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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome walkome, welcome,

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and is the time now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you Dryston's brought you in, parked by our more Knee camp at

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funeral Home. And we've got the
Kowana's in here. And I got to

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tell you guys, it's a beautiful
day to get to almost kick off May,

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isn't it? It is BEAUTI And
now we have Jim Sweezey. We

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also have Wayman White, the club
president. And we got a couple of

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things going well. You guys never
stop, we never stopped. We got

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a lot of energy. Well,
first things first, we got the we

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got the golf course opening up,
the mini golf that's right this coming Friday,

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six o'clock, six BM Friday night
will be open. It's our season

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opening. This is great. And
Jim, last year you were working on

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the fairways like crazy. We were
finishing up projects out there, that's for

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sure. We had a new turf
going down on a few holes after more

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concrete work. So it's always new
and improved every year. Oh indeed,

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And this is a lot of fun. Not only do the kids have fun,

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parents have fun too. Speaking and
I'm a grandparent, I have a

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ball. It's great for grandparents,
parents, the kids, the whole family

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family. You see a lot of
smiles out there every time we go out.

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We sure do. Now. Along
with the beautiful setting that we have

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out there at Soudent Park, we've
got probably the nicest accommodations you're gonna find

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anywhere around it. And on top
of that, it's just it's fresh air.

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Man, it's out there where it's
nice and you got the evening air.

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And we also raise a little bit
of money, don't we that we

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do. Yes, We've been operating
that since two thousand and two and use

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the proceeds for scholarships for high school
kids, for our Fourth of July fireworks,

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all kinds of projects to help the
kids in the community. Now,

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this is a great way to have
fun and raise funds at the same time.

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Way right it is it is,
And it's a great place for birthday

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parties. We have a lot of
folks that call in and reserve the facility

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for parties. We've got some nice
tables there under the shelter of the roof

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and they can have a birthday party
and then go out and play miniature golf

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and just enjoy that whole area.
So it's really great. And all they

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have to do to reserve the park
and the golf course is to just call

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in. That's it. That's it, and they'll give them a date and

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if it's open, then they can
reserve it and it'll be locked down just

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for them. So it's a good
private club and private place for a party.

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A lot of corporate parties out there
too. That's way here. Companies

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go out and have a glass out
there, just hanging out and relaxing and

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having a good time. Do we
have a wedding out there once? You

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know? It? Was it this
year? We've had one this year.

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I believe that's pretty cool. Well, you know it. Welcome to America.

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It's a great place to take care
of it. Now. Another great

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thing that you do, and this
really brings a lot of different generations together.

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That's the fishing derby out there at
the at the lake. Yes,

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at Joe Allen Park. Yes,
since nineteen fifty one. Yes, it's

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been a long time a tradition here
in town. I can imagine he's a

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youngsters going out with the maybe somebody
that was around for the first couple.

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Yeah, and we've had the kyption
pointers. You know, we've had a

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gentleman out there with is that I
was a kid when this started and now

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I'm bringing my grandkids out here to
fish. So we've had those testimonies about

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how long we've been there. That's
this May eleventh. It's coming up the

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Saturday, just a week from this
Saturday eleventh or twelve. It's that a

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week from this Saturday, so May
eleven. Okay, wow, this is

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going to be be big. Now
what do we have to do for this?

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You bring a ride and yourself and
your kids, that's right, right.

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We ask the kids to all bring
someone with them, a family member

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to be well. You got to
say if somebody show off that fish too,

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that's right, that's right. So
that's all they need. We we

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provide a bottle of water if it
gets too warm out there. They have

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a good time. We provide prizes
for all the kids. We have trophies

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for the longest fish in each category. We have three different age groups,

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so wow, we get to compete
against others their age and see who can

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get the longest fish. So we've
got a boy Scout Troops six will be

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out there measuring fish. They're everywhere. Ye're helping, so it's it's a

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good time for all. This is
great. What kind of fish do we

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have out there in the in the
in the pod there are a lot of

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sun perch, a lot of sun
perch. There's some small bass and catfish.

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There's three different categories. Occasionally we'll
see big fish. Sometimes people bring

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their fish they've caught in the lake
and throw in there and we'll get a

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surprise. Some of them catch a
big one. So we've had some nice

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catfish caught up there. Well,
you know, those things will lurk around

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for a while and you know,
a point the hooks until one day you

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got something that's almost as big as
the kid coming out of the water.

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A lot of excitement when they catch
the big fish. Oh yeah, yes.

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Now, registration for that starts at
eight thirty that Saturday morning. They

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can show up early and register and
then the fishing will actually kick off at

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nine o'clock. And we do ask
the parents that come, We want them

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to come and assist the kids,
but we really want the kids fishing,

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and it's all about them fishing and
reeling in the catch and the excitement and

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all that. So the fishing will
start at nine and then go on till

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eleven thirty, and then at eleven
thirty. After that we call them all

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back to the register and then award
the awards and trophies, and then we

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have gifts for all of the kids
that have come to fish and they get

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to pick out fishing tackle and stuff
like that. So it's it's it's quite

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a celebration. Well, that's really
pretty cool, you know when you can

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put generations together and just have that
that bonding moment and just have a good

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I tell you what, you can't
go wrong with fishing, even if you

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don't catch anything. You can't go
wrong with fish, having a great time

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just outside, yeah, and stinking
of things going wrong. Occasionally it will

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rain on us out there, so
we did have a rain date in mind

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the following Saturday. In case it
does turn bad, we'll we'll let you

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know here at the radio station that
morning. If it does look too wet

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to have it, or if there's
too much lightning or something, well,

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I'll be here taking your call if
when that happened, so just call me.

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We'll take care of it. But
here's hoping that we can get it

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off without it well, Hitch,
we want you to catch m Yeah,

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we're trusting for a beautiful day like
even today really nicely. We're really proud

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of Troop six. They come out
and we have measuring sticks for each one

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of them and we've got walkie talkies
for them to communicate the fish and the

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link the size and it's all recorded. So the Dewey Key Club will be

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there for registration and recording all the
fish and the sizes and the categories.

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So it's going to be a great
day. You got this thing button down

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pretty good, don't you. A
lot of kids looking for service hours and

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everything else all kind of comes together. Does it's good to work together with

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these other groups? Oh? Yes, it is. It is now when

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we talk about the Quantas has a
bit of a mission we do, and

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our mission is servicing the children.
The mission of the organization is the children

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of the world. We are really
focused on men string and working too and

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four children of our community, and
we have these events and things for them

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to participate in. But we also
like to recognize them and here it is

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coming up the month of May,
we'll be recognizing them with scholarships and we

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have an event planned at sooner Junior
where we're going to have the recipients come

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and we'll be having a cookout and
then giving the sophomores and seniors and the

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eighth grade outstanding students awards and certificates
and scholarships. Jim, you've been at

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this a little while. This is
labor of love for the most for all

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the quanities, isn't it. It
certainly is. We've got members that have

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been in our club for over fifty
years. We're all dedicated. We have

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a mission to serve our community and
to serve the kids of the area.

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So these scholarships include all the schools
in the county and yes, yes,

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we like to reach out to the
neighboring communities at schools and make sure those

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kids are recognized. Also, now, when I was joking a little bit

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when I said, you guys are
everywhere, but you are, I mean

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you've got the Freedom Past, you
got fish and every You've got Christmas Parade,

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you got the Christmas Parade and wow. And then in the meantime you're

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planning for the next event coming up, and and also talking to new in

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perspective, Kandians, where do you
guys meet, Well, every Wednesday.

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Currently we're at Tri County Tech.
We are there from noon to one.

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All right. Uh. If in
fact because of Tri County spring break or

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summer break or whatever and we're not
able to meet there, we find a

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location somewhere downtown, so we always
are meeting every Wednesday. Now, how

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do you get in? You have
secret handshake? What do you yeah?

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You know, we don't have a
big hazing period or any Hey, welcome

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anybody that has a heart for serving
their community and serving kids. We would

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welcome then to come and see what
we're all about and and just join us

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at noon out Try County Tech.
That people at the front door let you

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know which room to go to,
and we'd be glad to let him see

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what we do. Alrighty, and
pretty much what you see is what you

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gear all over the place that is
just amazing. Everything that they you're able

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to kind of pull together and draw
the community together and then you know,

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in the end share it with the
kids. That's great. Yeah, great,

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gentlemen, thank you very much for
being with us today. You're very

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welcome. Folks. You've been watching
and listening to our community connection. How

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does Tim Howell at Arnold Moore and
DeCamp Punlal home. No, he's