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Five five ninety Bible and good morning, good morning, good morning, good

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morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. It is time now for our

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community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. It's a

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sunny day and I'm thinking Sons sun
Fest. There we go, Carry,

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Carrol, wat and Charles. How
are you guys doing here today? Done

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right? Get up on the microphone
there so I know you got a loud

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Oh he's plenty loud. I guess
Carry, You're gonna do the talking today.

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So what you got up your sleeve? Carry? Oh? What would

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you like to know? We've had
another great SunFest plan? I bet you

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do your due. What would you
like to know about it? Well,

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first of all, I know it's
the first weekend in June. It always

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is, correct. How we got
to kick off on Friday Friday night?

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We are kicking off with some TC
love on the main stage, the high

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Dramatics, the Red Bet Bandits,
and for the kids, we've got some

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the Youth Fest coming and what's desk
Hits. Then we've got the original Goonies

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movie showing. Oh well, that's
like starting it off with a bang exactly.

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I know we're gonna be there.
We usually broadcast live there in the

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afternoon, kind of build the excitement
up for a little bit, and then

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all of a sudden, the Russias
on for everybody to get a corn dog

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or whatever it is that they like, because we have so many concession airs

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there, and then they just hit
everything all at once. They do the

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funnel cake. The smell of the
funnel cake there, Oh my goodness sakes,

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and now I had to put on
three pounds. But we're gonna have

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all kinds of different activities throughout the
course of the week. Now, Saturday

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is a really big day. Saturday
is always a big day. We've got

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a lot going on on Saturday.
We've got i mean both the band shell

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and the main stage. You're filled
with wonderful entertainment. We've got Kevin Knowles

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coming on the main stage, Stacy
and the geriatrics yourself included two thirty something

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like that. Right, Well,
you know, my agent told me to

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be there early, so we have
Anjeanette. You have a lot let it

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ride. Yeah, a lot of
fun. Right and Chase Wilson will in

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Saturday night for the main stage for
us the band Hill. On Saturday,

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We've got three different exercise groups coming. We've got Pound, We've got Zoombat,

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tai Chi, everytt music's coming in. Dan's gonna come play. We've

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got the high school band. I
think it's gonna come fill in a little

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bit for us in another nighttime movie
of Hotel Transylvania three Summer Vacation. I

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like that. I like that.
And we haven't even touched on we have

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for bringing back glow Fest this year. Okay, well you tell us about

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glow Fest. You can do that. Carrie. You kind of came up

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with this idea, didn't I know. I did not come up with this

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idea. Oh I've got a bet
money that you did know. It wasn't

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me. It was a couple of
ladies who are no longer on our committee,

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okay, and they actually came up
with the idea. And this is

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our third year to do it.
It's been a lot of fun. It's

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it's glow paint, black life music, pounding on drums and getting messy and

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having a great time in the dark. It's a lot of fun. It's

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a lot of fun. He just
know you're gonna get dirty, so you

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have paint everywhere that you never thought
possible. It's a lot of fun.

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So between that going on, before
we get into Sunday's festivities, we've got

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we've got the arts and crafts and
all kinds of different artisans there. We

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have over one hundred and ten tables
of arts and crafts this year, so

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you know that's normally we run about
sixty or seventy, so we have a

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lot. Now. I remember once
we had a car show. We're having

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a car show. Absolutely, we're
having a car show. Well, hot

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dog, that's all three days,
isn't it. Yeah. The car show

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will actually be over closer to the
old the old Madison parking lot, okay,

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where we're gonna stage it. We
were the Fertil School District has been

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very kind to let us use that
old Madison parking lot last year and this

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year for the car shows stuff.
I think it's gonna be a lot of

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fun. We've got Chowder Box who's
going to help with food up there and

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so that you don't have to worry
about. And they'll come back down at

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the festival of course, but some
people just aren't festival people unfortunately. I

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understand. You got to meet him
where they are, got to meet him

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where they are. Still want to
make sure that the people at the car

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Shill have the same kind of fun
experience, even though they might not be

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right in the festival, but they're
still part of it. They're still part

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of it yet. Oh yeah,
we're even going to have a car simulator

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this year. Yes, really,
yeah, Charles will that one. But

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I was just so. I was
approached by a local group that has a

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some form of car simulator. I've
seen pictures of it. I'm looking forward

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to seeing it in life. But
you actually get part of the thrill of

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driving a car, a race car
or something like that. It'll be down

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there, so I and the highlight
is the price of it. We're paying

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for it, you're not, Oh
well, okay, it's like everything else

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at SunFest. The vision is for
you to come out and have a good

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time and it doesn't costing thing unless
you want to buy. It's something to

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eat or go with you or take
or take something home. You know.

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The ponies and ponies are our our
donation from from DSR. So the ponies

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are free. This is free.
Most of our activities are set up to

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be free by local sponsors. Wow, you guys got a maid. I

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like that. You know, this
is one of the car shows. It's

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free to come through because it's actually
sponsored by Patriot Auto Group. Nice Now,

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Carrie, we got a way big
Sunday and yeah, because it seems

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like Sunday it's really kind of special
for a lot of people. It is.

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We have a lot of churches that
like to come out and um be

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a part of SunFest. Now we've
kind of gone from having all rock and

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roll or country music to getting in
letting the different you know, different churches

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come in and share with us,
you know a little bit of what they

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like to do. That is way
cool. I mean, I hear nothing

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but great things about that. That's
years our for sure to try it,

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and we had a lot of success
from it. A lot of people thought,

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oh, you're not gonna get anybody
there on Sunday, but that was

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totally wrong. I think we filled
the park even more on Sunday than we

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have in the past. Well,
that's great. I think you're off to

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something which is really good, which
our vision is to actually be the community

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and churches are a part of the
community, so we're inviting as much of

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the community itself. When you look
at our bands, most of our bands

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are local bands because we want to
highlight Bardsville in our surrounding areas because you

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know that's what we support, and
that too supports us. I want to

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point out one of the local guys
that you're going to be having on there.

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Your name is Kevin Knowles. You
had him last year, and Kevin

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does a form of smooth jazz.
He plays an awful lot at a restaurant

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here. I'm not going to give
him up plug because I can't remember,

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but otherwise I would. But this
guy has created I think maybe twelve albums

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already. He produces him himself.
His son is now starting to help him

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with the recording and everything, but
he plays all these instruments by himself.

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You'll see him playing the keyboard and
the electric guitar at the same time,

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and he's just an awesome musician.
So I really would like to invite you

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out to see Kevin and maybe stay
around for me there. Yeah. I

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set the bar kind of low for
the next accident. They can really achieve

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all new heights, but it'll be
a lot of fun. I think it's

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gonna be a lot of fun this
year. Oh indeed, and the price

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is right. Oh and of course
we're looking for just probably the all of

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your friends and neighbors are gonna be. I was surprised first of all when

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we first moved here one how big
Sooner Park really is once you start walking

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in and too just how much stuff
you can fit in Sooner Park and still

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can't fill it. But my god, it you will see all your friends,

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you will see Emily, you will
see neighbors, You'll see people maybe

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you haven't seen for a while from
other towns. Because I know folks from

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Caney, folks from up there in
Independence, they all come down here too.

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And then we get folks from the
southern part of the county, pa

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Huska folks, Barnstall folks, know
a lot of folks all over here.

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So we really capture are part of
the state really well. And thank you.

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And I know Maria Gus is going
yes, yes, Maria, yeah,

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yeah, yeah. And she's been
helping you too, hasn't she Absolutely

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yeah, Maria, And you know
they're a supporter, and she's also logistical

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supporter where she gets this information,
which is really important for us. You

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need to know where everybody's going absolutely, where they coming from, where to

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send them and everything else like that. Carrie, how long you've been with

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the group. I think I've been
here about eight years now, all right,

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eight Charles, how long you've been
I don't know. We were originally

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signed up with my boy, Scott
Troop to do to do groundskeeping. I'm

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gonna say ten to twelve, fifteen
years ago. It's been a long time.

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It was hung around. Uh well, you know, when everybody else

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retired, we decided, hey,
this sounds like fun, so I took

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a promotion. If that's the word
we want to use. Yeah, but

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it's a lot of fun. We
love we love SunFest. We love going

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out and seeing all the people because, like she said, when when you're

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out there on the sidewalk off sudden
you see somebody you graduated with forty years

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ago, when oh you know,
it's it's fun. Oh it is.

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It's kind of like a homecoming thing. Yeah, the biggest outdoor picnic in

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bartlet Fills. We got part of
the state. As a matter of fact,

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now, Carrie, we touched on
something lightly with the kids stuff,

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because we have things that are geared
primarily for kids, and I think you

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will see a lot of kids out
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kids out there. Youth Fest is
totally free for our kids to come out

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with our arts and crafts for the
kids to do. We're gonna do some

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scort gun painting. We're gonna make
frisbees out of paper plates, all kinds

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of yard games. We decided to
kind of go back to your basics of

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your picnicky type games. Giant jingis
some yard dice games, uh different,

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all these kinds of fun. You
name it to, you name it,

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it's gonna be there. Yep.
And then one of our most popular events

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for youth Fest is our phone Party. Everybody wants the foam party. Bubbles,

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bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles,
and we are going to do bubbles

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at least twice on Saturday and once
on Sunday. I must have missed that.

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It is a lot of fun that
we have a great bubble making machine

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that just can make the bubbles come
and the kids love it is a lot

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of fun. Yeah. The picture
on the billboard was actually from one of

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our events where we had the bubble
machine run of the phone machine runs.

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Oh my gosh, it is.
It's fun to play with. It is

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fun to play. I mean the
adults get in there too, so it's

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a lot of fun. Well,
everybody's a kid at sun Fest, that's

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right. So for me, ILL
like going out there because I love the

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kids and working in elementary education,
I get to see my kids from school

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who I might not have seen in
a couple of weeks. So it's it's

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kind of fun for me to be
out there and to see all the different

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kids. Oh that is that is
really a nice little treat. And are

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the aerialists coming back this year?
Not? Ye okay, that's all one

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year. But this year for dog
entertainment, we actually have Barzell Police.

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There's good and bring their dogs out
and so off what they get to do.

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Now, I understand that that's pretty
cool. I understand from the kids

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who've seen that from different schools.
It's it's aces, that's top that's top

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light stuff. Yeah. They actually
Barzel Police approached us about could we come

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out and have a booth. I'm
like, it's your park. But they're

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they're great to work with, you
know, the whole city Barsville is such

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a great supporter a SunFest. But
because they give us a lot to make

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it happen. You know, they
only loan us apart, but they loan

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us a lot of other things to
make the make the festival happen. So

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city Barsel is a great supporter.
Well, you know this supports they at

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Barnlesville in return. I guess Maria
might know that she's got that little people

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counter thing going on there. I
don't know how that works, that science

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stuff, it's just all science.
But anyway, the thing is this brings

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in so many people into our community, and the economic impact for a free

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event like this pays big dividends because
a lot of people staying in hotels,

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people are gonna eat at restaurants,
They're gonna buy something when they're here in

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town. They're definitely gonna buy some
gasoline to get back home exactly. So

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you know, it works out pretty
good. I think you guys had a

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great plan forty years ago. It
wasn't nice, but somebody did. It's

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just been passed on from committee to
committee and it's it's our turn. All

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right. Well, I tell you
why do you guys make it so family

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friendly? And it just feels so
comfortable. It's like an old shoe.

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You're like going, Ah, it's
SunFest. It's about time to kick back,

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relax and just have a lot of
fun. I want to thank you

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for being here with us today.
Appreciate you, Oh absolutely, Oh,

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I tell you anytime. The door
is always open, as we say around

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here, You've been listening to our