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Speaker 1: WIXC. It is time for continuing coverage of the sixty
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Speaker 1: first annual Dixon Petunia Festival. I am Steve Marco and
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Speaker 1: it's talk long time on this Tuesday that we are
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Speaker 1: going to devote to coverage of our Petunia Festival as
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Speaker 1: we take a look at events and activities for this
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Speaker 1: event coming up during the fourth of July Holliday. We
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Speaker 1: couldn't start it any better than with Lyle Grobe in
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Speaker 1: the rhythm Ramber. This is a song that was recorded,
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Speaker 1: I believe, around sixty years ago and it has made
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Speaker 1: his way into the archives of us here at wix
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Speaker 1: in we play at every Petunia Festival weekend, but we're
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Speaker 1: getting an early start on our coverage at Petunia Festival
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Speaker 1: today because we have a special individual in to talk
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Speaker 1: about news and information with your Dixon Petunia Festival for
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Speaker 1: twenty five twenty She is the second vice president of
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Speaker 1: the Dixon Petunia Festival Board and she has lined with
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Speaker 1: us in studio this morning. Her name is Leah Nelson
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Speaker 1: and she is with us today on WIXON.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, ma'am, Good morning Steve. It's great to be here.
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Speaker 1: It is nice to have you with us. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: joining us. Today and we appreciate Ley's visit here at
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Speaker 1: wix in as our against Spotlighter Patunity Festival twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at the events going
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Speaker 1: on during our Petunia Festival. Looks like we've got a
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Speaker 1: full lineup this year, some traditional activities and we're going
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Speaker 1: to splits them in with some new activities.
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Speaker 3: Right absolutely, Yeah, we've we're really excited about our schedule
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Speaker 3: this year.
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Speaker 2: Lots going on, lots of new stuff, lots of old stuff.
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Speaker 1: Well, it'll be craazy and Ley is going to do
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Speaker 1: again run down. What we're going to do is we're
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Speaker 1: going to devote this time before a thirty to looking
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Speaker 1: at the first two days of the Patunia Festival and
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Speaker 1: the last two days we'll devote in the second portion
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Speaker 1: of our talk line between eight thirty and nine here
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Speaker 1: at Wixon. Now the Dixon Petunia Festival this year runs
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Speaker 1: from July to third through July sixth those are the
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Speaker 1: major dates. But we've already started with some Petunia Festival
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Speaker 1: activities under the stand the Queen and Her Royalty. We're
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Speaker 1: up at the the area up in the A shopping
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Speaker 1: center again taking part in that activity. So that kind
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Speaker 1: of kicked off Petunia Festival activities for twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: But there are a lot of pre Fourth of July
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Speaker 1: weekend activities that we wanted a spotlight in this portion
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Speaker 1: and you've got yes, what's going on?
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Speaker 3: So starting off, like Steve said, we had the Royalty
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Speaker 3: Party at my play Village on Thursday, and then coming
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Speaker 3: up on Saturday, we have a new event, the three
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Speaker 3: v three Soccer Tournament, which will be up at the
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Speaker 3: meadows Field.
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Speaker 2: Super excited about that.
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Speaker 3: That's been a lot of hard work and we're excited
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Speaker 3: to have the kids a part of the festival playing soccer.
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Speaker 3: Then on Tuesday, the first, we have quarter Mania at
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Speaker 3: the Elks. Doors open at five, vendor sales take place,
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Speaker 3: and then the auction starts at six. Again on the first,
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Speaker 3: and then again on the second, the Youth's Tennis Classic
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Speaker 3: the Emma Hubs Tennis Courts. That'll start, like I said,
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Speaker 3: the first in the second. Then Wednesday the second, Crafts
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Speaker 3: and Royalty at the Dixon Public Library one to three
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Speaker 3: with the our Royalty, all the high schoolers that give
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Speaker 3: their time, the Queen and Pinky and everybody else. Wednesday
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Speaker 3: the carnival actually starts. That'll start five to eleven Wednesday night.
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Speaker 3: If you want pre sale for the carnival that's still
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Speaker 3: going on, our office will be open Friday, Thursday and
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Speaker 3: then all early next week before the festival starts, and
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Speaker 3: you can get pre sale there, get your tickets cheaper.
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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Yeah, you can actually save money by purchasing
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Speaker 1: pre tickets to the carnival and really to the entertainment
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Speaker 1: stages as well. You can also get right pre tickets
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Speaker 1: to the entertainment stay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So pre tickets for the entertainment venue also end
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Speaker 3: on Wednesday right now, thirty five dollars for the full weekend.
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Speaker 3: That's a ten dollars savings overall, so make sure you
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Speaker 3: get in and get those ahead of time, otherwise it'll
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Speaker 3: be fifteen at the gate each night.
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Speaker 1: So yep. And as Leah mentioned, the carnival tickets being
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Speaker 1: sold again at the Petunia Festival location that's on Hennepin
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Speaker 1: Avenue and Dixon. You can find them there during open
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Speaker 1: hours at the office and you can get again your
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Speaker 1: carnival tickets at a reduced cost yep, if you purchase
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Speaker 1: them before the carnival actually starts. In as Leah mention,
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Speaker 1: it is Wednesday, July the second. That the carnival that's
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Speaker 1: in this second.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the carnival starts the second.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So the carnival is going to start the second
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Speaker 1: again in front of the major Patunia Festival days, which
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Speaker 1: as I spotlighted at the top, it's July third through
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Speaker 1: the sixth, those are the major days. But the carnival
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Speaker 1: gets an early start on July the second. So there
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Speaker 1: you go, some pre platuny festival activities. You can catch
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Speaker 1: all of this activity online. We're going to give you
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Speaker 1: again website addresses, we're going to give you Petunia Festival
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Speaker 1: headquarter locations. Leone Nelson as our guest today, our second
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Speaker 1: vice president of the Dixon Petunia Festival Board of Directors
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five, and she is helming our coverage
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Speaker 1: of Petunia Festival today here at WIXM. Let's jump now
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Speaker 1: into the first couple of days of the Dixon Petunia Festival.
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Speaker 1: We start July the third with a traditional activity that's
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Speaker 1: on the Petunia Festival calendar that's always presented, yea, and
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Speaker 1: that's pancakes and more right.
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Speaker 3: Yes, pancakes at the Dixon High School cafeteria from six
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Speaker 3: thirty to eleven. That'll be actually every day at the festival,
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Speaker 3: so make sure you get down there and have breakfast.
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Speaker 3: Moving on, starting at noon, we have Bingo at the
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Speaker 3: Elks Lodge that'll be new to three. Make sure you
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Speaker 3: all get out for that. That's always a huge hit.
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Speaker 3: On Thursday, we also have the special needs quiet hours
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Speaker 3: at the festival that does need to be registered for
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Speaker 3: ahead of time. So if you want to be a
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Speaker 3: part of those special needs quiet hours, make sure you
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Speaker 3: get into our office ahead of time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, this and then we should point this out. This
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Speaker 1: is at the carnival grounds. Yes, right, these are quiet
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Speaker 1: hours at the carnival grounds that the carnival has provided
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Speaker 1: for those that you cannot really take the louder noises,
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Speaker 1: you know, and it may be health causes here, I mean,
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Speaker 1: may be health concerns some that can't you deal with
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Speaker 1: the loudness, you know, as we're all used to, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of music and there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: sounds at the carnival, you know, but they're providing a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours of quiet time associated with the carnival,
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Speaker 1: and as leighan Nelson mentioned, you can pick up riskband
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Speaker 1: special Risk bands.
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Speaker 2: Then yep, yes, at the office.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, so those are at the Patunia
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Speaker 1: Festival headquarters office on Hennepin Avenue, and we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that in just a bit. But that again is from
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Speaker 1: two and till four. It's the special quiet hours at
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Speaker 1: the carnival again on Lincoln Statue Drive again in front
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Speaker 1: of Dixon High School. What else is going on on
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Speaker 1: July third?
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Speaker 3: Then starting on the third, of course, our entertainment starts.
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Speaker 3: Gates open at five. Everything's going to be going on.
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Speaker 3: We've got all of our food vendors down there and
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Speaker 3: some awesome music that night. So kicking off the night,
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Speaker 3: we have out of Storage at five thirty. Then six
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Speaker 3: point thirty we have the Smoking Popes. That's a I
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Speaker 3: believe Chicago based band. We've had a lot of great
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Speaker 3: feedback on them. People are excited. Okay, eight thirty we
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Speaker 3: have Hard Love. And then at nine thirty, ending out
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Speaker 3: our first night is Blind Melon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Marquee concert that will be at nine thirty.
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Speaker 1: That's on the main stage. There are two stages on
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Speaker 1: the Riverfront. There's the Reagan Stage and the main stage.
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Speaker 1: And again they'll be busy on July the third, with
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Speaker 1: all of that entertainment activity at the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: Dixon Petunia Festival. And as you mentioned, you can purchase
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Speaker 1: tickets in advance. You get some dollars off again if
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Speaker 1: you purchase that again entire package. You can actually buy
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Speaker 1: a ticket that gets you into all days ye right
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Speaker 1: of the interview exactly, yes, okay, instead of buying them separately,
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Speaker 1: you can get a one ticket package for all days
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Speaker 1: at the Petunia Festival office. Now let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: Petunia Festival headquarters where you located.
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Speaker 3: Again, our dresses seventy seven South Hennepin Avenue. Looking at
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Speaker 3: our hours for this week. We'll be open during the
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Speaker 3: city market three to seven tomorrow on.
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Speaker 1: Last day, yes, very good.
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Speaker 3: And then we'll be open ten to six on Thursday
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Speaker 3: and Friday, and then ten to six again Monday, Tuesday,
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Speaker 3: Wednesday next week before the festival.
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Speaker 1: Excellent. So again convenient hours ten until six most days
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Speaker 1: at the Patunia Festival office location in downtown Dixon. But
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Speaker 1: again during that city market they'll be open and you
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Speaker 1: can actually go in purchase your pre carnival and pre
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Speaker 1: entertainment tickets and if you need information about the Patunia Festival.
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Speaker 1: There you go. That's your headquarters right there in Dixon
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Speaker 1: from ten until six regular hours running up to the
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Speaker 1: Dixon Patunia Festival, and then during the Patunia Festival. Are
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Speaker 1: you going to be open?
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Speaker 3: The office is always open if you have questions, if
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Speaker 3: you need help with something, we're always open. We've always
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Speaker 3: got board numbers in there ready to help if it's needed.
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Speaker 1: So good, all right, let's go to Independence Day. Let's
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Speaker 1: look at the fourth of July and Independence Day after
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Speaker 1: the first day complete on the Patunia Festival schedule, Let's
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Speaker 1: run down the Fourth of July activities A busy.
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Speaker 3: One absolutely again in the morning, make sure you get
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Speaker 3: out get your pancakes. Starting at nine o'clock, we have
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Speaker 3: Brush and Bloom at the old Lee County Courthouse. Make
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Speaker 3: sure you get out there and check out all of
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Speaker 3: the artwork. That'll be nine to noon. Car show is
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Speaker 3: on Friday as well. That's ten to two at John
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Speaker 3: Dixon Park. That's been a huge hit the last couple
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Speaker 3: of years. We're super excited to have it again. Excited
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Speaker 3: to see all the cars that get out. Bingo again
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Speaker 3: noon to three at the Elks Lodge again, get there early.
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Speaker 3: There's always tons of people out there, so make sure
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Speaker 3: you get there. Family Fun Night at the First Presbyterian
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Speaker 3: Church that'll be five to seven. A bunch of local
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Speaker 3: businesses come out, have little games for the kids to play,
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Speaker 3: super fun. We've got the ice cream social down there
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Speaker 3: as well. Get your kids some ice cream at the
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Speaker 3: same time as playing all those games. Then, of course
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Speaker 3: we have all of our entertainment going on.
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Speaker 1: So we want to shift our attention as you mentioned
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Speaker 1: that family fun and the ice creams at the area
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Speaker 1: around the old Lee County Courthouse. But then starting the entertainment,
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Speaker 1: you stay at the courthouse because the municipal band right
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Speaker 1: is at the courthouse, I believe, starting at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 1: So that talk about you, you know, and you want to,
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Speaker 1: you know, you take in that, you know, if you
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Speaker 1: want to, you know, the traditional sounds of the Addiction
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Speaker 1: Municipal band that will be at the old Courthouse lawn.
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Speaker 1: They'll be there and that's a free concert. There's no
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Speaker 1: cost to putting your launchers out on the courthouse lawn
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Speaker 1: and listening to the municipal band. So that all takes
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Speaker 1: place at the again Old Lee County Courthouse. The Presbyterian
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Speaker 1: church activities, the ice cream social, all of that great
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Speaker 1: stuff going on in and around the old Lee County Courthouse.
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Speaker 1: Then go to the Riverfront and talk about explain.
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Speaker 3: So Friday night, another awesome night of music. We're all
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Speaker 3: super excited to have every single one of these bands out.
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Speaker 3: So by point thirty, we have two Stroke Johnson, they're
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Speaker 3: new to the festival, super excited to have them for
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Speaker 3: the first time. Six thirty a classic favorite Baha, they're
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Speaker 3: gonna be on the main stage. Then hop over to
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Speaker 3: the side stage and we have Kirkland again is a
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Speaker 3: great local favorite. Really and then closing out the night,
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Speaker 3: one that I think everybody's excited about, we have Two
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Speaker 3: Hype Crew back on the main stage at nine thirty.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know it seemed to be you know
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Speaker 1: that that was a band that you know, people wanted back,
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Speaker 1: and so we got them, got them back because of
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Speaker 1: a very popular stage group. Again at nine thirty on
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Speaker 1: the main stage. That highlights the entertainment again portion of
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Speaker 1: the program at the Riverfront again they'll have the food
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Speaker 1: vendors down there, the entertainment down there, and again it's
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Speaker 1: fifteen dollars a.
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Speaker 3: Night, correct, Yeah, it's fifteen dollars night. Yeah, eighteen dollars
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Speaker 3: get you in for all the food and all the entertainments.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so again take take in that at
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Speaker 1: the Riverfront. That's the fourth of July lineup for Independence date.
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Speaker 1: Le And Nelson is our guest today from the Dixon
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Speaker 1: Petunia Festival Board of Directors. She's highlighting our Patunia Festival
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Speaker 1: schedule for twenty twenty five. We're going to take a
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Speaker 1: break for news at the bottom of the hour, but
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Speaker 1: when we come back, we got two more days to highlight,
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Speaker 1: plus some other events that we want to talk about
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Speaker 1: that are associated with the Dixon Petunia Festival. As we
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Speaker 1: continue our spotlight today on wixent eight, we continue our
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Speaker 1: coverage of the twenty twenty five Dixon Petunia Festival. It's
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Speaker 1: the sixty first annual Petunia Festival and we're blowing the
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Speaker 1: lid off the Petunia Festival schedule today with the second
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Speaker 1: Vice President of the Dixon Patunia Festival Board of Directors.
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Speaker 1: Leiha Nelson is with us today here at wix in.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for spending the extra time.
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Speaker 2: First of all, man, absolutely thanks for having me well.
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Speaker 1: And before we get to our against Saturday Sunday event schedule,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to devote this time to.
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Speaker 1: How long on the Patunia Festival board for you?
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Speaker 2: Now? This is actually my third year on.
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Speaker 1: The festival board, okay, and you're enjoying you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of work, but it's what got you interested in. So
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Speaker 2: I love music, that's kind of my thing.
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Speaker 3: I used to travel around, go to concerts, work with
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Speaker 3: a few bands, doing merchant and stuff like that. So
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Speaker 3: once COVID hit, I was like, I need to find
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Speaker 3: something more local to do my music stuff with.
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Speaker 2: And I've always loved the Patunay Festival, so I decided
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Speaker 2: to apply for the board.
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Speaker 1: And sounds like a natural I am, yeah, a natural fit.
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Speaker 1: And now the second vice president, so she's moving up
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Speaker 1: the ladder so to speak. The president this year, Bethany Wright,
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Speaker 1: of course as our president of the Dixon Petunia Festival
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Speaker 1: this year, and we chatted with her earlier in the
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Speaker 1: month here at w ACCENT with pre Petunia Festival news
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Speaker 1: and information. But now we are looking at the schedule
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Speaker 1: of events for Saturday, July the fifth and Sunday July
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Speaker 1: the sixth. This is Petunia Festival weekend. We started with
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Speaker 1: actually the carnival opening on the second, kind of getting
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Speaker 1: an early start of the carnival on the Patunia Festival
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Speaker 1: grounds again next to the high school. But again the
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Speaker 1: brunt of Petunia Festival starts on July the third and
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Speaker 1: runs through Sunday, July the sixth. And now we take
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Speaker 1: a look at Saturday and Sunday activity is always packed.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Saturday is definitely the big day. Lots going on,
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Speaker 3: something for everyone.
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Speaker 1: Take off.
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Speaker 3: Just like every morning, starting off with your pancakes and
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Speaker 3: Petunias at the Dickson High School cafeteria. Make sure you
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Speaker 3: get out there get your pancakes. Then eight am we've
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Speaker 3: got the Reagan Run, the classic run in Dixon, the
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Speaker 3: five k.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this with Nancy Varga yesterday. She
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Speaker 1: was online with us yesterday and we talked about the
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Speaker 1: change in course of the Reagan Run. Yes, because of
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Speaker 1: the construction in the Page Park area. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be great. Once it's done, it's going to be great.
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Speaker 1: And we understand that the Reagan Run will utilize that
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Speaker 1: walking bridge.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, moving forward, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Exactly what it's done, and the Reagan Run will incorporate
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Speaker 1: that Bridge, which I think is great. Absolutely so again
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Speaker 1: because of that, we've got an altered schedule this year.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's you know, it's intrigued a lot
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Speaker 1: of people to come aboard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've known people that have already been out walking
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Speaker 3: and running it and they say it's great.
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Speaker 2: So it should be a good year.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Again, that's starting at the Reagan Boyhood Home. It's
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Speaker 1: an eight o'clock start for the Reagan Run, but it's
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Speaker 1: a seven thirty start for the Fun Run for the
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Speaker 1: kids again nine and under. They'll take the same course
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Speaker 1: down Highland and across to Haymarket Square and then you've
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Speaker 1: got the main Reagan Run again running that altered schedule
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Speaker 1: this year. It should be very interesting. The Reagan Run
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Speaker 1: starts at eight o'clock. Registration all the way up until
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Speaker 1: that time through the Reagan Run Committee Get me Registered
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Speaker 1: dot com Reaganrun dot com. You can still register for
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Speaker 1: that event. As Nancy talked about yesterday, all right, take
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Speaker 1: off through the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: Yes, also at eight o'clock we have the Elks Fishing
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Speaker 3: Derby YEP for our fishermen in the area.
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Speaker 2: Eight am.
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Speaker 3: We also have a disc golf tournament at Lowell Park YEP.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you notice that because it's not a Page
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Speaker 1: Park this year. The golf courses is out at Page Park,
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Speaker 1: so you've got to go to Lowell Park to play
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Speaker 1: golf disc golf this year. But again we're lucky to
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Speaker 1: have a couple of courses and so we're gonna switch
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Speaker 1: the venue to Lowell Park and that's where the disc
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Speaker 1: golf will be played.
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Speaker 3: Other sporting events, yes, again at eight am, we've got
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Speaker 3: the volleyball tournament at Plum Hollow, YEP.
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Speaker 1: And it's a three on three and I understand that
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Speaker 1: they're going to do this rain or shine in the sand,
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Speaker 1: and we talked about that earlier with our sports director,
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Speaker 1: that you actually play in the rain on sand Volleyball Corps.
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Speaker 1: If it raids, they're still gonna play it. I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine that, but that's what's gonna happen, and registration is
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Speaker 1: underway for that now. The soccer tournament that you talked
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Speaker 1: about earlier, we understand it's a sellout. We understand it's
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Speaker 1: a sellout.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I think it's full.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sellout in every year this Saturday, that's
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Speaker 1: this Saturday in the Meadows and it's a three on
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Speaker 1: three soccer tournament, so we're hoping that the same happens
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Speaker 1: with the volleyball on that Saturday, July the fifth rest
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Speaker 1: of the schedule. Now go ahead, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, nine am. El Morrison All Star Festivities at Page Park.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows where that is a lot of stuff going
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Speaker 2: on there there.
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Speaker 3: Ninety two we have the Think Pink Craft and vendor
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Speaker 3: show at Loveland Community Building. Then the Nuts About Art
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Speaker 3: Show at John Dixon Park from nine to four, so
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Speaker 3: lots of art crafts stuff going on On Saturday. Let's
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Speaker 3: see Bingo again yep. Noon to three at the Elks
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Speaker 3: Lodge will be packed.
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Speaker 2: Get there early.
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Speaker 3: Ye eleven am. We have the Bags Tournament that's downtown
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Speaker 3: in the main festival grounds. You might even get a
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Speaker 3: chance to hear some bands warming up if you get
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Speaker 3: there for the Bags Tournament. Excellent carnival one to eleven,
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Speaker 3: one pm a half. The Dog Parade that's a This
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Speaker 3: is the second year of the Dog Parade that's going
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Speaker 3: to be at Haymarket Square. Last year it was a
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Speaker 3: huge hit. This year we're expecting the same. That'll be
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Speaker 3: a super fun one to get out to. And then
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Speaker 3: going on to the night. We've got our entertainment starting
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Speaker 3: at five.
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Speaker 1: And who do we have joining us Saturday?
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Speaker 3: Saturday? Saturday will be a fun night. Starting off the
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Speaker 3: night five thirty, we have Marcus Morrell, local guy.
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Speaker 2: Six point thirty, we have very Gently.
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Speaker 3: Some people may not recognize that name, but that's actually
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Speaker 3: Tristan Bushman's.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, very good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're coming up from Nashville to play for us.
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Speaker 3: Eight thirty we have Lois Hills. They're a newer country
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Speaker 3: band from the area. And then at nine thirty we
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Speaker 3: have Tyler Braden. He's going to be our headliner for
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Speaker 3: that night.
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Speaker 1: Okay, up and coming country star. Yeah, Tyler Braden. Nine
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Speaker 1: thirty on the main stage again. And I see there's
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Speaker 1: an after party.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Saturday will be our only night with an
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Speaker 3: after party. And we have shees At playing they played
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Speaker 3: last year. We're a huge hit, so we're excited to
18:29
Speaker 3: have them back for our after party.
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Speaker 1: I see it's on the Reagan Stage, so okay, it's
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Speaker 1: not at the Bean Blossom, it's at the actual Reagan
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Speaker 1: stage on the Riverfront that that after party event will
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Speaker 1: be taking place. So we want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: you know about that as well. Then that's after Tyler
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Speaker 1: Braden on the main stage completes his again act again,
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Speaker 1: that'll be late into the evening then on Saturday, so
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Speaker 1: that takes care of the Saturday activities. Then we moved
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Speaker 1: to the final day of the Petunia Festival Sunday, July sixth,
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Speaker 1: but we're still loaded with activities.
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Speaker 3: Son down for absolutely Sunday kind of an easy day.
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Speaker 3: We've got pancakes again in the morning, community worship downtown
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Speaker 3: at nine I believe that's on the Reagan Stage for
19:11
Speaker 3: anybody wanting to go to that, and then our food
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Speaker 3: vendors will be open noon to ten pm and music
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Speaker 3: starts at three point thirty with Rosebrook Hall. That'll be
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Speaker 3: a bunch of local artists getting up there to be
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Speaker 3: able to play a song or two for us. And
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Speaker 3: then sixty eight thirty we have Brushville Favorite absolutely everybody
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Speaker 3: loves them coming out, so that'll be a fun one.
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Speaker 3: Nine pm we have the fifty to fifty Drawing.
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Speaker 1: Talk about that a little bit furtherly. The fifty to
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Speaker 1: fifty Drawing, this is the fundraiser for the fireworks, mainly
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Speaker 1: for the fireworks, but again tickets are on sale for
19:46
Speaker 1: that is that right, Yes they are.
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Speaker 3: Yep, we've got tickets all over town. A bunch of
19:50
Speaker 3: different local businesses are selling a lot of the bars,
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Speaker 3: some other local shops, and then we also are of
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Speaker 3: course selling them at the city markets and.
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Speaker 2: In our office.
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Speaker 3: If you want fifty to fifty tickets, you can stop
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Speaker 3: in at the office too.
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Speaker 1: All right? Are they the same as a dollar? Is
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Speaker 1: it a dollar a ticket? I believe it's a dollar
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Speaker 1: leaf dollar ticket. I think it's six for five if
20:09
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken dollar a ticket and then six for
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Speaker 1: five with that fifty to fifty drawing. But again that
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Speaker 1: winner will be announced after Brushville on the main stage
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Speaker 1: downtown again, so get in because that's a big dollar.
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Speaker 1: I mean there's one hundreds, at least hundreds of you know,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, money.
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Speaker 2: A lot of money in the fifty to fifty drawing
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Speaker 2: it is.
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Speaker 3: You can only be a part of it if you
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Speaker 3: buy tickets, so make sure you get those.
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Speaker 1: And then the traditional culmination of the Petunia Festival, right yep.
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Speaker 2: Nine to thirty will be the fireworks.
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Speaker 3: Our fireworks show last year was incredible and we've up
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Speaker 3: to even more this year, so we're super excited to
20:44
Speaker 3: see that show this year.
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Speaker 1: Right, that will be nine to thirty again. That will
20:48
Speaker 1: be of course down near the Petunia Festival grounds of course,
20:53
Speaker 1: where they again display the fireworks. So get your best
20:56
Speaker 1: seats for that because it is a crowded area down
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Speaker 1: on the ad Dix of Petunia Festival rounds for the
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Speaker 1: fireworks display that culminates this year's Petunia Festival at nine
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Speaker 1: thirty on July the sixth. Should mention a couple of
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Speaker 1: incidentals here. I believe Peoria Avenues Bridge will be closed
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Speaker 1: for a time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yep, that'll be closed I believe from for the
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Speaker 3: entire time in the festival, So the third through the sixth.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So note that because we've had to
21:23
Speaker 1: already dodge you know, barricades and things like that on
21:26
Speaker 1: Galena Avenue. But they're going to try to kind of
21:28
Speaker 1: alleviate the Galena Avenue situation for the Patuna Festival. I
21:32
Speaker 1: know that the road crews are going to try to
21:34
Speaker 1: do their best to get things shaped up for driving through.
21:39
Speaker 1: But I know that there are going to be some
21:40
Speaker 1: tight areas in and around, so drive with care during
21:43
Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival activities. Anything else, you know, off the
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Speaker 1: calendar that that we didn't mention. Is there anything else
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Speaker 1: that we're the volunteers? Are we still looking for.
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Speaker 3: Voluntary Yeah, we still have a few volunteer slots open.
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Speaker 3: If you volunteer, you get a free ticket to the festival.
21:59
Speaker 3: So if you're wanting to get in for free, volunteer,
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Speaker 3: it's a three or four hour shift for a free
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Speaker 3: ticket for the whole weekend.
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Speaker 1: How do you do that? How do you?
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Speaker 3: If you go on our website, we actually have a
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Speaker 3: link to our volunteer local and you can just sign
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Speaker 3: up there. There's a bunch of different slots open, super
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Speaker 3: easy just to sign it up online.
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Speaker 1: It's easy to sign up online and you can you choose.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's all kinds of slots open.
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Speaker 3: Left, okay, let you choose the daytime, what you're doing everything.
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Speaker 1: What is it that you will be taking part in?
22:33
Speaker 1: What kind of duties will volunteers mainly be involved with? Right?
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Speaker 3: We have some gate options, so taking the money for
22:41
Speaker 3: people coming into the festival, and then also some different
22:43
Speaker 3: parking options making sure that our VAP and handicapped parking
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Speaker 3: slots are okay.
22:49
Speaker 1: So again it's it's mainly gate again duties that you'll
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Speaker 1: be involved with maybe taking tickets, you know, taking moneys,
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Speaker 1: you know, to purchase for tickets, things like that at
22:59
Speaker 1: the gate for the Petunia Festival. But again, volunteers are
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Speaker 1: always needed, and so if you'd like to be a
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Speaker 1: part of a tradition in Dixon and this is their
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Speaker 1: sixty first annual, then go online Petunia Festival dot org.
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Speaker 1: Yes is the website address, so please go online and
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Speaker 1: become a volunteer during the sixty first annual Dixon Petunia Festival. Again,
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Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival office located on Hannepin Avenue ten until
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Speaker 1: six for this time period coming up the city market
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Speaker 1: time is a little different because they'll be opened during
23:32
Speaker 1: that time to again sell tickets give out information. But
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Speaker 1: it's ten am until six pm for the rest of
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Speaker 1: this week and the next week and then the start
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Speaker 1: of the Petunia Festival. They'll be open again for information
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Speaker 1: at your office throughout the Diction.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely and just another thing I just want to mention
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Speaker 3: for those that don't know, our board is all volunteer.
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Speaker 3: We all spend all of our time off in vacation
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Speaker 3: time to put this festival festival on for you guys.
23:58
Speaker 3: So if you see us in board or board shirts.
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Speaker 2: Be sure to.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, absolutely, you know, greet them and congratulate them
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Speaker 1: on a job well done, because it is a major
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Speaker 1: task putting on a big event like this. It's the
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Speaker 1: sixty first Annual Dixon Petunia Festival. It's in Dixon, coming
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Speaker 1: your way July third through July sixth. And LeAnn Nelson,
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Speaker 1: the second vice president of our Dixon Petunia Festival Board,
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Speaker 1: we thank you very much for joining us today and
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Speaker 1: spotline and all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me. I was happy to come out.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for kicking off our coverage again. The sixty first
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Speaker 1: Annual Dixon Petunia Festival runs July third through July sixth
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Speaker 1: in Dixon, mainly at the Riverfront, but of course the
24:38
Speaker 1: high School will be busy, lots of other areas will
24:40
Speaker 1: be busy. We talked about all of those venues that
24:42
Speaker 1: are busy during Petunia Festival time, so take advantage and
24:45
Speaker 1: join them for a lot of Petunia Festival activities through
24:49
Speaker 1: that period and actually before that period, participate in some
24:53
Speaker 1: pre Patunia Festival activities as well across our area. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining us again, ma'am. Thanks againstve Lynn Nelson, our
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Speaker 1: second vice president of the Dixon Petunia Festival with US
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