Fireworks, Fire Safety, and Art Adventures (Hour 2)

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Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back to our number two of Minow and the Mayor here on a blustery Thursday morning on Trucker Thursday.

Matthew Knott, Nick Craig, Green Bay Fire Chief, and what would your, what would your official title be?

I'm a captain.

Okay.

We'll give you that.

I'm helping out in fire prevention right now.

Nice.

We got a lot of that to talk about right now in firework safety

and

everything, Jim.

It is.

And this is so important.

We're going to talk about it today.

because the fourth is coming up, but this is important every day.

I mean, we had a lot of kitchen fires and I don't know how many you respond to every month, every year, but I want to talk about fireworks because we all love them, right?

We kind of do some of us buy them and maybe even a different municipality.

What is the rule?

Can we shoot them off?

Can we buy them here in Green Bay at these stands for spend $100 and have the kids...

Well, what we really encourage is everybody to enjoy the professional shows, right?

We understand and Nick's going to talk about a little bit too about, you know, we really, we're concerned about the injury.

Right.

You know, fires and injury and, and really like these things are just best left for professionals.

Just go enjoy these professional shows.

You know, you, there are sales.

You can buy them.

There's some real restrictions of them.

And like I said, Nick can join

in.

But just reading the rappers, they try to get more.

Lethal explosive

over here.

Oh, I know the names are always entertaining

There's a marketing job.

Yeah, but Nick,

what

do you suggest?

I agree with the chief that look we got fires and Fridays Fire over the Fox that's

sponsored,

which is a great

great show

and there's a lot of these smaller communities that I think do a really good job to rivers Kiwani some of these places up north and those are

Tomah, there's a great fireworks show.

However, there aren't these dads.

I don't know who they are, but they like to just show off.

Everybody

look at Jim.

All right, Nick, tell us what do you suggest?

So with consumer fireworks, excuse me, the latest info that we have is from 2022.

Average of 31,000 fires started across the US.

3,500 structure fires.

26,000 outside fires.

And the side note with that is wildfires started by fireworks are doubled on the 4th of July.

Even some

of the California

ones, they think were

fireworks.

An estimated six civilian deaths were caused by fireworks in 2022.

And every year in Green Bay, we see several incidents caused by fireworks improperly disposed of fireworks.

People don't soak them in a...

You know, right?

Because they stay hot for a long time.

They do, right?

Yep.

Fireworks that are landing on roofs of homes that has caused several fires across the last couple years.

And then the biggest thing is the amount of injuries we're looking at, over 10,000 injuries caused by consumer fireworks every year.

And the ones that are legal for consumers to buy are actually causing the majority of those injuries because they're the most accessible.

So really, even though they're legal, the guy buys them legal, they're legal to shoot off

It's still high prone to injury?

Yeah, just, for example, sparklers, they burn it over 1200 degrees.

That's super hot.

Obviously, the metal rod on the sparkler is red hot when it's done burning.

Sparklers account for 29% of fireworks injuries for children under the age of five treated in emergency rooms.

So the big thing is, if you're gonna let kids use sparklers and the safe and sane, so to speak, fireworks, which aren't really that safe or sane, you wanna have good adult supervision.

Sober adult supervision.

Have that bucket of water.

Yeah, that sober is a good, yeah, cause that's just true.

I didn't think of that, but that.

You know, I'm surprised somebody hasn't invented a sparkler with a handle.

Or maybe they have.

You know what I'm saying?

You're right.

You're holding your

wire.

You're holding the wire.

Okay.

And sparklers though, they're a blast.

Write your name.

I

mean, okay.

All right.

I'll make a note of that sober.

You know, if your child is going to use it, you know, make sure you give him a little guidance before you light it.

You know, hold it away from your face.

Don't put it by anyone else.

Keep it away from people.

That that supervision is really key to to help and keep things safe.

Okay.

People don't know the force of a cherry bomb sometimes.

I mean, that's it's like a shotgun shell going off in your hand.

Isn't it though?

Yeah.

Okay.

John, do you want to finish the story or you told it?

Yeah.

John was throwing them.

Oh,

yeah, I told him story.

This

is Nagani

though.

Okay.

Okay.

So

it's one of the mind pits

of the

thing that's raised to play and handsome cherry bombs.

that I got from somebody, somebody, and I was only like eight or nine, which I should not have been doing.

But I was throwing up.

He was sober.

I

was throwing

him in the pit because that was so cool.

It'd be like a geyser.

Well, this old Italian guy was out picking apples.

And he thought somebody was shooting at him.

Oh, my God.

He went

to the police, filed a report.

Oh,

no.

Yeah.

They showed up at my door

and went over well with my dad.

He just came home from the Matherby iron ore mine.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

So with all right.

the fireworks.

So is there a safe way to do it?

You get the bucket of water right to put it or is there?

I'm

not

saying I know you're not going to promote it because that's not your job.

But if someone's going to

do it, let's give them some safety tips.

You know, even the safe and sane ones, the spark fountains, the snakes, the sparklers, all those should be put into a bucket of water overnight away from a building.

That's the biggest thing is away from a structure.

When people dispose of them and put it in the garage, that's that's not the best place for keep it outside away from things.

Hey, did you see that fire is on?

ABC News last night I can't think where the whole thing exploded like the firefight three firefighters were injured it was just a house and The people don't know what they said it wasn't that the gas natural gas company said no it wasn't us someone but it it's people don't like I knew one guy who was a reloader and You don't think you know what I mean people have some things in their

house and you

never think there's gonna be a fire But man if there is and you guys have to go in you I mean that can

be lethal stuff

Sure.

You know, it's just like, you never know what hazards.

So that's why we're all the PPE, all our personal protective equipment and have, you know, always ready for whatever, all those inevitable things.

Summer is eventually going to get here.

Well, I was here for a couple of days.

But people like to have their little fire in the back yard.

How many feet is that legal?

Yeah, I can handle that.

For the city of Green Bay, it's 25 feet away from

Oh, anything.

That's as far as I didn't realize that.

I'm glad you're using one of the portable Weber type above ground fire pits.

Those can be a little bit closer, 15 feet.

Bellevue and Allaway are 15 feet for anything.

OK.

But that's the thing, because we lived in ledge view versus Green Bay.

It

was different from one to the other

type thing.

Yeah.

There's some basic standards that are the same, you know, with the international fire code.

And like I said, it is.

There could be some confusion and we're trying to work with all those different ages.

So Nick,

those, the things that you buy that are above ground that had the seat, the seat through what mesh cover on 15 feet from your garage or your house.

Correct.

Or offense.

Well, that, that's doable.

You can sit around

with a chair and talk a little bit.

Yeah.

And those, you know, those numbers came about because of specific problems, right?

And it's not like just like most everything is, there's reasons why.

It's not just an arbitrary number.

So how is the I remember after 9 11 of horrible horrible tragedy But boy it became cool to be a firefighter and you know EMT and everything like that And I know a lot of applications didn't weigh up is it still like that because I mean it's it's still a very prestigious job

Oh, yeah, I think it is and you know

We just going through a hiring process now.

So we just start doing interviews and you know, the quality of the candidates we get is top notch.

Just absolutely stellar candidates and we always seem to get enough and you know, it's great.

It's not, and certainly just like most other jobs, it's not like it maybe used to be, right?

Where we'd have thousands and thousands

of

applicants and but actually, you know, we have really high standards and we have a lot of people that meter exceed those standards.

So it's really good.

Are the

Are you getting the youth to come in or is it transfers?

Who's who's coming into the fire department?

So our applicants have to have an associates degree.

So, you know, they're they've already been through some training had some and so that's our that's our applicant pool.

Okay.

And are they trained in EMT and fire?

They are.

Yeah, they will come with all their all their certifications.

That's nice.

Yep.

I mean

they have both of those things.

All right.

The other thing that we have is we have a cadet program and that is basically like boy scouts or girl scouts to try out.

See if the fire department is something for you.

So a lot of those cadets that have gone through our cadet program in high school have actually been hired by us.

When I was there and towards the end we weren't kidding enough women in

police and fire but actually fire was a weird little and went to a conference why can't we get more women in our fire department and they had told us that if a woman teaches them there's a better chance they're gonna be engaged I mean you guys are super nice guys but

How are we doing on attracting females to both, maybe you can't speak for police, but for fire?

Yeah, just on the fire side.

I mean, we really want our department to represent our community.

Right.

And all facets of it.

And really what we look for is, you know, where we're at is our applicant pool is the graduates of tech school.

So, you know, we're looking at our cadet program, which has a lot of good representation of our community in that.

but we're also looking at starting earlier because a lot of times when we see somebody that's bibby 21 they've already made their career choices and made decisions but you know if we could get to them earlier and show them the fire service and again have people that look similar to them it really works out well so.

And we do every year get a pretty good mixture of female to male deaths in our program.

I just want to say one thing though, too, like with the military, you know, I'm so old that it's like, oh, females are the weaker sex.

They could never do anything except be secretaries in the me.

And that was that was the thing that people really thought not even

now.

You want to talk about some people that can kick your butt and do whatever.

Yeah.

And it's like, you know, there's, you know, and, you know, again, my daughter's in the military and, you know, doing fantastic.

And, you know, there is this is a job for absolutely everyone there.

you know, there is, you take a scenario of, you know, one of us in a structure fire, for example, and we have to rescue them.

I can't do it myself.

And that's the beauty of the fire service.

It's a team effort.

And we all work

together.

And it's like, you know, on medical calls, you know, some people have better skill sets than others and fires same thing.

It's like, but it's just the team and we all work together and solve those problems.

So chief, tell me about a junior in high school right now.

And, you know,

His parents, what are you going to do?

Everybody, what are you going to do?

And he's interested in fire.

What advice do you have?

And I teach at NWTC.

I think they've got great programs

out there.

The other thing they

have out there that I just encouraged a friend of mine, I was talking to her, just to go out for an assessment because she has no idea what she

wants

to do.

And I'm like, and she's super talented.

I don't know if it's dental hygienists.

She doesn't have the resources.

And she doesn't really want to go to college, nor should she.

She's just not.

But

she wants to do something and

she

doesn't know what culinary.

And but anyway, a junior in high school, Preble, that if they want to explore public safety, explore fire, what would your advice be to them?

I would say the cadet program is a great start for that.

I mean, you can after they've completed a certain amount of training, they can actually do ride alongs with us.

Wow.

You know, that's cool.

Very cool.

And

tell me about Nick.

getting into the cadets.

Is it online or is it you?

Yeah, so it is on our website.

Our website's greenbayfd.com.

And then if you just do a search for cadets, you can sign up for the program.

It actually starts in September and runs through the fall meets, I believe, once a month.

Okay, great.

Give me your number one, I don't want to say criteria, but what do you guys look for?

Attitude.

Okay, there you go.

Yeah, it's, you know, we can do all the training for everything else, but it's the attitude.

And, you know, it's just nice to...

Like all the applicants we've had, we just did interviews, and that's what people say is they really like our culture, like what we're doing.

People are great.

All those things we talked about, and that really shows.

That's awesome.

And

it

doesn't.

I just really, again, I don't want to, but I really want to applaud you for that, because that is more important than I'm with you on that than anything.

The tactics you're teaching

oh, yeah, we can do that right all those skill sets We teach and they come to us really well prepared and then we do our own training to fine-tune it a little bit Yep,

you know I just want to say for parents and is that it's a prestigious job.

Oh, yeah,

I think it's a very respectable job

It is

and I think that's great.

Yeah, but thanks for leading the department and you

too, you know,

I mean you've

been at that

I told you guys, I felt it for my brother twice up in the garden.

Yeah, but I got there later and the truck was on the way up the door.

The total loss.

I still put on the

whole unit and they came

back to

get me.

I didn't go against the wall, it

says you get run over.

You guys are awesome.

Thanks for coming, you guys.

Thank you.

Nick Craig, Green Bay Fire Chief, Green Bay Fire Department.

Thank you so much for

everything you guys do.

Keep up the good work.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thanks for having us.

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But

the fourth of July is coming up and I just want to thank those guys for

those guys are busy

Appreciate

it very much

and the chief and we've started to get him in before and he was Really looking forward to this and I think just a reminder look some of us are gonna shoot off fireworks But to have that bucket of water there

Doesn't cost a lot and to throw everything in there right away instead of you throw it into the garbage can and it smolders and starts a garage fire and so I And I'm not doing the sparklers.

I don't think

when then we didn't have time to talk about the

lithium batteries We'll do that next

time I like to get them back as soon as possible because that's a real serious thing that's happening

and then he's got some videos he was he's gonna send him to us Yeah, that our listeners could just go and talk about you know how to handle

Lithium batteries properly so that'll be good.

They have a lot of information.

They want to share with our

yeah communities.

No, they're great man.

I if it wasn't for Heights, I would have been a firefighter

I'm sure that that's the only thing that would have kept you away.

I

think

so too

I wouldn't go for you saw that picture that Nick showed

us No,

things are just and you're just up I don't have that chromosome.

No

Wow.

Like I said, I'd be great for like grass fires.

But

why do we need that?

I mean, what's the tallest building?

Well, eight stories is 80 feet.

So it's Bellin.

That'd be the.

Yeah.

Bellin's the highest.

The high hospital.

Yeah.

I

thought this one over here, the Bellin building,

raised a block

away.

Oh, here.

OK.

Well, that one's higher.

It thinks it's on the hill, sort of.

Yeah.

Well, I guess you want to shoot down 20 feet.

Yeah.

Well, I guess so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's high.

Anyway, that's high.

That's high.

Yeah.

I just, you know.

The hose is like 70 feet, but what am I doing up here?

No, I'm sure they got that all squared away.

Well, it's pretty cool though with some of the new things they've got.

No, I know there's it.

We didn't even get to the

that was to Todd Todd next time schedule them for like an hour.

Yeah.

No.

Well, you

could

have kept him around for this.

So they had

to

go.

They had to

go to go.

I scheduled them and they said 722 when I saw that they have something at 730.

All right.

We'll

get them on soon.

We'll get them.

And they said they'd like to come back.

Well, I want to talk to those guys.

about a little bit more was the uh the water you know they they have their own boat oh do they yeah they do i

don't think i've ever

seen it yeah it's not there with the big water cannons yeah they've got to fight wow so they've got to rescue from the water we should talk about if they now that

i could

do

i was just gonna say

you don't like heights but maybe you could do that but you don't swim

you don't swim

I'm wearing those big PT-109.

Jimmy

can't go up high.

He can't go down low.

Got the bad hip.

Yeah, just report on it the next day.

But those are always cool in New

York.

We were

actually in New York one time.

I don't know, it was when an ocean liner comes in or something and they salute it and they fired off all those.

Yeah, that's, yes.

That was cool.

You can do that.

That's not why you get a fire bolt, but yes.

No, but it still looks cool.

It looks cool.

It'll welcome the ship.

But I don't know how many, I don't really use that a lot.

I don't know if we have a lot of, if we've ever fought a fire from the water.

I got the question asked

out.

Maybe a grass fire?

I don't know.

I don't

think so.

I don't know, maybe that'd be interesting enough.

We'll talk to them about next, that lithium batteries.

We'll

make

a list and

then we'll forget

where

we put it when we're in next time.

Not even a

question.

They do have the boat, I know that.

Wow, that would be so much fun to go on.

That would be fun, yeah.

I'll tell you what, the boat you want to go on is that police boat.

Yeah, I see

that would go

up

and down

here.

That thing is good.

Good.

I

don't

know what two, I don't know what those are.

Mercury's on the back, but that's fast.

Yeah.

I can't do that.

Gizmo says happy anniversary, guys.

Thank you, Gizmo.

Is it

officially our anniversary

today?

Yesterday.

Okay.

Kind of came and went though.

Yeah last night I You know that he's gonna bring us stuff, but it was nice.

So it's sage called make us make us nice little key.

Yeah Sage called though, and that was nice.

You know, they call you.

You know, I think he did add my phone up

But that was doesn't quick two years, I mean

Yeah, it's true.

Time goes faster, right?

This is true percent of your

but we got is Naomi here, Todd.

Awesome.

We got Naomi Mose, who was just an unbelievable artist.

And

she

runs the art garage.

Yeah.

Really, really good at everything she does for that.

Got this thing.

Remember on emergency at Johnny Gage.

They always had guys cooking.

Jim, could you you could be doing that?

That's right, you could be the cook.

You could be the cook.

I'd like to do that.

Mino, you could tidy

up.

Really?

Tape, sample,

sample.

You

think I'd be the guy to tidy up,

Todd?

No.

What do you tell me almost every day?

I know exactly where you've been.

I

literally on my vacation got a note.

I walked in and there was cream around the blah, blah, blah.

There was open packets of sugar and Jim left his coffee mug out.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

I

know.

That's why we

love you.

But we got this great segment coming up.

It's called I am the Community.

It's brought to you by Insight Eye Care.

Sawyer Street in Oshkosh and Chain Drive in Ampton.

Naomi, who is just an incredible artist.

She'll tell us about her later project, but she does so much good for the art garage here in Green Bay, which is such a great area.

And it's on that part of the town that was kind of neglected.

after a while.

I mean, industry was there and then that kind of went away.

But the buildings are good bones.

But the buildings are awesome.

And she's taken over a couple for her art garage.

And I just think it's amazing what she has done to bring local art and let people have a chance of venue.

And there's more than just art in there.

I mean, we're going to talk about that.

People need to support those things.

And you know, it's what a difference it can make if another 20, 30 people show up for some of these events,

you know, and

that's what we need to put out a little bit more.

And then the city needs to put a little bit more infrastructure in there to call attention to it when you drive by.

It looks nice, but different lighting, some different curb appeal.

And then we got Mike Steve Pack from Park Sports coming up today.

And Ashley from downtown Green Bay.

That's an interesting thing.

It is, that's what I'm reading about it.

They want

everybody to sing.

I know they don't want to sing the car.

You see that?

This is gonna be good.

Yes.

No audience.

We want everybody to attend to participate.

Yeah.

I

like that.

That's a welcoming thing.

I think that's cool.

I might go.

Wow.

Wow.

Happy anniversary to you.

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Now here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

We are very proud and honored for I on the community brought to by inside I care Sawyer street, Nash gosh and chain drive and Ampton improving lines by improving site and we have an awesome person on right now Naomi mose from the art garage Gallery in Green Bay, but you're doing stuff all over and you just shown us this Titan missile that you're building right now

I'm a nuclear physicist That's

incredible what you're doing.

It's 10 feet

She's going to be 10 feet tall.

The diameter and that's not that wide.

No, no, she's not a

big

fat

lady.

It's not a totem pole, but it's like it's 10 feet tall

and

you're honoring.

Well, it's part of a big project part of that Depeer is doing.

Actually definitely Depeer is funding it.

And it's part of that whole development behind Stellas.

chop house, pages and pours, uh, bona fide juicery and, uh, uh, shanta colson studio.

They're putting in benches, planters, gonna have mirror.

They have the mural already from Andrew Linskins and my 10 foot tall, uh, woman of mother of the earth is going to be there.

She's going to be holding a fawn and she's, I want her to be a little bit more ethnic.

So I think she's going to be very nice.

You can capture it.

You can

capture it.

You can shoot some pictures here.

I don't

know if Todd can get that.

The guy's got to see some pictures, everybody.

Are you showing that

picture?

I mean, because we'll put it on our website.

That's up to you.

Sure.

I can't get this to you.

I'd love

to.

This, I mean, that's really cool that DPR, and we love any place that listens to us.

But no, DPR is to honor the...

the history here,

the heritage

and get back to that.

And I think that's really cool that you, it's your design, but that you have this mother earth holding a fawn.

I mean, that really kind of does the whole circle.

Thanks.

Well, it kind of, the whole theme of that, that back area is called the urban forest.

So I'm also working, there's another artist, Shanna Colts, one of my good friends who I've did the art alley with over by Nicky's power and grill.

I

was talking

about that earlier.

She and I did the collaboration there.

She has her own commission, but she's doing her own digital photography, kind of artistic photography.

So it's going to be there too.

Isn't

that great when a community steps up?

on the art, like definitely Depeer.

Of course, get quickly doing that and

anything she touches.

That little town has getting

a

lot of awards for what they do.

As it should.

And you have a lot of eye candy driving around when you go through

that.

But even when I looked or when I did that book signing behind bosses, which I still think was a horrible mistake Green Bay did by

letting

them go.

That's an iconic.

But anyway, they had a book signing and it was the same night as their

Like their farmers market type thing and just sit in the back.

It would have been just parking lots.

They turned into this really cool thing.

Yeah, they really do.

They're just high charged.

They understand the value of art.

And

they're not alone.

Green Bay's coming along too.

We were getting there.

Green Bay's coming

along.

Oshkosh has done a really good job.

And some of these smaller communities, I mean, I don't want to discount smaller, 10, 12,000, but Nina Monashia, they get people like you that are like, hey, look, this,

This is not only great, as you said, eye candy, but it reduces crime.

It brings in a better clientele in terms of

creative people.

There's that personal neighborhood pride.

People want to take care of the sculptures and the murals.

They don't want to do vandalism.

They don't want to do things like

that.

And don't you, if you're living in a community where everybody keeps their homes nicer, it makes you feel like I need to keep up with everything else too.

and I see that happening in Green Bay as well.

So

the art garage is where you're headquartered.

Well, no, I'm not headquartered.

I said

she was the owner and she's

golden.

No, no, no, no, no.

I'm

not the owner.

Yeah, the Wendy Wimmer shimmer.

I said, if I had to start being

specific on this show now, I might as well give up my career.

And Lizzie Olsen's our executive director.

She's the one that has got to get the credit for all the things that are happening right now.

I'm just a simple board member.

Well,

we could do it without a good board.

Artist of the board member.

Yeah.

Your art displays you have there, but it's more than just the visual art.

I mean, you can.

Oh yeah.

We

have

the spoken word

with music and right now saw is going on.

And John, you've talked about your support for that saw summer art workshops.

If you have children that are just sitting around all summer twiddling their thumbs, please check us out.

We do have a few openings yet.

It's very successful for us, but.

the more we want to get art to all the children.

Art is so good for everybody.

We just talk about the cities and how when we have art in our cities, how it creates an energy.

Absolutely.

A good energy.

Absolutely.

It's like putting on a little nicer pair of clothes when you go out instead of just looking like a slobber.

Which I do.

I think

sometimes art, if the parents weren't in art,

They don't think their kid can be, and their kid can be super talented in art.

Oh gosh, I've seen that a

lot.

You can see it in my house.

But it's amazing, and if they can just get that exposure once to the art garage, or to someone like you, and that can open up.

whole world for them.

And it's not if I just want to say this because Jim and I came to one of your events.

Oh, yeah, a couple

of them.

And it wasn't because I've done other art things at certain places.

There's a little bit of a, what are you doing here?

Kind of nose in the air sort of thing thing.

Okay.

You guys were just the opposite.

Exactly the opposite, which was so cool.

We just want to get everybody involved with us.

And you appreciate people

being there.

Right.

We really do.

Because that's the essence of what we are is about

making other people happy and feel good.

Yes, we want to make a low income with it, but I'll tell you what.

We're fine with that.

We get the good endorphins from it.

Absolutely.

And we don't have enough time to go through everything, but the website, people just this art garage, where do we go just to see what's going on this week

next week?

The website, but the reason I'm really here is I have a couple of big things that I want to talk about events that I'm affiliated with.

Number one is the art garage has their annual board meeting.

And you came to it last year, I appreciate that.

It's this Saturday from four to six.

And we'll talk about what we accomplished this last year.

We're having big things happening there.

We're really getting solvent and being healthy.

And with Lindsay as our leader.

I've seen such great growth.

We've created such a niche that hadn't been there that

people that are really

interested

in.

Well, people forgot about us for a while.

In the beginning, I think we had a big hoohaha and then it kind of went down.

It depends, I guess I'd have to say depends on the people that are involved with it too.

Sure.

People talk about nonprofits.

Well, they need money.

You know, I mean, people think I just, that just drives me crazy.

I think it's one of the worst.

names we have for an industry is non-profit.

You need to make money.

I mean, because you reinvest your money.

You don't pay dividends like

some

of us in private sector do.

So I just think it's, I think that's fine that you say you're solvent.

And because some of these non-profits are just struggling and struggling.

And if you're making money, people like to give you money if you're making money.

It's weird.

People are.

They want to bet on a winner.

They do.

And they do.

So if you can say, look, we've got.

X amount in the bank.

They're like, okay, you guys are gonna be around.

I'm happy to donate.

But if you say, look, if we don't get some money, we

close our

doors.

It's the last cause.

And I think you're, I'm glad to hear you've turned the corner because that did get a little quiet or not dormant, but it got a little quiet.

But okay, well, that's great.

So this board, this four to six thing is for anyone to come and

listen to your successes.

Yeah, every year we need to have one public board meeting.

Yeah, you do.

And so Wendy's prepared a great presentation and Lindsay and Wendy's our president.

And Lindsay Olson is our executive director, as I said.

We're going to have a Shakuta Reboard, raffles and prizes and things.

We really

enjoyed it there last year.

Oh yeah, it

was fun.

It was good energy, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was

great.

So four to six right here on Main Street.

Right on Main Street.

Yep, okay.

I know I've asked you this before.

What was that building?

Any idea what year it was built?

No, but...

It was a canning company.

Yeah.

And then Dean's ice cream was right next to it.

Okay.

Yeah, that's right.

That's

right.

That's right.

Okay.

I barely remember that

because I love that building.

Yeah, I do too.

And the whole

neighborhood's cool.

It is very cool.

And we have the compound, which is right next door now.

Right.

They bought the building and so we lease back.

So that's another reason why we're more solvent now.

Explain

that please.

Well, when you have a big, huge building like that, you're not really utilizing the other side, the other space.

You're paying all that for all that infrastructure and you don't need it.

But what is the compound?

What are they doing though?

I mean

they have event space right and they have been doing a lot of event spaces had one last weekend And they were here and they have a coffee shop in there too, right?

Yeah, the two

I love that little

niche

part of town

it is and Main Street is actually the arts district.

Did you know that