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  Speaker 1: Time for a look at local news headlines through our
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  Speaker 1: good friends at Shaw Local Media and Shaw Local News
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  Speaker 1: and the executive the managing editor of the Sterling Gazette
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  Speaker 1: and Dixon Telegraph, along with our reporter joining us today,
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  Speaker 1: Charlene Bielama Brandon Clark, are visiting with us this Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: morning here at w IX and guys, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you guys with us. Good to see
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  Speaker 1: you again. We are again covering the summer of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I hate to say winding down, but here
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  Speaker 3: we are. We're looking at August and for me, winding
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  Speaker 3: down is fair week. Like you know, for me, it
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  Speaker 3: was always Wayside County Fair. We just finished up with
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  Speaker 3: the first of four fairs Carroll County coming up, Ogle
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  Speaker 3: County happening now. And then when you're talking about the weather,
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  Speaker 3: that always reminds me about fairs and water and rain
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, so I hope everybody gets the good weather
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  Speaker 3: they need for their upcoming events.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we get city market tonight. It's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be held between the bridges, so that and this is
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  Speaker 1: the next to the last city market, guys. This is
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  Speaker 1: the because city market ends next week.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, summer went fast, Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned Charlene that again, we just completed what
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  Speaker 1: they turned a good successful run at the Lee County
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  Speaker 1: Fair and for each show you guys were there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know down there with a lot of pictures,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of news stories surrounding the fair. And now
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  Speaker 1: Ogle County gets their turn this week you mentioned Carroll County.
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  Speaker 2: It just kind of goes. It's a nice domino is
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  Speaker 2: that week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, by week you could live.
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  Speaker 3: On fair food for a month. Absolutely, you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: time it out.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, you know, absolutely, because because that's the way
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  Speaker 1: that the fairs are really and that's good. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's neat that we go from county to county and
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  Speaker 1: especially here in our listening area o Leogle, Carol Whiteside
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  Speaker 1: County area and just go week by week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: presenting and it's and you remember too, it's all about
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  Speaker 1: the kids, you know, in their four h projects and
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  Speaker 1: things like that that you know we need to Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is Ocle County's faheem Morrison's White Side is different right right,
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  Speaker 3: so they already had that, yeah, introduced to that four
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  Speaker 3: each fair idea. But we do like in Whiteside and
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  Speaker 3: you probably have had Todd mckley on will have will have. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So like the whole idea of it being open class
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  Speaker 3: or people being able to come from all over. We
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  Speaker 3: would see people from Iowa who would submit in like
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  Speaker 3: the textiles, and.
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  Speaker 2: I used to judge.
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  Speaker 3: I used to judge photos, yeah oh yeah, and we
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  Speaker 3: would see you know, local entries. But because digital photography
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  Speaker 3: and you've had changes in technology, just more and more
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  Speaker 3: entries in those kind of fields. I still like it
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  Speaker 3: looking at tabletops. I like to see ladies and men
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  Speaker 3: that said up the tabletops and all of that real
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  Speaker 3: textile stuff. So used to compete yeah, oh yeah, oh
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  Speaker 3: yeah when I was domesticated, oh yeah, thirty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The baking and the and the cross stitching and all
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  Speaker 3: of that kind of you know, like homemaking. I would
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  Speaker 3: say skills, you know, you know, now it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe hobbyist, but I think.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a great niche for the Whiteside County Fair
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  Speaker 1: though to offer that and you know, really offered to
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  Speaker 1: everybody to come out.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, agriculture he's got the biggest pepper. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the best look, can set up six peppers
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  Speaker 3: or whatever whatever you're growing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good, great, good for you.
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  Speaker 1: The Whiteside County Fair will be in mid August. And
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  Speaker 1: again that follows just kind of in line all of
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  Speaker 1: these county fairs, and you know, we're going from fair
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  Speaker 1: to fair to fair. And so our local is carrying
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  Speaker 1: it for us weekly right here in our northern ILLINOI area.
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  Speaker 2: What else do you have?
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  Speaker 3: I know, we've got events coming up. We're looking forward
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  Speaker 3: now into the fall. I mean, my brain's already saying
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  Speaker 3: Fall festival. And the reason I see that is because
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  Speaker 3: every night about eleven thirty, I'm taking a look at Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Who's putting what up there?
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  Speaker 3: You know, what are you interested in? They put them
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  Speaker 3: out several months ahead. But we're starting to see that.
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  Speaker 3: And in the meantime, we've got Venetia Night, We've got
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  Speaker 3: football starting, We've got a lot of things that we'll
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  Speaker 3: start kind of melding the end of summer with high
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  Speaker 3: school high school sports. We just had a beginning of
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  Speaker 3: school story Rock Fall Sterling Dixon registration. Okay, Brand's also
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  Speaker 3: got other stories that he's working on that related to schools.
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  Speaker 3: A couple grants that went to the Sterling school district.
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  Speaker 3: That went forward to two libraries. You want to talk
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Franklin Elementary and Channel and Middle School and Sterling
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  Speaker 4: their library and got the those schools readers Choice strants,
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  Speaker 4: which got them a special set about I want to
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  Speaker 4: say it was about twenty books.
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  Speaker 2: So the kids are encouraged to read as many of
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  Speaker 2: those as.
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  Speaker 4: Possible, and then if they read a certain amount, they're
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  Speaker 4: able to cast their vote.
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  Speaker 2: For their favorite book and I want to say each
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  Speaker 2: genre for some kind of state competition.
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  Speaker 4: So that was just free to the school, just the
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  Speaker 4: librarian doing her due diligence and trying to find some
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  Speaker 4: free resources out there. And so now the kids will
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  Speaker 4: their libraries will be beefed up.
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  Speaker 2: Coming in this year.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, So again the schools are kind of prepping
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  Speaker 1: and getting organized and getting going for the upcoming fall
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  Speaker 1: semester to open. Dixon's will open mid August. August the thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, is the first days go. It probably kind
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  Speaker 1: of falls in line with everybody else, right Sterling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody's starting about mid augumnt about second week, if
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  Speaker 4: not maybe just a few days before. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: look like it'll be a full week, half week for
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  Speaker 4: the kids going in, and then there's I'm also working
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  Speaker 4: on a story about the whites Area Career Center, which
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  Speaker 4: sits between the Sterling High School and chile In Middle School,
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  Speaker 4: that brings kids in from schools all over the district
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  Speaker 4: and so they're able to learn about building trades, automotive,
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  Speaker 4: culinary arts, digital media arts, and a lot more. So
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  Speaker 4: that's something I highly encourage parents and their kids to
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  Speaker 4: kind of read together because they offer them even certifications
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  Speaker 4: when they're done with some of these classes that they
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  Speaker 4: can use to go on and already be ahead of
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  Speaker 4: their classmates once they graduated to get a job.
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  Speaker 3: I'll add to the voke was very we call it vogue.
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  Speaker 3: My husband went to vocational back when it was the
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  Speaker 3: Whiteside Area, Yes Vocational Centers, and was student of the
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  Speaker 3: year for mechanics back this is a long time ago,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking like nineteen eighty four. But the important thing
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  Speaker 3: was is he went right from there to being employed
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  Speaker 3: working for a company, a dealership in Morson where he
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  Speaker 3: was a mechanic, and my youngest son went there for
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  Speaker 3: nursing thinking he'd going to nursing. He got a CNA
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  Speaker 3: through there, and so learning those skills. He did not
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  Speaker 3: go into that field, but it's something that he still
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  Speaker 3: has and would possibly meld into a career. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's been very good, yes, our family, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of morphed. Yeah, you're right into that area now
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  Speaker 1: that covers you know, a wide area and a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I think they've only added their classes as times went
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  Speaker 4: on and things students can take.
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  Speaker 2: So I really encourage people to check it out well.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking about outside activity going on, we're getting the
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  Speaker 1: completion of the you know, riverfront, are we brandon OIDA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're getting closer.
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  Speaker 4: If you've if you've looked over there, the the the
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  Speaker 4: playground and the splash pad and.
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  Speaker 2: Things are still up.
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  Speaker 4: Last city council meeting, I know they were waiting for
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  Speaker 4: for water hookups. So I haven't been down there since
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  Speaker 4: that council meeting, but I'm certainly looking forward to the
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  Speaker 4: next one, which should be I want to say, Monday,
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  Speaker 4: to see what the next update's going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be on there. Yeah. Yeah, it's moving right along, you know. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's moving right along.
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  Speaker 4: They've got you know, hopes that I would say that
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  Speaker 4: kids will still be able to use the splash pad,
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  Speaker 4: if not the playground this year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got I believe a Stock Valley Chambers
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  Speaker 1: got their steak fry coming up in early August. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big scholarship fundraiser for the Stuck Valley Area Chamber.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Hot dog Days, yeah, Friday, right, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's sterling.
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  Speaker 2: There through Main Street. The new Sparks Center is going
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  Speaker 2: to have an open house that day. Okay, good, all right,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like work's coming along fast. They're too. Pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: it does.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's supposed to be like a safe path through
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  Speaker 4: through like some of the construction as they go. Oh cool,
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  Speaker 4: So I gotta I gotta imagine they've you said, have
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  Speaker 4: kind of been trucking along to get to that point.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we've got yeah, even tailing out
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  Speaker 1: of summer though and into the first part of false
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  Speaker 1: busy time because of all the obviously school preparations we got,
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  Speaker 1: we got the tools for schools project that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, working next week, I believe, not next week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, it is this next weekend is
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  Speaker 1: next week. I'm sorry that we chatted about with our
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  Speaker 1: friends from Dixon Public schools, and obviously, as Charlie mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know the first part of school coming up, but
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  Speaker 1: ins between this time, you know, getting things I guess
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  Speaker 1: in before the school actually starts. You mentioned this sporting
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  Speaker 1: season is going to be starting very shortly. Football won't
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  Speaker 1: be up until the end of August, but we've got
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  Speaker 1: other sports in the fall we do for us.
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  Speaker 3: It's the weird thing about I wouldn't say the weird thing,
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  Speaker 3: but you learn, like in the newsroom, how there's an
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  Speaker 3: ebb and flow every year you kind of follow the
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  Speaker 3: same schedule, barring the things that are breaking news. You know, however,
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  Speaker 3: courts or something that's like a big storm that rolls through.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, you kind of get the
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  Speaker 3: flow of, Okay, this time in the year, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be doing this, and we know that football is
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  Speaker 3: going to hit here. So there's preparation that you have
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  Speaker 3: to do, like preview gamers things that they put together
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  Speaker 3: ahead of time, what the stats are going to be,
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  Speaker 3: who are the ones to watch so that when you
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  Speaker 3: come out of the gate, depending on what that sport is,
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  Speaker 3: you're ready for. How do we allocate our resources, what
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  Speaker 3: are the big games. So I know that our sports
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  Speaker 3: department when I say sports department talking across all of Shaw,
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  Speaker 3: because we have games that will overlap who's covering and
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  Speaker 3: how we're covering it. What deadline will we make on that.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of behind the scenes work similar
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  Speaker 3: to what we're doing in news right now. We're looking
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  Speaker 3: ahead at some big regional stories that I really don't
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  Speaker 3: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Like okay, like pull the trigger on yours, so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: But things that we are actually putting together now that
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  Speaker 3: will be big stories that will come out within the
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  Speaker 3: next three four weeks. Okay, So yeahthing.
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  Speaker 1: You know it doesn't you know, even though yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: coming to the end of the you know, summertime season
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  Speaker 1: and getting set for the fall, you know, classes to
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  Speaker 1: begin not only on campuses of high schools, but college
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  Speaker 1: campuses as well. Sock Valley Community College getting started with
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  Speaker 1: all of their activity going on, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: news from Sock Valley Community College as we get geared
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  Speaker 1: up for that. So lots of activity you know still
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  Speaker 1: you know, be covered by our good friends.
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  Speaker 2: And shop we talk about school.
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  Speaker 3: We just had to keep going quick here the leap
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  Speaker 3: program that they're going to have for para professionals that
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  Speaker 3: they can be boosted into upgrading their skills for becoming
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  Speaker 3: four year teachers. We have a teacher shortage. We know that,
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  Speaker 3: John Mandrel. We have a column ready to go. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's running in today's paper if they got that
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  Speaker 3: to fit in there, or it'll be in soon if
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  Speaker 3: it's not in today. But it just seems like whenever
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  Speaker 3: I go out to interview often socks name will pop up.
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  Speaker 3: I just interviewed a lady that opened up a business
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  Speaker 3: in downtown Morrison. I thought it was interesting because she
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  Speaker 3: sells plants, and I thought it was just plants, but
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  Speaker 3: it turns out that she also will go to your
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  Speaker 3: house and take a look at your house plants if
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  Speaker 3: they're dying, and she'll help you bring them back to life.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, how does it feel to be a
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  Speaker 3: young business owner? And she really went back to say,
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  Speaker 3: how much socks you know business and her help answer
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  Speaker 3: her questions. So if you want to be a new
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  Speaker 3: business person, there's also all these other resources there. So
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  Speaker 3: you just love how sock pops.
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  Speaker 1: Up absolutely and impact and yeah, you talked about it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all the opportunity you know that's offered at Sock Valley
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  Speaker 1: Community College, and again Shaw Local does its job in
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  Speaker 1: covering all of this activity going on as we move
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  Speaker 1: through the summer into the fall of twenty twenty five. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you so very much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll continue our conversation next week, but we appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: visit today. Charlene Bilama Brandon Clark from Shaw Local News
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