Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome, Yes, indeedy.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust, and we can
Speaker 1: have Miss Patty in here from Kawanas And it's that
Speaker 1: time again where we have.
Speaker 2: Two great big things happening. First things first, we're going
Speaker 2: to be giving some thanks, So.
Speaker 3: Good morning and thank you for having us.
Speaker 4: I think I'm here a lot today, and today I'm
Speaker 4: wearing two hats. My cohort Karen Wilson, who's usually here
Speaker 4: talking about Celebrate Giving, is unable to make it today,
Speaker 4: so I want to start with that.
Speaker 3: As Tom said, we're.
Speaker 4: Going to be given some thanks, and we are providing
Speaker 4: a are hosting the event for forty nine. Right now,
Speaker 4: we have forty nine nonprofits in town that are signed
Speaker 4: up to be part of Celebrate Giving. It's going to
Speaker 4: be on November fourteenth at the Center formerly the Community Center,
Speaker 4: and it's going to be from four thirty to six thirty.
Speaker 4: But lots and lots of ways for nonprofits to highlight themselves.
Speaker 3: Let the community know who they are and what they do.
Speaker 4: That's our purpose of giving them a platform basically to
Speaker 4: shine and an opportunity to win some great cash prizes
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 5: A party with a purpose.
Speaker 1: I like this.
Speaker 2: I like this, So we're going to get to see
Speaker 2: who's all helping everyone else out in the community and
Speaker 2: a chance for you to maybe even meet some folks
Speaker 2: you didn't even know, and furthermore help out a little
Speaker 2: bit too.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, one of the things that we really stress with
Speaker 4: our nonprofits is that so many things in Bartlesville are
Speaker 4: provided Bartlesville as a big heart we do, and this
Speaker 4: is an opportunity for all of those nonprofits to let
Speaker 4: the community know who we are, what we do, how
Speaker 4: we can help, and how they can help us. We
Speaker 4: always want volunteers and so they have that opportunity to
Speaker 4: do that as well. Some ways they can win some
Speaker 4: prizes is if they let Kawanas come and talk to
Speaker 4: their board, they get in a drawing for a cash prize.
Speaker 4: If we can make a presentation about the event to
Speaker 4: their board, and if they have their board members attend
Speaker 4: that night. So if you can get all of your
Speaker 4: board members there, you get in another drawing for another prize.
Speaker 4: So there are lots of ways to win prizes and
Speaker 4: one of the great things that we have this year
Speaker 4: is a Brandson trip. Oh nice, Yes, it's a start
Speaker 4: to say a raffle. I can't say a raffle.
Speaker 3: It is an opportunity, opportunity in.
Speaker 4: A trip to brand Center, and it is a premium
Speaker 4: premier trip. Actually is six days, five nights at a
Speaker 4: Wyndham Hotel, an event in Branson. The tickets are twenty
Speaker 4: dollars each or six four hundred dollars and each ticket
Speaker 4: is an entry into that drawing to win that trip.
Speaker 4: It is graciously donated by a Grace Farmer and her
Speaker 4: family and we are selling tickets online. You can go
Speaker 4: online to brought us with kuwanas dot org buy your
Speaker 4: tickets there. You can buy tickets the day of the event.
Speaker 4: I think it will it will actually shut off before
Speaker 4: you know mid way of giving it. Given the prize
Speaker 4: awarding the prize, there is a little caveat It is
Speaker 4: an excellent trip and we're trying to raise one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars to give away. We want prizes to give away
Speaker 4: to our participants that night. In the event that we
Speaker 4: don't make that thousand dollars prize, the winning ticket will
Speaker 4: get twenty percent of whatever we raise.
Speaker 5: I think you're gonna make it.
Speaker 3: We're cooking that we can make it.
Speaker 4: So anybody that's under the sound of my voice, or
Speaker 4: you see these flyers around town, you have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to go and buy as many tickets as you want.
Speaker 5: Very good.
Speaker 2: Now, there's this little thing that we do each and
Speaker 2: every year. It kind of blocks off a little traffic
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of lights and just a ton
Speaker 2: of fun and even more people.
Speaker 5: What could that be mispassed?
Speaker 3: I know that is that Bartles Little Christmas Parade.
Speaker 4: Yes, and one of the things that we love is
Speaker 4: the way that we get so much support from KWN
Speaker 4: and from you as our premiere radio announce So we
Speaker 4: love that voice, and we love your enthusiasm and you
Speaker 4: just make it come alive for those who are not
Speaker 4: able to attend the parade but can hear it.
Speaker 5: Who doesn't love a parade.
Speaker 4: As a level parade. This year the parade is on again.
Speaker 4: It's the first Saturday in December. That's always when the
Speaker 4: Bartles of a Parade is now and that happens to
Speaker 4: be on December seventh. The parade of course will step
Speaker 4: off at six thirty.
Speaker 3: But all of those.
Speaker 4: Floats and we always have those that need to put
Speaker 4: their float together once they're in the staging area, so
Speaker 4: they can start coming early in the morning to the
Speaker 4: Frank Phillips parking lot that's on short I think in
Speaker 4: frank Phillips they can come as early as nine o'clock,
Speaker 4: will be there that morning to bring those floats in
Speaker 4: and by two o'clock they can start putting them together.
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to be in place in line to be judged.
Speaker 4: I theme this year is one of nostalgia. We're going
Speaker 4: to take a trip back down memory lane for the
Speaker 4: past and the present, for all things downtown brodersvilt On,
Speaker 4: Frank Phillips and all along the parade route. So anything
Speaker 4: you remember. When we had kay Little come and talked
Speaker 4: to the Kawanas Club about Bartisville the history movie, he
Speaker 4: knows everything and she sparked that enthusiasm in us as
Speaker 4: well for things that we remember. And as she was
Speaker 4: making that presentation, those who grew up in Bartlesville. I'm
Speaker 4: not one of those fortunate ones, but those who grew
Speaker 4: up in Barnosville remembered where may brothers used to be
Speaker 4: and we're just now the Sayer Building or who are
Speaker 4: other things and parades that were along the route. I
Speaker 4: was speaking with one of our entrants yesterday, excuse me,
Speaker 4: the Barnisville Ballet, and she said, I'm only a little
Speaker 4: bit off Frank Phillips. But they performed at thea Civic Center,
Speaker 4: at the Community Center, so that's along the route.
Speaker 3: And so any of those we're.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to telling your stories for all of those
Speaker 4: interests there with the memories, the long memory lane.
Speaker 5: That is so nice. That is going to be so cool.
Speaker 4: Now, one of the things we do want to remind
Speaker 4: everyone is there only one san Remember that at the
Speaker 4: end of the parade. Yes, and so if you would
Speaker 4: not make Santa part of your past and present memories
Speaker 4: or your float entries at all, that would be good.
Speaker 2: But this is wonderful, This is so good. I took
Speaker 2: a look at some of your sponsors. Many of them
Speaker 2: come back for more, as they say, absolutely, once they
Speaker 2: get hooked, they're in for a law.
Speaker 3: They are, They're in for the long haul.
Speaker 4: We have Actually the Corners Club has been hosting the parades.
Speaker 4: It's twenty ten and some of our sponsors have been
Speaker 4: with us for all of those years and have One
Speaker 4: of our new ones for parade theme this year is
Speaker 4: the Stop Funeral Directors in Crematory and the nonprofit is
Speaker 4: Scott Chollette and Farmers Insurance. They are new sponsor, but
Speaker 4: we have our tried and true like Truity Credit Union
Speaker 4: representative of Judge Strum is always promoting and sponsoring the
Speaker 4: Dewey band.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's there.
Speaker 4: Corporate sponsor Cliffs Flooring and Windows has been with us
Speaker 4: from day one, Brian Little from day one, and Santa
Speaker 4: Claus with Musselmans, all of those have been longtime sponsors.
Speaker 4: And of course Kate your end for the business sponsor.
Speaker 4: We just absolutely could not do what we do without
Speaker 4: your help and in support.
Speaker 2: And you know, when Kevin and his family go cruising
Speaker 2: down the street that Ford fair Lane retractable, I know
Speaker 2: car is only driven on Bartleswell streets. I'm told, really,
Speaker 2: I'm told it's only been driven on Bartleswell streets.
Speaker 3: I am told with bumpers on either side.
Speaker 2: But that is really something because you know, he takes
Speaker 2: the grandkids out in it and they get they just
Speaker 2: love it because they get to see the that crowd
Speaker 2: and I know everybody on the floats ever since I've
Speaker 2: been here that those crowds just keep growing every roadway.
Speaker 2: There's no blank spots, there's no dead spots. There's folks
Speaker 2: shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow right along the route.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 4: Lots of people that are driving the oldest but goodies
Speaker 4: always the motorcycle group always wonderful entries that we have
Speaker 4: the radio.
Speaker 3: Two way radio.
Speaker 4: I'm missing now what it's called, but they are the
Speaker 4: Ham radios are very much involved with the parade as
Speaker 4: far as radioing us back and forth what's going on
Speaker 4: the route, so from command center for us, which is
Speaker 4: the parking lot to know what's going on. So I
Speaker 4: have some not just people that are in the parade,
Speaker 4: but people that come alongside and help the corners to
Speaker 4: make this a wonderful gift to the community. A presenting
Speaker 4: sponsor this year, who is a premier sponsor is Harves
Speaker 4: Spain and they're one that have been with us for
Speaker 4: a long time as well.
Speaker 2: And that's where we have our perch up there in
Speaker 2: one of the top floors and so the parade goes by,
Speaker 2: we have our TV cameras there and that's where Nathan
Speaker 2: and I do the play by play and they're always
Speaker 2: so gracious and we can spell the popcorn from all
Speaker 2: the way down there in the lobby.
Speaker 5: Can't have it till we're done.
Speaker 4: We've had some some of the entrances this year asked
Speaker 4: for let us know that they want to do something
Speaker 4: along the parade route as well, so we may end
Speaker 4: up having some hot chocolate or some popcorn along the routers,
Speaker 4: some handouts. We always have wonderful elves Santa help us
Speaker 4: walking along the parade route and handing out candy. We
Speaker 4: don't throw it exactly.
Speaker 5: You know something that it would be like parade dash.
Speaker 3: That's right, it has happened.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 3: The registration this year is online again.
Speaker 4: It's open until December fourth, that's Wednesday before the parade
Speaker 4: that's on that Saturday. We used to do it right
Speaker 4: up until Friday night, and we would be sometimes four
Speaker 4: or five o'clock in the morning trying to finish it up,
Speaker 4: and we wanted to do it a little bit different,
Speaker 4: give everybody an opportunity to have everything in place before
Speaker 4: that happens. Our registration for businesses fifty dollars and for
Speaker 4: nonprofits it's twenty five.
Speaker 2: Who's your team that lights those all out and does
Speaker 2: all of the real hard work.
Speaker 4: For well, Actually, Conrad Brandon new who is our I thought, yes,
Speaker 4: he's in it. Well, you know that with Kawana's everybody
Speaker 4: wears lots of different hats, so you see him in
Speaker 4: lots of different places. But he is our logistical person
Speaker 4: for making things happen in the parade route, in the
Speaker 4: parade staging area and along the route, and so we
Speaker 4: hats off to Conrad.
Speaker 5: Well, your whole team does a wonderful job.
Speaker 2: All we have to do is basically show up and
Speaker 2: just have fun like everybody else.
Speaker 5: We're going Thank you, Kana.
Speaker 3: There's a wonderful.
Speaker 4: One of the things that I have mentioned to is
Speaker 4: when our entrance of registrars go online to the register,
Speaker 4: you do such a good job of describing what's there.
Speaker 4: We want to give you all the help we can.
Speaker 3: Said.
Speaker 4: We asked them to give us a little blurb about
Speaker 4: their entries so that so that when you're describing it
Speaker 4: to those people who are not fortunate enough to be
Speaker 4: live with us, they'll know what's going on as well.
Speaker 4: And we've asked all of our entrants to light this year.
Speaker 4: It's a nighttime parade, and if you don't have any lights,
Speaker 4: you can't the scene. Even the cars that even if
Speaker 4: it's just twinkle lights, so that they so we know
Speaker 4: that you're there and it's not a gap in the parade.
Speaker 5: We got to put your on camera, we got to
Speaker 5: see you coming.
Speaker 3: Acts.
Speaker 4: Absolutely just to go back a little bit with the
Speaker 4: sponsors for.
Speaker 2: Celebrate Giving, Oh yeah, yeah, I got a little ahead
Speaker 2: of myself there.
Speaker 4: We Actually one other opportunity is we used to do
Speaker 4: the People's Choice Awards. Now we even have a BFF
Speaker 4: for Celebrate Giving and it's the Bartlesville fan favorite this year,
Speaker 4: and so we're looking for lots of people to buy
Speaker 4: tickets for that. They can come and stuff that ballot
Speaker 4: box and vote for their favorite nonprofit that evening. That's
Speaker 4: another way that the nonprofit will be able to garner
Speaker 4: some much needed cash for their efforts and their support.
Speaker 2: Man, this is going to be great. Both of these
Speaker 2: are awesome. I was there for the very first one.
Speaker 2: I missed the second one, but I was there for
Speaker 2: the very first one, and I got to tell you, there's.
Speaker 5: A lot of people. There's a lot of and there
Speaker 5: were a lot of happy people and.
Speaker 3: A lot of happy people, and.
Speaker 6: I'm going by them, going my goodness sakes most all
Speaker 6: y'all been in the radio station here at time or six,
Speaker 6: and it was just nice to see everybody all in
Speaker 6: one place, you know, giving it their best.
Speaker 4: Yes, we have forty nine nonprofit so it's going to
Speaker 4: be it's definitely a full house. We have the I
Speaker 4: think the four h is also going to be manning
Speaker 4: a hot dog truck station outside right outside the door,
Speaker 4: so you don't have to go home to eat before
Speaker 4: you come. There's going to be food there and inside
Speaker 4: there are always a nonprofits that are either selling sausa
Speaker 4: and chips or hot dogs or chili or bake goods.
Speaker 4: So there's gonna be a way that you we're trying
Speaker 4: to go on and get you before you go home.
Speaker 5: You'll be four six thirty. You'll be nourished. They'll take
Speaker 5: the edge drop before.
Speaker 3: You get home exactly.
Speaker 2: Pat thank you for coming in and just giving us
Speaker 2: so much information and lots of reasons to smile.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us, and we look
Speaker 4: forward to seeing everyone on November nineteen, sorry, November fourteenth
Speaker 4: at the Center for celebrate Giving and December seventh for
Speaker 4: the parade six thirty in the evening downtown Bartlesville.
Speaker 5: Already it's a date,