Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome walkome, welcome, and is the time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you Dryston's brought you in, parked by our more Knee camp at funeral Home. And we've got the Kowana's in here. And I got to tell you guys, it's a beautiful day to get to almost kick off May, isn't it? It is BEAUTI And now we have Jim Sweezey. We also have Wayman White, the club president. And we got a couple of
things going well. You guys never stop, we never stopped. We got a lot of energy. Well, first things first, we got the we got the golf course opening up, the mini golf that's right this coming Friday, six o'clock, six BM Friday night will be open. It's our season opening. This is great. And Jim, last year you were working on the fairways like crazy. We were finishing up projects out there, that's for sure. We had a new turf going down on a few holes after more
concrete work. So it's always new and improved every year. Oh indeed, And this is a lot of fun. Not only do the kids have fun, parents have fun too. Speaking and I'm a grandparent, I have a ball. It's great for grandparents, parents, the kids, the whole family family. You see a lot of smiles out there every time we go out. We sure do. Now. Along with the beautiful setting that we have out there at Soudent Park, we've got probably the nicest accommodations you're gonna find
anywhere around it. And on top of that, it's just it's fresh air. Man, it's out there where it's nice and you got the evening air. And we also raise a little bit of money, don't we that we do. Yes, We've been operating that since two thousand and two and use the proceeds for scholarships for high school kids, for our Fourth of July fireworks, all kinds of projects to help the kids in the community. Now, this is a great way to have fun and raise funds at the same time.
Way right it is it is, And it's a great place for birthday parties. We have a lot of folks that call in and reserve the facility for parties. We've got some nice tables there under the shelter of the roof and they can have a birthday party and then go out and play miniature golf and just enjoy that whole area. So it's really great. And all they have to do to reserve the park and the golf course is to just call
in. That's it. That's it, and they'll give them a date and if it's open, then they can reserve it and it'll be locked down just for them. So it's a good private club and private place for a party. A lot of corporate parties out there too. That's way here. Companies go out and have a glass out there, just hanging out and relaxing and having a good time. Do we have a wedding out there once? You know? It? Was it this year? We've had one this year.
I believe that's pretty cool. Well, you know it. Welcome to America. It's a great place to take care of it. Now. Another great thing that you do, and this really brings a lot of different generations together. That's the fishing derby out there at the at the lake. Yes, at Joe Allen Park. Yes, since nineteen fifty one. Yes, it's been a long time a tradition here in town. I can imagine he's a youngsters going out with the maybe somebody that was around for the first couple.
Yeah, and we've had the kyption pointers. You know, we've had a gentleman out there with is that I was a kid when this started and now I'm bringing my grandkids out here to fish. So we've had those testimonies about how long we've been there. That's this May eleventh. It's coming up the Saturday, just a week from this Saturday eleventh or twelve. It's that a week from this Saturday, so May eleven. Okay, wow, this is going to be be big. Now what do we have to do for this?
You bring a ride and yourself and your kids, that's right, right. We ask the kids to all bring someone with them, a family member to be well. You got to say if somebody show off that fish too, that's right, that's right. So that's all they need. We we provide a bottle of water if it gets too warm out there. They have a good time. We provide prizes for all the kids. We have trophies
for the longest fish in each category. We have three different age groups, so wow, we get to compete against others their age and see who can get the longest fish. So we've got a boy Scout Troops six will be out there measuring fish. They're everywhere. Ye're helping, so it's it's a good time for all. This is great. What kind of fish do we have out there in the in the in the pod there are a lot of sun perch, a lot of sun perch. There's some small bass and catfish.
There's three different categories. Occasionally we'll see big fish. Sometimes people bring their fish they've caught in the lake and throw in there and we'll get a surprise. Some of them catch a big one. So we've had some nice catfish caught up there. Well, you know, those things will lurk around for a while and you know, a point the hooks until one day you got something that's almost as big as the kid coming out of the water. A lot of excitement when they catch the big fish. Oh yeah, yes.
Now, registration for that starts at eight thirty that Saturday morning. They can show up early and register and then the fishing will actually kick off at nine o'clock. And we do ask the parents that come, We want them to come and assist the kids, but we really want the kids fishing, and it's all about them fishing and reeling in the catch and the excitement and all that. So the fishing will start at nine and then go on till
eleven thirty, and then at eleven thirty. After that we call them all back to the register and then award the awards and trophies, and then we have gifts for all of the kids that have come to fish and they get to pick out fishing tackle and stuff like that. So it's it's it's quite a celebration. Well, that's really pretty cool, you know when you can put generations together and just have that that bonding moment and just have a good I tell you what, you can't go wrong with fishing, even if you
don't catch anything. You can't go wrong with fish, having a great time just outside, yeah, and stinking of things going wrong. Occasionally it will rain on us out there, so we did have a rain date in mind the following Saturday. In case it does turn bad, we'll we'll let you know here at the radio station that morning. If it does look too wet to have it, or if there's too much lightning or something, well, I'll be here taking your call if when that happened, so just call me.
We'll take care of it. But here's hoping that we can get it off without it well, Hitch, we want you to catch m Yeah, we're trusting for a beautiful day like even today really nicely. We're really proud of Troop six. They come out and we have measuring sticks for each one of them and we've got walkie talkies for them to communicate the fish and the link the size and it's all recorded. So the Dewey Key Club will be there for registration and recording all the fish and the sizes and the categories.
So it's going to be a great day. You got this thing button down pretty good, don't you. A lot of kids looking for service hours and everything else all kind of comes together. Does it's good to work together with these other groups? Oh? Yes, it is. It is now when we talk about the Quantas has a bit of a mission we do, and our mission is servicing the children. The mission of the organization is the children
of the world. We are really focused on men string and working too and four children of our community, and we have these events and things for them to participate in. But we also like to recognize them and here it is coming up the month of May, we'll be recognizing them with scholarships and we have an event planned at sooner Junior where we're going to have the recipients come and we'll be having a cookout and then giving the sophomores and seniors and the
eighth grade outstanding students awards and certificates and scholarships. Jim, you've been at this a little while. This is labor of love for the most for all the quanities, isn't it. It certainly is. We've got members that have been in our club for over fifty years. We're all dedicated. We have a mission to serve our community and to serve the kids of the area.
So these scholarships include all the schools in the county and yes, yes, we like to reach out to the neighboring communities at schools and make sure those kids are recognized. Also, now, when I was joking a little bit when I said, you guys are everywhere, but you are, I mean you've got the Freedom Past, you got fish and every You've got Christmas Parade,
you got the Christmas Parade and wow. And then in the meantime you're planning for the next event coming up, and and also talking to new in perspective, Kandians, where do you guys meet, Well, every Wednesday. Currently we're at Tri County Tech. We are there from noon to one. All right. Uh. If in fact because of Tri County spring break or summer break or whatever and we're not able to meet there, we find a location somewhere downtown, so we always are meeting every Wednesday. Now, how
do you get in? You have secret handshake? What do you yeah? You know, we don't have a big hazing period or any Hey, welcome anybody that has a heart for serving their community and serving kids. We would welcome then to come and see what we're all about and and just join us at noon out Try County Tech. That people at the front door let you know which room to go to, and we'd be glad to let him see what we do. Alrighty, and pretty much what you see is what you
gear all over the place that is just amazing. Everything that they you're able to kind of pull together and draw the community together and then you know, in the end share it with the kids. That's great. Yeah, great, gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us today. You're very welcome. Folks. You've been watching and listening to our community connection. How does Tim Howell at Arnold Moore and DeCamp Punlal home. No, he's