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Talk-Line: Shaw Local on Sterling education · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's time for our look at Shaw Local News for
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  Speaker 1: this week on this October the twenty ninth, here at
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  Speaker 1: wix In and our Sha Local representative, Schallocle News representatives
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  Speaker 1: are live with us in studio this morning to bring
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  Speaker 1: us that update. The managing editor of the Dixon telegraphs
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Gazette, is live with us this morning. Charlie b Hello,
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  Speaker 1: and our good friend Brandon Clark Russell representing Shallocle News.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, Good morning. You and I have some
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  Speaker 1: exciting news to share. We do, Yes, we do, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do that right now. Let's share it right
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  Speaker 1: now before we get to our activity list for Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local News. Brandon Clark will starting next Monday, be your
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  Speaker 1: new morning host here at Wixon. Congratulations Brandon, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Steve has some big shoes to fill and I'll try
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  Speaker 2: to do you guys proud.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's been first of all, it's been a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: working with you guys, and this will be our last
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  Speaker 1: to get together together here. But I'm sure that Charlene
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  Speaker 1: Brandon will continue the coverage of Shaw Loco News into
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  Speaker 1: Brandon's again a new position here Wixon, So that'll be
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  Speaker 1: exciting and so the tradition will carry on, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: say for one voice, I guess right, But congratulations Eciding.
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting and that we wish it.
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  Speaker 3: The best of luck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really appreciate it, really really excited. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: although it'll be a different voice you're hearing in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: you will still be informed and entertained and be part
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  Speaker 2: of the waking.
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  Speaker 1: Crew the news sound there, he is right, Good for you,
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. Congratulations. Well let's let's get to our
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  Speaker 1: news of the day. And well we have the news
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  Speaker 1: of the day from Sterling, as you've been reporting on
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  Speaker 1: Brandon through the Wix and news service from Sterling, and
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  Speaker 1: again we wanted to center stage that today at Artilla. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a really big story for
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Public Schools.
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  Speaker 2: They held a kind of ceremonious groundbreaking on a new
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  Speaker 2: indoor student recreation and training center, and one that they've
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  Speaker 2: really been wanting to come for a long time, for
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  Speaker 2: about ten years, is what they said. They've really been
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  Speaker 2: discussing this. The financial landscape didn't make sense for a while,
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  Speaker 2: and now this nearly eleven million dollars project is going
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  Speaker 2: to make sense without raising taxes in the district, so
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  Speaker 2: it's actually going to be funded using that one percent
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  Speaker 2: county sales tax that Superintendent Ted Ever says has been
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  Speaker 2: a game changer ever since they passed that, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to believe it's twenty thirteen. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a combination of that, some bonds, and of course
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  Speaker 2: some private donations that we regulously kind of come over
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  Speaker 2: on that side of the bridge. So this new space
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  Speaker 2: is going to have three basketball and volleyball court, it's
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  Speaker 2: a big sixty yard turf field, a new weight room,
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  Speaker 2: batting cages, even a golf instruction area. So while it
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  Speaker 2: will not be hosting games, that was kind of the
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  Speaker 2: first thought I had, as all, we're going to see
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  Speaker 2: our games over there. No, this is strictly for student
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  Speaker 2: training space and it's also going to help which part
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  Speaker 2: of this that I thought was really cool is give
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  Speaker 2: a dedicated space to the girls wrestling team. So Sterling
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  Speaker 2: actually had an explosion on their girls wrestling program, having
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  Speaker 2: more more girls sign up than anyone in the conference,
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  Speaker 2: so they needed that dedicated space. Construction is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: actually start on the space in the next week or two,
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  Speaker 2: and they say it's only gonna take about a year.
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  Speaker 2: They're hoping to have an open house right around homecoming
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  Speaker 2: in October next year.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, really need those Yeah, absolutely, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this as well. You know, Sterling seems
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  Speaker 1: to be the leader, or at least one of the
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  Speaker 1: leaders here in northern Illinois when it comes to expansion
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  Speaker 1: in this area, right, I mean, you know, Sterling leaps
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  Speaker 1: and bounds. They have taken hold and addressed their their
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  Speaker 1: needs and really have come Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Every from their gymnasium, yes, the auditorial yes, spaces for
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  Speaker 2: plays in theaters. Yeah, when it comes to facilities and programs,
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  Speaker 2: and even try to recruit in house with their SPS
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  Speaker 2: university to get teachers and keep them there. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of times, it seems, leaps and bounds
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  Speaker 2: ahead of some other districts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you know, improvements being made again again as
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  Speaker 1: Brandon reports this morning. So it's exciting. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: always exciting when you expand on facilities and improve your
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  Speaker 1: needs for the kids. That's the important thing. This is
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  Speaker 1: needs for the kids, and they're doing it and Sterling.
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  Speaker 3: It's also economic development tool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're talking about maybe people who are relocating here
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  Speaker 3: that look at what is my what do my schools
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  Speaker 3: have to offer? Coming from Iowa, we would see that
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  Speaker 3: within our conference over there because maybe Clinton, Bettendorf, nor Scott,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you would see some of these really you know, facilities,
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  Speaker 3: strong programs, and so Clinton actually dealt with the same
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  Speaker 3: things they had well when we were talking about expansion
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  Speaker 3: and referendums, sometimes they couldn't get those passed, and then
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  Speaker 3: there was a one percent sales tax and that just
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  Speaker 3: allowed them to new schools. They started in ninety seven,
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  Speaker 3: starting with their elementaries and worked all the way u
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  Speaker 3: through high school. So that is also a game changeer
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  Speaker 3: having that tool there.
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  Speaker 1: And you made a good point, you know, bringing the
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  Speaker 1: point being it just entices especially families.
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  Speaker 3: If you're talking about populationship.
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  Speaker 1: Right yeah, right, looking at the facilities and looking at
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  Speaker 1: what they have entices families.
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  Speaker 3: Right to come to STIR. What's the programming exactly, what
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  Speaker 3: are the facilities, just everything, you know, extracurriculars absolutely, if
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  Speaker 3: you're talking wrestling, sure you have a daughter that wants to.
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  Speaker 1: Wrestle, Sure, volleyball, random and expansion volleyball. They're going in
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  Speaker 1: all directions, right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, and I mean right in that downtown air
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  Speaker 2: right across from CGH Medical Center. Like you said, that's
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  Speaker 2: bringing people in. What you've got all of these things
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  Speaker 2: within walking distance, gas stations, you know, grocery stores. It's
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  Speaker 2: really kind of a winning formula.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So Brandon has that story and he is leading
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  Speaker 1: with that story too on News versus News Today. So
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  Speaker 1: listen for that in our broadcast throughout right here on
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  Speaker 1: w Mikes and what else you got going on.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I always love keeping with a with
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  Speaker 2: small and new businesses. So a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 2: is now living her dream with her own tattoo in
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  Speaker 2: Piercing Studio, Inc. And Ivy Tattoo. So Raing Pyroun's a
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  Speaker 2: twenty two year old who actually stumbled into a sterling
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  Speaker 2: shop very nervous to show her artwork to the owner.
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  Speaker 2: And she said, literally told me, just like I figured
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  Speaker 2: they're you know what, they're probably going to tell me
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  Speaker 2: to get lost, and instead they said we'll see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: So and she she spent what a little over a
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  Speaker 2: year apprenticing and then working as a full time artist
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  Speaker 2: in their shop, and then she was just she said
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  Speaker 2: she wasn't even planning on getting a space. She was
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  Speaker 2: just looking and then called the space owner where she's
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  Speaker 2: at now, just to kind of get an idea of what,
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  Speaker 2: you know, her overhead was going to be, what is
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  Speaker 2: going to look like in the situation. It was just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, an opportunity knocks you better answer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So am I hearing a lot of in this area too?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we've had a couple of stories
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  Speaker 1: in this tattooing Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The tattoo bus, yeah, I think that was that was
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  Speaker 3: one of the recent ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, It's one of those those areas where you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think people are certain it's it's that non traditional
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  Speaker 2: route to becoming a business owner, right, And I think
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  Speaker 2: you're starting to see a lot more of these shop
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  Speaker 2: owners have you know, they were apprentices somewhere, so they're
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  Speaker 2: continuing that tradition in their shop and then just supporting
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  Speaker 2: the fact that these young artists are going to want
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  Speaker 2: to branch out on their own and that's.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're seeing it and we're seeing it. Brandon has
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  Speaker 1: that story for us this morning here at w Actually,
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  Speaker 1: what else is on the plate today, guys.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll come across over here to Dixon. Keeping with
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  Speaker 2: that small business vibe. So Dog Trot Pottery really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Love the names, yeah the dog on there. So that's
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  Speaker 2: owned by Vicky Souder Dixon who really just turned her
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  Speaker 2: hobby into a full time career. She was not planning
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  Speaker 2: on that, but she was in a in a Molling
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  Speaker 2: pottery shop and was just talking with the owner about
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  Speaker 2: getting back into it. Couldn't find any local classes, so
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  Speaker 2: she was going to Rockford. Their kiln broke down, so
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  Speaker 2: she bought equipment in her garage and she's just starting
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  Speaker 2: to make all this stuff in here, and so she
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know what, I'm gonna go see if
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  Speaker 2: I can try to sell this at the Twin Cities
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  Speaker 2: Farmers Market in Sterling. You see a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: crafts down there. And she just did so well that
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  Speaker 2: she decided to get a space. And that was literally
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  Speaker 2: another one of those overnight sensation in the fact that
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  Speaker 2: within the same day, looking at her face, she had
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  Speaker 2: her keys and she was getting stuff in oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and she was just ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Good. All right, new businesses opening up, then, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we love to see, you know, these are and especially
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  Speaker 1: these opportunities for individual These individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Are opening their own shops, right.
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  Speaker 1: Specialty shops and what's down their line of expertise.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're right tattooing pot artistically exactly, artistically exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing it a lot again unfolding here
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  Speaker 1: in our northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else.
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  Speaker 3: I know that Peyton has a story that we ran
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  Speaker 3: today about Dixon Police Department adding the staff member. She
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  Speaker 3: did a story or actually interviewed Chief Ryan Bivins, who
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  Speaker 3: talked about what his goals were were to be expanding
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  Speaker 3: so that they could have more officers per shift, which
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  Speaker 3: then also leads to community outreach, maybe placing one of
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  Speaker 3: those officers in an SRO. More expanded capacity there, the
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  Speaker 3: idea of you know, if people in the community know
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  Speaker 3: police officers that you know leads also to maybe a
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  Speaker 3: comfort level to where we see that with school resource
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  Speaker 3: officers too. So it's good to have that amount of people.
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  Speaker 3: Plus it would help to reduce overtime, he said, to
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  Speaker 3: have so that they have more officers on a shift
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  Speaker 3: and you're not pulling, you know, in people working over time.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a nice interview considering you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: one of our newer chiefs also, so it's we're kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting you know, those interviews on his front end
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  Speaker 3: vision and that's really what that story is. We have
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  Speaker 3: a story about Dolly's Stampede that's coming up, which sounds
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  Speaker 3: like a ball a really good time, a fundraiser for
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  Speaker 3: the Imagination Library and making sure that kids under the
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  Speaker 3: age of five get books into their hands. What's one
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  Speaker 3: of the strongest things you can do for your kids
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  Speaker 3: is to read to them, to get those literacy skills
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  Speaker 3: built early. And you don't even go to your library.
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  Speaker 3: But this is just one more tool, absolutely and the
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  Speaker 3: great way. I know we've had a story about how
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  Speaker 3: you can get involved in that sounds like they have
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  Speaker 3: a scavenger hunt. You can also donate straight up. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a thirty dollars amount. Yeah, so that you
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  Speaker 3: can actually get books into the hands of kids for
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  Speaker 3: a year, be like kind of on an auto kind
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  Speaker 3: of just hey, here comes your book. So very cool.
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  Speaker 3: And Christmas is coming. Does anyone know that I know
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  Speaker 3: it's Halloween. I know it's Halloween, but have you noticed
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  Speaker 3: we're starting to get press releases about that news releases.
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  Speaker 3: First one to come in was Rock Falls, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna hold We'll put that in the
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  Speaker 3: paper as soon as Halloween is over. And then I
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  Speaker 3: got one from Profitstown yesterday, and I think I got
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  Speaker 3: one from Sterling and I saw a festival. It was
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  Speaker 3: at Festival of Trees billboard and rock Falls with a
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  Speaker 3: start dat if. I think it was November nine, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's like justidas yesterday from rock Falls. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so unreal, but we're about there. I was at the
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  Speaker 3: CGH Hospital gift shop yesterday all Christmas. Yeah, so that
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  Speaker 3: was exciting too.
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  Speaker 1: So I know that a couple of stories going into
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  Speaker 1: the week. Obviously trick or treat times correct, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had listening of trick or tree times. They're
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  Speaker 3: pretty much all falling on a Friday night. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: obviously we've had a lot of trunk retreats, churches that
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  Speaker 3: have had it. Sterling's police department, I believe just had theirs.
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  Speaker 3: We had photos of that. So Dixon's Parade, little parade.
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  Speaker 3: Morson had a parade last Saturday and it was huge.
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  Speaker 3: The pictures that we saw, just crowd downtown. Great events
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  Speaker 3: that have kind of evolved over the years. Safe events,
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  Speaker 3: also daylight. So yeah, I'm excited. I was going to
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  Speaker 3: dress up as a witch this year, I thought, and
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  Speaker 3: I would go to the door and let people get candy.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that might be over the top. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be the scary house, the scary house.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm ready time change. This weekend too, had back
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  Speaker 1: up the clocks.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's good for an hour and then I'm not so
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  Speaker 3: happy with the night so early.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul Harvey, the late Paul Harvey called it our
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  Speaker 1: you know, twice a year ritual to the sun.
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  Speaker 2: Got oh wow, that's how he put it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I look at it. Wasn't it a farmer thing?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that why they first did it? It was?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know with with what what what the
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  Speaker 1: farmers do in the fields these days, with the technology
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  Speaker 1: and attractors, and there's not really you know because you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing them out there after hours anywhere. Yeh, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: really are, you know, getting the job done well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they've been talked for a long time about
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  Speaker 3: maybe that different states talking about maybe doing away with
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  Speaker 3: those changes. I don't know, I don't know if it'll
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  Speaker 3: be in my lifetime, but yeah, but it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is this weekend, so again we have
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  Speaker 1: to we have to prepare for backing up our clocks
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  Speaker 1: one week, one hour before we go to bed on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night and Sunday. Guys. That takes care of our
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  Speaker 1: time here at w ACCENT. I appreciate your visits during
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  Speaker 1: my time here. It's going to be kind of bittersweet
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  Speaker 1: not being able to chat with you. It's been fun.
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  Speaker 3: It has been fun, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and you guys keep the conversations rolling along and
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  Speaker 1: we will keep up the date with everything good with
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News right here on WI Accent.
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  Speaker 3: But thank you and thank you for your service to
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  Speaker 3: the community. That's forty years of knowing your community and
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  Speaker 3: bringing that news to people, the news that matters, the
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  Speaker 3: news they need every day. And it's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: energy there that you devote to that every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I appreciate your kind words and we'll carry
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  Speaker 1: the tradition forward as we announced earlier here at w ACENT.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. That's our Shaw Local update
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  Speaker 1: here at w ACENT. Sports First is next.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have to tell you I was just looking
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  Speaker 2: on eBay where I go for all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: I love, and there it was that hologram