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Talk-Line: Glen Hughes on Dixon police · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday, It's October
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of Talkline here at w
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  Speaker 1: i x IN Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It
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  Speaker 1: is time for our monthly look at news and information
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  Speaker 1: from the City of Dixon. We get information monthly from
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  Speaker 1: the Honorable Mayor of the City of Dixon, who joins
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  Speaker 1: us every month for the update here at wix in.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Mayor's open line for October of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and your open line numbers are eight one, five two, eight,
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  Speaker 1: eight three three, four one and eight one five, six, two, six,
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  Speaker 1: three zero nine one. We cordially invite you to join
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  Speaker 1: us as we talk about the issues surrounding Dixon. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a city issue or city concern, use one
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  Speaker 1: of those open line numbers and dial us with your concerns,
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  Speaker 1: because we have the person in the know that hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we'll answer your question or at least work on your
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  Speaker 1: question through the City of Dixon. He is the honorable
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  Speaker 1: Mayor of the City of Dixon and joins us live
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  Speaker 1: at the microphones today. Our good friend Mayor Glenn Hughes
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  Speaker 1: is with us from Dixon on wix In.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Mayor, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, and it's Steve Mark oday. Official proclamation by
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  Speaker 3: the City Council. Thank you very much. Steve. Really appreciate
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  Speaker 3: your service to this community, the information and the news
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  Speaker 3: that you have continued to bring to us. I'm partial
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  Speaker 3: to the talk lines because you bring a whole variety
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  Speaker 3: of people from not for profits to states attorneys to
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  Speaker 3: municipal staffs to this program and provide the community an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for some in depth information, some detail that they
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't normally get. And I think that's been very helpful,
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  Speaker 3: very much a service to this community in the way
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  Speaker 3: you've handled the waking crew from six to ten, and
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  Speaker 3: in particular, my favorite piece is the talk line, which
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  Speaker 3: you know right now I get to be part of
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  Speaker 3: and I fully intend to hijack today. I absolutely do so.
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  Speaker 3: For those who are in looking for municipal information, I
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  Speaker 3: will give you a brief on that. We already have
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  Speaker 3: a question in this morning, so we will address that,
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  Speaker 3: but and please feel free to continue to call in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna need Steve to watch the time on this
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  Speaker 3: because I'm not facing the clock. He is, but we
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  Speaker 3: will we will address a few things. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: fairly light month for the City of Dixon in terms
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  Speaker 3: of city council actions. I will make a brief few
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  Speaker 3: comments about those, and I do have We do already
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  Speaker 3: have a question from a listener, and I will address that.
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  Speaker 3: If any other listeners want to ask questions, please feel free.
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  Speaker 3: I will still answer those. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: work Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Over He's been loving He's been one to do this
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  Speaker 1: for years. He's been wanting to do this for years,
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  Speaker 1: and now he finally gets his opportunity to do that. Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you so very much, first of all for
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  Speaker 1: the kind words and for what the Dixon City Council
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  Speaker 1: again proclaimed yesterday during their official meeting at City Hall.
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  Speaker 1: I was just completely overwhelmed and flabbergasted and surprised by,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the announcement made and again the message passed
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  Speaker 1: along to me last evening. It is such a great
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  Speaker 1: honor and I feel that this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: I told the mayor off here, this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the pinnacles friends, of my career. I've spent forty five
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  Speaker 1: years again at the microphones here in Dixon. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one of my pinnacle moments again here at WIX,
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  Speaker 1: accepting this honor from the City of Dixon. I am again,
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  Speaker 1: uh just overwhelmed. I you know, when when Dan Langlass
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  Speaker 1: talked about you know, my career, about my you know, achievements,
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  Speaker 1: and all I had, you know, really limited you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh a response, and usually I have something, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the way of some kind of a response, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: But this these times, you know, I just I just
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  Speaker 2: am you know.
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  Speaker 1: Speechless, you know when it comes to uh these uh
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  Speaker 1: these again accolades, and I thank you so very much.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor handed me a proclamation that again I will cherish
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  Speaker 1: but the rest of my life again uh and uh
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  Speaker 1: carry it forward and uh it's it's a proud moment
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  Speaker 1: for me, my family, uh and uh hopefully for the
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  Speaker 1: City of Dixon.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with all of the good do it with
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  Speaker 1: all the you know, bad news, you know that that
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  Speaker 1: comes in and we have to share that too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to share you know, bad news of the
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  Speaker 1: morning and all of the negative news that really you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of takes over it. Sometimes it's always nice to
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  Speaker 1: have good news to share. And I think today we'll
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  Speaker 1: share some today on the open line as Mayor and
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  Speaker 1: I kind of wrap up our section here together. Because
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  Speaker 1: this will be our last open line that I will
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  Speaker 1: be a part of. We're hoping to continue to broadcast
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  Speaker 1: later on forwarding them, but this will be my last
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's open line as I conclude my session Halloween on
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  Speaker 1: October the thirty first, I'll be again indy my tenure
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  Speaker 1: at w I xcent Mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Let's move on. Yeah, Yeah, let's move Let's move on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm to everybody, it's been a I started to say earlier,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a fairly light month in terms of activities.
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  Speaker 3: Most of what we've dealt with at the City Council
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  Speaker 3: at the October sixth, of the October twentieth meeting, we're
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  Speaker 3: what you might call housekeeping issues, mostly back room stuff
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  Speaker 3: the public doesn't see a lot of. We've approved going
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  Speaker 3: from thirty to thirty one police officers. That's because we've
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  Speaker 3: had issues with being able to be fully staffed. We've
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  Speaker 3: got thirty, we've got thirty one improved. Most of the
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  Speaker 3: time we're dealing with twenty seven to twenty eight officers
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  Speaker 3: because you either have people off for injuries, you've got
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  Speaker 3: people off for family leave, and we have several young
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  Speaker 3: officers who from time to time are called into service
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  Speaker 3: back to the military for you know, whether it's whether
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  Speaker 3: it's National Guard duty or whether it's actual active duties.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hoping that increasing from thirty to thirty one
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  Speaker 3: gets us a little bit closer to on that ongoing basis,
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  Speaker 3: being closer to our thirty target, and if we can
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  Speaker 3: get to thirty one, we can do much better staffing
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  Speaker 3: much less, much less over time. We also approve some
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  Speaker 3: engineering agreement working with Willett Hoffman to extend the sewer
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  Speaker 3: and water or it's the sewer out to Sock Valley
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  Speaker 3: Community College. We provided some funding for a mural to
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  Speaker 3: the arts and culture through the Arts and Culture Fund
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  Speaker 3: that will be done. There's also some addition being made
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  Speaker 3: to the public Safety building. And then we've taken care
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  Speaker 3: of our next year's commitment on our insurance premium. That's
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  Speaker 3: a minimum maximum program where we can save money as
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  Speaker 3: long as our our claims are stay relatively low. There's
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  Speaker 3: a standard there's a standard rate that would probably put
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  Speaker 3: it about four hundred and fifty thousand on our annual
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  Speaker 3: premiums with the min max. We can take that down
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  Speaker 3: into the three hundred range, but if we have excess
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  Speaker 3: claims over our historical it might take us up to
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  Speaker 3: the five hundred. Over the last Over the last ten
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  Speaker 3: or eleven years, I believe there's only been one year
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  Speaker 3: that we've exceeded and had to go over the over
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  Speaker 3: that paid over that minimum. So we've had substantial savings,
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  Speaker 3: probably close to the four hundred thousand dollars range in
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  Speaker 3: insurance premiums. So that's probably important to the community. But again,
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  Speaker 3: like it's one of those back room things. We're also
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  Speaker 3: getting some purple Heart city signs taken care of, and
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  Speaker 3: we've worked on some inner government inner governmental agreements. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: right now I want to get to Yes, I want
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  Speaker 3: to I want to get to the constituents question. The
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  Speaker 3: constituents started out by thanking or appreciating the job that
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  Speaker 3: we did on the sidewalk over between our p Lumber
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  Speaker 3: and Canterbury apartments that was very much needed.
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  Speaker 2: On Lowell Park Road.
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  Speaker 1: Very good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I have I'd said earlier the in this
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  Speaker 3: year's budget we had allocated monies, we had specifically allocated
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  Speaker 3: monies toward sidewalks, but this constituent's wondering why we replace
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  Speaker 3: specific spots and not whole stretches at a time. He
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  Speaker 3: believes it would be more cost effective if we did
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  Speaker 3: whole stretches. Actually, what's happening right now. The biggest single
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  Speaker 3: piece we did was that along Wall Park Road. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of times, what this constituent might be seen is
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  Speaker 3: we have a sidewalk program and have for several years,
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  Speaker 3: where the homeowner pays for the material and the city
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  Speaker 3: does the labor. So it's kind of a split cost situation.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're seeing some spotty stretches of sidewalk, that
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  Speaker 3: may very well be the case. Where we usually have
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  Speaker 3: eight to ten of those a year. There's almost always
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  Speaker 3: a waiting list on those, but those are specifically requested
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  Speaker 3: where the homeowner is paying for the sidewalk the materials
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  Speaker 3: being done, and the city is doing that. In other cases,
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  Speaker 3: we may be doing work close to or related to
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  Speaker 3: the road work we're doing, so it's not so much
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  Speaker 3: a matter of jumping around and not doing you know,
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  Speaker 3: a full block or something like that. It's really a
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  Speaker 3: matter of the process with this. With the one hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars that we will be looking at on an
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  Speaker 3: ongoing basis, and I'm hoping if we can find some
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  Speaker 3: additional funding to increase that amount, if we can get
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  Speaker 3: some grant funds put through, that we will start getting
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  Speaker 3: some of that those block stretches, those areas that that
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  Speaker 3: need need a lot of work, or in some cases
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  Speaker 3: where they don't have any sidewalk at all. There's some
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  Speaker 3: areas on South Galina and especially with the people that
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  Speaker 3: are traveling toward the retail area down there where they're walking,
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  Speaker 3: riding bikes in some cases scooters, you know, where where
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  Speaker 3: they have to take those out on the road. That's
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  Speaker 3: there's several areas that we'd like to look at for
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  Speaker 3: adding and not just replacing sidewalks. So that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a long term process. Is it's just like our streets.
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  Speaker 3: We allocate a certain amount of money and we'll start
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  Speaker 3: working working on that process. So I hope that answers
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  Speaker 3: that constituents question.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, all right, we've taken care pretty much to
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  Speaker 1: the city business. Mayor is going to kind of turn
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  Speaker 1: the tables on yours truly. I understand with our latter
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  Speaker 1: portion of the talking, we're going to take a brief
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  Speaker 1: pause here for a couple of minutes of news first
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  Speaker 1: information that we have to take care of at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. But when we come back, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to turn it over to Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to host the rest of our Mayor's Open
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  Speaker 1: Line today on FM ninety five one fourteen sixty WIX, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: October the twenty first of twenty twenty five. I am
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  Speaker 1: Steve Marco, the Honorable Mayor of the City of Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Glenn Hughes is with us aboard for our expanded
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's Open Line talk line as always here at WYXM
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  Speaker 1: and Mayor with the latter portion of the talk line today,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that the tables are going to be kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am right, Yes, I intend to interview you
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  Speaker 3: instead of you interviewing me. All right, we haven't as
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  Speaker 3: far as the open line, we haven't gotten any additional calls,
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  Speaker 3: so we can jump right to it. Okay, okay, you've
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  Speaker 3: been here since nineteen eighty. Yes, what brought you to Dixon?
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  Speaker 3: A job?
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  Speaker 1: A good job. I was just fresh out of college.
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  Speaker 1: I was fresh out of college. I had worked a
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  Speaker 1: year after graduating from college in Nebraska and employment. The
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  Speaker 1: opportunity came for me to move here and again obtain
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  Speaker 1: a job here in Illinois. It was my thought at
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  Speaker 1: the time to work my way towards maybe furthering my
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  Speaker 1: advancement in education as close as northern Illinois, and so
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  Speaker 1: I weighed the IDA options and made my way to Dixon,
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, came on board in August of nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: as not the morning person that I am now, but
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  Speaker 1: I started in the afternoons. I actually started in the
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  Speaker 1: afternoons here at w Accent. So yeah, it wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: morning shift until a couple of years later when we
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  Speaker 1: had some again personnel changes, you know on staff that
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  Speaker 1: I took over the morning chores here at Wixon. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't for about three years after I started.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, I think when I
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  Speaker 3: looked at it, it was nineteen eighty three. Yeah, yep, okay, yep.
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  Speaker 1: It was nineteen eighty three when I first became the
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  Speaker 1: morning morning show host here at w i Accent, And
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  Speaker 1: they also offered me the program director's position at that time,
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  Speaker 1: so enticing me to stay, you know, on board. After
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  Speaker 1: the three years that I had been here, I made
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  Speaker 1: my way into the morning show and.
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  Speaker 3: The rest is history. Right, Okay, Well we'll expand on that.
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  Speaker 3: You you led into that very nicely. Thank you. All
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  Speaker 3: of your listeners are familiar with you as the host
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  Speaker 3: of the Morning show or the Waking Crew. But tell
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about how your job has evolved
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  Speaker 3: over the years. You just started. You just started to
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  Speaker 3: address that, So give us a little bit of information
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  Speaker 3: about how that job of and maybe even what the
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  Speaker 3: program director entails.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know with as starting, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about nineteen eighty three now when radio was
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  Speaker 1: completely different. You're grinning at you probably know this too.
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  Speaker 1: Radio was a lot different in nineteen eighty three than
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  Speaker 1: it has evolved now. I have seen so many technical
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  Speaker 1: advances in radio. It has been a fantastic journey through
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  Speaker 1: the technical advances from whence we started in the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties to now. But as program director, and at that
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  Speaker 1: time I was program director of not three radio stations
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  Speaker 1: but just two. And when I started my tenure as
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  Speaker 1: program director, both AM fourteen sixte and what we now
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  Speaker 1: know is River Country one on one seven were actually simulcasting.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, we were again broadcasting the same pro
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  Speaker 1: over both the AM and the FM at that time.
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  Speaker 1: So it was you know, interesting that again we were
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting you know, what we delivered mainly on the AM side,
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  Speaker 1: which was you know, the top forty hits and the
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  Speaker 1: programming that goes along the news, the information and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Really wix In is still known for today. Was on
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  Speaker 1: the FM side was on River Country one oh one seven,
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  Speaker 1: which was FM UH one oh one seven at that time.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And again that separated a year later, I believe in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, I want to say, just a year
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  Speaker 1: after I became program director, we separated the signals and
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  Speaker 1: went to a country programming on FM one oh two
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  Speaker 1: which became of course and involved into River Country one
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  Speaker 1: oh one seven, and left the AM programming a BUH.
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  Speaker 1: So I was able to program what was on the
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  Speaker 1: AM as we had been uh for those years past.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a new venture for me into country
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  Speaker 1: music broadcasting again with the evolvement of River Country one
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  Speaker 1: on one seven. From one on one seven. It went
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  Speaker 1: from FM one o one seven to FM one o
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  Speaker 1: two to River Country one on one seven, UH and UH.
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  Speaker 1: Since that time, of course, we've added a station UH
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  Speaker 1: ninety five seven, which is Now The Rock started as
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  Speaker 1: a top forty station, Cool ninety five seven, went to
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  Speaker 1: Sky ninety five seven, and now is the Rock ninety
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  Speaker 1: five seven. So that has evolved as well. But between
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  Speaker 1: now and then two, Mayor, I have seen so many
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  Speaker 1: different promotions and activities and things that have changed that. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we've you know, established, hopefully you know, some some great
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  Speaker 1: associations with some great businesses and some great organizations. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I could go on, but I'm gonna I'm gonna stop right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well we'll move on to them.
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  Speaker 3: What what have you liked most about your time with
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  Speaker 3: Wixon with uh? And don't just say people yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not just yeah, it's it's I guess, Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've been here for forty five years and
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  Speaker 1: I've gone through five owners okay, five ownership changes in
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  Speaker 1: the forty five years, and I guess you know the
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  Speaker 1: confidence they had in me, uh, you know, carrying forward
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  Speaker 1: with ownership changes, with business changes, you sometimes get changes
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  Speaker 1: in personnel and changes. I guess what they liked, what
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  Speaker 1: they were hearing they liked because they kept me on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know within those business changes. Uh, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know I've stayed solid, you know, and that to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is important to me because you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's making sure that we're delivering
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  Speaker 1: the right.
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  Speaker 2: Delivering the important information.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully you know, in my time here we were
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  Speaker 1: able to influence you know, people here listening, and influence
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  Speaker 1: the community and influence the area by our delivery of services.
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  Speaker 1: And that's you know what what you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: it was important to me, you know, not not not
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  Speaker 1: talking about the people, but no, but talking about our
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  Speaker 1: influence you know here in our community over the years.
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  Speaker 3: So that's great. Yeah, I didn't want I know that
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  Speaker 3: you have worked with and continue to work with some
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  Speaker 3: really great people. You've done had a lot of interviews
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  Speaker 3: with some very good people, So I did want you
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  Speaker 3: to just get there. But I that was I really
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that answer. Does any particular moment stand out for
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  Speaker 3: you in those forty five years?
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  Speaker 1: Now? I got a lot of, you know, uh, interesting
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  Speaker 1: moments that you know, I could bring up and that
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  Speaker 1: could probably lead into an hour's worth of talk here
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  Speaker 1: as well, Mayor.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking back, you know, just off the top of my head, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, some I had some exciting times doing
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  Speaker 1: play by play. Not only you know, was the morning
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  Speaker 1: show host, but I did play by play h broadcasts
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  Speaker 1: for Dixon High School and both football and basketball. I
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  Speaker 1: did play by play broadcasting for Enboy High School for
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  Speaker 1: many years.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I enjoyed every bit of that as much as
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  Speaker 1: I did. And and there are some special moments obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know with uh uh you know, exciting plays you
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  Speaker 1: know in football and basketball and and and taking part
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  Speaker 1: in that gosh, you know, you know, as far as
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  Speaker 1: a standout moment is concerned. Uh, you know, I brought
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  Speaker 1: up this, you know, during during one of our gatherings
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  Speaker 1: here at the station station staff gatherings, was a time
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  Speaker 1: that we were over in Franklin Grove doing the doing
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  Speaker 1: the Harvest Festival Franklin Gove harvesttrole. This was many years back,
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  Speaker 1: and then Nett Dougus Fry was the news anchor at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and we were in our vehicle and we
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  Speaker 1: were doing a live broadcast out at the Franklin Grove
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  Speaker 1: Harvest Festival, and we were running down the list of
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  Speaker 1: activities for the day at the harvest Festival, and Dennette
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  Speaker 1: came upon a word that again she shared on the
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  Speaker 1: air and I'm sorry to Neet. I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know she's probably listening to this, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to take you to task
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  Speaker 1: on this. But when we came to that word which
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  Speaker 1: was spelled, and they were doing a kind of an
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  Speaker 1: outdoor you know, they do an outdoor heritage you know setting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, old time heritage setting where they get the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the the old time people on on on
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  Speaker 1: the Harvest Festival schedule, they had something set up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where it featured you know, outdoor activities, including the words spelled,
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  Speaker 1: and this was on the schedule spelled tipis. Spell it
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  Speaker 1: t I pi s. She pronounced it on the air.
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  Speaker 1: She pronounced it tippis. Okay, okay, I shake. I shook
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  Speaker 1: my head at her and I said, no, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's tpe's. And after I said that, Mayor, we started
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  Speaker 1: laughing on the air on WIXN, and we continued laughing
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes. We could not stop laughing because I
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  Speaker 1: corrected her talk talking about Tpe's as tippis, and we
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  Speaker 1: just lost it. We just we just couldn't stop laughing.
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  Speaker 1: It just continued laughing, and we just this was all
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  Speaker 1: on the air, and we just continued laughing for fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes and couldn't stop. And and and I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, that incident stands out, you know as
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  Speaker 1: one of my special moments. So there's been tons of them,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, but that one just off the top
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  Speaker 1: of my.
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  Speaker 3: Head, you know, that's neat, that's neat to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you go through you know,
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and you know, you know, grammar and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: you go through.
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  Speaker 2: That every day.
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  Speaker 1: But but that one just we just lost it, so
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  Speaker 1: so that that kind of stands out.
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  Speaker 2: It's whenever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And now I'm going to throw you what was
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  Speaker 3: your most embarrassing moment on the job.
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  Speaker 2: Mmmm, I don't know, uh, embarrassments, gee, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't think I I
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  Speaker 1: think I said, okay, I think I said a.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong word once once on the air, wrong roar once
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  Speaker 2: on the air live and probably that I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to mention the word obviously because microphone was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be off.
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  Speaker 3: Was inappropriate word, inappropriate appropriate work.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you know radio you know, radio announcer,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can you can bear with radio announcers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, leaving the mic so on accidentally and saying
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  Speaker 1: something like that, or you know in the background, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having you know to you know, organizing stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: and saying stuff that you think you're off the air
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  Speaker 1: with No, you're on the air. And I did that
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  Speaker 1: once and I think that's probably my most embarrassing my
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  Speaker 1: most embarrassing time. So I'm not even gonna mentioned the day.
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  Speaker 3: What have you liked most about Dixon? I mean as
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: a as as a business person, is a family person,
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  Speaker 3: what have you liked most about it?
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  Speaker 1: I've always taken I've always considered family first. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what line of work you're in. I've always considered
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  Speaker 1: family first. So my wife and my kids and my
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  Speaker 1: grandkids are at the top of the list. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, my my family is important to
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  Speaker 1: me and you know, raising them in this community and
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  Speaker 1: learning recently and I think I'm not sure if you
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  Speaker 1: had that information, mayor or who had that information to
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  Speaker 1: share with us that Dixon is one of the best
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  Speaker 1: places to live. Yes, you had that, You shared that
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  Speaker 1: information best Play National magazine and.
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  Speaker 2: Retiring here as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you had all that information, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any anything wrong with that.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree that this community and this area is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best areas that you could possibly be located
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  Speaker 1: in and and raising my family and raising you know
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: again for you know, for the over well, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be forty years that I might have been married.
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  Speaker 1: This will be next year, by the way, that'll be
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  Speaker 1: forty years. I think that that's my important stake in
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  Speaker 1: the community is my family and again raising them and
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  Speaker 1: watching them grow as well. We've got two great grandkids,
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  Speaker 1: one more one one is on the way, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and so all is well, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: How are we doing for time?
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  Speaker 1: We're about you know, we got about two minutes left.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well that probably worked for this last question. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what's on your bucket list for retirement?
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  Speaker 1: We hope to we hope to do some some traveling.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to mention at the top of the program.
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  Speaker 1: I lost both of my parents this year, and mayor
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  Speaker 1: knows this. I lost both of my parents within a
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  Speaker 1: month of each other. They lived a long retirement. My
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  Speaker 1: father passed away at ninety three, my mother passed away
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  Speaker 1: at ninety one, and I was sure hoping that they
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  Speaker 1: would have been here for something getting choked out. Now
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  Speaker 1: for something like this to happen to me and the
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  Speaker 1: honor bestowed on me by the City of Dixon, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of dedicating, you know, my future to them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, kind of following in their footsteps. They
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  Speaker 1: they did some traveling in their long retirements off together,
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  Speaker 1: and we hope to do that as well. But we're
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere, friends, We're going to stay right here
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  Speaker 1: in the area. We have roots in these in this
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  Speaker 1: community and and we're going to stay, you know and
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  Speaker 1: make it our our retirement area.
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  Speaker 2: We're not we're not planning on leaving.
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  Speaker 3: From the bucket list. Just what's what's off the top
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  Speaker 3: of your head the.
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  Speaker 1: Funh of Hawaiian December mayor oh, so there you go
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  Speaker 1: to start things. And this was planned, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this was planned way long before this all came about.
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  Speaker 1: This was planned way.
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  Speaker 2: Long ago before this all came about.
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  Speaker 1: So we're planning on yet, we're planning on taking a
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  Speaker 1: trip u uh and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and going over there and spending some time over there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the start of things.
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  Speaker 1: We're just you know, we're gonna we're gonna do some traveling,
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  Speaker 1: but we're also going to you know, take it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit easier. But I got to believe that I'll
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  Speaker 1: be busy, you know, with things you know that will
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  Speaker 1: come here and there in the community. I got to
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  Speaker 1: believe that, you know, I'll be busy with organizations and
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  Speaker 1: with areas still that I've been connected with for so
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  Speaker 1: many years.
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  Speaker 3: That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you not only
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  Speaker 3: for this interview, but thank you so much for the
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  Speaker 3: last forty five years that you've given to this community
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  Speaker 3: and the news, information, entertainment that you've brought us.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure serving the community in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: And and Mayer knows that I'm pretty modest when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this this type of situation, but I can
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  Speaker 1: say that again I worked with your great administrations for
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  Speaker 1: our community. But this administration under Mayor Glen Hughes and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Dan Langloss as the city manager has been one of
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  Speaker 1: the most exciting organizations that I have been associated with
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  Speaker 1: in quite some time. And you know, I can go
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  Speaker 1: back a few mayors as well and include them in
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Burke, Mayri Lano, and to Mayor Hughes. But this
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  Speaker 1: time is exciting in Dixon. It's an exciting time in Dixon, friends,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. We're jumping ahead with all kinds of activities,
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  Speaker 1: with all kinds of new businesses, with all kinds of expansion,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just an exciting time to be here. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that I'm a part of it. I really
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  Speaker 1: am glad that I'm a part of it, and still
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  Speaker 1: will be a part of it even after I shut
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  Speaker 1: down the microphone on Halloween, and that should be interesting too, Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: you know how I close the.
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  Speaker 2: Microphones and all.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a pleasure having you on board, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate your visits each and every month here
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  Speaker 1: at WIXM. And I'm hoping, like I said, that the
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  Speaker 1: association continues after I leave my post here. But it's
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  Speaker 1: been a pleasure serving you, sir, and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure having on board, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, And likewise it's mutual. A. R.
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  Speaker 2: Dixon, Mary Glenn Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: That's the open line.
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  Speaker 2: For today here at wix on a
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  Speaker 1: In fourteen sixty f