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Speaker 1: Now, we mentioned yesterday a go fund Me page for

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Speaker 1: the family of Jet Jones has been started. He tragically

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Speaker 1: lost his life in a quad bike accident earlier this

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Speaker 1: week at Darwin River. Now we've been told that Jet

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Speaker 1: was a cherished part of the Lichfield local football family.

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Speaker 1: He loved the game and even had his boots ready

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Speaker 1: for next season. Now, whether he was holding strong in

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Speaker 1: defense or bravely stepping up as goalie, Jet played with passion,

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Speaker 1: with courage and a spirit that lifted everyone around him.

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Speaker 2: His team have said that he was the kind of

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Speaker 2: teammate who.

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Speaker 1: Made others feel valued, supported and seen. His loss is

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Speaker 1: felt deeply by all who knew him. Now, during this

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Speaker 1: unimaginable time, the community is rallying support to really try

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Speaker 1: to help Jet's family. And we've got the club president

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Speaker 1: on the line right now, Charlie Milady.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Charlie.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. Charlie.

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Speaker 1: How is the club and the community and Jet's family

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Speaker 1: going at this point?

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Speaker 3: I suppose they're going as expected here when a tragedy

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Speaker 3: like this takes place, you know, it's just tragically sad

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Speaker 3: for everybody involved. It's a parent's worst nightmare, and I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't want to imagine how how the family are feeling.

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Speaker 1: I feel exactly the same as you. You know, it

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Speaker 1: is every parent's w was nightmare. My son is around

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Speaker 1: about that age. I'm sure you've probably got kids around

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Speaker 1: about that age, and it is just utterly heart wrenching.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, you know, in a time like this,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's so important for us as a club

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Speaker 3: and a community to really rally around around the family

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Speaker 3: and his loved ones, you know, the mb together at

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Speaker 3: this time.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sport On, I mean, Charlie, I read out part

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Speaker 1: of the post that the Litchfield Footage Club posted talking

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Speaker 1: about Jet. What kind of little fellow was he?

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Speaker 3: He was always happy to be there. You know, he's

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Speaker 3: very well loved by his teammates and he coaches. He

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Speaker 3: just really made it a good time for everybody else

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Speaker 3: that was with him. You know, the other kids were

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Speaker 3: you know, not sort of having the best day or

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Speaker 3: not really wanting to be there. He just made it

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, when such a young person loses

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Speaker 1: their life, it does impact the whole community. But it

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Speaker 1: also for kids, it can be a really difficult thing

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Speaker 1: to understand. I imagine that the club is really just

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Speaker 1: you know, you're putting your arms around each other at

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Speaker 1: this point to try and support the kids and the

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Speaker 1: other families.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, we actually had the had his under eleven

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Speaker 3: team and as well as some of the under twelves.

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Speaker 3: They all trained together come down to the club the

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Speaker 3: other night and I was led by their coaches, Melon,

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Speaker 3: Kaylee and look, I I've never been prouder to be

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Speaker 3: part of this club seeing seeing how they facilitated that

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Speaker 3: that gathering. They you know, the kids came down with

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Speaker 3: just they all kicked off their shoes and went and

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Speaker 3: know just watching, you know, Mel and Kaylee just getting

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Speaker 3: we we we got them some pizzas and then they

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Speaker 3: sat down and you shoved the pizzas in and have

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Speaker 3: it now. It was it was real special and you know,

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Speaker 3: I know his family would have been, you know, really

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Speaker 3: proud to hear the nice things that they were a

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Speaker 3: fair and it was just it was beautiful to see

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Speaker 3: the kidually being brave and strong and but but sharing

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Speaker 3: their sharing their grief and honoring his memory and talking

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Speaker 3: about everything that they loved about him and I love

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Speaker 3: about him, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing for the club to do, and

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Speaker 1: we said earlier, I can't imagine how Jit's family is

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Speaker 1: all those little ones they're together honoring their boy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's, you know, from the club's perspective, that's,

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Speaker 3: you know, all we can really do is come together

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Speaker 3: to celebrate his his life. And yeah, so that's what

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Speaker 3: thow they're wanting to help him practical way to the family,

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Speaker 3: like right now, like that grief would just be overwhelming.

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Speaker 3: So we're just trying to do what we can on

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Speaker 2: So you're set up, you've set up a fundraiser.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about where people can find

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Speaker 1: that fundraiser and what you're hoping to do with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, we've got a go fund me page. It's

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Speaker 3: on our Richward Football Club page. I have shared it

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Speaker 3: around some of the community pages, particularly out in the

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Speaker 3: rural area. Really, I suppose it's hope that will alleviate

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Speaker 3: this tragic loss. You know, obviously there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: be able to work as they was. He was injured

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Speaker 3: also in the accident. I know they have a lot

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Speaker 3: his mum, I suggets mum is from Thailand and hers

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Speaker 3: and family is there so quite isolated. So perhaps they

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Speaker 3: could use some of the funding to help bring some

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Speaker 3: just giving them that flexibility to use the money to

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Speaker 3: help them do what they need to.

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Speaker 1: Do at this time, Charlie, I know there's going to

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Speaker 1: be people listening this morning that want to help that,

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Speaker 1: they want to wrap their arms around Jet's family and

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Speaker 1: try their best to help them. At this point in time,

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Speaker 1: where is the best place for them to go? Should

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Speaker 1: they try and find you guys on Facebook? What should

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's the best place to go. On

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Speaker 3: the Lectorld Football club page. I could or if they

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Speaker 3: search in the growth fundly as well, so that well,

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Speaker 3: I'll just actually get the name up for that. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: they search up Jet Jones on gofund me, they should

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Speaker 3: be able to find that. If they do have.

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Speaker 1: Facebook, will they actually we share it as well on

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Speaker 1: our Facebook page so that people are able to find

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Speaker 1: have any idea what kind of how much you're hoping

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I wasn't quite sure what would be realistic.

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Speaker 3: You know, I had for the hope that we'd get

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Speaker 3: at least ten grand, and we're nearly at thirteen grand

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Speaker 3: we could raise you up to twenty grand I think

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Speaker 3: that would be fantastic, really, Paul them, that would be

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Speaker 3: everybody and every would be coming just to yeah we

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Speaker 3: is that's that's for them at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Spot on, Like just any way that you can help

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Speaker 1: that little family, which I think is a really great

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Speaker 1: thing to do. Charlie, thank you so much for speaking

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Speaker 2: I know it's not an easy.

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Speaker 1: Thing to do when you know, when a club, when

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Speaker 1: a family, when when parents such suffer from such a

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Speaker 1: profound loss.

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Speaker 2: So I really appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Your time this morning and your strength to be able

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Speaker 1: to talk about little Jet and and let us know

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Speaker 1: more about him and to help his family.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really really appreciate your time and letting us

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Speaker 3: to share the message and yeah, just celebrating Jet's life.

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Speaker 3: And again it's just cart goes out to his family

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Speaker 3: and his friends that oversit the club and in school

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Speaker 3: and his family. Just sending lots of love to all

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Speaker 3: of them, and just knowing that the club is here

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Speaker 3: for any anybody that wants to reach out to support

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Speaker 3: where they need what to connect with services to help

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Speaker 3: navigate this time. I just want to chat. Please know

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Speaker 3: you can reach out to the club directly and we'll

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Speaker 3: be here to support anyone that needs that help.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Charlie. Thank you so much for speaking

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Speaker 1: to us this morning. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you, thank you,