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  Speaker 1: Seventy three. We invite in our good friends from Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Local News for this period between now on the top
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  Speaker 1: of the hour to take a look at news and
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  Speaker 1: information across our Shock Valley area. The managing editor of
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  Speaker 1: the Dixon Telegraph in Sterling Gazette is live with us
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Charlene Beilamit joins us in the spotlight. How
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: And reporter Brandon Clark is also our visitor today here
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  Speaker 1: at w Mix and good morning, sir, good morning, Good
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  Speaker 1: to have you guys both with us. We've got again
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  Speaker 1: lots of interesting news highlights that we want to spotlight,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to go right to Sterling for the
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  Speaker 1: renaming or I should say not the renaming, but the
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  Speaker 1: naming right of their news area.
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  Speaker 3: Of the river front park that they've been working on.
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  Speaker 3: So the Sterling City Council voted last or not last
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  Speaker 3: night Monday to name the new park the Northwestern Steel
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  Speaker 3: and Wire Park, you know, appropriately named after those sites.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's finally nice to not as I'll be
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  Speaker 3: covering this, you know and for years to come the
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  Speaker 3: development of that area, to finally stop saying the city's
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  Speaker 3: yet to be named that park.
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  Speaker 1: They got an official name for it. Well, you and
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this last week. Yeah, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: talked about the actual park in the location of the park,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, right there center stage in downtown Stirling,
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  Speaker 1: in that area along the river right.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, behind the behind the mercantile. As we knew it
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  Speaker 3: will stop asking you how to read a cop Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: see which buildings are near.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but neat additions going in, really neat this
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we're hoping we're going to get that ice
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  Speaker 3: skating rink you know, this winter. They also approved away
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  Speaker 3: the bidding process to purchase that ice equipment. It's got
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  Speaker 3: a sixteen to twenty week lead time, so they're doing
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  Speaker 3: everything they can do to rush to get what they
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  Speaker 3: can in so that people can use that. The final
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  Speaker 3: cement pourings for the splash pad got pored, so they
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  Speaker 3: are going to be looking to move ahead to a
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  Speaker 3: playground installation equipment. That's still a couple of weeks out,
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  Speaker 3: but I think we it's crossing fingers, look like we
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  Speaker 3: should at least get to see some kids playing on
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  Speaker 3: that this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Well, and what I understand with that ice skating
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  Speaker 1: rink is that you don't need a cold day to make.
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  Speaker 1: Evidently they've got the machinery that's going to actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a hockey rink, I guess right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, they're gonn they're gonna have the same bony.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a ribbon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, which I think for some people to
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  Speaker 3: recognize ice skating rinks, that's what I call it. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, an ice ribbon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So I don't know how that how that looks.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a like a round rink or do we know?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a round rink. They ive seen some schematics
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  Speaker 3: of that and it's a nice circular rink. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to it's a group out of Canada, I want
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  Speaker 3: to say, is where they're getting the uh, the equipment from.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it helps freeze everything over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you won't need it, you don't. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: a sub zero day. You'll need a cold day, but
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  Speaker 1: you won't need a sub you know, zero day. Like
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  Speaker 1: a way to and see it with the Dixon rink,
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  Speaker 1: you can you can just you know, create your.
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  Speaker 2: Own exactly, because that's the thing. One hundred degrees it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be here in a couple days. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: nice Yeah right, so, uh like that's what we would see.
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  Speaker 2: Some of our local communities will put up ice rinks,
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  Speaker 2: but then you limited to obviously the weather holds you hostage,
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  Speaker 2: and then maybe you get a couple of days. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that'd be great to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the features of the new area that has been
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  Speaker 1: named now officially through the Sterling City Council again at
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  Speaker 1: their most recent meeting, Charlene, you wanted to talk about
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  Speaker 1: some Dixon news today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Peyton was at the city council meeting on Monday
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  Speaker 2: night and the discussion about motorized bikes bicycles came up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again it's a new thing, and so then
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  Speaker 2: we kind of have to figure out how they fit
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  Speaker 2: into our transportation playing well with other drivers. I think
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  Speaker 2: the city looking at her story, there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of complaints that have been filed with the city mayor
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  Speaker 2: councilmen about safety issues, noise issues, speeding. So it's now
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  Speaker 2: they're taking a look at what are the laws and
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  Speaker 2: what could they possibly do to shore anything up there
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  Speaker 2: to make it safer for everybody involved, because obviously you
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  Speaker 2: have those out next to cars. Too, and trucks and
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  Speaker 2: how do we you know, road construction going on, how
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  Speaker 2: do we behave there.
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  Speaker 3: Natural since we've had these UTVs or some call them
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  Speaker 3: side by stefing from on the road joining us now,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, this wasn't really too big of a
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  Speaker 3: surprise to say, hey, we probably need to look at
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  Speaker 3: this right exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you see that, especially like golf cards, remember that
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  Speaker 2: was kind of a big thing. Each community had to
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  Speaker 2: decide how that was going to work, where they could go,
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  Speaker 2: how they could you know, where can you cross the road. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm sure those kind of discussions have to happen
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  Speaker 2: here just so everybody stays safe. And what are the
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  Speaker 2: requirements when you're riding that are you wearing your glasses?
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is kind of a gray area. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is more of a gray area because you're
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  Speaker 1: not talking motorcide now. You're talking about motorized bicycles in
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  Speaker 1: certain cases, and yeah that in some cases they are
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  Speaker 1: a little noisy because they have those little motors on
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  Speaker 1: their you know, apparatus. But again, the rules of the
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  Speaker 1: road with bicycles and motorcycles they're totally different.
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  Speaker 2: They are, and they're i know, one of the complaints
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  Speaker 2: they received was because you have motorcyclists saying we have
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  Speaker 2: to follow these rules, so what why aren't they following that? Plus,
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  Speaker 2: I think we have to think bicycle safety. Like when
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid who wore helmet like nobody nobody
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  Speaker 2: wore helmets. Now now we know about that, and we
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  Speaker 2: also know people who fall off and get seriously injured
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  Speaker 2: just out for a bike ride. Absolutely, so there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mindfulness that needs to go into this as
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  Speaker 2: a rider and as the city.
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  Speaker 3: And these things are small enough little children can ride on.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean you're really adding that into RADA when
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  Speaker 3: you said who who can be riding these? You know
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  Speaker 3: what operating put on this correct?
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  Speaker 2: So interesting discussion and so that'll be an ongoing How
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  Speaker 2: do we address this.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some upcoming activities across our Sock Valley area.
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  Speaker 1: We went into Spotlight Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the Sick Fall, Yeah, sick the magazine. All of
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  Speaker 2: those cars that are coming in tomorrow. Sounds like they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a lot more cars than they had last year.
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  Speaker 2: What was last year, I think three hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 2: This sounds to be even a couple hundred more than that.
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  Speaker 2: If the weather holds up and is beautiful, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: they'll have a great turnout. So go down, take a
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  Speaker 2: look at the cars. They're gonna have drivers that hang
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  Speaker 2: around there. They're in between actually, these cars are in
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  Speaker 2: between stops at two of the area drag ways. This
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  Speaker 2: is kind of the day in between for that. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get up and close and personal
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  Speaker 2: take a look at a car, this now is the
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  Speaker 2: time to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's tomorrow. As Charlie points out, in the
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  Speaker 1: riverfront area, there'll be uh and this is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a traveling show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a traveling show. On top of it, I
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  Speaker 2: would say too, if you're just driving around town tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and you're not you know, if you're in Rock Falls
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  Speaker 2: but you're not planning to go to the show, be
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  Speaker 2: very aware of traffic. Also, there's gonna be road closures
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  Speaker 2: down there. You're gonna have, you know, just a lot
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  Speaker 2: more congestion. So when you're making your plans to go
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  Speaker 2: down in some area there.
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  Speaker 1: That's in Rock Falls this weekend, they seem to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, up and coming with a lot of activity,
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  Speaker 1: especially along that riverfront, and really taken advantage of that
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  Speaker 1: riverfront area flash summer. That's this weekend. Yeah, weekend. We
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  Speaker 1: got the chamber exec on the year with us tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: to just sculpt that all out. So we'll get the
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  Speaker 1: entire summer splash outlook with our good friends from the
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  Speaker 1: Rock Falls Chamber on the Thursday morning. Check Unsung Hero.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So the Quilt of Valor, the Cult of Valor
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  Speaker 3: Foundation gives these handmade quilts to people whose lives have
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  Speaker 3: been have been touched by war and so retired United
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  Speaker 3: States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Julia Ritz recently received one
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  Speaker 3: of these quilts. She's also a hospice nurse with Rock
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  Speaker 3: River Hospice and Home. So this lady has served an
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  Speaker 3: extensive military career in the Navy, Air Force Reservist. She's
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  Speaker 3: a pilot. This woman is not afraid to look death
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  Speaker 3: in the face and say not today. I'm too busy.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a job today, okay. And so she she
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  Speaker 3: recently received one of these quotes. It was very humble
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  Speaker 3: about it, you know, you know, and just a wonderful
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  Speaker 3: lady led an extensive military career and service, and so
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  Speaker 3: that was just their kind of way to recognize her. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: And so that would be a story if you want
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  Speaker 3: some more details that'll be coming out and I encourage
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  Speaker 3: you to read it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you know we need stories like this especially,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in these times that we are in and
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  Speaker 1: need to recognize those individuals that step forward and help
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  Speaker 1: us in our protection, not only here locally, but nationwide
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  Speaker 1: and worldwide. So Brandon has a really neat story about
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  Speaker 1: that individual coming out with Shaw Local News. Reagan Run. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: continue festival. Here we go, Reagan Run. It's great.
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  Speaker 2: Every week we're still running a column from a member
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  Speaker 2: of the Reagan Run Committee. They rotate those around, so
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's a participant that's writing about it. Other times
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  Speaker 2: it's about training or how did I get involved and
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  Speaker 2: what we're closing in right the first week of July,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll have a lot of information in the paper,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure where you will hear also on the radio
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  Speaker 2: about the events that are actually going on. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: covering it throughout that week. Alex, our photographer Alex Pascal,
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  Speaker 2: will have lots of photo galleries from that to just
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  Speaker 2: to kind of give a snapshot. It's fun to kind
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  Speaker 2: of look at those throughout the years. Sure entertainment, of course,
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  Speaker 2: that'll we have a lot of interest in that blind
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  Speaker 2: Mellon right. I think they're lead ones smoking popes, So
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  Speaker 2: that's great. And so yeah, and I understand that you've
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  Speaker 2: got the race director coming on in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, Nancy Varger will be with us next week, first
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  Speaker 1: part of next week, so will and we're hoping for
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  Speaker 1: some Petunia. We did have the president of the Patunia
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  Speaker 1: Festival Board earlier in the month kind of spotlight some
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  Speaker 1: pre Platunia Festival news and information. We've got the queen
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  Speaker 1: and her representatives already set and we've got a fundraiser
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  Speaker 1: going on a fifty to fifty fund raiser. You can
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  Speaker 1: get pre sale tickets to the riverfront and of the
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  Speaker 1: carnival by just going down to the headquarters in downtown Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of pre Patunia Festival information that we
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  Speaker 1: shared during that time with Bethany right here on w ancwent.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll have more Petunity Festival reports coming in our
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  Speaker 1: way as we move closer to that event. And also
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to spotlight the Rock Falls police cheat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually had an interesting story. Obviously, within the
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  Speaker 2: last four or five months, we've have been covering heavily
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  Speaker 2: the death in rock Falls, the stabbing death in which
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Cooper was He's also of Rock Falls. Was he
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  Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to second degree murder in that case, and
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  Speaker 2: so we followed it through from the time of the
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  Speaker 2: actual incident, which was on February fourteenth, until he played
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  Speaker 2: guilty three months later, and it was an interesting story.
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  Speaker 2: We've followed it here and talked about it from time
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  Speaker 2: to time about how that all played out in court.
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  Speaker 2: The father of the victim, the victim, Daniel J. Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: DJ Gordon, his dad. Actually we had a story in
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  Speaker 2: about him and he's saying, hey, we need to take
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  Speaker 2: a look at how we're doing investigations moving forward because
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of testimony that came out to the
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  Speaker 2: police department itself, and so we ran a story about
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  Speaker 2: that on Saturday. A lot of interaction on that story.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always kind of like one of those stay
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  Speaker 2: tuned things. Even though you know Kyle Cooper is now
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  Speaker 2: in prison for twenty years and you don't expect that
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  Speaker 2: there'll be an appeal, but you know, the courts always
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  Speaker 2: they never fail to surprise me about what happens. But
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  Speaker 2: then now you also have this in the wake of
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  Speaker 2: it is, how could we Is there something that could
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  Speaker 2: be done differently, because of course there's justice for the family.
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  Speaker 2: They see it through a different lens than maybe sure
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  Speaker 2: it's done in the legal system as it carries through.
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  Speaker 2: So interesting story though.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, watch for all of this information to come through
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  Speaker 1: Shaw Local News, plus lots lots more that we'll be
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  Speaker 1: discussing all the way through the summer of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five with our good friends Charlie Bielama and Brandon Clark
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  Speaker 1: as they visit with us on Wednesdays here at Wixon. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we're out of time today, but we'd like to thank
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  Speaker 1: you so very much for the update. Sure we will
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  Speaker 1: see you next week right here on wixam conform. Here
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  Speaker 1: comes Sam Ramirez with Sports Vers next.