Speaker 1: Here we go. Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust, and we have our
Speaker 1: friends in from American Counseling Service and kids. How are
Speaker 1: we doing today? We've got the sports spectac you are
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: Good, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well tell you what. It's great. We've got
Speaker 1: to Kristen and Ben in again. And how are the
Speaker 1: tickets going?
Speaker 3: Ticket sales are going great. We're getting close to selling out.
Speaker 4: We've got a ton of sponsors and we're gonna pack
Speaker 4: the pack the center there at Hilton Learn.
Speaker 3: We're gonna pack it out.
Speaker 1: It only sells out, but sometimes it's like huh oh,
Speaker 1: one ticket left, go okay, somebody could go. You guys
Speaker 1: doing that, you're kind of anagling right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we have sponsors that last minute they're out of town,
Speaker 2: they can't make it, and so we have some extra
Speaker 2: tickets that come available and we'll post that if it
Speaker 2: sells out, and then they come available before the event.
Speaker 2: But I would say hurry and get your tickets because
Speaker 2: we're a few weeks away.
Speaker 1: All right. Who's our special guest this year? Who's our speaker. Yes.
Speaker 2: So the keynote speaker this year is coach J. C.
Speaker 1: Hoait.
Speaker 2: She is the head women's basketball coach at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: All right, this is great. Now if we do have
Speaker 1: a couple of tickets that are our for sale, what's
Speaker 1: the going price on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy five dollars for individual tickets. Yes, it is
Speaker 2: a good price. You get dinner, you get all the things, silent,
Speaker 2: live auction speaker, and.
Speaker 1: You get to wear your school favorites. Yes, and you
Speaker 1: get and in good fun kind of josh with others.
Speaker 1: The spectacular is all about.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: We do have a special guest this year as well,
Speaker 2: along with the keynote speaker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, I don't know, he's got
Speaker 4: probably the biggest head in the room.
Speaker 3: So Pistol Pete's going to join us this year. We're
Speaker 3: yeah to be there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're super excited. I think this is his second
Speaker 4: trip to Bortlesville.
Speaker 3: The last couple of weeks, so I got Yeah.
Speaker 2: We'rey excited to have him. And we also have the
Speaker 2: athletic director at Oklahoma State, Chad Wiberg, son of those
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State fans stack of the day to come out
Speaker 2: there's a lot of guests coming, so it's fun.
Speaker 1: Now, this is all wonderful, and this is all a
Speaker 1: great time, but it all goes to a great class
Speaker 1: and that's all for all the wonderful work that's being
Speaker 1: done out there at American. Tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about this American story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Samaranan Counseling started in nineteen seventy four, as
Speaker 4: we are celebrating our fiftieth anniversary this year.
Speaker 3: It was started out by several.
Speaker 4: Different pastors within our community that felt like there was
Speaker 4: a need for a single place for individuals to go
Speaker 4: to receive pastoral.
Speaker 3: Care and it just kind of grew from there. The need,
Speaker 3: the need grew.
Speaker 4: And expanded and we're able to provide quality individual care,
Speaker 4: counseling services to individuals.
Speaker 3: Family is marriage, all of the above, all of the above.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so all of the funds that are raised
Speaker 4: through Sports Spectacular go back go directly towards the agency
Speaker 4: and give us the ability to be able to provide quality,
Speaker 4: affordable care to individuals.
Speaker 1: And that's great because every community needs something like this
Speaker 1: and for many people in need of that kind of help,
Speaker 1: that's their lifeline. Yes, and you know that everything's done
Speaker 1: very professional, very top notch, very confidential that you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about anything. But you guys are kind
Speaker 1: of getting known for me a little cutting edge there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're not comfortable. It's kind of resting
Speaker 1: on the laurels. You got to want to push forward
Speaker 1: to get the best treatment out.
Speaker 3: There available, definitely, so Covid.
Speaker 4: Covid kind of kind of made them push the envelope
Speaker 4: and they really stepped outside of their comfort zone started
Speaker 4: providing telemed services, so able to provide counseling services through Zoom,
Speaker 4: through video calls, telephone calls, those kinds of things, so
Speaker 4: they could still have that in person contact, but we're
Speaker 4: able to provide that support to anybody anywhere, you know.
Speaker 3: So we're super excited about that that continued opportunity.
Speaker 4: We're also looking at some new some new partnerships and
Speaker 4: adventures within within our community that.
Speaker 3: It's going to be pretty pretty cool, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: We'll just have to wait to turn the page on
Speaker 1: that one, because I understand it's still cooking now now. Christin,
Speaker 1: you're in charge of fun and games, I mean sorry, fundraising.
Speaker 1: I call it fun and games because every time you
Speaker 1: do put something together as American It's just a blast
Speaker 1: for the whole community.
Speaker 3: It is fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like bringing the community together so for a good cause.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, indeed, and this is great. Now do we
Speaker 1: still have any sponsorship veils with this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2: We will always take sponsorships, donations.
Speaker 1: Sponsorship if you have to correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, we can do that even if someone's not available
Speaker 2: to attend. Oftentimes that's a question that we get. I
Speaker 2: can't go, but I'd love to be able to support.
Speaker 2: We can still do those sponsorships and then you know,
Speaker 2: just not attend the event, but we can still use
Speaker 2: that as a donation online.
Speaker 1: And after the party's over, somebody still has you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of thousand.
Speaker 3: They've just been I'm.
Speaker 1: Just going to get in trouble with this. Can they
Speaker 1: call you?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yes.
Speaker 2: We always have the opportunity to donate on through our
Speaker 2: website and to call us at any point.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, this sports spectacular. I was told about
Speaker 1: this when I first moved to town five years ago.
Speaker 1: They said, this is just a dandy. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I kind of understand that folks are really into sports
Speaker 1: here in Oklahoma, especially at the college level, and they said, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: you you haven't lived until you've seen this. By god,
Speaker 1: they were right. But it is a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and you're going to see a lot of your friends there.
Speaker 1: You can also opportunity to meet the new people who
Speaker 1: come into the community. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is our eighteenth year, so eighteen yes, wow,
Speaker 2: we guys are still young.
Speaker 4: The conversation always kind of comes back to we all
Speaker 4: thought it was just going to be kind of a
Speaker 4: filler for just a couple.
Speaker 3: Of years, and then it's eighteen years later, here we are, so, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's turned out to be a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of fun when we have like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, and the next thing, you know, it builds
Speaker 1: into something that we are. We're joined at the hip
Speaker 1: on this one. But you've always done a great job
Speaker 1: because it gets refreshed every year. Folks would say, well,
Speaker 1: if it's been around that long, it must be the
Speaker 1: same old thing. But you're rotate in speakers left and right,
Speaker 1: you get new faces and you get the new ways
Speaker 1: of presetting every time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think one piece is what the silent auction
Speaker 2: live auction a way for local businesses to be able
Speaker 2: to interact and get their name out there as well
Speaker 2: and kind of tie that all together.
Speaker 1: Now, how does a Chilotte auction work? Is this online
Speaker 1: or in person or is it a little bit of both.
Speaker 3: We have it.
Speaker 2: We usually give teasers ahead of time so people know
Speaker 2: what to see, but it is in person and we
Speaker 2: have it opened from six o'clock when doors open all
Speaker 2: the way until about seven thirty when the speaking starts
Speaker 2: and we have some great items, and then we have
Speaker 2: maybe ten to fifteen live auction items as well, which
Speaker 2: is always.
Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Who's your auctioneer this year?
Speaker 3: So our auctioneers Rick Garrettson all are in South coffeevill
Speaker 3: So he's a childhood friend and I called him and
Speaker 3: he said absolutely, So we're looking forward to him joining
Speaker 3: us and giving us a hand this year.
Speaker 1: That's a talent. I can't I don't know how.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, our ag teacher in high school. We tried teaching
Speaker 4: us that our first year and he was the only
Speaker 4: one that got stuck. So has done really, really great
Speaker 4: with it enjoining us.
Speaker 1: You know, have the fun of going to an auction
Speaker 1: and just watching those guys and gals do the auction, yes,
Speaker 1: and then next thing you know you just accidentally sometimes
Speaker 1: on purpose buy something and that that's always good, especially
Speaker 1: when it's kind of like accidentally on purpose. Oh look
Speaker 1: at I got huh, got deal.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of things that groups can kind
Speaker 2: of come in together and get a good package. So
Speaker 2: a lot of times people sitting at tables with their
Speaker 2: friends kind of coordinate.
Speaker 3: Hey should we do this?
Speaker 2: So we have cooking classes and trips and.
Speaker 3: Unner Yeah, I mean to bring somebody along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do have some fun big things, so we'll
Speaker 2: try to announce those gift teasers ahead of time.
Speaker 1: Now, what's the website? I know it by heart, but
Speaker 1: not everybody does.
Speaker 2: Sure the event website is support Samaritan dot.
Speaker 1: Org very easy. Can't forget that one simple message, simple
Speaker 1: address and tell us a little bit more about Samaritan
Speaker 1: and what we do in the regular website that we
Speaker 1: can be fine to find all of the various we
Speaker 1: work to help people.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, Samaritan Bartlesfield dot org is our website. Three
Speaker 4: three six fourteen sixty three is our phone number, and
Speaker 4: we're at two four five Southeast Madison, so right across
Speaker 4: the street from Sooner Park.
Speaker 1: Beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really truly is.
Speaker 4: We are surrounded by beautiful old trees and it just
Speaker 4: keeps us.
Speaker 3: It creates kind of a really neat place.
Speaker 4: But like I said, we're able to provide individual counseling
Speaker 4: and child counseling, marriage couple and then we also do
Speaker 4: different workshops, different group meetings, those kinds of things. So
Speaker 4: we're very, very open to working with people in any
Speaker 4: way any capacity.
Speaker 1: Is there like a geographical circle where you anybody, anybody
Speaker 1: you can hear our boys.
Speaker 3: Yep interution her voice.
Speaker 4: We so a majority of the folks that we support
Speaker 4: are Washington, O, s Age, and Newada counties, but we
Speaker 4: have folks that travel from Southeast Kansas to see us.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're we're we're here, we're available, and we're
Speaker 4: always always willing to listen.
Speaker 1: Just remember if you're from out of town, it's a
Speaker 1: scenic little piece of Bartlesville that's just unencumbered by a
Speaker 1: whole lot. You're gonna see a lot of green. Is
Speaker 1: going to be really peaceful when you approach. Guys are
Speaker 1: kind of spoiled out there, really a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit, i'd say, But once again,
Speaker 1: when's the date for the big event?
Speaker 2: Saturday August twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's coming up fast.
Speaker 2: It is, yeah, six pm at the Hilton Garden.
Speaker 1: Alrighty can't miss it, folks. That is sports spectacular and
Speaker 1: it helps some Meritan counseling. Ben Christen, thank you both
Speaker 1: for being here. You guys are so good. Have come
Speaker 1: back next time when you got to other things cooking