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Talk Line: Jim Grot shares summer events and classes at SVCC · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: W I x N.
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  Speaker 2: It's eight sixteen on your Thursday, July second morning. It's
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  Speaker 2: a hot and muggy one already out there, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It's cool in the booth and it's time
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  Speaker 2: for talk line. And I'm joined once again by my
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  Speaker 2: good friend from Souk Valley Community College, Jim grow Jim,
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  Speaker 2: how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: And doing wonderful Fourth of July weekend?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: And the US won last night in the World Cup,
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  Speaker 3: so that was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, some some some good wins for us.
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  Speaker 2: There some good things to celebrate through that, through the
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  Speaker 2: hot weather. So what's your Fourth of July plans?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully floating down the rivers. Actually, we have we have
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  Speaker 3: lots of family coming in. It's I have there's about
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  Speaker 3: twenty four of us in my family with you know, brothers,
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  Speaker 3: sisters and nieces and nephews and everybody's coming in for
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  Speaker 3: this weekend. So super Yeah, it's gonna be a great
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  Speaker 3: weekend just and just relaxing and hopefully just floating down
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  Speaker 3: the water.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, excited. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Normally we would do fireworks at my brothers, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think they they've got that going on this year.
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  Speaker 1: It might just be kind of chill. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did people watching at the Petunia Fest and
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  Speaker 3: things like that, and we'll be we'll do the college,
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  Speaker 3: will be at the parade and that kind of thing too.
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  Speaker 2: So I love that, just as seeing everybody come out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nothing against fireworks, but at forty two, I've seen
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  Speaker 2: enough all of them, and I don't have littles anymore
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  Speaker 2: that I could probably by the time fireworks already go
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  Speaker 2: home and avoid the tread. But to everybody who's going
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  Speaker 2: out there, have a fantastic time for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, Actually I love fireworks and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it's but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I do, but it's not it's the drive halt right
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  Speaker 2: after that, right, yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, I was
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  Speaker 2: talking to my oldest boy today and he lives like
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  Speaker 2: maybe four blocks from where this is all going down,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he had he had moved out earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing He's like, I'm gonna walk to the fireworks this year.
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  Speaker 3: We used to live right smack dab in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of town and we just sit out in our front
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  Speaker 3: yell lawn and just watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 3: Now we live out in the country, so it's not
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  Speaker 3: so easy anymore. So, but no, it's a it's a fun,
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  Speaker 3: fun time of year, and I mean it's it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a great weekend and hopefully the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the rain will hopefully just come and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah drizzle on us or whatever and leave real fast.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're all watching it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the time it comes, I think everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just bring a swim suit and an extra shirt or
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  Speaker 2: something as not as it's been.
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  Speaker 1: Let fun wash over it exactly cool it down.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, hot time of year, great events outside, and
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  Speaker 2: of course that extends to the college as well.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have got a bunch of stuff going on.
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  Speaker 1: A lot some stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: It just kind of kind of repeat a couple of
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  Speaker 3: things that I've been here in the you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the past to talk about. But we have our Lake
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  Speaker 3: Michigan lunch Cruise, which still has some spots left open
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's cruising on a long Lake Michigan and
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  Speaker 3: we take you there and bring you back to the campus.
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  Speaker 3: So that's Thursday, August twenty seventh. Leave the campus around
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  Speaker 3: eight thirty, you get back around seven thirty, but a
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  Speaker 3: bus brings you right out to Navy Peer and then
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  Speaker 3: picks you back up and brings you back to campus
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty nine dollars her person. As always
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of these events that we do, you
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  Speaker 3: just go to SVACC dot edu slash CED for Community
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  Speaker 3: Education is what that CED stands for, and you can
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  Speaker 3: register on there or give us a call it eight
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  Speaker 3: one five eight three five six two one two. So
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  Speaker 3: we got the Lake Michigan Lunch Cruise. We also have
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  Speaker 3: the EMT Basic Program, which I talked about the last
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  Speaker 3: time I was here, but we have another one coming
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  Speaker 3: up July seventh. Now a little thing about that one is,
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  Speaker 3: which is great, the class is actually full for this
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  Speaker 3: coming for this upcoming fall, which is fantastic. But if
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  Speaker 3: it's still one of those things where this is just
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  Speaker 3: an information session, so it's just to come and learn
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  Speaker 3: about what it's like to be an EMT, what the
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  Speaker 3: class is about, meet the instructors, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So next Tuesday in July seventh, we still have that
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  Speaker 3: information session, but you'd have to wait till the next
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  Speaker 3: class is offered to actually apply. So that's the other
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  Speaker 3: thing is don't wait to go to you know, don't
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  Speaker 3: wait for next time. It's like kind of get in early,
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  Speaker 3: get your information session down, learn about it, and then
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  Speaker 3: side if you want to do it, and then be
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  Speaker 3: ready to go once that next session opens back up.
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  Speaker 3: But that's Tuesday, July seventh from six to seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing called brenda at eight one five eight three
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  Speaker 3: five six two one two or that one. You can
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  Speaker 3: register at SVCC dot edu slash e MT again the
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  Speaker 3: e MT Basic program. And then another thing we have
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  Speaker 3: coming up that this is a grant funded program that
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  Speaker 3: our Community Education puts on is Welding for vets And
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  Speaker 3: this is veterans and active military and it's been a
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  Speaker 3: great program. We've had this now for maybe three years.
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  Speaker 3: That it's a grant funded program where veterans and active
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  Speaker 3: military can take a welding class for free. All the
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  Speaker 3: equipments included, you know, helmets and gloves and all that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Yeah, so it's really cool and the
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  Speaker 3: instructor who puts it on just absolutely loves it. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've had obviously a lot of military come
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  Speaker 3: through and they just they learn a new skill and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they learn the skill and go like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this actually be a kind of a cool
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  Speaker 3: job to do. But there's two four hour sessions available
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  Speaker 3: on August thirteenth, first ones at eight o'clock eight am,
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  Speaker 3: and then the second ones at four and those are
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  Speaker 3: just four hour sessions. But again, all the supplies are included,
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  Speaker 3: and you do have to have proof of d D
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  Speaker 3: two fourteen or military status required.
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  Speaker 1: To enroll in that.
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  Speaker 3: So if you know someone or if you're interested in
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  Speaker 3: doing that, you're a you're a veteran or an active
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  Speaker 3: military you just call it one five eight three five
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  Speaker 3: six two five eight for that one. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: a really cool program that we have, and it's again
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  Speaker 3: it's a grant funded thing, so no cost to the
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  Speaker 3: to the veterans and active military and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, super cool. I mean, like you said, could
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  Speaker 2: lead into a career, you know, and that's a great one.
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  Speaker 2: But even if you don't want it as a career, knowing.
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  Speaker 3: How well, well yeah yeah I did. I did some
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  Speaker 3: of that in college. I love it, like it is
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  Speaker 3: such a fun thing to do. Yeah, it's such a
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  Speaker 3: cool it's it's just a cool skill, it really is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and just to learn, learn how to I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: just to have that just in your back pocket of
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  Speaker 3: just you know, well.
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  Speaker 1: It applies to a lot of things, right, it could
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  Speaker 1: be a hobby. You could make things like that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah. Are I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Things that you would use throughout the day, you'd sell
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  Speaker 2: for yourself reare repairing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, such a great opportunity. Yeah, so try and
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  Speaker 3: take advantage of that if you can. And then one
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  Speaker 3: more thing I want to talk about is we have
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  Speaker 3: an Amboy Clipper, an Impact Amboy Clipper Challenge, and so
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  Speaker 3: this is this has been going on now for a
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  Speaker 3: handful of months and we're about halfway to our goal.
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  Speaker 3: So Amboy has a goal of six hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: to raise for the Impact Program. So we've talked about
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  Speaker 3: the Impact Program. You know that students volunteer the one
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  Speaker 3: hundred hours while they're in high school and they can
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  Speaker 3: attend socc for free with tuition free. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's exciting. We have our first cohort coming through, so
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  Speaker 3: we're super excited about that. We already have a little
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  Speaker 3: over two hundred students Impact students that have registered for
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  Speaker 3: classes in the fall, so it's super exciting, but we
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  Speaker 3: do have a challenge going on in Amboy and we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have a fundraising event Thursday, August sixth at
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  Speaker 3: six pm at the Long Branch Saloon in Amboy. So
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  Speaker 3: this is open to the public, just walk on in.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be you know, food and drinks and
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, and it's just a way to
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  Speaker 3: learn about the Impact program, raise some money for the
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  Speaker 3: Clipper Challenge to help out those Amboy students to be
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  Speaker 3: able to make sure that they're fully funded, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: just for im perpetuity. That's a hard word to say it.
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  Speaker 3: But and there's gonna be again food and drinks, and
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  Speaker 3: then someone you might know is going to be out there,
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  Speaker 3: a gentleman name of Sam Ramirez from River Country.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Sam Ramirez is going to be out there doing
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  Speaker 3: a live broadcast broadcast, so that'll be fun. And then
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have some Cubs memorabilia out there. It's a
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  Speaker 3: bid on in that front Memorabila from Ian Happ, Nico Horner,
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  Speaker 3: and a Hall of Famer Lee Smith. So I knew
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  Speaker 3: we have a connect someone who went to sock works
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  Speaker 3: for the Cubs. I don't know who the name was
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, but they got us a connection and got
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  Speaker 3: us some of this stuff. So we'll have some of
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  Speaker 3: the stuff out there. So Thursday, August sixth at six
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  Speaker 3: o'clock at the Long Branch Saloon in Amboy and come
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  Speaker 3: help out those those Clipper students. Other than that, it's
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  Speaker 3: have a wonderful weekend. Happy Happy Birthday America. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a nice weekend. It's gonna be a good time,
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  Speaker 3: so it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fantastic weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The Clippers Impact Challenge is just one example
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  Speaker 2: of several Soak Valley communities that have just seen the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the benefit of making sure their students are
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  Speaker 2: taken care of through this and and again it stretches
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  Speaker 2: so far beyond the tuition that these kids earn.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There will be a lot of Impact students out this
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  Speaker 3: weekend at the at the Petunia.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so, yes, there will be.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I'm going to be going to take some
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  Speaker 3: pictures of some of them this afternoon that are going
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  Speaker 3: to be helping set up and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So they're going to be out and about even this
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  Speaker 3: afternoon putting stuff up. So it's it is. It's such
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful program and we just hope people just keep
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  Speaker 3: keep supporting it. We're almost there to you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to reach ten million is what is what the
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  Speaker 3: goal is, and we're we're getting pretty darn close to it.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're somewhere around eight and a half or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. So every every little bit helps. So
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  Speaker 3: anything you can help, anything you can do to help
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  Speaker 3: out the Impact program. And these students are absolutely loving it,
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  Speaker 3: and we're actually loving it at the college too. It's
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  Speaker 3: just exciting to see these you know, these kids, you
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  Speaker 3: know just kind of feel you know that here they
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  Speaker 3: did all this volunteering work and now they get to
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  Speaker 3: see the benefits of it. Yeah, and they get to
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  Speaker 3: you know, attend college and have no tuition and sen
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  Speaker 3: you know, fees covered and things like that. So like
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  Speaker 3: that is a huge savings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, huge savings. And the kids learn about being part
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  Speaker 2: of their community yeah, and volunteerism. And I mean a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times I hear these kids going to do
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  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff even after they're out of the
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  Speaker 2: program because they love the.
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  Speaker 3: Connections they like, you know, I mean, we have many
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  Speaker 3: they only have to do twenty five hours each year.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them are doing one hundred hours volunteer because
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  Speaker 3: they do they just they enjoy doing it. I was
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  Speaker 3: out at Kitsman Farm the other day taking some pictures
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  Speaker 3: of Impact students. These kids are out there cleaning up
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  Speaker 3: after the cows and the goats and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and it's and you can just tell they're having fun
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  Speaker 3: and they're having fun with the animals and that kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing. And so that's just that's one example of
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  Speaker 3: just doing this kind of work that you probably would
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  Speaker 3: have never done, you know, if this program didn't exist.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of these students probably just what you know,
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  Speaker 3: being a kid or whatever, but doing this volunteer work
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  Speaker 3: and doing some of these just excited being involved in
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  Speaker 3: the Petunia Fest and getting connections that way and that
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing. And obviously lots of stuff goes on
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  Speaker 3: at all our at all over areas and amboy and
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  Speaker 3: especially as with this fundraiser coming up, it's we're excited
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  Speaker 3: and hoping we can meet this six hundred thousand goal. Again,
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  Speaker 3: we're at about two hundred and fifty, so we're almost
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  Speaker 3: halfway there. So anything you guys can do and come
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  Speaker 3: out to this August sixth event at the Long Brand
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  Speaker 3: Saloon and help out the Impact program.
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  Speaker 2: Get out there support them. If you have kids and
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  Speaker 2: you haven't signed up, you need to get your kids
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  Speaker 2: signed up. If if you don't have kids, help support
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  Speaker 2: the future of the Soug Valley in this capacity because
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't love this program more and it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: spread everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually it's it is pretty cool because Laurie Cortez,
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  Speaker 3: who kind of you know, started this whole program and
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  Speaker 3: she's had she's talked to many other schools colleges that
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  Speaker 3: love the program so much and want to know how
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  Speaker 3: we run it and that kind of thing because they
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  Speaker 3: want to copy it over and so, which is really neat.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a neat concept.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I've been keeping an eye on this since
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, and I mean it's it's caught on like wildfire.
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  Speaker 1: So I love it.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody needs any more information on anything we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about today, Jim, or anything else that the college has
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  Speaker 2: staff or what's the best.
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  Speaker 1: Way to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Always the website's always the best way SBCC dot ed
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  Speaker 3: U and then there's a little search bar and you
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  Speaker 3: can just look up on there, and you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you want to look up impact, it's usually just slash
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  Speaker 3: impact ceed for community Education. But there's always that search
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  Speaker 3: bar in there. And I'm a piece of cake when
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  Speaker 3: and any anybody at that college is willing to help out.
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  Speaker 3: So if you find a phone number, call it and
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  Speaker 3: we'll get to the right person.
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  Speaker 2: So they absolutely will. The folks out at the college
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  Speaker 2: are super friendly. Find out about the impact program. That's
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  Speaker 2: get that welding class in there, whether you need a
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  Speaker 2: new career, you just need a super skill, yeah, do
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  Speaker 2: it for fun. So many of these things I told
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  Speaker 2: my wife. She asked me, She's like, when we're all
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  Speaker 2: done and you do stuff like that, like, what would
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  Speaker 2: you do? I said, I would honestly take some classes,
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  Speaker 2: even though I would have no intention to use them
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  Speaker 2: to switch a career, because I you just learn the
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  Speaker 2: joy of learning skill ye learning. Yeah, so it's so
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  Speaker 2: cool I considering a new career. That emt basic, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic way to actually get an up close look
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  Speaker 2: at what you could be considering. And then of course
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  Speaker 2: I've been on several different lake cruises in Chicago as
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  Speaker 2: a vacationer. The these guys are going to drive you
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  Speaker 2: there in a comfortable bus, bring you back home. You
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  Speaker 2: will not that it doesn't disappoint. I absolutely love those Jim,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming in.
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  Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure. Every single month. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I love coming here and I look forward to the
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  Speaker 2: updates and seeing how everything's growing.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody, have a great weekend out there.
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  Speaker 1: We will you as well. Thank you. Take care,