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Did You Guess It? Clues and Restaurants Await!
All right, we are here. Hey, this is a Newsmakers Podcast. I tried to mix the two words together Newsmakers Podcast, season 2. This is Episode 6 of Season 2. Today, I have with me the lovely Miss Candy Candy is joining me, and we're going to talk a little bit about the summary events catalog that's coming up and some different things that you have. Okay, but first of all, events catalog that's coming up and some different things that you have. Okay, but first of all, I always want to tell everybody the show today is brought to you by who Us we're paying for the show today. All right, martin Candy Star. By the way, if you are not a subscriber, it's really, really simple.
Speaker 2:Am I right? You're right Say hi Candy, hi everyone there we go.
Speaker 1:People think he's talking to himself again. It's really simple. You can either just call us at 507-764-6681 and order it right over the phone, or, if you are one of those who has gotten a card in the mail because we've been putting out complimentary copies we just finished Welcome and we're putting out complimentary copies and so you can follow what's on the card and send it back to us or you can just stop by 11 Chestnut Street East in Trimont, across the street from Seasons, and say hi. You can do that anytime too. By the way, we're here it seems like all the time.
Speaker 2:We are here all the time. Also, don't forget, you can sign up for the paper online on our e paper Thank you, yeah, by going to martincostarcom.
Speaker 1:Boy, you're getting good at this and then, yeah, it actually gets a little bit cheaper that way too. But you don't get the paper. You just get it online only. But if that's fine with you, then, especially if you live somewhere like Arizona, florida, texas by the time they get the paper it's about a week, because we send our kids papers and one of them lives in Georgia, one in Texas, one in Wyoming and they get the paper and it takes about a week to get there.
Speaker 2:But if they go online, they see it that day.
Speaker 1:And sometimes I drop it on Tuesday night. Don't tell anybody, I'm not telling anyone. No, no, sometimes I drop it on Tuesday night.
Speaker 2:Okay, so here's the deal.
Speaker 1:We have been talking about this gift certificate $20 for a nice little restaurant, and they can win. And here's how we do it. We're going to give you a clue, you're going to solve the clue. Send in to us by text to 841. I'm using your number, okay, but 507-841-0904. Give us your name, your address and your phone number and then, of course, the answer to the question, and that is where is this restaurant? Who is not just where, but what's the restaurant. Name the restaurant and where it's at, and we'll put you in a drawing and go from there.
Speaker 2:We have a prize hat.
Speaker 1:We do. We have a prize hat. Really, it's kind of cute, it's almost like a top hat. Anyway, we drop all the entries in. All the correct entries get dropped in, and then we will pull one out next Friday. Okay, a week from today. Can I play? No, no, I'll take you there, but you can't play, okay. And so here's the clue this restaurant he uses, or they use I want to give away a gender here Whoever's a cook, it is they. They use lots of fresh veggies, tons. And what town is this in the restaurant? Plus, there's another clue this comes from the homeland of Jackie Chan. Oh, did I make it easy? Nice clue, did I make it easy? Or what? Somewhat, yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:So if you know that, if you don't know who Jackie Chan is, look him up online. It's pretty easy. Okay, so send us your guess. Send us your guess and then, like I said, we'll put you into the prize hat. Next week we'll pull out one winner and you guys can go to lunch or dinner.
Speaker 2:Also, if you're not a person that likes to text, you can just call me at the 507-841-0904 and I'll take your information down.
Speaker 1:There you go. You can call Candy anytime. Well, not anytime.
Speaker 2:Anytime that I answer. Yeah, you can call Candy anytime.
Speaker 1:Well, not anytime, anytime that I answer yeah, right, looking here at the. Okay, so, candy, I got you in here for a minute, let's do this first. Oops, you hit the boing boing. I've got you in here, so let's do this first. I want to talk a little bit about. You are already Candy's a sales manager, plus the editor here at the Martin Candy Star and you plus the editor here at the Martin County Star, and we've actually added a new salesman, haven't we? We have, yeah, Doug Smith.
Speaker 2:Doug Smith.
Speaker 1:And so if you're an advertiser, in well around the area. Doug's been going to St James and all over Fairmont. I don't know if he's gone anywhere else or not yet, but he's getting around and so can your Doug call you. Or if they don't and you want to be in the summer events paper, now's the time. We actually have started already selling and we're putting it. I'm dropping the ads in as we speak. We're working on it right now. So what do you want to say about it?
Speaker 2:Well, the summer events paper has been put on by the Martin County Star and this will be our 19th annual summer events. Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow, this is exciting. This newspaper summer events guide is out mid-May to late-May, just before Memorial Day, and it stays out there on the shelves in all the little towns around and it's out there for four to five months with all the events and activities and companies that sell goods and have services and their ads are in there. You can take this guide and keep it. It's not just part of the newspaper, it is its own guide, so you can keep this. There are some people that told me last year I can't hardly wait for your summer events paper to come out. I keep it all year until the next year. So if you're an advertiser in the Southern Minnesota summer events paper, your ad is in their hands and in their homes for readers for a very long time. We're talking thousands of readers that have been used to getting this every summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's actually loaded full of lots of great information. Oh it's great All the events that are going on.
Speaker 2:You and I use it. I love it all year long.
Speaker 1:We use it before we bought the newspaper. Yes, and then last year when we bought the paper, we got a late start. We did. We didn't even buy it until May 1st. Candy started selling it around April 1st, and so there's a lot of people we did not hit last year.
Speaker 2:Right, and they have told you that.
Speaker 1:You missed me last year. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:We're not going to miss you this year.
Speaker 1:We're already on it, so it's coming.
Speaker 2:So if you want to be in the Summer Events Guide, once again use the same phone number, 507-841-0904. And give me a call and we'll talk you through your ad placement.
Speaker 1:And what makes it nice is Candy actually is an ad designer, a graphic designer, so she makes beautiful ads, and if you don't know how to make an ad, I can help you.
Speaker 1:Candy can help you. I was that way when I was at radio. People would call and say I don't know how to make an ad. I'd say, look, just tell me what you want in your ad and I can make an ad for you. And so that's the same deal here Just tell us what you want in the ad and she can design you a beautiful ad. All right, so what else you got for me? Anything.
Speaker 2:Well, we have the car care issue coming up next week. So if you are a company that deals with car parts or car repair or financing cars. You're just saying then you once again can call me at the or sell cars or financing cars, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:You were just saying that.
Speaker 2:Then you once again can call me at the or sell cars, or sell cars Absolutely. Then this would be the issue for you. It comes out on the 5th and we would love to have you, so call 507-841-0904.
Speaker 1:And if you're a reader, hold up. Don't buy that car today, wait till next week. Who knows what's going to be in the paper. There could be a great deal, you know, so anyway.
Speaker 2:And then we have the spring ag planning, agriculture planning issue coming out in the. I believe that's on the 19th and that is a Sure burn through the years. Yeah, we, yeah we'll have that coming up. Girl Scouts yeah, we'll have that coming up Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts. Tributes to the Girl Scouts, yeah we just have a lot, a lot of different promotions going on, Plus you ready for the big news. What's?
Speaker 1:the big news I added Flash Gordon to the comic strip page.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, Are you going to read that to us today? No, I'm not.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't have it open to that page. No, if you're a Flash Gordon fan, you know they actually had a theme song written by Queen Flash. Oh right, anyway she's going.
Speaker 2:I was a deprived child.
Speaker 1:You know, what's interesting, though, is Flash Gordon started way back in 1934. Wow, because it's really fascinating. He travels from universe to universe, from planets to planets and stuff, and so it's kind of cool. So what I did this week was to kick it off. I put in two issues, or two episodes, I guess, of Flash Gordon. They kind of coincided. So I put two episodes of Flash Gordon in this week, but from now on, flash Gordon's on the comic strip page. Comic strips almost always, almost always page eight, pretty much. Our pages are set, but sometimes, when we have a special like car care or something like that, pages get shifted around a little bit. But by and large, it's there, alright. So comic strips. You and I went to UHD's Meet the Team.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:It was fun. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, I so enjoyed that. Well, a couple things, because Dr Wong is a doctor of yours, dr Grant is one of my doctors, and so we got to see them. They were talking there's some other people there, a couple of nurses, the ER nurse and things like not ER, a surgical nurse. She was there and the anesthesia nurse was there and they were talking about different things that go on and where they've come, where they've gone. It's on the front page. And then also, liz wrote a couple of nice stories. I'll let you go in just a second. Okay, liz wrote a couple of nice stories.
Speaker 1:Welcome City Council showed compassion. What that was about is a mobile home park. You and I understand this. They had a big leak, water leak. They had a bill of five grand. Yeah, yeah, over 5,000. We had the same deal way back last year and we had a bill of $900, when our bill normally is only 200. And we were like, ah, we begged with the city council and they gave us a little bit of a reprieve, and so did Welcome City Council. They set them up a little bit of a reprieve. And so did, uh, welcome city council, they. They set them up a little bit and helped them out, and you know so I titled that welcome city council shows compassion and sherburne's council, uh, concentrated on improvements and updates. That's your front page this week. All right, I'm gonna go through the paper and talk a little bit. I'm gonna let you go. Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for being had.
Speaker 2:Have a great day.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm leaving it there, yeah there you go, and if you guys, if anybody wants to text Candy, if you already figured the thing out, give her a call or text her. Either way, all right, 507-841-0904. Thanks, ken'm moving on folks. I'm looking at page 3, the Cops and Courts page Sheila put on there Strange but true. I found a couple of these kind of interesting. During her 1982 restoration the Statue of Liberty's head was accidentally installed two feet off center. You know, that's kind of funny to me. That's not like something I would do Two feet off center. So she's just a little bit crooked there.
Speaker 2:This is interesting.
Speaker 1:When put under a microscope, tears produced by grief, hope or onions were unique in form from each other. Your tears know the difference. I don't know how that's relevant to us, but it just makes me. Wow. Hey, here you go. In 1872, sitting president Ulysses S Grant was pulled over and fined $20 for exceeding the Washington speed limit on a horse. Mr President, you're going too fast on that horse. Here's your ticket $20. I imagine in 1872, $20 was quite a bit of money. I don't know what the math on that is, but I bet you it was a ton of bucks. And then, oh, birth and bereavement page, we have three obituaries Lenita Struck, she passed away. She was only 57. I always hate to hear that, Wow. Harold Butch, Jacob passed away 70 years old. And Edward.
Speaker 2:Eddie.
Speaker 1:Bell 83. In his picture he's got a big cowboy hat on. He's like a nice gentleman. He passed away. He's 83 from rural Ormsby. And then I have a list there of birthdays. If I miss your birthday, you know you can send it to us anytime. Folks, I even have a little thing there. It's mcstarmichael at gmail and send me your birthdays. Not the big happy ad ad, I'm talking about just a little birthday. You can send those anytime you want. Um, moving on, there's a lot on the uh the uh. Events and entertainment page, happenings page. I've got the movie listings. Uh, uh, sean was a little slow this week on his sean's listening, a little slow this week on his movie on his movie review, so it didn't make the paper.
Speaker 2:It'll be in next week's paper, but I have lots of other good stuff in there.
Speaker 1:Um, wells Gun Show is coming up, rifle and Pistol Association that is, let's see, here March 8th and 9th, so that's next weekend, next weekend in Wells. I love gun shows. I love gun shows. Pets and Kids page. We've changed that page up a little bit. We've made it a Pet and Kids page. I have a big old puzzle in there for kids and we have a word spiral. Also the kids maze, maze and Even Exchange. This week I moved a couple of cartoons there because I took them off. I put in two Flash Gordons so I had to move them somewhere. So that's what I did. And then of course, the page eight, comic strip page. It's got Flash Gordon. There's two episodes this week. Public notice page he's got public notices.
Speaker 2:I don't know about you I love reading public notices.
Speaker 1:You know I love reading public notices. I got a picture on the classified page, on page 10 of donkey basketball. By the way, you may not know this, but all the pictures that we put in the paper are in color. Now they come out black and white on the black and white pages, but when you go to the online paper they're all in color. So you know, if you want to see a picture in color, it's on the website, martin Kostar, m-a-r-t-i-n-c-o-s-t-a-r dot com, and then it'll come up. If you're already a subscriber, then just go to enter your, your subscript, your let me see, probably you'll have to do some enter a password and enter a your email address. It'll probably ask you a couple of things, but if you're a subscriber it will recognize you, from what I understand, and if it doesn't, holler at me and we'll straighten it out.
Speaker 1:But anyway, you can also read your paper online. And if you're like me, I like the paper in my hands, but there's some folks who enjoy it more online and especially if you're gone on vacation or if you're a snowbird, all right. And then the church page. Of course I have Chuck with his, the window. I like Chuck. Talked to him the other day on the phone, nice gentleman, and I like his writing. I like his column. And then I added another column by Pam Ford Davis and I use her quite a bit and she's got one for the long haul. A little story. It's kind of short read. Then I also put in there. This week, of course, we always have Bible trivia, but this week we have a Bible puzzle. Then the last page, page 12, we're looking at oh, oh, I'm so glad I went there because I'd forgotten about this story. Oh, I'm so glad I went there because I had forgotten about this story.
Speaker 1:Three Red Bulls advanced to state competition, so congratulations. Let me see Pierce Roman, tori Paplo and Maddox Faber. All three advanced to state competition, so congratulations. That is great. I'm glad I was a wrestler in high school myself. I never advanced to any state competition. I wasn glad I was a wrestler in high school myself. I never advanced any state competition, I wasn't that good, but I understand wrestling and I tell you what you don't mess with a wrestler. Those guys are in tip top condition and they I've always admired my wrestling brothers. You know there's a really good picture here I got to tell you about Lori. Took a picture of Avery Sanders. She looks to pass to a teammate of the game on Monday in Tremont, but she's got her little tongue sticking out and it reminds me of Michael Jordan. He always had his tongue sticking out.
Speaker 2:So anyway, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 1:All right, so let's talk for just another minute about the contest. Remember, decipher the code. Where is this restaurant? What town?
Speaker 1:You don't have to tell me what street it's on, but what town and what's the name of the restaurant and the clue was comes from the homeland, the food comes from the homeland of Jackie Chan, so that should be a big, big help to you. Alright, so that's it, folks. I don't know if you read Aunt Ivy. I won't read it to you, but maybe I will. I like Aunt Ivy. Hold on a second. Okay, Let me get back to page four. Two, three.
Speaker 2:I know I make lots of noise.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to, but to turn pages in a paper. You make noise. Here it is Aunt Ivy. Dear Aunt Ivy, this morning was such a great day. Spring is here. We've made it through winter and spring is finally here. My dear wife pointed out that spring has not yet arrived. There are still three weeks of winter left. However, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, I can smell bacon on the stove and coffee in the pot. It truly was a great first day of spring. But no, it's not the first day of spring. We still have March to go.
Speaker 1:I was so upset that I grabbed my shotgun and I fired till I ran out of shells at the birds. I missed them all, but I do feel better. Signed, my wife thinks I need to start looking for a vacation, dear looking for a vacation. She wrote. First of all, I'm glad you're not feeling worse. You shot at birds for doing what birds do. Have you considered talking to someone? Oh right, you are Me. Hmm, spring is coming just a little longer. Hang on, it's almost over. Your lucky wife is right there with you. Could I suggest that taking a vacation would be a wise decision? How about a pleasant trip to South Florida? It's very warm and you can sit in the sun. Of course you're going to get a terrible sunburn, but hey, remember only three more weeks.
Speaker 1:Spring is almost here Signed Ann Ivey.
Speaker 1:Ann Ivey has a way of saying things that you know you make it sounds better at first than you're going, but then she hits you with that reality. Yeah, when you go to South Florida, you're going to get a terrible sunburn. You know us Minnesotans, we sit up here all winter and we're white as ghosts. We step out in the sun and we burn like crazy. So, anyway, maybe Aunt Ivy is on to something here, all right, so that's it, folks. I will talk to you next week. All right, have a really really good week. Spring is almost here. Okay, it's almost here. All right, adios.
