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  Speaker 1: Time for our word from sha local news. We get
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  Speaker 1: our report from our good friends at Shallocal News on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesdays between eight thirty and nine, and our representatives have
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  Speaker 1: joined us today. The managing editor of the Dixon Telegraph
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  Speaker 1: Starling Gazette, Charlene bielam alive with us this morning. Good morning, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: nice to see you, and joined by reporter Brandon Clark
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  Speaker 1: out of shallockle News. Good morning, sir, good morning. Good
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  Speaker 1: to have all of you here today. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: jump right into happenings across our northern Illinois area, which
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  Speaker 1: include the fair season, which is up and running. We
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  Speaker 1: had the Lee County Fair in July. Here comes the
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  Speaker 1: Whiteside Country here underway. You're in your backyard. It is
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  Speaker 1: literally in your backyard. Yeah, you're right there, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know, right there our backyard fence. On the other side,
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  Speaker 2: there's cows. No, and they're not the cows that like live,
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  Speaker 2: the cows that they like bring in. They get judged.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's r vs and there's all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: We can see the amphitheater, yeah from our house demo
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  Speaker 2: derby the lineup where the lineup happens. That's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like we could see that out our backyard. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad to hear the weather forecast is so good. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to get hot, but we can deal with hot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, better than wet weather and moisture, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of sogging things down. It's great for the Whiteside
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  Speaker 1: County Fair runs through Saturday. Unique that it runs only
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  Speaker 1: through not to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the unique things about this fair is
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  Speaker 1: it runs through Sunday. But it's still a five day
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  Speaker 1: fair event, which started on Tuesday. We've again had the
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  Speaker 1: first two days again previewed for you here at w
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  Speaker 1: Likes and will continue our previews through the weekend. But
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  Speaker 1: again they're looking for special activities. They've got the as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, the demolition derby kind of wrapping things up
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday with a lot of judging and goings on
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  Speaker 1: in between. Cow poo bingo, chicken poo bing chicken poo Bengo.
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  Speaker 2: Never signed up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I want to know the details. Like
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  Speaker 3: chicken poo bingo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is something that's always a true.
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  Speaker 3: I've haven't seen it, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess you got to be there.
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  Speaker 3: I would guess I don't you use the chicken cock
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  Speaker 3: to like a daff again, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I should know the answer, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know he did that. You know, they only
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  Speaker 1: you can only go so far on the telephone, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you got to see what's the visual?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, like the cake and pie walk. I
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  Speaker 2: mean like I'll do things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I love to see the judging.
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  Speaker 2: Like as far as like seeing who got what, Like
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  Speaker 2: we're not actually seeing the judging happen. That usually happens
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  Speaker 2: I think at night and off hours. Yeah, shut the barns,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. But seeing the rabbits sure, that's always cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Bicycles given away every day, every day every day.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to the fair and you have any
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  Speaker 2: ties in the area, I would guarantee that you will
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  Speaker 2: see people that you haven't seen for decades and you'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to catch up.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a.
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  Speaker 2: Great kind of like yeah, people that come back and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just a nice kind of way to
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  Speaker 2: wrap up your summer.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right there. So again, the Whiteside County Fair
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  Speaker 1: cut goes on a pace in Morrison through this Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also have back to school information.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, back to school underway. I know that we've
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  Speaker 2: got Alex out taking pictures of the first day of
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  Speaker 2: school and Dixon and Sterling that are happening, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like back to back when you look at full days happening.
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  Speaker 2: We have a column from Sheriff John Booker from whites
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  Speaker 2: Said County talking about safety and we're seeing that too.
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  Speaker 2: I think Lee County Sheriff's office might have seen that
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  Speaker 2: through their Facebook page. Just really slow down, be aware
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  Speaker 2: that you're going to have little kids and more feet
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  Speaker 2: on the street, so to speak. Keep the eye out
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  Speaker 2: for the flashing lights on the buses. We have to
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  Speaker 2: learn how to play with the buses again now on
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  Speaker 2: the streets.
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  Speaker 1: So safety, yeah, absolutely, you pass the school bus in
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  Speaker 1: in a zone where their flashing lights are under, their
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  Speaker 1: gates are out, you're going to be fine and it
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  Speaker 1: could be a hefty fine and it could be a
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  Speaker 1: loss of license too if you do that. So you
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  Speaker 1: can please be aware. School buses are out now and
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  Speaker 1: again they're loading and unloading, and you've got.
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  Speaker 2: Little kids that you know, maybe you're a little unsure
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  Speaker 2: or not sure of what you know, traffic, mom and
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  Speaker 2: dad watching them.
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  Speaker 1: So, okay, back to school again. Shaw Local News covers
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  Speaker 1: it for us this morning here at Wycent. Got an
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  Speaker 1: interesting story about an anniversary. Have a local that's celebrating them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a story in about a at KSBOSF.
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  Speaker 2: But she worked there fifty years. She's celebrating fifty years
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  Speaker 2: of nursing there. And the story that we have that
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  Speaker 2: Brandon put together was about the history of how it
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  Speaker 2: started when she was five years old, you know, trimming
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  Speaker 2: some gauze on somebody and she developed this interest and
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  Speaker 2: how she became a nurse and what it's meant to her.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, her name is Lonetta Whitlock. Okay, So that
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  Speaker 2: story went up today.
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  Speaker 1: Very good and again celebrating fifty years of nursing. That's
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  Speaker 1: a great milestone. Congratulations and a nice story for Brandon
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  Speaker 1: again through Shaw Local News. Vanill Industries is in the works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Banell Industries. We got a press release yesterday. They
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  Speaker 2: gave twenty five thousand dollars as a pledge commitment to
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  Speaker 2: the YMCA's Love It Childcare Development Center. Yeah, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a five year kind of installment thing. Where they'll
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  Speaker 2: get five thousand dollars, I believe every August, and it's
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  Speaker 2: to help bolster them up and make sure your childcare
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  Speaker 2: in your community is very important. We know that there's
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  Speaker 2: places that have childcare deserts. We know that the why
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  Speaker 2: MCA has put a big investment to help us in
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  Speaker 2: that community facet. It really is a quality of life
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  Speaker 2: issue and you have a business that recognizes that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a big commitment.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And thanks to Benella Industry's great donation to the
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  Speaker 1: YMCA and again to the Love It Childcare Center in
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  Speaker 1: the Gateway project again for that contribution that will be felt.
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  Speaker 1: As Charlene mentioned, over the next few years, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to move to Ogle County. Now we get some news
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  Speaker 1: out of Ogle County.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, West Nile. You know, whenever the Illinois Department of
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  Speaker 2: Public Health receives reports of West Nile, we tend to
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  Speaker 2: get reports from them. The first mosquito pool I had
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  Speaker 2: to kind of look this up when you have it's
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  Speaker 2: detected in a pool of mosquitos that was detected in
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  Speaker 2: Forreston and so that's the first time they've detected it
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  Speaker 2: in a mosquito pool. This season twenty twenty five. So
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  Speaker 2: it just kind of is that word of warning of hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's here, and so be prepared if you're out in
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  Speaker 2: an environment that could lend itself to it. We know
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  Speaker 2: going to the IDPH website that there is none of
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  Speaker 2: it that's been detected or reported in Whiteside, Carol or Lee,
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  Speaker 2: but you know it is Ogle County, So we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make our readers aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: And nothing to mess around with either. West Nile is
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  Speaker 1: nothing to mess around with. If you fall the symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: you know again you need to be treated again. It
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  Speaker 1: is as you mentioned, Charlene, Yeah, isolated in most instances.
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  Speaker 2: But awareness, awareness is very important, Like if I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be in a certain environment, what should I protect
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  Speaker 2: myself with if I find one which has happened. I
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  Speaker 2: found one on a relative several years ago. We were
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  Speaker 2: on a trip somewhere, and how do it? Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: I got to remove this and now I got to
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  Speaker 2: get it, you know, all of those things that you
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  Speaker 2: kind of have to to kind of be aware of.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So that from Ogle County, a report
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  Speaker 1: of West Nile in a mosquito pool in Ogle County.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep on top of that we go to Sterling
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Park. You wanted to talk about that branded, Yes, instruction.
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  Speaker 3: Crews have already been underway bringing big upgrades to the
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  Speaker 3: park that are going to roll out in phases. The
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  Speaker 3: first phase is bringing additional parking. I want to say
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  Speaker 3: it's an additional twenty one parking stalls. The park district
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  Speaker 3: is expecting that work to wrap up this week, and
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  Speaker 3: then after that there's going to be a new ADA
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  Speaker 3: accessible playground, pick a bowl court renovations, and even a
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  Speaker 3: new fishing pier at the pond that'll take place over
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  Speaker 3: I want to say it's summer, summer, and fall next year.
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  Speaker 3: And so all that was funded in part by a
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  Speaker 3: six hundred thousand dollars state grant, the Open Space Land.
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  Speaker 4: Acquisition Acquisition Development Grant. There's a reason they call it
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  Speaker 4: the OSLO, right, So yeah, that's helping, you know, pay
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  Speaker 4: the majority of that. The City of Morrison was also
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  Speaker 4: vying for that grant. They were hoping they were expecting
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  Speaker 4: it about eighty thousand dollars to help build an EIGHTYA
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  Speaker 4: compliant plagu if there's sports complex center, but that application.
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  Speaker 3: Actually ended up getting denied and so now they're trying
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  Speaker 3: for the third time to secure the grant. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully best of luck in them and securing that. But
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  Speaker 3: you can check out more details on you know, why
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  Speaker 3: why they didn't get that in those timelines and in
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  Speaker 3: the story which is already online.
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  Speaker 1: Sterling's been front and center. We talked about it last week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the possible development. Yeah, exactly, they've been
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  Speaker 1: front and center. Now they're moving, you know, up into
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  Speaker 1: that category. Here we go, you know, with you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting you know.
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  Speaker 3: The river in exactly doubts, and now you have the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the boards and barrels and the JCB investment
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  Speaker 3: wanting to bring that huge Northwest Illinois entertainment complex in there.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's big things. It's it's going to continue
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  Speaker 3: for years and I'm just I'm glad I'm here along
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  Speaker 3: for the ride, getting to cover it the whole way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's neat, you know, seeing the communities kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, you know, front and center now with
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  Speaker 1: all of these you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I've grown up additions. Yeah, absolutely, here we
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  Speaker 3: go transformed drastically.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had rock falls, you know, we got Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's right there with the Bridge, and we
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  Speaker 1: got all of this, you know, happening kind of all
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  Speaker 1: at the same time too. It's all kind of gelling together,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really neat to see the communities kind of
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  Speaker 1: stepping forward. So that's that's the latest from Thomas Park.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else early, Oh, there's always something we have. Ex
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  Speaker 2: Golf of the Sock Valley. We did an a is
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  Speaker 2: an enterprise story about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That that's a place out on Galt Road, so anybody
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  Speaker 3: kind of over across from from K's Corners and so
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  Speaker 3: it's an indoor golf and sports bar that's got five
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  Speaker 3: high tech simulators that lets people play indoors and it
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  Speaker 3: simulates actually famous golf courses from around the world. They've
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  Speaker 3: also got a full bar, kitchen, karaoke nights. They want
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  Speaker 3: to add an outdoor entertainment space down the road. They've
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  Speaker 3: got Chicago Bears watch parties.
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  Speaker 1: There's leagues.
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  Speaker 3: So this is something that you know, people can come
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  Speaker 3: for some year round indoor climate controlled entertainment, just you know,
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  Speaker 3: something something fun, something different.
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  Speaker 1: Well another new business spot Yeah, here we go, and
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  Speaker 1: we spotlighted a few of those last week. Ye here
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  Speaker 1: at w Iison and now we got another one to
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  Speaker 1: spotlight this one in Ogle County through Shaw Local News. Again,
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  Speaker 1: keep up to date with a keep pace with all
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  Speaker 1: of our stuff going on across northern Illinois through Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local News. Charlene and Brandon will be here to give
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  Speaker 1: us updates every week right here on WIXON. Unfortunately out
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  Speaker 1: of time, guys, thanks so very much for visiting with us,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be visiting again with Charlene and with
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  Speaker 1: Brandon within the week right here on w I Acent
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  Speaker 1: sports versus next.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, doctor doctor, Hi doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Jackson's practice is growing.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean we're still short, Stepp