Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome time
Speaker 1: now for our community connection right here on Gay one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust. Put on your dance and shoes.
Speaker 1: I wish I could sing. People would be amazed anyway,
Speaker 1: But these folks can dance. And we're talking about past
Speaker 1: independence and we've got dancing with the Bartlesfield Stars. We
Speaker 1: have Haley cunning Him. Hello, Haley, you have Brett Butler,
Speaker 1: and we also have Larry Thrash. How you guys doing
Speaker 1: doing well well? One of you is presumed champion. Tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about yourself here, Brett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just set in the tone early. I thought i'd
Speaker 2: wear my champion gold chain. Just let them know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen this weekend. Brent Butler work at Conico
Speaker 2: Phelps and my dancing partner is Lodonna Chancellor. She's the
Speaker 2: head of education something like that.
Speaker 1: Executive director of teaching and learning. Yes, yes, at Bartlesville
Speaker 1: Public Schools. I had to say that ten times before
Speaker 1: I got it right. You never had to write it
Speaker 1: on the school block. I learned a few. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be spinning a little bit and
Speaker 1: having a good time.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we will have a good time spinning, hopefully not
Speaker 2: falling down. So neither one of us are dancers, so
Speaker 2: it'll be funny, at.
Speaker 1: Least fun for us, funny for you maybe because I
Speaker 1: don't think the book's gonna be laughing at you. They'll
Speaker 1: be laughing with you, maybe at or with it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter to me. Hayley, tell us about your escapades here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Trudy Credit Union asked me to help out,
Speaker 3: so I'm very excited to be able to represent them.
Speaker 3: I'm partnered with Clay Tait, so we have been a
Speaker 3: hoot and a half.
Speaker 4: We have. However tall he is six three or something
Speaker 4: like six.
Speaker 5: Nine, quite a guy, and then I'm I'm raining in
Speaker 5: right there at five foot, so we've got quite the
Speaker 5: dynamic of the big and little and we are ready
Speaker 5: to roll.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 3: Dancing maybe not our skill, but we can have a
Speaker 3: good time as well.
Speaker 1: Well. Really, that's what it's all about, it putting on
Speaker 1: a show and having fun. Larry, tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about what you're up to.
Speaker 6: Well, as most of you may know, my partner Margo Proctor.
Speaker 6: Every time I say your name, people just smile and
Speaker 6: start laughing because they know Margo from various things. We've
Speaker 6: been practicing hard. We've really been working at it. Mark
Speaker 6: Haskell and Debbie've let us use their law for our
Speaker 6: practice facility, and we've been in there working hard. We
Speaker 6: may be in the same boat as these two. It
Speaker 6: may be more comedic than artistic. It's what we plan
Speaker 6: to do. And I was just thinking today, you know,
Speaker 6: everybody's got voting on their mind. The way you help us,
Speaker 6: the way we help Past the Independence.
Speaker 1: Is that you can vote for us.
Speaker 6: Oh really, For example, if you gave a thousand dollars
Speaker 6: in our name like Margo and Larry, if you gave
Speaker 6: in our name, that's worth a thousand votes.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: But Past Independence, you really believe in their mission and
Speaker 6: their vision.
Speaker 1: They do such a great job.
Speaker 6: They have about seventy five students now, which people just
Speaker 6: are amazed that they can take care of that many
Speaker 6: kids that are on the autism spectrum. And so it's
Speaker 6: a great fundraiser for them. I understand that we're already
Speaker 6: close to one hundred and ten thousand dollars raised.
Speaker 1: It's good start.
Speaker 6: It's sold out for all of the meals and the
Speaker 6: tables within about a week. So they've opened it up.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to be in.
Speaker 6: The Community Center in the auditorium for the dance part.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: They're selling tickets for that, and there's also streaming. It's
Speaker 6: going to be streamed, so you can go on past
Speaker 6: the Independence website and there's a link where you can
Speaker 6: for fifty dollars you can get streaming so you can
Speaker 6: watch it and continue to watch it, and if you've
Speaker 6: already donated, you can go in and I think still
Speaker 6: get a streaming ticket.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's just a good program. And I think all three
Speaker 6: of us and maybe our partners are ready for November tenth,
Speaker 6: because this November night, this Saturday.
Speaker 1: Okay, Champ, tell us what drew you into this.
Speaker 2: I can't say no to kids, anything to help out children.
Speaker 2: I'm all four, and especially education. I come from a
Speaker 2: family full of teachers, and just being able to help
Speaker 2: the community and raise some money for these kids that deserve,
Speaker 2: you know, an inclusive place that they can get the
Speaker 2: best education possible and it's all formatted and formulated just
Speaker 2: for them, and there's no other place like it in
Speaker 2: the world. So we got to give them all the
Speaker 2: support we can. And Larry said, vote for him, that's
Speaker 2: spelled b r mty.
Speaker 1: What was your draw?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was asked to partici and I'm actually my
Speaker 3: husband previously participated and he did an okay job, but
Speaker 3: I'm here to hopefully kind of beat him out from
Speaker 3: his previous fundraising efforts. But really, just we have such
Speaker 3: a gym here in Barbsville, so to be able to
Speaker 3: participate and assist with their fundraising efforts is just such
Speaker 3: an honor to be a part of that and really
Speaker 3: hopefully make a difference for them and the students.
Speaker 1: You know, with Pats for Independence, the school is so
Speaker 1: much highly sought my parents, with the children on the
Speaker 1: autism in spectrum, that parents will pick up and move
Speaker 1: to Bartlesfield just because of the school because it offers
Speaker 1: so much more than what they can get in the
Speaker 1: communities where they reside. And of course bart Bartlesfield is
Speaker 1: a great place to live too, so yeah, but having
Speaker 1: this in our hometown is well worth protecting and keeping
Speaker 1: it going and investing in. And I want to thank
Speaker 1: all three of you for investing in your time and
Speaker 1: your talent so that folks can puting up their treasure
Speaker 1: to vote for you. This is going to be a
Speaker 1: really fun time. It always has been. This is probably
Speaker 1: one of the fundraisers that gets the biggest smiles allowed
Speaker 1: us applause because there's a lot of perspiration in participation,
Speaker 1: but at the end, it is all about the celebration.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's been really great.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see the streaming efforts and the transition
Speaker 3: to the auditorium. It really just kind of allows us
Speaker 3: to have a bigger audience, which only means more funds for.
Speaker 4: The school, which is so neat. So I know there's
Speaker 4: plenty of tickets still available for that.
Speaker 3: I don't think we're scared of dancing in front of
Speaker 3: a few more people, hopefully anything more than ten is
Speaker 3: just more. So we're excited to hopefully continue to share
Speaker 3: the word and have some people vote, hopefully donate, and
Speaker 3: even just participate in the awesome fundraising that we get
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: Now, Larry, this is going to be a little bit
Speaker 1: different because you are moving into the big room this year. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the big stage. We need to fill up
Speaker 1: that auditorium. It's got two thousand seats. We need to
Speaker 1: fill her up. Now. What would you got up your sleep?
Speaker 6: Well, really nothing. We are excited. I just want to
Speaker 6: kind of follow up on one of the things you said.
Speaker 6: I know of a family that moved Tomorrowsville. They have
Speaker 6: two children on the autism spectrum. They got jobs here
Speaker 6: and moved here specifically for the school. So not only
Speaker 6: is it helping the kids, that's helping the parents. Obviously
Speaker 6: that's a full time job in itself if you have
Speaker 6: children on the autism spectrum and so, but it's also
Speaker 6: helping our community. And so, I don't know, it's just
Speaker 6: it's been such a great thing for a while. This
Speaker 6: is the ninth year for this fundraiser, and it just
Speaker 6: gets bigger every year again.
Speaker 1: And like Hallie.
Speaker 6: Said, you know, they had to make room for more
Speaker 6: people because it's sold out so quickly.
Speaker 1: Well, this is great. It's a good problem to have,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I need two thousands of two thousands of my closest
Speaker 2: friends to come out and laugh at us and spend
Speaker 2: some of their hard dollars and just to piggyback off him.
Speaker 2: I know a family that moved here as well. They
Speaker 2: have two children. It's probably not the same people, but
Speaker 2: their children weren't getting the education and the assistance that they.
Speaker 1: Needed where they lived.
Speaker 2: They were nonverbal, you know, very very autistic. They can
Speaker 2: moved up here, started going to Past Independence and they
Speaker 2: the school works miracles and now they're saying mom and
Speaker 2: dad and you know, using the bathroom, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's just amazing the growth that those two children have had,
Speaker 2: and just to see them their kind of world open
Speaker 2: up just because of these new skills and experiences that
Speaker 2: they have, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: What they do is just incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just getting their needs met in their most
Speaker 3: individualistic way, which is what Past Independence does, is so
Speaker 3: cool and so needed.
Speaker 1: He we're already working on getting this globe thing going on?
Speaker 4: What's thatpp?
Speaker 1: How already working to get this trophy?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm working pretty hard. I got Clay is running
Speaker 4: some laps. I keep him.
Speaker 3: His wife is choreographing for us, so she's kept us
Speaker 3: whipped into shape. Really hoping to do some dancing. Both
Speaker 3: Clay and I's professionals. Dancing skills are about wedding receptions.
Speaker 4: That's about all we've got. Yep. I did Top when
Speaker 4: I was six years old for one year.
Speaker 3: So we've got a lot up our sleeves here, a
Speaker 3: lot of experience to build us up and have some
Speaker 3: good skills all.
Speaker 1: Right, what about you? My dancing is middle aged dad
Speaker 1: skill level.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of shopping cart wheelbarrow, lawnmower, the
Speaker 2: water sprinkler, so pretty professional. I've been trying to learn
Speaker 2: Australian break dancing, so uh.
Speaker 1: No, now you'll break something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, poor hammy, but uh yeah, I'm a terrible dancer.
Speaker 2: But it'll be a lot of fun there.
Speaker 1: You we know that you've got a studio going on here.
Speaker 1: You and miss Proctor. Now, now how hard you been
Speaker 1: going at it here? What do you got going?
Speaker 6: We've been going at it really hard.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: Stacey Lard is our choreographer, and she has a difficult
Speaker 6: time with us. It's uh, we don't follow the rules
Speaker 6: very well and we don't take directions really well, and
Speaker 6: she is working really hard to whip us into shape.
Speaker 1: How's her patience going?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: She gets a little frustrated at times, but she handles.
Speaker 1: It well with dignity and clad with absolutely anything.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's been a fun, fun trip.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, just enjoyed getting Margan and I have
Speaker 6: been friends for several years, but getting to know her
Speaker 6: a little better and then we have some other things
Speaker 6: that are we have planned. Uh so it should be entertaining.
Speaker 1: Look how cool he's playing this off.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you Tom they have when.
Speaker 1: When they pick him, they have a pro and a star.
Speaker 1: They got messed up on their.
Speaker 6: Spreadsheet because they put me down as the pro and
Speaker 6: so you know we're in trouble.
Speaker 1: All three pros.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in the pros, the pro.
Speaker 1: Group, Pro heavy heavy quotation, I'm.
Speaker 4: Close to a pro.
Speaker 1: Wow, my goodness, Eke, I'm humbled in your presence. But folks,
Speaker 1: you can go to the pt I page good paths.
Speaker 1: Just look them up on the on the Google and
Speaker 1: they'll direct you right there. It's really easy to navigate
Speaker 1: the page. They'll tell you where to find the dancing
Speaker 1: and they'll tell you where to find where you can
Speaker 1: place your votes.
Speaker 4: Yeah for playing Haley, Brent Butler and Madonna Chancellors.
Speaker 1: And remember you can vote as often as you want,
Speaker 1: for many people as you want. So if you know
Speaker 1: you got eight thousand dollars for Bridge, right, well you
Speaker 1: got eight hundred, spread it out.
Speaker 3: We're going to need some votes because we're going to
Speaker 3: need some help with with our votes.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have a good time and that's
Speaker 1: really what it's all about as we help out Pads
Speaker 1: to Independence, a jewel in our community. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you all for sacrificing your time, your talent, and
Speaker 1: maybe even some of your tendons for putting this all
Speaker 1: together and putting up a great night of entertainment. Now
Speaker 1: it's coming up this weekend, November ninth Saturday. So if
Speaker 1: you don't have your tickets now, you better get them
Speaker 1: because they are going fast. Remember they had to move
Speaker 1: it from the Community Center to the auditorium just to
Speaker 1: fit um. Now, in years past it was so capacity
Speaker 1: you had to get the streaming ticket in order to
Speaker 1: see anything if you weren't one of the getting them
Speaker 1: on the first day. So right now, don't lull yourself
Speaker 1: into a false state of confidence saying I'll just get
Speaker 1: a ticket at the door. Yeah, that's what I'll do.
Speaker 1: You better get it now. Make it count. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like early vote, Well you can early vote. We
Speaker 1: want you early in. This game has the independence, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: all for being here with us today and once again,
Speaker 1: folks vote early and vote often for Pads to Independence.
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Bartlesville stuff for the children,