Speaker 1: And good morning. Welcome to another edition of Community Connection
Speaker 1: here on K one AM fourteen hundred at them ninety
Speaker 1: three point three and ninety five point one on this
Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon or morning. I said afternoon, look at that.
Speaker 1: I'm already looking towards the afternoon. I'm Nathan Thompson, and
Speaker 1: we've got a great program today. We have Amy in
Speaker 1: from Allie and talking about all the great things that
Speaker 1: Allie does in our community and in our area. Good morning, Amy,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 2: Good morning? I am just fine, Thank you?
Speaker 1: Well good, I'm glad to hear that. And unfortunately we
Speaker 1: are not able to stream on our normal face book
Speaker 1: channel because Facebook is actually down right now, can you
Speaker 1: believe it? And kwintv dot com is also not working.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me who knows.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure you shouldn't take it personally.
Speaker 1: Well, First of all, Amy, tell us what Alie is
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 2: Well, Ollie is a social and educational program for the
Speaker 2: target audience's fifty plus. We may be retired, but we're
Speaker 2: not retired from learning, and certainly like to socialize with
Speaker 2: each other and meet new people and all of that.
Speaker 2: I can read the Osher Lifeline Learning Institute at Oklahoma
Speaker 2: State University. We are sponsored by OSU, keep seniors act
Speaker 2: even social, and then we're geared toward the fifty plus
Speaker 2: and we have courses in travel and social, all kinds.
Speaker 2: We touch all kinds of subjects, hands on things, equal
Speaker 2: things that just apply to our everyday life.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, and as always, great things going on at ALI.
Speaker 1: I do know that. And you're going enough for your
Speaker 1: fall sessions coming up here as well, right.
Speaker 2: Starting at September sixteenth. Now, now the first part in September,
Speaker 2: they're going to be online classes. This is about the
Speaker 2: only thing I can think of good that came out
Speaker 2: of COVID was we had these online classes on the
Speaker 2: back burner, right, and then they were forced to bring
Speaker 2: him forward. So now we can offer that too. And
Speaker 2: if we don't have an if we have any spaces
Speaker 2: and need for our in house speakers, then we can
Speaker 2: stream in other class. Plus we can get a higher quality.
Speaker 2: Bartlesville has many, many retired professionals that could do these classes, absolutely,
Speaker 2: but getting them to sit still long enough.
Speaker 1: It's like a room full of kids. Getting these retirings
Speaker 1: to sit still.
Speaker 2: They're busy. Oh, I'm going to go to new rope
Speaker 2: or I'm going to do this. But anyway, these still Water, Tulsa,
Speaker 2: and Oklahoma City, they all had colleges, so they still
Speaker 2: got some retired professors in town. So they're really lucky
Speaker 2: because professors do kind of like to get back in
Speaker 2: the classroom, especially to an audience that appreciate they want
Speaker 2: to be there and they appreciate what the subject is.
Speaker 2: But anyway, we're really lucky. And now this semester we're
Speaker 2: doing something a little bit different. We are partnering, if
Speaker 2: you will, with the West Side Community Center.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: CHAVN is working very hard to build up their programs there,
Speaker 2: just as we are with Ali and so I'm really
Speaker 2: looking forward to working with her, and that's where all
Speaker 2: the classes are going to be. The library has served
Speaker 2: us very very well. Their class staff, you just can't
Speaker 2: ask for more helpful people like we need. Did a
Speaker 2: lot of technology help, don't be all and then they
Speaker 2: were always right there. But anyway, we're going to try
Speaker 2: the West Side Community Center. They've got a lovely place
Speaker 2: out there and really really set up for what we're doing.
Speaker 2: But I have a one of our most popular classes
Speaker 2: is a Bartlesville town Hall and what I do is
Speaker 2: find speakers for organizations, businesses, venues, those sorts of things
Speaker 2: that people that affect our everyday life. They're probably make
Speaker 2: Bartlesville what it is. So and this is free to
Speaker 2: anyone that wants to do. This is a membership. You
Speaker 2: have to be a member to take the classes and
Speaker 2: there's a two hundred dollars charge for the whole year.
Speaker 2: That would be three semesters, and you could take any
Speaker 2: of the classes that you want. If there's a class
Speaker 2: that requires supplies, such as the wine tasting, then there's
Speaker 2: an additional charge and then or there's a forty dollars membership,
Speaker 2: but you would need to pay for each class. So
Speaker 2: we try to make it affordable to everybody. But the
Speaker 2: town hall is free, so anybody can come.
Speaker 1: That's great, And I've.
Speaker 2: Got lined up Kendall Hughes comes in from Minnesota I
Speaker 2: think it is, anyways out of state, and he's going
Speaker 2: to talk about rehabilitating people who have come by a
Speaker 2: lot of hardships, imprisonment, drugs, and those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: And he's going to come in and talk about that
Speaker 2: and Dennis Logan.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite people in the world. By the way,
Speaker 1: Dennis if you're listening, I need to come by and
Speaker 1: see it. It's a Wednesday. I might go to Kawanas.
Speaker 1: We'll talk. I know Dennis Logan, I've known him for years.
Speaker 1: He's a great one. He and Judy both.
Speaker 2: Love him too. We go to the same church. So
Speaker 2: he was handy to grab, of course. But he was
Speaker 2: telling me he had some pretty they're famous, but I
Speaker 2: don't know about their names. Like when Paul Rabier did
Speaker 2: his ride, he had a relative that did too. His
Speaker 2: name just isn't in the history book. So these sorts
Speaker 2: of things. But he's going to talk about that. But
Speaker 2: he's also going to do I have this travel series
Speaker 2: going and he's gonna talk about their trip Nordic Cruise.
Speaker 2: I'll get to the travel in a minute. Yes, And
Speaker 2: then we have well Kyle Pool was going to but
Speaker 2: he's you know, he's a busy man. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: somebody else and I don't have that name, but anyway,
Speaker 2: he's going to talk about whoever is. It's going to
Speaker 2: talk about Track County Tech and that's uh. I think
Speaker 2: that's more people need to know about that and what
Speaker 2: they have to offer. So that's good. Then we have
Speaker 2: Keith McPhail man. Everybody knows about him, everybody loves the
Speaker 2: magazine and I'm so anxious for him to get in
Speaker 2: there and talk to us about it. Do we have
Speaker 2: Liz Nelson. I don't know if a lot of people
Speaker 2: know her. She was in the Killers of the Flower
Speaker 2: Moon and also I found out that she did work
Speaker 2: for them for Our Time for the Voice of the
Speaker 2: Martyrs in Africa. And I'm not sure just which one
Speaker 2: or both she's going to talk about, but anyway, and
Speaker 2: that's up to her.
Speaker 1: That will certainly be an interesting one. And these these
Speaker 1: free town halls we're talking about, these are the ones
Speaker 1: who will begin in October.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, These our in house classes start October first,
Speaker 2: and that's on her Tuesday with the town hall. Then
Speaker 2: we have on Wednesdays, well, oh, I'll go to the
Speaker 2: arm Armchair travels around the world. Like I said, our
Speaker 2: members are just they're always they keep their suitcases. All
Speaker 2: they got to do is put in the last minute things.
Speaker 2: So I have n't asked them to talk about some
Speaker 2: of their trips. And Lynz Prindergrass is going to talk about.
Speaker 1: You just know all these great people that I know.
Speaker 1: Lynz Pendergrass as well another fellow Kwanian, hey z.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's going to talk about their trip to
Speaker 2: Africa and then in July they went to Japan. Now
Speaker 2: these these are going to be separate ones because all
Speaker 2: the people that ask a lot of questions. Of course,
Speaker 2: so I think many times the speaker leaves with more
Speaker 2: information than he came because there's a lot of history
Speaker 2: in that room. But that's those are the two classic
Speaker 2: two that he's going to talk about. And then Dennis
Speaker 2: the Nordic Cruz, and we have Gary Neil. I abused him,
Speaker 2: So I don't know what all's up in that head,
Speaker 2: but I'm trying to find.
Speaker 1: Out unexplored territories going on.
Speaker 2: He's a retired NASA engineer, so he's done a lot
Speaker 2: on engineer and astronomy and all that. But he did
Speaker 2: a an eclipse trip in Indonesia and he's gonna talk
Speaker 2: about that and buring pictures. This has been some time ago,
Speaker 2: but still it's it's really really interesting. And then we
Speaker 2: have Joe Todd. Of course everybody knows.
Speaker 1: Joe Joe as well. Yeah, well, great historian.
Speaker 2: Yes, his subjects are Greece and Egypt. Interesting so and
Speaker 2: and each one of these are separate classes, so he
Speaker 2: can answer a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: And those those the armchair travels around the world. Even
Speaker 1: though they're being held on the same days as the
Speaker 1: free town Halls, there isn't additional cost for those, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, okay. The town halls are from ten to
Speaker 2: twelve in the morning, and then the afternoon classes are
Speaker 2: from one thirty to three thirty or whenever they could
Speaker 2: ask the questions.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2: And then we have on Wednesdays, we've got we like
Speaker 2: to show movies and have the history about them. So
Speaker 2: the subject this time is Audrey Hepburn. Oh yes, and
Speaker 2: that's there's gonna be five weeks to that, and of
Speaker 2: course there's a charge for that one. And that's in
Speaker 2: the mornings. Then in the afternoon we have Catherine Powell,
Speaker 2: who is does wine tasting.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh you go.
Speaker 2: There aren't very many female Somalia, that's very true, and
Speaker 2: she's she's one of them. She's very good. She this
Speaker 2: will be her third wine tasting class. They just keep saying, okay,
Speaker 2: we got to do this some more. Yes, absolutely, we
Speaker 2: thought the two were going to do it, and then
Speaker 2: they didn't know we want some more, she says, Okay,
Speaker 2: I do that. So and that will be at Saint
Speaker 2: Luke's so because they've got all the equipment there and
Speaker 2: it's it's easier there. Yes, but everything else will be
Speaker 2: at West Side and then we're gonna have You have
Speaker 2: a lot of I think everybody has a bunch of
Speaker 2: photos and things that need organization but just never have
Speaker 2: time for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You should look at one of my closets. It's
Speaker 1: it's chuck full of photos.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mine too. I downsized when I moved down here,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and I want to divide them up and
Speaker 2: give them to my grandkids and whatever. But I guess
Speaker 2: they'll still be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I actually still have at my parents' house too,
Speaker 1: so oh I know.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh boy. And let's see we have we were
Speaker 2: supposed to have our catalogs by now, but we don't.
Speaker 2: And so I'm just kind of working my way through this.
Speaker 2: But you can go online to allie. It's uh, let
Speaker 2: me give that exact thing, okay state yea yeah.
Speaker 1: And OLLI dot okay state dot e d U. There
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: You can go online. You can pull it up.
Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome. You can we're a team here.
Speaker 1: We're a team.
Speaker 2: Yes, I get to talking and I get the rambling.
Speaker 2: But anyway, you can go online and find the classes.
Speaker 2: You can also register and uh Facebook, we tried to
Speaker 2: put pictures on there what's going. In fact, you find
Speaker 2: Lins on there at the wine tasting and taking the
Speaker 2: sword and whacking the lit up the bottle.
Speaker 1: That's I wonder what Gaale thinks about that.
Speaker 2: Oh she just stood there and enjoyed.
Speaker 1: It. Sounds about right, sounds about right? Yes, yes, so
Speaker 1: Lynton Gale, if your ears are burning, yes, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 2: And I want to say We're having an open house
Speaker 2: Thursday the fifth. That's next Thursday, from ten to twelve
Speaker 2: at the West Side Community Center. So come out some
Speaker 2: of the speakers, those that can, We'll be there to
Speaker 2: meet you and talk to you and answer any questions
Speaker 2: you have. And our director, Robin Davis will be there.
Speaker 2: But we're there for just to help people get signed
Speaker 2: up and answer questions and whatever. And also I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have well, Shawan and I are going to have a
Speaker 2: booth out at the Washington County Fair Grant.
Speaker 1: Oh great, yeah, that's coming up too.
Speaker 2: It is, yeah, in fact, it starts the day we
Speaker 2: have our open house. Get busy, so we have to
Speaker 2: do a little people struggling there. Yeah yeah, and I
Speaker 2: need to be in both places. But of course, well,
Speaker 2: of course you.
Speaker 1: Can only do what you can't do, Amy, I tell you.
Speaker 2: Remember, I'm in this upper echelon of age group and people.
Speaker 2: So but anyway, I love doing this and I love
Speaker 2: being out the fair meeting people. But if you can't
Speaker 2: make it to the open house, drop by our booth
Speaker 2: at the at the fair grounds. There you go, man,
Speaker 2: and everybody should should join us because it will just
Speaker 2: put a lot more quality in your life learning and
Speaker 2: meeting people. Because these people are are just great. They're
Speaker 2: they're full of energy.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes they are. I mean, just just naming
Speaker 1: the people you've named today, I don't know, I know
Speaker 1: almost all of them. And you're right, always full of energy,
Speaker 1: never stopping, never stop learning as well. And that's what
Speaker 1: Olie really is all about.
Speaker 2: It. It is right, it is lifelong learn, lifelong learning.
Speaker 1: All right, that's right. So again, if you are looking
Speaker 1: for descriptions of these different town halls and forums and
Speaker 1: activities that Ali does, you can go to Ali dot
Speaker 1: ok State dot edu for all those descriptions as well
Speaker 1: as to register against Some of these items are free,
Speaker 1: but you still need to register.
Speaker 2: Right Amy, You always need to register.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that way they know, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: get prepared for those town halls again in the months
Speaker 1: of September. You've got some of the online things going on,
Speaker 1: getting ready for what we got. I think this first
Speaker 1: one was a pundit's polls and politics. Oh boy, it's
Speaker 1: probably better that that one is online. There you go.
Speaker 1: That will be on Thursday, September the seventeenth, and then
Speaker 1: the History of Rock, I mean, just all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Go to ALI dot Okay State dot edu for those
Speaker 1: descriptions as well as to register. Amy Finny, the Bartlesville
Speaker 1: ALI site coordinator, thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2: Oh my pleasure. I always enjoy coming and talking about Olie.
Speaker 1: Well, you guys always do a great job.
Speaker 2: Thank you. We tried to do our best.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, all right, Amy Finny
Speaker 1: with Bartlesville Alie on Ocher Learning. What is my long
Speaker 1: Learning Institute? Yes, there you go through Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, something's going Alie with my brain right now? All right.
Speaker 2: I think maybe some people when I say, Ali, they
Speaker 2: think of Olie's out here, Absolutely absolutely no, We're totally different.
Speaker 1: Perfect Amy Finny with Olie. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us with our community connection today.
Speaker 2: Always glad to talk about Olie.
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