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Amy Anderson of Amy's Armoire - her Gift Project is in FULL SWING RIGHT NOW! · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: An All right, it's officially now a minute into the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: I told you before, I'm gonna tell you again this.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be playing some catch up on some things.
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Speaker 2: Well it really started yesterday, but it's gonna be happening
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Speaker 2: today and probably tomorrow as well. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: stuff that I'm going to try to squeeze in here
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Speaker 2: before taking Thursday and Friday to be with family, which
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Speaker 2: I'm so much looking forward to. But this lady who's
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Speaker 2: on the couch right now across for me, everybody knows
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Speaker 2: Amy's armoire. Everybody knows Amy Anderson. I'm so glad you're here.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for popping in here and hopping on the
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Speaker 2: air with me at high noon here on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, right, Yes, it's Tuesday. You and I
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Speaker 2: are very similar where we're all We're always going one
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Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour in one direction or another and
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Speaker 2: just juggling multiple things at the same time. You are
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Speaker 2: one of the seriously one of the busiest ladies that
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 3: I'm not as busy as I am busy, but I'm
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Speaker 3: not as busy with the nonprofit as I was, simply
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Speaker 3: because for last year I've been taking care of my
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Speaker 3: mom a lot, and I have amazing people who have
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Speaker 3: just taken turns picking up the weight, and we've all
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Speaker 3: been doing it for each other as different things have
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Speaker 3: been happening. We just have such a great group of volunteers.
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Speaker 3: It's just absolutely amazing. We couldn't be doing what we're
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Speaker 3: doing without all of them.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, absolutely not. For folks not familiar
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Speaker 2: with Amy's arm War, please do tell what is Amy's
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Speaker 2: arm War.
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Speaker 4: So, Amy's Armore is a couple of things. It's a
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Speaker 4: thrift store, but that's not who we are.
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Speaker 3: We are actually a non profit and the thrift store
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Speaker 3: is just the ongoing fundraiser essentially for our nonprofit. The
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Speaker 3: nonprofit has a mission to help support foster, adopt kin
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Speaker 3: and birth families and youth who have come from those
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Speaker 3: situations in ways that help stabilize them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's boys that is so abbreviated right there, because.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you.
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Speaker 2: Do so much more than that, but just helping out kin,
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Speaker 2: next of kin and foster kids. Yeah, just even in
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Speaker 2: an emergency situation where it's Sunday night at ten o'clock
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Speaker 2: and there's a foster family that's in need. Yep, you've
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Speaker 2: got it all right there. You don't have all of it,
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Speaker 2: but you've got most of it. I think love is
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Speaker 2: like the main thing that is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I have a connection to the
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Speaker 3: community and that's what makes us work. And I feel
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Speaker 3: like it doesn't matter if I have a first generation
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Speaker 3: college student who aged out of foster care who writes
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Speaker 3: me at midnight and says I want a Halloween costume
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Speaker 3: and I don't have enough money for one. Is that
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Speaker 3: something you guys will do? And I think to myself,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's not really an essential thing, but you
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Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to put it out to the
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Speaker 3: community and see what they think. Because I remember going
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Speaker 3: to college and I remember how important it was to
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Speaker 3: fit in and uh have the same stuff as everybody else,
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Speaker 3: and to have a kid not have a family to
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Speaker 3: reach out for that thing. This community becomes that family definitely,
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Speaker 3: and we solved it and and within an hour that
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Speaker 3: kid had his money for his hollowing costume.
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Speaker 2: I love. I love stuff like that. Yeah, you you
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Speaker 2: honestly could could write a book with the stories that
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Speaker 2: you've got that are probably near and dear to so
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Speaker 2: many hearts and so many people that you have played
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Speaker 2: a role in their lives on the sidelines without the community.
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Speaker 2: Spotlight shine and bright bright down on you. And that's
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Speaker 2: really yeah, that says something huge about you. You. Uh,
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Speaker 2: you had this vision, this, this dream, for lack of
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Speaker 2: a better term, to do something like this not an
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Speaker 2: easy task.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean.
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Speaker 3: So I was still working for corrections in the middle
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Speaker 3: of COVID. It was a really hard time for everybody,
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Speaker 3: and I had actually the day I decided to get done.
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Speaker 3: I still had two and a half years left to go,
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Speaker 3: but we had lost to women to overdose that day.
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Speaker 4: I said, you know enough.
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Speaker 3: And I wanted to do something different to have a
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Speaker 3: greater impact on the community. I was working in restorative justice,
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Speaker 3: and I felt that was really impactful work. But even
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Speaker 3: when I was a correction officer, most of the people
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Speaker 3: that we incarcrate, even nationally, it's known that they have
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Speaker 3: spent some time in foster care. Anecdotally, I saw that firsthand.
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Speaker 3: I talk to these people and they come from hard
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Speaker 3: places and hurt people, hurt people, and if there was
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Speaker 3: a way for me to stop that cycle, then I
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Speaker 3: wanted to.
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Speaker 4: Figure out how to do that.
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Speaker 3: So I retired May twenty first of twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 3: In June first of twenty one, I opened my thrift store.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so many of us here in Central Vermont remember
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Speaker 2: when you opened and you started doing this. And it's a.
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Speaker 3: Tiny little building, tiny little spot over behind soups and
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Speaker 3: greens that had no windows, one door in, one door out.
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Speaker 3: It was most people like were so uncomfortable. Of course,
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Speaker 3: I worked in jail, so it was fretty pretty comfortable
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Speaker 3: for me to have one way out.
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Speaker 2: And look at what's happened. Look at what you've done
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Speaker 2: in our community. Look at what you've done with Night
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Speaker 2: to Shine, look at what you've done in so many
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Speaker 2: different ways. But look at what you've done in that space.
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Speaker 2: Now you've expanded it out, You've got the annex.
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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I got to disagree with you, JD.
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Speaker 3: I haven't done anything except for light a candle, you know,
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Speaker 3: and and then you know, maybe created a big boat
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Speaker 3: that everybody hopped in and started paddling with me. But
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Speaker 3: I haven't done anything other than that is just give
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Speaker 3: the direction and hopefully a little bit of encouragent, encouragement
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Speaker 3: and inspiration potentially, because I feel like the world is
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Speaker 3: full of giving people right like, we all know suffrage,
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Speaker 3: we all know hurt and pain, and if there's a
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Speaker 3: way to alleviate that for other people, everybody wants to
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Speaker 3: do that, but it's like, how do we how do
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Speaker 3: we even find the ways to do it that are
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Speaker 3: most impactful? And I just figured if we can help
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Speaker 3: stabilize these children.
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Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is a.
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Speaker 3: Statistically, we're not doing good on how often we move
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Speaker 3: children in the foster care system, and so my goal
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Speaker 3: is to reduce that movement, and if the children are
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Speaker 3: with a birth family or going to a birth family,
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Speaker 3: we'll also try to stabilize them there so that they
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Speaker 3: don't come back into care or don't come into care
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Speaker 3: to begin with. How great would that be? You know,
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Speaker 3: things have changed over the years. We used to be really,
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Speaker 3: really supportive of communities. There was no government that came
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Speaker 3: in and swooped in and helped, and we've kind of
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Speaker 3: gotten away from that. And you know, the government does
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Speaker 3: what they can with the money they're given and with
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Speaker 3: the system that's existing, but everybody knows it's flawed and
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Speaker 3: there are gaps. Everybody knows that, and so I'm just
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Speaker 3: trying to do what I can to partner with those agencies,
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Speaker 3: to partner with other agencies that do similar things without
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Speaker 3: recreating the wheel, helping people find the resources that are
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Speaker 3: already out there and making sure that we can fill
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Speaker 3: every need that comes our way.
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Speaker 2: Potentially, you're a pioneer, you really are. I think you're
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Speaker 2: a legend.
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Speaker 4: With I do that's my grandson's name.
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Speaker 2: With what you've done here in this community. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is stuff that's that's sustained and it's really having
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Speaker 2: an incredible impact.
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Speaker 4: It really is, I mean, I hope.
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Speaker 2: So you've got your donation center that's set up on
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Speaker 2: Saturday mornings down at the old Tatrose Appliance building just
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Speaker 2: down the road. Yes, from nine.
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Speaker 5: No, ten to two, ten to two, okay, ye bring
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Speaker 5: something that you have as long as it's in new
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Speaker 5: condition or good connection so.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be no. Like, we're also helping
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Speaker 3: the environment. So like if you have stuff that is stained, ripped,
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Speaker 3: tears holes, put it in a bag and say rags
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Speaker 3: and bring it to us. Salvation Army comes and gets it.
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Speaker 3: They bail it from material. They get seventy cents a
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Speaker 3: pound for that I think or something like that, and
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Speaker 3: it helps them. It helps the environment. They chop it up,
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Speaker 3: put in mattresses, shoes, whatever.
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Speaker 2: Real.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so like it just I don't want people throwing
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Speaker 4: stuff away.
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Speaker 2: Just I didn't know that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just bring it to us and put it in
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Speaker 3: a separate bag and it goes right by the door
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Speaker 3: and out to Salvation Army and the other stuff will
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Speaker 3: will sell it and stuff that's in between. Sometimes we'll
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Speaker 3: give it to Berlin Police Department. We have a bin
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Speaker 3: for that, so we bring that to the homeless and
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Speaker 3: stuff if there's really warm weather stuff or even even
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Speaker 3: it's like warm wether stuff. I mean cold weather stuff,
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Speaker 3: but even warm weather stuff. Because I've had a lady
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Speaker 3: come in who was homeless and only she the only
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Speaker 3: thing she had with sweatpants and she had to rip
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Speaker 3: them off to have shorts. So you know, we have
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Speaker 3: a pay it forward system in the store too, but
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Speaker 3: we want to make sure people are warm in the
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Speaker 3: winter and not too hot in the summer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all the seasons. Yeah, you've got with the holidays
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Speaker 2: right in front of us. You have a vision of
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Speaker 2: trying to help a lot of kids. One hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty eight kids to be exact, fifty two families correct
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Speaker 2: what's happening. You've got a big campaign that's happening right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, we we had a post up for a couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks and asked the families that we support if they,
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Speaker 3: you know, needed help this year and last year, I
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Speaker 3: think it was sixty seven kids that we.
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Speaker 4: Were able to help and that needed help.
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Speaker 3: And so we had a lot of families sign up
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Speaker 3: this year, more than last year, and different families than
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Speaker 3: we typically get. And our organization isn't one of those
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Speaker 3: organizations that can only help somebody one year. We once
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Speaker 3: a family is connected to us, we're trying to continue
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Speaker 3: to help them. If a child goes home and they're
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Speaker 3: out of DCF custody, we'll support them for a year.
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Speaker 3: And we've supported families longer than that. We actually haven't
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Speaker 3: stopped supporting those families, and I hope to continue being
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Speaker 3: able to support all those families because ultimately, we don't
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Speaker 3: want kids to come back into foster care.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, how you're calling this Amy's Gift project? How
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Speaker 2: can folks, I mean, this is the big important thing here.
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Speaker 2: How can folks get involved with trying to get back
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Speaker 2: to one hundred and twenty eight kids in Central vermat
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Speaker 2: here fifty two families. How can people get involved?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we on our website. It's the top thing
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Speaker 3: on our web site. So if you go to Amy's
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Speaker 3: Armor dot org, it's right there. There's a sign up
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Speaker 3: link there that has a sign up Genius. People can
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Speaker 3: Basically they're making a commitment in the sign up Genius
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Speaker 3: to purchase gifts for the child that they sign up for.
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Speaker 3: Each child was allowed to have five gifts to sign
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Speaker 3: up for with a total of one hundred dollars worth.
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Speaker 4: You could just.
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Speaker 3: Buy one gift for a child, or you could buy
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Speaker 3: the whole child's items. If people buy one gift, you
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Speaker 3: know they're they're supposed to try to look at the
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Speaker 3: other gifts to try to kind of figure out how
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Speaker 3: much they should budget for that one particular gift. Sure,
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Speaker 3: depending on what the gifts are that the child put
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Speaker 3: on the list, with a grand total for each child
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Speaker 3: being one hundred dollars, just so that we can be equitable.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you'll have a kid who's in a family of five,
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Speaker 3: and we'll get a donor that you know, really wants
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Speaker 3: to go overboard, and they spend three hundred on that
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Speaker 3: one kid, and then the other kids get eighty dollars
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Speaker 3: worth of things, and it's noticeable, and so we do
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Speaker 3: a last minute shuffle a lot of times to make
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Speaker 3: sure there's equity and families in particular. So that's the
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Speaker 3: reason we had to set a price tag on it,
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Speaker 3: just for equity.
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Speaker 2: All right. I'm going to put this in the this
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Speaker 2: link in the comments here, but I'm on it right now.
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Speaker 2: Gifts are expected to be delivered unwrapped, yes, by the
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Speaker 2: twelfth of December.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And we do the unwrapped on purpose because you know,
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Speaker 3: there's sometimes people make a mistake and they get the
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Speaker 3: wrong age group of something or.
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Speaker 4: Whatever.
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Speaker 3: The parent wants to be able to see what it
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Speaker 3: is their child is going to get before they wrap
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Speaker 3: it up themselves. Ye. We do have wrapping paper. We
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Speaker 3: also donate to families. We don't have as much left
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Speaker 3: this year, so if you have wrapping paper to donate,
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Speaker 3: you're more than welcome to do that too.
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Speaker 2: That's great to know. Anytime during your business hours bring
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Speaker 2: that in.
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Speaker 4: You can bring wrapping paper to the story.
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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so you put the item. Each item
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Speaker 2: has the child's number written on that on that item, yes,
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Speaker 2: So it's very easy to keep track here.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I would recommend that you like print out the
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Speaker 3: instructions for reference later, because you'll get a when you
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Speaker 3: sign up for a child, you'll get an email back
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Speaker 3: and it will have the child number, It will have
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Speaker 3: the gifts that you've signed up for. It will have
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Speaker 3: those things, but it won't have things like the deadlines
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Speaker 3: sure and where to drop stuff off or whatever.
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Speaker 2: So if you're if you're doing this using your mobile phone,
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Speaker 2: just make sure you click full site. Go to the
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Speaker 2: the three lines at the top and click full site,
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Speaker 2: which is the easier.
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Speaker 3: Way to do absolutely, because I don't know, it's really clunky.
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Speaker 3: If you don't do that, it makes it so that
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Speaker 3: you only can see a couple of kids items at
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Speaker 3: a time, okay, and you can't scroll down to the
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Speaker 3: ones still waiting to be signed up for.
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Speaker 2: All right, So Tuesday through Saturday from ten to three
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Speaker 2: is when you should bring your items. That's your business hours.
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Speaker 2: One fourteen North Main Street right here in Perry. Yes,
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Speaker 2: easy to park up back. There's designated parking right there.
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Speaker 4: Six spots behind our store also that are free.
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Speaker 2: And if you're in a rush, don't worry, just come in.
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Speaker 2: Somebody's going to help you. Out and we'll get your
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Speaker 2: stuff organized and ready to go into the hands of
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Speaker 2: that particular child on Christmas morning. Yeah, that's the goal here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the goal we have about Last I checked,
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Speaker 3: I didn't. I wasn't able to check this morning before
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Speaker 3: we went on air. But last I checked, we had
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Speaker 3: nearly one hundred kids still waiting to have a little
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Speaker 3: alf out there in the community to choose them to
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Speaker 3: purchase their gifts.
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Speaker 2: How many kids waiting, I think it's.
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Speaker 4: Nearly one hundred.
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Speaker 3: Last I checked, it was between ninety and one hundred.
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Speaker 4: And there's a couple other things.
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Speaker 3: If people have questions about the gift project, they can
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Speaker 3: email my team and that is not me directly. It
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Speaker 3: is Amy's Projects at Amy's armor dot org.
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Speaker 4: And we'll put that in the link. It's a M
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Speaker 4: Y S.
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Speaker 3: Projects at Amy's armoir a R M I.
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Speaker 4: R dot org.
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Speaker 2: Okay, got it right here.
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Speaker 3: And then we also if people hate shopping, I'm one
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Speaker 3: of those, so I can relate. There are some people
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Speaker 3: that have been really helpful parents who actually gave us
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Speaker 3: a link right to Amazon so you could you could
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Speaker 3: just order from the link that they put there, and
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Speaker 3: you could write this email address and ask what the
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Speaker 3: shipping address is and then it could come right to
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Speaker 3: my house essentially.
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Speaker 4: Wow yep.
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Speaker 3: And then if people don't even want to do that
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Speaker 3: online ordering, it can be complicated. One of the things
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Speaker 3: you have to remember when you do the online order
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Speaker 3: is to check the gift gift I forgot what it is,
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Speaker 3: gifts something, and that allows you to put the name
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Speaker 3: of the person and in this case it would be
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Speaker 3: the child identifier, so like child one B or whatever
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Speaker 3: it is with the gender and age and yeah. And
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Speaker 3: so if you don't want to do any of that
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Speaker 3: and you just want to send money and then I
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Speaker 3: can have some volunteers just order the things for you.
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Speaker 4: You can do that too.
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Speaker 3: We have a venmo which is at Amy's Armore nonprofit. Okay,
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Speaker 3: and we'll put that out there too. It's on my
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Speaker 3: website as well.
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Speaker 4: It is all right, No, the PayPal is on my website. Actually,
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Speaker 4: the venmos on.
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Speaker 2: My Facebook me with that Venmo more time.
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Speaker 3: It's at Amy's Armoire nonprofit all one word.
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Speaker 4: Amy's a M Y S.
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Speaker 3: Armoir is a R M O I R E nonprofit
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Speaker 3: all one word.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I've got that right here. That's for Venmo.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're hoping to get all those all those kids.
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Speaker 3: Christmas is to be a little bit better this year.
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Speaker 3: I know that it's it's tough out there. It's tough
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Speaker 3: for families financially, it's tough for people have stuff going on.
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Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's tough.
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Speaker 3: And taking a little bit of weight off of a
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Speaker 3: family at this time is uh is important.
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Speaker 2: I think so about one hundred kids on the wait
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Speaker 2: list right now here in Central Vermont.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see, it's actually more than Central Vermont. JD.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned that we had. Because we're a
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Speaker 3: state wide organization, a lot of people don't realize that
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Speaker 3: we are supporting families from Chittnham County, Franklin County, Hartford District,
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Speaker 3: Washington County, and Lamoyle County.
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Speaker 2: Okay, wow, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're connected to the foster adoption group all across
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Speaker 3: the state.
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Speaker 2: Well. Lund Family, it's incredible. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Lund Family is incredible and they do they do a
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Speaker 3: great amount for their adoptive families that sign up. Most
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Speaker 3: of the families that signed up with us this year
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Speaker 3: were kinship families actually aunts, uncles, grandparents raising their relatives.
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Speaker 3: Might have been a soccer coach that knew the child before,
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Speaker 3: and that's considered fictive kin. But those people that were
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Speaker 3: connected to a child before something happened that their parents
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Speaker 3: were not able to take care of them at the moment,
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Speaker 3: and these families have stepped in and there's far more
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Speaker 3: of those in the state than there are foster children.
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Speaker 3: There's about seven thousand kids and kinsjep Care.
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Speaker 2: You can this is your opportunity right here. This is
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Speaker 2: your chance to make a difference. And it doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to be you don't have to be uh you know,
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Speaker 2: some some big superhero here. Just every little bit counts.
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Speaker 4: It really helps.
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Speaker 2: Stop into Amy's Armoir, do some Christmas shopping there. The
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Speaker 2: rewards that this reaps is huge in our community. Your
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Speaker 2: dollar is gonna is going to go very far when
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Speaker 2: it's spent locally like this. This your whole team, Robin Ian,
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Speaker 2: everyone there, Elizabeth.
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Speaker 4: Those are my three leads.
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Speaker 3: And then I got Bonnie as a lead over at
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Speaker 3: the Bonnie and Rebecca as the leads over at the
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Speaker 3: donation Center.
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Speaker 2: Great people, amazing, wonderful people have been in there so
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Speaker 2: many times and I love it. What you don't want
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Speaker 2: to do is be in a rush when you stop
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Speaker 2: into Amy's are More.
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Speaker 4: It's a big store.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big store. You need to allow yourself
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Speaker 2: some time to browse around. There's something for everybody. What
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Speaker 2: you're doing in our community with this program is so important,
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Speaker 2: it's so wonderful. Well, we'll take this episode, We'll share it,
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Speaker 2: We'll spread it as much as we can. I'll get
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Speaker 2: you back on the air here anytime that you want
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Speaker 2: if we need you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty soon. We got to do our yeah Christmas
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Speaker 4: PJ event.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is that happening.
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Speaker 4: I'm hoping.
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Speaker 3: So are you willing if people bought, have people, if
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Speaker 3: people sign up to sponsor to get you out there
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Speaker 3: in your Christmas onesie?
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Speaker 4: Are you willing to do it again?
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Speaker 2: I love doing that last I did it last year
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Speaker 2: with your husband.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It was a great fundraiser. It's really fun.
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Speaker 3: It's you get out on main Street. If you got
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Speaker 3: anybody out there that you want to get out on
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Speaker 3: main Street and a Christmas onesie, Yeah, Like all you
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Speaker 3: got to do is say okay, I'm going to donate
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Speaker 3: to Amy's Armor, and you get the Onesie forum and
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Speaker 3: out there they.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, do it as a group.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Last year we had four or five of us out there.
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Speaker 4: It was super fun.
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Speaker 2: I loved it. It wins the date on that.
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Speaker 3: We usually do it the week before Christmas, weather kind
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Speaker 3: of contingent. We kind of play it by year. We
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Speaker 3: don't want to be out there in the freezing cold
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Speaker 3: in there little tights that you were.
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Speaker 2: It is. It is a day, it is a couple
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Speaker 2: of days before Christmas, so it will be a little chilly.
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Speaker 2: And what you're going to do, what you have done
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Speaker 2: in the past, and what you're going to do again
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Speaker 2: this year with with Night to Shine is just so awesome.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a great event. If people have not.
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Speaker 3: Participated in volunteering for that before, it would be great
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Speaker 3: to get involved. That's done through the Faith.
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Speaker 4: Community Church and I think that's.
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Speaker 3: FCC dot org. But yes, it is okay good, but
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Speaker 3: they always need volunteers for that. And Amy's Armor is
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Speaker 3: just blessed to be able to help the honored as
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Speaker 3: to find their prauma tire. And if they don't have
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Speaker 3: the funding for that, we generally have community members who
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Speaker 3: contribute to that and we do pay it forwards for
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Speaker 3: that population for that event, and then what the community
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Speaker 3: doesn't do, we'll.
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Speaker 2: Cover to make sure that everybody is dressed right for
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Speaker 2: that event, no matter what.
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Speaker 4: Night to Shine, long night to Shine.
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Speaker 2: Love it so so much.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great event.
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Speaker 2: I will listen. I'll promote anything that's going on that
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Speaker 2: you're doing. Okay, So if you have any reason for
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Speaker 2: taking advantage of these microphones, they're all yours. Absolutely, Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter if it's by phone or you come in here.
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Speaker 2: You've got a couch, it's always ready for you. Right.
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Speaker 4: Maybe it's someone of my volunteers.
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Speaker 2: In next time, anytime, I would love it.
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Speaker 4: Get somebody else, it'd be great.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in a window. A cad.
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