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Bethany Wright, Dixon Petunia Festival · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Twenty five, and it's time for another informational edition of
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  Speaker 1: talk Line here at w i x N. It's Pa Dounia.
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  Speaker 2: Time in Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: We want you all to know the welcome that.
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  Speaker 2: Is out now and the town is all over.
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  Speaker 1: Leave your troubles on your doorstep, come and join us
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  Speaker 1: and will try to entertain you mostly I Holy the
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  Speaker 1: first week of Jude Lie. Hello, there's just something with
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  Speaker 1: that song. Every time I bring aboard one of our
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  Speaker 1: representatives talking about this special event, they get a good
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  Speaker 1: chuckle out of it. Right, Yeah, the music of Lyle
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  Speaker 1: Grobe and his Rhythm Ramblers. Can't take that away.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's such a classic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't take it away from what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about with our special guest on the
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  Speaker 1: talk Line today here at WIXENT Radio. Welcome to coverage
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  Speaker 1: of our twenty twenty five Dixon Petunia Festival on June
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  Speaker 1: the tenth. It's a preview show that we have for
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  Speaker 1: you this morning here at your source in this Sock Valley,
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  Speaker 1: and we have invited in the twenty twenty five Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Petunia Festival Board President to join us for this look
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  Speaker 1: at our twenty twenty five Dixon Petunia Festival. What we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do is usher you in with preliminary news
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  Speaker 1: and information. We're not going to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the whole schedule of Petunia Festival events, although we are
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  Speaker 1: going to touch on the schedule in some spots, but
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  Speaker 1: we are going to look right now at the important
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  Speaker 1: events taking place now before the actual event takes place.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, as Lyle mentioned, the first weekend of July,
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  Speaker 1: we are happy to have with us our twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Dixon Petunia Festival Board President to do the honors
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  Speaker 1: with us today. Her name is Bethany Wright and she
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  Speaker 1: is live with us in studio this morning here at Donne.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much for having me today. I'm
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  Speaker 3: super excited to be here well, and.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited to have you here to kick off our
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  Speaker 1: coverage of the Dixon Patunia Festival for twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. We're less than a month away, yes,
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  Speaker 1: from the Patunia Festival. Days of the Patunia Festival. Now,
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  Speaker 1: lay those out, just briefly, lay those out for as
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  Speaker 1: the Patunia Festival.
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  Speaker 3: So the Petunia Festival begins on the July the third
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  Speaker 3: through the sixth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, those of the four days that we
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  Speaker 1: have reserved for the Patunia Festival this year, obviously will
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  Speaker 1: encompass the fourth of July holiday, which I believe is
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  Speaker 1: a Friday day if I'm not mistaken. So we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start this on Thursday the third and run it
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  Speaker 1: through Sunday. Then July the sixth, that will be our
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  Speaker 1: coverage time for Petunia Festival here in our Stock Valley area.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to the information that Bethany wants to share,
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  Speaker 1: I want to learn a little bit more about Bethany
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  Speaker 1: Wright this morning here at WIX. And you were with
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  Speaker 1: us last Year's that right? So you were you visited
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  Speaker 1: with us last year as what was I had to
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  Speaker 1: be the first vice president, right, you were the first
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  Speaker 1: vice president. You made your way up the ladder to
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  Speaker 1: become the president of the Petunia Festival. Well, congratulations on that,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, And it's taken a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeap.
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  Speaker 3: So it takes a few years to kind of like
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  Speaker 3: work through the executive board to become president because they
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure that everyone is like trained before
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  Speaker 3: they're the president to know like exactly what to do.
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  Speaker 1: So and I think you were in good hands this
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  Speaker 1: year with Bethany a little bit about yourself though. Are
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  Speaker 1: you from our.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So I actually grew up in Dixon, my parents
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  Speaker 3: and I we moved here with my siblings in when
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  Speaker 3: I was going into the fourth grade. Okay, so I've
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  Speaker 3: been in Dixon for quite a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we won't get any part of the talking about ages, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I graduated from Dixon High School and worked
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  Speaker 3: in Dixon, and I just truly love the Petunia Festival
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  Speaker 3: and the city of Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, good for you. Well, we'll welcome you back
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit about our board president before we
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  Speaker 1: get to news and information about the Dixon Petunia Festival.
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  Speaker 1: What we're going to do is start out with some
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  Speaker 1: preliminary information. Now Bethany is going to spotlight some of
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  Speaker 1: the exigiting events on our schedule, some new events taking
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  Speaker 1: place where we may highlight some music as well. But
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  Speaker 1: to start things off, we wanted to talk about some dates,
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  Speaker 1: and we we have been mentioning these during the morning,
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  Speaker 1: but I wanted to expand on some of these dates.
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  Speaker 1: There are some important dates that we need to again
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  Speaker 1: take into account when it comes to signing up for
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  Speaker 1: various areas of the Petunia Festival. One of those dates
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  Speaker 1: is today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so today is the last day to register for
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  Speaker 3: the parade, which is on Sunday. The theme this year
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  Speaker 3: is fun at the Beach, So if you happen to
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  Speaker 3: be a business or a not for profit, we would
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  Speaker 3: love to have you in the parade. And the theme
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  Speaker 3: is again fun at the Beach, So decorate your float
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  Speaker 3: or your vehicle in that theme and just come and
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  Speaker 3: have fun.
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  Speaker 1: And at the beach. Well that'll open it up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of I'm sure outdoor motif so
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  Speaker 1: to speak during the parade that will step off at
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  Speaker 1: its regular time on Sunday. It's usually at one o'clock. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm mistaken, as.
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  Speaker 3: Long as it's nice and shiny and there's no crazy weather.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the parade, Okay, now we're getting into that
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  Speaker 1: area that's you know, being worked on on South Galina.
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  Speaker 1: But that shouldn't affect really, right.
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  Speaker 3: The parade route is still going to be the same, yea,
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  Speaker 3: So that is not changing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So that's not effected. The parade route is not affected.
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  Speaker 1: That will go down then Peoria Avenue starting at seventh
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  Speaker 1: it'll run a circle Haymarket Square then back to Peoria,
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  Speaker 1: then across the.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge yep, and it ends at the high school.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that is a clear area as far as
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  Speaker 1: the parade route goes. So there's your first news of
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  Speaker 1: preliminary information. You got to sign up for the parade today.
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  Speaker 1: The windows closing, yep.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to start putting in the parade altogether.
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  Speaker 3: So we would love to have as many submissions by
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  Speaker 3: today if possible.
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  Speaker 1: All right, please, and how do you do that?
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  Speaker 3: So you can go to the Petunia Festival website online
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  Speaker 3: and then there is a link to register for the parade.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so website, Yes, what's the website address.
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  Speaker 2: It's Petunia Festival dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Okay and easy to remember, Petunia Festival dot org. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're going to use for a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this information coming up that Bethany's going to talk about today.
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  Speaker 1: But again, sign up for the parade if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be in the parade, really sign up now. The
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  Speaker 1: deadline is today. They'd like to have all of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, taken care of. There's a lot of organization
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be done, so please sign up for
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  Speaker 1: the parade by today. The deadline June the tenth. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's another deadline looming, I believe coming up this week.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So this Sunday is the last ability to register
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  Speaker 3: for our three on three soccer tournament, which is Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: the twenty eighth, okay at the Meadows Field.
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  Speaker 2: So registerran online.
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  Speaker 3: Is a three on three soccer tournament in different age brackets.
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  Speaker 3: We're really excited because this is a new event that
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  Speaker 3: our committee came forward with and we're just excited to
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  Speaker 3: partner with the park District for letting us use their
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  Speaker 3: space and to have a new soccer event here in Dixcess.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. And this will take place a little bit earlier, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: than the actual.
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  Speaker 2: Festival, correct, the Saturday before.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so note that on your calendar as well.
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  Speaker 1: That will take place the weekend before the actual four
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  Speaker 1: days that Bethany talked about earlier on the Petunia Festival schedule. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So that's at the Meadows and that deadline is Father's
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  Speaker 1: Day then Sunday, okay, and the same location to sign.
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  Speaker 2: Up, yes online, Petunia Festival.
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  Speaker 1: That ork okay, all right, so again sign up for
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  Speaker 1: that event if you want to take part in that
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  Speaker 1: new event. It's a three on three soccer tournament and
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  Speaker 1: that should be interesting as well, coming up at the
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  Speaker 1: Meadows on that Saturday, and Bethany has that for us
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  Speaker 1: this morning here at Wixon. Now, are there any other
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  Speaker 1: early dates that we need to note before we head court.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So Thursday June nineteenth is our Royalty party at
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  Speaker 3: my play Village from five to seven and pre registration
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  Speaker 3: is required for that. So I do believe that registration
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  Speaker 3: is closing on the thirteenth, so make sure to go
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  Speaker 3: to the website to pre register for our Royalty Party
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  Speaker 3: at my play Village. So it's a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: meet our our Queen and our two princesses and our
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  Speaker 3: Pinky Petunia and just the kids will have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun, so make sure if you have kids that
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  Speaker 3: to get them registered for him.
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  Speaker 1: Can we expand on this and talk about the court, yeh,
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Let's do that since you mentioned you
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  Speaker 1: know that you're going to be meeting them, Yeah, before
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  Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival actually takes place, so talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: So we actually met the court last night at our meeting,
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  Speaker 3: which was so fantastic. They are such sweet, sweet women.
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  Speaker 3: So our Queen she is Danny Love it. She has
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  Speaker 3: volunteered at the festival as an ambassador for the last
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  Speaker 3: few years, so we're so excited to.
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  Speaker 2: Have her as queen.
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  Speaker 3: Our two princesses our Liliana Herrera and j C. Rowe,
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  Speaker 3: and all the girls are from Dixon, so we absolutely
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  Speaker 3: love that.
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  Speaker 2: And then they're really.
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  Speaker 3: Excited to like work with kids and just be involved
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  Speaker 3: in the Patunia Festival and just have fun. So and
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  Speaker 3: then our Pinky Petunia is Madeline Kirby and again all
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  Speaker 3: of them we met last night and they're all just
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  Speaker 3: really excited to work with a Patunia Festival. See a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more of the behind the scenes. They're excited
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  Speaker 3: to hang out with the kids at our royalty party
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  Speaker 3: and then our family fun night. So there's lots of
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  Speaker 3: things that they're like super excited to do and learn.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, the Queen and the Court will be
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  Speaker 1: making stops pretty much all over it's the Petunia fan
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  Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned that, you know a couple of
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  Speaker 1: major stops, but they'll be banking, you know, appearances right
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  Speaker 1: at a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of They're actually going to be at the the library
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  Speaker 3: as well. On Wednesday, the second for crafts at the
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  Speaker 3: library from one to three. So that's another fun stuff
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  Speaker 3: that they're going to do. And then they'll be at
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  Speaker 3: the carnival at some point to be able to enjoy that.
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  Speaker 3: And then of course they'll be in the parade and
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  Speaker 3: they'll be around downtown and you know, meet some of
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  Speaker 3: the artists.
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  Speaker 1: So you won't miss them because they have their sashes
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  Speaker 1: in their.
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  Speaker 2: Their crowd exactly awesome crowd.
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  Speaker 1: You won't miss them in Pinky of course, you won't
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  Speaker 1: miss there, you know, in that in that traditional costume
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  Speaker 1: that is Pinky Petunia. So again we've got that established.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations to all the young ladies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because they had to you know, send in their information
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  Speaker 1: right and actually you know, make their way into the Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So they apply to be on the court and then
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  Speaker 3: they have go through like a whole interview process with
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  Speaker 3: a selection committee and then they're selected.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. So again there's your selections for this year's twenty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty twenty five royalty during the Dixon Patunia Festival
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  Speaker 1: and again they'll be making appearances early on in this
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  Speaker 1: month of June throughout the Dixon Patunia Festival. And Bethany
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  Speaker 1: has the story for us this morning here at Wison
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a break. We're coming up on
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty already, so we're going to take a break
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  Speaker 1: at the half hour for News First with Timley. But
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  Speaker 1: when we come back, Bethany has a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: preliminary information. We've got some fundraising information we want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, and we also talk about some of the
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  Speaker 1: changes that are going to be seen during the Patunia
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  Speaker 1: Festival and some of the notable activities that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about in the next half hour. Bethany right
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  Speaker 1: is our guest from the Dixon Patunia Festival. Our coverage
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  Speaker 1: of the Patunia Festival today on WIXON eight thirty degrees.
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  Speaker 1: As we continue our conversation on this Tuesday morning with
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  Speaker 1: our good friends from the Dixon Patunia Festival. This is
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  Speaker 1: our coverage of the twenty twenty five Dixon Patunia Festival,
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  Speaker 1: and with us today is the twenty twenty five Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Patunia Festival President. She's excited to be here. We're excited
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  Speaker 1: to have her here, and we're excited again to unwrap
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  Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival for twenty twenty five. It will be coming,
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  Speaker 1: but we do have some preliminary steps that we need
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  Speaker 1: to make before we do the end wrapping on the
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  Speaker 1: fourth of July holiday weekend. Bethany Wright is our guest today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for spending the extra time with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I you so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Put a little shout out now, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: So my mom and dad are listening, and so is
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  Speaker 3: my little sister and my sweet daughter Gianna.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, we need a shout out. So hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: love you. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 1: What your mom and dadsy we get yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Dan and g one justice there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, so make sure you get it
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  Speaker 1: all in because you know they'll'll be questioning you as
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  Speaker 1: you go to you later on. So welcome to those listeners,
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  Speaker 1: and again welcome to Bethany to our microphones here at
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  Speaker 1: w ACENT. Let's continue with our Portunia festival coverage. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about a lot of put the preliminary information, some
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  Speaker 1: important dates coming up. There are still some news on
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  Speaker 1: preliminary activities that you want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so this is our third year of actually doing
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  Speaker 3: our carnival quiet hours, which is specifically for children with
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  Speaker 3: special needs. So if that is somebody that you know
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  Speaker 3: or somebody that's in your family that could really benefit
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  Speaker 3: from that and that they want to go and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: the carnival without the music and the lights and the loudness.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure to register for the Carnival Quiet Hours again
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  Speaker 3: on our website and the Carnival Quiet Hours are on Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: July third from two to four pm. So you'll get
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  Speaker 3: a special risk band for the child that has the
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  Speaker 3: special needs as well as for an adult or like
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  Speaker 3: family member that will be writing with them.
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  Speaker 1: You're good. That's on the day before the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 1: the third, that's the quiet hour. And it's the same
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  Speaker 1: carnival family that we're going to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's still the same Carnival family. And they'll be
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  Speaker 3: rolling in on Sunday morning to kind of start bringing
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  Speaker 3: all their equipment. So that's that's always exciting when we
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  Speaker 3: see the carnival rolling into town.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's here and where it's go.
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  Speaker 1: Timeoute one more preliminary piece of information.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a fundraiser going on, right, Yes, so we
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  Speaker 3: are always selling our fifty to fifty tickets. Those proceeds
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  Speaker 3: go to help fund the fireworks here we go. I
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  Speaker 3: had to think about which one it was helping, so.
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  Speaker 2: It helps with the fireworks.
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  Speaker 3: So there are some different businesses downtown that are selling
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  Speaker 3: the fifty to fifty tickets. We do have our office
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  Speaker 3: hours posted online. We're selling the fifty to fifty tickets there.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be at City Market on the Wednesdays and then
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  Speaker 3: also we'll be at ACE as well on some Saturdays.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to jump in for the fifty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty, it is going. And then we draw the
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  Speaker 3: winning ticket right before the fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: At the Riverfront I believe at the Riverfront during the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment portion of the program at the Riverfront that will
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  Speaker 1: be the fourth of July. It'll be the sixth of
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  Speaker 1: July that that ticket will be drawn and the fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty Award will be presented. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Some preliminary news and information for the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Petunia Festival. You mentioned the Carnival family we'll be
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  Speaker 1: rolling in. Now, let's talk about some of the changes
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  Speaker 1: that we have to see because of activity in our community,
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  Speaker 1: and we wanted to kind of spotlight that once again
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  Speaker 1: today there's going to be some change, you know, due
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  Speaker 1: to what we're seeing down at the Riverfront with the
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  Speaker 1: Project Rock and so we have to tweak our Petunia
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  Speaker 1: Festival a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit so slightly a small change with the Reagan Run
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  Speaker 3: course itself. I'm sure many people have seen that online.
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  Speaker 3: So they'll be going down Hennepin like normal, but then
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  Speaker 3: instead of going through the festival grounds right away, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be turning onto First Avenue, then heading to
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  Speaker 3: Peoria up through all of like the park area. Then
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  Speaker 3: you're going to come across to Galena to the bridge,
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  Speaker 3: come across the bridge. Then you're going to actually run
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  Speaker 3: on the river front, like right next to the river,
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  Speaker 3: and then go to the pedestrian path. So it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of a different course now, but we're really excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, the Reagan Run Committee has done a great
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  Speaker 3: job getting that course together.
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  Speaker 1: We talked to them last week. We talked to a
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  Speaker 1: member of the Reagan Run Committee and she, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is true. People are curious about the new route,
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  Speaker 1: new run. And I think that's what's making because she said,
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  Speaker 1: we're double over preregistration from last year to this.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think curiosity, curiosity of a new course.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people primed, you know, to take.
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  Speaker 3: Part well, and with it being on the new like
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  Speaker 3: walking path. It's such a great way to showcase that.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's really a fantastic of course, I
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: personally am not a runner, so I won't be there,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: but I know there's a lot of runners very very
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: excited about the.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Course, absolutely, and like I said, curiosity about the route,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: so that that may prompt a lot more. You go
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to Reaganrun dot com or get me Registered dot com
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the registration information. Okay, so they there, you go the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Reagan Run. And there's another change in the Page Park
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: area and that has to do with disc golf, right.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, so the disc golf course is slightly different as
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: well because obviously there is the construction going on back there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: So you can definitely find that information on the disc
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: golf website.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: And I know that they're moving, I believe it the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Lowell Park. They're moving to the disc golf facility at
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Lowell Park, so that's where the competition will take place
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: instead of the Page Park golf course. It's going to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: be at the Lowell Park disc Golf.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Which is such a beautiful area and it's nice to.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: See us utilize that.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Really, it's really nice stated and it's so pretty out there.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, so again a couple of changes. Are those the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: only change?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Yep? I believe those are the only changes this year.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Well, when we're talking about change during the actual festival, though,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you wanted to highlight that today as well. What are
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: we going to do? You already mentioned the new events, Yes,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: soccer taking place a week before. Is there anything else?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: So we actually have a three on three basketball tournament
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: happening after the festival.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: So that is.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: The Saturday, the twenty seventh, I believe is the date
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of that, or maybe it's the twenty eighth whatever.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: That Saturday is the last Saturday in June or July.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: But then for safety purposes, we just were really making
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: sure people aren't bringing in like backpacks or anything like that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: We're not allowing any outside drinks or like cups to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: come in. Those are just a few, you know, small
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: safety changes that we're making for this year, right.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's a new event three on three
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: basketball along with the three on three soccer. So we're
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: seeing a lot of new sporting events. Yes, at the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Dixon Petunia Festival. Yep. Is everything else
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: pretty well? According to Hoyle from last year.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, yep, everything is like very similar. Lots of music,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the carnival, the parade, and the car show. So and
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: then of course there's the craft show at Loveland Community Building.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: So we're all so excited about that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Car show going to take place at John Dixon again
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Did yes year, yeap.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: John Dixon Park. It's from ten to two. Registration begins
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: at eight o'clock so that's kind of when the cars
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: come in, they line up, and then the actual like
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: judging and car show is from ten to two.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, that that is and now I know that we
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: have the Nuts About Art in that so John Dixon
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: is going to be used you know, quite a nice Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: So the car show is on Friday the fourth, and
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: then the Nuts About Art I believe is on Saturday.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Good. So again John Dixon Park on the near north
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: side is going to be utilized again through the Dixon
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Petunia Festival for those activities. Talk about the entertainment, yes,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: ready to.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Talk about the about our entertainment.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Our entertainment committee really has just knocked it out of
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the park this year. We have Blind Melon coming, which
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: is I'm like really excited about them. We're actually in
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the middle of their tour. So yeah, it's really super
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: cool and they haven't toured in a long time, so
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: we're we are ecstatic to have them.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: So they actually have the tour date on their schedule.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Then ye is the Petunia Festival.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, terrific, which is so cool, and like one of
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: my favorite bands, the Two Hype Crew, they are coming
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: back for the fourth They always draw such a fun crowd.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It's just a fun, like upbeat night.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I am so excited about Too Hype Crew. I know
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of the community is as well because we
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: haven't had him in a few years. Uh so I'm
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to have them back. So and then
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: on Saturday, our our country artist is Tyler Brayden, so
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of country fans are super excited to have
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: him as well. So I think that like our headliner
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: lineup is just absolutely fantastic. Oh and then we also
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: have Brushville on Sunday, so lots of great headliners. And
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: then of course within the headliners, we've got some really
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: fantastic local acts. I know that She's It is coming back,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: and then we've got Baja and Kirkland, so those are
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: some local bands, and then the Smoking Popes is also
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: a local band, so we love getting some of our
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: local artists on our Petunia Festival stages, the main stage
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: and then the Reagan Stage, and then we just are
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: so excited about the entertainment this year. It's I really
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be fantastic and our committee knocked
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: it out of the parks, So you definitely want to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: come now can tickets?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Can they purchase those in advance or how does that work?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so right now we have our pre sale tickets happening.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: They're twenty five dollars for the full full three days
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: of entertainment, So if you want to save a little
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: bit of money, definitely purchase a pre sale ticket. Those
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: are twenty five dollars until the thirteenth, and then the
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: price goes up to thirty five until the day of
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the festival, which is starting on the third, and then
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: it's fifteen dollars at the gate. So if you're looking
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to like you know for sure you're gonna come more
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: than one day, absolutely hop on that pre sale. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: think that's going to be really a huge benefit because
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: then our our entry people just like punch a hole
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: in your ticket and you're good to go rather than
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: having to fish cash out right away.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So is it the same as the carnival though too?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Can you purchase su Yes?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: So the carnival presale is also available until the first
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: day of the carnival. So the first day of the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: carnival is actually the second Wednesday, the second because that
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: they do five days in town. So the pre sale
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: vouchers are thirty dollars and only fifteen hundred of them
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: are going to be sold. I know one year we
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: did run out. So make sure if you want to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: get a Carnival risk band at a discounted price of
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: thirty dollars, make sure to stop by the office and
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: purchase one of the pre sale vouchers.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, you can do that at the office. You can
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: do that at the Junior Festival office. And that's on
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Hennepin Avenue.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, seventy seven South Hennepin Avenue, right on the corner.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: All right, that's where the office is located. That's where
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of the headquarter information. If you need to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: help with any kind of information, that's the place to go.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: The office is not open.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Now, so we do have specific office hours.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: So this week it's Monday, Wednesday Friday, and then it's Saturday,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: and then next week it's Monday through Friday, okay, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: then I believe the week after that is Monday through
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Friday as well.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So there you go a lot of advantage to take.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: As far as the twenty twenty five Dixon Petuni Festival
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is concerned, a lot of events coming to board, a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: lot of returning events, a lot of new events, a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: lot of changed events. So you know, we run them
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: all down with you today. Bethany Wright, our president of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the Dixon Petunia Festival, I know that we're proud to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be a sponsor. We are a titanium sponsors at right, yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: River Country and local titanium sponsor.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: We have some amazing sponsors. Honestly, our sponsors blow us
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: out of the water every year. Because we actually had
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: to add the titanium level because we had so many
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: high level sponsors, we had to add another level. People
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: were like, let's give you more money to help with
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: this event. So our sponsors are truly fantastic. We have
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: so many great community partners. We could not do the
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: festival without our sponsors. There's absolutely no way we could
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: make it happen without the support from this and even
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: not just like monetarily, but any kind of like in
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: kind donations, you know, whether it's water or some kind
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: of like tools to help us set things up.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: And also with people.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: You guys help us a lot with volunteers, and we
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: could not do the festival without the many volunteers that
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: we have as well.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And you're taking names as well.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, So we actually have an online sign up link
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: for our volunteers. We go through volunteer Local and you
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: can go to the Petunia Festival website. It will send
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: you there to sign up for different time slots and
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: if you volunteer it's just a three hour shift, you
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: actually get a free entry ticket. So we love working
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: with our volunteers, so please, you know, hop on a
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: three hour hop on a three hour shift so you
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: can get a free ticket. Like that's like the best
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: of both worlds.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Impact.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and we've got quite a few Impact hours
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: up online as well. They help a lot with like
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: setup and tear down and different areas. So if you
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: have a high school student who is in the Impact program,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: make sure to check out the Impact website in order
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: to know what areas they can help out with.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: There you go. It's all during the twenty twenty five
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Dicks of Petunia Festival, and we just skinned the surface.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: We're going to get deeper into it as we move
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: through the month here at w Mix and Bethany right
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: to you. We wish you the best of success with
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: these years Petunia Festival. I see you've already got the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: show guns are.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Ready to guess you can get them at Khalil Khalils
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: and you can get a Petunia Festival suirt.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Nice all right, Yeah, so purchased that as well. Thanks
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: for joining us today to get us started down