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And good morning, kad morning,
good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection right here on Kay one,

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the one you trust and is being
brought to you by Tall Grass Motors and

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our good friends at Arnold Moore and
Knee Camp Funeral Home. And good morning

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to you, Miss Sherry Wilt from
the Greater Bartleshood Chamber of Conference. How

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are you today? I'm great?
How are you well? You're always great?

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You you know, the president of
Chamber of Commerce, one of the

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greatest cities in this state. I
know, Okay, asked for a better

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job. Good Hey, you've had
a lot. You had a busy month

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last month. We did. We
had a we're in very busy August had

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the Attorney General in, had Senator
Langford, Senator Mullen, and seemed like

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all the of course they're all on
the are not thet Torney General, but

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they're on recess. So yeah,
we had we had had him here,

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but and then some other things.
But it's very, very busy. In

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September is no difference, no different
at all. In fact, September we're

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coming out kicking. What do we
got going on? Well, they're starting

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off September seventh with our business hours, but this is going to be an

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expanded business after hours. I'm real
excited Hilton Gardening is hosting it. And

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so we finally had a location that
was big enough to be able to and

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was agreeable to do an in conjunction
with also a business expos So we have

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about forty I think it's forty one
or forty two, forty two businesses and

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that's all we could take or sold
out, we'd have. We've got a

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big waiting list, but the tables, that's all we had anyhow. And

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it's different businesses set up business to
business, some for business to consumer,

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but an opportunities to go around the
room meet different businesses, make contacts and

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find out what some of our businesses
in town are probably a lot of them

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there you may not know about and
just meet them, talk to them,

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see what they have. And all
of them are doing door prizes, so

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they'll be lots of door prizes at
evening and people always like that. And

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then like I said, well after
hours it is hosted at and buy the

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Hiltons so to highlight what you know
the Hilton Gardening can offer and what they

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do great at hosting events. And
that kind of thing. So they drew

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a lot of it. They do. Our gal is out is there every

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year. We love working with them. They're a great team to work with.

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They take great care of us.
So are you gotta doing walk across

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the street? You're there? I
know, we love it. It's so

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convenient and they're just they're so easy
to work with. So we really do

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enjoy work in our partnership with them. So that is September the seventh,

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So it's the first Thursday of every
month, and so it's and this will

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be from four to six and obviously
it's a come and go it's only you

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have to be there for two hours. You're not late, you're not early

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whatever. So if you can stop
by, we encourage you to do that

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and it'll be be a fun evening, very good looking forward to that.

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Do you have to have tickets?
No, you do not. You can

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just you can just just come so
sure up, just show up, leave

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leave leave office a little early and
come by or come by right after work

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whatever. But I know that's how
we changed your after hours hours. What

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year or two ago. A lot
of people have so much to do,

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especially this time of year, right
after work with, especially if you have

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kids. But I was gonna say
or stop buy after work at five,

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but whatever works in your schedule,
so come and go. And it's a

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free event, so no, you
know, there's no figure or anything to

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enter, so nothing to lose and
a lot to gain. Exactly. Might

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might want to do a prize and
it's a business that you could really Exactly,

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that's the main point. We want
people to to go to shop local

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when they can, use local businesses
when they can. So you know,

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something that's really been working for the
last several years, and the Chamber has

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got a lot to do with it, but so does everybody in town is

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the fact that more and more people
are finding these neat little secrets right here

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in Bartleshowe. They're finding out that
everything they need it's pretty much right here,

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pretty much, and they're staying home
and consuming locally, and that is

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a very good thing. Other side, don't get me going, because I'll

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take the whole show on that,
But it is shop yeah, supporting local.

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It's the local people that own these
these shops or they manage. Maybe

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it's not even a local, maybe
it's a chain. But you know,

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sometimes we were like, oh,
it's a chain, they're fine, but

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it's still being managed by a local
per their employees are local. Those people

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go out shop in our community.
Those businesses chickily. The locally owned ones

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are the ones who support so many
things in our community. You know,

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all the school carnivals, all the
organ you know, nonprofit organizations, fundraisers.

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They're the ones that always donate and
you know they give and give,

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but they can't give and give unless
we support them. So I mean it

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is important. And just to use
local services where I think retail when we

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talk shop local, but just services
too, you know, grumbing, electrical,

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which I know it's so hard to
get them, but you know,

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I mean there there are a lot
to offer. You know, there's a

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lot here and you know they're they're
busy. They're busy. That is.

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The trades are a huge there's a
huge need for trades. If you have

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a you have a child that's not
really interested in college, that's okay,

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good, Yeah, they they can
write their own ticket if if they're interested

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in working in the trades. How
would you like to make is as much

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as as a doctor does without having
to pay what a doctor has to pay

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in tuition and yeah that when they
come out, you know what, fifteen

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years later, however long it takes
them to get through you know, med

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school, comber and everybody's going to
need one some day. Yep. They

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are same thing with heat and air
especially, Yeah, and a lot of

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other businesses. So anyhow, so
that's what that's all about, and we're

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excited about that. Just cannot encourage
people enough to think local when you need

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a service or shopping. So it
makes a difference, it does, It

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does, And of course the Chamber
is there to help out to your membership.

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In the Chamber of Commerce, you
get a lot of introductions to a

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lot of different things and a lot
of resources. You guys are really good

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at just you know, kind of
connecting in getting people where they need to

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go. That. I mean,
it's one of our ring goals is to

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connect businesses to people, connect businesses
to each other, give them avenues to

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for more exposure, that kind of
thing. Yeah, speaking of exposure,

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one thing we do have coming up
a deadline for our community guide. This

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is one hundred and sixty I think
it's a hundred and sixty eight pages.

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Whatever. It's a it's full color, it's a gorgeous book. It's all

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about our community and it's it goes
to all our chamber members. But it

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also is a relocation piece. So
when people are, you know, wanting

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information about our community, this is
what we give them or send out.

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Recruiters with different companies use it.
It's just it's you know, we give

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it to realtors to to give to
people when they move here. Just a

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lot of different avenues that we get
it out to to new folks in town

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as well as use it with you
know, our our own membership. And

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in the back is and it's old
fashioned, but I love it. I'm

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hard, you know, I'm old
school. But in the back is a

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listing kind of like the old fashioned
Yellow Pages if anybody remembers Yellow Pages,

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but by business category we list our
our businesses. So here's accountants and here's

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you know, chamber members of our
accountants. And it gives the the contact

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and the information and you contact them
for services. So the back part is

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very valuable to our members. It's
also online. People may not realize that

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you can find it and well,
I like, look an old school but

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you know that's me. But you
can go to bottle dot com and in

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the very top corner it says member
directory and you can click on that and

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find you know, service that you're
looking for. Remember that you're looking for.

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So, but that deadline is coming
up if you would like to do

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advertising. The reason we can produce
such a gorgeous book, because I mean

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they are expency per piece to produce, is because of our advertisers in it.

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If we don't have advertisers, you
know, we can't can't do the

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book. And so we really are
grateful for the advertisers, but we want

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it to be beneficial to them as
well. And so that deadline is coming

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up September the fifteenth, So all
right to put that on your calendar.

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Make sure that that happens. You
know, it's really a cool piece.

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We're gonna take a quick break and
we're gonna be right back after these words

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from Arnold Moore, Knee Camp Funeral
Home and tall Grass Motors. How does

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timhowl at Arnold Moore and Knee Camp
Funeral Home. No, he's done a

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good job. After a funeral,
I'll come in I say, guys,

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great job. We really hit that
out of the today. The family was

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well pleased. And that's the phrase
right there when a family member tells me,

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you made this experience so much easier
than I thought it was going to

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be. Thank you. That is
the high five moment right there. And

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then six months later you run into
them in a store or a restaurant and

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they come up to you and shake
your hand, put their arm round and

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home and say, this is our
funeral director. He helped us so much

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when dad died. He is a
nice guy. His staff is so compassionate

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and so caring. They did a
great job. That is the ultimate experience.

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They've had time to grieve a little
bit and reflect on what you've done,

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and they come in and they're still
on cloud nine because you help them

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pay tribute to someone they really cared
about. It'll be all right. We'll

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walk through this together. Arnold Moore
and the Camp Funeral Home seven ten Dewey,

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Bartlesville, We'll walk through this together. Is it time to start thinking

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about a new car? But the
thought of dealing with the large dealerships is

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just too intimidating, too confusing.
There is an easier way, hey,

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

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dealerships play. Tall Grass Motors has
continually been voted Bartlesville's best used car deal

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year after year. Go by Tall
Grass Motors today and enjoyed looking at over

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sixty used cars, trucks and SUVs, all prized to save you money.

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Tall Grass Motors, Highway seventy five
North in Bartlesville. Alrighty, we're back.

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Was it more of our community connection
With Sherry Wilt from the Greater Bartlesville

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Chamber of Commerce. We've got a
big form coming up. We do the

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first one of our form series year. We have six major forms each year

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and the goal of those is too
be able to bring in bigger speakers that

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pertain to our community or statewide,
and so we want to give our members

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direct access to them. So our
first one of the year is going to

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be with the CEO Chairman of the
board for kind of. Phillips flies in

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from Houston. He's up here for
the Nineway golf tournament and he always makes

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time and stop spy and does a
form. But this one's a little different

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because of the time frame of hitting
the golf tournament. Well, it's more

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of a brunch. It's from ten
to eleven thirty so, and it's held

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out at City Church and this it's
it's just an opportunity to hear the latest

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of what's what's going on with Conoco
Phillips. He usually opens up for questions

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and answers, so there's a Q
and a time and it's just a it's

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a good you know, I say, what kind of happens with the big

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companies, two major companies, elephants
in the ware room. You know,

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it does trickle down and some people
always very very curious and they want to

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hear directly from the from the leadership
of the two companies. And we'll have

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Mark Leisure on in October. I
think it's October tenth, the next month.

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I got a kick out of Mark
and he used to live here,

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right, yeah, so he'll be
here in October, so still coming and

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anyhow looking forward to that. Hopefully
in November. We're working with the Governor's

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office. We'll have the governor here. Last year we had to lieutenant governor

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and we try to alternate every other
year there and we're always you know,

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looking and trying to book and some
some people are hard to get any advanced

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notice, so particularly our federal federal
leadership and things. So as as far

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as we've gotten. So, but
if we can get the first what I

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call first semester being the former teacher, if we had our first semester book

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down, then we're then we're doing
good. You're doing really good. Now

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when we do the one with the
big oil companies here in count we're gonna

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go out first City Church City Church
Gates. Yeah, because they can hold

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it. They can hold it,
and they're a v and equipment. A

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lot of times, particularly Phillips sixty
six, a lot of times they've they've

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had slides and it's so frustrating to
not be able to see, you know,

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slides where you can really see them. And so that's why I originally

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started going out there, and just
the sound quality and the space and things.

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It's it's nice that they let us, you know, have that facility

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for that event. So the good
part you can definitely see the slide.

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Yes, that's all. That's great. It's almost like three sixty cents around.

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Yes, but no, it really
gives a good time. Now,

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people want to be a part of
the chamber. How do we go about

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becoming members? They can just call
us, they can go online. Judy

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Williams is our I always say rock
star membership person, and she can sit

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down and kind of go through things
with you, answer questions, tell you,

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kind of see what you're after and
kind of point you in the right

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direction. Or if you don't want
to sit down, because then you feel

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obligated, you could just go online
Bartlesville dot com and kind of poke around

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our website. We do have a
new website encourage people to go to.

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We're still trying to. There's a
few kinks here and there, but I

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think I think we found about we
find something. Let us know. But

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we've we've changed software, which all
I can say is, don't ever change

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softwares. But it'll be a good
thing when we get at almost there.

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Always you know, still working a
few things out, but hey, we

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along with the new software, we
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we have a new It's a what
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a banner, but a video that
rotates and it's it's a great rolling video

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of our community and that pretty I
trusted our graphics person did it. I

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don't know he did, agree,
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one of these holly weird people after
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a great representation and a lot of
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a community. A lot of times
they'll google Chamber of Commerce, and so

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we really wanted a good overview,
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I encourage you get with nothing else
seem if you're already a Chambermber, go

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to our website call uschel dot com. You know, check out that that

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because I love that part. I'm
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I saw that. But then right
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click on. You know, exposure
benefits that kind of thing, and you

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can actually join online if you want
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always encourage people to come in talk
to Judy and it's just nice having a

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face to face. She's really really
good about you know, seeing what you

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What are you after? Is it
exposure? Is it just you want to

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you know, you feel like this
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community, I mean, what are
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of educates you a little bit more
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on our mission, that kind of
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from you. Now you just got
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Christmas in the Villa is just a
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Yes, it is. Septembers will
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I am excited. We do have
a new horse and carriage person this year,

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and he just bought a brand new
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picked it up, and so we're
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new company and I think he's super
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and so we're excited about that.
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I gotta we're gonna have something.
We're gonna have one thing new this

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year. I'm really excited about.
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yet. So yeah, we're working
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couple, not a whole lot.
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if anybody wants to be a part
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a month long festival. People need
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you know what they're looking at.
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This is a month long. You're
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out there actually a little more than
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around the rink, those are taken, those are sold. All our major

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sponsorships are taken, which we really
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shout out abb Prospective Advisors, Roger
State University this year and Kelly Williams Reality

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with with Shelley Coster. Those are
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could not do this without them.
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huge shout out and a huge thank
you to those four companies for what they

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do to support the festival. You
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there's more and more people showing up, not only on opening night, but

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for the whole dark deal, for
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And I love it. Working with
Maria Guests with Visit Bartlesville, she now

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can g offense and has all that
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but anyhow, she was able to
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hard to estimate, you know,
I don't know. I mean I look

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at a crowd, I'm like,
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you know, And so she can
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track, which was very very interesting, how many people are more than forty

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miles out, how many people are
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reasons we started it was, you
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they're more than likely if they're that
far away, they're gonna at least eat

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at our restaurants. Probably they're gonna
shop, They're gonna, you know,

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at least get some gas, get
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probably gonna hit that time of year, they're gonna they're hopefully they're gonna hit

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our locally own but they're probably gonna
hit the Walmart and everything else while they're

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here. So all of that is
sales tax money, all of that supporting

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our businesses in particularly fourth quarter.
Everybody knows that, but fourth quarter is

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a lot of times what makes her
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we love to bring those people downtown. And it was it was neat to

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see those numbers increase and how many
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because off the top of my head, I'm going to get it wrong,

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but we saw an increase from the
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and bigger and word is, you
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is what we're after. If you
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break, she's out sweeping the ice. Yes, I am Sharry. Is

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there anything might we might have missed? Boy, you've got a busy calendar.

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Any just one other thing? On
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Women in Business Luncheon series and that's
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gonna be a great topic. I'm
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networking with a purpose, shake hands
with your goal, and she is she

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actually increased her sales over three hundred
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days. So I'm really anxious to
hear her story. And it says through

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chamber networking events is how she did
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I think it's gonna be really fun. I think there's gonna be a

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lot of it's not just listening to
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be a really fun one to kick
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good speakers. This yeared lined up
so works right about that. That is

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September the twentieth, and you can
register for that or any of these events.

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The Conoco Phillips Forum question enough to
register for after hours or the expo,

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but at Bartlesfield dot com