Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
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Speaker 1: one where everywhere we've got the Salvation Army. It was
Speaker 1: us today and believe it or not, they're everywhere too,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what I like. We have Ronda, and
Speaker 1: we also have Monica in here today. And Monica, I
Speaker 1: want to start with you, first of all, welcome back,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for having us today and great
Speaker 1: and of course Roddy you're with us here today.
Speaker 2: You're on the board. How you doing you get all
Speaker 2: things ready for fool?
Speaker 3: We are getting ready for fall. We have a lot
Speaker 3: of fun things coming up.
Speaker 1: As I know, we got a great, big one coming
Speaker 1: up and we're going to get to that hearing a second.
Speaker 2: It's a yummy good thing. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: Now, Monica, we've been very very busy with the summer camps.
Speaker 1: Outstanding attendance.
Speaker 4: Yes, what's exciting is we actually served twice as many
Speaker 4: children this summer as we have in the past few years,
Speaker 4: and the only thing that held us back from hosting
Speaker 4: more kids was a lack of vehicles to transport them in. So,
Speaker 4: you know, that's a big dream of ours to be
Speaker 4: able to grow the program and have more kids because
Speaker 4: one of the things about the Salvation Army and our
Speaker 4: summer camp is they really develop good, good character. I
Speaker 4: fortunately get to go and do a little cultural lesson
Speaker 4: with them every once in a while, and these kids,
Speaker 4: they just soak it up. They are so so hungry
Speaker 4: for attention and learning it. It's really really wonderful to
Speaker 4: be with these kids. And you had that experience too
Speaker 4: over here and you saw how attentive they are and
Speaker 4: how hungry for information they are.
Speaker 1: They came in and boy, everything was brand new to
Speaker 1: them and I hadn't seen that in a long time,
Speaker 1: and it was so refreshing.
Speaker 2: It was really great to see. Thanks for be going
Speaker 2: to buy Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then something else we did with our kids this
Speaker 4: summer is we had about twelve young people go to
Speaker 4: our camp Away camp. It's in Welling, Oklahoma. It's near Tallaquah.
Speaker 4: It's called Heart of Hills, and the kids got to
Speaker 4: go to camp and experience you know, overnights and camping
Speaker 4: and all the things that kids get to do at camp,
Speaker 4: you know, swimming, making friends and boy. I mean that
Speaker 4: gives their parents a little respite too, right.
Speaker 2: Thank you? Yeah. Yeah. So one of.
Speaker 4: The things that makes our programs successful though, are all
Speaker 4: the other organizations that partner with us during the summer.
Speaker 4: This summer, we worked with Heart Matters, the boy Scouts,
Speaker 4: Family and Children's Services, the Rock Kawanas and others, and
Speaker 4: they all came alongside with our Children's Day camp and
Speaker 4: just made it more special by providing fun and educational activities.
Speaker 4: For instance, I think the boy Scouts partnered with us
Speaker 4: to do a Derby race, and so the kids got
Speaker 4: to do the derby race.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How great is that? So you know, it takes a village,
Speaker 4: right Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by golly, when you start bringing in partners and
Speaker 1: the fund just expands a little bit, you know, and
Speaker 1: you get a different.
Speaker 2: Breath of experience of.
Speaker 1: Going on there with the kids get to see everything
Speaker 1: as wide open as the world can be through their eyes.
Speaker 2: At that point, that's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's what we try to do, is
Speaker 4: provide them with you know a bigger vision, so they
Speaker 4: know that they have opportunities in this world.
Speaker 1: Well that's needed, because I know from a lot of
Speaker 1: people and maybe even a little bit on my own self,
Speaker 1: if you're in a certain way as a child, and
Speaker 1: all you see is all you know, and if you
Speaker 1: don't get to see much because of economics or whatever,
Speaker 1: you find yourself pretty limited. And the only limit is
Speaker 1: you because you know, you're just not familiar with all
Speaker 1: the opportunities that are out There are different ways of
Speaker 1: even looking at a situation.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny you'd mentioned economics, because one of the
Speaker 4: things that Lieutenant Tanya thought would be really really important
Speaker 4: for the kids this year is for them to have
Speaker 4: age appropriate books. So at the grade schools, if my
Speaker 4: memory is good, they used to have little book fairs,
Speaker 4: and she knew that most of the kids in our
Speaker 4: program probably didn't get to participate in those. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and so she collected donated books and on the last
Speaker 4: day of our summer camp program there at the at
Speaker 4: the Core, she made sure they got to go through
Speaker 4: a little quote book fair and take home three books
Speaker 4: that they chose.
Speaker 2: Nice. That's a big deal for a kid.
Speaker 1: It is it is I remember when they had the
Speaker 1: little a buck for a book thing back in the
Speaker 1: sixties and year like that. You know, that was a
Speaker 1: big deal. It saved up your lawnmower money for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now we have a big event and I understand that
Speaker 1: Ron is kind of in charge of this thing because
Speaker 1: the Salvation Army needs fuel to run. It's a beautiful engine.
Speaker 1: Fuel sometimes means money. But we're going to put some
Speaker 1: fun in fundraising, aren't we tell us about this big.
Speaker 2: Dinner we got coming up.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, back in the day, they did a
Speaker 3: spaghetti dinner for years and years and years and then
Speaker 3: that five letter word hit called COVID, and they haven't
Speaker 3: been able to to to We're just now starting to
Speaker 3: do our fundraising again since COVID, so they hasn't taken
Speaker 3: place for the last you know, three four years, and
Speaker 3: so we have set November the seventh to start our
Speaker 3: fundraising opportunities for our community and we will be seeking out,
Speaker 3: you know, corporate sponsors. But they're going to hold their
Speaker 3: dinner on November the seventh at Adams Boulevard Church of.
Speaker 2: Christ, beautiful place for people.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're hoping for three hundred and we're hoping for
Speaker 3: a lot of the community to you know, community support
Speaker 3: and and just pretty much just reignite what they had,
Speaker 3: the success that they've had in the past. And it's
Speaker 3: kind of called the Red Kettle Kickoff, and so it's
Speaker 3: going to go into the next phase to get them
Speaker 3: started for the holidays with the Angel Tree and the
Speaker 3: red kettles that you're going to see across you know,
Speaker 3: our community.
Speaker 2: Super busy season.
Speaker 3: Very very busy season. So we've been planning for a
Speaker 3: couple months now and it's and just the ball starting
Speaker 3: to get rolling, and we're really excited about the opportunity
Speaker 3: to be able to support the Salvation Army and the
Speaker 3: community involvement in.
Speaker 1: Should I be looking for your Facebook page for that
Speaker 1: for updates on that?
Speaker 4: So yes, Facebook posts will probably be out a little later.
Speaker 4: The first thing we plan to have out is a
Speaker 4: sponsorship letter sure that our sponsors, perspective donors will see
Speaker 4: probably at the end of I'm going to say the
Speaker 4: end of August, first part of September, So be watching
Speaker 4: for that, but be sure and save that date November seventh,
Speaker 4: got it, and be a part of that event with.
Speaker 2: US Angel Trees coming up right out, Angel.
Speaker 4: Trees coming up very soon. We don't have a date
Speaker 4: for the sign up yet, but it'll be the first
Speaker 4: part of September. That's where you need to look on
Speaker 4: Facebook to see where we're posting that date as soon
Speaker 4: as we know. And just just kind of to wrap
Speaker 4: things up with with some thoughts here. Needs are greater
Speaker 4: than ever, you know, the increase that we're seeing in
Speaker 4: the number of people coming for just basic needs, food, utilities,
Speaker 4: help with rent, those those are really the things that
Speaker 4: we need to help people with right now. So you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure everyone gets a solicitation in their mail every
Speaker 4: so often from the Salvation Army. Just remember us, remember
Speaker 4: that there are so many people who are just trying
Speaker 4: really hard to make ends meet.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: You just got off helping so many people with the
Speaker 1: bad storms, yes, kind of get back on their feet,
Speaker 1: and now it's back into the holidays where you know,
Speaker 1: change of a year, change of everything coming up, and
Speaker 1: sometimes those changes can just be a big jolt.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it feels good to help other people, it does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Angel Tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we participate as a family in that we have
Speaker 1: everywhere we've been and that's a darn good thing.
Speaker 2: You got going on there. It is.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, when you participate in it, your
Speaker 1: heart just sinks, it just sks.
Speaker 2: And even the kids they love doing it.
Speaker 4: Too, they do.
Speaker 2: They always want to help. Yeah, pick one, let's.
Speaker 1: Go, let's have some fun, right right, But how can
Speaker 1: we also lend a little bit of support.
Speaker 2: You need volunteers for Angel Tree? Do you need volunteers
Speaker 2: for the kettles?
Speaker 4: Yes, we will.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 4: And what is the sign up for that cattle? I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have to get that that email? Put that in
Speaker 4: our story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah'll be there.
Speaker 4: Because it's I think it's a register to ring is
Speaker 4: the slogan for signing up online to ring the bell.
Speaker 4: But yes, we need volunteers to ring the bell every year.
Speaker 4: And it's funny because you know, some volunteers really really
Speaker 4: get into it.
Speaker 2: Oh some of them, that's their yearly performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen so many dancing Santas in my day
Speaker 1: in different towns and different communities, and we ought to
Speaker 1: have a dancing Santa dance off someday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have a good friend who rings and he always
Speaker 4: takes his lab. He has a lab that he takes
Speaker 4: a bit of all that lab which has antics and
Speaker 4: who can refuse that? Yeah, so yeah, ringing the bell?
Speaker 2: Now, how can we help on a daily basis?
Speaker 1: Can we just drop a little you know, thousand dollars bill.
Speaker 4: Offers, Oh yeah, a thousand dollars bill. Or you know,
Speaker 4: if you're cleaning out your pantry and you've got things
Speaker 4: that you want to drop off at the at the
Speaker 4: core for food, that's great too. You know, there's a
Speaker 4: variety of ways to help, certainly, but when you think
Speaker 4: about Angel Tree, it's not just kids, it's older adults
Speaker 4: as well. So we do serve older adults with Angel Tree,
Speaker 4: and we'd love to have people, you know, be thinking
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 1: All right again, the spaghetti dinner is and it's going
Speaker 1: to be at the Adams.
Speaker 3: Church of Christ.
Speaker 2: There you get right there by.
Speaker 1: The hot, warm and cold. All right, ladies, thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us today. Thanks for having us Salvation Army
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