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We'll see if we can make you a winner next week. Now we're
going to jump on the telephone. We have Andrew and we have Walker on
the phone right now and they're out at Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort.
They had a huge New Year's Eve party and we got Andrew first. Andrew,
are you recuperated from New Year's Eve yet? Oh? Man? It
was a I guess, for lack of a better word, it was a
blast. I mean, we've never had a party like that. It was
a party in the Events Center. People had a lot of fun. Johnny
Holme band delivered as always, and I think we might have sold the most
tickets ever or at New Year's for a New Year's Eve event. If you
were here, it was like unbelievable. We've never had so many people like
up and dancing and just enjoying the show like that ever in our history.
The nice thing is that party is over, but the parties are just getting
started. We got so many fun things that are coming here in twenty twenty
four. Going to talk with Walker about some of those in a bit,
but right now, let's talk about the giving back program for January. I
think that that is an amazing program every month. But this month, let's
talk about what you guys are giving back too. Yeah, this month we're
giving back to Special Olympics of South Dakota. So as always, if you
use your Resort Club card, take it up to the Resort club when you
come in, give them ten dollars and they'll put ten dollars of slop play
on your card, and that ten dollars will go directly towards Special Olympics.
I love that. That is really cool and it's a different organization each month's
Special Olympics. This month, great organization. If you get a chance,
get out there, make a contribution. And if they're not members of the
Text Club, this is the month they get signed up. And you got
five hundred reasons to do that, don't you. Yeah, it's quite the
intent of this month. For sure. We are giving two people five hundred
dollars Amazon dot Com gift cards. Hell, so that's a lot of Amazon.
Those are a lot of packages on your doorstep after Christmas, that's for
sure. And that means if there was something you didn't get for Christmas,
you can get it yourself, right exactly. Yeah, And so all you
have to do is to join the Text Club is text the word falls to
two one seven seven seven seven, and then once you do that, there
are a few like simple opt in steps and that's it. We usually only
text you about twice a month. Yeah, so we try, we try
not to bug get too much. And that's it. Anybody who's in the
Text Club is automatically entered to win, so that's it. So if you're
already in it, you're already in the contest. If you're not in our
tech slub, join now, because as you said, five hundred bucks,
that's nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure. And everybody loves Amazon for
the most part. And it's so easy to do it. Just send the
word falls fa l ls falls like soup falls, like grand falls, send
that word to the number two one seven seven seven seven, and you text
that over. You're entered. It's super it's simple. And we're going to
chat with Walker now about some fun stuff coming up later. This month,
we've got Corey and the Fireflies and Ever Clear, and we've got a couple
of tickets left. If somebody listening maybe hasn't got them, they could get
a ticket right now, couldn't they. Walker, Yes, they could one
of two ways. You can either go out into our gift shop and order
them there and they will help you through that process there. Or you can
go out online and check it out at Grand Falls Casino Resort dot com and
then you go out to the event center tab out there and they'll show it
right there as well. And again that's the next concert coming up. That's
the twenty seventh, Is that right of January? Yes, it is twenty
seventh of January, starting at seven pm, doors at six. It's going
to be a fun time that is sneaking right up as well. And I
know on the ad it's talking about it's cold in January, but it's going
to be in the nineties at Grand Falls. That's because the music is from
the nineties. So if anybody didn't quite get what that meant, that's what
that means. And it's great music. It's going to be great fun Ever
Clear and Corey and the Fireflies, and then as we turn the page to
February, we've got Sawyer Brown and then the very next night, Grand Funk
Railroad. Let's talk about that fun weekend. That's going to be a good
time. Yeah, back to back shows. Friday, February twenty third is
Sowyer Brown. We are very close to a sellout, so if you're really
wanting to go see that show, you better get them sooner rather than later.
And then Grand Funk Railroad we still have a few seats left as well.
That is the very next day, Saturday, February twenty fourth. Both
shows started eight. Very nice. I'm gonna make it easy for folks to
find tickets. I'll throw a link on our Facebook page Walker Andy, thank
you guys for your time today. You welcome John. Yeah, thank you
again. Grand Falls Casino and Golf Resort. They're just east of Sue Falls
and they've got so many fun things happening. I'm gonna throw a link to
make it easy to find tickets at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook
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Excited to visit with Alex Levoy. He's with a company called Via, and
if you the buses and Sioux Falls, you might have noticed that there's a
better experience and we've got some really cool new things that are coming to town
as well. Alex, congrats on Via partnering with soup Fall's metro buses and
all the cool things you guys have coming to town here. I think that's
cool. Yeah, thanks so much for having me John. We're really excited
about the partnership with supe Falls and we're off to great starts in the new
year. We transition into cover service just a few days ago. Now,
the company has been around a long time. You guys are new in this
area. But you're not new to this industry at all. You guys are
kind of the groundbreakers that are doing this all over the place. Yeah,
that's right. We are partnering with over seven hundred cities around the world at
this point and have been doing bringing better technology to cities to help improve their
public trendsit now for quite a while. When we're really really excited about the
opportunity to do so with sup Faul and something that's kind of new in this
area, been doing it just a little while is the on demand service.
And you guys are going to make that process a little smoother, a little
easier, and enhance that quite a bit. Let's talk about what the on
demand service even looks like. Yeah, definitely, that's a great question.
So the man service is it is really part of a growing trend for the
most innovative transit sort of approaches or agencies in the United States. And what
it is. It's a way to book an on demand shuttle trip or a
bus trip through a smartphone application and SAM on Demand, which is the suit
falls on demand service. It's currently just a Saturday only service to cover up
for for some times in which there aren't quite as high bus frequencies, and
it lets riders to go from corner to corner where they'd like to go,
pick them up within a couple of blocks of their their pickup location, and
drop them off where they'd like to go, and you book all that.
You can track the entire trip through your smartphone application. It's also available for
writers who might not have a smartphone over the phone and it's a really sort
of seamless easy process. And part of our division we we've aligned on the
suit Falls is that we we would make this on demand service a larger and
larger part of the seup falls trends that network over time. So currently just
Saturday service. We'd like to expand that in the months to come, and
we'll have more to say hopefully soon on that very nice How far in advance
if somebody would like to do the on demand do I need to know a
week in advance, a couple of days in advance, an hour in advance,
what does that look like? You can do it? It truly is
on demand, So if you'd like the book as much as five or ten
minutes in advance, you can do so. We'll usually have a vehicle available
for you within a ten maybe sixteen minute most of wait time, so it
really is available pretty much on demand, though if you'd like to plan further
in advance, we also offer that option, and you can do that if
you have an appointment to get to or something else that's a bit more time
sence it. I love that. I feel like that is a great service
that's going to be extremely welcome, and I'm glad that you guys are going
to expand that and make that even a bigger part of what you do with
SU Area Metro and your relationship with them. I love that. Yeah,
we're certainly excited. We think it's part of definitely, as I mentioned,
a broader trend we're seeing in the United States where great transit agencies are using
a mix of fixed strout buses, the traditional six stout bus, and on
demand services together to make sure that they maximize the geography that they can cover
in cities, but also just make it easier for writers to use the transit
network. And I think we've seen really enthusiastic reception to these sets of services
in other places. If somebody would like to learn more, is there a
website they can go to, or maybe the app if they'd like to download
that, where do we find the information to do all of that? Yeah,
you can download the app in the Apple App Store or the Google Play
Store. It's really easy to download and you can try the on demand service.
You can also plan your bus routes right there in the app. So
we definitely encourage suit Falls residents to get in there and download that app.
It's going to be hopefully one of their go to apps to write the trend
of the network and what do we look for in the app store? Is
it under sam like Seweria Metro or what are we looking for in there?
Yeah, if you just search for Sewerya Metro and the app store, it
should be the first result that pops up. Very very nice. Thank you
so much for taking the time to share this, and I think it's really
cool, exciting stuff in the works here for twenty twenty four and we're excited
to help you guys share share it with the people listening here. Great,
thanks so much having down work that it is well. Absolutely again, if
you'd like to know more, I'll throw a link to make it easy to
find. We shared a press release just earlier this week, but I'll share
some more information at Facebook dot com. Slash Sunny Radio at Facebook dot com
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Learn more now at mintervention dot com. This day in Sue Fall's history is
brought to you by the Sioux Falls Fun Page, West Sue Studios, and
Sunny ninety three point three. It was on this day, January fifth,
nineteen seventy eight. January Jones was born in the Siux Falls area. Betty
Draper from the hit TV show Me Bad Men, used to be a lifeguard
at Wildwater West right here in Sue Falls, our very own January Jones now
an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress. She was born and raised right here
in Sue Falls, graduating from Roosevelt High School in nineteen ninety six. She
then moved to New York to pursue a career in modeling and eventually made her
way into acting. She might best be known for her role as Betty Draper
in the AMC hit show mad Men, but Jones is a bona fide supermodel
and internationally renowned actress. We're so proud to see the awesome achievements January Jones
has accomplished from her time as a young lady walking the halls of the Empire
Mall. Happy birthday to January Jones. This day in Sue Falls History has
been brought to you by the Sue Falls Funk Page, West, Sue Studios,
and Sunny ninety three point three. Invite your friends and family over to
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