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  Speaker 1: Local News on this Wednesday, September the third, and representing
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News as the managing editor of the Dixon
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  Speaker 1: Telegraph in Sterlingka is at Charlene Bilama is live with
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  Speaker 1: us in studio. Good morning, Hello, nice to see you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: me too, along with and you've been hearing this guy's
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  Speaker 1: voice all morning long border Brandon Clark with Shaw Oclan.
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  Speaker 1: How are you again?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: It is nice to see you both, And we've got
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  Speaker 1: lots to bring everybody up to date on and our
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  Speaker 1: update of Shaw Local News happenings across our northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 1: But we are going to start with a special edition,
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  Speaker 1: is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, our annual Thank You Veterans. Yes, that we'll be
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  Speaker 4: coming out with around Veterans Day, popular content that we
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  Speaker 4: have in which we take a look at local veterans
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  Speaker 4: also local veterans services, and by services, I mean what
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  Speaker 4: is available to our local veterans that they may need.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it's counseling services, maybe it's like what we see
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  Speaker 4: with Floyd Dunn, who's trying to put together a sense
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  Speaker 4: of community. So right now is the time that we say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: anybody who has ideas that they like to add to this,
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  Speaker 4: it's a great time if you say I've got a
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  Speaker 4: veteran who I'd like to see featured in that, and
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  Speaker 4: in that case we actually go out, we talked to
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  Speaker 4: the veterans and we interview them talk about their experiences. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we have great people features that are involved in that
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  Speaker 4: and lets people share their story and their heroes among us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I'm not sure how far back
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  Speaker 1: you can stretch this. You know, you know, you made
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  Speaker 1: World War Two, you know that you're talking seventy eighty
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  Speaker 1: years ago now that the years are piling on, but
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  Speaker 1: obviously Korean War, Vietnam, right, you know, correct conflicts there
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So please, if you've got an idea
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  Speaker 1: or you've got a spotlight for against Shaw Local News
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  Speaker 1: to cover, contact.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, they can send us an email CB
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  Speaker 4: Element at Shawmedia dot com or Brandon B. Clark right
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  Speaker 4: be Clark at Shaw Media dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, you know, and again it's a really neat
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  Speaker 1: you know again addition that comes out and obviously Veterans
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  Speaker 1: Day is right around the corner, right November exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And it's again when you go back and you take
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  Speaker 4: a look when you say, you know, World War two veterans.
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  Speaker 4: You think about all the people that you knew that
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  Speaker 4: served neighbors that you had. I was honored and able
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  Speaker 4: to go on an honor flight in twenty ten, and
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  Speaker 4: I often think of the men who were on that.
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  Speaker 4: It was a quad city based honor flight. But how
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  Speaker 4: many of them are still with us? Probably zero, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: because most of them were World War Two veterans at
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  Speaker 4: the time. It's just you lose that generation and then
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  Speaker 4: you lose those stories, and it's a way that we
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  Speaker 4: can document those stories absolutely going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think it's great and I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great addition to Shaw Local to again give us that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to learn about and really we need to know
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  Speaker 1: more about our veterans that serve us have served us
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  Speaker 1: in our services across our northern Illinois area. So again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you Mitch Watch for that to come out through
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News. Got some fire department news, yeah, Brandon.
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  Speaker 5: Last night at the city council, they sare in a
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  Speaker 5: new deputy chief, Scott Melton, who's got over forty years
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  Speaker 5: of service. So earlier this year, David Northcott was appointed
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  Speaker 5: chief and they've been looking for his replacement, and so
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  Speaker 5: they made that official last night at the city council.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we got a new fire official in Sterling.
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  Speaker 1: This is in the Sterling area again with that again
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  Speaker 1: addition to their fire department staff. And again Brandon has
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  Speaker 1: the story through Shaw Local. Of course, just recently, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been talking about the retirement of David Pilgrim,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Actually that came up as we were told there
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  Speaker 4: was a Facebook post out there and so we had Peyton.
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  Speaker 4: Peyton Felix made some calls, actually talked to him. What
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  Speaker 4: she got from him was that he will retire at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the month.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what we know right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And this was evidently planned long in
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  Speaker 1: advantage that I understood from the story that you know,
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  Speaker 1: he had been thinking about this for quite a while
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  Speaker 1: but decided now is the time to, I guess take
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  Speaker 1: the move. Sure, he's been in law enforcement for what
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  Speaker 1: two decades plus?
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And then on top of that, we'll have a police
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  Speaker 4: chief change up over in Sterling.
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  Speaker 3: Am I right about that?
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  Speaker 5: At some point at some point they still haven't given
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  Speaker 5: me the name of the replacement yet, so I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: as soon as they're able to release that or maybe
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  Speaker 5: they haven't made the decision yet. But Chief Shavera is
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  Speaker 5: going to be retiring later this year, so I got
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  Speaker 5: to expect that announcement will come pretty soon.
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  Speaker 4: And then we have a new Dixon Police chief. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of the year change change, which happens. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you think back years ago and then you've got the
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  Speaker 4: block and then leadership and.
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  Speaker 3: Then it just changes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So absolutely entirement time change. And twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: has been a position year. You're right, shore, Yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: a transition year. So talk about what else is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Dixon comprehensive plan. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Peyton did a story about that that was our lead
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  Speaker 4: story today in which they talk about looking ahead, how
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  Speaker 4: do we want our community to look? And this is
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  Speaker 4: planning that goes over decades. Looking forward so important because
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  Speaker 4: you're laying a foundation. I always used to say that
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  Speaker 4: when you cover city councils and you see a city
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  Speaker 4: council and for like five years doesn't really matter the community,
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  Speaker 4: and then you have a different council and then you
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  Speaker 4: have five years a different council.
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  Speaker 3: Could be with school boards too.
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  Speaker 4: Ideas, change plans, change kin kind of goes with the moment,
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  Speaker 4: maybe what's happening at that time, what grant money's available.
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  Speaker 4: A plan is so valuable because you're able to kind
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  Speaker 4: of see what that direction has been and you're not
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  Speaker 4: always reinventing the wheel, and so you really kind of
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  Speaker 4: need to lay that that groundwork. And since I started here,
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  Speaker 4: I know that that's been a vision. In twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 4: there was a meeting that we attended out at Stock
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  Speaker 4: Valley Community College in which the city council here was
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  Speaker 4: talking about the need for that development.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what you're seeing now.
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  Speaker 4: This story focused on the presentation of the draft of it.
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  Speaker 4: More work to be done, but what you see surfacing
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  Speaker 4: from that is housing again that's been an issue, and
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  Speaker 4: then you look at the trail work and the walkability
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  Speaker 4: that was also part of it. Connectivity. I would say,
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  Speaker 4: while we think of roads as transportation, there's also the
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  Speaker 4: idea of recreation, leisure, bicycling, anything like that that can
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  Speaker 4: you know, hook your community up. So yeah, it was
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  Speaker 4: an in depth story that she has about that today,
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  Speaker 4: and there'll be more work done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there'll be feedback. There always is. And then
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  Speaker 3: before it goes on for an approval process.
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  Speaker 1: I so the mayor has made it one of his
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  Speaker 1: pet projects. Oh yeah, Mayor Hughes is making one of
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  Speaker 1: his pet projects to really focus, you know, moving forward
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  Speaker 1: on that again plan.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He led a discussion in twenty twenty three and I
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  Speaker 4: can remember him talking about the importance of that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he sotally wants to make it a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a highlighted plan during his tenure as mayor of the
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  Speaker 1: City of Dixon. So Shar and our friends from Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local News have the story for us this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: again watch for these stories again through Shake Rear coming
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  Speaker 1: out throughout the week right here and with us here
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  Speaker 1: at WYX in we'll have a lot of these stories
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  Speaker 1: featured Senior Showcase. Brandon, you had talked about this on
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  Speaker 1: your news this morning. Yeah, yeah, but Senior Showcase, Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We have that, so call Senior Showcases that we spawned
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  Speaker 4: there in cooperation with some other local agencies and organizations,
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  Speaker 4: that will take place at Northland Mall on October seventh.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, they're basically in the planning stages. You have
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  Speaker 4: until I think the data September twenty two to sign
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  Speaker 4: up for that as a vendor. I think the way
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  Speaker 4: they say it is to meet the the people who
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  Speaker 4: are fifty plus, fifty plus fifty and better.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it seems like the age for seniors. I know,
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  Speaker 6: I know, I know, I don't know what that why
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  Speaker 6: that is, but it did. I mean, you go back
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  Speaker 6: even fifty years old. Now you're considered a senior.
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  Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, well you are. I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't feel like a city citizen, but
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  Speaker 4: my numbers tell me.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: When I passed it. I'm a little like qualify for
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  Speaker 3: free bun with my life somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Oh man, but yeah, yeah, good, yeah, good good event
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  Speaker 7: and Shaw Local you know obviously you know at the
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  Speaker 7: helm of that event in yeah, Shirling, So that will
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  Speaker 7: be coming up in early October, and registration for vendors
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  Speaker 7: please if you want to be a vendor at that
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  Speaker 7: showcase Antacshaw Local and Shaw Medium and they'll get you
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  Speaker 7: a board.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: It's busy, it's a busy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And you know Northland Mall is a great place for
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  Speaker 4: that for our different vendor fairs, different events that we
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  Speaker 4: have there. I know I've covered a few of those
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  Speaker 4: and just a nice little layout. It's a great place
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  Speaker 4: to kind of meet people and leisurely talk about services
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  Speaker 4: and things that we may not that you may not
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  Speaker 4: I'm speaking here as a person, as a resident, may
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  Speaker 4: not know about what's available to us.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, because a lot of people can you know,
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  Speaker 1: not not really aware of exactly, you know, how the
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  Speaker 1: opportunities are in our Stock Valley area. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a good opportunity, especially for seniors, get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: information and education.
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  Speaker 4: I find that out with my parents. My parents are
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  Speaker 4: you know, definitely there and if I am, you know
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  Speaker 4: they are. And so they're as they're they're learning about
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  Speaker 4: things that are available to them. They've always been very
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  Speaker 4: you know, mobile, drive their own vehicles. But we've just
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  Speaker 4: recently had a discussion. I think there was, hey, do
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  Speaker 4: you know that there's a van that provides transportation, And
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, yeah, just things that now become in
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  Speaker 4: your you know, in your front view mirror.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say, and you can learn about them and you
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  Speaker 3: can learn about those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, seen your showcase in October, we spotlight that. This morning,
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  Speaker 1: we've got White Side Area in ye.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been working on a series of stories to
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  Speaker 5: kind of highlight those different programs. So one of the
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  Speaker 5: most recent ones was the criminal justice program over at
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  Speaker 5: the Whiteside Area Career Center.
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  Speaker 2: And so those.
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  Speaker 5: Students take parts in mob trials, They they visit the courthouses,
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  Speaker 5: they they learn how to how to handcuff, how to
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  Speaker 5: de escalate. There, they've got a shooting simulator they're planning
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  Speaker 5: on getting so that these students can really learn what
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  Speaker 5: it means to step into the shoes of law enforcement
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  Speaker 5: and kind of prepare.
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  Speaker 2: Them to see, is this something that I want to follow?
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  Speaker 5: And if so, you know, they're already one step ahead
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  Speaker 5: as they leave the high school stage and get ready
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  Speaker 5: to take college.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. So a good story there and again a
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  Speaker 1: good highlight for youth and especially those you know, being
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  Speaker 1: able to get the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And it's an important.
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  Speaker 5: Reason absolutely that I think that not all parents are
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  Speaker 5: aware of it, and they should be a lot of
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  Speaker 5: these students are getting access to things that you and
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  Speaker 5: I had to wait till college to even get this
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  Speaker 5: step into. And a lot of them are can earn
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  Speaker 5: industry recognized certifications to where they could work after high
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  Speaker 5: school or again, they've just knocked off one one checklist
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  Speaker 5: item that they would have a lot of other people
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  Speaker 5: would have had to wait to finish college for So.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what that's again, it's a kind of
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  Speaker 1: an unsung area of the Whites Area Career Center. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of an unsung area. We kind of take it
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  Speaker 1: for granted a lot of times. But again, it's there,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really working.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been there for the years.
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  Speaker 5: It's expanding absolutely, just keep adding to its struct and
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  Speaker 5: there's just more and more that these kids can do.
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  Speaker 5: And I highly encourage parents to at least go and
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  Speaker 5: check it out and talk about it with their kids.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good story there. And candidates are we talking.
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  Speaker 4: About we are talking about We're already talking about the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six election. I can already tell you that
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  Speaker 4: the primaries are March seventeenth.
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  Speaker 3: For next year.
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  Speaker 4: We have candidates who are they will be candidates, people
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  Speaker 4: who are declaring saying that I'm going to either rerun
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  Speaker 4: for election, run it for election again, or they're seeking
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  Speaker 4: the seat maybe for a for a second third time.
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  Speaker 3: You know however that plays out. But in this case,
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  Speaker 3: what we did protests.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so we had those candidates actually come out.
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  Speaker 2: We had two of them. Nolan Kemp who's running for
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  Speaker 2: the I want.
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  Speaker 5: To say it's the seventy fourth district and he'll he'll
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  Speaker 5: have competition there, and then Oliver Sweets are running for.
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  Speaker 2: The seventy third.
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  Speaker 5: So they were actually out at the Sterling demonstration on
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  Speaker 5: Labor Day, the workers over Billionaires protests.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody's kind of heard about by now. If
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  Speaker 2: you haven't, please go read those stories.
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  Speaker 5: But they're out there collecting signatures and advocating for workers' rights.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and catch brandages because I don't know, you've highlighted
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  Speaker 1: as one of your highlighted stories on the news this morning.
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  Speaker 5: So we've got stories on the protest, stories on the
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  Speaker 5: candidates you declaring their intent to run.
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  Speaker 1: So seems like the seventy four district we're getting ugh
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  Speaker 1: more interesting individuals, you know, up against mister Fritz, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for that seat seventy fourth district. So certain kind of interested.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it always is with there's you know, you
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  Speaker 4: have a contested yes, will there be a contested primary race?
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  Speaker 4: And then of course, like I said to Brandon, now
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  Speaker 4: we know that they're most likely will be if the
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  Speaker 4: candidates you know, kind of stay in place or how
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  Speaker 4: it looks now, there will be some kind of contest
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  Speaker 4: come the November election. But yeah, we're we'll be gearing
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  Speaker 4: up for that. Discussions with candidates as they are filing.
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  Speaker 4: And then also last time, especially for our city elections,
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  Speaker 4: we sat down and met with the different candidates and
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  Speaker 4: kind of did a one on one. Some of it
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  Speaker 4: was about personal like family interests, how'd you get involved,
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  Speaker 4: some of it was about the issues, and then you
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  Speaker 4: can kind of put a face on it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that'll be coming up for us. Busy year, It could
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  Speaker 4: be a busy year.
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  Speaker 1: Through Shaw Local News. And a big game this weekend
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  Speaker 1: in football Dick's environment. Yeah that'll be a big game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, big game this coming Friday. We got it right
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  Speaker 1: here on went guys. We thank you so very much
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  Speaker 1: for the update of news from Shaw Local News. Appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: Cheley B. Brandon Clark will be along in just a
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  Speaker 1: bit with news first in just a couple of seconds,
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  Speaker 1: but guys, thanks for joining yesterday. That's our update from
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  Speaker 1: no ah, that's the sound of someone who's misplaced
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