Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome it. It
Speaker 1: is time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust.
Speaker 2: And we have.
Speaker 1: Shavan back with us here, the executive director from the
Speaker 1: West Side Community.
Speaker 2: And you brought friends, I did.
Speaker 1: You brought Richard Mitchell here with us today and you
Speaker 1: were at the board of directors. But it's correct man,
Speaker 1: goodness sakes Ikes was out there for the grand reopening.
Speaker 1: Wow place takes on a different look, a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different attitude and lots of people.
Speaker 2: I imagine there's still a lot of people.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people.
Speaker 4: They say we had over three hundred people, that more
Speaker 4: than that reopening.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. It was people who are very exciting.
Speaker 1: Reason well, some of them won cake That cake walk
Speaker 1: went on for a while, but everything else, the children
Speaker 1: had fun and it was a great welcoming and safe place.
Speaker 2: And I think the world needs a few more of those.
Speaker 3: I agree. I definitely agree, and we'll have more things
Speaker 3: coming for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask her what's new, and
Speaker 1: then I've figured out we only got seventeen minutes.
Speaker 2: But Chavan always has.
Speaker 1: A great list of what's going On, and first of all,
Speaker 1: let's kind of get started with the Summer Fine Arts.
Speaker 4: Yes, one of the most exciting things that we are
Speaker 4: happy to let the community know about is we're bringing
Speaker 4: back Summer Fine Arts for just one week only, which
Speaker 4: begins next week. It's Monday through Friday, and each day
Speaker 4: is going to focus on one aspect of the arts.
Speaker 2: Well, that's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 5: So Chavon, would you just help our audience understand what
Speaker 5: does Summer Fine Arts?
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, Summer Fine Arts is an amazing program where
Speaker 4: you're introducing kids to the aspect of the arts. So
Speaker 4: you have painting, you have creative writing, we have even
Speaker 4: this year, the art of entrepreneurship, as well as three
Speaker 4: theatrical arts and filming arts as well.
Speaker 2: In one week and one week. Wow, you know, I know,
Speaker 2: kids absorb this like a sponge. I've witnessed this. But
Speaker 2: one week, one week, my good.
Speaker 4: So the goal is to introduce them to what sum
Speaker 4: Refine Arts is as well as some of the other
Speaker 4: programs will have throughout the year that they'll be able
Speaker 4: to take advantage of.
Speaker 2: How do we sign up for these things?
Speaker 3: So glad you asked, Well, you can sign up online.
Speaker 4: You can go to our website. There will be a
Speaker 4: link that takes you directly to a page for you
Speaker 4: to sign up online. Or you can actually stop buy
Speaker 4: five on one South Eusty Avenue and we'll take.
Speaker 2: Care of you all right before we go into you anymore.
Speaker 1: I've got a question for Richard, but what made you
Speaker 1: want to become a board member?
Speaker 2: There? What drew you first?
Speaker 5: I wanted to simply add value back to the community.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and serve it on the West Side Community Center.
Speaker 5: Board was a way to add value back. However, we
Speaker 5: did run into a few challenges. But with Chavon miss
Speaker 5: Roeblis being the new executive director, and I just want
Speaker 5: the public to know the board support her one. She
Speaker 5: has done in the short period of time a fantastic
Speaker 5: job with some programs. You notice what the grand reopening.
Speaker 5: That was amazing. So my goal is again just to
Speaker 5: serve and add value back to the community.
Speaker 1: Wow, and you're you're with the right team. You're definitely
Speaker 1: with the right squad. I want to get back to
Speaker 1: another program coming back, because boy ga, if you listen
Speaker 1: to any or watch any commercials, it might be back
Speaker 1: to school time.
Speaker 4: It absolutely is back to school time, and the Westside
Speaker 4: Community Center is taking advantage of that.
Speaker 3: So on Saturday, August tenth, we're going to have a
Speaker 3: super huge fun back to school Extravaganza.
Speaker 4: It's something that's being presented by Brave a Barber Club
Speaker 4: in conjunction with Greater First Church.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's gonna be amazing, carnival rides.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have popcorn, cotton candy, hot dogs, hamburgers, and
Speaker 4: most importantly, free haircuts of those kids go back to.
Speaker 3: School looking sharp.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, isn't it great to have community partners
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 5: That's important to have community departments to work with the
Speaker 5: west Side Community Center again to add value. The community
Speaker 5: partners are instrumental in helping the west Side which its
Speaker 5: ultimately called, which is serving the community.
Speaker 1: Wow, and this is this is great. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be a kid, or I can't eat pass. I
Speaker 1: couldn't pass for a kid.
Speaker 4: Well, actually, anyone can come, anyone can take advantage of
Speaker 4: everything that's happening.
Speaker 3: The haircutter just free for the kids.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, I got you, not
Speaker 1: men like me who act like kids. All right, we
Speaker 1: have after school starting right after school starts absolutely.
Speaker 4: So school is starting back super quick literally on August
Speaker 4: fifteenth is when school starts back, and so West Side
Speaker 4: Community Center has always provided after school programs for kids
Speaker 4: and we're going to continue doing that, which starts on
Speaker 4: August fifteenth when school starts.
Speaker 1: And nick great to have both new things and old traditions.
Speaker 5: I think that one of the things the Westside Community
Speaker 5: Center is doing is really considering the needs of the community.
Speaker 5: That's a big need, it's very big need, and once
Speaker 5: the need is attentified, Miss Roebliss is working very diligently
Speaker 5: to reach and.
Speaker 2: Meet that need.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, with after school and I knew this
Speaker 1: being a kid too. There's that period of time if
Speaker 1: you don't have an activity that's planned or is structured,
Speaker 1: you're kind of on an independent study from about three
Speaker 1: thirty to about five fifteen and oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's just say there were three boys under the age
Speaker 1: of twelve, stupid stuff just kind of spontaneously what happen.
Speaker 1: And we find it very quickly in our family that
Speaker 1: having some kind of a structured activity right after school
Speaker 1: until the folks came home from work was very very
Speaker 1: important to everyone concerned, especially my backside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we recognize that as well, and that's why
Speaker 4: we also have transportation that goes around.
Speaker 3: To the schools wow, that actually picks up the kids
Speaker 3: and brings them to the Westside Community Center.
Speaker 4: We will have it certified individuals and teachers that are
Speaker 4: there to help the kids as far as making sure
Speaker 4: that they get their studies done, that they get their
Speaker 4: homework completed.
Speaker 3: We have a game room for the kids as well as.
Speaker 4: Some other things just to keep them occupying a very
Speaker 4: good and structured and fun educational way and so their
Speaker 4: parents are able.
Speaker 1: The best thing you can do is be with friends
Speaker 1: or with make new friends. And this is a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for youngsters, isn't it exactly?
Speaker 2: All right? Great, let's see family fun gating. You're all about.
Speaker 1: Family and fun these days we are, and you know,
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, is you can't have enough
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: Really, you cannot have enough fun.
Speaker 4: And one of the things with the Westside Community Center,
Speaker 4: because we are a membership driven organization, we want to
Speaker 4: make sure is the same thing as mister Mitchell just said.
Speaker 4: We want to add value to the community. And so
Speaker 4: we recognize that families need to come together and have fun.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna have things such as bingo with the prizes.
Speaker 4: We'll have dominoes, we'll have card games, indoor games as.
Speaker 3: Well as outdoor games.
Speaker 4: And so it's one of those things that's going to
Speaker 4: start at six pm till about eight thirty and then
Speaker 4: we're gonna move everyone outside and we're going.
Speaker 3: To watch a fun movie outside under.
Speaker 2: The stars, just like the old drive in without all
Speaker 2: the guards.
Speaker 5: Again, the programs and the objectives of the Westside has
Speaker 5: to serve the community, and the programs as mister Robins
Speaker 5: has identified, and really are family focused. And that's the
Speaker 5: goal because, as you mentioned earlier, when kids do not
Speaker 5: have a structured program, sometimes they make choices that may
Speaker 5: not be in the interests. But Miss Rops is given
Speaker 5: them in the family an opportunity to be together and
Speaker 5: work together right here in our little small Bartlesville community.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's great.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing you said about the West Side
Speaker 1: Community Center is that it's all about community, the entire community,
Speaker 1: not just one portion of town.
Speaker 2: No, not just one literly bitty neighborhood. We're talking about.
Speaker 4: All of Barble absolutely, And I'm so glad that you
Speaker 4: said that because Oftentimes people hear west Side Community Center
Speaker 4: and I think we only cater to individuals on the
Speaker 4: west Side.
Speaker 3: Well, that just points to our location.
Speaker 4: But we are a multicultural hobe that serves all of Bartlesville,
Speaker 4: and we want to make sure that all of Bartlesville
Speaker 4: comes on over and takes advantage of all the fun
Speaker 4: things that we're doing.
Speaker 2: And why because we're adding value.
Speaker 5: We're adding value. And I too want to emphasize what
Speaker 5: Miss Field has just said is not just for the
Speaker 5: person's on people who live on the west Side. It
Speaker 5: is the location, as she hadn't mentioned, has happened to
Speaker 5: have the building on the west side, right, But again,
Speaker 5: the focus is serving everyone within the community.
Speaker 3: Everyone.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to community connection right here on Gay one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust. We're talking with our friends from
Speaker 1: west Side Community Center, Shabana and Richard. And what if
Speaker 1: somebody has a dollar or two or with a couple
Speaker 1: of zeros behind it or many more? Is there a
Speaker 1: way that they could maybe toss that into the good
Speaker 1: things happened in the west Side community.
Speaker 2: Yes, they could.
Speaker 5: They could make a donation either on our website, they
Speaker 5: can mail a check to the west Side Community Center. Alternatively,
Speaker 5: if they want to actually see what's going on, they
Speaker 5: could bring their donation to the community Center and Miss
Speaker 5: Robus will be happy to receive it and explain to
Speaker 5: them exactly how their money will be used.
Speaker 1: And you know something, one look is worth a million
Speaker 1: bucks if you ask me, and you're going to really
Speaker 1: feel good about your investment, I would really think hard
Speaker 1: about making that personal donation and coming there and arranging
Speaker 1: a time just to take a visit and a tour.
Speaker 2: You never know you might want to grab more extra dollars. Say,
Speaker 2: this is good.
Speaker 4: Stuff, absolutely, and we would love to show people exactly
Speaker 4: where their donation is going. And it allowed them to
Speaker 4: actually see where it's going and see the programs that
Speaker 4: are happening and see the people that it benefits as well.
Speaker 5: And that makes the difference because when a person makes
Speaker 5: a donation, most people want to know where their money
Speaker 5: is going, is it being put to good use or
Speaker 5: is it being squandered or wasted. If they choose to
Speaker 5: bring their donation to the West Side, they can actually
Speaker 5: see see the children, see the services, see the programs
Speaker 5: that's being used, and how their money will be utilized.
Speaker 5: So it encourage them. They can make a donation in
Speaker 5: a multitude of ways. The most important thing is we're
Speaker 5: just nicely and kindly asking for their health.
Speaker 2: That's great, That is really great.
Speaker 1: And once you come in the doors, it's more than
Speaker 1: just four walls, yes, four more than just four walls.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can turn that into such
Speaker 1: a multiplex, but you've done it, and they're probably more
Speaker 1: to come. I get the feeling between the talking to
Speaker 1: the two of you here that we're just kind of
Speaker 1: scratching the surface.
Speaker 2: Are we not.
Speaker 5: Miss Robles has some wonderful ideas and there's definitely more
Speaker 5: to come.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, jam On and Richard, thank you both for being
Speaker 1: our guest here on Community Connection.
Speaker 5: Thanks