Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It's time now for community connection right here on k
Speaker 2: what the one you drive, Judy, Judy Williams.
Speaker 1: How you doing, young lady?
Speaker 3: I'm good. How about you? Tom?
Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there. Everything's going into the chamber. You
Speaker 2: guys are nothing but busy.
Speaker 4: Just nothing but busney, busney, busy.
Speaker 3: We had popcorn and perks yesterday afternoon we got that
Speaker 3: was really good. We had a really good group of people.
Speaker 4: That's and then today we're doing hot topics with Ironwood Consulting.
Speaker 4: They're they're talking about banishing your burnout. So that's going
Speaker 4: on right now as we speak. But coming up, there
Speaker 4: is so much coming up. October the tenth. October the
Speaker 4: tenth is our Legislative Golf Tournament. Now, the Legislative Golf
Speaker 4: Tournament brings legislators and other state officials into our community,
Speaker 4: which is a great which is just a great opportunity.
Speaker 4: And then you can still get a team together and
Speaker 4: coming afores them. It's five hundred for a foursome or
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five if you're just an individual
Speaker 4: and you want to get paired, put into a group
Speaker 4: of four and play that tournament.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: It's just really a great opportunity to meet our legislators.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have beautiful weather for it too, Yes,
Speaker 1: yes we are.
Speaker 3: And it's an Adams golf course.
Speaker 4: And this is your last chance to play at Adams
Speaker 4: before they do all their renovations.
Speaker 1: Get digging up.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, they're gonna they're gonna re they're gonna
Speaker 3: revamp the golf course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So but this was this is your this is the
Speaker 4: last chance before it closes for for refurbishing, refurbishing.
Speaker 1: Well, this is gonna be great. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: It's always good time, and especially when you can speak
Speaker 2: with our legislators in a relaxed you know that's having
Speaker 2: find enjoying nature and everything else.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. And and we to golf.
Speaker 1: It's just well this community does.
Speaker 3: It does it does.
Speaker 4: And then on October fifteenth, our Lieutenant governor is coming
Speaker 4: to town, mister Panell, Matt Panell will be here and
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 3: Also the Secretary over Tourism and.
Speaker 4: Wildlife and things like that in Oklahoma, and so he's
Speaker 4: going to come and talk about tourism in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: And that is we're just really excited about that.
Speaker 2: Bartle Wills seen in the whole area has seen quite
Speaker 2: a bit of a bump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tourism.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we are happening.
Speaker 3: I think I think I got it.
Speaker 4: Gives a shout out to Maria golf Gus at Visit Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: She has just worked tirelessly to get our community in
Speaker 4: the limelight and she's done a really good job of that.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of history here. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun history as well. Well, there is kind of
Speaker 2: weird history too, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a great It's a great place.
Speaker 4: Bartlesville is a great place to live, work, worship and play.
Speaker 1: You bet, it just is.
Speaker 4: And so I'm excited about that. We've also got some
Speaker 4: other things going on with on the twenty ninth of October.
Speaker 4: That's going to be a busy, busy day. There's stuff
Speaker 4: going on in between them, but we will do pastries
Speaker 4: and perks that morning, and the eatery supplies the pastries
Speaker 4: and Sherry supplies the perks, and she does a presentation
Speaker 4: with all the benefits of chamber membership. She goes into
Speaker 4: some of the history of the Chamber in Bartlesville and
Speaker 4: then talks about the tangible benefits of being in chamber member,
Speaker 4: but she also talks about the intangible benefits of chamber membership,
Speaker 4: and those are things that we don't see and know
Speaker 4: about all the time at what the chamber does at
Speaker 4: a state level to promote business and to promote our
Speaker 4: business at the state level.
Speaker 3: And Sherry's really really good at that.
Speaker 4: And so then that same day we will have speed
Speaker 4: networking that afternoon, and that's always a fun event. I
Speaker 4: call it speed dating for business, and you where a
Speaker 4: business leader gets to have oh two or three minutes
Speaker 4: to talk about their business uninterrupted, and then of course
Speaker 4: you listen to the next person give their spiel about
Speaker 4: their business, and it's just a great opportunity to meet
Speaker 4: and greet and learn about other businesses. October the third,
Speaker 4: I'm going back up a little bit. October the third
Speaker 4: is our next business after hours and that will be
Speaker 4: at Wesleyan Christian School. And I hear that they have
Speaker 4: a chef that comes and does the food for that,
Speaker 4: and oh my goodness, I hear.
Speaker 3: It is just going to be fabulous.
Speaker 4: So so that's at four o'clock at Wesleyan Christian School
Speaker 4: on October third.
Speaker 2: Been at that school lately, it is something else thinking
Speaker 2: they're growing and they need to grow a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know their football field, their football field got
Speaker 4: hit so hard in that tornado in May, and so
Speaker 4: they're but they're rebuilding that and redoing that and so
Speaker 4: it's just and they'll tell us more about that on
Speaker 4: October the third.
Speaker 3: But that's just a great.
Speaker 4: Thing that And I also want to talk about Christmas
Speaker 4: in the Ville. We can't not talk about Christmas in
Speaker 4: the vill. I know, I know, I know, it's awesome
Speaker 4: it is this year, we're adding a week to that.
Speaker 4: So opening night is November the thirtieth, and we will
Speaker 4: have food trucks, the Top Train will be there. Of
Speaker 4: course Santo will be there, and of course you can skate,
Speaker 4: but that's opening night. Will turn the lights on at
Speaker 4: six o'clock and I think we have fireworks and it
Speaker 4: is just a great time to come out. And that's
Speaker 4: November the thirtieth, and then we can skate until January
Speaker 4: the fifth, So we've got a full five weeks of
Speaker 4: skate time and that will be so fun. And we
Speaker 4: you know, we just pull people from all over southeast
Speaker 4: Kansas and northeast Oklahoma, and last year, I think we
Speaker 4: had around twenty three thousand people that we brought into
Speaker 4: downtown Bartlesville to skate and to eat. They didn't all skate,
Speaker 4: but they ate downtown. They we have carriage rides all
Speaker 4: through that time. And it's just a wonderful time to
Speaker 4: be in a Hallmark movie. It feels like a Hallmark.
Speaker 2: It does, you know when they light that up. I
Speaker 2: mean you feel like you're right there in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: You hear the kids laugh and the music plays, and
Speaker 4: they're skating, and the horses are jingle bells and it
Speaker 4: is just it is just awesome. It's just a wonderful time.
Speaker 4: And so I want to encourage you to them out
Speaker 4: for that. Oh yeah, there is one more thing I
Speaker 4: wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3: Our Community guide Book.
Speaker 4: Our Community Guidebook comes out every January, and so we
Speaker 4: are shutting the book on that pretty soon.
Speaker 3: It is last call for putting an ad in the book.
Speaker 4: So if you need to do that, if you're interested
Speaker 4: in putting an ad in the book, just give us
Speaker 4: a call and we will help you out.
Speaker 3: But we need to.
Speaker 4: Close that up here pretty quickly so that it can
Speaker 4: get put together.
Speaker 2: You know, those are very popular and I understand that
Speaker 2: they've been going out very fast. We've got a couple
Speaker 2: of businesses that are starting to move in. There are
Speaker 2: people will be with that electric company, and then of
Speaker 2: course with Blue Whale, Blue Whale and what have you.
Speaker 2: Those things are what they call fast movers. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I remember when my mother moved to town several years ago.
Speaker 2: She said, why goodness sake, this is nice and comprehensive.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've been here for a while. I said, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you know it. It is very informative and it does
Speaker 2: take Plus it goes back to a time for her
Speaker 2: kind of like the Yellow Pages when looking for services. Yes,
Speaker 2: and she says, well, thank you, She says, I thought
Speaker 2: that was relegated to the mutu.
Speaker 4: That is just a big part of our community guidebook.
Speaker 4: The back part of that book is where all of
Speaker 4: our members are listed by category, and so people can
Speaker 4: find you easily there.
Speaker 3: Of course, they can find you.
Speaker 4: In our member directory on you at www dot Bartlesville
Speaker 4: dot com.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's but it is a great book.
Speaker 4: It talks about there's more than ads and the community
Speaker 4: and the member directory is in there, but it also
Speaker 4: gives a little bit of history about the Bartlesville and
Speaker 4: about schools, and about churches and things that are available
Speaker 4: our health system here.
Speaker 1: To get around.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so it's a great it's a great book.
Speaker 3: That book goes out to our realtors p.
Speaker 4: Sixty six cop abb take them for new take them
Speaker 4: for new hires. But all of our new members get
Speaker 4: a community guidebook. And so it's a great opportunity to
Speaker 4: do some good advertising in a really quality book that
Speaker 4: is going to be seen by people that that you
Speaker 4: want in your business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not something that's slapped together. This is
Speaker 2: something that you would see in the top flight it is.
Speaker 3: It's really a well done book.
Speaker 4: Tesa Cruz does a great job putting that book together.
Speaker 1: Triessa works pretty darn she does.
Speaker 4: She does, so she's a great She is just a
Speaker 4: really good champion for the chamber.
Speaker 2: So I want to get back a little bit too
Speaker 2: the Christmas of the bill. All right, this is like
Speaker 2: you said, this draws so many people in so many
Speaker 2: different places Missouri and Arkansas. Peeps have been tracked coming
Speaker 2: into town too. So don't be too uh you know,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, where's that license flight from? Well, because
Speaker 2: this is one of our attention getters. Now, it's a
Speaker 2: wonderful thing for our community as a whole to celebrate
Speaker 2: and have fun with. But like our friend Maria will
Speaker 2: always tell you, it starts with a visit. And I
Speaker 2: don't know that we've tracked the number of people who
Speaker 2: may have come here to see this a time or
Speaker 2: two that.
Speaker 1: Actually moved here.
Speaker 2: But wow, Yeah, But the thing is, you know, I
Speaker 2: do remember that there were some business people the first
Speaker 2: time I was out there for the lighting of the
Speaker 2: tree who moved their small business into town as the
Speaker 2: result of this. They said, Wow, is this community come
Speaker 2: together like this a lot? Iid, As far as I
Speaker 2: know they do.
Speaker 4: It's regular, it is it Bartlesviel's like that.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: What I hear is it's the biggest little city in
Speaker 4: Oklahoma or the littlest big city in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Either way you say it. It works.
Speaker 4: But we've got we've got culture, we've got special events,
Speaker 4: we've got things for kids, we've got things for senior citizens.
Speaker 4: It is just like I said, it's a great place
Speaker 4: to live, work, worship, and play.
Speaker 2: I tell everybody that is looking for a place to
Speaker 2: move to kind of get away from the riff raff
Speaker 2: and the hustle and the bustle and just the grind
Speaker 2: of the city. Right, I said, well, you know, in Bartlesville,
Speaker 2: you're never ten minutes away from where you need to be, right,
Speaker 2: And you don't have to fight.
Speaker 3: Traffic, right, that's the big one.
Speaker 2: You don't have to fight a lot of crime. And
Speaker 2: the folks will actually do something that might surprise you.
Speaker 2: They might come up to you and say, Hi, how
Speaker 2: you doing. I know they actually mean it.
Speaker 4: Isn't that the truth? When I first moved to Bartlesviell,
Speaker 4: it was like that someone. I moved here from a
Speaker 4: state where people don't really talk to each other a
Speaker 4: whole lot. And when I first moved here and people
Speaker 4: said hi to me at the grocery store that I
Speaker 4: didn't know I was, I was pleasantly surprised. But so
Speaker 4: now I say hi to people at the grocery store
Speaker 4: that I don't know son but goes around, comes around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've become a bortion.
Speaker 1: So how do you find you on your website?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Our website is www dot Bartlesville dot com.
Speaker 3: Real real tough one. And then and it.
Speaker 4: Will tell you about there's a community calendar there that
Speaker 4: will tell you about our upcoming events, everything that's going
Speaker 4: on in the chamber.
Speaker 3: You can go to www dot.
Speaker 4: Christmas in the Ville also and learn more about Christmas
Speaker 4: in the Ville and what is going on then. And
Speaker 4: you can also been on our website. If you haven't
Speaker 4: joined the chamber, there's a place to join the chamber.
Speaker 4: There's a member directory there, but there's a great opportunity
Speaker 4: in there to just see what the Chamber does on
Speaker 4: a date, what we do all the time. Yeoh, and
Speaker 4: we're and we're we're a busy chamber. We are our
Speaker 4: mission statement is to be a leading force for business
Speaker 4: and community development. And I just feel like that's what
Speaker 4: Sherry really tries to do. She it's it's the real deal,
Speaker 4: you guys. We really really care about our community.
Speaker 1: You guys are really really living it.
Speaker 3: So that's just that's what we do at the chamber.
Speaker 3: That's what's coming up.
Speaker 1: Than you for being here, my pleasure here.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you. This is yeah, Sherry, lets me come
Speaker 3: over now and then so.
Speaker 1: You got to play hooky.
Speaker 3: I got to play hooky.
Speaker 2: Alrighty folks, you've been watching and listening do our community
Speaker 2: can I