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Talk Line: Tom Wadsworth, Dixon historian · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Friday, It's January
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of talk line here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one WYX. In good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. Time to talk about some February activities.
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  Speaker 1: And to talk about these activities, I want to usher
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  Speaker 1: in a gentleman who's a dear friend of ours here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one. You've heard
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  Speaker 1: him on the air in radio in our again WYX
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  Speaker 1: and family of friends through our talk lines for many
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  Speaker 1: many years. He is our local historian here in Dixon
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  Speaker 1: as well. But this guy is on demand for February.
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, I have good to say happy
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  Speaker 1: New Year to my good friend Tom Wadsworth.
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  Speaker 2: Their happy New Year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Steve. And you know you and I
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  Speaker 3: go way way back, gosh when we were competitors.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's lays.
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  Speaker 3: On the air in the morning at WSDR Stirling and
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  Speaker 3: you were on the air at WYXN years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's le let's not show our age too much, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: because we want me to get into that area right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still here, but you've moved on. Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell you what. I'll tell you what. This
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  Speaker 2: guy is so in demand these days.
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  Speaker 1: That he's got a February calendar chocked full of happened eats.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to really punctuate an important activity that Tom
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  Speaker 1: has coordinated for the years that I've known him, since
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  Speaker 1: its inception. This guy has put this event together, but
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  Speaker 1: he's also involved in a couple of other February activities,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to touch base on those as well.
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  Speaker 1: But center stage, Tom, let's take the wraps off of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Dixon super Bowl for the Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Public Education Association. Tom has coordinated this event since when, now, sir,
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  Speaker 1: how long has it been?
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  Speaker 3: The very first stuper Bowl was in nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 3: and we've been doing it ever since.
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  Speaker 2: That's almost Tom, that's almost thirty years ago. Can you
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  Speaker 2: believe that? Now?
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  Speaker 1: We had Yeah, yeah, you know, we had to take
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  Speaker 1: time off for COVID. Obviously you had to take you know,
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  Speaker 1: you had to take the year off for COVID that year.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: But since that time nineteen ninety seven, Tom has been
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  Speaker 1: putting this together and I know that it's one of
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  Speaker 1: your pet projects.
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  Speaker 2: Tom. You love doing it. I know you do.
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  Speaker 1: That's right and has been in existence and on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the again Dixon Public School Education Association. Tom has
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  Speaker 1: made this a fundraising event for the years that it's
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  Speaker 1: been worked through the Dixon Public School system.
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  Speaker 2: Now a few.
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  Speaker 1: Tweaks along the way, but it's still Stuper Bowl, right Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the concept is still the same year after year.
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  Speaker 3: The contest and we think we've dialed into a really
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  Speaker 3: good format. But one thing is important to remember here
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  Speaker 3: is back back in ninety seven when we've ran the
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  Speaker 3: first Super Bowl, people didn't have these trivia contests that
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  Speaker 3: you see now popping up everywhere all over the country.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have anything to build it off of as
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  Speaker 3: a as a template except for the high school Scholastic
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  Speaker 3: Bowl competitions, and so that's what we did back then.
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  Speaker 3: But we started with buzzer systems back in in ninety seven.
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  Speaker 3: But then we've evolved into what we call the community format,
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  Speaker 3: where you get teams that sit together in a big
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  Speaker 3: room in this case is the Ronald Reagan School Middle
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  Speaker 3: School cafeteria in Dixon, and we fire out several questions
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  Speaker 3: like twenty questions per round, and the team sits and
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  Speaker 3: deliberates their answer and writes it down, and then we
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  Speaker 3: move on to the next question and then they get points,
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  Speaker 3: and then the top four teams at the end of
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  Speaker 3: four rounds advance to the playoffs, which take place in
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon, which is the afternoon of Saturday, February the eighth,
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  Speaker 3: just a week from tomorrow, right.
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  Speaker 1: And that will all take place at the same location,
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  Speaker 1: the Ronald Reagan Middle School cafeteria where the competition will
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  Speaker 1: take place. Teams are already abuzz signing up already. The
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  Speaker 1: deadline for team registration is coming close, Tom and this
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  Speaker 1: is why we have Tom on the air. One reason
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  Speaker 1: we have him on the air obviously want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Stuper Bowl and the fun going on during that Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: February of the eighth at Ronald Reagan Middle School. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the deadline is coming up. Teams have already You've already
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  Speaker 1: got a good contingent really of teams signed up, but
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  Speaker 1: we'd like to see more, right.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, We're really encouraged to already have seventeen teams that
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  Speaker 3: have signed up. We like to have I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we've ever had less than twenty teams. But our next
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  Speaker 3: our deadline, as you mentioned, is coming up Tuesday, February
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  Speaker 3: the fourth, for this February eighth event. And some people
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  Speaker 3: may wonder, why don't you just accept teams up until
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  Speaker 3: the time of the event. Well, this is such a
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  Speaker 3: big event. We have to set up the cafeteria with
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  Speaker 3: appropriate imber tables in space not only for the teams,
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  Speaker 3: but for the audience that participates. We also have a
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  Speaker 3: huge silent auction that goes on in the cafeteria at
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  Speaker 3: that time. There's food planning because we have a full
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  Speaker 3: lunch that goes along with this whole thing. So that's
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  Speaker 3: why we have the deadline of February four for the
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  Speaker 3: Dixon super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, now for teams that want to sign up,
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  Speaker 1: what's the criteria here, Tom, What does it take to
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  Speaker 1: make a team? What does it take to sign up?
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  Speaker 1: Give us that information.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this is something that has evolved over the years
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  Speaker 3: as well, but we're now down to any team can
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  Speaker 3: have anybody on their team, any age that doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to be directly related to your organization. We have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of family teams that they don't have to have
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  Speaker 3: necessarily members of the family to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: You can organize under any organization you want, even a
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  Speaker 3: made up organization. That's fine. Just create a team and
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  Speaker 3: then come on and compete and have a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: And the way to doom that we have an online
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  Speaker 3: entry form. Just go to dixonstuper bowl dot com and
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  Speaker 3: there will be a link there to the place where
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  Speaker 3: you can submit your entry form. It only takes about
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  Speaker 3: two minutes to submit the basic data to get your
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  Speaker 3: team into stuper Bowl twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And it's easy to do. All you have to do
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  Speaker 1: fill out the registration form. Can you give us the
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  Speaker 1: cost of the registration Tom, I know it's when you
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  Speaker 1: think of the the you know, build up of teams.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a bad cost and it all goes for
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  Speaker 1: the good of the school association.
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  Speaker 3: Right yes, plus yeah, the cost to the teams are
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty dollars for nonprofit teams and for
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  Speaker 3: a for profit business that has a team, it's three
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollars for those folks. And our rates have not
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  Speaker 3: changed for many years, even over COVID when there was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of inflation and changing of prices and costs
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  Speaker 3: of things. We're still at the same rate of only
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty bucks per a team, which if
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  Speaker 3: you have a team member or six team members on
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  Speaker 3: your team, everybody just kicks in twenty five bucks and
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  Speaker 3: they get a nice day of entertainment and competition on Saturday, February.
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  Speaker 1: Eight Yep, food and refreshment along with special activities going
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  Speaker 1: on as always, Tim, is that how we run it
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  Speaker 1: again at the Reagan Middle School?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, as always, we have the style and auction which
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  Speaker 3: will have not only a bunch of cool stuff that
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  Speaker 3: you can bid on, but they'll also have a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of baked goods that you can bid on for an
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  Speaker 3: auction that takes place I think are on ten oh five.
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  Speaker 3: And then if you win that auction, you can bring
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  Speaker 3: like a full cake or a bunch of brownies or
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of plate full of cookies to your table
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  Speaker 3: and eat them during the morning rounds, a lot of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's a lunch time when when you can
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  Speaker 3: actually fill out an order form to get lunch, and
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  Speaker 3: this year lunch is going to be provided by Lina's
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  Speaker 3: Supper Club. The new Plates took over the area where
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  Speaker 3: Mama Sumino's was, and so if you want to sample
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  Speaker 3: some of the food of the New Lina's Supper Club,
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  Speaker 3: be sure to be a part of the Stuper Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: There you go an added incentive to being a part
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  Speaker 1: of that day's activities. And again, as Tom mentioned, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to compete, if you can't compete for
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  Speaker 1: one reason or another, but you can make it to
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  Speaker 1: the Reagan Middle School, take part in that silent auction.
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  Speaker 1: Give to the school Foundation. Tom, because this is monies
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  Speaker 1: that are used in the public school system, tell us
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  Speaker 1: how that's used.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, that's a really important point because this whole
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  Speaker 3: thing is a fundraiser for the Dixon Public School District
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  Speaker 3: found which was set up in nineteen ninety two, over
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  Speaker 3: thirty years ago, to raise funds to help purchase classroom
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  Speaker 3: items educational tools that the district cannot afford. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we have a rural district here in Illinois. We don't
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  Speaker 3: have the big money that you'll have in like in
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  Speaker 3: Naperville or Downers Grow, where these schools there are just
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  Speaker 3: loaded with funding and they'll have swimming pools and lacrosse
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  Speaker 3: teams and stuff like that. We can't afford that out here.
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  Speaker 3: So the Foundation was set up as a way to
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  Speaker 3: raise money to then provide these additional educational tools for
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  Speaker 3: our school system that really enhances the experience of all
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  Speaker 3: our kids throughout the Dixon Public School District.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the moneys go and that's what you're giving
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  Speaker 1: to when you join stuper Bowl twenty twenty five this
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  Speaker 1: year February the eighth, the day before the big game
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  Speaker 1: again at Reagan Middle School. Start time time for the event.
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  Speaker 3: Start time is right at nine o'clock on Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 3: February eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and again, registration forms are available at dixonstuper bowl
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Dixonstuper bowl dot com go to that website
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  Speaker 1: address register for the stuper Bowl, have some fun, take
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  Speaker 1: part in the trivia. As Tom mentioned, this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the originals. As he's right, this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the original trivia contests that again kind of morphed everybody
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  Speaker 1: else into getting involved in trivia contests. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the first, at least in our area to have
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  Speaker 1: again established itself and it's running again for the good
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  Speaker 1: of the Dixon Public School System. Tom Watsworth as our guest,
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a break for news first at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. But when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we've got some more information than Tom wants to share
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  Speaker 1: with you. We continue our conversation with our very good
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  Speaker 1: friend joining us representing the Dixon Public School Association, the
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  Speaker 1: Education Association, and our local historian here in town as well.
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  Speaker 1: A busy man for February, our good friend Tom Wadsworth
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  Speaker 1: is live with this this morning here at w Wison
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  Speaker 1: on the telephone. Tom, again, thanks for spending the extra
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  Speaker 1: time with us, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a busy month this month.
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  Speaker 1: You do, indeed, sir, have a month this But you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I first got a hold.
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  Speaker 2: Of Tom talked to him about this.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Tom, you not only are doing the Stuper
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  Speaker 1: Bowl and you're going to be moderating that, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be at the finals right of that. Again, are you
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  Speaker 1: are you planning on moderating Tom?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I will do the finals in the afternoon. Ye.
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  Speaker 1: Tom coordinates the Super Bowl and he does the final
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  Speaker 1: rounds at the Stuper Bowl as well, so he'll get
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  Speaker 1: set for that on February of the eighth. But before that, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: you are involved in another very interesting activity celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: life and times of our favorite son here in our
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  Speaker 1: Dixon area, and you're going to be involved on February
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  Speaker 1: the sixth tell us about this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home contacted me several weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago and asked me if I would mc their big
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  Speaker 3: dinner that they got planned for February sixth, which, of course,
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  Speaker 3: as everyone in Dixon knows, is Ronald Reagan's birthday. He
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  Speaker 3: was born nineteen eleven and February the sixth, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And they have a big event every year, and this
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  Speaker 3: year they've invited Tim McCarthy to be their speaker on
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  Speaker 3: this coming Thursday here in Dixon. And if you don't
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  Speaker 3: know the name Tim McCarthy, this is the guy. This
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  Speaker 3: is the Secret Service agent who on March the thirtieth
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  Speaker 3: of nineteen eighty one stepped in front of the president
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  Speaker 3: to take a bullet for Ronald Reagan, and he literally
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  Speaker 3: did during the assassination attempt on Reagan's life on that
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  Speaker 3: date of that year. And he will be here, Tim
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  Speaker 3: McCarthy to speak in Dixon on Thursday, February sixth. It's
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  Speaker 3: an event that will be held at the Northwest Illinois
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  Speaker 3: and Northwest Territory Historic Center, the Old South Central school.
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  Speaker 3: It runs the thing from five thirty to eight o'clock
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  Speaker 3: to it's a twenty five dollars I understand I'm not
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  Speaker 3: the organizer of this event, but for those are the
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  Speaker 3: details that have surface to me.
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  Speaker 4: And I think anybody can can get a ticket and go.
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  Speaker 3: If the tickets are available, you should check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, you know again this is and I understand
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be food served. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a dinner served along with the presentation, and Tom
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  Speaker 1: will be as a as he mentioned em scene the
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  Speaker 1: Reagan Ceremony at that Northwestern Illinois Center again, the Northwest
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  Speaker 1: School Center in South Dixon again on February the sixth,
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  Speaker 1: again starting at five thirty. I believe you have to
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  Speaker 1: go to the if I'm not mistaken, the Reagan Boyhood
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  Speaker 1: Home website Tom for registration information. I think that's where
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  Speaker 1: you want to head yourself to again, go to that
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  Speaker 1: Reagan Boyhood Home web page. They have a website and
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  Speaker 1: you can again sign up. It's a twenty five dollars
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  Speaker 1: dinner and presentation that will be held at that again
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  Speaker 1: location in Dixon, and Tom Wadsworth will be the MC
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  Speaker 1: of that event again ushering in Yes, Tim McCarthy. He
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  Speaker 1: was along, I believe for the Reagan Motion Picture presentation,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he. Tom. I think he was part of that
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  Speaker 1: presentation as well, So I think we had him in
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  Speaker 1: town for that, and we got him back in town
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  Speaker 1: for the February sixth presentation. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a busy day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Here we actually get to hear him speak and
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  Speaker 3: hear of his relationship with Ronald Reagan and his experiences
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  Speaker 3: on that day. You know, at the least Secret Service guys,
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  Speaker 3: they all know that they're willing to take a bullet
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  Speaker 3: for the president. But this is one of the extremely
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  Speaker 3: few people in our lifetime who actually did exactly that
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  Speaker 3: and he fortunately survived. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, February the sixth again in Dixon, that presentation through
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  Speaker 1: the Reagan Boyhood Home. Go to that website, check out
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  Speaker 1: the information. I believe you can register for tickets at
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  Speaker 1: that location. But they'd like to see a good crop
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  Speaker 1: on February six for that Reagan ceremony again, and Tom
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  Speaker 1: Wadsworth will be em seeing that event. But he's not
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  Speaker 1: done with February. Friends, He's got that event on February sixth.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the Stuper Bowl on February the eighth. Then
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  Speaker 1: he moves right down the calendar to another event, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: that you have been hosting for many, many years, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be right back at it at Dixon
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  Speaker 1: High School.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this is one of my favorite events for all
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  Speaker 3: year long. It's the Regional Spelling Bee. This is the
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  Speaker 3: Lee Ogle Whiteside Spelling Bee with the top spellers from
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  Speaker 3: three different counties converge on the Dixon High School auditorium
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  Speaker 3: and they compete for the one opportunity to go to
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  Speaker 3: the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC at the end
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  Speaker 3: of May of this year. I've been doing that ever
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  Speaker 3: since nineteen eighty three was my first year, and since
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  Speaker 3: forty some years. I've lost count. But it's really a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun to see these kids, were generally between
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  Speaker 3: fifth and eighth grade, from schools all over those three
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  Speaker 3: counties compete up on the stage. It's it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he Tom will be there. He'll be the moderator.
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  Speaker 1: He'll actually be putting out the words to these students
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  Speaker 1: who will be on stage. These kids go on stage
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  Speaker 1: and take those words that Tom gives them, spell them correctly,
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  Speaker 1: move from round to around, and it's between you know,
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  Speaker 1: mid morning into possibly lunchtime probably that the spelling Bee
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  Speaker 1: will go on that day and again we'll again result
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  Speaker 1: in a champion from our Lee Ogle school system that
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  Speaker 1: will be representing our area at the National Spelling Bee.
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  Speaker 1: As Tom mentioned, it's always exciting and Tom will be
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  Speaker 1: hosting that. So a very busy month, my friend, February
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  Speaker 1: good have its It's going to be a busy bud
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  Speaker 1: for you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a lot of fun. If February is typically
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  Speaker 3: known to be cold months and it's hard to get out,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a few cool events that you can go
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  Speaker 3: out to indoors and enjoy what's going on, all for
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  Speaker 3: the benefit of the community. Like I said, first thing
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  Speaker 3: is the Stuper Bowl on February the eighth Saturday. Second
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  Speaker 3: thing is actually on February sixth the Ronald Reagan Dinner
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  Speaker 3: event put on by the Boyhood Home. And then this
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  Speaker 3: one is the Regional Spelling Bee February twentieth, Thursday, starts
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  Speaker 3: at telling them at an auditorium and.
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  Speaker 1: We might just have to again get Tom back on
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  Speaker 1: board with us to maybe set up for that event.
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  Speaker 1: Right here on a fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one.
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  Speaker 1: As we tail out of our talk line today, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: we want to again, obviously, we want to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks at the Reagan Celebration on February the sixth,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully good turnout at the Spelling Bee, but the
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  Speaker 1: stuper Bowl Again. Tom has been coordinated this event and
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  Speaker 1: will be presented the day before the actual Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: is played between Philadelphia and Kansas City on that February
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  Speaker 1: of the eighth. We want to get a good crowd
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  Speaker 1: at Reagan Middle School, well, a good competition. We've got
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  Speaker 1: seventeen teams already lined up, but we want more friends.
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  Speaker 1: We want more teams, and the way to do it
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is to go to dixonstuper bowl dot com. Sign up
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: by February of the fourth again, you can form any
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: kind of a team you want present that on your form.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: The payments are again as solid as Tom mentioned, and
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  Speaker 1: it's all for the good of the Dixon Public School
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Foundation and their work to be done in this upcoming year.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And Tom will be again coordinating all of the activity
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: starting at nine. I know Tom gets right out there
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour nine o'clock and gets
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: going with the questions for that first round of competition
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and then the exciting final rounds in the afternoon. It's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: going to be a great day, Tom and we hope
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to get a good turnout. Let's hope that we get
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: some more team sign.
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  Speaker 3: Up right, yes, sign up deadline is February the fourth,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: next Tuesday, So just go to dixonstuper bowl dot com
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and fill out the entry form. There. Hey, one more thing, Steve,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I just want to thank you and WIX and all
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  Speaker 3: you guys do to promote through local media a lot
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  Speaker 3: of local events, and this is something that's gone away
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: from the media, as you and I well know having
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: experience going back some forty years in this.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm glad that what you guys do and helping
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  Speaker 4: to promote what's happening locally here in the Dixon area
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  Speaker 4: so that everybody knows what's going on and can help
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  Speaker 4: to support local events and local people.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word. That's the way, and that's the word
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that we want to get out. And this guy is
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: great for our community. This guy right here, we are
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: lucky to have him. Folks in our community work in
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: these events. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Friends,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: This guy is all year long doing things for our community.
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  Speaker 1: It's that important to him. Tom My friend, well, I
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: thank you so very much for joining us. Good luck
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: with all of the February activities. We may be in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: touch with you as we mentioned down the line for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: more information, but for now, thanks for joining us today.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Sir, you bet, thank you. Steve.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Tom Wadsworth, a local historian and stupor dude for the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Dixon Stuper Bowl twenty twenty five, has been our guest
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  Speaker 1: here at a I'm fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: W I exent time for sports first, Here comes Sam Ramris.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Good morning with this w I x n Shaw local
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  Speaker 1: sports report.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sam Ramris for the