Speaker 1: Morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 2: on K one, the one you trust, being brought to
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Speaker 2: from trii County Tech. We have Champagne Kine with is
Speaker 2: today and you've got a lot to smile about, young lady.
Speaker 2: Lots of good things happening at Tri County Tech's foundation.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we've had the best here yet and I'm so
Speaker 3: excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Let's start off with the golf tournament, because my goodness sakes,
Speaker 2: that was a whopper.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So last time I was here, we were just getting
Speaker 3: ready to have that event, and so we completed that
Speaker 3: in October and we raised thirty four five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: So we're very proud of that.
Speaker 4: Well, very good, very successful.
Speaker 2: Goodness sakes, lots of great sponsors, a lot of good
Speaker 2: people that shined up and played and put down the
Speaker 2: money and just had fun.
Speaker 3: We couldn't have done it without our sponsors, of course,
Speaker 3: and that was a sense an ascension Saint John's Harvest Truity.
Speaker 4: Who else did we have your culture coach? And then
Speaker 4: be okay. Financial Wow.
Speaker 2: So we had a good time and we had some
Speaker 2: good folks out there helping us out too. I just
Speaker 2: saw you recently at Celebrate Giving and that was a
Speaker 2: wonderful event. That's a good place to be seen.
Speaker 4: I was going to bring that up too.
Speaker 3: Yes, we ran into each other last week and it's
Speaker 3: fun to get out in the community, connect with other nonprofits,
Speaker 3: make sure everybody knows who we are and what we do.
Speaker 1: So yeah, my goodness. Thanks. We get some great news.
Speaker 1: What did we do last year?
Speaker 4: How did we do last year?
Speaker 3: We finished out contributing about two hundred and twenty one
Speaker 3: thousand dollars towards tuition and then emergency aid and food
Speaker 3: assistance in robotics. So wow, be great, and I think
Speaker 3: this year right on track for that. We're wrapping up
Speaker 3: our numbers, will wrap those up in December and announce
Speaker 3: them in January.
Speaker 1: So that's good.
Speaker 2: And you see the things like the golf tournament endowments
Speaker 2: and other things like that, and your Financial Gift School
Speaker 2: a long way to help our students here locally.
Speaker 1: We've got some big news.
Speaker 2: We kind of jumped the gun a little bit and
Speaker 2: we announced it yesterday about how the new Emerald Endowment prom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the aural indowment from Beast. Yes, their family has
Speaker 3: been so generous. You know, they have been in Bartisville
Speaker 3: for a while. He came here as an immigrants with
Speaker 3: his wife and his children in a couple of suitcases,
Speaker 3: and he's established business in Bartisville. He loves Bartisville, he
Speaker 3: loves America, he loves education, and they're just a very
Speaker 3: generous family and we were very grateful to be to
Speaker 3: be rewarded with memory gifts.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, those things go a long way. And
Speaker 2: of course I can't think of a better couple to remember,
Speaker 2: you know, because they were just so hooked into our
Speaker 2: community and.
Speaker 1: Everybody just loved him. We still do. But if you have.
Speaker 2: A wish later on down the road, folks, to maybe
Speaker 2: create a gift that keeps on giving an endowment, it's
Speaker 2: a pretty good thing to think.
Speaker 1: About, is Yeah.
Speaker 3: Endowments are unique in that we don't touch the principal gift.
Speaker 3: We just save that money and then we draw interest
Speaker 3: on it, and so your gift will go in perpetuity.
Speaker 3: We've been around for fifty five years, We're not going anywhere,
Speaker 3: so we'll be drawing interest off of this gift for
Speaker 3: another lifetime and it'll be providing assistance to students every year.
Speaker 2: Well that's great. All people have to do is get
Speaker 2: a hold of you through the website or even just
Speaker 2: give you a call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, set up an appointment. You can explain the whole
Speaker 1: thing to them. Catch you.
Speaker 4: I'd be happy to I bet you.
Speaker 2: What what other good news do we have coming out
Speaker 2: of Craig County check out in the foundation.
Speaker 3: Well, so we were coming up on Giving Tuesday, that's
Speaker 3: our next big campaign. Wrapped up the golf tournament, launching
Speaker 3: into our end of the year campaign, so letters went out,
Speaker 3: postcards went out for IRA gifts. But Giving Tuesday is
Speaker 3: the next big push, which will be the Tuesday following
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving this year that's late December third, but we're looking
Speaker 3: forward to that. We sent set a goal of five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars to raise in twenty four hours. But this
Speaker 3: is a national Day of giving, right It follows Black Friday,
Speaker 3: Cyber Monday, and then Giving Tuesday is how that all
Speaker 3: kind of is established and we're excited to participate in
Speaker 3: that day. And so we're posting a lot on social
Speaker 3: media so that you know who we are again what
Speaker 3: we do, and then if you give on that day,
Speaker 3: that'll count towards our goal.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people who make a review
Speaker 2: of these things because they're always looking for you're in giving,
Speaker 2: and this is a great way to kind of you
Speaker 2: do good work for your community and for those who
Speaker 2: need a little help, and also maybe help yourself a
Speaker 2: little bit on your taxes as well, so it works
Speaker 2: for everyone.
Speaker 4: Involved, that's right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of smart ways to give as well
Speaker 3: to I mentioned the IRA postcard that went out a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, So anybody over seventy and a
Speaker 3: half years old who has a required minimum distribution that
Speaker 3: they have to take from their IRA can contact their
Speaker 3: administrator and have a gift given directly to the Tri
Speaker 3: County Tech Foundation, therefore avoiding taxes because they're not receiving
Speaker 3: that income. So that's a really smart way to give.
Speaker 3: If you have an IRA and you need to take
Speaker 3: a remainder gift.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good. Covering all the bases.
Speaker 4: Lots of ways to go.
Speaker 3: There's the donor advised funds, which are growing in popularity.
Speaker 3: It's sort of like a charity savings account. You can
Speaker 3: put in that money at any time. If you need
Speaker 3: to donate to a charity, you just donate to your
Speaker 3: donor advice fund, and then you can withdraw that gift
Speaker 3: and give it to somebody at any date in the future.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's smart.
Speaker 3: There's also the simplest way to do it would be
Speaker 3: to leave us in your will or trust. Of course,
Speaker 3: another way that's really clever that most people don't think about,
Speaker 3: that cost a little at the time but has great
Speaker 3: reward is to name us as a beneficiary of a
Speaker 3: life insurance policy or four oh one k, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty dollars a month here, and then there's a payout
Speaker 3: at the end of your lifetime.
Speaker 4: So that's also an easy way to do it.
Speaker 3: And that particular way avoids probate in state courts, so
Speaker 3: that's super easy as well.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, got it all covered.
Speaker 2: Col People wonder a little bit just about what the
Speaker 2: foundation covers, well a lot. You know, we're Tried County Tech.
Speaker 2: We're right here in our community. There are student needs
Speaker 2: and there are school needs, and you kind of put
Speaker 2: them all together and sort them all out.
Speaker 1: Don't you.
Speaker 3: So through the Tri County Tech it collects taxes and
Speaker 3: that's what provides for the school.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 3: The Foundation covers the students, so we cover tuition assistance
Speaker 3: for our adult students.
Speaker 4: Who are in need.
Speaker 3: We also cover emergency aid. So if somebody gets a
Speaker 3: flat tire and they're not able to come to school,
Speaker 3: we want to fix that for them, and we might
Speaker 3: do that in our automotive service program.
Speaker 4: So that provides our students with experience.
Speaker 3: It gets our students tire fixed so that they can
Speaker 3: stay in school. We also provide food. Of course, if
Speaker 3: you're hungry, it's hard to focus on studies. So the
Speaker 3: Foundation really wants to wrap the whole student and support
Speaker 3: in order to get them through the program so that
Speaker 3: they can be successful and go on to be contributing
Speaker 3: members of society.
Speaker 2: I've lived in this community for six years, and you
Speaker 2: know what, I have yet to meet a graduating Trick
Speaker 2: County Tech student wowed money at the.
Speaker 1: End of their time. Yes, and that is just a
Speaker 1: cool thing to say.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got an education, I've got a quality education.
Speaker 1: Guess what.
Speaker 2: I have a much better job now than what I
Speaker 2: had before.
Speaker 1: I went to Try County Tech.
Speaker 2: And on top of that, I don't owe a soul
Speaker 2: anything anymore.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Our goal is for our students to leave debt free.
Speaker 3: We keep the cost of tuition low on purpose because
Speaker 3: we want them to come in, get skilled, and get
Speaker 3: on with their life, right. We don't want to keep
Speaker 3: them held back with student net.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I have a seventeen year old who
Speaker 2: is enrolled to Try County Tech, and she's learning how
Speaker 2: to become.
Speaker 4: A teacher teacher.
Speaker 1: And she's taking She just loves that.
Speaker 2: She says, I go to school in the morning, I
Speaker 2: go to college afternoon, and she to her that's just
Speaker 2: big thing. And and a lot of her friends who
Speaker 2: are seniors do spend their afternoons at Tricounty Tech as
Speaker 2: they try to figure out what is the next step,
Speaker 2: What am I going to do next?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Some of already going to college. Others are going into
Speaker 2: the fields of service, so like she's going to be
Speaker 2: going to RSU to become a teacher. But what she's
Speaker 2: learning right now is very valuable. It lets her know
Speaker 2: what she might be facing as an educator. And other
Speaker 2: kids are learning how to do different things along the
Speaker 2: medical field, and a few I think one of them
Speaker 2: is involved in the aviation.
Speaker 1: The drone thing. You just got going into So it's
Speaker 1: not just.
Speaker 2: Going to school, You're you're really getting some hands on
Speaker 2: out there Tricounty Tech.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a unique opportunity, especially for our high
Speaker 3: school students because they could use it as career exploration.
Speaker 3: Maybe they aren't sure what they want to do.
Speaker 4: Do that, now, do that.
Speaker 3: In high school before you go to college and spend
Speaker 3: money pursuing something that once you get out in the
Speaker 3: field you realize you might not want to do. Or
Speaker 3: it does give you a leg up if you're confident
Speaker 3: in what you want to do. You can leave with
Speaker 3: certifications and credentials that help you land your next job
Speaker 3: or get into a competitive college class.
Speaker 4: So it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's right here in our backyard, folks. We're
Speaker 2: right there off No Water Road and Madison. We're just
Speaker 2: a little bit off Madison, a little bit to the east.
Speaker 2: But my goodness sakes, if you don't have a child
Speaker 2: who's involved in Trient County Tech, and if you're an
Speaker 2: adult who thinks, so maybe you can do better in life,
Speaker 2: you might want to just take a look around and
Speaker 2: see what classes are available. We have all kinds of
Speaker 2: flex classes for adults and everything kind of getting off.
Speaker 1: The path here a little bit.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's a gym and it needs to
Speaker 2: be taken care of. And the best way you can
Speaker 2: do is perhaps a giving Tuesday, make a concentrated effort,
Speaker 2: and get a hold of a champagne, and let's see
Speaker 2: if we can't keep this around another fifty five or
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty or one hundred and seventy.
Speaker 4: Years down the road.
Speaker 1: We'll be all gone.
Speaker 2: By then, but your great great grandkids will.
Speaker 3: Still be using it, and our intowment will still be there,
Speaker 3: which is great.
Speaker 1: That is great.
Speaker 2: So it is an investment not only for yourself, not
Speaker 2: only for your kids, but for the community as a whole.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the great employers we have here.
Speaker 2: We have everything from you know, accounting and state work
Speaker 2: and municipal work, but also we have Phillips, we have
Speaker 2: Conico Phillips, we have abb We've got new electric set
Speaker 2: up coming here in the company. We've got Blue Whale
Speaker 2: coming to town, and a whole lot of people who
Speaker 2: need workers who maybe can specialize in a few things,
Speaker 2: and sometimes when they add on, things got.
Speaker 3: To get built, that's right. We have construction programs, we
Speaker 3: have mechanical programs. We have welding programs. Of course, we
Speaker 3: have medical programs. One of our biggest and that's what
Speaker 3: started us, was a nursing so lots to offer. We
Speaker 3: love to be in on those conversations when businesses are
Speaker 3: coming to town to see how we can support the
Speaker 3: employees train them. That's part of our business development group.
Speaker 3: So anything from high school to adults looking for a
Speaker 3: career shift to businesses who need training on the job,
Speaker 3: we cover all of that.
Speaker 2: Now when it comes to the foundation, folks, is what
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, making a little bit of an appeal here.
Speaker 2: I consider this for year in giving Champagne. How do
Speaker 2: we get a hold of you to have that discussion
Speaker 2: with you on plans forgiving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the easiest thing to do probably would be to
Speaker 3: reach our website which is Tri Countytech dot EEDU. If
Speaker 3: you can remember Slash Foundation, you'll go directly to our
Speaker 3: foundation page. Can learn more about us, find out ways
Speaker 3: to give. Make a direct donation from our website. You
Speaker 3: can call me anytime and you can reach me just
Speaker 3: by calling Try County Tech and then asking for me.
Speaker 3: Lots of ways to give, we mail a check. You
Speaker 3: can come by and see me if you want to.
Speaker 3: I'm usually there. You can come by for a two
Speaker 3: where I'd be happy to show you around if you
Speaker 3: want to learn a little bit more about how your
Speaker 3: money is going to be supporting our students and what
Speaker 3: we do.
Speaker 1: Yep, great, we've.
Speaker 2: Got a great board. We need to thank goodness. They
Speaker 2: make a lot of decisions.
Speaker 3: Well there, it's a working board and I am so
Speaker 3: proud of them. They are. They show up every time
Speaker 3: we have something for them to do. They are such
Speaker 3: advocates for the foundation. We're wrapping up the year as
Speaker 3: a historic here for us and how much we've been
Speaker 3: able to raise and what we've been able to accomplish.
Speaker 4: So I feel like they deserve a shout out.
Speaker 3: So if you're listening, board, thank you for participating and
Speaker 3: supporting us.
Speaker 2: I know one or two members that are that are
Speaker 2: listening right now attentively. Yes, thanks again. Is there anything
Speaker 2: we may have forgotten that I didn't ask you about it?
Speaker 4: I think we've got it.
Speaker 3: We're just excited to wrap up this year and see
Speaker 3: you know what we can do. And yeah, well we
Speaker 3: were reporting back next year, So all right, champagne being anytime,
Speaker 3: Thanks for having.
Speaker 2: Me you're welcome, folks. She's been watch enlisting to our
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