Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust, and we have the
Speaker 1: Eagles in with us here. Know not those eagles, our
Speaker 1: eagles here from six to ten right here in bartles
Speaker 1: But how are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 3: Supernaturally super introduce yourselves to the crowd, folks.
Speaker 1: I'm Martin Blum, I'm Rick Harlem, and guys, you have
Speaker 1: been working very very hard on a number of projects.
Speaker 1: You just wrapped up a nice Bengo night for the
Speaker 1: Bartlesbill Choir and everything else, but you've also been working
Speaker 1: on just countless other things. The Eagles are are known
Speaker 1: for the generosity and the willingness to help out and
Speaker 1: folks that are kind of following through the cracks, and
Speaker 1: you guys have.
Speaker 4: Been doing a real good job of that. Just want
Speaker 4: to give you a little hats off on it.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We just recently Saturday night we had a choir is
Speaker 5: going to Ireland for a trip and I reached out
Speaker 5: to us to see if we could help them. We
Speaker 5: had a Bengo for them on Saturday night and we
Speaker 5: raised seven nine dollars for that groups. Then just recently
Speaker 5: the Sheriff's Department has a Christmas program where they help
Speaker 5: families too, and we raised a little over five thousand
Speaker 5: for them. And then the Barswell Police Foundation reached out
Speaker 5: to us for they do things that it's not in
Speaker 5: the budget for the police department. They help them out
Speaker 5: with them and we raised right out fifty seven hundred
Speaker 5: for them. So that's some of the things we've recently
Speaker 5: been doing.
Speaker 1: Goodness sakes and it all adds up. It all adds up.
Speaker 1: Now you've been working on a project.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we.
Speaker 3: Had a member come to us and ask us if
Speaker 3: we would help a family. They had a really leaky
Speaker 3: roof and it was really leaky, and they asked us
Speaker 3: if we could if we could help them or find
Speaker 3: somebody to help them. And we've got some construction guys
Speaker 3: that are members of the area, and we passed the
Speaker 3: hat and gathered some money up and went and bought
Speaker 3: some supplies and went over to their their house over
Speaker 3: at Barnstall and it's kind of a soft but they
Speaker 3: have like a rock structure that they live in. It's
Speaker 3: it's a house, it's really nice inside. They we went
Speaker 3: over and we spread this liquid coating over their roof. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: we wasn't able to make it work correctly Sunday morning
Speaker 3: before the new rain came in, and.
Speaker 2: They still have a leaky roof.
Speaker 3: We we're gonna try it again, or maybe we can
Speaker 3: find somebody to help us. But that's one of our
Speaker 3: things that we do with our money that we make,
Speaker 3: is uh. We we take our money that we make
Speaker 3: on Monday and Friday night bingos and we helped the
Speaker 3: community and and other and in all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of ways.
Speaker 3: But that's that's what we do with our money, is
Speaker 3: we uh, we helped the community.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that this family is kind of a community.
Speaker 1: But that's seven kids going on in that's a small
Speaker 1: town in some places.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like I said, Martin said, it's a soft story,
Speaker 5: but just real quick.
Speaker 6: The mother has cancer.
Speaker 5: Two of the children, one of them has leukemia, one
Speaker 5: of them has lymphoma, I believe it's called. They have
Speaker 5: a special needs child. And they bought this place back
Speaker 5: and thought everything was great. They were remodeling the inside
Speaker 5: of it. It was a cash deal, so no inspections
Speaker 5: had to be done. And Lord and bowed all this
Speaker 5: rain moved in a month ago and we needed it.
Speaker 5: Bless the Lord for that. But in the meantime, they
Speaker 5: might as well not.
Speaker 6: Have a roof.
Speaker 5: If you go over there, they've got tubs catching water,
Speaker 5: some pumps pumping it out. The kids are staying dried on.
Speaker 5: Everybody panic. They have rooms they're dry in. But it's
Speaker 5: just a sad deal and we're trying to get them
Speaker 5: a roof. And like I said, I feenebody's out there
Speaker 5: can help us help them a little bit.
Speaker 6: That's what we're needing. Somebody a little bigger than us.
Speaker 6: But we've got.
Speaker 5: Plenty of manpower and mostly the money's there to take
Speaker 5: care of it. We just need somebody to advise us
Speaker 5: what we need.
Speaker 1: How do we get ahold of the Eagles? Go on
Speaker 1: our Facebook there, you go, just message you there.
Speaker 3: They can go on our Facebook page or they can
Speaker 3: private message Martin Blumer Rick Harlow on Facebook.
Speaker 2: We're not hard to find and we're easy to talk to.
Speaker 3: Rick's pretty easy to get along with, and he can
Speaker 3: talk to you all day long if you want. He
Speaker 3: doesn't act like it on the radio, but I'll promise
Speaker 3: you he's a easy going guy and he's got a
Speaker 3: big heart.
Speaker 4: So well, this is great.
Speaker 1: You know, your Praternal Order Eagles is a really cool
Speaker 1: club here in town. And the way you got yourself situated,
Speaker 1: you're right there on the second street right and you
Speaker 1: can always tell when you're in operation. There's cars man.
Speaker 1: You guys have full houses here.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 6: We have a lot of Bengo players like to have
Speaker 6: a lot more.
Speaker 5: Every Friday and Monday sixth thirty four early birds and
Speaker 5: seven thirty four our regular Bengo. If it's your first time,
Speaker 5: come in. We'll give you a dobb or get you started,
Speaker 5: and I promise you'll have fun. We're non smoking, so
Speaker 5: don't worry about that. Anybody's gonna be smoking around you.
Speaker 5: And we invite all smokers down. We just have to
Speaker 5: go outside to do it.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, I like to key on some key things
Speaker 3: real quick. We've our Black Friday being go. We're gonna
Speaker 3: we're gonna do some different stuff this Black Friday. That
Speaker 3: that Friday night, our Bengal start at six point thirty
Speaker 3: like normal. We're gonna offer a couple other different games
Speaker 3: that we normally don't offer that night, and.
Speaker 2: We're also going to have a big rifle.
Speaker 3: We've got some some tickets that we're selling for twenty
Speaker 3: dollars a ticket, and we've only printed two hundred of
Speaker 3: them off and the prize that you'll win if you're
Speaker 3: one of the two winners is a five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: gift card. So it's a it's a really neat deal.
Speaker 3: You don't have to be present to win. And then
Speaker 3: Rick has came up with this, it's a really neat,
Speaker 3: really neat bingo. We're going to have it on December
Speaker 3: the seventh. It's one hundred dollars and that can That
Speaker 3: includes the meal that we're gonna serve, which is going
Speaker 3: to be really good, and then it includes forty of
Speaker 3: the bingo games that we're going to offer.
Speaker 2: It's going to kind of be like our speedball.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be played as fast as our speedball,
Speaker 3: so you can buy extras if you want.
Speaker 2: And then we're going to have three other.
Speaker 3: Bingos that night that will be one hundred dollars payouts,
Speaker 3: and you'll be able to buy cards for those at
Speaker 3: the when you come come through and get your cards,
Speaker 3: you'll be able to buy those. But all of this
Speaker 3: money that we're raising this time of year, all of
Speaker 3: that money goes.
Speaker 2: Directly to our food baskets.
Speaker 3: We usually give out around seventy five food baskets a year,
Speaker 3: and they're valued at somewhere between one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: and one hundred and seventy five dollars this year. We
Speaker 3: have no idea what they're gonna cost because food has
Speaker 3: went up so much. We talked about it in our
Speaker 3: last meeting, and it's incredible on.
Speaker 2: How much the food has went up.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of people in the community that's
Speaker 3: reached out for their names to be put on the list,
Speaker 3: and we have to we have to select, you know,
Speaker 3: the people that get them. And we're not talking about
Speaker 3: families that are already being helped. We're talking about families
Speaker 3: that are you know, older families that don't have anybody
Speaker 3: in the house anymore, that don't go anywhere, or are
Speaker 3: fixed income, that are you know, some of these people
Speaker 3: that are on fixed income, they make less than fourteen
Speaker 3: hundred dollars a month and they don't have a they
Speaker 3: don't have a holiday meal, and they don't you know,
Speaker 3: people people like that, they get forgotten and it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's a soft time of the year, guys.
Speaker 1: So that's that's great, you know, because sometimes people just assume, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you're in your golden years you're taking care
Speaker 1: of necessarily the case.
Speaker 3: No, not everybody's got golden years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all these baskets go go to people that really
Speaker 5: really need them.
Speaker 6: And like I said, we take them to Koke and Dowey.
Speaker 5: We've got no wat to Obviously, we're going to Barnesdall
Speaker 5: and you know where I'm talking about there that family
Speaker 5: will definitely receive something, and we.
Speaker 6: Know there's a lot more out there.
Speaker 5: But like I said, the price is getting so high.
Speaker 5: But we did not cut the the basket any If
Speaker 5: it was ten thousand last year and twenty this year,
Speaker 5: we'll spend twenty thousand to feed these people.
Speaker 4: That's amazing, It's really amazing.
Speaker 1: So you guys get the old shopping carts and go
Speaker 1: out kind of like the army.
Speaker 6: No, that is the good thing.
Speaker 5: Bad. I'll give Homeland a shout out right over there.
Speaker 6: We give them a list, they get it ready.
Speaker 5: We pick it up Friday, all the stuff that we
Speaker 5: can put in the boxes it's not cold, and then
Speaker 5: Saturday morning they meet us at three point thirty in
Speaker 5: the morning give us our cold stuff. We get it
Speaker 5: boxed up and our guys have it usually out the
Speaker 5: door by eight o'clock headed to people's houses and we'll
Speaker 5: hand those out on December twenty first this year.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. That's good strategy, logistics and teamwork there.
Speaker 2: Yes, Tony Cochran does a good job.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well he's got a care of us. He got a
Speaker 3: good team behind him, so we're proud of that.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I got you guys envisioned. You
Speaker 1: guys are just out there power shopping.
Speaker 5: In there, but you just years years ago they went
Speaker 5: to Bill's thrifty Wise. Yeah, and they all got carts
Speaker 5: and that's what they did. Yeah, they did when that's
Speaker 5: way paid. I've just heard war stories about that. But
Speaker 5: we let Tony take care of it.
Speaker 4: Homeland.
Speaker 6: I don't thought he met some surprizes here.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well that's good.
Speaker 3: But our our Black Friday Bingo last year we had
Speaker 3: over one hundred people. I think it's like one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventeen people. This year, we would like to have
Speaker 3: that number increased. Our bingo prizes. If you buy one
Speaker 3: of our large packs, it costs you twenty dollars. It's
Speaker 3: ten games of bingo. If you bingo in your single winter,
Speaker 3: that's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: That you just won.
Speaker 3: And it's about a three hour you know, you're sitting
Speaker 3: in our Bengo hall for about three hours. We have
Speaker 3: a concession stand with sodas and stuff. You can also
Speaker 3: bring in your own drinks or your own food.
Speaker 2: We don't just I mean, we.
Speaker 3: Don't sit there and tell you know, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of peop bring that food in and they have a
Speaker 3: good time and it's kind of like a picnic inside
Speaker 3: the heated area. So and then our you know, we
Speaker 3: have Bingo every Monday and Friday. Every Monday and Friday
Speaker 3: at six thirty is our early bird. Brian Wats our
Speaker 3: early bird caller, and he does a great job. He
Speaker 3: he interacts with the crowd and he calls our speedball
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: He's a good guy. We also have then we got
Speaker 2: Rick here. He calls Bingo too.
Speaker 3: He he does a good job too. And you know,
Speaker 3: and then we got a guy that calls Bingo. His
Speaker 3: name is Bo Hughes and we call him Big Money Bow.
Speaker 3: He when he's calling, you can almost guaranteed bet he's
Speaker 3: going to give away one of our big jackpots that's
Speaker 3: on our backboard. We've got some big, big, big prizes
Speaker 3: back there, they're they're growing. Come down and play those
Speaker 3: those prize games and try to win.
Speaker 4: This is great.
Speaker 1: So you have a Facebook page for you for the
Speaker 1: Eagle site there six ten and you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of information including you know where yard there on
Speaker 1: Second Street and in the dates and times and what's
Speaker 1: the purpose of course of each and every Bingo event.
Speaker 1: But and plus you guys serve little food. Like you said,
Speaker 1: yea beverages.
Speaker 5: Have beverages, nachos, chili chips, popcorn probably the best popcorn.
Speaker 6: But like I said, it's and it's cheap. We're not
Speaker 6: We don't make verry.
Speaker 5: We just kind of sell it for what we have
Speaker 5: in it because, like I said, our big money.
Speaker 6: We're trying to raise us through Bingo to help.
Speaker 2: People and it is.
Speaker 4: It's going to great places too. You guys have been
Speaker 4: doing this for a little bit, haven't you where how
Speaker 4: long you've been in I got me involved in it
Speaker 4: going down here? Are you telling on?
Speaker 2: You yelling on? Three years? This will be my third year.
Speaker 2: I I enjoy it. It's it's a humbling experience.
Speaker 3: I h when I came into the Eagles. You know,
Speaker 3: I grew up on the farm, and my uncle kind
Speaker 3: of taught us, you know, do do the best you
Speaker 3: can every time.
Speaker 2: Don't slick on it.
Speaker 3: When you walk into the Eagles, there's a group of
Speaker 3: members already in there doing the best they can do.
Speaker 3: So to one up them, guys, you really got to
Speaker 3: work out hope.
Speaker 2: They've been doing it a long time.
Speaker 3: So I've you know, I've tried to do the best
Speaker 3: I can. And some of these older guys say, you know,
Speaker 3: I was working with a guy this weekend over at martinstall.
Speaker 2: He seventy six years old.
Speaker 3: I think he just had a birthday or he's going
Speaker 3: to have a birthday Thursday.
Speaker 2: I don't know which, but.
Speaker 3: He's sitting there out working me, and it's like, man,
Speaker 3: I need to up my game a little bit.
Speaker 4: Rick. How long you've been at it?
Speaker 5: Nineteen ninety seven, so yeah, you've been doing it for
Speaker 5: more than a me. Yeah, we got our I believe
Speaker 5: our oldest member right now is ninety.
Speaker 6: Four or five.
Speaker 4: Still keeping up with it.
Speaker 6: Oh he's he's yeah, we try.
Speaker 2: There's no way anybody can outdo him, I promise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And everybody in this community knows him.
Speaker 2: That's the deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh yeah, So you can't get away with nothing,
Speaker 4: no old man.
Speaker 5: But it's a good organization. We're always looking for members
Speaker 5: if you know, if you're just just hit us up.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: We have a women's side. We have an augxiliy. Women
Speaker 5: do a lot, a lot of stuff for us.
Speaker 6: It's a good teamwork with the women and the men.
Speaker 1: Well, it really sounds like it. It sounds like you have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, good camaraderie and you're doing good
Speaker 1: things for the community. And oh, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: it's all about. Take care of one another, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, And like I said, Maynard, I mean, Martin
Speaker 5: mentioned a lot of callers and stuff, and we got
Speaker 5: Maynor Tanner calls for us. We got a few more
Speaker 5: that we could name, but we don't leave him by
Speaker 5: out and we get back so.
Speaker 6: Oh I called them and go too.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 6: But but it's a good group. It's it's it's a
Speaker 6: it's a wonderful group of men and women.
Speaker 3: Hold on one second, sure, so John Courtney from No
Speaker 3: Wada he calls, and then we've got one of my
Speaker 3: favorite being callers, Rod Jenkins from Tulsa. He's out on
Speaker 3: vacation right now and I haven't seen him in a while.
Speaker 3: But John Courtney called last night and he's one of
Speaker 3: the he's one of the funnier callers because he does
Speaker 3: interact with the crowd and he's.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a lot of fun with these guys.
Speaker 3: Don't When you come into our bingo parlor and play,
Speaker 3: expect to.
Speaker 2: Have a good time.
Speaker 1: You will be entertained. Yes, and you could win some money.
Speaker 1: And yes, guys, thanks for being with us today.