Speaker 1: Bible.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: Media's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 2: K one, the one you trust. A couple of my
Speaker 2: favorite people here, Luke and Tiny swaying in here from
Speaker 2: the Salvation Army. First of all, kids, how are we doing?
Speaker 2: I know that it has been a very busy time.
Speaker 2: First off, how do we do on the community meal?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it went really well. We ended up serving almost
Speaker 1: four hundred.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of community participation and just others
Speaker 3: that came out from different organizations that volunteer. Just want
Speaker 3: to shout out to all those who did come to help.
Speaker 3: It's it definitely takes more than just the people that
Speaker 3: we have present in the building to make all that happen.
Speaker 3: Here's a lot of moving parts and so we're thankful
Speaker 3: to all those who came out and participated.
Speaker 1: And I think it went really well.
Speaker 2: I understand when we had some can goods, don't need
Speaker 2: to buy some. We had schools and everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had the schools participate in that way sided
Speaker 4: it to being the one that had the most right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: There was There was about fifteen thousand, a little over
Speaker 3: fifteen thousand items that were donated, which is just about
Speaker 3: what we need to uh to. You had to pull
Speaker 3: it off and make it all fill all our food
Speaker 3: paintry boxes to last for the next year. So yeah,
Speaker 3: a little less than last year, but still right there,
Speaker 3: really closed, so really good. Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 3: good year. Wayside knocked it out of the park they always.
Speaker 5: Do, always, and then again we had just you know,
Speaker 5: it's just a slew of volunteers that came in and
Speaker 5: helped ye put them in boxes, you know, get them
Speaker 5: ready for holidays.
Speaker 6: Gotta yetta shout out to the packers and loaders.
Speaker 1: That's right, We're so grateful, Yes we are.
Speaker 2: Now we got the the Angel tree that's up and running.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't say trees because it was more than one.
Speaker 2: Tell us little bit about.
Speaker 5: There are some trees in the where you can still
Speaker 5: go and adopt an angel.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 4: We have some left at the Walmart location, and we have.
Speaker 5: Some at Bell's, and we have a Trudy Bank here
Speaker 5: downtown has some on that tree as well, and I
Speaker 5: think that's it as far as yeah, right, locally, but
Speaker 5: there are some angels still out there they can adopt it.
Speaker 5: And so you know, there's still time to go out
Speaker 5: and adopt one, shop for it and get it to
Speaker 5: our location in time. Distribution is the twenty first, so
Speaker 5: we're still taking We will take.
Speaker 4: If you're bringing it back before that day, I mean
Speaker 4: we're going to take it. Yeah, we'll make it work. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is so cool, this Angel Tree
Speaker 2: thing that's been going on here for a while. I
Speaker 2: understand that we had some motorcyclists help out Saturday.
Speaker 1: We did, Yeah, they did. They doing their annual toy run.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure thirty seventh year.
Speaker 1: Is it the thirty seventh year?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, and it had been a while, said thirty
Speaker 3: seventh year. And they had beautiful weather, which I know
Speaker 3: everybody was happy about. They've done it and some pretty
Speaker 3: uh adverse conditions before, so but we had we had
Speaker 3: beautiful weather. There was two hundred and thirteen bikes and
Speaker 3: almost three hundred riders and uh and a box full
Speaker 3: of and a box truck full of toys. So we
Speaker 3: are definitely thankful for that event. It helps with all
Speaker 3: our our kind of Angel Tree kids that don't get adopted,
Speaker 3: we can fill in the blanks with those toys, and
Speaker 3: it's a very very important event.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know something, this community is good as finding.
Speaker 2: A niche and scratching it as they say, Yeah, there
Speaker 2: was never mind. But we've got we've got the kettle
Speaker 2: going on here. I understand, we've got a national challenge.
Speaker 1: What's up we do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Saturday, the Saturday, Oh, it's this Saturday.
Speaker 2: We're getting Luk at calendar for Christmas because he thinks
Speaker 2: he's going to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: In February too. Yeah, well, Christmas time keeps us busy.
Speaker 3: I told one of the majors the other day, I
Speaker 3: see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: He said, you better hope it's not a trunk.
Speaker 6: Saturday.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the fourteenth, we have we have the Red
Speaker 3: Kettle Challenge. Our goal is to raise two million dollars nationally.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, our goal here this Christmas is to
Speaker 3: raise sixty thousand dollars for the year and.
Speaker 1: For Bartlesville, well, the community.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and all that money stays in in O Sage,
Speaker 3: Washington and Newada counties and uh, and we're we're we're
Speaker 3: getting closed. We definitely, you know, I need as many
Speaker 3: donations as we can get.
Speaker 1: We got closed. Last year.
Speaker 3: We didn't quite hit our goal. But it's going to
Speaker 3: be Nick and Nick, and it's an important day. We
Speaker 3: have some advisory board members, which is you know, community
Speaker 3: leaders who are going to be out there ringing the
Speaker 3: bells for us that day at Walmart yep and uh
Speaker 3: and so I'm not sure we will go out and
Speaker 3: you know, donate some to the kettles.
Speaker 6: Make it happen, Make it happen, Yeah, make it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's you know, it's nice to hear the clank
Speaker 2: of the coins going into the kettle, but you know
Speaker 2: something there's something to be said about that that doesn't
Speaker 2: go cliang Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, those soft little dollar bills going in there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. We had some uh we had some
Speaker 1: really good checks last year.
Speaker 6: Healthy ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice ones. And uh yeah, it's it's always nice
Speaker 1: to have surprises. So yeah, it is.
Speaker 6: I imagine it is. And this is really great.
Speaker 2: You know, you've got everything really going full tilt down
Speaker 2: there at the Citadel. Ye, and it just seems like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's twenty four to seven. You guys got
Speaker 2: the engines roaring and everything. And if you're not helping
Speaker 2: out here, didn't you go out east a little bit
Speaker 2: for the tornadoes or the hurricanes or.
Speaker 6: Something like that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for the disaster. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: went in October.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I was able to you know, I was
Speaker 5: able to serve there and just to see the Lord
Speaker 5: work in there, and it was an amazing thing to
Speaker 5: just to experience and witness, you know.
Speaker 6: Life changing, I imagine it is.
Speaker 2: We had a little taste of that when we had
Speaker 2: the tornadoes here locally and you guys helped out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then something like this where they it's all hands
Speaker 2: on deck when when something major that hits.
Speaker 6: A big geographical area. Yeah, my goodness sakes.
Speaker 2: I guess when you guys answered the call, you answered
Speaker 2: all of them, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Well, there was we were.
Speaker 3: We were spread out all over the East coast there
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But but what I mean by the call to join
Speaker 6: the Salvation Army?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a captain tell me this many many years ago.
Speaker 2: He says, you'll never know what it means to wear
Speaker 2: the black shoes. Yeah, And I said that that that
Speaker 2: sounds like a good thing. He said, it's a good thing,
Speaker 2: but it's a challenging thing.
Speaker 6: You have to earn them every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is an adventure, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, always changing.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Yeah, it's never the same. I don't
Speaker 4: think two days in a row.
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if you're looking for adventure, folks, and
Speaker 2: what you need to do is volunteer.
Speaker 6: At the Salvation Arm.
Speaker 4: I like. I like that excitement of you know, changing,
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, we have the calendar that kind
Speaker 2: of that repeats a lot of different things, a lot
Speaker 2: of different events. But as you're saying, no two events,
Speaker 2: I don't care what calendar you're using ever really duplicate
Speaker 2: around here, because everything is just so like you say, changing,
Speaker 2: everything is so uh, let's just say, pleasantly unpredictable for
Speaker 2: the most part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, way like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we we have our share of things that
Speaker 2: happened to us, you know, like the tornadoes, sir, and
Speaker 2: everything else. But I've lived here for almost seven years
Speaker 2: and no two years have ever been saved. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I mean not even remotely close. And I can't even
Speaker 2: imagine it in your world where you're at ground zero
Speaker 2: helping folks out with with different needs and you know,
Speaker 2: and and families with the different needs and what have you.
Speaker 6: That's got to be something else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. Yeah, we just it's you know,
Speaker 3: on any given day, it's it's uh, it really is.
Speaker 3: Just you can make all the planes you want to,
Speaker 3: but oftentimes it's just not really what happens. So yeah,
Speaker 3: plan for the plane for the bast and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we fill in the blanks when we can.
Speaker 4: We make our plans. But I mean it's yeah, it's
Speaker 4: God's plans, it.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are the ones that really happen.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes God just likes to challenge folks. Yeah, see you
Speaker 2: can get a little bit better. I know you can.
Speaker 6: He does that little test to drop on you there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh so if folks want to become a bell ringer,
Speaker 2: how do.
Speaker 6: We go about this?
Speaker 5: You can go to register to Ring dot org dot
Speaker 5: com registered to Ring, that's true.
Speaker 1: To register to Ring.
Speaker 3: It's gonna pull off the first thing that pops up
Speaker 3: on the Internet and it's trademark. Enter your zip code
Speaker 3: and uh and it'll it'll automatically populate all the positions,
Speaker 3: all the locations that are available. And we definitely have
Speaker 3: some opportunities for volunteers right up until Christmas Eve, which yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah was super helpful.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, I want to just make mention too, because some
Speaker 5: of our bell ringers out there have had people, you know,
Speaker 5: come and say, well, I just don't carry cash.
Speaker 4: Or change anymore, you know.
Speaker 5: And we have on the signs at the Kettle there's
Speaker 5: a there's not.
Speaker 4: There's not that yet one day, but there is a QR.
Speaker 5: Code and we have someone went on there the day
Speaker 5: just to show us how easy it was.
Speaker 4: And you just scan the cartel on your phone.
Speaker 5: It takes you directly to the site where you just
Speaker 5: donate and your name and that's It takes less than
Speaker 5: it's yeah, less than probably like thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: About as long as it would take to reach into
Speaker 2: your pocket and bull out some money.
Speaker 6: You can make that.
Speaker 4: It's super easy. So some people think, you know, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't want to do that. It's too complicated. It's not
Speaker 4: trust us, it's not.
Speaker 2: I'm sixty five and I got I got beefed up
Speaker 2: on that QR code.
Speaker 6: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you can scan a QR code to look
Speaker 5: at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Menu, then you can do this at the Kettle.
Speaker 2: No excuse whatsoever. Now do you need any helpers? When
Speaker 2: it comes to anchel Tree, quite a bit of.
Speaker 1: Volunteer sugned up for that as well.
Speaker 4: But I mean, if you're an individual that's just.
Speaker 3: Looking you want to participate down talk to us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we won't turn you away.
Speaker 6: Sure something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now down there at the at the Citadel, if
Speaker 2: folks want to maybe just want to a lot of
Speaker 2: folks are doing you're in giving right now, and this
Speaker 2: is very worthy of your consideration.
Speaker 6: Make a donation to the Salvation Army.
Speaker 2: If somebody wants to take a turk, can we just
Speaker 2: give you a call and just kind of work out
Speaker 2: a time and we would like to see what's going on.
Speaker 6: You're so inclined, write a large check or check your choice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we welcome anyone who wants to come down there
Speaker 5: and do that.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Most people, you know, they don't associate everything that we
Speaker 3: do with the Salvation Army. And there's some things that
Speaker 3: you know are obviously highlighted more out in the community
Speaker 3: like angel tree and kettles and things like nature, but
Speaker 3: there's just so many other things that take place there
Speaker 3: at location.
Speaker 1: And most people who do come by are really amazed
Speaker 1: at all that we do.
Speaker 2: And if we listed all the things that you do,
Speaker 2: we'd be here at this time tomorrow, still going through
Speaker 2: the list.
Speaker 6: I know this out here that we do.
Speaker 1: We do everything somewhere.
Speaker 4: Yep, everything somewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not everything everywhere, not everything everywhere.
Speaker 6: So okay, I'll remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's.
Speaker 6: How it goes.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I can remember it, Salvation Army. I want
Speaker 2: to thank you guys both for coming in here today.
Speaker 2: Did we miss I miss anything here? Gosh, I hope not.
Speaker 6: But remember to go out there to uh to Truity,
Speaker 6: go to Walmart. And there's one other location.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and over here at that the new shopping center
Speaker 2: out there behind Masio's piece. Yes, And and you go
Speaker 2: in there and you pull off the name on the tree.
Speaker 2: And let's make sure that every child has a good
Speaker 2: Christmas courtesy Salvation Army in yourselves.
Speaker 6: All right, all right. And here's a great thing about this.
Speaker 2: When you guys told me about this last year, I
Speaker 2: mean I kind of knew, but I didn't know. These
Speaker 2: kids when they get their Christmas gifts, they're not getting
Speaker 2: it from quote the Salvation Army.
Speaker 6: Now for all they know, they're getting it from mom
Speaker 6: and dad.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah.
Speaker 3: All the presidents are sent unwrapped to their parents, and
Speaker 3: so they get to put their own personal touch on it.
Speaker 4: And we've also got some donated wrapping.
Speaker 6: Paper in case that's a challenge.
Speaker 5: So like, because rabbit paper can get real expensive, real fast,
Speaker 5: like fives you know what some some of these have,
Speaker 5: you know, families have five kids, you know, but rabbit
Speaker 5: paper can get expensive.
Speaker 4: So we have wrapping paper. If you need help with that,
Speaker 4: you know, we'll give you some rap paper as well.
Speaker 6: Well, that's great. Well, that puts a ball on it
Speaker 6: for today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to thank you both for coming in
Speaker 2: here and thanks for doing.
Speaker 4: God thanks for having us.
Speaker 6: Alrighty folks, you've been watching and listening to our community