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Talk Line: President of Goodfellows of Lee County Clara Harris · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 1: January the thirtieth, the year is twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of talk Line here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five to one WYAX,
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  Speaker 1: and good morning. I'm Steve Marco. Time to touch base.
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  Speaker 1: And we've been doing this since I think August of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, maybe even further back than that that
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  Speaker 1: we've been touching base with this organization preparing for their
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  Speaker 1: annual drive, following through on information every month through the
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  Speaker 1: holidays with Goodfellows of Lee County. Of course, the drive
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  Speaker 1: culminated in December with their holiday giveaway in early December,
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  Speaker 1: but there is information still coming our way from Goodfellows
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  Speaker 1: of Lee County. So we have the president of Goodfellows
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  Speaker 1: of Lee County on board with us for another session
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  Speaker 1: of talk Line, this for January of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So we say happy New.
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  Speaker 2: Year, Happy new Year to all of you and you
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  Speaker 2: Steve to.
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  Speaker 1: Clara Harris here at AM fourteen sixteen, Good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: I hope, well, thank you, thank you. What a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit, but you know what, We're all here.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's important.
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  Speaker 1: And we're supposed to be record breaking as far as
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  Speaker 1: temperatures are concerned today. I am not complaining at all
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  Speaker 1: that is happening. I mean, we're into a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: pattern of weather. But we seem to be fortunate here
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  Speaker 1: in our upper Midwest and especially here in nouald and
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  Speaker 1: Illinois with all of the great weather coming our way.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks to continue at least as we move
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  Speaker 1: into February. So let's not talk about the way.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it stays for our February eighth event.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. That's and that's that's exactly why we
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  Speaker 1: have Claire on board. There is an event coming up
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  Speaker 1: through Goodfellows of Lee County that we want to take
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  Speaker 1: the wraps off of, so to speak, and talk to
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  Speaker 1: Claire about today here at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety
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  Speaker 1: five one. And that is your activity that is taking
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  Speaker 1: place next week. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. Well,
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  Speaker 1: so that's important that we have, you know, a participation
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  Speaker 1: still had Good Fellows of Lee County preparing for your event.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, let's kind of tail back though. I
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  Speaker 1: want to learn about, you know, the activities that took
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  Speaker 1: place during December and kind of rehash and you know,
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  Speaker 1: go over you said was a very successful.
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  Speaker 2: It was very successful, Steve. We had one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty eight families go through the building, and then there
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  Speaker 2: were families that were taken by shop of the cops,
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  Speaker 2: shop of the sheriff, Sister City, Shamrock Club, some churches
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  Speaker 2: took families' names also, so very successful. And since that time,
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  Speaker 2: we've had some emergency situations, you know, fires and families
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  Speaker 2: that unfortunately lost the head of that family. The children
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  Speaker 2: were taken in foster care, but they needed clothes and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So we've been helping out in a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 2: So we're very grateful for again the public. Without that
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  Speaker 2: support of everyone in Lee County, we would not have
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  Speaker 2: the doors open. So thank you everyone that feels, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's important to take care of one another as God
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  Speaker 2: has told us. Thank you for reaching out and making
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  Speaker 2: sure that we're always meeting the needs of people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, as we end one drive, obviously the one
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four, I'm sure that you're probably thinking
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  Speaker 1: without i mean, let's not look ahead to this activity
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  Speaker 1: coming up that you want to talk about. But just
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  Speaker 1: in general. You're probably thinking, you know, preparing for next year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do that right away? Or oh no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do take time off? Or how does that work?
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  Speaker 2: That is funny. It's almost like you looked over my
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  Speaker 2: shoulder this morning. I have I always start a brand
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  Speaker 2: new notebook twenty twenty five. I already have all the
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  Speaker 2: locations set up for us to sell our raffle tickets.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have our yearly raffle from June first through July
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth. Okay, we will have our cookout with Oliver's.
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  Speaker 2: There's none left everybody. We barely got in and we
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  Speaker 2: called on the third of January for a date. So
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  Speaker 2: July twenty sixth we'll have that over at Oliver's. That's
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  Speaker 2: where we'll pull our raffle winning tickets. The four very
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  Speaker 2: excited about that. We have lots of people that are
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  Speaker 2: on board to help us with that. I've even had
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  Speaker 2: people that came and helped us during December to you know,
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  Speaker 2: set up and they're like, can we come and help you?
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  Speaker 2: Even with the February eighth activity. So I've added to
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  Speaker 2: my forty some people in that notebook that volunteer every
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday Wednesday during our April through October taking in donation time.
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  Speaker 2: So very excited about that. We always, you know, have
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  Speaker 2: lots of people that want to come on board and
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  Speaker 2: we want to make sure that we get them in there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely because it seems like the need kind of grows,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It does it does? I know that everybody will be
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  Speaker 2: excited about the February eighth giveaway, Yes, and that will
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  Speaker 2: be from it's a Saturday everyone. It starts at nine
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  Speaker 2: o'clock in goes till two. We're doing something different this
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  Speaker 2: year because our building is small in size, so that
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  Speaker 2: everybody has breathing room when they get in there. We're
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  Speaker 2: doing it twenty at a time into the building. We're
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  Speaker 2: asking that you don't bring children, but if you do,
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  Speaker 2: remember they're going to get a number. So yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get twenty minutes to shop. You'll ask
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  Speaker 2: to be leave the building. The next twenty will come
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  Speaker 2: on in. If you want to go back in, you
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  Speaker 2: can't get At the back of the line. We have
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  Speaker 2: everything that was gently used from last year twenty four
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  Speaker 2: out there on racks, ready to go, items on tables
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  Speaker 2: and shelving and stuff that are going to be for
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  Speaker 2: the giveaway. There's no limit. Somebody says, is there a
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  Speaker 2: limit of ten? No, you can whatever you can get
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  Speaker 2: in twenty minutes is what you get. No limit on
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  Speaker 2: what you can take. You have it set up and
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  Speaker 2: they'll hear that on that morning. But just food for thought,
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  Speaker 2: because if you've been there before, when you enter the building,
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  Speaker 2: everything on the left side, as you're going for, will
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  Speaker 2: be women's clothing and items. Over there through the center,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have any gently used and that winter
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  Speaker 2: clothing or coats. And then at the very end of
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  Speaker 2: that wreck all the girls stuff that means, you know,
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  Speaker 2: younger than junior size. And then on the left or
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  Speaker 2: the right side, we're going to have men and boys stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So and like I said, we'll have shelving and tables
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  Speaker 2: and stuff set up with all sorts of we've got
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  Speaker 2: you know, dishes and pots and pans and blankets and
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of nicknacky stuff that you know, you see it.
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  Speaker 2: It's something you may have wanted always and it's sitting there,
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  Speaker 2: so it's yours, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the premise is you take twenty people.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, twenty people at a time and.
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  Speaker 1: For twenty minutes is twenty for twenty into the good
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  Speaker 1: Fellow's location in Southwest Dixon and they get their opportunity
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  Speaker 1: then to walk through the store, so to speak, and
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  Speaker 1: pick up. This is just a free pickup, is that
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  Speaker 1: right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, everything is freest if we do have a bin
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  Speaker 2: full of Walmart bags, and we do have some smaller
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  Speaker 2: boxes sitting there because some of the items they're going
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  Speaker 2: to want a box to put it in, so that
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  Speaker 2: stuff will be right inside the door. But if you
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  Speaker 2: have bags or whatever, bring it with you. Because we're
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  Speaker 2: not supplying large garbage bags. We do have people that
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  Speaker 2: come through and sometimes they shop for their neighbor kids
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  Speaker 2: and they need a bigger bag. If they need that,
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  Speaker 2: they need to bring the bags with them. Okay, February
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  Speaker 2: the eighth, February eighth, nine o'clock Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Saturday, February the eighth, Saturday, nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: until two o'clock. Okay, nine until two at the Goodfellow's
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  Speaker 1: location located at the corner of Seventh and Lincoln. That
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  Speaker 1: is the Goodfellow's location. Now, and again this is a
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  Speaker 1: free shopping experience for the public to be involved. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how can you sign up?
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  Speaker 2: Is you do not need to sign up. You just
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  Speaker 2: come you get in, Okay, I'm sure that I'll have
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  Speaker 2: people standing in line. Last year, that's how it was,
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  Speaker 2: there was probably forty to sixty standing out there. Please
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  Speaker 2: remember the reason I'm doing numbers also is because if
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  Speaker 2: it is brisk that day, you're not going to want
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  Speaker 2: to stand outside. You can get in your cars, and
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  Speaker 2: when it's almost time for you to come in, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to come out and I'm going to wave my
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  Speaker 2: hand and say time to get in line, and then
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  Speaker 2: the twenty that are in there will be asked to bate,
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  Speaker 2: you know, leave the building, and the next twenty will
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  Speaker 2: come in. Now, when I said nine to two, that's accurate,
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  Speaker 2: But that two o'clock, if there's someone in line and
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  Speaker 2: they're coming in at too, it's going to be two
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  Speaker 2: twenty two thirty when they exit the building. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't want anybody to think if you show up at
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  Speaker 2: two o'clock, you're not getting to go in.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you will, okay, very good. So again again it's
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  Speaker 1: a free shopping opportunity. Again, this is remnants of the drive.
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  Speaker 1: This is all what was not taken during the actual
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  Speaker 1: drive during the holidays is out on the tables now
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  Speaker 1: available for anybody to come by, stop by and pick up.
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  Speaker 1: And as Claire mentioned, there are goods from all over me. Clothing, kitchen, goods,
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  Speaker 1: you name it, they you've got it, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, lamps, all sorts of goodies okay.
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  Speaker 1: And there's no sign up, no preregistration. Just show up
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  Speaker 1: at the Goodfellow's location in Southwest Dixon starting at nine
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  Speaker 1: o'clock on February the eighth, and again shop for that
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  Speaker 1: twenty minute period and pick up as much as you
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  Speaker 1: can and hopefully, well it kind of clears the way.
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  Speaker 1: Right then this will over the way for the next
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  Speaker 1: next drive to start.
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  Speaker 2: It will it will? I do want to stress, please
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  Speaker 2: don't bring kids. It'll halter, it'll halt. You look successfully
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  Speaker 2: for that twenty minutes because you'll be distracted. So if
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  Speaker 2: you do bring them, they'll remember they're getting a number.
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of is a reminder that way. And
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  Speaker 2: I want everyone to realize there's lots in that building.
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  Speaker 2: Please be courteous and kind to one another. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to see someone grabbing out of someone's hands because
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  Speaker 2: there's so much there. Sure, okay, you'll find something, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, If so if you're in need of goods and items, again,
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  Speaker 1: this is the opportunity, and Goodfellows gives you this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: a week from tomorrow, excuse me, a week from Saturday
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  Speaker 1: at the good Fellow's location again from nine until two
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  Speaker 1: no sign up. As Clara talked about earlier, the start
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  Speaker 1: of the preparations for the next drive, and as Clara mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: April through June. Then again ducks are put in line,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get going with the raffle, and you
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  Speaker 1: get going with the cookout, and it all leads up
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  Speaker 1: to again the same procedure that you follow every year.
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  Speaker 2: Then we start taking donations though in April until October,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of October, because November and December are
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  Speaker 2: set up and get ready for our twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: drive and giveaway. But the barrels and tags and everything
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  Speaker 2: will be out there like they always are at some
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  Speaker 2: point during the year. I can't again Steve's dress. The
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  Speaker 2: generous people in Lee County. We just saw so much
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  Speaker 2: come in and because of that, the children received three
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  Speaker 2: gifts from A section and three from B section. Normally
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  Speaker 2: our giveaway is only two and two, which is four,
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  Speaker 2: but because of that phenomenal gifting. There were six, so
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  Speaker 2: they were I'm sure they were very excited at Christmas morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we've gotten many cards thanking the agency
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  Speaker 2: for what we do. We just want people to remember
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't happen without them helping. We're just the person
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  Speaker 2: in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Goodfellows of Lee County, established way back when.
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  Speaker 2: With this draw this is one hundred and thirteen years.
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  Speaker 1: To say, one hundred and thirteenth Goodfellows Driver is about
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  Speaker 1: ready to get underway, and of course we'll be following
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  Speaker 1: it here at a fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one.
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  Speaker 1: But we did want to stress the open time from
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  Speaker 1: nine until two on February the eighth, that the Goodfellow's
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  Speaker 1: location will be giving out those goods and items for
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  Speaker 1: free again to those that wish to drop by and
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  Speaker 1: make their selections and again enjoy a great day of shopping.
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  Speaker 2: We get some, okay, So Steve, I do want to
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  Speaker 2: let the public know I'm going to try something new
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  Speaker 2: this year. Sometimes our clients have i mean, life is busy,
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  Speaker 2: they've got jobs, they got kids, you know, and so
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  Speaker 2: this year we're doing something a little different to help
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  Speaker 2: them get those applications in by that first deadline, so
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  Speaker 2: they're guaranteed that food thought you're from us or getting
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  Speaker 2: a food basket from my debt. I am going to
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  Speaker 2: start in September, right after September first, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go to each school location in the different towns
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to be set up there from the
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  Speaker 2: start of the school day till the end of the
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  Speaker 2: school day. They can bring their paperwork and anyone that's
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  Speaker 2: ever applied with us will know what they need. Bring
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  Speaker 2: it with them. We'll get them signed up on the
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  Speaker 2: spot and then they don't have to worry. They know
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  Speaker 2: they're in and we will give them an appointment in November.
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  Speaker 2: I know that seems like a long time, but if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have it in by October thirty first, then
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  Speaker 2: your kiddos don't get a chance for the shopping trips
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  Speaker 2: with the different law enforcements. So we do want that
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  Speaker 2: to happen, and I'm hoping that will help. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to try and set up at senior centers also, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, they don't always get those applications in, but
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  Speaker 2: if I'm there to remind them, hey, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, then they will go ahead and get those
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  Speaker 2: applications filled out and we'll hopefully have more people that
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  Speaker 2: will receive in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's our goal obviously, And we always seem
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  Speaker 1: to tweak the year. Oh yeah, we tweak it, you
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  Speaker 1: know every year. There's always something to tweak every year.
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  Speaker 1: So here's your tweak for twenty twenty five. It is.
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  Speaker 1: And again we'll continue discussing things with Clara and our
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  Speaker 1: good friends from Goodfellows of Lee County as we work
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  Speaker 1: our way through twenty twenty five into our next holiday season.
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  Speaker 1: But again punctuate February the eighth friends go to Good
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  Speaker 1: Fellows of Lee County location at the corner of Seventh
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  Speaker 1: and Lincoln Avenue in Dixon for that giveaway that is
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  Speaker 1: being planned from nine until two. No preregistration, just stop by,
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  Speaker 1: pick up what you need, and again hopefully you'll find
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  Speaker 1: what you need at that location on that Saturday. Pleasure
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  Speaker 1: having you on board.
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  Speaker 2: Map, Thanks well, thank you so much, and thank you
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  Speaker 2: again Steve for having us always.
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  Speaker 1: We always appreciate a visit from Goodfellows of Lee County
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  Speaker 1: following their drive every year right here on w accent.
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  Speaker 1: Take care you too, Clara Harris, our President of Goodfellows
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  Speaker 1: of Lee County, Our guest today on wy ExM. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to press Next with Timley monnay Foreshaw Local News.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Tim Lee