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Talk Line: Heather Grobe shares updates from the Dixon Family YMCA · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's a twenty one on your Friday. That's right. I
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  Speaker 1: got to keep saying that. I can't believe we're already
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  Speaker 1: at the weekend and it's time for talk line. I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined in the booth by our good friends from the
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Family YMCA. Heather Grobe has cut through the humidity.
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  Speaker 1: You must have left that machete in your car because
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  Speaker 1: it's thick out there. It's rough. You know. You guys
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  Speaker 1: have got so much going on over at the YMCA,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm already looking forward to fall, with
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  Speaker 1: the with the weather, you know, not trying to rush
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  Speaker 1: through summer. Of my goodness, I'm looking forward to that
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  Speaker 1: time of year and that brings us to soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so before we know it, July will be over
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  Speaker 2: and August is when we start prepping and planning for
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  Speaker 2: fall soccer. So our registration's going on now. It's available
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  Speaker 2: for online registration or you can stop into our main
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  Speaker 2: facility on North Gleena Avenue and fill out the registration
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  Speaker 2: paperwork there and that's open for children from pre k
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  Speaker 2: up into eighth grade.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a really cool time. My wife and
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  Speaker 1: I had some of our younger ones who are we
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  Speaker 1: don't have any that are younger now. We've only got
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  Speaker 1: two in high school and the rest of our adults.
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  Speaker 1: But our youngest had did soccer for a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years when he was little through the Wye and always
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic time. Those kids are running around, the coaches
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  Speaker 1: out there are great and then they're nice and worn
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  Speaker 1: out by suffer time for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, with practices and games and we've got some
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  Speaker 2: Friday night games, some Saturday morning games. But it is
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  Speaker 2: always fun, especially those younger ones, because you don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to get like the All star or
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  Speaker 2: the one who just wants to pick the flowers and
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  Speaker 2: pull at the grass.
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  Speaker 1: So yep, yeah, fun noneth the last turn around, but
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  Speaker 1: turnund stand up, not with your hands unless you're than goalie.
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  Speaker 1: So I absolutely love that. And another thing that I
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  Speaker 1: love that you guys have got coming up real quick,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say this is like next weekend is
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  Speaker 1: your community Free Day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, next Saturday, July twenty fifth is our Community Free Day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of just in celebration of two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty years of the United States and just a
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  Speaker 2: way for us to showcase kind of what we've got
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  Speaker 2: going on at the Why. What's available in our facility,
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  Speaker 2: programming that will have coming up. We'll have some promotions
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  Speaker 2: that day for membership if you are looking to join,
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  Speaker 2: if you're just looking for something to do that maybe
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  Speaker 2: gets you inside into some air conditioning. The facility will
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  Speaker 2: be open and free to guests, so that means swimming, basketball,
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  Speaker 2: a quick workout in the fitness center, some weightlifting. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have a pop up fitness class with two of our instructors,
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  Speaker 2: a bar class with one of the instructors, and then
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  Speaker 2: a stretch class with a different instructor. So all of
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  Speaker 2: those things are free to the community member non member,
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  Speaker 2: whether you live in Dixon or don't. If you're in
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  Speaker 2: the area and want to stop by, there's just a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on. We'll have some Y swag and different things.
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  Speaker 1: So just a fantastic way to really get to see
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  Speaker 1: all of the great things that the Y has to offer,
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  Speaker 1: give you a nice little taste, give you a reason
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  Speaker 1: to become a regular member of the Why. In my opinion, yeah, just.
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  Speaker 2: A good way because I think sometimes people they consider it,
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  Speaker 2: but to try it out and anything like that, you
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  Speaker 2: know you're committing a little bit financially, and so this
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  Speaker 2: is just a way to really see, like, is this
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  Speaker 2: something that will benefit my family? We think that it is,
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  Speaker 2: but we want you to be able to experience that.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean between the facility, the range of
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  Speaker 1: programs you offer, whether it's from adults to kids to teens,
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  Speaker 1: there's just a lot going on there. Yeah, and getting
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  Speaker 1: in through those doors is usually the first way you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get that experience in there, get to see
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  Speaker 1: what's you know, what the hy has to offer, and
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  Speaker 1: then start exploring from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we will have also it's the plan as
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  Speaker 2: of now to do a Touch a Truck event in
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  Speaker 2: our North parking lot across the street with the Dixon
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  Speaker 2: Fire Department, So as long as everything goes to plan
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  Speaker 2: with that, we'll also have that on site as well.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, and you guys so also offer corporate memberships along
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  Speaker 1: with financial assistance.
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  Speaker 2: We do so our corporate membership program, we've kind of
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  Speaker 2: revamped what that looks like and what that means for
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  Speaker 2: businesses and their employees. So a business can join as
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  Speaker 2: a corporate member. Any business is eligible. There's an annual
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  Speaker 2: fee of two hundred and fifty dollars that enrolls your
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  Speaker 2: business as a corporate member facility, and then any of
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  Speaker 2: your employees who sign up for a membership received twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent off of their monthly membership dues.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: And then we are also working closely with Discovered Dixon.
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  Speaker 2: They've been helping us with some marketing and kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting that news out to their businesses. And anyone who's
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  Speaker 2: a Discovered Dixon partner or investor can then enroll as
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  Speaker 2: a corporate member for one hundred and fifty dollars, so
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  Speaker 2: they receive a discount off of that corporate member fee,
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  Speaker 2: and then their employees get the benefits of why membership
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  Speaker 2: at a discounted rate.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic And I love hearing that. This isn't what
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  Speaker 1: I first thought that that I've got to do a
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  Speaker 1: squat and a suit and a tie. Sorry, hard enough
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  Speaker 1: for me and regular workout at tire. But no, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is great. It's a good benefit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for these businesses and then to be able to pass
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  Speaker 1: that along to their employees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just an easy something, a perk that businesses
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  Speaker 2: and business owners can enroll in and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: benefits whether they've got ten employees or one hundred employees.
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  Speaker 2: It benefits all of them.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely one important thing people would want to mark
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  Speaker 1: on their calendars because the pool is always popular over
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  Speaker 1: at the y, and that is you have your annual
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  Speaker 1: fall shut down of the pool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we at the end of August every year,
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  Speaker 2: right up leading up to Labor Day, we do our
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  Speaker 2: annual pool shut down. We close the pool, the gymnasium,
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  Speaker 2: the fitness studio, and we refinish the floors, We drain
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  Speaker 2: the pool, we do some tile repairs and just maintenance
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  Speaker 2: that if we don't keep up with it once a year,
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  Speaker 2: then we fall way behind. So we're looking at that
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  Speaker 2: starting August twenty seventh, that's a Thursday, some of the
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  Speaker 2: facility will become unavailable at that time. The pool will
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  Speaker 2: close at the end of the day on the twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll drain it, repair any tiles or anything
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  Speaker 2: that needs repainted or replaced, and then everything will open
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  Speaker 2: back up with business as usual that Tuesday after Labor Day,
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  Speaker 2: so September eighth, the facility will be back up. So
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  Speaker 2: from the August twenty seventh through September seventh, you'll see
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  Speaker 2: some interruptions in what might be your typical schedule, and
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  Speaker 2: all of that will be posted on our social media
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  Speaker 2: around the facility. We'll send it out with our newsletter
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  Speaker 2: that we send out at the beginning of August. But
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  Speaker 2: just to kind of get that on everyone's radar. It
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  Speaker 2: tends to come as a surprise and sneak up on
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  Speaker 2: us with how fast summer moves.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. You've got the early notification market
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  Speaker 1: on your calendar. But as Heather said, they're still going
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  Speaker 1: to let you know anyways through some of those notifications.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that. Anything else you want to share
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  Speaker 1: this morning, I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot going on. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot coming up in the next few months that we're
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  Speaker 2: excited for, and so keep an eye on our social media. Again.
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  Speaker 2: We have that newsletter that goes out monthly, so that'll
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  Speaker 2: go that goes to all of our members in their
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  Speaker 2: email and we're just really excited with the momentum we've
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  Speaker 2: had so and we're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Have you here on the show every month to be
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  Speaker 1: giving our listeners those updates and details. So we really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. And if anybody wants any more information on
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  Speaker 1: anything we spoke about or anything else that the Y
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  Speaker 1: has to offer. What's the best way to do it, Heather.
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  Speaker 2: Phone calls, you know, are two eight eight YMCA. That's
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  Speaker 2: our our phone number, right to our welcome center, and
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  Speaker 2: there's always someone there ready to answer any questions you
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  Speaker 2: might have, get you connected with the right person if
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  Speaker 2: they're not the right person. And then again, website and
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  Speaker 2: social media does have a lot of our current program
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  Speaker 2: offerings and kind of what's upcoming and what they can
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  Speaker 2: look for.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You can hop online. Better yet, give
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  Speaker 1: them a call. Even better than that, go inside talk
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  Speaker 1: to somebody. Not only can they give you all the details,
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  Speaker 1: but you'll get to see all of what we're talking about. Heather,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having me sharing this information. We look forward
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  Speaker 1: to future updates. And try to stay cool out there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll try, it'll be tough.