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Talk-Line: Jim Grot and Ana Lara, SVCC · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: It's August the seventh, year is twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of Talkline here at
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Speaker 1: WIXN Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is time
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Speaker 1: for our monthly look at news and information from Sock
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Speaker 1: Valley Community College. We dub our programs sok Talk and
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Speaker 1: every month we bring out all of what is happening
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Speaker 1: in the world of SVCC and here to enlighten us
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Speaker 1: today as the marketing director of Sock Valley Community College,
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Speaker 1: live at the microphones with us for this August the seventh,
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Speaker 1: our good friend Jim Groat joins us this morning, Jim
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Speaker 1: Googourney morning.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have you with us, Sir, wonderful to be
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Speaker 2: here again.
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Speaker 1: Please introduce your special guests that you have brought.
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Speaker 2: A lot of special guests. I have special guests.
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Speaker 3: With me from the Project Vital program that we have
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Speaker 3: over at the College of Anna Laura Laura, Yeah, who
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Speaker 3: works with Project Vital, where basically she is in charge
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Speaker 3: of recruiting tutors over to the college to help out
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Speaker 3: people who are not from this country. They come over
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Speaker 3: here and we need they need help learning how to
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Speaker 3: read English, how to speak English, that kind of thing, so.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to her a little bit. Anna,
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Good morning. It's such a pleasure being here, and thank
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Speaker 4: you so much for giving me the opportunity to spread
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Speaker 4: the word about VITAL.
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Speaker 1: And we are going to do that. We are going
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Speaker 1: to do that at aana in just a few minutes
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Speaker 1: here at w IKES, and we're going to learn all
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Speaker 1: about Project Vital today. We've talked about it in the past,
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Speaker 1: but if you are not aware of what importance this
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Speaker 1: program has, we're going to outline that and Anna is
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Speaker 1: going to talk about that this morning with us here
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Speaker 1: at WIXEN. Before we get to Anna's presentation about Project Vital,
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Speaker 1: we need to take care of some business at stock
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Speaker 1: Valley Community College Gym, and of course this month of August.
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Speaker 1: The first thing on my mind in this month of
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Speaker 1: August is the start.
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Speaker 3: Of consesser of classes, which is yes, which is next Monday,
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Speaker 3: which is like, it's it's super exciting right now because
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Speaker 3: we have all of the new students, the incoming freshmen
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Speaker 3: coming in and doing student orientation and that kind of
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Speaker 3: stuff over these last two weeks and we are up
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Speaker 3: considerably over last year for our enrollment, which is fantastic.
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Speaker 3: So our orientation classes have been packed, which is it's
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Speaker 3: just fun to see students and to have just all
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Speaker 3: the noises in the hallways and things like that because
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Speaker 3: during the summertime it's a little more quiet out there,
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Speaker 3: and so yeah, so's it's just it's just nice to
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Speaker 3: see this kind of liveliness going around on campus. So
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Speaker 3: classes start on Monday. But you know, so for the
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Speaker 3: procrastinators out there, which I talk from time to time
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Speaker 3: when i'm here and I'm one of those procrastinators, is
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Speaker 3: you can still get signed up for classes. So it's
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Speaker 3: you know, call the campus, walk into campus, you can
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Speaker 3: do drop ins, that kind of stuff. If you have
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Speaker 3: not signed up for classes and they do start on Monday,
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Speaker 3: you can still jump in there even today. Now tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: I didn't want to mention is that we are closed tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: so do not come tomorrow because the reason why we're
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Speaker 3: closed is we do before school starts, we have an
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Speaker 3: all school meeting and so everybody the from admissions, advisors, faculty,
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Speaker 3: everybody is in this all campus meeting. So we can't
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Speaker 3: have anybody walking in because we're all piled in this
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Speaker 3: one meeting. So we are closed on the campus is
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Speaker 3: closed tomorrow, so if you need to sign up for
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Speaker 3: classes or anything.
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Speaker 2: Like that, either do it today, okay, or so you.
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Speaker 3: Can still pop in on you know, next week. You know,
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Speaker 3: the first week of classes. It's a lot of introduction
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, so there's a little bit of
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Speaker 3: time there to still kind of squeeze in. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: classes to start money. So it's exciting, Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun, Yeah it is. It's always exciting
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Speaker 3: when we get started down the road with the first
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Speaker 3: semester of classes at Soft Valley Community College again starting
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Speaker 3: next Monday at SVCC. And of course, late.
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Speaker 1: Registration now, as Jim mentioned, this is very late registration.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the procedure is changed from regular registration,
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Speaker 1: but it is kind of a late registration period that
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Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, Jim, with the campus closed tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: if you want to and you know, get yourself signed
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Speaker 1: up and you want to get to an opportunity at
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Speaker 1: classes at Socck Valley Community College for the first semester,
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Speaker 1: you bet it go.
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Speaker 2: On, Yeah, you bet, you go on.
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Speaker 3: Mind, Yeah, you can call if you need to, just
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Speaker 3: call in that kind of thing. So yeah, it's but
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Speaker 3: it's going to be great. It's going to be a
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Speaker 3: great semester, okay, you know, and part of that part
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Speaker 3: of this great semester is what you and I were
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Speaker 3: just talking about right before I start up here, is
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Speaker 3: is our president, doctor Helmick, is going to be retiring
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Speaker 3: this year. So not only you know, not only are
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Speaker 3: we have an increased enrollment, we have our president retiring,
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Speaker 3: which is so it's just going to be a fun,
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Speaker 3: exciting year.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: Retirement is this is a this is a great fun retirement.
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Speaker 3: This is not like a surprise retirement. We knew this
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Speaker 3: was coming for quite a while, but he just announced
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Speaker 3: it last week officially that he's going to be retiring
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Speaker 3: at the end of this school year, so in May
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Speaker 3: May twenty six. But he's also start up the Helmic
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Speaker 3: Legacy Campaign, and the Helmic Legacy Campaign is just a
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Speaker 3: way to get that awareness out there. What we usually
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Speaker 3: talk about is the Impact Program. He wants to start
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Speaker 3: this campaign to try and raise a million dollars for
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Speaker 3: the Impact Program. And so the Impact Program is very
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Speaker 3: close to being fully funded, meaning so once we get
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Speaker 3: to this ten million dollar mark, it's then fully funded
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Speaker 3: in perpetuity. So any student that comes to sock will
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Speaker 3: have their tuition fully covered. And we still are, we're
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Speaker 3: a little short of it. And so he wants to
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Speaker 3: make this kind of his last year, this big push
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Speaker 3: to try and get this million dollars for his kind
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Speaker 3: of legacy campaign. So sure that has started, that's kicked off.
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Speaker 3: You can go to the website, the foundation website, and
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Speaker 3: there's a button there that you can click on and
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Speaker 3: add to his legacy campaign. Because he knows the Impact program,
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Speaker 3: he will tell you that it is the single most
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Speaker 3: important kind of educational economic development project that has come
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Speaker 3: about since the college has started.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and the college has been around for sixty.
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Speaker 3: Years, and this is it's huge, like and we are
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Speaker 3: we're already kind of seeing the benefits of the Impact
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Speaker 3: Program of just the student enrollment. We just think that
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Speaker 3: the awareness of the Impact program is making people more
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Speaker 3: aware of the college because we're just out there so
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Speaker 3: much and these kids are doing so much for the community.
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Speaker 3: And so he wants to really kind of end his
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Speaker 3: time over at the college with kind of this big bangs.
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Speaker 2: It's fitting.
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Speaker 1: It's fitting that this happens. It really is. It's fitting
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Speaker 1: that this happens, and he'll be the He'll be the
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Speaker 1: first not to tell you, you know, of you know
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Speaker 1: what he is accomplished. He will be the he won't.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't like talking, No.
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Speaker 1: No, he doesn't. He would rather talk about the college.
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Speaker 1: He would rather talk about the area. He would rather
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Speaker 1: talk about the accomplishments that the entire area has made.
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Speaker 1: He will not you know, single himself, but he should
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Speaker 1: because because you and I both don't. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: gentleman was was magnificent for the community. We wish him
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Speaker 1: well in his future endeavor. Obviously we'll get to We'll
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Speaker 1: get to enjoy him at Stock Valley Community College until
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Speaker 1: the end of the second semester that's over his official Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Will be his official retirement times.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and he has been I've only been at the
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Speaker 3: college for three years and he's been absolutely fantastic with
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Speaker 3: It's such a wonderful person.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in all, in all department, I mean, he is,
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Speaker 1: he is caring, he is he is right there when
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Speaker 1: you need him. And uh again, not just the college though,
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Speaker 1: the community. Right there when the community needs him, he's available.
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Speaker 1: It just seems right.
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Speaker 2: He is always thinking about the community.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, community, it's first.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely for him, which is why this impact program is
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Speaker 3: so kind of near and dear to his heart is
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Speaker 3: that he wants to see kind of as he leaves,
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Speaker 3: he wants to see this impact program, you know, just
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Speaker 3: be able to run all by itself, you know, for
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Speaker 3: the fact that once they get this funding done, then
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Speaker 3: you can kind of kind of start focusing on the
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Speaker 3: rest of it, because then next year will be our
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Speaker 3: first cohort of all district schools. So this this year,
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Speaker 3: we have our our starting cohort Cohart, which was Fulton
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Speaker 3: and Prophestown, So we already have students coming in this
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Speaker 3: year that started the impact program, and then next year.
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Speaker 2: It will be all district schools, allright, so this will.
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Speaker 3: Be it'll be it's just gonna be a great it's
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Speaker 3: just great time. So it's gonna be a really fun year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And yeah, the timing is such that,
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Speaker 1: like you mentioned, Jim, that he makes the announcement now
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Speaker 1: again he'll he'll be on hand at stock Valley Community
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Speaker 1: College to complete his tenure until the run is ended
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Speaker 1: next spring in the month of May. But again, during
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Speaker 1: that time, I'm sure that we'll be hearing a lot
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Speaker 1: about his campaign and about his uh again obviously legacy
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Speaker 1: at Stock Valley Community College.
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Speaker 3: You know, let me mention too, because because of the
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Speaker 3: Impact Program, I just I didn't.
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Speaker 2: Want to mention, so we didn't. We didn't.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that September first is the deadline to register for it.
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Speaker 3: So if you have freshmen coming in high school, freshmen,
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Speaker 3: you have till September first to get them signed up
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Speaker 3: for the Impact Program. So that's less than a month away.
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Speaker 2: And so we.
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Speaker 3: Usually we usually see right at the beginning, we see
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Speaker 3: it kind of a big sign up, and right at
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Speaker 3: the end we see a big sign up. So it's
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Speaker 3: what three weeks away, Yeah, September first, and so you
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Speaker 3: have to get them signed up in these next few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Otherwise they can't, you know, they can't join the Impact
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Speaker 3: Program and get that free tuition at SOCKS.
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Speaker 2: So it's free tuition for up to three years. Now.
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Speaker 3: I do want to mention that if you're at you know,
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Speaker 3: you're recently coming to the area, or you didn't sign
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Speaker 3: up for the Impact Program previous years. If you have
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Speaker 3: not signed up for the Impact Program before and you're
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Speaker 3: a sophomore, a junior, a senior, you still can sign
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Speaker 3: up for it. You just get Sophomores get seventy five
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Speaker 3: percent tuition coverage. Juniors get fifty percent tuition coverage. So
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Speaker 3: you can still sign up for the Impact program even
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Speaker 3: if you're not a freshman. If you've signed up and
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Speaker 3: you didn't complete your hours and things like that and
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Speaker 3: you got dropped from the program, you can't sign up again.
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Speaker 3: That's the important party, because we want you to commit
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Speaker 3: and finish these hours. Yes, but if you're new to
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Speaker 3: the area and you're like, wait a minute, like I
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Speaker 3: don't know about this Impact program and your kid's a junior,
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Speaker 3: they can still sign up and they'll get fifty percent
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Speaker 3: of their tuition covered out at SOCKS Now. So September one, though,
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Speaker 3: is the cutoff.
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Speaker 1: It's and that's the drop dead deadline, and that is
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Speaker 1: the main cutoff date. And we've been punctuating this for
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Speaker 1: the last four or five interviews that jenneba I have done.
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Speaker 1: We have been punctuating the fact that September the first
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Speaker 1: is the deadline. And September the first, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is Labor day. It's Labor Day, and so you know that, yeah.
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Speaker 2: If you haven't done it by that day, you have
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Speaker 2: all day to do it.
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Speaker 1: Exactly that is Labor Day, so again you got until
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Speaker 1: that September first deadline. And I have heard you know,
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Speaker 1: I just talked to Dixon Chamber in Main Street earlier
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Speaker 1: in the week. They're using Impact Again personnel to move
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Speaker 1: themselves with their functions. Venetian Night this weekend, there's going
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Speaker 1: to be Impact students helping with Venetiana. I've heard from
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Speaker 1: many organizations that I have talked to and the good
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Speaker 1: things that they say about the Impact program. It's just
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Speaker 1: a win win for organizations to get a board, for
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Speaker 1: students to get aboard. This is just a win win
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Speaker 1: program at Sock Valley Community College. But again, if you
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of it, and you're planning
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Speaker 1: on going for classes at Sock Valley Community College September one,
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Speaker 1: please mark it on your calendar. You need to have
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Speaker 1: your information into Sock Valley Community College again to be
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Speaker 1: a part of the Impact program. We are talking with
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Speaker 1: Jim Groat and we are talking with Ana Lara from
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Speaker 1: Stock Valley Community An is chapping at the bit. I
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Speaker 1: know we're gon we're gonna break for five minutes the
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Speaker 1: news at the bottom of the hour, but we're gonna
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Speaker 1: give Onna the entire next portion of our talk line
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Speaker 1: to talk about Project Vital. We just wanted to get
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Speaker 1: some news and information out from Stock Valley Community College.
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Speaker 1: But Anna is going to be the featured speaker in
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Speaker 1: the next half hour right here on w accent. But
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Speaker 1: we're going to take five minutes for a break news
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Speaker 1: first at the bottom of the hour. Stay with the
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Speaker 1: free as we continue our conversation with our good friends
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Speaker 1: from Stock Valley Community College. We are joined today by
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Speaker 1: marketing director Jim Growth, who has joined us with a
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Speaker 1: special guest. Jim, thanks for spending there time. I always
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. But we're going to give the microphones over
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Speaker 1: to our adult education literacy coordinator at Stock Valley Community College.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Ana Lara and she is live with
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Speaker 1: us as well here at wix and Man. Again, thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining us, and.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me here. Like I said before,
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Speaker 4: thank you for letting people know about that wonderful project Bido.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we want to talk.
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Speaker 4: Yes, of course I will like to. I would like
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Speaker 4: to start saying what is this program so pro to vital.
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Speaker 4: It is a free which is really really interesting and important.
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Speaker 4: It's a free tutoring program for adults. So it means
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Speaker 4: that it had to be eighteen years or older to
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Speaker 4: be in our program. The students are the ones who
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Speaker 4: are wanting to improve the reading skills, their writing and skills,
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Speaker 4: their communication skills in English. Yes, yes, and uh. And
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Speaker 4: also we have also we provide uh people who want
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Speaker 4: to uh to become a citizen. So we have we
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Speaker 4: have a program and we we help them to get
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Speaker 4: you know, go through all this process.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so Project Vital does help in bringing again
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Speaker 1: to the table the opportunity to become a citizen. If
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Speaker 1: they're not registered already, they can get the necessary uh
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Speaker 1: qualifications then through through Project vil.
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Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, what we do is we help people prepare
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Speaker 4: for the test and for the interview. And also we
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Speaker 4: have an institution which is called World Relief.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: So what we do is we set up and we
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Speaker 4: set up on an appointment so they can help them
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Speaker 4: with all the process with the applications. So fill it out.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's really and everything is free.
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Speaker 1: And that's one of the good everything to pay anything.
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Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: Okay, to help again those attending Soft Family Community College,
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Speaker 1: first of all, helping to teach English and non and
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Speaker 1: reading to non English students, and we do have a
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Speaker 1: conscium of that population right at our Family Community College
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Speaker 1: that's in need of this service. And that's what we're
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Speaker 1: basing this on, is so that those that are attending
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Speaker 1: that may need help with the English language can learn
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Speaker 1: it better.
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Speaker 2: Now, I want to go back with you a little
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Speaker 2: bit further on.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about now you were before you took over
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Speaker 1: the Project Vital program as our adult education literacy coordinator.
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Speaker 1: You were actually in.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and you know, and that was to make me.
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Speaker 4: It makes it special. This uh position that I'm running
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Speaker 4: right now is because I mean, I studied the approachect
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Speaker 4: in this project as a tutor. So when I when
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Speaker 4: I moved from California to to this area, to sou
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Speaker 4: Valley area, I was looking for something like this, So
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Speaker 4: I started, like as a volunteer. And believe me, it's
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Speaker 4: a wonderful experience. I'm a teacher and that. But you
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Speaker 4: know it's different because of a program. It's one on one,
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Speaker 4: So you don't I mean, you're not in front of
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Speaker 4: the class for twenty without twenty students. You I mean,
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Speaker 4: you only have one student. And that's why it's even
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Speaker 4: more relevant and more not just for we as a tutor,
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Speaker 4: but for our students that sometimes they are so in
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Speaker 4: it to have someone to trust and this communications matter,
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Speaker 4: which believe me, I'm English is my second language, and
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Speaker 4: you don't know our brains sometimes just want to explode.
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Speaker 3: The English language in your head while you're talking at
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Speaker 3: the same time.
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Speaker 1: I can imagine, yes.
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Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, exact, literally you have two brains, okay,
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Speaker 4: so what is your own language? And we do have
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Speaker 4: people from some different countries. We have people from China, Ukrainians, Mexico.
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Speaker 4: Those are the most population that we have, Yes, Ecuador.
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Speaker 4: Lately we have Thailand.
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Speaker 2: So from all around the world. Students come to Project Vital.
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Speaker 3: And the important part of what Anna needs to do
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Speaker 3: right now is try and get tutors because she has
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Speaker 3: a waiting list, yes, right, she has a waiting list
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Speaker 3: of students who and because because it's one on one
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Speaker 3: and so the Project Vital tutors are volunteers, and so
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Speaker 3: we need volunteer people to volunteer and spend this time
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Speaker 3: one on one, one hour a week.
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Speaker 4: We're a week, so it's just one hour a week.
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Speaker 4: And believe me, I'm pretty sure that people who were
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Speaker 4: the tutors. Right now I have forty two tutors. Uh, yes,
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Speaker 4: I know in that more I need more because right
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Speaker 4: now I have like waiting on my wading LISTA have
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Speaker 4: almost twenty more students. And so that's why we have
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Speaker 4: a training coming soon. So our next training we usually
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Speaker 4: have to train, to train and send up during the
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Speaker 4: whole year in uh in full and a spring in
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Speaker 4: the last spring. Fortunately, I was so lucky that I graduated.
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Speaker 4: I said, I graduate fifteen new tutors. And now of
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Speaker 4: course I need more because like I said, I have
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Speaker 4: a huge waiting least waiting for.
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Speaker 2: Us looking for tutors and tutors.
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Speaker 3: So anybody out there that wants to be a tutor,
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Speaker 3: and you just it's one hour a week that you
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Speaker 3: spend one on one time with to help you know,
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Speaker 3: them improve their language. So it's not a it's not
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Speaker 3: a huge commitment. It's a commitment. But but you but
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Speaker 3: saw handles training, so it's you know, you don't have
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Speaker 3: to be a former teacher, you don't have to be anything.
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Speaker 2: Okay, anybody can do this. I've all watked of life.
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Speaker 4: You know that your requirements it's just you have to
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Speaker 4: be eighteen years or older. You have to have a
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Speaker 4: high school diploma. And one thing very important is that
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Speaker 4: you don't know teaching experience, isn't it. That's why these
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Speaker 4: training are so important. And also we as a Sock
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Speaker 4: Valley and we as a project Bidle, we provide everything
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Speaker 4: all the resources that tutors and any students are going
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Speaker 4: to to you. So the only theme that that we need,
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Speaker 4: that you need to be a tutor, to become a
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Speaker 4: tutor is just you're willing to help.
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Speaker 1: Very good and once you sign up on a take
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Speaker 1: us through this. Now, once you sign up and want
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Speaker 1: to become a tutor, what's the steps that you take?
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Speaker 1: I mean, what are the training steps that you take
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Speaker 1: before you get.
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Speaker 4: To you get okay, thank you? So that once you
19:09
Speaker 4: sign up, our next training will be in September. There
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Speaker 4: are three Fridays September twelfth, nineteen, and twenty six from
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Speaker 4: nine thirty to twelve thirty, just three days and then
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Speaker 4: of three days of training, so that will be twelve
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Speaker 4: hours and then each tutor needs to have two more
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Speaker 4: hours as what we call shadowing. This means that they
19:33
Speaker 4: had to go to our classes. Because in adult education
19:36
Speaker 4: we also have what we call esl classes English as
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Speaker 4: a second language. Yes, so we have different we having
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Speaker 4: a sterning and we have in Dixum teachers, so they
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Speaker 4: have to go Chatto for two hours.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: And I think the biggest thing is for the volunteers
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Speaker 3: is that you're not just thrown in with somebody like training.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, so you get that, you get
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Speaker 1: the training, you get the you get the training in September.
20:04
Speaker 1: As you mentioned those training days in September. Then how
20:07
Speaker 1: are you I mean, do you select or how do
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Speaker 1: how do you pair up?
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Speaker 4: Okay? That is an interesting question. Okay, So what I
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Speaker 4: do is like a make a profile. I have a
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Speaker 4: profile of a tutor and a profile of a student. Yes,
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Speaker 4: so I always I try to be as much respectful
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Speaker 4: as I can, and I ask you, for example, if
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Speaker 4: you want to be a tutor, I will ask you
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Speaker 4: would you rather work with a girl with a boy?
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Speaker 4: What are your expectations? Because one of the themes that
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Speaker 4: for this learning process, because it's a learning process, is
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Speaker 4: like both of them tutors, some students feel comfortable and
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Speaker 4: enjoy that experience because if you enjoy something, if you
20:49
Speaker 4: like something, you will learn more.
20:51
Speaker 1: What I hear with project vital two is that people
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Speaker 1: come back and join you year after year. I mean,
20:58
Speaker 1: you probably have some people that are probably put in
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Speaker 1: years with projects.
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Speaker 4: You know that. I have tutors that have been in
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Speaker 4: this program for all more Dante years. There you go, yes,
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Speaker 4: and you know this, and if you talk with them,
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Speaker 4: they will you know, I figure they're still enjoying sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously I've interviewed some of them and some of
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Speaker 3: the previous tutors, and they basically they enjoy it as
21:24
Speaker 3: much as the students do because they learn from the students.
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Speaker 3: Like some of them were like, we share recipes, we
21:30
Speaker 3: do so it's not you know, you're teaching them, but
21:33
Speaker 3: you're actually getting to know somebody and you understand, you
21:35
Speaker 3: learn their culture and that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
21:37
Speaker 3: They're like, we actually love doing it because you're helping
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Speaker 3: somebody out. You're you know, you're volunteering, you're enjoying it,
21:43
Speaker 3: but you're also learning about this. Just some of the
21:46
Speaker 3: some of the tutors that I interviewed were just like,
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Speaker 3: it's so much fun because you just get to know
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Speaker 3: this person in their other life that they live, yes,
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Speaker 3: and learn you know from Ukraine and China exactly, Mexican.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know that. I call this program a win
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Speaker 4: to win program, Yes, because I mean it's a fifty
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Speaker 4: to fifty and you always win. You're gonna win always
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Speaker 4: from the experience. For what you said, I mean learn,
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Speaker 4: you know, do new difference recipes or something, or the
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Speaker 4: language because they practice.
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Speaker 1: I wish we had more time to share with Project Vital,
22:19
Speaker 1: but we're getting the word out about the need for
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Speaker 1: volunteers to join the Project Vital effort for this year.
22:25
Speaker 1: As Aana mentioned, we're in need of tutors. How now
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Speaker 1: do we sign up to be a part of projects?
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Speaker 4: Okay, so you can contact me. You can call me
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Speaker 4: at eight fifteen eight three five six two for one.
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Speaker 4: My name is an Alea. And also you can visit
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Speaker 4: us in our office at talk and also you can
22:47
Speaker 4: visit our website. And I would like to finish with
22:50
Speaker 4: this if you can meet you opportunity Absolutely like for
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Speaker 4: a volunteer, this experience is deeply rewarding. But for our learners,
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Speaker 4: it's a truly life. So what are you waiting for?
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Speaker 4: Come and join us.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely be a part of the SoC team. You know,
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Speaker 1: in this regard, I think it is wonderful that you
23:09
Speaker 1: can be a part. And this is a very important
23:12
Speaker 1: area of Socck Valley Community College that that we really
23:16
Speaker 1: need to bring to the forefront when we can, and
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Speaker 1: right now the need is here for for for tutors
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Speaker 1: to join the Project Vital effort and to get started
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Speaker 1: with again the one on ones uh with the students
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Speaker 1: in need of language training and uh and again uh
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Speaker 1: again that area at.
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Speaker 4: Sarkville make you regret is experience.
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Speaker 1: You can also, I'm sure you can go online, right Jim.
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Speaker 3: You go to online the sbc C dot E t
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Speaker 3: U slash adult ed. So yeah, and this is another
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Speaker 3: great project that Helmet just really supports because it's it's
23:48
Speaker 3: helping the community, it's making the community better.
23:49
Speaker 2: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: You know what we talked about before and honest efforts
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Speaker 1: with being the coordinator this year Project Vital. Again, we
23:57
Speaker 1: thank you ma'am very much. I know that we we
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Speaker 1: we we we are hoping for more time. But I
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Speaker 1: hope we got the word out about the Project Vital
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Speaker 1: effort and about the need for volunteers, and that's what
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Speaker 1: we're looking for right now. People of all ages above eighteen,
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Speaker 1: please sign up for Project Vital and be a part
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Speaker 1: of the Sock effort. When it comes to this important
24:15
Speaker 1: areat SVCC. Go to the website at SBCC dot edu,
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Speaker 1: get started with learning about it, and then call on
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Speaker 1: his office and get to be a part of Project Vital.
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Speaker 1: For twenty twenty five. Honolera with the Project Vital, Jim
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Speaker 1: Groat with Soft Valley Community College. That does it for
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Speaker 1: soft Talk today, Yes, and we will see you next
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Speaker 1: month and a hopefully down the line.
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Speaker 4: Maybe. Yes, of course, yes, thanks for joining us today.
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