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All right, good morning, good
morning, good morning, and welcome,

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welcome, welcome the time now but
a little sunshine in your life because we've

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got our friends here from SunFest.
How are we doing kids? Oh my

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goodness sakes, you know, we
were kidding around because somebody has always told

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me that there's maybe a little precipitation
at one period might be ever so light.

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We're in Sunfast and you thought about
moving it up to hugh La Lake.

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It was an awful we made to
help out the city. I mean,

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well, Carrie, you've been here
ever since I've been here, and

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Charles you've been here last couple of
years as well. And it is great

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to see familiar faces here with SunFest
because that means summer is really coming.

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It is coming fast. Oh,
so tell us a little bit about SunFest.

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What we've got going on? Oh
what would you like to know?

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We've got a lot going on.
How are we kicking things off? First

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with gosh, we've got we've got
bands, we've got we've got bands,

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we've got food. It looks like
the same, but it's never the game's

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never the same. Oh it's not. You know where we do the live

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broadcast and we do a big old
T shirt giveaway just before we officially opened

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it up, and everything else like
that, and uh, you know about

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the time I think a guy or
all figured out and go oh hey wow,

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look at that that move around a
little bit good? Hey creat that

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way. You know, you you
got to come by and see it because

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every presentation is going to be unique. Now you've got all of your vendors

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all lined up and all your tab
people. Absolutely, we and for our

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vendors. We actually have so many
vendors this year we've had to take and

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move them to where the old Midpark
was. Oh but right, have a

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lot of people doing in the in
that area. It is. It's awesome.

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Well that is great. You know, the first time we attend,

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we've only been here for four years, but the first time we attended,

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we got a good leg stretching.
It was good. It was a good

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nice walk, weather was beautiful,
and you know, you got to see

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just a lot of needs to the
beauty. But you got to see your

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friends, You got to meet new
people, and you know, you got

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to see just a variety of what
is available in Bartlesville and in Oklahoma because

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all of the folks they have their
tents out there, you have your your

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your artisans, and then you also
have other folks out there too. It's

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great. I think we have like
thirty five nonprofits anywhere from DHS to the

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Boy Scouts and everybody else are going
to be out there to let everybody know

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what's available in the in their community. Now, Carrie, how hard of

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a job is this to line everything
up? Because it just gets bigger and

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bigger every year. It does get
bigger and bigger, and it takes a

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lot of people to help pull this
off. And we're all volunteers, so

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it's we need volunteers to help run
things. We need volunteers, you know,

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just for everything pretty much. Wow. I mean we're not paid.

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We do this because we want to
do this. And how long you've been

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doing this? SunFest is how many
years old for Sunfests? This is our

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forty barthday? Oh oh okay,
good well that's a good start start.

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Yeah, it was. It was
originally a maybe body. It was a

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history. It actually started at Johnstone
Park the first year huh, the old

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tr Debut group put it on and
they took a year off and then they

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moved it to Sooner Park and it's
been blossoming ever since, other than the

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year we had to take off for
COVID. Yeah, yeah, that was

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that was a good downer. Yeah, that wasn't very much downer. But

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you know the thing is that it's
always a good time and you never run

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out of smiles there. Now that's
kind of like, you know, instant

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smile outside shine and it really is
wonderful, and of course the music is

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awesome. Who do we have with
some of our main entertainers coming up pig

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here? Oh, let's see if
on Friday night we have like TC love

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of coming into play, the High
Dramatics, Redbud bandits um at the bandshell,

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we have Operation Eagle picking us off
there. Philip's Gymnastics is going to

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be there on Friday night. They
always kind of put on a nice display

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that is. So we've got the
movie Goonies that we're gonna show the Yea,

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the original movie that takes me back
to high school, So we have

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that on Friday night. On Saturday, we have Kevin Knowles, we have

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Stacy and the Geriatrics. We have
our lovely Tom David record artist Tom David

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and Jeanette Webster. And the evolution
is going to be there. Let it

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ride. Sheriff. You know something
I tell everybody my sheriff can out sing

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your and by the time they hear
Sheriff Scotto and build out a few tunes,

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go okay, yeah, yeah,
he's my money. Yeah, you

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win the bad We've got local Chase
Wilson can be out there with nice Saturday

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at the bandshell. We have some
fitness groups coming out to do stuff.

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We've got music out there as well. Saturday night. We have Hotel truns

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Sylvania three summer vacation that we're going
to play because we kind of wanted to

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get back to the lawn chair lemonade
feel of SunFest and what it used to

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be is the backyard picnic type the
biggest picnic and state type deal. Oh,

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I believe that we want to those
roots make it more picnicky and fun.

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Um. So we've got a lot
of fun things going on the whole

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weekend. See. Do you have
a fellow by name of Joseph Blaude that's

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going to be performing out there too. I believe he's a jazz artist.

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Not quite sure? That quite sure? Okay, Well others double check.

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You've been trying to hit a ride
with me for a long time, but

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no spot. Yea, yeah,
well that's cool. SunFest is great.

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Forty one years and still going strong. That is just unbelievable. I mean,

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this is like our signature event here
as we you know, here in

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the twenty first century, you've bet
half you know, half of your existence.

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So this is really a cool thing. So we have a lot of

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people who move into our area every
year, as you know. And if

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you haven't been to SunFest, you
got to bring the whole family. And

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I want to stress family because it
is a family of and far more so

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than you'd ever imagine. You don't
have to worry about influences that might be

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for the kids because everything is kid
friendly, you know the fun part.

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This year we actually had Barslod Police
Department reach out to us and they wanted

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to be one of our nonprofits.
We said, okay, now here's the

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deal. Though, you don't get
to be cops. You just get to

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come out and shake hands. Are
gonna bring their dogs, Oh yeah,

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they can show what the dog with
the animals will do. But they don't

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get to be cops unless you know, something happens. Because we have a

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security I'll comb the security professionals come
out into security for us and they do

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a great job. So yeah,
we're gonna have the police, local police

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and the Sheriff's department out there Waterfall
just to meet, just to meet a

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local law enforcement to let them know
we don't We have a great group of

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ladies and men out there working in
the in the field, you know.

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Carry they got their little thing that
they do downtown. Maybe they're gonna get

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some pointers from you all. Maybe
Carrie, how long you've been with it

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here about a minute? Yeah,
I'm not sure if it's eight years.

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Well, yeah, I just know
that you were really gung home when I

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first came into town. You haven't
lost any of that energy. Oh well,

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thank you. Yeah, yeah,
I love it. And Charles,

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I don't know if you even sleep
because when this thing starts coming around and

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you guys got to get together,
get your committees going. I mean,

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it's like a house of fire.
It's it's it's a challenge, but it's

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a lot of fun. It is. That's it's a strange thrill force,

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a strange it's like the wildest roller
coaster you could ever jump on. Oh

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I imagine it is, because you
know, you've got a lot of uncertain

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you know that COVID would that was
that was not nice, But we worked

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around that. We did that.
You guys did a fabulous job. We

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came back bigger and better than ever
we did. And you know I gave

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him five pounds just smelling the food. You know, in the fun things

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you just talked about, families were
based upon come out and spend the afternoon

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for free, because unless you want
to eat, or unless you want to

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buy something, everything is free,
you know, with the music's free,

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the ponies are free, the children's
games are free. Everything out there is

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based upon free unless you just want
to go buy something from the marketplace or

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buy food, So you can come
out and enjoy it without a price,

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if if that's what you want to
do, and even that is very reasonable

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in comparison to it where you might
be going elsewhere, because you know,

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we keep it so that folks want
to keep coming back. Yeah. Absolutely,

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But I said that's so it takes
a lot of sponsors to pull this

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off. You know, that's you
know I had to do this last year.

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I had to check to see who
had the best cheese steak, then

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who had the best brought and then
you know who had the best curly fries.

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It was a tie. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to do it.

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So I'm gonna have to come out
and do my testing again. My kids

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are gonna go say you watch out, Dad's eating man. We have some

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of the same vendors, we have
some new vendors. You know, everything

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changes a little bit every year.
So but the specialty is the music.

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And I don't know where you got
that big sun stage with the big sunshine

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on it, but boy, I
tell you what, that big stage is

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awesome and you have probably the best
sound crew I've ever heard, and it

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just it speaks for itself. This
is a big world class of end don

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Donnie in the group does a great
job that putting on the sound for us.

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That they make their side of an
easy for us is all I can

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say. You know something, Donnie
looks pretty relaxed when he's running in that

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control board, but I know he's
going like a hurricane to get that thing

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set up just so it's perfect,
and he won't let her go until it's

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perfect because he's a he's a perfectionist. But it's really kind of neat to

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see him just go. Yeah,
you get a chance to see him,

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he might relax for a moment in
the sound booth tent. So just way

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about him and saying good on you
because they work so hard. Absolutely,

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that's absolutely said. The stage will
start going up Thursday. It'll change from

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the normal part to to SunFest and
you know when we go to bed Sunday

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night, it'll be like it never
happened except for the memories and the and

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the and the thoughts about it.
Are we gonna do it a special thing

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on Sunday like we did last year? We are, we are. We're

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gonna have some of the local churches
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and so we're kind to do it. That's what Sunday will be is

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those the local churches and the other
groups that want to come out and perform.

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We have the main stage and the
bandshell booked on Sunday, so we'll

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we'll we'll be hopping on Sunday.
Church is kind of popular around here.

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Church is very popular around here.
I tell that to everybody that they I'm

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from originally from up North. I'm
trying to live it down. But you

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know, when they say, well, what's there to do? In Oklahoma,

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so well, you know, even
getting pretty good with God because there's

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a church on every block. I'm
like Illinois, where there's a bar on

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every block, right, So it's
kind of kind of reverse. But it's

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also a great place to raise families. And this avenue of fun is unparalleled.

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I've lived a lot of different places, to quote Leon Russell, in

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my life and time, but sun
Pest has been a friend of mine and

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it really is a great place to
just go out, get some sunshine,

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get some fresh air, get some
sweet corn. Oh well, I tell

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you what, those guys had a
run last year. I didn't know so

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many people like sweet corn until I
saw that line, and though, man,

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that's going all out to the road. But whatever it is that you

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like, it's probably gonna be there. And one thing, I'm sure you're

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gonna see there as your friends and
new neighbors, and you're gonna hear some

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of the most beautiful music and probably
the biggest variety. And that's that's it.

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We've we've worked hard to keep the
variety part of it open because you

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know, we don't want to just
do one genre, so we're you know,

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we're always looking for something different.
But we tried to spread out the

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genres and make it everybody enjoys it. How hard is that when you guys

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are picking U it's a real challenge
that one rehearsed. It's a challenge,

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that's for sure. Oh you know, because you know, I threw my

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traced up said try it, just
apply. I said, well and he

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said no, just try, just
try. Said the worst anybody can tell

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you is no, And I'm going
so good, look at that. I

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got an email. Yeah. Well, we asked trades, like who is

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this guy's like, well, he's
really good, not that trades a salesman,

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but tra trades a good help.
He has a great hand, marvelous

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hand this year, last year,
and this year helping us get stuff organized

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with music and entertainment. Oh well, I tell you what. We're gonna

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have a lot of fun. We're
gonna have a lot of celebration. We're

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gonna have a lot of sunshine too. That's hope, hope. Like I

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said, it's uh, well to
be what it is. You know,

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we get a little rain, but
they can't rain all through all three days.

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No, no, no, this
year probably gets skipped anyway. Probably,

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so um, I do want to
remind you. You know, like

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I said, we have ponies DSR. They those guys are awesome. You

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know, we couldn't have ponies without
them. Um, you got the sheet

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because I don't have I have terrible
memory. If it wasn't it wasn't for

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Trudy, we couldn't do movies,
you know. Smiles Fari smilest for youth

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fast. That's how I find you. Yes, that's what cras for the

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kids. That's her home. What
others do? I don't have so,

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but it's okay because you know,
we'll be announcing it a lot when we

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do the live broadcast and leading up
to it, we're gonna have that all

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listed on the news story that we
do that here too. So don't feel

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like we're pressing it for time or
anything here because because we're not really got

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a minute left. But folks wonder, you know, where do we park?

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The best parking lots are to the
south. There is one hidden parking

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lot that's behind the miniature golf that
you can get too off of. Found

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it, Yeah, that you can
get too off of. You know,

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that's the hidden one. But a
lot of it, you know, is

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to the south, and like like
you said be prepared to walk because it's

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a park and that's one of the
goals to be out there, is to

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be out there in nature. We
do offer, you know, handicap parking

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over by the old tennis courts on
that and south side or side, suth

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side, whatever side. I can't
think of what correction that's directually challenged,

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and I'll tell you what it's well
with your time. I want to thank

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you both for being here with us
today. Thank you, we thank you.

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