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  Speaker 1: Good friends from Shaw Local News. It's time to get
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  Speaker 1: an update of what is happening across our northern area
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  Speaker 1: with our representatives from Shaw Local News. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, our news anchor this morning is line with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning. Hear at W. Pully double duty is
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  Speaker 1: the managing editor of the Dixon Telegraph. Sterlink is at
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  Speaker 1: Sharleen Blima. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, nice to see you.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, she's joined as always by Brandon Clark, a
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  Speaker 1: reporter from Shaw Local News. Good morning, sir, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: and we have some very interesting news items that we
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  Speaker 1: want to cover today with our good friends from Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local and uh, we're going to start by going to Morrison.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So the city of Morrison recently donated
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  Speaker 3: five thousand dollars to Soft Valley Community College's Impact Program.
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  Speaker 3: I know we've talked about that before, but for anybody
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  Speaker 3: who's not aware, that program provides eligible high school students
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  Speaker 3: to earn up to three years of tuition and fees
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  Speaker 3: at SAW for doing community service hours at local organizations
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  Speaker 3: you know, around the area. So that was part of
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  Speaker 3: the Mustang Endowment challenge to help you know, fund Morrison
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  Speaker 3: the area, you know, high school students, hopefully in perpetuity
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  Speaker 3: as they're moving towards towards their goal. Earlier this year,
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  Speaker 3: Polo High School also had become fully funded through through
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  Speaker 3: the program through their their Own Challenge, as well as
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  Speaker 3: Millgeville and Chadwick School District. I want to say that
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  Speaker 3: was last year. So this is I mean, I'm always
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  Speaker 3: excited to talk about this. I wish this had been around,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when when I was a kid. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: being able to say that you've got, you know, three
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  Speaker 3: years of college paid for before you cross the high
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  Speaker 3: school stage is an amazing opportunity and I always encourage
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  Speaker 3: parents to talk to their kids about it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely it starts at that middle school age. When a
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  Speaker 1: middle schooler is going into high school. It's from eighth
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  Speaker 1: grade to freshmen, right that this is the this is
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  Speaker 1: the area that you need to again sign up for
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  Speaker 1: the Impact program. That is the target area for you
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  Speaker 1: to sign up for the Impact Program. But it's wonderful
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  Speaker 1: that Morrison again joints kind of the communities that are
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  Speaker 1: jumping in, you know, to the Impact Program.
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  Speaker 2: My son's a graduate, well a great college for him.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely great start and again with free to.
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  Speaker 2: Free toish what is this is.
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  Speaker 1: By by performing community services, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: you know, Impact students enjoy doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they do, they really do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're part of community events, they're they're building connections and
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  Speaker 3: networks with people already in the area. So when they're
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're down to college, they already know some
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  Speaker 3: of these places and some of them going to work
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  Speaker 3: for them.
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  Speaker 1: A great jump start too, you know, to those that
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  Speaker 1: are interesting and getting more involved in the community.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Moving ahead. So again Impact program news from Morrison that
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  Speaker 1: again is reported to Brandon reports to us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna stay with Sock Valley Community College.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're going to be dedicating their basketball court
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  Speaker 3: to their longtime athletic director and men's basketball coach Russ
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  Speaker 3: Damhoff on Saturday, November first. Now that ceremony is going
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  Speaker 3: to take place at three pm in their gym, right
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  Speaker 3: with the Skyhawk's first home game of the season. That
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  Speaker 3: event is open to the public, So anybody who's not
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  Speaker 3: familiar with dam Hoff, because we have reported on him
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  Speaker 3: over the years. He retired in twenty seventeen after you know,
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  Speaker 3: just over thirty years with the college, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he had quite an impressive record for you did during
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  Speaker 3: that time five hundred and ninety two wins, three hundred
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  Speaker 3: ninety two losses. So he led the team to multiple
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  Speaker 3: conference titles, regional championships, and since retiring, he just couldn't
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  Speaker 3: put the whistle down and stayed as an assistant coach.
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  Speaker 3: So during that time he helped expand the athletic department,
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  Speaker 3: adding new sports programs basketball, softball, and you know, continuing them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, earning top honors in that program. And so
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  Speaker 3: it's just a great way to kind of honor his
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  Speaker 3: legacy and his commitment to sports in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely naming the court, they're going to name the court
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  Speaker 1: after again coach dam Hoff and his effort at Stock
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  Speaker 1: Valley Community College. So congratulations on that accolade, good guy
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  Speaker 1: for the community to Russ Damhoff again being praised from
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  Speaker 1: scoc Valley Community College. Going to turn our attention now
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  Speaker 1: to elections.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, In fact, Brandon just did an interview. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to edit that story about go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: talk to them about Dogada, the new candidate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Adam Delgado, new Democratic candidate. He's also a Sterling
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  Speaker 3: High School lum. He announced he's running for US Senate
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  Speaker 3: in Illinois. He's a military veteran formal federal agent with
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  Speaker 3: the ATF, and he's running on a platform focused on
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  Speaker 3: protecting veterans benefits, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid from budget cuts.
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  Speaker 3: I could go on, probably longer than we have time
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  Speaker 3: in the program. Steve so read that story. It's a
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  Speaker 3: long one, but for the short of it, he's calling
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  Speaker 3: for stronger government accountability, including some what might call wild ideas,
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  Speaker 3: but mandatory polygraph testing for top officials Supreme crep right
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  Speaker 3: right right. Other than that's something we all want, it
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  Speaker 3: would take a constitutional amendment at the least, but a
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  Speaker 3: very nice idea Supreme Court ethics reform and whistle blower protecttions,
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  Speaker 3: as he's also had some first hand experience, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being being a whistleblower and knowing what kind of pressure
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  Speaker 3: and criticisms come with that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, And obviously Dick Durban seat, is this
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about here?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So again that will be coming up in our next cycle,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, right, Yeah, yeah, it's like.
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  Speaker 2: His story is ready to go to edit. That's why
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  Speaker 2: she took me off. Guards of those things you're staying there.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, and you know, we're starting to see more activity,
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  Speaker 2: people saying I'm going to run for this, so expecting
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  Speaker 2: update two about where we are with timelines. We know
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  Speaker 2: that we'll have the primary election which will be March seventeenth.
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  Speaker 2: General election will be November three of next year. But
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  Speaker 2: we're moving toward that. People are kind of throwing their
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  Speaker 2: hat in the ring, and we'll have some contest too.
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  Speaker 2: It won't at this point, it won't be just of hey,
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  Speaker 2: we've got one candidate who's an incumbent. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: we'll have challenges that when you see him at the
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  Speaker 2: primary level, you know that you'll see a general election
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  Speaker 2: usually a general election contest also if somebody doesn't drop.
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  Speaker 1: Out, right, right, So we are seeing more interest. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's good, that's good. I think it's good. You know
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  Speaker 1: that we see interest of those wanting to seek office
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  Speaker 1: and you know, making their voices.
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  Speaker 2: Heard right and choice for the voter at the boot.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so. Again the latest Brandon interviews this candidate
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  Speaker 1: for Senator Durban seat, and again we'll have that from
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  Speaker 1: Shall Local News to share with us here at w YX.
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  Speaker 1: And a couple of activities coming up. Morrison back to
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  Speaker 1: Morrison again. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know this, Yeah, yeah, you know. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about festivals, you know, sometimes have smaller festivals depending
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  Speaker 2: that are extremely local paint. The town has really grown
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  Speaker 2: over the years. I think the first one. We're at
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  Speaker 2: the twenty ninth year this year for that and people
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  Speaker 2: come from all over little squares drawing on the streets
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes it's speaking of your candidates for because they
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  Speaker 2: know there's people there, entertainment that they have. They have
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  Speaker 2: vendors throughout the event. A mariachi band that shows up
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  Speaker 2: every year, I think since it began, I see the
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  Speaker 2: same mariachi band, which is fun and yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: day long event where people actually go out on the
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  Speaker 2: streets they paint the squares. The next day the streets
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  Speaker 2: are blocked off because the artwork draws a crowd people
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  Speaker 2: who want to walk all those blocks in front and
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  Speaker 2: behind we call that backstreet back behind our main street
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  Speaker 2: area to see what that work is. And it will
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  Speaker 2: stay interestingly because it's painted for several months, provided we
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  Speaker 2: don't get a ton of rain right after ye and
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  Speaker 2: it's that artwork remains. So that'll be coming up on
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  Speaker 2: the twentieth every year they have a theme. I think
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  Speaker 2: the theme this year has to do.
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  Speaker 3: With a cow right pain till the cows come home
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  Speaker 3: exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And so they have t shirts that people can buy,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a theme.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a great time. I've still got a picture.
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  Speaker 3: My oldest son is twenty two, and I've got a
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  Speaker 3: picture of him when he's little, painting his square excellently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have that too with my oldest he was
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  Speaker 2: I think three or four. We painted a ship, a
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  Speaker 2: pirate ship. And we're so young that I'm sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the street painting and I would never do that today.
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  Speaker 2: But the memories you build are just amazing with something
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  Speaker 2: like this.
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  Speaker 1: So September twentieth and also on the twentieth there's something
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  Speaker 1: else going Cops and Bombers and.
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  Speaker 2: Dixon nineteenth Annual Cops and Bombers Fishing Derby. So that's
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  Speaker 2: a great community event coming up this weekend. We've got
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  Speaker 2: Fiesta Dave. We got the parade right right, so we've
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  Speaker 2: got to put together our story in that parade. We're oute.
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  Speaker 2: I got a press release about street closures and how
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  Speaker 2: that's affected in those areas. Also, which town does it
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  Speaker 2: start in? Where's the parade start. Where's it end? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And that's a great parade happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's across our again, Northern Illinois area. Reported by Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local this morning. We're going to shift our attention back
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  Speaker 1: to Brandon for a minute because you wanted an interesting
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  Speaker 1: story you're developing about foster cares.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a really interesting and kind of heartwarming program. So
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  Speaker 3: when kids are taken in to foster care, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times it's under emergency circumstances. They're asked to grab
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  Speaker 3: what they can, often ending up in a new home
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  Speaker 3: or building with nothing but a few items in a
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  Speaker 3: black garbage bag. And so Liz Stillo is a social worker.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she's been working in that system for decades,
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  Speaker 3: and you know she took some time to take a
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  Speaker 3: step back, but still wanted to stay involved and she thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's just something better we can be doing
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  Speaker 3: for these kids. So my Gear Outreach is a program
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  Speaker 3: that provides welcome boxes and first overnight bags for these kids.
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  Speaker 3: So it's everything from essentials like toilet trees, pajama socks,
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  Speaker 3: stuffed animals, you know, age appropriate toys, just to give
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  Speaker 3: these kids at you know, a little sense of something
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  Speaker 3: that's theirs, and to make that transition a little bit easier. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what's really cool is this program has been going on
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  Speaker 3: for ten years. It started in Clinton County, but it's
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  Speaker 3: actually expanded into nine other counties in Iowa and Illinois,
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  Speaker 3: including Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside. So this is something that
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  Speaker 3: people can go to her website they can donate directly
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  Speaker 3: for there. She's also looking for volunteers to help with
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  Speaker 3: fundraising or grant writing to hopefully expand this program out
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  Speaker 3: to other counties in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we'll look forward to that. That's really neat,
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  Speaker 1: a really neat story that Brandon has for us this
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  Speaker 1: morning concerning Yes, those kids are neat across our northern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois area, not just Lee County, but again those three
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  Speaker 1: counties here in our northern Illinois area plus others.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cooky County, Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And I can remember when that kind of originated, the
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  Speaker 2: community support that that backed her up behind there and
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  Speaker 2: swept it into Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: So awesome, nice, nice to see that developing and growing growing.
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  Speaker 1: And tomorrow's Patriots Day.
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  Speaker 2: September Anniversary, it's always solemn wherevery time we round in September.
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  Speaker 2: It becomes that you know, where were you when that happened?
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  Speaker 3: You were?
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  Speaker 2: Were you behind the desk here? You're pointing to.
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  Speaker 1: Your desk, Yeah, right here? And uh, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: we went into emergency mode for that day all day
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  Speaker 1: because we were we were covering, and we had the
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  Speaker 1: network all day long. I mean, we did not interrupt
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  Speaker 1: that what was happening across the entire country that day.
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  Speaker 1: We had coverage all day long of that event and
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  Speaker 1: even into the evening hours, and you know, possibly you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the next day we're trying to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the situation that occurred. And yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: where I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was on my second week, first week, second week
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  Speaker 2: of being news editor at the Herald. And what that
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  Speaker 2: meant was we had a universal copy desk, so we
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  Speaker 2: would switch duties at that time was who Who's laying
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  Speaker 2: out page one? And that happened to be my day.
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  Speaker 2: And we at that time, because we were an early
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  Speaker 2: afternoon paper, we would meet like at seven thirty in
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  Speaker 2: the morning and we would talk about what's on page
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  Speaker 2: one for tomorrow, so we would divvy up what was
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  Speaker 2: going where and my front page. The weird thing I
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  Speaker 2: remember about that day coming out of that meeting before
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  Speaker 2: all everything happened was we had a story there were
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  Speaker 2: cows that were running loose and Whiteside County. Now, why
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  Speaker 2: is that a big deal. It is if you're traveling
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  Speaker 2: and you've got loose cows and maybe it's night time.
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  Speaker 2: So we're letting readers know. So our whole front page
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  Speaker 2: were starting to build it and we're having advertising staff
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  Speaker 2: that are coming in saying, hey, there's something happening. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a TV in the newsroom at the time.
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  Speaker 2: We had ap trickle it in our transponder, and there's
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  Speaker 2: just a line saying, you know, a plane has gone
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  Speaker 2: into the World Trade Center, and then you could see
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  Speaker 2: the development's happening. So our front page just kept changing
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  Speaker 2: all morning. The towers even fell while we were still
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  Speaker 2: laying out, and you know, photos coming in and at
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  Speaker 2: the very top, because everything moved off of page one,
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  Speaker 2: there's just one little line that says Kyle is running loose,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, ky, I look at that today yet
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  Speaker 2: and I think to myself, wow, that day, how crazy
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  Speaker 2: that whole morning was in the newsroom and what ifs?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening? And it turned out the our photographer. His
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  Speaker 2: cousin was the pilot of flight ninety three. No, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and he found out about the loss of his cousin,
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  Speaker 2: Jason Dahl, while he was working in the newsroom. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there's always somehow you're connected to a story somewhere, and
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  Speaker 2: that was it was that connection. So terrible day.
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  Speaker 1: It's tomorrow and we again, yeah around they but the
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  Speaker 1: year twenty fifth anniversar will should be next year, next
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  Speaker 1: year of the tragedy on September of the eleventh, So
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  Speaker 1: we talk about that today here at w ACCENT. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: with that, we'll have to say so long to Charlene Bielman,
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  Speaker 1: who will be back in just a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: with News First. Brandon, We thank you so very much.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon will also be involved in the news First coverage
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  Speaker 1: right here on w ACCENT, but that takes care of
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  Speaker 1: our coverage today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Charlie Bielman. Brandon Clark from Shaw Local our
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  Speaker 1: guest today here at w ACCENT.
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