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Talk-Line: Cathy Reglin, Lee County Council on Aging · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday, It's
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  Speaker 1: February twenty five, the year is twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of Talkline. Here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixty and FM ninety five one wixcent. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. Time to talk to our good friends
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  Speaker 1: from the Lee County Council on Aging. We haven't had
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  Speaker 1: this organization on since before the holidays, and we need
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  Speaker 1: to touch base and get a first of the year
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  Speaker 1: report with our good friends from the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 1: on Aging. The trip's coordinator is live with us at
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  Speaker 1: the microphones this morning, but she's going to talk more
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  Speaker 1: than just trips with the Lee County Council on Agent.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to tell you about all the good things
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  Speaker 1: going on within the facility. Here at AM fourteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: and FM ninety five one. Our dear friend Kathy Reglan
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  Speaker 1: is live with us this morning on wiaxent Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, ma'am, Good morning Steve, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, ma'am for spending the time with us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy is arranging. She got it all there, you got
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  Speaker 1: it all ready to go. We're ready to go and
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. We're going to expand the
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  Speaker 1: talk line today. We're going to have Kathy on and
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  Speaker 1: expanded talk line for this Tuesday morning because she's got
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  Speaker 1: a ton of information that she is going to share
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  Speaker 1: with you from the Lee County Council on Eging. What
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. Kathy, of course, as the trip's coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: has a ton of information about getaways through the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Council on Aging, and she is going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about these getaways in the next segment of our
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  Speaker 1: talk line, which falls between eight thirty and nine this
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  Speaker 1: morning here at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five to one.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to devote the first portion of our talk
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  Speaker 1: line today to talk about the general information, the general
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  Speaker 1: happenings and some of the special happenings here locally within
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging. Good Heavens, where do
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  Speaker 1: we start. Let's start by talking about, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: something that our director Susie brought to my attention, and
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  Speaker 1: that concerned some work being done. Is there work being
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  Speaker 1: done to the actual physical facility Kathy at the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Council on Aging that you wanted to tell me
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they were able to replace an aging, ugly old
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  Speaker 2: carpet in two areas of the center to make it
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  Speaker 2: more handicapped accessible. It's a vinyl flooring now and they
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  Speaker 2: do it best. Foundation Susie Rose wrote a grant and
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  Speaker 2: they approved the money for the flooring and then it
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  Speaker 2: was installed by McKenna's Flooring. So it's beautiful, it's safe.
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  Speaker 2: People can walk through there. They walk through the one
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  Speaker 2: area to go to the elevator to go upstairs to
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom. Whenever there's like right now, there's tax season,
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  Speaker 2: and so on Tuesdays during tax season we have people
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  Speaker 2: from AARP and do the taxes for it for the people.
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  Speaker 2: And there actually are still some openings. Usually it's such
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  Speaker 2: a flush that by now there wouldn't be any left,
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  Speaker 2: but there are some.
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  Speaker 1: Really, Yes, you're right, because it's during this time, and
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  Speaker 1: these are volunteers. These are volunteers right that are helping
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  Speaker 1: out with your taxes asistance. Obviously you have to fall
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  Speaker 1: within the criteria of you know, of being qualified to
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  Speaker 1: have this assistance. But they're opening their doors for tax
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  Speaker 1: assistance and this is taking place, as Kathy mentioned, Tuesdays
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  Speaker 1: and Thursdays, Tuesdays, Tuesdays, just Tuesdays at the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging post House Ballroom. But again as you
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  Speaker 1: enter the facility, you can take note of the improvements
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  Speaker 1: that are being made. And this is I think as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he wanted, really, you know, as she came aboard,
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  Speaker 1: she really wanted to do this. She wanted to improve
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  Speaker 1: the physical setting of the Lee County Council on Aging area,
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  Speaker 1: which is located at the corner of Galita and Second
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  Speaker 1: in Dixon. This encompasses, of course, of the post House
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  Speaker 1: Ballroom and the Lee County Council on Aging facilities which
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  Speaker 1: connect on all of that area. Right next to the
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  Speaker 1: Law Enforcement facility is the Lee County Council on Aging
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  Speaker 1: and as Kathy just pointed out, some great improvements going on.
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  Speaker 1: And as we kick off our chalk line with Kathy,
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  Speaker 1: she talks about the tax assistance that is being offered
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  Speaker 1: for those that are eligible to take it. These are
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  Speaker 1: ARP representatives, volunteer representatives. Of course, the tax season has started,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of people are in need of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, having their taxes cared for, and so through
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  Speaker 1: these volunteers, they're able to do that. Now do you
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  Speaker 1: need to call Kathy.
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  Speaker 2: For yes, yes, you do it. And there is a
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  Speaker 2: packet that people will have to pick up and fill
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  Speaker 2: out before they get there. It makes it so much
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  Speaker 2: quicker for each appointment. There every there's several places up
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  Speaker 2: in the ballroom where the tax preparer sits with the
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  Speaker 2: person and then what some of that stuff. If that
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  Speaker 2: stuff has already filled out, it makes it much quicker.
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  Speaker 1: Good, So again you need to call and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pass along the phone number here very shortly and
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  Speaker 1: some contact information very shortly with Kathy here at A
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one. So you're able
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  Speaker 1: to make that call to get your tax assistance through
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging Facility and the folks
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  Speaker 1: at ARP who are helping and volunteering their time and
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  Speaker 1: effort to again help you with your taxes for this
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  Speaker 1: tax filing season through April the fifteenth. I'm assuming that
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  Speaker 1: are we going pretty much up close to the deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Cathy, April April fig your last.
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  Speaker 1: Week week before the deadline. That's not a surprise that
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  Speaker 1: you're able to do that. But there are openings, as
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  Speaker 1: Kathy mentioned on Tuesday, So please call the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging and make your appointment.
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  Speaker 2: What's the phone number, Kathy two eight eight nine three six.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to mention that number a lot with Kathy
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  Speaker 1: today here at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one.
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  Speaker 1: Please make your appointment and get your taxes handled through
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging. There are some special
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  Speaker 1: activities first of the year that you wanted to spotlight today.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you want to go? I mean, right off
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  Speaker 1: the get go, I see if there's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a neat spring planning meeting that you guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to be holding. That's right on the front
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  Speaker 1: page of the Golden Echo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very interesting and it's an invitation for
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  Speaker 2: all the seniors of Lee County to come to a
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  Speaker 2: meeting and let Lee County Council on Aging know what
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  Speaker 2: you want to hear, what you want to learn, what
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  Speaker 2: you want to be educated about. So we've had in
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  Speaker 2: the past presentations from the Senior the Nature Center, the
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  Speaker 2: Extension Office, the Health Department, anything anything else. People have
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  Speaker 2: got to have other ideas out there that they want.
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  Speaker 2: So we're inviting the seniors to come in and tell
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  Speaker 2: us what they want terrific.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is this is a great way for
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  Speaker 1: those that use the facility and you know, take part
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of the activities to voice, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what they would like to see the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 1: an what direction they'd like to see. This is a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five spring planning meeting. When and where is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be held.
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  Speaker 2: It will be at the Senior Center on Thursday, March twentieth,
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  Speaker 2: at two o'clock in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: No cost, just to stop by and join them for
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  Speaker 1: a sit down, you know, and you'll be talking with
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  Speaker 1: representatives of the Lee County Council on aging. Not your
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  Speaker 1: Kathy will be there, but I know that Susie will
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  Speaker 1: be there, and I'm sure some other representatives will be
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  Speaker 1: there connected with the post House ballroom that area. So again,
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  Speaker 1: the again meeting a date on that is Thursday, March
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth, two o'clock at the Senior Citizen Center. It's
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  Speaker 1: a spring planning meeting for twenty twenty five. What else
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  Speaker 1: would you like to spotlight then on the calendar Kathy
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  Speaker 1: today for us? Oh yeah, just spotlight some stuff going on.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you want to start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start at some of the TV game shows. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: these are Fridays, Okay, So on Fridays we will have family.
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  Speaker 1: Feud, okay, right, wheel of.
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  Speaker 2: Fortune, Price is Right, and I'm thinking they use a
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  Speaker 2: computer for some of it, and like the Wheel of Fortune,
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  Speaker 2: they have a little board up there. It is so
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  Speaker 2: funny to hear them back in the dining room yelling
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  Speaker 2: out their letters and stuff. And then the Price is Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how that one works. And then on
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  Speaker 2: the last Friday of the month is open mic. So
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  Speaker 2: Fridays are pretty pretty busy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, game show days on Friday, you can come in
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  Speaker 1: and participate. They'll actually have like family this is a game.
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  Speaker 1: You'll play family Feud, you'll play the Price is Right.
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  Speaker 1: You'll play all these games on Friday with the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Council on Aging. You just need to connect with
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  Speaker 1: the calendar of events and talk about all of the activities.
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  Speaker 1: And this will be on Fridays at the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging anything. I mean, And there are some
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  Speaker 1: scheduled from well, we're tailing out of February so that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about pretty much in March that all of
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  Speaker 1: these Fridays in March will be involved. What other stuff's
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Then also on Friday's Yucher is very popular. I've actually
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  Speaker 2: had heard people say if you're from Dixon or Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: you better know how to play Yuker. Okay, well, we've
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  Speaker 2: even had a gentleman who is teaching people how to play.
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  Speaker 2: So that's on Fridays at twelve fifteen after lunch. The
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  Speaker 2: lunches are at noon. If you call the day before
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  Speaker 2: by eleven ten thirty to make your reservation that is needed,
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  Speaker 2: and then the numbers are called in at.
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  Speaker 1: Ten again, that will be after lunch is served at
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging. Then all of these
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  Speaker 1: Friday activities will be underway. The Price is Right will
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  Speaker 1: be March the twenty eighth, I see the Family Feud
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  Speaker 1: event will be on March the seventh. These are game
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  Speaker 1: shows that are being played at the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 1: on Aging. The start time pretty much at mid morning,
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. It looks like eleven am with those activities
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  Speaker 1: and then lunch and then as Kathy mentioned ker in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. So again, yeah, good stuff going on. And
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  Speaker 1: this is just a piece of the five. There's also
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  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of regularly scheduled stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and there's more like Friday Mexican train Domino, right
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  Speaker 2: is at one o'clock. And then once a month, on
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  Speaker 2: the last Friday of the month, they have birthday cake
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  Speaker 2: for people whose birthdays are in that month. So guess what,
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  Speaker 2: everybody who's there gets birthday cake and normally it's followed
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  Speaker 2: by karaoke. Now, let me tell you there are some
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  Speaker 2: karaoke singers there who are wonderful. They come from they're
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  Speaker 2: not just from Lee County, but they come over from
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  Speaker 2: Sterling and that's their main goals. They sing karaoke. Me yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and these are good singers. They're my age, they're in
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  Speaker 2: their seventies and eighties and there they're wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And that's on Friday as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's on the last Friday of the month after the
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  Speaker 2: birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: Good, so the last row, so that would play I
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  Speaker 1: think the last Friday this time, I want to say
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  Speaker 1: it's the twenty eighth, Is that right correct? So the
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth you can come over and catch karaoke at
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging facility in the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: as Kathy mentioned after you received the lunch and you
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  Speaker 1: got regularly scheduled, you know, lunch schedule right through the
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  Speaker 1: every day right your serving.
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  Speaker 2: Lunch exactly through Lifescape yep.
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  Speaker 1: So again the Lee County consol On agent through Lifescape
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  Speaker 1: serving meals in the Lee County consol On Aging Facility. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you can call to make a reservation as Kathy mentioned
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  Speaker 1: eight one, five, two, eight, eight nine two three six
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  Speaker 1: call before and again plan on having lunch with the
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  Speaker 1: Lee County consol On serving daily Monday through Friday at
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on the Aging Facility in Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: We're approaching news time. Believe it or not, Kathy, We're
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  Speaker 1: already approaching news time at eight thirty. So what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do is those are just a smattering of activities.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, I want to really emphasize some
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  Speaker 1: trips that Kathy has says she is the trip's coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk trips in the next half hour,
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  Speaker 1: but when we have time, we'll try to fill in
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  Speaker 1: the gaps with maybe some more activities going on at LCCA.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we'll take five minutes of news
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  Speaker 1: at the half hour be back with Kathy Regland. She's
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  Speaker 1: representing the Lee County Council on Aging. Today with our
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  Speaker 1: talk line here at wixent Day. With I exit, we
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  Speaker 1: continue our conversation with our friends from the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging. Kathy Reglan is the trip's coordinator with
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Aging, but she's handling the
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  Speaker 1: full boat for us this one year fourteen sixty NFM
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  Speaker 1: ninety five one. We're talking generally about news and information
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  Speaker 1: from the Lee County Council on Aging. Again, Kathy, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for spending the extra time with us.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate it certainly.
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  Speaker 1: We like getting the word out well, and you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about getting the word out. Let's talk about Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Consol on Aging information that you wanted to share before
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  Speaker 1: we get to the trips. Kathy's got some trips lined
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  Speaker 1: up for you that she is going to again tell
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  Speaker 1: you about opportunities to travel through the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 1: on Aging. We'll get to that in just a bit. Food.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to talk about food today, free food. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, what do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Where he talked about the birthday cake. We have a
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  Speaker 2: monthly community breakfast. It's going to be March fourteenth, and
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  Speaker 2: LCCOA provides this. It's for people, bunches of people to
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  Speaker 2: get together, bring your friends and your family and come
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  Speaker 2: in and have breakfast. ELCCOA pays for that. The reason
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  Speaker 2: Susie is not here this morning is because she has
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  Speaker 2: gone to the food pantry to pick up fresh produce
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  Speaker 2: for seniors, so she picks it up. It's laid out
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  Speaker 2: in the dining area and the seniors can come in
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  Speaker 2: and take what they want. It's wonderful. Then on Tuesdays
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  Speaker 2: and Fridays, I'm sorry, yes, Tuesdays and Fridays OSF the
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  Speaker 2: hospital provides a take home and warm up tray of food,
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  Speaker 2: so people come in and get it go home, and
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  Speaker 2: it's available beginning at three until it either runs out
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  Speaker 2: or four o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is all free. This is all free. Yes, all,
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  Speaker 1: this is all free. Everything Kathy is mentioned here is
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  Speaker 1: all free. Food, pantry food again, the community breakfast and
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  Speaker 1: again those again lunches from OSF all free. No preregistration
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  Speaker 1: for this, Kathy, do you just stop by the center?
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  Speaker 2: Is it no preregistration because they wait on the breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: You may no registration on that either.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, just stop by and enjoy. That's what you want.
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  Speaker 1: You just stopped by. And this is the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Council on Agent's calendar. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. You just stop by and enjoy what they offer.
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  Speaker 1: That free breakfast on March fourteenth, starting at ten am
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  Speaker 1: will be right there. You got bingo afterwards, I see,
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be played on that fourteenth of March,
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  Speaker 1: right after the breakfast takes place at ten bingo at
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty. And then as Kathy also mentioned, that birthday
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  Speaker 1: cake on March the twenty eighth at twelve thirty. You
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  Speaker 1: need a reservation for lunch. If you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: lunch that day, you need reservations for lunch. But the
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  Speaker 1: birthday cake is fed right after that. And as Kathy mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: from OSF through Saint Catherine's Hospital, those meals provided. And
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  Speaker 1: again just pick up everything from the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 1: on Aging call them and again the phone number at
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County on Aging.
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  Speaker 2: Office is eight one five two eight nine two three
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  Speaker 2: six and come in and ask what's going on, pick
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  Speaker 2: up the calendar. There are so many things we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about the free food. Well, we also have exercise so
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  Speaker 2: that you can work off some of that stuff. Cher
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  Speaker 2: yoga with Brandon Lumsey. There's a workout Wednesday. One is
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  Speaker 2: a cardio workout and the other one is the line
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  Speaker 2: dancing with Cheryl Mohler. So all kinds of things going on.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, exercise classes, gaming, We mentioned the Mexican dominoes, we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the bingo, we mentioned the game show day, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things through the Lee County Council and Aging.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's hard to keep up to day if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the materials. And they've got the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Echo and that's got a lot of materials in it.
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  Speaker 1: But even that, you know, they can only cram so
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  Speaker 1: much into the Golden Echo. So again, call the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Council on Aging office for more information and attend
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  Speaker 1: again the great things going on through the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging. Now, Kathy, with our latter portion of
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  Speaker 1: the talk line to you, being the trip's coordinator at LCCOA,
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to kind of center stage some getaways that
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  Speaker 1: you have planned coming.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, to start with, the pricing on these getaways has
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  Speaker 2: a fifty dollars addition to them, for people who are
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  Speaker 2: non members to become a member of the Lee County
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  Speaker 2: Council on aging, it's twenty dollars for one person, thirty
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  Speaker 2: five dollars for two or more people in a household,
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  Speaker 2: so and that saves fifty bucks absolutely on the trips.
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  Speaker 2: The trips are a fundraiser for the center, so they
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  Speaker 2: do two purposes. Fundraiser for the center and then get
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  Speaker 2: people out there, moving and seeing things. The first three
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about are through Diamond Tours.
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  Speaker 2: Those are on by bus, So we catch the bus
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  Speaker 2: at Walmart. We get dropped off back at Walmart when
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  Speaker 2: it's over, and during the bus ride we'll be playing games,
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  Speaker 2: watch movies, take your books, read whatever whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to do. I also recommend earplugs. So if you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to play the game, or you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: watch the movie, you just want to read your book
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  Speaker 2: or take a nap, put your ear plugs in. Ignore
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  Speaker 2: the rest of it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on there?
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Then? Okay, So we've got Garden of the Gods. This
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: is in August. That is at the end the Royal Gorge,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Colorado Springs. It is eleven oh five for double occupancy,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: so that means two people each pay the eleven O
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: five and it would be an additional fifty dollars for
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: non members. On the way out, we're going to stay
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: overnight at an en route hotel on the way out
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and then again on the way back. So we're going
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to be at a hotel in the Colorado Springs area
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: for four nights. It is a seven night, seven day sorry,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: sixth night excursion, and there will be ten meals, six breakfasts,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: and four dinners provided whenever there's not a meliure on
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: your own to go to the local area. We'll have
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a tour of the Garden of the Gods and it's
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a park of red sandstone formations, and the United States
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Air Force Academy, and the Manitou Springs, which I understand
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: is very cool, which is at the bottom of Pike's Peak.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Now on that one, we're going to have an oh
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: at the Royal Gorge. We're going to go to that
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to see that suspension.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, one of the I guess it's it's it's a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: heck of a drop from top to bottom. This it's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: at the top of the gorge. Yeah, a heck of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a heck of a site.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know that. I don't know. We're not going
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: to walk over there, I am not for sure. And
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: there's an aerial tram. Now those are cool. Yeah, those
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I can they can take so, and then the Manitou
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Springs at the bottom of Pike's Peak. Then we will
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: have a guided tour of Colorado Springs. And we will
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: also visit the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum, which has
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a sixty thousand square foot interactive museum. So interactive meaning
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you do you can do things.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: So that is Garden of the Gods, the Royal Gorge,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and Colorado Springs August third to ninth, which is a
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Sunday through a Saturday.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what else you got?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: We got Mount Rushmore, the bad Lands, and the Black
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Hills of South Dakota. That is October fifth to the eleventh,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: which is a Sunday to Saturday. Seven nights, I say
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: seven days, six nights again by bus. The one night
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: will be en route, one night at the hotel, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: route going and coming back. Then there will be four
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: consecutive nights in South Dakota. We will have ten meals
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: which includes six breakfasts, four dinners, and we'll go to
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: see Mount Rushmore, of course, and then we're going to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: have a tour of the Wildlife Loop Road at Custer
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: State Park, which I understand is beautiful, and then admission
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to the Unique Journey Museum. Now I don't know what that. Oh,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: it tells the complete history of the Black Hills, all right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that's cool. And then a guided tour Deadwood plus gaming
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: so those people who like to do Usually our trips
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: don't include that much gaming. I don't thing, but this
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: one does, so people who want to do their gambling
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: can do that as well. You don't want to do that,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: go do something else. And then we also get to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: see the Crazy Horse Memorial, which is going to be
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: very very cool. I don't think it's even done yet yet,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: but it is destined to be the world's largest memorial
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: once it's done. And then we're going to see the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Corn Palace on our way.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Back in Mitchell. Very good. Mitchell, South Dakota. Very good. Okay,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: very good? So that is when is that?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Now? That is October fifth to the eleventh.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Very good. So it's an October motor coach trip to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the Black Hills. So you have the Garden of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Gods of the Colorado trip in August, the motor coach
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: trip to Mount Rushmore in October, anything else that you
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: can share.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Then we have Myrtle Beach. Okay, it's a holiday show.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: This has several shows. It is nine days and eight nights.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: The double occupancy rate on that is twelve thirty nine
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: from members non members and fifty dollars. So we'll have
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: two nights on the way going and coming back of
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: en route lodging. Then we'll have four consecutive nights in
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the Motle Beach area. This is going to include fourteen
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: meals which includes eight back and six dinners, three evening
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Christmas shows, Legends and Concert, the Christmas Show which is
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: at the Alabama Theater, and a Christmas on the Main
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: at the Greg Lowells Legacy Theater. Then LaGrand Circu Christmas
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Special at Broadway Theater, then The Man of a Thousand
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Voices at Asher Theater. That is why it's called Myrtle
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Beach Holiday Show trip. And we'll visit the Myrtle Beach
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Boardwalk and promenade, and visit a living history farm that
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: shows how what was going on, how farms were done
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in the nineteen hundred to nineteen fifty five, this particular one.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, what else can you say?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: That's like, Yeah, lots of things to do on that one.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And a good time to go right to go to Florida.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: When is it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: December sixth to the fourteenth?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a good time to go to Florida, get out
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of the cold and get into the one of the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Florida in December. With that Myrtle Beach Today show trip
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all through the Lee County Council on aging. You've got
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: those three trips that again Kathy has spotlighted. We're kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of running short of time, Kathy, so you want to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: spotlight that last trip all right?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: New York City is September fourth to eighth. That it
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: is through Collette with Kalette. We'll take a bus to
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: O'Hare and O'Hare will fly American Airlines to New York City.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: It's a short, short trip, but on that trip we
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: are going to do so many things. We're going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: take a ferry, see the Statue of Liberty, go to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Ellis Island. We're going to see two Broadway shows. We
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: don't know what they are yet. They're going to offer
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: us the up four months before they're going to let
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: us know what's available, we can choose, and then two
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: months before they'll tell us which one if they're still
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: running and go, We're going to see the nine to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: eleven Museum. A lot of people want to see that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I've heard people say they went to New York but
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: they didn't get to see that one.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's in September, September far through the eighth
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: again through the Lee County Council on Eking and you'll
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: fly to New York City. This is not a motorcoach trip.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: That's a flight that you'll take to New York City.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So a little bit more of the extra costs because
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of the flying that you're going to be doing in
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and out of New York from September fourth through September
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the eighth. So you have trips to Colorado, trips to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: South Dakota, trip to Florida, trip to New York. Holy cow,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: there are so many opportunities that you have to take
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: advantage of phone number again to start the ball rolling.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I know that you'll get you'll get them the information right.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: As Oh yeah, ok, one eight nine, two three six.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I have a big emailing list. Anybody who wants information,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I can send the brochures, the flyers on all of
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: these trips. By the way, the New York trip, if
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: you sign up by March fourth, you get that the
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: four hundred dollars off price. After that, we don't know
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: because it's based on the airline piece.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And again all through the Lee County Council on ag
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Become a member member, go with the membership plan. If
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you plan on taking some trips with the Lee County
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Consul on Aging, it's a much better deal. Again becoming
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a member through the Lee County Council on Aging, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you can do that too by calling Kathy by Colleen Susy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Get to be a member of the Lee County Consul
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in Aging and take advantage of all of these great getaways. Man,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we're out of time. I know that we didn't even
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: fill what we wanted to talk about. But we got
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the word out about the trips, we got a word
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: out about the food being offered, we got a word
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: out about all of the great goings on of the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Lee County Council on Aging. We'll continue to update through
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the year. We'll have you back on board with us
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: throughout the year right here on AM fourteen sixteen FM
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: ninety five one. Thanks for joining us today.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. This was great.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Kathy Regland is our trips coordinator with IT the Lee
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