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Good morning, good morning. Come, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Eating the time now for our community
connection and we have the United Way

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in and how are we doing,
Miscarry, We are doing great. You

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brought French, I bought. I
brought an amazing person who is this year's

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campaign chair. Her and her husband, Tasha and Trevor Wyatt are our campaign

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cheers and I'm so excited and so
proud to have her stand up for a

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United Way. And she's doing a
great job. Tasha, Welcome to the

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show. How are we doing so
far? That kickoff thing was pretty spectacular.

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Oh, that's always so fine.
It's Oh, it's one of my

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favorite things that that we do.
Just being out at the football game.

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There's so much energy and so much
fun. And you get to go out

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with all the all the agency directors
and and share the United Way story.

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United begins with you, kick off
the campaign. It's it's a great event

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and I love that we do that. It's so it's so awesome that the

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Bartlesville Public Schools partners with us and
allows us to do that at the first

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home football game. And I loved
seeing the rally towels that we passed out

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swinging in the air. I don't
know how else to say that. But

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when we announced our campaign goal,
and the goal is two point four million,

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not too high of a bartet,
get is it not at all?

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It's a fantastical I mean, United
begins with you, so it's just you

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know, what we really want to
talk about is that it is It doesn't

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matter if you give a dollar or
give one hundred thousand dollars, it begins

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with you. And that can be
by giving, by volunteering, by advocating

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for United Way because really the donor
dollars, we will be good stewards of

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those and we will make sure they
help those people most need. And that's

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through our partner agencies and of course
your partner agency's fourteen in growing. Yes,

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great, yes, you got that. Now thing going explain that?

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Okay? So now area is nowata
O Sage in Washington Counties and that is

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our coverage. We are We're proud
to be the Regional Artlesville Regional United Way,

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and it's so important for people to
understand that we not only stay in

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Washington County, we're able to be
there. Now. I don't know how

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to make it sound catchy, but
it's nowata O s Age in Washington County.

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It works for me, Okay,
easy, remember, Tashi, you

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got a little bit another a bit
kind of a small one coming up here,

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a little bit too. Oh,
it's it's just you know, a

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little twenty year amazing, big week
long. Lisa and the team and the

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committee are working really hard to get
it going. Super excited about the United

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Way Golf Tournament coming up next week. Yes, this is it. This

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isn't just a few folks coming around
for mixers in a you know, a

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couple of long shots. This is
a big to do. This is a

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very big to do. One of
my favorite stats is, so, this

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is the twenty year anniversary of the
golf tournament and the first year's goal was

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six thousands. They made eight eight
thousand dollars. Yes, and it's growing

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a little. Yeah, it's just
grown just a little. Yes. Then

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last year we set a new record
of nine hundred and eighty five thousand.

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Our goal this year is a million, and I'm filing really positive about it.

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So I think, you know the
generosity of Conico Philips and Philip sixty

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six that they sponsor this tournament and
they reach out to their vendors and most

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of the sponsors, with the exception
of two, are from out of town,

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and a lot of them are out
of state. So but they did

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you see a value of coming here
and having fun? They love Bartlesville,

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I mean, and yeah, I
mean, it's a great community, and

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without this golf tournament, we wouldn't
be able to help our partner agencies as

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much as as much as we do. So it's a huge, huge deal

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for us, and it's a lot
of work, but it is a lot

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of fun and we're really excited about
it. Gosh, what drew you and

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your husband to the United Way and
wanting to take that big leap into the

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position you're now in. Oh,
great question, Bartlesville native. I've been

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around and seen, you know,
the wonderful things that the United Way has

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done. I've been involved in several
of the partner agencies for many years,

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and a few years ago Lisa invited
me to be on the board and I

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graciously humbly said yes, so excited
to be a part of what the United

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Weight does. And then she asked
if we would do the co chairs last

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year and the chairs this year,
and just sharing about the United Way,

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about the partner agencies and neighbors helping
neighbors. The Bartlesville community is such a

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wonderful, generous community of people who
want to be involved, who want to

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help their neighbors, and being a
part of the United Way really helps lets

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me get back. And so that's
one of the reasons I love it.

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As you very aptly identified Bartlesville and
it's character, and what this does with

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the United Way just amplifies. It
does factor ten and over fourteen for that

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matter. And this is this really
is is a great thing. And I'm

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sure your heart's just like overflowing with
yes, we're going to do this.

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Yes, yes, we are going
to do this. It's going to be

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amazing, and we're going to hit
that campaign goal. I have faith in

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Lisa, her team and this amazing
community that we live in. Oh.

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Indeed, indeed, how many people
would you bring it to town? Did

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you say? For the golf tournament? Will probably they'll be around nine hundred

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twenty golfers. It's a four day
tournament with two flights a day, So

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it's we get those nine hundred golfers
through and have a good time, have

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a lot of good food on the
course, and have some great raffle prizes

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Atoms Golf work course is. I
want to give a huge thanks to Tracy

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Rowles who u and Mike Bailey who
did some updates on the clubhouse. It

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looks great. So the only thing
we're worried about now, Tom is a

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little bit of rain. It can
rain before the tournament, and it can

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pour on Saturday, but we're really
hoping for good weather. It looks like

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it's going to be cooler and then
because we want people to know how special

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this tournament is, and we want
them to understand that it is. It's

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a pretty big deal for a small
town at Bartlesville to put on this tournament.

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How can we be a part of
the campaign? You said a dollar

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or one hundred thousand, but I'm
sure that there are a lot of people

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who are pretty much in between.
What are good ways to go about that?

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But they can donate online at Bartlesville
UW dot org. Or they can

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call our office and we can explain
to them what we do. Or they

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can drop by and for fifty et
Silo Street and just a lot, give

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them some literature about what we do, and probably a T shirt. You've

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probably seen this if you can't walk
out of the office of that T shirt.

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Yes, and you better take one
because they are amazing t shirts.

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Honest, yeah they are. They
are very amazing, and they like giving

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them away. Now, there's one
thing that we do here at work because

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we're we partner with United Way have
since you know, I've been arounding Way

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probably a long time before that.
But if you have a business, or

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you have a let's say, a
franchise of a big business, how do

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we get involved with just making that
an automatic deduction out of our checks?

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I mean, we are able to
help companies do that. Are a lot

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of companies in our community do that
already, and then some of them even

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match those funds. So we have
a you know, if they need help

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with that, whether it's a you
know, a small company or a bigger

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one, we're able to give people
the information and the tools to help them

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do that. So this week tomorrow
we have the Chronico Phillips kickoff, and

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then in October we'll have the Philip
sixty six kickoff. So it's you know,

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it's a lot of people doing a
lot of stuff for our community.

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And that's what blows me away.
I've lived here twenty eight years and I

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just love having knowing that each year
the community steps up and do it and

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gives and helps those people be the
best versions of themselves. This is great

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the United Way. What a great
story, and of course, folks,

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you can help write that story here
during our big campaign. Gosha, thank

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you for being here with us.
Thanks