Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: full load of community connections today. We're expecting war and
Speaker 1: help from city Council in a little bit later on,
Speaker 1: of course, we're going to be talking with the honor
Speaker 1: of the Mayor. But right now we have got one
Speaker 1: of the Hart's working people in show business as Tina Romane.
Speaker 1: She's our promotions director here and a little something about
Speaker 1: Christmas coming on here and Dorry Potter is coming in
Speaker 1: here too. This is gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. We are ready for Christmas, well
Speaker 2: just about.
Speaker 3: I'm ready.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go my tree like I could put
Speaker 4: up my tree today.
Speaker 5: I could do, I know, but we got to get
Speaker 5: through Halloween and Thanksgiving and all. But businesses are ready
Speaker 5: and we are partnering with them to have another great, great,
Speaker 5: great Christmas, Green Country Christmas. It's a win win for everybody,
Speaker 5: like we say each year, and you know what I think,
Speaker 5: this is like.
Speaker 2: The yeah, yes, we're going to have a big we are.
Speaker 5: We are gonna have so much fun this year with
Speaker 5: Green Country Christmas.
Speaker 2: Those who aren't familiar with it.
Speaker 5: This is a promotion now we've been doing twenty five
Speaker 5: years here at the radio station. Started out as a
Speaker 5: chamber promotion and they were gonna need to drop it
Speaker 5: for different reasons of not being able to facilitate it,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, they did it a little bit differently,
Speaker 5: and so so we said, hey, we'll pick it up
Speaker 5: and want to encourage people to shop local, and that's
Speaker 5: what we've been doing and that's what we're doing again.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of businesses who are partnering with
Speaker 5: us again to make it a great event. What date
Speaker 5: do people need to mark on their calendar, Tina.
Speaker 4: Well, wednesdayeth will be the kickoff at the Turkey Casino
Speaker 4: and Ramona from five to seven. Miss Tammyo'll be out
Speaker 4: there and that's kind of the green light go and
Speaker 4: then all the businesses.
Speaker 3: Will have their take to give out November first.
Speaker 1: Saw this is going to be fun.
Speaker 2: So start shopping, start collecting those tickets.
Speaker 4: Yes, and now's the time to shop for Christmas. Don't
Speaker 4: wait till the last minute, because we all know when
Speaker 4: that that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Now, in years past, we've done anywhere from what thirty
Speaker 1: eight to fifty two thousand dollars worth of prizes. So
Speaker 1: I imagine we're going to be in that sweet spot again.
Speaker 2: That's what we anticipate. Yes, we really do.
Speaker 5: And the neat thing about it is just shop locally,
Speaker 5: you know, and for if you're in a business, ask
Speaker 5: them for a green ticket or ticket and you don't
Speaker 5: have to spend any money. Just shop, look around. They
Speaker 5: want you to shop and look around. You get your
Speaker 5: ticket just for asking for one. If you do buy something,
Speaker 5: which we hope you will keep your sales tax dollars
Speaker 5: here at home. For every ten dollars that you spend,
Speaker 5: you get another green ticket. And you want to save
Speaker 5: those tickets, you know, collect them up, watch them because
Speaker 5: we are going to be giving daily prizes away starting the.
Speaker 2: Middle of November, November eleventh. Okay, I can remember these
Speaker 2: that I walked in here, don't have all my notes
Speaker 2: in front of me.
Speaker 5: So November eleventh, we'll have daily prizes, ten of them
Speaker 5: every day.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: The businesses donate the prices of fifty dollars or more
Speaker 5: for our daily prizes, So you'll want to watch the numbers.
Speaker 5: Listen for the numbers. We'll have them here on the radio.
Speaker 5: We'll have them on the Sunrise Reporter, we'll have them
Speaker 5: on the website.
Speaker 2: We'll have them money where you can have them one
Speaker 2: other place.
Speaker 5: You don't put them on Facebook though, No, no we don't,
Speaker 5: and but we.
Speaker 3: Do link the story.
Speaker 2: So right, okay, so you can get get there too
Speaker 2: and get them there.
Speaker 3: Okay, So anyway you can get to it.
Speaker 5: So but the thing about the daily prizes is you
Speaker 5: want to look because you have three business days to
Speaker 5: redeem your prizes if you have a winning ticket for
Speaker 5: the daily prizes, so you want three business days, you'll
Speaker 5: come up here to the radio station, show us that
Speaker 5: you have that winning ticket, and miss Tina here, one
Speaker 5: of the people in front office will give you your
Speaker 5: your daily.
Speaker 4: Prize and nothing to sneeze that they are some really
Speaker 4: good prize exactly. Yeah, we've got JB speakers to give away.
Speaker 4: We've got gift certificates from all around town.
Speaker 3: Those green doorbells. Sometimes we have oil changes.
Speaker 1: And things that come in for everyday life. And also yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of special stuff too that you can say, yeah,
Speaker 1: very Christmas to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or you know, if you want to, you know,
Speaker 4: win that JBL speaker and gifted to me.
Speaker 3: I mean, those things are so nice.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing is, you win it, and nobody's in
Speaker 5: your family's going to know you want it. You can
Speaker 5: be gifted to somebody in your family too.
Speaker 3: You can get that if you.
Speaker 4: Give certificate to any of the stores in town and
Speaker 4: go shopping for your family exactly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of question here.
Speaker 1: We've got the big culmination coming up to a big day.
Speaker 1: What's the big day for the grand prizes?
Speaker 3: The December nineteenth. That's a Thursday this year.
Speaker 5: Thursday, December nineteenth. Mark your calendars right here.
Speaker 4: We give away all twelve so Thursday afternoon there will
Speaker 4: be no prizes left, zero, no, no daily prizes, nothing.
Speaker 4: Everything is rolled into those big twelve packages and they
Speaker 4: can be anywhere from like fifteen hundred dollars to start.
Speaker 5: To like to the finals or five thousand dollars of cash.
Speaker 5: Is the final one that we give away is the
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars cash, but it usually has a few
Speaker 5: other things that are accompanied with it, because those daily
Speaker 5: prizes that aren't redeemed will then roll into our price packages.
Speaker 5: That's how we come up with the twelve price packages.
Speaker 5: Because we do have major prices that have been donated
Speaker 5: by a lot of the businesses. You know, since day one,
Speaker 5: we've had the Southwest the trip on Southwest airlines from
Speaker 5: Spears Travel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so they gown.
Speaker 3: Trip tickets anywhere in the continental US.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So they've been partnering with us every single year. So
Speaker 5: prizes like that plus than other daily prizes that get
Speaker 5: along with them.
Speaker 2: That have a great value.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's so special over the years to
Speaker 5: see some of the people who have won and been
Speaker 5: able to use some of the prize is in really
Speaker 5: a special special way. So yeah, it truly has been
Speaker 5: a blessing for us at the radio stations here to
Speaker 5: be able to facilitate this, keep people shopping locally. And
Speaker 5: I also see some really happy faces at Christmas time.
Speaker 1: And you know, it works so well.
Speaker 4: About ten out of twelve of the winners come in
Speaker 4: and they say, I never win anything.
Speaker 3: I never win anything. We hear that year after year
Speaker 3: after year.
Speaker 4: Grandfriend, Yeah, well they're all, I never win anything. I
Speaker 4: you know, and a lot of people around town they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't need those tickets. I don't play because I
Speaker 4: never went. Well, yeah, if you don't play, you don't win.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But most of the people that win, or oh I
Speaker 4: never win anything, so play this year.
Speaker 3: Give it a try. You know somebody's gonna win.
Speaker 4: So yeah, keep your green tickets, keep them separated by
Speaker 4: your you can keep them in an Excel file.
Speaker 3: Just make sure you keep your ticket.
Speaker 2: You can.
Speaker 4: We've had people staple them to a piece of paper.
Speaker 4: If you keep them separated, it kind of helps you
Speaker 4: with the daily prizes to know where they come from.
Speaker 4: And then on that big grand day, we tell you
Speaker 4: where the ticket came from. So if you have a
Speaker 4: lot of tickets, it's a little bit easier for you
Speaker 4: to find.
Speaker 5: But the thing is, be careful if you say, well,
Speaker 5: I didn't shop that store, because someone else in your
Speaker 5: family might have shopped that store, and so so you
Speaker 5: still look at the number just in case, because someone
Speaker 5: else in the family could have have shopped that store
Speaker 5: and you didn't know about it because it was a secret.
Speaker 1: So well, you know, you have an idea that I
Speaker 1: think everybody is caught on to about keeping these things
Speaker 1: in order so that you can tell if you want
Speaker 1: a daily prize, and of course on the grand.
Speaker 5: Prize well, and on Grand prize Day, do we like
Speaker 5: you said the nineteenth we'll be giving away all the
Speaker 5: prizes out that morning, starting here at nine o'clock on
Speaker 5: the radio, and so you'll need to listen in. But
Speaker 5: the thing about it is if you don't have them
Speaker 5: in some kind of organization, it takes a while to
Speaker 5: go through your numbers sometimes, and we do have to
Speaker 5: keep we have a time limit set, you know, we'll
Speaker 5: talk about the prize, we'll maybe interview the person who's
Speaker 5: given away the major prize, and so basically you'll have
Speaker 5: any or usually ten minutes or so maybe fifteen minutes
Speaker 5: to look at look at, but not always. It just
Speaker 5: depends on how the timing's going, you know, with it.
Speaker 5: So but at one point we'll say you have a
Speaker 5: minute forty seconds now, and the clock is started.
Speaker 2: And if you don't call in before then.
Speaker 5: That day we don't take calls saying oops, what was
Speaker 5: my number or what was that number and stuff to you.
Speaker 2: We can't do that.
Speaker 5: We have to keep our lines open to communicate with
Speaker 5: those who are calling in with winning numbers and then
Speaker 5: call out to those who to for our ticket verifiers
Speaker 5: to go and look at the ticket and things too.
Speaker 5: So again you can that day, the nineteenth, you can
Speaker 5: be at work, you can be at home, you can
Speaker 5: be shopping, you can be anywhere that you have access
Speaker 5: to your tickets, because we're going to come to you
Speaker 5: to verify your tickets that day.
Speaker 1: You know one thing with the text that we do
Speaker 1: on the Grand prize day that is really it pays
Speaker 1: for itself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sign up for the texting, yes, because you can.
Speaker 5: That's a good way to verify. We don't want you
Speaker 5: to have that be your only way listen alive is faster.
Speaker 5: We have no way of keeping knowing if the phone
Speaker 5: people are going to be able to get text through
Speaker 5: in a timely fashion, and so we don't want that
Speaker 5: to be the reason why you don't win is because
Speaker 5: you didn't get the text fast enough, because your provider
Speaker 5: didn't get it to you fast enough. And so yeah,
Speaker 5: listen first and use that as a as a backup.
Speaker 4: Also, if you stream it, it can be a little delayed.
Speaker 4: And we did have yeah, we did have someone unfortunately
Speaker 4: due to buffering, they missed their chance.
Speaker 2: And it was fat.
Speaker 5: Yes, So yeah, get your radio ready that way, fresh
Speaker 5: batteries or power, whatever you might.
Speaker 2: Need for it.
Speaker 5: And and some people are even in their car they're
Speaker 5: saying you know.
Speaker 2: I just I'm in my car and hey that works.
Speaker 2: That's live radio, so yeah, that works very well.
Speaker 4: We did have one year that someone was driving by
Speaker 4: and they stopped in.
Speaker 3: I heard it on the radio. I'm a winning ticket.
Speaker 3: Here we are, so it was awesome, like, wait's up? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was great.
Speaker 1: Where can we get at the green tickets? Do we
Speaker 1: have a list?
Speaker 3: We have a list.
Speaker 4: It will be posted on our website, so you can
Speaker 4: go there and check it out. All the participating businesses
Speaker 4: around town will have some rule sheets that have the
Speaker 4: list on the back.
Speaker 5: In the Green Tree exactly the poster and if if
Speaker 5: you want to look in the Sunrise Reporter too, you'll
Speaker 5: have all of them listed in the Sunrise Reporter as well,
Speaker 5: and you can find that around the community. So just
Speaker 5: grab one of those yellow sheets and and keep track
Speaker 5: of where you're shopping.
Speaker 3: And you can always call us you need some help.
Speaker 2: Will help you to get there.
Speaker 3: We're not to help you on because well, no, Thattay
Speaker 3: is a different day, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Green Country Christmas. Let's get it rocking and roll.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday night, right.
Speaker 3: Wednesday, we go out there to key yes, you.
Speaker 2: Know, to get started in November businesses have.
Speaker 3: A right Merry.
Speaker 1: Christmas one and all. Thank you ladies.
Speaker 2: Hi Bartlesville, I'm Queen Shipper your workforce. City Councilor E.