Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time for our community connection right here on K one, the one
you trust. And they had so much fun a couple of weeks ago.
The ladies from the Lions have come back. How are we doing today,
Evelyn and Mary doing great? Well, it's a pleasure having you in here
today because we got so much to talk about it. You know, the
Lions Club does so much for our community, but we're kind of asking folks
to maybe have a little bit of fun and help the Lions Club as we
get ready to help the community again. Yeah, we've got a couple of
big things going on. What we have coming up first, well, this
Saturday, we are having the fundraiser for the pancake breakfast. Oh my goodness
sakes. And I'll tell you what. This cooler weather, hot pancakes sound
pretty good, don't they? Sure? Dude, Mine goodness sakes, it's
going to be great. And we're gonna do that down at the club right
Community Center building, our Community center on twenty nine hundred southeast Toxxedo. It's
the lot where we sell our Christmas trees. That building is where we will
be having the breakfast and tickets are just seven dollars for adults, four dollars
for children. All you can eat pancakes, sausage, eggs, bacon,
you name it. We're having my favorite groups. Yes, and you know
there is a talent to making pancakes. Oh yeah, there is, Yeah,
there is, because mind have never turned out and we have experts behind
the food line and you got to flip them just right at the right time.
Yes, man, you know I wind up scortch on one side and
the other side gets kind of And we thank are many many sponsors who help
us raise funds for this. We couldn't do it without our sponsors. And
of course all those who come out on Saturday, we appreciate that. And
you know one thing we didn't talk about too is we would really like to
have new members join our group or just come and check us out. Come
to your meeting on second or third Thursday evenings at six thirty and join our
lines club. We have a lot of fun doing our projects. Pancake breakfast
is great, So come out on Saturday morning. If you're headed out to
the fields where you know hunting seasons started already, come back in for breakfast
between seven and eleven, thirty seven, thirty and eleven. Got that background,
that's okay. And if you need a to go box, we will
take care of that too. We'll send some to go boxes out for you
guys here thready up so early, Oh my goodness sakes. So it's really
easy out. What's the cost on is not much? Seven dollars, that's
it. Four dollars for children, it's all you can eat. Wowly,
So there you go. That is that is really a great deal. And
of course the money raised going to help the Lions Club with so many of
our projects that going on. We've got the Christmas trees coming up to We've
got a little wood choppers all ready to go here for our chop shop conchop
Well. Some of our sponsors for the breakfast, I'll just name it.
We've got Capital Advisors, Diversified Systems Resources, Tulsa Community Foundation, Conco Phillips,
Jim Moore, agent with State Farm Bank of Oklahoma, Brian Little Haley,
Kent CPAs, Kreeger Services, our wonderful Bartlesville Radio. You guys are
always great sponsors for us and help us out so much. And I've got
a couple too, I'd like to add we've got Laura Wood from Financial Advisor
Services with Wells Fargo Advisors and Dane Warner, yes, movie producer, and
he also Owns Warner Audio Visual Consulting and design, Jane Phillips Society and Tate
Boy's Tire in Service or a few more to ads. My goodness, you're
in great company. We are, and we still have sponsorships and money coming
in and so it's so nobody's left out. Nobody's gonna be left out,
and uh, you know, you can just show up Saturday morning. We
got tickets and yes, yes, so you don't have to make a reservation.
Same price at the door, same price, it doesn't go up.
That's wonderful. And this fundraiser, as well as our Christmas fundraiser, helps
fund our local Vision projects, which is very important to us near and dear
to our hearts. We were in how Many last a couple of weeks ago
and met a fellow who he was in his seventies. He received his very
first pair of glasses from the Lions Club when he was a youngster, and
so we help provide eye exams and prescription glasses for those who are need in
our community. Of course we recycle. We do all the recycling as well.
But we also have a project that is kind of new. It's called
kid Site and it's a national project. Is not just Bartlesville. This is
our screening project that we take to schools, daycares, public as well as
private. And it's a retina camera that when you place it about six feet
from a child, we can screen up to eighteen years of age only it's
non invasive and you take a picture of their eyes and we can screen for
up to eight diseases of the eye. By doing this, we don't diagnose.
We just we print out a report and give it to the parent,
or if we're in school, we give it to the teachers to send home
to the parent and it contains a referral for is what is screened and where
they may be deficient and then they can take that to a doctor and get
an exam. So that's really important for us. Kids Site is an awesome,
awesome project and we're just really glad to be able to take it to
the schools here. That's amazing. It is, it's wonderful, and so
these fundraisers are very important to give us the funds to be able to do
these things. And when you come out to the pancake breakfast, if you've
got some eyeglasses that you would like to donate, please bring them. We
are also collecting hearing aid, electronics and electronics, so we appreciate any donations.
And you know you On a personal note, my mother had a really
bad vision and so she went through a lot of surgeries and I got to
witness firsthand and now here I am with glasses the importance of eye exams,
eye care and being able to afford glasses. I mean, can you imagine
going through life without being able to see? Wow. So it's very basic
something that we need. So we enjoy what we are doing. And like
Ellen said, we have a good time. I've never seen a lion sad.
Your club has a lot of a lot of pep, a lot of
ambition, a lot of goal oriented people, and a lot of fun folks
do and I think we I probably should have said fun first, but you
know that's how it goes. But you know, you can tell if you
if you want to become a Lion, this is a great way to get
introduced. Or if you have a question or maybe you're thinking about joining a
service club come out to the breakfast on Saturday morning, and it is to
ask a few questions and say howdy. I mean you're going to probably run
into a lot of folks you know already, Yes, absolutely, absolutely,
And Christmas is coming up. We put our tree lot up this week so
we are ready. We're ready for the delivery which will come from Michigan in
probably ten days to two weeks. And the cold weather kind of got us
prepared for that. So we put on our jackets, got the tree lot
ready and we're expecting that delivery. And this year, in addition to selling
live Christmas trees from Michigan, we will be selling live wreaths at the Treelot
on Tuxedo Boulevard as well as two Saturdays in December, December two and December
ninth at the Christmas in the Ville. Nice so nice. We will have
a presence down there and these are all live wreaths, and so we're really
glad for the people who help us purchase the items for their families. It's
just a win win for us to be able to provide this for the community.
Oh, this is going to be so nice. We got the big
breakfast coming up trees coming in wreaths on top of that, and this is
just going to be a sweet time a year for it. It is again
another fun time. We have multi generations that have come out to our Christmas
tree lot and we get to hear the stories about when they were kids and
the grandkids and then now they're bringing their kids out. So again it's it's
just very rewarding work. But as it is said, if you do what
you love, it's not like work at all. This is not like work
because we enjoy it and to see the fruits of our labor. We have
a great team, really great team of volunteers and so come join us.
All right now, Evelyn, I understand we had a couple of upgrades to
the clubhouse. Yes, oh my, our clubhouse has been totally totally renovated
from top to bottom. New bathrooms, new flooring, new ceilings, new
lighting, new electric which now we don't blow fuses when we're getting when we're
serving up pancakes, we need to have it. We had to make sure
that we were spreading those, so we have new electrical. The building is
We don't make money from the building rental, but we do use it of
course for our club meetings as well as our pancake breakfasts. We rented out
to groups, families, people who need a place to have an inexpensive We
keep the prices reasonable. Need a place for a party, a shower,
waiting reception, it's a great place to rent. We've got the playground that's
right outside the door, just a few steps away, so it's great for
family reunions. And rentals are being taken from now to the end of the
year course, and we're already booking into twenty twenty four, so if you
book in November or December, I know a lot of our weekends are already
booked, but there are still some available. So you can call for any
questions about Lions or the rental information is nine one eight three one nine seven
one zero and that number will get you in touch with a Lion and you
can find out more information about the club, rental and everything else that we
do. My goodness sakes one called at all huh yes and a real person
answer yes. And it's a great place to have business meetings as well.
And we have a big full kitchen. I mean it's it's really pretty.
We really have access bathrooms, so I'm glad for that. And when it
gets warm, you've got a beautiful park there for the kids to burn off
all that energy. And even when it's cold, you know they will do
that. They will. They see that they're going put on the gloves on
the talking adults with adults, let's go play, go burn off some energy.
They're not limited by the weather. No, no, they're not.
They just don't want to have a good I don't know if the community knows,
but there's adult exercise equipment out there as well, so we did not
know that. When you're running by, if you're doing your three hog run
or whatever, stop in. There's Yeah, there's a chin up, there's
a a push up bar some and there's instructions on the equipment so you can
tell exactly how to use it. So that's good because you know, I
need instruction after the pancake, after the pancake breakfast, you have to work
some of it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in moderation. There
you go. Well, this is great. So November fourth, be out
there at the Clubhouse on Tuxedo and we'll see you there from seven thirty thirty
to eleven am at seven dollars for adults, for for kids, and of
course we've got the Christmas trees coming out, same darn place and just about
two weeks to ten days they'll be ready to go. And don't forget the
wreaths, because we have wreaths this year, not only there, but also
a couple of days downtown at Christmas in thevill Why did you guys get around?
We do. And the lot opens the day after Thanksgiving, that's traditionally
for us, always the day after Thanksgiving November twenty fourth, and our first
weekend that we're open. We sell usually close to half of our inventory.
So you don't want to wait to get your tree. We'll show you how
to keep it nice, keep all the needles on it if you don't want
to put it up right away. But yeah, come out and purchase it,
and I'll just mention too. The wreaths are a great, great way
if you're thinking of someone who's shut in, someone in a nursing home,
or someone who can't care for a live tree, get them a wreath and
you can decorate it and that brings a little bit of that spirit Christmas spirit
in the home for those who can't have a live tree. And the smells,
and along with the Christmas trees, we also have the tree stand.
We have the bags which are great for disposing of it. And people that
come back every year tell us how fresh these trees are, how long they
live once come off the truck with a little bit of snow still from Michigan.
One lady, after looking over our tree light, she said, well,
what do you spray your trees with? And I said, uh,
water, and that's all. So. Actually, the day after Friday out
there at the tree light is basically green Friday. Right, Okay, got
you, I got you, all right, ladies. I want to thank
you for being here with us today, Thanks for sharing. And it's your
Lions Club right here in Bartlesville. See you Saturday morning out there at the
clubhouse. Folks,