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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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<v Speaker 2>Meeting's time now for our community connection, the first of

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<v Speaker 2>many today and we have Chris Batchelder in here and

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<v Speaker 2>we're talking to the Sports Commission today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey you do any young man, Tom.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm doing great. Happy to be first of many.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, I hope they're all as interesting as this

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<v Speaker 3>one's gonna be.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, how interesting is this? It's gonna be very interesting

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<v Speaker 2>next for sure. What we got coming up, It's going

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<v Speaker 2>to be interesting.

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<v Speaker 4>Next Wednesday, I can tell you that when we have

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<v Speaker 4>our annual Masters Party at Hillcrest Country Club to benefit

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<v Speaker 4>the Sports Commission. We have this party every year on

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<v Speaker 4>the Wednesday of the Par three contest at the Masters,

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<v Speaker 4>which is kind of the first official day of activities

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<v Speaker 4>out there. There's practice rounds Monday Tuesday, but Wednesday is

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<v Speaker 4>the big.

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<v Speaker 3>Par three contest in Georgia.

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<v Speaker 4>So we line up with that and try to raise

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<v Speaker 4>a little money for the Bartlesville Sports Commission.

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<v Speaker 3>And it's always a good time.

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<v Speaker 4>It's golf themed and so we have a costume contest.

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<v Speaker 3>We hope that people when.

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<v Speaker 4>They buy their tickets will get out their best golf attire.

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<v Speaker 4>We have people dress up as caddies. We have people

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<v Speaker 4>dress up with knickers and you know, the hats and

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<v Speaker 4>all that. It's really a good time and this is

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<v Speaker 4>our primary fundraiser every year. We have several other events,

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<v Speaker 4>as you know, but this is the one that really

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<v Speaker 4>raises us the money.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're excited about it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you're gonna have anybody there with plaid pants

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<v Speaker 2>pulled up to their arm pits.

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<v Speaker 3>We usually do, I can tell you that for sure.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, any kind of way you can mock the game

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<v Speaker 4>of golf or how people traditionally dress playing it, it happens.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness. Now who can participate in this?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, anybody can.

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<v Speaker 4>So if you go to Bartlesville sports dot net Bartlesville

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<v Speaker 4>sports dot net, you'll be able to click on the

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<v Speaker 4>link on the homepage for the Master's Party and they

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<v Speaker 4>can go and get tickets. The tickets are fifty dollars

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<v Speaker 4>for YEP for an individual ticket and eighty five dollars

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<v Speaker 4>for a couple. And not just is that it includes

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<v Speaker 4>beer and wine and a bunch of Master's food. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>there's some food that you can only find at the

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<v Speaker 4>tournament at Augusta, and we try to replicate as much

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<v Speaker 4>of that as we can, and it's really a good time.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, everything down there when you go to the

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<v Speaker 4>tournament is unlabeled. So they have since the tournament began

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<v Speaker 4>over one hundred years ago, they have held off, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>succumbing to corporate pressure and sponsorship and stuff. And so

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<v Speaker 4>the prices out there are the same as they were

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<v Speaker 4>when the tournament started, and they're all generic. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>it says cola or diet cola, or beer or light beer.

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't say what brand it is.

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<v Speaker 4>And so we try to do some things like that

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<v Speaker 4>that are kind of funny at the party and try

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<v Speaker 4>to make it, you know, as as like Augusta as

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<v Speaker 4>we can.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a good time. And then we also one of

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<v Speaker 3>the ways.

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<v Speaker 4>We raise a little bit of money is we have

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<v Speaker 4>a long putt content. So if you've ever been upstairs

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<v Speaker 4>at Hillcrest, there's this real long hallway that goes over

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<v Speaker 4>toward the lounge, and we have a putt that goes

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<v Speaker 4>from one end to that hallway to the other. We've

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<v Speaker 4>got water and sand and stuff in front of it,

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<v Speaker 4>and so people can do that to win a putter.

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<v Speaker 4>And then we also kind of have two live auction

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<v Speaker 4>things that happened throughout the night. One is we auction

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<v Speaker 4>off the actual Masters field, so you and I can

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<v Speaker 4>outbid each other to bid on Scotti Scheffler, and then

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<v Speaker 4>if you have Scotty Scheffler and he wins the tournament,

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<v Speaker 4>you win half the pod and half goes to the

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<v Speaker 4>Sports Commission.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's fun. And then we.

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<v Speaker 4>Also have a actual live auction that has several really

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<v Speaker 4>great items in it, but kind of our signature item

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<v Speaker 4>starting last year, and then he's doing it for us

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<v Speaker 4>again this year. Is a one of a kind John

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<v Speaker 4>Linn Bloom painting. He revealed it last night on Facebook.

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<v Speaker 4>You can go look it up on the Bartlesville Sports

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<v Speaker 4>Commission Facebook page. By the way, if you're not subscribing

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<v Speaker 4>to that and following it already, you need to do that.

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<v Speaker 4>It's got a lot of great content about the Bruins

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<v Speaker 4>and other local sports stuff. But if you go to

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<v Speaker 4>that Facebook page, you'll see you'll see this painting. But

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<v Speaker 4>it's that famous picture of John Day getting ready to

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<v Speaker 4>hit a.

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<v Speaker 3>Driver that's cranked all the way.

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<v Speaker 4>Back and he's got his loud clothes on and it's

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<v Speaker 4>a really cool picture.

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<v Speaker 3>So somebody has a chance to win a one of

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<v Speaker 3>a kind painting.

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<v Speaker 4>Tom listened to this, so last year the painting he

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<v Speaker 4>did for us was a really famous picture of Jack

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<v Speaker 4>Nicholas hitting out of the sand at the Masters with

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<v Speaker 4>this big, you know, spread collar and sweater on from

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<v Speaker 4>back in the seventies.

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<v Speaker 3>Cool picture.

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<v Speaker 4>But so it ended up in the hands of Tim Johnson.

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<v Speaker 4>Daniel Johnson is on our board and his brother Tim

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<v Speaker 4>is the ad at O r U, and they were

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<v Speaker 4>having an event last summer with Jack Nicholas speaking at it,

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<v Speaker 4>and so Tim ended up buying the picture and actually

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<v Speaker 4>presenting it to Jack, who now owns this one of

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<v Speaker 4>a kind John Linn Bloom painting of himself. So I

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<v Speaker 4>thought that was a really cool story. And John and

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<v Speaker 4>John Daley actually have a relationship already, so he's done

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<v Speaker 4>some custom stuff for John Daley already. But so I

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<v Speaker 4>don't think we're gonna lose this one to the artist.

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<v Speaker 4>But it is a really really cool painting. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>that's gonna be really fun. And then's just a bunch

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<v Speaker 4>of other fun stuff. Where can we sign up Bartlesville

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<v Speaker 4>sports dot net and click on the Master's party and

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<v Speaker 4>you can get your tickets and again all of this

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<v Speaker 4>benefits the Bartlesville Sports Commission.

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<v Speaker 3>We give away.

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<v Speaker 4>Somewhere between fifty and eighty thousand dollars a year to

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<v Speaker 4>Bartlesville High School and youth sports grants in our community.

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<v Speaker 4>It's been going since two thousand and six and has

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<v Speaker 4>has done a lot of really, really great work to

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<v Speaker 4>benefit athletics in Bartlesville. So Bartlesville Sports dot Net Master's Party.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, this is gonna be great, folks.

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna have some fun for you and you're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>help some youngsters in the community for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, Chris, this is awesome.

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<v Speaker 4>Tom, it always is, buddy, How'll be back anytime you're ready.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Hey, thank you very much coming in.

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<v Speaker 2>Let us know all right, that's Chris Batchelder with us

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<v Speaker 2>here and Kate one the one you trust.

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<v Speaker 1>This is