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Good morning, good morning morning,
and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's

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time now for our community connection right
here on K one, the one you

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trust and from the Bartelsville Greater Bartlesville
Chamber of Conference. We have the one

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the only you know where you'll ever
you handled without our share. He was,

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how are you doing today? I'm
good? How are you well?

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You know that built that build up
there. Wow, boy, what a

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busy month you had. Yeah.
May was crazy, well May, June

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was crazy. It all kind of
ran together, what happened, but not

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for long. I can't believe it's
almost July. So yeah, we had

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our annual awards in Gala, which
is always a big, big event ahead

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of our three hundred and attendance there
and there's a lot that goes into that.

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But it was fun to be able
to honor Business of the Year,

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which was Phoenix Rising Aviation. A
lot of people don't even know it's out

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at the airport. What they do. It's amazing. Um, we work

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with Leard jets or not not lear
I always say that Falcon fucking jets.

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Um. Anyhow so, so it's
an amazing company and growing and that kind

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of thing. And then our small
business of the year. She was finally

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eligible because you have to be in
business so many years. Was Moxie so

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UM loved honor and Christie UM and
then Um Kumar Christian was our Tom's sheemake

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for for leadership. Things he's done
in the community, particularly is drive with

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pickleball and other things he's done.
But UM that I know that's right now

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is a big focus. UM.
You know I'm talking off the top of

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my head. UM. Oh Val
Callighan with the with the community center.

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UM for our Ernie Mcanal female leader. She's everywhere she is. I don't

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think she goes home much. Everywhere
she was she is UM. And then

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Brenda Hansen. A lot of people
don't know her, but she was nominated

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by Hopestone for all the work she
does with Hopestone. Does a lot there.

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She also helps the Journey Home out
Master gardner. UM coordinated for many

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years and still I'm sure helps with
the corner on Frank Phillips and Hiways seventy

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five, you know, And that's
just of course, I just don't like

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gardening. It's one of those things
I want to like. It's not good

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at it. But you know,
she's a master gardener. And um but

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does a lot of things with Hoopstone. So and he was it was fun

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to um oh and Crystal Sarah.
We not honored the Sara family for their

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work with the Johnstone Sarah building,
and just it kind of was a thing

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that got the ball rolling. It
seemed like once they did that and the

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investment they made in that and save
in that building, and they didn't just

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save it. I mean, it
isn't it is just or just beautiful icon

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of downtown. It nearly burned down
a couple of times, it did,

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yes, and just the ties they
have to her dad actually as a child

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played in that building because his dad
was actually a I think it was a

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janitor there. It's okay, but
then he turned out and he actually was

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the state representative for years and so
anyhow, I mean it was it was

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very nice too. That had rolled
around in my head for several years because

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it just seemed like once they invested
that, things really kind of took off

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downtown. And you know, downtown
still has there's always you know a room

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for growth and more things happening,
but you just see people really renovating and

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really um making a difference downtown.
So oh yeah, there's a left to

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shoot that that's kind of like an
interesting building in and of itself. And

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then the whole block you know with
high Away Pizza and you got Honeys Flowers,

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you have Omega, oh yeah,
and then you know the rest of

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the block that fills in nicely with
lots of different offices and lots of different

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storefronts, and it really makes downtown
and look like downtown. And it kind

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of it's spread over to Second with
you know, Cooper and Mill and crossing

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Second and then and now we're seeing
things happening on Dewey with Palace Rooms.

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I love that. Um, that's
kind of a new newish ventures. Yeah,

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well it's been I don't know,
my my time frames get messed up

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a year maybe. Yeah. It
is newer though, and people still,

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I don't think realize that it's like
Remi's. People don't realize Remis is here.

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But Palace Rooms is a is a
really cool vibe lounge bar. I

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hate saying the word bar. It's
not that eat like you think of bar.

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It's it's very high class. Um
the ambiance it is and just get

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you know, hang out with friends
and things, um, great editions.

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What we need. We need more
of that, you know, place to

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gather. Um, same thing with
Remi's. Um, people don't realize,

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People don't realize that's there, or
they forget, you know, because it's

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just enough maybe off you know that
it's not in the throes of downtown,

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but um, great food and it's
just all those vintage arcade games and yeah,

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um my college daughter while she's not
college and now she graduated, it

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has a job. But anyhow,
she's home for the summer because she didn't

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start teaching till um, you know, obviously August. But anyhow, she's

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moved out and j like a whole
another story. But anyhow, but her

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friends, you know, some of
her friends that are here for the summer

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have met there and they've had a
great time. And um, just it's

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it's just a fun location. And
it's not you don't have to go play

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games. I mean go for the
food. It's it's really good. Yeah,

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And I don't want to single out
all our you know, businesses,

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but anyhow, I mean these are
homegrown folks, home grown, locally owned,

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and they need our community support just
like our businesses downtown. They really

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need our community support. You forget
sometimes you know, oh we need to

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is it something I can do?
You know down if I'm looking for a

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gift, that kind of thing.
Um, it's just so important to shop

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local. These folks, like I
said, they're local. They live here.

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If they're not changed where corporates god
knows where, and yeah, won't

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invest in anything and won't support in
anything. They're just you know here,

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and we appreciate it because it's sales
tax. But you're locally owned. Folks

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are the ones who support so much
in our community. Um, you know

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Christy with Moxie. I mean every
auction in town, you know, any

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fundraiser, every nonprofit organization that has
the silent auction, they step up,

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they donate, they give school carnivals
you know, and and most of them

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do. And we just and people
want to have variety. Well to have

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variety, you have to support it
because they can't just make nothing and just

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keep being here. So really with
the change or does it helps businesses kind

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of with the little tools every now
and then, But it also helps folks

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kind of be familiar with our home
grown business. Yeah, we try to

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spread the word on businesses. Um, I know people come into town,

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well they get a tutorial they do, and we get a lot of a

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lot of stops people coming in and
that that is fun. I always love

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talking to people when they come in
if I'm if I'm available. It's just

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fun to hear where they're from,
and you know, hey, well you

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need to go out towel I rock
and need you know, check out Price

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Tower and you know, we're you
know, give them suggestions of places to

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eat, and you know a lot
of times sometimes they they're asking about the

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community. You can tell they're interesting
and possibly moving and I really love that.

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So oh yes, um, which
this is interesting. We had our

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board meeting yesterday and through the Media
Varsal Development Authority they fund it. Um.

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But we have the resident Recruitment program
where that's nice. Yeah, if

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you're moving here and you are moving
with a qualifying business like a primary job

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creator industry which basically manufacturing. Is
a good way to kind of just in

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general summarize it. But you know, it's a Conaco, the Chevron,

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phillips A phillips A, Phoenix Rising
Aviation. It's had some anyhow, if

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you move here from outside Bartlesville,
okay, you can't be moving from Crosstown

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or whatever. But moving into town, which is what we want to want

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people living here. They live here, they're gonna buy their groceries here,

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they're gonna buy their gas here.
More than likely. They still may go,

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you know, the Tulsa for a
concert or whatever, but they're doing

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their main things here, which is
tax dollars. So we want them living

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here. Anyhow, if they choose
to rent, because sometimes especially you know,

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younger folks moving in with Conico and
Phillips, you know, they don't

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want to invest right now and they
kind of want to blaye the land.

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They get twenty five hundred dollars.
If you move here and buy a house,

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which is a big investment, you
can get ten thousand dollars. And

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if you custom build, it's twenty
thousand. Has to be within Bartlesville School

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District premises. So anyhow to date, hope I got this right. I

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think it was thirty two since October
first. That's a lie, so you

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know, we're excited to see that. I think it was I should have

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looked at before I left. I
just reported that yesterday, but I think

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it was seventeen eighteen houses and whatever
else it was. Excuse me, in

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rentals, but you know, those
are people living here and now once they're

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here, hopefully you know. One
of the cool stories, we have a

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computer software company that was going to
set up in California. They wound up

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buying our courthouse, our old courthouse. Oh yes, yeah, and then

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now they're picking up a lot of
stuff helping out with price Tower. And

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that was all in just a matter
of a couple of years. So you

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never know when folks decide to well, in this case, sort of moved

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back right yeah, when I was
from here. But when they come into

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town, you know, a lot
of good things can happen, especially when

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you make it your home exactly.
So that's kind of the goal. So

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anyhow, that is really kind of
cool. And there were folks out there

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who maybe they hear the term,
well, chambroom commerce, chambroom commerce,

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and they really don't know what that
means. You explained it very well that

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we're just we're here to help.
We're here kind of really show folks around

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town and help the folks who were
in town and do a little bit better

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for themselves. You have a lot
of neat things where business folks can kind

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of get together and maybe see if
they can work alongside each other and be

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compatible partners. We do yes a
lot of and we always try to find

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what what it is a members looking
for. Now if they're like, well,

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I want to increase my business by
X amount, well we all do,

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yeah, but it takes you got
to do your part too, and

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we can provide the avenues. But
if you never participate. And we have

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a lot of members that we don't
see, they're invested because they want us

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working on those I always stay behind
the scenes type things. Things you don't

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necessarily see. Can't you can't attend
that kind of thing, but it's for

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the betterment of the community. But
others that are looking to grow, you've

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got to you know, you've got
to tend a few things. You want

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to make some contacts. Speaking of
in September, and I know it's the

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ways away. Weird. We're September
seventh with in conjunction with our after Hours

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which is going to be hosted by
the Hilton Garden End, which will be

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nice. Um, we're going to
be doing a business to business fair.

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Um, and so we did this
a couple of years ago. Well it's

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probably been four years now, but
um, we have to have the location

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big enough to do it, and
a lot of times people who are hosting

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after hours just don't have the space
for it. So we were excited when

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the Hilton one into a host one
and they were very open to it.

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UM. But it's it's uh,
you know, set up a table and

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promote your business. And last time
it was really successful. UM. You

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know, if you could pick up
a couple of new contacts, clients looking

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for your particular service or product or
you know, whatever it is you offer,

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then you know it's a success.
UM. And that's how that you

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know, Like I said, we
have after hours UM coming up July twenty

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fifth, we do have UM speed
Networking that's a small event by design UM

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free. Both of those events are
free. It's like speed dating. I

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always say that they do they have
fun. UM always start off a little

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leery, but then by the end
of the night, it's from four to

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five, they're they're laughing. They've
made We've got great stories of connections and

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things that have been made, and
UM just how it's help businesses grow and

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succeed. So UM, you know
they're coming and you just have a couple

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of minutes to tell what you do, and you hear about everybody else,

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and like I said, some really
good connections have been made UM and you

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may make. You may attend to
one and walk out go well I didn't

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really, you know, and didn't
really. But the next month you're go

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and you walk out and you're like, oh man, these two are great.

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You know, I'm gonna use their
service or they're gonna call me or

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you know whatever exactly. So we
do provide avenues for that, and that's

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one of our goals is to make
sure members have the opportunity to network and

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UM you know, make those connections. So that's really pretty cool. Now.

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Now this thing that we've got going
down at the at the Hilton Downtown

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coming up in September, September seven, Okay, let's go to one,

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two three, become a member,
Yes, get your space, go to

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work exactly. Yeah, because it
is open, it's this is exclusive just

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for chamber members. Yeah. Now
we are going to open, try to

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promote to UM because after ours is
four to five, we're going to keep

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it open from five to six and
for the for the public to come by.

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So we're kind of working in the
out the details of that right now,

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but we want it to be you
know, exposed to the to the

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general person too, not just our
chamber members. So anyhow we're working on

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that. How we how do we
become a member? Super easy? Um,

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there is an application online and it's
I hate say an application, but

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I mean it gives us all the
information we need to put into our database

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so that we have that and it's
Artlesfield dot com. And also go in

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there and just look around. I'll
always say that, Um, you know,

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look at benefits, look at exposure, opportunities, sponsor you know,

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just it'll tell you everything you need
to know about the chamber or if you

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like meeting face to face. Some
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then you feel kind of obligated.
It's like you bring somebody out to give

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you a bit at your house.
Always feel bad if you know you don't

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use them. Um. But so
if you're that kind of person, UM,

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go online and poke around if you
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Judy, our membership person is great. She loves sitting down talking to people

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and just you know, can answer
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And she does that for sure.
Once a member joins, to make sure

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they do know everything and tries to
really contact them throughout that first year to

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on board and make sure you know, special invitations, to make sure they

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know about the different events and things. So well, that's just really cool.

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We we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna be backwards a little

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bit more with Cherry Welt. She's
with the Greater Bartamsville Chamber of Commerce.

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Right here on Gay one, the
one you trust. Start thinking about a

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new car. But the thought of
dealing with the large dealerships is just too

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intimidating, too confusing. There is
an easier way tall Grass Motors. Tall

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Grass Motors doesn't play all the confusing
games a large dealerships play. Tall Grass

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Motors has continually been voted Bartlesville's best
used car dealer year after year. Go

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by tall Grass Motors today and enjoy
looking at over sixty used cars, trucks,

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and SUVs, all prized to save
you money. Tall Grass Motors Highway

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seventy five North in Bartlesville. I'll
never forget this call. My freshman roommate.

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His mother called one day and she
said, Tim, and I can

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tell by her voice something wrong.
And I said, what's wrong? She

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said, can you get my boy? Home from California. He's passed away

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out there, and that crushed me. But I said, I sure will.

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I'll take care of it. I
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I will get your son home.
If that's what you do when your loved

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one dies, it doesn't matter if
it's three in the morning. You call

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your funeral director and say, tim, my loved one just died. What

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do I do? And I'll tell
you one of my greatest stories I could

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tell. Six o'clock one Christmas morning, a lady calls me. She said,

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they came over to get my aunt
for Christmas breakfast and found her dead

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in her home. What do we
do? I said, Let me get

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dressed. I'll be right there and
we'll just walk through this together. It's

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gonna be all right. I'll take
good care of her. Years later,

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she told me that was the single
most comforting phrase you'd ever heard. It'll

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be all right. We'll walk through
this together. Arnold Moore and me camp

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you younn Dewey Martel's ally, we
will walk through this us together and welcome

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back, Welcome back. We have
sure we wont with a good Greater Bartlesville

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Chamber of Commerce said, we're talking
in the break about Leadership Bartlesville. We've

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got a kind of a deadline coming
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up, and they always come in, although we have a lot that I've

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already come in. But the deadline
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Bartlesville is UM July the first,
So I only got what three days?

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What is this Wednesday? Yes,
Saturday, UM, but it's it goes

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by when it gets hot out,
so it does. It's UM. It's

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a it's a great program, and
I think that the number of applicants we

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have a testament to that UM,
all the alumni that are there. We

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just graduated in May at our gala
twenty seven in class thirty two, so

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this will be class thirty three.
But it's once a month in case you

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know, you're like, what leadership
Bartlesville, but to meet once a month

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and it's from basically eight to five
and you focus on a particular aspect of

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the community and really dig deep.
Here from the leaders the UM, you

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know like city Day, So I
love City Day. I mean they they

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learn a lot about how the city
government works. But then they'd do some

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fun things. They go on a
bus tour around the city and they go

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down and tour the water stinky place
by the high school. They go out

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to the city yard and play on
the big equipment. So they try to

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make sense. It's not just sitting
there listening all day. But anyhow,

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each each month focuses on a different
thing education, UM, large business,

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small business, criminal justice. That's
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and tourism. I'm missing several of
them. But anyhow, it's they

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graduate in May. So you meet
once a month and it's all day out,

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but it's just you know, one
day a month. But it's a

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great, great program with the goal
being that they'll go back out into our

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community with all that wealth of knowledge, find something that triggered them that they

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may want to you know, serve
on. People have funneled on the city

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positions UM city like committees, or
they've volunteered, gotten boards, gotten non

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committees with various organizations, non profits
that they've learned about. So but they've

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got that wealth of knowledge to take
with them and really, um you know,

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be an asset to whoever it is
they want to plug into. So

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anyhow, it's a great, great
program. It's sure all the information once

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again Bartlesville dot com. The all
the dates, the kind of a better

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description, all of that is on
our website and it's in the big box

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on the homepage. So yeah,
right where you can find it. Everything.

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It's very easy to find Bartlesville dot
com. Cherry. Thanks for coming

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in. Absolutely, we appreciate y'all
on the radio and the news you guys

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do, and you're doing the weather
coming in and one. Yeah, you're

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a good man. Well, thank
you. We've got more of show coming

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up in just a little bit there. We're going to check in with weather

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and also news from O and N. Right here on K one, do you have