very nice too. That had rolled around in my head for several years because
it just seemed like once they invested that, things really kind of took off
downtown. And you know, downtown still has there's always you know a room
for growth and more things happening, but you just see people really renovating and
really um making a difference downtown. So oh yeah, there's a left to
shoot that that's kind of like an interesting building in and of itself. And
then the whole block you know with high Away Pizza and you got Honeys Flowers,
you have Omega, oh yeah, and then you know the rest of
the block that fills in nicely with lots of different offices and lots of different
storefronts, and it really makes downtown and look like downtown. And it kind
of it's spread over to Second with you know, Cooper and Mill and crossing
Second and then and now we're seeing things happening on Dewey with Palace Rooms.
I love that. Um, that's kind of a new newish ventures. Yeah,
well it's been I don't know, my my time frames get messed up
a year maybe. Yeah. It is newer though, and people still,
I don't think realize that it's like Remi's. People don't realize Remis is here.
But Palace Rooms is a is a really cool vibe lounge bar. I
hate saying the word bar. It's not that eat like you think of bar.
It's it's very high class. Um the ambiance it is and just get
you know, hang out with friends and things, um, great editions.
What we need. We need more of that, you know, place to
gather. Um, same thing with Remi's. Um, people don't realize,
People don't realize that's there, or they forget, you know, because it's
just enough maybe off you know that it's not in the throes of downtown,
but um, great food and it's just all those vintage arcade games and yeah,
um my college daughter while she's not college and now she graduated, it
has a job. But anyhow, she's home for the summer because she didn't
start teaching till um, you know, obviously August. But anyhow, she's
moved out and j like a whole another story. But anyhow, but her
friends, you know, some of her friends that are here for the summer
have met there and they've had a great time. And um, just it's
it's just a fun location. And it's not you don't have to go play
games. I mean go for the food. It's it's really good. Yeah,
And I don't want to single out all our you know, businesses,
but anyhow, I mean these are homegrown folks, home grown, locally owned,
and they need our community support just like our businesses downtown. They really
need our community support. You forget sometimes you know, oh we need to
is it something I can do? You know down if I'm looking for a
gift, that kind of thing. Um, it's just so important to shop
local. These folks, like I said, they're local. They live here.
If they're not changed where corporates god knows where, and yeah, won't
invest in anything and won't support in anything. They're just you know here,
and we appreciate it because it's sales tax. But you're locally owned. Folks
are the ones who support so much in our community. Um, you know
Christy with Moxie. I mean every auction in town, you know, any
fundraiser, every nonprofit organization that has the silent auction, they step up,
they donate, they give school carnivals you know, and and most of them
do. And we just and people want to have variety. Well to have
variety, you have to support it because they can't just make nothing and just
keep being here. So really with the change or does it helps businesses kind
of with the little tools every now and then, But it also helps folks
kind of be familiar with our home grown business. Yeah, we try to
spread the word on businesses. Um, I know people come into town,
well they get a tutorial they do, and we get a lot of a
lot of stops people coming in and that that is fun. I always love
talking to people when they come in if I'm if I'm available. It's just
fun to hear where they're from, and you know, hey, well you
need to go out towel I rock and need you know, check out Price
Tower and you know, we're you know, give them suggestions of places to
eat, and you know a lot of times sometimes they they're asking about the
community. You can tell they're interesting and possibly moving and I really love that.
So oh yes, um, which this is interesting. We had our
board meeting yesterday and through the Media Varsal Development Authority they fund it. Um.
But we have the resident Recruitment program where that's nice. Yeah, if
you're moving here and you are moving with a qualifying business like a primary job
creator industry which basically manufacturing. Is a good way to kind of just in
general summarize it. But you know, it's a Conaco, the Chevron,
phillips A phillips A, Phoenix Rising Aviation. It's had some anyhow, if
you move here from outside Bartlesville, okay, you can't be moving from Crosstown
or whatever. But moving into town, which is what we want to want
people living here. They live here, they're gonna buy their groceries here,
they're gonna buy their gas here. More than likely. They still may go,
you know, the Tulsa for a concert or whatever, but they're doing
their main things here, which is tax dollars. So we want them living
here. Anyhow, if they choose to rent, because sometimes especially you know,
younger folks moving in with Conico and Phillips, you know, they don't
want to invest right now and they kind of want to blaye the land.
They get twenty five hundred dollars. If you move here and buy a house,
which is a big investment, you can get ten thousand dollars. And
if you custom build, it's twenty thousand. Has to be within Bartlesville School
District premises. So anyhow to date, hope I got this right. I
think it was thirty two since October first. That's a lie, so you
know, we're excited to see that. I think it was I should have
looked at before I left. I just reported that yesterday, but I think
it was seventeen eighteen houses and whatever else it was. Excuse me, in
rentals, but you know, those are people living here and now once they're
here, hopefully you know. One of the cool stories, we have a
computer software company that was going to set up in California. They wound up
buying our courthouse, our old courthouse. Oh yes, yeah, and then
now they're picking up a lot of stuff helping out with price Tower. And
that was all in just a matter of a couple of years. So you
never know when folks decide to well, in this case, sort of moved
back right yeah, when I was from here. But when they come into
town, you know, a lot of good things can happen, especially when
you make it your home exactly. So that's kind of the goal. So
anyhow, that is really kind of cool. And there were folks out there
who maybe they hear the term, well, chambroom commerce, chambroom commerce,
and they really don't know what that means. You explained it very well that
we're just we're here to help. We're here kind of really show folks around
town and help the folks who were in town and do a little bit better
for themselves. You have a lot of neat things where business folks can kind
of get together and maybe see if they can work alongside each other and be
compatible partners. We do yes a lot of and we always try to find
what what it is a members looking for. Now if they're like, well,
I want to increase my business by X amount, well we all do,
yeah, but it takes you got to do your part too, and
we can provide the avenues. But if you never participate. And we have
a lot of members that we don't see, they're invested because they want us
working on those I always stay behind the scenes type things. Things you don't
necessarily see. Can't you can't attend that kind of thing, but it's for
the betterment of the community. But others that are looking to grow, you've
got to you know, you've got to tend a few things. You want
to make some contacts. Speaking of in September, and I know it's the
ways away. Weird. We're September seventh with in conjunction with our after Hours
which is going to be hosted by the Hilton Garden End, which will be
nice. Um, we're going to be doing a business to business fair.
Um, and so we did this a couple of years ago. Well it's
probably been four years now, but um, we have to have the location
big enough to do it, and a lot of times people who are hosting
after hours just don't have the space for it. So we were excited when
the Hilton one into a host one and they were very open to it.
UM. But it's it's uh, you know, set up a table and
promote your business. And last time it was really successful. UM. You
know, if you could pick up a couple of new contacts, clients looking
for your particular service or product or you know, whatever it is you offer,
then you know it's a success. UM. And that's how that you
know, Like I said, we have after hours UM coming up July twenty
fifth, we do have UM speed Networking that's a small event by design UM
free. Both of those events are free. It's like speed dating. I
always say that they do they have fun. UM always start off a little
leery, but then by the end of the night, it's from four to
five, they're they're laughing. They've made We've got great stories of connections and
things that have been made, and UM just how it's help businesses grow and
succeed. So UM, you know they're coming and you just have a couple
of minutes to tell what you do, and you hear about everybody else,
and like I said, some really good connections have been made UM and you
may make. You may attend to one and walk out go well I didn't
really, you know, and didn't really. But the next month you're go
and you walk out and you're like, oh man, these two are great.
You know, I'm gonna use their service or they're gonna call me or
you know whatever exactly. So we do provide avenues for that, and that's
one of our goals is to make sure members have the opportunity to network and
UM you know, make those connections. So that's really pretty cool. Now.
Now this thing that we've got going down at the at the Hilton Downtown
coming up in September, September seven, Okay, let's go to one,
two three, become a member, Yes, get your space, go to
work exactly. Yeah, because it is open, it's this is exclusive just
for chamber members. Yeah. Now we are going to open, try to
promote to UM because after ours is four to five, we're going to keep
it open from five to six and for the for the public to come by.
So we're kind of working in the out the details of that right now,
but we want it to be you know, exposed to the to the
general person too, not just our chamber members. So anyhow we're working on
that. How we how do we become a member? Super easy? Um,
there is an application online and it's I hate say an application, but
I mean it gives us all the information we need to put into our database
so that we have that and it's Artlesfield dot com. And also go in
there and just look around. I'll always say that, Um, you know,
look at benefits, look at exposure, opportunities, sponsor you know,
just it'll tell you everything you need to know about the chamber or if you
like meeting face to face. Some people like that, some people don't because
then you feel kind of obligated. It's like you bring somebody out to give
you a bit at your house. Always feel bad if you know you don't
use them. Um. But so if you're that kind of person, UM,
go online and poke around if you want to meet face to face.
Judy, our membership person is great. She loves sitting down talking to people
and just you know, can answer questions, go through things with you.
And she does that for sure. Once a member joins, to make sure
they do know everything and tries to really contact them throughout that first year to
on board and make sure you know, special invitations, to make sure they
know about the different events and things. So well, that's just really cool.
We we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna be backwards a little
bit more with Cherry Welt. She's with the Greater Bartamsville Chamber of Commerce.
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His mother called one day and she said, Tim, and I can
tell by her voice something wrong. And I said, what's wrong? She
said, can you get my boy? Home from California. He's passed away
out there, and that crushed me. But I said, I sure will.
I'll take care of it. I said, I'll figure it out.
I will get your son home. If that's what you do when your loved
one dies, it doesn't matter if it's three in the morning. You call
your funeral director and say, tim, my loved one just died. What
do I do? And I'll tell you one of my greatest stories I could
tell. Six o'clock one Christmas morning, a lady calls me. She said,
they came over to get my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her dead
in her home. What do we do? I said, Let me get
dressed. I'll be right there and we'll just walk through this together. It's
gonna be all right. I'll take good care of her. Years later,
she told me that was the single most comforting phrase you'd ever heard. It'll
be all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and me camp
you younn Dewey Martel's ally, we will walk through this us together and welcome
back, Welcome back. We have sure we wont with a good Greater Bartlesville
Chamber of Commerce said, we're talking in the break about Leadership Bartlesville. We've
got a kind of a deadline coming up. We do have a deadline coming
up, and they always come in, although we have a lot that I've
already come in. But the deadline if you are interested in applying for Leadership
Bartlesville is UM July the first, So I only got what three days?
What is this Wednesday? Yes, Saturday, UM, but it's it goes
by when it gets hot out, so it does. It's UM. It's
a it's a great program, and I think that the number of applicants we
have a testament to that UM, all the alumni that are there. We
just graduated in May at our gala twenty seven in class thirty two, so
this will be class thirty three. But it's once a month in case you
know, you're like, what leadership Bartlesville, but to meet once a month
and it's from basically eight to five and you focus on a particular aspect of
the community and really dig deep. Here from the leaders the UM, you
know like city Day, So I love City Day. I mean they they
learn a lot about how the city government works. But then they'd do some
fun things. They go on a bus tour around the city and they go
down and tour the water stinky place by the high school. They go out
to the city yard and play on the big equipment. So they try to
make sense. It's not just sitting there listening all day. But anyhow,
each each month focuses on a different thing education, UM, large business,
small business, criminal justice. That's the day we put together healthcare, arts,
and tourism. I'm missing several of them. But anyhow, it's they
graduate in May. So you meet once a month and it's all day out,
but it's just you know, one day a month. But it's a
great, great program with the goal being that they'll go back out into our
community with all that wealth of knowledge, find something that triggered them that they
may want to you know, serve on. People have funneled on the city
positions UM city like committees, or they've volunteered, gotten boards, gotten non
committees with various organizations, non profits that they've learned about. So but they've
got that wealth of knowledge to take with them and really, um you know,
be an asset to whoever it is they want to plug into. So
anyhow, it's a great, great program. It's sure all the information once
again Bartlesville dot com. The all the dates, the kind of a better
description, all of that is on our website and it's in the big box
on the homepage. So yeah, right where you can find it. Everything.
It's very easy to find Bartlesville dot com. Cherry. Thanks for coming
in. Absolutely, we appreciate y'all on the radio and the news you guys
do, and you're doing the weather coming in and one. Yeah, you're
a good man. Well, thank you. We've got more of show coming
up in just a little bit there. We're going to check in with weather
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