Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It's time for a round two of our community connection right here on K one, the one you dress him from Dewey. It's just Laurie. How you doing great? Laurie Heron is here with us, and Dewey is the happening place, Dewey America, ladies and gentlemen. I was told that that it's now just one syllable, yes, sir, and some and some some circles it is. So what's going on these days?
Well, how was your fourth? It was really good. It was better than the fifth, the third, and much better than the third. Well, our fourth was pretty cool, it was I was a part of it. The bear well, well, I was doing the radio and sheriff asked me. He says, if you want to sing, just let us know. And then I got a phone calls and I had to go some pay tail, but otherwise I was I was all ready to go. I was very honored that day and mister Belton to ask that is there and I
would have been upset. I didn't hear your voice because I was running around. Yeah, that was my first experience and amazingly cute. They started off with the hydrant letting the water go down and gravity took its course and they made the small little rapids for the ducks and right on through sailed on the first place. It was probably about I don't know this far apart, but it was. It was absolutely cool. The community came together even in that
heat and stayed. The watermelon was cold. It was I have to admit I did try it. Yeah, I'm not a watermelon girl, but I was that night and it was it was refreshing and it was just it was just neat to see the community come together, even in that heat, not late at night, so but it was worth it. Fia of faux foul going hooked, I'm hooked. I filmed everybody walking down the river watching their ducks, so it was quite a sight. It was quite a sight.
And then after that you have the fireworks and everybody you know walked away just thinking, wow, dude, it's a cool place. The DCA definitely put on a good show this year, for sure, So it's just gonna get better and better every year, just you know, from COVID and then no water, so let us bring it back. Let's get the get the ducks back. Oh, it was really cool. I saw the friends of Dewey Park. They had their little ten out there we were and there do you
guys do any bricking? I did? I was the one that was sent amongst the piers. Did some politicken, did sell some bricks, got some new businesses that might be coming into town, even them interested. So just doing what I do didn't save. So we have boots and badges. That's the first thing that's tomorrow. What is boots and bad boots and badges is celebrating the life well, the life saving responders that we have. The blood drive boots and badges terrifying. Anyways, there's a trophy to get at the
end. But the best part is if you come out donate blood UH supports community support this first responders. But then also that you get a free shirt of course that's swag, and you also get two free tickets to either Frontier City or six Flags excuse me, six Flags Hurricane Harbor podcast. Oh god, that'd be great. But it is at the Dewey Public Schools Student Center
right there on seventy five. You'll see it off to the off to your the north seventy five and it's from twelve pm to six And just make sure you eat something before you go in and hang out, donate blood, hang with your community, and you got to tell them which one you're supporting, right, I support both, sir? I mean, I mean when when we're donating blood? Oh individual does I think? So? Is that what they? I don't. I don't remember that part, but I'm I can't
tell you who I'm voting for. Okay, gotcha? All right? We next up, we have so the second Saturday. Would we are still holding somewhat of a Second Saturday. There'll just be no events outside because it's the swelter completely, So everybody will have still sales that are participating in it. They'll still be sells inside their stores. One cool thing is that Randy is opening her one side of the Simple Simons, her restaurant for some vendors to
go on that side. Nice, so there will be some inside there if you want to check out Simple Simons. I think starting around ten same time. But like, everybody still have their own sales, just nothing outside to go through that hot sponge, yeah, Caul humidity and then right, well
then after that you already talked about Friends of Dewey Parks. We have Cementa has been poured and our yesterday morning at six am for the bathrooms, mister Trees was out there taking the boards down, checking out what's going on. Has a lot of a lot of to do with the Dowey Public Works, mister Trees do. Putting that bathroom together pretty cool. I'm thinking about all the cool things that I've never seen concrete peo poured. So I paid attention
and asked questions and it was pretty cool. Of course took pictures, I will tell you that, but it's pretty cool to see what all facets that the public works can do, you know, especially I mean now they're doing
a bathroom, so so that's pretty cool. They also have their website finally, so we have Friends of Dewey Parks dot org and that is where you can now go to find all of what's going on, how you can donate, what about the bricks, how you can buy a brick, and it also far follow through what's going on in the happenings of our park, like the pictures of the bathroom. Yeah, I got to tell you, don
Tyler Park is about one of the cleanest because John Tyler looked amazing. Yeah, public works, public works and you know the playground equipment was nice, plenty of rooms spread out so that you don't have to be on top of each other for your picnic, and they're just enjoying the outdoors. You got a lot of a lot of space, a lot of rooms. And imagine what's going to happen in the Lions Park downtown. Yeah, we're gonna have
It's gonna be amazing. You know something. That park is a dandy as it is, but with these new improvements coming up, it's going to be a mussy And it's one of those things where folks kind of they go, oh, I didn't know there was a park, fact there behind the mind the downtown facades. No, and then it's like it's a darn nice little park. So get these second saturdays going, Yeah, familiarize yourself with it,
and then events that we can have downtown. More things can be focused and everybody, you know, take a break, a little hub to eat. You know, we have food truck pats and you know, just it'll be. It'll be awesome, lovely green space and a lovely small town exactly. I mean that's America exactly. And it's next to the library. It is a mortal library. What they have going on will be the soonest would
be the Rummage cell, which is August eighth through the tenth. Miss Jordan the library, and ask that you please give them a call before you donate just or drop off, just so that she can guide either when these pieces go or not. But other than that, that's duey sir, that is I gotta tell you an awkward nutshell. Well, I gotta tell you it's a beautiful town. I always have fun up there. We had a blast
on the fourth of July. I always have a fun when it gets around the Christmas holidays too, but always in between there are different opportunities for you to take in the sites. We have a couple of historic places where folks could go visit and when you get done, do a little light shopping, do do a little heavy eating or heavy shopping there you go either way, what am I talking about? Either way, and then we'll just have more places for everybody to enjoy. Oh, indeed, and it's laid out nicely.
I mean you can't get lost. I mean you have to try pretty hard to get lost, and all you do is just cross seventy five to keep it going. Because we have everything out the other end, Yeah, you do, you do, you know you have to some relatively new businesses. You got that new pharmacy that yes, creative health, Yeah, creative health, and it's it's it's it's definitely she's done some improvements inside from when
I was a little girl going in there. So it looks pretty cool from just you know, bringing up to date and modernized, especially no as medicine it goes. But Ashley is doing a great job over there. We have some craft people, people who do some handy, really cool woodwork, and it's up there in Dewey. We have all kinds of antiquers what is it antique proprietor or there's a special name for antique f folks not old because of not old. These are young people that deal with antiques. But if they
sell, these sell a lot every week. And linger Longer is one of the it's just one of the most one that I go to first just because it has the ice cream. But I I literally went there two days, three days after my son was born and brought my mom who's from Vegas, and that's where she wanted to go, and that's that's where they wanted to go there, and again talk about summers and Christmases here that was just where I hung out linger longer, all the antique stores, Tom Mix Museum,
the Dewey Hotel. So I can't wait for the park. This park is really going to be the icing on the cake. It really is now. If folks want to find out what's going on in the city of do you have the city websites. It's very very function very easy to follow. Yes, but in the city. Facebook probably has a little more, more more up to date stuff, but there's a calendar on the website that they keep abreast of all the new stuff too. All right, if you want to
find out what's going on in doing just go to the Facebook page. Also go to their website, or just say hey, Laurie, what's happening. She'll tell you call up city hall and you can get a hold of me. There you go, Hey, thanks for being with us today.