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  Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Thursday. It's August
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  Speaker 1: the twenty first, the year is twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of Talkline here at
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  Speaker 1: wykes In Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. Time for
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  Speaker 1: our monthly look at news and information from Sinsissippi Centers.
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  Speaker 1: We get it from the marketing director who is live
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  Speaker 1: with us in studio this morning to give us the
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  Speaker 1: low down activities on the Sinsissippi calendar, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: dates that stand out that our gentleman wants to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today. And our good friend Andy Jackson is live
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning here at w wikes In. How
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  Speaker 1: are you, sir, Oh good good, good morning, Yeah, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us once again for the spotlight
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  Speaker 1: for August. Before we get to the activities on the calendar,
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  Speaker 1: one activity that took place on the calendar was not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago, you had your golf outing. I understand
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  Speaker 1: it was very successful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was thanks to all the sponsors and the
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  Speaker 2: golfers and everyone who contributed to that, the course staff
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  Speaker 2: at Dear Valley, all of that. It was a great success.
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  Speaker 2: And again this year so we had good weather and
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  Speaker 2: We had a good number of golfers and had a
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  Speaker 2: fast pace of play this year. Yeah, it was really fast. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it was all it was all good. So we
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  Speaker 2: want to thank Suck, Talley Bank and Ken Nelson as
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  Speaker 2: our corporate sponsors as well for helping us out there.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a good day for the thirty third annual.
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  Speaker 2: Now onto the thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth and fundraising moneys into the coffers then for Sinissippi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, portion of those funds will benefit the Sinsissippi Center's
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  Speaker 2: Mount Carroll expansion project, which is the next one. So
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  Speaker 2: you and I have talked audience may or may not
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  Speaker 2: remember that we just opened a Byron office not that
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  Speaker 2: long ago. So turning attention over to Mount Carroll, which
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  Speaker 2: also has some of the same needs for more space
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  Speaker 2: to provide more services from Mount Carroll in Carroll County.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We always talk about the fact that Sensissippi. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: their headquarters are in Dixon, we know that, and their
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  Speaker 1: services though go beyond that. Off, they go beyond into
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  Speaker 1: northern Illinois. We just talked about the expansion into Ogle
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  Speaker 1: County and here we go into Carroll County as well.
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  Speaker 1: So send us app be making the move especially this time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, through and post COVID. I mean, the demand has
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  Speaker 2: remained high for behavioral healthcare services and so we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to meet that need as fast as we can. So, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: congratulations on the golf aty.
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  Speaker 1: Hennie has information on an upcoming activity. But let's spotlight today, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: in activity that you wanted to kind of emphasize that
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  Speaker 1: already took place on the calendar. That was August the seventeenth.
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  Speaker 1: It's National Nonprofit Day and you wanted to comment on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it already took place, but it's important to still
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  Speaker 2: talk about that about that topic. National Nonprofit Day August seventeenth.
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  Speaker 2: Each year, it recognizes nonprofit organization's ongoing efforts to serve
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  Speaker 2: their communities because there's a huge impact. If you've ever volunteered,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or been somehow in intact with a nonprofit,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're aware of the significance of the charitable
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  Speaker 2: organizations and what they do. So there's so much that
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  Speaker 2: they do. Promoting awareness is one thing. That's what's what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing about National Nonprofit Day or other things that
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  Speaker 2: you and I talk about on a regular basis. Offer
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  Speaker 2: assistance to individuals who might not be able to otherwise
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  Speaker 2: afford it wide array and variety of services in the communities,
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  Speaker 2: and they're often the only organizations that can fill in
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  Speaker 2: gaps and services and otherwise serve those unmet needs. So
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  Speaker 2: it is a huge impact what nonprofits do in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: And that was recently held on August the seventeenth, that
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  Speaker 1: was the actual day. But Anny, obviously, as you just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a good thought, you know, to put
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  Speaker 1: in people's minds to get involved in their local organizations,
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  Speaker 1: especially one like Stutissippi worthwhile in our area and people
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  Speaker 1: should you know, really be a board you know, to support.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I know you have so many of them
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  Speaker 2: on the air here under the Spotlight, so that that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that you do to help spread
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  Speaker 2: the awareness as well. So and by giving us an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to talk, you know, each month during the Spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: Well and you know, with that emphasis, so nationally, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, Andy, you know, a lot of charities are
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  Speaker 1: donated to gosh, a lot of money, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these organizations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. When I look this up for an updates, still
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  Speaker 2: the last available for some reason is twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still relevant, and it's probably only an increased
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  Speaker 2: since then. Americans donated nearly five hundred billion to a
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  Speaker 2: variety of charity organizations. A trillion dollars. Yes, wow, well
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  Speaker 2: there are According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics,
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  Speaker 2: there is about them one and a half million registered
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  Speaker 2: organizations that are nonprofits charities in the United States, And
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  Speaker 2: so there are a lot of organizations and people generously
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  Speaker 2: donating to them to help do so many things. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, a wide variety of services. Behavioral healthcare is
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  Speaker 2: one miniesipy centers. Does that organizations throughout the country do
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  Speaker 2: that that are nonprofits like we do, medical care, food banks,
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  Speaker 2: affordable housing, legal counsel education, after school activities, daycare centers,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps so many other things. The list is probably too
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  Speaker 2: long to go over even in this session, of all
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  Speaker 2: the different activities and things that nonprofits offer to their communities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And as Andy mentioned, a spotlight of these organizations, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: made with us. But it's what I think is important, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: is the contributions that obviously you know with Sinissippi, we
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  Speaker 1: know about their great services and all of the great
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  Speaker 1: efforts that are being offered to those in need. But
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  Speaker 1: it's the coroboration of organizations as well, to get together
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  Speaker 1: of organizations teaming up for you know, special events for education,
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  Speaker 1: for information. We see that a lot in Sinissippi, I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, does that a lot?
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  Speaker 2: Sure there in the year. Sure, sure, Sure we have
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  Speaker 2: a couple of our large events. Uh that that where
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  Speaker 2: we also try to do some awareness as well. But
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  Speaker 2: absolutely yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, always getting together with other organizations like the hospitals,
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  Speaker 1: like the you know, uh you know, healthcare and and
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  Speaker 1: those areas you know, Sinissippi you know again puts their
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  Speaker 1: efforts you know, not just single but together with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of local organizations. So I think it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: good idea that we think about this moving forward. Uh
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  Speaker 1: to uh you know, consider nonprofit organizations that do the
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  Speaker 1: job for us like Sinissippi Centers and obviously you know,
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  Speaker 1: the backbone of Sendissippi is the donations. Andy, really one
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  Speaker 1: of the backbones really, right is the donations and contributions
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  Speaker 1: that come our way.
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  Speaker 2: Sure to serve some of those unmet needs exactly exactly. So,
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  Speaker 2: uh funding source for services at Sinissippi is primarily, uh, medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: but medicaid doesn't cover everything and all things that folks
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  Speaker 2: need UH for their mental wellness and for their behavioral
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  Speaker 2: healthcare needs. So we raise money to serve some of
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  Speaker 2: those unmet needs UH for during our fundraisers. Absolutely, and
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  Speaker 2: the golf outing was one of those examples.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You just you just pointed it out,
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  Speaker 1: the need to expand and and there's the.
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  Speaker 2: Golfing exactly, yeah, exactly, and that and the and that
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  Speaker 2: funding not being specifically provided in order to do so.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very it's very important that you again
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  Speaker 1: support UH through the golf outings, through the special events
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  Speaker 1: that Mississippi offers their efforts. And if you don't see
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  Speaker 1: a special event on the calendar, you can still donate.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know there are there are areas.
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  Speaker 2: That you could go to to donate to sure, absolutely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: By mail, it would be our administrative offices Sinissippi Centers
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  Speaker 2: at three twenty five Illinois Route two and Dixon and
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  Speaker 2: then of course you could get that information also online.
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  Speaker 2: UH as far as the address for the Dixon office. UH,
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  Speaker 2: there's also an online donation opportunity on the web page.
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  Speaker 2: Just scroll just go to Ssissippi dot org and you
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  Speaker 2: can scroll down on the right side and you'll see
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  Speaker 2: donate today or donate now.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you know a lot of families, individuals,
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  Speaker 1: especially those connected and again being intended to buy Sinnissippi
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  Speaker 1: and their services. Obviously you know, are supportive, but you
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  Speaker 1: know what we all need to take a look at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, contributing and again making the you know, donation
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  Speaker 1: to Sinnissippi. As Andy mentioned, through those various areas. If
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  Speaker 1: you play golf, great, you know you're you're donating to Sinsissippi.
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  Speaker 1: If you again take part in their many activities, great again,
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  Speaker 1: that's another donation to Sensissippi Center. So again national nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: they spotlighted with Andy Today, which was held this month
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  Speaker 1: here on August the seventeenth. With the latter portion of
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  Speaker 1: our talk line, we wanted to talk about another important
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  Speaker 1: data on the calendar and that comes in mid September
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  Speaker 1: that you wanted to mention today, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. Our annual Wellness and Recovery Celebration is going
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  Speaker 2: to be held at Sinnssippi Center's Dixon offices on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: September thirteenth, eleven to two pm. It's kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, sort of picnic style. It's outdoors, as
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  Speaker 2: we've traditionally done with that event, and it's opened to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: It's free event and open to anyone in recovery from
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  Speaker 2: mental illness, substance use disorder, other behavioral healthcare illness and disorder.
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  Speaker 2: Also open to family, friends and others who support them.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have a little bit of food, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: a lunch, and we'll have speakers, and we'll have some games,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have some prizes those kinds of things, and our
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  Speaker 2: details are up on our website and it's again it's
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  Speaker 2: a free event and the main feature is our speakers
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  Speaker 2: panel that we'll have very impactful to hear stories of recovery,
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  Speaker 2: what people have been through and what treatment has done
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  Speaker 2: for them and how they're doing now and what their
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  Speaker 2: journey of recovery is like. It's always a very powerful,
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  Speaker 2: powerful time to listen to that. And we want to
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  Speaker 2: thank our sponsor, Extreme Rentals of Dixon for helping us
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  Speaker 2: out there as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is September the thirteenth, that'll be
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  Speaker 1: held on the grounds at the Mississippi Office.
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  Speaker 2: Then, yes, we do have a contingent for weather. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we won't have to worry about that, but we do
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  Speaker 2: have a contingency for whether it's a small smaller space,
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  Speaker 2: but we do have some room in our conference center
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  Speaker 2: to move things indoors if it's really really raining. But
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  Speaker 2: cross our fingers, we don't get that, so we'll try
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  Speaker 2: to have the event outdoors.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bottle up some of this weather that we're
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  Speaker 1: experiencing now for September the thirteenth, and hopefully we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a nice outdoor event. And this is again a plant
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  Speaker 1: outdoor event from eleven until two. And here again the
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  Speaker 1: emphasis handy unsupporting the organization. Here you go free to
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  Speaker 1: the public.
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  Speaker 2: This is free. Here you go. Yeah, this has always
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  Speaker 2: been a free event for those, like I said, in
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  Speaker 2: recovery and those who support them. Yeah, and it's recovery.
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  Speaker 2: It is during Recovery Month, which the focus started out
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  Speaker 2: to focus on substance use recovery, but really it became
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  Speaker 2: a month of celebrating all recovery, both at the Ssissippi
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  Speaker 2: level and then at the national level as well with
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  Speaker 2: those who supported. One of the supporting agencies is the
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  Speaker 2: Substance Abuse in Mental Health Services Administration. So okay, that
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  Speaker 2: is anyone in recovery, like like I said, and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's for them to celebrate and and and to come together.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure, like Andy mentioned, when you take part,
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  Speaker 1: and especially in that panel that is going to be
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  Speaker 1: featured at this event, listening to their stories of success.
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  Speaker 1: This is the These are success stories Andy, that ages
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  Speaker 1: come about with those that sought out Sinissippi Centers for
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  Speaker 1: their needs and hopefully have achieved success uh in in
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  Speaker 1: in their battles with their troubles yet right, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: and and you're going to have some of those again
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  Speaker 1: the speakers on hand.
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  Speaker 2: Then, yes, that's it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's great, you know, to share the stories. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's wonderful that that we have something like this, a
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  Speaker 1: wellness and recovery celebration where you know, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these individuals probably love to get it
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  Speaker 1: off their chest, you know, talking about theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Talking yes, talking about what, talking about mental illness, talking
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  Speaker 2: about substance use, talking about behavioral health care issues is
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that leads to understanding and reduction
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  Speaker 2: and stigma. It helps encourage other people to seek treatment
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  Speaker 2: if they haven't made that step yet. It's it is
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  Speaker 2: very important. So it's and I think that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons it's so powerful for for everyone. There's there's, there's, there's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hearing those stories is very is very encouraging
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  Speaker 2: and can encourage others to seek the treatment that they
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  Speaker 2: need and then enter on their own journey of recovery.
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  Speaker 1: In some Marya's probably quite grippy as well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know the travels that they had to take in
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  Speaker 1: order to achieve.
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  Speaker 2: And we never know what people are going through until
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  Speaker 2: unless they talk about it. Yeah, you know, one in
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  Speaker 2: five people have a serious mental illness. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: twenty percent of the population. We know someone we may
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  Speaker 2: not know that we know, but we know someone that
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  Speaker 2: has has as a mental illness. That's right, so and
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  Speaker 2: we may just never hear about that, but you go
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  Speaker 2: to an event like this and you'll you'll hear folks
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  Speaker 2: talk about Birkle.
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  Speaker 1: The date on the calendar, friends, it's September the thirteenth again.
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  Speaker 1: It runs from eleven am until two pm. It takes
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  Speaker 1: place at the Mississippi Offices between Dixon and Sterling, right
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  Speaker 1: there at Plock Road. It's right there at the centers
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  Speaker 1: that they'll be again sharing the information and it is
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  Speaker 1: a celebration, it's a wellness and Recovery celebration that Sinsissippi
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  Speaker 1: is sponsoring again on September the thirteenth. And as Andy
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, free to the public, no preregistration.
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  Speaker 2: Just come. We have a registration tent for some free
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  Speaker 2: kit for some free tickets for the but yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: no RSVP, no pre registration, don't have to go online. No,
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  Speaker 2: just to just show up. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just to just to make sure we clarify that one.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. Yeah, so you won't want you to get
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  Speaker 1: your free tickets when you show up, that's right, But
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  Speaker 1: you'd lie for some you know goodies, you know.
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  Speaker 2: For the maaskets. Yeah, exactly, for the price basket.
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  Speaker 1: Sippies will be handed Asissippi centers will be handing out
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  Speaker 1: September the thirteenth. This will be before the next time
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  Speaker 1: that Andy and I chat. That's why we want to
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  Speaker 1: get the word out about it today. So again, September
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth, an important day on the Mississippi calendar. Sinsissippi
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  Speaker 1: dot org is the website address correct, yes, and your
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  Speaker 1: phone number at Sssissippi.
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  Speaker 2: Eight one five two eight four sixty six one one
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  Speaker 2: is our main administrative office. That's our Dixon office that
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  Speaker 2: you can get to any office that could transfer for
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  Speaker 2: transfer you from there. But you go to mississipi dot org.
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  Speaker 2: You can see all our locations on the website. If
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to call a location directly.
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  Speaker 1: We always like to mention the hotline number though that's available,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty four hour crisis number, and that's what it's for
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  Speaker 2: is twenty four hour crisis is eight hundred two four
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  Speaker 2: two seven sixty four to two nine eight Eight's always
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  Speaker 2: an option, and you can also chat online and text
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  Speaker 2: with nine eight eight.
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  Speaker 1: Always like to mention that information when we chat with
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  Speaker 1: Andy right here on devil You Mike sent thank you
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Thank you our marketing manager at Sinissippi Centers,
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  Speaker 1: Andy Jackson, our guest on the talk line today here
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  Speaker 1: at Delikes. And let's go to press next with Tim
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  Speaker 1: Lee at the bottom of the hour.
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  Speaker 2: M good morning, it's all local news.
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  Speaker 1: I