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Talk Line Welcomes Discover Dixon’s Jennifer Lang · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You're listening to the Waking Crew
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  Speaker 1: here on AM fourteen sixty FM ninety five to one
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  Speaker 1: w i x N. And now it is time to
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  Speaker 1: turn our attention to our talk line segment where I
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  Speaker 1: am joined by our good friends from Discovered Dixon. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking with director Jennifer Lang. Jennifer, how are you, hey.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Thanks for having me Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: Always always a pleasure looking forward to this. How was
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  Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: The Thanksgiving was great, lots of food, family, napping. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a big napper, so that was really great that
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  Speaker 3: I was able to get one of those in.
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  Speaker 1: You find me in a coma on a house for
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  Speaker 1: like a good twenty I'm like, if you want me
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  Speaker 1: up earlier, then that just poked me with a stick.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good for you, and how about yours?
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  Speaker 1: It was great. We had multiple ones, the last one
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  Speaker 1: culminating on Sunday over at our house with our kids,
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  Speaker 1: most of who are adults now, so yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Look, get those naps in when you can, right, Oh yeah, absolutely, But.
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  Speaker 1: This is my favorite time of year because there's always
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  Speaker 1: so much going on. And Discovered Dixon is no stranger
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  Speaker 1: to that. You guys have a lot going on, starting
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  Speaker 1: with something that already kicked off your special promotion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, first of all, this is my favorite time of
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  Speaker 3: the year or two and Discovered Dixon. We just have
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  Speaker 3: so much holiday happenings and greatness going on. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so this past Saturday with Shop Small Saturday, and I
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  Speaker 3: know everybody, you're seeing all those cyber sales online and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what, you should grab them, but also
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  Speaker 3: remember our local businesses. You can get those gift cards,
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  Speaker 3: you can shop online, so don't forget about them. But Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: we had this great promotion. It was Shop Small Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout the country it's known as But as you know that,
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  Speaker 3: we got a lot of snow here, so I know
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  Speaker 3: that the shops are a little bit slower on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: but make sure you check out your favorite shop because
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  Speaker 3: I know that they are continuing to have those sales
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  Speaker 3: and promotions and extending that.
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  Speaker 2: So check that out.
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  Speaker 3: But through Discovered we had our Shop Small Passport initiative.
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  Speaker 3: And what this is is you can go to our
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  Speaker 3: website and you're always gonna hear me talk about go
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  Speaker 3: to our website, Discover Dixon dot com right and on
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  Speaker 3: their Shop Small Saturday, you're going to find a list
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  Speaker 3: of our participating businesses.
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  Speaker 2: And these participating.
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  Speaker 3: Businesses, you can go in there, grab a passport and
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  Speaker 3: for if you spend ten dollars at the business, they
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  Speaker 3: initial it and send.
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  Speaker 2: You on your way.
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  Speaker 3: The more passport stamps that you get at those participating businesses,
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  Speaker 3: you can then redeem those passports or I shouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: redeem them, return them to us and you have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to win five hundred dollars and Discover Dixon our dollars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll be drawing a second prize winner for
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty dollars. So this initiative is running
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  Speaker 3: through December fifteenth, so there's plenty of time to shop Small,
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  Speaker 3: Shop Local, get out and check that out. But again,
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  Speaker 3: go to our Discovered Dixon website. You're gonna find all
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  Speaker 3: the information on that Dan. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people ask about what are the Discovered Dickson dollars, Well,
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  Speaker 3: those are just like a gift certificate.
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  Speaker 2: They come in ten.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars increments and then you can take that to our
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  Speaker 3: participating business. I always like to use books on first
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  Speaker 3: just because it's an easy one. So let's say you
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  Speaker 3: go in there for a delicious coffee, it's five dollars
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  Speaker 3: and fifty cents.
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  Speaker 2: You have that ten dollars gift certificate, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: give you back four dollars and fifty cents in cash.
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  Speaker 3: So it works just like cash ten dollars increments. And
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  Speaker 3: the great thing is is it's great for that hard
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  Speaker 3: to buy person, right you don't know what they want, Well,
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  Speaker 3: you can purchase because we have jewelry stores that have
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  Speaker 3: signed up for this, of boutiques, food establishments, over twenty
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  Speaker 3: five businesses have signed up to accept these, So definitely
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  Speaker 3: check it out again. Just to wrap up that shop local,
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  Speaker 3: shop small. There's a lot of great stuff going on,
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  Speaker 3: and of course get those discovered dicks and dollars to
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  Speaker 3: help with your shopping list.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean, you're being rewarded for shopping, right, What
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  Speaker 1: more excuse do you need to get out and spend
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  Speaker 1: money and support locally? Because that I agree. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: agree more with you. That is the biggest piece of this.
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  Speaker 1: You a lot of these things locally you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to find anywhere else, and if you can, why would
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  Speaker 1: you not want your dollars to stay in Dixon versus
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  Speaker 1: versus out you know, at a bigger city where you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to see that money coming back to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't know if everybody really realizes
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  Speaker 3: those tax dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go in the whole big thing
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: But every time you spend money here locally in your community,
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  Speaker 3: those tax dollars, you're taxed on it. Right, Yes, that
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  Speaker 3: happens everywhere we go. But that tax dollars goes back
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  Speaker 3: into our community. Okay, So that goes back to help
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  Speaker 3: our fire department, the library, are our city policemen. So
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  Speaker 3: it goes back to make us a vibrant, safe community.
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  Speaker 3: I could go on and on about it, but just
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  Speaker 3: shop local. And of course a lot of our shops
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of great deals. So get out there
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  Speaker 3: and check it out. Bundle up, all right, it's a
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  Speaker 3: nice cool day out there today.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, grab your hat, wrap up the scarf,
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  Speaker 1: go get your discovered Dixon dollars and support local business.
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  Speaker 1: There's some other great great the Dixon Christmas Walk. My
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  Speaker 1: oldest boy, Makai, would not let me get away with
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  Speaker 1: not being able to talk about this. Oh God, he's
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  Speaker 1: a big fan. Every year he makes sure to ten
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  Speaker 1: and so he wants to hear what's the details.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, well he has a good choice on events to
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  Speaker 3: a ton. So this Friday, the Dixon Christmas Walk. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I know that the city of Dixon has been well
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  Speaker 3: the main street, I guess the city everybody. We've been
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  Speaker 3: hosting this for over thirty years. So bundle up and
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  Speaker 3: join us this Friday, December fifth.
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  Speaker 2: It's five to eight pm.
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  Speaker 3: Downtown Dixon a big, big area to host us at.
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  Speaker 3: So we go from all the way Basel Tree, all
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  Speaker 3: the way down to like Edward Jones and Madwater Saloon,
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  Speaker 3: and then of course we year down River Street and
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  Speaker 3: Hennepin all the way up to town Square Circle Drive.
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  Speaker 2: But join us.
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  Speaker 3: We have Santa will be joining at the tree lighting
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  Speaker 3: at OSF and they'll be promptly at five pm.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to miss that.
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  Speaker 3: And then Santa will be taking him down to Living
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  Speaker 3: Well Church, which is across from Basel Tree, also one
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  Speaker 3: sixteen East First Street, so there's always a line for Santa.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also going to tell you another time you
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  Speaker 3: can see Santa, So hang in there on that. But
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have costume characters roaming the streets. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: the businesses are staying open late. They're gonna have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of treats in there, sales and deals, and just
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  Speaker 3: remember that holiday passport. This is still the time that
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  Speaker 3: you can get those cards punched at those participating businesses.
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  Speaker 3: Lee County Democrats will be doing their chestnuts in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of Alley Loop.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we have a horse and carriage rights that
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  Speaker 3: will be taking off and ending at the town Square
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  Speaker 3: Circle drive there on Hennepin. The John Dere Blacksmith. He's
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  Speaker 3: always a joy to have at our event, so we
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  Speaker 3: can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: To have him back. And you know there's photo ops throughout.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: And then one thing I do want to talk about
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  Speaker 3: is our rock hunt. So I do know you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have Noura Volatti be joining you, or excuse me, Nora
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  Speaker 3: Ruda will be Norah Ruder will be joining you here
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit. But she has decorated all of
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  Speaker 3: our rocks for the rock hunt, and so she just
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  Speaker 3: opened up a business right there on Huntepin, so make
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  Speaker 3: sure you check it out, Brave Arts Creative Studios. But
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  Speaker 3: we'll be hiding those those rocks throughout the Dixon Walk. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you find one of those rocks and on the
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  Speaker 3: back of it, make sure you realize this says hashtag
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  Speaker 3: discovered Dixon, you're gonna be able to bring that rock
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  Speaker 3: to the Brave Arts Creative Studio and they're at that
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  Speaker 3: time we're gonna give you a prize, so you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to miss out on that. So look high and low,
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  Speaker 3: but it's gonna be within the streets, right and then
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  Speaker 3: all the winners will put all because there'll be twenty
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  Speaker 3: five rocks, and then we'll put all the names into
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  Speaker 3: a hat and on Monday, we're going to be drawing
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  Speaker 3: for a really cool family gift basket. So check our
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  Speaker 3: Facebook page this week because we will be advertising that
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  Speaker 3: what rocks to be on the hunt for and what
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  Speaker 3: all those prices will be.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Don't go kicking rocks, pick them up,
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  Speaker 1: flip them over, check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she did a really amazing job on them. So
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  Speaker 3: we're really excited to get those out into the community
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  Speaker 3: and of course to check out another wonderful downtown business
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  Speaker 3: here in Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you said you had word on how you
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  Speaker 1: could pin down the Jolly Man of the season. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good old Santa. He loves coming to Dixon.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, So you do want to mark
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  Speaker 3: your calendars if it gets too crazy this Friday at
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  Speaker 3: the Christmas Walk. Join us on Friday December twelfth, five
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  Speaker 3: to seven pm at the Old Settler's Cabin so that
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  Speaker 3: is ran by the Lee County Historic Society.
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  Speaker 2: They open the doors for us.
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  Speaker 3: Santa and Missus Klaus will be in there and from
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  Speaker 3: five to seven you get free pictures with them. So
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  Speaker 3: you might have to wait in line just a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: but trust me, he will have time to visit with
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  Speaker 3: kids of all ages who want to make sure they
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  Speaker 3: get their list to him in time.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. Did he have any street strange
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  Speaker 1: green room across? Maybe candy canes with only horizontal stripes.
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  Speaker 1: I just I didn't know if he was ever a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a prima donna or if he's just as
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  Speaker 1: real and grounded as he seems in real life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Santa's a pretty cool guy. So he
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  Speaker 3: just likes a little bit of coffee, and of course
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  Speaker 3: the Reindeers in Missus Klaus make sure he has that
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  Speaker 3: sugar buzz, and of course all the kiddos help him
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  Speaker 3: out to when they leave the cookie out. So it's
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  Speaker 3: a good time to be in Dixon, and I just
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  Speaker 3: encourage everybody to get involved in your local community as
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  Speaker 3: well as visit discovered dixon dot com for all the
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  Speaker 3: good information coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, I always love how much you guys have
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  Speaker 1: going on. There is there's never an excuse Dixon okay
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  Speaker 1: to say you have nothing to do. Discover Dixon is
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  Speaker 1: always thinking about it, and they're thinking about it ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So if you think you don't have anything to do,
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  Speaker 1: go over to the Discovered Dixon website and Jennifer's going
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  Speaker 1: to prove your wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: There is a lot of stuff going on and just
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  Speaker 3: as you know, like I just don't do this all
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  Speaker 3: by myself. I might be the ringleader of all this
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  Speaker 3: great chaos, but we rely on our volunteers, our community.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have a great idea or you want
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of something, reach out to us,
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  Speaker 3: because this just doesn't happen. It takes a lot of input,
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  Speaker 3: it takes a lot of planning, it takes a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people, and we just love to get our community involved.
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  Speaker 2: So whether you're in Dixon, come talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: But better yet, if anywhere you know in your community,
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  Speaker 3: just really get involved ask how you can help. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of times we're just looking for that hour of help.
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  Speaker 3: And of course in my realm, I always want to
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  Speaker 3: match you up in something that you like to do.
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  Speaker 2: So don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: There's times that there's stuff that I don't even want
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  Speaker 3: to do right, but for the most part, I try
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  Speaker 3: to definitely match it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a good time for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you have it. That's I mean, how much
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  Speaker 1: closer do you get to be part of Santa's Workshop
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  Speaker 1: is to being part of the local magic that has
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  Speaker 1: discovered Dixon. So please, folks, you hear that you got
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  Speaker 1: some time you want to be a part of it,
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  Speaker 1: you should definitely give a hand. This thing just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pop out of the air on its own. It takes
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  Speaker 1: an incredible team. And I thank you so very much,
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  Speaker 1: not just for joining me in the booth this morning,
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  Speaker 1: but for all that you folks do and continue to do.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you thanks for having me. I look forward to
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  Speaker 3: seeing you next month. And if you see me out
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  Speaker 3: about during the Christmas Walk this Friday, and make sure
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  Speaker 3: you stop by and say.
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  Speaker 1: Hi absolutely, Jennifer, thank you again so so much. Stay
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