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Talk-Line: Shaw Local on recent Sterling and Dixon news · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: W i x and it is Wednesday. It is October
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  Speaker 1: the fifteenth, and it is time for another update of
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News headlines. We get the update every week
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  Speaker 1: on happenings across our Newethern, Illinois area with our good
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  Speaker 1: friends from Shawlocan News and representing Shawlocal News today is
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  Speaker 1: the managing editor of the Dixon Telegraphs Sterling Gazette. She
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  Speaker 1: is live with us in studio once again. She's live.
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  Speaker 2: She's not over the telephone. She's live with the Thank heavens.
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  Speaker 2: She is live with us today.
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  Speaker 3: Sharlie Beelich, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Joanne and herr is our good friend Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Clark from Shallocan News.
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  Speaker 3: How are you sir? Very well.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to have both of you guys on
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  Speaker 1: board with us here at w i xcent. We're set
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  Speaker 1: to bring updates of happenings across our local area. And Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: I understand we got a lot of Sterling information to
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  Speaker 1: share this week. So where are you going to start with?
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  Speaker 1: You said something about Jeremy the Amazer. Yeah, yeah, Jeremy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy the Amazer.
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  Speaker 2: He's a magician. He actually lives in Rock Falls, but
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  Speaker 2: I think he's kind of known a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: on the on the sterling side. He's just always been
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  Speaker 2: so involved. So he's been doing magic for over thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: And it was really cool is he won He recently
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  Speaker 2: won an award at the Houdini Club for a magic trick,
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  Speaker 2: a card trick rather, I should say, called Sam the
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  Speaker 2: bell Hop, and that was really cool. He ran the
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  Speaker 2: close up contest there at the club. And so this
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  Speaker 2: I actually watched a video of him doing the trick,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a story based card trick with comedy and
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  Speaker 2: humor and their own twist picked on it. And as
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  Speaker 2: he's telling the story, he's turning over these corresponding cards
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  Speaker 2: that cris with it while you're watching him continuously shuffle
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  Speaker 2: the deck. So it's one thing to think, oh, sure
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  Speaker 2: he's got him stacked all up. He's constantly shuffling the
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  Speaker 2: deck in front of you, whipping out these cards right
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  Speaker 2: as his story is going along, and you're like, how
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  Speaker 2: the heck does he do? So it's amazing. And so
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  Speaker 2: he got his start in magic as a kid. He
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  Speaker 2: was actually kind of a shy kid. He picked up
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  Speaker 2: a magic trick at this little shop all he was
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  Speaker 2: vacation with his family and he started to know that
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  Speaker 2: people were paying attention to him. They would listen to him,
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  Speaker 2: and they liked him. And from there, this man, over
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  Speaker 2: thirty years, has made a career out of convincing us
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  Speaker 2: that even though we know it's it's not magic, certainly
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  Speaker 2: looks like it.
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  Speaker 1: And where is he? Where was he performing when you
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  Speaker 1: saw him?
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  Speaker 2: So he would it was a video? So this was
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  Speaker 2: the club in Wisconsin. Yeah, it's a convention and he's
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  Speaker 2: competed there before and this is the first time he's
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  Speaker 2: taken first place. Nice. But if you watch that trick,
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  Speaker 2: because he has a YouTube video with some of his
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  Speaker 2: stuff on there, I can see why he went. It
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  Speaker 2: was so cool it blew my mind.
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  Speaker 1: And he is a local talent.
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  Speaker 2: He is a local talent, yeah, a local magician. You'll
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  Speaker 2: see him at a lot of the community events performing
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  Speaker 2: you can go. He has a website and social so
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy the Amazer. If you want to book him, the
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  Speaker 2: man is you know, he's available, and I couldn't suggest
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  Speaker 2: it more. Just a lot of fun. He's a very
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  Speaker 2: humorous guy and he always packs comedy in there. And
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  Speaker 2: his act is family friendly and completely clean. So whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a corporate birthday. Whatever, you can hire the Amazer.
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  Speaker 2: He'll make you laugh, he'll make you smile, and he'll
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  Speaker 2: make you wonder how the heck did I love this?
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  Speaker 3: You were describing it, you were like, that's amazing, that
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  Speaker 3: was it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, that's why he's saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember the full story. But he didn't pick
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  Speaker 2: that nickname. Somebody gave it to Okay stuck if I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting that right. So yeah, the Amazer amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. So you're covering him as part of
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  Speaker 1: our Shaw local news coverage. What else you got going
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  Speaker 1: on in Sterling?
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  Speaker 2: So Aralios for anybody who's lived under a rock in
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  Speaker 2: the area or maybe just been too busy U Ralios
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  Speaker 2: finally opened up in their new location at the former
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  Speaker 2: Sterling Candlelight building. So we all know that that iconic
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  Speaker 2: red barn building. A Ralios has been planning to move
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  Speaker 2: in there. So last week they had that that grand
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  Speaker 2: opening that's on Low Street. So the owners are Ralio Gallardo.
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  Speaker 2: It's a family owned business. So that bigger space now
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  Speaker 2: has dining in options. So people you go to the register,
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  Speaker 2: you order your food, you go sit down and they
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  Speaker 2: bring it out to you. They still got all the
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  Speaker 2: classic bake goods they're known for, the cookies, the cakes.
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  Speaker 2: They actually now have to build your own cake bar.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're in, you're in a hurry. Which you
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  Speaker 2: want that? Now you know that a Ralio's frosting in cake.
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  Speaker 2: But when it make it yourself, you can make it
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  Speaker 2: real quick. And what was so cool at the grand opening,
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  Speaker 2: and I think what all of us knew would expect.
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  Speaker 2: There is a line of Wall Clipper employees on their
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  Speaker 2: lunch break, and I'm like, why wouldn't you. You can
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  Speaker 2: walk across the street, have your food a minute to
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  Speaker 2: eat it down, and then go back to work. So
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  Speaker 2: these guys are just I'd seen a lot of comment
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  Speaker 2: online and I think I felt the same way. We
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  Speaker 2: were all so happy to see this iconic building that's
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  Speaker 2: been a part of Sterling's history. Go to a Sterling
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  Speaker 2: owned based small business owner and keep it in the
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  Speaker 2: Sterling family.
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  Speaker 1: Say yeah, nice, nice, So again that's on Locus Street.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on Locus Street. It's got what I call an
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  Speaker 2: old school Hollywood vibe inside. So you've got it's very bright,
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  Speaker 2: bright colors, you've got past celebrities, Elvis Lucille ball prints.
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  Speaker 2: So just very cool old world Hollywood vibe in there, a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of fun, good back. So a business establishing themselves
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  Speaker 1: in the downtown or should say in the Locals Street
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  Speaker 1: Sterling area, and again Brandon covers that for us. Anything
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  Speaker 1: else to report from Sterling today?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so we have a new police chief, Pat Bartel,
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  Speaker 2: that was made official last city council meeting. I always
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  Speaker 2: like to sit down with folks after they go there
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  Speaker 2: and get a look at the person behind the badge,
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  Speaker 2: behind the title, just kind of see what got them
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  Speaker 2: in there. And interesting enough, Bartel's ties to to to
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement actually come back to us Charlene at the paper.
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  Speaker 2: So his his father was a photographer and reporter for
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  Speaker 2: the crime beat for the Gazette, and his grandfather was
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  Speaker 2: a pressman for the Gazette. So law enforcement was a
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  Speaker 2: common topic around their table at home, so much so
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  Speaker 2: that he said his dad actually wanted to dissuade him
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  Speaker 2: from going into law enforcement because working the crime beat
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  Speaker 2: he could kind of see the darker side of that,
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  Speaker 2: but he never stopped. His son. Bartel said, it's something
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  Speaker 2: he's always wanted to do, and choking with me that
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  Speaker 2: he knew his ten codes before his alphabet. So he
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  Speaker 2: was hired at the SPD in ninety four after an internship.
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  Speaker 2: We actually almost lost him to the Los Angeles County
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department. He wanted to go with those folks, but
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  Speaker 2: he took an internship here when we had oh god,
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  Speaker 2: what was it, Lieutenant Podhoff and I forget the former
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  Speaker 2: chief's name at that time. He did an internship and
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  Speaker 2: he decided local law enforcements where I want to be,
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  Speaker 2: community policing models where I want to be. So the
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  Speaker 2: state had a grant back then. They wanted to really
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  Speaker 2: start that initiative that we've seen carried through these chiefs
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  Speaker 2: over the years when I talked to Shavera and all
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  Speaker 2: of them, that community policing model has been huge. It's continued,
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  Speaker 2: and that's kind of it sounds like where the start
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  Speaker 2: of that came. Him and another officer took a year
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  Speaker 2: to really spearhead that and it took off. So the
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  Speaker 2: stories online there, there's plenty more in there about Pat
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  Speaker 2: and his history with the with the s p D,
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  Speaker 2: but it was just always an interesting shutting a closer
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  Speaker 2: look at these these people that help.
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  Speaker 1: Runner absolutely it's always a fascinating journey to follow. You
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  Speaker 1: know their steps forward and where they're you know where
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  Speaker 1: they're at right now, and you know what they're you
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  Speaker 1: know past experience was and so so that's all there
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  Speaker 1: with Shaw locals. So again check that out. Our new
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  Speaker 1: Sterling police chief again spotlighted today with Brandon here at
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  Speaker 1: w I X m uh. Is that done? We do
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  Speaker 1: with Sterling?
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  Speaker 3: We're done with Sterling?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, sift, Let's stift our attention to Dixon because there's
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  Speaker 1: a there was some decisions made on a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: art project that is going to be Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Peyton Felix, who our Dixon government, she had a story
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  Speaker 4: about a grant that will allow for a mural to
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  Speaker 4: be painted. I believe it's on the city water building
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  Speaker 4: where the arches are, which will help kind of brighten
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  Speaker 4: up that area. And it was one of those things
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  Speaker 4: I remember when we ran kind of the call for entries,
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  Speaker 4: the idea of I'd like to be the artist, this
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  Speaker 4: is what I'd like it to look like, and so
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  Speaker 4: they kind of like almost like a bidding process where
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  Speaker 4: they would look at and decide who they would like
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  Speaker 4: to have paint that. And Norah Ruter was selected for
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  Speaker 4: that and it came down to two finalists, and from
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  Speaker 4: how it sounded in her story, the second mural they
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  Speaker 4: liked also and they would also like to find a
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  Speaker 4: home for that and possibly the future. So yeah, murals
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  Speaker 4: beautiful and they always catch your eye when you drive
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  Speaker 4: by Sterling's always does Clinton put a bunch of them
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  Speaker 4: in most towns have something there that kind of symbolizes
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  Speaker 4: who they are, So it'd be great to see that
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  Speaker 4: go up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it brightens up the you know, maybe otherwise mundane
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  Speaker 1: brick balls things like that, you know, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of spices the you know, up the
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  Speaker 1: area and tracks those you know that are interested in
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  Speaker 1: art and you know, to this area exactly. It's great,
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  Speaker 1: yeah that they do this. And this was put together
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  Speaker 1: by Dixon Chamber, Main Street discovered Dixon. They went through
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  Speaker 1: the process, you know, having the location as you just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned of the mural, and then a selection process that
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  Speaker 1: had to be done through Dixon Chamber and Main Street
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  Speaker 1: and finally came up with this artist name.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and looking from like our Facebook traffic and such,
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  Speaker 4: very popular, didn't she also do our if I remember
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  Speaker 4: this correctly, our downtown superhero bicycle.
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  Speaker 2: She did, yeah, yeah, down down, yeah, yeah. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of when it's come to these art murals and things
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  Speaker 2: so popular.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of support, a lot of community support, and.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So and that project will be beginning
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  Speaker 1: then later on, I believe probably next year.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you specific.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seemed like it was that you want a
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  Speaker 4: full run if you don't want to start that in
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  Speaker 4: the winter, exactly, I'll say that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, And I think that was the There
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  Speaker 1: was a proposal anyway put in when we talked with
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  Speaker 1: our friends from Dixon Chamber in Main Street. So again
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  Speaker 1: we have chosen an artist who again play a mural
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  Speaker 1: on the water facility as as Charlie mentioned, and look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that project taking place. Got some news from Project.
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  Speaker 3: Rock that yeah, another grant.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about collaboration again Dixon Park, Park District, Dixon
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  Speaker 4: City Council discovered Dixon. I think those are the three
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  Speaker 4: entities that work together to get a federal grant. It's
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  Speaker 4: actually a grant that will be used around like for
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  Speaker 4: Petunia Festival, and it ties in with Project Rock because
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  Speaker 4: the pedestrian bridge will be opened shortly before.
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  Speaker 3: That to really deck that out. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a flag project, so there.
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  Speaker 4: Are large flags and medium and smaller flags just to
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  Speaker 4: kind of decorate that whole area out for the two
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: So this is all tying and nicely, I think beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really tying in nicely what is going to be
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  Speaker 1: happening next year with the you know, celebrations that will
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  Speaker 1: be going on not just here but across the country.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to be joining in that celebration ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with our walking bridge.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think about the Reagan the Reagan influence, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this will be the place to be.
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  Speaker 3: That's how I see that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think it'll draw a lot, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: of the history and because of the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: area itself, and because of the improvements now that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see, you know, come fourth of July next
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  Speaker 1: year with the Petunia Festival and with the new pedestrian bridge.
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  Speaker 4: I can remember when I started with the Telegraph in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three and they were kind of coming off
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  Speaker 4: like the eyetep work that they'd been doing along the riverfront,
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  Speaker 4: and Danny Langloss met with me tend to do that
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  Speaker 4: and you talk about, Hey, what's the big things coming up?
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  Speaker 4: And he talked about Project Rock and he said, and
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  Speaker 4: over there, we're going to have a pedestrian bridge. And
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  Speaker 4: we were at coffee Crush, I think at the time,
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  Speaker 4: so we kind of and I was like.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: So you're telling me that you're going to take that
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  Speaker 4: and you're going to make that a pedestrian you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have He's like yeah, And that, for me was just
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  Speaker 4: so hard to believe that you could get money for
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  Speaker 4: a project like that, or to have the vision of
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  Speaker 4: having something that's going to be so used by the
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  Speaker 4: community recreationally a landmark, and now to see that and
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  Speaker 4: have an end date for it, that to me, it's
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  Speaker 4: just like amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And and and what you're seeing down there is completely
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  Speaker 1: you know, different from what was there before. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is amazing what they work they have done down there,
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  Speaker 1: and what you're seeing going up down there, this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: And the Rock River is absolutely beautiful to me, always
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  Speaker 4: driving over to see the little dams, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: I lived by the Mississippi, which is just like you know,
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  Speaker 4: barg traffic big, big, big. It's just beautiful high school there,
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  Speaker 4: beautiful background.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be great. And again all the
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  Speaker 1: celebrations are going to tie in our own Petunia Festival
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  Speaker 1: again fourth of July, the special Country celebration.
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  Speaker 3: It's just yeah because our country concert. Oh yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be down there.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else going on that you can anything else.
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  Speaker 4: There's always something going on. I think you can tell,
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  Speaker 4: like right now, there's a lot of events. When you
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  Speaker 4: open up the newspaper, it's just it's like, hey, I know,
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  Speaker 4: how are we covering that? And we're gonna get out
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  Speaker 4: there and get some photo galleries of well, you know we
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  Speaker 4: I think even on the radio this morning, I heard
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  Speaker 4: from you and in your spot talking about the lighted
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  Speaker 4: parade right that we have. Today's the registration deadline for that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Scarecrow Festival is a huge deal here. There's
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  Speaker 4: been a lot of fall festivals in the area. But people, stories,
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  Speaker 4: people are always doing something here that if we can
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  Speaker 4: find that we left to spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: The little community is doing too.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. That's what we do every week
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  Speaker 1: with these guys right here on WIX in a spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: All of the special stories coming out through Shaw Local and.
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  Speaker 3: Cities and schools because now we're the superintendent search they're
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  Speaker 3: calling for us ready that actually.
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  Speaker 4: Get together and help with that. So there's always some
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  Speaker 4: work going on behind the scenes too. That's future it's
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  Speaker 4: very future dependent.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know. With Margo Impen stepping down at the
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  Speaker 1: end of her track this next year in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be an interesting coverage that we'll take up with
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local obviously as we continue through the school year
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  Speaker 1: and on into a new superintendent right well that there
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  Speaker 1: will be a new superintendent coming in, but we'll continue
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  Speaker 1: our coverage there here at Wison as well. Guys, we're
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  Speaker 1: out of time. We thank you so very much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Shure and be him a Brandon Clark from
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  Speaker 1: shaw Local News, appreciate it. We'll see you next week.
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