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Speaker 1: could say we had an amazing fireworks show on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July, but sadly the fireworks portion of the
Speaker 1: event got rained out, so we did not get to
Speaker 1: do that. But I do want to say thank you
Speaker 1: to everybody that came out for all of the fun
Speaker 1: that started at seven pm, and we had some folks
Speaker 1: that were showing up at like six point thirty. So
Speaker 1: a big thank you to all of the sponsors, and
Speaker 1: a big thank you to all of the volunteers and
Speaker 1: all the people that put their heart and soul into
Speaker 1: making this event happen. And I wish we could have
Speaker 1: gotten everything in, but we didn't get to do some
Speaker 1: of it. So I'm going to go through and just
Speaker 1: talk about the things that we did get to do,
Speaker 1: because even though the fireworks didn't happen, look at all
Speaker 1: the cool stuff we did get to do. A big
Speaker 1: thank you to the American Bank and Trust the folks
Speaker 1: there for the American Bank and Trust Kids area. That
Speaker 1: happened and a whole lot of kids had a whole
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Big thank you to Trail Life for
Speaker 1: being the volunteers to help there. They gave out a
Speaker 1: bunch of flags. They had ten thousand flags, and I
Speaker 1: know they've got some left because again the thing got
Speaker 1: cut short. But we'll have some of those for it
Speaker 1: next year. And again I think we're getting more so
Speaker 1: we'll be given out even more flags next year. Mister
Speaker 1: Twister and the balloons sponsored by many critters. Big thank
Speaker 1: you to all the people who stood in line with
Speaker 1: mister Twister. Hector Curiel Caricatures sponsored by Jamie Warning Home
Speaker 1: for Heroes and HEG Realtors. A big thank you to
Speaker 1: Hector for doing an amazing job drawing the awesome caricatures.
Speaker 1: And I've seen a bunch of those shared online, which
Speaker 1: is cool. Party Train USA that was brand new this year,
Speaker 1: a Kid's train sponsored by Midwest Railcar Repair that happened
Speaker 1: as well. Also, Great Faces photo booth was brand new
Speaker 1: this year sponsored by Yonnuts and Sioux Falls that happened.
Speaker 1: And the face painting for the kids sponsored by cufflinks
Speaker 1: dot Com. Big thank you to the young lady who's
Speaker 1: doing the face painting and Cufflinks for sponsoring it. Then
Speaker 1: we get to the free entertainment on the Blue Peak
Speaker 1: Fiber Internet stage. We got a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: in not everything, but Phil Baker performed courtesy of sux
Speaker 1: Falls jc's and South Dakota Arts Council, and the brass
Speaker 1: Holes performed as well, see of Sunny Radio. They got
Speaker 1: rain and they stopped, and then they came back out
Speaker 1: and rained and then stopped and then they came back.
Speaker 1: They performed three times, and finally the sky broke loose
Speaker 1: in the middle of their set, and that's when we
Speaker 1: had to kind of finally just go, okay, we're done.
Speaker 1: So we did not get to do the Poet Ethanol
Speaker 1: Power Vanguard flyover. They were on the runway, they were
Speaker 1: ready to go. But then that's right, it was eight
Speaker 1: thirty is when they were going to be doing the flyover,
Speaker 1: and that's right when the storm got pretty bad. Nine
Speaker 1: o'clock we were going to have the Starts and Ends
Speaker 1: band and they were also going to perform for the
Speaker 1: Comfort King Mattress Factory Comfort King after party, and we
Speaker 1: didn't get to do that. Bubba, thank you for coming
Speaker 1: out being a part of the event. He was there
Speaker 1: and helping and we were making announcements and doing stuff
Speaker 1: in the rain. So Bubba was very very helpful and
Speaker 1: we hoped to have him perform next year. And then
Speaker 1: we also the other one thing that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to do was the fireworks, and I understand it's a
Speaker 1: big thing at the Sioux Falls Fireworks, but sadly we
Speaker 1: did not get to do that because of the rain.
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you all the volunteers. We
Speaker 1: had so many people helping this year, and again just
Speaker 1: amazing groups of people and some individuals that reached out
Speaker 1: and said, hey, how can I help? What do you
Speaker 1: need help with? So big thank you all of them. Also,
Speaker 1: a huge thank you to the food trucks. This year.
Speaker 1: We had more food trucks than we've ever had in
Speaker 1: the past. And we're gonna do a little different layout
Speaker 1: next year because we had food trucks kind of parked
Speaker 1: in weird places. But a big thank in all of
Speaker 1: the food trucks for being out there. And again a
Speaker 1: huge thank you to all of our sponsors. Huge thank
Speaker 1: you to MarketBeat dot Com. Sunny Radio, Grand Falls, Casino
Speaker 1: and Golf Resort, Cufflinks, American Bank and trust is He's,
Speaker 1: jim A Pokemon Store, and so much more. They were
Speaker 1: on site too, giving away all kinds of cool stuff,
Speaker 1: Nordstrom's Automotive, forty nine Streetlaker Corner Pantry, Farmers Union, Insurance
Speaker 1: Grant Sarta Agency, Vernity, Mitsubishi, Yo Nuts, Sue Falls, Audiology Associates,
Speaker 1: Patient Care, Ems Solutions, Comfort King, Mattress Factory, Excel Energy, Poet,
Speaker 1: Blue Peak, Fiber Internet, Sue Falls, Jc's Planes, Commerce Bank,
Speaker 1: Midwest Railcar Repair, Taco Bell, Border Foods, Cube, Portable Storage Solutions,
Speaker 1: Homes for Heroes, and Jamie Warning, very very nice, young
Speaker 1: Lady Stan Houston Equipment, Quickstar Shields, Dakota rad On Mitigation
Speaker 1: and Cap Services. Also thank you to Culver's Frozen Custard
Speaker 1: and Butterburgers and Mini Critters and our friends at the
Speaker 1: fireworks store again, huge naked, all of them. Now. I
Speaker 1: know there were people who were sad that we didn't
Speaker 1: get to do the fireworks. You know who was even
Speaker 1: more sad than you? Me? I was very sad. I
Speaker 1: spent an entire year doing fundraising to get the funds
Speaker 1: to put this on. There were people on the internet
Speaker 1: who think that this is like sponsored by the city
Speaker 1: they give us zero dollars that they get sponsored by
Speaker 1: like the county they give us zero dollars. So the
Speaker 1: funds one hundred percent of these funds come from businesses
Speaker 1: who support this. So again, I understand you were disappointed.
Speaker 1: You can get to see the fireworks. I was way
Speaker 1: more disappointed. But here's what happened a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago when the people were canceling everything else. I had
Speaker 1: people calling me at noon when it was raining out
Speaker 1: and I was out at the fairgrounds putting up flags
Speaker 1: and banners in the rain. Two years ago, I had
Speaker 1: people calling saying when are you going to cancel? And
Speaker 1: I say, well, it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 1: nice tonight, so we're not going to cance. Literally had
Speaker 1: an old man and a car pull up mocking me
Speaker 1: for being out in the rain, saying, well, you're more
Speaker 1: optimistic than me. So I'm a very optimistic dude, and
Speaker 1: I was hoping Friday night that we would have the
Speaker 1: same type of thing happened where the weather just waited
Speaker 1: long enough and it looked like it was going to
Speaker 1: as well. We were able to start the event. We
Speaker 1: got about halfway through the event before we finally had
Speaker 1: to stop. But sadly, the last two years we had
Speaker 1: forecasts for rain and we didn't get rain, and we
Speaker 1: were one of the only fireworks events that actually happened.
Speaker 1: Last year and the year before, many other places canceled.
Speaker 1: This is the first time we've ever had to cancel
Speaker 1: because of rain. We've never canceled for any reason, and
Speaker 1: the JCS did this for about sixty years. They had
Speaker 1: two rainouts in sixty years. So there's some people online
Speaker 1: that were like, oh, this thing always gets canceled. Nope,
Speaker 1: you're wrong, completely wrong. Reach out. I'd love to chat
Speaker 1: with you and tell you what happens, because that's never happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're thinking of, but it's not
Speaker 1: this thing. So again, big thank you, all the volunteers,
Speaker 1: all the sponsors, and I want to say thank you
Speaker 1: to my wife because my goodness, she wish. First of all,
Speaker 1: she puts up with me not doing my job around
Speaker 1: here for about two months because I'm working on that.
Speaker 1: But also she was trying to defend the fireworks online
Speaker 1: as people were being because some people keyboard Warriors on here.
Speaker 1: Oh this is horrible. I get it. You're disappointed that
Speaker 1: we didn't have fireworks. I guarantee you we were far
Speaker 1: more disappointed than you were. Here's the good news. Let's
Speaker 1: put that in the past. Let's look at the future.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six, America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. We're
Speaker 1: going to have the fireworks that we're going to raise
Speaker 1: funds for this whole year. Plus we've got some fireworks
Speaker 1: from this year. We're gonna have one heck of a party.
Speaker 1: And you were invited. And here's the other thing I
Speaker 1: would love everybody to do. Pray for a clear sky
Speaker 1: on the fourth of July. We would really like to
Speaker 1: have that for July fourth, twenty twenty six. Again, super
Speaker 1: excited for a bigger, better, a more amazing show than
Speaker 1: we've ever done. Sue Fallsfireworks dot Org is where you
Speaker 1: go if you have any questions and if you'd like
Speaker 1: to get involved. If you're going, hey, I've got some ideas,
Speaker 1: I have some input, I have, you know, these great ideas.
Speaker 1: We would love it reach out. I would absolutely love
Speaker 1: to have more people involved. Do that right the website,
Speaker 1: soou Fallsfireworks dot org. And I'm so excited for America's
Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth Birthday coming up next year. It's
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