Good morning, and morning and morning, and welcome, welcome all coming into
a beautiful day in the neighborhood. One of our neighbors from just down the
street there coming by to visit this. And we've got Philip Pride in here
from Boy Scout to America. Hey doing their guy, I'm doing great.
Thank you for having us. You know something, the great outdoors never felt
any greater than it did today, but I understand that coming up in the
middle of September, we're gonna have a great outdoor adventure with the Scouts.
Yes, yes, thank you for having I want to say thank you night
away. I want to say thank you to our donors. I want to
say thank you to our leaders, and I also thank to our staff.
We have a great staff and we have this wonderful, wonderful sky Trail Adventure
Challenge September sixteenth, and we want to invite the public to come out and
join us because you'll be able to kayak, you'll be able to use our
climbing wall, You're able to zip line and run and enjoy the outdoors with
all of us. So, yes, that is great. At Osege Hill
State Park, so picturesque and just so pristine. It's a great thing,
it really is. And of course, you know, you get the challenge
of doing something physical and the great outdoors and have some fun with it.
Now, I've never done that zip lining before, but that just looks like
who it is. It is. It's the it's the ultimate challenge, you
know. So and then when you combine it, you know, when you
combine it with ziplining, and when you combine it with with kayaking, it
just takes you to a whole nother level in terms of physical activity and join
the outdoors. You know, we're celebrating one hundred and fourteen years of scouting
and what better way to celebrate with us in the outdoors. My goodness.
Say, so this is open to Scouts and uh, and how do we
find out? So it's open to adults to come. Oh, adults can
do this, adults. This is for adults. So basically, come to
our website, visit our website, Cherwykee bsa dot org, Facebook on our
Facebook page, or just come by the Scout office and uh and sign up.
Well, there you go, mom, dad, aunts, uncles,
assorted friends and neighbors. Here's your chance. Good they're just calling, that's
right, Oh my goodness, the great outdoors and it's gonna be great eight
am too, so in case it is warm, we get through this before
it gets high. Oh yeah, I mean, we're so blessed to be
in Oklahoma today. We have such beautiful weather. And what a great way
to support Scouting and support our Scouting programs right now we're going to our schools
and doing recruitment. What a great way to kick that off by coming down
and join us in September now when we go to the schools. I know
that that happens every year at this time, correct, and it's always kind
of an exciting time. It really is. It really is where where if
you think about it, educated will tell you that, uh, you know,
having something to do to continue your growth and development, and that's where
Scotting fits in. You know, that character building, that leadership training all
at a young age. And so our goal is to get as many Cup
Scouts as possible this fall so that the cubs can come into the program and
later become Scout bsa youth and continue to be part of our leadership program to
be leaders and better citizens for this for this community as well. On time
for that, Yeah, you learn a lot of things and you have fun
learning them and then you say, dog got it. I learned something while
I was having fun. And on top of that, you make friendships at
last a lifetime, a lifetime and Thai lifetime. Yes, this is really
a cool thing. So if you've got a youngster at home and you're thinking
that maybe Scouts would be a great way to your broaden the horizons for your
youngster, I'll tell you, as a former boy Scout, yes I was,
Yes, I was. This will work for you and work to the
advantage of the entire family. Yes, because families become Scout exactly a family
program and a family program and Thai family. And that's how that's how Scouts
really get the strongest potential of the program is when the families involved. Well,
yeah, they get behind it and they go all in and it's it's
it's a lot of fun, it really is. And now Scotting is one
of those things people say, well, isn't that just for talent kids?
Isn't that just for you know, kids that might have a leg up in
life. Now it's for everyone, for everyone. To believe me, we
had a dirt floor. You ever tried to sweep a dirt floor. Yeah,
you get the dirt, you know, you know, and I became
the scott. It worked out pretty darn well. So this is a This
is really good because the lessons you learn are things that are going to come
in handy throughout life. And it's not necessarily tying it out, although that
will come in handy. But what you'll learn is teamwork. You learn how
to take in knowledge, and you learn how to become a provider of knowledge
for those who are coming up. So you get to learn how to learn
and learn how to teach and do with adversity. Yeah, you do,
because a lot of these challenges, though they look like one, they come
to challenge exactly exactly. So you're learning. You'll learning those those tools.
We call it putting putting things in a toolbox because if we can, if
we can impact our youth with more tools at an early age, then when
it become adults. For example, our Maritor badge system, our Marrior bag
system, we have over one hundred maryor badges that basically introduced scouts to careers.
So so now, for example, you could have a scout that starts
out learning about for example, plumbing for example, engineering and then decides,
you know what, I want to be an engineer next. You know that
Scout could go on to become our next prominent engineering town. So scouting provides
that early education, very early on, for youth to learn it does.
It also helps with problem solving, and it shows you how to take a
very practical, pragmatic approach to seeing a challenge and overcoming the challenge. And
if you've got a youngster who might get just a little frustrated, as we
some adults do when met with challenge, this is a I'm not saying that
this is the best therapy in the world, but I'm telling you it is
one of the better ones because you learn how to just analyze that exactly at
a young age, at a very young age, before it gets out of
control exactly. Yeah. So if you get him in there at cub yes,
get him a little tiger, that's right, and get him going up
there. Uh, you know, they'll see these things is not just challenges
but aspirations, and they'll realize that dreams are attainable and you can reach for
them correct And it's all up to you whether or not you're gotta get them.
That's right. You can't anybody you have to do to work that the
Scout has to do to work along the way. What a what if opportunity
to start early on in life and to to basically have a nut opportunity at
at being a better citizen, a more productive citizen, to help our community
and continue to make Bodysville the best place to live in America. Oh golly.
Yeah. And it is just such a remarkable group that you have there
with you. You have a lot of support from within the community and around
the community. And you know what, we also have some fun in our
fundraising. What kind of fundraising we're doing right now, because so something needable
is going to be coming up? Yes, yes, yes, yes.
So in the fall we have we have we have popcorn sales and we've we've
been in a park and sale for for quite a while now. But we
also have milopy Con. This is our second year do milopy Cons. MILOPYCNS
a local company here in Oklahoma, and they're delicious. They're delicious, you
know. So if you're thinking about Thanksgiving meals and so forth, milopy CON's
a great combination that including there for desserts and then also we have our calendar
which is our own Checkayre Council fundraiser that we have and so we're just very
pleased to to have different options for our Scouts and uh and what a strong
way to kick it off with our bsa own Cheercare Council Scout Trade Adventure challenge
to come out and kick off the year. Let's do this. Let's do
this. Tell you what We're gonna take a quick break and we're going to
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Tall Grass Motors Highway seventy five North in Bartlesville, and we're back with
more of our community connection right here on K one. The one you trust
talking in Philip here with the Boy Scouts of America, Cherokee Council, and
of course the big deal we got coming up here September sixteenth with the Big
Adventure Challenge at Hills State Park. Tell folks how they can learn more about
that. Yeah, so you can visit us on our website Cherokee BSA dot
org. You can come to our Facebook page, or you can come to
the Scott office right down the street, right down the street around the corner
Qualifa. And also if folks are starting to get a little hankering for a
snack, we've got some fundraising opportunities here that you can just vibe but in
bulk, I guess yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll let you. Can
we find that on the website too, Yes, we can had on the
website Cherokee BSA dot org. And uh, I'll come to the Scott office
either way, Yes, all right, pecans by the pound, that's right,
that's right, and we'll deliver it monthly. So that's one of the
one of the good things about Milky Con. We have the opportunity to do
it every month from from August to till November. Well, that's great,
that is that is really great. So right soon, they're in season right
there, and they're fresh, and they're it's all galli, are they fresh?
What did I do? I got two bags from your last time and
they did in the last ten days. And you help the Scouts and you
help the Scouts. Yeah, and you help them Scouts, So get nutty
with it, bulks, Philip, I tell you what, it's always fun
to have you here. And of course again the website is where you can
find anything and everything about Scouting. What schools are you hitting here the next
couple of weeks? So I'll go and then you know, we have six
counties and we go. Is they hit all thirty schools? Oh my,
it's all thirty schools between September and October. And so your it's scout Out
for you. Yes, yeah, we have. We have a great staff
and we're just excited because it gains an opportunity to make a difference and give
families, gift youth an opportunity to join a program that will change their lives
very good. And you don't want to. I run into Philip every now
and then because the Scouts are either dropping off or getting ready to go someplace.
At my church, yeah, and I said, Philip, what are
you doing? Okay, yeah, it's officially got the uniform on going to
a lake. All right, I got you, you know, So you
know it's Scouting is everywhere and whenever you have things, you know, like
SunFest even and other things that happened in our community, our Scouts a volunteers
there. Yeah, so there are plenty visible well, and that's the thing
we're just I want to say another thank you again to our volunteers, because
it takes having great leaders, great committee members that weekend week out Monday nights,
Tuesday nights, Wednesday night, meaning the Scouts preparing the Scouts, training
the Scouts, and so I just want to say another thank you to our
leadership, what it's at the unit level or the board level or with United
Away, because again, it takes an entire community to support our youth.
And here in Bodisville and in the Check Care Council, we see that daily.
So I just want to say thank you to our community for all that
you do. And we want to thank say thanks for the Boy Scouts for
producing great, great citizens. Yeah, how many eagles you got coming in
there? So so last year we had sixteen Eagle Scouts. That was one
of our record years and this year we already have we're we're north of nine
already and uh, you know it's only August, so you can tell what
October till December, December of these projects to get projects in. So we're
we're very excited about the next group of Eagle Scouts coming through and again continuing
that that legacy. Uh. We had the honor of being at one Eagle
Scouts ceremonies past weekend Ray mc iver and he became an Eagle and it was
just a pledge to see and an honest see all people have supported him and
all the work that he did for for his Eagle project and uh and his
entire Korean Scouting so which is very proud of our Eagle Scouts. Yea.
You know there's one regret in life. I didn't I didn't do that and
I should have. But the scouting, like like I've told you over and
over again, UH got me on a path to a better career in a
better way at a time when it was probably at a cross rugs. So
so it worked out really well. And that's what scouting us. That's what
Scouting us and that's why we want more youth to have the opportunity to join.
You can come to our website, come to our Scout office. We
want to see you on Saturday, Saturday's sixteenth, because that's another way to
kick off the season, you know, come out and get some exercise and
support scouting. Okay, that's an old Change Hill State Park and just visit
the website. We'll have it all their eph