Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is time now for our community connection right here on Gay one, the
one you trust. Miss Laurie. How are you doing today? Fantastic?
How are you sir? How are we doing in Dewey? Even better?
The holidays are coming and you know, I've always get a good time whenever
I go up to Dewey. We always have a lot of fun, whether
it's watching longhorns stampede at a very slow pace, or if it's Christmas time,
which really rocks and Dewey because because we do the parade, we do
the TV and radio portion of the parade every year from the Dewey Hotel.
But there's a lot more going on this Christmas time. And last year you
were the cute, adorable little eld Hi. Don't tell anybody, okay,
but anyway, you got some Christmas goodness to share with this? I sure
do. First off, we're going to start off with the tree lighting in
front of the beautiful Dewey Hotel Museum. It is going to be on November
thirtieth, which is next Thursday, at six pm. We'll start off with
the Dewey School Choir singing outside Caroline doing all that good stuff. And then
of course you'll go into the parlor well you have pictures with Santa, and
then you'll be escorted to the back part or you'll get the surprise bag from
the ELF. Oh my goodness, sakes, find that secret bell inside and
you're going to get a break prize. Oh my goodness sakes. Now,
this is the tree lighting in the tree light. You can't miss this.
It's next Thursday night. Wait at what time? Nests six pm? It's
plenty dark by the plenty dark, and we'll keep you sequestered right there on
the hotel so we can really enjoy it. Oh my goodness, sakes.
That is great. And then of course we've got the parade coming up.
Trade Now, the parade is December ninth, and it's at five thirty pm
and it's downtown, put on by the Dewey Civic Association, and it's of
course Santa is going to be there, probably another ELF. I'm not sure.
We'll see if there's a prize pop up, but other than that,
it's going to be a great time. Hopefully the weather will be conducive for
a great parade and we'll enjoy it. What a lot of people don't know.
For the Signs of Dewey, that parade overperforms every year. It is
nearly one hundred floats at times. I know COVID took a little bit of
a divot out of that, but it came back really strong last year,
it did, and it's going to be even stronger this year, I hope.
So that's what we're counting on. So make sure you put in your
entries for your floats right at City Hall downtown. Ask Miss Cassie. She'll
give you the entry for him. And so we can have even a better
parade. Oh wow, everyone, can anybody not just do we? No,
no, no, We've got wild West folks from both modern time and
the times past, everything from our first responders to churches, to civic groups
in the social clubs and what anybody in it. We would have the Dewey
Marching Band. Oh, I can't wait. They are so good. We're
going to lose a lot of seniors unfortunately. This here so yes, and
so this is going to be really special, especially with the ones at the
choir. You know it's going to be their their last ones for least high
school. This time in school, but it's always a hit, and it's
always so well lit up. I mean, you've got a pict almost like
a Hallmark card. It is downtown Dewey. And when this comes down Don
Tyler Avenue and starts sweeping by the Tom Mixed Museum in the Dewey Hotel,
you got it. And that that that nice little sweeping curve there. It
is awesome. It is just you've really got to see it to believe it.
You'll say, well, you know, doing us look like it'd be
that big for a parade. Well, yes, it is, and it
goes on for a good long time. You've got hometown spirit, sir,
Yes you do. We might be like in our houses and doing our jobs,
but once it's time to come together and celebrate, we're all together.
You know, You're your downtown is really picturesque, It really is, and
it's growing. You start standing, which is really awesome. You've got some
nice little businesses right there on Don Tyler, and then you've got more actually
coming in gift shops, restaurants, you name it, buildings being produced.
So there's going to be Yes, that too, Dewey is popping, sir,
come on in. Oh yeah, what else is fine? What else
we got going. Now we have something that's going to be going on for
a little bit. This one. This is the bricks for the park.
It's the Friends of Dewey are putting together a bunch of fundraising for these special
commendative bricks that you can purchase to be put in our new park, the
Lions Park, which is a caddy corner from the Beautiful Dewey Hotel. News
and so that park is they're just focusing on that one first and they're finishing
up with the sidewalks on the edges. You'll see it is under construction,
so it's not there's some places available to play, but until then, we're
going to have a new entrance, bathrooms, splash pads, a handicap accessible
also for our older friends. There's play in the places to sit, relax
comfortable. It's just going to be definitely a park that you haven't seen around
here before. Well, we're looking forward to that. Now, how do
we go about getting a brick? Yes, sir, What you can do
is just reach people on Facebook, of course Friends of Dewey Parks they'll have
the order forms there and of course other numbers if you want to speak to
somebody personal you know, some people like to do that instead of order online.
Other that or you can come down to city Hall and grab an order
form their way. It's really easy when we love to have you. So
can you put those like in memory of somebody one hundred percent we have?
If they're engraved, you could have so many characters that you could write.
There's also portraits that you could put on there. It just depends on what
you're commemorative. Are commemorating. Wow, that's amazing. So you've got it.
You've got a little with a wiggle room to be creative. Very cool.
But it all goes to the goal of just making that park, say
the Friends of Dewey Parks. That's all we're trying to do is just live
enough our parks to really make our hometown even more special. Well, you
know, I'm looking forward to everyone. We're really focusing on everyone from all
ages. Oh, that is tremendous. You know you want to get in
a splash pad. I know, not right now, all right now,
I might catch cold, correct, but I'll tell you that there's gonna be
some time around fourth July. It's it's going to be that splash pad is
going to be Oh yeah. And there's also what's really cool, there's gonna
be spots for when we have all kinds of events, like for catering trucks.
We'll have hookups there. You have beautiful new bathrooms. I mean,
it's just and you have the library right there, you have downtown accessible to
walk food. It's just going to be great. You know, you mentioned
the hook ups there for the food trugs and things like that. What a
lot of people don't know. If you see do you on any given day
that ends in a hy you say, well, this just seems like a
very nice town to settle down. It Well, it gets pretty darn festive
with car shows, our shows, with parades, with do we heritach Days,
and probably six or seven other events that I'm just skipping my mind.
But downtown is where it happens. I mean Don Tyner Avenue is the place.
We have a brewery there, yeah, right next door of the hotel.
I mean besides that, but we have actual Scissor Tail brewery is on
the east side of Don Tyler. Okay, yes, and so you have
you know, the correct correct and he you know, makes craft beer,
crafts his own beer, and he can also can it there too, You
can walk out with assorted styles right then and there. It's pretty cool.
Indeed, do it in Dewey, Do it in dewey, Dewey, Yes
we can, Dewey, Yes we can. Dewey America as what we call
it around here, and it's a it's it's really something else that lives up
to expectations, supersedes it in many cases too. I want to thank you.
I thank you for having me, for coming down here and sharing this.
I'm smiling, I'm on holiday spirit. I don't know about you all.
I'll probably even go buy a brick too when it's over with my goodness,
all right, thank you, appreciate you