Speaker 1: And good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome to community connection here on K one and fourteen
Speaker 2: hundred f M ninety three point three ninety five point one,
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Speaker 2: tv dot com. Have one of my favorite guests on today,
Speaker 2: and she actually is my neighbor as well, Cherry Wills
Speaker 2: with the Bartlesheil Chamber at comm or Sherry, how are
Speaker 2: you today?
Speaker 3: I am good, good morning to you, neighbor. Absolutely a
Speaker 3: lot earlier than I think.
Speaker 1: That's great?
Speaker 3: Are you radio people get up at like what four
Speaker 3: in the morning?
Speaker 1: Even earlier?
Speaker 4: Yees?
Speaker 1: Godly, Yeah, I was up at three o'clock.
Speaker 3: I was proud that I got up at six.
Speaker 2: Well, whenever I get up tomorrow morning, whenever I drive
Speaker 2: by your house, I make sure to wake you and
Speaker 2: Mike up, just just to know I'm passing by.
Speaker 1: Hey, Now, that not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2: Well. At the Chamber, you know, the Chamber is always
Speaker 2: a great organization. I know it's kind of the summertime
Speaker 2: when we're kind of taking a break from really large events,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean the Chamber stopping working for its.
Speaker 3: Members right right summer, just with all vacations and people's schedules,
Speaker 3: we do kind of slow it down a little bit
Speaker 3: July particularly, and it's what we do a lot of
Speaker 3: planning for the new year. We're trying to nail down
Speaker 3: dates for different things, and we did just get one
Speaker 3: nailed down that I'm really excited about. August nineteenth. We
Speaker 3: have a forum series. We do six major forms a year,
Speaker 3: and our first one of the season is going to
Speaker 3: be an economic forecast form and it's featuring Mark's need
Speaker 3: with region track, which we've used before. Haven't had one
Speaker 3: done in a couple of years, but I mean, just
Speaker 3: with everything going on, I mean, I think this will
Speaker 3: be a very well attended one track. County Tech is
Speaker 3: our host. We are limited seating wise, so if that
Speaker 3: one's an interest, you know, I would go ahead and
Speaker 3: well it'll be on our calendar, it's on our website,
Speaker 3: Barswell dot com. You could go ahead and register. But
Speaker 3: he I love what he does. He starts off and
Speaker 3: he gives a national spends a lot of time on
Speaker 3: kind of the national overview, but he drills it down
Speaker 3: to Oklahoma and then he drills down a little bit
Speaker 3: into just the region, not necessarily specifically Bartlesviield, but our
Speaker 3: region northeast Oklahoma and gives an out, you know, an
Speaker 3: economic forecast on kind of just drilling down like that.
Speaker 3: So he's he's really he's easy to listen to. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you get bogged down and you're like, oh, what
Speaker 3: are they talking about. I'm not you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not tracking with you. He's he's he's good for
Speaker 3: layman people and just really giving a really good well
Speaker 3: hopefully it'll be a good overview. But I mean he's
Speaker 3: easy to understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's important, Sherry, because you know in college
Speaker 2: where I took some economics right over my head just
Speaker 2: like okay, either that or I was falling asleep in
Speaker 2: the close exactly.
Speaker 3: So he's interesting and like I said, very so it
Speaker 3: will be a good one. And like I said, that's
Speaker 3: August nineteenth. I know that's in the future, but like
Speaker 3: I said, those are the kinds of things we're working on.
Speaker 3: Is trying to nail down some dates for different events
Speaker 3: and things like that. Another one in the future, and
Speaker 3: I know this one we'll sell out is our business Expo,
Speaker 3: and this was held in September. We do it in
Speaker 3: conjunction with our September Business after Hours, so it's from
Speaker 3: Ford about six o'clock and businesses. It's at the Hilton
Speaker 3: Garden End. They host it for us and so there's
Speaker 3: food and drink. But we have about fifty to sixty
Speaker 3: boosts set up. Businesses for seventy five dollars can have
Speaker 3: a space, there's a table and then they can display
Speaker 3: talk and last year it was great. We're going to
Speaker 3: add to it a little bit. We kind of looked
Speaker 3: around like what could have had some more in here,
Speaker 3: but it did sell out last year. I think we
Speaker 3: had fifty so it's like I said, seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3: But people just made great connections. It was just a
Speaker 3: really fun evening, easy for people to come out, easy
Speaker 3: for the Boosts to set up, and just some really good,
Speaker 3: good connections that happened and just a was a really
Speaker 3: good time. So once again that is September the fourth.
Speaker 3: Once again, that's already on our calendar. You could go
Speaker 3: ahead and register and reserve a spot if you're interested
Speaker 3: in that as a business. So and it's it's opened
Speaker 3: any kind of business. We had everything from nonprofits to
Speaker 3: service organizations, you know, retail, it's anybody. So yeah, that's
Speaker 3: one of that's one of our fun one of my
Speaker 3: favorite events, one of my all time favorites. Do you
Speaker 3: tell me when we have to take a break, I
Speaker 3: will go on and on?
Speaker 1: Okay, So is I like talking with you because.
Speaker 3: I will go on and on. Leadership Bartlesville. That is
Speaker 3: one of the top programs we do. It is a great,
Speaker 3: great program, but it's by application. You have to apply,
Speaker 3: go through an interview and be accepted. But this will
Speaker 3: be class thirty five, so it has it's been started
Speaker 3: back in eighty what was it three? Maybe there was
Speaker 3: a couple of years where they did two in one year,
Speaker 3: so you can't technically go by the years. But great
Speaker 3: program and the applications for that closed June thirtieth, so
Speaker 3: just you know, Monday at midnight they will close and
Speaker 3: then we'll go from there. But it is you take
Speaker 3: a day a month and it's a full day out
Speaker 3: of the office. So you have to be committed in
Speaker 3: that regard, and your employer has to be committed if
Speaker 3: you're not the one going through. And each day focuses
Speaker 3: on a different aspect of the community. What makes up
Speaker 3: this community start off with the nonprofits community services in
Speaker 3: our community, and that's always an eye opener. It's one
Speaker 3: of the favorite days. Do a lot of tours. That's
Speaker 3: one thing I like, you get behind the scenes that
Speaker 3: a lot of places that the normal person may not
Speaker 3: necessarily get to tour. People are always blown away. It's
Speaker 3: like you drive past Walmart distribution center or the supply
Speaker 3: chain whatever they call, and they actually get to tour that.
Speaker 3: You get to go in the freezer section. I mean,
Speaker 3: you see how that whole logistics works because you just
Speaker 3: drive by that and it's massive. I mean, that's just
Speaker 3: an example of kind of a behind the scenes thing
Speaker 3: that's on large business day. So there's healthcare, there's education,
Speaker 3: criminal justice. That's always interesting. They tour the jail, they
Speaker 3: learn all sorts of things because for most of us
Speaker 3: that's not you know, we're not familiar with that world.
Speaker 3: Not do we really want to be that. It's what
Speaker 3: you walk away from that day. You realize so many
Speaker 3: in our community, including our law enforcement, are judges. All
Speaker 3: of them work so well together. Their goal is not
Speaker 3: to just slam somebody in jail. If they can do
Speaker 3: something through through drug court, mental health court, and you
Speaker 3: learn what those are because a lot of people, I
Speaker 3: had no idea what drug court was So I went
Speaker 3: through leadership Oklahoma on a state level and I came back,
Speaker 3: I'm like, do we have drug court here? I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a great, great program and it has helped so
Speaker 3: many people. And so anyhow, each day focuses on a
Speaker 3: different aspect of our community. You meet with the leaders,
Speaker 3: the people that are making the decisions, and it's just
Speaker 3: it's it's very very eye opening. It's always fun because
Speaker 3: at the end the last day they do a capstand presentation,
Speaker 3: you know kind of what they got out of it,
Speaker 3: what they expected, and you know what they how they
Speaker 3: want to plug in because that's the whole goal is
Speaker 3: you take this wealth of knowledge and then you're able
Speaker 3: to plug into your community even more so and in
Speaker 3: a more in depth way than you may haven't or
Speaker 3: you know, are currently so. But people that have grown
Speaker 3: up here, I love it. Oh, I already know the community.
Speaker 3: I grew up here. I know everything. It's like every
Speaker 3: one of them I had no idea. I did not know.
Speaker 3: I just you know, it blows them away. Obviously, people
Speaker 3: that are new that you expect that, but it cracks
Speaker 3: me up because every you know, you always have people
Speaker 3: that have grown up here or spent a large, large
Speaker 3: majority of their career here and they think they know
Speaker 3: the community and they really do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's incredible, Sherry, because I had a conversation
Speaker 2: with one of your Leadership Class thirty four members, Kelsey Walker,
Speaker 2: who is the assistant communications director for the city. She
Speaker 2: also she and I used to work together as well
Speaker 2: at another media outlet, and it was I talked to
Speaker 2: her about it and.
Speaker 1: She's like, I learned something new.
Speaker 3: She's like, and you would think being in the news business,
Speaker 3: you guys really do know a lot. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a perfect example.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just our own calab Potter has has
Speaker 2: been through Leadership Artesil Tammy Brinkman as well, and they
Speaker 2: talk very highly of that program. So again, applications are.
Speaker 3: Due April or April okay, Lord June thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Next Monday, okay, so okay.
Speaker 3: And all the information for this the date, so you
Speaker 3: can need to clear your schedule, make sure you can
Speaker 3: you know, commit because there's an attendance policy. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a well designed program. But all of
Speaker 3: the information can be found online Bartlesweil dot com at
Speaker 3: the home page. There's little like circle icons, and there's
Speaker 3: a Leadership Bartlesville circle icon on there and you can
Speaker 3: just click on that and it's all on there right right.
Speaker 2: We're talking about Sherry Wells at the Bartlezeil Chamber of Commerce,
Speaker 2: Sherry Leadership Bartlezhil. Not only is it for you know,
Speaker 2: locally centric experiences, but you also have the day at
Speaker 2: the Capitol and that I've been to that personally myself,
Speaker 2: not as a member of leadership that probably need to
Speaker 2: do leadership pork.
Speaker 3: You do, we talk to talk to your boss. I'm listening.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they're lost things anyway.
Speaker 2: But the day of the capital, you guys take a
Speaker 2: big bus down uh where all class members go there
Speaker 2: and spend the day there.
Speaker 1: Uh. It's actually like Barlowsill Day.
Speaker 3: It is what we call it bartswal Day at the Capitol,
Speaker 3: and we usually get all the top leadership you know,
Speaker 3: whether you like him or dislike him, but that's who
Speaker 3: is you know, leaning the state.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: This year, the only one we were really missing was
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Governor. He was out of the state at the
Speaker 3: time we were there, and he's my favorite speaker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Love Matt Fanel anyhow, but we had all the rest
Speaker 3: of the leadership, you know, top leaders that we had
Speaker 3: the governor come in personally address our group. That's where
Speaker 3: the morning started off, and he fielded questions. We the
Speaker 3: Speaker of the House, you know, Senate pro tem, we
Speaker 3: had one of the Supreme Court justices speak. I mean,
Speaker 3: so it's a good over. And then we actually had
Speaker 3: somebody that talked about kind of a little bit of
Speaker 3: the history of the capitol because he was in charge
Speaker 3: of the Capital restoration, Trey Thompson. Yes, and so it's
Speaker 3: very and then we have lunch with our local delegation.
Speaker 3: It is a really good day. We take a really
Speaker 3: nice charter bus down, so it's a comfortable ride down
Speaker 3: and seven o'clock for you that would be sleeping in.
Speaker 3: You can sleep in that day, you know.
Speaker 1: What, that you can sleep on the bus too.
Speaker 3: That's true. But usually they're they're talking in a lot
Speaker 3: of camaraderie. But it is a really good day. And
Speaker 3: that's one thing we one of our pillars for tell
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to community Connection here on K one A
Speaker 2: fourteen hundred FM ninety three point three ninety five point one,
Speaker 2: as well as on Facebook Live. This morning in K
Speaker 2: one t the dot Com, Nathan Thompson in with Cherry
Speaker 2: Will to the Bartleziw Chamber and during our commercial break,
Speaker 2: if you're watching our list stream, you can see we
Speaker 2: were we were having a great conversation. Well, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's fine, it's fine. They're probably all wonder what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. But we're just talking about neighborly things.
Speaker 1: Neighborly things. We have a great neighborhood, Sherry.
Speaker 3: We do love where we live.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're not going to disclose where that is not
Speaker 2: it's a little oasis if you will. So anyway, so, uh,
Speaker 2: Bartlezil Chamber again, Really, I know we talked about being
Speaker 2: connected and being a vibrant community. How is it that
Speaker 2: the Chamber of Commerce fits into that puzzle piece?
Speaker 3: Where do you start? So let's let's take connected. Let
Speaker 3: me just give a quick example one issue because we
Speaker 3: try to really focus on and this is the intangible
Speaker 3: side of the chamber that people don't normally see, but
Speaker 3: we try to tackle issues. And we're in a unique
Speaker 3: position because we were present about seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: businesses anywhere from the little one man, you know, one
Speaker 3: person shop maybe moorphing out of their home, to you know,
Speaker 3: obviously the large corporations. But so we we can bring
Speaker 3: whoever to the table to solve certain issues. So let
Speaker 3: me just take the latest one was, you know, childcare.
Speaker 3: That affects workforce. Anybody out there that's an employer and
Speaker 3: has employees looking for daycare. It's challenging, particularly if you
Speaker 3: have infants. And anyhow, we formed a child care task
Speaker 3: Force and went through anywhere from I mean, we kind
Speaker 3: of started analyzing, oh my gosh, we need to building
Speaker 3: an eight million dollar, you know, just huge daycare like
Speaker 3: some communities have, and it's like, well, that's in you know. Anyhow,
Speaker 3: we really studied it, step back and all that to say,
Speaker 3: so right now, let's say you have an employee who
Speaker 3: is looking you're looking for daycare. On our website we
Speaker 3: can connect you and it's got information under the tab
Speaker 3: why Bartlesville and under education and I think it's under
Speaker 3: employment or working in Bartlesville, but it's in two locations.
Speaker 3: But it gives you information on how to find the
Speaker 3: latest up to date they keep it. It's live of
Speaker 3: who has openings, when are those openings coming? You know,
Speaker 3: may not be until August, but we know they've got
Speaker 3: openings coming. So that's how we can connect our businesses
Speaker 3: to a to a need that they have. So, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just one example. We also going back to Bartleol
Speaker 3: day at the Capitol advocacy a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 3: you're busy running your business. It's hard to track legislation
Speaker 3: and keep up with it. And during the legislative session,
Speaker 3: you know May or February through May, we track legislation.
Speaker 3: Now we're following bills that pertain the business, that would
Speaker 3: affect business. We're not tracking everything coming down the pike
Speaker 3: because there's some strange things that come down the pike. Yes,
Speaker 3: you though, we may mention the funny ones and the
Speaker 3: quirky ones, you.
Speaker 2: Know, but your husband, by the way, Mike does a
Speaker 2: very good job.
Speaker 3: With that that's it's right off his alley. He loves
Speaker 3: to he's a great writer, but he puts it in
Speaker 3: a nutshell that is so easy to read and just
Speaker 3: tracks that as a former legislator comes natural. But anyhow,
Speaker 3: we put that out every Monday, and it's a great
Speaker 3: way to keep up with what's happening. How's it gonna
Speaker 3: affect your business? Why is this important? And it may
Speaker 3: not specifically be your industry, but so many things. You know,
Speaker 3: let's take healthcare. Something that's gonna affect healthcare that's going
Speaker 3: to trickle down to your business. So anyhow, there's just
Speaker 3: a lot of things kind of behind the scenes, those
Speaker 3: intangible things. Because I can talk events and things you
Speaker 3: can attend, take advantage of. You know that you can
Speaker 3: see those you can take advantage of. And I think
Speaker 3: that's what so many people think of with the chamber,
Speaker 3: which is great, but there's just a lot of things.
Speaker 3: In fact, I talked about this yesterday. We have an
Speaker 3: event called Pastries and Perks, or we go through all
Speaker 3: the different things and I always end with the intangible,
Speaker 3: just reminding our members that's really what we hope you're
Speaker 3: investing in, is how the things that we're trying to
Speaker 3: move forward in the community to make it the better community,
Speaker 3: the strongest community possible, you know, to fight for whatever
Speaker 3: it is we need to be fighting for. One more
Speaker 3: quick example, when COVID was you know, the throes of COVID,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to get political, but you know,
Speaker 3: our board spent a lot of time on that. We
Speaker 3: did a lot of things to help businesses through kind
Speaker 3: of the COVID, given them resources, all sorts of things.
Speaker 3: But it was time for businesses we felt to be
Speaker 3: able to make the decision to open. We're not saying
Speaker 3: you have to open. If you're not comfortable opening, stay closed,
Speaker 3: but if you needed to, you know that business was
Speaker 3: either going to go out of business, and you know
Speaker 3: you have employees and families really lying on you if
Speaker 3: you wanted to open. We felt it was important and
Speaker 3: we had a resolution that we were ready to present
Speaker 3: to city Council because it was going to be coming
Speaker 3: up if they didn't vote to kind of U shudder
Speaker 3: and let the community get back to business. And we
Speaker 3: were one of the earlier communities to be able to
Speaker 3: do that, and I think that's why we survived like
Speaker 3: we did. Luckily. City Council voted correct, you know, in
Speaker 3: our opinion, correctly and let businesses open and if you
Speaker 3: weren't comfortable going out, that's fine, that's you know, but
Speaker 3: we're not dictating where or the other. But we're given
Speaker 3: a business freedom to do business as they see best.
Speaker 3: And so you know, that's just another just kind of
Speaker 3: that intangible where we're representing seven hundred and fifty businesses
Speaker 3: and it's important for him to be open. So now
Speaker 3: that's from COVID, but I mean it's just another example
Speaker 3: of kind of that intangible thing that we try.
Speaker 2: To and the advocacy that the Chamber doesys you just
Speaker 2: talked about, and you know, I think it was Lieutenant
Speaker 2: Governor Matt Pannell who said this about our chamber, your
Speaker 2: chamber that you run it is in his opinion. I
Speaker 2: think he said so. Well, I know he might be
Speaker 2: he might have been kissing up a little bit. No,
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, Lieutenant Governor, Please don't take that personally. But
Speaker 2: I mean, we really do have a top notch chamber.
Speaker 3: We do. I'm very very proud of our chamber and
Speaker 3: we have a really good reputation around the state, and
Speaker 3: I'm proud of that and that comes from just great
Speaker 3: people that we work with. I mean, it's not my
Speaker 3: leadership or we'll take a little credit, but it is.
Speaker 3: We've got a very strong chamber. We've got great people
Speaker 3: that work staff and then just board, just people that
Speaker 3: in the community that we work with. It's we've got
Speaker 3: such a good, good community. I mean, there are things
Speaker 3: we need to work on, and things are being addressed.
Speaker 3: Things are I mean, I'm really impressed with some things
Speaker 3: that are happening, and so things just don't especially some
Speaker 3: of the issues we're trying to tackle. They don't happen overnight.
Speaker 3: And it's not going to be totally ever one hundred
Speaker 3: percent probably solved. But there are good things happening in
Speaker 3: the community.
Speaker 2: There always are, and unfortunately a lot of the time
Speaker 2: is the bad news exactly against the most attention, and
Speaker 2: especially when we have social media.
Speaker 3: And I just stay off social media will be fine.
Speaker 2: Well anyway, Well, Sherry, we're coming up on the end
Speaker 2: of our time here again we're with Sherry Welt.
Speaker 1: The Borrow's Old Chamber.
Speaker 2: If a business, individual organization wants to become a member,
Speaker 2: what is your website or how can they do?
Speaker 3: Absolutely I would encourage you to check out our website.
Speaker 3: Don't answer a lot of your questions, but I'd really
Speaker 3: I encourage you to contact us. As for Judy, she
Speaker 3: does our membership, but some people I know you don't
Speaker 3: want to because then you feel obligated. It's like when
Speaker 3: you get a bit at your house. I always feel
Speaker 3: obligated I have to use that person. But you know,
Speaker 3: she'd love to sit down, just talk to you, go
Speaker 3: through some things, and then you know it's up to
Speaker 3: you if you'd like to join. We'd love to have you.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it is an organization that represents all sizes,
Speaker 3: all different kinds of businesses, and we'd love to have you.
Speaker 2: So absolutely absolutely Cherrywell, bartlesviill dot com.
Speaker 1: There you go, bartolesil dot com.
Speaker 2: Easiest website in our area to get information. Cherry Well,
Speaker 2: President and CEO of the bartziw Chambier of Commerce, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for coming.
Speaker 1: In with me today. Thank you, thank you all right,
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