Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you dress, and then with the
Speaker 1: City of Dewey, we have Laurie hearing with us. How
Speaker 1: you doing, Louri?
Speaker 2: Hello Tom?
Speaker 1: Hey, warm enough for you?
Speaker 2: Oh so warm. I'm out in the baby suit taking
Speaker 2: a dip in the pond at the moment.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, bye, right, Okay, Well.
Speaker 2: At least I can call in and talk about just
Speaker 2: a little bit of something that's really important to us
Speaker 2: going on in Dewey.
Speaker 1: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we are still going to talk about the
Speaker 2: Friends of Dewey Park. Yeah, the nonprofit that I'm part of.
Speaker 2: The first cool thing is, since I can't come in
Speaker 2: and show you the cool sign, we have a fundraiser
Speaker 2: going on with our local Simple Simons here in Dewey.
Speaker 2: Once a month we are going to She's going to
Speaker 2: donate one day the profits parsh portion of the prophets
Speaker 2: to the Friends of Dewey Park. Okay, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: So it's the Simple Simon's here in Dewey, and like
Speaker 2: I said all day that that she'll donate part of
Speaker 2: the proceeds and say that we're having this Valentine's Day Fridays,
Speaker 2: so everybody go in, eat up some pizza and then
Speaker 2: help get this part going for all of us. So
Speaker 2: that's the cool part. That's the main thing we really
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about today to get that out on
Speaker 2: the radio that everybody showed up to Simple Simon's on
Speaker 2: Friday to help out to the park, but also wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about how we have a visit from Kristen
Speaker 2: Siefred from the ACS. It was to map out all
Speaker 2: the placement of all the toys that we're going to
Speaker 2: be putting in the park and you know, of course
Speaker 2: the flagpole, we're putting in all kinds of cool stuff.
Speaker 2: So she came in the other day and we had
Speaker 2: some a good time figuring out really really bringing it
Speaker 2: to an idea of what it's really going to look
Speaker 2: like and you know how it's going to come into fruition.
Speaker 2: We got the bathroom still going, those are up and
Speaker 2: we're getting ready to put the roof on, but thanks
Speaker 2: to this wonderful weather, so we're going to probably put
Speaker 2: a pause on that, but those that's going to be
Speaker 2: seen as most likely by the time Stray Cats in May.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me that, Rosie, so everybody will have
Speaker 2: a bathroom and maybe stay longer. So that was a
Speaker 2: pretty cool thing to hang out with her for a
Speaker 2: few hours and just get that visual of how the
Speaker 2: park's gonna win. But also we have raised the funds
Speaker 2: to purchase our twelve foot climbing and Activity tower. It's
Speaker 2: this cool tower that it's going to be for all kids,
Speaker 2: for the abilities that any kind of abilities. It's, like
Speaker 2: I said, twelve feet, which is way bigger than me.
Speaker 2: So I can't even even imagine how that's gonna look.
Speaker 2: But it does have you know, all kinds of cool,
Speaker 2: you know, fun parts to it, of course for all
Speaker 2: inclusive children and anybody of ages that can go on it.
Speaker 2: But what we really need to do, since we have
Speaker 2: that the funds that we raised enough for that, now
Speaker 2: we need to raise the funds to get this installed.
Speaker 2: And believe it or not, it's it's a pretty penny
Speaker 2: it's sixty thousand dollars. But I know that we can
Speaker 2: get that going with all kinds of fundraisings that we're
Speaker 2: doing and the help from the community to put this
Speaker 2: this wonderful park in that will really just bring it,
Speaker 2: bring all of Dewey back together right in the middle.
Speaker 2: So when we have more these events and stuff, you
Speaker 2: know it'll be especially with them. We have the food
Speaker 2: truck park going on. It's a lot of stuff going
Speaker 2: on in the park. And this is really weird calling
Speaker 2: you in, Tom, I know it is, but.
Speaker 1: You know, I can visualize how the park's will look
Speaker 1: here in just a few months, I really can, right.
Speaker 2: And especially with all the bricks that we have, you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to be adding those into the park that
Speaker 2: we're selling, you know, all the member of member of bricks,
Speaker 2: and especially in addition to a huge flagpole that we're
Speaker 2: putting in that is going to be cool because it'll
Speaker 2: also be our main focus for the tree lighting every
Speaker 2: Christmas month, so it'll be it's going to really work out.
Speaker 2: I just can't wait. We just we need a little
Speaker 2: more help to get that one huge piece up installed,
Speaker 2: and I think it'll just go from there.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think it is. Now how
Speaker 1: can people find out more about the Friends of Dewey
Speaker 1: Park and how can we get a hold of someone
Speaker 1: so we can write a check if we so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, we have a few places so We have
Speaker 2: the Facebook. We have Friends of Dewey Parks on Facebook.
Speaker 2: We also have a website Friends of Dewey Parks. We
Speaker 2: also have me. You can call me No, you can
Speaker 2: also call I believe. That's pretty much the best way
Speaker 2: to get a hold of is through the Facebook or
Speaker 2: the website and then go from there because then we
Speaker 2: can get you to the appropriate people.
Speaker 1: Well that sounds great. This is really Uh you got
Speaker 1: me thinking spring summer and having fun.
Speaker 2: And Dewey exactly. And then we also another perk. We
Speaker 2: brought back the splash the splash pad. Oh so he
Speaker 2: has a little A couple of years ago, during the drought,
Speaker 2: you know, we had a we had to take that out.
Speaker 2: But we have now brought it back in. So let's
Speaker 2: let's throw that some out. We will have a splash
Speaker 2: pad in Dewy.
Speaker 1: That is so cool now.
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Now if I want to get if I want to
Speaker 1: get a brick, you know, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty easy to get that taken care of.
Speaker 1: Just find that on the Facebook and follow the links.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, we've updated everything to where make it even
Speaker 2: more easier to be able to get one of those bricks.
Speaker 2: For sure. Everything is updated and rolling the website and
Speaker 2: the Facebook.
Speaker 1: Well, this is just really cool. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: have to get you in here sometime a little bit
Speaker 1: later on, when the weather is a little bit more cooperative,
Speaker 1: we can talk a little bit more about what's going
Speaker 1: on in Dewey on top of the wonderful things that
Speaker 1: are happening with friends of Dewey Park. How's that sound?
Speaker 2: That sounds amazing. And I'll still be just as nervous, Tom,
Speaker 2: don't you worry. Oh my goodness. I appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: his time at least with the phone call, but really
Speaker 2: just want to get out the word that come on, everybody,
Speaker 2: come to Dewey eat pizza on Friday night at Simple
Speaker 2: Simons and help support your local community projects.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have a little story on that on
Speaker 1: the website and on the Facebook page it we'll tell
Speaker 1: everybody about the event and that way you can go
Speaker 1: over it. And I talked about it amongst your friends
Speaker 1: and family, and then hey, little pizza goes a long
Speaker 1: way man exactly.
Speaker 2: And we're doing it once a month for the next year.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing this. I would love everybody to come
Speaker 2: in so we can just get this park going all right.
Speaker 1: Hey, Laurie, thank you for being with us today.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Tommy, you have a great taste.
Speaker 1: Stay warm all right by now