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Something You Should Know - August 25 Sioux Empire TNR End of Summer Kitten Hootenanny and Hoedown · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: TNR Tuesday. I have Michelle from Sioux Empire TNR. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't done one of these in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we missed you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to have you back in here. The end
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  Speaker 1: of summer, kitten, hootenanny, and hoedown. That's just fun to say.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: It's sneaking up this Saturday, and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little more about all of the fun stuff that
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  Speaker 1: is going on there. But first, let's remind people what
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  Speaker 1: Sioux Empire TNR does. So then they'll go, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I want to support this, and I want to come
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  Speaker 1: out and be a part of this. So how long
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  Speaker 1: have you guys been around, and what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, November is going to be our fourth anniversary. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: And we kind of do all things feline welfare, TNR,
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  Speaker 2: which is Trap, Neuter, Release. We do adoptions and rescue
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  Speaker 2: of cats and kittens. We're also working on doing more
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  Speaker 2: community outreach and education about community, aka feral cats, and
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  Speaker 2: also cat ownership. And that's kind of how events like
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  Speaker 2: this come about because it's kind of a fun way
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  Speaker 2: to get people to know about cats and adopt cats
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  Speaker 2: and just have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys have a lot of events. I clicked
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  Speaker 1: on your calendar here, and we're almost done with August,
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  Speaker 1: but there's still one, two, three, four events in August.
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  Speaker 1: And then I scroll and scroll like I get scrolling cramped.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much going on. But the one that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about today, it's this Saturday, the 24th
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  Speaker 1: or 29th, rather, of August from 11 to 4. I
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  Speaker 1: had the four in my head from that at Remedy Brewing.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the end of summer kitten hootenanny and hoedown?
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  Speaker 2: What is that? We're kind of just thinking of having
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  Speaker 2: like a fun party type thing. It's the last Saturday
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  Speaker 2: in August. So kind of heading into Labor Day and
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  Speaker 2: the fall. It's basically we're going to have some vendors.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have some DJ come out and play music.
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  Speaker 1: Some guy.
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  Speaker 2: Some guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have kittens and cats available to meet
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  Speaker 2: for adoption. And also Sioux Falls Area Humane Society will
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  Speaker 2: be there as well with some of their cats and kittens.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're looking for a cat, definitely going to
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  Speaker 2: have a really good selection between the both of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're also going to have we're calling it
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  Speaker 2: our Traveling Cat Café. So you can kind of go
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  Speaker 2: in a room, pay a small donation, and hang out
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  Speaker 2: and play with some kittens for five, ten minutes. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. And then, yeah, enjoy, you know, a good
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  Speaker 2: beer on the patio at Remedy or a non-alcoholic drink.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they got all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And they have really great food.
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  Speaker 1: They do.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, we're hoping, you know, people just come
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  Speaker 2: out and have a good time and enjoy the last
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  Speaker 2: Saturday in August.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cats, kittens, music, fun. It'll be a good time.
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  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. Remedy Brewing, downtown Sioux Falls.
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  Speaker 1: And it's free.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. That's completely free.
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  Speaker 1: That is free. Bring some money, though, so you can
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  Speaker 1: buy some food and drink and, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to buy some stuff. Because you have vendors there
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  Speaker 1: that will have all kinds of cool stuff. Every event
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  Speaker 1: that you guys do, you got the coolest vendors. And
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  Speaker 1: these are people who are absolutely passionate about cats and kittens. And, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's just a really neat thing. You got
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  Speaker 1: a great community.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we love our vendors. And we'll also have our
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  Speaker 2: own merchandise table. We sell a lot of items made
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  Speaker 2: by our volunteers that are beautifully made, like handcrafted cat
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  Speaker 2: or small dog beds. cat toys. We have one volunteer
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  Speaker 2: who makes beautiful wood burning bookmarks and art. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of really great stuff to buy that
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  Speaker 2: also supports the rescue.
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  Speaker 1: It's called The End of Summer Kitten, Hootenanny, and Hoedown.
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  Speaker 1: It's put on by Sioux Empire TNR. You can find
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  Speaker 1: the website siouxempiretnr.org. In addition to this event, when you
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  Speaker 1: go on there, if you click events, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see there's an adoption meet and greet at PetSmart
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  Speaker 1: at Dolly Farms. That is this Sunday. There's the Trap
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  Speaker 1: the Queens of Spades. I like how you have that spelled.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up on the 31st.
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  Speaker 1: So, again, there's so many things going on. If you
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  Speaker 1: would like to get out and be a part of
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  Speaker 1: these things, you can just reach out right through the website.
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  Speaker 1: You get all the details. SueEmpireTNR.org. And are you looking
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  Speaker 1: for additional, like, volunteers to be a part of things? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because we do so many events, we always need volunteers.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of volunteers who are actually allergic
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  Speaker 2: to cats. Oh, yeah. But a lot of it's just
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  Speaker 2: talking to people. There you go. So it's a good
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for that. We need people to help us at PetSmart.
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  Speaker 2: We have people who, like I said, they just make
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  Speaker 2: the items for sale. Nice. But, yeah, if you have
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  Speaker 2: an hour a month or a couple hours, you can
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  Speaker 2: fill out the volunteer application or come by any event
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  Speaker 2: and talk to us. And, of course, we always need–
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  Speaker 2: desperately need foster homes and donors. We always need donors.
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  Speaker 1: So if there's somebody that's going, man, I'd love to help.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time, but maybe I reach in my
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  Speaker 1: pocket and throw some money your way. Can they do
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  Speaker 1: that right through the website?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they can do it through the website. Or if
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  Speaker 2: they want to mail, like, a check, just email us
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  Speaker 2: at the info at email. And I can give the
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  Speaker 2: address for that. But we also take, you know– Like
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  Speaker 2: items as well as donations. There's a whole wish list
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  Speaker 2: on the site. Oh, yeah. You know, kitten food, cat food.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff that you need. Cat litter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you go through an immense amount of
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  Speaker 2: cat litter. Toys. Yeah. Baby wipes. I have two bottle
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  Speaker 2: babies right now, and I can't tell you how many
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  Speaker 2: baby wipes I've used in the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: If you would like to see that list, if you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to get information about volunteering, about making donations, all
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  Speaker 1: of that, sueempiretnr.org. And again, if you go to that website,
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  Speaker 1: they got all the details there.
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  Speaker 2: And actually one more donation I just thought of. Supplies
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  Speaker 2: for making the beds and the toys and the crafts.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for any types of material, yarn, those vinyl
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  Speaker 2: things for the Cricut. And if you go on our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page, there's actually a whole list. So we're looking
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  Speaker 2: for either the supplies or people who like to knit
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  Speaker 2: or crochet or sew. We can provide them with the
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  Speaker 2: materials and what we're making. Nice. Because, yeah, we have
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  Speaker 2: a really great, dedicated, creative team who makes these really
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  Speaker 2: nice items. And we're specifically looking for the holidays for
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  Speaker 2: people to make non-cat stuff, like scarves and hats and
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  Speaker 2: winter-type things.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Well, I encourage you to get
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  Speaker 1: out and meet them in person this Saturday. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: end-of-summer Kitten, Hoot, Nanny, and Hoedown, just fun to say,
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  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., Remedy Brewing Company. And it's
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday, the 29th of August. All of the details
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  Speaker 1: at suempiretnr.org.