Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's nine forty five right here on K one, the
Speaker 1: one you trust me. I've got a Claude new fella,
Speaker 1: just to start speaking to you on the phone here
Speaker 1: a little bit of going. We've got some big doings
Speaker 1: with the American Legion. Claude, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Just I'm just kind of enjoying watching
Speaker 2: this little snowfalls now.
Speaker 1: Claude, you're with the American Legion. We also got the
Speaker 1: auxiliary and this is over in Barnstall, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Barnstall American Legions and American Legion Auxiliary Posts
Speaker 2: two two seven.
Speaker 1: Two two seven. You've got a big dinner coming up
Speaker 1: here this weekend.
Speaker 2: We do. We're having a Chilians to dinner on this Saturday,
Speaker 2: February twenty seconds from eleven am to two pm. And
Speaker 2: we're just asking for generous donations to help us with
Speaker 2: some of our numerous programs that we are involved with.
Speaker 2: A lot of this will be going to some of
Speaker 2: their programs and activities for students from the school system.
Speaker 2: It is going to be at our American Legion building
Speaker 2: which is four sixteen West Maine. So we just love
Speaker 2: to have people come out and eat and visit and
Speaker 2: enjoy company with the neighbors and local veterans.
Speaker 1: And you got some celebrating to do because you guys
Speaker 1: knocked out a pretty good sized national award here recently.
Speaker 1: Tell us about it.
Speaker 2: Well, we were very fortunate that this past summer at
Speaker 2: the Summer Convention, our posts received the awards for all
Speaker 2: four of the pillars that the American Legion is based on,
Speaker 2: that's Veterans, Administrations and Rehabilitation, national Security, Americanism, Children and Youth.
Speaker 2: And as a result of winning all four of those,
Speaker 2: we were selected as a Small Post of the Year
Speaker 2: for the state of Oklahoma. Wow, fall you go when
Speaker 2: we did get our American legs in auxiliary groups started
Speaker 2: or chartered again.
Speaker 1: So very good, very good year. Indeed, man, this is
Speaker 1: really good, you know something with this snow coming down,
Speaker 1: big old bowl or chili, big old bull of stew,
Speaker 1: sounds pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: It's going to be perfect. It sounds like Saturday. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's going to start to warm up a little. Hopefully
Speaker 2: the roads are going to be cleared off so people
Speaker 2: can get out and come over and visit with us.
Speaker 1: And how can people find out more about the Legion
Speaker 1: because Legion does so many different things. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you you help out with some of the projects at
Speaker 1: the school. You also help out veterans all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yes we are. We help you know, haul veterans
Speaker 2: back and forth to appointments, and I mean they're just
Speaker 2: all kinds of different programs that we do for the veterans,
Speaker 2: you know, in our school. And I say, where something
Speaker 2: this money is going, we do well. We have seven
Speaker 2: students that have been selected that's well qualified, that have
Speaker 2: expressed interest in Boys State and Girls State programs this year,
Speaker 2: which are some excellent programs for the young students that's
Speaker 2: juniors going into their senior year. We also provide an
Speaker 2: essay type scholarship contest for graduating seniors and through the
Speaker 2: American Legion Auxiliary program, there is an Americanism Essay contest
Speaker 2: that is for third grade through seniors. They have six
Speaker 2: different categories there of students that can write an essay
Speaker 2: and win and have their essays if they're chosen through
Speaker 2: the state, can go on to national as well through
Speaker 2: evaluation and potential selection there excuse me. We also train
Speaker 2: encourage the national ratorical contest, which you know if you
Speaker 2: go on to national, if you'd win the state and
Speaker 2: go on to National. Through there it's first, second, third
Speaker 2: place is like twenty two five hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars scholarship awards, and that's actually for freshmen through seniors.
Speaker 2: So you know, we're really active through the schools. So
Speaker 2: that's like say of one of the groups, the Children
Speaker 2: and Youth Group, and part of that's the American is
Speaker 2: and Pillar as well, So we really do stay active
Speaker 2: and involved with the school with the veterans and Veterans Support.
Speaker 2: American Legion is just a great program to help the
Speaker 2: communities and the people in the community.
Speaker 1: Now, if you've served in with the with the United
Speaker 1: States arm Forces, how do you become a member of
Speaker 1: the American Legion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've served, and even if you've only been like
Speaker 2: National Guard and Army reserved for eligible as well. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: but essentially you can just contact my phone number nine
Speaker 2: one eight seven four two to two four zero or
Speaker 2: any Legion member that you're aware of and fill out
Speaker 2: an application. Then you'll be reviewed and evaluated and approved
Speaker 2: and just get you logged into the system and actual
Speaker 2: fees for American Legion is forty dollars a year. For
Speaker 2: American Legion Auxiliary is thirty five dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is pretty cool. You know, I became familiar
Speaker 1: with American Legion back in the nineteen seventies when I
Speaker 1: was a youngster, and it was all about the boys
Speaker 1: state at that time. And that's a big deal. For
Speaker 1: folks who don't know about it, you got to read
Speaker 1: up on it. That is a very big deal there
Speaker 1: really are.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an excellent program for youngsters to learn
Speaker 2: you know, civic ow our local government's work. They actually
Speaker 2: sat up like a two party system that's what they
Speaker 2: call now the Boomers and Sooners, the two parties, and
Speaker 2: they they actually suggest, you know, concerns they have with
Speaker 2: the government, whatever it may be, and it's primarily you know,
Speaker 2: like just our state government actions, and they will actually
Speaker 2: have hearings, they will elect judges, they will elect you know,
Speaker 2: governors and lieutenant governors and senators representatives, and they'll argue
Speaker 2: on the floor, you know, different bills and things like
Speaker 2: that that they're pushing for or if they're against or
Speaker 2: whatever those things, just like our state legislature does like
Speaker 2: I said, it's a really excellent program and they have
Speaker 2: athletics and things like that going on as well, so
Speaker 2: it's it's a wonderful program for both the young men
Speaker 2: and the young women. The young men's le more now
Speaker 2: that young women goes to Edmund to the colleges there
Speaker 2: and they just live on the college camsus for the
Speaker 2: five to seven days that they're at the program.
Speaker 1: This is really good stuff. And folks, you can help
Speaker 1: support great programs like this by just actually enjoying a
Speaker 1: nice friendly dinner right there at four sixteen West Main
Speaker 1: and Bartonstall coming up this Saturday, and that'll be the
Speaker 1: twenty second from eleven am to two pms Chili and
Speaker 1: ste and is put on by the American Legion Post
Speaker 1: two twenty seven and the auxiliary as well. And what's
Speaker 1: the cost on this, Like.
Speaker 2: I say, just we're not specifying a cost. We're just
Speaker 2: asking for generous don't Okay? Thank you can help us
Speaker 2: with to help keep some of these programs going for.
Speaker 1: Well, that sounds pretty darn good. Alrighty, Hey Claut, I
Speaker 1: didn't catch your last name. I'm sorry about that. We
Speaker 1: all got excited about everything that was going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Claude Rosendale, Rosendal's commander of the post there
Speaker 2: in Barnsall. And actually Linda Sam says they I think
Speaker 2: I call it chairperson or chair woman, you know as
Speaker 2: martin American Land and audillary and she leaves out there
Speaker 2: in Bartlesfale.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, alrighty, I'll tell you what. We're going to send
Speaker 1: a bunch of folks out there, hungry folks, and we'll
Speaker 1: tell them fatten up their wallets too while they're at it,
Speaker 1: because this is all going to go for a great cause.
Speaker 1: How does that sound?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's that's sounded great.
Speaker 1: Hey, Claude, thank you very much for being with us
Speaker 1: here kind of long distance. I don't think we'd want
Speaker 1: anybody traveling in this today. I know you're you're not
Speaker 1: getting it so much out there in Barnesdall quite yet.
Speaker 1: But it looks like a snow globe here in Bartlesville
Speaker 1: right now. But take caring Saturday. Let's make it a
Speaker 1: big deal. Okay, you bet?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: All righty, Thank you very much. That is Claude Rosendale,
Speaker 1: commander there at the American Legion, and thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us here on our community connection. It is at
Speaker 1: nine fifty four, and we've got to look at your
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