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Talk-Line: Katie Baker, Lee County Extension 4-H · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We our quarter past the hour. This is Wednesday, It's
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  Speaker 1: February nineteen, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of talk Line here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one Wixent. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. It is time for our monthly look
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  Speaker 1: at news and information from Lee County Extension and the
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  Speaker 1: world of four H and youth programs across our Souk
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  Speaker 1: Valley area. Because we have the four H Youth Development
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  Speaker 1: Program Coordinator live in studio with this to give us
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  Speaker 1: the lowdown. She's usually here on the Monday of this week,
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  Speaker 1: but Monday was President's Day, so we had to alter
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  Speaker 1: our schedule and make way for our good friend Katie
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  Speaker 1: Baker to join us, and she is with us today
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  Speaker 1: here at wix In.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning man, Good morning Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you with us. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a busy lineup of activities. Katie's going to talk.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna warm things up, We're gonna warn things up
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  Speaker 1: for you today friends, on a cold day in February.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about April, May, even in maybe June activity.
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  Speaker 1: So Katie's gonna warm things up with some information coming
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  Speaker 1: your way this morning here at AM fourteen sixty and
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  Speaker 1: FM ninety five one. But to start things off, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about out to something that just happened
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  Speaker 1: right our public speaking contest. And we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times. Yes, prepared everybody for the public
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  Speaker 1: speaking contest, got people interested, and we have results now
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  Speaker 1: a pastor Yees.
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  Speaker 2: So we had our public speaking contest Monday, so on
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  Speaker 2: President's Day. Laura Carbaugh judged it and she had a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful job, and we had one of our winners from
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  Speaker 2: Lee County, Lauren Wagner. She qualified for state for her
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  Speaker 2: formal speech. So just thrown out congratulations to her as
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  Speaker 2: did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the kids did good? Oh well, well, and
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  Speaker 1: and congratulations to Laurene. She is she represents a group, right.
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  Speaker 2: She's from Dixon Wonderworkers, she's our Lee County Club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah represented, she did a real great job and she
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  Speaker 1: will she will then take her talents down to the yees.
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  Speaker 2: So they've already gotten back to me and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to go down to state for the contest there. So
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  Speaker 2: what's your luck if you see her?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, congratulations to Lauren Wagner of our Dixon Wonder
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  Speaker 1: Workers four h club will be representing our Lee County
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  Speaker 1: area at the state contest in Champagne that will be
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  Speaker 1: later on in the year, so congratulations to her. We
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  Speaker 1: wanted to move on and talk about some upcoming activities
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  Speaker 1: on the calendar with Katie today and one of those
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  Speaker 1: activities takes place in less than a month, in the
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  Speaker 1: month of March.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the Youth for the Quality Care of Animal Certification.
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  Speaker 2: This is tying into fair a little bit. This is
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  Speaker 2: required if you are showing dairy cattle, beef, sheep, swine,
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  Speaker 2: or goats. This is a training that's required every year.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to complete it and it can be done
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  Speaker 2: at YQCA program dot org again online or in person.
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  Speaker 2: The in person costs a little bit less, but you
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  Speaker 2: do self to register online. And we're gonna have two
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  Speaker 2: trainings this year. One is March thirteenth, so coming up
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  Speaker 2: and that's at six pm, or you could do April fifth,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Saturday at two pm and then it'll be
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  Speaker 2: after Project Pool. So either one of those in person
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  Speaker 2: trainings or you can take it a lot online. But
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  Speaker 2: again that YQCA training is for dairy cattle, beef, sheep,
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  Speaker 2: and swine or goats. So if you're showing any of
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  Speaker 2: those things, you need to get that certification done by
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  Speaker 2: June first.
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  Speaker 1: This is necessary. You have to have this, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: in order to show at the fair, you have to
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  Speaker 1: have this again through extension and State. So again, if
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  Speaker 1: you're planning on showing in those categories that Katie just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: I think we had this on last time around because
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to set people up for this. The time
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  Speaker 1: is kind of fleeting now, and February is a short month.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's a short month.
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  Speaker 2: We're almost done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, March the thirteenth is going to be here before
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  Speaker 1: you know it, and so you have to there's in
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  Speaker 1: person training March the thirteenth and again in early April,
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  Speaker 1: as Katie mentioned, But you gotta have this training done
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  Speaker 1: and certification done before you want to show animals at
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  Speaker 1: the fair in July. So again we're putting word out
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  Speaker 1: and we'll continue to do that. Even though the first
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  Speaker 1: one will be in March. There is a second one
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  Speaker 1: so we'll have an opportunity again to talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: But again for those wanting to show animals, especially in
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  Speaker 1: those categories that Katie pointed out. Please I get this
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  Speaker 1: set done through Lee County Extension, through the State of Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: and then you'll be able to move on to against
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  Speaker 1: state I should say county fair competition. Katie Baker's our
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  Speaker 1: guests today are you a four EHUOT development program coordinator
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  Speaker 1: from Lee County Extension. Let's warn things even further. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go into April again. Katie mentioned that one of those
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  Speaker 1: trainings is going to be in April, but there's something
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  Speaker 1: else going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the cool coolest things I think we
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  Speaker 2: do here is Project Pool and so that's just like
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  Speaker 2: a little conference for not even just four eachers. It's
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  Speaker 2: a kids ages five to seven or five to eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and there's different workshops they can attend throughout the morning.
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  Speaker 2: There's three fifty minute sessions for eight to eighteen year olds.
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  Speaker 2: And this year we've got some really cool stuff going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's wool felting, there's going to be like a mineral workshop.
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  Speaker 2: The guys from Sewer Equipment who did a three D
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  Speaker 2: printing workshop, They're going to do a paper plane science workshop,
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  Speaker 2: which sounds super fun. They're gonna have a little mini
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  Speaker 2: competition when they're done. Full in planes, We've got kitchen chemistry,
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of cool stuf. Someone's gonna come and talk
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  Speaker 2: about cats if you're interested in showing cats at the
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  Speaker 2: County four each show horses, goats, Yeah, lots of fun stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's April fifth at the Fairgrounds clover Buds Ages five
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  Speaker 2: to seven. Even if you're not technically a cloverbud, you
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  Speaker 2: can still come to that and that that Cloverbud session
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  Speaker 2: less onboarning. But that's April fifth at the fair Grounds,
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  Speaker 2: nine to noon and it's you can register. Check check
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  Speaker 2: out details at go dot Illinois dot edu, slash project
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  Speaker 2: pool okay and more. Check it out on Facebook. I
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  Speaker 2: think I have that flyer schedule to go up soon.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. That's April the fifth, again at the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: fo Eah Fairgrounds, again near Amboy, and it runs during
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  Speaker 1: the morning. And what it breaks down to, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we've talked about this before, Katie two, is that
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  Speaker 1: there are three opportunities. You get to kind of three
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  Speaker 1: sessions because it'll run from like nine until noon or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, right, and you break it down, you
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  Speaker 1: take your choice of the three sessions that you want
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  Speaker 1: to attend and free of charge.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's a fifteen dollars to apply fee. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but that gets you those three workshops, okay, and you
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  Speaker 2: get to pick whichever ones you want to go to,
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  Speaker 2: like Steve said, so that's a fun time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's simple, you know, and again offer to the
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  Speaker 1: youth across our northern Illinois, especially for each ers that
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  Speaker 1: we want to be involved in. Now we're pretty well set.
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  Speaker 1: Are we pretty well set with the you know train
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  Speaker 1: because we put word out last month.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's about five different topics to choose from
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  Speaker 2: for each block, so there's tons of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, that's great. You know that that we
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  Speaker 1: have the you know, the people coming forward you know
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  Speaker 1: and offering their expertise in those fields you know, to
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  Speaker 1: make Project Pool run. And that's what it makes you
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  Speaker 1: go those.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those you have the volunteers. Yeah, they would
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  Speaker 2: be pretty slow.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely so Project Pool April fifth at the Leecounty four
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  Speaker 1: each fairgrounds will get another opportunity in March to give
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  Speaker 1: you the lowdown right here on w i xcent. Moving on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: tis the season and we want to talk about scholarships now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so each year our Extension Foundation offers three sky
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  Speaker 2: dollarships and these are for graduating high school students for
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  Speaker 2: the current four each year. So if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be graduating this spring, to apply for the scholarship, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to be have been a four each member for
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  Speaker 2: the last three years, the last two have to be consecutive,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to be a Lee County four eacher. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: those applications are due Friday, May third, and they're one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars scholarships, So you could get one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: to go continue your education or go to a trade school,
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  Speaker 2: or work on a certificate programs. It's a really neat
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that we offer or the foundation offers, So check
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  Speaker 2: out our newsletter. I think that those details are on
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  Speaker 2: Facebook too, But yeah, if you're a four each member
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  Speaker 2: and you're graduating high school, check that out. Apply Those
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  Speaker 2: are that May is going to come up too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's the first Debates, not the end of bates,
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  Speaker 1: the first Tomate because all of those scholarships have to
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  Speaker 1: be out obviously, you know with the you know, awards
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  Speaker 1: nights or presentations like that, you want to make them
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  Speaker 1: during that time. So again, that's why we have to
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  Speaker 1: have selections made before those award nights takes place, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we have the early deadline of May the
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  Speaker 1: third again to get your scholarship information into Lee County Extension. Again,
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  Speaker 1: these are the Extension Foundation scholarships. Again, there is criteria
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  Speaker 1: as Katie mentioned, yet you have to meet in order
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  Speaker 1: to again a qualify for these scholarships with there on
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  Speaker 1: dollars each and they're going to be giving out through
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  Speaker 1: Lee County Extension. So please check Facebook, please check the newsletter,
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  Speaker 1: and again sign up if you qualify for absolutely lecholarships.
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  Speaker 1: Again Dubai May the third, and again we'll get time
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  Speaker 1: to reiterate all of these activities coming up in the
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  Speaker 1: warmer months ahead. With Katie right here on AM fourteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty and FM ninety five one, talking about warming things up,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the summertime and talk about summer camp.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got finally we got some information about summer camp.
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  Speaker 1: It's about time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So registration is open for our Northern Illinois for
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  Speaker 2: each summer camp and that summer camp runs from June
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  Speaker 2: eighth to June twelfth. This is for ages eight to fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be eight years old by June eighth.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be in four each to attend
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  Speaker 2: this camp. So if you're just looking for a fun
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  Speaker 2: thing to do or check out maybe like what four
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  Speaker 2: each is, it's a really neat opportunity to just kind
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  Speaker 2: of go. I think they do like archery, there's hiking,
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  Speaker 2: there's tons of different stuff. It's really good time. And
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  Speaker 2: that link for that is go dot Illinois dot edu
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  Speaker 2: slash four each Summer Camp, and I'll tell you, like
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  Speaker 2: the prices for all that stuff. I think if you
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  Speaker 2: sign up by March first, there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a discount. So again March is coming up, so if
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  Speaker 2: you're interested, check it out and go sign up.
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  Speaker 1: And like Katie mentioned, you don't have to be a
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  Speaker 1: four eacher to join them for summer camp. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a criteria that you need to be in four EAH.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we'd like most of the four ehers to
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  Speaker 1: join them for because it is dubbed the Noel of
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  Speaker 1: Illinois for each summer camp. But again, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be in four h to participate in this summer
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  Speaker 1: camp opportunity. And again all of the activity information is
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  Speaker 1: on go dot Illinois dot edu slash four H Summer
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  Speaker 1: Camp and again check it out. It is through extension
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  Speaker 1: and you sign up through that website get more information.
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  Speaker 1: We'll continue to pump that information to you right here
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  Speaker 1: on A fourteen sixteen FM ninety five. One. One more
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  Speaker 1: thing before we let Katie go. And I told you
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  Speaker 1: it was a busy calendar of events leading all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to June, but we're going to tailback into
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  Speaker 1: April because we got a deadline coming up in April
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  Speaker 1: for an important Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: For four eachers that are interested in getting out and
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  Speaker 2: doing a little bit more with the community, helping out
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  Speaker 2: how to fare and Dixon City Market and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Our ambassador applications are out right now and those are
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  Speaker 2: due on April twenty fourth, and there is an interview
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  Speaker 2: process for that. There's an interview I think in May.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, those applications are out. If you're interested, can
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  Speaker 2: email me. You can check out the newsletter again for
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  Speaker 2: details on that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, four H Ambassadors Again, these are you know,
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  Speaker 1: put together yearly, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we put those together yearly. We announced the winners
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  Speaker 2: at the fair at one of the award shows affair
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  Speaker 2: and they kind of help up with fair things. They
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  Speaker 2: go around and help us out with like parades and
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  Speaker 2: stuff and throw out candy, Petunia Fest that parade I
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  Speaker 2: think we go to with the fair Board, Depot Days Parade.
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  Speaker 2: I think we do pretty much every year, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff to kind of get out and if you
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  Speaker 2: like talking about four Each and if you really like
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  Speaker 2: being in four EAH, this is a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: kind of share that knowledge and love of what you
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  Speaker 2: do with others.
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  Speaker 1: And again, those applications are due in the month of April,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of April, April to twenty fourth. And
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  Speaker 1: that's true your Yeah, that's through.
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  Speaker 2: Us, so you can if you want an application, you
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  Speaker 2: can just email me get in contact our office phone
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  Speaker 2: numbers eight one five eight five seven three five two five,
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  Speaker 2: or again just email me and I can send you
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  Speaker 2: the application.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, give them a call and chat with Extension County
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  Speaker 1: Extension at eight five seven three five two five. Get
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  Speaker 1: yourself set to become a four Each ambassador for our
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  Speaker 1: local area and help out with some of those projects
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  Speaker 1: and activities that they all attend during the year courtesy
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  Speaker 1: of four H and County Extension. A busy schedule and
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  Speaker 1: Katie has gone all the way through it here at AFT.
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  Speaker 1: It starts again with all of that activity in March
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the June summer camps. Will continue to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all of these good things as we visit
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  Speaker 1: with Katie monthly right here on AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety.
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  Speaker 1: If I want pleasure having you on board math things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me today.
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  Speaker 1: The four Hut Development Program Coordinator of Lee County Extension,
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  Speaker 1: Katie Baker, our guest today on the eight fifteen talk
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  Speaker 1: line here at w WIXEN. Let's go to