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Talk Line: Jennifer Lang dishes on Discover Dixon's summer of fun · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Suck Valley. You're back with the Waking crew
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Speaker 1: here on FM ninety five to one and AM fourteen
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Speaker 1: sixty WIXN. And it's just about eight fifteen on your
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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, and that means it's time for talk line
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Speaker 1: and I'm joining the booth once again by my good
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Speaker 1: friend Jennifer Lank from Discovered Dixon. Jennifer, how are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: It is a pleasure. It is a summer of fun.
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Speaker 3: Summer of fun. We were just talking about that. It's
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Speaker 3: like June comes around and like we're rolling and lots
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Speaker 3: of good things are happening in Dixon and beyond.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and beyond. It is as as you and
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Speaker 1: I were talking about. As I constantly people get tired
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Speaker 1: of hearing me say it, but until I don't have
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Speaker 1: to say it. There's always something to do here and
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Speaker 1: you just got to get your butt out there and
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Speaker 1: do it.
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Speaker 2: You do.
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Speaker 3: There is so much to do, and you know, I
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Speaker 3: encourage everybody go to the Discovered Dixon website.
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Speaker 2: We have a community calendar.
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Speaker 3: Check out what's already submitted on there, and if you
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Speaker 3: have an event coming on, please submit it on there.
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Speaker 3: So we push everybody and anybody to that calendar to
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Speaker 3: see what's going on because there is so much happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so much of it free. For that fact,
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Speaker 1: before anybody wants to say anything about I can't afford. No,
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Speaker 1: it's in the downtown. You can walk out there. It's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Whether you should be free.
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Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm going to tell you about
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Speaker 3: four free events coming up here in the next like
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Speaker 3: four or five days.
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Speaker 1: Yes, see, there you go, here, here, here we go.
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Speaker 1: She's got every reason for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So you know what Tonight is our Dickson City Market,
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Speaker 3: which is our second week of it.
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Speaker 2: So come on out.
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Speaker 3: We have sixty vendors that are gonna be lined up
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Speaker 3: between on River Street as well as Hunnepin, and then
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Speaker 3: of course we have our musical talent James and Michael
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Speaker 3: will be right there in front of the pavilion on
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Speaker 3: River Street.
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Speaker 2: So come join us. You know.
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Speaker 3: Besides, you know, there's a lot of those booths that
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Speaker 3: are selling, the artists that are selling. We also have
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Speaker 3: food vendors, but we also bring in some non for
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Speaker 3: profits and the great thing about them is that they
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Speaker 3: come providing those kid friendly activities. So there's always something
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Speaker 3: for the kiddos to do. Course, there's people watching. I'm
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Speaker 3: sure you're going to run into your friends, neighbors, coworkers.
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Speaker 3: But come on dial join us. It's free five to
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Speaker 3: eight pm every Wednesday night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was bustling down there. The last time I've
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Speaker 1: seen it going on when me and my wife got
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Speaker 1: out and we were leaving the store and we were like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's right. That was going on today and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are down there, and I mean it was
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Speaker 1: just perfect for it.
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Speaker 3: The weather was gorgeous and it looks like we're gonna
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Speaker 3: have another gorgeous day. So join us tonight five to eight.
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Speaker 3: And I always tell people visit our Discovered Dixon website
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Speaker 3: because that's where you're gonna find all the information as
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Speaker 3: well as our musical lineup for the season.
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Speaker 1: There you go, They've got it all ready for you
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Speaker 1: at your fingertips. I know you've got it. Everybody's got
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Speaker 1: a phone. I don't care who you are, everybody's got
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Speaker 1: a phone.
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Speaker 2: Now well, and you know it.
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Speaker 3: Guess what, if you come to the market, you stop
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Speaker 3: at our booth or even anytime come into our office.
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Speaker 3: We have little rap cards, so it's easy to put
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Speaker 3: in your purse, your wallet that has all the musical
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Speaker 3: lineup for the season. So there's no reason why you
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Speaker 3: should not be informed and have it right your fingertips.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and the summer of fun doesn't stop because this
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Speaker 1: summer series is going to keep us going.
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Speaker 3: It is, so let's not forget about this Friday, seven am,
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Speaker 3: we have our Fitness Friday. So this is a really
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Speaker 3: cool one because we do partner with YMCA, Grit and
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Speaker 3: Grace and ruin my Studio, so every week there'll be
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Speaker 3: a different fitness for you to try free seven am.
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Speaker 3: But this Friday we have Grit and Grace. They are
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Speaker 3: going to be doing a power shred. Now don't be
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Speaker 3: alarmed by the wording of that. I tell everybody, bring
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Speaker 3: that mat, in that water, come join. All the instructors
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Speaker 3: are really amazing and as I tell everybody, do what
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Speaker 3: you can do. You know, you don't have to just
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Speaker 3: try your hardest, right, you don't have to be the
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Speaker 3: best at it, but you might find something that you
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Speaker 3: really enjoy doing and then hopefully you're going to go
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Speaker 3: to Grit and Grace or Room my studio and continue
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Speaker 3: doing some of those classes. But again, Friday mornings. It
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Speaker 3: is free y seven am. And if you've never had
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Speaker 3: a chance to be at the riverfront that early in
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Speaker 3: the morning, it really.
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Speaker 2: Is just peaceful and the sone of it.
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Speaker 3: It's just really a nice time to be down there.
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Speaker 1: You guys should look to see and maybe contracting some
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Speaker 1: get some fitness influors to come do some videos along
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Speaker 1: the riverfront, lise it out. I don't know, maybe it's
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Speaker 1: a way to do it.
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Speaker 2: But you might be honest, okay, but.
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Speaker 1: It really is cool. You know, I've talked with Grit
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Speaker 1: and Grace, I've talked with Rule am I and you know,
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Speaker 1: besides it being perfectly in you know, free fitness on
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Speaker 1: a Friday, is that you do get to sample you know,
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Speaker 1: what these studios have to offer. And so it's really
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Speaker 1: cool because like you said, you could go on and
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Speaker 1: you know, this could could it could be your jam,
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Speaker 1: it could be a regular thing.
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Speaker 3: It could be and you know, just reminder of this Friday,
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Speaker 3: seven am.
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Speaker 2: We do have the big white tent going up, all right.
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Speaker 3: So please be conscious that no parking on the riverfront,
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Speaker 3: but there is plenty of parking downtown Dixon. I just
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Speaker 3: look for that book parking. But that's just a heads up,
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Speaker 3: as I know it's not the best timing first Fitness Friday.
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Speaker 3: But of course there is event going on Saturday on
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Speaker 3: the riverfront which needs the tent. So but hopefully we'll
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Speaker 3: see you seven am.
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Speaker 1: Well, yes, we hope to see you. But if the
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Speaker 1: word fitness has frightened you, summer block party out to
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Speaker 1: cheer you up.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, summer black parties.
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Speaker 3: So Saturday, we have a free event nine am to
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Speaker 3: noon and that's gonna be up in front of Fresh Finees,
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Speaker 3: the Old Pam's Hallmark, my Play Village and that culver
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Speaker 3: is parking.
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Speaker 2: Lot right there.
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Speaker 3: So we have approximately thirty different businesses and organizations that
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Speaker 3: are coming together throwing this block party, and they're gonna
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Speaker 3: be offering all this great free activity for kids of
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Speaker 3: all ages. And when I say kids of all ages,
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Speaker 3: because who does not like a petting zoo?
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Speaker 1: Right, So the Miller's Petting.
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Speaker 2: Zoo will be joining us.
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Speaker 3: We'll have ConA Ice, we have some costume characters, Chris
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Speaker 3: who Twists, which is a balloon artist, which is amazing.
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Speaker 3: So there's definitely a lot of stuff going on free
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Speaker 3: nine to noon Saturday morning.
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Speaker 2: Join us at the summer block party.
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Speaker 1: Get out there, have some fun early on. You kids
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Speaker 1: are gonna sleep great. You'll sleep great, you know. And
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Speaker 1: again it's just one more reason why you know, there's
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Speaker 1: always something to.
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Speaker 2: Do, always something to do.
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Speaker 3: But I'm going to back up a little bit because
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Speaker 3: we forgot our last summer series. Friday night, we have
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Speaker 3: our Music at the Square.
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Speaker 1: Yes, live music music.
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Speaker 3: You know I tell you about there is always something
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Speaker 3: live music going on in our community. Okay, so get
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Speaker 3: out and enjoy it. And if you ever need to
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Speaker 3: talk about it and want to know more, please let
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Speaker 3: me know. All right, but discover Dixon. Our musical talent
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Speaker 3: this Friday night for Music at the Square is Kathy Sagetti,
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Speaker 3: so she always kicks off this event for us. It's
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Speaker 3: a five point thirty to seven pm Great Park, John
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Speaker 3: Dixon Park. If you've not been there, please check it out.
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Speaker 3: Of course, that's where they're having their wonderful, wonderful market
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Speaker 3: on see mornings. But join us because our friends at
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Speaker 3: Culver's is providing lemon ice while supplies last. I must
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Speaker 3: say thank you Kayla at Culvers. It's always a delicious
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Speaker 3: treat and you can enjoy that while you're listening to
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Speaker 3: Kathy and then bring the kittles along. It's a great
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Speaker 3: playground there too to check out and the big old
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Speaker 3: trees that provide the shade. And new this year, we
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Speaker 3: also have a sour Our lemonade. We'll be setting up
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Speaker 3: selling their different flavored lemonade, so just talks to a
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Speaker 3: little treat for you to purchase if you choose. But
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Speaker 3: it looks like it's going to be a good night,
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Speaker 3: So I've been talking to mother Nature okay, and hopefully
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Speaker 3: everything is going to work out in our favor and
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Speaker 3: it should be a great weekend to get out and enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely well said. I mean again, big fan of live music,
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Speaker 1: so that's there's you should just always get out and
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Speaker 1: experience it. Even if you you know you think this
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Speaker 1: artist doesn't line up with your genre, get out there.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you these are the kind of things you remember.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be fortunate enough to get to talk
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Speaker 1: with Kathy on the show on Friday to kind of
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Speaker 1: learn a little bit more about her. It'll be my
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Speaker 1: first time having her in the studio, so that's going
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Speaker 1: to be a fun time getting to talk to her
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Speaker 1: ahead of this.
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Speaker 3: God, she is full of information she's really in that
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Speaker 3: music scene.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 3: Rosebrooks Studio, we just seriously have such a vibrant music
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Speaker 3: community and art community and event free community. There's always
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Speaker 3: just something to do, and it really feels good to
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Speaker 3: be a part of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it definitely is. It's good to it's nice
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Speaker 1: to get these artists that kind of attention and just
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Speaker 1: to bring people together. Music does that. Events like that
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Speaker 1: does that. And speaking of events, everyone well, okay, everyone
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Speaker 1: looks forward to this because it's a big event. But
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Speaker 1: I'm not much of a runner, so I do look
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Speaker 1: forward to what it does for the community. But the
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Speaker 1: Reagan Run.
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Speaker 3: The Reagan Run, you know, we're all going to pumped
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Speaker 3: up for a Petunia festival in general, great musical lining
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Speaker 3: up there, so check it out. Lots of free stuff
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Speaker 3: and good stuff going on with that. But the Raken
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Speaker 3: Run five K so I am on the committee, fun
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Speaker 3: committee at that. But we are gearing enough for another
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Speaker 3: Rag Run Saturday, July fourth. And you know it's not
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Speaker 3: just for runners, you know, get out there and walk,
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Speaker 3: get that buddy, get that hustle and get going.
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Speaker 1: You know, no cowboy boots weren't made for running, But walk,
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Speaker 1: come I could do. I'll commit to that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Didn't Nancy not just say these boots are made for walking?
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Speaker 1: She did? I did? All right, it's there.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, so you know what, right now, it's twenty
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Speaker 3: five dollars to participate. And actually, excuse me as I
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Speaker 3: look at my cheat sheet to make sure I lied,
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Speaker 3: it's twenty dollars. But there's twenty dollars if you get
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Speaker 3: in before June fourteenth. After that it does go up
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Speaker 3: to twenty five dollars. But you know what, this map,
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Speaker 3: this route that's out there is going to be awesome.
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Speaker 3: You're like, you're starting at John or excuse me, Ronald
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Speaker 3: Reagan boyhood home. You're going to end at Haymarket Square.
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Speaker 3: You're going to see the river on this route, whether
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Speaker 3: you walk or run. And you know we're going to
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Speaker 3: see our friend Kathy Saghetti she plays the music as
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Speaker 3: well as Robbie LeBlanc will be on the route. So
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Speaker 3: it's kind of have cool to have that going on.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm always at the Haymarket Square when they
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Speaker 3: come across the line, and it sure is a sight
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Speaker 3: to see and something really awesome to be a part of.
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Speaker 3: Root and those runners on as they come across, and
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Speaker 3: it's just really just something cool. So please come out,
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Speaker 3: check it out, look at the route. You know, well,
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Speaker 3: first of all, be a part of it if you can,
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Speaker 3: you know, run it, walk it, But if not, get
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Speaker 3: out there and cheer on these runners because it's really
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Speaker 3: just cool to see. And we normally have about a
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Speaker 3: thousand individuals who run, so it's really cool. And if
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Speaker 3: you stay for we give out medals to the runners.
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Speaker 3: And if you stay it's kind of cool because we
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Speaker 3: highlight you know, what states are representative, if anybody from
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Speaker 3: another country is there being represented. It's just really something
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Speaker 3: really special to be a part of. So join us
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Speaker 3: July fourth, and if you want more information, check out
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Speaker 3: reaganarun dot com.
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Speaker 1: There you go go online, get out their support. Better
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Speaker 1: yet run or walk either one will do? No, I
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Speaker 1: love this and correct me if I'm wrong. Won't this
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Speaker 1: go through the new pedestrian bridge at one point?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's absolutely correct. It will be running and running
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Speaker 3: or walking across that. So if you go to Reagan
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Speaker 3: Run our social media Reagan Run five k, the map
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Speaker 3: is on that as well as our website so you
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Speaker 3: can get all the details. Pack it pick up and
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Speaker 3: you know we do accept last day entries, but you
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Speaker 3: don't want to be that person, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Just get signed up.
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Speaker 3: You're guaranteed a shirt and help us celebrate two hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty years of America. Is for what we're doing
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Speaker 3: this year, and you know, Discover Dixon, we're pushing out
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Speaker 3: a lot of marketing promotion that we want people to
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Speaker 3: come to our community, celebrate with us, be part of
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Speaker 3: the rag and around the Petunia Festival, brush and Bloom
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Speaker 3: which I'll talk more about that in another segment, but
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Speaker 3: lots to be celebrated and happening here in.
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Speaker 1: Dixon, absolutely, and good point. You know, the two hundred
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Speaker 1: and fiftieth is something they're going to talk about in
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Speaker 1: another two hundred and fifty years, so since none of
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Speaker 1: us are going to be here then and they ain't
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Speaker 1: going to talk about it before then. Because that's the
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Speaker 1: way we do this in human society. These markers. Get
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Speaker 1: yourself cemented in the anals of history by participating in
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Speaker 1: this and just have a good time.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I have a good time. You know, I
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Speaker 3: tell everybody I don't do anything that's not fun. So
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Speaker 3: if I tell you you should be there be there
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Speaker 3: because it's going to be a good time.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we got just a couple of minutes left. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe we pack so much again into this. Anything
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Speaker 1: we're forgetting or anything else you want to share.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, our Brush and Bloom is our
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Speaker 3: painting event which is going to happen up at the
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Speaker 3: Oldly County Courthouse. That will be on Friday, July three.
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Speaker 3: Check out our website. Tickets are available right now. We
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Speaker 3: encourage you to purchase tickets now because we do have
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Speaker 3: a limited walk up available. But that's just a really
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Speaker 3: fun one. We provide all the paints who do not
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Speaker 3: bring your paint, We provide all that paint, the paint brushes,
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Speaker 3: and you get to paint your beautiful masterpiece right there
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Speaker 3: on the on the courthouse cement. And then that night
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Speaker 3: also I think the band plays, so it's kind of
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Speaker 3: cool that it's highlighted there as well. Continue following us
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Speaker 3: on social media. I tell you what, we have so
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Speaker 3: much going on. I'm only giving you just a small
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Speaker 3: part of what I do. That's not including like our
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Speaker 3: lunch and learns and breakfast blends that are happening. We
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Speaker 3: do have a legislative update coming up next week. I
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Speaker 3: think it's Thursday at the Post House Ballroom, so that
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Speaker 3: is coming up. And you know, if you want to
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Speaker 3: get involved, reach out because all these events that I do,
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Speaker 3: or even in the community, I'm sure these events are
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Speaker 3: not ran just by one person. So if you're wanting
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Speaker 3: to get involved or you have an idea, contact the
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Speaker 3: organization because we don't do it alone. It's really truly
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Speaker 3: everybody's input and help for that. So I'm looking for
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Speaker 3: volunteers pretty much any event that I have. If you
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Speaker 3: want to get involved, of course, I use the Impact Program.
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Speaker 3: I love the Impact Program. I can't say enough nice
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Speaker 3: things about that. I'm very lucky that able to work
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Speaker 3: with all those students. But get involved. There's so much
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Speaker 3: great stuff going on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there is so much going on, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I love that you always bring up the
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Speaker 1: Impact Program. I love bringing that up. We are essentially,
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Speaker 1: we are going to solve the crisis of not having
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Speaker 1: the free, free college education for our kids that I
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Speaker 1: think our society should have. We just said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: We're not waiting for the country to get on board.
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Speaker 1: We're just going to do it for our area and
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Speaker 1: maybe learn something from us because our kids are going
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Speaker 1: to have free education and learn the value of volunteering,
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Speaker 1: of getting firsthand experience, and they're making community connections that
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Speaker 1: give them a leg up. They become more empowered in
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Speaker 1: what they're going to do when they leave, moving forward
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Speaker 1: than feeling this paralysis of oh, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: to do that, and I want to interact with people
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Speaker 1: they've already done it. Yeah, I can't say enough, we
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Speaker 1: don't have enough, but yeah, I love that.
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Speaker 3: And we'll quick shout out to doctor Cortez. If you
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Speaker 3: get a chance to reach out and talk to her
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Speaker 3: to learn more about the Impact program, please do because
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Speaker 3: we are really lucky to have that in our community.
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Speaker 3: And let's keep on educating our kids and getting them involved.
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Speaker 2: So great things.
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Speaker 1: Jennifer. Thank you so much for coming and for all
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Speaker 1: that you do and for making sure there's so much
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Speaker 1: fun to do here and to get out. You just
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Speaker 1: got to do it. And she told you where to
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Speaker 1: find out that and they even made printed material if
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Speaker 1: you don't like online. We got to no excuses today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Brandon