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Talk-Line: Amboy Depot Days spokesperson Mellissa Eisenberg · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's the hour, this is Wednesday, It's August twenty the
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  Speaker 1: year is twenty twenty five, and it's time for another
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  Speaker 1: informational edition of talk Line. Here at wix Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. It is time to take the wraps
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  Speaker 1: off of the twenty twenty five Amboy Depot Days celebration.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the eve of the start of the big
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  Speaker 1: event in the community of Amboy, and here representing Amboy
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  Speaker 1: Deepot Days is a very dear friend of ours. She's
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  Speaker 1: been on the air with us many many times to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this special event. Melissa Eisenberg joins us from
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  Speaker 1: the city of Amboy today here at wixn Melissa, good
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  Speaker 1: morning morning. Nice to have you with us, ma'am. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. How many years now with Amboy Deepot Days,
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  Speaker 1: ma'am for you, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: We're many years see.
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  Speaker 1: And I told Timley, I said, up, she's not going
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  Speaker 1: to give it away. She's just not going to give
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  Speaker 1: it away. You and I have been talking about Deepot
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  Speaker 1: Days for many, many years. Here it comes again. It
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  Speaker 1: is at this time this sea is always at this
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  Speaker 1: time of the year that we kind of reserve our days.
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  Speaker 1: In August four, Deepot Days in Amboy. They love this
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  Speaker 1: time of the season, and we're going to roll out
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  Speaker 1: the red carpet tomorrow. We've got preparations have been underway
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, right Melissa, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's working. Every thing's starting to come together, the
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  Speaker 2: stages coming, we got people coming in and we're getting
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  Speaker 2: all set up.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep. Deepot Days twenty twenty five in Amboy, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in and around that historic site in Amboy, the Amboy
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  Speaker 1: Depot Museum, which will be active right.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Yep, Deepo will be open every day all day
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  Speaker 2: during the festival.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Deepot Days. It is a Friday, Thursday
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  Speaker 1: through Saturday Sunday event. There are special activities each and
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  Speaker 1: every day. And we're going to start right away with
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  Speaker 1: running down the schedule of Deepot Days for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five with Melissa. Today, tomorrow's Family Night. We're on the
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  Speaker 1: eve of the festival today about ready to kick things off.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to center stage kind of the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: into the evening right tomorrow, is that, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: Talk about Family Night.
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  Speaker 2: So Family Night is our big kickoff night downtown. So
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  Speaker 2: we kick off, the food stands will open at five
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  Speaker 2: o'clock and then we have the carnival. We'll open with
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  Speaker 2: rides and do armbands for the kids from six to
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  Speaker 2: ten Tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: You have a new carnival coming in. Talk about this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, mane.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do. We have A and A attractions this
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  Speaker 2: year and we're very excited to have them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're going to see some new amusements, right.
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  Speaker 2: New rides and new new faces.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Ana Amusements, A and A Attraction, Sir
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  Speaker 1: are going to be our ride provider tomorrow starting again,
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  Speaker 1: as Melissa mentioned in the evening hours. But we do
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of special events that dot the calendar
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Talk about those now we do.
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  Speaker 2: We have our Depot Days little dancers and they're Starlight
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  Speaker 2: dancers and they will be on stage at six point
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  Speaker 2: thirty to kickoff the night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and what else is going on? Anything else?
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  Speaker 2: Miss the and Boy is tomorrow night at seven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: at the main stage.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we'll be crowning another Miss Amboy for Amboy
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  Speaker 1: Depot Day. Of course. Miss Amboy will be in and
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  Speaker 1: around the event then throughout the weekend and then participate
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  Speaker 1: in other activities throughout the year representing the city of
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  Speaker 1: Amboy as she has crowned tomorrow evening during Family Night.
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  Speaker 1: That's on Thursday at the twenty twenty five Depot Day celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move right into Friday, Melissa, talk about the start
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend and another big day.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Then we move into Friday, and that's a whole
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  Speaker 2: day of activities. We have the community grads fields, we
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  Speaker 2: have crafters, and then the food stands are going to
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  Speaker 2: open as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, good food, good food, food and refreshments
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  Speaker 1: a big part of Amboy Depot Days. Lots of organizations,
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  Speaker 1: lots of great food during Depot Days. We'll be opening
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  Speaker 1: on Friday and again take us through the rest of Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Then Friday then we have the Bags Tournament and that'll
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  Speaker 2: be hosted on East Avenue and sign up at five
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  Speaker 2: and it kicks off at six.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Then move into the evening, talk about that, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Then the carnival is going to do arm band again
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  Speaker 2: six tomorrow night or on Friday night. Sorry, and then
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  Speaker 2: we have the Way Out Group that.
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  Speaker 1: And this is free entertainment, right, this is the free
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  Speaker 1: entertainment in front of the Museum. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: It is free, Steve. You just bring your lawn chair
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  Speaker 2: and come.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody a special bringing that group to us? Listen.
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  Speaker 2: That is sponsored by Peak Medical Home Care.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, very good, very good? All right, very good.
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  Speaker 1: So again that again on the main stage and the
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  Speaker 1: start time for that to Melissa again.
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  Speaker 2: Is seven pm.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. Free entertainment in front of the Depot Museum.
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  Speaker 1: That's right in the heart of Amboy during Depot Days.
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  Speaker 1: And you can take your chairs down. Good idea, take
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  Speaker 1: your chairs down, take your launch it right, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, you'll be way comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, take your lawn chairs. Make sure yep, yep, take
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  Speaker 1: your lawn chairs. You're gonna want to take your lawn
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  Speaker 1: chairs to that location again in front of the Depot
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  Speaker 1: Museum for the free entertainment, the main stage entertainment on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else going on on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: The beer Guarden going to have Brenner Buschman at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Got it? Okay, All right, there you go. That's the
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  Speaker 1: Friday event list from Amboy Deepot Days for twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Eisenberg is our guest today. She is running down
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  Speaker 1: and previewing for us the twenty twenty five Amboy Deepot
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  Speaker 1: Day celebration, which is this weekend in the beautiful community
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  Speaker 1: of Amboy. Now the meat and Potatoes weekend. We start
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  Speaker 1: with Saturday. Look at the list, good heavens, look at
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  Speaker 1: the list of Goyd's on on Saturday. It's full. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of the specialists. Really talk about Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Saturday, we're going to kick off with our Sylvan
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  Speaker 2: Shuffle Race sponsored by the Amboy Education Foundation. And that's
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  Speaker 2: our five k run.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, yeah, yeah, that's been really popular these past
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  Speaker 1: Amboy Deepot Days. That's that five k run starts at
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  Speaker 1: the high School again, is that.
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  Speaker 2: Where it's going to start at the high School? Ends
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  Speaker 2: up downtown by the Depot Museum, gotcha?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's early in the morning. Then what else
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  Speaker 1: is there?
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  Speaker 2: We have the Farm Tractor Show also hosting downtown eight
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  Speaker 2: am to one pm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, eight until one. That's the tractor Show. Want a
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  Speaker 1: big part of that. This is all this is free again, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is.
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  Speaker 2: This is it is yep, all our activities are free.
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  Speaker 1: Now. This is free stuff. You know, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: talking about you know, say for the carnival rides.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you know, obviously your car, want to grab some food.
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  Speaker 2: But our entertainment, you know, our kids' activities, a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff all free, Yeah, including the tractors show downtown on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else on.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday, Uh, then we're gonna do of course, our crafters
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be open, grive sales are gonna be open.
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  Speaker 2: We got all that going on. And then Meeting the
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  Speaker 2: Streets kicks off at eleven AM and East Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: What's that now, Meet in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new event. It's this is our third
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  Speaker 2: year and it is a wrestling tournament. That is for
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  Speaker 2: like the people that have retired from wrestling. They've graduated
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  Speaker 2: high school and they still want to wrestle. Wow, they
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  Speaker 2: come back. Really, it's been a really big event for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have mats and all that kind of set
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  Speaker 1: up there.
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  Speaker 2: Do they put them? Yes, they put the mats down
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  Speaker 2: in the street and everybody again, bring your chair and
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  Speaker 2: come hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, all right, meet in the streets. All right, that's
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  Speaker 1: an amboy on Saturday. Anything else special on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Now, Ah, then we're gonna do our character meet and greet.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be at the library for the kids and that's
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  Speaker 2: Minecraft characters and the loldl and that's all free for
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  Speaker 2: the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Got it, Okay? Move into the afternoon. What else is
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  Speaker 1: going on now?
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  Speaker 2: Then the carnival is going to open back up. They'll
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  Speaker 2: be open all day, but their riskband hours are noon
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  Speaker 2: to five for a special and six to ten for
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  Speaker 2: a special that day.
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  Speaker 1: Good. So some special information and some special activities going
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  Speaker 1: on during the carnival with their wristbands, so take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of that in Amboy on Saturday. Special events continue on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Melsten, they do.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have karaoke with Rusty Loomis and
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  Speaker 2: that'll be on the main stage and the Depot parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: One o'clock karaoke on the main stage and in the
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  Speaker 1: Depot Museum main stage. And then moving into the afternoon yep.
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  Speaker 2: Two to four we have Whimsy face painting for the
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  Speaker 2: kids and that's from two before at the Depot Shelter
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  Speaker 2: parking lot. Yep. They can get in line get their
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  Speaker 2: faces painted. And then we have the big parade. The
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  Speaker 2: Lions Club Parade is at three pm on Saturday, and
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  Speaker 2: that is a great event.
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  Speaker 1: Are we still taking entries for that.
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  Speaker 2: We are yes, okay, still take entries.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, how does a person get to our new organization
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  Speaker 1: get involved in that? How many?
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  Speaker 2: It's Amboyllonsclub dot Com has the information and they'll get
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  Speaker 2: a hold of Barba Harrison is in charge of that.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Amboyalliance dot com and again get a
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  Speaker 1: hold of Barber and get into the parade. If you
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  Speaker 1: still want to get what times the step off of
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  Speaker 1: that again?
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  Speaker 2: Three pm?
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  Speaker 1: Got it? Okay, three o'clock. Then we move into the
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  Speaker 1: afternoon and evening now go ahead, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have the team Turf Barnyard bingo where you
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  Speaker 2: can win some money, and that's going on at five
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  Speaker 2: and then again then we go into the carnival. They
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  Speaker 2: got wristband hours from six to ten, and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to go into our nightly band and that's free
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  Speaker 2: and that is Cowboy Company country music and they are
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  Speaker 2: on the main stage Saturday night at seven.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. Any sponsor for that event, then.
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  Speaker 2: Melissa, we do not. That's just again another free event.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good, so again sponsored by Depot
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  Speaker 1: Days in Amboy. But it is a free concert and
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  Speaker 1: again it's great country music that you're in join in
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  Speaker 1: front of the Depot Museum on Saturday evening. Beer Garden
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  Speaker 1: open then, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Beer gardens open at nine pm and Desire and the
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  Speaker 2: Wild are going to be there at the beer gardens
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: That about takes care right of Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, take us. That wraps up Saturday, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Now we get to Sunday, and as we talked about
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  Speaker 1: off air, Melissa, Sunday, this is a you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of a new and improved revent Sunday for Amboy Depot Day.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna want to listen to what's going on
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  Speaker 1: on August the twenty fourth, because it's the final day
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  Speaker 1: of the Deepot days. Yes, but they've tweeked a little bit. Let'sten,
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  Speaker 1: let's go through Sunday now they have.
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  Speaker 2: So Sunday is the car show Day. Obviously six am
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  Speaker 2: is when the cars will start rolling in. They can
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  Speaker 2: come in and set up and you know, get ready
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  Speaker 2: for the day.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big day, all right, and there
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  Speaker 1: are some special things going on during Car Show Day.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about it, dude, They've they've been working hard and
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  Speaker 2: they've added some new events. So we're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: live band. On Sunday, we're gonna have cackle Fest, which
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  Speaker 2: is some cars that are going to light up and
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  Speaker 2: you know dregster cars. They're gonna start their engines and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear how loud they are. I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they added a jeep class also this we're going
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  Speaker 2: to try that this year. And then they got a
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  Speaker 2: new girl, Goldie Flock, coming in and she is a
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  Speaker 2: pin up girl with she'll sign some autographs and take
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  Speaker 2: some photos. So we've got a lot going on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. We've tweaked the car show a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, made it a little bit more attractive. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to start some cars during the car show, fire
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  Speaker 1: those cars up, those vehicles up. But they're also going
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  Speaker 1: to bring in some photo ops and singers country music
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  Speaker 1: and again, wow, it's it's all tweaked for Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a you know, a revent Sunday
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  Speaker 1: as far as the car show is concernedable we're not done.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the car show is one of the main events,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not done with Sunday. Talk about the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sunday and then the obviously the Nights of Columbus
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  Speaker 2: has their pancakes, sauce the Purpus. That's in the morning
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  Speaker 2: from six thirty to ten am. Crafts again, we have
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  Speaker 2: food vendors again. The band will beyond the main stage
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  Speaker 2: at noon. That's problem child, they're a great local band.
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  Speaker 2: And then the carnival will kick off again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So Sunday, yeah, again an active day
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  Speaker 1: for the final day of Depot Days for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five on August to twenty fourth, and of course we
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  Speaker 1: all we wrap it up with a very traditional activity
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  Speaker 1: Melissa talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Now we do the big fifty to fifty is that
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  Speaker 2: day as well, Steve. And the weather's looking really good
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  Speaker 2: for the whole you know weekend right now, yeah, keeping
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  Speaker 2: our fingers crossed, all right, weather and we have a
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  Speaker 2: good crowd for the whole weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets for the fifty to fifty and this is a
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  Speaker 1: big cast drawn folks. This is this is big money.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's every and I'll tell you what, above
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  Speaker 1: and beyond the amboy Depot Days committee goes above and
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  Speaker 1: beyond and selling tickets and getting the word out and
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  Speaker 1: getting the tickets sold. This is a big money event
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  Speaker 1: and they're hoping for big cash to be given away
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty. Now, fifty percent will go to the winter, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but another fifty percent of the total goes right back, right, Melissa,
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  Speaker 1: into activities, right.
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  Speaker 2: It goes back into the local community. It goes back
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  Speaker 2: into the soccer program, the libraries, the schools, on our flights,
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  Speaker 2: shop with the cop there's just various local organizations, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And the big part of it goes back to the
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  Speaker 2: Depot Museum.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen, you know, to upkeep that. We've seen hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands, not just thousands
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Get this tried. It
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  Speaker 1: is very power. But now our tickets are available, Melissa.
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  Speaker 2: They are tickets that are available. They're on different sites
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, and they're out and about so
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  Speaker 2: they will be on sale all weekend long. You can
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  Speaker 2: check the Facebook to keep looking to see what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: And they're a dollar piece, six for five. So it's
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  Speaker 2: get you a chance to win some big money.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. It's all part and that really kind of
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  Speaker 1: culminates Depot days when they make that drawing on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: kind of culminates. Of course, they've got the afternoon and
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  Speaker 1: activities going on still, the carnival and all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: will be going on. So again take advantage of the
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  Speaker 1: four days of Amboy Deepo Days. So mos anything else
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  Speaker 1: to add before we let you go today?
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  Speaker 2: No, we just want to welcome everyone and hope everybody
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  Speaker 2: can come visit and come see us boy.
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  Speaker 1: And is there a site that you can go to
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  Speaker 1: for Amboy Deepot Days information?
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  Speaker 2: There is either our Facebook site or our Deepot days
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  Speaker 2: dot com site as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so again check those especially the Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page is pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you got to keep you up toble with everything
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  Speaker 2: going on like current.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. And if there's any changes or any tweaks
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, that's where you want to connect
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  Speaker 1: with this.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get your local info.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Is that Amboy Deepot Day's Facebook page. So keep
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  Speaker 1: that in mind as we work our way through the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five am Boy Deepot Days celebration, which starts
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and runs all the way through Sunday in the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful community of Amboy and Melissa Eisenberg is once again
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  Speaker 1: delivered the goods for us right here on Wixent. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your visit today, ma'am. Good luck with the event this year.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Eisenberg from the Amboy Deepot Days Committee, our guest
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  Speaker 1: today on the eight fifteen talk line. Deeplot Days twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five starts tomorrow. Let's go to press now with
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  Speaker 1: Tim Lee Wycent