Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome back to our
Speaker 1: community connection. It's the city of Dewey and we have
Speaker 1: got our good friend miss Laurie here with us today.
Speaker 1: How are you doing.
Speaker 2: How the heck are you, Sarah?
Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good. I survived to duck races. How
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Nobody drowned.
Speaker 2: Nobody drowned. Nobody drowned. We had life for servers and
Speaker 2: boats and everything like guards.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Dewey is a great place. And I
Speaker 1: tell you what do you guys have really knocked it
Speaker 1: out of the park there with the fourth of July
Speaker 1: and all the volunteers out there. Beautiful Don Tyner Park,
Speaker 1: very well maintained, very well medicured.
Speaker 2: Didn't it look well?
Speaker 1: Oh? I tell us what's going on in Dewey.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the first thing I was talking about was
Speaker 3: the past things. The Dewey Doctor that was awesome. We
Speaker 3: had the winners. That was always fun to watch. So
Speaker 3: we'll slowly creep on down on the creek.
Speaker 2: But I mean, who else does that? So that's a
Speaker 2: pretty cool thing.
Speaker 3: I hope that we continue to bring, you know, more
Speaker 3: and more people bring back, you know, the fun of
Speaker 3: the fireworks, and we.
Speaker 2: Ride food there. We have the f f A and
Speaker 2: True do so next time it'll beat.
Speaker 1: And Garrett Brown put on a great show.
Speaker 2: They were they were pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: That was a nice, a nice choice to continue to
Speaker 3: have them as a band.
Speaker 1: You know that is probably the most talented unsigned band
Speaker 1: outside of Nashville.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, what are you going to get up there?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Whenever we asked me you could walk around just the guitar.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll bring the whole band.
Speaker 2: Get I'll get the in the duck suit, I'll get.
Speaker 1: The suns going again, and we'll perform in duck suits.
Speaker 2: There you go. I gotta have to make sure you
Speaker 2: have the feet and all. Okay, what else? Oh weah,
Speaker 2: the big Bang five k ten k race.
Speaker 3: That was started off of the morning and so that
Speaker 3: was really fun. We had Jimmy Eperson in the FFA
Speaker 3: of course take care of all that. We had the
Speaker 3: I cannot remember what they a couple of drinks stand
Speaker 3: there and the course Simple Simon's provided pizza and so
Speaker 3: that was pretty fun to see people dressed up.
Speaker 2: And that's a hard race. This is the humid state, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, running is a fine art and I appreciate
Speaker 3: those who can do it.
Speaker 1: I get worn out watching them.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I got a lot of pictures of the
Speaker 2: finish line, you know for sure.
Speaker 3: Other than that, we had the Tyler Memorial Library, she
Speaker 3: had her summer reading program.
Speaker 2: It was wrapped up at the end. Something I got
Speaker 2: to hang out and help out with.
Speaker 1: I saw a picture, you were.
Speaker 3: I have some more of course, to just let it
Speaker 3: lay down low for a little bit. Let the Doug
Speaker 3: races and the fourth of July, I foot went out.
Speaker 3: But yes, it was so fun to hang out with
Speaker 3: the kids. And this has been my third year and
Speaker 3: watching them just grow up, seeing kids coming in. So
Speaker 3: hopefully your program will even get, you know, bigger. But
Speaker 3: it's hard, it's summertime, kids are out of town. But
Speaker 3: it's a great program. Next year it'll be dinosaurs, so.
Speaker 2: Focused on art and you know, all kinds of artists.
Speaker 3: Chaos was our favorite thing to say to him, you know,
Speaker 3: do anything you need whatever mind, you know.
Speaker 2: Whatever comes to mind at the moment, just like music.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, okay, But other than that, I was but
Speaker 3: that was pretty much the past stuff that we have.
Speaker 2: But we do have.
Speaker 3: This Saturday is going to be the second Saturday there
Speaker 3: you go. So we'll have a lot of sales going
Speaker 3: on all around town, not just down downtown, so focus
Speaker 3: on that. Come on in this Saturday and see what
Speaker 3: you can find.
Speaker 2: We also have the Dewey Boots and Badges this Thursday.
Speaker 1: What's that all?
Speaker 3: That is the OBI Blood Drive Oklahoma Blood Institute of
Speaker 3: Blood Drive between the firemen.
Speaker 2: And the police officers of course.
Speaker 3: So it'll be held tomorrows which is from twelve to
Speaker 3: six pm Dewey Public Schools Student Center. Walkins are welcome
Speaker 3: or you can still call contact the OBI dot org
Speaker 3: and make an appointment.
Speaker 2: But that's going to be pretty cool. You're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm oh negative, everybody wants me.
Speaker 3: That's universal donor go figure be positive here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just have to make sure that my iron
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 1: Now what do you do? Do you declare before they
Speaker 1: get you ready to donate? Did they ask you which
Speaker 1: show which side your route? Yes?
Speaker 2: I think so, and then they'll see who wins and
Speaker 2: but you do.
Speaker 3: But for the blood donate though, you did get a
Speaker 3: choice of Frontier or the Frontier City or the water
Speaker 3: park next door is Toolky But yeah, and then and
Speaker 3: then we'll see what the who wins in the end,
Speaker 3: but it's a good fun time.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: We always zonning blood sirt here you go.
Speaker 1: I tell you I'm a popular guy when I walk
Speaker 1: in the county here.
Speaker 3: My mom is the same way. She's she's been donating
Speaker 3: since she was eighteen. Yeah, so that's been a while. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean to where she gets Dion Celine Dion tickets.
Speaker 2: So anyways, so we have her future.
Speaker 3: We have the Oldies and Goodies car show that's coming up.
Speaker 3: I mean it's September, but that's still September twentieth. But
Speaker 3: the main thing, you know, what's going to happen the
Speaker 3: eighteenth annual Kansas Oklahoma Highway sell.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 2: That's huge, one.
Speaker 3: Hundred miles sale down seventy five that it's a crazy
Speaker 3: few days. It's September eleventh, So that's September eleventh through
Speaker 3: the thirteenth. And like I said, it's located on Highway
Speaker 3: seventy five, and of course there's all kinds of garage
Speaker 3: sales going off the highway, but it's pretty cool to
Speaker 3: see the whole highway lined up with places of many
Speaker 3: little flea markets on the you know, certain parking lots
Speaker 3: and so that's going to be a pretty pretty wild
Speaker 3: few days.
Speaker 2: And always remember.
Speaker 1: Last year it was so big you had to put
Speaker 1: some of it at the fairgrounds.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and there's probably even more spots going to
Speaker 3: be pop up this year. But you always can contact
Speaker 3: miss Kay, you know, go to the website. She's a
Speaker 3: wonderful lady and she can definitely guide you to where
Speaker 3: you want your tent or your little mini flea market.
Speaker 1: So how are the parks coming along?
Speaker 3: So we have that with my little friends of Dewey Parks.
Speaker 2: I guess I should talk about next.
Speaker 3: We are still you know, getting donations, still asking to
Speaker 3: buy some bricks. We did get some bricks in. That
Speaker 3: was pretty fun and pretty amazing to see the little
Speaker 3: palette of all these bricks in our hard work of
Speaker 3: you know what we're going to decorate the park with.
Speaker 3: But we still have time to order more also to donate.
Speaker 3: Our restrooms were running just swimmingly.
Speaker 2: It's a perfect addition to that park.
Speaker 3: And to start focusing on the flagpole will be going
Speaker 3: in next but this wonderful rain has kind of inhibited that.
Speaker 2: So once you see that flagpole, I just think everything
Speaker 2: is going to start coming into place.
Speaker 3: Of course you go to the website and learn about
Speaker 3: what we are. In case people don't know about the
Speaker 3: Friends of Dewey Parks, because I am part of that.
Speaker 3: We have it's a nonprofit obviously organization that's focusing on
Speaker 3: the parks in our city of Dewey. And right now
Speaker 3: we're focusing on that one right there that's centered in
Speaker 3: the downtown.
Speaker 2: We have the bathrooms up and running.
Speaker 3: Like I said in the flagpoles, we do have one
Speaker 3: shipment of bricks that have been ordered that are already here.
Speaker 3: And our good friend Marty, she said a really nice,
Speaker 3: simple quote. And what we're looking for is we're trying
Speaker 3: to provide a calm, cool, refreshing place to visit and play.
Speaker 2: And soak in the community's friendly atmosphere.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what I mean, much friendlier than Dewey,
Speaker 1: that's for.
Speaker 2: Sure, quote unquote.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got a lot of things coming up here.
Speaker 1: You've got what the Western.
Speaker 3: Heritage Shake coming here that's going to be in not Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's coming up and I know we'll talk about
Speaker 3: that the next couple of months. And we know miss
Speaker 3: Carlotta Gordon, she's the head of that, and she's an
Speaker 3: awesome woman.
Speaker 2: I've been able to work with her each year. Hopefully
Speaker 2: she'll have me again this year. That'll be fun. But
Speaker 2: that's just going to get bigger and bigger too. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just going to get bigger.
Speaker 3: And I enjoy watching the steer go down.
Speaker 1: The street, big old longhorns, horns, and the big old
Speaker 1: the big old stampede. Whi's more like a mosy.
Speaker 3: Warm, I know, but it is pretty cool to see
Speaker 3: those massive, you know, beasts just like them just doing
Speaker 3: what they do and no matter if it was a
Speaker 3: street or the pasture or big chunk of land.
Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool, you know.
Speaker 1: Do we had so much history there with everything, and
Speaker 1: plus a lot of contemporary as well, so you've got
Speaker 1: a beautiful mix. And of course the downtown area you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of antique entrepreneurs exactly.
Speaker 3: So second Saturdays are a wonderful time to see what
Speaker 3: we have going on downtown and see just be able
Speaker 3: to see new stores that we have coming in and
Speaker 3: new places.
Speaker 2: But again there's other places.
Speaker 3: That are you know, on the outskirts, you so, but
Speaker 3: we have the downtown.
Speaker 2: But then you can also figure out what other places
Speaker 2: like to hit, especially the restaurant, and all.
Speaker 1: That cuts her tail down the streets is.
Speaker 2: Her tail down the street. You're right later on drinks
Speaker 2: and especially his he has some pretty good craft beer.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: He's a great dog. He's a Yes, he's a great guy.
Speaker 2: He actually took care of our.
Speaker 3: Star dog that we had, our town dog that unfortunately
Speaker 3: passed away. Yes, that awesome man took him and buried
Speaker 3: him because you kind of lived right next to him.
Speaker 3: So Ghosts or til Brewery. He's an awesome guy for sure.
Speaker 2: But speaking of a.
Speaker 3: Little bit about city stuff, I do you have some
Speaker 3: cities talk real quick.
Speaker 2: Just a reminder that the city.
Speaker 3: Will pick up tree limbs in four foot bundles that
Speaker 3: are no more than fifty pounds, so you can just
Speaker 3: bundle up. That's pretty cool at least help, you know,
Speaker 3: with all this weather and tree limbs and stuff down.
Speaker 3: But we also have the upcoming city election. I have
Speaker 3: the questions that are coming for September ninth. There's three proposals.
Speaker 3: One of them is the water main and fire hydrant replacement,
Speaker 3: second one is six new vehicles for the police department,
Speaker 3: and the third one is the.
Speaker 2: Road repair and overlays.
Speaker 3: Oh my way out of my pay grades, sir, But
Speaker 3: I think I said it right.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, who doesn't want good.
Speaker 3: Roads, right, especially with all this rain and seeing the
Speaker 3: little mini sinkholes you know that just come out of
Speaker 3: nowhere of a nice new road.
Speaker 2: So that's true, that's true. That's a tire too.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing, I know, one headache got resolved. That
Speaker 1: stop light down the.
Speaker 3: Drove working good, Yes, yes it did, and that that
Speaker 3: was actually done pretty quick. You know, you can only
Speaker 3: do so much as your own one entity and then
Speaker 3: hope that you can get the help from other places.
Speaker 2: But that was a pretty serious thing.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: You know, you think, oh, just dig the hole.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of you got to go under the road,
Speaker 1: and you got to do this, and you know it
Speaker 1: takes about fifteen scientists, a few thousand engineers and a
Speaker 1: bunch of hard labor.
Speaker 2: And I love learning about it. But again, way out
Speaker 2: of my pay grade, I was. I'm glad it was fixed.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Doing is a wonderful place to visit, wonderful place to shop,
Speaker 1: and of course a lot of history that goes on
Speaker 1: there too, but just friendly people.
Speaker 2: All the way around, I think, So I love it.
Speaker 1: You've kind of earned that name of a small town
Speaker 1: America city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, city, Dewey, Yes we can Dewey. Yes, I already
Speaker 2: got that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always great when you're in here because
Speaker 1: what we do is we find out what we don't know.
Speaker 1: Because for so many people who've been around for a
Speaker 1: long time, they said, well do we do we and
Speaker 1: then it's like, well, wait a minute, I didn't know
Speaker 1: they did that. Wait a minute, I didn't know they
Speaker 1: did that. They do that too.
Speaker 3: And I'm always available for any kind of questions or
Speaker 3: you can call city hall or contact you any department
Speaker 3: that you need.
Speaker 2: We'll try and get that.
Speaker 3: I'll definitely try and get the question answered and learn
Speaker 3: all about it myself.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's one of the things that I like.
Speaker 1: Whenever I have to call a city hall, if they
Speaker 1: don't know the answer right off the bat, they will
Speaker 1: definitely give you somebody who does. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you for coming in, Laurie.
Speaker 2: Thanks Tom.
Speaker 1: All right, you've been watching and listening to Community Connection