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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome. Media's time now

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<v Speaker 1>for our community connection right here on K one, the

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<v Speaker 1>one you trust, and we're talking with our representatives here

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<v Speaker 1>for Play for Bird Foundation and we have a tighter

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<v Speaker 1>Backlaw and Clint Hansen in studio here with us. We've

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<v Speaker 1>got a very special event coming out. Let's start with

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<v Speaker 1>you Tyler.

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<v Speaker 2>First of all, welcome, Thanks Tom, appreciate you allowing us

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<v Speaker 2>to be here today. It's a great day, sunshine, and

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<v Speaker 2>we're here to talk about the Festival of Nativity that's

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<v Speaker 2>coming up this weekend. It's starting. It's at Father Lynch

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<v Speaker 2>Hall at Saint John's School, which is at eighth and Keeler,

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<v Speaker 2>starting tomorrow morning.

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<v Speaker 3>At nine am.

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<v Speaker 2>It's an event open to the public, free no charge.

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<v Speaker 2>We want to invite the entire community surrounding area to

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<v Speaker 2>start their Christmas holiday off by coming to the Festival

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<v Speaker 2>in Nativity and what that is. This is our fourteenth

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<v Speaker 2>year that we've done this. It's our ninth year that

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<v Speaker 2>we've done it at Father Lynch. So if people are

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<v Speaker 2>familiar with it, they know all about it. But if

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<v Speaker 2>they're new to the community or they haven't heard of

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<v Speaker 2>it before, we basically have every year we open up

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<v Speaker 2>Father Lynch Hall, we decorate the facility to represent i

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<v Speaker 2>would say, a Christmas wonderland. But then people of the

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<v Speaker 2>community temporarily donate their nativity sets that they keep in

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<v Speaker 2>their homes at this Christmas time. Now that Thanksgivings out

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<v Speaker 2>of the way and they're starting to decorate their homes

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<v Speaker 2>for Christmas. This weekend, everybody is bringing in their nativities

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<v Speaker 2>and we put those on display as a centerpiece to

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<v Speaker 2>start off the Christmas holiday. We're talking over right now.

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<v Speaker 2>We have over five hundred displays donated by almost one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred different individuals throughout the community. So this is a

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<v Speaker 2>large participation event, and so people that come to visit

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<v Speaker 2>are going to walk into Father Lynch Hall and they

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<v Speaker 2>are going to see nativities from all over the world

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<v Speaker 2>made from every different type of material pretty much that

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<v Speaker 2>you can imagine, in formats that you can imagine. It

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<v Speaker 2>really is meant to tie different parts of the world

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<v Speaker 2>all onto that center point of what Christmas is, which

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<v Speaker 2>is the birth of Jesus Christ and his significance in

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<v Speaker 2>our spiritual lives and our eternal realm. So the Foundation

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<v Speaker 2>started this to basically kick off the Christmas Holiday the

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<v Speaker 2>right way, which is focusing on the birth of Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>So this starts tomorrow Friday from nine am to eight pm.

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<v Speaker 2>It goes Saturday at the same time nine am to

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<v Speaker 2>eight pm, and then on Sunday nine am to five

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<v Speaker 2>pm before we'll wrap it up for to let everybody

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<v Speaker 2>else enjoy the nativities back in their homes.

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<v Speaker 1>Clint probably never looks the same way twice whenever they.

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<v Speaker 3>Get this all set up.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, not at all. So I live out in

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<v Speaker 4>Utah now, and I flew in last night. I come out.

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<v Speaker 4>I put this on my.

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<v Speaker 3>Calendar every year. Year.

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<v Speaker 4>Every year I marked this off and make sure that

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<v Speaker 4>I can get out here. And as I came in

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<v Speaker 4>last night, you know they're decorating and putting everything up,

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<v Speaker 4>and I.

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<v Speaker 3>Said, guys, this is just like a painting. Every year.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a little bit different, a few different breaststrokes here

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<v Speaker 4>and there, and you'll see that we've.

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<v Speaker 3>Done something a little different in the.

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<v Speaker 4>Hall this year. I won't give the I won't give

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<v Speaker 4>it away. You got to come see it. But I

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<v Speaker 4>walked in and was like, WHOA, that looks really good.

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<v Speaker 4>That's an awesome addition to everything. And so just come

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<v Speaker 4>see it. It is a little bit different this year,

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<v Speaker 4>but there's still a lot of the same nativities.

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<v Speaker 3>I was looking at one. I said, hey, that's a

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<v Speaker 3>new one.

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<v Speaker 4>They said, no, that one's been here every year, and

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, wait, I swear that I looked at

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<v Speaker 4>each one of these every year and have taken pictures

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<v Speaker 4>of all of them. But you can come every year

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<v Speaker 4>and see something different. Also depends on where you're at

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<v Speaker 4>in your spiritual journey. I mean, where's your mind, where's

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<v Speaker 4>your heart? What are you looking for? And you can

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<v Speaker 4>see different things. Maybe certain nativities will talk to you

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<v Speaker 4>this year that didn't talk to you last year.

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<v Speaker 3>That's amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a great way to put it too. So folks

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<v Speaker 1>make sure you get after it this weekend. It's being

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<v Speaker 1>put on for the play for Burke Foundation. The local

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<v Speaker 1>foundation has been going strong for a few years now.

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<v Speaker 1>I tell us a little bit about the foundation.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's almost ten years now. Burke was our son.

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<v Speaker 4>We lived here, you know, lived here from twenty ten

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<v Speaker 4>to twenty nineteen. And Burke passed away in twenty fifteen,

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<v Speaker 4>so April fourth, twenty.

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<v Speaker 3>Fifteen, and so it'll be ten years.

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<v Speaker 4>And you know, it's one of those things that we

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<v Speaker 4>started to fill the whole that was in our life

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<v Speaker 4>and our heart. And so how do we help give

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<v Speaker 4>back to the community and support the youth that were

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<v Speaker 4>affected by our son's passing. And so it's been a

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<v Speaker 4>great thing for the community. People come together. The money

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<v Speaker 4>that we raised goes back into the youth of the community.

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<v Speaker 4>Any money we raised from the Nativity festival goes in

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<v Speaker 4>to get Christmas gifts for kids that are in need

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<v Speaker 4>here in town. We actually have some raffle nativities that

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<v Speaker 4>I brought. Come come asking about the story of trying

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<v Speaker 4>to get one through my carry on. I have a

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<v Speaker 4>story there too, but you have to come ask.

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<v Speaker 3>Right there.

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<v Speaker 4>I got to Yeah, So the raffle tickets are five

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<v Speaker 4>bucks each or five tickets for twenty But then all

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<v Speaker 4>of that money goes to you know, we work with

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<v Speaker 4>Tyler and Kyle and we pick out some organizations in

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<v Speaker 4>town that have children in need and then we go

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<v Speaker 4>help them get Christmas gifts for those kids so they

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<v Speaker 4>can have Christmas this year and have something to unwrap

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<v Speaker 4>under the tree on Christmas morning.

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<v Speaker 2>So there there's a couple other things with it. Like

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<v Speaker 2>we said, this is free to the public to come

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<v Speaker 2>and experience the nativities. But we do have a fundraising

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<v Speaker 2>component to as Clint said, to buy Christmas presents for

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<v Speaker 2>underprivileged kids, and Kyle Pool and I are working with

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<v Speaker 2>the school district as well as some other nonprofits. We

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<v Speaker 2>also have point sets, and this year we're partnering with

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<v Speaker 2>a company out of Vanbera in Arkansas that sells point

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<v Speaker 2>set is to nonprofits at a better price so that

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<v Speaker 2>we can in turn sell those point sets and gain

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit of money so that we can use

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<v Speaker 2>that to buy for these underprivileged kids. This is our

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<v Speaker 2>sixth year. I believe in buying presents for children, and

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<v Speaker 2>I can tell you every year it doesn't get any easier.

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<v Speaker 2>One thing that I've always said is that most of

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<v Speaker 2>us that are listening, we've probably got Christmas trees up,

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<v Speaker 2>or we've got them prepared to get up. And we

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<v Speaker 2>know that our Christmas morning, we're going to wake up

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<v Speaker 2>with family and friends, and we're going to sit there

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<v Speaker 2>and we're going to go through our traditional Christmas event. Sadly,

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<v Speaker 2>we don't recognize that there is a large number of

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<v Speaker 2>children in our community today that will wake up on

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<v Speaker 2>December twenty fifth and will probably be one of the

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<v Speaker 2>worst days of their lives because they know everybody else

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<v Speaker 2>have trees and have presents awaiting them. To them, it's

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<v Speaker 2>just another day that they know everybody else is enjoying,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're waking up wondering.

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<v Speaker 3>Are they going to have food? Are they going to

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<v Speaker 3>have enough warmth?

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<v Speaker 2>And so when we get Christmas lists from like Martinsville schools,

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<v Speaker 2>where we work with the administrators to identify children, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and what their needs are. The list that we get

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<v Speaker 2>are simple stuff. They need a blanket, they need a coat,

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<v Speaker 2>they need socks, stuff that yes, I mean to us,

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<v Speaker 2>it's stuff that we would go and buy without a

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<v Speaker 2>second pot. To them, it's a prayer that they hope

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<v Speaker 2>that they can that somebody will open up their heart

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<v Speaker 2>to supply them because of the circumstances that they're unfortunately in.

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<v Speaker 2>And so the Foundation, the play for Burke Foundation, we

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<v Speaker 2>feel that that's part of our calling when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to the youth of the city and surrounding area Barsville,

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<v Speaker 2>is what can we do to help them out? And

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<v Speaker 2>that's why when we first started working on the Festival

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<v Speaker 2>the Nativity, we determined, you know, this is a great

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<v Speaker 2>way for people to remember what Christmas is about. But

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<v Speaker 2>then we realized, hey, through our nonprofit, we can go

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<v Speaker 2>and raise funds to help kids at this Christmas time.

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<v Speaker 2>So again today Saturday and Sunday nine to eight.

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<v Speaker 3>And Sunday nine to five open.

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<v Speaker 2>To the public.

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<v Speaker 3>Eighth and Keeler.

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<v Speaker 2>We also have a concert, a free concert going on

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<v Speaker 2>Saturday at one o'clock at the St. Catholics Church at

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<v Speaker 2>their main hall. And so if you really if you're

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<v Speaker 2>coming downtown on Saturday, maybe going shopping or to lunch,

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<v Speaker 2>put on your calendar at one o'clock to finish your

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<v Speaker 2>lunch and go over and hear a beautiful Christmas concert.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to thank you gentlemen for coming in Clint.

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<v Speaker 1>I will be there to hear your story about trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get Nativity through security at the airport.

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<v Speaker 4>It's top maybe Jesus at security and said he can't

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<v Speaker 4>come through, so to be to be continued to continue about.

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<v Speaker 1>It, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. We thank you

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<v Speaker 1>very much. It is playing for Burke Foundation and it's

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<v Speaker 1>the the Festival of Nativity.

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<v Speaker 3>Coming up this week. And thank you gentlemen.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you jolks you've been watching and listening to our

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<v Speaker 1>community connection,