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Mhm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Around the villages in 60 Minutes, a constantly evolving news magazine that updates our viewers on what's happening in the villages and what's up and coming. Stay tuned to CNN, The Villages News Network. This is around the villages in 60 minutes.

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I'm Roger Third Island. Welcome to the program in today's headlines, Senator Bob Graham made his first visit to the Villages last week, and we have that story. The Tri County Lifestyle Festival brought thousands to the town square area over the past weekend, and if you missed it, we'll show you what you missed.

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If you were there, look for yourself. The closing event at the Lifestyle Festival was an appearance for Mike Mesmerize, a fascinating performance that we'll share with you. Those and other stories make up today's program. We'll also have village announcements to keep you up to date on events and activities here in the villages before we move on.

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Let me urge you to go to the polls on Tuesday. This and all elections are important to our way of life. Not only is this a presidential election year, but many candidates are on the ballot for offices that affect our lives every day. Please get out and vote on Tuesday.

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Now, please stay with us as we take you around the villages in 60 minutes on the villages News Network. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm, Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mm, yeah. Mhm. U. S. Senator Bob Graham paid his first visit to the villages last week. Hello, Senator Graham.

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Bob Dylan. Hello, Bob. How are you? Good. That's great. Thank you for the invitation. The visit came as a result of an invitation by those who take care of us here in their districts. Representative, every Kelly and Sumpter County Commissioner Benny Strickland as an opportunity to show off our villages to the man who takes care of us up in Washington.

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We proceeded with the senator on a brief walk through of our newest building in the downtown area, which includes our brand new viene en television studios, which are still under construction. The senator was extremely enthusiastic and inquisitive about what he saw. We call it V n n the Villagers news number, and we broadcast our program for 24 hours so they can watch it.

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Their convenience. So today's show we'll back up against yesterday's show, and each feature will run about two days. Mhm we have We take a survey every year, and we find that 99% of the residents watch our station because it's about them that's basically confined to the to the boundaries of the building, which is we don't do hard news.

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The outside news. We just cover the residents of their activities and who comes to the villages to see them and what they're interested in. Yeah, definitely send you take coverage with his interest in our media in mind. Across the hall, Tri County Sun editor Gary Corsair and his staff were awaiting Senator Graham's arrival as well.

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Well, let me give you the Nichols All right, How many put your What's your print run? Yeah, we're running 30,000 of the broadsheet, The Tuesday and Friday paper. We run about 9000 of the Villages Center. Following a quick interview by the newspaper and introductions to the staff, the entourage mounted several golf carts which had been arranged to transport everyone safely down Main Street to Town square, where an informal ice cream social had been set up.

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Several 100 smiling people were gathered to greet him. Are you playing a lot of golf? Good. I I totally get Well, that's what they were in this golf cart, But there's no golf clubs. Could see. Look. What a beautiful community. Yeah, this is the town square here.

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Yeah, right. Got a little statue over here. I was Harold Sports who saw the grand. You'll meet him in a minute. Hello? A lot of people from Dade County that came up after the hurricane? Yes. Where is your home From here? Not too far. Yeah, right.

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Great. Well, thank you very much. I'm from Miami also. What is your name? What did you for you for walking. But now I'm the commissioner in Lady Lake. Oh, good. Your name is Virginia Ward. Hello, Virginia. The handshaking and hob knobbing continued for a good 15 minutes, offering the senator the chance for a one on one contact with village residents present to meet him, followed by a brief speaking opportunities.

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Senator, Come on, Let's get this show on the road. Ladies and gentlemen, our state representative, Everett Kelly. She's going to emcee the event today. Mhm. Mhm, my gracious. What a crowd. Well, we, uh we brought down another muckety muck. And that's the way I refer. That's very affectionate term, senator that we use for folks that are big folks in, uh, in our government and our leaders, uh, to visit with us today and to show him what a beautiful place this is to live.

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Uh, he's very impressed what he's seen so far. But before I introduce him, we are going to, uh, introduce another fella here that's super important to this county and and to the people who live in Centre County. That's Benny Strickland. Benny. Mhm. Okay. Thank you, folks.

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Thank you very much. Thank you, Everett. It's my pleasure to have Senator Graham here today. Uh, he's always been just as ever. It is one of my heroes in the political field, and I was a tremendous governor. Thank you for coming down. And also Charlie Dean, we're glad to have Charlie here today.

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Who helped us get Senator Graham here and thank all you folks for coming out today and, uh, everybody be sure and don't forget to go out and vote november 5th ever. Okay, well, thank you very much, Benny. We appreciate your your kind words and folks. You know, I'm going to embarrass the senator just a little bit, because the first time I ever saw him, you know what he was doing.

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He's picking up garbage come along ways, hadn't he? No. That was one of his. One of the things that Senator Graham has done since he I remember when he and I ran for he was already in the Florida Senate, and, uh, he decided to run for governor, and he got into the second primary, and then he did a miraculous thing.

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He went out and started a program that he carried throughout his political life. And this is his work days. A senator. I'm gonna put you on the spot. We want you to come to the villages and spend one of your work days here helping build the villages, don't we?

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We gotta We gotta get with his folks and get him signed up. I have I have served with this man as as my governor. He was He was elected governor when I was when I was elected to the Florida House. He didn't know me then and I didn't know him then, but it didn't take long for me to get to know Bob Graham because this was one of the finest governors that this state has ever had.

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Bar none. And And, Senator, I'd sort of like to ask you a question. Here, see, all those news men out there might get a big scoop here. What are your future plans for that office? Well, you're just agreeing. That means I'm not gonna respond, Kelly, no matter what you do.

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But, folks, I'd like you all to join me. And let's give Senator Bob Graham a great village. Welcome. Senator Graham. Yeah. Thanks, Robert. Thank you. Everett. I appreciate this chance to come to this beautiful part of Florida, uh, a part of Florida which is taking on new beauty with the activities of the residents of the villages and all the exciting things that are happening here to make, uh, your life and the life of Florida as full as it can be center and let us interrupt you.

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Just a minute. We gotta get him better dressed than he is. We like him to be dressed. And Senator, we have a little presentation, You know, I'm gonna screw up one car funeral, and I say I will, you know, sort of screw up one car funeral.

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But we've got some folks that want to give you a little presentation, and it's important that we get the hat on you. So this is why we want to do this now. You met Frank Topping. And, uh, how are you? How are you? You came here in a golf cart.

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So to make sure that you remember the villages we want to make you by placing this on your head. An honorary citizen of the villages. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Your friend only not walks on and to make the uniform complete. And on behalf of 15,000 people here in the villages, I want to welcome you to the villages.

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And I hope that you will wear this shirt next time you're playing golf and think of us. Thank you very much. I'll do this and I want to take advantage of this right now, but I'll tell you, I don't know whether a very good salesman or not, but I know how my golf swing is.

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And I know I'm not a very good golfer, but, uh, but every that offer of coming back, uh, to do a work day here at the villages. I accept, Uh, do I get to pick what job I want to do? Absolutely good. Could I be, uh, could I be the starter on the golf course or some tough job like that?

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Senator Graham went on to stump for Sumpter County Commissioner Benny Strickland and Charlie Dean, who is running for state Senate and to speak on the importance of the protection of Florida's natural environment and to announce a special federal grant that's been awarded to the state of Florida to restore Lake Apopka.

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Thanks to the work of our state representative Everett Kelly, there's nobody has done a greater job in protecting Florida than ever it. Kelly. There was a great football coach at Florida A and M University named Jake Gaither, and one time coach Gaither was asked, What's it take to be an ideal football player?

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And the coach said, You need to be agile, mobile and hostile. Well, I want to tell you that when it comes to protecting Florida's environment, you're looking at three people have been agile, mobile, and when it was required, hostel. One of the things that ever it has been particularly focused on is Lake Apopka.

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Many of us remember the time when Laker popular was one of the Great Lakes, not only of Florida, but of America. Uh, it was the place that you went, if you really wanted to catch fish. Unfortunately, Lake Apopka has had a lot of bad things happened to it in the last 30 or 40 years, including the fact that about 20% of Lake Apopka's area was lost.

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Ah, because of that, the lake has been, uh, in a very sick shape. It's probably the sickest water body in the state of Florida. Every Kelly took that on as a challenge, and he's been working agile, mobile and hostile to get people's attention on Lake Apopka.

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And I want to tell you that today he got the attention of the president of the United States of America because President Clinton just announced today that there's going to be a new federal partnership with the local community and with the state to restore Lake Apopka to its original beauty and health, and that wouldn't have happened without every telling.

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Okay, Charlie Dean added his comments to wrap up the feelings put forward by the crowd toward the visit to the villages by our U. S. Senator in Washington, the ex governor of the state of Florida from 1978 to 1986 and U S. Senator for the past 10 years.

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Bob Graham. Thank you for coming out. Thanks for being with us today. And thanks again, Senator, for just being my friend. Yeah. Yeah. It was another beautiful day in the villages as State representative Deborah Kelly and Commissioner Benny Strickland welcomed Senator Bob Graham and his guest, Charlie Dean, to show off our beautiful villages and to allow him to meet in Great Village Voters on Town Square for an old fashioned ice cream social and political hob knob.

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As you heard, Senator Graham has promised to come back to spend a day working on the golf course as a starter or ranger. And perhaps during his next visit, we might even be able to persuade him to experience our wonderful villages lifestyle for himself and not only work but play around on one of our beautiful golf courses.

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If so, we'll certainly try to arrange a tee time for him. Yeah. Mm. Mhm. looking at our Village Announcements file. The Chula Vista Recreation Center offers organized play in a number of sports, allowing players of all abilities to learn more about the games and to play for the fun of it.

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In an organized, supervised but non league way, The sports are short court tennis on Mondays from 1 30 to 3:30 p.m. Pickleball on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 30 PM and sand volleyball on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. If you'd like more information, call Rec Director Pam Henry at 7530002 The Indiana and Polish American clubs are going on a trip to Cyprus Gardens for the Mum Festival on Wednesday, November 13th.

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The deadline to sign up is Friday, November 8th. The cost is $34 per person, including everything except lunch. All residents of the villages are welcome. The Indiana club is also trying to get a trip together to see the poinsettias at Cypress Gardens. If you're interested in either of these trips, you can call Patty weighed at 75314 to 1 or Pat Ewing 7531079 The rec department is looking for persons interested in acting as guides for visually impaired golfers.

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These legally blind golfers need help to line up the shots and to locate the ball after each shot. If you'd like to help or if you're visually impaired and would like to play golf with a guide, call Roland ST Aubyn at 7532060 If you're interested in learning to quilt or would like to teach quilting, the recreation department wants to know about you.

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Respond to this interest survey by calling the Wreck Business Office at 7530637 The date of the Ohio Club Buckeye Clubs November meeting has been changed from November 9th to November 16th. The meeting will be at the regular time in the Carmen Miranda Room at La Hacienda Center.

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The 1996 Tri County Lifestyle Festival was held on Friday and Saturday, with an unbelievable amount of area residents making their way to our community to visit with vendors from across Lake Centre and Marion counties. The lifestyle festival started early on Friday morning as area Villagers made their way through the hundreds of vendors on hand for this popular event.

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By far, this festival was the largest such event ever and with its growth, brought many businesses who realized the importance of our community and what it can offer. We had a chance to visit with the organizer of this event, Ronnie Martin, as she explains what was going on.

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1996 Lifestyle Festival going on here in the Villages and the lady that helped put this all together. Ronnie Martin done a fantastic job with this. Ronnie. Give us a little information about the lifestyle festival. Well, this is our third year, and it's bigger and it's better, and it's more fun.

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Um, tonight we're gonna have the lottery show. Tomorrow night we're gonna have the Paul mesmerize show. Uh, we've got more people this year, and everybody seems to be having a good time. It is unbelievable how many different proprieties. You have a lot of work going into this to get everybody here takes us a year.

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It takes a total team effort, and we start we'll start next year's, uh, next week, week after next. We're gonna surprise at the at the turnout or the people that said Hey, we want to come out here to the villages to show off what? We have.

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The vendors. Oh, yes. In fact, um, as of yesterday morning, I think I've got about 50 or 60 people still calling, wanting to get in. No kidding. Now we could have had another tent. Um, we just didn't have enough room. It's one of those things. What is when it gets rolling and you're all nervous and you can't wait for to get going?

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But then it's out of your hands now and and I think it's going well, everybody's having a good time now. Now, Six o'clock this morning, it was a little hairy can imagine. I hope they come out next year again because we want to do it again.

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Okay, Ronnie, thank you very much. Bye bye. I don't know how. Yeah, get away. After promising problems looking, there was entertainment throughout the two days, and everyone seemed to be signing up for something. If you felt a little tense and needed a massage, you could get one.

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And as for old Fido, there was a vendor for him as well. There was plenty to see at the lifestyle festival as we spoke with some of the vendors on hand for this incredible event, including the sponsor, the Villages. Tri County Son. One of the sponsors for the lifestyle festival is the Village Tri County son with us as publisher Gary Corsair.

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Gary. An unbelievable turnout today, Kevin. I had heard about this, but this far surpasses well what I have been told about people getting out and seeing what what's offered here in the Tri County area. It's very exciting and tell us about all of the people. Looks like a great crowd coming out today.

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They're checking out what you have to offer. We've been real happy because as most of our viewers know, we're in the midst of a big circulation push right now. And we have a special offer, which we thought was too good to be true. Evidently, these people think so, too, and that's for just $5.

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You get a three month subscription to the Tri County Son. You continue to get your villages Sun newspaper. You also get $10 worth of villages coupons to use at the restaurant and a coffee mug with the Tri County Son and a nice enamel mug. Unbelievably. Can't You can't miss by coming out here and check that out.

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Well, that's what we were hoping. You know, a lot of the people who read our paper been there for us for years, and it's kind of a way of saying thank you, and and look at what we've done. We've made a lot of improvements, but we realized we've got more to do to make it a better full service newspaper.

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Okay, well, you're doing a fantastic job, a lot of people out here today, and I'm sure you have a lot more in the next 24 to 48 hours. Good luck to you. Thank you Were looking forward to thank you, Kevin. Another person out here today at the lifestyle festival.

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We're talking with Linda Elliot of Cypress Gardens. And Linda, You look like have a lot of literature to pass along. Yes, we have quite a bit of information on our Chrysanthemum Festival, which is going on right now. And then the Friday right after Thanksgiving or Christmas festivities start.

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We'll have over two million lights in the park this year at Christmas. Unbelievable. And you're also pushing annual tickets. I see with the sign behind. Yes, uh, you can come in every day of the year for 50 to 95. That is a senior price. And with the four festivals that we have, we have eight weeks of big band concerts this year.

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What a deal. It's less than two day ticket. Besides the flowers and all of that, you have some great shows as well. Tell us a bit about that. We have an ice show. It's a group of Russian Olympic skaters. We also have an international variety type show that takes place daily.

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We just today, in fact opened up a bird aviary. Walkthrough. Aviary. Uh, we have five new animal habitats that opened up today we have a walkthrough, butterfly conservatory and, uh, some birds of prey shows. And, of course, our water ski show, which were best known for fantastic.

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Well, Linda, thanks for coming out to the Lifestyle festival and good luck this weekend. Thank you. It's been great. Well, as you can tell, there's a lot of water, but there's nothing basically in the water, but there's a reason for that. Am I right, or am I nothing wrong with your eyes?

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you can't see all those exotic fish in there. There are in order to help you Give me that card over there, Henry. I'm going to find out about this, I guess. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Here, for those who are tired of seeing you can see all these fish and you pick out the one you want, and then we'll put it in a bag just like this, and then you can take it home.

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And we've even decided we're going to include the fish food. Is that right? That's right. So you really you don't have to worry about a thing. The food is in there and it reproduces itself. So you never have to feed it. You never have to clean it.

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And the best thing is the money is going to go over here to this community project, which is completion of the Little League concession stand in Lady Lake. It's been standing for a year vacant. They need $3500 to to finish it. And that's where we came up with selling this.

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Now that's only a dollar. But if you really want to get involved, we've got right over here. We can follow art over here with the invisible fish pond. We've got Charlie the Tuna, Willy, the whale. And, of course, I've already told you about the dollar, these little ones for a dollar.

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And we've got aquariums. So we can really fix you up for any amount of money you want to spend and donate. We've got something to give you. All right. So you've got an invisible fish pond with invisible fish food and an invisible fish tank. Invisible fish tank that never needs cleaning.

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By far one of the hottest spots at the lifestyle festival. The lotto booth. Becky Botel is with us. Becky, this line has been busy all morning and all afternoon, right from the time we open to right now. And it's getting busier. A lot of excitement building up for the event that's coming up on Saturday.

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Yes, the event that's coming up on Saturday is the golf cart. We are having a mock TV show that will be we'll be doing that this evening over in the big green and yellow tent. So those of you who received all your letters if you received it for Friday, you need to be there tonight if you received one for Saturday.

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You need to be there Saturday. We're really looking forward to having a really good time. Yeah, maybe that's a big winners today. Yes, we did. In fact, this morning we had a $40 winner on one of the scratch off tickets. Fantastic. Well, I'm sure this will stay busy.

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And everyone I'm sure they're looking forward to what's coming up on Saturday. Becky, thank Oh, you're quite welcome. We're here with pure quality water, and I'm talking with Karen here and tell us a little bit about what you have to offer at the lifestyle festival today.

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All right, if the folks will come out today, What we're doing is we have a car that we give away once a year, and all they have to do is come out and register, put it in the box. And then when we draw their name up, they win the car, tell us a bit about the about the dispenser and all of that.

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Okay? These are the really neat I love them for the patios and girls. If you have Children or if you don't want to get up when you're sick and you don't want to get out of bed. This is the greatest thing. It's a little crock pot, and you can put your water in there that away while you're drinking your water, you don't have to get out of the bed if you're not feeling good.

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So it's the greatest thing on Earth. And then we also have our softeners here and we build them from scratch. They start from the bottom right up and we build them right here. Good luck to you at the Lifestyle Festival. Thank you. You're welcome. Have a good day.

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Come by and see us. Family, Pool and spa is another vendor here at the lifestyle Festival Talking with Larry Couric and Larry. You got all kinds of stuff available here. Tell us about billiard tables. We carry Brunswick Leisure Bay leisure based spots. We've got three person, five person, All kinds of we've got different tables available.

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Uh, so how do you get billiards together with spas? How did all that come about? We saw a little bit. Everything, Anything to do. Recreation. We sell. That's fantastic. And how has it been so far today? Real good. Sold a couple tables. Really right, And you're gonna be here for the whole weekend.

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Let me hang on. This is a little different. I mean, I've never seen a Is this a legitimate that's legitimate? That's an optic cue. Ball. You focus on the center of the ball instead of the surface is supposed to get a better shot with it. Is that right?

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Lighter ball also. Holy mackerel. That's unbelievable. So check out family pool and spa. Thanks a lot. Later. Mhm. You are looking good. Boy. I feel good to you know, this is fantastic. I care. How much is it, honey? That's 2 25. Tell us $2. 25 cents.

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What a deal. What a dear To 25. $2.25. Do I look good? All the talks. Tell us a bit about what you have here. Tell us. Tell us, uh, what this is all about. Okay. I have Marley Wigwam in Belleview, Florida, and we have women's wigs, therapeutic wigs, costume wigs, whatever and women use them for vacations.

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Yeah, for ugly guys. You can even help out with that. When you're ugly, you're ugly. Now I look beautiful. Now He's handsome, huh? What do you want to do tonight? Perhaps stress Lee here to give us some information on all of the different trips and stuff that are going on here.

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You got a lot of people out here today. Yes, we do. We have representatives from Dolphin Cruise Line from Princess Cruise Lines Hall in America and, of course, our regal cruise line with our charter going out in March the 15th. We've got a lot of day trips, multi day trips, all of our meters and greeters are here.

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We're having a great day talking and having fun with everyone. No doubt about it. The Village Travel company. It seems like you're always staying busy. I mean, there's something always going on. We try to keep those people on the move, that's for sure. It has been a pretty positive response.

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It looks like people are signing up for everything. Oh, my goodness, we have been overwhelmed. We've been running back and forth to the office, making copies of all the different trips. So the people are just having a great time. That's right. And everybody should know about the trips by now.

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So drop by the Village travel company and see what they have to offer. Tons of things that are available. Pam. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Hospice of Lake in Centre County here at the Lifestyle Festival. We're talking with Norma Peterson and Ellen Brown. First off, Norma, tell us about the last festival today.

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How has it been going? Oh, it seems like it's going great. We're getting a lot of people to stop here, even if they want to avoid what we're representing. Uh, we have three chances on this lovely teddy bear. There you go, Ellen Hospice. It is important for a lot of people and it and it is a vital part of life for a lot of people.

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Yes, it is. Uh, my job really is just relieving the caretaker. So And I'm giving you a chance to get out and go do go shopping or do something like that when I do it mostly here in the villages. It is a very positive organization, and you are raffling this bear off well for free.

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You're free just to get people to stop and sign up for him, you know? Yeah. We take care of not only in the villages we go to like? I don't know. I travel all over. I have some all over down in Leesburg and in different places.

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Great. What do you think It really is a great organization. Hospice of Lake in Centre County. Norma and Ellen. Thank you. Thank you. Central Florida. I institute here at the lifestyle festival, talking with Tracy Hickey. Tracy, tell us a bit about your organization here. Uh, we're an eye institute located behind the paddock mall in Ocala.

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We do the PRK laser, which is one of the only ones in Lake County that is doing that Laser and Marion County. Excuse me. He does it right there in the office, and it corrects for nearsightedness. And he also does cataract surgery as an ambulatory surgery center right there in the facility.

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Looks like you have tons of pamphlets out here with a little bit of everything. Yeah, a little bit of everything. How's the How's it been so far today? Always been great. A real good turnout, real good turnout. All right. Well, thank you very much. And good luck this weekend.

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Bellevue Therapeutics Massage being done here at this time we're talking with Lynette joining and you're working with someone right now. Correct? Yeah, a little bit about your operation. Okay. There's four therapist in there. We've been in Bellevue about 10 years. I've been there seven years. We do a variety of modalities.

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We do, um, prescriptive work, rehabilitation and just relaxation. And, um, spa treatments, facials and herbal body wraps and lots of fun stuff. Wow. It looks like the massage. It seems like people, uh, love this today. A lot of people may ask, don't hands ever get tired?

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But I guess they do after a while. Don't they get tired? But you, when you've been doing it for so long, you get in shape. I'll bet that your hands are in pretty good shape. You'll be doing