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

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India. Time now for our community
connection right here on K one, the

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one you trust it is right now
eight thirty three and we've got a big

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to do coming up here very very
shortly with the Bartlesville Community Foundation. Miss

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Laura, how are you doing today? I'll thank you. Well, you've

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got your notes all categorized and categorized
and already to go, and you're far

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more with it than I am today. But tell us we've got a big

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event and it's got just a little
subtle difference this year, a subtle difference.

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Yes, we have the Legacy Hall
of Fame Gala that will be on

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May twentieth at the Bartlesville Community Center
and this is our fifteenth Legacy Gala.

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Wow, so we are very excited. We did make a slight change this

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year. We are recognizing local organizations
rather than local families and that was just

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because we felt like making a little
change this year. Well, you've got

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we can pass around a little bit
more celebration all the way around, because

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there's so many organizations and people who
not only belong to them, but on

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boards and what have you. But
it we're also helped by it. So

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this really kind of spreads the Yay
power along. It does. And when

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we received the videos last week and
so we've seen the kind of preview of

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those were making some final edits and
tweaks. But it's fun to see how

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people in both big players in both
there are the same in both organizations,

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and so it's like we get to
recognize families too. We get to recognize

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the people that have helped make those
organizations work, the boards that have helped

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continue to make them successful. And
I believe both of them are celebrating great

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milestones in the next year. I'm
going to get the years wrong, the

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number of years wrong, but I
know Boys and Girls Club, which is

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one of the organizations we're recognizing,
is reaching a big milestone next year.

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Anniversary milestone next year. And then
okaym is a tradition in our community.

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So we're excited to unveil the history
of both of those groups. In both

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have quite the story to tell.
They had a really great story to tell,

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and one is rather unique that you
have to get your ticket to hear

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it, so that that's really going
to be something marvelous. Now, the

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people who put together your videos.
I get a kick out of those each

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and every time I at ten because
not only do they tell the story,

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but they use a little bit of
humor and uh, and it keeps you

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really engaged with the story the whole
the whole way through, and there's no

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lull. There is no lull.
And she's the person who makes our videos

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is Christy Hewitt. She owns Bit
Brilliant as a company here in town,

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and she does a wonderful job.
And she does not only puts the videos

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together, but really coordinates the interviews
with the people that the organizations have selected

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to speak on their behalf and tell
their story. And so you're right,

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it's going to be fun and engaging
in those videos. Have just a little

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bit of humor along with a lot
of history, and they do and it's

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it's great storytelling and it's well worth
the price of admission, if not just

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for the videos, because you know
you're going to learn a lot in just

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a few minutes that they're up there
and everything, but it's really a nice

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get together for the entire community.
You get to see folks maybe you haven't

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seen in a while and visit with
them, and of course we get to

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honor and celebrate ourselves. The best
part. We get to honor and celebrate.

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Yep, come and celebrate. That's
what it is. Now tell us

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a little bit about the foundation itself. It's more than just this one big

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gala. It's you help a lot
of organizations along the way throughout the year.

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Every year we try our best to
yes. So we have The Bartiswa

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Community Foundation is twenty three years old. We were officially established as our own

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NST in two thousand, so we
get to mark our years pretty easily with

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the year of the calendar. So
you're twenty three and we see a rough

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amount of about two point two million
dollars back out of the community and the

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communities that our donors serve every year. So we have think of the Community

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Foundation is like your philanthropic bank.
You can come to the Community Foundation and

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we have fund types that help people
reach their philanthropic goals like a bank would

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have reaching someone their financial goals.
And so we have a bank partner.

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We are not a bank just heavy
out there, but we have endowed funds

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that act for the best interest of
our community in perpetuity. So we get

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to be our community savings account and
we get to see all that go back

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out and affect everybody well for the
positive talk about the fountain of proverbial foundation

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youth we try. We're going to
come back in a little bit. We're

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gonna tell folks how they can get
tickets to the big legacy event. And

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of course we want to hear how
the story of how it got all started

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here too as well. That's coming
up here in just a little bit right

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time is eight forty and continuing with
our conversation with miss Laura here from the

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Bartletsfield Community Foundation. You guys have
a little bit of a story yourself,

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not just being twenty some odd years
old, but how it got started is

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quite unique too. This doesn't happen
in every community, no, and there's

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really in the state of Oklahoma,
there are very few community foundations, darn

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few. Indeed, there are you
know, like seven or eight pretty known

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ones. Tulsa Community Foundation is the
largest foundation in the country. So we're

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pretty fortunate to be down the street
from someone who's doing really awesome work in

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their community. Our Community Foundation,
as I mentioned, is twenty three years

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old, and we have been kind
of the little engine that could. And

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then we received very life changing gifts
in about twenty and seventeen, well fifteen

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fifteen that built our endowment that helped
us be a sustained organization, and so

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that really shifted our focus from hosting
events to you know, fund our operating

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so we could do the things that
we were meant to do to fund it

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overhead, so that we could just
do the things that we were here to

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do. So that's what we get
to help other organizations try to achieve through

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endowment funds for themselves to benefit their
organizations so that we can just continue serving

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our community and not worry about what
you know, fundraising the next dollar.

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Now, the big event, the
big gale of the night is the night

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is May twentieth, and it's going
to be at the Bartlesville Community Center.

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H Yes, and godly last year, boy, that place it dolled up

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nice. You guys don't have to
throw a party. We try really hard

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and we have a great committee that
does it with me and my staff or

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our team at the Community Foundation does
it. We are small but mighty.

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We have three of us and then
we have a committee of six and we

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just try our best to get it
good. A great evening, put together,

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lighting, everything was just perfect.
Now, how can we get tickets

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to this ground? Salare? You
can find them at the Bartlesville Community Foundation,

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which is Bartlesville CF dot org.
You can call her office nine eight

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three three seven two two eighty seven, or just stop by and we have

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an office dog. You give the
office dog a little treat and you buy

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a ticket to the Legacy Hall of
Fame event. Well, there you go,

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just like coming home, isn't it? And it absolutely is? All

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right? Well, lord, thank
you for being with us today. It's

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my pleasure. Thanks for having me. All right, Folks, you've been

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