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Welcome. It is time now for
community connection right here on k the one

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you trust, and I am joined
with a Champagne king and she is a

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here from Crying County Tech Foundation.
Yes, sir, put the lot Foundation

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in there because foundation has been busy. How you been. It's been a

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while since I've seen you. It
has been a while, and we've been

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busy. We just wrapped up our
end of the year reporting and now we're

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kicking off our awards and acknowledgment campaign
and then we'll be rolling into a golf

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campaign soon. Well, how are
we doing with all this? Wow?

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Great, it has been. It's
been great. So we're actually celebrating our

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fifty fifth anniversary this year, which
is exciting. So Tri County was built

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in nineteen sixty seven and then we
were established in nineteen sixty nine, so

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we're coming into our fifty fifth year. And originally we were established to support

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our nursing students, and over time
we now support all students you need tuition

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assistance, food assistants, or emergency
aid, but our nursing students still continue

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to be the largest population we serve. Indeed, you know this is great

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when students attend Tri County Tech.
One of the big I think selling points

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is one, it's a fantastic institution
for learning, but two, you're not

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going to walk away with a truckloaded
debt when you finish up school there thanks

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to the work of the foundation and
just how everything has been put together to

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make it work well for everyone.
That's right. So the point of Tri

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County Tech is for it to be
sort of some short term classes and to

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leave with a certification or some sort
of credentials so we can get you to

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work. Our high school students attend
for free, subsidized by taxes, and

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then our adult students by tuition,
and if they apply for assistance and qualify,

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they get up to a two third
scholarship from the foundation. So yeah,

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we're there to support them. So
you've been busy awarding different entities,

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different things, and also accepting gifts
and donations to sure. Yes, we're

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happy to always accept gifts. Nice
bots lit up on hell. Well,

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you know that's great because there are
always people who are ready to give in

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our community, which is fantastic,
and many of them they stink it's okay,

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you don't put a name to it. We're good and that's another cool

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thing too. Sure, there's lots
of ways to give. We accept online

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payments and we in person by mail. We're really starting to promote planned giving,

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which is three or four oh one
K or your IRA or you can

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do that all kinds of different stocks
gifts. We've received the stock gifts recently,

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so there. You can name us
in your will or a state plan.

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You can name us as a beneficiary
of a life insurance policy. There's

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lots of ways to give to us. It doesn't have to necessarily be out

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of your pocket. One of the
things that people are doing if they can

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is a thing called an endowment,
and I understand that that works pretty well

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too. Endowments are essential for track
these growth and stability. We'll try County

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Tech Foundations growth and stability. So
you would donate a principal amount of money

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that we would put then into an
endowment fund at the Bartasoo Community Foundation,

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and then we just pull the interest
earned off of that to award a scholarship

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to a student every year, so
that could go on potentially wherever in perpetuity.

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As long as the foundation is here, we are able to awarden a

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scholarship in your name to students and
mean, so that's pretty darn good.

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Yes, So what's the main focus
right now is we're sitting here right now,

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summer begins. Summer begins. So
as I said, we just had

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Try County Tech just had graduation,
so we got a lot of students out

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the door. Then there are a
few students that have programs that start in

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this summer, but mostly we'll kick
off in August and that's we'll start awarding

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all of our scholarships again to students
as they come in and then those are

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paid at the semester. But we
are trying to raise money so that we

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can give those scholarships out by hosting
our second annual golf tournament, which is

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coming up this fall. Let's talk
about that because you did the first annual

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All tournament last year, and I
understand that worked out really well. It

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was a huge success. We were
extremely proud of how well it went off,

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and we raised a little over thirty
eight thousand dollars, which provided twenty

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one scholarships to full time students.
Wonderful, and it was very well received.

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We received a lot of feedback from
our sponsors and our teams about how

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much fun it was It was just
a nice tournament that included lunch, that

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included your mulligans. There were any
gimmick holes. You just got to go

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out and play nice round of golf
at Hillcrest Country Club. And so we're

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going to do that again this year
on October fourth. No stress, just

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fun, just fun, fun swinging
for students is what we call it.

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See what you did there. I
like that from the help of our marketing

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department, and you know, it
seems like it's really good because you know,

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you always have a good time out
there at the course and usually we

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have great weather for this. What's
the date on it again? It's October

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fourth. Oh, that's beautiful.
That's right after the heat breaks that you

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get the nice breeze, lots of
sunshine, low humidity. Well, you

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picked a good one. We picked
a good one. And it's going to

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be on a Friday, and it'll
be midday. So hookie on Friday on

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Friday, Yes, lunch at eleven
shotguns startedan Wow, that's going to be

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really fun. Now how do we
find out about that? I mean,

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where can we go to sign up? If we've got to ford them?

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You know, we've got folks here
that they sign up a lot a golf

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community. They're just looking for the
next one. So how can you get

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there? Fab four it. So
our sponsorships and registration are both available online.

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That's Tri County tech dot edu slash
golf is the easiest way to get

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there. Great, And what is
it for an individual or so a team

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is one thousand dollars and that includes
a whole sign that includes all your meals,

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your mulligans. Again, there's no
gimmicks when you get there, there's

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no raffles, there's no just eat
and play and have eat and play.

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You get you know, golf cart, beverage cart, and then merchandise bags.

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So yeah, are nice merchandise bags
too. Now we want a sponsor,

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we go to the same page,
same page. I understand we probably

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have different levels of sponsorship that are
available for whatever pocketbook your company has or

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has. Yep, we have multiple
levels. We have title sponsors, driving

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range, petting, green, beverage
cart, lunch and we actually have a

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few sponsors already, so I feel
like I should give them a show to

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do that. Yeah, and so
our title sponsor is Ascension Saint John's Great

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and then we have driving sponsor,
which is our best and be Okay Financial

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is our beverage cart sponsor, Conicco
Phillips is our petting Green sponsor, and

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then Trudy Credit Union is our lunch
sponsor. But we still have multiple sponsorships

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available at those different levels. All
right, so polcha, I know you

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listen because every time this is on, we got the little gage. So

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if you're saying I'd like to be
a part of this case, sign up.

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And if you have a business or
you are in a position to make

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a decision for your company by all
means, you know, drop a little

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line and say how can we do
this and Champagne will help you out.

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Yes. Online again is try County
Tech dot edu. You can call try

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County Tech directly and get a hold
of me if you'd like to ask some

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questions or if you want to come
in and fill out the regist, I

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can be happy to fill that out
for you. See you in person.

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Now if we just want to make
a gift and you know, and just

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not play golf because we don't have
any game, you know what I mean,

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can we do that too? Of
course, again, you can do

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that online, in person or by
mail, and that's just try County Tech

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dot edu slash giving right now,
do you have a corporate people to help

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out with your foundation and if so, how do they do that with annual

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gifts or one time gifts or can
they get involved in a foundation or in

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endowment I mean endowment for the founding
through the foundation. Yeah, we have

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corporate sponsors that donate to us regularly
and in Knicco, Phillips, Phillip sixty

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six, a eppso or regular sponsors. We have people who do gifts and

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kinds. A Quick Trip foundation does
gas cards. So there's lots of corporate

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sponsorships good that we receive annually.
You get a day off. It sounds

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like you're busy. We're busy all
the time. But that's good. It's

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easy when you love what you do. It's easy when you're busy, that's

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for sure. You don't have any
time to worry about anything else. It's

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like done, we got enough,
Oh good, we got more coming in.

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Let's take care of that. One
campaign to the next, one campaign

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to the next. And you know, DRAI County Tech is a great uh

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not only a institution of learning,
but it's also a wonderful facility. Here's

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what happened. Whenever I go in
there, I said, well, hey,

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that looks like a nice building,
and I get in, it's like,

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how did you make it so big
on inside when it doesn't look that

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big on the outside. It's amazing. You guys really do wonders with your

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space. It's huge. Yes,
and we're actually renovating right now to increase

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capacity in our health wing. Oh
yeah, so all of our health service

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wing programs are getting updated technology too, So that's exciting. Well, that

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is exciting. Increased capacity, increase
graduation rates, which is really the most

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important. Oh it is? It
truly is. I Now, moms and

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dads, you got your teenagers kind
of roam in the house and you wish

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they were doing something. I know
this because I have seven kids. But

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if you know, you're thinking about
your sophomore, your freshman, your junior,

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think about some classes that they might
want to be able to take a

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look at at try County Tech.
And all you have to do is go

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to try County Tech dot edu.
That's correct and it's easy to navigate.

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You can find out really a lot
and what might be good for your youngster.

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And who knows young adults too young
adults is going to say eighteen to

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twenty four, eighteen to twenty four
of those people that maybe went to school

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and decided that wasn't for them,
or went out to work and decided they

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wanted to do something different. We
have adult programs that I think last year,

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oh I don't want to miss quote, but maybe it was sixty eight

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year old. We had from sixteen
to sixty eight I think was last year's

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statistics. So we serve people of
all ages, not just high school students.

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That doesn't surprise me because one people
are living longer and two people are

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working longer. They were looking through
the Bible and they couldn't find that part

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about thou shalt retire. It wasn't
the eleventh commandment'll do there, and they

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think said, well, I want
to be relevant, I want to be

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doing things, and by all means, you know, one thing as great

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as these certificate programs that you have, because there are people who have all

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kinds of general knowledge, right,
but to have it something that has a

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piece of paper saying yes, I'm
very well qualified to do this specific thing

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stands out in front of an employer
when you're presenting yourself as a candid it

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for a job, and it's just
really remarkable the different certificate programs you haven't

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There are several programs from shop which
is like automotive, auto collision, welding,

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precision machining, to cosmetology and marketing
and BioMed. I mean, if

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there's a gam at teacher prep,
that just endless and less options. You

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mentioned a couple of things there that
weren't even around ten years ago. They're

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always encoding, cutting edged up there. But just for between the you know,

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the adults out there. I've never
met an unemployed welder. So if

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you've got a youngster who's thinking,
I don't know really what I want to

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do. Maybe I want to work
with my hands, I want to look

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into that. I've never seen an
unemployed welder. Probably one out just to

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make me mad, but I've never
seen one. Yeah, that's a highly

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highly sought after career. Especially it's
almost like a surgeon for metal. There

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you go. I don't know about
that. Might not be it just sounds

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good, I don't know, but
it is is good. But Champagne,

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if folks want to get a hold
of you to learn more about the foundation,

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of course they can go to the
website for the golf thing, but

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they have questions a little bit more, you know, in depth. Can

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they just get ahold of you through
the website. Sure, there's a contact

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us form at the bottom of all
of our landing pages. You can also

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email me directly, which is Champagne
dot can at Tri County Tech dot edu,

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which might be hard to remember.
We have a generic email foundation at

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Tri Countytech dot edu. It might
be easier for you. It goes right

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to you. Or you can reach
out to me on my office number which

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brings to my phone and that's nine
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four. Wonderful. Anything else we
need to cover? I think that's it

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might really Yeah, well, I
tell you what. Remember, folks,

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golf have fun October fourth, four
when it's nice and it's all swing for

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students. There you go. I
like that. Try County Tech. Champagne.

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Thank you for being with us,
Thanks for having me. Always a

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pleasure. Oh great, We've got
more of the show coming up in a

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little bit. And of course our
program has been brought to you in part

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by our good friends at Arnold Moore
and Nikamp Funeral Home right here on K

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one, the one you trust,