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Karl Rinker - Barre Art Splash 2025 · Aired Out

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Speaker 2: the forecast today. Be careful driving this morning, forty two
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Speaker 2: been doing this a long time and they're doing it today.
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Speaker 2: Starts at four thirty goes till seven o'clock tonight. Facebook
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Speaker 2: question of today, What show, event or performance at the
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Speaker 2: Bury Opera House was your favorite, either in the past
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Speaker 2: or recently. Poko was probably one of my favorites, although
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Speaker 2: the the Abba tribute band was pretty amazing too. I
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Speaker 2: remember so many. There's so many, but I'd love to
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Speaker 2: hear from you on that one. And recently Tosk hearing
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Speaker 2: some great things. Saw them at the Opera House not
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Speaker 2: too long ago, but missed this last Goo Sports High
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Speaker 2: School Girls Basketball Division one Essex took Rice sixty five
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Speaker 2: twenty one. Rutland beat South Burlington fifty to thirty. Division two,
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Speaker 2: mount Abe beat Lake Region forty four to twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: Fair Haven got by Missiskoi seventy nine to thirty. Milton
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Speaker 2: posted a fifty three thirty five win over Springfield Division
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Speaker 2: four MSJ, taking out Blue Mountain fifty one thirty five.
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Speaker 2: Last night, twin Field Cabot of fifty four to twenty
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Speaker 2: three winner over Twin Valley and Long Trail beat Proctor
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Speaker 2: fifty six seventeen. Tonight, Enesburg and Spaulding, Harwood and Hartford.
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Speaker 2: And then boys basketball at the Barry Auditorium tonight, Montpellier,
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Speaker 2: in Otter Valley, Hartford and Harwood. Thursday we have Thetford
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Speaker 2: at Wanuski White River Valley with Hazen girls hockey. I
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Speaker 2: don't know were you there last night, Carl Rinker?
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Speaker 3: Did you get to the game? I got to the
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Speaker 3: bo R just as the girls won their game.
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Speaker 4: I had to work in the concession stand and the
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Speaker 4: boys played after the girls, but the girls were pretty
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Speaker 4: excited when I walked in that door.
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Speaker 2: Erupted three to two win over in overtime over Kingdom Blades.
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Speaker 2: I thought I heard something last night. I think it
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Speaker 2: was the noise coming out of the bo R. You
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Speaker 2: may have, because there was.
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Speaker 4: Just fans were cheering and everybody was excited when I
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Speaker 4: walked in the door.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
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Speaker 3: Late because I had another meeting to go to.
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Speaker 2: Not at a great night for number two Spaulding a
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Speaker 2: four zip shutout from Bellows Free Academy. Wow, that was.
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Speaker 3: A tough one for the boys.
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Speaker 2: It was was a lot of action with the hardwood game.
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Speaker 2: They had a four to three win over Colchester in overtime.
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Speaker 2: But Colchester played very well last night and almost took
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Speaker 2: them College shoop. You're ready for a little March madness?
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Speaker 2: Do you follow?
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Speaker 4: Do you do any of the brackets? I don't have time.
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Speaker 4: I'm too busy with all these things, and.
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Speaker 2: Bear of course you are. Let's see, we have selection
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Speaker 2: Sunday coming up on March sixteenth on CBS sixty eight
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Speaker 2: teams going to be playing this year in the men's
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Speaker 2: tournament alone with the first four March eighteenth, and nineteenth,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be exciting. So you're going to be
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Speaker 2: up at the auditorium tonight, Right.
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Speaker 4: Tonight, I'm ushering at the auditorium for the basketball tournaments.
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Speaker 4: I'm not piliar players tonight. So yeah, that'll be a
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Speaker 4: big crowd. We had a big crowd. I was working
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Speaker 4: there Monday night. We had a big crowd for that
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Speaker 4: those events, and tonight it'll be a big crowd again,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure. And back at the concession stand last night
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Speaker 4: at the b Or concession stand was a swamp last.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure sure was. That's good, that's great. Actually, yes,
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Speaker 2: so we have mont pill You're in Otter Valley tonight,
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Speaker 2: Hartford and Harwood, and then Thursday, you're going to be
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Speaker 2: up there for the Thetford Winowski game.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I'll be there. Yeah, I'm ussure most of the games.
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Speaker 4: The final Saturday, I'm out of town that day and
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Speaker 4: can't do it, which is kind of sad.
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Speaker 3: You like to see that those final games.
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Speaker 2: You're one of the Seriously, I don't know hold you are,
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Speaker 2: but you're one of the busiest guys that I know, Carl.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I really I'm a little bit lazy,
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Speaker 3: but I'm busy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you. That's your email. Lazy Carl Man. You
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Speaker 2: just I don't know how you do it, but you
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Speaker 2: you truly love what you do, and anyone who knows
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Speaker 2: you knows that you've got your your finger and a
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Speaker 2: lot of stuff in our community, and most of it's good.
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Speaker 3: Well, I love this community.
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Speaker 4: I still live on the same piece of land that
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Speaker 4: I did the day I was born, so yeah, that's
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Speaker 4: a fact.
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Speaker 3: So I just really enjoy this community. It's a great community.
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Speaker 4: Contrary to some of the negative things you hear about
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Speaker 4: the community. It's just a great community, a great place
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Speaker 4: to live, and I just enjoy helping the community out.
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Speaker 2: There's always plenty of content to talk with you about. Always.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen you or been in your presence where
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Speaker 2: there isn't anything going on or anything to talk about.
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Speaker 2: And of course we're going to be talking about the
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Speaker 2: Art Splash. Of course, we're going to be talking about
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Speaker 2: what's coming up this summer, your incredible rotary breakfast. Of
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Speaker 2: course I would love to have you in here more
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Speaker 2: frequently before we jump into the Art Splash, which is
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Speaker 2: so exciting, and we're going to get to it and
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Speaker 2: show you some pictures here in a little bit. Tell
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Speaker 2: me about ba DC right now. I mean, everyone's talking
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Speaker 2: about JJ Newberry Building.
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Speaker 3: That's true, That's true. I can remember when I was
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Speaker 3: in high school.
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Speaker 4: I'd come down from high school after school and the
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Speaker 4: other kids would come down and we'd go into the
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Speaker 4: we called it a fountain at the time. We go
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Speaker 4: in and get a maybe a cherry coke or.
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Speaker 2: What other days, man, good old days.
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Speaker 4: So I can remember, and I can remember when mister
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Speaker 4: Kelly was the manager in that store. Yeah, Dick Kelly's father,
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Speaker 4: I believe. So the store has some history and you've
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Speaker 4: had Steve on he's told you all about our one
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Speaker 4: forty three Main Street initiatives.
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Speaker 3: So I won't bore you a lot with that. But
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Speaker 3: that's just one of.
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Speaker 4: The things that we at Barrier Development are doing well.
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Speaker 2: Bottom line is busy. Bottom line on that is you're
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Speaker 2: you're asking folks to put together how much money six hundred.
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Speaker 4: Well, the total is one point one million that we're
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Speaker 4: trying to raise. We're going to pay a million for
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Speaker 4: the building. We need an extra hundred thousand to take
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Speaker 4: care of taxes and closing costs, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 4: And people can donate through our website, which is badc
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Speaker 4: dot com. Yesterday I got a very nice donation of
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Speaker 4: five thousand dollars through the website.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 4: And that came in from the owner of the store
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Speaker 4: directly across the street. So that's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that great?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, that's what it's That's what it's all about.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 4: I picked up a check for fifteen hundred from my
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Speaker 4: neighbor last night at quarter ten on my way home, So.
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Speaker 3: The money is coming in.
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Speaker 4: It's exciting and we're just rocking and rolling out there,
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Speaker 4: trying to meet with community members to see if we
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Speaker 4: can get them to donate.
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Speaker 3: Any donation is welcome.
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Speaker 4: If somebody can't afford that fifty thousand dollars donation, they
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Speaker 4: can give us a fifty dollars donation for twenty five
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Speaker 4: So that's exciting.
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Speaker 2: Also exciting is the ideas that have been put forth
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Speaker 2: so far, and I'm sure there can be many, many
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Speaker 2: others of what to do with that property if we're
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Speaker 2: able to secure it.
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Speaker 4: And my guess is you're going to see some apartments, yeah,
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Speaker 4: one way or another. It may be combined with other
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Speaker 4: things which would be great, but.
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Speaker 3: We don't know exactly.
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Speaker 2: We don't know, maybe some retail. Nicholas Starelli Castro has
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Speaker 2: been in here a couple of times. Steve mackenzie has
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Speaker 2: been on the air as well talking about this. I
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Speaker 2: think we would all agree that no matter what, even
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Speaker 2: a green space for a couple of years, until we
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Speaker 2: get it figured out, it's going to be a hell
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Speaker 2: of a lot better than what we've been looking at
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Speaker 2: for a long time.
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Speaker 4: Right, And Steve did a nice job getting the design
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Speaker 4: company in Montclair Black River design to draw into green space.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 3: Just you just.
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Speaker 4: Mentioned that with the idea that there will be a
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Speaker 4: period of time after the building gets torn down, and
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Speaker 4: we wanted to look nice in that interim between then
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Speaker 4: and when a developer can come in and sure it'll
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Speaker 4: take a while for them to get their permits, that
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Speaker 4: sort of a thing. So plan had to have something
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Speaker 4: in there that would look nice. Yeah, and that's exactly
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Speaker 4: what happened with City Place. We were instrumental with City
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Speaker 4: Place in the very beginning. I remember working on that.
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Speaker 4: So this is an identical project to the City Place project.
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Speaker 4: But if people have questions, they're more than welcome to
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Speaker 4: contact me. I'm met four seven nine one two four
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Speaker 4: lazycarlidaol dot com.
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Speaker 3: I don't mind giving those out.
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Speaker 4: But if they have concerns about this project, sure, or
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Speaker 4: they have questions that they haven't figured out certain aspects,
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Speaker 4: I'm more than happy to communicate with people.
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Speaker 2: So you have been the bus driver of ba DC
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Speaker 2: now since September. Since September, Okay, sad but true, No,
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Speaker 2: I don't think sad because you know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've been on that board forever.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been on that board for a long time.
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Speaker 4: I'm a past president and I did do the job
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Speaker 4: as an interim back three years ago for about four
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Speaker 4: and a half months until we hired our new director
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Speaker 4: and I started the Prospect Heights project for the one
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Speaker 4: hundred and twenty eight living units up there.
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Speaker 3: I turned it over to our new director, which was
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Speaker 3: a may Green.
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Speaker 4: She took the ball and ran down the court with
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Speaker 4: it and did a slam dunk. She did a great
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Speaker 4: job moving that project forward and she just moved on
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Speaker 4: to some different pastures back in September. Yes, so the
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Speaker 4: board looked at me and said, well, Carl, you're retired.
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Speaker 4: You're the only retired one here.
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Speaker 2: Sure, and you're not busy enough as it is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, would you fill in?
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Speaker 4: And it's not something that I'm trying to go out
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Speaker 4: and have a full time job at this point in
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Speaker 4: time in my life.
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Speaker 3: Like to spend a lot of time with my family
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Speaker 3: and I still get to.
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Speaker 4: But I said, well, I'll do it and we'll look
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Speaker 4: for a new director, which is what we're doing now.
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Speaker 2: How do we learn more about this new director position?
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Speaker 2: Badc dot org dot com dot com. All right, but
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Speaker 2: that's a good place to start.
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Speaker 4: There's a job description on there and I'll fill you
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Speaker 4: in on where we're at with that.
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Speaker 3: We placed quite a few ads.
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Speaker 4: I get about sixty something applications. I had to review
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Speaker 4: all those, of course, and then turned them over to
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Speaker 4: our committee, which is headed up by Chrissy Bellovance.
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Speaker 3: But they didn't pan out for various reasons.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: So recently we have hired a new company out of
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Speaker 4: Colchester to assist us with the job search. Okay, and
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Speaker 4: hopefully they'll be getting started sometime in the next ten
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Speaker 4: days or so.
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Speaker 2: Will you Will you keep in touch with me on
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Speaker 2: how that's going. Sure, sure, don't be afraid to give
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Speaker 2: me a poke. Sure, you got a microphone in front
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Speaker 2: of you. The mics belong to everyone. I mean, anytime
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Speaker 2: you want to come in here and give an update
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Speaker 2: on that, let me know. Okay, Alice is asking, is
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Speaker 2: prospect heights moving forward?
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Speaker 3: Yes? Right now.
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Speaker 4: The engineering team is doing the due diligence for the
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Speaker 4: project to see exactly what can be done there with
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Speaker 4: current laws. This land was drawn up for development quite
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Speaker 4: a few years ago, and since then the wastewater not wastewater,
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Speaker 4: but the water runoff rules have changed. The wetland rules
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Speaker 4: changed a little bit, so the engineering firm is checking
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Speaker 4: into all that. They can't do the wetland delineation until spring.
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Speaker 4: You can't do that sort of thing with this amount
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Speaker 4: of snow off the ground. So they're doing all their
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Speaker 4: due diligence that they can do right now, and then
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Speaker 4: the spring they'll do that delineation delineation. They'll report back
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Speaker 4: to the city and to us on exactly what can
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Speaker 4: be done. Can we get one hundred and twenty eight
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Speaker 4: units up there? Sure, my senses from working on a
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Speaker 4: lot of projects like this over the years, we won't
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Speaker 4: be able to.
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Speaker 3: But let's pretend we get ninety two.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, ninety two housing units is a giant step forward.
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Speaker 4: We still do have a two point eight five million
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Speaker 4: dollar grant which A May Green wrote for the City
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Speaker 4: Berry to get started on the infrastructure, but we need
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Speaker 4: to wait for this engineering study that's being done now,
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Speaker 4: and we've got some other grant applications out there that
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Speaker 4: we're hoping come through. We need about six point two
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Speaker 4: million to get started on the road, which includes sewer,
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Speaker 4: water communications, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: Wow, how exciting, I mean, we have some pretty cool
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Speaker 2: things on the Horizon in Perry. I mean, look, we
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Speaker 2: just got a new DPW.
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Speaker 3: That's exciting.
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Speaker 2: That's a great deal for the city, that's moving forward,
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Speaker 2: that's a great deal.
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Speaker 3: For the city. I'm familiar with that building.
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Speaker 4: I actually worked with O'Reillys because a while back, Rillys
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Speaker 4: wanted to build a new warehouse retail store in the
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Speaker 4: city and they wanted to close their Summer Street operation,
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Speaker 4: their Berlin operation, and their south Bury operation consolidate at
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Speaker 4: all into one.
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Speaker 3: The warehouse they were.
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Speaker 4: Using up on the Hill that local folks know about
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Speaker 4: that the city is looking at buying was not being utilized.
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Speaker 3: To its full extent by a Rillys.
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Speaker 4: They used about half that warehouse, so they didn't need
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Speaker 4: a big warehouse because they distributed out a mass with
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Speaker 4: their own existing warehouses, where Bond did not. Bond was
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Speaker 4: distributing to fifty something stores from that warehouse all the
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Speaker 4: way into Massachusetts.
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Speaker 3: When O'Reillys bought Bonds, Rillys.
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Speaker 4: Was distributing to all their Massachusetts stores in Southern Hampshire
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Speaker 4: stores from Massachusetts.
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Speaker 3: So they didn't need such a large warehouse. So they
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Speaker 3: wanted to consolidate downtown, and I worked very hard trying
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Speaker 3: to find them a place, but I could never find
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Speaker 3: a place with enough square footage to do what they
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Speaker 3: wanted to do. So then they looked in to building
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Speaker 3: a new place in south Berry, but there just wasn't
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Speaker 3: quite enough room for them to go up there. That
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Speaker 3: Barry town has a fifty foot set back and the
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Speaker 3: property has a state road.
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Speaker 4: On three sides of it. Yeah, so now they're looking
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Speaker 4: at going into Staples. They're working with a town of
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Speaker 4: Berlin to go up there. So anyway, that's the story
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Speaker 4: about a Rilly's that we look But I do have
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Speaker 4: a ton of other little projects that I'm working on
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Speaker 4: here in the community that if we have time, we
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Speaker 4: can talk about who's moving and who splace, that kind of.
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Speaker 2: Thing, you know. Nicholas and Steve both not giving a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of details of how the old DPW building
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Speaker 2: is going to be repurposed, but frankly, just the fact
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Speaker 2: that we're getting the hell out of there and getting
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Speaker 2: up to some higher ground in a big space that's
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Speaker 2: up to code. I'll range juice man.
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Speaker 4: I'll mention that there's a granite manufacturing plan over there.
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Speaker 4: We folks in Barry call them granite sheds, and it's
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Speaker 4: octagonal and as people drive by, they've probably seen it
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Speaker 4: over the years. They don't pay a lot of attention
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Speaker 4: to it. But it belongs to Capital Candy. And as
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Speaker 4: you know, Capital Candy is kind of beside and behind
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Speaker 4: the Berry City DPW place, and he'd like to get
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Speaker 4: rid of that building and he'll give it away to
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Speaker 4: anybody free if somebody wants to come and take tear
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Speaker 4: it down.
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Speaker 2: And move it down.
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Speaker 3: But it's on the historic sites so he can't tear
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Speaker 3: it down.
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Speaker 4: But I'm assuming that Capital Candy would be interested in
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Speaker 4: that property once the city vacates it.
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Speaker 5: Ah.
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Speaker 2: Interesting.
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Speaker 4: I'm not speaking for them, but I'm just saying that
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Speaker 4: would be an opportunity for them to expand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, I want to talk before we get
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Speaker 2: into the art splash. Is the breakfast on this year
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Speaker 2: or is that really a dumb question.
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Speaker 4: It's armed for the last Saturday and lie Library lawn.
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Speaker 4: All the proceeds go to the Aldrich Public Library. In fact,
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Speaker 4: the Very Roatary Club will be doing a presentation to
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Speaker 4: the library to turn over the proceeds from last summer's breakfast.
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Speaker 3: It's about sixteen thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: What really, that's what kind of numbers that pulls in. Yep,
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Speaker 2: isn't that amazing.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's not only ticket sales, but it's underwriters. You know,
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Speaker 4: there are people that donate to the project. People donate money,
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Speaker 4: people donate some food in some cases, and of course
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Speaker 4: the Rotary Club comes down and works real hard doing
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Speaker 4: the cooking.
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Speaker 3: It's a great event for the community.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 4: People tell me that they come down and see people
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Speaker 4: they haven't seen for a year at the Rotary breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. And if the weather's not great, don't
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Speaker 2: worry because you guys always have plenty of tents and
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Speaker 2: it's just always such a huge success. So what is
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Speaker 2: for the art splash? Now, it's every other year.
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Speaker 4: Every other year because it takes about a year and
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Speaker 4: a half of planning, yes, of course, to put the
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Speaker 4: project on. So unless you know, we had ten more
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Speaker 4: people that wanted to work full time working on it,
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Speaker 4: we just.
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Speaker 3: Can't pull it off every year. So we do it
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Speaker 3: every year.
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Speaker 4: We did it in the summer of twenty one, twenty three,
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Speaker 4: and now we'll do it this summer twenty five.
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Speaker 2: And mark your calendars. As you can see right here,
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Speaker 2: and I'm showing on the monitor right now, these art
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Speaker 2: items are going to be auctioned off on September sixth,
21:33
Speaker 2: this coming September at the Vermont Granite Museum at three pm,
21:37
Speaker 2: which is always a big, big deal. Yes, it is huge.
21:41
Speaker 4: At three pm viewing people will get an hour to
21:44
Speaker 4: view the items. We'll have free our dervs there for
21:48
Speaker 4: people that come in, and then the auction will start
21:52
Speaker 4: at four o'clock sharp. This year we're going to have
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Speaker 4: forty six art items. That's the most we've ever had.
21:57
Speaker 2: We're looking at some of them right now. First the
22:00
Speaker 2: Stephen Donahue Recei's car, which is so cool man and
22:05
Speaker 2: Pete Ainsworth what a what a talented guy he is.
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Speaker 4: But but we've got a lot of talented artists. I
22:12
Speaker 4: do have a suggestion for you, a little bit off subject.
22:15
Speaker 4: You should put a monitor here somewhere so I can
22:18
Speaker 4: see what you're seeing.
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Speaker 2: It's coming, it's coming, it's going. It's gonna go right there, Yep,
22:22
Speaker 2: it's it's coming.
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Speaker 3: Not very nice to be telling the host what to
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Speaker 3: do is yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, we've actually it's it might even get it
22:33
Speaker 2: put in today. But typical of Carl to do that though. No, no,
22:36
Speaker 2: that I'd like I love that about Carl. You say
22:39
Speaker 2: it like it is man. But look at these these
22:41
Speaker 2: Stephen Donahue cars. Incredible. The twenty nine thirty one.
22:46
Speaker 3: I did an interview with Steve. He was the he
22:49
Speaker 3: was the.
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Speaker 4: Track champion, you know, Yeah, three different tracks two summers ago.
22:54
Speaker 3: Sure.
22:54
Speaker 4: And so he had that car redecorated for the Melt
22:58
Speaker 4: Bowl that year. And it's a throwback car in honor
23:01
Speaker 4: of a race professional race car driver, Kevin Harvick.
23:05
Speaker 3: So it's the Peanut Butter Car.
23:07
Speaker 4: So when I get the drivers to put their autographs
23:10
Speaker 4: on these cars, I do.
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Speaker 3: A little interview with them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And in the middle of.
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Speaker 3: The interview I asked Steve.
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Speaker 4: I said, hey, Steve, I said, you got this thing
23:19
Speaker 4: decorated up for Rece's I said, do you eat Recee's
23:22
Speaker 4: peanut butter cups? And he said, no, what And then
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Speaker 4: he proceeded to tell me what he does eat. And
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Speaker 4: you'll have to watch the video to find out what
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Speaker 4: it is.
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Speaker 2: I think I got it right here. It's it's somewhere
23:35
Speaker 2: in my in my link here and this was from
23:38
Speaker 2: you said last year, right, Well, I.
23:41
Speaker 4: Did the interview with him this year because that car
23:43
Speaker 4: will be on display this summer. But he raced that
23:47
Speaker 4: car in the twenty twenty three Melt Bowl and was
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Speaker 4: the winner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's see if I can find.
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Speaker 6: Stone service station sponsor the number thirty one car who
23:59
Speaker 6: drives it.
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Speaker 3: There you go, there's the driver. Look at this. He's
24:05
Speaker 3: going to put the autograph on it for us today.
24:07
Speaker 6: But first we're going to ask him a few questions.
24:09
Speaker 6: So Steve, tell us just a little bit about the
24:11
Speaker 6: car first.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was two years ago, twenty twenty three car.
24:17
Speaker 5: We were able to lucky enough to win the championship with.
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Speaker 1: It and.
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Speaker 5: Eight championships Steve, Now this guy only got us one.
24:26
Speaker 5: I got a couple with Norm's car. But uh, we
24:29
Speaker 5: were able to win the championship and then do them
24:32
Speaker 5: moutable to the same year, which was really really cool.
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Speaker 3: So that's it.
24:35
Speaker 5: Thunder Road yep at under Road.
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Speaker 4: Okay, good, and you're ready to put the autograph.
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Speaker 3: On Sure, let's go for it.
24:44
Speaker 6: So I'm Carl with a Barry Arch splash, and we're
24:47
Speaker 6: going to put this car on display on the summer
24:49
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty five. Then it goes to the Granite
24:51
Speaker 6: Museum on September sixth, and it gets ouctioned off to
24:57
Speaker 6: the highest bidder and I want you, folks, so I'll
25:00
Speaker 6: come down and bid, and I want you to bid
25:03
Speaker 6: these people as high as you possibly can.
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Speaker 3: There they are right over there, some future bidders. So
25:11
Speaker 3: that's it, folks on that car.
25:13
Speaker 6: So Steve jump right over to the second car and
25:16
Speaker 6: what have we got here?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this was a really cool design that we did.
25:22
Speaker 5: And my girlfriend wanted to really go for the full
25:25
Speaker 5: Kevin have Itt fill back because I'm a big Kevin
25:27
Speaker 5: Havoc fan and unfortunately in twenty twenty three was his
25:30
Speaker 5: last full time years. So we did it for the
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Speaker 5: Mouth Bowl and we were lucky enough to win it.
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Speaker 3: Super do you eat reces cups?
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Speaker 5: I don't eat mess cups by eating specs and Recei's huff.
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Speaker 3: Let's see it. Put an autograph on that. That's it, folks,
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Speaker 3: September sixth at the Granite Museum. Come bid on it.
25:58
Speaker 2: See yeah, Ah, that's so cool, Carl. You do a
26:02
Speaker 2: great job with that, buddy.
26:03
Speaker 3: We have some fun.
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Speaker 4: We have some fun, and the drivers are good and
26:06
Speaker 4: we've been fortunate to get every single living driver's autograph
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Speaker 4: on these cars.
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Speaker 3: Now for the last few years.
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Speaker 4: Right now, I've got some cars at my house waiting
26:17
Speaker 4: for some autographs. Got some drivers coming up from Florida
26:20
Speaker 4: very soon.
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Speaker 3: I got a Dave.
26:22
Speaker 4: Dion cara this year and he's coming up shortly. I
26:25
Speaker 4: got a Tom Glazer car. He's coming back from Florida shortly.
26:30
Speaker 3: And we got a Bruins autograph the other day too.
26:34
Speaker 2: How'd you get that?
26:36
Speaker 4: Well, the sponsor was, or is David Air's auto body shop,
26:44
Speaker 4: and he's the sponsor of this bear, which is a
26:48
Speaker 4: Bruins bear, and this particular bear was decorated.
26:54
Speaker 3: By Alison Randall and.
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Speaker 4: David airs son or his family has a connection to
27:03
Speaker 4: a gentleman named Chris that works for the NHL Okay
27:09
Speaker 4: and he put me in touch with that person. That
27:14
Speaker 4: person went to Tim Thomas, who played for the Bruins
27:19
Speaker 4: as a goalie for eight years, Stanley Cup winner, and
27:22
Speaker 4: I met Tim Thomas just a couple saturdays ago in
27:27
Speaker 4: the Applebee's parking lot because he was traveling on I
27:30
Speaker 4: eighty nine believe it or not, to Boston to be
27:34
Speaker 4: in their box for a Bruins game and was kind
27:37
Speaker 4: enough to pull off the throughway and meet with me
27:40
Speaker 4: and do a little interview at.
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Speaker 3: An autograph on that bear. So that's exciting.
27:47
Speaker 4: We also have a Bobby Bobby Or bear decorated by
27:50
Speaker 4: Prudy Burns this year, and I would love to get
27:52
Speaker 4: his autograph. I just don't have a good connection yet. Wow,
27:57
Speaker 4: had lunch with Bobby or at Rotary a long time ago.
28:00
Speaker 3: He was at the Berry Rotary Club. Once.
28:02
Speaker 2: I'm looking at some of the art pieces that are
28:06
Speaker 2: coming up for this summer.
28:08
Speaker 3: Can you see the Tim Thomas one there?
28:11
Speaker 2: Yeah? Which one is that?
28:13
Speaker 4: Well, it's got the Bruins uniform on it. I'm looking
28:16
Speaker 4: for it and it's a big bear with blue eyes,
28:20
Speaker 4: you know what. I apologize it's not on there yet.
28:23
Speaker 4: I apologize. The video is there with him autographing it.
28:27
Speaker 4: But the procedure is once they autograph it, I take
28:30
Speaker 4: him down to Cody Chevrolet and Codys Chevrolet has Paul
28:35
Speaker 4: Trapanier down there put a couple of coats of a
28:37
Speaker 4: clearcoat on there for us and they donate that service.
28:41
Speaker 4: And that's wonderful of Cody's to do that. So we
28:45
Speaker 4: put that on there to protect them when they're out
28:46
Speaker 4: in the environment on the main street right and Barry
28:49
Speaker 4: it also makes them pop. So once I get them
28:52
Speaker 4: clear coated, then I take a picture of all four
28:54
Speaker 4: sides of the art items to put on the website
28:56
Speaker 4: so that somebody out of town and we have people
28:58
Speaker 4: all over the country bidding on and they see, yeah,
29:01
Speaker 4: they can see what the thing looks like from all
29:03
Speaker 4: four sides. So I've been so busy in the last
29:06
Speaker 4: little bit, I hadn't had a chance to take the
29:08
Speaker 4: pictures of that particular bearri Yet.
29:10
Speaker 2: All right, we got we got on the screen right now,
29:12
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Hebert car, the Joey Lacaire car. Nice video
29:17
Speaker 2: on Joey autographing that up.
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Speaker 4: Yep, he did a couple for us. And we've got
29:22
Speaker 4: a new breed of cars on the street coming this summer.
29:27
Speaker 4: Back in the day, thunder Road had a division called
29:30
Speaker 4: Mini Stocks and most of those cars were Volkswagen Beetles.
29:34
Speaker 4: They had, I guess a couple of Carmen Gias and
29:36
Speaker 4: maybe something else. But we got at least a half
29:39
Speaker 4: a dozen vws to be on display this summer, and.
29:42
Speaker 3: One of those was Joey and yeah, the other one
29:44
Speaker 3: was Jerry Parent.
29:45
Speaker 2: We're looking at right now, the number fifty car.
29:47
Speaker 3: Yep. Incredible, beautiful car.
29:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm out Remington, Remington, that's what a what a
29:59
Speaker 2: look at that?
30:00
Speaker 3: That isn't the sponsor J D. Gould on that one?
30:02
Speaker 2: Yes? J Gould Ja excuse me ja a goold Plumbing
30:06
Speaker 2: and heating.
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Speaker 3: He decorated that one.
30:08
Speaker 2: H John Landy, John.
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Speaker 3: Landy decorated that one. Yeah.
30:12
Speaker 4: That was the name of his real dog. And he's
30:15
Speaker 4: the sponsor. And so the artists, just for the folks
30:18
Speaker 4: viewing us now, usually get the art item and are
30:23
Speaker 4: told to decorate it with a certain theme. And the
30:26
Speaker 4: sponsor is the one that tells us what kind of
30:28
Speaker 4: a theme they would like to have.
30:30
Speaker 2: And Remington was here two years ago, right, I'm pretty sure.
30:33
Speaker 3: No different dog, different time, different dog.
30:36
Speaker 4: Same artist did another dog that looked like that, but
30:39
Speaker 4: just a different design.
30:41
Speaker 2: Jacks golden goose. I'm showing it right now in the monitor.
30:44
Speaker 3: That the goose that laid the golden egg.
30:48
Speaker 2: Yes, several golden eggs. Pam Murphy, the artist sponsored by Nelson's,
30:54
Speaker 2: says hardware. Look at that incredible.
30:57
Speaker 3: Is't that a beautiful goose? So the goose. That's the
31:00
Speaker 3: first time we'll have have the goose on display.
31:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got the uh, the frog, the green frog.
31:09
Speaker 3: Yep, little the wings on that thing.
31:13
Speaker 2: Incredible.
31:15
Speaker 3: These artists are just so talented.
31:17
Speaker 4: They work, you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of
31:20
Speaker 4: hours all winter long.
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Speaker 2: Decorating Fecto home sponsor in that one. And let's see
31:27
Speaker 2: what else do we have here? A lot of a
31:32
Speaker 2: lot of dogs, which I think is so great. It's
31:35
Speaker 2: not just bears, it's.
31:37
Speaker 3: It's whatever that sponsor wants to buy. That's the beauty
31:41
Speaker 3: of it.
31:41
Speaker 4: The sponsor gets the truth between the cats, the dogs,
31:43
Speaker 4: the bears, the.
31:44
Speaker 2: Chimp and and generally these art pieces are out in
31:49
Speaker 2: the front, like this one to be out in front
31:51
Speaker 2: of Richard J. Wabbi Jewelers.
31:53
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, Wabi's always is a big supporter of
31:57
Speaker 4: this project.
31:59
Speaker 2: Amazing, Enough about with them. The Robbie Crouch car.
32:04
Speaker 4: Just met with Robbie Crouch Saturday to get his autograph
32:07
Speaker 4: on his second car.
32:08
Speaker 3: We have two of his cars this year, and.
32:11
Speaker 4: Of course he was a very famous driver the Tampa
32:14
Speaker 4: Tornado Ken Squire called him.
32:18
Speaker 2: Speaking of Ken, We're going to show you his car
32:20
Speaker 2: here in a second. But the quack and black.
32:27
Speaker 3: That artist is only about twelve years old. Seriously, seriously.
32:34
Speaker 4: Roger King is her dad, and he did one last
32:39
Speaker 4: year for us, and this year he said his daughter
32:40
Speaker 4: wanted to do one, so he did one, and she
32:43
Speaker 4: did one and she did the quack as black. I
32:46
Speaker 4: assume you're showing that now.
32:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think she's approximately twelve years old. And Roger
32:52
Speaker 4: King is known. He used to be the pro at
32:54
Speaker 4: the Berry Country Club. Now he's the pro at sugar
32:56
Speaker 4: Bush Golf Course.
32:57
Speaker 3: Amazing. That's Nelly King, the decorator of that one.
33:02
Speaker 2: Wow, here's the the v W. Which one the orange one?
33:10
Speaker 2: The Jerry Pantoni.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we've got a video of him.
33:17
Speaker 2: Wow, look at that. What what year is that Beetle?
33:21
Speaker 2: Do we know?
33:22
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I would say the sixties. Well,
33:27
Speaker 3: they were racing in the seventies, so I would assume
33:29
Speaker 3: it would be late late late sixties.
33:33
Speaker 2: Okay.
33:33
Speaker 3: Uh.
33:35
Speaker 4: Somehow though, Joey told me I think that some of
33:38
Speaker 4: his cars were in his vws were in the sixties.
33:41
Speaker 3: Okay.
33:42
Speaker 2: I got a friend with the sixty seven Beetle convertible.
33:46
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, m look at these Look at these cars. Now,
33:52
Speaker 2: what's the deal with the monkeys?
33:56
Speaker 4: Oh, so we'll ask the audience what's the difference between
34:02
Speaker 4: a chimp and a monkey? And maybe somebody can write
34:05
Speaker 4: in and tell us the answer to that.
34:07
Speaker 3: We'll say what the answer is in a little bit.
34:10
Speaker 3: Is that fair enough? Yeah, of course that works. Of course,
34:12
Speaker 3: so we do.
34:15
Speaker 4: We do have some chimps chimpanzees this summer. That's the
34:18
Speaker 4: first time having the chimps. And there is a difference
34:22
Speaker 4: between a chimp and a monkey. Anybody giving any answers there?
34:27
Speaker 2: Not quite yet, not yet.
34:29
Speaker 4: Well it'll be it'll be a test and we'll have
34:33
Speaker 4: some fun.
34:33
Speaker 3: But we've got some chimps that are just decorated. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
34:40
Speaker 4: I'm not sure which one you're looking at right now,
34:43
Speaker 4: mister Jigs. Mister Jiggs, he's got his hand out for
34:47
Speaker 4: some solicitations there, and you can come by this summer
34:51
Speaker 4: and put some hundred dollars bills in his plate.
34:54
Speaker 2: Wow, love the love the shirt on mister Jigs. The bug.
35:01
Speaker 2: Look at that. Incredible.
35:04
Speaker 4: I think that's the Granite City Granite Center Garden Club.
35:08
Speaker 4: And so just for the viewing audience, sometimes we give
35:13
Speaker 4: this art item to the artists and say.
35:15
Speaker 3: Please decorate it.
35:16
Speaker 4: With a certain theme, or if it's a race car driver,
35:20
Speaker 4: we say it must be decorated like the original race car.
35:24
Speaker 4: But we also give some of these art items to
35:26
Speaker 4: folks and say decorate it however you want. Sure, just
35:30
Speaker 4: let your creative juices flow. And that's how that car
35:34
Speaker 4: was decorated. They were just free rein do whatever they
35:37
Speaker 4: wanted with it. Last year they had a coup that
35:39
Speaker 4: was out in front of the Posh Salon had a
35:43
Speaker 4: garden hose on the front of it.
35:44
Speaker 3: All that stuff is made by hand.
35:46
Speaker 4: Any any peripheral things that you see on these animals
35:50
Speaker 4: are all made by hand by the artist, formed by
35:54
Speaker 4: hand and added to the bare fiberglass and.
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Speaker 2: Getting as worst Jan this morning, Jan just a.
36:05
Speaker 4: Little under the weather this morning. I'm sorry she couldn't
36:07
Speaker 4: make it. That's Jan Spargo and she helps out with
36:12
Speaker 4: the project. Linda Canari has been helping for years and
36:15
Speaker 4: years and years. This year Linda stepped back just a
36:18
Speaker 4: little bit, although she's still heavily involved, but Jan is
36:21
Speaker 4: trying to take over some of the things, getting the artists,
36:24
Speaker 4: working with the artists, teaching the artists that aren't familiar
36:27
Speaker 4: with certain ways to decorate the animals, that sort.
36:31
Speaker 2: Of thing, and you have you have some volunteers that
36:35
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're gonna want to throw some kudos out
36:38
Speaker 2: that have been instrumental in past years who go around
36:42
Speaker 2: and clean these art pieces to make sure all the
36:45
Speaker 2: dust and dirt and grind that from passing trucks and
36:48
Speaker 2: vehicles are cleaned off of these and they look like
36:51
Speaker 2: a million dollars.
36:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, we try to get them washed three times a week.
36:54
Speaker 4: They do get dirty quick because, as you know, they're
36:57
Speaker 4: in the main street with vehicles.
36:58
Speaker 3: Going by every day.
36:59
Speaker 4: So I can't remember necessarily all the volunteers, but I
37:03
Speaker 4: know Linda Babbitt comes down with my wife. I know
37:06
Speaker 4: Linda Canary comes down once a week. For all the
37:09
Speaker 4: years we've been doing this, the Northfield Savings Bank has
37:13
Speaker 4: some of their folks go once a week and wash
37:17
Speaker 4: the whole batch and that takes a while to wash all.
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Speaker 3: Last year we.
37:21
Speaker 4: Had forty items, this year forty six, so that takes
37:24
Speaker 4: a while. We've had the Spaulding Interact Club come down
37:28
Speaker 4: and we're always looking for people to volunteer. It's nice
37:32
Speaker 4: if we get somebody that'll do it once a week
37:34
Speaker 4: that sort of thing or once every other week, and
37:37
Speaker 4: Wabby's lets us store a little red wagon over there
37:40
Speaker 4: that we use with the water and the mitts and
37:43
Speaker 4: that sort of a thing.
37:44
Speaker 2: So I didn't know Chan was an artist.
37:48
Speaker 3: She's a great artist. She's a great artist.
37:50
Speaker 4: She did She did a Bruins bear last year that
37:54
Speaker 4: went for thirty six hundred at the auction.
37:56
Speaker 2: Unreal man, and that kind of remembered that Bruins bear.
38:00
Speaker 4: Kind of gave other artists the idea of doing some
38:02
Speaker 4: bears to emulate Bruins. In Roger King's case, he did
38:07
Speaker 4: a chimp and it emulates a baseball catcher.
38:11
Speaker 3: I think you may have shown that before.
38:13
Speaker 2: But she did Little Harley.
38:16
Speaker 4: She did Little Harley. Little Harley is up at Wilkins
38:19
Speaker 4: right now. They're the sponsor, and Lil Harley is up
38:23
Speaker 4: there on display. People can go up there and see it,
38:26
Speaker 4: but they can also do a pre bid on it.
38:28
Speaker 4: So this is something new we're trying this year. We
38:31
Speaker 4: have a Little Harley there and we have a dog
38:34
Speaker 4: over at Wabi's. Those are the only two that you
38:37
Speaker 4: can do pre bids on, and whatever those bids work
38:42
Speaker 4: their way up to is what the starting bid will
38:45
Speaker 4: be at.
38:45
Speaker 3: The live auction.
38:47
Speaker 4: So at our live auction, our minimum bid is always
38:49
Speaker 4: five hundred dollars. Let's say Little Harley brings in a
38:52
Speaker 4: seven hundred high bid up there, It'll start at seven
38:55
Speaker 4: hundred at the live auction. But the high bidder doesn't
38:58
Speaker 4: necessarily have to be at the auction.
39:01
Speaker 2: I don't think any of them have to be there right.
39:03
Speaker 4: Right, well, but let's say somebody came in with the
39:05
Speaker 4: motorcycle from Canada, which they do it Harley, David, Harley, Wilkinson,
39:09
Speaker 4: Davison all the time. They can get in touch with
39:12
Speaker 4: me before the auction, give me a credit card number,
39:15
Speaker 4: and I will have a stand in bidder for them
39:17
Speaker 4: to bid on Little Harley or any art item. Or
39:21
Speaker 4: they can go on our zoom call, which is live
39:24
Speaker 4: of the auction. They can see each item being bid on,
39:28
Speaker 4: they can see the auctioneer, and the auctioneer can see them,
39:32
Speaker 4: and they can actually bid live on that zoom call
39:35
Speaker 4: at the auction.
39:36
Speaker 2: So that's a busy job. Who's the auctioneer.
39:39
Speaker 3: The auctioneer is Eric Hudson.
39:44
Speaker 4: Okay, he comes from Saint John's Very He is a
39:46
Speaker 4: professional auctioneer for something like this. He did a fantastic
39:50
Speaker 4: job for the first two years. He will be back
39:53
Speaker 4: this year and rich Patoniac will be doing the JD
40:00
Speaker 4: work this year for us.
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Speaker 3: He did it two.
40:03
Speaker 4: Years ago and then Michael Potzuba did it last year.
40:06
Speaker 4: But Richard is coming back this year to do that.
40:09
Speaker 3: He does a great job, fantastic job.
40:11
Speaker 4: He plays music to emulate race cars or dogs barking
40:14
Speaker 4: or whatever it is the auction not so.
40:16
Speaker 2: Speaking of dogs, I'm looking at ginger noodles here. Also
40:21
Speaker 2: pause and love the the kitty cat. I mean, this
40:25
Speaker 2: is really really amazing stuff. Incredible.
40:31
Speaker 3: Do you get any comments on the chimpanzee and the monkey?
40:34
Speaker 2: Just Jfred bunks is the chimpanzee?
40:38
Speaker 4: Well, they're all chimpanzees, but the question is what's the
40:42
Speaker 4: difference between its chimpanzee?
40:43
Speaker 2: Well, Alice, Alice says, looks like it's left to me.
40:47
Speaker 2: Monkeys have tails, Chimps don't. She's right, Chimps pair usually larger.
40:55
Speaker 2: I shall now go back to my corner. Thank you
40:59
Speaker 2: very much for that.
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Speaker 3: We appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking at him right now. Just in incredible
41:07
Speaker 2: work here. I want to show the the Ken Squire
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Speaker 2: car here.
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Speaker 3: Of course there's a story.
41:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I obviously want to hear it's what's the deal
41:20
Speaker 2: with it? We're showing it on camera, right.
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Speaker 4: So WDEV went on the air in nineteen thirty one,
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Speaker 4: that's right. And Ken Squire somewhere along the way bought
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Speaker 4: a Ford nineteen thirty one Ford panel truck yep and
41:38
Speaker 4: had it at thunder Road at certain events.
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Speaker 3: He had it at WDE events over the years.
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Speaker 4: And Jan Spargo on her own went out and got
41:50
Speaker 4: a sponsor for that car.
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Speaker 3: I believe it's a.
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Speaker 4: Little more wild Ford, and she started decorating with a
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Speaker 4: nineteen thirty for Ford coop that we had on display
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Speaker 4: last summer. So the Arcana shop did not do a
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Speaker 4: panel truck for us. Jan had to fabricate that panel
42:10
Speaker 4: truck by hand by herself. Hi, Joe Waldsworth, Oh pretty
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Speaker 4: good yourself? Are you here on an official visit? We
42:24
Speaker 4: have fire extinguishers here. Chief just wants you to know.
42:29
Speaker 2: Joe's gonna hop on here in just a second. Give
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Speaker 2: us an update on the weather and nice all kinds
42:35
Speaker 2: of fun things like ice jams and you know the
42:38
Speaker 2: things that they live for.
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Speaker 4: Umpire knows all about ice jams. I was in that
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Speaker 4: city when it flooded from the ice jam years years
42:46
Speaker 4: at ninety two, well, I think it was ninety two.
42:50
Speaker 4: I actually was inside the municipal building up at the
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Speaker 4: Tippity top and the clock tower, putting an antenna on
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Speaker 4: there for my communications business Mumplear Police or Fire department
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Speaker 4: at the time, and I could look down and had
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Speaker 4: a tremendous view of the water.
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Speaker 3: It was just awful.
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Speaker 2: Carl, what do you think this Squire car is gonna
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Speaker 2: end up? Possibly the highest bidding.
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Speaker 3: Oh, definitely, this gets auctioned off to the highest bidder.
43:17
Speaker 3: This will be on to what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: You think this one's can pull in more money than
43:21
Speaker 2: any other car?
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Speaker 3: Possibly?
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Speaker 4: Possibly, possibly, although the bear with the Bruins autograph on
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Speaker 4: it might be right up there.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see, depends on how the Bruins are
43:32
Speaker 2: gonna do.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know the player that autographed that car,
43:39
Speaker 4: Tim Thomas. He was on the team they wanted Stanley Cup.
43:42
Speaker 4: He brought the Stanley crump to Church Street, okay, and
43:45
Speaker 4: he said he went down on Church Street JFK style,
43:48
Speaker 4: but they didn't get shot. Okay, you can watch that
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Speaker 4: video on our website.
43:56
Speaker 2: This is all amazing stuff here. And I'm just still
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Speaker 2: scrolling through, but it's just amazing. It's amazing.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Firefighter Flow by Sarah Sprague, Corey Kitchen's Corey Kitchen and
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Speaker 2: Spirits sponsoring.
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Speaker 4: Chief step in here and look at that bear and
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Speaker 4: and and ask him if he can see anything connected
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Speaker 4: to fire flow.
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Speaker 2: Chief. Hop up here, man, grab grab that mic. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna chat with you.
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Speaker 3: I love the fact look at his screen, Joe.
44:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think of this? Buddy? You want
44:37
Speaker 2: to get in on that.
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Speaker 3: You see any fire department colors?
44:39
Speaker 4: There?
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Speaker 2: A few? Yeah, we get the water. They didn't even
44:46
Speaker 2: think of that. Yeah, pretty nice. That'll be right in
44:52
Speaker 2: front of the Cory right is where that Yes, that's.
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Speaker 3: Just Cory as a sponsor and the artist.
44:57
Speaker 2: Is uh that's Sarah's break.
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Speaker 3: Very good, very good. Yeah, she did a nice job.
45:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna just chat about this, uh
45:10
Speaker 2: this weather weather situation here, which is uh not not
45:17
Speaker 2: great Chief. Good morning, Good morning sir. How are you
45:21
Speaker 2: glad to have you in here?
45:22
Speaker 3: Man?
45:22
Speaker 2: What what can you tell us? Uh? I know we've
45:25
Speaker 2: got warm temps, we've got some rain that is supposed
45:29
Speaker 2: to be coming down We've had some freezing rain. We're
45:32
Speaker 2: probably going to continue to have some freezing rain here
45:34
Speaker 2: depending on where you are this morning, for the next
45:39
Speaker 2: couple of hours until these these temps tick up. So
45:42
Speaker 2: please be careful not just on the roads, but also
45:45
Speaker 2: on the on the back roads and the and the
45:47
Speaker 2: sidewalks too. But there's there's some concern about flooding and
45:53
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service has put out a statement this morning.
45:56
Speaker 2: What can you tell us?
45:58
Speaker 7: So we're expected to get anywhere from three quarters of
46:01
Speaker 7: an inch to an inch over the next twenty four hours.
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Speaker 7: I've been out looking at our waterways and right now
46:08
Speaker 7: that everything looks nice and clear. Waterways are low, so
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Speaker 7: we have some capacity. Our concern is debris and ice
46:16
Speaker 7: coming from up higher, so like the gunner Brook three
46:20
Speaker 7: oh two, the Stevens Branch, you know, and down from Southbury.
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Speaker 7: That stuff that's what clogs us up during the when
46:28
Speaker 7: the wintertime, the wintertime flood events. So right now we
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Speaker 7: have plenty of capacity. Have been in contact with Montpellier's
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Speaker 7: fire chief pretty much the last two days. They were
46:39
Speaker 7: doing some thawing of their ice pack and so that's
46:44
Speaker 7: been successful.
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Speaker 3: I've seen.
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Speaker 7: I've seen some of the pictures of their waterways and channels,
46:51
Speaker 7: and most of their debris has been cleared out. There
46:54
Speaker 7: are a couple of concern spots that I've been talking
46:57
Speaker 7: with the town manager in Barry Town, and then Berlin
47:02
Speaker 7: knows that they have a small little area that is
47:05
Speaker 7: a concerned behind tractor supply. But all in all, I
47:08
Speaker 7: think we're in good shape. It's not going to be
47:11
Speaker 7: a quick hard thaw, but I think we're going to
47:16
Speaker 7: get some capacity here and we'll see how that goes.
47:19
Speaker 7: We have a lot of snow up in the higher
47:21
Speaker 7: elevations so that I think last time I saw it
47:23
Speaker 7: was one hundred and three inches, which is considerably more
47:27
Speaker 7: than what we normally get. It's about four feet more.
47:30
Speaker 7: But all in all, I think we're good. As long
47:32
Speaker 7: as we have that nice, easy thaw will be good.
47:35
Speaker 7: The city has been doing some preparations on some of
47:37
Speaker 7: the external like by Cliff and Dalmont and Park Street.
47:43
Speaker 7: The Jefferson Street calvert looks nice, trustle's clear, so I
47:48
Speaker 7: think all in all we're in pretty good shape.
47:50
Speaker 2: We've had a cold winter though, which has stiffened up
47:55
Speaker 2: a lot of these waterways unlike last year, and I
48:01
Speaker 2: know that you talk about the quick thoughts being the
48:05
Speaker 2: dangerous ones. But still though even with that uh, that
48:08
Speaker 2: ice pack, there's there's what's the concern level right now
48:13
Speaker 2: for for not only Barry, but what do you what
48:16
Speaker 2: do you hear not a mont pillar like scale of
48:18
Speaker 2: zero to ten. Like so we're just we're watching it.
48:22
Speaker 7: We're cautiously optimistic and we're just watching it right now.
48:26
Speaker 7: I mean, really we will matters where the showers come,
48:29
Speaker 7: you know, where do we get the uh you know,
48:32
Speaker 7: the pockets of rain that will come through right now?
48:35
Speaker 7: The ground is frozen and so everything that we're going
48:39
Speaker 7: to get is run off. One thing that is positive
48:43
Speaker 7: is not really positive. But the snowpack has really no
48:47
Speaker 7: capacity to to gain more because there's a layer and
48:50
Speaker 7: that's a hard crust that was frozen from back in
48:54
Speaker 7: and uh that first January and you know on that
48:58
Speaker 7: end of January there. So that's where we're watching it
49:01
Speaker 7: to see what's going to happen. I would ask people
49:04
Speaker 7: to make sure that those that have flat roofs to
49:06
Speaker 7: make sure that they get some cleared off so that
49:09
Speaker 7: the water can sheet sheen off. That's just going to
49:14
Speaker 7: gain more weight. And so I think that's important that
49:17
Speaker 7: people just pay attention to those folks with flat roofs
49:20
Speaker 7: or semi flat, you know, the two twelve pitches. That's
49:24
Speaker 7: really important.
49:25
Speaker 2: This is a time of year where there's so much
49:28
Speaker 2: to be thinking about. Making sure hydrants are are cleared out,
49:32
Speaker 2: making sure, you know, Joe and I've been banging this
49:36
Speaker 2: drum for twenty plus years, but you know, making sure
49:41
Speaker 2: that you know, drains are as clear as possible to
49:46
Speaker 2: receive melting snow but also rain. Making sure your heating
49:54
Speaker 2: vents are cleared out, your your heat access, your tank
49:59
Speaker 2: access is accessible. I mean, the list, my god, the
50:02
Speaker 2: list goes on and on.
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Speaker 7: As we enter our fifth season, the mud season, I mean,
50:07
Speaker 7: we're gonna have those challenges until we can get dried out.
50:11
Speaker 7: We're still you know, not out of winter yet. We're
50:13
Speaker 7: still gonna you know, be under the gun for one
50:16
Speaker 7: good uh snow storm left, you know, and but you know,
50:19
Speaker 7: we're gonna have to deal with the ice. And of
50:21
Speaker 7: course it's you know, it's a steady rain right now.
50:24
Speaker 7: So take the time and you know, you know, clear
50:28
Speaker 7: out your hydrants, make sure, you know, you take your prevention.
50:31
Speaker 7: One of the things that people forget is that once
50:34
Speaker 7: that the snow accumulates, those vents really don't function properly
50:38
Speaker 7: until you know, and so take the time and remove
50:43
Speaker 7: that out. It's a really a safety issue for your
50:46
Speaker 7: your home and your your family.
50:48
Speaker 2: So we got the widespread rain, the snow melt, the
50:52
Speaker 2: warming conditions. We have some you know, some advisories for Clinton, Essex, Frame, Glynn,
51:00
Speaker 2: Saint Lawrence counties in New York and pretty much all
51:04
Speaker 2: of us here in central Vermont. I know they're they're
51:08
Speaker 2: watching the Matt River over there in more Town, but
51:12
Speaker 2: we're watching things carefully right here, and rest assured that
51:17
Speaker 2: the crews are out there doing all they can to
51:19
Speaker 2: be ready for this and will continue to you guys, Carl.
51:24
Speaker 2: They don't take the afternoon nap uh. These guys are
51:30
Speaker 2: constantly eyes wide open and monitoring things and busting their butts.
51:35
Speaker 2: And thank god that we've got them here watching our back.
51:38
Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe, absolutely, thank you very much.
51:43
Speaker 3: Take care, Thank you for coming by.
51:46
Speaker 2: Carl and Joe Waldsworth, which we appreciate so much. Just
51:52
Speaker 2: thank you, buddy. And isn't it great that these guys
51:58
Speaker 2: Carl can just walk right in here and jumping a mic.
52:02
Speaker 4: That is a good feature. I mean, Joe is very
52:07
Speaker 4: willing to do that sort of thing. I've known him
52:09
Speaker 4: for a long time. And all our community servants or
52:15
Speaker 4: employees whichever way you would like to refer to them,
52:19
Speaker 4: are very kind and doing that sort of thing, and
52:21
Speaker 4: they're very diligent on.
52:23
Speaker 3: Their jobs and what they do.
52:25
Speaker 4: The other heroes are the snowplow drivers that are out
52:29
Speaker 4: there and the slipperiest of conditions when some people wouldn't
52:33
Speaker 4: dare venture out, they're going out. When they're going gets tough,
52:37
Speaker 4: The tough get going and they're the tough they are,
52:40
Speaker 4: and they're out there standing insulting and plowing the roads
52:42
Speaker 4: and keeping things safe for citizens.
52:45
Speaker 2: And putting in huge hours.
52:47
Speaker 4: They both the city and the town have very good
52:49
Speaker 4: crews to do good work.
52:50
Speaker 2: And it's like Joe just said, it's it's not over.
52:53
Speaker 2: I mean, some of these March snowstorms, as most modern
52:58
Speaker 2: snow can produce some of the highest totals, so.
53:03
Speaker 3: We get a lot of snow in March. I'm a skier,
53:05
Speaker 3: a downhill skier, what and.
53:08
Speaker 2: We're well, I know that you used to be, but still.
53:12
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was day thirty for me on the Ski Mountain.
53:17
Speaker 2: Are you pising me, man?
53:18
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm telling you the truth.
53:21
Speaker 2: Where are you? How old you?
53:23
Speaker 3: Well? That that's a.
53:26
Speaker 4: Figure that lets me park in a special parking spot
53:31
Speaker 4: at sugar Bushes.
53:31
Speaker 3: A little sign there.
53:32
Speaker 4: That says sugar Bush eighty and Older Club, and they
53:39
Speaker 4: let me park there.
53:42
Speaker 2: We used to have to, even though, even though you're
53:44
Speaker 2: in your sixties, we used to let you park there.
53:47
Speaker 3: We used to bring Roger Revard skiing with us because
53:50
Speaker 3: he was always over eighty. I skied with him yesterday.
53:54
Speaker 3: He's eighty nine.
53:55
Speaker 2: Come on.
53:56
Speaker 4: We used to just bring him so we could park
53:58
Speaker 4: in the eighty plus parking spot. But now we don't
54:02
Speaker 4: need him anymore because I can do it.
54:04
Speaker 2: But Carl, if you go down, it takes a little
54:10
Speaker 2: while to get up there.
54:11
Speaker 3: But yeah, I have to have people help me.
54:13
Speaker 4: I have to take my skis off to get back up,
54:15
Speaker 4: especially on a flat surface. I actually went down Sunday.
54:19
Speaker 4: I whacked into my nephew and the two of us
54:21
Speaker 4: went down. That does happen once in a while.
54:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you say to him after you after
54:26
Speaker 2: the crash?
54:27
Speaker 3: I don't think it's appropriate on the microphone.
54:30
Speaker 2: Here, Carl, Thank you for coming in. Get back in here,
54:36
Speaker 2: would you. I want to see you. I want to
54:38
Speaker 2: see it more.
54:39
Speaker 4: Well, come back in and give you a little update
54:42
Speaker 4: on all the little things that we're doing with badc
54:45
Speaker 4: all right, all the little stores that are looking for
54:48
Speaker 4: some action in their open spaces. We've got a bunch
54:51
Speaker 4: of businesses looking for space, working with folks.
54:54
Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that.
54:56
Speaker 2: You know, I'm passionate about that, as are you. Let's
54:59
Speaker 2: let's get that word spread back to our community.
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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much.
55:04
Speaker 2: I look forward to it. Thank you, Carl, Carl Rinker
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Speaker 2: this morning with us right here the aired out podcast.
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