Good morning, good morning, good morning, and walcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you try to stand today. It's a really big shoe because we got Big Brothers, Big Sisters in the studio. How are we doing, Charlene, do just fine? Thank you. Well, we've got big things to
talk about. But first thing first, let's kind of re equate everybody with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and what the mission is all about, because we hear the name all the time, but some folks kind of like, I think I know what it is. Go ahead, Well, Big Brothers, Big Sisters facilitates one to one mentoring matches, mantoring relationships between adults and vulnerable youth in our community to help those youths have a promise of a brighter future.
That's kind of a big test, but it works out well because so many of our big stick around. They do. And you know, I've been here thirty four years this year and she started to choose too. It is. It's amazing. It's but when you're in a community that long and you see I see littles that came through our program who are members of our community who you know, are contributing back to the community. Sometimes they've come
back in to be bigs, so you see the whole cycle. And we always knew that big brothers, Wood sisters mentoring worked, but the research proves it proves it out that it is an effective intervention for breaking the cycle of generational poverty, the cycle of incarceration, and just generally setting kids up to
do better in life. And for anybody who's had a mentor, and most of us successful adults, most of them have had somebody who mentored them along the way, and you recognize what the difference was that that person made in your life. And that's what our mentors do for the kids in our community exactly. And we need a few more of them, Oh, yes, we do. We have. Our waiting list is shrinking because we're making matches.
So that is the good news. The other news, good news, depending on who you are, is that we are recruiting littles, particularly girls. So if you are a single parent or know a single parent or grandparents raising kids and they are eligible for our service, and we would be happy to talk with them. We actually have big sisters that are common in the queue that we will be available to match and our pool of girls. We've
only got about four girls on the waiting list. And you need a pool to be able to get the best match because we match on the basis of personality, common intrust, what the child's needs are, and what the volunteer strengths are. So you need a selection to be able to find the best match of that child and that big Now, this is a great organization and this is a great mission, but it doesn't really run itself. We have to kind of do some things in order to keep the wheels turn in.
And that's why you brought in a guest. That's that's try. We have two fundraisers full for kid's sake. We were in here in the first quarter talking about which which was very successful this year. It went back to pre twenty nineteen revenue. Thank you Lord, Yes, thank you to the community
for it was wonderful one hundred and fifty thousand plus. Wow. And A Big Event is our other fundraiser, and it's our gala, our dinner and auction, and Christina and Craig Tate are the chairs for this year's event. The theme is Viva Las Vegas and I'll let you Christina talk a little bit about Okay. Great. First of all, Christina, welcome back to the radio station. I understand that once upon a moon you used to run around here when you were I did. Yes, it's great to be back.
Oh great, it's great to have you back. Now we're talking about big things here with the big event, but it's also big fun too. Although we try to raise some big money, we also present some pretty big smiles too. Now this uh, we're going out to the big event, Viva Las Vegas. Tell us all about it. We're so excited to be a
part of it. Craig and I had been a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kid's Sake for a lot of years, and then when we had the opportunity to attend a big event one year, we really learned the impact that Big Brothers Big Sisters had on the community, and we it was a no brainer for us to get involved. So we're so excited about this event. So Charlene didn't have to do any arm twisting at all. It just felt right. Well, I like it. That's great. You see
that. You know, it all kind of speaks for itself. You know, you've got a great reputation and got a great things going. And you know in success feeds on success too, I think you I do. Yeah, Now we're going to do this out of the country club, correct, we are, oh wow? Right? And the focus is the theme is Viva Las Vegas. The focus is more on the entertainment side, not hambling.
And our entertainment this year is Anginette in the evolution Jette webs I opened for her at it as sun Fast Awesome, and then her sister Ashley Elmore is going to make a guest appearance as well. Wonderful, so kind of replicating how when you go to Vegas you go to different entertainment shows and so we think that that will be that will be really fun. And one of the new things we're adding the shirts we've always we always have a wine pull
fact career, the ones who started the wine pole. Yeah here now everybody has one. But we're doing a bourbon pole. So I guess that's the trend. I know nothing about it, but I could give you some hints at what. I guess it's the trending thing today. So and you know we like to we like to start those trends. Oh yeah, there you go. We're going to add that in and we'll have our silent auction. We've got some nice live auction items. And Christina, do you want to
talk about the auction item that you're bringing to the table. Yes, Um, we're excited. Well, we have two club seats available to the Bok Center to a concert in the twenty twenty three seasons, so we're excited to be giving that away. That'll be a good one. There's all kinds of really good auction items this year that we're really excited to see. One thing I'm dying to ask our inside burns and jumpsuits allowed. I guess daring courage.
The tire is cocktail casual or you can come come as elvis as yours. You just want to make sure I didn't want to be out of place. And um, Christina and Craig are also donating a skeet shoot at the v Yes, so Foul Play Hunt Club is our our private Hunt clubs, So we're excited to be donating a skeet shoot. We love using the club as an opportunity to give back to the community. So is this should be a good auction item. This sounds like it's going to be a lot of
fun. It's going to be a little something for everyone and a lot of something for the kids when we're done right. And so we encourage people. We've got tickets available. We still have sponsorships available if anybody should want.
And you know, a five hundred dollars sponsorship comes with two tickets. So if you're thinking about coming and you want to promote your business, or if you're an individual and you want to, you know, further support the mission with a sponsorship, a five hundred dollars sponsorship gets to that two tickets. It adds some to help support the event, and we really appreciate it. At presenting sponsor is a center Field Financial group. It's great to have them.
One boy, yes, they were representing. They've been a presenting sponsor for I think three years. And our other top tier sponsors are Chronicle, Phillips, Philip sixty six Dsrum Dr. Okay, so the top two tiers. We got to keep these traditions going, yes, and we really appreciate our sponsors. They do help to offset the costs up and raise the additional
money. Now, this is coming up on Saturday, August twelve, six pm, and we'll see you right there at the Hillcrest Country Club and you know, Christina and Craig are the event shares being sponsored by Centerfield Financial Group. As he said it, it's the big event va Las Vegas for big brothers, big sisters. This might be this might be one of the biggest events of the big events. Every say that, every so and it and it turns out that it usually is. Yeah, you are the MC last
year, so I had a lot of fun. It was fun. It's a lot of fun, and I think that it'll be a lot of fun again this year. Oh it should be. We've got a good committee working on it and and then we'll we'll get past that and then we'll be into our fall recruitment and really recruiting, um more mentors. Our need is for
men or couples. Our greatest need is men and couples to match with our boys and um So, you know this is a This is the part here where there are a lot of folks who might spot somebody that would be good for this, and the gentle nudge wouldn't hurt what it right, That's the best recruitment tool is one to one. It's a personal contact. So I would say, if you're listening and you're thinking and this it's not my thing
or it's not the right time of my life. Then that's great. But I know that you know somebody who you can bring to mind that would be a good mentor a good friend to a young person in our community. He might just say to them, hey, I heard this on the radio. I know that they have a need. Have you ever thought about doing it? And you may be planting the seed or you may be. They may go, you know, I've been thinking about that for two years. I
think it's time for me to do it. Because people don't just hear about it and do it. They think it is a commitment. We ask for a process. We ask for at least a one year commitment, so people think about it for a while. And so, as I tell our board, you know, you could be planting the seed and then the next person that comes along a year later will be harvesting the seed. So don't be discouraged when you don't get the yes right away, because that's not necessarily.
If you get a yes right away, you're harvesting the seed somebody else, and even met you are. And so we just need to be planting seeds all the time with people because being a mentor is an important role. Our kids need it today more than ever and it's it is a way to change a life by just having some fun and showing up and being a cheerleader. Well, we want to thank Christina and Greig for being big cheerleaders for the Big eventent. Thank you. Yes, we're excited to be a part of
it. Well that is great because I'm looking forward to This is really going to be a knockout. This will be on August twelve, six pm a hill Crest Country Club. And how do we get our tickets in advance? You know for folks who don't don't want to wait, well, they best get their tickets before Monday. Yeah, if they want to be included in account. So I would really encourage people to get their tickets now now by
Monday would be good. The website is Big Event Bartlesville dot org. Big Event Bartlesville dot org really didn't remember or you can call our office will to be happy to You can go to Big Oklahoma dot org and click on events
and you know it's five clicks in, but you can find it. Big Event Bartlesville dot org will get you right right to the page and I'll tell you a little bit more about the events and about big brothers, big sisters, and if you're thinking about being a big yourself, either a big brother, big sister, a big couple, and big couples are got a big these days. Go to the website as well. We can walk you through
that. Yeah, Big Oklahoma dot org. There you go, and if you want to just talk about it first, you can put in you can do just like an inquiry and then we'll get back to you, or you can call our office. Great, thank you for coming in. Thanks for telling everybody about the big event coming up this way. I wish I had that echo big event. There we go anyway, Thank you, Charlene, Thank you very much. Christina. Apreciate you being with us today for our community connection.