Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome. Media's time now
Speaker 1: for our community connection right here on K one, the
Speaker 1: one you trust, and we're talking with our representatives here
Speaker 1: for Play for Bird Foundation and we have a tighter
Speaker 1: Backlaw and Clint Hansen in studio here with us. We've
Speaker 1: got a very special event coming out. Let's start with
Speaker 1: you Tyler.
Speaker 2: First of all, welcome, Thanks Tom, appreciate you allowing us
Speaker 2: to be here today. It's a great day, sunshine, and
Speaker 2: we're here to talk about the Festival of Nativity that's
Speaker 2: coming up this weekend. It's starting. It's at Father Lynch
Speaker 2: Hall at Saint John's School, which is at eighth and Keeler,
Speaker 2: starting tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3: At nine am.
Speaker 2: It's an event open to the public, free no charge.
Speaker 2: We want to invite the entire community surrounding area to
Speaker 2: start their Christmas holiday off by coming to the Festival
Speaker 2: in Nativity and what that is. This is our fourteenth
Speaker 2: year that we've done this. It's our ninth year that
Speaker 2: we've done it at Father Lynch. So if people are
Speaker 2: familiar with it, they know all about it. But if
Speaker 2: they're new to the community or they haven't heard of
Speaker 2: it before, we basically have every year we open up
Speaker 2: Father Lynch Hall, we decorate the facility to represent i
Speaker 2: would say, a Christmas wonderland. But then people of the
Speaker 2: community temporarily donate their nativity sets that they keep in
Speaker 2: their homes at this Christmas time. Now that Thanksgivings out
Speaker 2: of the way and they're starting to decorate their homes
Speaker 2: for Christmas. This weekend, everybody is bringing in their nativities
Speaker 2: and we put those on display as a centerpiece to
Speaker 2: start off the Christmas holiday. We're talking over right now.
Speaker 2: We have over five hundred displays donated by almost one
Speaker 2: hundred different individuals throughout the community. So this is a
Speaker 2: large participation event, and so people that come to visit
Speaker 2: are going to walk into Father Lynch Hall and they
Speaker 2: are going to see nativities from all over the world
Speaker 2: made from every different type of material pretty much that
Speaker 2: you can imagine, in formats that you can imagine. It
Speaker 2: really is meant to tie different parts of the world
Speaker 2: all onto that center point of what Christmas is, which
Speaker 2: is the birth of Jesus Christ and his significance in
Speaker 2: our spiritual lives and our eternal realm. So the Foundation
Speaker 2: started this to basically kick off the Christmas Holiday the
Speaker 2: right way, which is focusing on the birth of Christ.
Speaker 2: So this starts tomorrow Friday from nine am to eight pm.
Speaker 2: It goes Saturday at the same time nine am to
Speaker 2: eight pm, and then on Sunday nine am to five
Speaker 2: pm before we'll wrap it up for to let everybody
Speaker 2: else enjoy the nativities back in their homes.
Speaker 1: Clint probably never looks the same way twice whenever they.
Speaker 3: Get this all set up.
Speaker 4: No, no, not at all. So I live out in
Speaker 4: Utah now, and I flew in last night. I come out.
Speaker 4: I put this on my.
Speaker 3: Calendar every year. Year.
Speaker 4: Every year I marked this off and make sure that
Speaker 4: I can get out here. And as I came in
Speaker 4: last night, you know they're decorating and putting everything up,
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 3: Said, guys, this is just like a painting. Every year.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit different, a few different breaststrokes here
Speaker 4: and there, and you'll see that we've.
Speaker 3: Done something a little different in the.
Speaker 4: Hall this year. I won't give the I won't give
Speaker 4: it away. You got to come see it. But I
Speaker 4: walked in and was like, WHOA, that looks really good.
Speaker 4: That's an awesome addition to everything. And so just come
Speaker 4: see it. It is a little bit different this year,
Speaker 4: but there's still a lot of the same nativities.
Speaker 3: I was looking at one. I said, hey, that's a
Speaker 3: new one.
Speaker 4: They said, no, that one's been here every year, and
Speaker 4: I was like, wait, I swear that I looked at
Speaker 4: each one of these every year and have taken pictures
Speaker 4: of all of them. But you can come every year
Speaker 4: and see something different. Also depends on where you're at
Speaker 4: in your spiritual journey. I mean, where's your mind, where's
Speaker 4: your heart? What are you looking for? And you can
Speaker 4: see different things. Maybe certain nativities will talk to you
Speaker 4: this year that didn't talk to you last year.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's a great way to put it too. So folks
Speaker 1: make sure you get after it this weekend. It's being
Speaker 1: put on for the play for Burke Foundation. The local
Speaker 1: foundation has been going strong for a few years now.
Speaker 1: I tell us a little bit about the foundation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost ten years now. Burke was our son.
Speaker 4: We lived here, you know, lived here from twenty ten
Speaker 4: to twenty nineteen. And Burke passed away in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 4: so April fourth, twenty.
Speaker 3: Fifteen, and so it'll be ten years.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's one of those things that we
Speaker 4: started to fill the whole that was in our life
Speaker 4: and our heart. And so how do we help give
Speaker 4: back to the community and support the youth that were
Speaker 4: affected by our son's passing. And so it's been a
Speaker 4: great thing for the community. People come together. The money
Speaker 4: that we raised goes back into the youth of the community.
Speaker 4: Any money we raised from the Nativity festival goes in
Speaker 4: to get Christmas gifts for kids that are in need
Speaker 4: here in town. We actually have some raffle nativities that
Speaker 4: I brought. Come come asking about the story of trying
Speaker 4: to get one through my carry on. I have a
Speaker 4: story there too, but you have to come ask.
Speaker 3: Right there.
Speaker 4: I got to Yeah, So the raffle tickets are five
Speaker 4: bucks each or five tickets for twenty But then all
Speaker 4: of that money goes to you know, we work with
Speaker 4: Tyler and Kyle and we pick out some organizations in
Speaker 4: town that have children in need and then we go
Speaker 4: help them get Christmas gifts for those kids so they
Speaker 4: can have Christmas this year and have something to unwrap
Speaker 4: under the tree on Christmas morning.
Speaker 2: So there there's a couple other things with it. Like
Speaker 2: we said, this is free to the public to come
Speaker 2: and experience the nativities. But we do have a fundraising
Speaker 2: component to as Clint said, to buy Christmas presents for
Speaker 2: underprivileged kids, and Kyle Pool and I are working with
Speaker 2: the school district as well as some other nonprofits. We
Speaker 2: also have point sets, and this year we're partnering with
Speaker 2: a company out of Vanbera in Arkansas that sells point
Speaker 2: set is to nonprofits at a better price so that
Speaker 2: we can in turn sell those point sets and gain
Speaker 2: a little bit of money so that we can use
Speaker 2: that to buy for these underprivileged kids. This is our
Speaker 2: sixth year. I believe in buying presents for children, and
Speaker 2: I can tell you every year it doesn't get any easier.
Speaker 2: One thing that I've always said is that most of
Speaker 2: us that are listening, we've probably got Christmas trees up,
Speaker 2: or we've got them prepared to get up. And we
Speaker 2: know that our Christmas morning, we're going to wake up
Speaker 2: with family and friends, and we're going to sit there
Speaker 2: and we're going to go through our traditional Christmas event. Sadly,
Speaker 2: we don't recognize that there is a large number of
Speaker 2: children in our community today that will wake up on
Speaker 2: December twenty fifth and will probably be one of the
Speaker 2: worst days of their lives because they know everybody else
Speaker 2: have trees and have presents awaiting them. To them, it's
Speaker 2: just another day that they know everybody else is enjoying,
Speaker 2: and they're waking up wondering.
Speaker 3: Are they going to have food? Are they going to
Speaker 3: have enough warmth?
Speaker 2: And so when we get Christmas lists from like Martinsville schools,
Speaker 2: where we work with the administrators to identify children, you know,
Speaker 2: and what their needs are. The list that we get
Speaker 2: are simple stuff. They need a blanket, they need a coat,
Speaker 2: they need socks, stuff that yes, I mean to us,
Speaker 2: it's stuff that we would go and buy without a
Speaker 2: second pot. To them, it's a prayer that they hope
Speaker 2: that they can that somebody will open up their heart
Speaker 2: to supply them because of the circumstances that they're unfortunately in.
Speaker 2: And so the Foundation, the play for Burke Foundation, we
Speaker 2: feel that that's part of our calling when it comes
Speaker 2: to the youth of the city and surrounding area Barsville,
Speaker 2: is what can we do to help them out? And
Speaker 2: that's why when we first started working on the Festival
Speaker 2: the Nativity, we determined, you know, this is a great
Speaker 2: way for people to remember what Christmas is about. But
Speaker 2: then we realized, hey, through our nonprofit, we can go
Speaker 2: and raise funds to help kids at this Christmas time.
Speaker 2: So again today Saturday and Sunday nine to eight.
Speaker 3: And Sunday nine to five open.
Speaker 2: To the public.
Speaker 3: Eighth and Keeler.
Speaker 2: We also have a concert, a free concert going on
Speaker 2: Saturday at one o'clock at the St. Catholics Church at
Speaker 2: their main hall. And so if you really if you're
Speaker 2: coming downtown on Saturday, maybe going shopping or to lunch,
Speaker 2: put on your calendar at one o'clock to finish your
Speaker 2: lunch and go over and hear a beautiful Christmas concert.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you gentlemen for coming in Clint.
Speaker 1: I will be there to hear your story about trying
Speaker 1: to get Nativity through security at the airport.
Speaker 4: It's top maybe Jesus at security and said he can't
Speaker 4: come through, so to be to be continued to continue about.
Speaker 1: It, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. We thank you
Speaker 1: very much. It is playing for Burke Foundation and it's
Speaker 1: the the Festival of Nativity.
Speaker 3: Coming up this week. And thank you gentlemen.
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