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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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

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the one you trust. Salvation Army
is in the house, the swains are

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here. How are we doing?
Kids? Good and a nice to be

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called kids? Yeah, So what's
been happening at the at the Salvation Army.

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I know it's been a little warm, but we had a nice little

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break. But what's going on.
Well, we've been having camps. You

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want to speak about it? Oh, yeah, having camps came started around

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the first of June, so we
were able to take several kids sponsored thirty

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children, that's a good number,
and so we were able to take some

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to camp and I think they had
a really good time. You know,

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we just uh he had He got
to go with a group and I got

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to go with a group and it
was yeah, you stay a whole week

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with them, and so mine was
last week and you know, it was

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hot, but it was so much
fun and I think all the kids really

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enjoyed it. You know, when
when kids go off to camp, to

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them, that's big vacation. That's
a big deal. Yeah it is.

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You know, that's the first time
that they're kind of out. They think

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they're on their own, but they're
not. They're very well shuperized. And

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we had several that was their first, yeah, first time experience being a

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week away from you know, mom
and dad, and they did I think

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they did really well. And now
we we had the tornadoes, and I

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know we covered this the last time
you were here talking about that, yeah,

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huh with Monica. Yeah, yeah, but that was a that was

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a nice, little, uh,
inconvenient test for every one of us,

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you know, I mean, we
we like to think that we're very prepared

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as a community, but that took
a lot of a spye surprise. Yeah,

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it did take a lot of spy
surprise. It was. It's an

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interesting thing when it's something like that
happens, you know, it's it's amazing

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that there are other organizations as well
as the Salvation Army who are prepared for

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moments like that and able to mobilize
on a moment's notice. And we're thankful

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for all the all the different help
that we got in the community. Uh,

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you know, we we partnered with
a couple of different organizations. The

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First Baptist Church provided the meals that
we served and so that was that was

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great and there are other organizations that
were involved as well. But yeah,

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it takes a it takes an army. It does an army. Now,

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I we we touched on this a
little bit of vacation Bible School. Is

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that coming up? Yes, that
is gonna be coming up with our kids,

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not next week, with the week
after. Is that all filled up

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as far as or do you need
to have more little ones to pop in?

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I don't know, what do you
think? I think it's just it's

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really just the kids that are at
Kids Club. Yeah, it's yeah,

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that that's the normally what we do
is the kids that we have signed up

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for day camp, right, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that if there's

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others got by, we would we
would bring them in. We would not

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turn them away if they wanted to
join. Yeah. Sure, So it's

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a week after next Yeah, Monday
through Thursday in the mornings and sure,

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Yeah, everybody's welcome. It's going
me in the morning time. Yeah,

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we've got I hate to say this
now it's the middle of July, but

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falls approaching back to school and then
you know, we got wintertime and some

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big things coming up. Can you
kind of give us a prologue of what

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you're expecting. Yeah, we we
have our Can food Drive which is coming

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up in October, begins in October. Yeah. Last year, the you

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know, all the schools here in
town get involved, and last year we

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were able to raise almost sixteen thousand
cans, which can goods and items which

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we sort out in the days that
follow and we use those for during our

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holiday season and we also use that
for our food pantry. Super it is

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super important to the work that we
do down there. Then we also have

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our Angel Tree campaign will be coming
up very soon that we'll open up at

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the beginning of September. Yep,
at the beginning of September, we'll open

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up our Angel Tree for sign ups. Yep. That is coming up quick.

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Yeah, oh wow, yeah yeah
yeah yeah, yeah. September is

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not far away at all. Yeah, So that that will open up at

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first part of September. And then
we you know, of course, we

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have our Red Cattle campaign and this
year we have our Red Kettle kickoff coming

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back, which is our fundraising event. We haven't had it since before COVID,

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and so we're we're hoping to come
back with that with a bang and

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pretty excited about it. We are
very excited about that. We've been been

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having some meetings, committee meetings trying
to put that all together. But we're

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excited about it. Yeah. How
does that red kettle thing come together?

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I mean, I understand that's a
lot of work. Yeah, he usually

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does a lot of the red Kettle
Okay, Yeah, Yeah, it is

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a lot of work. You know, we we have we have different community

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members that are willing to to you
know, come on board and just help

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us do the planning and put it
all together. Adams. All of our

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Church of Christ is the is the
location, and they've you know, they've

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worked with us just to provide a
phenomenal space at a phenomenal price and you

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know, just able to put that
together there. And we're we're still trying

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to put together some of the details, but you know, we're just trusted

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in God knowing that it's all going
to come together in the end. Yeah.

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Well, you know that's a good
way to look at it to you

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know, you you're working with some
fantastic partners out of this world. Yeah.

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So, and that that space that
can accommodate a whole lot of people.

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Yeah, yeah, will Yeah.
So yeah, now when we start

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getting into the busy. You're always
busy, but this is where the after

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burners come in. Do you need
volunteers, We always need volunteers. In

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fact, we're signing up right now
called Day of Caring, which you'll be

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able to go on United Way's website
here. I'm not sure when the day

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is that it will be released.
It's coming soon. It comes up soon,

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so maybe that's the time when you
get on there. It's a little

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bit after that. But here in
the next few weeks, you'll be able

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to go on the United Way website
and you'll be able to see the different

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projects that we have available and be
able to sign up for those. And

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there's there's quite a few of them
going to be on there. So yeah,

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I'm gonna be working on that today
actually, yeah, you know,

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yeah, yeah, Yeahted. Now, United the Way people are very nice

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to work with, aren't they They're
great? We were wonderful. We absolutely

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the United Way. They've been really
good to us. We're so thankful to

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partner with them in this community.
And the other partner organis partner organizations.

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Yeah, it's it's we're kind of
in a unique area right here where we

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were blessed that folks have a common
vision for how things need to be in

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order for all of us to have
our best lives. And it's really a

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blessing to be in this little part
of the world where that can happen.

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Yeah, for sure, it really
is. I don't know about other places

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you've been, but not everybody has
a common vision. Yeah, yeah,

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we really do have some. Yeah, some great relationships here, and you're

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right, it is an amazing community. We we noticed that when we first

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got here. I said, coming
to our last year, I was just

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I don't know, it was just
kind of blown away at the the love

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in the community. I just never
I don't know, it was really amazing

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discuss see, yes it is.
You don't see it everywhere, and so

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I'm like, wow, this is
a wonderful community. They really come together

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and just want to support and just
love each other. One of the things

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that people who lived here all their
lives that they really don't understand. They

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are of the mind that this is
what it's like everywhere, and it's not.

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I don't think many folks realize just
how unique we are. And it's

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a really good model. I think
this is why when people like yourselves.

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You show up here, it's like, yeah, this is the right spot.

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Yeah yeah yeah, coming from Atlanta. We know, we came from

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Atlanta, Georgia, but we were
there for two years. It was like

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culture shock coming coming from Atlanta,
night and day. Yeah, I bet

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that's a fast movie. That's like
Chicago of the South, stoopid town except

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for the traffic. Yeah that's why
I know, outside of Los Angeles,

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where you're only going to go fifteen
miles per hour on the freeway. Yeah,

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exactly right. Yeah, it's kind
of it's kind of odd because like

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people like they are going fast in
the traffic, but yeah, traffic's not

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going fast. Yeah, if that
makes sense. Watch out. Oh yeah,

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well here in town you can get
about anywhere you need to be within

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ten or fifteen minutes. And some
people actually stop at the stop signs.

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Yeah yeah, you've got a lot
of rollers. Well why I'm just telling

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you watch out yet some rollers here. But it's great to know Salvation Army

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is always there to help when help
is needed. And one thing that I

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was telling I'm done a couple of
weeks ago. The Salvation Army doesn't stand

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up on a big old podium and
beat their chests saying look at us,

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look what we've done. It's like
we're here. If you need us,

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we're here, or the door's open, we're here. Yeah, And that's

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a real comfort. You don't feel
overwhelmed. You feel like, wow,

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they're here, and you feel comfortable
coming in and you know, seeing what

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the army is all about. Yeah, yeah, kind of on that note,

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you know, one of the things
that's happening right now is is July

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is Home Energy eight month for the
for the Salvation Army. And there's a

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slip of paper in your bill for
PSO or ONNG or og and E that

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some people might look over. It's
just stuffed in there, and it's if

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you want to support the Salvation Army
in our work to help support those who

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are who are struggling to pay their
bills and and so you know, there's

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a contact card in there and you
can pledge a certain amount of money.

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But this is this is the month
that we promote that the most and last

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year across the state of Oklahoma,
we helped almost seventy five hundred individuals,

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about twenty four hundred families right here
in the three county area. We helped

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Yeah, we we helped two hundred
and twenty six families with their home energy

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aid and uh, and that's all. It's all made possible by those who

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pledge that little extra on their on
their payment and uh and that and that

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comes back to us. Everything that's
paid in no wata O sage in Washington

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County stays right here. And no
water well doesn't grow legs and go to

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California, does go anywhere else.
Yeah, that money stays right here in

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the three counties. And so that's
that's huge. You know, sometimes poverty

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is is uh, it's it's kind
of invisible. You know. We keep

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up appearances and and everybody thinks things
are okay. They don't see things like

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our light bill or our or things
of that nature, you know, and

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so it can be tough to see
that the family next to us is struggling.

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But uh, but those but those
pledges, they make such a difference.

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You know, I've known people,
I've actually worked with people I did

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not know that they were homeless.
They were homeless. Yeah, they're working,

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yeah, and came to work looking
just like everybody else, working just

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like everybody else, but they're basically
living out of their car. For a

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long stretch of time you had nobody
had any idea, and that that's really

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nowhere to go, no where to
go. And I know that pride gets

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in the way sometimes, but you
know, Salvation Army's got a little bit

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of love too. They got to
give them a call and just see what

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can be done. If it can't
be done there, it can. You

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know a lot of people where you
can get some help, don't you very

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well connected folks, But this is
this is really kind of cool having you

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guys here in studio. It's always
a blessing. I feel a lot better

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about the world when I hear the
positive message that you two bring us each

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and every time you're here. And
you guys, you can't wipe the smile

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off their faces. It's got to
feel good in the heart to help folks.

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It does, it is it's a
joy. Oh my goodness. How

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can people help out right now?
I know we need volunteers little bit later

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on, but sometimes, Pope,
we've got a couple extra hundred dollars that

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are just burning in their pocket and
they say, I better do something good

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with this before I do something stupid. Yeah, I might be one of

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the people. Yeah, July August, September. It's the end of our

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fiscal year, you know, it's
it's such time. Yeah, it's it

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is. It's it's a low point
for us as far as giving, So

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giving really matters right now. And
so yeah, if anybody has that extra

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money right now, it's super meaningful
and goes a very long way to help

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support the cause down. Now,
how can we go back? Can we

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just go by it and write to
Check? You can go behind right said

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Check. You can mail a check
to one oh one north of Ucy Avenue

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at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, seven four
zero zero three. Or you can go

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on our website to Bartlesville's Salvation Army
dot work and there's a there's a spot

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on there to give, and and
all the money that's given through that website

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stays right here in Bartlesville as well. I'm asking for a friend here.

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Is there a way that someone could
donate anonymously? They sure can, Yes,

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you can donate. I know that
somebody goes about gold coins an awful

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lot and put them into cattle.
Yeah, so I just wanted to the

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gold coin person. Actually, when
you give online, it is you know,

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there's a there's a way to give
their anonymously. Yeah, yeah,

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because I know there are folks who
kind of like the Salvation Army. They

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don't like to hoot and holler and
say, well you look what I did.

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They just want to do it and
feel good and feel it that way.

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Yeah. Man, it's so cool. Yeah all right, so once

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again, folks, stop buying visit
you can get take a tour, can't

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you. Yes, you can do
that. Yeah. They wanted to kind

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of take a door right oh yeah. Yeah. Beautiful facility, Yeah,

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nice air conditioning, got that all
stick. And also while you're there,

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you might want to ask how you
might be able to be of service to

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volunteer because coming up to the time
to volunteer. Yeah, quickly upon us

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to thank you both for being here. Have we missed anything by the way

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we covered this time? Yeah,
yeah, I tell you what, I'm

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amazed because you guys do so much. I figured I forgot something. All

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right, thank you. We've had
the Salvation Army and here the Swains are

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with us, and that you've been
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