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Talk Line: Andy Jackson shares the latest news from Sinnissippi Centers · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Hey, there's Valley. You're with the Waking Crew here on
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixty n FM ninety five one WI xcent.
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  Speaker 1: It's eight fifteen on your Friday morning, and that means
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  Speaker 1: it's time for talk line and I'm joining the booth
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  Speaker 1: once again by my good friend Andy Jackson from Sinnesippi Center. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Good? Confused? There's this white stuff falling and I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I know I had my grill out. Now it's going
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  Speaker 1: to get an unofficial shower. What the heck's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: And then I think we're back up to like forty
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  Speaker 1: five by the middle of age.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the old adage if you don't like the weather
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  Speaker 2: in Illinois waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it's it's proven, it said, it's okay. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad it ain't going to be too much. Well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get behind that and depressing topic and talk about a
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  Speaker 1: link between depression and heart disease that you wanted to share.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. February, as I think everybody knows, is American Heart Month,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of deserved attention focused on prevention
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  Speaker 2: of heart disease and the American heart association does a
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  Speaker 2: great job at that, but may not be as well
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  Speaker 2: known as the link between heart disease and depression as well,
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  Speaker 2: And so we wanted to talk about that during American
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  Speaker 2: Heart Month. And you know, both of those diseases are
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  Speaker 2: chronic diseases, depression and heart disease, and they're among you know,
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  Speaker 2: the most disabling the diseases we face, and they're both
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  Speaker 2: kind of widespread to a degree, at least among the
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  Speaker 2: general populations. So the numbers are kind of significant on
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  Speaker 2: both of those, both of those diseases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I can see where this would make sense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're depressed, that's weighing on you mentally,
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  Speaker 1: which is a form of stress, which is not good.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people can sometimes think stress
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  Speaker 1: has got to be either physical stress or like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, my world is ending kind of thing. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not always the case.
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  Speaker 2: No, But as you say, they are connected, and as
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  Speaker 2: I said, they are connected. But some numbers. Twenty to
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent of all cardiac patients have depression, so that
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  Speaker 2: is a significivicant percentage. And you alluded to some of
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  Speaker 2: this individuals diagnosed with depression or a higher risk for
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  Speaker 2: developing heart disease. We understand now that link better than
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  Speaker 2: say maybe even five years ago. Possibly depression trigger stress,
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  Speaker 2: which I think you just said that raises your blood
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  Speaker 2: pressure and heart rate. That potentially is damaging to your
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  Speaker 2: blood vessels, your heart function. It increases inflammation, that's a
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  Speaker 2: risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It affects the nervous system,
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  Speaker 2: the blood platelets again, inflammation, all of which impact heart health.
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  Speaker 2: People with depression also have a stronger stress response. You
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  Speaker 2: said that releasing higher levels of cortisol, which is also
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  Speaker 2: possibly going to damage the heart. So that is kind
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  Speaker 2: of the connection between depression and heart disease. Now it
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  Speaker 2: now sounds like that's kind of a normal thing, don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about it. That's not what we're saying, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's what anybody was thinking anyway, But
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  Speaker 2: just in case, we shouldn't think of depression as a
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  Speaker 2: no normal part of heart disease. It needs to be
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  Speaker 2: treated just like the heart disease. Both of the both
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  Speaker 2: of those diseases need to be treated and require professional attention.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to make sure we put a emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I mean I know there are some you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's some simple things you can do to kind of
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  Speaker 1: help with your stress. But I agree, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: depression is something that you should treat lightly. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of generations, and you know, I may
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  Speaker 1: have even been part of the last one where they
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  Speaker 1: it was more of a you know, get over it,
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  Speaker 1: suck it up kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Its all in your head. Yeah yeah, well, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a brain disease. That kind of is, But that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: what was meant by by that phrase at the time
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  Speaker 2: that people use it's all in your head.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, yeah, you know, seek help. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a professional is going to do better than anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't ask your buddy what to do with a
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  Speaker 1: broken bone, You should probably be asking the professional what
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  Speaker 1: to do for your mental health.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely have a buddy that I wouldn't ask to
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  Speaker 2: do with what to do with a broken bone.
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  Speaker 1: He probably.
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  Speaker 2: We may all have that friend. Oh my goodness, just
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  Speaker 2: use duct tape.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be fine, it right, duct tape fixed everything back
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  Speaker 1: there a little bit in it or WD forty's and
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  Speaker 1: some robtustin there. You go. You didn't even have to
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  Speaker 1: drink it. You could just rub it on the bone.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, you guys were offering up some some scholarships.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Sinissippi Centers. This is year three. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: maybe four, the way time is flying. I think this
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  Speaker 2: is the third year though, that we've offered up to
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  Speaker 2: four one thousand dollars scholarships for individuals seeking a career
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  Speaker 2: in the human services field. Information has been shared a
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  Speaker 2: while back now, beginning of the year January, first part
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  Speaker 2: of January, we shared information with high school counselors and
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  Speaker 2: other high school staff in the Mississippi Center service area.
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  Speaker 2: It's also online and by the way, that service area
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  Speaker 2: encompasses Carol Lee, Ogl Whiteside and Stevenson County's information is
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  Speaker 2: available on our website. You go to the homepage, click careers,
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  Speaker 2: and then the scholarship drop down there and it includes
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  Speaker 2: an application that you can download and fill out. And
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  Speaker 2: so the deadline is approaching now in mid March. So
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  Speaker 2: if this sounds interesting to you or your student, please
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  Speaker 2: pass that along and so that they can get that
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  Speaker 2: in in time.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, don't wait on that. What are some of the
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  Speaker 1: requirements they need to meet?
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  Speaker 2: Sure Via twenty twenty six graduating Northwest Illinois area High
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  Speaker 2: School senior planned and enroll the beginning of this fall
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  Speaker 2: in a full time or part time so it could
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  Speaker 2: be part time course of study at an accredited two
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  Speaker 2: or four year university in Illinois declared major within that
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  Speaker 2: human services field. So those are their criteria. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to get by the way, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: get directly to that page, you can just go to
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  Speaker 2: sennesib dot org slash scholarships. That's kind of easy actually,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to do that, and you can get
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  Speaker 2: to that page, or you can call us at eight
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  Speaker 2: one five two eight four six six one one and
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  Speaker 2: ask for Administration Department and mention that you're interested in
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  Speaker 2: the Human Services scholarship program and you can get to
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  Speaker 2: talk to somebody about that.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Never a bad idea to get any
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, financial help you can, especially, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard from from many of kids, some of mine
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  Speaker 1: from time to time thinking about you know, becoming counselors
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  Speaker 1: or therapists and wanting to get in that field. This
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  Speaker 1: is you know, directly geared towards that. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: a bad time to jump on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great idea because we are in a professional
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  Speaker 2: shortage area in rural areas, and it's always seems too
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  Speaker 2: like the need for the services outweighs the resources that
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  Speaker 2: are there, and so it can be more difficult to
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  Speaker 2: hire in rural areas. This is one way of trying
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  Speaker 2: to make an impact on that, to try to help
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  Speaker 2: get some folks educated in the human services field and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully return to the area and then become a behavioral
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  Speaker 2: health care counselors, clinicians and that kind of thing to
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  Speaker 2: serve the local population.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's just it's just a wonderful idea, good initiative.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's from physical health or mental health.
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  Speaker 1: It you kind of hear that time and time again,
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  Speaker 1: having the shortages in these rural areas, and it often
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  Speaker 1: seems the best way to do it is to kind
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  Speaker 1: of help almost create your own pipeline, right rather, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if there's programs out there by the state
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  Speaker 1: or the federal government or whatnot, that's great, but usually
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  Speaker 1: in areas are size, it almost seems like you have
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  Speaker 1: better luck if you're creating your own answers.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Sure, it's one approach, and I think it can
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  Speaker 2: be effective. And that's why we're one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: why we do the scholarship program.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get out there apply for that before the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you want to share this morning, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: No, just we thank everybody for listening. And it's already February. Well, well,
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  Speaker 2: next month I can do a teaser for you. Give
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  Speaker 2: you what. Yes, next month we're going to start talking
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  Speaker 2: in earnest and you'll hear some commercials on the air
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  Speaker 2: about our second annual Gathering for Good fundraiser, which was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun last year. So our our sub
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  Speaker 2: theme for that or our theme for that, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you'd say, is a party like your mental health depends
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  Speaker 2: on it. So we had a great turnout last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be dueling pianos or dervs, dessert auction,
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  Speaker 2: silent auction, lots of fun and also a little tease.
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  Speaker 2: It is the kickoff to Sinnissippi Center's sixtieth anniversary year.
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  Speaker 2: It was May thirty first of nineteen sixty six that
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  Speaker 2: Sinesippi Centers came into being and shortly after started serving clients,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a period of back then. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the whole process was, but there was a
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  Speaker 2: period between when we were founded as an organization, and
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  Speaker 2: when we could get all licensed up in everything, I
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  Speaker 2: think to start serving clients. That was in early July
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  Speaker 2: of sixty six that we then began the serving clients.
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  Speaker 2: So it's our sixtieth anniversary year. We're going to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: it from May thirty first of sixty Well, this is
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  Speaker 2: a little early because this event is May sixteenth. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to kick it off a little early. But May
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  Speaker 2: thirty first, twenty twenty six through already twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: is kind of the time period that we're celebrating that
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  Speaker 2: sixtieth anniversary year.
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  Speaker 1: Super cool. That's an awesome milestone, especially in an area
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  Speaker 1: like ours. Like you said, dueling pianos. I just was
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  Speaker 1: at the Dixon's Dueling Piano Show, and so anybody who's
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  Speaker 1: who's ever not been to one of those, that's reason
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  Speaker 1: enough to them. At ten.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun, it really is. This is
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  Speaker 2: Howl to Go out of Chicago. Okay, they are all
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  Speaker 2: over the country. They have a fixed place where they
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  Speaker 2: perform how to the how at the Moon is where
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  Speaker 2: they are in Chicago. Their traveling group is called how
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  Speaker 2: to Go, which kind of makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's stuck go, No, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to have them in for the second time,
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  Speaker 2: and they're fantastic and so a lot of fun. They
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  Speaker 2: do a great job and everybody had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I can't recommend that kind of stuff more. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking with you before we were on the
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  Speaker 1: air about live entertainment. I'm a big fan of that,
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  Speaker 1: but these these shows are super cool. Guys will like it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to think of like, oh, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: of a piano fan. Don't worry about that. You're you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely gonna love it. So well, Andy, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: sharing this news and we look forward to those future updates.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you for teasing the audience. And yes it's
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  Speaker 1: a tease you're not gonna get anymore. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to come tune back.
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  Speaker 2: In next month.
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  Speaker 1: Andy, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks