Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome, and
Speaker 1: it's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. And we have shrey
Speaker 1: well with this year with the Greater Bartleville Area Chamber
Speaker 1: of Commerce. And how are you doing, young lady.
Speaker 2: You've been busy, have been busy. December is always busy.
Speaker 2: So we're doing great, good, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Now we've had Christmas at the Bill and that's a
Speaker 1: people skating.
Speaker 2: In the fog and that, oh my god, that had
Speaker 2: to be kind of cool. Community is a killer. But yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of fog, but it makes it fun because
Speaker 2: the lights are on.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it kind of looks kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah it does, got that. Yeah, yeah, no, it's been good.
Speaker 2: We open November thirtieth. We have down to five day
Speaker 2: well technically six, but it looks like Sunday maybe kind
Speaker 2: of a if you look at the weather forecast, I
Speaker 2: don't know that we're going to open on Sunday, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's looking kind of dicey. But anyhow, Saturday will be
Speaker 2: open today, Tuesday through Saturday, and it's five days left
Speaker 2: to enjoy ice skating. So people say they want, you know,
Speaker 2: something different, to do. They want fun things and for
Speaker 2: the kids to do. So this is an opportunity. It's short,
Speaker 2: but it's here and if you want take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Like I said, there's five days left.
Speaker 1: And you know, our local businesses have been the beneficiaries
Speaker 1: of a lot of the visitors coming into town and
Speaker 1: a lot of folks coming to downtown in particular, they
Speaker 1: would say, well, I didn't know that was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it is several news stores downtown, which is fun.
Speaker 2: So they've been discovered and there's definitely one of the
Speaker 2: reasons we do it is to bring people downtown, showcase
Speaker 2: downtown that's so pretty, especially at Christmas especial if you
Speaker 2: take one of those carriages. The carriage rides are just
Speaker 2: so they do a beautiful job with the horses. The
Speaker 2: carriages are absolutely gorgeous. They are a wonderful family to
Speaker 2: work with. And then just all the lights and everything.
Speaker 2: So it's one of the reasons, like I said, we did,
Speaker 2: is to showcase our downtown and to bring people downtown.
Speaker 2: If they come downtown, more than likely they're gonna stop
Speaker 2: and eat, They're gonna coupley shops, so at least even
Speaker 2: getting a snack so I can't. I don't have a
Speaker 2: next next month, I will definitely have numbers and reports.
Speaker 2: Yes we haven't really, I do know opening night we
Speaker 2: had about two thousand downtown during that three hour time span.
Speaker 2: So Opening Night was great. And then conco Phillips redoes
Speaker 2: our opening night basically, and then some that following Monday,
Speaker 2: so we open Saturday. Then they have their private party
Speaker 2: on Monday, so they probably had that many down there too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, uh so, lots of lots of fun. This
Speaker 2: time of year is just it's I always say, it's
Speaker 2: kind of magical. So and the weather's been great, I
Speaker 2: cannot complain. Now, yesterday was a little a little warm.
Speaker 2: It got to sixty four, so we were out for
Speaker 2: about two and a half hours, three hours. We were
Speaker 2: just all we were doing was serve pro Leaves us
Speaker 2: a set of their equipment, which is so nice of them,
Speaker 2: and we were just constantly shoving water and and somebody
Speaker 2: else was kind of sucking it up and we made it.
Speaker 2: Some kids got wet. If you fail, you got a
Speaker 2: little wet. But it was I mean the ice was nice,
Speaker 2: I mean it was beautiful, so just a little on
Speaker 2: the wet side, but I don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: The rest of the week. It will be nice and
Speaker 2: chili as it should be. It is the end of December.
Speaker 2: You're at an ice rink, so it should be kind
Speaker 2: of kind of chili. Just put on your winter coat,
Speaker 2: don't show up in your shorts. Teenagers, And that happened.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, Yes, it's like the colder it gets some
Speaker 2: more shorts, you see. And then in the summertime. I
Speaker 2: just don't understand. Then in the summer time you see
Speaker 2: him walking around with hoodies and sweatpants on. So it's
Speaker 2: like whatever, it's it's on them. If they want to
Speaker 2: get wet and cold, I'm whatever, but it is. You know,
Speaker 2: it is gonna be a little more chili. So just
Speaker 2: put on your winter coat and on a hat and
Speaker 2: bundle them up and come out and have some fun.
Speaker 2: Like I always say, frosty phone on the ice.
Speaker 1: So there we go. Now we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: things cooking as we head into the new year.
Speaker 2: My goodness, we do. We've got you know, the marink
Speaker 2: will be behind us on like I said, probably January fourth, Saturday,
Speaker 2: and then then we just have to wait for it
Speaker 2: to melt, which of course we're hitting the deep freeze.
Speaker 2: It's just it's time to melt anyhow. But then we'll
Speaker 2: be back to all our regular chamber programming and events
Speaker 2: and that kind of thing. We do have a good
Speaker 2: one coming up in January. Our Women in Business will
Speaker 2: get back going January sixteenth, we have Christine Belner and
Speaker 2: it's going to be on elevating and celebrating your team,
Speaker 2: how to that camaraderie and just like I said, how
Speaker 2: to how to elevate and celebrate your team, different ideas
Speaker 2: and things. So she's such a good speaker and I
Speaker 2: think she'll be really be a really good program, So
Speaker 2: mark your calendars for that. It's at Hillcrest Country Club,
Speaker 2: and like I said, it's January the sixteenth, it's a Wednesday,
Speaker 2: and it's just a great time for the women to network,
Speaker 2: to know each other, make new business contacts. And then
Speaker 2: we always have, like I said, a speaker of some sort.
Speaker 2: Sometime it's a professional topic, sometimes it's a more personal topic.
Speaker 2: This one obviously is more on the professional business side,
Speaker 2: but we're looking forward to that. And then we also
Speaker 2: have on January twenty first, we have speed Networking and
Speaker 2: that's always a fun event. It's small by design, it's
Speaker 2: held well, hopefully, hopefully it'll be held at the chamber.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about that our conference room that
Speaker 2: we normally hold all our things in may still be
Speaker 2: full of Christmas depending how slowly the rink melts the tree. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because we can't move everything into the skate hut until
Speaker 2: we can move you know, it's like Domino setting up
Speaker 2: and tearing down. The rink has to be gone before
Speaker 2: we can move the skate hut, which is where we
Speaker 2: store so much of our things. And so anyhow, at
Speaker 2: any rate, we will have speed networking somewhere somewhere, and
Speaker 2: that is just a fun event. I always tell people,
Speaker 2: if you're more of an introvert, this is a great event.
Speaker 2: If you don't like walking into a room full of people.
Speaker 2: This is smaller by design, and everybody just goes around
Speaker 2: the room and everybody says they're what I say, elevator speech.
Speaker 2: Let people know who you are, what you do as
Speaker 2: a company, what your business is. And by the end
Speaker 2: of the afternoon, it's from four to five. It's good,
Speaker 2: a great way to injured day. People are laughing and
Speaker 2: they're making great contacts or some really good stories. That
Speaker 2: have come from that, connections that have been made. So
Speaker 2: that's a fun event. It's free for our members and
Speaker 2: we just encourage you have to register. We try to
Speaker 2: limit it to one per industry. We don't want a
Speaker 2: room full of the same you know, a bunch of
Speaker 2: realtors or bankers or you know, all of the same industries,
Speaker 2: so we try to limit it to one per industry.
Speaker 2: So that is coming up on January twenty. First.
Speaker 1: That started out as a fun little thing. Now it's
Speaker 1: sort of grown legs. This is why two or three
Speaker 1: years down the road.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I don't know my years. I'll go together two, three, four,
Speaker 2: I'm not sir.
Speaker 1: But yeah, do you remember when it started out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has, and it's it's a popular event. And
Speaker 2: like I said, it's small, there's usually no more than twenty.
Speaker 2: So it's it's manageable. It's manageable. You're able to get
Speaker 2: in and out within that hour. Now sometimes they do
Speaker 2: linger and but that's you know on them. It's it's
Speaker 2: that you can get in and out and be home,
Speaker 2: you know, be done by five. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: it's a fun wein in your day. So and then
Speaker 2: we also have on January twenty ninth, which will be
Speaker 2: here before we know. At the end of the month
Speaker 2: months fly by is our hot topic series will kick
Speaker 2: back up and I should have grabbed what our topic
Speaker 2: was going to be, and now I can't remember, but
Speaker 2: it's okay.
Speaker 1: It will be a good one we can get that
Speaker 1: invites people to go to the website and see what's there.
Speaker 2: That's right, go to our website Bartlesville dot com. You're
Speaker 2: so good with that, Bartlesville dot com, and it'll have
Speaker 2: all our events on their different programming. It's also has
Speaker 2: really good information if you just kind of want to
Speaker 2: check out the chamber, you're like, well, I've heard of
Speaker 2: chambers of commerce, but I don't really know what exactly
Speaker 2: they do, what's their mission? What you know, what are
Speaker 2: they about? And it's a great way to check it
Speaker 2: out without feeling like somebody's trying to get you to
Speaker 2: join or anything. We do have about seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty members, and they're anywhere from one person businesses to
Speaker 2: obviously big corporate businesses, and it just we're representative of
Speaker 2: all those businesses. In fact, we're getting ready to kick off,
Speaker 2: you know, the legislative session in February, and that's when
Speaker 2: we really step it up as far as communications with
Speaker 2: our members as watching bills that pertain to business how
Speaker 2: it can affect them. It's a great little summary and
Speaker 2: we send out a weekly email kind of summarizes what's
Speaker 2: happening in the in the state legislature because that's really
Speaker 2: what's going to affect your business. And so a lot
Speaker 2: of things coming up in February in regards to public
Speaker 2: policy and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So very good.
Speaker 2: Anyhow, that's what's going on in the chamber. Wow, that's
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: And you still have to, you know, take that down.
Speaker 2: But pray for some warm weather please, just a few
Speaker 2: sixty degree days, even fifty degree days does wonders and melting.
Speaker 1: That would be great. But I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: you know, hats off to you and your group and
Speaker 1: all the other sponsors and volunteers. This looks like it's
Speaker 1: been an a very successful Christmas in the Ville and
Speaker 1: almost a very successful year for the Chamber on the whole.
Speaker 2: It has been. We've had a really good year chamber
Speaker 2: wise Christmas in the Ville, I mean weather wise, this
Speaker 2: is the first year I don't think we've we have
Speaker 2: not we've had no closure is due to weather. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I think Sunday may not happen, but yeah
Speaker 2: it did. And but then it's kind of might be snowy.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But and then it was showing eyes,
Speaker 2: So I don't know. We'll play about ear. It always changes.
Speaker 2: It's a week away or almost a week away. Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: it's Oklahoma. It may be sixty Sunday, who knows. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: the first year, like I said, that, we have not
Speaker 2: had to close because of weather and lose a day
Speaker 2: or two. There's a few days it was a little misty,
Speaker 2: but people were still out. I mean I was impact.
Speaker 2: But that's always been nice. Uh, it's been it's been enjoyable.
Speaker 2: It's not where it's so crowded that you cannot hardly move.
Speaker 2: Every time I look, I can look it up on
Speaker 2: my phone. There's a camera and you know, I can
Speaker 2: see the rink and it's it's people are just being
Speaker 2: able to scale and enjoy and have a good time.
Speaker 2: So it has been a good season. And it is,
Speaker 2: like you said, big things because this would not happen
Speaker 2: without sponsors, and we have I'm not even going to
Speaker 2: start to name them, but you know, all the usual sprespects,
Speaker 2: but then some that are just independently owned people company
Speaker 2: we did and that's fun to see them support, you know,
Speaker 2: an event like this, and the sponsors have to remember
Speaker 2: too that it's a it's not just a one day
Speaker 2: event like so many sponsorships. It is a six weeks
Speaker 2: almost six weeks, five and a half week. You know
Speaker 2: that you're out there, your name's out there, your your
Speaker 2: every day by lots of people regional and obviously local,
Speaker 2: and so it's hopefully a win win for our sponsors
Speaker 2: and best so definitely it's a win for us because,
Speaker 2: like I said, we couldn't do without sponsors because you
Speaker 2: never know what the weather is going to be. I mean,
Speaker 2: if we lose three four days it you know, it
Speaker 2: can hurt, It can really hurt. Because the rink is
Speaker 2: not a inexpensive endeavor to put up. People are amazed
Speaker 2: when they realize how much goes into that. Plus the
Speaker 2: lighting just there's a lot of insurance. There's just a
Speaker 2: lot of things people don't think about. And it's because
Speaker 2: of our sponsors that sabled all happen.
Speaker 1: Cherry Weldon is with you, She is with the greater
Speaker 1: Barbarabillar Area Chamber of Commerce. Quick question, you got the
Speaker 1: big book that.
Speaker 2: Comes out, Yes, that is. It's at the printer. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping it comes out at the very end of January,
Speaker 2: maybe the very first of February. It kind of depends
Speaker 2: on their schedule. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
Speaker 2: It went before Christmas, but with the holidays and everything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's got a really pretty cover this year
Speaker 2: thanks to Kumar Krishnan, who's a great photographer here in
Speaker 2: town in one of his photos, and it's a great book.
Speaker 2: It's a great selling tool for our community. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we have people coming in every well, I'll say every day,
Speaker 2: but people that are moving here, interested in here. We
Speaker 2: have that resident recruitment program.
Speaker 1: And which has been working well.
Speaker 2: It's been working very well. And you know, those are
Speaker 2: the employees we want here working with manufacturers and and
Speaker 2: you know our big corporations. And it's been fun to
Speaker 2: see people come in and here where they're coming from.
Speaker 2: And we use that book obviously back to that to
Speaker 2: give them. It's a great overview of the community. So
Speaker 2: we will be delivering those, like I said, probably the
Speaker 2: very end of January, very first of February, so Chamber
Speaker 2: of Members be watching for that.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this. Everyone I know who
Speaker 1: has received one of those books who came in new
Speaker 1: to town and that about a dozen. I said, it's
Speaker 1: been worth its weight in gold.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. There's a lot of valuable information in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I could go on the internet by to get
Speaker 1: lost and did nothing bad about the internet, no or that,
Speaker 1: but this puts everything into perspective. We even got little
Speaker 1: maps and stuff like that, and.
Speaker 2: This it's such a fingertips. There's something about hard copy.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because I'm old. I don't know. I like
Speaker 2: my hard copies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've got a ways to go. We've got
Speaker 1: we've got more coming up right here on K one. Sherry,
Speaker 1: thanks for dropping by. Absolutely Happy new year, Tim Howell,
Speaker 1: Arnold Moore and Ni Camp You