SPEAKER_05 0:08

And you're listening to iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the Mountain Amir host Jeannie Ford. Really pleased to have Meals on Wheels here. Well, it's Jessica Turney. How are you, Jessica? Good. How are you this morning? Good to have you with us. Okay, so you are with Meals on Wheels, and something is happening really big. Guys, you gotta pay attention. The Freedom Fest is going on uh July 4th. And where is the Freedom Fest held? It's at the High School. At the High School, so there we go. We got the Freedom Fest at the Sholo High School. At the Sholo High School, yes. Sholo High School. What do you guys have at the Freedom Fest?

SPEAKER_04 0:42

We're gonna have a booth that has we're gonna have hot dogs, and they are all beef hot dogs, just so you're aware, we don't serve the other ones. Um chili cheese dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chili cheeseburgers, pepper bellies, cotton candy, they'll be making that fresh there. Um and some ice cream sandwiches and bomb pops and things like that.

SPEAKER_05 1:02

Ooh, yum. What's a pepper belly?

SPEAKER_04 1:04

It's Fritos with chili, cheese, jalapenos, and onions in a bag, and you just it's almost like a walking taco, but it's chili cheese Fritos with you know, with peppers.

SPEAKER_05 1:15

Ooh, yummy. Okay, okay, I know what it is. Yeah, that sounds yummy. And you um Meals on Wheels, tell for people who don't know what Meals on Wheels does, what do they do?

SPEAKER_04 1:25

So we serve um homebooks. We do have some some that can get out, but mainly homeboy that are in need of assistance. Like they can't cook their own meals, some are just post-op, but a lot of them are they have no way to drive, they can't get out of their homes, and they cannot cook for themselves. And it helps keep them in their home out of a nursing home.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

Yes, and they and they dearly want to stay in their home. That this happened with my mom, and I forced her into my house, but I kept her place, right? Because I knew she was gonna throw a fit, and then she did, she threw a fit, wanted to be back there. So then I said, Mom, then you're gonna how about meals on wheels? She goes, well, maybe. You know, she was and then she loved it, absolutely loved it. And what I noticed too, um, what kinds of things do you serve and you take them?

SPEAKER_04 2:10

Uh well tomorrow we're having pulled pork sandwiches, and then we also have ribs, we have homemade soups, meatloaf, oven-fried chicken. We don't deep fry anything, but um we just we try to make as much of it from scratch as possible because then there's less preservatives and all the bad stuff in it.

SPEAKER_05 2:30

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Healthier stuff, yeah. And what I noticed is the portions. She would eat half of it, and then she did half of it for dinner, put it in the refrigerator, you know what I mean? It lasted her longer than just one meal.

SPEAKER_04 2:42

Aaron Ross Powell We do try to serve a little bit larger portions than is required just because a lot of the clients, it is their only meal of the day. And we want to make sure they get fed. Like we have one client, she sent in a message saying that she was still hungry afterwards. So we're gonna work on getting her a second meal sent each day just because, you know, we don't want anyone to be hungry.

SPEAKER_05 3:03

Yeah, that's so sweet. And this is super big at the Fre Freedom Fest, folks, because they're gonna have two tents up there, and this is their big fundraiser. So you need to go to the Freedom Fest and have your meal there and buy food from them and give them a little extra donation, maybe, you know? What are you gonna be doing at the Freedom Fest? Two big canopies and serving all those great things you said.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Oh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have those two big canopies. Um one's gonna have the sweets underneath it, and one's gonna have the the other stuff underneath it, and of course we're gonna serve water with it. We decided to skip on the soda and stuff this year just to be a little healthier. Um but uh we're just gonna be serving food, taking donations, and kind of talking. Anyone who wants to come talk to us about possibly volunteering, driving for us, helping in the kitchen, just anything in the building. We always need volunteers.

SPEAKER_05 3:50

Aaron Ross Powell Volunteers, guys, volunteers for meals on wheels. And what kinds of volunteers? When you say you need drivers, what do they need to, what type of person do you need as a volunteer?

SPEAKER_04 4:00

So um you do have to pass a background check and get a fingerprint clearance that is required because we do serve NACOG clients. Um but it's people who are willing to just drive and go to their homes. We do have two vehicles that they could use if they don't want to take their own vehicle, but most of our drivers do opt to use their own vehicles.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

Um and they drop off the meal, say hi, and they set eyes on these people, talk to them for a few minutes, do kind of a welfare check, correct? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

They have to see physically see every single client to drop off a meal.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Nice, nice. And see what I liked about that, like with my mom, is I got a phone call one day and they because I would go every other day to her house and said, eh, you might want to check on her today. She seemed a little off. And I did, and she was, and she went to the doctor, and then she was fined. But you know, you it's really great to have someone else setting a set of ice on them, you know, a familiar face. I love that.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

Aaron Ross Powell Definitely, because a lot of them in their family don't even live here. Like they're all alone up here. They don't have anyone, and it it really helps, like if you have someone who's checking on your family member and calling and saying, hey, this is going on or that's going on, or it's huge.

SPEAKER_05 5:12

It's huge. I loved it. And my mom was close, but it was just when I was at work and it was nice to have another person checking in and then having my brother stop and these different different people stopping, you know, to visit her after she had lost her husband. That was the big thing. Because so many of these people are alone. They've lost their significant other sometimes, and it's really hard on them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

Oh yes, definitely. Most of them do live alone.

SPEAKER_05 5:33

Okay. And you um so you guys can use volunteers all the time, always donations, right? Always donations. Okay. That's a that's a big one. And what is your website?

SPEAKER_04 5:44

M O W Az W M.org. That was M-O-W-A-Z-W-M.org.

SPEAKER_05 5:52

Meals on Wheels, Az as in Arizona, and then Whitemountainswm.org. Very cool. And um also, is there anything else you want to tell us about Meals on Wheels?

SPEAKER_04 6:03

Well, just that, you know, we're looking, we're always looking for volunteers. We can always use the help. We have about 52% of our clients that are funded through NACOG. The other is that we we everything is through fundraising. Right now we have 88 approved for home-delivered meals through NACOG, and only 31 of them are funded. And then we also have a congregate meal program where you come into the facility and you can eat lunch there. We have 102 people that are approved, but only 17 of them are funded.

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Oh wow, wow. So see, there's a big gap there. That's why you need more funding for sure and uh more donations. Where are you located?

SPEAKER_04 6:43

We're at 301 East McNeil, um, on the little road behind Perse Nicodies.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Oh, there you go. Okay, 301 East McNeil.

SPEAKER_04 6:51

Yeah, if you go down the Calvary Baptist driveway, we're just past the Calvary Baptist Church.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

Okay, there you go. And you work in the kitchen, right? I do. That's awesome. What made you want to get involved with Meals on Wheels?

SPEAKER_04 7:03

I was looking for something a little different, and I started out volunteering there, and I just absolutely loved it. And I I enjoy making the menus and things like that for our clients. I work with a nutritionist, and it's just helping people.

SPEAKER_05 7:18

Very nice. Jessica, thank you so much for all the good work you guys do. We love it. Meals on Wheels. That website one more time.

SPEAKER_04 7:24

M-O-W-A-Z-W-M.org.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

Okay, and everybody remember go to the Freedom Fest at the high school July 4th and go and buy, buy, buy. A lot of stuff there at their two easy ups for meals on wheels, okay? And talk tell them how appreciative you are of them, okay? And maybe make a get buy pay double for your food. There you go. Alrighty, everybody, keep it right here. You're listening to iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the mountain, Jessica. Thank you. Okay, have a good one. Keep it right here, everyone. And you're listening to iTalk 1067 FM The Voice, the Mountain. One thing I am so excited about, you know, we've seen all the celebrations for the 250 and the 4th of July. Well, folks, we've got a giant one here in the White Mountains for the 250, and I I cannot wait to see this flag. And we're talking about the massive, gigantic flag that's going up in Hebrew Overgaard and all the people who have worked so hard for this. I have Mike Montandon on the phone, and he's also our county assessor. Mike, how are you today? I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

I am just doing fantastic today. I I love this time of year.

SPEAKER_05 8:45

Yes, this is a beautiful time of year, and this year so it's so extra, extra with the 250 and thinking. I I've been spending my time on that big documentary on George Washington and all we've been watching all of the stuff and with the kids and the grandkids and just thinking about this country and w what it took and all of the the people and how hard it was. And this flag, tell us what is going on Friday. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

So the biggest flag, the biggest civic flag in Arizona. Uh nearly the tallest, but definitely the tallest civic flag. There is one private taller, but it's a hundred and fifty-five-foot flagpole. And you know, people just don't really fathom what that involves. You know, it's eighteen feet in the ground, and the base of the flag is twenty-six inches. You know, it's just it's just massive.

SPEAKER_05 9:40

So talking massive construction, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

The flag itself is 40 feet by 80 feet. Takes us about 25 people to properly get that flag attached and raised, weighs over a hundred pounds. It's just it's just gonna be fantastic. You know what's exciting about it is that it's permanent. You know, the the the fireworks are wonderful celebrations, but this is every day that we will see this flag. And it's been a vision of a number of people. You know, there's an organization, a wonderful group in Hebrew called Hochran, the Hebrew Overguard Community Resource Network, and they do all kinds of great things. And a group of private citizens got together with Hochran and said, Let's put this, let's do this project. It's not easy.

SPEAKER_05 10:38

No, and and and when you say it's not easy, they they developed a 501c3 with this, they've been taking donations, everyone's been working so hard, and it's and there's so much coordination.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Literally, the FAA, Arizona Department of Transportation, county building permits, engineering, soils test, uh, electrical lighting, the school district donated the land. It it's it's just been it it's it's really a project.

SPEAKER_05 11:09

Oh, this is see, this is incredible. I and it it it's so special for the White Mountains. And you know, Hebrew Overgard, you know, they pro they were putting this together and in a a lot of ways, some of it has been a little bit, you know, maybe a little bit quite a lot of us haven't hadn't heard about it until r more recently. And what a spectacular dream that's been going on and they've been working so hard for like five years. And now Friday, what specifically can we attend Friday?

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Um So So if if you're from Hebrew, all I need to say is the high school. But if you're not from Hebrew, I'll tell you that if you're coming down the 260, turn at Mustang. You know, there's a big sign that says you're at the high school. Turn at Mustang, drop down to the high school. Of course you can't miss it. The hundred and fifty-five foot pole sticking up out of the ground's kind of visible. And head down there. We're gonna have a ceremony and breakfast at 7 a.m. But really need to be seated by about a quarter till uh because there's gonna be a lot of people there.

SPEAKER_06 12:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:11

And and come watch the raising of this flag.

SPEAKER_05 12:14

Oh, so so I mean that's just gonna be the best. And then uh on Fourth of July, where you always have it, and I tell people, and we don't know if we can have fireworks this year because we've got wind, so we have to wait. We're all waiting to see. And it's been very strange in many years. Sometimes it's like it's amazing, it's almost magical. The all of a sudden the skies will open up and the rain will start.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

The rain the rain appears. Yeah. And of course the the area where they hold the fireworks is watered, manicured. It's fairly easy to maintain, but the one thing we can't control is wind.

SPEAKER_06 12:50

Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Uh and the fire chief will make the call at the last minute to say yes or no. And and it we may or may not have fireworks.

SPEAKER_05 13:00

Right.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

So we have to but we will have a flag.

SPEAKER_05 13:04

Yeah, and so if you you go and there's all this magnificent stuff going on there on the football field, you have so much fun, the children are playing. I mean, it's one of my favorite Fourth of July celebrations is there in Heber. So it's still, even without the fireworks, now you're gonna have a massive flag for everyone to just go gaga over, and there's always all sorts of great things going on there at Fourth of July.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

There is. You know, there'll be there's usually forty thousand people that come up for Fourth of July for the parade and the events and the fair and just to enjoy Hebrew.

SPEAKER_06 13:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Uh and now, you know, it's a it's a marker for the whole White Mountains. Literally, if you're coming up to Snowflake, when you see that flag, you'll say, Well, and this many minutes away from Snowflake, if you s head into Pine Top Country Club, you're gonna be about sixty minutes from the flag. You know, everybody's just gonna use it as a marker point.

SPEAKER_05 13:58

Yep, yep. You'll know how close you are to your cabin when you're coming up. You're like, Mom, we're at the flag, we're almost there. Yeah, exactly. I can't wait to see this. And so again, you have the breakfast, then it's gonna and it's gonna be up all the time, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Yeah, the flag's up all the time. It's it's gonna we uh we've actually we've got some wonderful uh military and veterans on our committee who've made sure we've got all the right rules and exactly the right number of lumens on this flag so it's uh lit up lit up and can be flown all the time. Taking it up and down will happen for occasions, but it's not easy.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

Not easy. Big motor.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

It it and and to do it right, like you said, it's at least 25 people to keep it keep it off the ground and and package it correctly and do the things we need to do.

SPEAKER_05 14:49

Wow. See, this is this is just incredible, and it's great you have the veterans involved. Now tell us how people can you still have some of those markers, the the uh stones, the pavers available, right? Tell us all about that.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

We do. So the flag's got two walls in front of it and in the back of it, in God We Trust on the front, but then on the ground are the pavers. And they they're different sizes. And they're in they're laser engraved with a tribute to your family, to an organization. Uh we've got some great ones. We have you know what I love is we have literally some pavers where people have laser engraved anonymous on the on them on them. And or to to a veteran or to their club or to their family. And you can go on raisetheflag250.org. Or when you're there Friday morning at breakfast, you'll see the pavers that we've already installed, and we've got some space left for another a second wave of pavers. I think we have room for 70 more pavers.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

Oh, 70 more. So get your family in there. Raise the and what is it, raise the flag?

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Raise the flag250.org.

SPEAKER_05 16:05

Raise the flag 250.org. Raise the flag 250.org so you can help out and uh support this amazing effort. I'm so proud of all the people in in Heber and for all of you guys doing this and putting this together for all of us in the White Mountains and all of us in Arizona, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Absolutely. It's a it's it's gonna be a a memorable place.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

So incredible. Anything else you want to add, Mike?

SPEAKER_01 16:31

I just want to add how great it is living in paradise.

SPEAKER_05 16:34

I know, isn't it beautiful up here? We dearly, dearly love it. Mike Montanan, our also our county assessor, we so appreciate you and all the good work you're doing. And hey, I am so thrilled for everybody in Heber. You guys, I'll tell you what, are great, are just amazing. I always go back to, you know, I had that um I had a big accident, horseback riding accident last year in Heber, and those Heber first responders were amazing, amazing.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Uh earlier early this morning they were out by the side of the road taking care of a semi that drove off. They are they are right on it. They are so quick and so good.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Yes, so incredible. I and the way they handled, because they had to Aravac me out, but the way it was handled, the way they found us, I was three miles off a you know Forest Service Road out there, and the way they got to me, the tourniquet wasn't too fun on my leg. But you know what? They know I love them. I dearly love those first responders and Heber, the fire chief, all of those guys, that whole crew, amazing, just amazing.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

Okay, you guys talk about it, so the tourniquet wasn't that bad.

SPEAKER_05 17:38

It wasn't that bad. My my husband said, So they didn't put it around your neck? You are just so bad. I was teasing him because I kept talking through the whole thing, of course, you know. They couldn't shut me up. Okay, thank you so much, Mike. We so appreciate you guys. Mike Montana, we're so excited about this flag. Cannot wait to see it. All right, raise the flag to 50.org, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Thanks, Jim.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

Okay, thank you so much, Mike Montanan. All right, everybody, keep it right here. Magic one iTalk 1067 FM, the voice of the mountain. Today we're having a political show because we are talking about how important it is for you guys to get out and vote and all the things that are going on in this great, great, great country. We're so excited about the 4th of July and everything. I have our District Severn Representative, uh Sylvia Allen on the phone. I also have Liz Olmstead, right, Liz? Is that it? Okay, Liz, I gotta get that right. With Navajo County Republican Committee. And I have Joe Green from Apache County, he's the Apache County Chair. Hi, Joe, how are you?

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Good thanks.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

So we have Navajo and Apache covered, and it is early voting right now. That is so, so, so very important. And Sylvia, let's start with you. How important is this election?

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Oh my gosh, it is of course it's important. We we have choices to make, and if we don't let our voices be heard through our vote, then then the other side, those who are working very hard to change the direction and course of our country, will then have their voices heard. So I can't ever stress how important it is that we pay attention, that we be sure, and if we're doing a ballot, let's get it in early so that we don't clog up the election for a week afterwards or more. And but I also encourage people to go vote in person and to really um make your voice heard through your vote.

SPEAKER_05 20:07

Yes, exactly. And Liz, this this is such an important time for all of us.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yes. It is. So I mean, as far as early voting, um, at least here in Navo County, they have restricted some of the number of days that they're having early voting. So it's really important that you go to the uh Navo um County, Arizona election site to find those early voting spots. For instance, SHOLO is only on July the 6th, which is only one day.

SPEAKER_05 20:38

They used to have like three days or something.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Exactly. So the list has really shrunk. So it's important to go to that website and get those early voting dates.

SPEAKER_05 20:46

Okay. And Joe, um, you guys have early voting dates all over Apache too, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Yes, we do. Yes, we do. So uh the early voting uh sites are only open certain days as well. Uh we have five sites for the early voting. We also have drop boxes. Um prefer you to go in. Uh Fort Defiance is Monday through Thursday, Chinley Road Yard, Monday through Thursday. Those are both 8.30 to 4.30. Uh Chambers probation office, Fridays only from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. So get into the chambers uh probation office. Tischnosh Poss, I think I said that right. The road yard is 10 to 3 p.m. and that's a Friday only. And then the recorder's office of St. John's Monday through Thursday, 6 30 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. So there's a little more time in St. John's, uh, but not much.

SPEAKER_05 21:32

Yeah, and let's remember that the recorder's office is is a stable place to walk in.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

Yeah. And um for Navoe County, it's June 24th through July the 17th, and they're open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. And on Friday, July 17th, they'll be open until 7 p.m. So if you miss out on voting in your area, you can go to Holebrook and vote in person down there. And we do have drop boxes, but and we understand that they are picking them. Up every day. So that is excellent for all of us. But thing is that we need to vote in person, and if you can't get there, you need to vote in person on July 21st.

SPEAKER_05 22:11

Yeah, and if you have an early ballot, they recommend if you have an early ballot to walk that in to um like if you can walk it into Holbrook and walk it into the county recorder in Apache County, right? Walk that early ballot in early and hand it to them. And um because if you do that, those are going to get counted early instead of just w mailing them and mailing them too late, right? It's safer to walk them in. Is that right, Sylvia?

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Yes. Uh what they well you can do that even on July twenty first, which is our primary election day. You can go to your precinct voting place with your vote in with your ballot, and if you bring your license and you can show them that your signature on there uh matches your your license, and you show them your license, they'll put that in a different box. And then when it gets to the county, the county does not have to go through the horrendous ordeal of checking all the signatures and they can go ahead and count the ballot. That also helps keep it from getting clogged up for days at a time, also. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:21

So it's probably it it would probably be great to if you can, if you're going to Hoberk or something, you know, walk it walk that early on Ball Hannet, give them your license and get it all done right there and be as secure as possible because people will forget and they'll mail too late, and that's really scary. Right. Liz?

SPEAKER_02 23:37

If you're walking if you're walking in a ballot for other people, sometimes that happens because I've worked the polls and people will bring in ballots for their their husband or or their kids or whatever. Those ballots go in a different box, and those when they get to the county will have to be checked, their signatures will have to be checked, and and again that will slow things up because they don't check those signatures till till the day after the election, you know, because they're busy on election day running ballots. So um just just that information. If you're dropping off ballots, they'll be handled differently. Right.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

But I what I do want to say on the mail and ballots, it's very important that your signature, you don't you just you sign it like you normally would, and it says uh there's an option to put a telephone number on there. It's important that you put a number on there because they may not not have your number in the system in the voting rules. And if they cannot um c you know verify your signature, your ballot doesn't get counted, and they try and reach out to you, and if they don't, then your ballot won't be counted for that election. So it's important to be able to do it. Phone number on the ballot. It says optional, but it's really important if they so that they can deal with it right at the time where they're trying to verify your signature, they will call and talk to you.

SPEAKER_05 24:54

Well that's a good that's a good backup. Yeah. I've always thrown mine on there, but I see yeah, where it says optional. Just do it. Do it, folks. Make sure you get counted. And um this is this is such an important time. We all need to kind of really have our voices heard. And Joe, I'd like to hear from you on that.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Yes, so uh it's so important. Uh last time President Trump was uh president, we didn't take the opportunity that we're given today uh to make a difference. You know, there's we've got uh a group of people that are fighting against us as Republicans, us as Americans, not just Republicans, it could be even a Democrat. You're still your vote's not going to count if you don't get out and vote. And so uh not that I not that I'm advocating for that, but the American people need to speak up. And now is the time to speak against the tyranny, speak against those that are trying to change and conform our children to the world, and this is the time to make a change. Um we won't have another chance if we don't get out and vote.

SPEAKER_05 25:53

Yeah, and you know, I look around, uh Liz, you look around too what's happening in Europe and different places that are literally just being taken over. I mean, it is it's it's very a very scary time. You look at our own country with them el electing some of these massive radicals. And um and the thing that was just chilling to me is to see that poll by CNN, it just came out like yesterday that 97 percent of Americ Americans that are happen to be Republicans and conservative conservatives are proud of America. They love America, right? And then on the Democrat side, it's 27 percent that say they love America. And then 37 percent say no, they're not a proud to be Americans and they don't like it here. I'm just wondering why they don't leave. But anyway, but but the point is too, we're up against this scary, scary wave.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

It's oh absolute absolutely. If I could jump in there.

SPEAKER_05 26:46

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Uh I was I was absolutely raised my whole life on anti-communism. My family uh in my home, I learned the difference between what communism and socialism was compared to our American form of government, our republic. And um it's alarming to me to see we finally arrived at a time where people who are pushing the communist philosophy are proud they're doing it. What happened in New York in their primary election where they literally are electing people who are outspoken communists who absolutely hate this country and want to change our form of government, they're electing them to our United States Congress. What do you think they're gonna do when they get there? What do you think how you think they're going to vote? And so our our youth are confused and they don't really understand because we have taken the last fifty years to indoctrinate them in our universities against our government. We have changed our history. I mean, I could go on and on, you guys, about what we have done to ourselves, and now we're at a crossroads where we've got to determine again, once again, just as we did 250 years ago, what kind of government are we going to be?

SPEAKER_05 28:06

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

You know, and I I'd like to stack on that, it all starts in the local. Your city council, your school boards, you get out there, you need to go and try to meet these people, find out who they really are for yourself. Do research, don't just take somebody's word for it. Just because somebody said somebody else is a good person does not make them a good person, you know. So what we really need to be doing is our our due diligence to be sure to elect the right people.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

Yes, Liz. Absolutely. Um I find because I'm out there um doing a lot of uh communication with uh repel um registration tables and stuff like that, so I have a lot of contact with young youth. And I'll be honest with you, there's a lot of them that are not registered, they don't want to register because they don't really care about what's happening in our in our community or in our country, and I have to have a you know uh mom and and and son or daughter talk with them saying, you know, you really need to understand that your freedoms are going to go away if you don't. And so I convince them to register to vote and tell them, you know, you need to un read all the stuff about it. And you know, I give them my telephone number um because I am part of the Republican Party here in Navo County, and I say, call me. You know, I am available to talk to you about all of the candidates that are running and help you understand what's really happening because they are in their own little worlds. That I I I it's hard to f imagine looking at the young young adults growing up now compared to what it was 30, 40 years ago. They are in a bubble. And uh I as a grandma and a mom try and pop that bubble to get them to understand and and and they also say, well, my parents don't really vote either, and so it kind of runs down generation after generation, I think, for a while.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

And we all need to be talking to all those people and expressing our concerns and getting out to vote. And guys, this is we want to do this often and and all the time. And we're gonna take a short break here, and uh we've got more coming your way on iTalk, but um we can't impress on you enough about getting out to vote. So, guys, those two websites again where people go.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Yes, ApacheCountyaz.gov. Go to the recorder's office and you'll be able to find the locations for your uh early voting, as well as you can sign up and get notified if your ballot was accepted or not.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

Okay. Um it is novacountyaz.gov, and you can go and check out the elections and you can check on um polling places and it'll pop up for you.

SPEAKER_05 30:35

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