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Talk Line 08-14-2026: Ashley Richter talks United Way of Lee County events · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Souk Valley, and welcome back to the Waking
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  Speaker 1: crew here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty w I XN. It's just eight point fifteen on
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  Speaker 1: your for Friday morning, and it's time for talk line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined in the booth once again by our good
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  Speaker 1: friends from the United Way of Lee County. Ashley Richter
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  Speaker 1: joined us this morning. Ashley, how are you good?
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good? Thank you very much for joining us in
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  Speaker 1: here in person today. I'm glad you didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: come in through a torrential downpour.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Like we have a nice break in the rain
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's about what it is, a break.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to get a true dry
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  Speaker 1: day till Monday, so we'll have to take these little
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  Speaker 1: spells in between for what we can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, speaking of looking forward to better days,
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  Speaker 1: you've came to share some events and updates with us,
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  Speaker 1: and the Day of Caring is a good place to start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Day of Caring we've been doing for a
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when it started, but as long as
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  Speaker 2: I've been at United Way, so the last you know,
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  Speaker 2: four years longer than that, And the goal of Day
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  Speaker 2: of Caring is to get local volunteers together and connect
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  Speaker 2: them with local service projects. So it's a really good
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  Speaker 2: day of getting you know, the community together to come
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  Speaker 2: around a common cause of just making Lee County a
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  Speaker 2: better place. So you might be helping with a landscaping project,
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  Speaker 2: a painting project, just someone that needs help organizing files
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  Speaker 2: at the office, so anything that are local nonprofits or
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  Speaker 2: schools organizations might need help with. So that event in
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  Speaker 2: Lee County is Saturday, September nineteenth. We all meet together,
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  Speaker 2: take a big group photo, everyone gets a T shirt
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  Speaker 2: for coming to help, and then they go out to
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  Speaker 2: their sites. So it's all from nine to noon that day.
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  Speaker 2: And I would say all the projects are for sure
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  Speaker 2: done by noon, but sometimes you might be done in
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  Speaker 2: an hour, you might be done in two hours. It
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  Speaker 2: just depends on the project. So I always tell people
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  Speaker 2: plan for three but you know, if you're done, you're
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you know, head out when you're when you're finished,
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  Speaker 2: and end by the rest of your day. But last
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  Speaker 2: year we had about one hundred and twenty five people Wow,
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  Speaker 2: and we completed about fifteen projects. And it's also in
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  Speaker 2: Ogle County too, So we're doing their Day of Caring
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  Speaker 2: in Ogle County on Friday, September eighteenth, from nine to noon,
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  Speaker 2: so kind of seeing how it goes on a weekday
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  Speaker 2: and seeing, you know, on a Friday morning how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: And this will be like our our third year in
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  Speaker 2: Ogle County doing Day of Caring, So I'm really excited
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  Speaker 2: to have it in both counties. But you can volunteer
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  Speaker 2: as an individual. You can bring your family as a team.
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  Speaker 2: You can sign up with your coworkers, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: teams can be anywhere from like two to eight people
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  Speaker 2: so you know, and then we match you with the project.
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  Speaker 2: So if there's a project and they need two people,
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  Speaker 2: we will put your two person team there, or if
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  Speaker 2: they need twenty people will kind of add you know,
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  Speaker 2: multiple teams to get to that number. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: really fun day. I would say if you're looking to
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  Speaker 2: help out and you can give a couple hours in
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  Speaker 2: your morning, it's it's definitely a fun event and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like you really feel like you're making an impact.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just an amount of work that can
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  Speaker 2: get done in such a small timeframe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're helping out in your community. You're meeting
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  Speaker 1: some new people. That's something to feel really good about.
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  Speaker 1: And for a day, you guys get to be like
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  Speaker 1: the match dot Com of volunteerism and then send them
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  Speaker 1: all out on a speed date.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, yeah, because it's like, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you get to go somewhere you've never gotten to visit before.
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  Speaker 2: So I like to tell our nonprofits and organizations too,
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  Speaker 2: it's really great for them because you know, you might
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  Speaker 2: get someone through your door that has no idea what
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  Speaker 2: you do or has never been in your building, and
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  Speaker 2: now you know, you get to really connect with them
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  Speaker 2: in a special way by you know, helping with a
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  Speaker 2: project and learning more. So, this is a good way
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  Speaker 2: of putting it because it's like, Okay, what are what
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  Speaker 2: is this group looking for? What does this nonprofit need?
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  Speaker 2: And we're kind of matching behind the scene, and then
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  Speaker 2: you find out the week of where you're where you're going,
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  Speaker 2: so you can kind of plan so you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're painting or it's not a surprise, We provide everything
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  Speaker 2: you need to complete the project, but just so you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of mentally aware of what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's nice of you, but that that's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That's that's terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a fun event, so I definitely, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would definitely recommend coming. I know the fall gets busy,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a it's a good event and it kind
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  Speaker 2: of kickstarts, I would say, our annual giving campaign in
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  Speaker 2: the community because you know, it's like a big group
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  Speaker 2: of people going out and kind of launches us into
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  Speaker 2: the into the fall.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, awesome, awesome, Well I love that. Mark that
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  Speaker 1: on your calendar is even better? Get involved quarter Mania?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Is this for quarter levels? Should I get out my collection?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're really excited Dixon Cornermania. They hold their
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  Speaker 2: quarter Mania events monthly and they partner with nonprofits to
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  Speaker 2: help the them. So we're really excited. We had our
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  Speaker 2: first quarter Mania event last year and they wanted invited
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  Speaker 2: us back this year, which is exciting. So Quartermania that
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  Speaker 2: will help benefit United Way is September twenty second, and
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  Speaker 2: that is at the Dixon Elks. So if you've never
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  Speaker 2: been to a Quartermania, you should definitely come check it out.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's five dollars to get in. You get
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  Speaker 2: a paddle and then you get to bid put a
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  Speaker 2: quarter bid on items you want to win, so you're
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  Speaker 2: eligible to win. If you put the quarter bid in
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  Speaker 2: and they call your number on your paddle, you're the winner.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's really great because they will donate all
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  Speaker 2: the paddle sales from the event to United Way. And
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  Speaker 2: then we also have raffle baskets that we provide, so
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  Speaker 2: you can buy tickets to win the raffles and they
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  Speaker 2: donate all that back to United Way. So it really
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  Speaker 2: is a great event. And you know, Dixon Quartermania group
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  Speaker 2: puts it all on and we show up and we
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  Speaker 2: help spread the word and we provide baskets. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a really great event for United Way and just a
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  Speaker 2: really fun community event. There's vendors there, you can grab
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  Speaker 2: you know, food at the elks, and so it's really
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  Speaker 2: cool if you've not been. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people really enjoy it. And I went for the first
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  Speaker 2: time last year and I was like, this is so great.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I would bring a roll of corners prepared,
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  Speaker 2: probably want more than one role, depending on how much
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  Speaker 2: you think you're gonna want to bid on. But they
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of great items and yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: really fun event and I'm really appreciative that they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: invited us back to support United Way again this year.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, well, thank you for inviting United Way back.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really cool. I like the idea of that.
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  Speaker 1: I always get that vision in my movie in my
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  Speaker 1: head of like the movies where people are doing like
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the little auction and they just kind
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  Speaker 1: of hold their paddle up.
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  Speaker 2: Like please make me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So if you don't put your quarter in and they
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  Speaker 2: pull your number, then it goes to the next person, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're like, I should have been I should
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  Speaker 2: have put my quarter. So that's why it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared because sometimes you're number it's called, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're not at it, you don't win it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you got to bid it to win it.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that. We'll get some shirts for that.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. There's an idea the Downtown Dolly Stampede.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So we did this for the first time
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  Speaker 2: last year, and the idea was we did it for
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  Speaker 2: the first year to kind of announce Dolly Parton Imagination
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  Speaker 2: Library coming to Lee County and our Lee County Task
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  Speaker 2: Force is made up of volunteers that we're really excited
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  Speaker 2: to bring the program here and you know, we did
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  Speaker 2: this event to kind of launch it, and then we
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  Speaker 2: decided we had so much fun that we want to
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  Speaker 2: do it again, make it an annual thing. So this event,
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  Speaker 2: the Downtown Dolly Stampede, takes place in downtown Dixon. It
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  Speaker 2: is on Saturday, October tenth. We have officially launched all
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  Speaker 2: the details sign up information. So it's thirty dollars to participate,
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  Speaker 2: and your donation of thirty dollars to come to the
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  Speaker 2: event covers one year of books for children in Lee
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  Speaker 2: County for one child, So your thirty dollars essentially is
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  Speaker 2: a sponsorship of a local child to receive a book
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  Speaker 2: a month for an entire year. So thirty dollars gets
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  Speaker 2: twelve books to a child in Lee County from age
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  Speaker 2: birth to five, free to the families, sent directly to
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  Speaker 2: their home. So our goal is to as many people
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  Speaker 2: to sign up for the event as we can, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, the more registrations we have is a child
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  Speaker 2: in our area that's covered to see books absolutely and
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  Speaker 2: it's really fun. We encourage people to dress like Dolly Parton,
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  Speaker 2: come dress up. You know, we had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: blonde wigs last year, and we meet at bad Water
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  Speaker 2: Saloon and we do like a half mile walk across
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  Speaker 2: the Peoria and Galena Avenue bridges. Okay, so we go out,
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  Speaker 2: we do a little half mile walk. Everyone's in their
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  Speaker 2: Dolly gear. We had our bluetooth speakers, you know, playing
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  Speaker 2: Dolly music. Everyone's like honking at us, waving at us,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really fun and just kind of more
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  Speaker 2: of like an awareness event, you know, like if you're
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  Speaker 2: out and you see all of us, like, what's happening
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  Speaker 2: with yah. Yeah, we did a downtown scavenger hunt where
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  Speaker 2: they could find Dolly, so it is family friendly and
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  Speaker 2: the way you can bring kids. You can do scavenger
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  Speaker 2: hunts throughout the downtown and then a lot of local
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  Speaker 2: bars and restaurants also held specials, so there are those
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  Speaker 2: available too. So we have like bingo cars. We just
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  Speaker 2: try to, you know, kind of make it a fun thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you only have half hour you just want
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  Speaker 2: to do the walk and leave, you can. But we
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  Speaker 2: also provide activities kind of throughout the whole afternoon that
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  Speaker 2: you can participate in.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Really looking forward to it, so definitely save the day
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  Speaker 2: and get tickets bring your friends. You can make it
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  Speaker 2: as big of a thing as you want to go
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  Speaker 2: all out stay the whole time. You can come as
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  Speaker 2: yourself in a T shirt and just join us for
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  Speaker 2: the walk and help support a cause.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that. How do people sign up?
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  Speaker 2: So? We have registration on our website United Way of
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  Speaker 2: Lee County dot org. You can sign up online and
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  Speaker 2: pay through there. You can also call our office eight
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  Speaker 2: one five two eight four three three three nine if
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  Speaker 2: you have questions. We can help sign you up to
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  Speaker 2: and you can even sign up the day out of
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  Speaker 2: at Madwater if you If you decide that morning you
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  Speaker 2: want to come, We're happy to help get you signed
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  Speaker 2: up that morning too.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. There you go help every kid in
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  Speaker 1: Lee County get books this year. All you got to
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  Speaker 1: do is sign up, help support it, and that is
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  Speaker 1: one more child that that will have a book this year.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That is great.
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  Speaker 1: So the United Way Annual Support Campaign, now this has
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  Speaker 1: got to be a big one for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we are the fall is are We're busy
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  Speaker 2: all year, but I would say fall is especially busy.
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  Speaker 2: We are getting ready to kick off our annual giving
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  Speaker 2: campaign in Leonogle County, and you know, this is a
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  Speaker 2: time where we're going out, we're meeting with workplaces. We're
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  Speaker 2: going in and you know, teachers, workplaces everywhere we can
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  Speaker 2: go to just talk about United Way and and ask
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  Speaker 2: them to consider making a donation to our campaign. So
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  Speaker 2: workplace campaigns are a big heart of how we operate
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you don't have It's like I can't
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  Speaker 2: write just like a gigantic check to you know, one organization.
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  Speaker 2: But but if I'm like, hey, if if I donate
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  Speaker 2: ten dollars and you donate ten dollars and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get salm in on it, we get everyone here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like eventually, like when we all pull
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  Speaker 2: our money together, that adds up, you know, and that
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  Speaker 2: makes a really big impact. So that is how United
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  Speaker 2: Way started with a lot of people that were just
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  Speaker 2: interested in you know, supporting their local nonprofits and helping
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  Speaker 2: with local needs. And they all thought, well, if eight
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  Speaker 2: of us can can help fundraise, you know, or get
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  Speaker 2: our friends and neighbors involved, we can actually make a
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  Speaker 2: really big difference. And that is still what we're doing
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  Speaker 2: at United Way today, just hopefully on a larger scale.
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  Speaker 2: You know, now that we have you know, committees, and
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  Speaker 2: we have our board members and we're still made up
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  Speaker 2: of local volunteers and we're going out and asking the
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  Speaker 2: community to consider, you know, making a donation to help
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  Speaker 2: support our local community. So when you give all of
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  Speaker 2: your dollars, stay local. They don't go anywhere else. They
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  Speaker 2: don't go to a big corporate office or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: We are solely operating on donations that United Way. So
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  Speaker 2: all of our all the programs we run, all the
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  Speaker 2: grants we give out, are all because of generous donations
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  Speaker 2: from individual donors, corporate donations, sponsorships, everything like that, and
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  Speaker 2: it all goes right back into our programs, right back
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  Speaker 2: into our community grants. So we're really you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: our main focus is to help make sure we can
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  Speaker 2: help support our local community and we're focused on health, education,
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  Speaker 2: financial stability. So this last year, we provided thirty six
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  Speaker 2: grants to local nonprofits in those program areas, and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of places right now, you know, are really struggling,
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  Speaker 2: like need the help. You know, they're having cuts and funding.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if we can come in and help
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  Speaker 2: address those needs and make sure that you know, our
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  Speaker 2: local nonprofits like have what they need or we can
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  Speaker 2: help support that extra counsel or at the school, or
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  Speaker 2: we can help support scholarships for children to learn how
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  Speaker 2: to swim, Like we want to do those things because
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  Speaker 2: we know how important it is. So if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: for a way to give back, or you're like, I
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  Speaker 2: want to help the community, what can I do? Giving
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  Speaker 2: the United Way is a great opportunity and option for
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  Speaker 2: you to make a real difference in your local community.
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  Speaker 2: And if giving, you know, isn't something you can do
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  Speaker 2: right now, we'd also love you can volunteer. We're always
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  Speaker 2: looking for volunteers. We have volunteer campaigners that help spread
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  Speaker 2: the word about United Way, so we'd love to have
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  Speaker 2: you volunteer as well and kind of learn more about
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  Speaker 2: what we do. We're always, you know, would love.
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  Speaker 3: To have the help.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, look for information. We're going to be having
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  Speaker 2: all of the campaign information out and you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: you'll see us that your business, or you might see
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  Speaker 2: some information on our Facebook or get a mailing a
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  Speaker 2: letter in the mail, So please just check out what
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  Speaker 2: we do. And you know, our goal is to really
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  Speaker 2: just help serve our community and feel fill our community's
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  Speaker 2: most pressing needs, So you know, and any donation helps,
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  Speaker 2: helps us in the effort and makes a huge difference.
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  Speaker 2: So that's big, big things coming.
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  Speaker 3: Up, absolutely, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and and like you said, any donation, bigger or
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  Speaker 1: small helps, and I mean, quite honestly, the more of
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  Speaker 1: us that can give, you know, the every little bit
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  Speaker 1: adds up. And we're just really lucky to live in
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  Speaker 1: a day, in an age where we have organizations like
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  Speaker 1: United Way, to think about the community, to think about
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  Speaker 1: those less fortunate, you know, and to be minded in
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  Speaker 1: that way. Like we just celebrated the two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of our country. And if you really think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for how long we've been able to do
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  Speaker 1: things like this, it's kind of almost really a very
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  Speaker 1: short while in the history of our nation. And so
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  Speaker 1: we're really living in a quite an incredible time where
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  Speaker 1: we can do things like this. But it's only when
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  Speaker 1: we come together, whether we're giving our time or what
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  Speaker 1: scare money we have. And we all know, I know
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  Speaker 1: times are tight, but let's be honest, we live in
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic time, in a fantastic country where most of
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  Speaker 1: us waste money.
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  Speaker 3: On some stupid crap we probably don't need.
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  Speaker 1: I had to talk myself out of a three dollars
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee today and say just just brew onuatary
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be fine, Like you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's a great way of putting it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, thinking about like if you buys like you know,
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  Speaker 2: a drink like a pop or a coffee every day,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, just thinking like if I can make
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  Speaker 2: my coffee home one day a week and you see
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  Speaker 2: that five dollars to do a payroll deduct gift or
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  Speaker 2: you know, make a Venmo donation. It's just like things
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  Speaker 2: that we're always doing. But like you said, it's just
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  Speaker 2: like one little maybe like sacrifice in our day to
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  Speaker 2: help others.
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  Speaker 1: And it could have a coffee again maybe just money
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  Speaker 1: and make it at home and you spend that Starbucks money.
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  Speaker 2: Can you still have it? But yeah, and just thinking
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  Speaker 2: of it that way, we're like, yeah, we do spend
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  Speaker 2: money in a lot of you know, make me think.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I know, I I'm including myself. That's why I wanted
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to be the example.
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  Speaker 2: So just thinking of you know, it's like when you see,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: oh man, I know a lot of people you know
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: are struggling, or I see, you know, my neighbors are
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: you know, with like food insecurity or you know, rent assistance,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: like just just everything that we see in our community.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: And I think that that's just a small way we
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: can make a difference. And knowing that every every gift
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: makes it makes a big difference. So I want to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: make sure everyone knows that because I think sometimes you think,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: like oh my dollar a paycheck, you don't make a
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: difference or move the needle. But I want to say, yes,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: it really does.
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  Speaker 1: It does because when it's you and fifty sixty hundred
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: other people all doing the same thing, it starts to reactive.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: That's how you turn the tide.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So well, we're out of time unfortunately, but actually, thank
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: you so much for coming in sharing all the big
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  Speaker 1: news for everything going on. I know you guys never
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: stop the work that goes on, so you'll have more
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: updates the next time you're in. And thank you and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: everyone else at the United Way for all the fantastic
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: work you do being so community and minded and giving
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: back to everyone.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks for having me. It's always great to
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: share updates and I just appreciate it. Thank you so much.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to have you on Ashley