Episode Transcript
[00:00:17] Speaker A: Ho, ho, ho. And welcome to the Cannon County Chamber Connection. And of course, as usual, we're brought to you by DTC Communications with our thanks. They've done this for several years. They let us focus on the people, the things, the activities, the businesses in our community.
And we appreciate that you're watching this. And we have several guests today.
We have some more people from Cannon County High School here with us today.
And of course, their instructor, who is Mr. Zach Tucker.
And this is the Retail Operations Group.
And they run, I want to say, a coffee shop, but they have other services with that, too. And we have Maya Gringe and Levi Hatfield.
And. So which one of you wants to start, Tucker? You might. How did this come about?
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Yeah, so it's one of the classes in the marketing and business program, and it allows them to run a retail operations type business.
And what better than a in house coffee shop with some drinks that we can sell to staff and students?
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Right.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: You don't want people lined up outside to come in?
[00:01:43] Speaker B: No, it's just. It's just for internal.
[00:01:45] Speaker C: And that's in house.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: Right. So it raises money for the CTE programs and DECA trips, which is our, you know, business professionals student program at the school. So we do, you know, state competitions, things like that. And. But it's ran like a real small business. You know, we have health inspections. They get to order products, come up with specials. Yeah, yep, exactly. And then they, you know, count the money, do deposits, all that.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: And that's very important.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Absolutely, it is.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Because you may not do that when you get out in life, but you should know it even if you don't do it right. Maya, you're looking like you're just dying to say something.
What do you think about this? Have you. You're a junior, right?
[00:02:38] Speaker D: Yes, ma'.
[00:02:39] Speaker C: Am.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: Okay. How long have you been working in the coffee shop?
[00:02:42] Speaker D: Just since August.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: Oh, you're just the first year. Yeah.
[00:02:46] Speaker D: You can only do it your junior. Well, you can start doing it your junior year.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:51] Speaker E: They don't trust those sophomores for coffee, do they?
[00:02:53] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:02:53] Speaker E: Now they gonna burn themselves. Gotcha.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Well, tell me how you.
How you feel about this, about this program?
[00:03:03] Speaker D: I think it's a good program to involve students in, like, doing other things instead of, like, sitting in class.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Do you actually get a grade?
[00:03:11] Speaker D: Yeah.
You get grades for doing, like, your job.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:03:16] Speaker E: Man, I wish I could get a grade for doing my job. What do you like about the program? What? What got you interested in selling coffee, so to speak?
[00:03:26] Speaker D: I don't know. It's just I was in business and it was a class I wanted to take.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: It looked fun, but you do other things besides coffee. You do other things.
[00:03:35] Speaker D: Yeah, I went to register.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:37] Speaker E: Okay.
And I'm sure your coffee shop has hours, like regular hours.
[00:03:42] Speaker D: You just work lunch.
[00:03:43] Speaker E: Work lunch. So if somebody wants coffee for lunch or something else that you're selling, you say you sell other drinks. What kind of other drinks do you sell?
[00:03:50] Speaker D: Like, we sell tea and lemonade and, like, hot chocolate.
[00:03:54] Speaker E: Oh, okay.
[00:03:56] Speaker E: Good for cold days like this then. Yeah.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Okay. I don't want to leave Levi out because I want him to say something.
[00:04:07] Speaker E: Isn't that nice?
[00:04:07] Speaker A: You are profitable, right?
[00:04:10] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are.
Yeah, we can make some money.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: But that actually goes back into the program, doesn't it?
[00:04:18] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, we use that to buy like our, like, restock supplies or like, if we have like new machines or something we need to buy, we'll use that money that we make to get that stuff.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Well, what do you think about it?
[00:04:29] Speaker F: I really enjoy it. I think it's fun. I mean, I get to make the coffee, so it's like. I don't know, it's just not. I really like coffee, so it's just nice to make it for all seasons.
[00:04:37] Speaker E: And this is more than just coffee coffee. This is kind of different flavors of coffee.
[00:04:41] Speaker F: Yeah, I can make basically anything you want. I can make it. It really doesn't really matter if you say it. I can make it.
[00:04:45] Speaker E: Probably. He's a coffee tender.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I told him earlier when I was talking to him, I'm old school. Never in my lifetime would I have thought that you would go somewhere and pay five to six dollars for a cup of coffee.
[00:05:01] Speaker F: Yeah, I know.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: I don't care what it has in it, you know? Yeah, but they do it every day today, you know, Starboxes standing in line.
[00:05:13] Speaker E: There we go. Is there a name to your coffee shop?
[00:05:15] Speaker D: It's called the Hub.
[00:05:16] Speaker E: Oh, the Hub Coffee shop. Okay.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Well, that's catchy.
Easy to remember.
[00:05:21] Speaker E: At least we know Starbucks won't be coming after you for copyright infringement.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: No, they aren't going to say Starbucks. That would scare them off.
[00:05:29] Speaker E: You never know. You never know.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Well, like I say, what's your favorite type of coffee?
[00:05:36] Speaker F: I really like, like, probably I like frappuccinos a lot, but we don't. We don't make those. But it's more of like a. It's like a slushy, but it's like a coffee at the same time.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: Gotcha.
[00:05:45] Speaker F: It's really Good.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Where did you learn to make all these different coffees?
[00:05:49] Speaker F: Well, I already knew how to make, like, coffee on its own, but then Mr. Tucker, he taught me how to like, do like, like the specials or whatever. But, like, I know how to make the coffee. It's just different flavors that you add into it, so it's not really that hard.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: You put whipped cream and a little heart on top.
[00:06:04] Speaker F: Yeah, I do. I do. For some of the specials.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Where'd you learn to make it just in real time? I'm actually not a coffee drinker. Ironically, I prefer the lemonade or the tea.
But yeah, it's a lot of fun experimenting sometimes. These two are ones that are doing most of the experimenting on mixes to see if it's any good. And sometimes they're the first two I go to. Hey, try this. Do you think this will sell? Do you think this will be good?
[00:06:32] Speaker A: I was gonna say if you're tasting all of your different concoctions, you're probably wound all day.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: And Maya, also, she does a lot of the marketing for the specials.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: She could tell you a little bit more about that.
I let them come up with a lot of the ideas too. So you could always tell them about the winter menu.
[00:06:52] Speaker D: I made the menu for the Hub. I mean, both the menus.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: See, I think this is great that you actually have hands on. Yeah. And think because they can tell you about it all day long, but until you actually do it, you don't know what all's involved in running the business.
So what I think this is what.
[00:07:11] Speaker E: Is all on the winter menu.
[00:07:14] Speaker D: A lot of coffee.
[00:07:16] Speaker E: A lot of coffee. Okay.
[00:07:17] Speaker F: There's a lot of like gingerbread, peppermint, like, stuff like that. Like the holiday flavors, I guess.
[00:07:24] Speaker D: Yeah, we ordered a bunch of stuff.
[00:07:26] Speaker E: Here we go. Here we go. What's the average cost of a cup of cup of a cup of coffee at the Hub?
[00:07:34] Speaker D: It depends on what you get. Like if you get black.
[00:07:36] Speaker F: If it's a special, it's $3. And then like a regular coffee is just $2.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: Wow, that's. That's a bargain.
[00:07:41] Speaker E: There we go. Yeah. No wonder you don't want to let people know about it outside these walls. They'd be knocking your doors down.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: No, I.
You know, we've had the print shop on here, we had the woodworking and industrial part, and now we have the coffee shop, which is actually a business inside of the school.
And I think that's great.
I think this hands on is a good thing for all the Students and the school as well. And I think a lot of people out there don't realize that. They don't realize what all we have at the high school. And I'm real proud of it. So I didn't know till I came to that seminar that Crystal put on.
That was when I learned about all the different things of farming and the. Well, I knew about the greenhouse because I bought things from them. But, hey, nothing wrong with that. And you're only open an hour a day.
[00:08:42] Speaker D: Yeah, three lunches.
[00:08:45] Speaker F: We do two shifts. We got first lunch, sec. Half of second lunch, and then we shift into half of the rest of second lunch and then all third lunch.
[00:08:53] Speaker E: How many people are involved with this? How many people do you work with that are involved in this particular shift?
[00:08:58] Speaker F: A shift is like three to four at a time.
[00:09:00] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:09:01] Speaker F: And then we have like eight in our class. Okay, nine in our class.
[00:09:04] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Now, what's the name of the class?
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Retail operations.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Oh, okay. So it's actually.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: On the curriculum.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: I think my favorite part is, like, they really learn a lot about what they enjoy or what they don't enjoy about a retail setting. So, like Maya, she really enjoys working the register and talking to customers where some of the others may not want to deal with customers. And they prefer making things and stuff like that.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: Dealing with customers.
And you've got a rough crowd.
[00:09:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Cause you've got teenagers that you're working with.
[00:09:44] Speaker E: Have you ever had any disgruntled teenagers, you know, complain about your coffee or something?
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Probably every day.
[00:09:50] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker F: I got this. His name's Cam Pruitt. He comes.
[00:09:53] Speaker E: I know who Cam is.
[00:09:54] Speaker F: He gets the same coffee every day, and he's always complaining about something, but it tastes the exact same every time.
[00:10:00] Speaker E: Oh, he always complains about something about the coffee.
[00:10:02] Speaker F: Yeah. But he's just pulling my leg. It tastes the exact same.
[00:10:05] Speaker E: You know what I'd do to Cam? I'd probably put something different coffee that way.
[00:10:09] Speaker F: Change up the flavor.
[00:10:09] Speaker E: Yeah, change up the flavor on it.
[00:10:11] Speaker F: I probably should. Or it's not making anymore for them. Yeah, I already have it ready for them.
[00:10:14] Speaker E: Give it like a half a cup or something.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say. Dealing with people.
[00:10:21] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: And if you went into business, dealing with customers is very difficult because you're always going to have some that you'd like to hang.
But they come every time, and they'll fuss every time they come back, so there must be something good there. But I figured with teenagers, you would have a lot that would give you a hard time.
[00:10:45] Speaker F: We don't really have none.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Not like other than the one that comes every day.
[00:10:50] Speaker F: Well, it's not actually a problem. He just likes to mess with me. But yeah, I mean, he's like, I.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Figured you'd have a lot more than one.
[00:10:55] Speaker F: Yeah, no, we don't really have anyone complain ever.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: We try to keep it like a very fun atmosphere. And, you know, if Maya's at the register, she's usually smiling and in a good mood, so it kind of sets the tone.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: It's all like coffee.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: We don't want to put anybody at the register that, you know, is.
Doesn't want to deal with people or smile.
[00:11:14] Speaker E: I mean, people already know when they, the kids know, when they come up to your stand, they know what they want and they're going to be happy about it because it's cut and dry, you know, I mean, how can you mess up a cup of coffee? You know?
You can, you can. Yes, that's true. But when you're dealing students on students, that's probably not going to happen.
If you're dealing with people versus Starbucks or something like it. Yeah, yeah, you put my name wrong or something like that.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: They're also super happy that it's there and available because it's really a cool perk that a lot of schools don't have.
[00:11:51] Speaker E: That's true. Because, I mean, other than that, what are you offered as far as your drinks are concerned? You're offered the Coke Zeros and the Sprite Zeros of the world. No, I couldn't do that. You know, I'd probably be drinking coffee myself if those were my choices.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Have any of you ever been fired?
No.
[00:12:13] Speaker E: How would she know? She's only been there a year.
[00:12:16] Speaker F: I mean, you can transfer out the class if you want to, but like, you can't get fired from the Hub.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:21] Speaker D: I'm just saying, I mean, you can get in trouble.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: I'm sure.
[00:12:24] Speaker E: You can get in trouble. I'm sure.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: For the most part. I, I can't say this for sure, but I feel like most of the students, it's one of their favorite classes, so, like they're, they're all about it when they're there. They're ready to work and have a good time.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Everybody that's been on this show in a different area said that they enjoy what they're doing.
They like the hands on.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: That's the great thing about CTE classes.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it is.
And then Crystal's great to work with and she's on our board at the Chamber, so that's a good thing, too.
Well, I don't want to put any of you on the spot, and I don't want to ask you any embarrassing question. Is there anything you'd like to add?
[00:13:11] Speaker E: Not really.
[00:13:11] Speaker F: I mean, kind of hit all the spots on the hub.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: It's not really much other than it's available.
[00:13:16] Speaker F: Yeah, just making drinks.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: You can sign up for this class, right?
[00:13:20] Speaker F: Yeah, if you take. So you have to take a business class your freshman and sophomore year before you can even take retail operations.
It has to line up. You can't just randomly take it your junior year. Like, I had to take his marketing class my freshman year before I could take retail operations.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Well, this is a good thing. Yeah, it is. How about you? You took those other courses?
[00:13:40] Speaker D: I took ag business, but it counted.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Okay, all right, all right. So you're into the agriculture.
[00:13:46] Speaker D: I'm not anymore. I'm in Business now with Ms. Ervin.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Okay.
You gave up on the cows and everything, huh?
[00:13:53] Speaker D: What?
[00:13:54] Speaker A: You gave up on the cows and everything.
[00:13:57] Speaker E: Do you work at the print shop as well?
[00:13:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:59] Speaker E: Okay. All right.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Well, I've used the French shop several times at the Chamber, and I think that's a great thing, too. So how long have you been with the high school as an instructor?
[00:14:11] Speaker B: This is my second year there.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: So I was formerly at Stuart's Creek High School in Rutherford County.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: You still live in Rutherford County?
[00:14:19] Speaker B: No, I've moved. I'm closer now.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, that's good.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: I'm originally from Chattanooga, so.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: This is actually closer to home.
Puts me, you know, about an hour closer to my mom.
Yeah.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Well, I thank you all for coming. And you tell Ms. Crystal that I appreciate her diligence in getting this all lined up, because I love having you on the show, and we do have some.
We do have some viewers for this show.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Well, that's good.
Well, thanks for having us. Thanks for having us.
[00:14:54] Speaker E: I probably ran them off with my sense of humor, or attempted sense of humor, but, yeah, we've got a few.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: I covered for you, so it's okay.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Okay, cool.
[00:15:02] Speaker E: Thank you. Bailing me out yet again.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: All right, well, we thank you all very much for being here. Okay? And good luck. The year's almost up.
[00:15:12] Speaker D: It is.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: It is.
And a merry Christmas to you, too. Merry Christmas to you.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: Merry Christmas. Here we are.
[00:15:18] Speaker E: Somebody with some coffee.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: And I'll tell you something else before they leave.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Wait a minute.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Y' all just ask the question. You been fired? I have been. And I Don't recommend it.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: All right. And this gentleman is our county executive and his name is Greg Mitchell.
[00:15:41] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: And what I want to talk about, Greg, is his New Year's.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Plans.
What's gonna happen next year?
[00:15:52] Speaker C: Next year? There's a lot going to happen.
I mean, a lot. I have got.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: I know of three or four grants that's gonna have to be implemented next year.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: Okay. That means you're gonna have to do it.
[00:16:07] Speaker C: It's going to be hectic. But that's part of is, especially with.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Grants, because you gotta do exactly what you put in for.
[00:16:16] Speaker C: Yeah, you sure do. To the T.
They hold you pretty tight on those grants.
And we're fortunate here in Canning county, it seems like.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: I think I should have brought the numbers with me and I'll have those numbers. But I'm thinking the numbers are going to be pretty close, grant wise to. I think it's pretty close. Seven, $8 million we brought in the last couple, two or three years. Yeah, something like that.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: How long have you been.
How long has it been now?
[00:16:50] Speaker C: Since. Since 2022. I'll be running again next year.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: Well, it doesn't seem that long.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't. It's flew by.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: It probably does.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: No, it actually has flew by. I love my job.
I really love it.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: All right. You like disgruntled people and grabbing.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: Hey, well, you get some of that. But you know what? All in all.
[00:17:15] Speaker C: You meet some good, fine people.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: You do.
[00:17:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: There's a lot of good, really good people that live in Canning County.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: You do?
[00:17:22] Speaker A: Well, they live in other counties too. But we do have a great community here. And you always have those that are upset about something, so.
[00:17:32] Speaker C: And we're not always going, us as human beings, not going to always be happy. I'm sure I'm not even happy with myself a lot of times, you know, so.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: We'Re going to find things.
[00:17:45] Speaker C: You know, but.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: Well, there's things sometimes that I wish I would have done different.
[00:17:49] Speaker C: Oh, me too.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: If I had it to do over.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: Boy, this is going to be a long program if we get on that.
[00:17:57] Speaker C: Things we should have done different.
But we've got a lot of things. We've got the eoc, which is Emergency Operations center that I hoped and pray to get it out to be in this month because we're on a tight deadline now.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: That's the 9 11.
[00:18:17] Speaker C: Yes, 91 1.
It'll be 91 1. And it'll just be an integral part. Everything will be in one place.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: And that's out at the fairground.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Be right over here. Be right over here.
We got a grant for 1.98 million, so pretty close to 2 million. And we also got a gift, around $200,000 to go toward it. So we're looking at probably a $2.4 million.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: Building.
The project.
Not just the building, but the project.
We've got that going. We've got to get it done by September next year. So we're on a tight deadline.
I've got.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: You have to have it completed.
[00:19:03] Speaker C: We've got to have everything.
Everything's got to be put in for reimbursement by that time.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:19:10] Speaker C: Yeah, it does.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: But you don't actually have to. Well, I guess you would have.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: I need to. And I think we can. We're just going. It's just going to be. It's really according to winter and all that stuff and how the winter is here and you know how the weather here in Tennessee is. If you don't like it, just hang on. It'll change five minutes.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, I look at. Course they started in the summer, but we have a new bank building, First national.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: Bank.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: And it's.
It's still got. Well, he said the man that was there when they groundbreaking, he said it would be the first of 20, 26, sometime in there, January or February.
[00:19:51] Speaker C: That's pretty quick.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Now, that TSC building, they're planning on opening up in February, it has come up now, and it's a big building.
[00:20:02] Speaker C: I think it won't be long. You can get some corn down there.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: Whatever you want. Whatever you need. A pair of britches or.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: They sell everything.
Dog food.
[00:20:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Tools, hat, Whatever you need, Anything you need. Toys, gun safe.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: You know, I'm proud to see them come to town.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: Oh, I am too. You know, you're talking about grants and I'd like to bring these others up, if I may.
We've got.
And they're coming one day and I'll get with Keith and y' all about it to present a check to us about another grant that we was awarded.
And it was a tourism enhancement grant that we're going to build a music venue also at the fairgrounds. And I think that's going to be a great thing.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: A stage.
[00:20:47] Speaker C: Yes, I think it's going to be a great thing. And why I say that is it's going to bring tax dollars in, of course, but it's going to be good for the people just to come and bring you lunch here. That's what our plans are. And kick back and Listen to some music. All kind of genre and John Rays and not just one, but we're going to try to have different kinds and just kick back and listen to some music in the summertime, spring, summer and fall. Of course it'd be hard on you right now to sit out there, but people have done. This is an outside event. Right. They've got that and that's coming up. And we also got. We received a $250,000 three star grant last year or the year before last. We got a $50,000 three star grant and we built Cannon Cannonball park.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:40] Speaker C: Inclusive park, 88 accessible.
That's only 88 accessible park I know of in county. That's right.
And that's 100% money too. That doesn't have a match to it. It's 250,000. It went from 50,000 two years ago to 250,000.
So I put in for the max, which was 250,000 and I thought why not?
[00:22:04] Speaker A: All they can say is no.
[00:22:06] Speaker C: All they can say is no. I've been told no before.
So we got it, we was awarded it. And it's finishing start. It's for the community center here to paint the inside of that gym.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: It's amazing what you have already done to that building because it was such a waste. It was, it was a great building, but it was a waste.
[00:22:26] Speaker C: It was. And of course the new roof is on it.
When it was being redone, I had two pickleball courts. I had the whole gym floor in there restriped and in the process I had them to stripe up two pickleball courts, one on each end of the floor where people could go in. Added air and air and heat and I'll be quite honest with you, that thing is rented constantly.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: Well, good.
I knew it would be.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: If you can get something to. And what the, the $250,000 grant also is going to do is. Is fix those bathrooms in there and turn and get them ADA accessible.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So I think everything anymore that's being built ADA accessible is going to be a must.
[00:23:15] Speaker C: Oh, you're going to have to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we should, we should because you.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Have people there and I've been there.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: Where I couldn't get around.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: I have been there and it's very difficult. I just.
Well, I had two broken heels so you couldn't. I was in cast on both legs and you'd go in the wheelchair but your legs were straight out.
[00:23:42] Speaker C: Oh yeah.
We, we have applied. This is something else. We have applied For. And we'll know about December 15th. And everybody pray that we get this because.
[00:23:53] Speaker C: It'S going to help our county.
Huge. And that is a courthouse grant.
Had conversation with.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Representative Hale and Senator Reeves about this courthouse grant, and they went to bat for us and they got it. They got a courthouse grant put in the budget at state level.
[00:24:19] Speaker C: That started here in Canning county asking for that. So we're looking. That's up to a $500,000 grant.
And I hope that that is that we receive that. We'll know December 15th if it was then. We're going to start some renovations on the courthouse. It should have some windows that's being changed out. We're going to try to put the heat and air in there and get those air conditioning units out of the window and work on our courthouse some. And our courthouse needs some.
Some tlc.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: A great.
Well, it's on the Historical Society.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: It is.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: And there's pluses and minuses to that.
[00:24:59] Speaker C: True.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: And one of them is if you do any replacement, they want you to replace it with just what was there to begin with.
Well, those windows are awful. Why would we want to replace them with the same windows?
[00:25:14] Speaker C: They're single pane windows and they're just. When they're having court up there, if an ambulance comes by, they have stopped.
Because you've been up there, hey, you can't hear nothing. You can't hear nothing. The judge has stopped. And no doubt that they're not energy efficient at all.
[00:25:34] Speaker A: They're not.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: Some of them, you know, they just open up on their own.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: And I know we have an elevator in there, but you have step downs to both bathrooms on the main level.
[00:25:48] Speaker C: Yes, you do.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: And now if you're in a wheelchair or handicapped, two steps is like an obstacle you can't overcome.
[00:25:58] Speaker C: That's exactly right.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: You know that's right. But now we do have the ramp that leads up to it, and that's good, you know. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, there's. Back then when that courthouse was built, nobody thought about getting in and out of it.
I mean, they just figured to get in the best way.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: That's exactly right. You know what I do want to do? I want to give you kudos for the Canon Country Christmas, y', all, you and KE2.
But I appreciate you so much and it was a blast.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Well, it was a lot of people here for that.
[00:26:33] Speaker C: I've heard great things about it.
My son got married.
I know that day.
And I snuck out there before they took off on their honeymoon and got to the parade in time to participate in that. And that was a great, amazing parade.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: It was.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: It was so enjoyable. And I think everybody. I guess that's the biggest crowd I've seen in downtown Woodbury in a long time.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: You know, almost everybody. This was the first time that the Lions Club had had their parade at night. They've had some other nighttime parades in the past, but the Lions Club parade is a big one.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: It is.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: I really didn't know what to expect.
But I want to tell you, one of my favorite ones was the lead, Shane and his wife with the horses. They had everything on those horses lit up.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: They did.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: Including the flags.
[00:27:32] Speaker C: They did. As long as the horses was lit up and not Shane.
Shane didn't need to be lit up.
[00:27:39] Speaker E: No, no.
[00:27:41] Speaker C: He's better unlit.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: I asked him if he said every day when he went home, his wife had put something else on the horses. I mean, their tails were lit up, their halters, I mean, their bridles, their saddles, their straps around their ankles. Everything was lit up.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: They've done a great. Y' all done a great job. They've done a great job. It was amazing.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: And the other ones, of course, you had the.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: Train that Huff and Puff has, which is the Polar Express, which makes its own snow, which is great. Anybody would be proud to have that.
And there was one float that had tons of lights on it. And I'm not sure who.
Who that was.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: I don't know either.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: I think it was Moretown.
[00:28:31] Speaker C: Wait a minute. It was Moretown. Yeah, it was.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: I believe it was Moretown.
[00:28:34] Speaker C: You know, Huff and Puff's always helping the community.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: They are.
[00:28:40] Speaker C: They're a big help to Canning Cow. I appreciate them.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: And then the merchants Christmas open house, that was on the Friday night.
And those people.
There was a lot of people in town. I know our. Our businesses have kind of diminished as times went on, but the ones that were there and got involved, the paper does a great job of promoting that.
[00:29:06] Speaker C: It does.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: And so does WBRY had some really good commercials on it, too.
But this year, I don't.
The chamber sponsors that. And we don't really set up vendors on that Friday night that are going to compete with the merchants.
[00:29:26] Speaker C: Right.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: But what we do. Because we want a crowd in town this year, I probably had about 10 churches that set up.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: No, I said, amazing.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: And they all did something. And we had a couple of the banks, Homeland and First national bank, they came in and served hot chocolate. But everything.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Everybody that sets up something there, what they do is for free. They don't charge.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: That's right. Amazing.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: And then, of course, we always have. One of the main things is the nativity scene that Sunny Slope Church puts up.
But the weather this year did not.
[00:30:10] Speaker C: Want to cool up at all. But.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: And so I wasn't sure what was going to happen with it. And it ended up. We had a few little sprinkles, and that was about it, you know, it was warm.
[00:30:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: And the other one I really want to thank is Middle Tennessee Electricity.
[00:30:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: And petals and stems is a new business that we have there on the tour of homes this year, and they had someone in the family that donated a Christmas tree.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Thank you. I was going to say something about that. You've done great.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: Yes, they did. I appreciate everybody that helps.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: Every year, Ray Patrick, when we light a tree, we usually string up that maple tree.
Well, every year, when it's time we straightened up, Ray Pashard looks at me and he says, that's not a Christmas tree.
[00:31:07] Speaker C: So thanks to Tim Higgins that I could look at him and say, that's a Christmas tree.
[00:31:14] Speaker E: And it was so funny. When I was emceeing the thing, they tell me, okay, it's time to light up the tree. After we did the opening prayer. But then everybody scattered around. I couldn't find Caroline, couldn't find Stan.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: Hollister in my corner.
[00:31:30] Speaker E: Well, it was dark out there, and you couldn't see where everybody was. So I call them up, you know, and everything, and I get. We're lighting the tree up, and they. They want to count down, or she. She said, you need to count us down. Well, that's good, because now I know where she's at. I know where she's gone. Right. I can see her, so to speak. I don't know where Stan is. All I know is that Stan was headed toward his particular tree, but his particular tree was the bush kind of thing. And you couldn't see it from where I was.
So I'm sitting out there going, I'm gonna roll the dice and I'm gonna count. So I counted down, and I saw Carolyn's tree lit up bright as ever. And I couldn't see where. I said, I don't know where Stan. If Stan got his tree lit, did.
[00:32:18] Speaker C: The Meyer light do it?
[00:32:19] Speaker E: Yeah, he did. He actually did. It was.
It was a little, small tree.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: Thank you, Stan.
[00:32:23] Speaker A: Yes, he did a good job. He stayed the whole night, really. But everything went off really well.
Everybody there was happy and in a good mood, even though the nativity scene didn't make it right.
[00:32:37] Speaker C: Right.
[00:32:38] Speaker A: But they were on a float in the parade.
But the thing about Ray doing that, I think this is amazing. Somewhere in Morrison they rent animals.
[00:32:51] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:32:52] Speaker A: I don't think it's called Animals or Us, but I don't.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: That's a good name.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: Anyway, if he goes on to you about that tree not being a Christmas tree in the nativity scene, one year he had a kangaroo. Now, I don't remember.
[00:33:09] Speaker C: Wait a minute.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: Being in the nativity.
[00:33:12] Speaker C: He's going worldwide.
[00:33:15] Speaker C: He's going worldwide. He's went to Australia.
[00:33:18] Speaker A: He's wanting people out of the country over here.
[00:33:21] Speaker C: You know, I gotta bring up one more thing while we're talking about this. And last night, I attended the alderman meeting.
City alderman meeting.
One thing I'm thankful for is us. The county and city get along.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: I am, too.
[00:33:39] Speaker C: And we're working together.
The state loves to see that, too.
They want to see that. You'll get more done that way if you're working together and you're fighting each other. So I'm glad of that and thank God for that. But.
[00:33:55] Speaker C: The Center Hill RPO is our liaison between us and tdot.
I've been pushing for this for a while is to do something about the traffic in downtown Woodbury.
Everybody knows how bad it is. It gets backed up. I've seen it backed up plumb from.
[00:34:14] Speaker C: One end of town to the other, you know.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Well, every day it is.
[00:34:20] Speaker C: So they're going.
I applied for a grant and I'm pretty sure we're going to get it. It's $150,000 study of how TDOT is going to do a study and see how they can help us in the short term right here. And it's a joint.
[00:34:37] Speaker C: Taking with me with the county and the city. And I think, thank goodness that it is. They was unanimous about it last night. And I just. I just. I'm so thankful and grateful that we are getting together and trying to move the town and the county forward.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Well, that's how you get things done.
[00:35:00] Speaker C: It is.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: If you fight each other, then going backwards, usually you don't get anything done.
[00:35:05] Speaker E: Hopefully we won't get any. You know, any type of advice to put J turns in the middle of the road or anything like that. No.
But, yeah, I think we do need. And one thing I think that needs to happen and it's needed to happen in a while is to get the lights through Woodbury timed, you know, on a better time.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: That's what they'll look at.
[00:35:25] Speaker E: You know, I remember people talking about that, that were kind of in the know. They weren't tdot, but they were. They were close. You know, talking about how the lights, you know. Now that's not going to fix the whole thing. No, not at all.
[00:35:39] Speaker C: But the study should cover things like the high school, the traffic there and things such as.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: That's an issue. I deal with that every morning and.
[00:35:48] Speaker C: Try to help that situation because I'm telling you people, the traffic in Woodbury is not going to do anything but worsen.
[00:35:58] Speaker E: Now. It's not a question for you. It'd be more for Stan Hollingsworth or whoever the mayor would be. What if the study comes back and says, you know what? You need other roads? Talking about the high school need other roads or you need to expand other roads out.
That's gonna be. That could be a possibility, couldn't it?
[00:36:18] Speaker C: Yeah, Anything very possible at one time in the past.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: It is one issue that they came up with, I believe.
[00:36:29] Speaker A: I don't know if it was the 80s or the 90s, was to take a road off of 70 before you get into town, right there where the new Dollar Store went, and take it across to the high school and have a back entrance to the high school instead of a residential road.
[00:36:51] Speaker E: My. My recommendation on that high school thing is to expand your road.
You got that? And I don't know what the street names are, but you've got that road that comes out right before you get to Davenports, and then you've got that road right next to Davenports.
My advice would be to expand that road, that on Davenports. And that way people, instead of coming out toward the main highway, they can cut back into those neighborhoods, and they can cut.
You know, if you're talking about.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: They're gonna be real proud of you.
[00:37:29] Speaker E: Their driveways and stuff.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: But you know what I think?
I think they'll come in and do this study.
[00:37:38] Speaker C: And I think they'll look at all those scenarios and.
And I'll tell you, I really don't emphasize input into that because the reason I don't is I don't know what I'm talking about.
[00:37:50] Speaker A: Well, that's me, too. It's easier said than done.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: Sure, sure. I mean, I can come up with anything. Let's take a helicopter from one side to the other, you know. But how feasible is that?
[00:38:02] Speaker A: I don't know. We're getting a new helicopter pattern.
[00:38:04] Speaker F: We are.
[00:38:05] Speaker C: Hey there. I like that.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:10] Speaker C: We're moving wrong with that. We're moving forward, and we need to keep moving forward.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: Right?
[00:38:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: But we do have And a lot of traffic that we have at in the mornings and in the evenings is people traveling from Murfreesboro to McMinnville and Smithville.
[00:38:28] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: To get back and forth to work. You know, now it kind of evens out once you get to the four lane John Bragg, you know, but when you're coming right through town, oh, it's busy, it's horrible.
[00:38:41] Speaker C: And this all came about when I first came into office. I started working on it and it all came about.
[00:38:50] Speaker C: Just slowly. I mean, yeah, I did.
[00:38:52] Speaker A: It wasn't.
[00:38:53] Speaker C: That's just the way it is. And I approached Rutherford county, I approached DeKalb County Approach.
[00:39:02] Speaker C: I believe it was Warren County. And I can't remember if I approached Coffee county or not, but I got them to run through their commission support resolutions for doing something here with this traffic. Because it don't only affect us, it affects a lot of counties around us when they try to come through here.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: I get calls all the time.
[00:39:23] Speaker C: Yep, yep. So.
And they passed them unanimously, the support letters. And I turned them into the RPO and tdot. And finally they're beginning to look at it and take notice of it and understand that we have got a problem.
[00:39:40] Speaker A: We do.
[00:39:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:41] Speaker A: Who would have ever thought in Woodbury.
[00:39:44] Speaker C: I wouldn't.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: When I first moved here back in the 70s and I thought. You didn't think it. Well, I remember when they had parking meters and you parked at an angle on Main Street.
Now you think that didn't cut down on no man, on your ability to.
[00:40:01] Speaker C: Use it, did you know what? I remember the traffic, if any a time the traffic was worse in Canning county was years ago when the good old days was put on.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Yes, it was.
[00:40:12] Speaker C: And I'm telling you what, it was bumper to bumper. And that reminds me of that sometimes.
[00:40:17] Speaker E: When it went or when you got the Woodbury yard sale, that event that goes on now.
[00:40:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:23] Speaker E: It'll tell you how quick. I mean, parking lots are full and, you know, traffic is just. Just chaotic.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: I've always told everybody what you've got to remember that's different in other counties. When they have things on their square.
They don't have a main street that runs through there. A main highway.
[00:40:44] Speaker F: Right.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: They're usually off of a main highway.
[00:40:47] Speaker C: Most of it's a business district.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And so you're going down there for that purpose. But ours is a main highway, you.
[00:40:57] Speaker C: Know, leading from 1 SR1.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: That's right.
So that makes a little different because those people, they always tell me when they call, they'll be Fussing about the traffic. And they'll say, every time I come to Woodbury, they're either having a parade or a roadblock. You know, when the Lions Club used to have a roadblock for the.
[00:41:21] Speaker C: For the white cane days.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: Yeah, for white cane days.
And I thought, I'm glad they don't do that anymore.
We have a fish fry now to raise money for that. But because.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: I almost got ran over twice when I was collecting for white Cake.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: I forget who it was that somebody hit their bucket.
[00:41:47] Speaker E: I was thinking it was Stickley, wasn't it?
[00:41:48] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:41:51] Speaker C: Lions Club done a good job with this parade this time. I think they did.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: And they.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: I know they were a little apprehensive about.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: Well, you had so many people that were complaining, but, you know, some of those people I seen at the parade.
[00:42:06] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: But there's anytime you change things, and of course, one of their biggest gripes. And I had a man, I was in, paying my Verizon bill the other day, and this man come in, and I was talking to the girl that worked there about the parade.
He was just adamant. Now. He didn't come to the parade, but his kids did.
And they were so upset because they came home and there was not a bit of candy on the street.
[00:42:36] Speaker C: Oh, my.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Not a bit of candy on the street.
[00:42:39] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: And he was just ranting and raving, and he said. And all it was is because somebody was mad at somebody, so they done away. I said, sir, that had nothing to do with it.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: It's for your safety, for your kids. Yeah. I've been here 30 years, and they haven't been run over.
[00:42:57] Speaker E: Here's my solution to that as far as go out and buy them some candy, number one. Number two, guess what? There are other area parades that are happening where there's candy available, if that's what you want to do. Or number three, go to Veterans Day Parade and stock up and save your candy. Or Halloween, save your candy.
[00:43:17] Speaker A: Then this just happened.
[00:43:18] Speaker C: They did. They did. They did some candy. Some stuffed animals. They did their stuffed animals because.
And old Grinch was giving away some stuffed animals, right?
[00:43:29] Speaker A: Stuffed animals. And he come running out of the back of some float, and we were sitting right there, and I thought, well, what's this guy doing? And he handed out two stuffed animals.
[00:43:40] Speaker C: You know, I'm a firm believer that we can find a bad in anything.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: I guess. So if you look hard enough.
[00:43:45] Speaker C: Here we go. If we look for the bad in situations, it's Going to be there. We need to look for the good in.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: I thought it was good candy or no candy.
[00:43:55] Speaker C: I think it was great. Who wants to grow up and say. They say, well, what happened to your eye? Well, I was watching the Lions Christmas parade and somebody hit me. And I have a piece of peppermint.
[00:44:06] Speaker E: Who wants another thing? Here we are, what, a week, two weeks after the fact. Nobody's griping about candy when they talk about the parade. They're not sitting out there going, well, you know what? We didn't get candy. Oh, they're sitting out there.
They're sitting out there. Well, that's because you were talking about it. That's what the deal was. He probably would not have come up to the Verizon salesperson if he hadn't heard you talking about, you know. Well, now I get.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: He was saying good stuff.
[00:44:33] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:44:35] Speaker A: He just was sad because his kids.
[00:44:37] Speaker C: It was great. And y' all didn't come in with.
[00:44:39] Speaker A: One piece of candy that they got off the street. And I told him, I said, are you listening to what you're telling.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Carolyn?
[00:44:48] Speaker C: And you put in a ton of work on this, and it's appreciated.
[00:44:54] Speaker A: Well, I do that because I want to do that, and I like that. And I like living.
There's no other place I'd rather live than right here.
[00:45:04] Speaker C: Me either.
[00:45:05] Speaker A: And I mean, it has some issues that you have to deal with, but it would be that way. I don't know of any towns that are perfect.
[00:45:13] Speaker C: No, my.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Any counties that are perfect. No, but we're trying.
[00:45:18] Speaker C: Or any person that is perfect.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Okay. Is there anything else you want to tell us?
[00:45:26] Speaker C: No, I think that about covers it for right now.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: I hope you get. I know you've got several of those grants already.
[00:45:33] Speaker C: I do.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: And.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: It'Ll all be good. It's not a bad thing.
[00:45:38] Speaker C: We also received, not Too long ago, 100,000 grant that was 100% grant to replace computers at the library.
[00:45:47] Speaker C: And places out to camp.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: Our library is going to be on the tour of homes because I think a lot of people don't realize we.
[00:45:54] Speaker C: Got a great library.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: What we have in the library.
[00:45:57] Speaker C: We've got a great library.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: We do.
[00:45:58] Speaker C: We do. We've got a great library. Senior center.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: It is. That's one of the.
[00:46:03] Speaker C: We've got some wonderful things here.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: The art center is great.
[00:46:07] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: And I do want to tell you that. And I know that our tour of homes is this weekend, so it probably won't get on the air, but we have seven that are. And three of them Four of them are on College Street.
[00:46:23] Speaker C: I see that.
[00:46:23] Speaker A: So that'll be great.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I seen that. That'd be awesome.
Yeah.
[00:46:29] Speaker A: Well, Keith, is there anything you want to add? Because I've got to cut this short.
[00:46:34] Speaker E: No, I don't want to add just that. But, Greg, when you roll out, can you put her purse down in the chair? I'm gonna do something here.
[00:46:43] Speaker C: Yeah. When I roll out of here.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Well, I can put my purse.
[00:46:46] Speaker E: No, I just put the purse in.
[00:46:48] Speaker C: When you want me to roll out. Now.
[00:46:49] Speaker E: Well, if you want to roll out now or just put. Okay, if you don't want to roll out that spot.
[00:46:53] Speaker C: I tell you, that was an awful nice way. Keith. That was an awful nice way to say leave.
[00:47:00] Speaker E: Get out.
No, you don't have to leave, Percy. I just want the purse in the chair for a second.
[00:47:06] Speaker C: Let me do that.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: I don't know if you're strong enough.
[00:47:10] Speaker E: All right.
[00:47:13] Speaker E: Now, I know that this taping is probably gonna air after our tour of homes, but one of the big features of the tour of homes is what you have crafted. You talk about doing hard work at the Christmas.
Christmas on the square and the country Christmas and stuff. If we can get the camera to pan around behind us and right over here and just go through this whole thing. This is a Christmas village that Carolyn puts together every year. It takes probably a multitude of hours to put this thing up.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: It takes me three days.
[00:47:46] Speaker E: Yeah. Three days. Wow. But if you'll take a look at this now, you may not get to see it this year, but I want all of our viewers to mark this down on the calendar because it happens every year. It's the first Saturday of the month.
You guys need to come out and see this in person. Cameras can't do justice because obviously we're sitting in the way.
But take a look at that. That is just amazing, is it not?
[00:48:10] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:48:12] Speaker E: Thank you for doing that.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: Well, I did all right. I enjoyed doing it. It outgrew my. My house.
[00:48:21] Speaker A: So I had to put it somewhere.
[00:48:23] Speaker E: And she's always adding pieces to the collection. This year, though, she slowed down. She told me she had two new ones, so that's slowing down, according to her. But, man, three days to put this up.
[00:48:38] Speaker A: Well, I wouldn't have got it up in three days if it hadn't been for my daughter, because she come down and help me.
[00:48:43] Speaker C: Oh, she's a good.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: She is.
She is.
[00:48:46] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: But, yeah, we do. Do you see anything in there, Greg, that you think shouldn't be in there?
[00:48:54] Speaker C: No, I think it Looks.
[00:48:55] Speaker A: Look a little further down that way.
[00:48:56] Speaker E: Yeah. Go show them the. Go show him the one that you showed him.
[00:49:01] Speaker A: You see something in there that.
[00:49:03] Speaker C: Well, I tell you what I see. Old Sasquatch.
[00:49:08] Speaker E: Oh, don't tell that guy that. He's running around here talking, holding all those bigfoot seminars.
He'd be in here.
[00:49:15] Speaker C: Old Sasquatch.
[00:49:16] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: Is that what you want me to say?
[00:49:20] Speaker A: No. Yeah, that right there.
My.
My great grandson.
His. He had this thing a couple of years ago about yetis, you know, and so my daughter and I ran up on that this year we were somewhere, and I said, I'm going to get that and put in the Christmas village.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: And then right there by the deer, pick up that little outhouse there.
[00:49:46] Speaker E: We want. We want the camera to see this. As soon as she opens this by the deer, go show it. Cameras. Cameras roll right here.
[00:49:55] Speaker E: Go show them what we've got. And then we're gonna.
We're gonna hold it up for the camera to see, too.
[00:50:03] Speaker A: Now open it up.
[00:50:05] Speaker C: Uh, oh.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: All right.
[00:50:06] Speaker E: Well, let's go ahead and show the camera this so we can show the audience what we're looking at. This is something that Carolyn found part of the collection here.
Okay, now we're gonna open it up.
[00:50:19] Speaker E: I think they should have knocked before entering.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:50:25] Speaker E: But those are some of the type of things that you. That you can see in this Christmas village. So mark it on your calendar next year. Remember the first Saturday in December. Come out and be a part of this tour of homes, because this is part of it. To be able to come in here and take a look at this magnificent. And that's just under definition of it. It is collection of a Christmas village. This has got to be one of the best Christmas villages in the area, I would think.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. Randy Greenwood told me he went to a museum where they had the skyline of New York museum. Oh, that's a museum.
[00:51:05] Speaker A: And I told him.
I told him I had that beat. And I showed him that little outhouse.
[00:51:12] Speaker C: There you go. Show him Sasquatch over.
[00:51:16] Speaker A: I bet they didn't have that.
[00:51:17] Speaker C: I know.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: I. Okay, I've got to end this up. We appreciate you all watching. We want you all to have a very merry Christmas. And I will probably see you again in January.
But we've just about ended up all of our activities for Christmas. But we.
One quick thing before the art center is having their million dollar quartet and they're also having their bazaar.
[00:51:46] Speaker E: And I want people to know about our chamber of commerce banquet. We've set a date for that, have we not?
[00:51:52] Speaker A: On the 22nd of January.
[00:51:56] Speaker E: Okay. So remember that. And any businesses that are out there, they're invited to attend.
And just give the chamber a call. 615-563-2222.
Pretty. Pretty simple twos across the board. And talk to Carol and she'll get you all the information about.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: I will. As soon as I get it all.
[00:52:14] Speaker E: Yeah. We've still got some things.
[00:52:16] Speaker A: I've got some bids I'm still taking. So.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: We wish you a merry Christmas and we hope to see you next year. And we hope you have a healthy Christmas and a healthy new year.
[00:52:37] Speaker C: Sa.
