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Barre Elks Golf Outing - Dave Bingham 9th Annual benefit for Silver Towers Camp · Aired Out

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  Speaker 3: A bright good morning, and welcome to a brand new week.
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  Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, Labor Day. Behind US one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty million people moving and with the price of gas
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  Speaker 3: Just everything was so jammed up yesterday. Glad that I
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  Speaker 3: was right here in Vermont. I want to say happy
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  Speaker 3: birthday today to Diane Leshume's Bill Haynes on the list today,
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  Speaker 3: Happy birthday Bill, Heather Grant, Lorie Lockwood, Cameo Wells, Chris
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  Speaker 3: and Jerica Bogus ginger Esteville also on the birthday list today.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking at a cloudy start to your Tuesday eighty degrees,
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  Speaker 3: though later today it's actually going to be a really
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  Speaker 3: three tonight and then tomorrow mostly sunny eighty and pretty
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  Speaker 3: much the same story on Thursday. It is just going
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  Speaker 3: to be wonderful this week. And again, if you're just
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  Speaker 3: joining us, a very good Tuesday morning to you. Spoke
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  Speaker 3: with Steve McKenzie this morning about the one for three
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  Speaker 3: Main Street initiative, of course, the JJ Newberry Building, and
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  Speaker 3: it was my understanding that today, being September two, was
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  Speaker 3: the deadline to raise the funds needed to acquire that building.
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  Speaker 3: And it is the ninth of September, says Steve. The
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  Speaker 3: executive committee is going to be meeting tomorrow and Monday
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  Speaker 3: is it's game time. So we should be finding out
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  Speaker 3: here in less than a week whether or not things
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  Speaker 3: are going to change quickly. God willing for one for
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  Speaker 3: three Main Street, the JJ Newberry Building, and hopefully, hopefully
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  Speaker 3: things are going to happen there and within a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years you're going to see a much much needed
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  Speaker 3: change for that building. Listen, there is so much going
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  Speaker 3: on in our community, so many things happening. Do keep
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  Speaker 3: that are happening, and if you need a daily dose
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  Speaker 3: a great story about the kids getting back to school
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  Speaker 3: and showing mom some love. Most of the schools across
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  Speaker 3: America are actually starting school today. But there's some really
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  Speaker 3: really good stuff that will warm your heart this morning
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  Speaker 3: on the aired out page. I encourage you to have
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  Speaker 3: a look and check it out. We've got a very
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  Speaker 3: busy week here Tonight. I'm going to be over at
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  Speaker 3: the Canadian Club and we are going to be The
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  Speaker 3: Lions Club is going to be cutting a check to
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  Speaker 3: the Noades family. This is the family up in Barrytown
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  Speaker 3: that lost their barn to that horrible fire in April.
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  Speaker 3: And we just had Barry Farm Fest, this huge day
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  Speaker 3: long concert and food festival and whatnot for the Nodes
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  Speaker 3: family and man our community came through in a big,
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  Speaker 3: big way. There were hundreds of people up there. It
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  Speaker 3: was an amazing time. And tonight the Nodes are going
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  Speaker 3: to find out exactly how much money was raised for
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  Speaker 3: them to rebuild that barn and cover some other expenses
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  Speaker 3: that they need to family of nine children on that farm. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're all going to be there tonight and I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to bring you there with us. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what I intend to do so you will be able
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  Speaker 3: to see and hear as the nodes receive their surprise
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  Speaker 3: check tonight right around It's going to be some time
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  Speaker 3: around five to five thirty or so. When I get
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  Speaker 3: a better time to give you heads up, I will
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  Speaker 3: certainly let you know. My guest this morning, and I
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  Speaker 3: love before we even get started. I absolutely love talking
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  Speaker 3: about stuff like this, especially if it's right here in
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  Speaker 3: our backyard, in our community. Anytime you hear the word
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  Speaker 3: Silver Towers, most people, I think, at least here in
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  Speaker 3: central Vermont perk up and they know what that is.
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  Speaker 3: Silver Towers is an overnight camp for people with disabilities,
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  Speaker 3: and it is owned and operated by the Vermont Elks
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  Speaker 3: Charities Incorporated. They have had this camp for a very
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  Speaker 3: very long time and they do so much, so much
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  Speaker 3: every single summer for people with disabilities, ranging in age
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  Speaker 3: from age six all the way up to age seventy five.
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  Speaker 3: They bring these folks together and they give them a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks of just pure life and joy. And
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  Speaker 3: without Silver Towers, it just simply wouldn't happen. So it is,
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  Speaker 3: with no further ado. Dave Bingham is my guest this
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  Speaker 3: morning from the Elks. Good morning, sir, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, JD. Nice to meet you and happy to
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  Speaker 2: be here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and I've met you before, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know in what capacity. Probably something to do over there,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm always over at the Elks, and you guys
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  Speaker 3: are always cooking up amazing food, and that's probably it's
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  Speaker 3: probably food related because I love food. Man.
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  Speaker 2: We do a lot of food there.
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  Speaker 3: Stacy Holton is saying good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Is he good morning, Stacy? How you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 3: Of course he's down.
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  Speaker 2: He's down at.
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  Speaker 3: Florida Snowbird, lucky guy. Yeah, he's probably get his flip
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  Speaker 3: flops on right now, just got off the beach. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but listen you you guys do so
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  Speaker 3: much over at the Elks, so much for our community.
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  Speaker 3: This anytime there's something happening, it's usually there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: look at night to shine. I mean, I could sit
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  Speaker 3: here and rattle off a list a mile long of
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  Speaker 3: everything that you do at the Elks, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what what the hell we would do
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  Speaker 3: without you? Really, yeah, all of you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, We're I mean, we're we're all happy to do it.
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  Speaker 2: We're all happy to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It is just such a great facility. That dance
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  Speaker 3: floor is second to none at the big stage. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: over the years, we've done so many things with you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and we love and appreciate every one of you. And
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  Speaker 3: before we go an inch further, let's say this. You
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  Speaker 3: want to join the Elks. It's simple. How do you
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  Speaker 3: do it? What's very simple.
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  Speaker 2: Best way to do it is go online and get
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  Speaker 2: a print off an application membership application. Fill it out.
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  Speaker 2: You need to have a sponsor. Yeah, so you have
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  Speaker 2: to have an Elks member sponsor your application, turn the
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  Speaker 2: application in. I think they ask you to pay thirty
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  Speaker 2: five dollars which goes towards your first year's initiation fee,
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  Speaker 2: and then you get interviewed. But the interview is most
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  Speaker 2: people take the interview with something negative, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: want to know what's he been doing?
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  Speaker 3: You know interesting?
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  Speaker 2: It's all it is is just us sharing the information
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  Speaker 2: of what we do so that you know what we're
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  Speaker 2: all about.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Once you go through that meeting, then you're initiated. You
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  Speaker 2: go through the initiation that we have, which is an
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  Speaker 2: old initiation, which is about one hundred and forty years old,
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  Speaker 2: and it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Can you share any anything about that?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, no, I'll let them. Yeah, I mean the
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  Speaker 2: initiation is not that bad. Sure, you know, it takes
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  Speaker 2: about an hour and a half or so, but it
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  Speaker 2: is different. It's something that you've never experienced before.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, that's right. That's so cool. And if
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  Speaker 3: you're an Elk you certainly know. Absolutely. But one of
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  Speaker 3: one of the most dare I say the most important
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  Speaker 3: things events that you guys are involved with is Silver Towers. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That is the chief charitable project for the Vermont Elks Association.
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  Speaker 2: So every lodge in the state of Vermont has to
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  Speaker 2: fundraise a certain amount of money based on the number
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  Speaker 2: of memberships that they have so that the camp can operate.
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  Speaker 2: And you can do you can fundraise the money any
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  Speaker 2: way you want it, as long as you come up
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  Speaker 2: with the amount that they want you to come up.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the year. So I came
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  Speaker 2: up this idea eight years ago doing a golf tournament,
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  Speaker 2: and we're doing our ninth outing this Friday at the
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  Speaker 2: Country Club of Barry. We have eighty eight players already
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  Speaker 2: signed up to go twenty two teams. It's a scramble format,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't have to be a good golfer to
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  Speaker 2: be in it, just to have a couple of good
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  Speaker 2: golfers on your team. And we tee off at eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Registration starts at nine thirty. It's one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: five dollars per person to get in, and I am
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  Speaker 2: actively looking for a couple of more forsomes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if many, how many? How many slots do you
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  Speaker 3: have opened? I have to stots?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so I've got eight slots open. Okay, if
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  Speaker 2: you you know, I mean, we can take your name.
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  Speaker 2: If you're only a single and you don't have three
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  Speaker 2: other players, sure, and we can try and pair you
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  Speaker 2: with a team that couldn't fill out a foursome. But
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  Speaker 2: that really happens. Most of the people that sign up
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  Speaker 2: already have a force theme together and we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about plugging.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What a great time of year to be playing golf.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is the only bad thing about it is well,
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  Speaker 2: the leaves haven't started the fall yet. Sure to be
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  Speaker 2: able to find your ball all right?
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  Speaker 3: Country Club of Perry, I can't say enough about them
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's uh, there's a golf club that has
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  Speaker 3: hosted many golf tournaments for area charities, and this is
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest right here.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're great to work with them, and we've been
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  Speaker 2: working with them consistently for the last eight years and
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  Speaker 2: they've always treated us well and we always have.
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  Speaker 3: A good time. So we go back every year. What happens,
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  Speaker 3: tell me about the day, how it's going to break
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  Speaker 3: down on Friday, this coming Friday.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens on Friday is the registration table opens
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  Speaker 2: at nine thirty and that's open until the tea off
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  Speaker 2: time at eleven. Usually everybody gets there by about ten
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  Speaker 2: thirty and gets checked in.
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  Speaker 3: And then we have.
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  Speaker 2: Like a group meeting before just to explain the rules
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  Speaker 2: of the tournament. And we're going to have distinguished guests
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  Speaker 2: this year that we're gonna have. We're gonna have Nick Zecanelli. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: some Wayside is going to be there. The camp director,
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn Ravenna is coming up on Friday, so she will
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  Speaker 2: be there. It's at eleven o'clock. We all do the
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  Speaker 2: shotgun start. You play your eighteen holes, turn in your scorecards,
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  Speaker 2: and then as soon as the tournament is done, we're
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  Speaker 2: all heading back to the Barry Elks Lodge to the
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  Speaker 2: main hall. We'll have some orders there, chicken wings, meatballs,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll do our awards. We'll do the prizes, first
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  Speaker 2: place prize, second place prize on the prizes for the
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  Speaker 2: longest drive from men and women, closest to the pin
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  Speaker 2: for men and women. And we're doing something a little
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  Speaker 2: different this year. We're doing a program pay it to
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  Speaker 2: Play it Forward. What that means is is this three
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  Speaker 2: power fives on the Berry Country Club golf course. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to take two of those power fives, two
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  Speaker 2: of the difficult ones, and if you want to pay
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  Speaker 2: to play forward, you pay ten bucks which is donated
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  Speaker 2: to Silver Towers, and you can play one of those holes.
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  Speaker 2: The men can go from the white tees up to
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  Speaker 2: the gold tees and the ladies can go from the
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  Speaker 2: red tees up to the junior te's, so it gives
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  Speaker 2: them an opportunity to get a much better score on
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  Speaker 2: that hole than they normally would if they were hitting back. Interesting,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to do the two holes, you just
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  Speaker 2: pay their bucks and you can do both holes. And
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  Speaker 2: of course all that money we raise for that will
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  Speaker 2: go right to Silver Towers. You the brainchild of this, No,
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  Speaker 2: actually it was one of the volunteers. I have seventeen
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  Speaker 2: volunteers that work with me on this golf tournament. There
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  Speaker 2: is not one person that can do this all by themselves.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible. Yeah, but the one thing about being a
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  Speaker 2: member of the Barry Elks Lodge you can find a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: People are ready to volunteer, help out, do whatever they
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  Speaker 2: can sure to make sure we reach our goal. You
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  Speaker 2: know the bpoe you see on the Elks. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I say it stands for the best people on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, we've made a lot of friends, my wife and
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  Speaker 2: I since we've been members, they have made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of acquaintances, new friends.
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  Speaker 3: How long ago was that? Thirteen years ago? Jeez? Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about Nick for a second. Yeah, Nick zech Canelli. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he has been awarded the Friendliest Camper Award for twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five. What a guy I mean, and everyone knows him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's always at the wayside.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yes he still works there, I think. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I believe he does in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to be there is he going to
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  Speaker 2: be Nick is going to be there. He is, He
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  Speaker 2: will be there.
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  Speaker 3: His parents will be there too.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't thank the ZEC and Ellie's enough this
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  Speaker 2: year because they actually stepped up without me even asking
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  Speaker 2: and said, hey, we'd like to have Nick come to
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  Speaker 2: the golf tournament this year and you know, do something
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  Speaker 2: to help to raise money for you guys playing golf.
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  Speaker 2: And he also took out a full page ad in
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  Speaker 2: the world, which is people have probably seen by now
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  Speaker 2: with all those sponsors on there. So I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: can't even thank them enough for all they've done this year.
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  Speaker 2: They've they've really put us over the edge this year.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have the list list of sponsors? If you don't, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say if you don't, I do, But
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  Speaker 3: I do have the list of sponsors. I mean, through
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  Speaker 3: these area businesses, some some big time love here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you the two sponsors that have
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  Speaker 2: been with us since day one of the Wayside Restaurant
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  Speaker 2: and Milne Travel, they've been with us since day one.
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  Speaker 2: This year, we've got some new platinum sponsors that have
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  Speaker 2: come on. I don't know if anybody knows Dan Riley,
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  Speaker 2: but he has a charitable foundation, and he paid for
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  Speaker 2: a platinum sponsorship this year. We got BCI Elite, which
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  Speaker 2: is I believe that goes to the Bevans. It's Randolph Bevans,
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  Speaker 2: his business. Ye Fairways and Greens is sponsoring up at
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  Speaker 2: the country Club, the restaurant up there. Northfield Savings Bank,
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  Speaker 2: co Op Insurance Company, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Fecto Homes,
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  Speaker 2: Upper Valley Produce, Benoit Electric, Freezing Fund for Families, Barry Paint,
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  Speaker 2: Vermont Mutual Insurance Group, Diverge Heating Service, Batura and Gerardi,
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  Speaker 2: Norway and sun Born Electric, PNG, Sandblast, cd R Concrete,
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  Speaker 2: Hani Realtors and Element Real Estate pro Heat, Lenny's Shoe
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  Speaker 2: and Apparel, Edward Jones and Chase and Chase Surveyors. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Roberts Electric and the VFW.
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  Speaker 3: Have also put in a sponsorship for this year. So
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  Speaker 3: we're really excited about that. That's amazing is that the
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  Speaker 3: complete list.
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  Speaker 2: That's the complete list for this year. I mean the
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  Speaker 2: list can go on and on. Some people will sponsor,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like every other year, or some years they
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  Speaker 2: might have a down year and they can't and we
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  Speaker 2: understand that, yeah, you know, but just putting it out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's for silver Towers and what we're trying to raise money.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, it's not really a hard sell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't really have to say much more than that.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say all these businesses, they're all
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  Speaker 3: about silver Towers.
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  Speaker 2: The other platinum sponsor that I forgot that came on
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  Speaker 2: this and they'll kill me if I don't mention this
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  Speaker 2: is McGee ford.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're on there too. Great people. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: my goodness, that's a that's a list man. Yeah, yep,
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap. I mean it's has the window closed though.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to be a sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: For this year, well you can still be a sponsor
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  Speaker 2: and you can still make a donation, but the window
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  Speaker 2: is closed. As far as for every sponsor, I always
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  Speaker 2: try to get a T box sign. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: for my platinum sponsors Silver sponsors, we have banners that
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  Speaker 2: we hang up at the registration table that has all
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  Speaker 2: their logos on it, so everybody knows who the big
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  Speaker 2: time sponsors are.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I.
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  Speaker 2: Try to do that. It's past the deadline for me
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  Speaker 2: to get that to happen this year. Sure, but you're
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  Speaker 2: more than willing to sponsor if you want, and if
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  Speaker 2: you do, I will make sure that you're signed up
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  Speaker 2: heres next year's tournament, whether you don't, you know, donate
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  Speaker 2: next year or not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? What about uh camper registration? Camper registration? Yeah, for
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  Speaker 3: campers who want to be signed up for next year?
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  Speaker 3: Is that? Is there a window for that? Do you
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  Speaker 3: know how that works at Silver Towers? Yeah? I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I know that they have an eight week We can
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  Speaker 2: sign up for one week session or two week sessions,
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  Speaker 2: but there's eight weeks that that camp.
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  Speaker 3: Is actively working. Okay, that's a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot. And you you were telling me that some
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  Speaker 3: of the camp consulars who volunteer to put this on
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  Speaker 3: are not just Verm honors. No, No, they're from all
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  Speaker 3: over the place, all over the world. Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at some of the videos this morning
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  Speaker 2: on it and I knew that they had some, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize I had so many. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: one one person from Brazil on there saying how excited
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  Speaker 2: they were to be coming to come on to camp
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  Speaker 2: to council, and I forget what the other lady was,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: but she was over in Europe somewhere. These people come
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: over and donate their time to help these people have
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a good time at camp. I'm being asked about weather
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: for Friday. I was going to ask you the same thing. Oh,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I heard, I heard the weather forecasting, but you only
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: went till Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: What have you done in the past when the weather
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: is not absolutely perfect.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It's rain or shine? And the part about the rain
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  Speaker 2: thing is, though, if we really get a downpour and
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of heavy rain at Berry Country Club, which
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: probably either gonna be suspended for a while, so we
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: won't start until later when the stops raining and the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: course drives out. Yeah, but we've only run into that
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times, thank god. Most of the time
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: we've had pretty good weather. Yeah, and I think this
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Friday they were calling for rain, but I think that
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: it's going to happen during the early.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, yes, early, yeah, and sunshine right right behind it.
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  Speaker 3: So I think things are going to be nice. Seventy
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: six for the for the high on Friday. Yeah, So
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: we do need the rain, but oh absolutely, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know we do.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: You say down, you say down boars and golf, And
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: when I hear you, hear the thinking of caddy shack.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: The last time I went out to play with a
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  Speaker 2: couple of guys that are going to be here in
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the tournament. We went out a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: and it was raining at eleven and I looked at
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  Speaker 2: the phone and says, Oh, it's gonna stop raining at noon,
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  Speaker 2: so let's just go out.
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  Speaker 3: We'll play.
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  Speaker 2: And it was raining pretty really started. Yeah, And we
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  Speaker 2: got through the sixth hole and it was raining even
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  Speaker 2: harder than when we teeted off, and I just looked
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  Speaker 2: at everybody and I said, I'm calling it, And I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get an argument from anybody. We were soaking wet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was at the point where in the backswing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on your golf backswing, your club was turning three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty degrees. You couldn't even control the head of
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  Speaker 2: your club. And it was like, Okay, this this is.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Over, Dave, this is this is so great man. And
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: let's say this again, just like it says in the world,
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  Speaker 3: if you're not able to attend and you'd like to donate,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: it is so easy to do that. Just mail a check.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Will give you the address here in a second, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: we'll also put it in the notes here. Mail check
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  Speaker 3: payable to Vermont Elk's Charities Incorporated. Correct, put attention Dave
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  Speaker 3: Bingham BI n G H A m PO Box two
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  Speaker 3: forty five Bury from at five six four to one.
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  Speaker 3: And you also include your your cell phone if people
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: have any questions.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Right, yes, yes, And my cell phone is if I
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  Speaker 2: can say it out loud, yeah, it's eight oh two
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  Speaker 2: two three three zero zero four nine. So if does
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  Speaker 2: anybody out there it has questions about donating or you
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: want to put in one of the final two teams
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: are looking.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: For, just give me a call. And the cost again is.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: How much one hundred and twenty five dollars per person?
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Okay to play golf.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: That gets you your greens fees yep, a golf cart,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a goodie bag, a box lunch, and then you can
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: come back to the Bury Elks afterwards for our award
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: ceremony and get some food.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot of fun. Man. Yeah it is,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: uh what I'm gonna get your your cell phone here
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  Speaker 3: into the into the notes eight oh two two three
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  Speaker 3: three zero zero four nine. Correct, If anyone wants to
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: give you a ring, if they have any questions whatsoever? Yeah, yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Has has Stacy Holden played in this tournament.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I believe he has the first few years that we
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: had because he's been in Florida for a while now.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, him and his wife. But is he pretty pretty
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: good golfer? Stacy? I don't know. I've never played golf
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: with them. Okay, I don't know. Is he still listening there?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: He is? Oh?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And let's say this, even though he's a snowbird,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: loves coming back home. Oh yes he does, and so
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: does his wife and loves loves walking through the doors
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: at the Elks Lodge. You guys do such important work
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: and we are so so lucky to have you in
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: our community, the Elks Lodge, making sure that the experience
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: at Silver Towers never goes away, right, that it's there
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: every single summer for people with a vast array of challenges, disabilities,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: whatever word you want to insert there, just to make
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: sure that for a couple of weeks every summer they're
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: just having a really good time.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: And you know, the campers, this is for most of them,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: it's probably the only thing that they get to look
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: forward to every year, all year long. I know when
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, during the year of COVID do is we
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: didn't open it and We were very disappointed that we
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: couldn't open it obviously, you know, sure, but it's been
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: in the Elks family since nineteen fifty eight, and as
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: long as we have the power to keep it going,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: we're going to keep it going. Nineteen fifty eight. Yeah,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I was two years old when Silver Towers started. When
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Silver Tower started. Wow, that's sixty seven years that that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: been an operation.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Was COVID the only one that you can remember? They
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: know of that we we did not open. Yes, yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: you know, for obvious reasons.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nineteen fifty eight. That's remarkable. Yeah. Anything else that
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: is in your notes or in your mind that you
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: want to relay this morning, just.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: That as an Elks association, the Vermont Elks Association, I know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: has about six thousand members statewide, and we do we
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: give out charity money of about one point two million
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: dollars as an organization every year.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Seriously, one point two million every year.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Every year, and every year, the total Elks in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: country will do eighty million dollars in charitable donations. The
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: only other entity, the only other entity that does more
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: charitable work than we do is the United States government.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Think about that. I was I was floored the first
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: time I heard it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: I'm still trying to process that. I know, it's incredible.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Stacy's saying Archie Puterra was one of the people that got.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: It going Archie but Terra. Yeah, yeah, must had something
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: to do with but Terra and Guarati, I am guessing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: So that's really an amazing statistic. Yeah, I didn't know that,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: know it now? Yeah? Wow?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dave, thanks for coming in here this morning, Thanks
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: for having me, Thanks for the for the chat, and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: let's let's do some more stuff together. Yeah. I would
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: love to help you guys going forward here and I
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: mean this is next year will be year ten, That
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: next year will be year crazy. Ye. Thank you for
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: starting this, Thank you for doing this. Thanks to all
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: your volunteers, not just not just members of the Elks,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: but volunteers.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Everywhere, volunteers everywhere. Yep, great group of people.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: And again, if you are interested in becoming a member
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: of the Elks Lodge, so easy to do.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: So just.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Take the step, the first step and just walk through
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the door.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: If you know an Elk, tell them you want to
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: be an Elk member, they'll sponsor you, fill out the
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: application and then we'll get the ball rolling.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing, Thank you again so much for coming in here.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Let's do some great stuffs together. I love listen. Like
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I said when I started out this morning, there's plenty,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: plenty of bad news going on in the world. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: to start out my week promoting something like this, talking
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: about Zick, about Nick Zecondelli, stuff like that, that's the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: stuff that sticks. Yeah, absolutely and more important than anything else.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you very much. Pleasure to meet you again,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Meet you. Thanks Dave, You're listen. Stick around, we got
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: we got a busy, busy week coming away. It is
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: going to be a doozy tomorrow. Sweethearts and Heroes. G's
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: gonna be in Thursday. Rex closes out the week on
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Friday with some I'll just say, a lot of stuff
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: to talk about and we'll get to it all, I
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: promise you. Thanks for catching aired out. God blessed. Thanks
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