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CAR TALK w Brad Doenges and WCC Shavon Robles · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Station.
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  Speaker 2: I good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: The sun is shining.
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  Speaker 3: I can see the gleaming glimmer off the new Toyota's
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  Speaker 3: down there at done this Toyota.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Brad, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Tom? Hello everyone, Thank you for joining us
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  Speaker 3: this morning. We're so glad you're with us today. It's
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  Speaker 3: another great car talk here in Bartlesville. And it is
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  Speaker 3: kind of a pretty morning there with the blue skies
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  Speaker 3: and not quite as windy as yesterday. And I've got
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  Speaker 3: my good friend Chavon Rolls from west Side Community Center.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, say hello to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for having me again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have you here.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys always have lots of stuff going on,
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  Speaker 3: and you're celebrating your seventy fifth anniversary at west Side
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  Speaker 3: Community Center, so I thought it was really appropriate to
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  Speaker 3: get you in here another all that jazz right around
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  Speaker 3: the corner coming back, I kind of I kind of
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  Speaker 3: assumed just kept right on going, but I guess it
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  Speaker 3: stopped a few years ago and it's coming back. So
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  Speaker 3: we're we'll be excited to join you out there on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: the thirty first, at the Hillcrest Country Club for one
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  Speaker 3: of the really great events in Bartlesville. It's always lots
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  Speaker 3: of fun, lots of good entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: And it is one of the one of the best events,
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: But there's always other stuff going on, and we've been
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  Speaker 3: really busy at the dealership. It's twenty twenty six and
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  Speaker 3: we're off and running with great deals and we had
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  Speaker 3: a outstanding December. Did We were number one in our district,
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  Speaker 3: which is all of Oklahoma and a bit of West
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  Speaker 3: Texas and percent of objective for all the Toyota dealers
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  Speaker 3: in our area and over one hundred and fifteen percent
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  Speaker 3: of objective, which kind of has a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Lower, left us with a few.
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  Speaker 3: Gaps on the lot, let's just say, but the pipeline
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  Speaker 3: is filled up. We got over thirteen tacomas allocated to
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  Speaker 3: us on the last allocation, and a bunch of other
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  Speaker 3: great vehicles, and there's a pretty good selection.
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  Speaker 2: As we've been growing this.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, as we hit these these troughs, they just
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  Speaker 3: keep getting a little bit bigger. So are actually the
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  Speaker 3: low inventory keeps rising. So but that's that's the way
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  Speaker 3: it works in the Toyota world. We've got to try
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  Speaker 3: to sell out of them virtually every every only twice
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  Speaker 3: a month what they call the sales base. At the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the month, we are a inventory on it.
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  Speaker 3: This month, it'll be on the twentieth, So putting together
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  Speaker 3: deals before the twentieth is a.
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  Speaker 2: Priority right now and then and then again at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the month.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just exciting. Never stops at the dealership great,
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of the same thing out of Westside
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  Speaker 3: Community Center.
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  Speaker 2: You guys. First of all, you've got a big lot
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  Speaker 2: of work going on at the center during this a
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  Speaker 2: little were talking.
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  Speaker 3: Before about you've rolled up your sleeves and doing really
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  Speaker 3: a whole new facelift for the whole for the facility.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred percent. And it's very exciting because as our
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  Speaker 4: offerings for the community, the way we show up for
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  Speaker 4: the community, the way we support the community. For our
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  Speaker 4: seventy fifth anniversary year, which is twenty twenty six, we're
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  Speaker 4: also renovating the facility as well. We want to make
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  Speaker 4: it where it's more welcoming for the community to come in.
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  Speaker 4: So everything from our community hall, we've completely torn up
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  Speaker 4: our stage. I was just kind of laughing and telling
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  Speaker 4: you guys, earlier. The moment I get off for here,
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  Speaker 4: I'm throwing on some jogging pants, my workmen's goggles and gloves,
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna start rebuilding that stage. But we are
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  Speaker 4: completely rehauling the community hall, the dining hall, and some
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  Speaker 4: of the other aspects of the of the building just
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  Speaker 4: to really make sure that it is able to hold
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the new programming that we're rolling out
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  Speaker 4: in our new focus for twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So that is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: So talk about the new programming. What do you guys
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  Speaker 3: have planned for this year?
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  Speaker 1: I am excited.
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  Speaker 4: So for most people when they hear about Westside Community Center,
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  Speaker 4: they tend to think of us as an after school
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  Speaker 4: program for kids, and though youth will always be central
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  Speaker 4: to what we do as a community center, I really
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  Speaker 4: believe that we are best suited if we service all
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  Speaker 4: of Bartlesville as a community center, so not just our youth,
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  Speaker 4: but our adults and our seniors as well, and just
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  Speaker 4: family friendly.
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  Speaker 1: Programming as well.
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  Speaker 4: So we are actually shifting from a community center into
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  Speaker 4: more of a cultural inheritance center, so we can really
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  Speaker 4: focus on highlighting the various cultures and communities within our
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  Speaker 4: larger community. Our larger Bartlesville. So I'm very excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: We've been connecting with different places, different organizations throughout the city,
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  Speaker 4: but we want to tell stories of African Americans that
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  Speaker 4: are here, a lot of immigrants that here. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think people realize that what most of us know as
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  Speaker 4: Zinc was known as the smelter many many many years ago,
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  Speaker 4: and there were so many families that uprooted and came
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  Speaker 4: to this area to make a new life for.
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  Speaker 1: Themselves through the smelter.
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  Speaker 4: So those even those stories, those communities, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things that kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Sparked out of that. We are going to highlight all
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  Speaker 1: of those stories this year.
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  Speaker 4: But more than anything else, regardless of who you are
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  Speaker 4: and where you come from, we want you to come
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  Speaker 4: to the center and see yourself in that. So we
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  Speaker 4: will be celebrating every single month different different cultures, different heritages.
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  Speaker 1: And if you haven't had a.
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  Speaker 4: Chance to come to one of our tastes of communities
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  Speaker 4: and you like food, I'm just saying, what better way
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  Speaker 4: to learn about other cultures than through some really.
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  Speaker 1: Great food, some fun music, Like that's the way to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, we really are just shifting into more of
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  Speaker 4: that cultural center to really highlight what I call like
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  Speaker 4: a rich tapestry that Bartleshell has well.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly does.
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  Speaker 3: And All That Jazz is another way to kind of
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  Speaker 3: support the organization, but and find out.
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  Speaker 2: More and celebrate with everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, because seventy five years is a great accomplishmentsion.
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  Speaker 2: That's uh. And it's not easy to keep something going, No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Especially in the nonprofit world and as a community center.
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  Speaker 2: Staying relevant is things change. Times change, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I know right after the last All That Jazz, COVID
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  Speaker 3: exploded and that certainly made it a challenge for for
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  Speaker 3: any place that brought that the whole your whole time,
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  Speaker 3: you've brought people together, or you couldn't bring them together.
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  Speaker 4: Quite, you couldn't even gather bring people together. Yes, so
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  Speaker 4: it definitely did affect All That Jazz. And this is
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  Speaker 4: one of the reasons why I'm so excited about this
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  Speaker 4: year's All That Jazz. We've had a wonderful All That
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  Speaker 4: Jazz Committee that has been responsible for that great time
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  Speaker 4: that you remember do that you remember so well, And
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  Speaker 4: so that committee has come back together and they are
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  Speaker 4: spearheading us All That Jazz as well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I think is so exciting.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought, what better way to kick off our
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  Speaker 4: seventy fifth anniversary than with jazz. As you know, jazz
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  Speaker 4: is a culmination of different styles and musical genres, and
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  Speaker 4: you have that. I think it's just a great, great,
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  Speaker 4: great initial onset of our anniversary year because it encompasses
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  Speaker 4: all that we're going to be doing throughout well for
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  Speaker 4: the next seventy five years, the way that we're going
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  Speaker 4: to serve this wonderful city of Bartlesville for the next That's.
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  Speaker 3: A great image though, of jazz and the musical elements
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  Speaker 3: of that and how it brings together all the different
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  Speaker 3: patterns of life. But we can you've got some jazz
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  Speaker 3: planned that what is the entertainment.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be full Flevi Kings, which is
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  Speaker 4: out of Tulsa.
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  Speaker 1: I know many of you are familiar with them.
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  Speaker 4: They are an amazing, amazing thing and I always tell people,
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  Speaker 4: I said, I know you might want to come and
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  Speaker 4: sit and look cute, and that's okay. We definitely want
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  Speaker 4: you to do that, but also bring those little dance
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  Speaker 4: and shoes or be ready to kick them off. We
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  Speaker 4: are going to make sure that you are up and
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  Speaker 4: having a great time. And that's why I love this event,
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  Speaker 4: because jazz is a culmination of different styles and different
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  Speaker 4: different styles of music, and you have our event that
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  Speaker 4: is bringing in different parts of people. We have five
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  Speaker 4: wards here and we're going to have people from every
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  Speaker 4: single one of.
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  Speaker 1: Those who really encompass who we are as a city.
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  Speaker 4: But then it's just a great segue into how we
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  Speaker 4: serve the city and we bring from the youth all
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  Speaker 4: the way to seniors.
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  Speaker 1: Together throughout the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 4: At our last event that we had, we had individuals
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  Speaker 4: as young as twenty all the way up to mid
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  Speaker 4: seventies all in the same place having a great time,
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  Speaker 4: enjoying each other, enjoying food and enjoying laughter, enjoying conversation.
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  Speaker 4: And for me, that is who we are. That is
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  Speaker 4: what it's all about. When you can get that range
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  Speaker 4: of people and.
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  Speaker 1: Just that intergenerational connection.
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  Speaker 3: That's so important that we get people together from all
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  Speaker 3: over town and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, really.
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  Speaker 3: Provide that space and the opportunity to gather and to
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether it's eating or learning stuff about live finances. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you guys do pretty much everything from yoga
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that to learn about financing after school
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  Speaker 3: program senior programs you mentioned, and there's.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff going on every day. How do you do that?
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  Speaker 2: And renovated at the same time as the question, all, well.
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  Speaker 4: The beautiful part of this, of this renovation, we've kind
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  Speaker 4: of doaled it back a little bit. So we do
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  Speaker 4: have like our yoga that's happening every Monday for January.
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  Speaker 4: And I say that, but we also have a poetry
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  Speaker 4: event workshop that's happening on Saturday. So I can't say
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  Speaker 4: we've dialed it back too much, but most of our
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  Speaker 4: stuff happens on the week Like last weekend we had
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  Speaker 4: we Prosper we joined up with the Young Scholars. We
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  Speaker 4: had sixty something kids in there learning about civics, real
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  Speaker 4: world experience of learning about civics. This weekend we're going
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  Speaker 4: to have kids learning about poetry and how to express
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  Speaker 4: themselves through that artistic expression.
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  Speaker 1: It is a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: And then next Saturday, we invite the community to come
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  Speaker 4: out learn about how twenty twenty six is going to
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  Speaker 4: pan out for Westside Community Center, how we are going
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  Speaker 4: to shift the way we serve the community, but also
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  Speaker 4: invite the community to be a part of something that
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  Speaker 4: I think is going to be very beautiful for the
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  Speaker 4: West corridor of the city, so we really are NonStop.
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  Speaker 4: And then a Saturday after that, we're all going to
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  Speaker 4: be at Hillcrest Country Club having an amazing time with
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  Speaker 4: great food.
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  Speaker 3: Danson and listening to jazz, having great food here and
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you will have that opportunity to learn more
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  Speaker 3: about what's going on this year and all the different
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  Speaker 3: programs that you do. And of course you cannot have
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  Speaker 3: all this without the support of the community and volunteers
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  Speaker 3: and your board. You mentioned the committee puts on all
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  Speaker 3: that jazz. But but it is I know since you
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  Speaker 3: got here a few years ago that this has been
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  Speaker 3: your passion and you but that backstory of how you
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  Speaker 3: got back to Bartlesview and they're involved again in the
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  Speaker 3: West Side Community Center is a great story. So let's
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  Speaker 3: let's remind people how that happened and what's where you
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  Speaker 3: came from, what you know kind of your initial interaction
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  Speaker 3: to west Side?
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  Speaker 2: When did when did it all start at west Side
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 1: Which is a very beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: And I always say, as long as I can remember,
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  Speaker 4: I was a part of West Side, So I remember
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  Speaker 4: taking tap in, ballet and dance classes and soap carving.
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  Speaker 1: For anyone who.
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  Speaker 4: Remembers that my soap carvings were at a little questionable, However,
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  Speaker 4: no one's judging, and that was and that was a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful thing. Even as a kid when I went to
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  Speaker 4: the West Side Community Center. I started going at the
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  Speaker 4: age of six, and they did something really beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: They allowed us we.
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  Speaker 4: Had some some creative drawings and clays and everything, but
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  Speaker 4: we would get to display them at the Community Center downtown.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know a better way to say, as
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  Speaker 4: an elementary kid, as a middle school kid, to walk
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  Speaker 4: into what is like our civic engagement area for entertainment
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  Speaker 4: and see your art displayed on the wall or see
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  Speaker 4: your pottery displayed is such an amazing thing. But that
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  Speaker 4: was my start, and I've attended Westside Community Center up
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  Speaker 4: until I graduated. We did our workforce readiness program through them,
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  Speaker 4: where I got to intern downtown at the City of Bartlesville,
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  Speaker 4: also with a corporate attorney at Phillip sixty six. It
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  Speaker 4: was a great experience. But I went to college, moved away.
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  Speaker 4: All kinds of things happened there.
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  Speaker 2: Great career, a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of things happening.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've had a wonderful career that has spanned
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  Speaker 4: so many in so many different areas that kind of seems.
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  Speaker 1: Like a little mix up.
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  Speaker 4: But I've learned since I've been back, all of those
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  Speaker 4: experience helped prepare me for now. So when we came
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  Speaker 4: back last year, to be very honest, I was trying
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  Speaker 4: to convince my mother in law to move to the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: Spanish is your first language. They speak Spanished there. This
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  Speaker 1: is going to be wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: But I learned about the West I Community Center closing
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  Speaker 4: and volunteers that are there to help throughout events.
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  Speaker 1: We have a wonderful board.
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  Speaker 4: We've added some new members, but even our board members
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  Speaker 4: that were there, everyone has really grass hold to this
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  Speaker 4: new vision in this new direction at the West Side
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  Speaker 4: Community Center is going.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's not just me.
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  Speaker 4: It really is a whole host of people behind the
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  Speaker 4: scenes that are helping make these things happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, person, yes, and I and I really takes.
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  Speaker 2: That leadership, I think. So I know that.
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  Speaker 3: That especially when you're going through those kinds of changes
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  Speaker 3: and you're imagining a different some different opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And how you want to bring.
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  Speaker 3: Revitalize the center, because as it was, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure the challenges of COVID and and fundraising, and I
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  Speaker 3: know I've been involved in boards as they mature how
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  Speaker 3: hard that is to stay focused and it really takes
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  Speaker 3: that that leadership provided by the staff and by the
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  Speaker 3: community itself of course.
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  Speaker 2: And so is that that's going well? I assume based
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  Speaker 2: on where.
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  Speaker 1: You are, and it is it is really going well.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that person that once I have once I see something,
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  Speaker 4: once I get a vision in mind, I will do
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  Speaker 4: everything that is possible to make it happen. And I've
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  Speaker 4: just been very grateful that even when I woke up, well,
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  Speaker 4: according to some of the staff, it's like, did you
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  Speaker 4: just wake up today and decide that you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: renovate the center? I was like, what kind of kind
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  Speaker 4: of and this is what it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to look like.
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  Speaker 4: But even that they were able to grasp hold of that,
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  Speaker 4: and people just kind of walk alongside you as you're
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  Speaker 4: doing all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the type of person that I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to ask other people to do something
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  Speaker 4: that I'm not willing to do myself, and so.
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  Speaker 1: I it surprises people when they come to the center, like,
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  Speaker 1: so you're tearing up tyle.
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  Speaker 4: One day you're paying, the next day you're out here
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  Speaker 4: hammering on the station. But what to me, that is
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  Speaker 4: what it's neces especially for the Westside Community Center right
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  Speaker 4: now and the transition that we're going into, because I.
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  Speaker 1: Really do believe in it.
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  Speaker 4: I believe in what the center has been for the
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  Speaker 4: life seventy five years. What I know that we have
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  Speaker 4: the potential to be for the next seventy five years,
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  Speaker 4: and I will do everything in my power to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that it comes to fruition and just sharing that
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  Speaker 4: vision with others.
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  Speaker 3: We're so happy to help and welcome you back to
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  Speaker 3: Bartlesville and to be a part of our community.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's one of the themes of the show.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose the resilience of our community and the great
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  Speaker 3: network of nonprofit organizations with the business community, the whole community,
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  Speaker 3: and how we all support each other and have through
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  Speaker 3: the years. And you know, it does provide a great
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  Speaker 3: it's a great resource for us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've been here.
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  Speaker 3: My grandfather moved to Bartlesville in nineteen forty one to
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  Speaker 3: bring his family here and seek opportunity too. And not
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  Speaker 3: unlike those people who came to the smelter. He actually
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  Speaker 3: got in the car business when his father had been
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  Speaker 3: a Methodist minister and he passed away, and so my
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  Speaker 3: great grandmother moved the family from Blackwell, Oklahoma to Tonkowa
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  Speaker 3: so she could work at the library, and all her
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  Speaker 3: three sons went to work at the Ford dealership there
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  Speaker 3: in Tonkowa. And I've got a picture of them in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen twenty five, all on a basketball team playing for
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  Speaker 3: this Ford dealer who's behind them in the picture in
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  Speaker 3: his Ford. And a few years later mister Ryan who
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  Speaker 3: was the dealer after my grandfather and his brother graduated
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  Speaker 3: from college, they got the opportunity to buy the dealership
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen twenty nine, right on the verge of the depression, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and then right at the beginning of World War Two
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen forty one, they moved to Artlesville, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ford stopped making cars, so resilience and and that multi
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: generational aspect is part of our business too. And it's
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: not that's similar to the story at the West Side
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Community Center because it you know, those uh, you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: those kinds of opportunities are are you know that you
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: guys are helping people find we call them at the
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: dealership sparks and that that that that when you when
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you light a fire and people take it. And I
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: can tell that from your personality, you've got that spark
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: and you know you're you're trying to pass that on
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: to to others. And it doesn't matter young, old, whatever
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: background they have. It's all about UH providing that place
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: to kind of be inspired, I guess, and and UH
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: can be a part of something that's bigger than you
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: and we all we all kind of need that. And
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's never enough just to to put
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: in your hours and take make a pay check and or.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: You know, in the struggle these days, a cost of
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: living is up.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: There's you know, so many challenges to putting food on
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: the table for people, and you know, so those resources
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: you help them access are so.
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  Speaker 2: Important and it's so thank you for what you're doing there.
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  Speaker 3: And I think this event again, it's Saturday, January thirty, first,
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  Speaker 3: six pm and Hillcrest celebrating seventy five years of west
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Side Community Center here in Bartlesville. And it's yeah, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: think that's just so exciting. And yeah, I know your
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: committee has you know, great probably great food plan too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: What else is going to happen that night. Anything else
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: we need to know about.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: That night is really just about celebration.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: It really is just good food, good entertainment, just really
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: about celebration, and just an introduction to invite people to
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: re engage with the community Center.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really my biggest plea for people.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if your last time engaging with us
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  Speaker 4: was in twenty twenty or twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: We invite you to come back out re engage with us.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: This year.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: We have some exciting, exciting things, especially when you talked
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: about the history of your family. Most people don't know that,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: and that's something that we're hosting this year as well,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: genealogy workshops to help people understand the history of their family.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I know, I'm fortunate enough to know that my.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Great grandfather came from Madagascar to Louisiana and he ended
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: up migrating further south, met my grandmother, who has lived
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: on a reservation, and they came here. A lot of
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: people don't have that story, but to have that and
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to move into a new state, and they were in agriculture,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: so but that resilience and that drive and just everything
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: that they did to make sure that their family was
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: able to have a better life, and then they migrated
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  Speaker 4: here and here.
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  Speaker 2: I am Alkahoma story.
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  Speaker 5: So much of that opportunity, you know, when they opened
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: up Oklahoma and it was about a place where there
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: was different kinds of opportunities.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, land run to the fullest extent, but to have
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: to sometimes it's really great for people to understand where
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: they come from because it helps you understand, well, that's
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: why I have that drive, That's why I have that tenacity,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: That's why I can't give up, That's why I have
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: to keep going.
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  Speaker 4: But those are really it's really great to have an
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: understanding of where you come from because it really lends
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: a great vision towards where you can go.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned all the other programs you have going on.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: How what's the best way for people to to find
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: out about something they might be interested in and stuff
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Well, I would love for people to visit us online
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: at Wccbartlesville dot org is our website. You can give
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: us a call at nine one eight three three six
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  Speaker 4: six seven six zero six seven six zero. You'll have
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: many different options of which area that you would like
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: to choose, but you'll hear things from cultural exhibits to events,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: to facility rentals, to a handyman program that we have
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: initiated as well to help those as seniors and veterans
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: who may need some work done around their house but
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: don't have the money for it. Like you'll be able
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to connect with us through those ways, and then we're
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: also available on Facebook and Instagram as well, and.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: If people want to volunteer, I know I've known a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: lot of people through the years who help in different
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: ways with the West Side Community Center. What I go,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I assume you're cann do that through the website too, Ken.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: You can do that through the website. You can fill
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: out a form or just info at WCC Bartlesville dot org,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: so you can reach out to us anyway. We will
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: absolutely make sure that we get you plugged in.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: We've got some exciting things.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: What do you need most, I mean, what is the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: what is it that you need most that's great, either
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: resources or volunteering.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: What is it what is the well.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: We always need all of those things. We always need
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: all of those things.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: But I would definitely say I welcome volunteers to come.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: As we're shifting into more of this cultural storytelling. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: invite people to come out, tell your story, come out
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: and engage with us. For those who are history busts,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: for those of that like culture, come out and share
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: that skill set with us, because we really do need
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: volunteers to come in. Our goal is to start in
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the month of February having different exhibits throughout the year,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Like February will kind of highlight Black History Month. We
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: have a march that's coming out that's highlighting Women's History Month,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and we'll be tapping into all of those cultural We'll
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: be connecting through culture throughout the year.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So if you're.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Someone who loves history or you would love to have
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: your culture highlight it, please reach out to us.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: That would really be beneficial.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, that's good. I encourage everybody to do that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe come to all that jazz in the meantime. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: noticed you can purchase your tickets online right right on
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the website.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You can't That's how we got our so it's pretty easy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, just go in and then reserve your spot and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: come see us all at the Hillcrest Country Club on Saturday,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: January thirty first at six pm, and we'll all be
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: celebrating seventy five years at Westside Community Center and there again.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: If you want to come out to the dealership and
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: talk about that or anything else, we'll be out there.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I'm headed right back.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: We've got our great non commissioned sales team. You can
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: find out more about our simple price and faster and parent,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: transparent and fun buying process. I keep hearing from our
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: customers that was the best experience.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: They've ever had buying a car.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: It's you know this is We're starting to get more
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and more of that as we just stay committed to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: our values and how we do things and we really
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: want them keep it simple, make it fast and transparent
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: for our customers, and fun to buy a car. It
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: doesn't need to be a high pressure situation and confusing.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: We put tools on our website where you can go
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and pretty much work your own deal. Add your trade,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: it's a met your credit app, do the negotiation through
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the technology on the website if that's necessary. But with
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: our simple price, we go in and price all our
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: cars based on what we call market based pricing. We
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: use third party tools and information you can gather through
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: the internet to make sure we've got our cars priced
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: right on the website online on the lot and in
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the showroom, nothing ever changes. No big hidden fees or
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: do your add ons things like that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: We try to avoid that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: We really train our team to be focused on you,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to ask important questions to the customer, find out.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: About your journey.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, just yesterday we had a training session on active
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: listening for the sales team so they could they could
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: learn to sit back and really let the customer tell
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: their story. And because everybody you know, buying a car
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: can be it's a big thing. They're expensive, but we
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: need them in our lives these days in America, transportation
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: and mobility is so important and we want to make
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: that easy and simple for you. So come check out
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: our team. We've got great We really need used cars.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: If you've got an extra vehicle around or looking to
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: trade something in, give us a shot at that. We've
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: got a great tool on our website where a Kelly
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Bluebook Instant Cash Offer buying center, so you can just
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: go to our website put your information in. It's really
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: easy to get an initial value. We'll contact you and
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: go from there. A lot of times we can give
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: you more of than that initial value, but we'll want
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: to take a look at it. And find out a
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: little bit more about the history of the vehicle. We're
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: actually looking to hire someone to be an acquisition specialist
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: and run that vehicle acquisition program. The folks us on
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: it from Ico as it's grown in the past year,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: We've getten more and more of these vehicles and we
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: really need it to sustain our inventory. I can tell
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you that a good lower cost vehicle right now, there
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: seems to be unlimited demand for those vehicles. Dungeus you
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: can count on our My brother Bruce's does the used
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: car reconditioning and most of the purchasing, and he's really
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: a stickler for doing the service on the vehicles, going
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: through them and making sure when we sell them that
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: you know you're getting a great use car, and so
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: you can count on that as well. You can find
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: out all kinds of information on our website, Values of
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: your trade, look at our new car inventory, see the stuff.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: That's not on the lot yet that will be coming.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: We've had our first allocation to the new twenty twenty
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: six Wrap four recently and we're going to be getting
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: more and more of those who should check that out.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And again, thanks for coming in.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Chavon We're really glad to have you on the show
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: again and look forward to doing it again sometime soon.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: All right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
• 27:13
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• 27:17
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• 27:19
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