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25th Annual Travis Mercy Memorial Skate Park Fundraiser · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: All right, it looks like we've got to clouds increasing
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  Speaker 1: today and daytime highs around twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: We're at thirteen right now, so we've got a little
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  Speaker 2: ways to go. But tonight, more clouds, we'll get down
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  Speaker 2: about thirteen degrees. Maybe some weather that is coming into
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  Speaker 2: the picture, and especially tomorrow, we've got some snow on
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  Speaker 2: the way and all kinds of winter warnings and all
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  Speaker 2: that fun for snow and sleet and freezing rain and
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  Speaker 2: all that fun here setting us up for a weekend,
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  Speaker 2: a Valentine's Day weekend that is going to be just
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  Speaker 2: very snowy, especially on Sunday. I've heard everything from an
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  Speaker 2: inch of snow on Sunday to fifteen feet and everything
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  Speaker 2: in between. So I would just say that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get some snow this weekend, So keep that in mind,
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  Speaker 2: especially as you have travel plans. Hey birthdays today on
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  Speaker 2: this day, number twelve of the month, Joe Beauregard, Jen
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence on the birthday list today. Happy birthday, jen Ellen Poohlin,
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  Speaker 2: Shane Roya, Nathan Carter, Anita, and we have Crystal Stridesburg
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  Speaker 2: on the birthday list today. Bianca Chappelle and Melissa Tesa
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday. Everybody reached out just a few minutes ago
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  Speaker 2: to Dave Rule of the Berrytown thunder Chickens to see
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  Speaker 2: if he had time this morning to hop on the
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  Speaker 2: air with us, and he unfortunately does not. He is
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  Speaker 2: diving headfirst into a meeting that started about four minutes ago.
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  Speaker 2: But Dave's do I say, cohort Linda? I mean the
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  Speaker 2: two of you have worked together now on the Travis
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  Speaker 2: Mercy Memorial Skatepark fundraiser for how many years?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: My goodness.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, thank you JD for letting me be
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  Speaker 3: here this morning to talk about the skate park. Dave
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  Speaker 3: and I have known each other for over twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, off and on on the recreation board and for
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  Speaker 3: the skate park.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: He has been. Just to throw some love at him here.
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  Speaker 2: Dave and the thunder Chickens have been more than instrumental
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  Speaker 2: with this event. They're kind of the backbone of it.
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  Speaker 3: They are they are they've taken hold of it since
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  Speaker 3: day one. Yeah, and every year reach out to have
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  Speaker 3: this fundraiser so much appreciated by that whole group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not only it's not only a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun, but it is. It's also a really really
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  Speaker 2: important event brings it brings us together as one big Yes,
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  Speaker 2: snow machining family, it is.
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  Speaker 3: And it is snow machine family put on by the
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  Speaker 3: vast Yeah. But open to everyone because the users of
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  Speaker 3: the park are from all ages from three and four
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  Speaker 3: years old up to our age JD.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Right, And it's open to.
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  Speaker 3: The park so that we can keep on doing the
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  Speaker 3: upkeep to the park.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're talking about a skate park right here
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  Speaker 2: in Bury, right up by Barrytown School that was constructed
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand. Am I right?
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  Speaker 4: That is correct?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So the skate park was built in memory of
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  Speaker 2: your son, correct, who died with one other young lady
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  Speaker 2: in a horrible car accident in ninety nine, correct, February twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Third, Correct, of ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: And there were seven kids total, but two passed and
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  Speaker 2: your son was one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct, and.
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  Speaker 2: Heather Brummert who also passed away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Both kids were what just fifteen fifteen years old?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So this skate park was made, yes, And so
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  Speaker 2: far over the last twenty five years it has been
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  Speaker 2: built up and built up, and it has grown and grown.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so Travis liked he loved to skateboard, skateboard, roller blade, snowboard,
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  Speaker 3: you name it. Okay, Yeah, and the kids in Eastbury
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  Speaker 3: that you know he was from Eastbury, I'm from Eastbury,
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  Speaker 3: and the kids had no real place to skateboard. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Berrytown police are great to the kids, but they
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  Speaker 3: were always pushing them out of the fire station or
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  Speaker 3: so when he passed, good friends of mine actually had
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  Speaker 3: the idea of let's let's do something with instead of
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  Speaker 3: sending flowers or food to Linda, let's do something something
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  Speaker 3: that's last, something is lasting.
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  Speaker 4: And this is what we have done.
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  Speaker 2: And look at this twenty five years later. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: has become a staple event in our community.
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  Speaker 3: It has, and that it used to be where the
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  Speaker 3: skatepark is now it's eighteen thousand square foot skate park.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be all woods woods.
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  Speaker 3: And that that skate park was erected by mostly in
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  Speaker 3: kind services from businesses and contractors in our area. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of love, sweat, tears that went into
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  Speaker 3: that park that we want to keep it up for
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  Speaker 3: the future kids.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are, we've got some pretty good weather
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  Speaker 2: that's coming in.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Great, you're one of these people that just loves the snow,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly, I mean, this is the timing for this
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  Speaker 2: is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had snow for this event for a number
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  Speaker 3: of years, and this year we've got the snow.
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  Speaker 4: So I am excited, very excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and those years where there hasn't been snow,
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  Speaker 2: this event has.
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  Speaker 3: Never never fall, never never been canceled, always ever, always happened.
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  Speaker 2: Whether snowmobiles are involved.
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  Speaker 4: Ride in, walk in, drive in, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Take horse, horse and buggy whatever, whatever, yeah, snowshoe whatever,
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  Speaker 2: cross country ski.
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  Speaker 4: Parachute if you want to. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So the skate park fundraiser is happening on the twenty second,
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  Speaker 2: that's a week from the Saturday, correct, Okay, at the
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  Speaker 2: Berrytown School.
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  Speaker 4: It starts out for the poker run.
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  Speaker 3: The poker run starts at the Great Energy Store in Southbury,
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  Speaker 3: right eight point fifteen. I'll be there to sign people up. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you're on the road on the trails at nine o'clock, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so you got forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 2: Get it together, folks. I mean some of these snow machiners, Linda,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean they're waking up too late and
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, they're coming in on coffee and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get it together, get there at eight fifteen, get their
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  Speaker 2: registration done. Okay, get your coffee, get your breakfast sandwich,
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  Speaker 2: and let's get the show in the road at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: That's great, don't be great blocking, that's right, that's right,
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  Speaker 3: But they're not.
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  Speaker 4: They're usually ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and then we're gonna we're gonna ride
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  Speaker 2: for what's what's the the course? Do we know?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's I don't. I'll know that morning more. But
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  Speaker 3: they all end up at Barrytown School. Okay, that's the
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  Speaker 3: that's the final. That's where you bring your hands for
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  Speaker 3: the poker run, see who wins. But the event is there.
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  Speaker 2: At the school at right around eleven.
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  Speaker 3: Clock, around eleven eleven to twelve. The food is served
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  Speaker 3: around noon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we're going to talk about the food here
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  Speaker 2: in just a second. But so it's roughly a two
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  Speaker 2: hour course, right, yeah, that the thunder Chickens have mapped out,
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  Speaker 2: planned out, yep, communicated. Well, listen, you got to get
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  Speaker 2: on the Berrytown thunder Chickens Facebook page see the course
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  Speaker 2: and you know, get familiar with it. But we'll all
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  Speaker 2: be together. Eleven o'clock ish is when we arrive back
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  Speaker 2: at Berrytown School. Food's going to be served, and then
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be wrapping things up.
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  Speaker 3: Around three, around three, right, right, And if you're not
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  Speaker 3: doing the poker run, just come to the school. You
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  Speaker 3: can buy your poker hands there. And there's all sorts
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  Speaker 3: of things going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and we're going to talk about some of
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  Speaker 2: those things. Let's primarily dive into the food. The meal
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  Speaker 2: itself is so worth the ticket price.
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  Speaker 3: Which fifteen dollars, fifteen dollars for yeah, and it's less
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  Speaker 3: for the kids.
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  Speaker 4: The food, the food has always been so good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, tell us about the chef.
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  Speaker 3: The chef I can't say enough about Randy Henry, who's
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  Speaker 3: been my neighbor and as close.
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  Speaker 4: To a brother as I'll ever have.
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  Speaker 3: He has taken this event every year and with his
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  Speaker 3: son Snapper and some friends along with Harry, they get
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  Speaker 3: out there and they cook the meal at the school.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's so good. The food is so good.
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  Speaker 3: Come just for the meal. Come for the meal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if anything, come to support the event.
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  Speaker 2: I have on occasion snuck back for seconds and thirds,
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  Speaker 2: but I think he's doing. Is he doing his famous.
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  Speaker 4: Oh he is, Yes he is.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, Hamburger's hot dogs, salads, dessert. Yeah, all that for
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  Speaker 3: fifteen dollars and all of it, all of.
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  Speaker 4: It, JD.
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  Speaker 3: All of these proceeds go to the park every dime,
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  Speaker 3: every dime.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's the best part. There's part.
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  Speaker 2: There's no overhead there. Everything is donated, the food at
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  Speaker 2: the time, the love, the volunteering.
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  Speaker 4: Every everything. Yes, ye, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So once again, if you're just joining us, we have
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  Speaker 2: Linda Mercy. We're talking about the twenty fifth annual Travis
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  Speaker 2: Mercy Memorial Skate Park Fundraiser, which is going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty second, that's a Saturday, and that is
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  Speaker 2: one week from this coming Saturday. It is going to
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  Speaker 2: start at the Great Energy Store. Nine o'clock sharp is
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  Speaker 2: what we're moving. Fifteen is registration, Yes, yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock we're moving. We're on the trail, we're going,
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  Speaker 2: and roughly two hours later we will be coming into
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  Speaker 2: the Barrytown School around eleven o'clock and enjoying an incredible meal.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and more and so much more and so
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  Speaker 3: much more because there's such an effort of this silent auction. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: the vendors in our area. There's ski tickets, there's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you name it. Everything is there and the beautiful Should
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  Speaker 3: I mention the quilt?
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's let's talk about the quilt? Yeah, of course, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is something that was The quilt Raffle started to
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  Speaker 2: when your mom, my.
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  Speaker 3: Mom in two thousand, okay, sod off first year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she's made a quilt every year and that quilt brings
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  Speaker 3: in close to one thousand dollars every single year for
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  Speaker 3: that part. People are so gracious about wanting to buy
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  Speaker 3: the tickets because it quilt's beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my mom is no longer able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: She's she's passed that on to my sister and my niece. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and together they have built this built they've sown this
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  Speaker 3: beautiful quilt called Lula's Waterfall, and it's gorgeous. And you
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  Speaker 3: can buy the tickets right there at the event send ticket, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and you can. And we're going to draw the took
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  Speaker 3: at the event, so it's not like you're going to
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  Speaker 3: wait two weeks to find out. It's drawn right there,
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  Speaker 3: so you can bring it home if you're the lucky one.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got a Mama Lulu quilt, you're hanging onto this.
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  Speaker 3: Thing forever, forever because it was made with hours and
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  Speaker 3: hours of love.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, museum piece.
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  Speaker 4: I might even say, yes, you could say that, really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's uh and and they're all one
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  Speaker 2: of a kind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're all one of a kind. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, all those quilts over the.
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  Speaker 4: Years, over the years, twenty plus twenty yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've never missed a quilt.
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  Speaker 4: There's always always a quilt. Okay, always a quilt. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bring bring you know, whether you're on a sledter or not,
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  Speaker 2: bring some Bring some cash with you, yes, and throw
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  Speaker 2: it in the pot for this, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just get involved with this. It's amazing we do.
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  Speaker 3: We need to really get the users that use the
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  Speaker 3: park to help us the fundraiser because this year I've
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  Speaker 3: been told by Guy Norwood, who's the new recreation director,
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  Speaker 3: that some maintenance needs to be done to a couple
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  Speaker 3: of the ramps. Okay, because it's been there for twenty
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  Speaker 3: five years, right, So we need to fund. We'd like
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  Speaker 3: to fund so it takes the money off from the taxpayers.
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  Speaker 3: So this is what we're doing this year.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you ever get out there on the skateboarder, Well,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 3: We put a learn to skate event on every year.
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  Speaker 3: The kids, Oh it's and you know Curtis Ritchie, he's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: He's helped me every year and he knows other skateboarders
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  Speaker 3: that are older skateboarders, and they come and they take
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  Speaker 3: these group of kids that are usually between the numbers
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  Speaker 3: of eighteen and twenty five. We get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: kids free to the kids. They all get a free helmet,
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  Speaker 3: they all get a free T shirt. The event is free,
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  Speaker 3: and they help them learn to skateboard.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And so this is where this money comes from that
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  Speaker 3: we're raising. Is the is for the kids. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to shout out also to my employer. I'm retired
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  Speaker 3: of course, but my employer for years now has every
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  Speaker 3: single year with the paint we buy the paint for
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  Speaker 3: the skate park, which is specialized. Paint has to have
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  Speaker 3: a sand in it so it's not slippery. So it's
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  Speaker 3: almost one thousand dollars for the paint to paint those ramps.
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  Speaker 3: We buy it with the fundraising money and the Hiccock
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  Speaker 3: emboardment employees half a day, three quarters of a day.
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  Speaker 3: They volunteer their time and they paint that skate park
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  Speaker 3: and it's called here when you need Us, And it's
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  Speaker 3: just an event the Hiccock emboardment has done.
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  Speaker 2: And the ically during the summer.
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  Speaker 3: During the summer, right and it takes the time and
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  Speaker 3: the away from the employees for the recreation department. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of volunteering that goes on park behind
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  Speaker 3: the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this isn't just we have this one event every
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  Speaker 2: year and it's just thrown together and plug and play.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of moving moving parts.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the shout out to fast for getting behind this too. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: they promote this. This has become a staple event for
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  Speaker 2: vast frames. Absolutely, snow machiners come from everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: From everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I've had guys come in there staying in local hotels
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  Speaker 3: and then they come to me and say what's this
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  Speaker 3: all about? But they come to the event. So we're
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  Speaker 3: hoping that this snow it comes, you know, it comes
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  Speaker 3: from wherever you are, it come come.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, yeah, Maine, New Hampshire. I remember one year
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  Speaker 2: that I was there. There was a group of folks
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  Speaker 2: from Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, that had.
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  Speaker 2: That had trailered up and they weren't really overly familiar
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  Speaker 2: with the area, but they they got on the trail
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  Speaker 2: network and they're like, hey, what's going on here? And
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  Speaker 2: they got involved and they were like, wow, we have
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  Speaker 2: this incredible meal afterwards and we get.
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  Speaker 4: It is great.
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  Speaker 2: They made friends. Yes, and now they come up.
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  Speaker 3: Every year as long as there's snow. Yeah, they'll be there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love this. I love this event. I love everything
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  Speaker 2: about it. I'm going to ask you here in a
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  Speaker 2: second how much money has been raised over over the
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  Speaker 2: years but the Silent Auction. Can folks donate to that now?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and we have so many nice donations already, but
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  Speaker 3: we could always take more. And then, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: one of every penny that is taken in on this
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  Speaker 3: event goes directly to that park.
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  Speaker 2: So nice. It is no banks involved stuff. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that all right. So how do folks, if
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  Speaker 2: they are, if they're listening right now, they have something
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  Speaker 2: that's that's new, that's nice, how do they.
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  Speaker 3: How do they oh, absolutely contact me, contact me and
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  Speaker 3: that there is a beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Ad in the Washington world. This week.
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  Speaker 3: She came out yesterday beautiful. They do such a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Deb and I were talking about it yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Phillips, Oh yeah, absolutely, and my name my numbers on there,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's eight oh.
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  Speaker 3: Two two seven nine seven five one five. And we
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  Speaker 3: take anything for donations.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you name it.
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  Speaker 3: We maple syrup, we have maple syrup donated. We have
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  Speaker 3: tree Christmas trees, cut your own Christmas trees. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I could go on and on and change. From mcclouds.
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  Speaker 3: We have things from Nelson I mean, we just have
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  Speaker 3: so much stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Nelson's.
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  Speaker 4: They're amazing.
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  Speaker 2: They're involved with us every every year.
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  Speaker 4: Every year. Mcloud's two very big donators.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sweatshirts, hats, clothing.
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  Speaker 3: Anything, anything. Oh the vast definitely brings their their swag.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, what are what are some of the
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  Speaker 2: more unusual things that you remember as being part of
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  Speaker 2: the Silent Auction. There must have been something a date
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  Speaker 2: night with Randy Henry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, well he is married, so I mean
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  Speaker 3: he can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: So, uh, you don't know. I mean, no, We've just
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's just been everything everything donated. There's stuff
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  Speaker 4: for the kids.
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  Speaker 3: So when the kids come and they want to put
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  Speaker 3: their name down for a dollar, there's things for the kids.
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  Speaker 4: There's kids for everybody. There's some for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Homemade cookies in a big, huge jar donated. I mean
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I remember that brought in like twenty five thirty dollars. Wow,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: scratch off ticket, you know, just anything, yeah, just anything,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: gift cards, restaurants, oh my gosh, yes, yes, absolutely, all.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Right, So get in touch with Linda. If you have
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: something that you want to.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Donate, or any question, any questions you have at all,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: contact me.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to post your your number right here where
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: as we're chatting in the in the comments. All right,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: you said.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Two seven nine seven five one five okay, all right,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So what is their cutoff for?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: That is their deadline?
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Nope, nope, no call me.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I mean if you wanted me to pick it up,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: which I would be glad to do, maybe by that
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Friday because I'm going to be very busy on Friday afternoon, Saturday.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pick up by Friday the twenty first, yes, okay, yes, yes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And if you can't pick up something, You've got people
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: that you can call, including myself that will take care
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: of you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: All right. So that's that's the deal with the Silent Auction, which,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: by the way, it can get a little warm at
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the when we're coming up to game time. I'm here,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: there's people that are get pretty vicious with their bidding.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, if we do announce like ten minutes
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: and then we've got five minutes and we got people
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: like rushing to get what they hopefully what they've been on.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Randy Henry had me in a chokehold one time. It
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: was violent and it was horrible. But uh yeah, so
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: but we have so much fun with.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: This we do. It's so much fun. It just really is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: And you know the best one of the best parts
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: is when they have the poker run. The guys all
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: come in. They've all got their helmets and their there
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: is there is equipment everywhere.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: They look like hell, it's just fun. It's just fun. Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, I really wish everybody could just come out and
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: have a great Saturday.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no matter what, no matter what, whether whether you
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: hate this the snow, whether you love the snow, it
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Just just come out. Just put the family
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: in the car and come out, Come on out. Eleven o'clock.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come come onever. I'll be there right after I
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: saw people up, so you can come whenever you want,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: but the silent auction will start around eleven.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, sorry, and the food around twelve twelve o'clock.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's correct.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about how much money oh has been raised
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: over twenty five years just.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: From this fundraiser sponsored by the Bury Town thunder Chickens
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: has brought in over seventy six thousand dollars.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: My god, yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I mean that's money that we have not asked the
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: town for any part of. We have made a bubbler
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: so the kids have water up there. We even have
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: a local contractor that repaired that bubbler this year and
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: charge no charge to the town just because they know
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the kids love that park. So I mean there is Yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the money goes to the park.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: It doesn't go to the.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Recreation board for anything else, goes to the park totally.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I mean I go.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: We walk our dog up there in the every just
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: about every morning, and there are kids I am not
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: kidding that are three and four years old that are
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: using that park.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Is that amazing?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: You barely know if it's a boy or girl because
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: they've got their helmets, their knee pads, everything, but they're
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: having so much fun.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: That's the thing.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shit, Yeah, what a what a gem to have
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: something like that in our community.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Truly, it is great. It truly is.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: What am I missing here twenty five years.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean we've talked to people that have come
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: from Johnson, they've come from Randolph. They come and they
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: come with their families that they sit in the gazebo
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: while the kids.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Are playing out on the park. So you make a
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: day of it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: That recreation fields up there are beautiful, Barrytown has beautiful sure,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: So just come.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And make a day of it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bring a launchair, take a nap.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: If you want, if you want to.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, we're so we're so blessed to have this in
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: our community. We're so blessed to have something something so
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: wonderful come out of something so tragic, and you know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the community will we'll never forget, right, And so we're
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: we're doing we're doing something good.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes we are.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we got it all.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: I think we did. I'm just excited. I'm excited for
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: the snow.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm so excited because it's going to be a
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: great year.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: This winter started out it sucked.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I know it for sure.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And you know we've done this January, February or March.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: We've picked us weekend and most times no snow.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I guess it doesn't really matter. I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: we picked a good weekend.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: This, yes, yes you did so. Snow coming in this
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: weekend and then next weekend on the twenty second, Saturday,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the twenty second is the twenty fifth annual Travis Mercy
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Memorial Skate Park fundraiser. Gonna be incredible. Sure is Lily
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and Lily and Charlyn and I hope to be there.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You know, who knows. Maybe we'll get Lily on a
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: snow machine. Oh, could happen?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Could happen?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming in here, man, Thank you so
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: much much. Best to Harry. I don't think we threw
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: enough love at Harry, your husband of how many years?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Oh my god? Eighteen yeah, eighteen years. Harry is such
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: He's so good about doing anything.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: He lugs my paint when I need it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he goes over there, does little repairs when I
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: ask him to. Yeah, he's always got He's always there
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to help help.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Out at times can be a pain in thees, right, Yeah,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: what a great guy though. Thank you for coming in here.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ja, love to you, love to Harry, a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: lot of love to the Henrys, Peggy and Randy Snapper
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and that whole family.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Has always been there for me, always been there for us, yeah, yep,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: for years, for many years yep.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: And to the thunder Chickens and Dave Ruleou.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, they're all great.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And to everyone in our community who has participated in this.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: It has been a Like I said, this is a
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: staple event twenty five years.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: My families come up from Massachusetts, they come out and
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: help with this every single year. So it's a big
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: event for my family in memory of my son.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Love you, Linda Ye We'll be in touch.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Jab, thank you, thank you for coming in here.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I love you than.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: The honey stadthing you get.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Ca