Speaker 1: And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on Gay one, the one you trust and Ian Studio.
Speaker 1: Today we got the Boys and Girls Club Bartos, Philip
Speaker 1: Jason bart is here with it.
Speaker 2: You brought a friend, I get well, I bought re Arch.
Speaker 1: Gateway.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, we're for inciate to have Gateway involved with
Speaker 2: the Boys and Girls Club and proud sponsors and so
Speaker 2: we invited him as guests here.
Speaker 1: Now. We've got a big to do coming up here
Speaker 1: very very shortly, and it is something that we do
Speaker 1: every year and it's really a bright spot in our community.
Speaker 2: Yeah we do we uh next Friday the thirteenth, Friday
Speaker 2: the thirteenth, Yeah, we have our seventieth anniversary Youth of
Speaker 2: the Year, Great Futures Luncheon at the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 2: So getting ramped up for that and we're excited and
Speaker 2: Gateways leaned in as the sponsor for it this year,
Speaker 2: and we're extremely thankful for their support of the club.
Speaker 1: And Chris with Gateway involved here, you know, you see
Speaker 1: the youth of America every darn day.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen it all from coaching to
Speaker 3: you know, being an athletic director and then moving over
Speaker 3: to banking and being fortunate enough to sponsor events like this.
Speaker 3: This Youth the Youth of the Year event is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3: If you've never attended it, get your tickets, get there
Speaker 3: and attend it. It's incredible to honor these youth and
Speaker 3: see what they've done over the last year, and it's incredible.
Speaker 3: And Jason talking a little bit about what these kids
Speaker 3: have won here in Bartisville the Youth of the Year
Speaker 3: four Bartsville and then they've gone on before and won
Speaker 3: the state and even competed in the national Youth of the Year.
Speaker 3: Is that correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We've had a number of winners over the last
Speaker 2: ten twelve years that have advanced on to the state
Speaker 2: competition and they've won the state competition and they move
Speaker 2: on to a regional competition. The ultimate goal of this
Speaker 2: whole thing with Youth of the Year program is to
Speaker 2: leverage some scholarship dollars for them that it would be
Speaker 2: hard to get otherwise. And each Boys and Girls club
Speaker 2: puts their you know, their best kid forward and we'll
Speaker 2: have a panel of judges come in on Wednesday night
Speaker 2: and they'll go through a judging deal with the kids,
Speaker 2: with our finalists, and we'll name a winner and they'll
Speaker 2: go on and we'll see what we can get. I know,
Speaker 2: we have a couple that went through got all their degree,
Speaker 2: one through graduate school and is working on PhD. And
Speaker 2: all of that is paid for through the Youth of
Speaker 2: the Year program. So it's a great opportunity for our kids.
Speaker 2: And as much as they are not huge fans of
Speaker 2: public speaking, we try to jump over that hurdle to
Speaker 2: get them to see, you know, this can provide a
Speaker 2: lot of opportunities for them after high school.
Speaker 1: You know, the Boys in the Girls club is it
Speaker 1: really extended itself with a lot of different opportunities. We
Speaker 1: have the duty facility and of course here and we've
Speaker 1: got the STEM program going and it just seems like
Speaker 1: every time we turn around there's something new, something really
Speaker 1: engaging for the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we try to keep it new and fresh
Speaker 2: and new ideas, and our program staff do an excellent
Speaker 2: job is spending time every day trying to you know,
Speaker 2: change it up and create new opportunities for them. The
Speaker 2: Dewey program has really taken off for us. We knew
Speaker 2: there was a need out there when we Uh, when
Speaker 2: we brought that facility out there and we're you know,
Speaker 2: we're over one hundred kids a day and it's it's
Speaker 2: a full house, you know, in Dewey. So we're we're
Speaker 2: glad that you know, that's there for them, and it
Speaker 2: alleviated some space issues that we had in Bartlesville. So
Speaker 2: we were able to bring some kids off the weight
Speaker 2: list in Bartlesville by moving the Dewey kids to their
Speaker 2: facility and getting them their own place and stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's helped.
Speaker 2: It's helped here as well with some of the pressure
Speaker 2: we had with that weight list.
Speaker 1: I mean, tickets we got left for this bit, very
Speaker 1: very very few.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got.
Speaker 2: We uh. This year, we're fortunate enough we had the
Speaker 2: opportunity we're bringing in join her Cursey as our keynote
Speaker 2: speaker and Gateway has helped us tremendously with that. And
Speaker 2: she's obviously Olympic gold medalist and world record holder and
Speaker 2: you know, so we we uh, we're excited to hear
Speaker 2: her message. She's been involved in the youth world post career.
Speaker 2: When she got done with her her career, she leaned
Speaker 2: in on some youth stuff and has been instrumental in
Speaker 2: some stuff in East Saint Louis that we're excited to
Speaker 2: hear her story, and that's that's not something we could
Speaker 2: have done without Gateway leaning in and helping us get
Speaker 2: her here.
Speaker 1: She is the consummate package when you talk about an
Speaker 1: American Olympian. She didn't just go out do her thing
Speaker 1: and say where's the check as she put her God
Speaker 1: given gifts to great use for the future.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's by far one of the if not
Speaker 3: the greatest female athlete ever. You know, she's three time
Speaker 3: gold medalist winner one she won the bronze once when
Speaker 3: the silver wants in a he tathla on which I mean, guys,
Speaker 3: that's just it. Yeah, like going out. I mean, you
Speaker 3: gotta throw the javelin and the shot and you gotta
Speaker 3: do it all. Yeah, I mean, it's it's incredible to
Speaker 3: that sort of athlete. But I was reading a little
Speaker 3: bit about her, and uh, I didn't know that she
Speaker 3: started at UCLA on the basketball team as well. Uh
Speaker 3: huh for a four year starter as a forward, that's
Speaker 3: a that's it. So she played college basketball and ran
Speaker 3: track and went on to compete in the Olympics, Olympic
Speaker 3: gold and world record holder Holy smokes, guys, she's coming
Speaker 3: right here to talk to these kids, and what she's
Speaker 3: done is unbelievable. So kudos to Jason and his team
Speaker 3: for getting Jackie to come speak to these kids into everybody.
Speaker 3: I'm excited, you know, just like all the kids.
Speaker 1: Great, I'm impressireate, free moment and you got her in
Speaker 1: a good spot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were usually first Friday of December, but she said,
Speaker 2: I can do it if you can move the date
Speaker 2: by one week, and we moved the date by week.
Speaker 3: Obviously get great. Ohiyes.
Speaker 2: We'd had to regard at the podium and nobody.
Speaker 1: Wants to that. How do we go about getting the
Speaker 1: tickets for these You can call the club.
Speaker 2: There are minimal left, but you can call the club
Speaker 2: nine one eight three three six three six three six.
Speaker 1: And what can we look forward to coming up in
Speaker 1: the new year and twenty twenty five for the boys
Speaker 1: and girls.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully another state winner at the Youth of the
Speaker 2: Year competition. And I'd love to start us off well
Speaker 2: the first quarter, but you know, we'll do a Harley
Speaker 2: party thing and get ramped up for summer program. So
Speaker 2: we'll we'll continue to do what we do and find
Speaker 2: some new things that the kids are excited about.
Speaker 1: All right, this is great, and thank you for being
Speaker 1: a part of.
Speaker 3: This absolutely absolutely gateway. We love the sport, the community,
Speaker 3: we love support the kids definitely in sports and academics,
Speaker 3: all of it, all the way around. So we're excited
Speaker 3: and very very honored to be a part of the
Speaker 3: Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 1: All right, get those tickets. We're probably talking about a
Speaker 1: dozen or so if.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, less than that probably, Yeah. Now they'll be
Speaker 2: gone by noon today.
Speaker 1: I assure you. Thank you for being on board with us.
Speaker 1: And if folks want to make a generous contribution, you know,
Speaker 1: year in time is coming around, can they do that?
Speaker 2: They absolutely can.
Speaker 1: We I thought i'd ask you had a banker at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we're heavily relying on our community. We you know,
Speaker 2: we're not a fee based program. We you know, twenty
Speaker 2: dollars gets a kid in the door for the school
Speaker 2: year and gets dinner every night and help with homework.
Speaker 2: And so we're we're relying on corporate sponsors, individual donors
Speaker 2: as much as we possibly can in this community. And
Speaker 2: we're you know, we turned seventy years old this year
Speaker 2: and it's it's been around a little bit and this
Speaker 2: community continues to support the Boys and Girls Club and
Speaker 2: we're we're thankful for it. So it's key to what
Speaker 2: we do and we can't keep our dues low without
Speaker 2: the community leaning in to support it. Oldest Boys and
Speaker 2: Girls Club in the state of Oklahoma. So a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of really good history. When you have
Speaker 2: Joe Allen Low for the first twenty years of your organization,
Speaker 2: you're off to a pretty good start.
Speaker 1: I'd say, and it's good good seed. Hey, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for both coming in bright and early on his
Speaker 1: Chilia tourday morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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