Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It's Thursday.
Speaker 1: The sun is shining, and oh the gleam flat, the
Speaker 1: beautiful Toyota is my goodness. So there must be time.
Speaker 2: For our cars.
Speaker 3: Little haze blowing through. Hopefully the front that comes through
Speaker 3: today will get.
Speaker 2: That on out of here.
Speaker 3: But I'm not sure where the fires are. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: time of year, the prescribed burns are happening, and it's
Speaker 3: not too windy this morning, so hopefully we're all safe.
Speaker 1: And some folks are a little bit more in discriminate
Speaker 1: than others.
Speaker 3: It's important that our ecosystem are out here to have
Speaker 3: that happen, and it helps the prairie, the grassland a
Speaker 3: lot to have the fire come through, and we're out
Speaker 3: that brush and we all need it so we don't
Speaker 3: have the raging fires. I have a great guest this morning, Blair.
Speaker 3: You aren't here to talk about wildfires.
Speaker 4: I'm not here talking although they're interesting they are, Blair
Speaker 4: Alice from the Bartlesville Public School Foundation.
Speaker 2: You finally got through the.
Speaker 5: Big event last year.
Speaker 2: Yes, so so inspirational.
Speaker 3: I must say congratulations on another great Hall of Fame event.
Speaker 3: And you know those lifelong teachers. They impact all of us,
Speaker 3: we you know, and it kind of reminds me every
Speaker 3: year how many lives they touch.
Speaker 4: Yes, we had Erylf Interest and Jane Sears, both I
Speaker 4: think had forty years each in education, most of that,
Speaker 4: if not all of it in Bartlesville. And then we
Speaker 4: had Cheryl Lanstone I think she was at like thirty
Speaker 4: three or thirty four years in education.
Speaker 5: So so many.
Speaker 4: People that were at that event last week actually had
Speaker 4: kids who'd had all three of those educators. And then
Speaker 4: we recognized Betty Jane Johnson who had passed away in
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen, but she was a lifelong educator also.
Speaker 3: I know, great great stuff and you know stories like
Speaker 3: having pictures of every kid you ever taught and keeping
Speaker 3: a book of that living going forward now through their lives,
Speaker 3: and you know, you think about that and that's really special.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 3: It's a great event too, because it really brings together
Speaker 3: the community and of the education community, the teachers and
Speaker 3: administrators and the public together to honor our teachers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say about seventy five percent of the
Speaker 4: people in the room or educators or former educators, So
Speaker 4: we bring back all of our former inductees, We invite
Speaker 4: retired teachers, our legislative sponsor a table for just retired educators,
Speaker 4: and then of course we have all of our teachers
Speaker 4: of the year and those sorts of.
Speaker 5: Things and administrators in the rooms.
Speaker 4: So all of our events we really try to balance
Speaker 4: kind of a fundraising aspect, which is important for the
Speaker 4: foundation and our sustainability, but also a community engagement event,
Speaker 4: so really trying to get the community involved and remind
Speaker 4: them of how amazing our schools are and what we're
Speaker 4: doing every day.
Speaker 2: Right, really did a good job of that, well, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 3: And it is all about raising money for the grants
Speaker 3: and projects and events that you have going on.
Speaker 2: I know, and because you give out a lot of.
Speaker 4: Money about three hundred thousand dollars a year between direct
Speaker 4: impacted teachers and then district initiatives that we that we support.
Speaker 4: All of that comes from our community, So from our
Speaker 4: sponsors and community partners and individual donors.
Speaker 5: They're the ones making that's.
Speaker 3: Everything from classroom supplies and activity ideas and things to
Speaker 3: help them engage their students to school safety.
Speaker 4: Right Soros support. Yeah, our teacher grants have been long lasting.
Speaker 4: I mean that's been That's what the foundation started on
Speaker 4: an inteen eighty five was teacher grants. We still fund those,
Speaker 4: but yeah, since then added on bigger. You know, our
Speaker 4: school's needs change every year, and so we work with
Speaker 4: our district to make sure that we're funding their top priorities.
Speaker 4: We're doing a big push for aviation and broadcasting. We
Speaker 4: have so many programs, our construction program, all those programs
Speaker 4: are growing and bringing in new students, and we want
Speaker 4: to make sure that we're supporting those and continuing to
Speaker 4: give our teachers and our students opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have.
Speaker 3: That's so awesome and it is uh, you know, it
Speaker 3: does a great job of building those those roads for
Speaker 3: our kids to go forward in their lives. And I
Speaker 3: know it is all about the end of the day,
Speaker 3: about our kids and schools. Is having great public schools
Speaker 3: here in barcelwol which we have such a great legacy.
Speaker 4: Of Absolutely, and as we were talking, we want we
Speaker 4: want those students to to you know, go off to
Speaker 4: see other things, but then come back to Bartlesville and
Speaker 4: continue to improve our community. So we hope that we've
Speaker 4: given them a great foundation to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, We've had lots of stuff going on with the
Speaker 3: dealership the last week or so, and lots of car
Speaker 3: business stuff.
Speaker 2: Going on too.
Speaker 3: The the uh, the tariffs have been big news. We've
Speaker 3: had had a lot of people interested in what's going
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 2: And our head is still spending too.
Speaker 3: With Toyota, you know, just like everybody else, doesn't know
Speaker 3: what's going to happen there. But they're a great company.
Speaker 3: They They've told us we're going to keep shipping all
Speaker 3: the cars. We're not going to raise our prices. Uh.
Speaker 3: At this point, at least, we don't really know what
Speaker 3: the long impact this is.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They they are you know, it takes a time to
Speaker 3: move production of vehicle lines, and but they're going to
Speaker 3: keep making them available to us. They've got we've got
Speaker 3: great selection right now and of course no tariff markups
Speaker 3: or anything like that. So it's great time if you
Speaker 3: are looking for a vehicle. Don't let this scare you away.
Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of stuff we can't control,
Speaker 3: but we can control what goes on around here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 3: I been hearing a lot from customers about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's a small family business thing that that we've got
Speaker 3: and that I think we hear from our customers all
Speaker 3: the time, uh, you know, because they'll come in and
Speaker 3: obviously and when we're being small, we don't have every
Speaker 3: car you can and nobody does really. I think if
Speaker 3: you looked at all the different Toyotas that are made
Speaker 3: and every different model, trim level options that you could get,
Speaker 3: there's probably something like, I don't know, millions there. I
Speaker 3: did the math once on f one fifty back in
Speaker 3: the day and there were fifteen million different trucks you
Speaker 3: could potentially have, And that's impossible to stock, right, so
Speaker 3: you try and Toyota with their low supply and high
Speaker 3: demand over the last few years, we just can't build enough.
Speaker 3: So we continue to sell out of the pipeline and
Speaker 3: being smaller that people will go around and look at cars,
Speaker 3: and you know, so we rely on them coming back
Speaker 3: and giving us the chance to help them find what
Speaker 3: they want. We're certainly going to treat people well, you know,
Speaker 3: we focus on our local people.
Speaker 2: Serving the local community and really are not trying to
Speaker 2: be a big, you know, big deal and sell cars
Speaker 2: all over the world. It happens these days.
Speaker 3: We've got you know, and with computers and people searching
Speaker 3: for rare cars go find them and come pluck them out.
Speaker 3: But we do our best to have them here for
Speaker 3: our local people. So if you do have a need
Speaker 3: for a Toyota, we've got great selection right now, you know,
Speaker 3: particularly on the Tundra and Tacoma, which are some of
Speaker 3: our best vehicles.
Speaker 2: And it may not look like it, but RAB four,
Speaker 2: you know, and we never seem.
Speaker 3: To have them on the ground, but we've already sold
Speaker 3: I think four this month and they just don't last long.
Speaker 2: So you've got it.
Speaker 3: We got to get in front of that. If that's
Speaker 3: the vehicle you're after, We're all excited. I learned just
Speaker 3: yesterday Toyota is going to have a special event in
Speaker 3: Dallas next month, I think on the twentieth of May,
Speaker 3: where they're going to unveil the new RAB four, the
Speaker 3: all new model, which will be out either probably the
Speaker 3: very end of this year early next year, and.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a whole new redesign.
Speaker 3: And of course from the last year we've had things
Speaker 3: like Grand Highlander and the Crown insignia and the redesigned
Speaker 3: four Runner that just came out, and that's that's doing
Speaker 3: great that's another one that is going to be more
Speaker 3: and more available. But if you're after it now, you
Speaker 3: really need to let us know and we can kind
Speaker 3: of look up upstream and see what's coming and be
Speaker 3: able to get that great vehicle for you.
Speaker 2: It is April, so.
Speaker 3: We've got great anniversary month deals, even though it's not
Speaker 3: our anniversary anymore. It used to be for the Ford Store,
Speaker 3: but now it's in Decembers, but we still got to
Speaker 3: celebrate a little bit in April, and so we've got
Speaker 3: customer appreciation stuff going on and great deals on all
Speaker 3: our new un used vehicles. So it is a good
Speaker 3: time to buy. And if we can help you with that,
Speaker 3: be sure to let us know. We do try to
Speaker 3: make it simple and make you happy, fast, transparent and
Speaker 3: feel good as the theme this year.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of the Toyota Tacomas, Chad bought one from you.
Speaker 5: My husband bought one from you. I don't know how
Speaker 5: many years ago, maybe posted eight or nine. They keep going.
Speaker 4: Now my fifteen year olds about to get behind the
Speaker 4: wheel for better or worse, and so I think we're
Speaker 4: gonna give that to him and that's going to be
Speaker 4: his car of voice.
Speaker 2: But that's a good cho Yeah. They are very safe,
Speaker 2: and that's that's one thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think with the Toyota vehicle, you know
Speaker 3: you can you can find some that are fancier, some
Speaker 3: that have more sparkle and whiz bang maybe, but better made.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That might be difficult to find.
Speaker 3: And and they're well designed, they're super safe, They've got
Speaker 3: great technology in them. And yeah, I agree, they're great
Speaker 3: for kids. All our kids have driven Toyotas and and
Speaker 3: moved on up there. But that Tacoma is one of
Speaker 3: our best selling vehicles. And hopefully Chatt'll come. I want
Speaker 3: to come take a look at a new one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Last night I saw a lot of people out at
Speaker 3: the Barsbell Sports Foundation Master's party. My ears are still
Speaker 3: ringing a lick a little bit from Chris Batchel there.
Speaker 2: Those of you who've been to the football game spoken, yes,
Speaker 2: well you haven't been to this event.
Speaker 3: It's a it's there's a walks around with a headset
Speaker 3: on and microphone and in the at the country club
Speaker 3: and it's in the ballroom there. The speakers are very
Speaker 3: loud and anyway, hopefully Chris is listening.
Speaker 2: And it was a great event. Hopefully they raised a
Speaker 2: lot of money.
Speaker 5: And it always looks like.
Speaker 3: It is, let's uh bring Blair back in.
Speaker 2: I know we just finished this.
Speaker 3: Grade of Hall of Fame event and that there's more
Speaker 3: stuff coming up at the end of school and all that,
Speaker 3: So what else do we have on stone?
Speaker 4: I know the end of school is going to be
Speaker 4: here before you know, but we're trying to slow that down.
Speaker 4: Event April is kind of our event month. So we
Speaker 4: have Hall of Fame, which we just completed and again
Speaker 4: it was successful and great, but really, you know, two
Speaker 4: weeks later we turn around in this coming Thursday, so
Speaker 4: a week from today, actually we've got our Bruins of
Speaker 4: the Year celebration and this is an event that the
Speaker 4: Foundation kind of took over hosting from our teachers because
Speaker 4: they shouldn't have to put on their own in celebration
Speaker 4: and that's kind of what was happening. So we've kind
Speaker 4: of taken over hosting that, getting some sponsorships behind that.
Speaker 4: It's going to be at Dungeon Stadium again a week
Speaker 4: from today. The gates open at five and it is
Speaker 4: so fun. Every year we debate should we change it up,
Speaker 4: but everybody loves the baseball theme and we pack the
Speaker 4: stadium no matter.
Speaker 5: Last year, I think it.
Speaker 4: Was freezing cold, the north wind coming in and drizzles,
Speaker 4: but it patter. It was still packed. People just brought
Speaker 4: blankets and sweatshirts. But it's really the district's opportunity to
Speaker 4: celebrate all of our current teachers. We name the district
Speaker 4: Teacher of the Year, which that person goes on to
Speaker 4: compete at the state level for Teacher of the Year.
Speaker 4: We name our Rising Star, which is kind of a
Speaker 4: teacher who's been in the classroom for less than three years.
Speaker 4: So up and coming teachers get nominated and celebrated. We've
Speaker 4: got a classified person so those are our support staff,
Speaker 4: so they'll be recognized and celebrated as well as a
Speaker 4: Substitute of the Year.
Speaker 5: Those substitutes are of them, so.
Speaker 4: We'll have a Substitute of the Year, and then we'll
Speaker 4: celebrate service pin. So I think those are five all
Speaker 4: the way up to forty year services. We've got two
Speaker 4: teachers getting forty year service pins. But it's great fun
Speaker 4: that she ar the palm. I think bruis or the
Speaker 4: Bruin is going to come out. Chris batcheld Or will
Speaker 4: be in the press box announcing all the teachers as
Speaker 4: they get on the field, and then Michael Cole will
Speaker 4: we will control the volume. Trey Stump's gonna help us
Speaker 4: control the volume on Chris. But and then we have
Speaker 4: Michael colelall this year on the field and they just
Speaker 4: already they were kind of working through some bits that
Speaker 4: they're going to.
Speaker 5: Do to entertained and they're already ready to go.
Speaker 4: So hoping for nice weather. But Patriot and our Best
Speaker 4: co sponsor that event. And so we've got free hot
Speaker 4: dogs for the first I think three hundred people that
Speaker 4: come in.
Speaker 5: We always run out. We always run out of hot dogs, popcorn.
Speaker 4: Our Best will be there with popcorn, so I think
Speaker 4: Connico Phillips is bringing some snacks. So it's just really
Speaker 4: it's free, it's family friendly.
Speaker 5: It's just a fun night.
Speaker 4: This a week from today, so that April the seventeenth again,
Speaker 4: gates open at.
Speaker 5: Five and the program starts five thirty. But it's a
Speaker 5: great fun.
Speaker 3: Time, So everybody come on out there and celebrate this
Speaker 3: year's special honorees for all those awards, and it's a
Speaker 3: great time to honor everybody who's involved in our public education.
Speaker 3: And as we gear up for the rest of the
Speaker 3: school year and getting ready for baseball and everything coming up.
Speaker 3: We have local tryouts for American Legion teams and such.
Speaker 3: We're excited for that coming up, and so much other
Speaker 3: stuff that starts to happen this time of year as
Speaker 3: we gear up for summer. And you know, what are
Speaker 3: there opportunities for people to be involved in the community
Speaker 3: or in the school foundation.
Speaker 2: You know, and how do they you know beyond you know,
Speaker 2: going to your.
Speaker 4: Events and side I Attending events is obviously the easy
Speaker 4: way because at those events we talk about what we're
Speaker 4: doing and you might find something, Oh, I'm really interested
Speaker 4: in this.
Speaker 5: How do I get more involved?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: And say the schools is a great opportunity for that
Speaker 4: in terms of just getting connected to our schools and
Speaker 4: knowing what programs we have, what sort of internships we offer.
Speaker 4: That's going to be August the sixth. It's always the Wednesday,
Speaker 4: the week before school starts. So that's a great just
Speaker 4: informational meeting, I mean, not meeting, but event. But my
Speaker 4: brain is not there yet because I still have a
Speaker 4: little bit more to go future, right, No, I appreciate that,
Speaker 4: and that really is that's one of our favorite events.
Speaker 5: I mean, just great for getting people connected to our schools.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's internships, there's volunteer opportunities the foundation.
Speaker 5: Of course, we have a board.
Speaker 4: We're always looking for board members as well as committee
Speaker 4: members with a lot of different committees that review our
Speaker 4: teacher grants, that help run our programs, all kinds of things.
Speaker 4: So a lot of opportunities. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 4: sponsorships and donations are really key for us because that's
Speaker 4: how we make the impact that we do.
Speaker 3: And before we came on the air, we were talking
Speaker 3: a little bit about alumni and how you might be
Speaker 3: able to create some programs.
Speaker 2: For right alumni.
Speaker 4: So we've we've gosh, a couple of years ago we
Speaker 4: kind of took on the Alumni Association, So we know there's.
Speaker 5: A great call High contingent.
Speaker 4: Right, there's not as much organization or on the Sooner
Speaker 4: High as well as kind of all of Bertlesville and
Speaker 4: the Bartlesville High School.
Speaker 3: Cry kind of goes through reunions and kind of becomes
Speaker 3: focused on that, right.
Speaker 5: And so we're kind of taking on that.
Speaker 4: We've got a large database trying to see out some
Speaker 4: informational things, trying to offer reunion support. And one thing
Speaker 4: we've we've kind of talked about if there was an
Speaker 4: interest from local businesses is like a job board that
Speaker 4: we could help post and share with our alumni local
Speaker 4: opportunities for our businesses to hire them. Because again, we
Speaker 4: all want Bartlesville grads to come back home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, at least to bring back the stuff they
Speaker 3: learn out there in the big wide world and help
Speaker 3: us keep making bartles feel better.
Speaker 2: That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: That's that's a great road, and we do want to
Speaker 3: find them to find their way back and not have
Speaker 3: it difficult to find those opportunities here in town because
Speaker 3: they do exist.
Speaker 2: There's great opportunities for everybody.
Speaker 3: I've been hiring looking for office manager slash, a controller
Speaker 3: type person at our dealership. It's it's it's amazing process
Speaker 3: to go through these days. I've talked to phone on
Speaker 3: the phone with probably fifty or sixty people and so
Speaker 3: many great local people out there right now. And you know,
Speaker 3: this is a position that's one of I think only
Speaker 3: six people.
Speaker 2: Have had it since nineteen forty one.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty rare transition and are right now Barber's
Speaker 3: going to retire and we're not looking forward to that,
Speaker 3: but I do need to find a replacement. So it's,
Speaker 3: you know, anyway that I really wanted to focus on
Speaker 3: the process and what great applicants we get that are
Speaker 3: really local people that.
Speaker 2: Are growing up around here.
Speaker 3: You know, it's many of I'm finding many with great experience,
Speaker 3: lots of experience running things and being involved in all
Speaker 3: kinds of industries and fields. And it's really reassuring. We know,
Speaker 3: I know the strength of our community and what's out there,
Speaker 3: and you know, there are a lot of great people
Speaker 3: here and it's you know, keeping the community strong and
Speaker 3: the employee base and education and the public school system
Speaker 3: is really all a part of that, I think. So
Speaker 3: what else, you know, we talked to me a little
Speaker 3: bit about the impact.
Speaker 2: Of your program.
Speaker 3: I know, you know, you do end up being able
Speaker 3: to give away You mentioned several.
Speaker 2: Hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about how that works and
Speaker 3: how teachers get to that money out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we have several different grants. Again, they've been
Speaker 4: established since nineteen eighty five. We've peaked some things along
Speaker 4: the way, but we've got I think five different grants
Speaker 4: for teachers.
Speaker 5: So we've got one that focuses on performing arts. We've
Speaker 5: got one that focus on.
Speaker 4: Just classroom needs and different innovative projects for your classroom.
Speaker 4: We've got one that's one of my favorites is in
Speaker 4: experts in residents. We bring experts in from all over
Speaker 4: the country. We have brought people, I mean literally from
Speaker 4: all over the country to Bartlesville to visit our classrooms
Speaker 4: and spend time in our schools. We've got one for
Speaker 4: professional development, which is one of the most popular ones
Speaker 4: for our teacher is that allows them to go to conferences,
Speaker 4: and we sent a couple of years ago someone to
Speaker 4: the Amazon Rainforest to develop a curriculum. So really amazing
Speaker 4: innovative things that we're able to support with our foundation dollars.
Speaker 2: Those mostly the teachers come up with an idea, Yes,
Speaker 2: they come.
Speaker 5: Up with an idea.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we'll vet it with them, and then our committee
Speaker 4: reviews that idea and then.
Speaker 5: Decides whether or not to fund it based on some criteria.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Yeah, pretty What size are the grants?
Speaker 5: Typically they range and can They could be a couple
Speaker 5: hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Usually we try to direct those more to like a
Speaker 4: PSD PTO kind of support, but to several thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: I think we did a couple recently that were over
Speaker 4: five thousand dollars. So we've got about fifty five thousand
Speaker 4: dollars in that budget for the whole year just to
Speaker 4: fund teacher grants.
Speaker 3: And you do some other unique things like childcare support
Speaker 3: for teachers.
Speaker 4: That was something that was a really innovative benefit that
Speaker 4: our superintendent came up with partnering with Tri County Tech.
Speaker 4: Our best supports that for us, but we continue to
Speaker 4: need more funds to sup with that program. But basically
Speaker 4: it allows our teachers who have young children, preschool aged
Speaker 4: children to receive quality childcare Trycounty Tech for half.
Speaker 5: The cost to the public.
Speaker 4: So just a huge benefit and really really helping with
Speaker 4: teacher recruitment and retention.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's something we think about and deal with
Speaker 3: all the time too, and you know, we have had
Speaker 3: to build sometimes schedules around that in different parts of life.
Speaker 2: And that's a world child care.
Speaker 4: For two kids, it doesn't sometimes make sense to keep
Speaker 4: teaching in the classroom, and so we've had some teachers
Speaker 4: stay because of that benefit.
Speaker 3: And I mentioned the the safety program, the school resource
Speaker 3: officers that you guys have helped fund.
Speaker 4: Right, So now we have ten school resource officers, which
Speaker 4: is really amazing. And again what my kids goes to
Speaker 4: Kane and was talking about their school resource officer kind
Speaker 4: of took off his safety vest and his heavy best
Speaker 4: the other day. It was out there playing on the
Speaker 4: playground with them. And so they're definitely keeping our kids safe,
Speaker 4: but they are also really serving as mentors and interacting
Speaker 4: with our kids and giving them all a really positive
Speaker 4: experience with law enforcement.
Speaker 3: And I mean the list goes on and on, things
Speaker 3: like the Dolly Parton Imagination Library way right, that's right, books.
Speaker 4: For Books for Kids, zerote a five and there's an applicator.
Speaker 4: There's a form on our website. You can look that
Speaker 4: up on bpsfoundation dot org. But if you have a
Speaker 4: kid at home under five years old, you can register
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 5: There is no catch.
Speaker 4: We completely fund that program for you, so it's free
Speaker 4: and they get a book every single month delivered to
Speaker 4: their doorsteps.
Speaker 5: So just phenomenal program.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a global program, but we have
Speaker 4: provided the support through some donations.
Speaker 3: We've made some access to that. Yeah, it definitely is
Speaker 3: a big program and it's over twenty five thousand books
Speaker 3: in Washington County.
Speaker 2: So it's not a small thing.
Speaker 5: That's right now.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think we looked one time and we're
Speaker 4: serving about forty five percent of our eligible kids, So
Speaker 4: that's a pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: Another one I've always liked to us the Bruins on
Speaker 3: the Run program and it's it's all you know, now,
Speaker 3: it's a good time to start training for next fall racey,
Speaker 3: that's right, and.
Speaker 2: Wollarock will be here before we know it.
Speaker 4: And well, and last year we started our Bruin ak
Speaker 4: so our own race because we had a conflict with
Speaker 4: the date of the wool Rocky AKA and everyone just
Speaker 4: loved it. We everybody ran through the big Brewin tunnel
Speaker 4: and it was really focused on our kids.
Speaker 2: You have a separate event, yeah, year.
Speaker 5: We want to support Run the Streets. It's a great program.
Speaker 4: We're going to encourage all of our runners to participate
Speaker 4: in that race also, but doing our own thing.
Speaker 5: Really it was really pretty spectacular last year.
Speaker 2: So I think that's good to have.
Speaker 3: Multiple events and keep people out there being active, and
Speaker 3: that's a great thing and you get a lot of
Speaker 3: them involved, and your partnership with the Run the Streets
Speaker 3: has been really helping, really great, and I think they
Speaker 3: both have grown so much that there's plenty of runners I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure to go around right well.
Speaker 4: And it helps our cross country program. We have a
Speaker 4: lot of kids that do Bruins on the Run in
Speaker 4: fifth grade and then go right into cross country in
Speaker 4: sixth grade.
Speaker 3: So and another program people are familiar with that have
Speaker 3: been around a while, your Junior Achievement.
Speaker 2: You guys help access to Junior Achievement down.
Speaker 4: To do for our fifth graders to go to Bistown,
Speaker 4: which I don't know if you've been to do that,
Speaker 4: but there's a it's a great opportunity for our fifth
Speaker 4: graders to get to go out and try several different
Speaker 4: careers like radio or you know anything.
Speaker 3: Incredible resource for our community and it just kind of.
Speaker 5: There and it does.
Speaker 4: We're trying not to hide so much and make sure
Speaker 4: people know what we do, so we appreciate getting to
Speaker 4: be on shows like well, thank.
Speaker 3: You for your leadership with the program, and I know
Speaker 3: it's you know, you've certainly done a great job since you've.
Speaker 5: Been there, and you've got a great board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3: Have a shout out to all of them, and there
Speaker 3: are other sponsors. I know you have many great.
Speaker 4: Sponsors and they're loyal and they come back a year
Speaker 4: after year and they're really making making a difference in
Speaker 4: our schools.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you to all of those sponsors. And if
Speaker 3: this is interesting to people, I know they've learned a lot,
Speaker 3: hopefully about the Barsville School Foundation.
Speaker 2: If you want to know more, what should they do?
Speaker 4: What's they can follow us on Facebook, they can go
Speaker 4: to our website, or they can out.
Speaker 5: To me at the Education Service Center.
Speaker 3: And the next event is a week from tomorrow night
Speaker 3: or tonight a week from tonight at five pm now
Speaker 3: at Dungeons Stadium and should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and we'll be out there at the dealership
Speaker 3: later today too. It has been kind of busy in
Speaker 3: service the last few days, but I'm not sure what's
Speaker 3: up with that. The good weather probably helping that is
Speaker 3: people get out and around and after all the rain
Speaker 3: last week, it's nice to have some sunshine and stuff
Speaker 3: we've got. I mentioned the great deals on Toyota's out there.
Speaker 3: There are some really great lease deals if you're interested
Speaker 3: in a lower payment. With the higher interest rates and
Speaker 3: the increasing cost of vehicles, leasing as an alternative, you
Speaker 3: might want to consider that really lowers your payment. There's
Speaker 3: no way around it. That's going to be lower compared
Speaker 3: to the buying the car outright. And then often people
Speaker 3: now are extending their payment term of the loan. We've
Speaker 3: I think I read something we were at eighty four
Speaker 3: month loan is becoming more and more popular, which is
Speaker 3: a long time to finance a car, and you really
Speaker 3: don't have equity in that vehicle for a number of years.
Speaker 3: And this is what gives you a way not to
Speaker 3: have equity issues on the vehicle.
Speaker 2: If you like to have a newer vehicle every few years.
Speaker 3: It's a way to make sure you don't have any
Speaker 3: in patients from that. And there's great payments things like
Speaker 3: the Tacoma at two sixty nine a month, so tell
Speaker 3: chat about that. So grab for at three thirty nine,
Speaker 3: Corolla two thirty nine, so great payments, that's you know
Speaker 3: cash do it. Signing on all those was around four
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, but you know our a team can help
Speaker 3: you with that. In fact, you can go right on
Speaker 3: the website and find the vehicle and toggle between the
Speaker 3: pay the finance options with all the different terms, use
Speaker 3: your own credit, look at the least payment one pay
Speaker 3: lease is anything.
Speaker 2: You want to consider.
Speaker 3: It's got all the the rebates and interest rate specials
Speaker 3: that are out there.
Speaker 2: You know where you can play with that and see
Speaker 2: what the best deal is for you.
Speaker 3: And that's right at your fingertips on our website. It
Speaker 3: done just Toyota dot com and there's lots of other
Speaker 3: information there. You can schedule your service appointment and get
Speaker 3: all kinds of information. Just ask questions about what's coming.
Speaker 3: A lot of our inventory I mentioned isn't on the
Speaker 3: lot so much, but if they're within about a month
Speaker 3: of arrival, they'll be on the website.
Speaker 2: There's a few weeks more that we get that we can.
Speaker 3: See that are coming that just haven't gotten vends yet,
Speaker 3: so we don't know exactly what the details on that
Speaker 3: car are. And then every couple of weeks we get
Speaker 3: allocated more vehicles.
Speaker 2: We'll have another one of those late next week.
Speaker 3: So that you just want to stay in touch with
Speaker 3: the sales associate and they can help you connect you
Speaker 3: up with that perfect Toyota. And I guess I've exhausted
Speaker 3: pretty much all the car talk I need to do.
Speaker 2: Do you have anything else you want to say?
Speaker 5: No, I appreciate being on here.
Speaker 4: I always love coming on Car Talk and learning about
Speaker 4: cars as well as getting to promote the foundation. And
Speaker 4: again we just hope to see everybody at our free
Speaker 4: family event friendly event next Thursday, April seventeenth at Dungeess Stadium.
Speaker 2: Thank you Blair.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
Speaker 1: Car Talk program with Dungeons, Toyo, Brad Dungeons and of
Speaker 1: course with Blair Ellis here today and folks we've got
Speaker 1: our news and what they're coming up in just a moment.
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