Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome Welcome week. It
Speaker 1: is time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust, and today we have
Speaker 1: our friends in from the United Way.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, Miss Lisa and Miss Katie.
Speaker 3: We're doing great.
Speaker 4: We are doing great.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know that the United Way from time to time
Speaker 1: does fund raises. Oh yeah, this one is more like
Speaker 1: the fun that kind of raises money.
Speaker 4: That is our hope and what's going on. We are
Speaker 4: you know, we're excited about this new event that we're
Speaker 4: having that Katie has put time and effort into. It's
Speaker 4: going to be fantastic. It's called a Low Haul after Dark. Yes,
Speaker 4: it's it's Hawaiian themed and we are going to have
Speaker 4: that July at the Osh Casino at six pm. Nice,
Speaker 4: So it's it's brand new. This will be in lieu
Speaker 4: of our United and Giving lunch and where we thought
Speaker 4: it was time to change things up and I think
Speaker 4: there's nothing like this in our community. We're really hoping
Speaker 4: this will be something that people look forward to every year.
Speaker 4: So it's just going to be great. We're really really
Speaker 4: looking forward to it. But we're also want our community
Speaker 4: to come and support us and fill the room up
Speaker 4: and just have a good time so we can help
Speaker 4: our partner agencies.
Speaker 2: Katie, what date and what time do I have to
Speaker 2: be there?
Speaker 5: July twenty sixth at Osh Casino starts at six pm.
Speaker 5: But if you are a sponsor certain sponsors, so that
Speaker 5: would be tropic if you do the v I p
Speaker 5: add on and above get to come to a special
Speaker 5: VIP cocktail.
Speaker 2: Hour, so you get to warm up in the bullpen. Huh.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, Katie's got a lot of VIP specials
Speaker 4: going on in there, and that's just an opportunity for
Speaker 4: us to to thank those sponsors that go above and beyond.
Speaker 4: But we're so appreciative of everyone buy a ticket or
Speaker 4: going together and buy a table. We've already had a
Speaker 4: lot of sponsors. I know that we want to thank them.
Speaker 4: Blue Skott Bio, which is a dental implant company that
Speaker 4: my husband runs. Uh, they are a sponsor, are the
Speaker 4: entertainment sponsor. And then Katie, you want to talk about
Speaker 4: the other ones.
Speaker 3: So we are wonderful friends.
Speaker 5: Shawn and Christy Roberts over at the print shop and
Speaker 5: Moxy on second they are our media and print sponsor. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're awesome. We love working with them o SH Casino.
Speaker 5: Of course, we couldnt be doing this event without them.
Speaker 5: They are fantastic. We have loved getting to work with
Speaker 5: them and bringing this event to life with their crew.
Speaker 5: They are one of our Hawaiian sponsors, and then our
Speaker 5: last Hawaiian sponsor is Ascension Saint John's Jane Phillips. We
Speaker 5: are always thrilled to work with them and they are
Speaker 5: just fantastic and so we're excited to have them as
Speaker 5: our Hawaiian sponsor.
Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be a lot of fun, yes,
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of folks have driven by
Speaker 1: the new casino and everyone keeps saying, Oh.
Speaker 2: I gotta go there, I gotta go there go. Well,
Speaker 2: here's your excuse, Yes, here's here's your entre. Here fire,
Speaker 2: there's some fun. Yeah, let's raise some money for United.
Speaker 4: Way, Yes, and you know we will. We also want
Speaker 4: to give a special thanks to Conicle Phillips and Phillips
Speaker 4: sixty six. They are continuously spawned supporting us throughout the years.
Speaker 4: Last year at our golf tournament we use SH Casino
Speaker 4: for our vendor reception, got really good feedback from it.
Speaker 4: They you know, it was a it was a learning opportunity,
Speaker 4: but it was it was just you know, sometimes you
Speaker 4: have to freshen stuff up. Sure, and we are really
Speaker 4: excited to again have the our vendor reception for the
Speaker 4: golf tournament at Osh Casino.
Speaker 2: So wow.
Speaker 4: But this event is it's taking Katie in her event committee.
Speaker 4: They are awesome. The group of people that she's gotten
Speaker 4: together to help with this event is amazing and we've
Speaker 4: got a lot of good members.
Speaker 5: So we've our Events committee is made up of Seth
Speaker 5: Day from Tree County Tech.
Speaker 3: We've got Aaron Bernall from.
Speaker 5: P sixty six, we have Hayley Cunningham from Trudy Credit Union,
Speaker 5: we have Brent Butler from cop and we have the
Speaker 5: radio stations owned Tammy Brinkman, and then we have Karen
Speaker 5: Linen from of Phillips.
Speaker 3: So we have a really fantastic crew that.
Speaker 5: Have just come together and they say, how can we
Speaker 5: take this idea, this Louau, this tropics and the o
Speaker 5: Sage and and make it something that's going to be
Speaker 5: something that people are going to want to come to
Speaker 5: every single year. And they've done a fantastic job with it.
Speaker 2: We're so excited, Well, I'm excited to just hear it
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be It's going to be a
Speaker 4: great time. And you know, we've had a lot going
Speaker 4: on this year. We are just finished up our brand
Speaker 4: refresh Cohort. So United Way is we're launching some new
Speaker 4: logos and we're going to use United is the Way,
Speaker 4: and that is that's going away from Live United. I'll
Speaker 4: still have it in my heart, but United is the
Speaker 4: Way is a way for us to get together as
Speaker 4: a community to help in the areas of community resiliency,
Speaker 4: health opportunities, youth opportunities, and educations. So we're really hoping
Speaker 4: that the community will be caught be part of United
Speaker 4: as the Way for our Low Hall after Dark.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm darn sure they will. You know, when
Speaker 1: you had your big to do just last week. Yes,
Speaker 1: coming together. I think everybody remembers the tornado and the
Speaker 1: two that won the awards very deserving. The whole community
Speaker 1: came together. Oh yeah, I mean there were people helping people.
Speaker 1: There were folks who you didn't hear about on the news,
Speaker 1: you didn't see on the TV, you didn't maybe even
Speaker 1: read about it, but they were affected, you know, and
Speaker 1: their homes got damage. Might might not have been something
Speaker 1: that would have caught the eye of someone, but when
Speaker 1: you got a hole in your roof, that's.
Speaker 2: Pretty substantially yes. And there were.
Speaker 1: Neighbors helping neighbors and other entities and helping other entities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of agencies were exactly yeah.
Speaker 5: And we saw a lot of that and that that
Speaker 5: was the thing that was so important when the tornadoes
Speaker 5: were going on. We had you know, of course, we
Speaker 5: had Matt Hitchcock with Red Cross. He was out there,
Speaker 5: and then we had Captain Swain Luke and Tania and
Speaker 5: they were out there with Salvation Army and they won
Speaker 5: the awards. But but what a lot of people didn't see.
Speaker 5: They saw those fantastic organizations. But then we had our
Speaker 5: partner agencies reaching out to us, like what can we
Speaker 5: do to help them?
Speaker 3: What do they need? What do they need? What can
Speaker 3: we do for them?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: And so it's it's a fantastic thing.
Speaker 5: That that these partner agencies, not just the ones that
Speaker 5: we have in United Way, but these organizations throughout our
Speaker 5: community band together when there's there's something that happens to
Speaker 5: our community that.
Speaker 3: They they can help with. And and it was just
Speaker 3: amazing to see.
Speaker 5: I know we had Christina Bishop, who's the director of
Speaker 5: our elder care. She she showed up and she says,
Speaker 5: what can we do?
Speaker 3: Like what we have? This is the things that we
Speaker 3: have her at our advantage. What what can we do?
Speaker 5: What can we give to these these organizations to help?
Speaker 5: And it was just really cool to see all these
Speaker 5: partner agencies just come together for our community.
Speaker 1: And you know what our agencies do that when we
Speaker 1: don't have an emergency exactly, they do this really kind
Speaker 1: of every day.
Speaker 2: It just that you know, it doesn't make the news,
Speaker 2: but you should.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and you know that's We were just at
Speaker 4: the y m c A at a site visit and
Speaker 4: he you know, he collaborates with the Boys and Girls Club,
Speaker 4: Boy Scouts, Salvation Army, Mary Martha Outreach, AGATHE. I mean
Speaker 4: that's just the norm for what our agencies do. But
Speaker 4: I will give a special thanks to Quick Trip. During
Speaker 4: those tornadoes, Lorie contacted me with Quick Trip and she said,
Speaker 4: I'd like to give some gas cards to the folks
Speaker 4: in Barnsdall that were impacted. And Barnesdall is covered with
Speaker 4: the unit A way of north northwest. I can't remember
Speaker 4: it's Pauca City. It used to be Pauca City and
Speaker 4: my friend care is the director there, so I got
Speaker 4: in touch with her and was able to get that coordinated.
Speaker 4: But that's just a small example how people just do
Speaker 4: what they can to help people in need.
Speaker 2: It is you were living after that came up? Goodness,
Speaker 2: I guess it's just identifying what we're.
Speaker 4: Doing, right, Yes, it does. It just gives us a
Speaker 4: way to tell our story, but honestly, to tell the
Speaker 4: stories of these amazing agencies and individuals in this community.
Speaker 4: I mean last year was a tough year, but we
Speaker 4: raised almost two point four million dollars. That is huge. Yes,
Speaker 4: So each year we are trying to do what we
Speaker 4: can do to be good stewards of the donor dollar.
Speaker 4: We're trying new fundraisers. We did a lot last year.
Speaker 4: This is just an example, but we can't do it
Speaker 4: without the help of people coming out and having some fun.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to blow a few people away.
Speaker 1: I mean, this has the markings of a really good,
Speaker 1: long standing.
Speaker 4: You bet, I hope. So that was Katie's vision that
Speaker 4: this would be one that people look forward to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's build one for twenty thirty years.
Speaker 4: See how it was to get way after ee.
Speaker 2: We do, so, how do we get tickets for this?
Speaker 2: How do we get on board?
Speaker 5: So you can go to our website it is BARTLESVILLEUW
Speaker 5: dot org. Tickets are still available. There's a little box
Speaker 5: in there and this says a little hanked or dark.
Speaker 3: You just click on that you can.
Speaker 5: Buy your tickets. We do only have eight tables left.
Speaker 5: So we started with about thirty. We only have about
Speaker 5: eight left, so tickets are going quick. We do have
Speaker 5: some so available, but they're going fast. So if you
Speaker 5: think that you want to come, but you should want
Speaker 5: to come, then go get your ticket as soon as
Speaker 5: possible because once we're out, we're out, and we're really
Speaker 5: you know, fingers crossed and we will sell out on
Speaker 5: this a bit.
Speaker 2: What's she entertainment?
Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question. We're working on some possibilities. Uh,
Speaker 4: do you have any suggestions. We're looking at hula d answers.
Speaker 4: We thought about a still drum van, but we think
Speaker 4: it would be too loud. I think we're going to
Speaker 4: have a DJ.
Speaker 3: We are, Yeah, we're going to have DJ. Tropics is
Speaker 3: going to be there, so it's going to be.
Speaker 5: Really fun with him.
Speaker 3: We yeah, we've got some things up our sleeve.
Speaker 5: But we are really excited because Jonie Nash is going
Speaker 5: to be our auctioneer. Yeah, and if you know her,
Speaker 5: you know she comes as I like to call them,
Speaker 5: her cowboy callers.
Speaker 3: She comes with her cowboy callers and and that in it.
Speaker 5: So if it's just pure entertainment, So we're really excited
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean that brings up a good point.
Speaker 4: We're looking for auction items. So if you have something
Speaker 4: an experience that we could we could auction off, that
Speaker 4: would be fantastic or an item we're still you know,
Speaker 4: the committee is looking and asking people, but we'd love
Speaker 4: to have you part of the event if you if
Speaker 4: you have something like that, maybe we negotiate a ticket
Speaker 4: for you. I you know, we can work on that.
Speaker 4: But we don't want to give away all our secrets
Speaker 4: to the events because we want people to come and
Speaker 4: see what. It's going to be so very good.
Speaker 2: So it's Aloha after dark.
Speaker 1: It's going to be out there at the New Osage
Speaker 1: Casino on sixty right, just kind of a kiddy from
Speaker 1: the airport there next to the Rodeo. And it's July.
Speaker 3: What July twenty sixth twenty It starts at six pm.
Speaker 2: All right, and you just go to the website to
Speaker 2: get you tickets.
Speaker 4: Yes, you can, or you can call us, or you
Speaker 4: can come in.
Speaker 3: Yes exactly, yes, yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 4: Are definitely we're going to get some new ones in
Speaker 4: so we sure toss out there. I know, yes, I'm
Speaker 4: the designated Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, but it is. You know.
Speaker 1: It is so fun to be a part of this
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to everyone just having a blast
Speaker 1: and raising money so that we can continue with our
Speaker 1: partner agencies across the footprint and make sure they're base.
Speaker 2: Taking care of us.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, oh.
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