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Talk Line: Jennifer Lang talks Discover Dixon 2026 events · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Suck Valley, and welcome back to the Waking
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  Speaker 1: crew here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty WIX. And it's eight fifteen on your Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: kicking off a new week here in the studio, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what it means. Eight fifteen is time for
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  Speaker 1: talk line, and I'm joined in the booth once again
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  Speaker 1: by our good friends from Discovered Dixon, Jennifer Lang here
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. Lady, how are.
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  Speaker 2: You, good morning? I am doing well on this beautiful
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got some great weather, we do. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been appreciating it since all that triple digit and nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that was rough. That was rough. I know, we
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  Speaker 2: worked through a city market. Was pretty brutal, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But it looks like it's going to be a great week.
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  Speaker 2: So we're ready to go and hit the ground running
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of good stuff happening here in Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, gosh, you know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go out of order here. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about both of it. Maybe maybe we'll keep it in order.
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  Speaker 1: City Market, city Market.
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  Speaker 2: Junior, City Market Juniors. So this Wednesday is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be our last market of the season. Okay, it is
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  Speaker 2: out of our normal season, and we are going to
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  Speaker 2: have our city Market Juniors, So that means we have
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  Speaker 2: eighteen young entrepreneurs are going to be joining us down
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  Speaker 2: there on the riverfront selling their goods, so please come
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  Speaker 2: out and join us. They've been working really hard on
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  Speaker 2: their business. We have a young entrepreneur doing pretzels. We
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  Speaker 2: also have some lemonade, we have pressed nails, we have
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  Speaker 2: some resin art. Just a hodgepodge of greatness that these
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  Speaker 2: young entrepreneurs are going to be providing as well as
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a lot of our normal vendors and some
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  Speaker 2: new vendors as we always do. But while I said
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  Speaker 2: technically this is the last city market, it's been kind
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  Speaker 2: of a rough season for us on our Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 2: so we have also decided to do two pop up markets.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're really excited about that. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to enjoy market this Wednesday. Then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to take a couple of weeks off and we'll
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  Speaker 2: come back on August twenty sixth Wednesday from five to eight,
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  Speaker 2: just the same normal Wednesday, and then we will also
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  Speaker 2: then take a couple more weeks off and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: be bringing back another pop up market on September sixteenth,
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  Speaker 2: so that'll kind of be nice to break up in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the week. And I know everybody's gearing
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  Speaker 2: to go back to school and get in all those
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  Speaker 2: different sports schedules. I know it's going to be getting
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  Speaker 2: crazy for everybody, but we definitely hope that you will
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  Speaker 2: join us down at the market.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, every time I poked my head around
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  Speaker 1: there when we're closing up, it's just bustling down there.
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  Speaker 1: And we were actually fortunate enough to get to go.
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  Speaker 1: My wife and I what was it was either last
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  Speaker 1: week or the week before, but our daughter had closed
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  Speaker 1: up the store for us, so we were like, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go down and check it out. So many vendors,
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  Speaker 1: so cool, the music. We ended up getting a couple
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  Speaker 1: of tacos and just sitting down by the riverfront and
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  Speaker 1: having Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just wonderful, isn't it. Down there. There's always seems
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  Speaker 2: to always be a breeze, whether it's a hot breeze
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  Speaker 2: or a cool breeze at riverfront just keeps the air
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  Speaker 2: flowing and that's really good to hear, you know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to guess that was probably Lima's Tacos and they're
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  Speaker 2: there every week, and I just had a Caesadia the
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  Speaker 2: other day and that was really delicious. So this coming
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  Speaker 2: up a week, I do know we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: that Cousin's Main food truck, which seems to be a
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  Speaker 2: big hit for people in the community, so they'll be
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  Speaker 2: there this Wednesday, as well as some favorites like you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ConA Ice and Main Squeeze. But right now, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of our food vendors it looks like it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: county fair time, right, so they're hitting all those fairs
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  Speaker 2: and getting set up so they don't join us, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still out there, but still plenty to eat, sea
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  Speaker 2: and do coming down to the market.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really was love that you guys kind of
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  Speaker 1: change it up. There's different vendors there. I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned Cousins Main only because when we had went there,
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  Speaker 1: we had seen it. My wife was like, I really
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  Speaker 1: want to get this. She was like, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: as hungry as I probably should be if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get Cousins Maine. She's like, you know, I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of feeling like a couple of light tacos. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: but we will come back and plan on this, and
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  Speaker 1: now I know Wednesday, we're not going to eat anywhere
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  Speaker 1: near and we're going to get some cousins made perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Well, i'll see you on Wednesday and again they'll be
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  Speaker 2: there from five to eight. They do it park so
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  Speaker 2: you can easily navigate right there by the discovered dicent office.
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  Speaker 1: So love hearing that. Speaking of marking things on your calendar,
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday Venetian Night.
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  Speaker 2: Venetian Night, this is one of my favorite events that
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  Speaker 2: we have, so yeah, join us on the riverfront again
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  Speaker 2: this Saturday, August eighth. Five p It starts. We have
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  Speaker 2: street performers, a roaming magician. They'll be kids games. We
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  Speaker 2: have a rock hunt, so find a rock you can
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  Speaker 2: redeem it for a ConA ice that night. And then
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  Speaker 2: we do have a price package that we'll draw one
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  Speaker 2: with one lucky winner on Monday. So there'll be music
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  Speaker 2: playing and we also do have a spaghetti eating contest,
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  Speaker 2: so that's gonna be really cool. Five point thirty we'll
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  Speaker 2: start sign ups and it will start at six pm.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have three different heaps, so three we'll have eight
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  Speaker 2: people sit down eat that spaghetti the next eight people
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  Speaker 2: and therefore, so we have some really great prizes for that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just really truly fun to see them just
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  Speaker 2: getting in there. No hands, right, So that's spaghetti's maybe
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  Speaker 2: right there in front of you, no hands, but it's
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  Speaker 2: definitely fun. So come sign up join us, and then
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  Speaker 2: of course at nine o'clock we'll be doing our drone show.
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  Speaker 2: So we're really excited. This is our second year to
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  Speaker 2: bring the Drone Show to Dixon, So that'll be about
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  Speaker 2: fourteen minutes of cool drones in the sky right above
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  Speaker 2: the rock. River people always says it's the best place
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  Speaker 2: for you to view them is going to be on
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  Speaker 2: the south side of the river, right there on the
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  Speaker 2: river front, right there on River Street in the festivities
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  Speaker 2: right there, So join us, and right before the drone show,
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  Speaker 2: the street performers are gonna have a little dance party
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  Speaker 2: and get everybody pumped in going. So it's truly something magical.
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  Speaker 2: Come be a part of it. It's free, lots of
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  Speaker 2: photo ops engaging with the street performers as well as
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  Speaker 2: there'll be certain times that they'll be performing right in
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  Speaker 2: front of the pavilion. Otherwise they will be roaming, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a great family fun event to come enjoy. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like the weather is going to be absolutely gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Plan to come eat. You know, Bby will be doing
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  Speaker 2: their chicken and steak sandwiches. We'll also have a hot
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  Speaker 2: dog cart down there. ConA Ice will be there, Miss
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  Speaker 2: Mint popsicles, something for everybody down there at the riverfront,
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  Speaker 2: So please join us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I love seeing all the photos that end up
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  Speaker 1: coming out of this event. The spaghetti eating Goddess is
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  Speaker 1: just hilarious. I absolutely love that drone show. If you've
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  Speaker 1: never seen a drone show before, you really should get
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  Speaker 1: out and see that. That's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It is, It really is, and it's just really cool
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  Speaker 2: being part of the process, working with the company and
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  Speaker 2: seeing what goes behind it. It truly is something pretty
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  Speaker 2: magical and cool that I get to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course see it created and up in
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  Speaker 2: the sky, and and of course the ooze and the
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  Speaker 2: oz from kids of all ages. You know. It truly
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  Speaker 2: is a wonderful event and a nice end to a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful event. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice way to just kind of cap off the summer,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. I got I hate saying that apping
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  Speaker 1: off the summer, like where has it gone? But it
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  Speaker 1: really has. My son was talking about that the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, missus shuts your mouth. No, not yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold onto it for a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 1: Time just goes by too quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Anymore, it does. And I know that. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a weird flipping the calendar on Saturday where August first,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the kids are going to be going back
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  Speaker 2: to school, and just things shift and change, and I mean, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be football coming around. You know, no complaints
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  Speaker 2: here though, but no, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I love the football seasons coming back around. But
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  Speaker 1: I swear to you anymore I can mark my life
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  Speaker 1: by football seasons and how many are left before I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm just into the next chapter of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we still have plenty of baseball seasons still
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  Speaker 2: left too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of season, I know it's a little early.
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  Speaker 1: I know we didn't put it on the list, but
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite events I love talking about. Can
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  Speaker 1: we talk about anything at it all with scarecrow Fests?
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  Speaker 2: Oh of course we can't. Scarecrow Fest. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be your before we.
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  Speaker 1: Know it, so it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so that's October seventeenth, and you know that's
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  Speaker 2: a really cool event that we utilize six blocks of
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  Speaker 2: downtown Dixon, so we really get everybody involved, everybody in
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  Speaker 2: the community. This is the event that I want you
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of, whether it's our vendors. So
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  Speaker 2: vendor registration is open. I must say, we're about out
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  Speaker 2: of spots for vendors.
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  Speaker 1: No surprise there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's really nuts. We have all these
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  Speaker 2: great vendors that are contacting us from like even like
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  Speaker 2: Love's Park, and we have Millageville and you know Rockford
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  Speaker 2: and Decalb like all over. It's really crazy. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so we have that gonna happen. You know, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: the pumpkin Derby. That's when we really should start talking
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  Speaker 2: about pumpkin derby races right there on Hunnepen. So this
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  Speaker 2: is where we invite the community to make that pumpkin racer.
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  Speaker 2: And what does that mean. You need to put a
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  Speaker 2: pumpkin on a unit that can roll down Hennepin and
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  Speaker 2: the first one to cross finish line wins. And we
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  Speaker 2: do a couple of different heats on that and of
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  Speaker 2: course there's prizes to be won for that, and we
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  Speaker 2: do have it for the young kids. It's a different
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  Speaker 2: age brackets. Top of my head, I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: the kid, the adult and business and such. But stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot more information on that. But
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  Speaker 2: that truly is something fun to watch. We'll also have
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  Speaker 2: at Scarecrow Festival the donate eating contest. That's always a
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  Speaker 2: delicious favorite event. But you know, hey, community, if you
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  Speaker 2: have something, you know a talent, or want to be
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  Speaker 2: showcased or be a part of it, get a hold
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  Speaker 2: of me because I'd love to highlight and get everybody involved.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not forget the scarecrow contest that will be going
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  Speaker 2: on too. Again, we look at those businesses and organizations
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  Speaker 2: to construct a scarecrow and then you put it on
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  Speaker 2: a poll in downtown Dixon. And the great thing is
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  Speaker 2: is families go out, they walk the streets and they
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  Speaker 2: check out those scarecrows. So and we do have a
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  Speaker 2: group of judges who go out there and we also
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  Speaker 2: give prizes for that. So October is a busy month
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  Speaker 2: for us, not even just Scarecrow Festival. We'll be doing
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  Speaker 2: our trunk and treat October twenty for twenty fourth excuse
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  Speaker 2: me where that particular event will start at Haymarket Square
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  Speaker 2: with a parade, go through town, and then end up
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  Speaker 2: going to the Town Square Circle drive there on Huntepin
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  Speaker 2: where kids can trigger treat out of the trunks of
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  Speaker 2: different organizations. So yeah, October, I love the holidays. I do,
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  Speaker 2: and here we go. You know, September it is like
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  Speaker 2: starts to get really in full gear. And then of course,
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  Speaker 2: you know October, you know, pumpkin spice and all that such, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we are, we're trading swim trunks for I
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  Speaker 1: mean pumpkin spice and Halloween costumes and all of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 2: I am too. You know, I was talking to somebody
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  Speaker 2: the other day, you know Christmas. I mean it's right
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  Speaker 2: around the corner. I know, somebody who's actually done with
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  Speaker 2: their Christmas shopping. Kudos to you.
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  Speaker 1: I aspire one day to be to that level of adulthood.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well let this be your assigned people, go and
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  Speaker 2: buy one gift this week. Okay, Okay, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I can accept that challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like spread it out a little bit. So, but
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  Speaker 2: let's also not forget the true meaning of Christmas as well.
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  Speaker 1: So don't forget where you hide them. I'd be like
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  Speaker 1: Clark Griswold up there in the attic like gift from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. Oh okay, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Is this one for? Yeah? Good times? But you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I tell everybody you know discovered Dixon dot com,
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  Speaker 2: that is the best way to stay in the loop
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  Speaker 2: on everything that we are doing. And of course we
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  Speaker 2: do have that community calendar on there. I encourage the
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  Speaker 2: community put your events on that calendar. Let us know
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing too. You know, we have so many
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  Speaker 2: people from the community and visitors who are like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. You know, I can only speak of
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing at Discovered Dixon, but our community is
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  Speaker 2: full of events and great things happening. So put it
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  Speaker 2: on there. Your church having a bake sale, put it
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  Speaker 2: on there. You're doing a car wash, put it on there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we want to hear what's going on so
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  Speaker 2: we can help promote our community.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Get your events on there, head on
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  Speaker 1: over to the Discovered Dixon site, get some more information.
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  Speaker 1: Volunteer still looking for volunteer, right, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Always you know, any event that I have, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: looking for volunteers of some capacity, so please always reach
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  Speaker 2: out if you're interested, if you have an idea for
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  Speaker 2: one of these events. You know, we're always wanting to
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  Speaker 2: hear from our community, you know. And I just got
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  Speaker 2: to give a shout out to the Impact Program. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love that program through SOCC Valley Community College. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for having it because I utilize that so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking no of our Venetia Night the Impact Program.
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  Speaker 2: I probably have twenty students who are gonna help me
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  Speaker 2: just that one event. But I need students, I need adults,
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  Speaker 2: I need leaders, I need people just to help in
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  Speaker 2: every capacity. You like spaghetti and you want to help
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  Speaker 2: with the spaghetti eating contest? Call me, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: there's yeah, always there's something to get involved in. And
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the volunteers and contact me.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, give her a called contact on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: Have we got to do it? Get involved, Jennifer. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming on the show, giving us
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  Speaker 1: all these updates, and for all the hard work that
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  Speaker 1: you folks do making sure that there's always so much
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  Speaker 1: fun to have out here things.
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  Speaker 2: I think I pretty much have the best job in
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me, and you'll go that I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for having me and we'll see you next time.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely