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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection right here on Gay one, the

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one you trust. Miss Laurie.
How are you doing today? Fantastic?

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How are you sir? How are
we doing in Dewey? Even better?

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The holidays are coming and you know, I've always get a good time whenever

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I go up to Dewey. We
always have a lot of fun, whether

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it's watching longhorns stampede at a very
slow pace, or if it's Christmas time,

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which really rocks and Dewey because because
we do the parade, we do

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the TV and radio portion of the
parade every year from the Dewey Hotel.

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But there's a lot more going on
this Christmas time. And last year you

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were the cute, adorable little eld
Hi. Don't tell anybody, okay,

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but anyway, you got some Christmas
goodness to share with this? I sure

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do. First off, we're going
to start off with the tree lighting in

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front of the beautiful Dewey Hotel Museum. It is going to be on November

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thirtieth, which is next Thursday,
at six pm. We'll start off with

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the Dewey School Choir singing outside Caroline
doing all that good stuff. And then

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of course you'll go into the parlor
well you have pictures with Santa, and

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then you'll be escorted to the back
part or you'll get the surprise bag from

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the ELF. Oh my goodness,
sakes, find that secret bell inside and

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you're going to get a break prize. Oh my goodness sakes. Now,

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this is the tree lighting in the
tree light. You can't miss this.

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It's next Thursday night. Wait at
what time? Nests six pm? It's

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plenty dark by the plenty dark,
and we'll keep you sequestered right there on

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the hotel so we can really enjoy
it. Oh my goodness, sakes.

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That is great. And then of
course we've got the parade coming up.

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Trade Now, the parade is December
ninth, and it's at five thirty pm

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and it's downtown, put on by
the Dewey Civic Association, and it's of

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course Santa is going to be there, probably another ELF. I'm not sure.

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We'll see if there's a prize pop
up, but other than that,

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it's going to be a great time. Hopefully the weather will be conducive for

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a great parade and we'll enjoy it. What a lot of people don't know.

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For the Signs of Dewey, that
parade overperforms every year. It is

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nearly one hundred floats at times.
I know COVID took a little bit of

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a divot out of that, but
it came back really strong last year,

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it did, and it's going to
be even stronger this year, I hope.

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So that's what we're counting on.
So make sure you put in your

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entries for your floats right at City
Hall downtown. Ask Miss Cassie. She'll

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give you the entry for him.
And so we can have even a better

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parade. Oh wow, everyone,
can anybody not just do we? No,

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no, no, We've got wild
West folks from both modern time and

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the times past, everything from our
first responders to churches, to civic groups

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in the social clubs and what anybody
in it. We would have the Dewey

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Marching Band. Oh, I can't
wait. They are so good. We're

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going to lose a lot of seniors
unfortunately. This here so yes, and

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so this is going to be really
special, especially with the ones at the

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choir. You know it's going to
be their their last ones for least high

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school. This time in school,
but it's always a hit, and it's

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always so well lit up. I
mean, you've got a pict almost like

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a Hallmark card. It is downtown
Dewey. And when this comes down Don

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Tyler Avenue and starts sweeping by the
Tom Mixed Museum in the Dewey Hotel,

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you got it. And that that
that nice little sweeping curve there. It

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is awesome. It is just you've
really got to see it to believe it.

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You'll say, well, you know, doing us look like it'd be

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that big for a parade. Well, yes, it is, and it

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goes on for a good long time. You've got hometown spirit, sir,

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Yes you do. We might be
like in our houses and doing our jobs,

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but once it's time to come together
and celebrate, we're all together.

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You know, You're your downtown is
really picturesque, It really is, and

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it's growing. You start standing,
which is really awesome. You've got some

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nice little businesses right there on Don
Tyler, and then you've got more actually

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coming in gift shops, restaurants,
you name it, buildings being produced.

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So there's going to be Yes,
that too, Dewey is popping, sir,

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come on in. Oh yeah,
what else is fine? What else

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we got going. Now we have
something that's going to be going on for

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a little bit. This one.
This is the bricks for the park.

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It's the Friends of Dewey are putting
together a bunch of fundraising for these special

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commendative bricks that you can purchase to
be put in our new park, the

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Lions Park, which is a caddy
corner from the Beautiful Dewey Hotel. News

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and so that park is they're just
focusing on that one first and they're finishing

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up with the sidewalks on the edges. You'll see it is under construction,

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so it's not there's some places available
to play, but until then, we're

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going to have a new entrance,
bathrooms, splash pads, a handicap accessible

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also for our older friends. There's
play in the places to sit, relax

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comfortable. It's just going to be
definitely a park that you haven't seen around

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here before. Well, we're looking
forward to that. Now, how do

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we go about getting a brick?
Yes, sir, What you can do

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is just reach people on Facebook,
of course Friends of Dewey Parks they'll have

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the order forms there and of course
other numbers if you want to speak to

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somebody personal you know, some people
like to do that instead of order online.

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Other that or you can come down
to city Hall and grab an order

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form their way. It's really easy
when we love to have you. So

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can you put those like in memory
of somebody one hundred percent we have?

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If they're engraved, you could have
so many characters that you could write.

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There's also portraits that you could put
on there. It just depends on what

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you're commemorative. Are commemorating. Wow, that's amazing. So you've got it.

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You've got a little with a wiggle
room to be creative. Very cool.

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But it all goes to the goal
of just making that park, say

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the Friends of Dewey Parks. That's
all we're trying to do is just live

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enough our parks to really make our
hometown even more special. Well, you

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know, I'm looking forward to everyone. We're really focusing on everyone from all

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ages. Oh, that is tremendous. You know you want to get in

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a splash pad. I know,
not right now, all right now,

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I might catch cold, correct,
but I'll tell you that there's gonna be

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some time around fourth July. It's
it's going to be that splash pad is

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going to be Oh yeah. And
there's also what's really cool, there's gonna

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be spots for when we have all
kinds of events, like for catering trucks.

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We'll have hookups there. You have
beautiful new bathrooms. I mean,

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it's just and you have the library
right there, you have downtown accessible to

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walk food. It's just going to
be great. You know, you mentioned

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the hook ups there for the food
trugs and things like that. What a

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lot of people don't know. If
you see do you on any given day

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that ends in a hy you say, well, this just seems like a

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very nice town to settle down.
It Well, it gets pretty darn festive

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with car shows, our shows,
with parades, with do we heritach Days,

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and probably six or seven other events
that I'm just skipping my mind.

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But downtown is where it happens.
I mean Don Tyner Avenue is the place.

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We have a brewery there, yeah, right next door of the hotel.

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I mean besides that, but we
have actual Scissor Tail brewery is on

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the east side of Don Tyler.
Okay, yes, and so you have

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you know, the correct correct and
he you know, makes craft beer,

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crafts his own beer, and he
can also can it there too, You

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can walk out with assorted styles right
then and there. It's pretty cool.

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Indeed, do it in Dewey,
Do it in dewey, Dewey, Yes

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we can, Dewey, Yes we
can. Dewey America as what we call

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it around here, and it's a
it's it's really something else that lives up

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to expectations, supersedes it in many
cases too. I want to thank you.

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I thank you for having me,
for coming down here and sharing this.

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I'm smiling, I'm on holiday spirit. I don't know about you all.

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I'll probably even go buy a brick
too when it's over with my goodness,

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all right, thank you, appreciate
you