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Talk Line: Lucas Pauley shares updates on the upcoming Discover Dixon events · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
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  Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty w
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  Speaker 1: I x N. It's eight fifteen on your Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that means it's time for talk line and I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined in the booth by our good friends from Discovered Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: It's Lucas Paully. Sir, how are you good? Are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm very well. We're uh, you know, it's gonna be wet,
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  Speaker 1: but it's gonna be warm weather. We might be turning
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  Speaker 1: a bend. I'm not trying to doom us with any
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  Speaker 1: incoming snow.
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  Speaker 2: I saw there's like four or five days of sixty
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  Speaker 2: or above. So yeah, that's a that's a good sign
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  Speaker 2: when you look at your weather app in the morning
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  Speaker 2: and you see that coming. Yeah. I'm very excited for
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  Speaker 2: that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Another thing to be excited for is you
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  Speaker 1: still the nominations for Best of Dixon those the best
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  Speaker 1: and brightest here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Best of Dixon nominations are open until March eighth,
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  Speaker 2: So I believe that would be what Sunday, this coming Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: so that Citizen of the Year, Business of the Year,
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  Speaker 2: Small Business of the Year, four under forty and then
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  Speaker 2: Volunteer of the Year. So we will recognize those people
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  Speaker 2: at the Best of Dixon Awards Friday, April seventeenth, and
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  Speaker 2: you can RSVP online as well for that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: get those nominations in for you know, anyone you think
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  Speaker 2: did a great job in twenty twenty five. Will be
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  Speaker 2: recognizing those people at the Best of Dixon Awards.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And what's the best way for people to submit
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  Speaker 1: a nomination, So.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to vote Best of Dixon dot com.
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  Speaker 2: And also, if you're just at the Discover Dixon website,
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  Speaker 2: if you go to the events drop down, Best of
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  Speaker 2: Dixon's right there too, So all of our events are
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  Speaker 2: right there. So if you ever need to look for
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  Speaker 2: information on one of our events, it's it's right there
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  Speaker 2: at Discover Dixon dot com too.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Couldn't be easier. You go online, you've
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  Speaker 1: been bragging about your friends, somebody know who's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot for the city. Yeah, this is the way
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  Speaker 1: to recognize them.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah awesome. And you know, you you know, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of events, everything's you know, we're talking about things warming up.
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  Speaker 1: It's progressing along. We're in the third month of the
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  Speaker 1: year already, you've got a career for a coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up we do. So next Wednesday, March eleventh, we have
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  Speaker 2: a career fair and hiring expo. So the career fair
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  Speaker 2: in the morning is actually for the students at Dixon
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  Speaker 2: High School, so that's freshman, sophomore, juniors, and seniors. So
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  Speaker 2: they all come in with their class and then they
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  Speaker 2: get to meet with all the different businesses and organizations
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  Speaker 2: throughout the town that I've signed up with us, which
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  Speaker 2: is really cool, so they get to see like first
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  Speaker 2: hand examples of what you might be doing at Rainer Garage,
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  Speaker 2: doors or Sock Valley Bank or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 2: then from eleven thirty to twelve thirty, we have a
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  Speaker 2: public hiring fair as well, so the public can come
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  Speaker 2: in at that time and actually apply for any openings
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  Speaker 2: that might be available for any of those businesses as well.
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  Speaker 2: So it's in the morning just for the businesses or
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  Speaker 2: for the students at the high school, and then eleven
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  Speaker 2: thirty to twelve thirty is actually for the public to
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  Speaker 2: come in and apply for those jobs.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I really love these events. I would cover
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  Speaker 1: them as my time as a reporter, you know, especially
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  Speaker 1: seeing the students, how excited they would get getting to
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  Speaker 1: do some of the hands on activities and just meeting
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  Speaker 1: you know, a face behind some of the place that
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  Speaker 1: they have, you know, where they're submitting their applications.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and last year it was really cool. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it was last year the year before, there
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  Speaker 2: was actually a student or two I feel like that
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  Speaker 2: came in and maybe like a sophomore refreshman and they
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  Speaker 2: were completely dressed up in like a suit and they're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. They had their resume, which is just
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  Speaker 2: very cool to see. It gets it gives you an
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  Speaker 2: idea of you know, all the different businesses and organizations
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  Speaker 2: we have in the Souk Valley too, which is very cool.
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes you know, especially the younger people might
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  Speaker 2: not just realize that, you know, some of these things
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  Speaker 2: are made, you know right here. So awesome experience for
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  Speaker 2: them to be exposed to that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the and the answer for you know, nobody's hiring,
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  Speaker 1: right and it's like that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean come from eleven thirty to twelve thirty.
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  Speaker 2: You can come and find out who's hiring. Actually if
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  Speaker 2: you go to our website as well. The career fair
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  Speaker 2: Landing page on our website. We are updating that as
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  Speaker 2: everyone gets signed up, and we're finishing up the sign
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  Speaker 2: ups for the businesses and organizations, but we are listing
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  Speaker 2: their availability right there as well, so you can click
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  Speaker 2: on their links right there and it'll take you to
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  Speaker 2: you know, to apply right there and see what's available.
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  Speaker 2: So all that informations at the Career fair Landing page
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  Speaker 2: at our website too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. Come prepared. You'll already have the info,
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  Speaker 1: you can plan where you want to stop, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: see some surprise ones you didn't think. So that's always
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  Speaker 1: a way to get out. And you know it's it's
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  Speaker 1: only the second of March. But if if this month
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  Speaker 1: goes anyway the year has been going, April's going to
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  Speaker 1: hit us before we know it. And that leads us
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  Speaker 1: to Founder's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Founder's Day, Yeah, Founders Day is very exciting this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a great event to learn your history and
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  Speaker 2: kind of figure out things you might not have known
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  Speaker 2: about Dixon. But Tom Wadsworth this year is going to
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  Speaker 2: present on Charles Walgreen and his connection to Dixon. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people might be familiar with the Walgreen connection
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  Speaker 2: to Dixon. But Tom Wadsworth always digging deep and letting
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  Speaker 2: you know things that you probably didn't know. So that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a great event. That's actually Friday or
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, Saturday this year, April eleventh and ten am
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  Speaker 2: at Loveling Community House and Tom will kind of have
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  Speaker 2: like a whole slide show, a bunch of different pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, newspaper paper clippings, and I'm sure we'll let
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  Speaker 2: you know some things you didn't know. Even if you
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  Speaker 2: think you know everything about the Walgrain connection. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: Tom's got the all the information there. So we're very
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  Speaker 2: excited for that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure there's anything Tom doesn't know about.
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  Speaker 2: Dixon, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So yeah, Tom's always been great.
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  Speaker 2: We're excited to have him back this year, to have
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  Speaker 2: him for Founders Day. So it'll be a great event.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, head on, head on out to that, learn something
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, probably get corrected about a few things
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  Speaker 1: thought you knew, sure, and you know, good time, just
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  Speaker 1: meet some new friends and you know, we keep I
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  Speaker 1: keep bringing back the warm weather just because I get
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  Speaker 1: excited to it. But warmer weather means city.
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  Speaker 2: Mar it does so City Market. We will be opening
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  Speaker 2: up vendor applications in the next couple of weeks, so
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye out for Facebook. I know we get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of questions around this time about that, so
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye out for Facebook and Instagram anywhere you
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  Speaker 2: might follow us. You can also just find the City
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  Speaker 2: Market landing page on discovered Dixon dot com and we'll
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  Speaker 2: open that up to incoming vendors here shortly. We're finalizing
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  Speaker 2: the music at the Square music for the year, and
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  Speaker 2: then also finalizing that Riverfront or Fitness Fridays, that's what
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  Speaker 2: we call that. I was like, we changed the name
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  Speaker 2: last year Fitness Fridays this year, so and we did
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  Speaker 2: that last year and we kind of incorporated a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of different fitness activities on Friday, so that's a free
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  Speaker 2: fitness activity on Fridays, and we're finalizing that schedule this
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  Speaker 2: year as well. So we'll be opening that up and
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  Speaker 2: announcing our summer series, which is those three events here
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  Speaker 2: shortly so and then we just keep going and going
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  Speaker 2: and going with all the different events, Brush and Bloom
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  Speaker 2: and dement Town Music Fest. Well, information will be coming
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  Speaker 2: out shortly as well. So yeah, we're gearing up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited for that update. I'm a huge live
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  Speaker 1: music fan, so Dementtown Music Fest is just always a blast.
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  Speaker 1: I did see and I didn't get to make it,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad to hear the fitness Fridays are coming,
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  Speaker 1: because you guys did, like, wasn't it yoga down kind
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  Speaker 1: of by the river?
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  Speaker 2: We did, so we did yoga at the river river
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  Speaker 2: front yoga used to be for many years what we did,
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  Speaker 2: so we just got feedback, you know, just incorporated different
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  Speaker 2: couple different styles of fitness, which was great last year.
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  Speaker 2: We had so much participation on many of those weeks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so many people down on the riverfront kind
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  Speaker 2: of just getting a chance to try out those different
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  Speaker 2: fitness things. And then also we all got the chance
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  Speaker 2: to spotlight some of the different fitness studios too, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, different studios across town were able to partner
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  Speaker 2: with us with that last year, so it was a great,
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  Speaker 2: great chance to kind of highlight those businesses as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we you know, Dixon has had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: different fitness studios, you know, focusing on a few different things,
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  Speaker 1: some really cool kind of nietche ideas that you would
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  Speaker 1: normally have to travel out of town, maybe do a
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  Speaker 1: bigger city for So that's really cool to see those
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  Speaker 1: on display speak you know when we're talking about city
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  Speaker 1: market at vendor applications, are spots limited for that? Should? Should?
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  Speaker 1: Folks probably get that in as early as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so when that opens, you definitely want to get
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  Speaker 2: that in. You'll be able to. You can either you know,
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  Speaker 2: apply to sign up for the entire season. There is
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  Speaker 2: a discounted rate for that, or when you fill it out,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be able to kind of check box the days
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  Speaker 2: that you would prefer to get on there, and then
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Laying, our events director, does her best to you know,
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  Speaker 2: get you in the week that you want to be
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  Speaker 2: there and then kind of lines all of that up.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that this the season schedule is kind of
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  Speaker 2: set at the beginning, so every year it grows, we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of at the max is as far as how
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  Speaker 2: much we can grow and expand it. So yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: are a little limited there, but yeah, when you see that,
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  Speaker 2: just just get signed up. If you're thinking about it,
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  Speaker 2: get signed up and make sure that you're down there
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  Speaker 2: because you know, we have anywhere from you know, one
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  Speaker 2: thousand to twenty five hundred people most weeks, so you
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  Speaker 2: know it's a big It's a highly attended event here
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  Speaker 2: in Dixon for sure, so make sure you're signed up.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, don't snooze on it. Get your applications in as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you can, and you know, as things roll
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  Speaker 1: along throughout the year here the Midwest Summit is coming.
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  Speaker 2: It is so we partner with the City of Dixon
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  Speaker 2: on the Midwest Summit and that is Thursday, May twenty First,
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  Speaker 2: we just announced our first speaker, Alonzo. Kelly Alonzo was
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  Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty three, hugely a popular speaker for
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  Speaker 2: us that year, so we're very excited to have him
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  Speaker 2: join us. We'll be announcing the other two speakers here
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  Speaker 2: shortly and the lunch Sesson sessions and everything else that
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  Speaker 2: goes along with the mid A Summit. So ticket sales
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  Speaker 2: are live. We've got tickets rolling. People are excited and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get that going too. So yeah, we're just rolling
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  Speaker 2: and rolling.
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  Speaker 1: So uh.
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  Speaker 2: I want to just also mentioned to met tom Music
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  Speaker 2: Fest is changing this year from September to May, so
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  Speaker 2: it would be at the end of May, and that
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  Speaker 2: information will be coming out here shortly as I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: before too, So We're very excited kind of kicking off
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  Speaker 2: the summer with the Met Tom Music Fest this year,
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  Speaker 2: trying something a little bit different over on Depot Avenue
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  Speaker 2: and starting the summer with it.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be exciting too. I'm excited that music and
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  Speaker 1: warmer weather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, right, Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting close.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's awesome, and I mean that's we're only what
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  Speaker 1: we've been sitting here talking from from beginning of March.
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  Speaker 1: We're almost right there till June. You're not even all
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  Speaker 1: the way throughout the year, and it's already packed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for what you have coming on for the city. Goodness,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to you want to
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  Speaker 1: share or we may be getting a little too far out, probably.
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  Speaker 2: Get a little too We'll be back. Oh yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 2: update you. Yeah, that's really we're getting close. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we've got, like I said, brush and bloom golf outing.
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  Speaker 2: You keep going and going and going. But this is
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  Speaker 2: the time of the year that we love, so we're
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  Speaker 2: about to get going. So yeah, it all starts pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you folks go. You know what we've given
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  Speaker 1: We've given you plenty. We've given you the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the year in this talk, so you better just
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  Speaker 1: come back and listen when Discover Dixon comes in chats
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  Speaker 1: with us next month, and maybe we'll give you some
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  Speaker 1: more for the second half of the year. Lucas, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming and we really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having us