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It's Here - The Junior League of Raleigh's A Shopping Spree! · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: G you one to five.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Ericas Show and it is back. We're all excited.
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  Speaker 2: It's a holiday tradition for a lot of families like mine.
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  Speaker 2: Every year, the Junior League of Raleigh's a shopping spree
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  Speaker 2: happening at the Raleigh Convention Center this week November twenty
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  Speaker 2: first through the twenty fourth. And this is the Junior
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  Speaker 2: League of Raleigh's biggest fundraiser for the entire year, helping
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  Speaker 2: a lot of community initiatives and grants right here in
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  Speaker 2: our very own community. Emily, how are you welcome? Tell
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  Speaker 2: us everything?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: So, y'all have been busy elves working getting everything ready
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  Speaker 2: for this major event. What do you do with Junior League? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm one of two co captains responsible for planning
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  Speaker 1: a shopping spree.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it or not. As soon as one
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  Speaker 1: shopping spree ends, it's time to start planning the next.
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  Speaker 1: So me and my co captain have and hard it
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  Speaker 1: works since January getting this ready. We're excited.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so now it's finally here. You're like, who, everything's
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  Speaker 2: come together. People are excited for anybody listening that's never
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  Speaker 2: heard of a shopping spree or maybe they're new to
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  Speaker 2: the area. What do we expect with a shopping spree
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so shopping th are your really special. So we're
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  Speaker 1: excited to have returned downtown to the convention Center this year.
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  Speaker 1: The past two years we've been out the fairgrounds. But
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  Speaker 1: we have one hundred and forty three vendors lined up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It's a lot. And what's cool about
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  Speaker 1: a shopping spree is it's folks that you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to find anywhere else, right, and it's all in one room,
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  Speaker 1: So you can come do your holiday shopping for everyone
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  Speaker 1: on your Christmas list all in one place and get
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  Speaker 1: unique gifts that, again you're not going to find on Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to find in the you know, shopping
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  Speaker 1: center down the corner. Everything from kid gifts to home
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  Speaker 1: decor to women's jewelry, you name it, we've got it.
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  Speaker 2: There's one that's there every year. He's got beautiful decoration.
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  Speaker 2: Which one is that? Which vendor is that?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're referencing TomTom and Company.
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  Speaker 2: The beautiful pieces that you can use for years and years.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful And he's a rally base vendor, so we're excited
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  Speaker 1: to have him back.
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  Speaker 2: And there's also I've drug my husband with me a
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  Speaker 2: few years because of make them hold bags of course,
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  Speaker 2: but he's always snacking on something. Because you have incredible, local,
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  Speaker 2: really specialty food items that you can't find in other places.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of really cool specially this year.
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  Speaker 1: We have Piedmont pennies they're almost like a cheese straw,
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  Speaker 1: that are from Charlotte. We have several local honey companies.
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  Speaker 1: There's some chocolate that is a like a sugar free chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: It's sweetened with dates. It's apparently delicious. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to try it. So yes, all kinds of really cool
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  Speaker 1: specialty food.
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  Speaker 2: And not only is this a fun event, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also a fundraising event, the biggest fundraising event for the
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  Speaker 2: Junior League. And where did the proceeds go from a
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  Speaker 2: shopping spree?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely So if you come to our Thursday night event,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be awarding three legacy grants. I can't tell you
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  Speaker 1: who we are just yet, but stay tuned for more
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  Speaker 1: on that. But proceeds also benefit the community partners we
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  Speaker 1: partner with throughout the year. Some that you may be
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  Speaker 1: familiar with or the Food Bank of Central Eastern North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: backpack Buddies. We support several schools, Green Chair Project who
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  Speaker 1: provides furniture and Helping Horse.
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  Speaker 2: Which is incredible because they're all such great organizations. Now
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  Speaker 2: this year, Santa is supposed to be coming to a
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  Speaker 2: shopping spree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Santa will be there twice, So he'll be here
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday from eleven to one thirty and then Santa
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  Speaker 1: and missus Claus will be there Sunday from eleven to two.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll pay for your journal. Admission to get in
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  Speaker 1: kids ten and under are free, but then you just
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  Speaker 1: meet and greet with Santa, bring your phone, bring your camera.
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  Speaker 1: You can take your own pictures and throw them in
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  Speaker 1: your holiday cards.
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  Speaker 2: That's wonderful. And then also an author's corner as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so we're partnering with our friends over at Quarrel
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  Speaker 1: Ridge and we have two authors a day. So we
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  Speaker 1: have everything from memoirs to children's stories to some Southern
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  Speaker 1: romance fiction. But the authors will be there with their books,
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  Speaker 1: they'll sign them for you and you can take them
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  Speaker 1: home and have a really unique special stocking stuffer for
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  Speaker 1: everyone in your family.
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  Speaker 2: A Shaffings free at Raleigh Convention Center. It is back
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  Speaker 2: at Raleigh Convention Center November twenty first through the twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 2: This is honestly a great tradition. I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of moms, aunts, daughters, they all granddaughters. They all go
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  Speaker 2: together and experience this. Where do we get tickets?
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  Speaker 1: So tickets are available at the door, So to show
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  Speaker 1: up at the convention Center, you'll follow the signs for
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  Speaker 1: tickets and you'll be all set and ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Just grab them at the door.
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  Speaker 2: And also joining Junior League, which is an incredible organization.
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  Speaker 2: Several people have asked me that how does someone join
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  Speaker 2: the Junior League.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, great question. So you can just visit our website.
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  Speaker 1: It's jlroleig dot org and there's a whole section there
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  Speaker 1: for membership. But we do two new member classes a year,
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  Speaker 1: So you start with a new member year where you
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  Speaker 1: learn all about the league, get training on how to
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  Speaker 1: be an impactful volunteer in the community, learn about our placements,
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  Speaker 1: and then the following year get assigned to a placement.
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  Speaker 1: You can come join us on the Spree team and
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to have you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I'll be seeing you are you're
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  Speaker 2: running around the entire weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you will find me there all weekend, so we'd
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  Speaker 1: love to see you there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much