Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on Gay one, the one you trust Tory Potters with
Speaker 1: is today on this grand, glorious Friday, before we start
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of rain and animals lining up too
Speaker 1: by two.
Speaker 2: Can't you believe it's November?
Speaker 3: No idea. I know I can't either. I just love
Speaker 3: it though, I love, love love it. I love the
Speaker 3: holiday season. And I'm here today to talk about Bartles
Speaker 3: Valai's Connection again. You know, that's one of my passions,
Speaker 3: one of the things that I just truly, truly and
Speaker 3: love being a part of and getting to meet all
Speaker 3: the different ladies in our community and the surrounding area
Speaker 3: who come. Bartles Valay's Connection is an organization that doesn't
Speaker 3: have membership or dues. You just come to one of
Speaker 3: our events and you're a part of us. Then you
Speaker 3: know you can come when you can, and we know
Speaker 3: people are busy. We have monthly events. It's usually the
Speaker 3: second Thursday of the month, and this time is our
Speaker 3: annual fall fundraiser event that we do, which is always
Speaker 3: something that everybody looks forward to. We go out to
Speaker 3: Hillcrest Country Club, once a year and it's our most
Speaker 3: expensive event. It's twenty dollars to come, but it's well
Speaker 3: worth it because you get a great holiday dinner usually
Speaker 3: turkey and dressing and green beans and pumpkin dessert and
Speaker 3: you know, things like this. It's just really fabulous. But
Speaker 3: what we do is we have our silent auction and
Speaker 3: so people will bring things. You can bring things, or
Speaker 3: you can take things home or buy things, you know,
Speaker 3: whichever or do both. But we'll have all kinds of
Speaker 3: homemade items, whether it be craft type items for the holidays,
Speaker 3: whether it be yummy good pies and candies and cakes
Speaker 3: and you know, things like this, Lots of good things
Speaker 3: like that, just a variety of things on our silent auction,
Speaker 3: and all the proceeds will go toward our organization. We're
Speaker 3: under Stonecroft Ministries, but it's Bartlesville A's connection and we
Speaker 3: do the local jail ministry here in town, which I
Speaker 3: heard earlier today the sheriff was talking about and given
Speaker 3: a plug for how we're involved there at at the
Speaker 3: local jail. But anyway, so that helps our funds to
Speaker 3: be able to keep our costs down in all that
Speaker 3: we do and provide Bible studies and things like this
Speaker 3: for the ladies there as well as low cost Bible
Speaker 3: studies for people in our community who want to be
Speaker 3: involved too.
Speaker 2: But again back to our upcoming event.
Speaker 3: It's called our Holiday Extravaganza Lunch and Silent Auction Hill
Speaker 3: Chriss Country Club and that happens to be November.
Speaker 2: Fourteenth this year.
Speaker 3: The second Thursday is November fourteenth, so we're still a
Speaker 3: little bit time to plan for it.
Speaker 2: If you want to make something, bake something.
Speaker 3: One of the things that has been a highlight for
Speaker 3: the last oh gosh, maybe ten years as we've done
Speaker 3: a cake centerpiece competition. And what we do is people
Speaker 3: will decorate cakes, and I mean they are phenomenal. They
Speaker 3: are so fancy and cultated. Yes, yes, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes they're very simple. I mean sometimes simple is beautiful,
Speaker 3: so they'll be very simple and beautiful, but sometimes they're
Speaker 3: very intricate with little details of decorative time things that
Speaker 3: are made out of candy or fondant or whatever type
Speaker 3: of frosting that they might be using for it. And
Speaker 3: so they usually they're kind of on a holiday type
Speaker 3: theme too, so that people can purchase them. There are
Speaker 3: centerpieces but they're up for a part of the silent.
Speaker 2: Auction, so you can purchase them.
Speaker 3: What I usually do is purchase one or two and
Speaker 3: I plan on one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas.
Speaker 2: I wrap them up well and.
Speaker 3: Cell a fane and put it in my freezer and
Speaker 3: then pull it out and people think, I really have
Speaker 3: a fancy dessert for the holidays.
Speaker 2: And it was pretty easy. I got it at Bartlesvi
Speaker 2: Lady's Connection.
Speaker 3: But anyway, we do have a competition amongst it too,
Speaker 3: and we'll have first, second, and third place prizes. The
Speaker 3: first prize is dinner for two at Hill Chris Country Club,
Speaker 3: second prize is dinner for two at Sterling's Grill, and
Speaker 3: third prize is come Bartsville A's connection to people to
Speaker 3: be able to come to that. So we have for
Speaker 3: second and third place prizes for it. Everybody when they
Speaker 3: come in the door gets a little marble and they
Speaker 3: choose their favorite and they put the marble.
Speaker 2: And the little cup next to the cake that they
Speaker 2: like best.
Speaker 3: Those all the cakes, like you said, are part of
Speaker 3: the silent auction, but the top three go into the
Speaker 3: live auction, and then we do a live auction and
Speaker 3: that's a whole lot of fun too, and to be
Speaker 3: able to raise some more money for our organization as well.
Speaker 2: So it's really a fun time.
Speaker 3: It's a neat uplifting day and things too, because again
Speaker 3: we always have an inspirational speaker at our Bartlesville as
Speaker 3: Connection events, and this one is coming to us from Texas.
Speaker 3: She's coming from Amarillo and her name is Leney Jacob
Speaker 3: and she talks about Toolbox for the Broken Soul, and
Speaker 3: so she's got this really interesting little talk that she'll
Speaker 3: be giving us as an inspiration for the events. So
Speaker 3: one other thing that we have for this time, and
Speaker 3: sometimes we do and sometimes we don't, is we have
Speaker 3: a little raffle going to and Sudi Freeland has given
Speaker 3: us a beautiful turquoise necklace that you've got to see
Speaker 3: to believe. It's sterling silver and turquoise and one of
Speaker 3: those oh I can't think of know what you call
Speaker 3: the design for it. Anyway, it's fabulous, it's big, it's
Speaker 3: big and fabulous, lots of turquoise, twelve hundred dollars value.
Speaker 2: She gave it to us to part of a raffle.
Speaker 2: So we have a raffle and you can get tickets
Speaker 2: ahead of time.
Speaker 3: You can just see me come by the station here
Speaker 3: and if you can't come to the event and you're
Speaker 3: interested in that, you can get tickets ahead of time,
Speaker 3: or you can get tickets the day of our event
Speaker 3: as well, but that's part of it. Also as part
Speaker 3: of the raffle, there's a black Michael Coore's handbag too,
Speaker 3: so you have your choice either you want the handbag
Speaker 3: or that. Or there's also a set of Corinthian chimes.
Speaker 3: Those are the chimes that you get like a green
Speaker 3: thumb nursery that sound really beautiful, you know, and they
Speaker 3: have a great tone to them. Okay, So anyway, there's
Speaker 3: three items as part of our raffle, and so the
Speaker 3: first person's name who's drawn from the raffle will have
Speaker 3: their choices to let the jewelry, the purse or the chimes,
Speaker 3: and second person drawn will get the choice of the
Speaker 3: two that are left. And then the third one drawn
Speaker 3: will get the third item. But they're all fabulous prizes,
Speaker 3: so you know, anybody would enjoy it to have either
Speaker 3: any of the three. So the raffle tickets are really affordable.
Speaker 3: The more Raffle tickets you buy, the price comes down
Speaker 3: for each one too, So the more the merry you're
Speaker 3: with that. So I can help you with that if
Speaker 3: you're interested, just give me a holler here at the
Speaker 3: station or stop buy and get your raffle tickets for that.
Speaker 2: So that's our fall fundraiser.
Speaker 3: That's what we're doing. I'm coming up November fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Again. It's a great meal.
Speaker 3: We actually start Usually our luncheons are from eleven forty
Speaker 3: five to one, but this one we start eleven fifteen
Speaker 3: with the shopping, so we'll have shopping from eleven fifteen
Speaker 3: to eleven forty five, so you can kind of pre
Speaker 3: shop like that those who are working gals and basically
Speaker 3: just have the hour that they can be there. If
Speaker 3: you're still come at eleven forty five to one, you're
Speaker 3: not going to miss anything. You know.
Speaker 2: You just have to shop quicker. You just have to
Speaker 2: make your speed shop exactly. But you can still be
Speaker 2: a part of it.
Speaker 3: We do need reservations because we do have to turn
Speaker 3: in the count to to Hillcrest ahead of time so
Speaker 3: that they'll know how many are coming, how many to
Speaker 3: plan for how many tables we're going to have this
Speaker 3: type of thing, So we need to have that by
Speaker 3: Tuesday the twelfth at noon, so we can let them know,
Speaker 3: so anytime between now and then again, just let me
Speaker 3: know at the station and we'll get you a reservation
Speaker 3: for it and you pay at the door. We'll take cash,
Speaker 3: check your credit card. Usually we don't take credit cards,
Speaker 3: but for this event we do take credit card, and
Speaker 3: because we know people have larger purchases and things like
Speaker 3: this for what they're doing, so we'll be taking credit
Speaker 3: card for that if.
Speaker 2: We want to plan ahead.
Speaker 3: We're already working ahead toward our Winter Wonderland Luncheon. That's
Speaker 3: our December luncheon, and we're going to be at Tri
Speaker 3: County Tech, which is always a fabulous lunch. They seth
Speaker 3: and the team out there does a great job with lunch,
Speaker 3: so we have a good time with that. We're actually
Speaker 3: going to have a fashion show. Have some quilted dresses
Speaker 3: that are really interesting. They're beautiful, fun dresses that a
Speaker 3: local gal here makes and they're kind of an artisan
Speaker 3: type of address quill to dress, and most of her
Speaker 3: sales go to boutiques over like in the Bella Vista
Speaker 3: area and stuff too, because they are so unique and special.
Speaker 3: I have one I love it. It's the most comfortable
Speaker 3: thing you've ever worn. And I almost put it on today.
Speaker 3: I should have too bad. I should have been you
Speaker 3: could have seen it on the Facebook Live today. But anyway,
Speaker 3: it's really a fun little dress to wear. So's that's
Speaker 3: going to be December twelfth, So plan ahead for our
Speaker 3: Christmas luncheon, invite some friends to join us and just
Speaker 3: have a really good time for that. We'll have our
Speaker 3: speaker coming from us from Oklahoma City area.
Speaker 2: It's Frankie Watts. And those people who know J. C.
Speaker 3: Watts, who was the football player at OU and then
Speaker 3: he was a congressman, well Frankie is his wife, and
Speaker 3: so Frankie will be our speaker in December, and she
Speaker 3: does a great job, just a really inspirational talk that
Speaker 3: she has too. So that's something we're looking forward to
Speaker 3: in December's having Frankie be our speaker out at Tri
Speaker 3: County Tech. So mark our calendar is December twelfth for that. Again,
Speaker 3: we've got lots of things coming up in the new year.
Speaker 3: But that's enough right now.
Speaker 2: Let's get through the holidays.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much for dropping by, and they're
Speaker 1: giving us some good news and then some things to
Speaker 1: look forward to, appreciate it,