Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome it. It
Speaker 1: is time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust in. Today we have
Speaker 1: our friends in from Ability Works and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about a lot of good things, a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and of.
Speaker 2: Course the great things that happened to Edibility Works.
Speaker 1: First of all rebeccay ingram Our CEO and also Beth
Speaker 1: the Flowers are fundraising committee at chair. So we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of things going on Edibility Works.
Speaker 2: How are we doing?
Speaker 3: Billy Works is fantastic.
Speaker 2: You guys are always busy. We're very busy.
Speaker 3: Every day is a new day. You never know what
Speaker 3: you're gonna get, like a boxer cracker jacks. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we we have a good time.
Speaker 2: It keeps it interesting, keeps you hopping.
Speaker 3: Life is very interesting. But we're doing great things and
Speaker 3: we're very we're very excited of.
Speaker 2: What we do and tell people what it is that
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 3: Ability Works of Oklahoma, Incorporated is located here in Bartlesville
Speaker 3: and we provide residential and ocasional services to people with
Speaker 3: intellectual and development mental disabilities.
Speaker 1: Good and we've got a fundraiser coming up to keep
Speaker 1: the boat a floating as they say.
Speaker 2: And this is where Beth comes in. How you doing, Beth,
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: Well, you're going to be doing better here because you
Speaker 1: got some fun in your fundraiser.
Speaker 2: Tell us about this fantastic thing.
Speaker 4: Well, every year we pick a new theme too for
Speaker 4: our fundraiser and to raise money. And this year our
Speaker 4: theme is come cruise with us, and so we're inviting
Speaker 4: everybody to come and dress up in their cruise war
Speaker 4: and we are decorations. The room will look like a
Speaker 4: ship and we're so excited about it. We're we holding
Speaker 4: this hill Chris Country Club. And what's the day, first
Speaker 4: Friday in September.
Speaker 2: Well, that's coming up real quick, it is, it is.
Speaker 4: I hope we're ready.
Speaker 2: How do we get tickets for this? Well, tickets can.
Speaker 3: Be purchased online at abilityworksokay dot org, or you can
Speaker 3: come to our offices at five Oho one South Virginia Avenue.
Speaker 2: I invite you to go to the offices because you've
Speaker 2: got to be sprised what you get to see. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: it's a beautiful facility, ability inside and out. You got
Speaker 2: to be so proud of that.
Speaker 3: We're very proud our Board of directors has been very
Speaker 3: amazing over the years and they've really set us up.
Speaker 2: Well, how long you've been in business over there, Well,
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 3: Been the CEO of Ability Works since January of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: prior to that. Actually, this is a good opportunity Ability
Speaker 3: Works of Oklahoma as actually the community of Bartleswell would
Speaker 3: know us as ARC our ARC Group Homes and Employability.
Speaker 3: So when I was hired in January of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: one of the first things our board of directors asked
Speaker 3: me to do was merge Employability into ARC Group Homes
Speaker 3: and then the company was renamed Ability Works of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: So we are ARC.
Speaker 3: We get called that often and we're okay with that.
Speaker 3: That's what we're dis going is the community and yes,
Speaker 3: and that's that's where we began.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well it's a wonderful story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did that just as COVID was was kicking
Speaker 1: in and you're able to get through all of that
Speaker 1: to become what you are today, which beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that is.
Speaker 2: That's really a remarkable story.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you how blessed Ability Works is to
Speaker 4: have Becky.
Speaker 2: She'd be shy.
Speaker 4: She does such a wonderful job, and the client's lover.
Speaker 4: Everybody that meets her loves her, and she does such
Speaker 4: a great job. We're blessed. We're blessed on radio.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't happen for you. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: I love what I do.
Speaker 3: I truly do, and it's it's just a joy to
Speaker 3: come to work every day. We've got some amazing employees,
Speaker 3: some of the best, and I just absolutely love coming
Speaker 3: to work every day.
Speaker 2: I tell you what that's not. That's not something everybody has.
Speaker 2: And you're you're blessed to have that.
Speaker 3: It is a blessing and I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 2: Now, now coming up with the fundraiser here, Uh, this
Speaker 2: is just going to be a blast.
Speaker 4: And uh it's always fun.
Speaker 2: Well it's got to be. Let me look at this.
Speaker 2: You got the big cruise ship taken off out there
Speaker 2: from the country club and and uh and you don't
Speaker 2: have we're not sure where it's going, but you.
Speaker 1: Won't get lost at sea. It's not the ss Mino.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we heard it won't
Speaker 1: be that. Now, what can we expect that once we
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 4: Board, Well, we're all we always have fabulous food, Hillcrest
Speaker 4: is so good to us with working with our menu
Speaker 4: and they have a wonderful chef and we're always proud
Speaker 4: of the food that we have there. And we are
Speaker 4: going to have you know, Caribbean cocktails, and the entertainment
Speaker 4: is going to be great. We've got a DJ that
Speaker 4: helps us every year, and we've chosen music to to
Speaker 4: help with the theme. The theme, and we always the
Speaker 4: main thing is our silent auction and our live auction.
Speaker 4: I attend a lot of fundraisers here in town, and
Speaker 4: I have to say, I'm always so impressed at what
Speaker 4: ability Works has in theirs.
Speaker 2: You were telling me about one of these, and it
Speaker 2: is amazing.
Speaker 4: Red Drummond has been so generous and she has donated
Speaker 4: a dinner for sixteen and uh for dinner and happy
Speaker 4: hour and then a stay in her boarding house for
Speaker 4: all sixteen guests.
Speaker 2: So that's hard to do because that boarding house is
Speaker 2: usually booked two or three years.
Speaker 4: And she is so generous and she makes sure that
Speaker 4: there is a night for us every year and we're
Speaker 4: so grateful.
Speaker 2: Wowodsakes, we all think you want to burst. Got Leah,
Speaker 2: that's that's generous.
Speaker 4: It's a hot item.
Speaker 2: So I'd say we also.
Speaker 4: Have five our dinner package with Broadway, where five restaurants
Speaker 4: in town have donated a dinner for two to be
Speaker 4: coupled with the Broadway shows that come in nice. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a fun one. That's a fun package. It's a
Speaker 4: show and dinner with five different restaurants in town. And
Speaker 4: also Adrian and David Colway have been so generous this year.
Speaker 2: I tell you what their businesses have been just crowd like.
Speaker 4: They you know, own the Palace Rooms and Lollipops, and
Speaker 4: they have donated dinner at the Palace Rooms for I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: They've also opened up a speakeasy and it's called nineteen
Speaker 4: oh eight, and so they've donated a dinner for six
Speaker 4: for their new speakeasy which I haven't seen yet but
Speaker 4: I've heard it's fabulous. And they also have a new
Speaker 4: mobile bar that you can rent and come to your
Speaker 4: party and includes a bartender, and they've they've donated their
Speaker 4: mobile bar as a as another you know item in
Speaker 4: our silent auction.
Speaker 2: Wow live live auction. Who's who's conducting your live auction?
Speaker 4: We have different people every year and it's oh, hold on,
Speaker 4: it's an auctionnaire.
Speaker 2: Skelly Roger Rogers, well friend of mine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he does such a great jobious. He's part of
Speaker 4: the entertainment, needless to say, and he helps us so often,
Speaker 4: so we're glad he's doing it again this year.
Speaker 2: Oh man, this is going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And of course the money race goes back to making
Speaker 1: sure Ability Works keeps the doors open and keeps things
Speaker 1: going correct.
Speaker 2: Man a lot.
Speaker 1: That is quite an organization you have there, and it's
Speaker 1: really nice that have wonderful people on your committee there
Speaker 1: to put together something as nice and wonderful as this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like I said, this fundraiser committee, Jenny
Speaker 3: Kirkpatrick and Beth and just a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3: They're they're just amazing people in general. And again it's
Speaker 3: just another blessing that Ability Works has. So we're very fortunate.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for being in our neighborhood. We appreciate that.
Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here. My family goes out
Speaker 2: to visit every now and then and they say, look
Speaker 2: away you.
Speaker 4: Tell them about the new recycling.
Speaker 2: I think that is Oh yeah, that is the best
Speaker 2: the recycling.
Speaker 3: Oh so, Ability Works as a thrift shop and a
Speaker 3: Virginia building five oh went South Virginia. And then behind
Speaker 3: our big building is our recycling center. So we recycle cardboard,
Speaker 3: we shred paper for the community. We also can come
Speaker 3: pick things up. Any donations for the thrift store, we
Speaker 3: can also pick those up. So if you need a
Speaker 3: pick up, if you have a donation or something of
Speaker 3: that swort, please call our office.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow.
Speaker 3: We also are getting ready to open a second donation
Speaker 3: center at no Water Road in Highway seventy five, next
Speaker 3: to mister Rainey's insurance office. Yeah, so that'll just be
Speaker 3: a donation only but just on the other side of town.
Speaker 3: So help the community a little bit with if they
Speaker 3: have donations.
Speaker 2: You guys, just don't stop moving. We're pretty busy. There's
Speaker 2: some goodies in that thrift shop. I'm saying, oh there are, oh,
Speaker 2: there are lots of moving parts. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: She just so calm about it here and I'm sitting like, well,
Speaker 1: my gosh, the thing was going a mile a minute
Speaker 1: back there.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah. So once again, the date and where
Speaker 2: we can get.
Speaker 4: The first Friday in September Hillcrest Country Club.
Speaker 3: And he's on September sixth, and you can purchase the
Speaker 3: tickets at our offices or at Ability Works. Okay, dot org.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: It's very easy to remain Ladies, Have I forgotten anything
Speaker 1: or have we not covered something?
Speaker 2: Because I know we got a bunch. You got a
Speaker 2: couple more, don't you know?
Speaker 4: I don't got them?
Speaker 2: Alrighty, I just want to make sure I don't want
Speaker 2: to we do that looking like well something here.
Speaker 4: We mentioned our live auction, but we didn't talk about
Speaker 4: our silent auction. We have artwork donated, we have pottery donated,
Speaker 4: we have jewelry donated, we have packages for hotels in town, dinners,
Speaker 4: don't I mean there is a lot there and it's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun and it's fun to do the bidding.
Speaker 2: You just never know what you're gonna go. That's right,
Speaker 2: you really don't.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you for visiting with us here today,
Speaker 1: and folks Visitability Works. Make sure you go to your
Speaker 1: website get the tickets. We'll see you on the cruise.
Speaker 4: With us with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for