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Speaker 1: It's Night's Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBSY, Boston's new radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the twenty twenty five thirteenth annual edition of

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Speaker 2: the Night Side Charity Combine. Without any further ado, we're

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Speaker 2: going to get to the first one of our charities.

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Speaker 2: This is a program that my daughter suggested to me

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Speaker 2: thirteen years ago or twelve years ago. Now this is

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Speaker 2: year number thirteen. We are welcoming Dianne Sullivan, the founder

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Speaker 2: of the Shadow Fund, a great charity here based in

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Speaker 2: Merrimack Valley in which Diane Sullivan receives no compensation whatsoever

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Speaker 2: for this great charity and provides veterinary care for people

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Speaker 2: who do not have the money the funds to take

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Speaker 2: care of their pets. I call her Saint Diane, a

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Speaker 2: professor and assistant dean at the Massachusetts School of Law.

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Speaker 2: Diane's Diane. We've got just a few minutes. How can folks,

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Speaker 2: first of all, understand the Shadow Fund and how it

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Speaker 2: started a long time ago.

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Speaker 3: The Shadow Fund is a nonprofit where we help veterans,

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Speaker 3: elderly disabled folks, a lot of families with sick kids

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Speaker 3: or a single family home without the resources to help

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Speaker 3: a beloved pet who is suddenly injured or sick. The

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Speaker 3: pet is going to be euthanized, and sometimes it's really

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Speaker 3: the person's only positive person in their life. So we

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Speaker 3: to save the life of a pet. Was started Don

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Speaker 3: because there was a veteran who's the dog was his

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Speaker 3: ACL injury. He could not afford the surgery that was necessary,

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Speaker 3: was going to quit his job. I heard about it

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Speaker 3: and I said to him, Robert, don't quit your job,

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Speaker 3: because where are you going to live? He says, I

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Speaker 3: have to save my dog. So myself, as well as

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Speaker 3: the law students, we all stepped in and we helped

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Speaker 3: Robert and it's taken off from there.

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Speaker 2: And how many people, how many pets families have you helped?

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Speaker 4: Dan?

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Speaker 3: I don't know the number by that, thousands and thousands.

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Speaker 3: At this point, we've been doing this a long time,

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Speaker 3: close to twenty years, so we get sometimes three to

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Speaker 3: quite a number, okay.

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Speaker 2: And the website is shadow FUNDNEF New England dot org,

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Speaker 2: shadow Fund All one wordne dot org. Diane, you've done

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Speaker 2: such wonderful work over the years. I wish you a

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Speaker 2: great crit smith. You are Saint Diane. As far as

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Speaker 2: I am concerned, I want you to know that you've

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Speaker 2: done such a great job. And if anybody is looking

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Speaker 2: for a charity to support financially and otherwise, just go

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Speaker 2: to shadowfundne dot com. It's not org, it's it's is

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Speaker 2: it where it is?

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Speaker 3: Sun dot coat?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? Okay, I misread it there for a second,

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Speaker 2: so thank you. It's a five oh one C three

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Speaker 2: uh and it's been in operation now for close to

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Speaker 2: fifteen years if my memory serves.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Dan, and I wish you the happy holidays.

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Speaker 3: But most importantly, thanks for all you do to help

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Speaker 3: the Shadow Fund. We greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Well my pleasure. It's such a great charity. Thank you, Diane.

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Speaker 2: Say hot. Everybody out there forming law in the whole.

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Speaker 3: Gang okay, and they also just say hello to you

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Speaker 3: and happy holidays.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, thanks Diane.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good night.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna go, Rob. Why don't you bring

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Speaker 2: up I Fidrich and fidridg is the she runs the

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Speaker 2: Fidrich Foundation. Anybody in central Massachusetts knows the name Fidrich.

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Speaker 2: Ian was married to Mark Fidrich, a great pitcher who

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Speaker 2: burst onto the scene of Major League baseball in the

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Speaker 2: summer of nineteen seventy six. Sadly we lost Mark at

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Speaker 2: a horrible accident, but Ian is carried on his legacy,

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Speaker 2: his sports legacy. Ian, welcome back to night Side. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us again. How are you this evening?

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Speaker 4: Very well and thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: He's great, Our pleasure, our pleasure. Your husband had such

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Speaker 2: an impact on baseball in that magical summer of nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy six. It seems like such a long time ago,

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Speaker 2: but you know, he burst onto the scene and then

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Speaker 2: does this foundation do that honors his great memory?

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Speaker 4: So we support programs special needs athletes, and we've been

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Speaker 4: doing it for just about sixteen years now since he

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Speaker 4: his lifetime. So he was a big chan and supporter

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Speaker 4: of special Olympics and such and tried to carry that

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Speaker 2: And you function with supporting kids, particularly in what I

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Speaker 2: the communities that you help out in.

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Speaker 4: Many of the Worcester County neighborhoods, so Lancaster, Westboro, Northboro, Southborough, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Webster.

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Speaker 4: We do a special Olympic skiing program and they actually

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Speaker 4: ski up at Watchuset Mountain, which is in the Princeton area.

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Speaker 4: We do a lot of middle school and high school

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Speaker 4: unified sports programs and we do multiple in the community,

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Speaker 4: including the north for itself. The webstera Water Ski Collectives

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Speaker 4: does an adaptive skiing program and they do programming for

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Speaker 4: the special needs skiers in both Webster and in Shrewsbury

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Speaker 4: at Lake Quinn Sigamond. I think you may be familiar

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Speaker 2: Very familiar, very familiar, and the foundation always I assume

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Speaker 2: you could use some volunteers, but more importantly you probably

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Speaker 2: need continued financial support.

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Speaker 4: That's what helps us going. The fans and the community

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Speaker 4: really make this work well.

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Speaker 5: Ian.

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Speaker 2: I just want to direct people. It's the It's the

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Speaker 2: Mark Fidrich Foundation dot org. And Mark is in a R. K.

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Speaker 2: Any sports fan can find it easily and he provided

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Speaker 2: so much great performance and such entertainment He brought baseball

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Speaker 2: back almost single handedly at a time when baseball was

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Speaker 2: kind of a downward spiral. But but his his antics

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Speaker 2: nicknamed Big Bird. Everyone remembers Mark Fidricks and if people

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Speaker 2: could help you out a little bit, we all would

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Speaker 2: be so grateful and thank you for what you do.

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Speaker 2: Hope you and your family have a great Christmas. You

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Speaker 2: help so many young people out there, particularly kids who

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Speaker 2: are in challenge your programs. It is such a tribute

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Speaker 2: to Mark's memory. I thank you again for being with us,

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Speaker 2: and if we could ever do anything during the year,

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Speaker 2: you have my number, please call me at any time.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much, Dan. This is a great

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Speaker 2: Right back to you and to you and to you

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Speaker 2: and yours. Thanks Anne so much. We are going to

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Speaker 2: with Adopted Platoon Southeast Style. Kelly and Conroy awaits on

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Speaker 2: the other side, back on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with.

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Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio, one of my favorite charities. Adopted Platoon

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Speaker 2: Southeas Style. Kelly and Conroy joins us Kelly and you

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Speaker 2: folks have been around now about five years. How do adopt?

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Speaker 2: How did adopted Platoon Southea style get started?

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Speaker 6: Well, it just started Dan on a whim. I just thought,

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Speaker 6: they're soldiers out there and different members of the military

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Speaker 6: a couple of groups that had small people like small

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Speaker 4: And then it just has.

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Speaker 6: Grown and grown to the point now that I have

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Speaker 6: it will be an interesting month of January for sure.

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Speaker 2: Well, I know that your son served, and that your

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Speaker 2: son is a West Point graduate, was an officer, and

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Speaker 2: I know that you were very much involved in that.

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Speaker 2: But now that he is out of harm's way, you're

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Speaker 2: continuing this adoptal Platoon SOUTHI style, and obviously you can

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Speaker 2: use some help, I'm sure, both volunteers as well as

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Speaker 6: Yes, always each package to mail is at least ten dollars.

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Speaker 6: It could go anywhere from ten to twenty dollars a package,

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Speaker 6: school teachers, particularly grammar school teachers, because, believe it or not,

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Speaker 6: everyone's favorite thing when they're deployed of the cards and

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Speaker 2: What's the easiest way for people to get in touch

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Speaker 2: with you? Adopt the platoon SEALTHI Style.

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Speaker 6: Our that is our website. Adopt a platoon salthistyle dot

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Speaker 4: Perfect sure, that's pretty easy.

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Speaker 2: You're doing the Lord's work, Thank you so much. A

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Speaker 6: And Dan, like you always say about all animals, you

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh absolutely, that's a good one. I should incorporate

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Speaker 2: that as well. Thanks so much, Kelly, and Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 6: Can you get me the opportunity same to you?

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Speaker 2: My pleasure. Now I want to talk with Matt Brown.

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Speaker 2: Matt Brown has been on this show before, but I

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Speaker 2: always like to have Matt on. Matt wrote a book,

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Speaker 2: life forever. Matt, tell us about your circumstances and what

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Speaker 7: Dan, It's great to hear from you. Yeah. So, in

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Speaker 7: twenty ten, I suffered a spinacle injury playing high school hockey,

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Speaker 7: in some way, some shape or form, and I was

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Speaker 7: able to launch the Matt Brown Foundation in twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: recovering from illness or injury, with a particular emphasis on

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Speaker 2: Man, you've done an incredible job, Matt. I mean, having

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Speaker 2: at a bad angle. It happens occasionally, but it changed

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Speaker 2: your life forever. Your book, line Change is something that

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Speaker 2: everyone should read. That can be found I assume through

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Speaker 2: your foundation as well. But what you have done for

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Speaker 2: always talking to me about Matt Brown, and I talked

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Speaker 2: it into the positive that it has become. You're an inspiration,

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Speaker 2: my friend. How can folks help you financially? How can

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Speaker 7: So it's it's the Matt Brownfoundation dot org. And you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, Matt, you just keep on keeping on Matt Brownfoundation

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Speaker 7: Your family and Dan right back to you on half

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Matt. Talk soon. One of my favorite charities is

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Speaker 2: Yours is an amazing charity, Jim Brett. How many families

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Speaker 2: The unbelievable organization. I get to see you every March

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Speaker 2: And all right, Jim, Jim Brett, thank you very much

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Speaker 9: Thank you Dan for all that you do. Thank Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you as well. We're gonna take a

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Speaker 2: of Second Serve Resale. It's a great charity. These are

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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on wb Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody to our thirteenth annual Nightside charity Combine,

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Speaker 2: and we are delighted to introduce Amy Hebb of Second

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Speaker 2: Amy tell us how Second Serve Resale works because it's

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Speaker 5: Oh hello, Dan, thank you so much for having me on. Well.

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Speaker 5: Second Serve Resale is an organization as that was formed

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Speaker 5: So we've been doing it for five years and the

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Speaker 5: And the idea is that customers use this incentive to

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of maximumzed, but you also help a

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Speaker 5: This so for five years now, and yes, I think

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Speaker 2: We go when people go to the website Second Serve,

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Speaker 2: Second Serve Resale dot org, your clothes, your cause. We're

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Speaker 2: It's an incredible website. I hope people will go there

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us tonight and thank

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. And yes, I hope people shop.

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Speaker 5: these everyday actions can support long term change. We're really

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, thank you very much. Second Serve Resale

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Speaker 2: a great charity of eastern Massachusetts with us as Nicholas Ramos,

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Speaker 2: Senior vice president and head of this organization. Everybody knows

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Speaker 10: Awesome. Thanks Dan for having us again this year. Well,

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Speaker 10: I think it's it's what you give is the gift

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Speaker 10: That's what we focus on creating those relationships building a lot.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of these relationships are not transitional or transactional.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me ask you a question. Do you need

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Speaker 10: Maybe maybe we can use bigs of all genders.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So how could folks get in touch with you

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Speaker 10: Easiest way is our website. It's e sure for Eastern

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Speaker 2: Sounds great, Nicholas, thank you for what you do. It's great.

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Speaker 2: It's a great program, and we're so happy to have

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Speaker 10: Thank you for being there.

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Speaker 2: happy New Years. Now with us is doctor Ellen Williams,

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Speaker 8: work with our listeners, and obviously incredibly humbling to hear

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Speaker 8: from all these other amazing charities. What we do is

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Speaker 8: we work in one very small part of the world,

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Speaker 8: and we are a small charity, but you know, we

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Speaker 8: feel like what we're able to do there for the

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Speaker 8: individuals incredibly important for those individuals. So we started out

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Speaker 8: building a school that now has ten grades and about

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Speaker 8: four hundred and fifty children. We supported that school in

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Speaker 8: a lot of ways, but the real heart and soul

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Speaker 8: of our program now is that we support scholarships and

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Speaker 8: full living expenses for just incredibly poor girls who would

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Speaker 8: otherwise not be able to be in school. We are

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Speaker 8: now up to about one hundred and twenty five girls

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Speaker 8: for twenty twenty six and I think the main thing

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Speaker 8: I would want to tell people about what we do

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Speaker 8: is that we have no overhead, that every penny of

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Speaker 8: the donation we receive goes to fund these programs in Uganda.

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Speaker 8: We don't have any employees. I pay for my own travel.

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Speaker 8: So it's really something where we can really just support

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Speaker 8: these girls and we're thrilled to have been able to do.

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Speaker 2: So how was it that you found the Kisio School,

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Speaker 2: I mean the school in Kisuro. I've talked to you

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Speaker 2: about this many times, But how was it that this

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Speaker 2: became your you know, really your avocation. You were a

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Speaker 2: physician for many years, just still a physician, but you

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Speaker 2: have a second full time job here that you're not

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Speaker 2: You received no compensation, But how was it that you

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Speaker 2: found this school? There has to be a.

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Speaker 8: Backstory, and the back story is that my oldest son

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Speaker 8: had lived in Uganda out of college and had gone

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Speaker 8: back a couple of times with his work and his

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Speaker 8: medical training. And I had introduced me to someone and

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Speaker 8: when I went to visit the school that she had

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Speaker 8: started for the first time, which the first time I

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Speaker 8: was in Uganda was in twenty fifteen, they were just

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Speaker 8: housed in a few rooms that were attached to the

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Speaker 8: side of her father in law's house. And I really

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Speaker 8: thought she was trying to do something amazing, but I

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Speaker 8: just didn't see how it was going to survive without

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Speaker 8: a capital boost. And I guess it was just one

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Speaker 8: of the only times in my life where I thought,

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Speaker 8: you know, I can take on this project, or I

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Speaker 8: cannot take on this project, but if I don't do it,

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Speaker 8: it's not going to happen. So really came back with

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Speaker 8: determined to raise the money to build the school, which

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Speaker 8: was our first project, and just felt like it was

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Speaker 8: one of those things where you know, you can't fix

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Speaker 8: all the problems in the world, but sometimes you could

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Speaker 8: try to fix the one that's right in front of you,

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Speaker 8: and this was just the problem that was right in

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Speaker 8: front of me. And I think every time I've gone

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Speaker 8: back to Uganda, it's just been, you know, more and

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Speaker 8: more amazing.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 8: I met a girl, you know, one of our girls

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Speaker 8: who we sponsored, told me a couple of years ago

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Speaker 8: that she really wanted me to come to her home.

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Speaker 8: And when I asked her why and said, you want

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Speaker 8: me to meet your family, and she said, no, no,

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Speaker 8: I want to show you that I slept on the

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Speaker 8: floor for fourteen years so that you understand how much

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Speaker 8: I appreciate the mattress you bought me when I started school.

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Speaker 8: And I'm like, you don't have to hear too many

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Speaker 8: of those stories before you feel like you want to

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Speaker 8: keep doing what you know.

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Speaker 2: We're going to try to help you keep doing what

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Speaker 2: you do. On the website is Kiso children dot org,

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Speaker 2: but it's spelled k I s O r O Kiso

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Speaker 2: Children dot org k I s O r O Children

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Speaker 2: dot org. Doctor Ellen Williams, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: what you do on this project. This is one that

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Speaker 2: I also have strong feelings about and you have inspired

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Speaker 2: me to support it a little bit and I'm very

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Speaker 2: proud to know you and to know your family. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much.

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Speaker 8: Oh well, thanks so much for having me in. Happy

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Speaker 8: holidays to you and everyone. It's really been a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks doctor Ellen Williams of the Kiso Children's Foundation.

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Speaker 2: It's Kiso k I s O r O Children dot org. Well,

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Speaker 2: take a quick break and we come back on and

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Speaker 2: talk about the Adult Congenital Heart Association and also we

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Speaker 2: are going to talk about a very important Burlington food pantry.

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Speaker 2: This is people helping people. The Burlington Food Pantry will

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Speaker 2: have that and then we will have another full hour

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Speaker 2: coming up on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you can tell, a lot of people have

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Speaker 2: big hearts. All of us have a heart, and therefore

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Speaker 2: this is an organization, the Adult Congenital Heart Association. Doctor

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Speaker 2: Mary K. Klein joins us. Doctor Kline, tell us a

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Speaker 2: little bit about the Adult Congenital Heart Association, because this

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Speaker 2: is one everybody should be interested in.

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Speaker 8: Go right ahead, doctor Klein, Yes, I think they should be. Actually,

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Speaker 8: about one and one hundred children are born with some

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Speaker 8: kind of structural defect of heart, and that's the most

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Speaker 8: prevalent birth defect that there is. For many centuries, probably

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Speaker 8: there wasn't a whole lot that could be done for

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Speaker 8: children with congenital heart defects, but in recent decades, a

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Speaker 8: lot of those children with serious defects have survived to adulthood.

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Speaker 8: About thirty years ago, my daughter and some friends who

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Speaker 8: met online back together and said, there needs to be

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Speaker 8: an organization for adults with congenital heart disease because it's

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Speaker 8: a very lonely journey. A lot of times people don't

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Speaker 8: know each other. So the organization was formed ACHA and

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Speaker 8: we served not just the patients, but also the whole

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Speaker 8: medical community that works with potental heart patients. What we've

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Speaker 8: done is we have educational programs, we have webinars, we

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Speaker 8: have peer support. Somebody wants to be matched up with somebody.

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Speaker 8: We work on care standards for adults with congenital heart

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Speaker 8: disease through our accreditation program, and we're also we have

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Speaker 8: funded some research, but we're also trying to increase the

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Speaker 8: funding for for new surgeries and new medications.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a lot of work. The group is

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Speaker 2: a national organization. This is not just a local New

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Speaker 2: England group.

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Speaker 8: Correct that that is true. It started in my home

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Speaker 8: actually in Boston, but it is now a national organization.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so important and the easiest way that folks can

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Speaker 2: get in touch with you, either to get more information

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Speaker 2: about the types of heart defects and living with congenital

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Speaker 2: heart defects and patient research, all they have to do

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Speaker 2: is go to the what would be the initials of

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Speaker 2: Adult Congenital Heart Association ac H aheart dot org. You

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Speaker 2: couldn't make it any simple.

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Speaker 8: No, that's huge amount information there, a huge amount.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the website right now, a jan It's

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Speaker 2: a wonderful organization. Your daughter and her friends and you

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Speaker 2: were carrying on the legacy of your daughter and on

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Speaker 2: behalf of all of us who have hearts. We thank

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Speaker 2: the ACHA for all that you do so the Adult

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Speaker 2: Congenital Heart Association ACHA Heart All One Word dot Org.

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Speaker 2: Thank you doctor Klein.

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Speaker 8: Well, thank you Dan. I really appreciate your having a son,

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Speaker 8: and Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you so much. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we are going to wrap the hour with Janet Sullivan Fitzgerald.

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Speaker 2: She's with a group called People Helping People the Burlington

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Speaker 2: Food Pantry. Janet Sullivan Fitzgerald, I know you're a loyal

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Speaker 2: Nightside listener, so welcome both as a listener but also

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Speaker 2: more importantly as a representative of People Helping People the

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Speaker 2: Burlington Food Pantry. We have met before, well, when I

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Speaker 2: spoke in Burlington several years ago. How are you this

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Speaker 2: evening and tell us a little bit about the Burlington

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Speaker 2: Food Pantry.

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Speaker 11: Well, thank you again, Dan for having us on. I'm

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Speaker 11: honored that you picked our organization. So People Helping People

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Speaker 11: in the Burlington Food Pantry began their journey in the

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Speaker 11: nineteen seventies and by nineteen eighty eight we became incorporated

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Speaker 11: as the People Helping People with an Umbrella organization, which

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Speaker 11: combined the food pantry, the holiday programs, and the covenants

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Speaker 11: of basic needs. So we just finished our holiday programs

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Speaker 11: which was amazing.

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Speaker 8: This year.

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Speaker 11: The UCC Church in Burlington, along with all the churches

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Speaker 11: people helping people. The Rotary Club this year was able

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Speaker 11: to give three hundred and fifty individuals Thanksgiving dinners and

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Speaker 11: were we received benefits from the Greater Boston Food Bank,

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Speaker 11: so all the turkeys came from the food Bank and

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Speaker 11: no charge.

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Speaker 2: Well, how much of a problem do you have? You know,

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Speaker 2: when we think about Burlington and those surrounding communities, those

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Speaker 2: are not poor communities, but there's a need that you feel.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about it.

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Speaker 11: You know, there's a major misconception about food and security

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Speaker 11: and need. You know, people think you're unemployed, you're poor,

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Speaker 11: but it's really the people are working hard but still

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Speaker 11: want to be able to afford basic nexcessities. Life is expensive,

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Speaker 11: posing utilities, healthcare, food. Burlington has a population of seniors

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Speaker 11: of twenty one percent. Twenty percent of our population is

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Speaker 11: senior citizens. And think about it, people that moved into

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Speaker 11: Burlington in the late fifties, early sixties, they're in their

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Speaker 11: eighties and nineties now and they're living on Social Security

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Speaker 11: checks that are a lot less than people who are

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Speaker 11: retiring now in the mid sixties, and then maybe they've

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Speaker 11: lost a spouse and you're living on one Social Security check.

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Speaker 2: Expensive, So how can people reach out get in contact

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Speaker 2: with you. I assume that contributions would be appreciated or

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Speaker 2: volunteers would be appreciated as well. What's the easiest way

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Speaker 2: to get in touch with the Berlings and food pantry?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 11: So there's a couple of things. So People Helping People

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Speaker 11: Ink Drug Org is our website.

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Speaker 8: Okay, not everybody here.

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Speaker 2: Say let me say that again slowly. People Helping People

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Speaker 2: Inc i nc dot org okay. And what's the other way?

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Speaker 11: And then the other thing is not everybody has a computer,

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Speaker 11: So if you need help, our phone, if the food

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Speaker 11: pantry is seven eight to one to seven oh six

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Speaker 11: six two five, okay. And we just want to I

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Speaker 11: just want to say that people helping people exist to

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Speaker 11: make sure families in our community don't go fall through

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Speaker 11: the cracks during life's hottest moments. No one should have

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Speaker 11: to face hard times alone. And we're blessed in Ellington

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Speaker 11: that we have a number of nonprofits.

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Speaker 8: We all work together.

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Speaker 11: So if you need help, if you need help, pick

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Speaker 11: up the phone and call us. If we can't help you,

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Speaker 11: we'll put point in the direction where you can get help.

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Speaker 2: Okay, am right. My more thing.

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Speaker 11: I want to say one more thank you.

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Speaker 2: I got a schedules, go ahead quick.

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Speaker 11: We would love volunteers. We would love volunteers. We'll looking

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Speaker 11: for expertise and grant writing, book keeping, fundraising, annual giving campaigns,

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Speaker 11: so anything, we would appreciate it. And thank you Dan

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Speaker 11: for letting me have this time tonight.

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Speaker 2: No problem, Thank you very much. Janet Sullivan Fitzgerald. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, if you've missed any of the information, Rob,

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Speaker 2: I hope you got that number seven eight one two

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Speaker 2: seven oh six six two five. All of it will

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Speaker 2: be posted at our web page, which is Nightside on

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Speaker 2: Demand dot com. This podcast, this hour, the ten, and

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Speaker 2: So when you get up you can if you've missed

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Speaker 2: of the broadcast. Here. It's important to me, it's important

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Speaker 2: to Rob wbz's thirteenth Annual or Nightside's thirteenth Annual Charity combine,

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Speaker 2: we will continue with ten more great charities on the

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Speaker 2: other side of the eleven o'clock News