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Talk Line 10-08-2026: Jana Groharing talks Sterling's Hops on the Rock 2026 · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, Sog Valley. Welcome back to the Waking Crew
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  Speaker 1: here on FM 95.1 and AM 1460 WIXN. 8.15 on
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  Speaker 1: your Thursday morning, clock ticking over to 16, making.
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  Speaker 3: A liar out of me, Father Time.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Talk Line. Either way you look at
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  Speaker 1: the minute. And I'm joined in the booth once again
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  Speaker 1: by our good friends from Sterling Main Street, Janet Grohering
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  Speaker 1: here to tell you all about the fun happening over
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  Speaker 1: on the Sterling side of Sauk Valley. Starting off with
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  Speaker 1: this Saturday, Hops on the Rock 2026.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, good morning. And I just want to say thanks
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  Speaker 2: for letting me sneak in a week early for my
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  Speaker 2: little normal slot this week so we can talk about
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  Speaker 2: Hops on the Rock.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. People need to mark this down and they need
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  Speaker 3: to be out there. This is a great event. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Hops on the Rock, it's our annual craft beer festival.
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  Speaker 2: It started in 2017. So that's coming up this Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't, knock on wood, the weather forecast, it
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  Speaker 2: could not look nicer.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Every day I keep checking the weather,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Is this really happening? Is this really happening?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to be 80 degrees on Saturday and sunny?
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  Speaker 2: We'll be down at the Sterling Marketplace, the Farmer's Market Pavilion.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a great location. Plenty of shade cover so
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  Speaker 2: you're not out walking on hot pavement. You're undercover, so
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  Speaker 2: from the sun, but it's still going to be a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful day. You can pop out and enjoy the sunshine.
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  Speaker 2: But it's our annual craft beer festival. The things kick
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  Speaker 2: off at 2 o'clock. From 2 to 3, it's our
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  Speaker 2: VIP hour. And then from 3 to 6, it's open
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  Speaker 2: for general admission. We do still have a handful of
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  Speaker 2: VIP tickets available. Those do need to be purchased in advance.
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  Speaker 2: You can get those on our website, sterlingmainstreet.org backslash hops.
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  Speaker 2: we'll take you right to the ticketing link. Um, those
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  Speaker 2: are tickets are $ 50. They do include a dated special,
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  Speaker 2: like two color tasting glass and a T event t-shirt. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you will get the event t-shirt after the event. So
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  Speaker 2: you can get your own size that deadline has passed
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  Speaker 2: for us to get the shirts. If you ordered your
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  Speaker 2: tickets early, you'll get your shirt day of, but if
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  Speaker 2: you buy your tickets today for VIP, you'll get your
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  Speaker 2: shirt after the event. Um, but you will get your
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  Speaker 2: t-shirt for sure. Um, And then general admission, you can
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  Speaker 2: get those in advance or you can get those at
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  Speaker 2: the door. The general admission tickets you can get at
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  Speaker 2: the door. Save five bucks and get them in advance, though.
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  Speaker 2: It's the difference between $ 30 and $ 35. But from 3
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  Speaker 2: to 6, you'll get a tasting glass and just a
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  Speaker 2: whole afternoon of food. We've got Brito's Taco Truck down there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have Rockstar Donuts. I think they're bringing some savory ones, too,
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  Speaker 2: but why not have some donut holes and beer?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of those, like, coffee stouts and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff, they're kind of breakfast beers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to, you know, they've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the coffee flavors. Plus it's fall.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like there's no bad time for a donut
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  Speaker 3: during fall.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that. So, I mean, how is
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  Speaker 2: it different from like a churro or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's all, you know, it's a dessert. It's
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  Speaker 3: all within the family of acceptable eats.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a leg and a thigh doing music for
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  Speaker 2: us down there. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was almost picturing a big old drumstick. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting medieval with the beer tasting.
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  Speaker 2: I had to like, I had to make sure I
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  Speaker 2: was putting the program together and I, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: writing it, putting the food vendors that'll be on site
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  Speaker 2: and the music. I'm like, I better specify leg and
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  Speaker 2: a thigh and the music in that food truck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but yeah, leg in the thigh is our music
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  Speaker 2: for the day. Um, we have the, one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I'm most excited about is we've got six different
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  Speaker 2: home brewing groups coming with this year.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: In the past years, we've primarily had, um, Zebra Brewing Company. Um,
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  Speaker 2: they're a group of local Sterlingites, um, that brew beer.
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  Speaker 2: They've been with us for, I think this is our
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  Speaker 2: fourth or fifth year that they've been coming to our event. Um,
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  Speaker 2: they've been a lot of fun. They actually joined our
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  Speaker 2: planning committee this year. So they've been helping us out
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  Speaker 2: with this.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
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  Speaker 2: And through that connection, they've been able to reach out
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  Speaker 2: to a few more homebrewers for us and help spread
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  Speaker 2: the word. So we've got six different homebrewing groups coming
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  Speaker 2: this year. So really excited to see their offerings. But overall,
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  Speaker 2: we've got over 50, I think we've got 50 different
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  Speaker 2: brands of beer, right? That'll be available. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: last count I was finishing up, had a couple last
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  Speaker 2: minute substitutions and things like that of what we're bringing.
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  Speaker 2: I think last count we had 118 different beers. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So 118 different beers to sample. You don't need to
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  Speaker 2: try them all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't need to try them all, and you
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  Speaker 3: certainly paced yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's why it's a sample. You just get
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  Speaker 2: a little two-ounce taste max. We give you tasting tickets,
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  Speaker 2: so you can only have so many, or you can
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  Speaker 2: buy some more tickets. But we will keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on you to make sure. You're not over imbibing because
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  Speaker 2: we don't want that for anybody. Yeah. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great things to try. I mean, all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of different things. We've got some ciders and some seltzers.
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  Speaker 2: We've got, you know, everything from lagers and pilsners to
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  Speaker 2: your super heavy IPAs and your imperial stouts. We've got
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  Speaker 2: the entire spectrum of brewed, you know, barley and hop
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  Speaker 2: kind of. beverages for you to sample, but it's always, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those just events where just, it's always
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  Speaker 2: a good time. Um, it's just, it's just, people are happy.
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  Speaker 2: People are fun. It's just a good way to get
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  Speaker 2: out and, uh, you know, having a, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: adult day out. It is 21 and over. We do
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  Speaker 2: also have a designated driver ticket level available. So if you,
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  Speaker 2: your DD wants to come with you and enjoy the
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  Speaker 2: music and the food trucks and things like that, We
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  Speaker 2: do have a couple of N.A.
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  Speaker 3: Options.
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  Speaker 2: I know one of our home brewers also has a
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  Speaker 2: root beer that they do that they're bringing. Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then Big Grove Brewery, I believe, is bringing one
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  Speaker 2: of their N.A. So we do have a couple of N.A.s
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  Speaker 2: that they would be able to try. But otherwise, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have water and stuff on site or the food
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  Speaker 2: trucks and things like that. We'll have beverages. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your D.D. can come or just drop you off at
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  Speaker 2: the door and come back and pick you up later.
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  Speaker 2: That is certainly welcome. and encouraged um but it really
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  Speaker 2: should be a great day and i couldn't ask for
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  Speaker 2: a better forecast coming up for this event on saturday
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  Speaker 2: oh absolutely one last festival hurrah before we start thinking
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  Speaker 2: about christmas walk and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know yeah and all the fully cold uh cold events.
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  Speaker 2: Out there exactly you know one last hurrah for fall
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  Speaker 2: but hops on the rock is coming up this saturday
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  Speaker 2: it's down at the sterling marketplace adjacent to the twin
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  Speaker 2: city farmers market vip doors open at two o'clock at
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  Speaker 2: three o'clock we'll start welcoming general admission in um we're
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  Speaker 2: done at six o'clock so you know it's a easy
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  Speaker 2: day out you know after after you know six o'clock
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  Speaker 2: you know head on over to you know kelly's or
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  Speaker 2: leases or brinks or dunks or grab some dinner have
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  Speaker 2: your little snack while you're there or just go up
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  Speaker 2: the hill to the factory you know you got all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of places to grab dinner or for that matter
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  Speaker 2: come early and grab lunch downtown and then come on
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  Speaker 2: over to tops and the rock but it should we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to a really really really good day so
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  Speaker 2: it should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it's going to be beautiful 80 degrees in october
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  Speaker 1: hits a lot different it's just that perfect five minutes
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  Speaker 1: of fall that i like to to think.
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  Speaker 2: Of it as exactly because it's not a hot 80
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  Speaker 2: degrees it's a no it's a really comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: 80 degrees Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You could easily pants in a t-shirt or maybe even
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  Speaker 1: throw a flannel over either, whatever, however you're comfortable. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great day. It's going to be beautiful. Couldn't ask
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  Speaker 1: for better weather for this event.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. We've got some merch from past years. We were
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  Speaker 2: talking about bringing in, Lori and I were talking to
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  Speaker 2: the other, yesterday in the office, like, If it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be 80 degrees, is anybody going to want to
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  Speaker 2: buy a hoodie?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Should we or shouldn't we? We're having that debate. We'll
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  Speaker 2: make a game day call if we throw that stuff
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  Speaker 2: in our vehicles to bring down there. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to think about a hoodie when it's 80 degrees out, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, but, you know, and I love that with
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  Speaker 1: there being so many options, this makes this such a
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  Speaker 1: great annual event already to look forward to. But then
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of like, man, I really hit the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I tried these guys last year. They were
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  Speaker 1: really good, but I think I'm going to come over
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  Speaker 1: here this year. And it gives you something fresh to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to every time.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I was talking last night with some
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  Speaker 2: of our committee members as I was looking through our
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  Speaker 2: beer list. I mean, we've got a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: stuff this year. There's, I mean, some of the... we've
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  Speaker 2: working with some of the other bars. So like Lisa's
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  Speaker 2: brick house, we'll have a table dunks. We'll have a table, um,
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  Speaker 2: the precinct in North end. Um, I did not realize
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  Speaker 2: about the North end. They work with tight head brewery
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  Speaker 2: out of Mundelein, um, owned by a local gentleman, a
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  Speaker 2: gentleman that's local originally from Sterling. Um, they brew a
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  Speaker 2: custom beer for North end called the box car. So
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  Speaker 2: they'll have that on site. Um, it's the only place
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  Speaker 2: you can get it in town. Um, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: used to manage a bar. I mean, granted, it's been
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  Speaker 2: 13 years since I did that, so I'm a little
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  Speaker 2: out of the loop. But there's some brewery names and
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  Speaker 2: some beer names that I have never heard of that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what is this? And I'm going on to
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  Speaker 2: Google and everything going, what kind of beer is this?
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  Speaker 2: What is this thing they're bringing? So we've got a
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  Speaker 2: really good, we've got a lot of different things. There's
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  Speaker 2: some stuff I've never heard of. Um, the candlelight group
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  Speaker 2: is taking like a little international flair of things. Um,
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  Speaker 2: one of the beers on their list is from Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: One's from Lithuania. One's from Columbia. Um, one of their
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  Speaker 2: distributors they work with is, got able to tack it,
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  Speaker 2: tap into that kind of stuff. So, um, they've really
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  Speaker 2: got some international things that they're bringing. So really excited
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  Speaker 2: about the different, you know, add to that the home brewers,
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  Speaker 2: the six different home brewers probably have their, most of
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  Speaker 2: them are bringing like three to five, six beers a piece. So,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be so much stuff to try.
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  Speaker 3: I love the choice overload. Bring your spreadsheet, start planning
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  Speaker 3: it now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we, we bought, we, the one thing
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  Speaker 2: we added this year is you'll get a pen at
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  Speaker 2: the door. So we give you the program that has
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  Speaker 2: all the beers, who's bringing what, all that stuff. We
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  Speaker 2: organized it a little better. So it's an order of like,
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  Speaker 2: we like made sure that you could, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: like set up in like clockwise order. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: going around the room, you know, what, what table it's
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  Speaker 2: easier to find. And we're going to give you a
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  Speaker 2: pen so you can make notes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Mark which ones you tried, make what you like.
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  Speaker 1: I say grab your first one, sit with your list,
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  Speaker 1: make your little plan while you're enjoying your first one,
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  Speaker 1: and then go attack.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And see, and that helps. too. You remember what
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  Speaker 2: it was, where you got it. You can go back
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  Speaker 2: and get it again. So especially like working with some
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  Speaker 2: of the local bars and stuff like that. You know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I sampled this from Lisa's Brook House. Let's go there
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  Speaker 2: for dinner so I can have another one or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's a fantastic point. I think many people going
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  Speaker 1: to this like they're, They're expecting to find a new
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  Speaker 1: beer that they're going to enjoy sometime later at home.
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  Speaker 1: So this way you don't have to try to remember
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  Speaker 1: some weird notes or go back. You've already got it. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, happening downtown, you get there early. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: go on, you have some, you know, you have lunch
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  Speaker 1: early on, get some shopping done, which also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of leads us to our next point, fall, getting
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  Speaker 1: closer to Halloween. And the shops at Grandin Plaza are
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  Speaker 1: having their own event.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they started this last year. All of our girls,
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  Speaker 2: all of our shop owners, I say girls because they're
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  Speaker 2: all women right now. But our shops at Grand Plaza,
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  Speaker 2: they kicked off this event last year and they had
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  Speaker 2: a ball doing it. So they definitely wanted to. I
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  Speaker 2: feel I see this becoming an annual event for them,
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  Speaker 2: but they call it a wicked good time. So on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: October 28th, just a little shopping event. promotion down at
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  Speaker 2: the shops at grand and plaza all six of the
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  Speaker 2: shops will be open um we've got five or six
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  Speaker 2: guest vendors that'll be down there with them um lots
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  Speaker 2: of just fun little halloween sales and specials you know
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  Speaker 2: come dressed up if you want definitely wear you know
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  Speaker 2: throw your witch's hat on yeah um lots of discounts
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  Speaker 2: and fun little games and activities but um a wicked
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  Speaker 2: good time on october 28th the if the girls at
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  Speaker 2: the shops really get into the halloween spirit and they
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  Speaker 2: love it down there so This will be their second
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  Speaker 2: year of doing a week a week time. So excited
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  Speaker 2: to see what they bring to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be a great time. It's great supporting these businesses.
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  Speaker 1: They're up and coming. The shops are going to just
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  Speaker 1: a great way to help support these things. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a great way to, again, just get out, have
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  Speaker 1: some fun, support some local businesses.
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  Speaker 3: Can't get better than that. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And then that leads us into our last one is
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  Speaker 2: on COVID. On Halloween day itself, October 31st, the farmer's
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  Speaker 2: market is open every Saturday. So October 31st will actually
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  Speaker 2: be the last day of the outdoor market being open.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go just indoors after that for the remainder of
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  Speaker 2: the season. But we're having a monster market, usually to
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  Speaker 2: end the season around Halloween. So it's trick-or-treating with our vendors.
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  Speaker 2: So we encourage the kids and stuff to come in costume.
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  Speaker 2: You can trick-or-treat with our vendors online. We'll have PNC
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  Speaker 2: Little Rascals down there. So we've got a petting zoo.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fire department's coming down. We've got some
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  Speaker 2: other games and activities planned. But our final market of
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  Speaker 2: the season, it's our monster market. So I hate to
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  Speaker 2: say celebrate the end of the season because it's always
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  Speaker 2: sad to see the end of the farmer's market season.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been a great year. We have been so
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  Speaker 2: full at the farmer's market this year. Seen so many
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  Speaker 2: new faces, so many returning faces. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I love to see is we're seeing more and
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  Speaker 2: more younger families. For a few years that we were
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  Speaker 2: really worried about, you know, hey, why does it seem
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  Speaker 2: like our customer base is getting older? But it's been
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  Speaker 2: nice last few years seeing more of those younger families
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  Speaker 2: coming out and enjoying the farmer's market every week and
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  Speaker 2: bringing more kids into the market. That's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that we're already discussing and looking at doing for
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  Speaker 2: next year is how can we make the market a
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  Speaker 2: little more kid-friendly and engaging for them so they learn
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  Speaker 2: from a young age about healthy foods and gardening and
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  Speaker 2: nature and all that kind of stuff. So really looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to growing that next year. But for the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season this year on the 31st, petting zoo
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  Speaker 2: and trick-or-treating, good way to get the kids there.
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  Speaker 3: It would be a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect way to just kind of close off the outdoor
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  Speaker 1: portion anyways of the market. Can't stay– The outdoor can't
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  Speaker 1: stay open all year round. Thankfully, you've got the indoor portion.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That can continue.
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  Speaker 2: I love the indoor market and having that available year
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  Speaker 2: round is tremendous because, you know, people like, well, how
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  Speaker 2: do you get, you know, fruits and vegetables in the wintertime? Well, one,
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  Speaker 2: we've got Costa Family Farms. So we've got hydroponic greens
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  Speaker 2: year round. We've got that kind of stuff. We've got
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  Speaker 2: the mushrooms, meddling sheep mushrooms. So we've got mushrooms. We've
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  Speaker 2: got greens. You know, we've got your chicken, eggs. Beef, cheese, pork,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all your meat products, stuff like that. We've
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  Speaker 2: got some microgreens. We've got lots of baked goods and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. And your fall squash. You know, we've got,
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: you know, your acorn squashes and butternut squashes. You know,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: those things have a little more like, you know, potatoes,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: things like that last longer into the season. So we
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: do have a fair amount of produce year round. People
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: just kind of forget about that. You can't get fresh
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: produce around here in the wintertime. Yes, you can. And
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: it's a bill about the Twin City Farmers Market.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: There you go. You know where you can get it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Go down and get it. I love hearing about all this.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Love the younger generations coming to the market. I think
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: the service of having gone with our parents when we
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: were younger kind of does good. And then now you
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: guys are doing the forward thinking of... Wanting to make
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: it more engaging for kids. When I was a kid
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: and you went somewhere and they didn't think about entertaining you,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: your parents just told you to behave.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but we see, you know, it's kind
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: of tight quarters inside, but there's always like, you know,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: there's plenty of room to get through with a stroller
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: and things like that. You know, they come in the
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: wagons and load them all up, but it's good and
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: we love seeing the families and the kids there.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and getting to make the memories. And, you know,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you get to know the vendors. They get to know you.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: That's just another great part about it. So love it.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: We're out of time this morning. But if anybody wants
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: any more information about anything we talked about or anything
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Sterling Main Street related, what's the best way to do it?
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Best way is to our website, sterlingmainstreet.org, or find us
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: on Facebook or Instagram. And for that matter, we don't
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: have a whole lot out there, but we're on TikTok now, too.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Do you have any videos with Sam?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, you've got to do videos with Sam. Sam is TikTok. Sam,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: we've got a TikTok in here. Oh, my goodness.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: He's walking out the door.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, God. He'll get you in some good ones.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Janet, thank you so much for coming in and making
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: sure there's always something fun in Sterling.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you.