Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome, And it is time now for our
Speaker 2: community connection right here on K one, the one you trust.
Speaker 2: It is time now to kind of get into a
Speaker 2: bit of a fistive mood with the United Way.
Speaker 1: How are we doing today, ladies.
Speaker 2: We've got Katie's on from the Bartletsville regionally United Way
Speaker 2: and Ally Cunningham from Truity Credit Union.
Speaker 1: No strangers to our studio. We are not together.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 1: This is great.
Speaker 2: Would be Aloha after Dark? Yes, all right, We've got
Speaker 2: all the all the necessary costuming going on here today too,
Speaker 2: so uh so tell us a little bit about Aloha
Speaker 2: after Dark.
Speaker 3: So a lowhafter dark is our brand new fundraiser. We
Speaker 3: decided to do something a little bit different this year
Speaker 3: to kind of help raise money for our annual campaign.
Speaker 3: The officially kicks off in August. We're staying it a
Speaker 3: little bit early by bringing the tropics to the osh Prairie.
Speaker 3: So our brand new fundraiser is a little after Dark.
Speaker 3: It is July twenty sixth the Ocege Casino, so just
Speaker 3: a couple weeks away.
Speaker 1: Hell, you're all good enough for this, Archie ready to go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 5: I have heard that it's going to be a little
Speaker 5: bit more casual, so I will probably just be wearing
Speaker 5: a Hawaiian shirt and some jean shorts.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go, be comfortable while you have fun.
Speaker 3: Where would you want?
Speaker 1: There you go and just to have a ball.
Speaker 2: It's going to raise a lot of money and a
Speaker 2: lot of awareness.
Speaker 1: What all's going to transpire here? I know we're going
Speaker 1: to dress up a little bit. Yes, we're going to
Speaker 1: have some cool music. What else we got going?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we are excited because we will have some
Speaker 3: great music from DJ Tropics.
Speaker 4: Yes, the only, the one, the only.
Speaker 3: We had to shout him out. That's that's Haley's husband.
Speaker 3: And we are going to have a silent auction that
Speaker 3: has almost thirty fantastic items from some amazing local businesses,
Speaker 3: and then we will have a really cool live auction.
Speaker 3: It's going to be hosted by Joni Nash and we're
Speaker 3: gonna play a really fun game called Heads or Tails.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have lots of fun activities there. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have really good food from Osage Casino. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have a cheeseburger and Paradise Burger bar. Yes, we're gonna
Speaker 3: have specialty mixed drinks too, So we're, like I said,
Speaker 3: we're bringing the tropics to the Osage Berry.
Speaker 1: You're hitting me where I live.
Speaker 2: You know that Paradise, the whole tropical theme and good
Speaker 2: music and everything else like that.
Speaker 1: So Holly, how do you top that?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 4: You don't? Yeah, there's really no better event. It'll be
Speaker 4: really fun.
Speaker 5: It's new, so that's exciting, and you know you get
Speaker 5: to get in while it starts. And then also just
Speaker 5: kind of to cap off the summer. You know, it's
Speaker 5: spending some time wearing all of your tropical gear and
Speaker 5: just time together hanging out and really obviously been fitting
Speaker 5: something amazing.
Speaker 2: And because we're having it there at the new hotel
Speaker 2: and casino, you can book a room so you don't
Speaker 2: have to worry.
Speaker 1: You can. You can be festive till the wee hours.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 1: You can if you so desired.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it could be an all night of it
Speaker 3: if you really want.
Speaker 4: It to be.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know if you had that one too
Speaker 1: many cheese exactly, I just I just stay here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you go wonderful. This is great.
Speaker 2: Now where does the money go? I know, we go
Speaker 2: to the United Way. But the United Way covers.
Speaker 1: A lot of ground.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you know that's a big thing too because
Speaker 3: we are the Bartlesville Regional United Way. So some people
Speaker 3: they hear United Way and they think, well, my money
Speaker 3: is just going to you know, the worldwide, it's going overseas. No,
Speaker 3: all the money stays local. So the Bartosvielle Regional United
Speaker 3: Way has it been in business over eighty years. We've
Speaker 3: been helping this community since the start. So we help
Speaker 3: nowada O Sage in Washington Counties and we help fund
Speaker 3: over thirty programs from thirteen different partner agencies, some of
Speaker 3: which include Mary Martha Outreach. I got a mission Boys
Speaker 3: and Girls Club of Bartlesville, Boys and Girls Cube of
Speaker 3: No Want To YMCA. So if you're just signing your
Speaker 3: kids up for after school care all that stuff, that's
Speaker 3: things that we help fund.
Speaker 2: Wow, unbelievable. So how'd you get involved with this alley?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: I actually I just got kind of signed up.
Speaker 2: Katie R.
Speaker 1: You got that way? Yeah, I have some fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I say hey, I'm here for a party,
Speaker 5: and then I volunteered my husband.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it worked out great.
Speaker 2: Now, you guys are having a big blast and a
Speaker 2: great way to cap off summer and to help the
Speaker 2: United Way with all.
Speaker 1: Of the partner agencies, it goes a long way. There
Speaker 1: are so.
Speaker 2: Many helping agencies in our community and sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: funding can just kind of go through the cracks, right,
Speaker 2: and this is where we find these folks to help
Speaker 2: them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, like we say, it's having fun for
Speaker 3: a good cost.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and there's still more fun to be had.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're kind of leaving that one white over. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's more.
Speaker 5: We do have a few more tables that were we
Speaker 5: have opportunities, so if you're.
Speaker 4: Still wanting to jump in, you can totally do that.
Speaker 1: We can't.
Speaker 3: Yes, so we'll be selling tickets until Thursday. So we
Speaker 3: have two open tables so they're up up for sale.
Speaker 2: And you know something, if you're a business person or
Speaker 2: somebody who has just a lot of really good clients,
Speaker 2: they you'd like to maybe show them your appreciation, this
Speaker 2: is a good way to get that table in.
Speaker 1: Invite them in as your guest.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then they're having a ball, they're become a
Speaker 2: little bit more aware of United Way and with all
Speaker 2: they do, and the next thing you know, you know
Speaker 2: they're helping out the community as well.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I like the way you do this.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of fun. Oh my goodness sakes. So
Speaker 2: do we have any sponsorships availableft?
Speaker 3: We do, so we can't sell those two tables as sponsorships. Good, Yes,
Speaker 3: but I do want to shout out our amazing sponsors.
Speaker 3: We have of them, but our main ones are entertainment
Speaker 3: sponsors Blue Sky Bio, our print sponsor Bartlesfell print Shop.
Speaker 3: I have to shout out Sean. He just rolls with
Speaker 3: all the punches. I could email him with the craziest
Speaker 3: idea and say, hey, can we do this? And he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: we could do it. Give me, give me a few
Speaker 3: days and we'll get it done. So we are big
Speaker 3: fans of print Shop, the Hawaiian sponsor Jane Phillips Medical Center,
Speaker 3: and our last Hawaiian sponsor, o sh Casino, Bartlesville.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's a bunch. That's a good starter.
Speaker 3: It's a good start. We have so many more, but
Speaker 3: those are our main sponsors.
Speaker 1: Now, how do we get the tickets? Can we just
Speaker 1: go on the website?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Website it is Bartlesville UW dot org. But you can
Speaker 3: also give us a call nine eight three three six
Speaker 3: one zero four to four and we will make it
Speaker 3: super easy for you to buy your tickets.
Speaker 1: All walked into the office, Yeah I have.
Speaker 5: I'm a't had a T shirt thrown at me, but
Speaker 5: maybe I'll walk in later today and grab a T shirt.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. If you want wine, they'll toss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, they got mints on the desk.
Speaker 1: My goodness sake. That's just a short walk from where
Speaker 1: you work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah it is. I take a stroll out
Speaker 4: in sun.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: She gets her on, she's ready to go for a
Speaker 3: little after dark.
Speaker 1: Why not? Man, this is going to be great.
Speaker 2: And again it's the twenty sixth it is, and it
Speaker 2: will be out at the oce Age Casino and Hotel
Speaker 2: right beyond the airport. They're on sixty just outside of Bartlesvild.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a great time. What time should
Speaker 2: we should we arrive?
Speaker 3: So the event starts at six, so we will just
Speaker 3: get things rolling right as the door's open. So we're
Speaker 3: excited to have everybody come out.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a lot of fun. Get your tickets,
Speaker 2: just go to the website. We're going to have this
Speaker 2: story at Bartlesville Radio dot com. Here a little bit
Speaker 2: and we'll give you all the links you need to
Speaker 2: get all taken care of.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Now, we better wait till the next time you come in.
Speaker 2: This is the big thing right now. I don't want
Speaker 2: to get too far out of it here. But you know,
Speaker 2: Katie's always got.
Speaker 1: Something going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she's always cooking, she's smiling, and she's like
Speaker 2: four steps ahead of everybody else.
Speaker 1: And that's why she smiles because she knows the secret. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Hallie and Katie. Great to have you both on board.
Speaker 1: Anything else you want to share with us before we
Speaker 1: put a bowl on it?
Speaker 3: No, we just like I said, we got two tables left,
Speaker 3: So now is the time get your tickets before we
Speaker 3: close them on Thursday.
Speaker 2: All right, Aloha after Dark with bartlesviilt Regional United Way