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  Speaker 1: Pass the hour.
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  Speaker 2: This is Friday, It's June twenty the year is twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, and it's time for another informational edition of
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  Speaker 2: Tukline here at FM ninety five one am, fourteen sixty wixent.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is time for a
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  Speaker 2: look at news and information from our friends at your
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  Speaker 2: Lee County Council on Aging. We touch base with our
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  Speaker 2: friends from Lee County Council on Aging periodically throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: and now's the time because there are some special happenings
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  Speaker 2: that we want to tell you about that are going
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  Speaker 2: to be in a very short period of time and
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  Speaker 2: to tell us about it is the executive director of
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  Speaker 2: the Lee County Council on Aging. She joins us by
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  Speaker 2: telephone this morning. Our dear friend Susie Welch is live
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  Speaker 2: with us this morning here at WI Extent. Susie, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Steeve. Thank you for having me on. Well,
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  Speaker 3: and that's some exciting things happening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're right, and we got some things that are
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  Speaker 2: right around the corner that we want to talk to
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  Speaker 2: Susie about. As a matter of fact, let's get started
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  Speaker 2: with our calendar of event lists, Susie and talk about
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  Speaker 2: some of those activities that you wanted to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: But Susie has some you know, really need information about
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  Speaker 2: the expansion of services through Lee County Council on Aging
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  Speaker 2: that she wants to let you know about as well.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll get to that in just a couple of seconds.
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  Speaker 2: There is an important activity taking place, Susie in less
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  Speaker 2: than a week, and this comes next week to the
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  Speaker 2: Lee County Council on Aging. It is June the twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 2: and we want a spotlight this very interesting and important
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  Speaker 2: area of the Lee County Council on Aging today.
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  Speaker 1: So take us through what is going to be happening
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 3: We're excited to bring to you a senior fair. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to have like twenty different vendors here and also
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  Speaker 3: give you a chance to take a look at the
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  Speaker 3: Senior Center because we've spruced it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: We'd love to have you come back.
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  Speaker 4: Steve.
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  Speaker 3: I think you saw us and I told you did
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  Speaker 3: you use your imagination what was going to be.
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  Speaker 4: Coming and now we have it all done.
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  Speaker 1: Great, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: And this of course is at the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 2: on Aging Center, the Senior Center, which is located at
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  Speaker 2: the corner of Galena and Second where the Lee County
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  Speaker 2: post House Ballroom is located. That's where the Senior Center
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  Speaker 2: is also located. They've done a lot, as Susie mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: of sprucing up, and now you want to show it off,
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  Speaker 2: right right, Yes, So June the twenty fourth, what's going
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  Speaker 2: to be happening. You say you're gonna have organizations, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what's going to be happening during this time.
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  Speaker 3: They'll be vendors here that will be displaying what they
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  Speaker 3: can do for seniors and given away freebeatings. They'll be food,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be drawing. Starting at nine point thirty, will have
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  Speaker 3: our fresh produced giveaway.
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  Speaker 4: Also, okay, so you can come check that out, all right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now I understand that your team is also
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  Speaker 1: going to be there, so you're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to kind of open this up. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to be an open house, right so, I mean this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be inviting. You're inviting everybody to stop by.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, and you'll get to meet some of our board members,
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  Speaker 3: meet our staff, come have fun with us, meet the community. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, this is Senior Fair Day at the Lee County
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  Speaker 2: Council on Aging. They're going to have an open house.
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  Speaker 2: This is June the twenty fourth right there at the
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  Speaker 2: Senior Center. They invite all, not just seniors. Is then
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  Speaker 2: this is open to the public to come and see
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  Speaker 2: their spruce up. If you know where the Senior Center
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  Speaker 2: is and you've used their facilities before and many have
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  Speaker 2: in their organizations, and all see what they've done, as
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  Speaker 2: Susie mentioned, and take in the Senior fair free of charge. Susie,
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  Speaker 2: no preregistration anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: You just show up.
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  Speaker 3: Right free of charge for all those that want to
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  Speaker 3: come and see what we're about.
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  Speaker 2: Right well, looking forward to it. That is June the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth at the Lee County Council in Aging Senior
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  Speaker 2: Center and of course the adjacent post House ballroom. But
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  Speaker 2: they really want to show off Senior Center today this
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  Speaker 2: coming June the twenty fourth. It runs from ten until
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  Speaker 2: one again at one hundred West Second in Dixon. Susie
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  Speaker 2: tells us about it this morning. That kind of kicks
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  Speaker 2: off our talk line today here at Wixon and Susie
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  Speaker 2: we're going to kind of continue with the calendar of events.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the calendar of events before
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  Speaker 2: we get to, you know, the expansion and information that
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  Speaker 2: you have in that regard. Let's take a look at
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  Speaker 2: a couple of other activities that are going to be
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  Speaker 2: held on your calendar through the Lee County Council in Naging.
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  Speaker 2: I see where you have our local historian and his
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  Speaker 2: wife coming aboard with you in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm all excited.
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  Speaker 3: Tom and Nancy Wabsworth are going to come speak. Tom
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  Speaker 3: on the eighth at one pm he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: talking about the connection between Billy Sunday and the post house,
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  Speaker 3: so it's going to be very exciting for me at least.
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  Speaker 3: And then on July fourteenth, eleven A, Nancy's going to
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  Speaker 3: come talk. She has helped the Senior Center develop their
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  Speaker 3: own senior community garden with fresh vegetables in it, so
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  Speaker 3: she'll be talking about Victory gardens and talking a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about our senior gardens. And so I'm very excited about.
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  Speaker 2: That absolutely, as we invite both Tom and Nancy Wadsworth
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  Speaker 2: husband and wife. But Tom the local historian is going
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  Speaker 2: to connect the Lee County Council on Aging facilities to
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of history. That's July the eighth, Circle
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  Speaker 2: of the date on your calendar. It's at one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: at the Senior Center, the facility we've been talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And July fourteenth, Nancy Wadsworth will have her presentation at
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  Speaker 2: eleven am. So that are a couple of July activities
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  Speaker 2: next month that the Wadsworths will be speaking at the
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  Speaker 2: Lee County Council on aging. Then we're going to jump
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  Speaker 2: ahead to August because you want to talk about some
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  Speaker 2: health and some health seminars that you have coming up
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  Speaker 2: starting in August, Susie, talk about these.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: We are so fortunate the Extension Office is coming in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth Friday, excuse me, the fourth Tuesday of the
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  Speaker 3: month for four four months and talking about fulthy aging
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be kind of a humorous look
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  Speaker 3: at aging but also serious. So every Tuesday, fourth Tuesday
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  Speaker 3: of the month from ten to eleven thirty, the Extension
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  Speaker 3: Office is going to do a presentation.
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  Speaker 4: One one the first one is.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be titled I'm Positive, I'm Aging, and then
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  Speaker 3: the next month will be Someday.
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  Speaker 1: Is today, that's in September, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then we'll be looking at the funny side of aging.
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  Speaker 2: That's right over and November a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: the humorous sides. So there are four separate seminars and
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  Speaker 2: this is through the Lee County Extension Office, I should
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  Speaker 2: say the Illinois Extension Office in Lee County. Kars Schweitzer
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  Speaker 2: will be providing these seminars. And again those will be
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  Speaker 2: held every month through the Lee County Council on Aging
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  Speaker 2: at the center from ten untill eleven. Again on those months,
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  Speaker 2: all those days, August the twenty sixth, September twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: and again activity in October and November as well. So
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  Speaker 2: again the University of Illinois Extension, the Lee County Extension
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  Speaker 2: Group is going to be whole active with activities at
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  Speaker 2: the Lee County Council. Agent Susie Welch is our guest today.
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  Speaker 2: She's the executive director of the Lee County Council on Aging.
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  Speaker 2: Joins us for our Friday morning talk line. Susie just
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  Speaker 2: got a ton of information to share as far as
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  Speaker 2: Lee County Council on eighteen activities is concerned. We want
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  Speaker 2: to take one more look at the calendar, Susie, because
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  Speaker 2: there is an important event in August. I see that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be kind of a delicious event that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to host along with Sock Valley Bank. Tell us
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  Speaker 2: about this.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be doing a fundraiser. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be called root Beer Float Social. We'll be taking a
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  Speaker 3: free will offering.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll be having root beer.
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  Speaker 3: Floats for all along with the singing styles of Larry Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so he'll be performing at musical entertainment by
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  Speaker 2: Larry Johnson. But it's a root Beer Float Social and
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  Speaker 2: it's a fundraiser, as Susie put it, sponsored by Stock
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  Speaker 2: Valley Bank and again Proceeds what I'm saying, what I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking here, You're going to purchase your root beer floats
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  Speaker 2: and money's are going to go to Lee County.
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  Speaker 1: Council on Aging. Is that right, Susie correct?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Proceeds supports senior services then throughout Lee County through
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  Speaker 2: Louie County Council on Agent. This is August the seventh.
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  Speaker 2: It runs from two until four pm. A root Beer
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  Speaker 2: Float Social. I like it, especially talking about these warm
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  Speaker 2: days ahead. I wish you would have had this suitor,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll have to wait until August before again the
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  Speaker 2: group Beer Floats Social at the Lee County Council on Aging.
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  Speaker 2: That's August the seventh, from two until four pm. Now,
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  Speaker 2: before we get to some expansion of Lee County Council
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  Speaker 2: on Aging services, Susie, you wanted to talk about a
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  Speaker 2: couple of trips that the Lee County Council on Aging
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  Speaker 2: is offering. I guess starting this later on this year,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna take some trips and you want to mention
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  Speaker 2: a couple of these.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just briefly, I wanted to We have four wonderful trips.
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  Speaker 3: Find up Mount Rushmore and Buy Hill in October, Myrtle
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  Speaker 3: Beach shows in December, then exploring Scotland and Ireland in
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  Speaker 3: May of twenty twenty six, and in the fall of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six will be going to Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is And I'll tell you what is
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  Speaker 2: what is good here, Susie, And we should put this out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, membership to the Lee County Council in Aging
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  Speaker 2: provides maybe some you know, some perks when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to these trips. Right, if you are a member with
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  Speaker 2: the Lee County Council on Aging, you could be in
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  Speaker 2: line for some really great perks, you know, associated with
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  Speaker 2: all of these great things going on at the Lee
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  Speaker 2: County Council on Aging. So Susie really wanted to kind
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  Speaker 2: of emphasize today too. You know, becoming a member of
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  Speaker 2: the Lee County Council in Aging. That's easy to do.
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  Speaker 4: Right, That's really easy to do.
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  Speaker 3: We have membership applications right at the front desk. It
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  Speaker 3: helps give you a discount on all the trips that
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  Speaker 3: we do.
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  Speaker 4: It's just great fun.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, so you know, think about it.
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  Speaker 2: There are some you know, some stipulations that you know
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  Speaker 2: you need to be you know again in that category
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  Speaker 2: for Lee County Council on Aging membership. But as Susie mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: membership is easy to do, and when you're a member,
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  Speaker 2: you are provided with a lot of discounts, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of perks on things like these trips that Susie just mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore, Black Hills in October this year, Myrtle Beach
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  Speaker 2: in December of this year, Scotland, Ireland and Italy are
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  Speaker 2: you kidding me? In twenty twenty six. So a lot
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  Speaker 2: of trips being planned by your Lee County Council on Aging.
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  Speaker 2: And again those members that are involved and those that
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  Speaker 2: are signed up through the Lee County Council on Aging
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  Speaker 2: get first DIBs on you know, taking advantage of these
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  Speaker 2: trips as they're being planned through the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 2: on aging Susie, with our latter portion of our talk
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  Speaker 2: line today, we wanted to talk about the expansion of
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  Speaker 2: your services into our Stock Valley area and again, with
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  Speaker 2: great support from some organizations, you're able to kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, increase your outreach.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to talk about that today.
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  Speaker 4: We are so fortunate.
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  Speaker 3: Last year at n AIRE gave us computers so we
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  Speaker 3: could get our computer lab back up and running here
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  Speaker 3: at the center, and then this year they gave us
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  Speaker 3: equipment to go out into the community and have fatellite
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  Speaker 3: office hours. I'm just so excited we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to go to Popa, Franklin Grove and boy in
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  Speaker 3: Ashton and set up shop and service all the people
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  Speaker 3: of Lee County.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're predominantly looking at the library locations, right, Susie,
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about this expansion of these services that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be visiting.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the libraries have given us free, free space to
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  Speaker 3: work out of, free electricity and pre internet, so we're
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  Speaker 3: very fortunate.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about that partnership.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about some of the services that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: offer now, with this expansion, what are you going to
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  Speaker 2: be offering then?
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes I don't think people know what we do,
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  Speaker 3: but we're really I love this. How many times have
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  Speaker 3: you gotten some mail and you just don't quite understand it?
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  Speaker 3: You can come to us and we can read it
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  Speaker 3: for you, and nine times out of ten we can
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  Speaker 3: fix it for you. Whether it's re certifying for snap benefits,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's reading your Medicare or Medicaid information forms that
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  Speaker 3: you get, we can help you through that process. We
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  Speaker 3: also offer in these areas. Our gal can help you
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  Speaker 3: with technology. If you need help with your smartphone or
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  Speaker 3: if you need help with your laptop, we can help
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  Speaker 3: you do that with some basic skills. We can help
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  Speaker 3: you apply for the discounts for license, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for ten dollars if you meet the qualifications. We also
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  Speaker 3: have free phones, and of course are Medicare Medicaid counseling
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  Speaker 3: that we can do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that window is going to be
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  Speaker 2: coming up here as time goes by. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: days go by real quick, Susie. And you know Medicare
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  Speaker 2: and Medicaid counseling are always premium when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: the Lee County Council on Aging because I know that
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  Speaker 2: you know, your associates and your staff, they fill up
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  Speaker 2: fast with you know, appointments, things like that when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to understanding Medicare and Medicaid. So again that service
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  Speaker 2: offered through the Lee County Council on Aging and especially
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  Speaker 2: you know with this expansion, as Susie mentioned, into the
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  Speaker 2: libraries of Lee County, into the country manor into the
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  Speaker 2: high Rise, they're going to be again located at all
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  Speaker 2: of these areas providing services from the Lee County Council
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  Speaker 2: on Aging. Plus obviously look for them. There are always
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  Speaker 2: a area events things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to be at Patuny.
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  Speaker 2: Festival this year, Susie, Anything going on during the festival
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  Speaker 2: as far as the Lee County Council, No, yeah, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But we you know, there are some things that we
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  Speaker 3: can't take out to the community, but we're here. We
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  Speaker 3: have a caregiver support group that meets the first Tuesday
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  Speaker 3: of the month at one o'clock. We have card games,
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  Speaker 3: we have lifescape meals. So hopefully we'll we'll be here
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  Speaker 3: drugging along.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: What's your phone number at the Lee County Council on
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  Speaker 2: Aging in case a person has questions about some of
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  Speaker 2: this activity that we talked about today, Susie, it's eight.
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  Speaker 3: One five two eight nine two three six.
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  Speaker 2: And I encourage you going online to their website as well,
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  Speaker 2: because that's where you get a lot of Lee County
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  Speaker 2: Council on Agent in from. Plus, you can look at
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  Speaker 2: their Golden Echo, which is Publishers published and produced, and
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  Speaker 2: you know that's always got a whole bunch of information
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  Speaker 2: as well. So again check that out along with the
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  Speaker 2: news and information from the Lee County Council on Agent
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  Speaker 2: by calling eight one to five two eight eight nine
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  Speaker 2: two three six. A great talk line with Susie Welch today, Susie.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else to add? I think we got everything else
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  Speaker 1: that you wanted to talk about. Anything else to add?
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  Speaker 4: Just check us out come Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, that what we're all about. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That Senior Fair on Tuesday, the twenty fourth, it's an
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  Speaker 2: open house and senior fair. It takes place at the
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  Speaker 2: Lee County Council on Aging Senior Center. Again, check that out.
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  Speaker 2: As Susie mentioned, that runs that Senior Fair from ten
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  Speaker 2: until one at their Senior Center location in downtown Dixon, Susie,
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  Speaker 2: A pleasure chalking with you today. It's always a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: having you on board, ma'am. Don't be a stranger. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have you back on board with us later in the year,
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  Speaker 2: but for now, thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Steve M.
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  Speaker 2: Welch is the executive director of our Lee County Council
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  Speaker 2: on aging our guest today on the Friday Morning talk
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  Speaker 2: line here at wix.