Okay, well good morning everybody.

Thanks for coming out today to our 26th annual debt of winter.

We started doing this as a food drive, I guess about 10 years or so ago.

And we really appreciate all of the stuff that you guys have brought.

I mean, we're already got it. And not even everybody's here yet, we've already got a pile of stuff.

So I tried to rig one of the tables so it would collapse this year like last year, but they'd made me fix them. So I, said no we can't do that so it was a big mess last year so although last year we destroyed the table so this year we just would have felt but anyway so thank you so much for bringing everything out. The Alton Food

Crisis Center really appreciates it. They're like floored every time they come. And so we're hoping

this year that we can't fit it all in the van that they have to go and come back.

It's only a few blocks away.

But that's our hope.

And we were smart enough to bring boxes this year.

Yay.

So, which usually it just met me and the guy from the food bank on Monday morning

carrying everything out a bag at a time which was really slow going so anyway

those of you who have not been here before welcome for the first time for those of you have been coming every year we're glad to see you

The vendor room is probably figured out is over there to the which is my left, your right.

But through the doorway over there that is open.

Visit the vendor room.

If you're looking for my books, if you go in there and go,

hey, where's your table?

It's upstairs.

We have our bookstore open up on the first floor.

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