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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Here's a time now for our community
connection right here on K one,

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little one you trust and Claire Bartley
is with us here with pants Independence,

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and that means that race is coming
up very very soon. Now you're doing,

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young, lady, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Oh,

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it's always great to have you in
here, neighbor. We've got a

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great event coming up. It happens
every year about this time. Out this

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time, Yes, people start stretching, getting limbered up and ready to run

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a lot. Hopefully they've been training
for a while so they're ready and walking

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a little bit too. You can
do that too. Tell everybody about Light

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it Up Blue. Okay, well, light it Up Blue. We started

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in the month of April because we're
trying to promote autism awareness, autism advocacy

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and autism acceptance, so we usually
have it at close to the end of

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April, and this year it's on
April twenty second, which is this Saturday.

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The fun run the five k starts
at eight o'clock am and the fun

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run at eight fifteen and it's a
lot of fun just to go to Pantsy

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Independence right there the old Will Rogers
School and very nice facility by the way.

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Yeah, it's getting better all the
time, making all kinds of little

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tweaks and improvements there. I see, yes, And we've got new windows

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in and we're looking forward to the
summer getting bathrooms and flooring and all kinds

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of stuff. Very good, very
good. Now, now when we do

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the light up the Blue, this
is a great way to raise awareness.

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But it does a lot of other
things too, doesn't it. Right,

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So the funds that come in from
lat that Blue help us with our summer

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programs. We do a seven week
summer program for our students and it helps

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with scholarships and paying for field trips
and just general supplies for the summer.

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Oh gosh, I gotta tell you. There are people who have who have

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moved to our town simply because as
to independents exist, and that's that's really

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remarkable. It is. We're pretty
unique in the state and that we take

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children with all different levels of autism. It makes a big difference for a

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lot of families because they can hold
their jobs and their children um start to

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succeed, and so that it's a
big draw. Those little successes every day

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it's whether it's what it's really all
about. You know, when all of

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a sudden the aha comes on.
We'll look at that. Oh I got

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it. There's a victory, and
those victories are pretty commonplace there, and

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that's a great thing. Right.
Yes, we we live for those days

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where someone makes a little progress and
moves forward. Oh yeah, it's great.

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And this is a way you can
move forward, one foot at a

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time. Now, can people still
sign up for the race? Yes,

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they can sign up all the way
until race days. Oh so, well,

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we usually close maybe the website.
Sometimes we close the website the night

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before. But you can register when
you get there. Okay, good,

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What is registration? What's the fee? Um? For the five case thirty

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dollars for the fun runs twenty five
and then for um if you just want

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a T shirt, it is twenty. Oh there you go. We have

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something new this year that oh gosh, yes, she brought the visual leads.

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How's this going? The ladies were
talking about that last week. They've

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been kind of danced around from yard
to yard. They have been a little

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bit so this year. One of
our committee members had the idea of putting

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pinwheels in people's yards and then having
people go online and they can donate to

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get a move to someone else's yard. But they've been pretty popular and they're

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actually really eye catching, so I've
been leaving them a while, so we've

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got the kind of spread all over
we'll be picking up starting to pick them

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up later this week. So well, I've been seeing them, yes,

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and there's several people waiting for theirs, and they'll go out hopefully today,

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and then we'll probably pick them up
Thursday because then we're gonna line Frank Phillips

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with the pinwheels and the signs and
it'll be you know, really really cool

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looking for them races, It really
will. And now this race is great.

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I don't think you've ever had a
really rainy, rainy, rainy day.

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You have for that, we've had
cancel one time, but the rest

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usually been kind of like this,
you know, cool in the morning,

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a little hotter in the afternoon,
just ideal for the racers. They like

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it when it's just that in between
right right, when it's just cool.

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They don't want to sweat too much. But yeah, I don't want no,

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no, you don't want to pull
a muscle. That's never a good

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thing. So pans the independence.
How long have we been in our community

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here, Well, it'll be eleven
years in June. We're really I know,

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you went from new kid on the
block to establish just like that till

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eleven years and down. Now we've
got a new building. More of the

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new building, a newly renovated building
like that. Everything you got, those

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computers moved down to the other end
of town. There's a lot more room.

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Oh yeah, yeah, we spread
out. Oh that is really cool.

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You know. It's a just a
neat little facility that you have there.

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It's right there on Frank Phillips Boulevard
about what the forty seven, forty

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six twenty right there by the little
creek, right and you can't miss it.

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I am please, folks, for
the love of all things good,

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slow down when you're in the neighborhood. That's all I ask YEA. Yeah,

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because we get folks thinking that that's
the drag strip sometimes and can't do

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that. Yeah. We've actually asked
the city recently to slow the slow the

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speed down for the whole day because
we just it's not worth it. You

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have too many little kids it might
like to run. So yeah, and

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you know, if you put in
thirty they think it's still fifty right,

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and I don't know why that is, but we're just we've just been lucky

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so far, Yes we haven't.
We like to stay lucky, they too

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now past the independence is that like
she had been around for eleven years,

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and we are a special school that
it deals with the children in the spectrum

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of autism and we kind of meet
him where they are. Yes, we

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start from where they are and we
take the baby steps that they need to

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take and they can go at their
own pace and make progress as they as

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they're able. We have a lot
of students who who really do well.

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We have several applying for trick any
Tech this year, and we have kids

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that are working in the community.
So it's this is this is please with

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everything. This is something eleven years
ago our community probably couldn't wrap their arms

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around. No, it was I
mean we started, you know, with

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one student, so it's definitely gone
yeah. Yeah, from one student in

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a little daycare room to a big
building indeed, and a lot of success

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stories too. And this is a
great way folks to kind of get introduced

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to all the different ways that pats
to independence lead others to independence. By

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participating in the race or the walk. The walk is a hoot, you

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know, by your house sometimes.
Yeah, we can see them anyway right

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there on the path fighter and they
have fun and and this is just a

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really good fun exercise in order to
show you support. Now you're you're not

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doing that virtual thing where everybody you
know, we're not doing that anymore.

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We don't have to anymore. Yeah, that's a good thing. The racers

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are thankful for that time. Sure
they are. I mean, people can

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race virtually if they want to,
and they can post it to our Facebook

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page, but it won't be part
of the No, it won't be counted

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as part of the race. The
racers have their own kind of community and

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and they're always looking to meet new
people. But it's it's one of those

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things where everybody shows up and the
gang's all here, Oh hey, we

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got a new one, and they're
very welcoming. And the foot racing community

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is just really something else because they're
not competing against each other, they're competing

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against their own times. But they
sure welcome the company. Oh yeah,

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we have a lot of people that
have come back year after year, and

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so that's that's fun because you get
to see them. A lot of them

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are collecting the T shirts. T
shirt and speaking of light up there right

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day, I love that. You
definitely want to get a T shirt.

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You do. If you don't like
to run, you can still get a

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T shirt. Or maybe you got
a hammy, or you got a little

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tingle in the ankle, or you
just want to come out and to say

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watch the runner. If you're welcome
to do that. You know something I'm

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good at that. Yeah, there's
something at which I can excel is to

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watch people run right comment, well, cheer them on, cheer them on.

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At sixty three, my running days
are done and in some but my

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goodness sakes, it's always great to
have you here. What's the website so

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folks can take a look www.
Dot paths to Independence dot org, dot

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org dot org and you'll see la
that blew the race and you can go

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register. You can get pinwheels,
T shirts, whatever you want to do.

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Can they call the school? Yes, you can call the school nine

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one night through three, six ninety
three zero two. I don't think that's

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right, but we'll find it.
You'll get sorry about that, you'll get

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it. Claire Brantley, thank you
for being with us. Shake, shake

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the finwheels. There you go.
You can have those into your yard and

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then you can pay somebody to take
them away. That's right, he'll come

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and get them. That's right there
on the website too. Thank you,

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thank you,