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Kate Alberghini - Executive Director at Green Up Vermont · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Perfect time for this. I know I've got on my
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  Speaker 1: list my white below me up, so I'll go shopping
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  Speaker 1: after this.
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  Speaker 2: But greeting everybody, I am partner.
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  Speaker 1: Really, I'm very proud of you, the president of green
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  Speaker 1: Up Vermont, and of course we have can Alberghini leading
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  Speaker 1: the charge with the k ing Up the more organization
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  Speaker 1: that was formed to really take keep the initiative going
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  Speaker 1: that I'm very proud to say here and here to
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  Speaker 1: my heart that my father started fifty six years ago,
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  Speaker 1: scared at the very first screen Up Day in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy according to that position by under the Datus at
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  Speaker 1: the time. And so our sort of unspoken mission, I
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  Speaker 1: guess is to.
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  Speaker 2: Put ourselves out of business right.
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  Speaker 1: And but I think we all share the astonishment that
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  Speaker 1: every year we go out with a green bag for
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  Speaker 1: freeom to day and we see that we are very
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  Speaker 1: much needed still. So thanks to all of you and
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  Speaker 1: our amazing marketing partners that we've been here from today
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  Speaker 1: for getting out there uh every green Up Day and
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  Speaker 1: many many days in between. I see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bags after already to keep Vermont green. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: such an amazing part the right time.
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  Speaker 2: Brand image and so.
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  Speaker 1: Important to the Lamont way of life and just the
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  Speaker 1: way Vermantas are and speak of the way Lamantas are.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud to introduced our first speaker, who I've
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  Speaker 1: known since he first got the legislature in the House
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  Speaker 1: and then the Senate. I would then Legislator John Lodgers,
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  Speaker 1: who now is bringing his common sent points of Vermonterers
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  Speaker 1: to the Lieutenant Governor's office, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: We're so honored to have him here and so that I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Turn over to Lieutenant Governor Rogers.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you Parker, and thank you Kate. And I
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  Speaker 3: really want to thank all the sponsors for this great
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  Speaker 3: event because what comes up before mayflowers, it's green garbage
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  Speaker 3: bags put out all over the state by Green Up Vermont.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that myself and my family have taken part
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  Speaker 3: in in our community for many years, and it is
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  Speaker 3: really amazing and shows the true community of Vermont to
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  Speaker 3: see every community pulling these events together and cleaning up
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  Speaker 3: the roadsides because Vermont is literally one of the most
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  Speaker 3: beautiful places in the entire world, and to keep it
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  Speaker 3: that way, we need to keep the garbage picked up.
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  Speaker 3: It is absolutely amazing to see the wonderful art that
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  Speaker 3: our students have brought. And I understand we're gonna hear
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  Speaker 3: a great jingle here shortly. But I'm just super proud
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  Speaker 3: of the state of what Greenup has done for the
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  Speaker 3: state of Vermont, for the appearance, appearance, to keep it
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  Speaker 3: beautiful for our tourists and the people who live here.
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  Speaker 3: It's just an amazing effort by Vermonters. Again, thank you
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  Speaker 3: to all the great sponsors listed over here. We couldn't
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  Speaker 3: do it without you. This is something that Vermont is
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  Speaker 3: truly proud of. And I'm not sure if I'm supposed
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  Speaker 3: to introduce Kate Ris Parker's going to but next we've
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  Speaker 3: got our fearlessly Kate coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks light Factor, thank you all. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: Lieutenant Governor for being here today and your comments. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you to the Berlin Mall and Walmart for hosting us
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  Speaker 4: this morning. We come together today to kick off the
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  Speaker 4: fifty sixth annual Green Up Day. Green Up Day is
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  Speaker 4: so much more than a statewide volunteer effort to keep
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  Speaker 4: our landscape litter free. It is a point of pride
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  Speaker 4: for those that take action to protect where we get
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  Speaker 4: to live, work, and play. It is a teaching and
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  Speaker 4: learning experience for generations, past, present, and future that nurtures
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  Speaker 4: community engagement and good citizenship. And it is an activity
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  Speaker 4: that empowers people of all ages because picking up litter
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  Speaker 4: is something that everyone can do with relative ease that
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  Speaker 4: truly makes an impact for the environment. Cleaning up roadsides,
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  Speaker 4: roadside litter protects our way of life beyond the one
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  Speaker 4: day of volunteerism called the Green Up Day. Clean environments
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  Speaker 4: protect human health, our wildlife and our domestic animals. Clean
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  Speaker 4: streetscapes enhance property values and business success. Clean natural landscapes
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  Speaker 4: keep Vermont's two billion dollar outdoor tourism industry flourishing. Vermont's
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  Speaker 4: economy depends on this, which means we all depend on
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  Speaker 4: this in some way. Everything about our actions on Green
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  Speaker 4: Up Day and year round are connected to our cherished
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  Speaker 4: way of life. So how do we get people to
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  Speaker 4: stop littering? That's the question that I'm asked every year.
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  Speaker 4: We need lots of voices, young and old, to be
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  Speaker 4: sharing how about how much Green Up Day and our
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  Speaker 4: gen up state of mind matters to our climate. We
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  Speaker 4: need lots of hands to join in and take part.
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  Speaker 4: Cleaning our planet is the epitome of many hands make
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  Speaker 4: light work with big impact. Once you take part in
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  Speaker 4: a green Up Day, something within changes. You will never
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  Speaker 4: throw a piece of trash on the ground, you will
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  Speaker 4: never step over a piece of drash, and you'll bend
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  Speaker 4: over to pick it up. Just to clean the environment.
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  Speaker 4: We always notice how much trash lines the roads wherever
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  Speaker 4: we're driving around, and Green Up Day was built to
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  Speaker 4: take care of that ugliness and really bring Vermont's beauty
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  Speaker 4: out with this mindset. When this mindset becomes contagious, there
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  Speaker 4: will be less litter on our roadsides. I'm incredibly proud
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  Speaker 4: that Vermont's concerted efforts on Green Up Day will clear
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  Speaker 4: the entire state road system of litter, making it the
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  Speaker 4: cleanest and healthiest state in the nation. In twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: twenty five thousand volunteers achieve ninety seven zero point five
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  Speaker 4: percent of all city and town roads cleaned. That's about
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  Speaker 4: twelve thousand, five hundred miles of approximately thirteen thousand miles.
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  Speaker 4: Our goal this year, our challenge to volunteers is to
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  Speaker 4: encourage a friend, a family member, a coworker to get
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  Speaker 4: outside with them and clean an extra half mile, and
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  Speaker 4: with that we will achieve one hundred percent of all
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  Speaker 4: roads cleaned in Vermont. This is totally doable. Together is
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  Speaker 4: how we'll clean up Vermont. Together, we will build ongoing
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  Speaker 4: stewardship for the environment, for stronger climate restoration. Together we
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  Speaker 4: will make a very important impact. I would like to
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  Speaker 4: thank and recognize our Board of Directors Parker Really, he's
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  Speaker 4: our president, VP, Aaron Deztel, Treasurer Corina Costello, Mark Hakey
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  Speaker 4: joins us today. Thank you, Brinn Oakleaf, Denise Palmer, Nick Neely,
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  Speaker 4: Kelly Stettner, Lucas Herring, Jean Richards, and Meg Borocks. They're
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  Speaker 4: a very enthusiastic group of people that keep me on
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  Speaker 4: track and keep things going very very well for green
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  Speaker 4: Up Vermont. I would like to thank the State of
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  Speaker 4: Vermont AOT because they help the district garages help distribute
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  Speaker 4: all of these green up bags all over the state.
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  Speaker 4: I usually get smiles when my husband and I show
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  Speaker 4: up with the U haul trailer packed with the green
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  Speaker 4: up bag boxes. And they've also been very busy cleaning
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  Speaker 4: the state highways and inter states. I would like to
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  Speaker 4: thank code for BTV, who works on the Greenup app.
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  Speaker 4: And then of course there are two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: two cities and towns, each with a volunteer town coordinator,
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  Speaker 4: and without them, I would not be able to lead
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  Speaker 4: this effort. They are the boots on the ground in
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  Speaker 4: our cities and towns and they really make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: Greenup is so thankful for our corporate partners who support
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  Speaker 4: our efforts not just with financial contribution, but also with
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  Speaker 4: action from large corporations to small businesses. It takes all
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  Speaker 4: of us working together. We have over fifty Vermont business
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  Speaker 4: partners this year, the highest in Greenup's history. They see
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  Speaker 4: the value in partnering with Greenup, and we value them
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  Speaker 4: so much in sharing their stories of sustainability sustainable practices. Again,
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  Speaker 4: it takes us all working together. We're very pleased to
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  Speaker 4: welcome Walmart as a partner this year who donates both
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  Speaker 4: treasure and time by encouraging employees to participate in green
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  Speaker 4: Up Day by giving them paid hours. It is my
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  Speaker 4: pleasure to welcome Joe Millerer, digital marketing manager here at Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: Ay, Good morning, everybody. I don't know if I need to,
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  Speaker 2: This is pretty easy to speak to and even when
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  Speaker 2: we're doing introductionly we're all here for a common goal
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  Speaker 2: and for us, for Walmart, one of our floor values
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  Speaker 2: and being a good neighbor. So coming together with this
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  Speaker 2: and seeing this grow is just tremendous. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: only coming out and doing the task. What we enjoy
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  Speaker 2: doing is coming out, getting the whole store out in
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  Speaker 2: the community and actually interacted with the neighbors as we're
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  Speaker 2: going down the street and we're cleaning up. So it
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  Speaker 2: actually is we had some fun to it, and we
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed talking to the neighbors, but we also enjoyed talking
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  Speaker 2: to our customers because we're out there. We've been doing
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  Speaker 2: this now for a couple of years. I gotta go
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  Speaker 2: hats off to Sarah Brown, the store manager. Just started
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  Speaker 2: off at a smaller event and it just grew and
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  Speaker 2: it grew to the point where it just getting encompassed
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  Speaker 2: the leadership.
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  Speaker 4: In the store.
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  Speaker 2: It went to the associates, and now it's actually going
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  Speaker 2: through the associates family. So it is actually really enlightened
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  Speaker 2: to see how this grows. And I think you spoke
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  Speaker 2: to that. I was just saying how this fans out
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  Speaker 2: and spreads out. So very proud to be here today,
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  Speaker 2: very proud to support what we've got going on here.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be very interesting. I would tending around with the
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  Speaker 2: associates in the store at Sarah, You're gonna see a
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  Speaker 2: transition of Walmart when we go out there, because it
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  Speaker 2: would be taking off our Walmart best. We're putting on
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  Speaker 2: our safety best and we'll be going out with your bee.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for letting us be a part of
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  Speaker 2: this great event.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Joe. All right, we have all these kids standing
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  Speaker 4: up here today that believe wholeheartedly in Green Up Day
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  Speaker 4: and have put efforts forward in our four contests. We
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  Speaker 4: host a video contest which is judged by WCAX on
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  Speaker 4: air talent John McMahon. The student winners of that contest
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  Speaker 4: could not be here today. They're pre K students from
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  Speaker 4: the Penn Program in Rochester, Aspen F and Sequoia M.
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  Speaker 4: The Jingle contest, which is judged by Great Eastern Radio
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  Speaker 4: on air talent Betty b and Stevens Blanchard, along with
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  Speaker 4: Naomi Perik of the Great Point Foundation. Hazel A, Natalia
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  Speaker 4: and Chloe are here today. We're missing Ronan. They are
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  Speaker 4: fourth graders from the Sustainability Academy in Burlington and their
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  Speaker 4: teacher is Abby Marin, and we're going to listen to
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  Speaker 4: their jingle here.
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  Speaker 5: O ye, do any of you wanna say a few
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  Speaker 5: words about how you developed the song?
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  Speaker 6: Some also for.
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  Speaker 7: We our school in our grade, they had this like
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  Speaker 7: say where we all have this musical goal, and when
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  Speaker 7: we figured out about this, concast me, Nachalia, May and
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  Speaker 7: Chloe and Ronan kind of came together and wrote the song. Well,
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  Speaker 7: Rona wrote like a little bit update and so we
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  Speaker 7: when we won, it was like competing our musical goal.
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and kind of like wi a message like.
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  Speaker 7: This, like we want to like give a message to people.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm like, do you think that it is safe?
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  Speaker 7: It's better than keeping it trash, cause if.
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  Speaker 6: You feel more, goold the ocean and like other places
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  Speaker 6: during the world, like the plains.
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  Speaker 7: Will die when turtles will grunstant because we'll die. We'll
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  Speaker 7: play with trash and everything the great would.
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  Speaker 5: Speak a better attention to help you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, you wanna come.
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  Speaker 7: So when we heard about this, we were like, good, right,
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  Speaker 7: didn't you When we heard about this.
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  Speaker 8: We said yes because all of us loved to sing
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  Speaker 8: and we love to treating songs and it's just a
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  Speaker 8: great message bring out to your mom that we should
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  Speaker 8: people trash and nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there has been a poster contest since nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 4: and we renamed it a couple of years ago when
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  Speaker 4: one of our long time judges passed away. It's called
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  Speaker 4: the Armin Poohlan Memorial Green Up Day Art Contest and
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  Speaker 4: is judged by David Cheats, who's a curator at the
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  Speaker 4: Vermont State House, and Hail Ritchie, who is a longtime
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  Speaker 4: judge and supporter of Green Up Day. I'm pleased to
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  Speaker 4: announce the Category K through four winner is Cora P.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see her artwork here. She's from the Benson Village School.
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  Speaker 4: Category five through eight is eleanor c. You want to
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  Speaker 4: read her inn She's from the Shelborn Community School in
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  Speaker 4: the eighth grade grades nine through twelve. Category winner is
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  Speaker 4: Evan B from Blue Mountain Union Grade ten, and our
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  Speaker 4: overall winner is Olivia M. You want to hold your
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  Speaker 4: poster It also from Blue Mountain grade ten and their
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  Speaker 4: teacher is Jen dub.
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  Speaker 5: Our.
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  Speaker 4: Final contest is the writing contest, and we're so thrilled
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  Speaker 4: to share Maya Te's poem. She's from the Shelborn Community
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  Speaker 4: School and her teacher is Wendy Halleck.
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  Speaker 5: Power well in.
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  Speaker 3: Love people, my name MS Law. Everyone is important overall.
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  Speaker 2: your written?
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  Speaker 6: She tell me.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: As up anythings something wrong with the homes.
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  Speaker 4: And thank you guys so much that those words of
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  Speaker 4: wisdom from our next generation are incredibly important. You're not
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  Speaker 4: only gonna have to deal with what's out there now,
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  Speaker 4: but we're kinda kind of get rid of what's out
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  Speaker 4: there to come. So we'll work together to do this.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thank you all for coming. Oh God, alright,
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  Speaker 4: Well I'm
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  Speaker 3: Gonna roll right straight back to the Senate.