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Talk-Line: Betty Clementz, Relay for Life preview · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Thursday. It's June twelve,
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Speaker 1: the year is twenty twenty five, and it's time for
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Speaker 1: another informational edition of talk Line here at Wixon Radio.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is time to take
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Speaker 1: a look at the twenty twenty five Salk Valley Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life. We're coming down the home stretch friends, with
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Speaker 1: activities that are going to be taking place this Father's
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Speaker 1: Day weekend in our northern Illinois area. And here to
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Speaker 1: put the final touches on our reports. And she has
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Speaker 1: been reporting in since early in the year on the
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Speaker 1: Relay for Life activities. You've been updated monthly with our
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Speaker 1: good friend, the chairperson of the Stock Valley Relay for
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Speaker 1: Life for twenty twenty five. Our dear friend, Betty Clements
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Speaker 1: is with us today here at Wixing.
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Speaker 2: Good Moreing, Hi Steven, Hello to the public.
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Speaker 1: Nice to have you with us, ma'am. And before we
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Speaker 1: get any further, she let it out of the bag. Friends,
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Speaker 1: she did it. She let it out of the bag
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Speaker 1: before we went on an the area, and she's kind
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Speaker 1: of signed now, happy anniversary to you and your better
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Speaker 1: half name please Tom. Thank you, you and Tom are
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Speaker 1: celebrating anniversary number what now sixty?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it is unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: On June the twelfth, sixty years ago. That would put
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Speaker 1: it in nineteen sixty five. That's correct, that you tied
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Speaker 1: the knot with your Yes, you're beloved and good for you.
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Speaker 1: Sixty years and I got to tell you, Betty, it's
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Speaker 1: your diamond anniversary. We looked it up. I made an
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Speaker 1: official tom You're on the hook.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Amen, Happy, happy sixtieth anniverse.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: It is so nice to see you here. Betty has
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Speaker 1: been a staple with us for many years when it
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Speaker 1: comes to Relay for Life information, and she is the
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Speaker 1: chairperson once again this year, which means obviously that Betty
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Speaker 1: enjoys what she does.
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Speaker 2: I do enjoy it. You're absolutely right. I believe in
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Speaker 2: the event.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it touches you.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it does well, it touches everybody.
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Speaker 1: Sure. And here we go. We're into the wend where
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Speaker 1: the activity will actually take place.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so here we June fourteenth, Saturday, that's the date,
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Speaker 2: and it's Westwood Sports Complex, Building three, the last one
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Speaker 2: in the lineup. As you're coming down the entryway at
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Speaker 2: Westwood Building three, and if it is good weather, we
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Speaker 2: will be outside behind the building on the east side,
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Speaker 2: and if it is crummy weather or threatening of storms,
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Speaker 2: then we will be inside building three. So that's the plan.
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Speaker 2: We always plan for outside, but we'll see what happens
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Speaker 2: by afternoon. We'll call it obviously early in the afternoon
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Speaker 2: because we won't set up in both places. So fourteenth
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, time it starts is four o'clock. That's the
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Speaker 2: time registration opens, accounting opens, the fifty to fifty sales open,
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Speaker 2: the Luminaria sales open. That's when everybody can come and
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Speaker 2: set up there their table, their campsite for the teams.
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Speaker 2: It's the time for everybody to register. If you have
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Speaker 2: leftover money that you still gathered since bank night last night,
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Speaker 2: you're welcome to bring it into accounting. It's the time
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Speaker 2: for survivors to register. Four o'clock is the beginning, but
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Speaker 2: the actual activities don't start until five. And at that
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Speaker 2: point we're going to celebrate the thirty years of Relay
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Speaker 2: for Life in this area of Salk Valley. So what
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Speaker 2: we have planned is we have invited back all of
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Speaker 2: the chairs from the events in both Lee and Whiteside County.
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Speaker 2: We have tried to reach out to them. We haven't
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Speaker 2: been real successful in getting names and addresses, but I've
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Speaker 2: been promoting it in publicity everywhere. Yes, any of the
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Speaker 2: planning committee members are welcome. We want them to come
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Speaker 2: because the amount of money that we're going to announce
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Speaker 2: at the end of that minute celebration is going to
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Speaker 2: be an amazing amount of money. And it truly is
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Speaker 2: due to everybody that contributed every dollar along the way,
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Speaker 2: from the sponsors to the chairs that organized their committees,
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Speaker 2: that were the worker bees to bring about every event
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Speaker 2: in the thirty years that relay has existed in the area,
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Speaker 2: and the teams and their captains. So I want them
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Speaker 2: to actually come and register prior to the five o'clock
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Speaker 2: so they have a name badge that tells me who
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Speaker 2: they are and what position they have held, and when
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Speaker 2: they I'm going to call them up by groups. So
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Speaker 2: the first group will be the people that organized relay
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Speaker 2: in this area from the Cancer boards of Lee and
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Speaker 2: Whiteside County back thirty years ago. Then after those people
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Speaker 2: will come the chairs of the events and each one
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Speaker 2: will give their name. They can tell me anything they
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Speaker 2: want about the event. They can tell us what all
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Speaker 2: they have done in the thirty years, and when we're
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Speaker 2: done with that group, the next group will be the
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Speaker 2: planning committee members and they will give their name, what
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Speaker 2: part of the events they were involved with, any comments
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Speaker 2: they want to make about the events that they worked.
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Speaker 2: Then will come the teams and the captains of the teams,
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Speaker 2: and those people will give their names, the team name
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Speaker 2: for sure, maybe they won't all give their names. And
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Speaker 2: then when we get all done, all of these people
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Speaker 2: that have been involved with Relay for the thirty years,
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Speaker 2: they're going to have a group photo taken. So the
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Speaker 2: intent is to celebrate absolutely everybody that was a part
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Speaker 2: of the Relay for Life for the thirty years in
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Speaker 2: our area, because it truly is it takes everybody. No
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Speaker 2: one is more important than the next one. It's all
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Speaker 2: about what you can do in the fight against cancer.
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Speaker 2: So our intent is to celebrate and to make it
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Speaker 2: a happy moment and to realize that we have been
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Speaker 2: very successful in this area in the fight.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and as you mentioned, Betty, we're reaching out right now.
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Speaker 1: We want to put the word out right now and
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Speaker 1: we're hoping that maybe a listener or somebody in our
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Speaker 1: audience maybe can connect at least or touch base or
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Speaker 1: if you're directly involved in any capacity. It sounds like
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Speaker 1: with me, Betty, with Relay for Life, you want them,
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Speaker 1: I want.
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Speaker 2: Them, I want them there, and people that live in
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Speaker 2: the Lee County area, you are welcome. Unfortunately, the records
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Speaker 2: from ACS were obliterated when Lee County no longer did
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Speaker 2: an event itself. So as a result, I've been very
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Speaker 2: unsuccessful in obtaining any names and addresses to send invitations
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Speaker 2: to like I did down in Whiteside. Yes, but I've
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Speaker 2: tried to promote it through the radio and through the
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Speaker 2: print news media that we want you to come. All
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Speaker 2: you have to do is just come to Building three
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Speaker 2: and sign in. I want to know who you are,
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Speaker 2: so when you come up to the microphone, I've got
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Speaker 2: half an idea if you are from Whiteside, you're from Lee,
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Speaker 2: and what your position was. So I want you to
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Speaker 2: feel welcome and I invite you. You aren't going to
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Speaker 2: get a microphone for ten minutes, but you're going to
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Speaker 2: have enough to be able to express your part in it,
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Speaker 2: because it truly is about everybody that picks up on
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Speaker 2: a community event. That's what relay is all about.
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Speaker 1: Thirty years of doing the Relay for Life event. Of course,
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Speaker 1: as Betty mentioned, it started in many different areas and
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Speaker 1: it is just kind of consolidating, and especially with the
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic that, yeah, I know that that really
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Speaker 1: put it into a struggle. You know, during those COVID
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Speaker 1: years that we really go kind of struggled in order
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Speaker 1: to organize and any ease exactly exactly.
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Speaker 2: And not only that, it was hard to bounce back
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Speaker 2: from it. And I know the public is well aware
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Speaker 2: of this that every group has had a struggle since
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Speaker 2: then in trying to re establish their numbers and the events.
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Speaker 2: But you know, Steve, when you think about it, look
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Speaker 2: at every weekend and how many events charitable events take place.
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Speaker 2: Relay is no longer the only cancer fighting event in
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Speaker 2: the area. I mean, there's so many others, but the
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Speaker 2: American Cancer Society has been a leader in the research. Truly,
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Speaker 2: I owe my life. I owe my life to ACS.
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Speaker 2: And I know I've spoken this before. When the mammogram
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Speaker 2: found the lump in my breast, it was that mammogram
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Speaker 2: that ACS researchers had developed, and what kept me alive
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Speaker 2: these thirty years has been that I was put on
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Speaker 2: the drug tomoxiphon, which was also developed by the American
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Speaker 2: Cancer Society researchers. And there are so many of the
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Speaker 2: things we take for granted in patient treatments as well
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Speaker 2: as diagnostic reasons that ACS has been instrumental in. So
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Speaker 2: your money is going to a very good cause. And
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Speaker 2: since that time, it's no longer just research, but it's
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Speaker 2: also a lot of patient services. So I believe in
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Speaker 2: ACS and Relay for Life is the tool I can donate.
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Speaker 1: To absolutely and we're going to do it this weekend
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Speaker 1: at Westwood Sports Complex in Stirling this Saturday. Again, as
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Speaker 1: Betty outlined the basic outline of the start of Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life, we need to touch on more with Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life and Betty's going to do that. She's going
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Speaker 1: to hang around and visit with us in the next
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Speaker 1: half hours. Well, so we're going to expand on Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life for twenty twenty five and the activities, the
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Speaker 1: special activities that are going to be taking place, because
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Speaker 1: this is just one of the many that are going
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Speaker 1: to be on the lineup for Relay for Life. But
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Speaker 1: it's that initial activity that Betty really wanted to emphasize
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Speaker 1: in this poor because we want to give word out
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Speaker 1: to those that actually participated in any sort of Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life activity for the last thirty years across our
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Speaker 1: entire Northern Illinois area to be there at the Westwood
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Speaker 1: Sports Complex, show up, be a part of this special
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Speaker 1: anniversary event that is happening.
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Speaker 2: We truly want to thank you because we so appreciate
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Speaker 2: the support the community members have given.
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Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely, and this is what it's all about this year,
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Speaker 1: not just yeah. Obviously, Relay for Life will take center
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Speaker 1: stage around what Betty's going to be talking about with
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Speaker 1: the special activities, with the spotlight of those that are
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Speaker 1: going to be actually directly participating. As Betty mentioned, captains
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Speaker 1: and teams are going to be acknowledging themselves during that
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Speaker 1: initial portion of the program. But there's a lot more
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Speaker 1: that is going to be taking place with Relay for
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Speaker 1: Life this weekend at Westwood. Again. The start time officially
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Speaker 1: will be five o'clock again as Betty mentioned, at the
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Speaker 1: Westwood Sports Complex area that Betty spotlighted, But again we
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Speaker 1: want people to be a part of it and maybe
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Speaker 1: show up a little bit earlier that Betty mentioned for
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Speaker 1: those special activities. Get the Ducks in lines.
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Speaker 2: Yes, speak.
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Speaker 1: Before we get the special activities underway of five Absolutely
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Speaker 1: all right. Betty Clements is our guest today. She is
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Speaker 1: our chairperson of the twenty twenty five Relay for Life
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Speaker 1: activity taking place this weekend in our northern Illinois area.
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Speaker 1: We are going to take a break for five minutes
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Speaker 1: of news at eight thirty, but when we come back,
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Speaker 1: Betty's going to outline more of what is happening this
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Speaker 1: weekend at Westwood during this special anniversary celebration. It's the
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Speaker 1: thirtieth anniversary of the Stock Valley Relay for Life event
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Speaker 1: and it takes place this weekend in Sterling. Let's head
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Speaker 1: to five minutes of News at eight thirty with Tim
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Speaker 1: Lee next on WIS. Instead, we continue our conversation now
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Speaker 1: with the chairperson of the twenty twenty five Stock Valley
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Speaker 1: Relay for Life. The event is this weekend in Sterling.
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Speaker 1: It's at the Westwood Sports Complex on Saturday. And here
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Speaker 1: to give us the final touches and put us into
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Speaker 1: the Relay for Life agenda is our dear friend Betty Clements,
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Speaker 1: who is, as I mentioned earlier, celebrating her sixtieth wedding anniversary.
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Speaker 1: I can't get enough of that. It says, it's just
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Speaker 1: amazing sixty years together with your better half time and
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Speaker 1: we again congratulations on that. She actually had a call
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Speaker 1: off air, you know, having to do with some family issues.
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Speaker 1: So you're going to get a lot of those today, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that right now. Yeah, oh no, that's
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Speaker 1: that's a given on this special day for the Clement's family. Betty,
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Speaker 1: we want to again talk about the Relay for Life event.
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Speaker 1: Now we mentioned the special activities up front, there are
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Speaker 1: more taking place and you wanted to spotlight the rest
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Speaker 1: of the agenda, police, Yes, I would.
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Speaker 2: So five o'clock is the celebration of the first thirty
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Speaker 2: years that I talked about in the first section, and
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Speaker 2: five thirty is when the actual opening ceremony begins, and
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Speaker 2: that for any Relay for Life is always opened by
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Speaker 2: the first lap being done by the survivors that are present.
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Speaker 2: So the survivors need to register in advance because at
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Speaker 2: our event we like to award the longest survivor with
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Speaker 2: a bouquet of floss and highlight the number of years
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Speaker 2: that are represented by all of the survivors that are
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Speaker 2: walking that first lap, and that number is always an
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Speaker 2: amazing number, and it truly is about the proof of
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Speaker 2: how the progress has gone in trying to develop patient
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Speaker 2: services and diagnostics for cancers. The color guard is the
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Speaker 2: color guard that leads the event and it's from the
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Speaker 2: Sterling Post and we have a huge flag that is
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Speaker 2: going to be supported by students from Rock Falls High
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Speaker 2: School that are doing it in honor of Dustin Westcott. Yes,
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Speaker 2: so it's going to be a tribute to him, so
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Speaker 2: it should be a beautiful Let's pray we have good
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Speaker 2: weather and no rain, so we're outdoors. After that is
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Speaker 2: over the first lap, we will announce the teams. They
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Speaker 2: will take to the track one by one and their
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Speaker 2: team captain will be announced and cupcakes will then be
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Speaker 2: available inside Building three for anybody that is there until
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Speaker 2: we run out and hopefully we have ordered enough. Fifty
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Speaker 2: to fifty will take place throughout the course of the
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Speaker 2: evening until a quarter of eight, at which time the
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Speaker 2: winner will be pulled out of the hat. And you
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Speaker 2: do not have to be present in order to win
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Speaker 2: the award. And in years past it's always been somewhere
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Speaker 2: around five hundred dollars that you guys, so it's a
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Speaker 2: goodly amount even if it were only fifty dollars, it
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Speaker 2: will be more than the five dollars you spend on
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Speaker 2: a ticket, So you can buy from anybody in advance
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Speaker 2: or the day of the event. They're on sale until
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Speaker 2: seven point thirty. The theme this year is Rock, Roll
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Speaker 2: and Remember. So the rock is the caregivers that are
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Speaker 2: the rocks of anybody that is on a cancer journey.
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Speaker 2: That's the support that you need. And the girls on
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Speaker 2: site have little painted rocks and you're going to paint
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Speaker 2: rocks to hand to your support giver as a momento
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Speaker 2: of this great idea. The roll part is going to
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Speaker 2: be roll the dice and there's going to be giveaways
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Speaker 2: that are going to happen with that because you do
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Speaker 2: not want to roll the dice on having your cancer screenings.
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Speaker 2: And that's the theme of that lap. And the third
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Speaker 2: and the final one is remember, and we're asking you
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Speaker 2: to bring a photo of the person you are walking for.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows someone who has succumbed to cancer. It's inevitable,
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Speaker 2: it's a part of our world we live in, so
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Speaker 2: we ask you to bring a photo and honor that person.
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Speaker 2: At eight o'clock, the Bagpiper from Dixon. Mike Wilcox will
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Speaker 2: come from the Fire department and he will play his
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Speaker 2: bagpipe and lead the participants from the track outside into
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Speaker 2: Building three for the luminaria ceremony. And at that point
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Speaker 2: every name of any of the luminaria that have been
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Speaker 2: purchased in advance will be announced. They will be scrolled
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Speaker 2: on a screen inside the Building three during the ceremony,
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Speaker 2: and obviously it is a time to respect and to
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Speaker 2: remember those people that have lost their lives to cancer.
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Speaker 2: After the luminaris ceremony is over, we go right into
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Speaker 2: the closing, which is a celebration. So once again it's
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Speaker 2: a high and a low, a high and a low.
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Speaker 2: Your emotions are running both directions. During a relay event,
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Speaker 2: you're remembering, but you're also celebrating. And we will celebrate
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Speaker 2: in the closing the progress that we have made thus
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Speaker 2: far into the year of the amount of money was
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Speaker 2: appreciate everybody that has been a part of the planning
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Speaker 2: of it, as well as the teams. They will be
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Speaker 2: announced and thanked and individuals. Mark Sisson is the DJ.
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Speaker 2: He's donating his time. We truly appreciate it. He is
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Speaker 2: a great rock and roll enthusiast, so we couldn't have
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Speaker 2: asked for anybody better to be our DJ and we
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Speaker 2: have from Wsdr Tom Katz is going to read the names,
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Speaker 2: so we have somebody locally that is doing that as well.
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Speaker 2: And actually I'm here to thank everybody that has ever
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Speaker 2: been a part of a relay, and if you haven't
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Speaker 2: ever been a part of a relay I encourage you
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Speaker 2: come as a part of the public and see what
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Speaker 2: a relay is all about. It's a short period of
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Speaker 2: time out of your life, but what a sense of
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Speaker 2: satisfaction it gives you to know that you have been
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Speaker 2: a part of this fight against cancer.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Betty again, with that agenda laid out, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like everything is taken care of from start to finish.
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Speaker 1: As far as this day activity is considered, it's a
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Speaker 1: day long activity, but again it happens pretty much in
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Speaker 1: the evening hours and so it's not a whole part
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Speaker 1: of Wednesday. You can budget the time, make it over
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Speaker 1: and be a part of this special activity that takes pack.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, when you stop and thinking about it, it's
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Speaker 2: probably about a three hour event. Registration starts early and
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Speaker 2: set up time starts early, but you don't have to
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Speaker 2: show up until the event starts at five o'clock, and
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Speaker 2: we hope to be out by nine. So that's our goal.
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Speaker 1: Yep. And with that, Betty said, I know that there
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Speaker 1: are sponsors, my sponsors that you would like to thank,
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Speaker 1: you know, as far as.
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Speaker 2: Well, I would like to mention four sponsors in particular,
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Speaker 2: because they're going to be given a special award during
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Speaker 2: that thirtieth celebration at five o'clock. They have been major
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Speaker 2: sponsors since the beginning of the event thirty years. They
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Speaker 2: have sponsored at the five thousand dollars level. That is
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Speaker 2: an amazing amount of money. So those will be named.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to I'm not going to steal the finder.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's good, But there are you know
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Speaker 1: those every.
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Speaker 2: Dollar, every dollar will be mentioned, and.
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Speaker 1: You might just the upper tier. I'm sure that there
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Speaker 1: are others that contribute to you know, an other.
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Speaker 2: Airy sponsor will be given a certificate or a plaque
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Speaker 2: of some sort during the course of the event, right
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Speaker 2: after the opening ceremony. They're all recognized and they're all
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Speaker 2: publicized as you walk signaches there for every one of them.
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Speaker 2: Because without the sponsors, we wouldn't have a lot of
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Speaker 2: top dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, and probably would have the event
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Speaker 1: you know, that has been carried forward for thirty years.
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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, Betty, a lot of these top sponsors
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Speaker 1: have been here again for the Relay for Life for
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Speaker 1: the past thirty years. And that's amazing. Is that that
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Speaker 1: is amazing that you see that happen in one Souk
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Speaker 1: Valley area event. Betty, we're kind of closing down any
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Speaker 1: kind of final thoughts you know, to pass along before
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Speaker 1: we you.
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Speaker 2: Know, just come and see what it's like at the
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Speaker 2: thirtieth and maybe on the thirty first you will want
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Speaker 2: to be a part of it.
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Speaker 1: That would agree great, That would be great. That would
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Speaker 1: be great to again see what happens and then join
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Speaker 1: them for the Relay for Life effort through the American
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Speaker 1: Cancer Society, that is where the Moneies go. As Betty
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Speaker 1: just talked about earlier, a lot of research still being done,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of advancements have been done. As Betty
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Speaker 1: also talked about, with the American Cancer Society's effort in
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Speaker 1: battling this and they continue the battle year after year,
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Speaker 1: but it's Relay for Life that really helps him out
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Speaker 1: with their research and with their technology every year. Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life for twenty twenty five is that the Sterling
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Speaker 1: Westwood Sports Complex on Saturday, June the fourteenth, starts with
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Speaker 1: the preliminary activities at around five pm and as Betty mentioned,
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Speaker 1: concludes at around nine. We hope that you are a
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Speaker 1: part of the Relay for a Life event, if not,
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Speaker 1: just to come over and see what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: We encourage spectators. We encourage anybody to come over and
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Speaker 1: be a spectator. If you're not directly involved, be a spectator,
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Speaker 1: find out what it's all about and join them for
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Speaker 1: this again annual big event, this one taking place at
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Speaker 1: Westwood in Sterling. Good luck with the event this year.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much and pray for no rain and
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Speaker 2: anniversary Thank you, Steve.
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Speaker 1: Betty Clements is the chairperson of the thirtieth annual Relay
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Speaker 1: for Life activity here in our Sock Valley areas. She's
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Speaker 1: been our guest today on the Talk