Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust and standing by on
Speaker 1: telephone today because really it's just not a good day
Speaker 1: to be zipping around. Is Amy Fanny and she's with Oli.
Speaker 1: How we doing today?
Speaker 2: We're just doing fine. If I were younger, I would
Speaker 2: probably be out playing in the snow.
Speaker 1: I think I would have been too uh something about donuts. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be doing that too. I'm too responsible. Then
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 2: Having fun with snow ice cream.
Speaker 1: You go, hey, OLLI, we've got new classes coming.
Speaker 2: Up right, yes, like next week.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, my goodness sakes. For folks who don't
Speaker 1: know what Ollie is, it's a it's a great lifelong
Speaker 1: learning program. Tell us a little bit about Ollie For
Speaker 1: the folks who are on an issue, did well.
Speaker 2: Ollie is a program through Oklahoma State University for particularly
Speaker 2: for seniors. Actually, we don't care if you're interested in us.
Speaker 2: We're interested in you. So age isn't the factor. But
Speaker 2: it's the target market, if you will, is for seniors
Speaker 2: to keep us active and informed.
Speaker 1: And you have such a wide variety of different classes
Speaker 1: in order to do just that. What's on the horizon
Speaker 1: for the spring months.
Speaker 2: I am so excited about our spring schedule. It wasn't
Speaker 2: it didn't start out to be that way, but it's
Speaker 2: turned out to be a very patriotic session, which the
Speaker 2: timing is perfect. We have Alan Bretts, who's always done
Speaker 2: our great Decisions and that's kind of a current events
Speaker 2: type class that's really interesting. And we have also are
Speaker 2: sitting Judge Alan Jensen. He's gonna do a class on
Speaker 2: the US Constitution and since there's so much controversy with
Speaker 2: it and everything, this should be really really interesting. So
Speaker 2: then we have a retired professor from OSU who has
Speaker 2: moved in the area from still Water. He's gonna do
Speaker 2: a class on biers and stingers. Oh and this is
Speaker 2: those little environments that can cause great pain sometimes illness,
Speaker 2: like kicks and mosquitoes and those sorts of things. He'll
Speaker 2: tell us about, you know, what they are, what they do,
Speaker 2: how to fix whatever the damage they do, all that
Speaker 2: sort of things. So that should be really interesting and
Speaker 2: definitely an interesting class for the spring coming up. And
Speaker 2: these little creatures coming out of hiding.
Speaker 1: Well boy, yes. Then we have.
Speaker 2: Kelly Becker is going to do a class on aging
Speaker 2: springs opportunities, which is really really interesting. She's so good
Speaker 2: about teaching classes on teaching you how to live with
Speaker 2: life's little struggles that it might present. And then we
Speaker 2: have Russell Parrish and he's new to our teaching group,
Speaker 2: but he's going to do a creative writing class and
Speaker 2: I've promised to do more. So we haven't had a
Speaker 2: creative writing class for since COVID, so I'm anxious to
Speaker 2: do that again. We also have Kay Little is going
Speaker 2: to do a movie series of movies of historical events
Speaker 2: that should be really really interesting.
Speaker 1: Kay never said still she's always on the move.
Speaker 2: I have a hard time getting her because she is
Speaker 2: so busy.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on nailing her down.
Speaker 2: But he actually is the one that she volunteered to
Speaker 2: do this. You know, she says, hey, you know I
Speaker 2: can do this. I said, well, hey, I would love that.
Speaker 2: So then we get to the town Hall and here's
Speaker 2: another good lineup. I have Jim Kurd who's the new mayor,
Speaker 2: and Mike Bailey going to do a city update here. Again,
Speaker 2: Kay Little is going to do a presentation on Ellis
Speaker 2: Island and its history. Joe Todd has done some immigration
Speaker 2: interviews the people who have immigrated throughout Ellis Island. He's
Speaker 2: going to give those present those And then we have
Speaker 2: Mitsu O'Connor, who was a child in one of these
Speaker 2: Japanese camps during the war. She's going to talk about that.
Speaker 2: Then we have Maria Guess who always has a lot
Speaker 2: going on, and it's going to get an update on
Speaker 2: what's going on in her little baileywoock. Liz Nelson, who
Speaker 2: we've had on she did you know she was Killers
Speaker 2: of the Flower Moon in that she's kind of launched
Speaker 2: a movie career for her. She was always doing stuff,
Speaker 2: but that just raised her to a new level. So
Speaker 2: here again another busy person that I have a hard
Speaker 2: time trying down.
Speaker 1: Well, so far, you're about four for four on that,
Speaker 1: so you're doing great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I've been told I have a great power
Speaker 2: of persuasion and I don't tend to let that wig
Speaker 2: in any but anyway, so she's going to do a
Speaker 2: comedy skit, so that's kind of a nice little change.
Speaker 2: And then she volunteered to do this too. She told
Speaker 2: me the other day she was sick. She couldn't make
Speaker 2: it to our open house and she couldn't find a doctor.
Speaker 2: For immediate help, you know, and I sit, well, don't
Speaker 2: you people have medicine? Man? And she laughed and she said, oh,
Speaker 2: you're funny too.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, and then the last one I have scheduled is
Speaker 2: Jamie Hancock is gonna talk to us about the Walmart
Speaker 2: distribution sentence.
Speaker 1: You know, I understand they give tours out there, and
Speaker 1: I understand that that's really kind of a fascinating place
Speaker 1: they do, and.
Speaker 2: I want to set up a tour in the summer session.
Speaker 2: I set up tours to go to different places, and
Speaker 2: that's one of the places on my list to do.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm putting together the summer session. I have
Speaker 2: to have my speakers in in just a few days,
Speaker 2: but that's one of them that I tend to put
Speaker 2: on my list.
Speaker 1: Goodness, you're going to have a busy spring, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're off to a pretty good start for
Speaker 1: summer too. How do you find it all in? That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, I've worked very hard. I've kind of slacked off
Speaker 2: this last year because of so many surgeries, my new
Speaker 2: knees and all that. But anyway, yeah, I'm just so
Speaker 2: excited about the spring schedule because it's it's just got
Speaker 2: so much history and varied information.
Speaker 1: Where can people find out about the classes and where
Speaker 1: can we sign up?
Speaker 2: Okay, the catalogs are out. I have I left some
Speaker 2: at the library, that's our main source. I of course
Speaker 2: have plenty. I've left some of some of the senior
Speaker 2: centers world oh and the I haven't gotten over to
Speaker 2: the Community Center yet, but they will have some as
Speaker 2: well as a business center.
Speaker 1: Very good. So it's really easy to get a hand
Speaker 1: on them and take a look and start signing up
Speaker 1: for your classes. This is going to be a great spring.
Speaker 2: It really is. I'm really excited about it. And one
Speaker 2: of the things we've started in the ball session of
Speaker 2: having classes over at the West Side Community Center. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: she's time to get you know, get things going over there.
Speaker 2: And we're still trying to get built back up since
Speaker 2: COVID and so it's just been a really great and
Speaker 2: it's it's a really good place over there to have
Speaker 2: the classes.
Speaker 1: It is. It's a wonderful facility. It's bigger on the
Speaker 1: inside than it looks from the out, and Chavon has
Speaker 1: done a wonderful job of making that just really a
Speaker 1: nice show place almost yeah.
Speaker 2: Well she reached out to join them, and so we
Speaker 2: have and it's worked out very well, very nice partnership. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is that it's good for both of us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that's great. You know. I you know,
Speaker 1: I saw she was talking about Ollie and some of
Speaker 1: the things earlier this fall. Yeah, started thinking, said, boy,
Speaker 1: you know, if this takes off, this is really going
Speaker 1: to take off. It looks like it's really going to
Speaker 1: take off. So congratulations on that partnership.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm excited about that too. All that's great, And
Speaker 2: I'm also working on one of my goals when I
Speaker 2: started with Ollie was too even though it's a real
Speaker 2: I don't like the East word cheap education for.
Speaker 1: Seniors, but it's cost effective.
Speaker 2: Better. Yes, that's a better put. So I'm trying to
Speaker 2: also find ways that we can maintain the art. Operating
Speaker 2: is through memberships. There is a grant, but basically memberships.
Speaker 2: Our speakers arevolunteer. But of course it costs, and this
Speaker 2: is one thing about being with Westside Partnership like this.
Speaker 2: It doesn't cost us anything for a room to head
Speaker 2: the classes, where most other places we do pay something
Speaker 2: for that. So we do have expenses and we have
Speaker 2: to meet those because we do have some paid employees.
Speaker 2: But anyway, trying to find a way that we can
Speaker 2: bring in more people who find this not affordable in
Speaker 2: their budget. But I, like myself, wants to be very
Speaker 2: involved and stay fairly active. So we're trying. We're looking
Speaker 2: for ways to maybe some sponsorships from some other other
Speaker 2: organizations such as Roadyer Rotary or you know, some of those,
Speaker 2: but a sponsorship that could help other people do this,
Speaker 2: and that's what we're looking at.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that'd be great and good luck to you
Speaker 1: on I had to you know, when you kind of
Speaker 1: ease to soften it, as they say, a little bit
Speaker 1: easier to take in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the membership. We have a premium membership that's
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars and that lets you take any classy.
Speaker 2: The only expense you might have would be is, say,
Speaker 2: if you had an art class, which I don't have
Speaker 2: on my schedule, but you would need to get your
Speaker 2: supplies or whatever. That would be the only additional expense.
Speaker 2: But that's very inexpensive when you go to adding it
Speaker 2: all up because the individual class, if you use the
Speaker 2: other membership, which is forty dollars, that gets your membership,
Speaker 2: but you have to pay twenty five dollars for each class.
Speaker 2: So that adds pretty quickly. It does so, but and
Speaker 2: the two hundred dollars is the best deal. But if
Speaker 2: you can't afford that amount right.
Speaker 1: Up front, that's hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. So this is what I'm trying to
Speaker 2: find is a way to keep the income where it
Speaker 2: needs to be, but I also make it available to
Speaker 2: more people. This is one of my big goals and
Speaker 2: we're working on it. I've got some people that I
Speaker 2: just talked to yesterday that I think that I can
Speaker 2: get some help with promoting this program.
Speaker 1: So I'd be wonderful ALI scholarships or ALI ships for sure,
Speaker 1: that'd be good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we do thanks for mentioning the scholarships.
Speaker 2: We do have those and anybody can apply for them.
Speaker 2: And it's just a given, you know, there's no real
Speaker 2: qualifying But that would forgive that four dollars charge. However,
Speaker 2: you would still need to pay the twenty five dollars
Speaker 2: for each class. Now, the town hall is free, so
Speaker 2: anybody that wants to come to any of those little
Speaker 2: it's eight weeks. So anybody that wants to come, all
Speaker 2: they have to do is I have assigning a sheet
Speaker 2: when they come in. That's all they have to do
Speaker 2: is just sign up.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: And then we can reach out to them, you know,
Speaker 2: about future things and maybe that will encourage them to
Speaker 2: become members as well. But the town hall is free.
Speaker 2: I think everybody should drop in and check us out.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Amy, I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: dropping by today, all by albeit my phone to tell
Speaker 1: us about Allie in this wonderful spring sessions we have
Speaker 1: coming up here. And once again, folks, so you can
Speaker 1: pick up a catalog at the Bartonsville Public Library and
Speaker 1: many of the centers public centers around town that they
Speaker 1: deal with seniors and around the community, I should say,
Speaker 1: at large, and once again, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a great year. And congratulations on Nail and down all
Speaker 1: these busy people. That's that's something else itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not so hard to get people to speak
Speaker 2: one time, but to get them to do a series
Speaker 2: like you know, the Constitution. That's sort of saying it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm a very busy person. Yes I understand that, but we.
Speaker 1: Need you, we need you badly. Well, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for being with us. Stay warm and stay cozy
Speaker 1: and we'll speak with you soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, I'll be back to talk about the
Speaker 2: summer one.
Speaker 1: You bet you. You better be. We'll put you on
Speaker 1: the calendar right now, or we'll come looking for you.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Thank you. No, I should not be a factor.
Speaker 1: It should not. Amy, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: Today, Okay, Tom, Well, thanks for having
Speaker 1: Me all right, boths you've been listening