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Speaker 1: Anything in.
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Speaker 2: Well, good morning everybody. Listen. If you are, first of all,
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Speaker 2: happy Tuesday, it's Giving Tuesday. We have some snow coming down.
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Speaker 2: We'll give you the forecast here in just a little bit,
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Speaker 2: but listen. If you're looking for a holiday gift that
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Speaker 2: everybody is going to appreciate this year, we've got one
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Speaker 2: you got an appointment coming up in the year, or
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Speaker 2: twenty ninety. They're open eight to five Monday through Friday.
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Speaker 2: So one of our presenting sponsors, I am so happy
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Speaker 2: to tell you that it is going to be a
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Speaker 2: white Christmas at least if we don't get you some
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Speaker 2: fifty degree days here. But a winter storm warning from
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Speaker 2: Rutland to Orange County, winter weather advisories elsewhere into early Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: snow is going to be moderate to heavier times across
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Speaker 2: central Vermont, especially across southern Vermont. Accumulations here in central
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Speaker 2: Vermont two to five inches, says Roger Hill. Most of
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Speaker 2: Vermont expecting anywhere from four to eight inches, slightly less
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Speaker 2: in the Champlain Valley. Tonight, clouds, light snow showers continuing.
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Speaker 2: We'll get down into the mid two upper teens Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: Lots of clouds, partial sunshine in the afternoon, hies into
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Speaker 2: the mid twenties, and then blustery on Thursday. Scattered snowshowers
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Speaker 2: in early high of around twenty five to thirty, but
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Speaker 2: attempts can be falling through the twenties Thursday afternoon, and
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Speaker 2: that's going to be setting us up for a real
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Speaker 2: cold one on Friday. Highs only into the teens on Friday,
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Speaker 2: with mostly sunny skies going to be frigid, though it
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Speaker 2: is giving Tuesday, and within the hour you're going to
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Speaker 2: be learning about how you can support two critical local
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Speaker 2: agencies that do the most good in our community for
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Speaker 2: thousands of Vermonors seven days a week, twenty four hours
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Speaker 2: a day. We have a lot to talk about. Emily
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Speaker 2: McKenna is with us, our guest from the Central ver
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Speaker 2: Mountain Home Health and Hospice. I'm so happy to have
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Speaker 2: you you back, How are you.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great? Thank you so glad to be here.
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Speaker 2: This is this is an opportunity for folks to jump
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Speaker 2: on the global movement of Giving Tuesday, kind of the
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Speaker 2: the post Thanksgiving Black Friday, and I think yesterday was Monday,
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Speaker 2: Cyber Monday. Yes, Giving Tuesday is massive, and some people
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Speaker 2: emily wait until Giving Tuesday before they know that they're
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Speaker 2: going to give to something on Giving Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think a lot of organizations like ours sort
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Speaker 3: of capitalize on this movement, which I think in part
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Speaker 3: is an antidote to all of the post Thanksgiving frenzy,
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Speaker 3: like you said, and for some people they wait for
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Speaker 3: Giving Tuesday to give. We've had several people call and
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Speaker 3: say they wanted to give their gift today really already already. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: So we sent out our letter, we got out our communications,
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Speaker 3: and they called and said, I really want my gift
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Speaker 3: to be applied to this wonderful match that we have.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: And we're grateful because it gives us an opportunity to
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Speaker 3: talk about our year end appeal and to get people
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Speaker 3: excited as we are about making a gift to our organization.
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Speaker 2: You know that I could easily talk for hours about
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Speaker 2: all of the things that Central Vermont Home Health and
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Speaker 2: Hospice does and has done for how many.
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Speaker 3: Years now, since nineteen eleven, So do the math for me.
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Speaker 3: It's still still really a long time, over one hundred years. Yes,
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Speaker 3: I know that for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yes, yeah, a lot of people don't
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Speaker 2: know that, they don't realize that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a really interesting history. We started out
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Speaker 3: with one visiting nurse in Montpellier in nineteen eleven who
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Speaker 3: was accompanying a physician, and really over time we have
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Speaker 3: grown and expanded our service area to encompass twenty three
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Speaker 3: towns in Central Vermont, all of Washington County we serve,
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Speaker 3: and three towns in Orange County Blamestown, Washington and Orange.
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Speaker 2: And that's something, Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 2: So many FRO honors have benefited from aging in place,
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Speaker 2: staying at home. It is so important. There's all kinds
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Speaker 2: of different care that Central from Home Health and Hospice
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Speaker 2: gives around the clock.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, as you said, twenty four hours a day, seven
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Speaker 3: days a week, we are always open. We have care
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Speaker 3: on the weekends on holidays, So if you are in
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Speaker 3: the hospital or have surgery and need to come home
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Speaker 3: really any time, we will accept a referral if you
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Speaker 3: qualify for our services. And as you said, we have
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Speaker 3: care for people of all ages, from new parents and
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Speaker 3: children and families to healthy active adults who may need
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Speaker 3: surgery a joint replacement and want to have that rehabit home,
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Speaker 3: or if you end up in the hospital for whatever reason,
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Speaker 3: we can take care of you when you're ready to
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Speaker 3: come home, so you don't have to stay in the
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Speaker 3: hospital or go to a facility. And we have our
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Speaker 3: end of life care program, our hospice program, and our
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Speaker 3: consultative palliative care program, which helps people who are experiencing
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Speaker 3: or living with a serious illness and they need some
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Speaker 3: pain and symptom management, education, help, connecting with resources, and
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Speaker 3: advanced care planning. So we really we do a lot.
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Speaker 2: I was just hearing you at some point I would
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Speaker 2: love to chat with Kelly. Oh, well, what an amazing
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Speaker 2: resource and team member that you guys have there. She
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Speaker 2: does so much.
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Speaker 3: Agreed, She's amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just mention here before we get into the
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Speaker 2: thick of it here for a few minutes. We're not
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Speaker 2: going to do a long episode here this morning, but
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Speaker 2: we want to give this official launch to the end
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Speaker 2: of Year Appeal on Giving Tuesday. Last year was massive.
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Speaker 2: But let's say this, it was very successful last year.
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Speaker 2: You met your goal, but I think it was I
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Speaker 2: think the important thing to mention here is that we're
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Speaker 2: not necessarily looking for big hitters, big heroes. The power
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Speaker 2: in numbers is what's huge.
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Speaker 3: Yes, And we try to say this often really not
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Speaker 3: just not Giving Tuesday or for the year end appeal.
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Speaker 3: Every day every dollar counts literally, yes, it does. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean today we happen to have every dollar is
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Speaker 3: doubled because of this generous match that we have. But
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Speaker 3: we have Sandy Versus. Our CEO likes to mention and
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Speaker 3: often mentions how how supportive our community is, and they
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Speaker 3: come and support us. They come out in so many
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Speaker 3: different ways by giving a five dollars or twenty five
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Speaker 3: dollars donation or many many times that they appreciate and
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Speaker 3: they value what we do and our presence. And I
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Speaker 3: think what we like to say is that you really
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Speaker 3: don't know when you might need CVH, but when you do.
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Speaker 3: We will be there and we really are there for
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Speaker 3: there for the commun unity.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of fundraising efforts, you had a really successful golf
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Speaker 2: tournament this past summer.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it was our twenty ninth annual Hospice Memorial Golf Tournament.
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Speaker 3: The net fundraising was just shy of forty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 3: We had amazing supporters come in as sponsors. I can't
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Speaker 3: even remember how many sponsors we had, but really it's
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Speaker 3: a fun, fun day for everyone to come and to
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Speaker 3: reconnect at the beginning of the summer, and you can
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Speaker 3: feel people sort of you know, getting out of the
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Speaker 3: winter mud season feelings and getting out in the golf
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Speaker 3: course and just really enjoying the day and the opportunity
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Speaker 3: to support an organization they care about, to come together
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Speaker 3: and reconnect with one another. And our thirtieth golf tournament
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Speaker 3: will be next June. We hosted the country Club of Berry,
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Speaker 3: so planning for that will remarkably begin begin very soon,
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Speaker 3: even though there's snowing down, so we'll start.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. A couple of times over the last several years,
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Speaker 2: you have partnered with some local businesses right here in
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Speaker 2: central Vermont to launch this end of year appeal a
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Speaker 2: huge campaign, a huge fundraiser, and can you tell us
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Speaker 2: about some of them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we always have an honorary chair of our appeals.
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Speaker 3: This year we're very lucky and honored to have Tom
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Speaker 3: McLay as the honorary chair of the appeal. In the past,
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Speaker 3: we decided to put a little effort into the Giving
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Speaker 3: Tuesday movement and partner with a local business. We had
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Speaker 3: Ruben Bennett and his wife, Shalen, who were absolutely wonderful.
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Speaker 3: I can still remember going to their house to take
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Speaker 3: just the really beautiful photos of the family together outside.
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Speaker 3: Rubin and his wife and family have been great supporters.
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Speaker 3: So that was really our first Giving Tuesday match in
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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, and then last year speaking of the golf tournament,
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Speaker 3: Jeff Gould is just you know, he has been a supporter,
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Speaker 3: a player, a sponsor of that event so many years.
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Speaker 3: Gold Plumbing and Heating. He came in with a Giving
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Speaker 3: Tuesday match and we exceeded the goal several times over.
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Speaker 3: And his mother was cared for by our home health
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Speaker 3: program and our hospice program, and she herself was a
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Speaker 3: nurse who cared for the community for many years, and
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Speaker 3: so he and his sister were the honorary chairs of
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Speaker 3: an appeal and then decided to partner with us for
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Speaker 3: a giving Tuesday match. He is just so generous and
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Speaker 3: I finally got to meet him in person for the
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Speaker 3: first time. I hadn't met him at the golf tournament
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Speaker 3: last year, and I felt like gave him a hug.
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Speaker 3: I felt like I was meeting an old friend because
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Speaker 3: we communicate all the time, just had never happened to
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Speaker 3: meet in person.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and these aren't these aren't one hitters. These are
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Speaker 2: people that they're linked in and locked in with Central
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Speaker 2: for mount Home Health and Hospice always they are.
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Speaker 3: They've been generous. We're very lucky. Again, we have really
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Speaker 3: consistent generous supporters and generous not just in the dollar
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Speaker 3: amount that they're giving us, but their time, their volunteerism,
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Speaker 3: their support doing all sorts of things for us. So correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're really lucky here in Central from mom.
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Speaker 2: Now this year you are teaming up with the brothers
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Speaker 2: and the partners at Connor Contracting. Yep, tell me about them.
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Speaker 3: I want to get all the names, Fred, Stephen, Michael
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Speaker 3: and John Connor. They are the partners and brothers behind
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Speaker 3: Connor Contracting, which is a very successful local general contracting
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Speaker 3: and building business. John could probably describe what they do
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Speaker 3: in more detail and better than I can. But they
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Speaker 3: have offices in Saint Albans and Berlin. Several of the
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Speaker 3: brothers live in this community, and as John and Stephen
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Speaker 3: shared with me, they are committed to supporting local organizations
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Speaker 3: in the communities where they're employees live and work and
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Speaker 3: where they have offices. And over the years, the Connors
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Speaker 3: Connor Contracting has been super super supportive of CVJH.
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Speaker 2: Well, we get John Connor with us right now, John,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Can you hear us? Well, I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: why we can't hear him. Are you there? John? We'll
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Speaker 2: try him back here in just a little bit, but
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Speaker 2: he is. He's stepping up in a big way. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Share yeap.
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Speaker 3: The organ the company, and the four brothers have pledged
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Speaker 3: a twenty five hundred dollars Giving Tuesday match challenge for
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Speaker 3: our community and donors. So if we raise twenty five
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Speaker 3: hundred dollars today on Giving Tuesday, December second, Connor Contracting
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Speaker 3: will match that amount dollar for dollar, which means that
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Speaker 3: cv AH is the beneficiary of five thousand dollars for
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Speaker 3: the care that we provide in the community, and again,
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Speaker 3: just a really great way for us to kick off
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Speaker 3: and add some energy to our year end appeal.
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Speaker 2: Amazing, John, I think we got you here right, Yes,
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Speaker 2: good morning, this is John.
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Speaker 4: How are you today?
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Speaker 2: John? You know, Emily's just tell me what you guys
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Speaker 2: are willing to do here, and please you do tell.
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Speaker 4: How much time you have? No, I'm just kidding. We
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Speaker 4: are so jad, We're so happy to be involved in this.
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Speaker 4: Home Health and hospice is such an amazing organization there,
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Speaker 4: the folks that they employ, the care that they provide,
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Speaker 4: the respect and dignity and professionalism with which they provide
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Speaker 4: the services to patients and need is second to none.
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Speaker 4: So my brothers and I are very proud and very
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Speaker 4: happy to be able to share some financial resources to
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Speaker 4: hopefully assist them in kicking off a good campaign and
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Speaker 4: providing some you know, greatly needed recent sources that they
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Speaker 4: can then pay forward to other patients in need.
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Speaker 2: So we're talking about it potentially five grand here coming
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Speaker 2: in in a short period of time. If that's that's awesome, John.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is great. We're like, as I said, we're
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Speaker 4: very happy to be part of it.
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Speaker 2: Why what's what's uh, what hits a nerve with you
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Speaker 2: with Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice.
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Speaker 4: Well, our experience has been several decades long, started with
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Speaker 4: an extended family member receiving some end of life care.
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Speaker 4: Certainly at that time, the impression that was made from
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Speaker 4: the care that was given is, you know, it is lifelong,
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Speaker 4: and they provide that the services and care at a
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Speaker 4: time when families and individuals are are so vulnerable, and
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Speaker 4: more often than not, people are going through it for
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Speaker 4: the very first time, so there's a just a sea
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Speaker 4: of unknown and these folks are the common you know,
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Speaker 4: they bring in the care and the professionalism to a
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Speaker 4: very chaotic, challenging time of life and not only care
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Speaker 4: for the patient, but care for the family as a whole.
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Speaker 4: I've also had a firsthand experience with a family member
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Speaker 4: who has been cared for bi Central of them on
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Speaker 4: home Health and hospice, and it is just incredible that
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Speaker 4: you know, they they come in and they'll they'll help
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Speaker 4: you through post surgical or care at home to get
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Speaker 4: you back on your feet. And as I said, they
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Speaker 4: not only care for the patient, but they provide care
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Speaker 4: what as they provide care for the family they're providing
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Speaker 4: care for the whole for the whole family through the
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Speaker 4: care for the patient, and it's just a great organization.
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Speaker 4: And you know, our state of Vermont is all built
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Speaker 4: on community. It's built on relationships and folks helping each
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Speaker 4: other and neighbors and et cetera. And and that's who Center
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Speaker 4: from on Home Health and Hospice is. They are our neighbors.
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Speaker 4: They are their caregivers live in our community. We live
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Speaker 4: in the community, our team members and our employees live
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Speaker 4: in the community. So it just makes great sense to
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Speaker 4: be able to continue that cycle of care by providing
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Speaker 4: whatever we can to help them help others.
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Speaker 2: H just a big thank you. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what else to say other than thanks for stepping up.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, we don't.
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Speaker 4: Yeah we don't. We're not we don't. We're not looking
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Speaker 4: for the thanks. You know, We're just happy to be
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Speaker 4: able to help them because they do such incredible work.
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Speaker 4: They're they're the heroes here. They're the ones that deserve.
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Speaker 2: To be thanked. Emily's here with us this morning, and
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Speaker 2: I know she's quite grateful for you.
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Speaker 4: Great. We're we are happy to help them. They're they're
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Speaker 4: a great organization. Again, I think you know the connections
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Speaker 4: that that they make with people, and that you know
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Speaker 4: the care that they provide. It just it goes forward
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Speaker 4: from one person to the next. And the knowledge, the compassion,
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Speaker 4: the care, the professionalism that they provide.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 4: It's a wonderful thing in a trying time and have
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Speaker 4: that level of care in our community is very valuable.
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Speaker 2: Well listen, man, I know you got a snowy job
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Speaker 2: site this morning. Yeah, we'll let you get back to it.
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Speaker 2: But thank you ever so much, John, Thank.
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Speaker 4: You, John, so so happy, so happy to have a
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Speaker 4: few minutes together. Thank you for assisting with the campaign,
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Speaker 4: JD for all you do in the community as well,
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Speaker 4: and we look forward to talking further. I hope everybody
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Speaker 4: has a wonderful holiday season.
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Speaker 2: Thanks John. Wow, what a great guy. Incredible. We should
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Speaker 2: mention that giving is open right now on your website.
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Speaker 3: Giving is open right now, correct, yep, we can. You
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Speaker 3: can call the agency at eight oh two two two
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Speaker 3: three one eight seven eight, go to our website at
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Speaker 3: CVHHH dot org or on our Facebook page. There will
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Speaker 3: be plenty of links and reminders today.
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Speaker 2: Okay, uh cv HHH dot org. And again that phone
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Speaker 2: number eight oh two two two three, eighteen seventy eight.
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Speaker 2: I'll put that up in the comments here. I mean,
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Speaker 2: bottom line, you could just call and say, hey, here's
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Speaker 2: my card, throw ten bucks on it.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Uh. And like I said earlier, the power of numbers
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Speaker 2: is massive. If enough people do that, we're gonna hit
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Speaker 2: twenty five hundred bucks in no time.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 2: Yep, Yes, this is wonderful. Please get back in here soon.
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Speaker 3: I will. We have I will come back said.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there's so much, there's so much that is so
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Speaker 2: much more that you guys are doing, and we should
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Speaker 2: we should say this isn't something that closes at midnight tonight.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be going on, as we said,
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Speaker 2: through the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: Yep, Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a single day match challenge. However,
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Speaker 3: we are our year end appeal does go through the
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Speaker 3: end of the year. And I do want to just
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Speaker 3: throw a plug to Tom McClay and his wonderful letter
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Speaker 3: that he wrote.
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Speaker 2: Amazing. I read it last night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he I will say quickly. He closes the
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Speaker 3: letter by saying, in this community, neighbors take care of neighbors.
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Speaker 3: It's just what we do. And I think that idea
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Speaker 3: is what motivates everyone who works at CVHHU, the Connors.
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Speaker 3: It brings us together and I think it's really important.
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Speaker 2: And his wife, Charlotte, what a testament to the real
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Speaker 2: spirit behind caregiving.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, Charlotte was a They have a really a
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Speaker 3: really nice story. They were married for forty nine years.
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Speaker 3: They met, they lived in neighboring towns in Vermont, went
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Speaker 3: to college and reconnected and got married after college. And
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Speaker 3: he said to me when they moved to Phoenix, I
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Speaker 3: think somewhere in Arizona, he said. He can still remember
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Speaker 3: her going out to her first job in pigtails, just
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Speaker 3: eager and excited and passionate. And she took that, you know,
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Speaker 3: I think wherever she was, as did Tom. And when
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Speaker 3: he was talking about his upbringing and he was talking
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Speaker 3: about Charlotte's Charlotte's mother was the head nurse at Mount
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Speaker 3: Ascutney Hospital, overseeing the ED and he said, Charlotte grew
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Speaker 3: up in a house where everyone called her mother Laurie
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Speaker 3: if they needed anything, and she was sort of the
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Speaker 3: go to person. And Tom had a different experience growing up.
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Speaker 3: Based on what he said to me, but they both
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Speaker 3: shared this commitment to just doing what you can to
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Speaker 3: help the people around you. And when Charlotte and Tom
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Speaker 3: settled in Central Vermont, Charlotte volunteered for CVHHH giving flu shots.
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Speaker 3: She was a hospice volunteer, she was on our board,
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Speaker 3: and she was really involved in the movement supporting childbirth
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Speaker 3: and formalizing childbirth education. She was always very committed to
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Speaker 3: public health, maternal and family, child health, and education.
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Speaker 2: So Tom, if you're listening, I would first of all
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Speaker 2: thank you, and secondly, I would love to have you
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Speaker 2: share our microphones here. You are very clearly keeping the
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Speaker 2: legacy of your wife alive. And well, I just got
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Speaker 2: a text from a guy here in the comments, Brian
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Speaker 2: McDonald says he gives away his profits from his company
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Speaker 2: and he's done this for the last twenty years and
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Speaker 2: he's got a check coming your way.
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Speaker 3: So I'm very appreciative. Thank you, Brian.
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Speaker 2: Amazing. I just love it. I love stuff like this.
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Speaker 2: Let's give an update as we get closer.
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Speaker 3: I will keep you posted.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as we get closer to the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: And thanks to the all of the Connors for being
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Speaker 2: for stepping up this year. All that's fine, that's fine.
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Speaker 2: They are a huge, huge part of Central Vermont Home
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Speaker 2: Health and Hospices twenty twenty five year end fundraising appeal.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate them so much. Listen, be well. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: chat with Downstreet Housing and Community Development here in just
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Speaker 2: a little bit. But they also have some big, big
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Speaker 2: things to share with you this morning, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: get to it. We're gonna do it all, We're gonna
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Speaker 2: get through it. We have so much to talk about.
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Speaker 2: We have a community calendar that is just burst in
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Speaker 2: at the seams. We have a Toys for Tots toy
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Speaker 2: drive that's going to be happening Saturday from noon to
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Speaker 2: five up at the Berlin Mall at five below. I'll
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Speaker 2: be there part of that. We have some great businesses
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Speaker 2: that are teaming up with that, and of course the
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Speaker 2: Central Vermont Christmas for Kids, the big coin drop coming
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Speaker 2: up Saturday, just two of so many events, and of
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Speaker 2: course the Battle and Barry eighteen. And they've got some
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Speaker 2: stuff on the Donningbruk Fight Promotions page about Central Vermont
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Speaker 2: Christmas for Kids and your opportunity to help that cause
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Speaker 2: during the main event Saturday night at the Burry Auditorium.
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Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a little bit, appreciate your
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Speaker 2: eyes and your ears. Thank you so much. God bless
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Speaker 2: and thank you so much to the Central Vermont Home
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Speaker 2: Health and Hospice, not only a presenting sponsor here of
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Speaker 2: the aired out podcast, but also an integral part of
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Speaker 2: our community that we need so so much. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: to you in just a little bit here in the
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Speaker 2: aired out podcast.
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Speaker 1: To PAS