Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you crushed. And today we've got a couple
Speaker 1: of friends in here from elder Care and the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, the barbecue, Oh my goodness sake, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about a lot of good things here today.
Speaker 1: We have Michael Cohlaugh and Julie. We're staying. We're with
Speaker 1: us two. And first of all, kids, what's new. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what's new?
Speaker 2: You I knew he won so much, so.
Speaker 1: I just opened a can right there.
Speaker 2: It's spring. We're ready to go.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of new, exciting things happening at Eldercare.
Speaker 3: We recently received a grant through Okay Cares, which is
Speaker 3: funded by the State of Oklahoma Oklahoma Human Services, and
Speaker 3: from that grant, we are specifically growing our respite for caregivers.
Speaker 3: So caregiver respite is a really important issue. It's a
Speaker 3: very real issue because if you are caring for a
Speaker 3: loved one who might have dementia or Alzheimer's or Parkinson's
Speaker 3: or any type of issue that is causing them, you know,
Speaker 3: pain and strife and just to age much more rapidly
Speaker 3: and their health to decline. You yourself are at risk
Speaker 3: of needing to be cared for. So with this grant,
Speaker 3: we are starting some really great programs. So actually March twentieth,
Speaker 3: which is a Thursday, we're starting a new program called
Speaker 3: our Open Door Cafe. The Open Door Cafe is really
Speaker 3: for anybody who's a caregiver to come and bring your
Speaker 3: loved one and they will be in a room adjacent
Speaker 3: to us. So if you've been to our facility, are ow.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of rooms.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of rooms.
Speaker 3: It's and if you want a tour, you know, give
Speaker 3: us a you'll get your walk you through. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 3: get yoursel I get my steps in every day around there.
Speaker 3: But we're actually going to hold the Open Door Cafe
Speaker 3: in our what's called our East Kitchen, and it's not
Speaker 3: like your kitchen at home. This is a very very
Speaker 3: large kitchen and our East Classroom, which is an open
Speaker 3: door right to it. Your loved one will be there
Speaker 3: with some of our trained caregivers from daybreak and they'll
Speaker 3: be providing activities for them while you as a caregiver.
Speaker 3: It's unstructured. We're going to have coffee, they'll be snacks.
Speaker 3: You can just communicate with staff from Elder Care. You
Speaker 3: can communicate with other caregivers and just kind of rely
Speaker 3: on each other and talk to each other.
Speaker 2: This is something.
Speaker 3: Outside of our weekly caregiver support group. This is a
Speaker 3: brand new program where we will do some specific respite
Speaker 3: for the caregiver. Bring your loved one and they're right
Speaker 3: there on site with us, and so through that we
Speaker 3: would hope that we could find opportunities for them to
Speaker 3: then come to daybreak, come to daybreak more often, and
Speaker 3: we're trying to get some very innovative ideas. We're going
Speaker 3: to have some activity kits that we'll send home that
Speaker 3: will stimulate the brain or stimulate your muscles for the
Speaker 3: person who needs care, self care kits, things that you
Speaker 3: can take home, and then we're going to expand our
Speaker 3: respite hours. Historically, Elder Care has had dinners in the
Speaker 3: evenings every month. We call them Senior connect and back
Speaker 3: in the day they were called Golden Opportunities. We're bringing
Speaker 3: those things back, so be watching for that, and we
Speaker 3: want to grow our respite care so that if you
Speaker 3: are a caregiver, bring your loved one and we will
Speaker 3: have some of our train staff from Daybreak giving care
Speaker 3: to them while you're enjoying a dinner and things with
Speaker 3: other caregivers.
Speaker 1: What a great way to find support and for your
Speaker 1: loved one to find new friends. Absolutely also get a
Speaker 1: better feel for all of the different things that elder cares.
Speaker 1: Absolutely get the trifector there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, when individuals start dealing with issues and you
Speaker 3: could take dementia or Alzheimer's, I think there's an immediate
Speaker 3: focus on the number of doors that are closing for them.
Speaker 3: And so that's why we're doing an open door cafe.
Speaker 3: We want to focus on the doors that are opening,
Speaker 3: not only for the individual who needs the care, but
Speaker 3: for the caregiver themselves. So we're wildly grateful for this
Speaker 3: grant that we have received from Okaycres from the State
Speaker 3: of Oklahoma, but we can't always rely on a grant,
Speaker 3: and so there are ways that people can come and
Speaker 3: partner with us to help us have the funds we
Speaker 3: need for programming like this and to continue to grow
Speaker 3: our respite care, to continue to grow our daybreak program
Speaker 3: or our in home services. And one of those great
Speaker 3: ways is is.
Speaker 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Barbecue barbecue. That was
Speaker 2: a good handoff. Thank you for that actual segue. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Well it's time. It is time. The commercials are rolling.
Speaker 2: The planning has been taking place for months now, and
Speaker 2: we are ready to announce Tickets go on sale for
Speaker 2: the Good, the Bad, and the Barbecue March fifteenth. So
Speaker 2: we've been working hard on the sponsors that are going
Speaker 2: to present this event for us. And we've got some
Speaker 2: big names. Do you want to drop names?
Speaker 3: We've got big names. We've got kW own bars, Razors, yeah,
Speaker 3: aw o in outdoors. We have Dinks, we have Trudy
Speaker 3: Credit Union, we have Phillips sixty six, Conico, Phillips and
Speaker 3: DSR are are presenting sponsors this year.
Speaker 2: So quite exciting and so we are grateful because that's
Speaker 2: a big sponsorship level that gets the ball rolling for
Speaker 2: us and it just keeps going from there. So Dinks.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're in our twenty seventh year for this fundraiser.
Speaker 2: It's always Mother's Day weekend, So again I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: May tenth, mark your calendar, Take your mom, take your wife,
Speaker 2: take your girlfriend, take your take whoever and plan to
Speaker 2: join us. You can always find something that the silent auction.
Speaker 2: That's just one of the things we do. We do
Speaker 2: an amazing live auction, and we're working on some really
Speaker 2: great things too. Well. We'll give some more hints to
Speaker 2: that as we kind of get closer. And then we're
Speaker 2: gonna have We're gonna have a bourbon bar again. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have Yeah, we're gonna have a ring toss again.
Speaker 2: So it's just a really fun night. And Luke Christiansen
Speaker 2: is gonna be the person giving us our dinner music
Speaker 2: and then again performing because we had some people dancing
Speaker 2: last year and they had a great time. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be another great event and we're really excited about it.
Speaker 2: And I think, just like Michael said, to be able
Speaker 2: to present an event like this that helps Elder Care
Speaker 2: provide those services that our community relies on and really
Speaker 2: needs is you know, it's personal to me and it's
Speaker 2: personal to a lot of people. It makes our of life,
Speaker 2: or our return to life or our respite in life
Speaker 2: that much better. So it's really exciting. We have some
Speaker 2: big goals again. We have big goals last year. They're
Speaker 2: big again and and we're ready. We're ready to roll.
Speaker 2: The gates will swing open on May tenth. Four thirty
Speaker 2: is our patron party. That's kind of the VIP experience
Speaker 2: we bring in our sponsors. Want to get a ticket
Speaker 2: for that. Yeah, and if you're not, if you're not
Speaker 2: on somebody's guest list, be on our big guest list
Speaker 2: and join in. That's that's an experience to see the
Speaker 2: Hughes home. The art collection's phenomenal. Like it's it's just
Speaker 2: a really great time of mingling and celebrating what Eldercare
Speaker 2: is all about. It's beautiful and a beautiful surrun. Again
Speaker 2: it's rainer shine, I know, I know, but we plan
Speaker 2: on the We plan on the shine. So that's at
Speaker 2: four thirty and then for our for our general seating,
Speaker 2: it's at six o'clock and we'll have again some some
Speaker 2: music and some opportunities for you to invest even more
Speaker 2: in elder care. And we got a lot of community
Speaker 2: partners coming together and we're ready for you.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be great as always.
Speaker 2: You do not want to miss that. You want a ticket,
Speaker 2: you to tell them how to get tickets. It's always well.
Speaker 3: You can get tickets a couple of ways. You can
Speaker 3: go to www. Dot about Eldercare dot org, Forward slash BBQ,
Speaker 3: So you can purchase tickets online on March fifteenth March fifteenth,
Speaker 3: or you can call us at nine one eight three
Speaker 3: three six eight five zero zero, or you can just
Speaker 3: come to Eldercare.
Speaker 1: If it's on your way, might as well say.
Speaker 3: Hi, yeah, I'm in, say hi, We'll show you around.
Speaker 3: It's it really is. Bartlesville is blessed with amazing nonprofits
Speaker 3: who have some of the best events, and we're proud
Speaker 3: to say that ours.
Speaker 2: Is kind of the top.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some top three we are super excited about.
Speaker 3: As Julie said, the twenty seventh year.
Speaker 1: That's a good start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And oftentimes people might say, why is it on
Speaker 3: Mother's Day weekend?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You have to ask those who started the event twenty
Speaker 3: seven years ago. But I'll tell you a lot. You
Speaker 3: will not find a better gift opportunity for your wife
Speaker 3: or your mother than that the auction.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: I think there are some great things you then take
Speaker 3: home and they're like, oh man, you planned so wonderful,
Speaker 3: look at this wonderful painting.
Speaker 2: And start the party on Saturday night and then celebrate
Speaker 2: Mother's Day on Sunday. We have it's really fun to
Speaker 2: see families sit together and celebrate, and we're again looking
Speaker 2: forward to it and we're ready.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we do it, but we seem
Speaker 1: to fit a lot of people out of the day creation.
Speaker 2: Well, we had seven hundred and fifty last year and
Speaker 2: our goal is to have eight hundred to one thousand.
Speaker 2: So we want everybody there, and we've been out, you know,
Speaker 2: making sure everybody's starting to know about it. You'll see
Speaker 2: the posters going up, You'll see, you know, billboards have
Speaker 2: already started, and the comer so are running, just because
Speaker 2: we want everybody to experience what Elder Care has and
Speaker 2: that event is one of them.
Speaker 1: By golly, it's it's it's primo. It is always a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. And you never know, you just never know.
Speaker 1: You'll say, oh, well, I think i've been out to
Speaker 1: the ranch before. Well, we haven't been out under this setting.
Speaker 2: That's right. The tents go up. The tents are incredible.
Speaker 2: Last year was my first year, and just to walk
Speaker 2: under that tent when it's empty, it's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a party for it's a party for a lot
Speaker 2: of friends. Yeah, there's a lot of room, but there's
Speaker 2: still room for more to come. Oh yeah, we'll order
Speaker 2: more tents if we have to. Oh absolutely, amporter parties.
Speaker 1: Which are located quite close to the tent right.
Speaker 2: Out of you, and Dinx provides the meal, you know.
Speaker 1: Always.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a great opportunity to share a drink with somebody.
Speaker 2: I know there was some guys doing their cigar thing
Speaker 2: out there, and then the girls are just shopping and
Speaker 2: having a good time. I mean, what else do you
Speaker 2: do in Oklahoma on a main night that's beautiful and
Speaker 2: serving a good a good organization.
Speaker 1: There you go, nice barbecue, absolutely, great weather.
Speaker 2: Good gosh, that's Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That's Oklahoma. Oh my goodness sakes, so once again that
Speaker 1: that link will be live on the fifteenth.
Speaker 2: It'll be live on the fifteenth. All right, absolutely, we'll
Speaker 2: be ready.
Speaker 1: We're going to have some fun with this. Absolutely going
Speaker 1: to have.
Speaker 2: Something and we want you there, Tom, are you coming?
Speaker 1: Probably? Will? I've only missed one or two I've lived here.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: There there are opportunities to be involved other than just
Speaker 3: buying a ticket. We have volunteer opportunities absolutely, always looking
Speaker 3: for volunteers to help in different ways at the barbecue.
Speaker 3: And we're still accepting sponsorships in anyone who would like
Speaker 3: to sponsor, which would it would include a table, and
Speaker 3: it would include marketing opportunities for your organization. We will
Speaker 3: accept sponsorship opportunities through middle of April, you know, and
Speaker 3: then it's a great way for you to bring people
Speaker 3: that you're trying to influence for your business or that
Speaker 3: you're trying to help them understand what elder Care offers.
Speaker 3: So we would take any type of opportunity to partner
Speaker 3: with you. And as Julie has said, as we said
Speaker 3: talking about the rest but grant everything we're doing, it's
Speaker 3: we're giving individuals. We're giving businesses an opportunity to invest
Speaker 3: in us while we invest into other people and make
Speaker 3: a difference in their lives each and every day.
Speaker 1: Forty some odd years and going forward to two.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and we were unique, like most cities our
Speaker 2: size do not have an organization like elder Care or
Speaker 2: facilities and services that are provided like elder Care. It's
Speaker 2: really phenomenal. You know, I didn't in twenty nineteen, you know,
Speaker 2: you kind of know a little bit of my story.
Speaker 2: I had that brain injury, and I would have been
Speaker 2: driving to Tulsa three times a week. Well that's just
Speaker 2: not that's not feasible. And I was so thankful that
Speaker 2: we had those resources and that care and that rehabilitation
Speaker 2: opportunity right here in Bartlesville that was specific to my needs.
Speaker 2: You know, we have the medical clinic that serves pediatric
Speaker 2: patients all the way up to deeriatric patients, and then
Speaker 2: we have the physical therapy, the occupational therapy, the speech
Speaker 2: therapy foundations that's inside the building, and then we have
Speaker 2: of course daybreak and all the other things. So Eldercare
Speaker 2: is a little misleading sometimes much and I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: considered myself elderly five years ago, but I am still aging.
Speaker 2: But it was also a specific service that elder Care provided,
Speaker 2: and they can provide service if you have a concussion,
Speaker 2: they can provide services if you've injured just your hand,
Speaker 2: and you know they have a hand specialists that does
Speaker 2: physical therapy and occupational therapy to get that. It's just
Speaker 2: very unique. So it's always, I think a great first
Speaker 2: stop to give a call to Eldercare to see what
Speaker 2: do you have to offer, Because I was really really
Speaker 2: surprised and very thankful. So that's why it's personal to me.
Speaker 2: I will continue to support the mission, the services the
Speaker 2: Eldercare provides, and we just want the community to know
Speaker 2: and be part of it.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, Once again, folks, eldercare and go to about eldercare
Speaker 1: dot org for all the updates information on the rest
Speaker 1: but programs. Also, I'll be looking for the barbecue forward slash.
Speaker 1: Grab that bib and get ready to go pre moist
Speaker 1: twel that there you go. Alrighty, Thanks folks, you've been
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