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- 0:00Speaker 1: Is Thursday. It's July three, the year is twenty twenty five,
- 0:03Speaker 1: and it's time for another informational additional talk line here
- 0:06Speaker 1: at WIX and Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It
- 0:09Speaker 1: is time for our monthly look at news and information
- 0:11Speaker 1: from Sock Valley Community College. The first Thursday of the
- 0:14Speaker 1: month is always reserved for SVCC news and information and
- 0:19Speaker 1: to deliver the goods. Today, our marketing director at s
- 0:21Speaker 1: Sock Valley Community College is live with us at the
- 0:23Speaker 1: microphones this morning to usher us into a very busy
- 0:26Speaker 1: weekend ahead. But not only a very busy weekend, but
- 0:29Speaker 1: a very busy summer in defall. Jim grow joins us
- 0:32Speaker 1: from Sock Valley Community College today.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Steve that it's nice to be back.
- 0:36Speaker 2: I missed. I missed last month. I got to take
- 0:39Speaker 2: a vacation, so it's nice to be back.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Well, everybody deserves some time off. Took his during our
- 0:45Speaker 1: talklight time last but but we did have you know,
- 0:48Speaker 1: ample pitch batters and join us, you know, and talk
- 0:50Speaker 1: about some summertime activities college for kids.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Like that, you know, and the Child's Fair, the child Pair.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a spotlight I understand that would yeah.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, that was another thing.
- 1:01Speaker 3: I missed that too, but I checked in on them
- 1:03Speaker 3: to see how things were going. They said it went
- 1:04Speaker 3: very well.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Yes, so a good Saturday in that area for a
- 1:09Speaker 1: Shock Valley Community College. But Jim is back and with
- 1:12Speaker 1: us today for news and information from Stock Valley Community College.
- 1:15Speaker 1: And we are going to start our program today with
- 1:18Speaker 1: a couple of trips that Jim is going to talk
- 1:21Speaker 1: about today. One that we're gearing up for in this
- 1:25Speaker 1: month of July.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Right July.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Yeah, we got another trip going over to Chicago, which
- 1:30Speaker 3: we seem to do, you know, we do those every
- 1:31Speaker 3: few months. And this one is Beauty and the Beast
- 1:35Speaker 3: and that's on Sunday, July twenty seventh. And I know
- 1:38Speaker 3: there's some opening spots. There's some open spots on the
- 1:41Speaker 3: bus for that one, and so that's why I wanted
- 1:42Speaker 3: to talk about it, because these things usually fill up
- 1:45Speaker 3: pretty quick, and I know there's a handful of seats
- 1:47Speaker 3: open for this one. So the July twenty seventh, the
- 1:51Speaker 3: bus departs SAK always in the North parking lot at
- 1:55Speaker 3: eight This one is at eight thirty am. Head to Chicago,
- 1:58Speaker 3: get there about ten forty five, and then the show
- 2:01Speaker 3: as they get to the show about three forty five,
- 2:03Speaker 3: and then or excuse me, the show ends about three
- 2:05Speaker 3: forty five, and then they stop at Portillo's on the
- 2:08Speaker 3: way back. It's always a nice, little fun day to
- 2:11Speaker 3: stop at Portillos for some dinner. And then you come
- 2:13Speaker 3: back to the college about seven thirty. And I believe
- 2:16Speaker 3: that trip is it's one twenty nine for the ticket,
- 2:18Speaker 3: but again includes your seat, the bus trip, the snacks
- 2:21Speaker 3: on the bus, all that kind of stuff. So Beauty
- 2:24Speaker 3: and the Beast. Yeah, Sunday, July twenty seven.
- 2:26Speaker 1: This is live. This is not the emotion piece.
- 2:28Speaker 2: No, yeah, this is hard. This is live, live music.
- 2:32Speaker 1: This is live musical Beauty in the Beast that we
- 2:34Speaker 1: are headed to Chicago to see on July the twenty seventh,
- 2:38Speaker 1: and again, as Jim mentioned, takes up pretty much the
- 2:41Speaker 1: whole day. So if you've got that day to spend,
- 2:43Speaker 1: please join them for that motor coach trip into Chicago
- 2:47Speaker 1: for a lovely entertainment festival including the musical Beauty and
- 2:51Speaker 1: the Beast, and then again travel you don't have to
- 2:54Speaker 1: worry about there or coming back here.
- 2:57Speaker 2: You don't have to deal with parking. It's right to
- 2:59Speaker 2: do it. That's like the best hard about it.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that, you know, that's the beauty of taking
- 3:03Speaker 1: one of these trips into the Chicago land area. Courtesy
- 3:07Speaker 1: of Stock Valley Community College, this one to see the
- 3:09Speaker 1: musical Beauty and the Beast on stage. Then you are
- 3:13Speaker 1: planning for well, this trip is going a little bit further.
- 3:16Speaker 2: A little bit further than Chicago.
- 3:18Speaker 3: Yeah, this one is the Well and this one is
- 3:21Speaker 3: a trip preview to Spain. So it's basically you come
- 3:24Speaker 3: to the college and they do a little presentation. They
- 3:26Speaker 3: have a travel agent there that explains how the trip's
- 3:29Speaker 3: going to go, where you're going to go, that kind
- 3:31Speaker 3: of stuff. And so this is just a preview. You know,
- 3:33Speaker 3: there's no you don't have to sign up at it,
- 3:36Speaker 3: there's no pressure. This is just to find out if
- 3:38Speaker 3: this is a trip you want to go on. And
- 3:39Speaker 3: so the trip is next year, in twenty six, but
- 3:43Speaker 3: this is just a preview for it. So you come
- 3:45Speaker 3: over to the college. It's on September fourth, And that's
- 3:48Speaker 3: how I always like to I like to try and
- 3:50Speaker 3: hit these a little bit earlier and you give you
- 3:52Speaker 3: some time to plan it. Because this is a this
- 3:54Speaker 3: is not a day trip. This is like a ten
- 3:55Speaker 3: day trip exactly. And so September fourth is when that
- 3:59Speaker 3: is September fourth, six to seven, just out at the college.
- 4:02Speaker 3: But you do have to, you know, just reserve a
- 4:05Speaker 3: space so we know how many people are coming, so
- 4:07Speaker 3: we know that we make sure we have enough space
- 4:08Speaker 3: for everybody, that the room is big enough, that kind
- 4:10Speaker 3: of stuff. So but you so you just reserve a
- 4:12Speaker 3: spot at SBCC dot edu slash trips or you can
- 4:17Speaker 3: call eight one five eight three five six two one
- 4:20Speaker 3: two and again that's just a trip preview for Spain
- 4:23Speaker 3: September fourth, from just six to seven.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Okay. Again, the overseas trip to Spain will be in
- 4:30Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. As Jim mentioned, it is a an
- 4:33Speaker 1: extensive you know, travel to Spain for a multiple day
- 4:39Speaker 1: you know, a multiple dyda trip excursion act.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and you go to a handful of cities and
- 4:43Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
- 4:44Speaker 1: So yeah, and we need you know, to again get
- 4:48Speaker 1: ready for it to buy. And you usually do these,
- 4:51Speaker 1: you know, with all of these extended trips.
- 4:52Speaker 3: All these extended trips, Yeah, they have this preview part
- 4:54Speaker 3: of it. So you just go and you just listen
- 4:56Speaker 3: to see if it's something you want to do.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, get an idea of you know,
- 5:00Speaker 1: just what the itinerary will be, and again planned from there.
- 5:04Speaker 1: This is September the fourth, from six until seven at
- 5:07Speaker 1: Soft Valley Community College. Again you can go online, of
- 5:11Speaker 1: course to our popular website at Soft Valley Community College
- 5:13Speaker 1: that's SBCC dot edu. And again Jim has the phone
- 5:17Speaker 1: number there. So if your taste is to Chicago or.
- 5:21Speaker 2: To Space Spain, there you go. You know, you get the.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Wee travel coming up through Soft Valley again and this
- 5:26Speaker 1: is always always great that that the Sock Valley Community
- 5:29Speaker 1: College provides that. And it's just not for students, this.
- 5:31Speaker 3: Is for everybody anybody. Yeah, and these trips are a
- 5:33Speaker 3: lot of fun. I mean it's you know Brenda who
- 5:36Speaker 3: leads a lot of these. Every time she comes back
- 5:38Speaker 3: from these trips, they always have a wonderful time. She
- 5:41Speaker 3: just got back from Alaska like about a week ago,
- 5:44Speaker 3: and you know they went to Iceland a few months
- 5:47Speaker 3: ago and now this one for Spain and they're they're
- 5:50Speaker 3: always well attended and everybody has a great time. And
- 5:52Speaker 3: from what I've heard from family who have been around
- 5:55Speaker 3: the world and that Spain was one of their favorite
- 5:57Speaker 3: places to go. So don't miss out on this one
- 5:59Speaker 3: if you haven't gone to.
- 6:00Speaker 1: The preview is September the fourth at stock Valley Community College.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Jim Groad is our guest today, the marketing director at
- 6:05Speaker 1: Sotck Valley Community College with sock Talk information. For this
- 6:09Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty five, we moved from trips back
- 6:14Speaker 1: to the college.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Back to the college.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and for welding, for welding for veterans, and
- 6:21Speaker 3: this is a program that we've had. This is now
- 6:23Speaker 3: the third or fourth time that we've offered it and
- 6:25Speaker 3: it's done well, and so we just keep offering it
- 6:27Speaker 3: because you know, veterans an active military keep signing up
- 6:31Speaker 3: for it, so we'll just keep doing it. But we
- 6:33Speaker 3: have another free welding for veterans and active military coming
- 6:36Speaker 3: up Thursday, August seventh, and we have their two four
- 6:39Speaker 3: hour sessions, so you can sign up for an eight
- 6:42Speaker 3: am one or four pm one. And this is something
- 6:44Speaker 3: to where you don't necessarily have to be going into
- 6:46Speaker 3: that that trade, but this is something if you just
- 6:49Speaker 3: want to learn a new skill or something like that,
- 6:50Speaker 3: if you've never welded, before they just teach you the
- 6:52Speaker 3: basics on MiG welding, So just a four hour class
- 6:57Speaker 3: and you know, again it's free to attend, and they
- 6:59Speaker 3: give you all the supplies. So they give you the gloves,
- 7:01Speaker 3: the apron, the helmet and all that and you get
- 7:03Speaker 3: to keep all that stuff, right, Yeah, so nice, And
- 7:06Speaker 3: it's paid for by a grant from the icc B,
- 7:08Speaker 3: the Illinois Community College Board, and so so we have
- 7:11Speaker 3: this grant and so we're just going to keep offering
- 7:13Speaker 3: this while we can. And again you get to keep
- 7:16Speaker 3: all that equipment. But so if you want to learn
- 7:18Speaker 3: a skill, or if there's something where you may want
- 7:20Speaker 3: to change careers, that kind of thing, this is a
- 7:22Speaker 3: chance to at least see if you like this kind
- 7:24Speaker 3: of thing. You do have to have proof of d
- 7:26Speaker 3: D two fourteen or military status, and that's required, of course,
- 7:30Speaker 3: and you just register it the SVCC dot edu website.
- 7:33Speaker 3: But this is slash CED for Community Education or you
- 7:37Speaker 3: can call eight one five eight three five six two
- 7:40Speaker 3: one two. And I know there's still a handful of
- 7:42Speaker 3: spots open for this one, but like the afternoon one,
- 7:46Speaker 3: I think is getting pretty full. In the morning one
- 7:48Speaker 3: has a few spots open so don't wait to register
- 7:50Speaker 3: for that August seventh.
- 7:52Speaker 1: Giving veterans the opportunity to learn a trade.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Uh.
- 7:55Speaker 1: And again this is the Welding for Veterans program at
- 7:58Speaker 1: Soft Valley Community College. It has been very successful in
- 8:00Speaker 1: the past, and as Jim talked about, there already are
- 8:05Speaker 1: limited openings for this coming up, so we wanted to
- 8:07Speaker 1: put the word out and possibly fill the opportunities that
- 8:11Speaker 1: will be taking place on August the seventh. But again,
- 8:15Speaker 1: freeedom veterans, and again, as Jim mentioned, you get to
- 8:18Speaker 1: keep what you work with and again possibly you know
- 8:21Speaker 1: a new opportunity.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And Scott the instructor, just he loves teaching these guys.
- 8:26Speaker 3: When these come, he always has a wonderful time with
- 8:28Speaker 3: them and that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's a
- 8:29Speaker 3: good time.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Very good SVCC dot e edu. Again the website address
- 8:34Speaker 1: go there for Welding for Veterans. It's a free program
- 8:37Speaker 1: offer through grant monies available through Soft Valley Community College.
- 8:41Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll get that class filled up before the
- 8:44Speaker 1: regular class sessions start later in the month of August.
- 8:49Speaker 1: And that's our next topic of discussion.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Yes, it is classes are going to start August eleventh,
- 8:53Speaker 3: this year. But our enrollment is up, which is great news.
- 8:57Speaker 3: That's exciting, and it's up quite a bit, so and
- 9:00Speaker 3: I just kind of wanted to mention that because you know,
- 9:02Speaker 3: we have we have our normal round of students that
- 9:05Speaker 3: come through and register, you know, around March or excuse me,
- 9:08Speaker 3: like April May, that kind of stuff, because registration opens
- 9:11Speaker 3: up the beginning of April, and so you kind of
- 9:12Speaker 3: get that normal flood around April May, but then it
- 9:15Speaker 3: kind of has a lull in June July because people
- 9:18Speaker 3: are enjoying the summer. But the longer you wait, the
- 9:20Speaker 3: harder it is to get into some of the classes
- 9:22Speaker 3: because they fill up. And so and we get we
- 9:24Speaker 3: get quite a rush the last like two weeks before
- 9:27Speaker 3: classes start that we get a lot of people to register,
- 9:30Speaker 3: and so it's kind of like, you know, for those
- 9:33Speaker 3: procrastinators out there like me, this is this is your
- 9:36Speaker 3: kind of little kick to get out there and register
- 9:40Speaker 3: now and so you can start getting those classes going.
- 9:43Speaker 3: So just you can just go to the website SVCC
- 9:47Speaker 3: dot EEDU and just find the phone number to call
- 9:50Speaker 3: an advisor, because you got to talk to an advisor
- 9:53Speaker 3: to be able to get registered and all that kind
- 9:54Speaker 3: of stuff, and then they help you walk you through
- 9:56Speaker 3: what classes you need to do and that kind of stuff. So,
- 9:58Speaker 3: but don't wait for it, because again, register, our enrollment
- 10:02Speaker 3: is up, and so that means the classes that are good,
- 10:06Speaker 3: the good.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Times and that kind of thing.
- 10:07Speaker 3: You know, it's like, ooh, you don't want to get
- 10:09Speaker 3: up at eight o'clock, I want to do the ten
- 10:10Speaker 3: o'clock class, right, Well, those ten o'clocks.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Fill up faster exactly.
- 10:13Speaker 3: The longer you wait, the less likely you're going to
- 10:15Speaker 3: have the premium schedule you'd like to have.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Well, first of all, this is wonderful news that you
- 10:20Speaker 1: pass along to us that enrollment is up at stck
- 10:23Speaker 1: Valley Community College heading into this fall semester of classes.
- 10:26Speaker 2: But again on.
- 10:27Speaker 1: The flip side, as Jim just mentioned, if you want
- 10:30Speaker 1: to enroll in the classes you need, they may fill
- 10:33Speaker 1: up faster than expected because of the increased enrollment at
- 10:37Speaker 1: stock Valley Community College. So again, and we say this
- 10:41Speaker 1: every time when it comes to uh fall and even
- 10:44Speaker 1: spring registration is not to procrastinate. Don't wait until the
- 10:49Speaker 1: last minute because, as you just mentioned, Jim, classes do
- 10:53Speaker 1: phillip and you maybe shut out.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Yeah, you could be out of a class and you
- 10:56Speaker 3: don't want that exactly, and you may have to wait
- 10:58Speaker 3: till either the spring to take Sometimes some classes are
- 11:01Speaker 3: only offered in spring or fall exactly, and so you
- 11:03Speaker 3: might have to wait till next year to take it. Yeah,
- 11:06Speaker 3: and if it's a required class for you to transfer
- 11:08Speaker 3: or you know, for a certain degree and that kind
- 11:09Speaker 3: of stuff, it's it's you know, don't wait on that.
- 11:11Speaker 3: And there are there are a handful of classes, not many,
- 11:13Speaker 3: but they are a handful where we do open up
- 11:15Speaker 3: another section if we have to, but that doesn't happen
- 11:17Speaker 3: all the time. Our professors are they're busy people, and
- 11:20Speaker 3: and it's like, you know, they we can't just open
- 11:22Speaker 3: up a class like that. So it's you know, once
- 11:25Speaker 3: it's full, often they're closed. And so it's don't wait. Yes, yeah,
- 11:29Speaker 3: but it is exciting. It's exciting that are that's exactly
- 11:32Speaker 3: that enrollment's up and that's uh, you know, and it's
- 11:34Speaker 3: gone up I think over the last couple of years.
- 11:36Speaker 3: But honestly, it's it's just exciting to see that when
- 11:40Speaker 3: you know, it just seems like college is is kind
- 11:42Speaker 3: of on this teetering enrollment pattern of things.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Like that.
- 11:48Speaker 3: But community colleges are I think, are thriving in this
- 11:50Speaker 3: kind of uncertainty times and that kind of stuff of
- 11:52Speaker 3: whether people want to go to college. And and honestly,
- 11:55Speaker 3: I do think I would like to say that the
- 11:57Speaker 3: marketing department is causing this increase in enrollment.
- 12:00Speaker 2: That I couldn't. I can't take all the credit.
- 12:03Speaker 3: And I do think that the Impact Program is a
- 12:07Speaker 3: big part of it is just because the Impact Program
- 12:09Speaker 3: has been around for four years now and we're going
- 12:12Speaker 3: to be having our first cohorative students come start at
- 12:16Speaker 3: SOCK this year, and so I just think that that
- 12:19Speaker 3: being present in the community as much as the Impact
- 12:23Speaker 3: Program has done, just being around has caused, you know this,
- 12:28Speaker 3: just people to be more aware of you know that
- 12:30Speaker 3: we're around and things like that. And you know, in
- 12:32Speaker 3: talking about Impact that registration is still open. It started
- 12:35Speaker 3: April first, but it does close September first. And you know,
- 12:39Speaker 3: my son is one of these Impact students. He already
- 12:41Speaker 3: has his hours in for this year. And I just
- 12:43Speaker 3: wanted to mention that just because summer is a good
- 12:46Speaker 3: time to get those hours in and a lot of
- 12:49Speaker 3: people we get same thing, just like registration, we get
- 12:51Speaker 3: we got a big sign up around April, and then
- 12:53Speaker 3: we got another big sign up right you know, in
- 12:55Speaker 3: August before the deadline. But it's kind of I'm just
- 12:57Speaker 3: kind of wanting to let people know. It's if your
- 13:00Speaker 3: student is going to join the Impact program a freshman
- 13:03Speaker 3: going into your freshman year, you have till September first
- 13:06Speaker 3: to sign up for that. But the summertime is an
- 13:09Speaker 3: easy time to get those hours in.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Yeah, because well, and we just heard the Patunia Festival
- 13:14Speaker 1: officials talk about the fact that there are going to
- 13:16Speaker 1: be Impact students working a lot of Petunia Festival. Here's
- 13:20Speaker 1: here's a prime example. Here's a prime exa. I believe
- 13:22Speaker 1: they said over fifty are going to be working at
- 13:24Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival as impact as again getting gaining their
- 13:29Speaker 1: free tuition through working the Dixon Petunia Festival. There are
- 13:32Speaker 1: many outdoor activities, many area.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Activities the summer time, yes, And it's once they started
- 13:38Speaker 3: school they get so busy that they have they struggle
- 13:41Speaker 3: getting their hours in because they just have so much
- 13:42Speaker 3: going on exactly, And it's like, don't same thing, Just like,
- 13:46Speaker 3: as as a parent of an Impact student, get these
- 13:48Speaker 3: things done in the summertime and it's only.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Twenty five hours. It's he got it done in two weeks.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Done there you go, Free toition, Yeah, free to wish
- 13:58Speaker 4: exactly So again that I think, and you're right, Jim.
- 14:01Speaker 4: I think it lends credence to the increase in enrollment.
- 14:04Speaker 1: At Shock Valley Community College because of the success of
- 14:07Speaker 1: the Impact program taking place at SVCC. Again SVCC dot
- 14:12Speaker 1: EEDU that's the hotbed of information when it comes to
- 14:15Speaker 1: stalk activities. Go to that website. Check in on all
- 14:18Speaker 1: these trips going on, of the Paul registration going on,
- 14:21Speaker 1: the welding for veterans, going on the register for a
- 14:23Speaker 1: lot of this. So sign up for a lot of
- 14:25Speaker 1: these activities going on through Stock Valley Community College and
- 14:27Speaker 1: we'll keep updating you monthly right here on wi accent
- 14:30Speaker 1: Pleasure having you on board.
- 14:31Speaker 2: It great to be here, Steve.
- 14:32Speaker 3: Hopefully I'll see it to the parade, huh.
- 14:35Speaker 2: I'll it's not going to.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Be Sock's going to be on the parade and I'll
- 14:37Speaker 3: be there. This is my first time walking a parade,
- 14:39Speaker 3: so I'll wave to you if I see you out there.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Look for the XVCC though, that's right.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Look for our turtle, our turtle top bust.
- 14:47Speaker 1: At the Dixon Petunia Festival Parade on Sunday. Jim Groat,
- 14:50Speaker 1: we thank you so very much for joining us, Thanks
- 14:52Speaker 1: for being here. Jim Groat is our marketing director at
- 14:54Speaker 1: stock Valley Community College, our guest today on the Thursday
- 14:57Speaker 1: morning talk line eight thirty. News is Next, Here's Tim Lee.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Don't