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Something You Should Know - October 28 Neil at Giving Hope celebration 10 years this whole week · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: right now with Neil Libichuk. He is with Giving Hope Bingo,
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  Speaker 1: and they've got some fun stuff coming up to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: their 10th anniversary. First of all, Neil... Thanks for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time. 10th anniversary. When is the official day? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what the day is?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it was actually this past Saturday, but
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  Speaker 2: we're celebrating it all this week. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate it. We're going to start on Wednesday. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to continue Thursday, Friday, Saturday, then finish it off on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday with different payouts each night. The favorite game of everybody, John,
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  Speaker 2: is the you pick them game. That's where we give
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  Speaker 2: you a card and people pick their own eight numbers.
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  Speaker 2: And we call those eight numbers. They win a prize,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to, Start that off on Wednesday. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of $ 150, we're going to start it off at $ 250.
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  Speaker 2: Every session, it's going to grow. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: go $ 500 on Thursday, $ 750 Friday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: and then Sunday, it finishes off at $ 1, 500. But in
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  Speaker 2: addition to that, Saturday, we're going to be doing kind
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  Speaker 2: of more of a family day atmosphere. We want to
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  Speaker 2: invite kids in. Kids of any ages can come down.
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  Speaker 2: Seven and older can play anytime. But for this Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: we're just going to say, bring your family down. All
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  Speaker 2: kids play for $ 5. They get every game we play
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  Speaker 2: for the entire session. So make it a family day.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be handing out Free cake for our anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: 10-year anniversary, and just having a lot of fun on
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  Speaker 2: that day. And then Saturday night, we're going to do our,
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  Speaker 2: I think this is our seventh or eighth annual adult
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  Speaker 2: Halloween party. Get dressed up, come down, play bingo, have
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  Speaker 2: some great food and beverages, then go out and hit
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  Speaker 2: the streets after that. Because we finish up, I think
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  Speaker 2: you know this, we finish up about 9.15 a.m. So
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  Speaker 2: it's plenty early to have fun and kind of get
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  Speaker 2: your night started. And who knows, maybe win some money
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  Speaker 2: to take out onto the streets for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: your Halloween evening. And then Sunday, we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing $ 1, 199 jackpot, $ 1, 500 you pick up. Probably be giving
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  Speaker 2: away about $ 6, 000 on Sunday night. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a big night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a very big night. And
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  Speaker 1: what a cool way to celebrate 10 amazing years of
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  Speaker 1: doing awesome stuff in the Sioux Empire. For folks that
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Giving Hope Bingo is a nonprofit. So when
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  Speaker 1: you're in there having fun with your friends, not only
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  Speaker 1: are you having fun, you're doing good for the community
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  Speaker 1: as well. And over those 10 years, you have given
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  Speaker 1: out a pile of money to a bunch of amazing organizations.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those humbling experiences where you... you look
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  Speaker 2: back over 10 years and you think, how did we
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  Speaker 2: go from our first year, we were able to give
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  Speaker 2: away $ 17, 500 and I thought I had the world by
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  Speaker 2: the tail. Jump forward to 10 years in between our
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  Speaker 2: fundraising activities that we do for sports teams and dance teams.
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  Speaker 2: And we do those Friday, starting in October, all the
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  Speaker 2: way through beginning of April. But between those and our
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  Speaker 2: grants that we've written to different organizations that work with kids,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to surpass a million dollars in 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: And it's It's pretty humbling and really an honor to
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  Speaker 2: know or privilege to know that the community has stood
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  Speaker 2: with us. As you know, John, you know, we got started,
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  Speaker 2: COVID hit. We didn't know when we came out of COVID,
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  Speaker 2: would people come back in? How many would come back in?
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  Speaker 2: People came back. We've grown the business again since then
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  Speaker 2: and continue to give money away. And like I say,
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  Speaker 2: this year, Thursday night is really our big night. for
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  Speaker 2: checks check presentations we've got six different organizations that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to present checks to john i think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to give away about 41 000 on thursday night we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a special event on thursday really want to invite
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  Speaker 2: people down to participate in this But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: start it out. We're going to open doors at 4.30.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got an organization, The Taste of Europe,
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  Speaker 2: is going to come in with decadent desserts. And we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have all sorts of specialty desserts, European style,
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  Speaker 2: as well as Americanized. And we're going to be pouring
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  Speaker 2: wine all night. So it's one fee gets you in
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  Speaker 2: the door, $ 60. Now, you can spend as much as
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  Speaker 2: you want, but $ 60 will get you a set package.
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  Speaker 2: That includes the bingo, includes desserts. It includes wine all
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  Speaker 2: night long. We're just going to have a good time celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a photo booth there. We've got
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  Speaker 2: a gentleman coming in. If you'd like to get a
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  Speaker 2: 10-year t-shirt, you can buy that from him. And he's
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  Speaker 2: given a percentage of his sales that night back to
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  Speaker 2: Giving Hope just to keep this ball rolling. So we're
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  Speaker 2: pretty excited. I'm thinking we're kind of finalizing the numbers,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm thinking we're going to be about 1 million people. $ 10, 000,
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  Speaker 2: $ 1 million, $ 12, 000 that we're going to surpass that million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So we're pretty excited. Groups, if you've got a group
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  Speaker 2: that you'd like to come down, five or more, give
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  Speaker 2: us a call. We'll make a reservation and make sure
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  Speaker 2: your table's saved because we're anticipating a pretty big crowd
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday night. And we really want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that people coming down have a place to sit and
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  Speaker 2: they can sit together if they're a group. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: give us a call, make a reservation, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: your table saved for you.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Neil, thank you for taking the time today.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to send folks out again It all
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  Speaker 1: starts tonight, Wednesday night, goes all the way through Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole lot of fun for their 10th anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: And again, Giving Hope Bingo, all of the details on
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  Speaker 1: our Facebook page, facebook.com slash sunnyradio and facebook.com slash Sioux
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