Speaker 1: Good money, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
Speaker 1: on this beautiful Monday. I'm Tom Davis. It's time for
Speaker 1: our community connection and the vision of lowliness. Off to
Speaker 1: my ride is mister Wishall, and we are ready for spring.
Speaker 1: Can I say that when with the winter storm coming.
Speaker 2: Yes, with all certainty.
Speaker 1: We've got Shamrock Deville coming up. And this is really
Speaker 1: I've never seen a bad day for Shamrock the Bill
Speaker 1: since I've been here. It's always just great. It's nice,
Speaker 1: it's early in the morning, it's peaceful, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of perky people, way too perky.
Speaker 3: Very perky for that. Really, yes, absolutely, but that's okay,
Speaker 3: that's what we want.
Speaker 1: Oh golly yeah. And Shamrock the Bill of course helps
Speaker 1: out with the Mary Martha Outreach at Catholic Charity.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: It's our one and only fundraiser, and it helps us
Speaker 3: continue to buy food whenever we may be short, because
Speaker 3: we want to provide a well rounded meal for our families.
Speaker 3: Times we have to buy meat and things like that,
Speaker 3: so it helps with that and to keep feeding the
Speaker 3: people in Needing Barnesville and our surrounding communities.
Speaker 1: We're going to get back to the race itself. But
Speaker 1: Mary Martha Outreach has been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: It has a lot of people rely on the services.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: Not only do we do food, but we have clothing
Speaker 3: and hygiene products and things like that. We're You're not
Speaker 3: a Way partner agency, so they fund those other programs
Speaker 3: and we help domestic violence burn out victims. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of things behind the scenes that we do
Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't see.
Speaker 1: And you do it with smile and you know what,
Speaker 1: everybody just kind of makes the way through. We're there
Speaker 1: to help folks who seemingly fall through the cracks of things.
Speaker 2: That's right. None of us are better than the other.
Speaker 2: So we're there never knowing your.
Speaker 1: Time's going to be and everybody's going to have a bad.
Speaker 3: Time now this day and age, a lot of people
Speaker 3: are just one paycheck away from needing our services.
Speaker 1: That's true, That's absolutely true. Now, Shamrock Deville, this is
Speaker 1: the fun part of fun racing because I've seen people
Speaker 1: dress up for this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we want people to dress up.
Speaker 1: I mean we see people in all kinds of costumes,
Speaker 1: either walking or or running. Mostly the folks that are
Speaker 1: walking The folks that are running are kind of kind
Speaker 1: of hardcore, pretty they'll do.
Speaker 2: Something funny, that's right. They're pretty legit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, we have some competitiveness out there,
Speaker 3: but we also have uh yeah, fun. I mean that's
Speaker 3: the main thing. We want it to be a family
Speaker 3: friendly event. We want people to come cheer them on,
Speaker 3: and that's the whole purpose of it.
Speaker 1: What's the distance on the sham ruck?
Speaker 3: So the first one is a five k and then
Speaker 3: we have a one mile fun run. So we have
Speaker 3: a lot of little's that do that and it's really
Speaker 3: fun because they're very proud of themselves.
Speaker 1: So they can do it.
Speaker 2: They can't don't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't even I couldn't do the That's why I
Speaker 3: amc Yeah, so I couldn't even do the fun run.
Speaker 3: So that's why I hang out while you're yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: I'll keep that job.
Speaker 2: That's right, I will keep that job. We have couch runners,
Speaker 2: not this year, Okay, we're not.
Speaker 3: We did the couches before they had the chips, and
Speaker 3: so it was it was something to give the the
Speaker 3: race crew time to calculate the timing. And now that
Speaker 3: it's chipped, its instant so a yeah, and they got
Speaker 3: a little dangerous. Yeah, so we don't need any liability,
Speaker 3: all right, that's good.
Speaker 2: But they were so fun. I do kind of miss that.
Speaker 1: I do too. Now we do this down there at the.
Speaker 2: Green we do unity starting in there.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have a DJ, have a photo booth, We're
Speaker 3: gonna have a couple of food trucks.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You know that green space. It's pretty cool. The racers
Speaker 1: check in it is It's like, man, this is where it's.
Speaker 1: This looks like a big city event. It really does.
Speaker 2: It is, And that's what we wanted to feel like too.
Speaker 1: And and you know what, we do have runners from
Speaker 1: all over. We do three state area.
Speaker 2: We do at least absolutely.
Speaker 1: And uh and like you said, it's it's chip time
Speaker 1: and and everything. But you know, the fun run is not.
Speaker 2: Exactly Now.
Speaker 1: I see the youngsters from the Bruins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bruins on the run and then also run
Speaker 2: the streets, both of them. My gosh, the great crew
Speaker 2: to have there, young.
Speaker 1: People there who are athletically inclined and they're always smiling.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a great program both of those, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1: And the money raise goes back to Mary Martha Outreach
Speaker 1: and this is really pretty dark cool now. The website's
Speaker 1: been up and running for a while.
Speaker 3: Yes, registration is open, twenty five dollars to register and
Speaker 3: the t shirts are very pretty this year, where there
Speaker 3: always are, but there are a Heather Emerald Green. We've
Speaker 3: posted them on our website. Okay, so go check those out.
Speaker 3: And we're still looking for sponsorships. Yeah, always looking for sponsorships,
Speaker 3: so that just helps helps us. But yeah, registrations open
Speaker 3: and packet pick up will be on March sixth at
Speaker 3: Merymoreth Outreach. So you can also volunteer. We do need
Speaker 3: a lot of volunteers for this to put it off
Speaker 3: because we have people at every corner to make sure
Speaker 3: that runners are safe and everything.
Speaker 2: So we do.
Speaker 3: We're still recruiting that. You can sign up at Shamrockdville
Speaker 3: dot com.
Speaker 1: And tell us the day to get March eighth.
Speaker 2: March eighth, and it starts promptly at nine am.
Speaker 1: There you go, so you can sleep in a little bit.
Speaker 2: A little bit not us.
Speaker 3: At the we are we are, but it's it's a
Speaker 3: well oiled machine.
Speaker 2: We have a wonderful committee.
Speaker 3: We're very proud of it and it's always been a
Speaker 3: successful year.
Speaker 1: So you know who that's fun too. It's the police
Speaker 1: officers that are I think they take out of seeing
Speaker 1: the folks coming down there go I'll look at that one,
Speaker 1: you know, because the costume character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it's fun. We see it. We see a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of green. So and I think.
Speaker 3: People, especially after the weather that we've had and that's coming,
Speaker 3: people are ready to get out of the woodworks and run.
Speaker 3: So I think it's kind of that first escape from
Speaker 3: being trapped.
Speaker 2: In so run from your camp and exactly. So we
Speaker 2: love that, all right.
Speaker 1: So twenty five dollars is all it takes to get registered.
Speaker 1: You can do that online now if we want to
Speaker 1: do that the day of the race, because you know,
Speaker 1: let's face it, there are some folks in our community
Speaker 1: that are day of type people.
Speaker 2: We have a watch.
Speaker 3: We do have a lot of day of and it's
Speaker 3: it's thirty dollars to register, but preregistration is twenty five.
Speaker 3: But they can come and register that morning if plans
Speaker 3: change or they watch the weather and want to wait.
Speaker 1: So we're always that's good.
Speaker 2: Yep, you never know.
Speaker 1: And it's Shamrock thebill dot.
Speaker 2: Shamrock thebill dot com.
Speaker 1: Calm, I want to make sure we got that right back.
Speaker 1: I want to take you someplace that you said, well, yes,
Speaker 1: what I signed up.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Neh know what that that might be a lucky term site,
Speaker 1: it might be good. Well, I want to thank you.
Speaker 1: I know you've got a busy day today, and folks,
Speaker 1: let's make this all worthwhile. Let's go out and get
Speaker 1: some exercise, have some fun, and let's shamrock the bill
Speaker 1: for Mary Martha outright right