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Talk Line: Melinda Jones talks summer events in Rock Falls · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You're back with the Waking Crew
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  Speaker 1: here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: w I XN. It's eight fifteen on your Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that means it's time for your first dose of
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  Speaker 1: talk line.
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  Speaker 2: Open up. Here comes the Chew Chew train, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined once again in the booth by our good
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  Speaker 1: friends from Rock Falls Tourism. It's Melinda Jones. Melinda, how
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  Speaker 1: are you today?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I think I need some more rest
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  Speaker 3: from the weekend, though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I was like, why am I so
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  Speaker 1: tired today?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I think that humidity wave that we had and then
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  Speaker 1: all the excitement, it was just enough to just sap
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  Speaker 1: it out of a person.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, totally so.
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  Speaker 1: But that's okay. We are not done with what I
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  Speaker 1: have dubbed the Sauk Valley Summer of Fun. So much
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  Speaker 1: going on, and of course so much going on in
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  Speaker 1: Rock Falls. And the next event that we're turning our
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  Speaker 1: eyes to is eats and beats at the district.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so that remember, that's kind of like our food
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  Speaker 3: truck Fridays. But we don't pull it on different days.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got the eats and beats at the District
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  Speaker 3: with Drew Caggle on the Reputation and Auborn and now'll
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  Speaker 3: be June eighteenth, so Saturday, June eighteenth. I'm super excited
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  Speaker 3: for this being a total rock night, so it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fun night. Drew Caggle has been with
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  Speaker 3: us before at the RBNW Park, so we're excited to
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  Speaker 3: have him back. He's from down in Champagne and then
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  Speaker 3: all Born. They were just at George Fest last year
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  Speaker 3: so in Rockfall, so we'll have him back again this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean fantastic time, live music, good food.
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  Speaker 2: You can't ask much for more in mind.
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  Speaker 3: No and beautiful settings RBNW with all the sculptures in
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  Speaker 3: the Rock River right there, so it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So people love that spot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always telling people I've married a couple of folks
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  Speaker 1: over at that spot, and whenever couples are looking for
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  Speaker 1: a recommendation, I always tell them it's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 3: It is. Yeah, it makes a beautiful backdrop too. Don't
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  Speaker 3: are on the stage and you got the river and
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  Speaker 3: stuff behind you, it's beautiful yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: A nice breeze off the river too, especially for summer events,
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  Speaker 1: you get that coming.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh yes, yeah, because even like Independence Day celebration,
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  Speaker 3: it was so hot that day and then about four
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  Speaker 3: or five o'clock that breeze came out the river and
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  Speaker 3: it was like, oh, this is a relief.
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  Speaker 2: It was so funny.
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  Speaker 1: We were we were working at the store that day
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  Speaker 1: and most of our the kids are older, so not
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  Speaker 1: so many of them are like fireworks, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're still the twelve year old and wanted to go.
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  Speaker 1: So he had went with his grandma. But she had
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  Speaker 1: called us from because we had been so hot that
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  Speaker 1: day and she's like, you know, it's nice and cool
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  Speaker 1: writ in time for the fireworks show. And she had
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  Speaker 1: made the same comments. She's like, the breeze is coming through.
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  Speaker 1: We're sitting in the lawn chair. And they had a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, lots of food trucks. We had a great
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  Speaker 3: time that night. I bet you there was about three
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  Speaker 3: to four thousand people down at the RBNW park. Lower
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  Speaker 3: Dam parking lot was full. First Street parking lot was full.
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  Speaker 3: I had stirling over the food or they're what do
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  Speaker 3: you call it farmer's market? Yeah, Hilaria was full. So
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people came out to see the fireworks
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  Speaker 3: despite the heat, but I think it helped out a
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  Speaker 3: cool down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, the heat has not stopped anybody for
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  Speaker 1: any of these things about it. And I love that, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: which you know goes into you know, I love this
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  Speaker 1: this next event. I love all events. But man, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna throw food at the beginning of it, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your taco throwdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're gearing up for that. That is September
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifth on a Friday night at RB and W Park,
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  Speaker 3: and we have a taco eating contest. This is probably
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  Speaker 3: our I think it's third year for it, and my
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  Speaker 3: beard up. It's fun. I'm gonna put you in there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna sign you up, but a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: We take ten contestants, so we're entries are open now.
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  Speaker 3: Just call our office. We'll get you in an application
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  Speaker 3: and we'll get it on the website too. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it's the first one that can finish as many
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  Speaker 3: tackles as I can in ten minutes. So pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: So did you watch Joey chessaut over the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I didn't. I was running all over so
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I happen to be home when it was on.
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  Speaker 3: I turned on the TV and that was on. It
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  Speaker 3: just reminds me of the taco eating because those guys,
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  Speaker 3: they're in it for serious, you know. Yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a trophy and it's one hundred dollars, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: I love watching them trying to come, you know, get
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  Speaker 3: all those tacos down in ten minutes and stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: I love it because people come to my office and
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  Speaker 3: they sign up and they're like, I got this, this
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  Speaker 3: is not a problem. And then you find out you're
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  Speaker 3: looking through when they're eating their tacos. And the one
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  Speaker 3: that came in said I can do this without a problem.
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  Speaker 3: He's the one that's got the least. I want to say,
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  Speaker 3: oh really, But it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's fun. That's really what it's about. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. So many of us think like, oh, are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? Like I I probably won last Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: sitting at home like this is nothing. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get there and you try and you oh, yeah, some
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  Speaker 1: of them can seriously go and at speed, and you
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  Speaker 1: get left you're like, oh, I'm an amateur that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, so yeah, so that'll be fun. And then
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  Speaker 3: our tackle trucks that same night. They can for who
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  Speaker 3: has the best taco, so Bay boats for their favorite
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  Speaker 3: truck that has the best taco. If you're a food
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  Speaker 3: truck out there, I need one more truck, so we
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  Speaker 3: have a limit of how many trucks we have taco trucks,
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  Speaker 3: and I do have one more opening, So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got a taco truck, sign up for the
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  Speaker 1: Thrown Down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, and then we'll have like zour wrestling that night
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  Speaker 3: and we have DJ Polone's going to be there, so
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  Speaker 3: we got it. It's an exciting night.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, good music cheering on the wrestling match with
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  Speaker 1: the taco in hand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tally, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And then a really super cool event you've got going on,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of sign ups and having time for that, the
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  Speaker 1: Cardboard Regatta.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's coming up September fifteen, sixteen. That's our
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  Speaker 3: Aqua Palooza event. It's a new event this year, so
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  Speaker 3: Rock River or Rock River Chase will be doing their
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  Speaker 3: river or their boat races at Seward's Park. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: a fishing tournament over at Centennial Park. But the regatta
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  Speaker 3: will be on Sunday, and we've never done this before
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  Speaker 3: and so we're hoping to get a lot of entries.
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  Speaker 3: Sign Up is open now, and what you do is
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  Speaker 3: you make your cardboard boat basically, and you make it
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  Speaker 3: out of duct tape and cardboard and design it however
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  Speaker 3: you want and then hopefully it floats for you, and
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  Speaker 3: then there's a race and we'll have different age categories.
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  Speaker 2: So I love this.
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  Speaker 1: When I seen this, I smiled so big. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've actually ever seen one of these
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  Speaker 1: in person. The closest came to an old show on MTV.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed. I'm not sure I can actually say
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  Speaker 1: the name of it, but I was like, this is
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  Speaker 1: just so cool. Whether you're you're an adult or you know,
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  Speaker 1: a younger individual, you're gonna have fun doing that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just watching if you want to participate, but I highly
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  Speaker 1: encourage participating.
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  Speaker 3: Right I do too. So and it'll be on Centennial
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  Speaker 3: Park so on there. You know, the water, the lake
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  Speaker 3: whatever they call that going through there, so the water's
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  Speaker 3: not real deep or anything, but you know, we still
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  Speaker 3: want everybody to wear life jackets and stuff, so it
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  Speaker 3: be to be safe and so yeah, we'll look forward
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  Speaker 3: to that. So I think sign up or sign up
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  Speaker 3: starts now and then you can sign up until like
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  Speaker 3: a week before the event, So that'll give you time
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  Speaker 3: to do some thinking about it how you want to
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  Speaker 3: do it. And we'll have trophies and they're actually made
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  Speaker 3: out of cardboard. That's so cool. So excited for that one.
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  Speaker 1: So if anybody needs any more information on this, what's
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  Speaker 1: the best way to do it?
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  Speaker 3: You could call our office at six two two one
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  Speaker 3: one zero six or check our Facebook page. We've got
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  Speaker 3: lots of information on there, or our website if it's
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  Speaker 3: at Rackfalls dot com. And so yeah, can I get
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  Speaker 3: to do a shout out to our our sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please do because without them these things aren't.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome exactly right. So these are our top three
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  Speaker 3: levels of sponsorships. So it's Johnson Oil, Stock, Valley Bank,
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  Speaker 3: Cg's Rackfalls Medical Center, Holiday and Express and Suites, Lowsher
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  Speaker 3: Heating and air Conditioning, River Country one oh one point seven,
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  Speaker 3: Arthur's Garden, Deli Boss, Roofine Signing Experts, Candle Light in Community,
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  Speaker 3: State Bank of rock Falls, Extreme Dumpsters, Kunas Auto Group
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  Speaker 3: of Sterling, Valvelene Express Care, Selmy's Greenhouse and Family Farms, Sterling,
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  Speaker 3: Federal Bank, Total Construction Services, and United Metal Buildings. And
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  Speaker 3: we have a whole list more too, but these are
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  Speaker 3: our top three levels. I want to give a big
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  Speaker 3: shout out to all of our sponsors. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: what level you are, we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah so, no, absolutely, thank you to those sponsors for
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  Speaker 1: helping make these possible. And a big thank you to
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  Speaker 1: everybody at Rock Falls Tourism for making sure that these
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  Speaker 1: events always go down such a fantastic time. Yeah so,
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  Speaker 1: I always appreciate it. Linda, anything else you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: share this morning while we got a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Nope, But if you ever want a volunteer, we need
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  Speaker 3: volunteers for all these We're getting short on volunteers, so
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  Speaker 3: volunteers are very important. I mean, it took twelve volunteers
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  Speaker 3: they do the Independence Day celebration, and we could have
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  Speaker 3: probably even used more, but because people were working or
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  Speaker 3: a or b because of the heat. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: had a couple that couldn't show and I totally understand
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  Speaker 3: because it was really hot out there. But yeah, any
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  Speaker 3: volunteering hours. You know, we get impact. I love Stock
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  Speaker 3: Valley Interact. Oh my gosh, they're a godsend. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: anytime you want to volunteer, you know, two hours an
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  Speaker 3: hour whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and anything helps it does. Yeah, anything helps help volunteer.
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  Speaker 1: Volunteerism is always something that's that's needed no matter where
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  Speaker 1: you go. But I love the point about the impact.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got an impact student, you know, maybe they
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  Speaker 1: just signed up or they're looking for the next set
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  Speaker 1: of hours, this would be a.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic way to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And they're great kids. They really are their butts off
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  Speaker 3: for the last Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: You hear nothing but great things about it. They rave
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  Speaker 1: about the program and getting to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: the work they do and be a part of the community.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what a big part of it is
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  Speaker 1: because they get to work side by side with people
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  Speaker 1: like you that make these things possible, and they get
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  Speaker 1: the excitement of like, this is what I could go
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  Speaker 1: on to do, this is how I can be a
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  Speaker 1: part of my community. So I love that you guys
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  Speaker 1: work with those students.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely there. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Melinda, thank you for coming on the show this morning,
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  Speaker 1: getting getting up to come share this information and for
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  Speaker 1: all the hard work that you and everyone over at
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  Speaker 1: Rock Falls Tourism does again, we.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. We enjoy doing it so