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Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. It
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Speaker 3: They are here today. How are we doing? Kids?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Cherry Welt, the fastest person on roller skates, had the
Speaker 3: big busy day yesterday and you made it in today.
Speaker 3: That is great. Band aims with the Samaritan Counseling and
Speaker 3: of course at Kelsey Walker with City of Bartlesville. People
Speaker 3: who communicate often, and we've got some communication today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're we just wanted to visit a little
Speaker 2: bit about one of the Leadership Artist book class at
Speaker 2: thirty are our class project this year. So it's an
Speaker 2: exciting adventure, all right.
Speaker 1: Je.
Speaker 3: First of all, sure you tell us a little bit
Speaker 3: about Leadership Martinsville and what it's all about Allergy season.
Speaker 1: It is Leadership Martlesville. It is a program that started
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and like you said, this is
Speaker 1: coming up to be our thirty fifth class there's a
Speaker 1: couple of years where they did two classes in a year,
Speaker 1: so it's not quite exactly year by year, but anyhow,
Speaker 1: it is a leadership development program, but not leadership in
Speaker 1: the sense of we're going to make you you know,
Speaker 1: how to be the best leader. It's more immersing you
Speaker 1: into our community. And so it is a year long program.
Speaker 1: Once a month we meet and they take a date,
Speaker 1: dive into whatever the issue for that month is. It
Speaker 1: might be education, healthcare, our community services, getting a real
Speaker 1: overview of that, and they meet the folks making the decisions.
Speaker 1: People that are involved in solving the issues. We talk
Speaker 1: issues do a lot of that. They sit in their capstones,
Speaker 1: field trips, tours of different places, behind the scene type
Speaker 1: things that most people don't really have access to. So
Speaker 1: it gives them a lot of special opportunities, special things that,
Speaker 1: like I said, the general you know person may not
Speaker 1: have access to. But it just gives them a really
Speaker 1: wide understanding of our community, what makes up our community,
Speaker 1: how our community works together. Maybe doesn't work together in
Speaker 1: some areas, however, But the goal is to graduate folks
Speaker 1: who come out with this wealth of knowledge and then
Speaker 1: plug into the community and they're more effect even serving
Speaker 1: their community, whether it's through their job, whether they found places,
Speaker 1: which is usually always happens, they find out some places
Speaker 1: that really kind of triggered their passion and they want
Speaker 1: to get involved in a committee or serve on their
Speaker 1: board or whatever. And that's what we're trying to do
Speaker 1: is plug folks into those those roles.
Speaker 3: So now, Kelsey, you know a thing or sixteen about
Speaker 3: the city, so I imagine you know this is kind of
Speaker 3: a little bit of it's all habits, so it's kind
Speaker 3: of new to you as well.
Speaker 4: It was definitely you know, I've lived in Bartlesville more
Speaker 4: than twenty years and I worked at the newspaper for
Speaker 4: ten and so you know, you do kind of feel
Speaker 4: like you know Bartlesville. But I would definitely say when
Speaker 4: you join leadership Bartlesville, you come away with a lot
Speaker 4: of insights and just those behind the scenes tours and
Speaker 4: getting to hear from leaders and nonprofits that you wouldn't
Speaker 4: otherwise get. There's no way you could pack all of
Speaker 4: that on your own. So even if you think you
Speaker 4: know Bartlesville, I would say it's a very valuable, very
Speaker 4: valuable experience.
Speaker 3: Now, Ben, you've been around a lot of Bartlesville and
Speaker 3: a lot of different capacities. I imagine this kind of
Speaker 3: was a cool thing for you.
Speaker 1: Well, it really was.
Speaker 2: You know, like Kelsey said, you know, after living in
Speaker 2: Bartlesville for a long time and being fully immersed or
Speaker 2: so you think, fully immersed in the community, you think
Speaker 2: you know everything.
Speaker 3: I was wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, I had multiple people say, you're going to
Speaker 2: find something that you had no idea about. And there
Speaker 2: are so many things that I had no clue happened
Speaker 2: in Bartlesville, things that were available. It just it was.
Speaker 2: It was truly an eye opening experience but also very rewarding.
Speaker 2: And plus I have to fight thirty new new connections
Speaker 2: and friends and and people that I can call on
Speaker 2: at a on a whim.
Speaker 3: That's that's amazing. And you know, you really kind of
Speaker 3: widen your field of contacts and people who you can
Speaker 3: associate with so you can help solve problems and maybe
Speaker 3: sometimes create new things. We create a lot of things
Speaker 3: in this town.
Speaker 4: We we do.
Speaker 3: Now we're going to create a class project and this
Speaker 3: is a we were talking about this a little bit
Speaker 3: earlier off microphone about a nonprofit leadership development brand and
Speaker 3: that is this all going to.
Speaker 2: Come about Yeah, so we had we when we started
Speaker 2: talking about class project and what we really wanted to do,
Speaker 2: we wanted to make sure that we left a legacy.
Speaker 2: We wanted a legacy for our class, but also a
Speaker 2: legacy for the organization itself, and how could we do
Speaker 2: that and one of the things that we looked at,
Speaker 2: we looked at a whole bunch of different things, all different.
Speaker 2: I mean, it took us most of the year.
Speaker 1: Amazing to watch the class.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, the last two to three weeks we we
Speaker 2: narrowed it down and we steamrolled with it. We decided
Speaker 2: that you know, Bartelesfield's full of nonprofits, and each one
Speaker 2: of those nonprofits obviously have a leader, and we felt
Speaker 2: that giving them the opportunity to be able to go
Speaker 2: through the program was was huge. A lot of times
Speaker 2: with nonprofit leaders or nonprofits, cost costs associated with different
Speaker 2: things can be a prohibiting factor, and we wanted to
Speaker 2: eliminate that for those nonprofit leaders. So as a group,
Speaker 2: we decided, hey, let's let's see what we can do.
Speaker 2: So we got with the BCF, We visited with Sherry
Speaker 2: several times and went just kind of molded around and
Speaker 2: worked through it and began developing this grant with the
Speaker 2: BCF and it is that's that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: It is a nonprofit Leadership Development grant.
Speaker 3: My goodness sakes, Yes, that's a little bit of a project.
Speaker 3: That's just a little bit of an undertaking. That's a
Speaker 3: lot of whole work and study. You guys still had
Speaker 3: to have fun.
Speaker 1: That is a great project. I was excited that that's
Speaker 1: where they landed because so many of our nonprofits are
Speaker 1: the ones solving a lot of our issues, the things
Speaker 1: people that you know, oh, you know, this is an
Speaker 1: issue or that's a problem, and you know, you turn
Speaker 1: to our nonprofits and people are amazed. And I've heard
Speaker 1: two different numbers, but we have at least one hundred
Speaker 1: nonprofit organizations in the community. And they're not all dealing
Speaker 1: with social issues, but I mean a lot of them.
Speaker 1: That's what they're they're trying to solve, trying to help,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, and they operate on shoe string budgets.
Speaker 1: You know, I would say ninety nine percent. It is
Speaker 1: rare that trigger finds we oh, yeah, our budget's great.
Speaker 1: We don't you know, we're doing you know, especially in
Speaker 1: the nonprofit world, and so like Ben said, and that
Speaker 1: cost is sometimes what's holding them back from being able
Speaker 1: to apply because there is a cost associated. I mean
Speaker 1: this includes the program includes like I said, once a
Speaker 1: month and then there's four months where there's an extra
Speaker 1: luncheon that's a little bit expanded, but it's not taken
Speaker 1: out your whole day because most of the other days
Speaker 1: are eight to five and you know, so there's breakfast,
Speaker 1: there's lunch, there's transportation. Just the fees associated with some
Speaker 1: of the different places we go, where things we see,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So I mean, there is there
Speaker 1: is tuition cost to it, but we don't want that
Speaker 1: to hold back from a nonprofit being able to go through.
Speaker 1: So I was, I was so excited this is where
Speaker 1: they landed.
Speaker 3: Well, I am that question. I understand we're raising funds
Speaker 3: for this and it seems like a fun fundraiser. Yell
Speaker 3: me a little bit more about.
Speaker 4: We have partnered with the Eagles Lodge to host a
Speaker 4: bingo night and fireman auction fundraiser on June twenty eighth.
Speaker 4: It's going to be at their lodge, which is at
Speaker 4: one ten West Second Street in downtown Bartlesville. It starts
Speaker 4: out five thirty on June twenty eighth, with dinner Minis
Speaker 4: will be at six pm and regular bingo is at
Speaker 4: seven pm, and again we're gonna have silent auction during that,
Speaker 4: so we've got some really fun things you can come
Speaker 4: bid on for that. We're still gathering donations for that,
Speaker 4: so if you got anything you want to donate to it,
Speaker 4: go ahead. We've already got some really exciting stuff though.
Speaker 4: We've got a round of ball that Hillcrest. We've got
Speaker 4: some fun dessert giveaways that we're working on. I believe
Speaker 4: we've got an overnight stay at the jewel Box Hotel
Speaker 4: apartments in downtown and that includes I believe flowers and
Speaker 4: pizza and some other goodies. So if we're working on more,
Speaker 4: So if you want to donate, please contact one of
Speaker 4: us and let us know. Tickets for that bingo you
Speaker 4: can buy from any Leadership bartles while member. They're fifteen
Speaker 4: dollars in advance or there'll be twenty dollars out the door.
Speaker 4: If you want tickets in advance, you need to reach
Speaker 4: out to Lindsay Sturgeon. She's our class vice president and
Speaker 4: she works at Edward Jones. I don't have her number
Speaker 4: in front of you.
Speaker 1: So that's terrible.
Speaker 4: But her, you can reach out to her or any
Speaker 4: Leadership bartle book member and we'll get that to you.
Speaker 1: Or if you're not sure who's the leadership Barticle, call
Speaker 1: the Chamber and I can hook you up with you
Speaker 1: chet everything right, yeah, because I may not know who
Speaker 1: to contact, So yeah, just call the Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 3: Date. So this is at the Eagles. You know something.
Speaker 3: They have some sort of magic that they work. I
Speaker 3: can't tell you why or how, but it works really,
Speaker 3: really well. And it's a kind of a peaceful, easy
Speaker 3: feeling when you're hanging with the Eagles.
Speaker 2: They need it really easy to take it eat.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness sakes. Now, applications what do those do?
Speaker 1: June the thirtieth. So, applications are open right now. You
Speaker 1: complete found at Bartlesville dot com and it's on the homepage.
Speaker 1: There's a row of little icons and one of those
Speaker 1: circle icons is Leadership Bartlesville. The dates, the calendar of events,
Speaker 1: all the information, sign up for the interview, everything is
Speaker 1: right there. So, but they June thirtieth is a cutoff.
Speaker 1: So and we always have more than which is I
Speaker 1: hate this time of year. I love it, but I
Speaker 1: hate it because it's like it's what everybody. But it
Speaker 1: is a selection process, so it is an alarm be selected.
Speaker 1: But we always have more apply than can can be accepted.
Speaker 3: So now there are some who were losing who are thinking, well, gee,
Speaker 3: this must be just for the kids, just for the kids.
Speaker 1: No, and that is another big misconception. I have more
Speaker 1: people that are you know, forties, fifties, you know, even
Speaker 1: in the early sixties, and like, well, I know that's
Speaker 1: for the younger, you know, younger upcoming, you know, young
Speaker 1: professional types. So I'm like, no, we want a diversified class.
Speaker 1: We don't want just all young. We don't want just
Speaker 1: all old. I mean, it is a mix. It's men,
Speaker 1: it's women, it's there's some young ones in there. But
Speaker 1: there were what couple that were I know, I won't
Speaker 1: say names, but there were several that were probably early sixties,
Speaker 1: late fifties. Yeah, so you go, Tom, come on.
Speaker 2: Those things that I know one of the one of
Speaker 2: our classmates, he he made the comment, he said, again
Speaker 2: I thought I knew.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah I didn't. And he.
Speaker 2: I just loved loved having him in our class because
Speaker 2: he really shared so much with us and brought a
Speaker 2: lot of I feel like a lot of history and
Speaker 2: made the class even more.
Speaker 4: I want to you're talking about, Yes, he knew somebody everywhere,
Speaker 4: we went everywhere, but those still say that he came
Speaker 4: away with you.
Speaker 2: I don't think he experienced granger matters. Yeah, yeah, granger here.
Speaker 1: But that is one thing you always hear, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you're new to community, obviously you're gonna learn
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, that's an obvious but we have
Speaker 1: people that have grown up here and every year it's
Speaker 1: the same thing Vin said. You know, you think you're
Speaker 1: immersed in the community, you think you really know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Even when you follow you know a lot
Speaker 1: of things. They always go, oh, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I did not know. And so
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite I love Capstone, which is
Speaker 1: where they kind of each member at the end of
Speaker 1: the year gets up and talks about, you know, what
Speaker 1: what they got out of the clouds, kind of what
Speaker 1: their expectations were as opposed to what they came away.
Speaker 3: With it is.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite day because it's just so fun to
Speaker 1: hear what they got out of it and just how
Speaker 1: their perceptions were different from the beginning of this you
Speaker 1: know program to when they graduated. So it's it's one
Speaker 1: of my absolute favorite programs. The chamber does well.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it. I mean, each and every one
Speaker 3: of you does sound like you know that was probably
Speaker 3: just a really cool experience. Was that you probably can't duplicate.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I know I was thinking on the way
Speaker 2: in that I can. I vividly remember having almost an
Speaker 2: argument with my one of my board members, John Holden, John,
Speaker 2: I love you John. He was like, you have to
Speaker 2: do this, and I said, no, give me a year,
Speaker 2: and he said, no, you're doing it. And I have
Speaker 2: told him repeatedly thank you for for basically putting your
Speaker 2: foot down doing its.
Speaker 3: Kicking in the back pockets, pushing me out the door
Speaker 3: pretty much.
Speaker 2: But it was truly truly an eye opening experience and
Speaker 2: I loved it. I thought it was a great, great year,
Speaker 2: and it went by way too quick.
Speaker 3: LG. You know, you work with the city, and like
Speaker 3: you said, you thought you knew you also were a reporter.
Speaker 3: And I know how because I've been doing this for
Speaker 3: fifty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every day.
Speaker 3: Something just jumped out, you said, I did that? Is
Speaker 3: that the kind of feeling you had there, oh absolutely.
Speaker 4: You know, working at the newspaper, you read a lot
Speaker 4: about these nonprofits, about their different events, about the people
Speaker 4: that were involved. You know, you even read about Leadership
Speaker 4: Bartlesville and all the things that the people involved with
Speaker 4: Leadership Bartlesville were doing. But just being part of the program,
Speaker 4: you know, some of those behind the scenes tours can't
Speaker 4: be replicated. You know, we got to tour the Phillips
Speaker 4: Research Center, we got to go out to the Walmart
Speaker 4: distribution center. The nonprofits. You just you can't replicate that.
Speaker 1: The jail, yeah, don't replicate that too much.
Speaker 2: Visiting the very last group to go through the Phillips
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Jenny, Jenny opened it up just for us
Speaker 2: to go through. And that was kind of a and you.
Speaker 1: Got to go up years of bludge and.
Speaker 3: Here there behind the story again, where do we sign
Speaker 3: up bartlesviild dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a chamber website. This is a Chamber of Commerce program.
Speaker 1: And like I said, there's a little circle icons on
Speaker 1: that homepage and one of them's Leadership Bartlesviildt gives you
Speaker 1: all the information.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you all for coming in today, Thanks for
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