Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Good morning. And I do mean morning. We moved up the time for this taping, and it's usually when people are just getting out of bed. But that's okay.
We'll manage through it today. And we do want to welcome you to the Cannon County Chamber Connection.
And this is brought to you by DTC3 with our appreciation.
And I will mention something that's already happened, and that was our car show. It was on Saturday.
The weather was beautiful. We had a great turnout for it.
Not only. We not only had a lot of cars, we had a lot of spectators. And this was good, too.
And then that afternoon when we were done, FFA had their tractor pull.
And I'm thinking that they probably had a good turnout because the weather was great.
So see what you missed.
[00:01:20] Speaker C: They had record attendance, by the way.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Oh, good, good. I don't know that we had record attendance, but we had a lot of people there and it was a good car show. Yeah, we did.
Okay. I do have some guests with us here today, and all of these really are very interesting.
We're going to talk with the Health department first. We have Caitlin Parker to talk about. We have a great health department, and they do a lot of things that I think people aren't aware of.
Am I right?
[00:01:57] Speaker D: Yes, we do.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: That's what I thought. And we're going to go over a few of those right now.
What are some of the services that the health department provides for Cannon County?
[00:02:11] Speaker D: Yeah, so we offer a variety of services from primary care to immunizations into dental services as well. So we offer quite a bit of those.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Okay. You have physicals, referrals.
If you do go in there and you do lab work and you find something, then you will refer them on to a doctor or hospital or whatever.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: Yes, we refer to specialty doctors.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Now, I do know that during COVID I did take my vaccinations over there at the health department.
And I remember you never got out of your car.
[00:02:51] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, we did a drive through.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yes, we did. And it was lined up, too.
But I thought that was all over and then about. And I never did get Covid during all that time. I never did.
Three weeks ago, I got it.
[00:03:12] Speaker D: Oh, goodness.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: I'm not.
[00:03:15] Speaker D: You felt better.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: I'm not radioactive right now.
No. Really, about. I guess it's been about four weeks now. Yes, because I didn't know what I.
[00:03:24] Speaker C: Had because it was during last TV taping. She's over here coughing and wheezing and all this good stuff. And she lets me know. She goes, I Don't feel very good.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Well, I didn't know I had Covid.
[00:03:36] Speaker C: Yeah, you didn't know you had Covid at the time. So you go in Thursday after the TV taping. You then get diagnosed with COVID You call me Saturday and you tell me, keith, yeah, I've got Covid. Just wanted to let you know, Saturday afternoon, all of a sudden, I come down with sickness and I go in and I get tested up in Rutherford county. And guess what? I've got Covid.
Well, thanks. No, I'm just kidding.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: I mean, hey, I just wanted to leave you with something on that.
[00:04:09] Speaker C: I appreciate that.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: No, it wasn't as bad, I think, as the original ones. But you do give a lot of other immunizations too, do you not?
[00:04:19] Speaker D: Yeah, we offer a variety of immunizations.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: At the health department.
You do things like.
And really the health department will see you regardless of what your insurance needs are, right?
[00:04:34] Speaker D: Yes, we take insured and uninsured. It's just based on income and family size.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: Right.
[00:04:39] Speaker D: And we do it on a sliding scale.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Okay.
And you see pregnant women, they're gonna have babies that don't have doctors.
And you will assist them with some information.
[00:04:53] Speaker D: And yeah, we do a tobacco sensation class as well with our pregnant women at the health department.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Okay. But if you wanna stop smoking, you don't have to get pregnant. You can.
You can go in there if you're not right.
[00:05:09] Speaker D: Yes, we offer. We have a lot of health, community health education classes as well at the health department.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: How many people are employed at our health department?
[00:05:17] Speaker E: We have.
[00:05:17] Speaker D: Currently we have three nursing and we have a full time nurse practitioner and we have two clerical workers as well. And we also have traveling workers that come in, like me as well, to the office.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:30] Speaker D: So there's probably about 10 of us there.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: But you're really not like a walk in clinic. Right.
[00:05:37] Speaker D: We accept appointments there.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:05:40] Speaker D: We also have triage too, so if someone calls in needing services, they can get that as well.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Well, that's good.
I didn't realize that the dental service is something new, right? Yes.
[00:05:50] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: You haven't had that too long.
[00:05:52] Speaker D: Yes. We're really excited. Dr. Grant is our dentist there and her assistant is named Miranda. And they are there five days a week and they offer cleanings, they offer X rays and simple extractions as well. So we're really excited to have them at the health department with us.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's a big need. And you have X rays.
[00:06:13] Speaker D: Our dental provides X rays there as well.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Yes, flu shots.
And you are planning on having an event that's coming up soon on October 21st.
And that will be where you will be giving flu shots, right?
[00:06:32] Speaker D: Yes. That is our annual fat flu day. And that's gonna be October 21st. It's going to be at the health department from eight till four. So anyone six months and up can get a free flu shot.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Okay, let me ask you this. There's more than one kind of flu shot, right?
[00:06:48] Speaker D: We have our flu shot there, and I think we have a super flu shot for ones that are 65 plus. But we.
That's what they call it. Yeah, I might. There might be another proper word for that's okay.
[00:07:01] Speaker C: What did you call it?
[00:07:02] Speaker D: The super flu flu shot.
[00:07:04] Speaker C: Super flu flu shot.
After that, you get a Superman sticker that. After you get the shot. Yep. Superman sticker.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Well, that helps. Everybody needs a sticker.
[00:07:15] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: All right.
Primary care is Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays.
And dental and general services are five days a week, right?
[00:07:27] Speaker D: Yes, ma'. Am.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: And you are not open on weekends?
[00:07:30] Speaker D: No, we're not open on weekends.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: So if you get sick on the weekend, you're just gonna have to wait till Monday to go in.
Okay. And you see everybody, it's on a sliding scale.
The way you charge for these, is there ever anybody that comes in that there's no charge because of their situation?
[00:07:53] Speaker D: It just depends on family size and income. So they just have to assess that.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: How do they assess that? I mean, what do people need to bring in when they come to visit you at the health department?
[00:08:04] Speaker D: They just need to bring in proof of income.
[00:08:07] Speaker C: Okay.
So.
All right, I'm gonna bring in my proof of income. They'll laugh me clear out of the hell, too.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: They'll say, bless you.
[00:08:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Here's a Kleenex. Don't. You don't get sick on the way out.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: No. They would take care of you.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: I'm sure they would.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: They'd send you somewhere else.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Okay.
And you do the community health education for more than one thing. Because I know. I've heard people that went over there, and I think we're very fortunate to have a health department in Cannon county because it covers a lot of area. Really?
[00:08:46] Speaker D: We do.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: It does. And I think a lot of people don't realize that we have a great.
[00:08:51] Speaker D: Health department with a great staff and a great director. Our director is named Michael Raylan.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: He's a great guy. And you have a fairly new building.
[00:08:58] Speaker D: Yes, we do.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: And during the fourth of July fireworks, we parked in your front yard.
[00:09:05] Speaker D: Oh, you had to watch the fireworks? Yeah, it's a good view of it.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Oh, we were too close. We spent the whole night.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: Like, that's what we did. And I filmed it and aired it. I don't know if I did it live. I think I did it live and I aired it. I said, you know, one of these days I'm going to learn my lesson because I'm here cricking my neck trying to. And everybody else was too. They were like, man, you're. They were right on top of you. You know, people that watched it. And I said, yeah, I know, we'll do better next year.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: No, we just had to laugh. We thought it was kind of funny that we were sitting right underneath it when they went off.
All right, is there anything else you want to tell us about?
[00:09:46] Speaker D: I just. Thank you guys for having us. We're really excited to be on here and promote our services at the health department.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: That's good. Well, don't be a stranger. We can do this more than once. If something else comes up, y' all contact me.
[00:09:59] Speaker D: Yeah, that'd be great.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: The chamber would be glad to help.
[00:10:02] Speaker D: Well, thank you. We'll definitely be in contact doing that.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Well, all right. Well, thank you very much.
[00:10:06] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: It's Amy Lou.
[00:10:08] Speaker E: You can call me anything.
[00:10:09] Speaker F: I'll answer.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: No, she was about ready to answer.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Caitlyn.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Yeah, she was over here.
Okay.
[00:10:15] Speaker E: I answered Mary Lou, Amy Jo. Mary Jo, Mary Sue.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: It's one of them Southern names.
[00:10:21] Speaker E: Yes, I'll answer.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: And you are with something that is very popular because crafts and especially if they are local people that do this. And you are the marketing director for off the Beaten Path studio tour.
And you have. And this is where they actually go to the studios, right?
[00:10:49] Speaker E: Yes, yes, ma'. Am. So this is a unique art experience because the artists actually open their studios and you get a glimpse into their space and also their arts and their craft and in their space. And they also host other artists within their studio. So off the Beaten Path was started in 1999, which is a good long run for an art. I wouldn't call it a festival, but an art studio tour.
So it's a self driving, self guided driving tour and it's through DeKalb and Cannon counties and it's grown through the years. There's been some years that haven't had as many stops, but then it'll grow the next year and have more stops. So this year we have over 25 artists space out between 14 unique stops.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: That's pretty big.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: The Art center will be wonderful.
[00:11:54] Speaker E: Yes. The art center is stop number 11. And the artists that will be featured here at the art center at Cannon county is Alf Sharp. And that is your stop number 11.
And then the other two stops in Cannon county are stops number three and 15. And so that is.
Stop number three is Forest Gems Studio. That is 420 Preacher Spry Road in Bradyville. And then the other stop that I would consider, I'm assuming Canyon County, Short Mountain Distillery.
They are a new stop this year and they'll have an artist. They'll have two artists at Short Mountain Distillery.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Well, I know we have the one that does the stonework up there and pottery.
[00:12:44] Speaker E: Yes, yes. Jason Lloyd Brown, right? Yes. And then Cass Waldman will be at Short Mountain Distillery with him.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:12:53] Speaker E: And then stop number three is Maggie Sunsera, which I believe. Do you have some of her.
Do you have some of her fabrics in the.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Yes, I'm sure we do.
[00:13:03] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: So the art center doesn't miss much. I'll just show you.
[00:13:08] Speaker E: Yeah, you have a beautiful gift shop.
Went through it the other day and I was like, this is a nice gift shop.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: It is a nice gift shop. And we have people stop in just about every day that tell me they go by here all the time. They didn't know what this was.
[00:13:27] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: And they stopped to see it. But they don't all realize that they also do plays.
[00:13:36] Speaker E: Yes. I didn't know you did plays.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: They have music venues. They have tribute bands that are great.
[00:13:42] Speaker E: It's really neat. This is a gem, I tell ya. This is a. This is a gym to have in Cannon County.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: So now that's what people from Nashville tell us when they come in. That's what the tourist department and everything.
That's what we hear from them.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:57] Speaker E: It is a great, great little center here.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: So we also have a health food store that's connected with it and you can get kombucha and a whole line of naturally grown and fermented products over there.
[00:14:16] Speaker E: Yes, I stopped by the other day. Yeah. And JP was actually an artist on the tour last year, right? Yeah. So I just, I love how the artists are all help each other, you know. And Alf Sharp will be here, like I said. But we also want visitors to stop in Short Mountain and stop into the gift shop and look and see what plays and concerts are coming up. So we really want a.
What's this word? A community of helping.
[00:14:51] Speaker F: There's a word.
[00:14:51] Speaker E: Networking. There's a word for this.
Yes. So.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: And this goes on for three days, right?
[00:15:01] Speaker E: Yes, ma'.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Am.
[00:15:01] Speaker E: October 24th through October 26th. That's a Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the times are the same each day, 10 to 5pm and I would just encourage anybody wanting to come and visit the artist and the studio stops. We have these postcards here in the art center, in the gift shop and at the front desk. And in short, mountain cultures. And this is just a preview of the artists and who all will be on the tour this year. And on the back there's a QR code right here where you can use your phone to scan the to get the actual map. And we'll also have maps printed. You can pick up a physical map here as well.
[00:15:48] Speaker C: Okay. Are you online anywhere?
[00:15:50] Speaker E: Yes, we're online. Our website is offthebeatenpathtour.com or org always forget if it's.com.org and Facebook and Instagram is where we'll be posting.
Once we get closer to the tour, we'll start posting more. We're going to have suggested itineraries and just a frequently asked questions post just to help people answer of questions and stuff. So we're really excited about this year. We have four new artists. Four new artists this year and yeah. So it's going to be. We're hoping for a great tour.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Is there a starting point?
[00:16:25] Speaker E: There is no starting point. That's a great question, Ms. Carolyn. Thank you for asking. There's no starting point. You can go to any of the numbers in any order.
We get that question a lot. But that's what we're going to make the itineraries for. So if you maybe only have a couple hours and you live in Canning county, obviously you, you're going to go to the Canon county ones. But if you want to do the whole tour, you can take two days and, you know, map it out. We'll have a suggested route and so you don't have to do the numbers in order and there's no starting point. But we do have a welcome center in downtown Smithville because we have a lot of stops in Smithville. And so that welcome hospitality spot will be at Pawpaw Studio. And that is. This is not the map. I have the map on my phone.
That is at 203 S. 4th street in Smithville, Tennessee. Downtown Smithville. Yeah. So that is a hospitality stop. And then of course the art center in Canning county is a hospitality spot.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: Do you have that in that on your Facebook site?
[00:17:35] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:17:35] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:17:36] Speaker E: Yes, this will be on Facebook. It's not on there currently, but we will load. We'll start now that it's October 1st. Happy October.
We will start loading everything on our social medias. Yeah, but the map is on our website already.
[00:17:50] Speaker C: Okay. Because I work for the newspaper Canon Courier and I've got some other things going that I promote events and stuff, and I'd like to get information about that.
[00:17:58] Speaker E: Yeah, I can get you anything you need.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:18:00] Speaker E: Yep.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: See there?
[00:18:03] Speaker E: There you go.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: Got you.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: Not only do I can I go on the off the beaten past studio tour, but before I can go visit the health department, get my flu shots and all that good stuff. Right, because fight the flu is when?
[00:18:15] Speaker D: October 21st.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: See, right there?
[00:18:17] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker E: Same week.
Same week.
The 24th is a Friday, so that would be a Tuesday, wouldn't that?
[00:18:24] Speaker F: Tuesday.
[00:18:25] Speaker E: Or is it Tuesday or Wednesday?
[00:18:27] Speaker D: It's a Tuesday.
[00:18:27] Speaker E: Tuesday. Yeah. So stop there on Tuesday and then come here on Friday.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: Maybe we could, you know, collaborate and do like an off the beaten health Pass studio tour or something.
Wouldn't that be fun?
[00:18:40] Speaker B: I'm sorry I even talked to you, Keith. I really am.
[00:18:43] Speaker E: I'll defrainstorm that.
[00:18:46] Speaker C: Come up with some good ideas every now and then.
More then than now, but, you know.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Yeah, every now and then you do have one.
And you were a big help at the car show, so I don't want to be ugly to you.
[00:18:59] Speaker C: Well, that's good.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: If I don't have to be.
[00:19:01] Speaker C: That's good.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Ladies, you've been great.
Very informative. This is always a great event that goes on.
A lot of people like the artisans, they like to go to their studios and see how and when they do it. They have furniture makers, jewelry, knives, stoneware.
Here is a turtle.
I'm not sure how to pronounce this lady's name. Laura Neucel, number four.
[00:19:34] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: And she has. It reminds me of the one that we have out here next to the highway. And that's so funny because people stop and come in here and I've seen them let their kids play on that turtle. Yeah.
[00:19:51] Speaker E: Reminds me, there was a turtle at the Knoxville Zoo that you always took. Kids always took their pictures on. So something about a big turtle. People just want to sit on it.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: I thought, you know, it's kind of rusty. It's made out of metal and everything.
[00:20:06] Speaker E: But I think you can probably get a tetanus shot at the health department.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: Here we go.
[00:20:10] Speaker C: Back to you. Didn't know that you were going to be so intertwined with this, did you?
[00:20:17] Speaker B: This is what's called helping each other. It's a community.
Okay, ladies thank you so much for having me.
[00:20:25] Speaker E: And having us.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I have the print shop coming on that. A lot of people don't know that our high school has a print shop.
[00:20:34] Speaker C: We'll try to intertwine it with you guys somehow, too.
[00:20:38] Speaker E: Well, yeah, it'll be easy to intertwine with us. I'm not sure about the health department.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: All right, so I'm gonna get the guests.
I know you, Dodd. What's your first name? Caitlin. And you're Avery. Yes, Avery Gallon. I want to talk to you about some volleyball here a minute.
[00:20:57] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:20:57] Speaker G: And my name is Drake Hillis.
[00:21:01] Speaker C: Drake Hillis. Drake doesn't play any sports. I don't guess.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: Do you know?
[00:21:04] Speaker G: I'll say slow rec league softball.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Rec leagues. Hey, that's good. I mean, that'll carry you throughout life.
[00:21:11] Speaker G: That's what I'm saying.
[00:21:12] Speaker C: I know people that are 50, 60 years of age.
[00:21:15] Speaker G: I play with them.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: I bet. Rec league softball. That's right.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Some of them that can run real good.
[00:21:21] Speaker C: Well, they don't even have to run, do they?
[00:21:23] Speaker G: No. You hit and you get a kid like me to run for you.
[00:21:26] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what happens.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: That's what I need.
My.
[00:21:31] Speaker G: They just toss it in.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: I need my own runner. I needed you at the car show.
That's what I needed.
You go to Cannon County High School? All three of you do, right?
[00:21:42] Speaker G: Yes, that's mine.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: And you are part of.
We have several businesses within our high school.
I was so impressed when I went out there and seen all of it. And these guys actually do printing.
You want to tell them what kind of printing you do?
[00:22:03] Speaker G: So we have this printer.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:22:05] Speaker G: It's a big printer, big expensive machine.
And we take designs on a computer and we send it to someone, and they. It may be like a sponsor for the football team or something.
And maybe we'll get like a, you know, maybe a five by seven poster or something. And we'll print it out on this big piece of paper, and then we cut it and then we pleat, which basically just means you fold in the sides to make it thick, and you can hang it on the football field. And that may cost anywhere from 1:25 to 250 bucks, depending on how big it is. How big it is. You can get a smaller one or a bigger one, and then we hang it on the football field. So you pay for your advertisement to be out there for us.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: We should have brought. We should have told y' all to bring some of this work, man, because I'm telling you, it's impressive.
[00:22:47] Speaker F: It is.
[00:22:48] Speaker C: It really is.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: We're gonna go down a notch or two from what you're telling me. I think that's great. And I didn't realize you did signs.
Actual signs.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Banners.
[00:22:58] Speaker G: Banners, yard signs and all that biz.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: What I have had done is I have had just flyers printed off for the princess ball. I think y' all did the one for a princess ball.
If you just want a post flyer like this, you know, probably look. I don't know. Did you guys do this one?
[00:23:23] Speaker C: No.
They didn't think they could.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: If you would do these. And do you do the design work, too?
[00:23:29] Speaker F: Yes. We have a design team.
So whatever you give us an idea on, we take it to our design team, and they'll design it, and we'll send it back to you to make sure you like that. And then we'll print it off, and that's how, you know, our designs get checked and stuff.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:44] Speaker C: Can you even do these things right here?
[00:23:45] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:23:46] Speaker C: See cards, flip cards. They can do flip cards.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: Do these.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: Well, that's.
[00:23:52] Speaker G: We probably have to cut them ourselves.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: Tore up my pen.
[00:23:56] Speaker F: We did a lot of different stuff. We have yard signs, too, where we.
[00:24:00] Speaker B: Right. You've done some yard signs. We do.
[00:24:02] Speaker F: Can do front and back.
We do brochures. We have a little brochure maker. We can put it through, and it'll fold it all for us.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: We have buttons, like specifically the ones that you put on your shirts. We do them for senior night and let the teachers wear the child that picks them that's a senior, to be their sponsor.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Okay.
Yeah.
Wow. Okay. This business was started within the high school. Now, the money that you get from it, what does that go to?
[00:24:33] Speaker A: It all goes back to getting the supplies that we need to continue the business and keep it growing. And then it also could go toward things that we need to upgrade, like machines or the materials to, again, keep the business running.
Some of it, I do think, could go toward anything that is within that, like event planning. With event planning, we do a lot of things within the school, like teacher appreciations. We have done coffee for the teachers and go around and serve everyone coffee or donuts or something just to show our appreciation.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Okay.
And you guys do all the bookwork and everything about this. I mean, you run this business? Yes, it's right.
[00:25:16] Speaker F: Basically student led with just the teacher's help.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Okay. What happens from year to year?
I know it's great if you get involved as a freshman, you know, you got to. But what if you get.
What happens when you get to be a senior and you're going to graduate.
[00:25:34] Speaker F: You just got to teach the younger class.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: So there's jobs assigned toward a few people for every. It's kind of based on roles, and we have the roles. And it's not necessarily by grade level or anything. It's just by people that feel like they would be best for that.
So then they would. The people that do finance, they think they're better at the math stuff. So they would go and they would do that section. And if we're planning on, like, losing a senior or something, that senior could go ahead and teach somebody younger to go ahead and be able to do that whenever senior steps.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Be able to fill your shoes. Yes, yes.
When you go, I think this is great. And what do you do? Give orders?
[00:26:17] Speaker G: I'm in charge of the labor. So when you come on.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: I'm not surprised.
[00:26:22] Speaker G: I knew that banners and the yard signs and all that.
I've probably made the most out of anybody in the school. I'm in there several class periods a day. I actually have it several times because I have all my credits done except for maybe one or two.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: So that's good.
[00:26:36] Speaker G: Yeah, I'm just. I'm in there a lot, and I teach the people coming in, like, how to do it. And I'm also there to make sure you keep a level head, because if you get upset, they can be tedious to make. If you get upset, then your work really starts to go down.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: So I work in a job kind of like that Last week was kind of like that.
[00:26:52] Speaker G: You gotta keep your head low.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: I stayed upset the whole week.
[00:26:56] Speaker C: So college plans. What are your college plans or plans? After high school, he's gonna open a.
[00:27:03] Speaker G: Print shop I in McMinnville. Holder Realty. They're a big place.
[00:27:07] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:27:08] Speaker G: I wanna go get my real estate license, and then I'm probably gonna go get my cdl and then I wanna get on at UPS in Sparta.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: So you're gonna do all kinds of stuff?
[00:27:18] Speaker G: Yeah, I gotta make money.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Well, one thing. If you drive a truck for ups, you can spot all the houses that are going up for sale.
[00:27:26] Speaker G: I'm fine with working a full day and then coming home and working till midnight. I just.
I really. I want to make some money in my lifetime.
[00:27:34] Speaker C: Well, here's the thing, and I'm going through this right now. Graphic design, there is a big.
It's a big money field. My daughter actually works for a big graphic design company up in Nashville, and she's probably, what, about 50 grand a year? You know, right now. And I mean, she hasn't been in it long and she takes care of. I mean, she gets to hobnob with all the country music artists and hospitals and all this good stuff. She's got it really good and everything, so there's a career in that too, but. And they're always looking for people. You know, it's a wide open. Wide open field. Can't find enough graphic design artists as we're kind of figuring out at the paper. But.
But yeah. But yeah, it sounds like you got it going on with the real estate. You're gonna sell houses and. And you could truck people to them, I guess, with your CDL slots.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Put them on the UPS truck.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: What about you? What are you.
What are you.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: After high school, I plan to attend MTSU and going to a nursing major. And if all goes wrong, then we're gonna switch to a business and then start my own business.
[00:28:40] Speaker C: Gotcha. And you're senior this year. That's what I thought. I couldn't remember.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Tell you, I have a granddaughter that she. Well, she's an rn, but she went into the traveling nurses.
Now you sign a contract for maybe six weeks, she's been in Chicago.
Well, you have to stay here at home and do your.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Prereqs, all of that stuff.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Right. And for a while, then she signed a contract to go to Chicago. She's been up there for six weeks and now. Or three months. I'm sorry? It's three months and now she leaves on the 9th. I believe she's leaving to go to Seattle for three months and then who knows? It's whatever contract comes available.
So if you like to travel, which she does, that's ideal.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: I'm looking more toward like labor and delivery or nicu.
[00:29:45] Speaker E: Nurse.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, she likes the emergency room. I don't know why, but she does. She likes that. Well, she says she's busy.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: Yeah. And she probably has some war stories to tell, too. Some pretty good ones, I'd imagine, up in.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Oh, she has several.
[00:30:01] Speaker C: Chicago especially, you know.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: Well, she had some here in Nashville, too.
[00:30:06] Speaker C: What about you, Avery? What are you gonna do?
[00:30:08] Speaker F: I either will go play college volleyball or I'll go to the University of Alabama. And at either college that I go to, I will get a degree in early education.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:30:19] Speaker F: And I plan on being either a kindergarten or a first grade teacher, but just kind of seeing where that plays out.
[00:30:25] Speaker C: Have you got any colleges looking at you for volleyball?
[00:30:28] Speaker F: I do have some colleges where kind of talking back and forth a little.
[00:30:31] Speaker C: Bit but can you speculate as to who they are? Are you allowed to do that?
[00:30:34] Speaker F: I have someone from New York. I have one from Washington, and there's one more in Georgia. But I'm really wanting to get a little closer to home and stay in Tennessee.
[00:30:43] Speaker C: Send your stuff to the University of Alabama, right? Yes.
[00:30:46] Speaker F: I'm trying to stay a little bit closer. I don't want to go too, too far.
[00:30:49] Speaker C: Right, right. Okay.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: You know, I used to substitute teach when I first got down here.
Kindergarten was a whole new experience.
[00:31:03] Speaker F: Kindergarten kids, they're a little harder, but I like a little challenge, too.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: Well, you can have that. I guarantee you you'll be breaking up more fights than you will anything, because they all get to fight anyway.
We need educators. We do. Yes. We need businesses. And we need things like this in our school that teach kids how to be entrepreneurs.
Now it's just as simple as that. And when I went to the thing that Crystal put on, I was so impressed with y'. All, because you're not the only business within our high school, are you?
The ag department has the greenhouse, and then they had the.
I think they've got something to do with raising cattle now for processing, I guess you would say. I don't know how you would put that.
What else? You got a coffee shop that's on the hub. Yes.
[00:32:06] Speaker F: We have an event planning class, too, which me and Caitlin Andre are all in it, which we plan homecoming. All these fun event senior night for the football players and cheerleaders. We're planning that right now. So any events that you really have, you go to the event planning class and we plan it all from you from start to finish. We'll go decorate. We have a harvest festival coming up for Canon north that we are going to plan and then decorate it for them.
[00:32:32] Speaker B: So can you do this planning events outside of the school?
[00:32:36] Speaker F: We can. If y'.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: All. I mean, like, if somebody was having a banquet or a dinner or something, you can plan all that.
[00:32:43] Speaker F: Yep. They would just email us.
[00:32:44] Speaker C: You know where we're going with this, don't you? We do a banquet. Your banquet here for the Chamber of commerce. So there we go. We can.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: We don't usually decorate a whole lot.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: No, we don't.
[00:32:57] Speaker F: Yeah, if you just email.
[00:32:58] Speaker G: If you just need some people running around, make sure everything's going all right.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: And we did. I mean, you guys came out and helped us with it.
High school did that, helped us serve.
[00:33:11] Speaker B: We usually go through Crystal and she gets a group together from somewhere.
What else do you have besides that? You have another business. I'm trying to remember a robotics class.
[00:33:26] Speaker F: We have robotics.
That's Ms. Clements's class.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Right.
[00:33:30] Speaker F: But she'll do all the robotics. That's really cool to see. I think, in my opinion, and impressive.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: Application, what they displayed was small. Yes.
I mean, there was no one that came out.
No human like anything. But I was impressed with the robotics because they actually, whatever that whole thing was, they made it work.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: They did 3D printing.
[00:33:55] Speaker F: They.
[00:33:55] Speaker C: Did you do 3D printing? And I can't remember. Macy was talking to me about something that she did with a human. Well, made a human, like a couple fingers or something to that effect. And it worked to help you got a prosthetic type of thing. And she was talking about how she debuted it. And it helps people who don't have their full use of their full hand be able to grab stuff, you know, and stuff. And she showed me one day. I was in it. We were talking about doing something we do. We work together with the broadcast and everything she helps with.
And she said, hey, I want to show you something. I made this class of hers made. And she showed it to me. I was like, wow, this is crazy. You know, so now that my hands.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: Don'T work right, I really good.
[00:34:43] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Especially for a little rural high school like Canning county, to be able to make something like that, that's wild.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Well, to have all these businesses within our high school. And I hear, you know, how, of course, people like to gripe, you know, and they like to assume things.
And you hear all of these. You don't hear the good things, you know, you hear the bad things or. Well, this went on and that went on. Listen, I went. There were five high schools in the town I grew up in.
And at the high school that I grew up in, there was at least one fight every day.
And I remember Volkswagens had just become popular.
And there was a group of boys in mechanics that took the coach's Volkswagen and carried it up three flights, or I mean, a flight of stairs and set it on the deck.
I know.
[00:35:46] Speaker C: I thought she was going to tell us. That's how the term slug bug got started. Now she. He's telling us about picking up.
[00:35:52] Speaker B: They picked it up and took it up there, y' all at the top of the steps.
So, you know when they have a fight out at the high school or something, of course, I will say this. We didn't have the gun issues.
Now, if they fought, it was usually they were down rolling around the ground and everything. But the shootings are a whole different.
That's a whole different thing there, and that's scary.
But when I hear things like this, and y' all are very interested and very involved, and I like that. And it's something different from what used to be.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: And I think that schools have print shops.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: No, they don't have a lot of businesses. They don't have a coffee shop. They don't have a.
Yeah, some.
[00:36:40] Speaker C: Most of the high schools, I'm hearing, like, in Riverdale and Oakland and stuff, they'll do a little donut shop, you know, type of thing.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: But, I mean, you guys actually do the bookkeeping. You actually run the business, and that's what's good. Yes, it is. I'm proud of you. Thank you.
Be kind.
[00:37:00] Speaker C: How do people get ahold of you if they want to do something with you as far as print shop? Now, I'm saying. I'm telling you this, folks, these guys know it all. I mean, they. They do it all. So if you need a. If you need something printed, check with these guys first before you go to your, you know, other printers here. Other printers are getting mad.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: We had nothing in Woodbury's house.
[00:37:21] Speaker C: Yeah, we don't really.
And these guys have stepped up. This program is top notch again. We should have brought some of the banners so you could have showed them off, because they are really impressive. Especially the ones where you've got the photos of the kids and their names and everything. Like the seniors, I'm sure you're on a banner, are you not? Yeah. Being a senior, you're on one, I'm sure. Being a senior cheerleader.
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Are you all seniors? Yes.
[00:37:47] Speaker F: All three men?
[00:37:48] Speaker B: Yes, ma'. Am.
[00:37:49] Speaker C: Well, so when we. When we bring the print shop back next. Next year.
[00:37:56] Speaker F: So to get in contact with us, we have a Paw Print Facebook page, a Paw Print Instagram page, and we even have a TikTok page. But also, you could just email Ms. Urban, and she will take it, we all will look at it, and then we'll take it to our design team, which I'm a manager, so I read the emails. I do the invoices and stuff, and we'll look at it. We'll send it to the design team. The design team will design exactly what you say. So say you needed a senior banner. We'll send that to the design team. They'll put your picture, your name, what sport you play, and then. And once we do that, we'll send it back to you so you can make sure it's approved and that you all like it, once it's approved, then that's when we'll put it on our big plant, our big printer, like Drake said. And we'll print it out and we'll grommet it or we'll pleat it, which is the double sided tape. We flip it over and then we'll grommet it, which is the little gold things. You can put your zip ties in and zip it on the fence. And then after that, if you.
[00:38:57] Speaker C: Done.
Now you also do business cards, correct? Or you can do business cards.
[00:39:02] Speaker A: Yes, we can.
[00:39:02] Speaker C: Okay. That's going to be a big thing.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: She hesitated.
[00:39:05] Speaker F: Kind of. We don't really do business cards as much. It's just.
[00:39:10] Speaker G: I mean, we. We can do it if you want, but I wouldn't say we get that request a lot.
[00:39:14] Speaker C: A lot.
[00:39:14] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:39:15] Speaker C: And I think it's because people don't know about the print shop, though.
[00:39:18] Speaker G: That's what maybe, you know.
[00:39:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: Most of our handles are under something with the cchs, paw print and planning.
[00:39:25] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: So if you're looking for us, that's normally where you would find us.
[00:39:28] Speaker C: So when I emailed about that roster a couple of weeks ago, I emailed you.
[00:39:33] Speaker F: You emailed Ms. Urban. But I did answer. So it was probably me talk. Or it was. You emailed the paw print's email page, which we do have a paw print email you can go to. And I normally will answer those. Yeah. It's very interesting.
[00:39:46] Speaker C: By the way. It's paw, paw print.
Look it up on Facebook. And that's the name of the deal, so.
Good deal.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Well, guys, I'm glad y' all came. Or ladies and guys, I'm glad you all came in and talked to us about it because I think people need to know this. Yes.
[00:40:07] Speaker F: Thank y' all for having us.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: And we'll do it again before y' all leave, before you go out into the world and do whatever. This guy's gonna be busy. I can tell. He's got a lot of. I do have some neighbors that work for ups if you need a name.
[00:40:27] Speaker G: My brother was working there.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:40:30] Speaker G: So I got some leads getting in, but I'll see what I can pull off.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Well, I don't know that they.
I think you have to work on the dock first.
[00:40:39] Speaker G: Yeah. Before you can drive.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Before you can drive. That's probably a good thing.
All right, guys, thank you for coming.
[00:40:46] Speaker F: Thank you.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: All right. And we'll. If anything else comes up or something new, let me know. And we can always do this.
[00:40:53] Speaker F: Yes, ma'.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Am.
[00:40:54] Speaker F: Yes, ma'.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: AM. All right.
[00:40:55] Speaker F: Thank you all.
[00:40:56] Speaker B: Thank you.
All right. We do have a few events October 11th.
We've got another. I think everybody and their dog's having a cruise in or a Car Show October 11th. Reb dot for CASA.
CASA is a nonprofit organization that we have in Cannon county and other counties. We're not the only one that has this.
And they have volunteers that help with children that are misplaced or taken out of their homes and put in other homes. And maybe they have to go to court for some reason or other, not for something they've done, but sometimes they just need a little bit of support to go on their side. And so that's more or less that's one of the things CASA does. And I'm sure they do more than that.
But they are having a car show on the square beginning at. From 10 till 2pm on October 11th.
And you probably know more about this than I do.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: Yeah, a little bit, I think, because I'm helping them work through this. But it is going to be their first one. So with that, I was trying to tell them, hey, keep it simple. So what they're going to do is they're going to give nine classifications of awards away. They kept it best show. We'll have a best of show. We'll have a classic car section, and then we'll have a current car section to where people can register. When they come up to register, they'll let us know which one they want to compete in.
There you go. Best classic car, best classic truck, best motorcycle. We get motorcycles. Best Jeep, Best custom truck, best custom car, best engine, and the crowd's favorite. So another thing for spectators and to come to is we'll have you come to the registration table, pick up a little slip. That little slip. And then you can walk around and see the various cars and trucks and, you know, whatnot that are competing and you can give us your best thing. Now, one thing that we want to let people know, it's gonna. This particular car show is gonna be kind of formatted like the cheer cheerleading car show that Caitlin, by the way, was involved in.
We're going to have half the parking lot available for those cars, the rest of it. Because the courthouse obviously will be open that day. The back part of the parking lot will be for people that want to do business with the courthouse and want to do business around the square. So we don't hamper any of that. So that's coming up. We're going to start it up at 10am and the judging, the registration will stop at 12 and the judging will start. And we should be out of there by 12 o' clock in the afternoon at the latest.
[00:43:56] Speaker B: And they do have a rain out date and that will be on October 8th.
[00:44:00] Speaker C: But we don't want to use that rain out date. So let's.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: No, you never do.
[00:44:03] Speaker C: Let's go for some juju here. Just like what we did last week with the. With the.
[00:44:08] Speaker B: We had a beautiful day.
[00:44:09] Speaker C: We had a beautiful day. Let's go for a beautiful day. Because I've got to be at another car show on October 18th. So that's going to be.
That's going to be. Yeah, I need this car show to happen October 11th.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: Okay.
I know that feeling. I do. I do. All right. October 24th through October 26th is off the Beaten Path studio tour and you will visit the artist studios. And of course, she spoke to you about that a little earlier, so I won't repeat all of that.
Saturday, October 25th is the Pumpkin Festival on the courthouse square from 10 to 4pm it's presented by Rustic Grounds, which is a coffee shop and restaurant that we have on the square in Woodbury. They make great sandwiches. They have coffee, tea, whatever you would like.
And you will enjoy so many things with this because they're going to have a petting zoo and trick or treating for the kids.
Food trucks, pony rides, craft vendors, a free bouncy house.
And I'm sure there'll be a lot of other things that will. Will be involved in this and everyone is welcome.
I don't believe that there is any kind of a fee for it.
I think that you can just come and enjoy it and the things that they have for the kids. I'm sure there'll be pumpkins and all kinds of good fall stuff that you can get involved in.
I haven't heard a whole lot about Halloween.
Of course, we usually have someone that sets up on the square and I think it's been a bike club in the past that did that, that had like a.
[00:46:15] Speaker C: Well, they're going to do it again this year.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Are they? I say a trunk or treat, but if it's motorcycles, probably not, but they're going to be there.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: So the organization that's doing it this year is in the motorcycle club that you're referring to is Ragnarok. Ragnar, Not Ragnarok. I'm gonna say Ragnar Knock. Something like that. But they are gonna be set up around the square on October 31, handing out candy at the Courthouse Square. That's one of the Things that, you know, you and I talked about is possibly seeing if businesses would like to jump in and participate with this and open, you know, have a little square. You know, the route starts. It used to start over at the Woodbury Health and Rehab, and then it would go down West High street and end up on College Street.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: Oh, College Street. They just block it off.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
But with this motorcycle club doing what they were doing, it would be ideal to expand that route to the square and let the businesses on the square. I think it would be a good thing to handout candy like they do in some of these other towns that you go to.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: Well, that would be up to the merchants.
[00:47:23] Speaker C: It would be.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: But wanted to do that, which I think a lot of them probably do anyway, because some of them stay open later than they used to.
[00:47:32] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:47:33] Speaker B: So.
[00:47:34] Speaker C: But one thing that I do want to mention as well, I know that we haven't gotten through October 25th, but also on November, November 1st down at Cannon South Elementary School, the Beta Club is putting together a run with the Warriors, 5K, 1 mile. And that's located 8383 Jim Cummings highway in Bradyville.
Right now, there's not a whole lot of interest in it because it's not really been put out and publicized that much, but we'd like to see this be a good. It's a good fundraiser. I think this is the first one that they've tried.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: It's.
[00:48:11] Speaker C: If I remember correctly.
[00:48:12] Speaker B: What is it?
[00:48:13] Speaker C: It's called Run with the warriors.
[00:48:15] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:48:15] Speaker C: 5K, one mile.
And it's gonna be at Canon south elementary, that used to be the former Woodland School.
And let's see, when are they gonna start this thing? Let's try the about. Maybe we can figure that it's gonna be early in the morning. I know that. But if you go on their Facebook site, Cannon south elementary, you can get all the details.
Maybe we should let them know. Hey, there is no start time on this.
Not that I can see. Okay, so the one thing that you'll want to do, like I say, go on their Facebook site. Oh, here it is. 8am right in front of me. That's when they're going to start, 8am but the one thing that they do tell you is that you need to register.
Pre registers and sponsors are due October 17th. But I think if you don't pre register, pre register, try to pre register as best you can, because that's okay. That's a little early. And I'm sure it's because they got to order T shirts and do stuff like that for the runners. But go out and let them know if you happen to miss the October 17th deadline, I think that they would take because they want as many runners out there as they could possibly be.
Yeah, Ms. Cossey will call me up probably and chew me out or something.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Whether they like it or not.
[00:49:39] Speaker C: But that guy on TV said, all.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: Right, Saturday, October 25th, we have another cruise in. The Lions Club is going to hold a cruise in, and this one is not going to be on the square. It's going to be in the Lions Club parking lot.
And of course, the Lions Club is right across the yard from the community center and right there where the ballparks are and everything, the baseball parks.
And this event is donations only.
And what the donations are going to be used for is every year the president of. There's a new president every year of the Lions Club, and this year it's Carla Gannon, and she. Each one of them have their own project that they would like to see happen, but it involves helping the community in some way, and hers is feeding the hungry. She wants to have a meal for people in Cannon County.
And so the money that you donate, that's what this will go for, is to feed the hungry in Cannon County. And yes, we do have hungry.
We have quite a few. My daughter works at the food bank, and she said that there's never a lap, a lax in that. There's always people there needing food. So don't think because you don't see them that they're not there, because they are.
And this is going to be her project.
And like I say, you just. It's just a cruise in. I don't believe there's going to be any awards. If there are. I haven't heard of them.
And it's by donation only.
And that you can come out there and give to this. And I'm sure that you'll. It'll be a community meal that Carlie comes up with. So.
[00:51:51] Speaker C: Okay, because I was going to ask, you know, obviously we've got the food bank. Is the money going to, you know, is Carly going to give some of the money to that? But one of the things that's on their flyer that they made out is there will be a people's choice.
And how you vote for that is you donate money to get your car.
You know, you get to do that. There'll be a 5050 raffle. There's going to also be a silent auction and concessions on this.
So 10am to 3pm down at the Woodbury Lions Club. Should be a great activity. Hope everybody can come out. You don't even have to be from Cannon County. Come participate with this. Anybody in our that's watching us can do so so help Carly out. Help Woodbury Lions Club out.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: Lions Club does a lot of good work for Cannon county in a lot of good ways too. Over the year they, they help with any function that they have.
Usually the money goes to either diabetes research or the blind or seeing eye dogs. They work closely with that. Cancer. They work with that.
So there's if you and another thing if you'd like, if you live in Cannon county, you'd like to be a Lions Club member, please contact a Lions Club member and tell them that you'd be interested in working and helping Lions Club because they do work primarily for, for Cannon County.
So yeah, jump in there.
[00:53:29] Speaker C: I got one more thing. I know we're running out of time and you've got one more thing too. I want to talk about this as well real quick. Saturday, November 8th. And you might want to put this down on your calendar as well. It's the sixth annual Kyle Todd Memorial Cruise Inn and this is a free entry for all cars.
Trophies for best of show and five other categories. Both classic new food trucks will be on site. The money raised for this goes to a into a scholarship fund which will be presented to a senior on awards night.
And that's it's Kyle was a outstanding young man that was running the roads down in Auburntown and got in a one car accident right before the Christmas parade. The day before Christmas parade. Woodbury Lions Club Christmas parade.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: Right.
[00:54:19] Speaker C: And tragic accident. But they're keeping its memory alive with a memorial cruise in. They do this every year and it's always been a, it's been a fun thing. The, the cruising will take place at the courthouse on the at the courthouse parking lot. That's where they're going to start at. And it goes from two until five o' clock on November 8th.
So I wanted to get that in there.
Let me just also say for any other events that we talk about here and that we talk about where else we've got them on two websites. You can go cannancurier.com if you subscribe to the Canon Courier.
Canon Courier News and Events Facebook page. Well, I've been promoting a lot of stuff there and I've got my own website, readyontheradio.com now that just not not only covers Canning county stuff but it also covers throughout Middle Tennessee. So pretty much anything that I find I throw up there and let people know about. And it's been an appreciative website, I've been told, so check that out and maybe you can attend some of this stuff.
[00:55:22] Speaker B: You can also go on the Facebook for the Cannon County Chamber of Commerce.
And if you have an event, if you will, call me and let me me know about it and when it is, and if you have a flyer or some type, please email that to me and I'll make sure that Heather puts it on our website.
Website and our Facebook.
So the other thing in November, and this is a big thing November 21st and 22nd is the cannon County Country Christmas.
It's presented by the Cannon County Merchants and the Chamber of Commerce, and it has all kinds of things going on Friday night from a live Nativity. Santa will be there.
We will have lighting of the tree.
The merchants will be open late. They'll be giving out all kinds of door prizes, this type of thing.
And we invite everybody to attend this.
It's a fun event, but we do have something new this year. On Saturday night is going to be the first time that the Lions Club is going to do their annual Lions Club Christmas Parade is going to be on Saturday night, November 22, and it will start at 6pm because it's going to be a nighttime parade and that will be their first one.
So everybody come out and take a part in that. But you know, one of the things I wanted to tell you was this is a thing where we help our merchants in Cannon County. This is their event and they go out of their way to make sure they have specials, they stay open late.
There's usually food involved, music involved.
A lot of our nonprofits come out and they do s'. Mores. Casa came out last year and let kids make Christmas cookies.
We need to give our merchants a boost.
We may not have all the kind of merchants that you want to shop at, but we have quite a few and we need to keep the ones we've got. Because when your square closed down or your merchants go out of business, then your town goes out of business.
So please remember that when they have things and it's for your benefit, please be aware of that.
Anyway, I guess what I'm telling you is shop at home.
[00:58:25] Speaker C: She said all that to say this Shop at home.
[00:58:27] Speaker B: That's right. Now I think I've run out of time and we want to wish you all a happy Halloween and we will be back hopefully next month.
