Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: Kay one, the one you trust. We have our friends
Speaker 1: in from Eldercare. We have Jennifer Nis and she brought
Speaker 1: a friend I.
Speaker 2: Did being a friend, a new friend, new friend, a
Speaker 2: new friend maybe not unknown to some, but new to Eldercare.
Speaker 2: So this is Michael Cole and he is our new
Speaker 2: development director. He just joined us not long ago and
Speaker 2: I'm dragging him already with me.
Speaker 3: We'll welcome aboard.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I got the chance to.
Speaker 1: See you out at the Celebrate Giving event, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, that place was packed.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, packed man, But it.
Speaker 1: Was great seeing I'm going I bet you he got
Speaker 1: a job out there and he've been already been working.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: See how well I keep up tabs with my friends?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: So we decided to keep it, you know, give a minute.
Speaker 4: To come in clock last night, every going with a
Speaker 4: big splash.
Speaker 1: We do it right.
Speaker 3: So how you like the new gig?
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 6: It's it's a great team to work with and just
Speaker 6: the services that it provides to our community. And I
Speaker 6: just love being around the building and having conversations with
Speaker 6: those those folks that are coming in and that we're serving.
Speaker 6: So it definitely speaks to my my heart for community
Speaker 6: and service.
Speaker 4: So I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, you know your background, You've done everything from corporate
Speaker 1: stuff to the ministerial and a few things in between.
Speaker 3: So this kind of lands up pretty good with what
Speaker 3: Elder cares all about.
Speaker 4: It fits, it feels good. I love it.
Speaker 3: Like a comfortable set of shoes, it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we hope he doesn't get too comfortable. We need
Speaker 2: those shoes.
Speaker 4: No, all those shoes.
Speaker 3: I'll be about walking. Yeah, he'll be walking. He's got
Speaker 3: to walking.
Speaker 6: Experience some folks and get to know them and tell
Speaker 6: them more about our mission and align our mission was
Speaker 6: something that they're passionate about. And and then and hopefully
Speaker 6: they can help us, you know, meet our goals.
Speaker 3: See what develops.
Speaker 7: Exactly, See what did Yeah, and so you know, we're
Speaker 7: really excited to get out and work together and find
Speaker 7: more people who are passionate about our mission and advocate
Speaker 7: for us and help us, you know, align with our
Speaker 7: goals to to do some big things in the future.
Speaker 1: You know something. The end of the year is coming. Boy,
Speaker 1: this year is flown by, but really the end of
Speaker 1: the year is coming up. Just slap us in the shop.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for some your end giving, I'm
Speaker 1: going to say that Eldercare is well worth your consideration.
Speaker 6: Tell me why, I'm all Michael, tell you, well, I'll
Speaker 6: tell you why.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 6: You know, there are a lot of ways that you
Speaker 6: could give at the end of the year. Like individuals
Speaker 6: could could write a check to Eldercare. A lot of
Speaker 6: people choose the QCD, which is the Qualified Charitable Distributions
Speaker 6: from your IRA, so a lot of pensioners, retirees will
Speaker 6: do that to lower their tax burden. Sure, so you
Speaker 6: could truly just call us at nine one eight three
Speaker 6: three six eight five zero zero ask for me, or
Speaker 6: go email giving at about Eldercare dot org and ask
Speaker 6: about that. But we have some very specific things in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five. We have programs that we want to develop.
Speaker 6: We need to grow our daybreak program and do more
Speaker 6: outreach to those in the community aging community of Bartlesville,
Speaker 6: Washington County and bring them in. We have an end
Speaker 6: of life coming on Windows ten. Yeah, Windows ten, endos ten,
Speaker 6: So we've got computers all over the building that need
Speaker 6: to be windows eleven and some of them are going
Speaker 6: to have to be completely replaced. We've got a roof
Speaker 6: and h fact that's over twenty years old. We've got
Speaker 6: a lot of things that could be loved with your
Speaker 6: end of year donation.
Speaker 3: So it's very real, is what you're saying.
Speaker 6: But the programs that we could offer, you know, there's
Speaker 6: with our foundation therapy, there's equipment that has been used
Speaker 6: over and over and we need to replace that equipment
Speaker 6: so that we can continue to help and care for people.
Speaker 6: So if you have questions, call email. I can point
Speaker 6: you into a direction. If you want to give directly
Speaker 6: towards something, sure, if you want to give generally towards
Speaker 6: the organization, that would be wonderful. But yeah, end of
Speaker 6: years coming, and so if you want to lower that
Speaker 6: tax burden, you know, we would love to be a
Speaker 6: beneficiary of that. There are so many nonprofits in Bartlesville
Speaker 6: you have no reason not.
Speaker 4: To support them.
Speaker 3: So that's true. Call us.
Speaker 4: We'd love to talk to you very good.
Speaker 2: And when we talk about you know, I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people love focus giving, you know, so we
Speaker 2: talk about maybe a project or you know, something like that,
Speaker 2: But there's something really big to also say about kind
Speaker 2: of giving to the overall agency. Some people really want
Speaker 2: to know that, you know, they're affecting something specific, But
Speaker 2: the overall gift, even just an individual kind of donation,
Speaker 2: allows us to provide services and all those So we
Speaker 2: have had I think it's approximately sixty three thousand service
Speaker 2: hours in our community over you know, in the past year,
Speaker 2: we serve over fifteen hundred individuals through different programs, and
Speaker 2: that doesn't necessarily count just the conversations that we have
Speaker 2: how we love on people kind of thing, and so
Speaker 2: that kind of general donation allows us to continue to.
Speaker 5: Do that work.
Speaker 2: We have forty eight wonderful employees who are out there
Speaker 2: every day serving and we can serve more, and so
Speaker 2: we have a big passion to do that and to
Speaker 2: see those.
Speaker 5: In twenty five expand.
Speaker 2: And so it's a good time, like you said, to
Speaker 2: kind of think, is there, you know something at the
Speaker 2: end of the year that I'd like to still do,
Speaker 2: whether it's for elder care or I'm just going to say,
Speaker 2: like you said, or any other nonprofit in this community.
Speaker 2: Because there there's plenty of people to serve and so
Speaker 2: everyone would be happy to answer your questions.
Speaker 1: You know, your programs are great out there at the
Speaker 1: Elder Care and we want to remind people this is
Speaker 1: not a residential facility.
Speaker 3: We're here to make sure.
Speaker 1: That you're aging in place with dignity, care and respect,
Speaker 1: and we want to make sure that you do it
Speaker 1: your way, but we're here to help along the way too.
Speaker 1: So everything we have with like Foundation therapy, if you
Speaker 1: have problems with your.
Speaker 3: Balance, you go in get and get taken.
Speaker 1: Care of a little bit of this, little bit of that,
Speaker 1: and you're starting to feel better and you know you're
Speaker 1: good as new or as good as new as you're
Speaker 1: going to get, and you're off and running again until
Speaker 1: you have to come back. But Daybreak is a great
Speaker 1: offering that you have that you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: smile and say ask for the cool kids hang out
Speaker 1: because they are these are really interesting folks who sometimes
Speaker 1: really didn't have anybody to talk to or visit with,
Speaker 1: and now they've got their own little community. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a club, and it's a very welcoming community.
Speaker 1: They're at Daybreak, and you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: friendships being.
Speaker 2: Made absolutely, and you know, Daybreak is a really great
Speaker 2: example of how sometimes what we need in our lice
Speaker 2: is connection and so that light comes on.
Speaker 5: That light comes on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there are going to be physical things like
Speaker 2: physical therapy where we need to stay well and we
Speaker 2: need to physically be well, but we can't overlook the
Speaker 2: need for connection. And so Dabak provides that in one way.
Speaker 2: Our case managers in a different way. Even our in
Speaker 2: home services where we come out and do housekeeping, it's
Speaker 2: built around the idea that we are a community and
Speaker 2: we have that connection.
Speaker 5: And so when you're.
Speaker 2: Thinking about the holidays, this can be a really isolating
Speaker 2: time for some people.
Speaker 5: Not everyone has the same family.
Speaker 2: Tradition, so everyone has a lot of people in this community,
Speaker 2: we can feel a little isolated. And so I kind
Speaker 2: of want to piggyback off that and talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about how we've created a fundraiser another way that
Speaker 2: you could give to our mission, but to do it
Speaker 2: in a way that you feel connected, because we also
Speaker 2: wanted you to feel connected and have some way to
Speaker 2: celebrate the holidays together, and that is through our blitzen
Speaker 2: Bingo fundraiser. Yes emphasis on fun, fun, yeah, emphasis on fun.
Speaker 2: And that is Saturday or Saturday, Sunday, Sunday December eighth,
Speaker 2: and we're thrilled to a partner with radio to do
Speaker 2: this do.
Speaker 1: That onym and it's going to be great fun. If
Speaker 1: you've ever listened to or participated in the musical type
Speaker 1: of thing is what blitzen bigos and it's.
Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
Speaker 4: It's going to you got to be quick though, you
Speaker 4: do have to be quick.
Speaker 2: Do and so if you listeners, if you don't know
Speaker 2: what music bingo is, I think it's always kind of
Speaker 2: the what do you mean?
Speaker 5: So here's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: So to participate, you purchase an individual ticket or there
Speaker 2: are some tiers to purchase multiple tickets to kind of
Speaker 2: give you a small discount some extra add ons.
Speaker 5: You will stay at home that day, You're not coming anywhere.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have some great comfortable clothes on. You're going
Speaker 2: to tune in to one hundred point one KYFM and
Speaker 2: we are going to play fifteen twenty seconds of a
Speaker 2: holiday song and your goal is to guess what song
Speaker 2: we're playing, name that too, and then you mark it
Speaker 2: on your Bengo card and then the first person to
Speaker 2: get a traditional Bengo who's going to call the radio
Speaker 2: station will win a price.
Speaker 1: Oh hell, you like that, and we're gonna have some
Speaker 1: fun with this, like you said. Plus we're gonna raise
Speaker 1: some money for Eldercare, and I like this. This is
Speaker 1: I hope this is one of these things that goes
Speaker 1: on for you know.
Speaker 2: Years and years and years here and so it's the
Speaker 2: perfect opportunity to gather with your neighbors, your family. Also,
Speaker 2: you don't have to be in the same room, so
Speaker 2: maybe you have a grandparent who doesn't want to come over.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: You can do it at the same time.
Speaker 2: You can listen kind of simultaneously, and so it's a
Speaker 2: really great event. You can buy tickets now on our
Speaker 2: website about eldercare dot org. There should be a nice
Speaker 2: logo for the Blitz and Binga that you can click
Speaker 2: on to go there. You can purchase your tickets and
Speaker 2: then the first week of December, so December second through
Speaker 2: the six you will stop buy Eldercare and you pick
Speaker 2: up your Bingo packet and your cup of cheer because
Speaker 2: every Bingo.
Speaker 5: Packet comes with a hot coco, so you have something
Speaker 5: cozy to enjoy.
Speaker 6: Dar any of it big at home for your own
Speaker 6: holiday spirits in it. If you know what I mean, Tom,
Speaker 6: I got.
Speaker 5: You and then you can enjoy.
Speaker 2: So you can purchase all the way up to December fifth,
Speaker 2: So that last day, that Friday, December sixth, will be
Speaker 2: a day for those to kind of keep picking up
Speaker 2: their packets right before. Since we're not open on Saturday,
Speaker 2: you can't have any last minute ones and then get
Speaker 2: it and then you will tune in on that Sunday.
Speaker 5: Tickets are twenty five dollars apiece.
Speaker 2: I get you that cup of cheer and it gets
Speaker 2: you your Bingo packets.
Speaker 1: For the night and into the running for the winning Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the first three rounds are included, and then it's
Speaker 2: you can add on the holiday bonus card for the
Speaker 2: grand prize if you would like, or you can buy
Speaker 2: multiple tickets that kind of get you that automatically. So
Speaker 2: you want to kind of look at that and see
Speaker 2: what you want to do.
Speaker 3: Well, it looks like, Michael, you came in at the
Speaker 3: right time of year I did.
Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6: I'll get a live my childhood dream of being a
Speaker 6: DJ because that's what I wanted to do in fourth grade.
Speaker 4: DJ visited for career day in fourth grade.
Speaker 6: I was like, man, I want to be a DJ,
Speaker 6: and never it's never happened. So Sunday, the eighth Sunday Day,
Speaker 6: I won't really get to be the DJ.
Speaker 3: But you'll get to help h a DJ helper.
Speaker 4: I'll work on that radio voice. Between now and then.
Speaker 3: You already got it.
Speaker 2: Well, I know it feels weird right now because Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: it so late in the month and everyone's like, well,
Speaker 2: we're talking about a Christmas name, a holiday themed event
Speaker 2: before Thanksgiving, and so I know, but you can start
Speaker 2: purchasing now and kind of put it on the backshelf
Speaker 2: and celebrate that Smith spirit, you know, the very next week.
Speaker 5: But purchase now.
Speaker 1: Maybe remind folks during the Thanksgiving dinner that they can.
Speaker 2: Get there to Oh, they can competition, because there's nothing
Speaker 2: better than the bragging rights that you won blitzen Binga
Speaker 2: to your group of.
Speaker 4: The inaugural blitzen Bingo winner.
Speaker 1: There you go, like, goodness sakes, we might have to
Speaker 1: get a big old trophy that Ah. Now you're out
Speaker 1: there on Swan Drive if folks want to meet you
Speaker 1: in person, and again the website.
Speaker 2: It's about Eldercare dot org. We are on Swan Drive.
Speaker 2: So if some people, if you're a little less familiar
Speaker 2: about our community.
Speaker 5: It's the same road that runs right next.
Speaker 3: To Walmart, going around the bend.
Speaker 5: Keep going around the bed and so.
Speaker 2: To purchase tickets for Blitzenbinga, you can do it online.
Speaker 5: You can also give us call on the phone.
Speaker 1: Works you guys actually have people away after the phone.
Speaker 2: And or come by a building and we can do
Speaker 2: it in person. So there's lots of lots of ways.
Speaker 2: And if if you don't know what we do, so
Speaker 2: sometimes it's weird to say, hey, I'm going to support
Speaker 2: this nonprofit, but I'm not. If you if you're a
Speaker 2: little unfamiliar, you want to learn more information, give us
Speaker 2: a call or can by. We'd love to give you
Speaker 2: a tour and talk about how you know. We're striving
Speaker 2: to increase aging awareness and make sure that you know,
Speaker 2: those right now have the supports they need, but that
Speaker 2: future generations have the support that they need as we
Speaker 2: all get a little older every day and we want
Speaker 2: to make sure that we do it really well.
Speaker 1: Thank you both for being here with us today. Thank
Speaker 1: you folks you've been watching and listening to our community
Speaker 1: connection