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Hitman talks to Lisa and Denise From Voluntexas.org · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Corpus Grizzy's Classic Kids A big ninety three to nine?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going to Tipman with you? And I have
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  Speaker 1: Denise and Lisa on the phone from Voluntech's dot org. Ladies.
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  Speaker 1: How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: We're good, We're rocking and rolling. How are you, hit Man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have a special event coming up on February first.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up on Sunday, right, and it's over at
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  Speaker 1: in the Game Fund Trackers. Tell me a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about this event.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we are super excited to be hosting this event,
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  Speaker 2: and we're basically kicking off February with Family Fun. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff going on here. We got
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  Speaker 2: family fun, we have family finances, and we have family giving.
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  Speaker 2: So the event will be in the Game Fund Trackers
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  Speaker 2: in Flower Bluff starting from noon to three. It will
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  Speaker 2: be in the party rooms, but there will be a
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  Speaker 2: table as soon as you enter in Fun Trackers to
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  Speaker 2: just kind of check it out get some more information
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  Speaker 2: on the event. But otherwise it will be in the
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  Speaker 2: party rooms off the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is a free event, right correct.
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  Speaker 2: It is a free community event. We will be partnering up.
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  Speaker 2: We have some great partners that will be coming up,
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  Speaker 2: so the party rooms are basically be transformed into an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to have a lot of resources you. We will
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  Speaker 2: have a financial speaker that will be giving some literacy
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. So it really is an event that we're
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  Speaker 2: gearing it towards from my kids to grandparents. We want
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  Speaker 2: the whole family to come out and friends and just
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  Speaker 2: come out, hang out. We're having some snacks, We're going
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  Speaker 2: to have some arts and crafts, but we also we
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  Speaker 2: need Valentine's Day cards for our senior citizen population. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to come and make a really cool
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  Speaker 2: hand crafted card for them, we would love that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool. So it should be a
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  Speaker 1: great event. Now, why this event is needed right now, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Important to start off at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 2: So we wanted to have something instead of focusing on
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  Speaker 2: finances more towards like the end of the year, when
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have when everyone's trying to save up
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  Speaker 2: for Christmas and trying to get all their finances in order.
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  Speaker 2: Plus also right now people are trying to save for
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  Speaker 2: college and even grandparents, so it's really important about the
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  Speaker 2: financial education of this is we're working with the their
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  Speaker 2: local group, but it's the mccrak and Salazar and Backtub
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  Speaker 2: group and they'll be actually leading the financial presentation. And
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  Speaker 2: we have two different segments. So one segment will be
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  Speaker 2: maybe more geared towards families that just are trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out how to save and how to kind of
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  Speaker 2: move forward to our finances, and then another presentation will
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  Speaker 2: be more geared towards the senior citizen population. So everything
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  Speaker 2: is just kind of hitting everybody that needs these resources,
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  Speaker 2: and it just gives an opportunity to kick off the
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  Speaker 2: year with some fun, some giving, and some finances.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. Now, if people want to find out more
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  Speaker 1: information concerning this event that's coming up on Sunday, where
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  Speaker 1: can they go to find out more info?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely everything right now is actually on the Facebook page,
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  Speaker 2: so it's VOVN Texas dot org. And we also do
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  Speaker 2: have an event page out there and it's listed under family, fun,
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  Speaker 2: family giving, and family and finance.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Cool?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, is there any last things that you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about?
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  Speaker 2: One thing too that we'll be kicking off at this event,
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  Speaker 2: particularly is we are working with the City of Corpus
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  Speaker 2: Christy the Meals on Wheels program and we are trying
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  Speaker 2: to help out five hundred senior citizens for the whole
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  Speaker 2: month of February, and that's that's the one We're doing
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  Speaker 2: this event on February first. So we'll be asking for
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  Speaker 2: donations that the city will be passing out in March,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're we'll also have that list on our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page. Then it will be like socks and you know,
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  Speaker 2: hygiene products things like that that senior citizens really neat.
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  Speaker 2: So we will be actually having donations at fun Trackers
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  Speaker 2: for the whole month, so people will have pink trees
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  Speaker 2: and so to kind of like the month of Giving
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  Speaker 2: of Love basically, and they can come donate items for instance,
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  Speaker 2: I get in the game fun Trackers and at this event,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a pair of socks or whatever is on
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  Speaker 2: that list and they will be distributed in March. That's
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  Speaker 2: also where we want to have those cards made to
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  Speaker 2: go along with the gift that they'll be getting in March.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's really really cool. Okay, So it's happening
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday. It's happening at in the game fun Trackers.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be going on from what noon to
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  Speaker 1: three at the end of games fun tracktors and one
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  Speaker 1: of the party rooms there, and of course it's all
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  Speaker 1: with Voluntex's dot org and it's for a great cause
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  Speaker 1: and it's a great way to get a little family
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  Speaker 1: event together and it is free, so make sure you
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  Speaker 1: make it on out. I appreciate you guys calling in
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  Speaker 1: today to tell us a little bit about this. Again,
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  Speaker 1: if they want to find out more, they can find
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  Speaker 1: it out on their Facebook page, right on your Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Page, correct, yep. Valuntexasud org and in the Game Fund
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  Speaker 2: Trackers is donating keepons for a free mini golf's go KRT.
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  Speaker 2: So if you visit us in the party room, you
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  Speaker 2: have to come to the party room otherwise they will
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  Speaker 2: not hand you a keep on. If you come visit us,
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  Speaker 2: we'll hand you a keep on for a free minigolf
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  Speaker 2: or go cart ride. Oh cool. It's also great for
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  Speaker 2: seniors to get a free round of minigolf for the day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. And you know they got a really
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  Speaker 1: nice one there in the Game Fund Trackers. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. All right, I appreciate you calling
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  Speaker 1: in today. Okay, on the way, we got more music
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  Speaker 1: coming up, just a little bit on Big ninety three, nine,