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Talk-Line: Sue Ely, Kreider Services of Dixon · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday. It's February
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  Speaker 1: of the eleventh year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another information and edition of Tukline. Here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one wy cent. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. Time to talk with our friends from
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  Speaker 1: Crider Services. This is our monthly news and information report
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  Speaker 1: from Crider Services serving our Dixon Lee County, Sauk Valley
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  Speaker 1: and Northern Illinois area. The administrative manager of Crider Services
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  Speaker 1: is live with us by telephone this morning to give
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  Speaker 1: us the lowdown of this month of February. Our dear
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  Speaker 1: friend Zue Eley joins us on the telephone here at wycent. So,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How it's everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and how are you ma'am?
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  Speaker 2: We're good, good, busy over here at Kriider Well.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you so very much Sue for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a few interesting things. Sue's got some stories
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  Speaker 1: to share with us this morning. That's what she's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to share some stories with us this morning
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of areas of Crider Services. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in just a bit. But Sue, we want
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  Speaker 1: to kick things off with something we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty four. It's the annual Holiday Appeal fundraiser
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  Speaker 1: for Crider Service and we're kind of coming down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch now, right with this fundraiser.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are. We We have a secret stanna that
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  Speaker 2: matches all donations given to Chriter or donated to Kriid
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  Speaker 2: through the month of February. So we still have a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks left to this. We're getting real close
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  Speaker 2: to our goal and we're hoping to to hit that
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  Speaker 2: goal by the end of the month. So again, you
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  Speaker 2: can mark mark where you'd like your money to be
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  Speaker 2: donated to or just to Kriid. You can donate it
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  Speaker 2: to any of our programs or to the residential homes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's one of our largest fundraisers that we do
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  Speaker 2: here at CHRID, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and it culminates this month. The end of February,
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  Speaker 1: this will end the Holiday Appeal fundraiser at Crider Services.
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  Speaker 1: We've been lighting the bulls on the Christmas Tree, the
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  Speaker 1: Holiday Tree, I like to call it. The Holiday Tree
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  Speaker 1: sits at the corner of Galinan River, still at the
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  Speaker 1: corner of Galenan River and again with your twenty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars donation of Bulba's lip. This little lid of mine
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  Speaker 1: is the name of the promotion and bulbs are lit
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  Speaker 1: with twenty five dollars promotions and as soon mentioned, they're
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  Speaker 1: matched as well by a secret against supplier of again
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  Speaker 1: fundraiser money for Crider Services. And again the holiday appeal
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  Speaker 1: program can be used in many different areas. As soon mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you can call Crider, you can go online with Crider
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  Speaker 1: to make your donation. We're going to send you a
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  Speaker 1: phone number in just a short bip. We're also going
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  Speaker 1: to send you the Crider Service website in just a
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  Speaker 1: short bit. But that Holiday appeals Sue and you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: we're getting close to goal time. Let's hope that we
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  Speaker 1: still got a couple of weeks. So let's hope that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope is Sue's next report that she'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to tell us some good news coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: holiday appeal. This is again a major fundraiser for Crider
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  Speaker 1: Services activities. So please down the home stretch give what
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  Speaker 1: you can to Crider Services will tell you how to
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  Speaker 1: do it in just a bit, so you still you
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  Speaker 1: have some information. And we talked about this last month
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  Speaker 1: as we kind of unfold twenty twenty five, we're in
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  Speaker 1: that period now where scholarships are being offered through Crider Alliance.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we do. The Criter Alliance Scholarship program is
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  Speaker 2: running now from January February and then the scholarship applications
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  Speaker 2: are due March fifteenth. This year is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: We did open this up not just to Lee County,
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  Speaker 2: but we also opened it up to Whiteside County and
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  Speaker 2: Joe Davies County. Those are all counties that we have
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  Speaker 2: homes residential homes in, so we're hoping to attract more
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  Speaker 2: people in those counties and to get them and all
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  Speaker 2: the schools involved. We have sent all the information to
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  Speaker 2: all the guidance counselors at the schools, so we're hoping,
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  Speaker 2: we're hoping to get more applicants and to support those
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  Speaker 2: other counties. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and again this is Crider Alliance scholarship funding for
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  Speaker 1: those that want to enter the field, obviously surrounding creder programs. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So we want to see people you know, get involved
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  Speaker 1: right in the in the service areas.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, it's all in the healthcare division. Nursing to you know,
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  Speaker 2: any ptot anything in the healthcare that would support our
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  Speaker 2: individuals absolutely in their needs where the scholarships aimed for.
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  Speaker 1: And there is website information on that as well. Right soon,
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  Speaker 1: you can go to the website. Okay, yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 1: website there you go, and I'm glad you mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: Crider Services dot org is the website address. Not only
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  Speaker 1: for the scholarships through Crider Alliance. Again, applications are available there.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to meet a little criteria, so make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you have those in before March the fifteenth and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that everything is filled out properly so that
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  Speaker 1: you can become I'm eligible for Crider Scholarship funds through
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  Speaker 1: the Alliance program through Crider Services. But not only that,
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  Speaker 1: but as soon mentioned the holiday appeal, you can go
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  Speaker 1: online Crider Services dot org make your donation Crider Services
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  Speaker 1: dot org. There you go. That is available as well
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  Speaker 1: to make that holiday appeal donation. So Eli is our
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  Speaker 1: guest today from Crider Services. She's our administrative manager there.
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  Speaker 1: She joins us for the Tuesday morning talk line here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one. So you
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of stories to share with us this morning, right.
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  Speaker 2: I too, we want to congratulate. Also, we had two
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  Speaker 2: basketball teams that went to the Special Olympics in Oregon, Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: our Creder Bulldogs at second place and then our Crider
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  Speaker 2: Hoosters were actually interviewed, so we have a celebrity on
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  Speaker 2: TV on our individual So it was very nice. They
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  Speaker 2: had a great time. So Meaningful Day money goes to
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that for them to be able to participate
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  Speaker 2: in there and to get T shirts for them. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we had a group of individuals that wanted to really
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  Speaker 2: go see a movie I think it was Line King
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  Speaker 2: and three D, so our Meaningful Day fund supported that
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  Speaker 2: as well, so it was nice. One was completely blind however,
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  Speaker 2: got to you know with the music and stuff, so
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  Speaker 2: it was really it was a very It was a
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  Speaker 2: fun event for them to go and participate in that.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. That's a great story and it just goes
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  Speaker 1: to show you that Sue through programs like the Holiday Appeal,
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  Speaker 1: the Meaningful Day program is supported. This is the Holiday
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  Speaker 1: Appeal we talk about this. If you want to make
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  Speaker 1: a donation to that area and support things like this
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  Speaker 1: that Sue just talked about, there, you go make your
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  Speaker 1: donation to the Holiday Appeal program before the end of
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  Speaker 1: the month, and you'll be helping those individuals, and those
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  Speaker 1: individuals enjoying again those services that they might not have
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  Speaker 1: been able to if it wasn't for the Meaningful Day
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  Speaker 1: program at Crider Services. Is who has that story for us?
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  Speaker 1: You got another story out of Galina that you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this was one of our individuals up there loves
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  Speaker 2: John Deere green and loves to snow clouds. So we
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  Speaker 2: have a wonderful staff up there that showed him how
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  Speaker 2: he had to make money. He collected cans all over town.
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  Speaker 2: He did anything he could to pay for this John
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  Speaker 2: Deere's green snowblower, riding lawn bower. So the staff took
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  Speaker 2: him to this home and to pick up the John
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  Speaker 2: Deere tractor with the plow, and the gentleman that was
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  Speaker 2: telling this told him to keep his money and to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the tractor. So it was very very It was
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  Speaker 2: just priceless.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, isn't that one. Isn't that great? Isn't that.
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  Speaker 2: It is? So forget that people still out there like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it was very very nice. So, yeah, he was
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  Speaker 2: he had been in contact with him a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times and told them he would flex pay and even
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  Speaker 2: payment program for him as well. Well when it came
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  Speaker 2: down to it, he just ended up giving him the
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  Speaker 2: tractor with the flow.
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  Speaker 1: Such a good that is so neat. That is a
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  Speaker 1: great story. So that is wonderful that again that that
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  Speaker 1: uh donation was made then uh and again that that
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  Speaker 1: was given again completely by that again UH support in
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  Speaker 1: Joe Davies County. This is out a Galina. UH. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously as you mentioned Joe Davies, you know along with Whiteside,
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  Speaker 1: along with Lee, those are Crider counties now you know
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  Speaker 1: that are served you know with you know Crider Services
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  Speaker 1: and Crider Homes throughout our northern Illinois area. What a
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  Speaker 1: great story and I think that's a great way to
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  Speaker 1: wrap up our talk line today with Sue E Lee
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  Speaker 1: here at A in fourteen sixty and FM ninety five one. Sue,
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  Speaker 1: what's your phone number at Crider Services? If people need
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  Speaker 1: information about those scholarships and about that holiday appeal donation,
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  Speaker 1: how do they get a hold of you?
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  Speaker 2: Eight one five swe eight A six.
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  Speaker 1: You can go online to Crider Services dot org. Please
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  Speaker 1: use that website address or find their Facebook section as well.
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  Speaker 1: They're loaded that's practically updated day by day with news
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  Speaker 1: and information from Crider Services, So check out their Facebook
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  Speaker 1: page as well. Crider Services main offices in Dixon are
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  Speaker 1: located on Anchor Road. This is just off of Route
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight East in Dixon. If you'd like to make
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  Speaker 1: a personal visit, they'd love to have you stop by
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  Speaker 1: and make a donation to that Holiday Appeal program or
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  Speaker 1: find out more about the scholarships available through Crider Services
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  Speaker 1: by visiting their offices here in Dixon. A great talk
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  Speaker 1: line with Sue Eedy today, So thanks for the story
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  Speaker 1: that makes my day. It makes my day with those
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  Speaker 1: great stories that you shared with us, and we thank
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  Speaker 1: you so very much for sharing that information with This
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  Speaker 1: is morning here at WIXM. We'll look forward to kind
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  Speaker 1: of a wrap up of the holiday appeal next month
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  Speaker 1: as we move through twenty twenty five. Sue, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you so very much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Sue Ealey is our administrative manager of Crider Services. That's
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  Speaker 1: our Crider Spotlight today here at AM fourteen sixteen FM
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