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Steve England, Bob Campo Jr. - June 12th Calcutta fundraiser to replace Post 10 kitchen · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: When when when when? When?
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Speaker 2: Well, well, well, well, well, good morning. It is Thursday
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Speaker 2: now already the seventh of May. Got the AIREDWN podcast
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Speaker 2: live from North Main Street and Barry. It hasn't decided
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Speaker 2: yet whether it's gonna be sunny or cloudy. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: have a mix of both today. We're looking at forty
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Speaker 2: five ish, forty three, forty four, forty five somewhere right
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Speaker 2: around that right now. But sun and clouds both in
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Speaker 2: the mix today fifty six tonight thirty six degrees. Tomorrow
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Speaker 2: Friday fifty four mix of sun and clouds, kind of
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a carbon copy of what we
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Speaker 2: have today, and then Saturday pretty good in improvement sixty
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Speaker 2: one sun and clouds both. And looks like it's gonna
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Speaker 2: be a washout on Sunday. I don't know if I
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Speaker 2: should say wash out. It's gonna rain on Sunday. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if it's gonna be raining every hour of
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Speaker 2: the day, but it's gonna be wet on Sunday, which
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Speaker 2: we do need the wet weather. We've got some really
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Speaker 2: really big VIPs in the studio here this morning that
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Speaker 2: we're going to get to in just a second. Shout
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Speaker 2: out to Gothier's Quality Grounds and Maintenance of Orange. Going
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Speaker 2: to be meeting up with them hopefully on Friday, to
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Speaker 2: take you there live and show you what they're up to.
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Speaker 2: But Jason Gothier, Yeah, give them a ring for a
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Speaker 2: free quote eight oh two five five eight zero four
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Speaker 2: to one. Great guy. They are so so busy right now.
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Speaker 2: Maybe taken another mowing customer for the summer, but for
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Speaker 2: the most part they're looking to do landscaping right now,
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Speaker 2: commercial residential. Both Gothier's Quality Grounds and Maintenance. Also shout
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Speaker 2: out to FGB Theaters Capital Showplace Theater Showplace five in
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Speaker 2: Montpellier showing lots of movies this weekend, and of course
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Speaker 2: the Paramount Twin right here in the Granite City. Make
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Speaker 2: this your weekend to catch a movie. FGB Theaters dot com.
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Speaker 2: You can get your tickets right online skip the line,
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Speaker 2: fast and easy roadwork. Notice again, I want to talk
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Speaker 2: about Camp Street between Hill Street and Tremont Street gonna
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Speaker 2: be closed at times for the next couple of weeks
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Speaker 2: during the workday. Between Hill Street and Delmont Street is
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Speaker 2: still going to be closed. It looks like through Saturday
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Speaker 2: at this point, so expect delays and exercise some patients
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Speaker 2: if you can. Also. Route one hundred in Plymouth going
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Speaker 2: to close for two weeks beginning May twenty ninth. Was
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Speaker 2: reading about this last night. Looks like from seven am
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Speaker 2: until seven am on June twelfth, so for quite a
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Speaker 2: while there. For the emergency replacement of a new bridge,
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Speaker 2: A signed detour is going to be using Route one
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Speaker 2: hundred A and that'll be in place, and that's expected
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Speaker 2: to last. Well, it's gonna be. It's gonna be adding
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Speaker 2: on at least about ten minutes or so to your drive,
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Speaker 2: So expect delays. Vermont lawmakers continuing to debate education reform
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Speaker 2: and rising property taxes as proposals targeting school restructuring and
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Speaker 2: spending caps through the state House. Lots of chat about that.
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Speaker 2: I was reading pinch about that last night on the couch.
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Speaker 2: We have the murder trial underway in Bennington involving the
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two shooting death of Ulysses Ivy. Prosecutors say
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Speaker 2: the victim identified the subject or they suspect rather in
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Speaker 2: a nine to one to one call moments after being shot.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable story. Upper Valley murder trial also drawing attention as
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Speaker 2: Lance Goodrich stands trial in the death of his cousin,
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Speaker 2: Brooke Goodrich, despite what prosecutors describe as record or recorded
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Speaker 2: rap recorded confessions. A Burlington teenager accused in the Domino's
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Speaker 2: parking lot shooting in South Burlington back in court today.
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Speaker 2: It will continue to be held without bail. That's a story.
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Speaker 2: Read that one too. Just unbelievable stuff that's going on
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Speaker 2: here in Vermont. Let's see what else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Gas prices climbing. Vermont inspectors are making sure that drivers
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Speaker 2: are actually getting every gallon that they pay for at
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Speaker 2: the pump. The State Weights and Measures Inspectors are traveling
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Speaker 2: across Vermont testing about six thousand gas pumps to verify
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Speaker 2: accuracy and protect consumers from being shorted. National headlines. The
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Speaker 2: big one that's trending this morning, the manhunt for that
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Special Forces veteran accused of shooting his wife ended
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Speaker 2: when his body was found yesterday Wednesday. So what a story, man,
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Speaker 2: It's just wild stuff going on in the news right now.
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Speaker 2: I want to shift gears and bring on two of
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Speaker 2: the frankly, some of the best looking guys around Central
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Speaker 2: from out right now. Steve England and Bob Campo. Don't
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Speaker 2: be so modest there, Steve. You know that you know
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Speaker 2: that the women are tripping over themselves over you, buddy.
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Speaker 2: How are you man? How is life? Guys? Good? This
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Speaker 2: is good, Bob, Welcome to the microphones man.
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Speaker 3: First time here, JD.
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Speaker 2: This is your first time on the air with you. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: my man, we got to make a habit of doing this.
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Speaker 3: I'd love to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You've got a lot of stuff going on at
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Speaker 2: the Elks. Yes, next year is going to be huge.
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Speaker 4: I've sentennial one hundred years of the Barry Elks. Gonna
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Speaker 4: be a lot of celebrations next year, twenty twenty seven,
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Speaker 4: parades and celebrations, everything, visits from the national President.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a big, big time.
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Speaker 2: I know a place where you can that you could
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Speaker 2: use that would be amazing for this is called the
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Speaker 2: Berry Elks Lodge. Yeah, I mean, is it not like that?
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Speaker 2: One of the best areas. I mean, you've got a big, big,
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Speaker 2: huge dance floor, huge stage. Get you to give them
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Speaker 2: a call, get in touch with them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I might know somebody over there.
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Speaker 2: So what's your your position there? You're you're the abort chair.
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Speaker 4: Right, No, I've I've had many positions there. Now I'm
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Speaker 4: just simply a member there. I have a position with
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Speaker 4: the Grand Lodge of Elks where I oversee the lodges
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Speaker 4: in the state the help of our state sponsor, past
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Speaker 4: national President David Carr. We have two district deputies, one
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Speaker 4: in the North, one in the South. So we're there
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Speaker 4: to help the lodges with any issues they may have,
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Speaker 4: give them advice, just try to help them grow and
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Speaker 4: and become good Elks lodges.
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Speaker 3: And we have we are growing. It's amazing.
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Speaker 4: The Elks is growing phenomenally in the state of Vermont,
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Speaker 4: especially down south Bennington. But Barry Lodge has seen a
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Speaker 4: lot of growth of these past few years and getting
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Speaker 4: younger members in and that's what it's all about, JD.
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Speaker 4: That's the future and to help them help us with
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Speaker 4: our cause. As a matter of fact, the Barry Elks
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Speaker 4: has just received a charter for what we call the Antlers.
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Speaker 3: The Antlers Group.
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Speaker 4: Is a subsidiary of the Barry Lodge and it has
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Speaker 4: their own set of officers and it's for younger kids
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Speaker 4: from twelve to twenty and they do all sorts of
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Speaker 4: community service. They all need community service to graduate these days,
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Speaker 4: so it's a wonderful thing. Gets them involved in help them.
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Speaker 4: You know, our community youth veterans, that's what we do
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Speaker 4: over there, and the community is really big. So we're
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Speaker 4: getting them involved now. So yeah, awesome.
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Speaker 2: In fifteen thirty five, just made the national magazine.
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Speaker 4: They did Exalted Ruler Chris Truhan and his group over
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Speaker 4: there doing phenomenal work. We made the national magazine this
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Speaker 4: month for preparing welcome home kits for veterans, primarily a
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Speaker 4: veterans place over here in Central Vermont North veteran transitions
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Speaker 4: into a new home or apartment. We provide a kit
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Speaker 4: with all the necessities they need to get a running start.
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Speaker 2: I think that's so great man, Thank you, big kudos
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Speaker 2: to you guys, everyone everyone that's involved over there. And
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Speaker 2: Steve England. Look at the comment we're getting here from
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Speaker 2: Stacy Holten saying double trouble perfect this morning.
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Speaker 3: That's every man, Stacey.
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Speaker 2: He's down zipping around on the golf part right now
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Speaker 2: in Florida.
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Speaker 3: He probably is. We're here in the cold and rain
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Speaker 3: and he's getting a tan on top of that.
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Speaker 2: No, thanks Stace, Oh my god, And what a what
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Speaker 2: a long time big hitter at the Burry Auks right there.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Oh, Stace is amazing.
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Speaker 4: He's a past exalted ruler over there, done wonderful work
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Speaker 4: with his wife Tammy. Uh, you know, was the state
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Speaker 4: treasurer for a lot of years. This treasure over was
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Speaker 4: a bookkeeper over at Barry Elks and held positions within
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Speaker 4: the lodge as well. So Tammy and Stacy A big
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Speaker 4: shout out to them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a big strong man like that complaining that
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Speaker 2: he's cold all the time and he's got to go
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Speaker 2: down to Florida.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think you know what I'm saying. Well, JD,
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Speaker 4: I think there's better karaoke down.
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Speaker 2: There, because you know it's Stacey and Wednesday night bingo.
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Speaker 3: Oh well it could be. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Uh Steve, good morning to you, pal. I'm so happy
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Speaker 2: to see you. We were just telling Bob a little
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Speaker 2: while ago. You've been on the air with me trillions
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Speaker 2: of times over the last at least one couple of decades.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, pal, How are you good? How are you feeling?
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Speaker 2: Oh great? What's new? What's going on? That's new? What's
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Speaker 2: going on? It's happening? Retirement? Yes, well I did that
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Speaker 2: two years ago. Yeah, but how'd that go? Oh? It
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Speaker 2: was great. One of the best things I ever did.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Take your wife to work, get home,
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Speaker 2: go back to bed. It's great. I think I remember you.
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Speaker 2: I think the last time you were in here, you
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Speaker 2: were you were saying that since retirement there you must
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Speaker 2: be traving Lisa nuts. Now she's still working. Really, she's
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Speaker 2: getting out of it. She's getting away from you pretty much.
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Speaker 2: It's good. Well, it's not like I'm sitting around you know.
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Speaker 4: I know that.
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Speaker 3: I believe me.
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Speaker 2: I know you. You're always a moving target. You're you're
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Speaker 2: always you got your hands in something. There's always something happening.
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Speaker 2: Squadron ten. Yes, Sons of the American Legion. Yes, please
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Speaker 2: do tell.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So I'm still commander there. We just had our
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Speaker 5: elections and uh, I said, yeah, you know, we want
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Speaker 5: to keep this thing going. Got a good bunch of
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Speaker 5: guys working with them or working with me rather and
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Speaker 5: uh and with the post and you know what, our
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Speaker 5: whole just like the Elks, our hearts about you know, community,
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Speaker 5: about serving the veterans and doing stuff with our you know,
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Speaker 5: for our youth. And really at this point after the flood,
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Speaker 5: we're really concentrate on trying to keep everything.
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Speaker 2: Going right, you know, and that's what, you know, what
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Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about. But which flat, I
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Speaker 2: mean I've lost track well four years ago, twenty twenty three. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that took the hole.
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Speaker 5: Downstairs, wiped out our kitchen, our one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 5: four seat dining hall, our offices down there are all gone,
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Speaker 5: you know. And it's not it's nothing that's going to
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Speaker 5: get rebuilt because chances are and Barry's going.
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Speaker 2: To happen again.
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Speaker 5: It's just not worth, you know, dumping the money into
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Speaker 5: and so we've got some plans to potentially just some
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Speaker 5: stuff upstairs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa was telling me that you guys are planning
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Speaker 2: on turning it into us as seventies said, disco rollers
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Speaker 2: getting ring down there that's going on. That'd be fantastic
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Speaker 2: disco bowler. But we used to have a disco late Listen.
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Speaker 2: On a serious note, you guys lost right there at
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Speaker 2: the American Legion Post ten that basement. That basement kitchen
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Speaker 2: produced a massive amount of food and frankly love for decades. Yep.
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Speaker 2: That went out to our community. The countless, countless Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: meals that were produced down there. We did at almost
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Speaker 2: thirty years, forty five fifty birds at a time. Oh yeah, a.
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Speaker 5: Couple of hundred punds of data is a couple of
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Speaker 5: hundred pouds of squash everything, pies, you couldn't count.
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Speaker 2: What has come out of that building is remarkable, what
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Speaker 2: it's done, what it's produced, and how it's connected our community. Absolutely,
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Speaker 2: it's such a landmark. Absolutely, it really is. And how
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Speaker 2: devastating to lose all of that equipment. And we're not
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Speaker 2: talking about some rinkity DNK cheap secondhand appliances. We're talking
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Speaker 2: about big commercial appliances down there. Absolutely stoves, ovens, sinks, everything, fridges,
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Speaker 2: walking and all that stuff.
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Speaker 5: So it's really I've got a hand halfs off to
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Speaker 5: the Cheryl our club manager because that being said, there's
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Speaker 5: still there's a little almost like a homeowner's kitchen on
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Speaker 5: the second floor that was there, you know from the
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Speaker 5: Doctor live there.
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Speaker 2: She's been able to do fellowships.
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Speaker 5: And do you know New Year's and and absolutely I
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Speaker 5: don't I'm not quite sure how she does it, but
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Speaker 5: she's been able to do that, you know, a little
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Speaker 5: tiny thing and still have some events that we don't
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Speaker 5: obviously we don't have the big meals like we used to.
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Speaker 2: We don't.
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Speaker 5: We haven't done Thanksgiving there since then. We worked with
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Speaker 5: one of the local churches excuse me, were enough ministries that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and that worked pretty good for a couple of years.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, stupid alergies.
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Speaker 5: But the logistics of that and stuff just kind of
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Speaker 5: we said, no, we really want to get to doing
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Speaker 5: this at our house.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, so, wow, that's kind of the
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Speaker 2: end plan. So Bob, how did how did you get
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Speaker 2: how did you get involved in all this?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, we have a great thing here in Barry.
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Speaker 4: It's called the Veterans Council, which involves the VFW, the Legion,
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Speaker 4: and the Elks. I'm also a member of the Salas
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Speaker 4: Sons of the Legion due to my famous World War
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Speaker 4: II veteran grandfather, be a grandfather father.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully he's not listening this morning.
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Speaker 4: No, my grandfather passed unfortunately, but yeah, that will be
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Speaker 4: one hundred and one in August. And he keeps going
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Speaker 4: strong and he he loves getting out when we can
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Speaker 4: get him out and stopping by the post or Legion
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Speaker 4: or the Elks whatever we can do.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 4: But no, I'm also an auxiliary at the VFW. And
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Speaker 4: take a look out on Main Street, JD. See all
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Speaker 4: those flags out there. Thank all those people that put
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Speaker 4: those up this week.
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Speaker 3: Amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of work, Yeah, a lot of work.
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Speaker 4: And so you know as Elks too, I mean I
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Speaker 4: have some My main focus is the Elks, but I
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Speaker 4: support all these other organizations and and you know the
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Speaker 4: Elks motto, as long as they are veterans, the Elks will.
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Speaker 3: Never forget them, and so we all work together.
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Speaker 4: We switch off on Memorial Day and Veteran Day leading
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Speaker 4: the ceremonies or the parades and stuff.
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Speaker 3: And uh, it's it's a labor of love. Yeah it is.
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Speaker 2: You guys always get those flags up. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know who the young buck is that's climbing the ladder
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Speaker 2: to got me, but who is it? Yeah? Yeah, sure, wow.
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Speaker 2: But it always looks so good. It always looks so good.
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Speaker 2: And and of course the big monster flag that we
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Speaker 2: have flying overhead here is incredible to and I'm so
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Speaker 2: glad that's still flying and catching wind man. It's just
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Speaker 2: awesome to see that. And it comes out what Veterans Day,
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Speaker 2: Memorial Day, fourth of July. Yeah, amazing, Thank you, for
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Speaker 2: doing that, Thanks to the whole Bury Area Veterans Council
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Speaker 2: for doing it. And there's so many, so many great people.
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Speaker 2: Ron Tomman's just just one of them. But you guys
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Speaker 2: are some of the VIPs as well. So so basically
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Speaker 2: you said, collectively, we need to we need to do
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Speaker 2: something to try to get a new kitchen, which is
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Speaker 2: not a matter of just running down and getting a one.
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Speaker 3: Of it's a big budget.
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Speaker 2: It's a huge I can't even imagine.
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Speaker 4: So Steve and I were talking and you know, and
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Speaker 4: he's they've been raising money, and I said, what can
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Speaker 4: the Elks do to help?
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Speaker 2: What can we do?
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Speaker 3: What if we do a Calcutta and.
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Speaker 4: Try to raise money for those of you that don't
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Speaker 4: know a Calcutta, We sell one hundred tickets at one
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Speaker 4: hundred dollars apiece, and then you get a ball. You
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Speaker 4: get one hundred dollars ball with that and they all
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Speaker 4: go in the bag and we pull and pull and
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Speaker 4: then the last one out wins the grand prize, which
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Speaker 4: is twenty five hundred dollars. They have a chance to
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Speaker 4: win this year. But the main part is, you know,
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Speaker 4: I like to think people don't buy it just to
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Speaker 4: try to win the money. A lot of times people
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Speaker 4: donate it back. It's from the heart and we're doing
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Speaker 4: it to raise money for a cause, a good cause,
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Speaker 4: because they do need that kitchen back down there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, big time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And I've got a picture of the ticket right on
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Speaker 2: the monitor right now, so all you have to do
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Speaker 2: is look at your monitor and you'll see it. At
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Speaker 2: the American Legion Barry Post ten, Calcutta. Raffles benefits the
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Speaker 2: kitchen rebuilt. Here's the date, Friday, June twelfth. It's at
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Speaker 2: six pm. That's the reception. When we say heavy or
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Speaker 2: dervs Steve, we're not all around. We're talking wings.
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Speaker 5: What else now, wings, meat balls, could be, sliders, could
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Speaker 5: be you know, not just cheese and cracker plates.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking food.
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Speaker 4: Food, dips and chip chips, chip and dips. No, no,
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Speaker 4: you there'll be a nice buffet spread there for everybody
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Speaker 4: to uh to fill up on.
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Speaker 3: Wow, and uh it goes the US.
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Speaker 2: And then six o'clock when we're all going to get together.
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Speaker 3: Low reception.
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Speaker 4: You know, we got to mingle and talk about things
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Speaker 4: from future fundraising, things we can do.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: The Bury Elks has generously donated their haul for this event,
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Speaker 4: and uh the kitchen and the use of the kitchen,
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Speaker 4: and we're gonna uh work hard to sell all these
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Speaker 4: tickets and we need help from everybody listening today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is this is not limited to Lesion and
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Speaker 5: Elks members or VFW members.
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Speaker 2: This is we're putting this out to the community exactly.
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Speaker 5: You know, because the community has been or the Legion
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Speaker 5: has been a part of this community for so long
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Speaker 5: and so many community members. They've had wedding receptions there,
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Speaker 5: like I said, they've had fellowships, they've had you know,
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Speaker 5: baseball team parties there, They've had you know, all kinds
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Speaker 5: of you know events, company parties and so and that's
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Speaker 5: what we want to be able to have back, to
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Speaker 5: offer back to the community. They can come in and
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Speaker 5: and and be part of you know, understand what it
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Speaker 5: is to be part of that Legion family. Enjoy the facilities,
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Speaker 5: enjoy the hospitality, and uh that's that's where we're at.
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Speaker 2: We want to be able to do this. Uh.
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Speaker 5: We had the two years ago, the local National Guard
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Speaker 5: armory had their Christmas party there and because part of
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Speaker 5: their you know mission is to be involved in the
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Speaker 5: community as well, and there was probably one hundred people there,
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Speaker 5: you know, families with kids and everything. Again, SHERYLD did
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Speaker 5: a fabulous job providing food for them. We got eleven
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Speaker 5: legionaires out of that, which was fantastic. And these were
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Speaker 5: younger people, you know, and you know they're not necessarily
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Speaker 5: all from the area, but still when they were coming
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Speaker 5: back or if they were you know, on their maneuvers
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Speaker 5: or whatever, they'd come in, they'd enjoy the you know,
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Speaker 5: the Glory lounge and have you know, maybe a couple
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Speaker 5: of beverages and whatever, and just socialize with the other members.
22:11
Speaker 2: And it was wonderful. And that's what we want to
22:13
Speaker 2: have happened that exactly. And listen, you and I and
22:18
Speaker 2: Ron Tollman. I mean, we've had this conversation many times
22:21
Speaker 2: that getting younger members involved in some of these service
22:26
Speaker 2: organizations is huge the lifeblood. Yeah, that's key to keep
22:30
Speaker 2: it going. I mean, Mel McKnight and I have had
22:34
Speaker 2: this conversation many times. Here's another big hitter right there.
22:37
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, Oh my god. I mean that guy
22:39
Speaker 2: is I don't know how old he is, he's in
22:42
Speaker 2: ninety anyway, he's still still chopping his own wood, running
22:46
Speaker 2: around like he's eighteen, not kids like us. Yeah, yeah, no, seriously,
22:50
Speaker 2: is he chopping his own wood's Yeah? What well he
22:53
Speaker 2: has I think, hey, somebody cut it down for now,
22:55
Speaker 2: but he's still split. Unbelievable. God. Yeah, mean we you know,
23:01
Speaker 2: we all understand that this isn't you know, a bunch
23:06
Speaker 2: of old guys getting together having cheap drinks. We need
23:09
Speaker 2: to get we need to get the youth in there.
23:11
Speaker 2: We need to get younger veterans involved, and frankly, get
23:17
Speaker 2: them out of their house and off their couches.
23:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know really, I mean, Steve mentioned all the
23:23
Speaker 4: great things that the Legion does for the community, and
23:26
Speaker 4: and having this kitchen rebuilt and having that facility will
23:30
Speaker 4: just allow them to do so much more, absolutely give
23:32
Speaker 4: back more to the community.
23:33
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what.
23:35
Speaker 2: We're all here for.
23:36
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:37
Speaker 2: I'm getting my cage rattled right now. Victoria, she was
23:42
Speaker 2: serving up the Thanksgiving dinner. Absolutely, this is your daughters
23:46
Speaker 2: since she was a little kid. Our kids have been
23:49
Speaker 2: involved it for many years. Yeah, and In wants to
23:54
Speaker 2: start doing this again. Absolutely.
23:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know, the million dollar question here
24:03
Speaker 2: is where's this new kitchen going to go? Not back
24:05
Speaker 2: down in the basement.
24:06
Speaker 5: No. So the plan is that our discussions at the
24:09
Speaker 5: Legion have been to put it behind the big bar
24:12
Speaker 5: where the dance hall is. Right now, there's a lot
24:15
Speaker 5: of i'm gonna call it storage. There's racks of stuff,
24:19
Speaker 5: stuff that could be moved. There's been discussion about going
24:24
Speaker 5: actually out the back end of the building towards the
24:26
Speaker 5: railroad tracks. There's kind of a dead space about I
24:29
Speaker 5: think I measured it's like seven by seventeen. There's been
24:32
Speaker 5: talk of you know, a member who said, well he
24:35
Speaker 5: would donate you know, the work to do the footings.
24:38
Speaker 5: There was somebody else that said they would from what
24:40
Speaker 5: I understand, would donate the concrete a cost.
24:44
Speaker 2: Wow.
24:45
Speaker 5: There's been discussions I think with the Again this is
24:49
Speaker 5: just from things I've heard there maybe using some of
24:53
Speaker 5: the kids in the local votech to actually do the
24:56
Speaker 5: construction work because they'd be sutilized by their who are
25:00
Speaker 5: all you know, certified and and licensed and all that.
25:04
Speaker 5: That would be a fabulous experience for them. It would
25:07
Speaker 5: actually save us a lot of money. I'm sure we
25:10
Speaker 5: would you know, do something back for them.
25:13
Speaker 2: But still anything that we can do to make this
25:17
Speaker 2: more affordable, sure, sure, talk with them and give them
25:21
Speaker 2: some heavy promotion. Oh yeah, absolutely.
25:24
Speaker 5: I think I believe Cheryl has been in discussions with
25:28
Speaker 5: Home Depot. Again, that was supposed to happen when Noah's
25:32
Speaker 5: commander and then COVID hit and that shut that right down.
25:35
Speaker 5: They were going to come in and do a ton
25:37
Speaker 5: of stuff. So I don't know where other than just
25:41
Speaker 5: I know she's, you know, been talking to him. So
25:43
Speaker 5: she's been doing a lot of behind the scenes work.
25:45
Speaker 5: And again, kudos to her for that. Have I met Cheryl,
25:48
Speaker 5: I don't know.
25:50
Speaker 2: I think she used to have. Yeah, she did.
25:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, Cheryl's very experienced and uh and she does a
25:57
Speaker 4: great job for him down Areico.
25:58
Speaker 2: Would she would she come in a in here and
26:01
Speaker 2: sit on the curvy couch and have with me?
26:03
Speaker 3: I don't know.
26:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's let's make that happen, because you're not
26:12
Speaker 2: the first person that's told me that that she's a
26:14
Speaker 2: go getter.
26:16
Speaker 1: She is.
26:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool, man, We're blessed to have somebody like that.
26:21
Speaker 2: So the the wall behind the bar that's staying put,
26:28
Speaker 2: so the kitchen would just go fause there is a
26:31
Speaker 2: walk in there.
26:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see that.
26:32
Speaker 2: Ye. So but again I don't know all the plans
26:35
Speaker 2: on that, know, if that would change. I don't know.
26:37
Speaker 2: I just know they're that's what they're looking. Yeah, but
26:40
Speaker 2: definitely upstairs, upstairs, Yeah, keep it, keep it dry. How
26:46
Speaker 2: how much water was down there during the half feet?
26:49
Speaker 3: Wow?
26:50
Speaker 5: You con Cheryl showed the pictures The tables were floating. Yeah,
26:57
Speaker 5: and I think from what I understand, it all come
27:00
Speaker 5: in down the stairs. Some of it came up, yeah,
27:04
Speaker 5: which is the what happened to the moa too, Yeah,
27:06
Speaker 5: the thing came up to the floor.
27:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, not through the doors, you know, so yeah, yeah,
27:11
Speaker 2: so it was just wow. What about the Elks?
27:14
Speaker 3: We lucked out?
27:16
Speaker 4: Whoever was the last people that painted those front windows
27:20
Speaker 4: at the Elks? They painted them shut. So the water
27:25
Speaker 4: was up to those windows in there, but it never
27:28
Speaker 4: got in a little bit came in the back door
27:31
Speaker 4: in the alleyway and went towards the elevator shaft. But
27:35
Speaker 4: when we left that day, we threw the sand bags
27:37
Speaker 4: up and we just prayed and wow.
27:40
Speaker 2: Lucky, Yeah, yeah, very lucky, very lucky.
27:43
Speaker 3: Lucky.
27:44
Speaker 2: My gosh. Wow. So this would be this would be
27:47
Speaker 2: a real game changer if we were able to get
27:49
Speaker 2: a kitchen absolutely what would I'm guessing that if we
27:56
Speaker 2: got the the new kitchen up and running, that there
27:59
Speaker 2: would be some kind of bash, uh, some kind of
28:03
Speaker 2: uh event where we're using this stuff for the first
28:07
Speaker 2: time in getting the grand Yeah, that's what I'm trying
28:11
Speaker 2: to say.
28:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would imagine so, yeah, again that that'd be
28:15
Speaker 5: something that would be up to the delesion.
28:17
Speaker 2: How they wouldn't handle that, sure, yeah, but I'm sure
28:19
Speaker 2: that I'm sure that would be Yeah, that would be awesome.
28:22
Speaker 2: So how do we get a ticket? There are one
28:23
Speaker 2: hundred bucks per ticket?
28:25
Speaker 3: Yes?
28:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, what does that include? Is that per person? Two
28:28
Speaker 2: people and two people? That's two people, yeah, okay, two people.
28:32
Speaker 2: They get a chance at winning, you know, the money.
28:34
Speaker 5: I think it's the last three out get money in
28:36
Speaker 5: the first one out gets their money back. Yeah, and
28:38
Speaker 5: then there's the last three and then some other stuff
28:39
Speaker 5: in between. But the two people for the buffet and
28:42
Speaker 5: the raffle. Yeah, Bob has tickets with him.
28:45
Speaker 4: I get tickets with me. I have to have tickets
28:48
Speaker 4: they I think Vicky has tickets up at the I
28:51
Speaker 4: believe Vicky has some of the VFLW. But I have
28:54
Speaker 4: tickets and uh, you know, just hold of me. I'm
28:57
Speaker 4: on Facebook. For God's sakes, people see me on Facebook,
29:00
Speaker 4: so me to. You can message me or email me
29:05
Speaker 4: our Campo r C A N P O at A
29:07
Speaker 4: O L dot com.
29:08
Speaker 3: That's how old I am. Remember the dial up?
29:11
Speaker 2: A wow?
29:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's old.
29:13
Speaker 4: And of course you feel free to call me to
29:15
Speaker 4: eight oh two two four nine five five four three.
29:19
Speaker 2: All right, one more time our Campo r C A
29:22
Speaker 2: N P O YEP at A O L dot com
29:26
Speaker 2: A O L dot com. Reach out folks, and yeah,
29:31
Speaker 2: yeah you Steve, go ahead.
29:33
Speaker 5: It's s England E N G L A N D
29:37
Speaker 5: nineteen fifty two at gmail dot com at gmail dot com.
29:43
Speaker 2: My number is eight oh two four six one eight
29:46
Speaker 2: zero eight five. All right, one more time with those Bob,
29:51
Speaker 2: you go first with the phone number again. I want
29:53
Speaker 2: to make sure this is sure.
29:54
Speaker 4: My my mobile phone number is eight zero two two
29:58
Speaker 4: four nine five four three.
30:02
Speaker 2: Five five four three, and Steve yours is eight oh
30:06
Speaker 2: two four six one eight zero eight five eight zero
30:12
Speaker 2: eight five eight five.
30:14
Speaker 5: And the Legion Post has take us there as well.
30:18
Speaker 5: That number is eight zero two four seven nine nine
30:22
Speaker 5: zero five eight.
30:24
Speaker 2: Nine zero five eight all right for the for the Legion.
30:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, and again you know, as we've said, this
30:34
Speaker 5: is not limited to Legion, VFW or Elks members.
30:37
Speaker 2: This is we want the community to be part of
30:40
Speaker 2: this because in the community.
30:42
Speaker 5: And in the community shares in all the stuff that
30:44
Speaker 5: we do with the Legion at the Elks, at the VFW.
30:47
Speaker 5: You know that's the Berry is such an amazingly generous
30:52
Speaker 5: community when it comes to stuff like this. You know,
30:54
Speaker 5: we always are getting you know, I'm well, you know,
30:57
Speaker 5: I'm on the Bikers for Beth committee. I'm on the
30:58
Speaker 5: Grand City five K committee, which our registration is going
31:01
Speaker 5: to be at the Legion again November the seventh, and
31:06
Speaker 5: we so that'll be oh gosh, I don't know, twelve
31:08
Speaker 5: years eleventh, this will be the eleventh, twelfth year who've
31:11
Speaker 5: been doing that. We actually we just had a meeting
31:13
Speaker 5: last night about some logistics on that. But and thank
31:17
Speaker 5: you for to the Legion for allowing us to do
31:19
Speaker 5: that there. But there's always people generously donating to whatever
31:24
Speaker 5: it is. And for a small community, it really is
31:27
Speaker 5: an incredible amount of money that that you know.
31:30
Speaker 2: The businesses donate.
31:31
Speaker 5: So yes, a business can buy a ticket to absolutely
31:34
Speaker 5: have to be you know, an individual person and any
31:38
Speaker 5: I know. Cheryl sent out a letter to all the
31:41
Speaker 5: Legion family members. You know here we need help. This
31:44
Speaker 5: is you know, this is our house. Let's you know,
31:46
Speaker 5: let's get it vexed.
31:48
Speaker 2: You say, we need help, this is our house. Yes,
31:51
Speaker 2: I think when I hear those words of so many
31:54
Speaker 2: community members who have had some really horrifically bad, horrible
32:00
Speaker 2: things happened to them, house fires, whatever and whatever it is,
32:04
Speaker 2: and they need they we need to we need to
32:08
Speaker 2: get together, we need to fundraise, we need to do something,
32:12
Speaker 2: whether it's a memorial or a celebration or a fundraiser
32:15
Speaker 2: or whatever. And they think right away, American Legion and
32:21
Speaker 2: the Burry Elks. Those are the two houses, as you say,
32:25
Speaker 2: homes where people go to. Recent just recently at the
32:30
Speaker 2: Elks there was there was a band that was in
32:32
Speaker 2: there and they were doing a huge fundraiser for a
32:34
Speaker 2: family who's home burned. Yes, it's true, couple of weeks ago.
32:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:38
Speaker 4: The main thing to remember is these buildings don't just
32:40
Speaker 4: stay open maintenance free, without costs and expense. And the
32:45
Speaker 4: way we help offset those is by being able to
32:48
Speaker 4: have events and at the Elks with everything, and that's
32:51
Speaker 4: what the legion needs to bring more income in. They
32:54
Speaker 4: need to do the celebration of life's the weddings, the
32:58
Speaker 4: other parodies and stuff that fundraise ers. So all that
33:01
Speaker 4: brings revenue into that post, which then allows them to
33:05
Speaker 4: do more things in the community. And it's the same
33:07
Speaker 4: with the in the vf W. It's nothing to you know,
33:11
Speaker 4: we we we inherited a uh a monster with that
33:17
Speaker 4: uh that old uhmory. Yeah, the old armory. But you
33:22
Speaker 4: know it's such a great spot, but it's it's boy,
33:25
Speaker 4: it's money hungry sometimes. I know all these old buildings
33:28
Speaker 4: there too, you know, whether it's a new boiler or
33:32
Speaker 4: you know, new wiring lighting and you know, new equipment
33:35
Speaker 4: for our kitchen.
33:35
Speaker 2: And uh so.
33:38
Speaker 4: It's important that we get them back on their feet
33:41
Speaker 4: on that kitchen and and allow them to to derive
33:45
Speaker 4: more revenue to do more great things in the community
33:49
Speaker 4: that they do now and can do more of.
33:51
Speaker 2: So it it simply has to happen. We have to
33:55
Speaker 2: keep the kitchen. Yeah what if what if this this
34:00
Speaker 2: this whole thing and it wouldn't surprise me sells out yay, Yeah,
34:05
Speaker 2: we got one hundred tickets.
34:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, once the gone yeah, gone, yeah.
34:09
Speaker 2: Yes, one hundred tickets, one hundred balls. Yeah, okay, so
34:13
Speaker 2: we're going to raffle of three.
34:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we'll sell ninety seven. We'll raffle off three
34:17
Speaker 4: during the event. One after fifty tickets, fifty balls are pulled,
34:22
Speaker 4: one after seventy five balls are pulled, and one to
34:25
Speaker 4: get into a chance to get into the last ten.
34:28
Speaker 4: And you'll buy tickets for each raffle is the night proceeds,
34:35
Speaker 4: so that raises even more money. But with any luck,
34:38
Speaker 4: if we can sell out and we pay off our
34:41
Speaker 4: expenses with the prizes and stuff, it should raise seven
34:44
Speaker 4: seventy five hundred dollars for the cause, which is a nice,
34:49
Speaker 4: niceiece a chunk of change to put in the Yeah,
34:51
Speaker 4: it's a good it's a really good start. It's a start,
34:54
Speaker 4: a start, is right, because this isn't the only event
34:57
Speaker 4: that's got to be done. There's gonna be other fundraising
34:59
Speaker 4: for that. And it's so important to get the support
35:02
Speaker 4: of the community behind us buying these tickets. Uh, you know,
35:07
Speaker 4: we've all supported the community for so long and continue
35:10
Speaker 4: to and it's it's nice to see the community step
35:14
Speaker 4: up for things like this.
35:15
Speaker 2: Ye what it's like, you know, just one commercial grade
35:21
Speaker 2: big stove cost.
35:27
Speaker 3: Thousands.
35:28
Speaker 4: But again, you know, hopefully you work with you work
35:32
Speaker 4: with the people with the manufacturer and and stuff, and
35:34
Speaker 4: you explain who you are and your nonprofit and this
35:37
Speaker 4: is what we do for our community and stuff, and
35:40
Speaker 4: and uh they'll they'll cut you a deal. Sometimes they'll
35:43
Speaker 4: cut you a deal uh minimum, give it to you
35:46
Speaker 4: at costs usually uh so. But that's all part, Like
35:51
Speaker 4: like Steve was saying before, working with contractors to do
35:54
Speaker 4: part of the construction for the new kitchen stuff, they're
35:58
Speaker 4: willing to donate some their time and labor and materials.
36:02
Speaker 3: That goes a long way.
36:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to think that if a manufacturer
36:09
Speaker 2: is able to really uh step up and come through
36:14
Speaker 2: for this, that you know, maybe they can a little
36:16
Speaker 2: plaque on the wall or something. Absolutely, you know what
36:19
Speaker 2: I mean, sure forever, you know, noting that that this
36:24
Speaker 2: company was just a critical part of of what you
36:29
Speaker 2: what you've got. Yeah, I know you mentioned that.
36:32
Speaker 5: Bob actually mentioned that, you know, there'd be other things
36:34
Speaker 5: as we go along to raise money. Actually at the
36:37
Speaker 5: post on June sixth, there's a band Jamuerry, put together
36:42
Speaker 5: by some members there and there'll be four bands on
36:45
Speaker 5: a Sunday afternoon and really it's like it's ten bucks
36:49
Speaker 5: to get in and all the proceeds from that are
36:52
Speaker 5: going towards the kitchen. So and a nice creative you know,
36:55
Speaker 5: just some you know again, just keeping these going, keep
36:59
Speaker 5: keeping people coming into the post and enjoying it.
37:02
Speaker 3: Love that.
37:04
Speaker 2: Anything, Uh, Heritage festival wise, you guys, are you guys
37:09
Speaker 2: going to be I know we haven't talked about this,
37:12
Speaker 2: but just off the top of your head, like, are
37:14
Speaker 2: you going to be doing your community lawn sale out front?
37:18
Speaker 5: I don't know about the lawn sale, but I'm sure
37:20
Speaker 5: we'll do the front lawn barbecue that we always do
37:24
Speaker 5: Thursday night, Sun's American Legion do our annual meat bingo,
37:27
Speaker 5: which is always a great success.
37:29
Speaker 2: That that's always fun and again open to the community.
37:33
Speaker 2: You got your Tuesday night meals doing that shepherds by
37:38
Speaker 2: the other night.
37:39
Speaker 5: I think, so that's correct, and she's she's always got
37:41
Speaker 5: something creative and very good quality.
37:43
Speaker 2: And you get your money's worth and people love that. Oh,
37:46
Speaker 2: you get a lot more than your your money's worth.
37:48
Speaker 2: It's and you can get it to go too. Yes,
37:50
Speaker 2: I'm always fact, I think the majority of to go now,
37:53
Speaker 2: so which is which is fine? Yeah, keep an eye
37:56
Speaker 2: on the Berry Post ten Facebook page and the World
37:59
Speaker 2: newspaper for the menu, Bob. Anything on the horizon here
38:06
Speaker 2: for spring and summer, maybe even fall that you can
38:11
Speaker 2: think of. For the Elks lodch, we're busy, we're jamming
38:15
Speaker 2: over there. It will be a full weekend during the
38:18
Speaker 2: Heritage Festival with plenty of activities going on for the
38:21
Speaker 2: kids and for the adults and food and beverage and everything. Now,
38:27
Speaker 2: you know, we'll have a big Flag Day ceremony on
38:29
Speaker 2: June fourteenth here. Elks are big on Flag Day, and
38:34
Speaker 2: of course the Memorial Day parade's coming up and we'll
38:37
Speaker 2: be big on that and with the Legion and the VFW.
38:42
Speaker 2: No we have events of course.
38:44
Speaker 4: You know. Our state project is the Silver Towers Camp
38:46
Speaker 4: and ripped it a camp overnight camp for special needs kids.
38:51
Speaker 4: And we have our clean up day this coming June sixth,
38:57
Speaker 4: early in the morning, we all go up from all
38:58
Speaker 4: the lodges and at the camp spruced up and get
39:01
Speaker 4: it ready to go. And we're doing some major construction
39:04
Speaker 4: there on the men's dorm, lifting it up, getting a
39:06
Speaker 4: foundation under it, so our lodges have been busy doing
39:10
Speaker 4: a lot of fundraising for that too. But if you
39:14
Speaker 4: haven't had a chance to read about Silver Towers, just
39:18
Speaker 4: google it online. If you have a chance to stop
39:20
Speaker 4: by the camp, our camp director Carolyn Ravenna would be
39:23
Speaker 4: happy to show you around. It's a sight to see
39:27
Speaker 4: what the great work that the Elks do up there.
39:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
39:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the oldest overnight camp for special needs folks
39:36
Speaker 4: from seven to seventy years old in the country.
39:38
Speaker 2: Well amazing, you said seven to seventy.
39:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have older adults and younger. We mix the
39:47
Speaker 4: week so you know, it's nothing so everything works, it
39:52
Speaker 4: works good. Well, you know we keep the age groups.
39:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know several folks that go and the
39:58
Speaker 2: that's frankly all they look forward to all year long.
40:02
Speaker 2: It's a life changer, it really is. And I also
40:05
Speaker 2: know a counselor that goes and wouldn't have it any
40:10
Speaker 2: other way. I mean, just absolutely embraces every minute that
40:16
Speaker 2: they're there.
40:17
Speaker 4: Love so many wonderful activities there, and it gives the
40:21
Speaker 4: caregiver a chance to get a break.
40:23
Speaker 3: You know, the Elk subsidizes the cost and if not
40:29
Speaker 3: all of it. There's still a fee.
40:30
Speaker 4: But if it's if it's a real financial hardship, we
40:34
Speaker 4: have scholarships that we offer to the camp for the
40:38
Speaker 4: campers that will help defray part of the cost or
40:42
Speaker 4: sometimes all of it.
40:44
Speaker 2: And how do folks should they silver towers on the
40:48
Speaker 2: web or should they check out the Elks lodge or
40:50
Speaker 2: chat with someone over at the Elks Lodge?
40:52
Speaker 4: Yes, look me up or shut chat with anybody over
40:56
Speaker 4: at the Elx Lodge, you know Vermont Elks dot org,
41:01
Speaker 4: VT Elks dot org. Uh will have information on the
41:06
Speaker 4: camp and uh, okay, we have a little barkie dog
41:09
Speaker 4: out there. Look at he's he's he's barking at her
41:13
Speaker 4: to buy a ticket to the Calcutta.
41:14
Speaker 2: That's probably what it is, you know, I I uh
41:21
Speaker 2: Dave Busca is saying hello this morning.
41:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.
41:28
Speaker 2: Folks like Stacey Holden who they're they're they're down in Florida.
41:33
Speaker 2: They're they're they're not hearing from Ott. They want to
41:36
Speaker 2: help out, they want to help with this kitchen. They're
41:39
Speaker 2: not able to make the Calcutta on June twelfth. How
41:42
Speaker 2: can they donate? How can they get involved? You can
41:44
Speaker 2: still buy a ticket and uh, you know you don't
41:48
Speaker 2: have to be there to win. He can buy a
41:51
Speaker 2: ticket and uh and you know that's or just make
41:55
Speaker 2: a straight donation. Yeah yeah, okay, good point. The best
41:59
Speaker 2: way to do that through us Steve or myself. And
42:03
Speaker 2: we've got your phone numbers right here. Okay, all right,
42:07
Speaker 2: so I'll be looking to hear from you. All right,
42:09
Speaker 2: that would be that's going to happen. Stacey is asking
42:13
Speaker 2: about Silver Towers golf tournament. Is that something that's also happening.
42:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, We.
42:23
Speaker 4: The Elks, a couple of lodgers do their own golf tournament.
42:27
Speaker 4: Barry Elks does one as well. It got moved up
42:31
Speaker 4: to June this year. I want to say June nineteenth,
42:35
Speaker 4: maybe at Friday at the country Club of Barry. We
42:39
Speaker 4: have sponsorships available. You can put a team together. I
42:43
Speaker 4: believe it's one hundred and twenty five dollars a person.
42:46
Speaker 4: That includes a dinner back at the lodge as well
42:48
Speaker 4: as prizes and other goodies.
42:51
Speaker 3: Last year we were able to raise.
42:53
Speaker 4: Eighteen thousand dollars from that one tournament. Dave Bingham is
42:59
Speaker 4: the chairman of the him and his wife Karen. They
43:03
Speaker 4: do a great job putting that together, and we have
43:07
Speaker 4: sponsors that you know some of them. We have the
43:12
Speaker 4: Zecanelli's who on the wayside and their son Nick is
43:15
Speaker 4: a camper at Silver Powers. Oh yeah, so he's up
43:18
Speaker 4: there helping out, you know, helping the team's putt on
43:21
Speaker 4: the seventh hole and stuff like that.
43:23
Speaker 3: And so we have a lot of support for the camp.
43:27
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
43:28
Speaker 2: So we're just right checks June nineteenth, I believe, so yeah,
43:33
Speaker 2: Karen Bingham is telling us June nineteenth.
43:35
Speaker 3: June nineteenth, Okay, so there you go.
43:37
Speaker 2: Wow, that's so great man.
43:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're hoping to raise more this year and
43:41
Speaker 4: every penny of that goes to Silver Towers.
43:43
Speaker 2: Love that. Yeah, is there is there anything else? I know,
43:48
Speaker 2: you guys were playing on coming in here and just
43:51
Speaker 2: talking about the Calcutta button. Come on, Steve, you know
43:55
Speaker 2: how many times you've been on the mic with me.
43:56
Speaker 2: We're gonna, we're gonna, we're going to promote as much
43:59
Speaker 2: as we can and take this opportunity.
44:01
Speaker 5: Well, we still got you know, almost every Saturday night
44:04
Speaker 5: we got a band at the Legion and I believe
44:07
Speaker 5: this Saturday is like the favorite brand Crazy Country.
44:11
Speaker 2: They have to pack the house. They packed the house.
44:16
Speaker 2: There's almost, dare I say a cult following for those guys.
44:20
Speaker 2: I mean they really, oh yeah, they go all over amazing.
44:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had to think last week with a band
44:27
Speaker 5: called a newer band called Borderstone, heard great things about them.
44:30
Speaker 5: So we're trying, you know, we're trying to get some newer,
44:34
Speaker 5: you know bands in there.
44:35
Speaker 2: Like you have people a little bit of a variety.
44:37
Speaker 5: Like you said, we have the Tuesday night meals all
44:39
Speaker 5: the time, and the post is open, you know, every
44:44
Speaker 5: day but Monday. Okay, so three to eight o'clock during
44:47
Speaker 5: the week, noon to eight on Saturdays, and then of
44:51
Speaker 5: course the big side is open and then one to
44:54
Speaker 5: six on Sundays. You can come in as a guest
45:02
Speaker 5: of a member if you want to just come and
45:04
Speaker 5: to see what we're about. Actually, a bunch of the guys,
45:07
Speaker 5: a bunch of the veterans, got together a couple of
45:09
Speaker 5: years ago and completely.
45:11
Speaker 2: Redid our pool table beautiful.
45:13
Speaker 5: So now there's every night there's like four or five
45:15
Speaker 5: six guys in there playing pool, you know, members, but
45:19
Speaker 5: they're they're enjoying the heck out of it.
45:21
Speaker 2: It's just so it's not just people just sitting around
45:24
Speaker 2: and you know whatever.
45:27
Speaker 5: There's I'm trying to think we will else We've got
45:28
Speaker 5: we got other raffles going on, some just to benefit
45:32
Speaker 5: the post, some again for the kitchen, but a lot
45:35
Speaker 5: of stuff just to generate some you know, variety and
45:38
Speaker 5: in what we do there. So the auxiliary sponsor of
45:41
Speaker 5: the raffle, I think the club manager did one. A
45:43
Speaker 5: couple of the I think one of the bartenders and
45:46
Speaker 5: the post commander got together just a little basket, you know,
45:49
Speaker 5: a couple of hundred bucks here, a couple of hundred
45:51
Speaker 5: bucks there. Everything helps just to keep you know, to
45:55
Speaker 5: keep us going.
45:55
Speaker 2: You also do a Veteran's meal too, Yes, actually yes,
46:00
Speaker 2: seed free.
46:00
Speaker 5: The sal is doing the meal this month. It's on
46:03
Speaker 5: the twenty it's a Thursday. It's the last Thursday. I
46:07
Speaker 5: think it's the twenty eighth, and that's going to be
46:09
Speaker 5: a barbecue burgers and dogs and stuff and free to
46:12
Speaker 5: any veteran. You don't have to be a member of
46:14
Speaker 5: the lesion perfect so, but we do. You do need
46:16
Speaker 5: to RSVP. We need to know how many we gonna
46:19
Speaker 5: cook for.
46:19
Speaker 2: Bob, how's your dad doing? And will will he get
46:22
Speaker 2: to one of these veterans meals and will he be
46:26
Speaker 2: part of the Memorial Day celebration Right here.
46:30
Speaker 4: I'm not sure about the Memorial Day celebration, but he
46:33
Speaker 4: certainly will. We like to get him out for the
46:36
Speaker 4: senior meals. The Elks once a month on the third
46:38
Speaker 4: Wednesday of the month does a senior meal for the
46:40
Speaker 4: community twelve bucks. It's a great meal. Also at that meal,
46:45
Speaker 4: we recognize local students for achievements they've done. We recognize
46:51
Speaker 4: JROTC cadets. So it's a good event. It's a fun night.
46:56
Speaker 4: And May is the last one we have now until
46:59
Speaker 4: the fall. All well, we don't run them in the summer,
47:03
Speaker 4: but normally we get anywhere from one hundred and fifty
47:05
Speaker 4: to two hundred people at those.
47:07
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's a man and it's good for the community.
47:10
Speaker 3: You know, they twelve bucks.
47:11
Speaker 2: You gotta get a great deal. How old are you guys?
47:15
Speaker 2: Are you guys seniors?
47:17
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I couldn't hear you JD. Yeah the mics
47:20
Speaker 3: must be failing.
47:21
Speaker 2: He turn it. Uh, yeah, actually do you have to
47:24
Speaker 2: be to be a senior? I'm just when I hear
47:27
Speaker 2: food in a senior I'm thinking of myself. Yeah, thinking,
47:30
Speaker 2: I'm fifty five.
47:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, God, come on, you're old enough, Nichols. Sure, yes, yes,
47:37
Speaker 4: Steve and I are a little bit older.
47:38
Speaker 2: Just a tad, just a tad.
47:39
Speaker 5: But actually this I'm glad you mentioned that because this
47:43
Speaker 5: senior meal this month is a very special one because
47:47
Speaker 5: that night, the Granite City five K Committee is going
47:51
Speaker 5: to be handing out our donations to the people, the groups.
47:54
Speaker 2: That we've chosen this year. So we're gonna have some
47:56
Speaker 2: special guests.
47:57
Speaker 3: Yeah.
47:57
Speaker 2: And that's nice, that's uh, that's really that's an emotional light.
48:01
Speaker 2: That's great.
48:02
Speaker 4: That's uh when I say that's Wednesday, Wednesday the twentieth Yep,
48:07
Speaker 4: the meal is served at five thirty sharp. You know,
48:09
Speaker 4: it's older folks gotta eat and get home in time.
48:13
Speaker 2: To Hey, Lisa is in it. I know you've already
48:21
Speaker 2: mentioned meat bingo, but she's reminding you to talk once
48:25
Speaker 2: again about meat bingo because I know that's coming up.
48:28
Speaker 2: Oh the one, the s al one.
48:30
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, So that's the Thursday of the Heritage Weekend. Okay,
48:35
Speaker 5: and yeah, that's our We always got a great turnout
48:38
Speaker 5: for that, great prizes. Actually we started that at Post
48:42
Speaker 5: ten I don't know how many years ago, but.
48:44
Speaker 2: I went to I went to one of the first ones,
48:46
Speaker 2: had so much fun. No, it's great and you you
48:49
Speaker 2: walk away with meat. And I remember one of those
48:55
Speaker 2: first ones, I yelled out, bingo, that's not good. Gosh,
49:00
Speaker 2: your book. I think it costs me five for you.
49:05
Speaker 2: It was me. It was not a good it was
49:09
Speaker 2: not a good experience. I was harassed for the rest
49:13
Speaker 2: of the night. Buy some older ladies too good, like
49:16
Speaker 2: you really old ladies. They were like, what are you
49:19
Speaker 2: doing yelling bingo? You have to yell meet that's right?
49:24
Speaker 2: Uh that that is so much fun. And I'm keeping
49:27
Speaker 2: an eye on what you guys are doing. But please
49:31
Speaker 2: don't and I know Lisa isn't afraid to text me,
49:36
Speaker 2: reach out to me and just give me a friendly
49:40
Speaker 2: reminder about anything that you guys have going on. And
49:44
Speaker 2: that's just not in the month of May and or June,
49:47
Speaker 2: but that's all summer long and into the fall. I
49:49
Speaker 2: love talking about you guys, no matter what you're doing.
49:52
Speaker 2: And the VFW as well.
49:53
Speaker 4: Yes, same as Steve mentioned before, if you're interested in
49:57
Speaker 4: joining our Elks family, just come in or call. You're
50:01
Speaker 4: welcome to come in and see what we do and
50:04
Speaker 4: join our family and the good work that we do.
50:07
Speaker 4: We have a thing, you know, the first time your guests,
50:10
Speaker 4: the second time you visit your friend, and the third
50:12
Speaker 4: time you visit, you're going to be a member. And
50:16
Speaker 4: it usually works that way. So we'd love to have
50:20
Speaker 4: people in the community come in and see our facilities,
50:24
Speaker 4: see what we do, see how they can help us
50:27
Speaker 4: in our work to get back to the community and
50:29
Speaker 4: our youth and our veterans. Wow, great, Stuffy was welcome.
50:33
Speaker 4: Tomorrow morning, just wrap up here. I'm going to be
50:36
Speaker 4: streaming live over at the Chamber Challenge Golf Tournament at
50:41
Speaker 4: the Bury Country Club. The annual Chamber of Commerce golf
50:47
Speaker 4: tournament is a big, big deal and I can't wait.
50:50
Speaker 4: The weather's going to be perfect for it, and I'll
50:52
Speaker 4: be over there tomorrow morning, right around nine o'clock and
50:56
Speaker 4: throwing microphones in front of different ouse and we're gonna
51:01
Speaker 4: have some fun.
51:02
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be great. The weather's gonna be perfect
51:04
Speaker 2: for it. Yes, what else? I think? I think that's it?
51:09
Speaker 2: Did we cover everything? Guys?
51:11
Speaker 3: I think we did, But thank you for the opportunity.
51:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hold up those tickets on on camera there
51:18
Speaker 2: so we can see what they look like. They're not
51:20
Speaker 2: little tiny rinkity dink tickets.
51:22
Speaker 3: Oh they're hot, they're hot.
51:24
Speaker 2: They are very ticket Mary, come on again, get in
51:29
Speaker 2: touch with Bob or Steve to get a ticket or yeah,
51:33
Speaker 2: there you go, or the Post, the Post or the
51:37
Speaker 2: VFW or the elks walk in, get in touch with them,
51:42
Speaker 2: get yourself a ticket. And and don't wait on this thing,
51:45
Speaker 2: because June twelfth.
51:46
Speaker 3: Is coming coming up. We got a month almost a
51:49
Speaker 3: month away.
51:49
Speaker 4: We've sold quite a few of them already, but there's
51:51
Speaker 4: a lot left we have to move, so we need
51:53
Speaker 4: your help.
51:54
Speaker 5: Barry, all right, I will say, and we will say
51:57
Speaker 5: thank you to everybody this already purchased a ticket.
51:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally appreciate that much. And so and good luck
52:03
Speaker 2: to get Yeah, awesome, thanks guys, thanks for coming in here.
52:06
Speaker 2: Thank you, Stacy Holden. What is he saying? I thought
52:10
Speaker 2: you had to get home to watch the Lawrence Welk Marathon.
52:16
Speaker 2: What's he talking about? Who is Lawrence Welk?
52:20
Speaker 3: I don't know.
52:21
Speaker 2: You don't know, Bob, do you know?
52:22
Speaker 1: So?
52:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're wonderful, wonderful you're supposed to say, come on?
52:27
Speaker 4: Was that was every Sunday night at home with my parents.
52:30
Speaker 4: Well absolutely, then the Smothers brothers, and that's how old
52:35
Speaker 4: we are.
52:36
Speaker 2: Who's the other guy? That was the.
52:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the and the wonderful of Myron of Florin
52:42
Speaker 4: on the accordion all.
52:44
Speaker 2: Listen to you guys and Sullivan and of course I
52:48
Speaker 2: have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, have
52:54
Speaker 2: a gray day, boys, thanks for coming in here, thank you. Yeah, yeah, well.
53:14
Speaker 1: Well we will work well, nebody