 You're 16. You're beautiful in your mind. Thank you so much. Thank you. Once again, we are The Red Miniscents and this year is our 50th year as a rock and roll band. So we're celebrating that. And if you haven't seen this before, we do oldies music. We do some country music. And again, I'm speeding things up here because we're going to go to about five of them. They're running behind right now. But I am going to feature my gentlemen friend to the left. His name is Tom Yates. And he did this song last night for the very first time in a terrific song. And he's doing it right now for a group called the Classics 4. It's called Spooky. A couple of years ago, we were on tour with a group called Mitch Ryder in The Detroit Wheels. Does anybody remember Mitch Ryder? There you go. You remember him? Okay. We're going to take you back with Mitch Ryder and great, great guy. And we're going to do a, it's called Double with the Blue Dress. And yeah, well, hey, there's plenty of room to dance. So help yourself. Here we go. But you're looking at is a pair of Thomas Jolie safety liners, state of the art school buses that rely completely on electricity. The town has had them for roughly a year now, but they've only been connected for about a week. Transportation director Steve Angelo says it aligns with Arlington's goal of eliminating Arlington's greenhouse gas emissions, pollutants that cause climate change. Yeah, these were replacing diesel buses. So the town of Arlington has made a commitment to be fully electric by 2035. This is a step in that direction. So every vehicle that we purchase going forward should be an electric vehicle. Steve Angelo says that the engines in these buses peak at 295 horsepower. The buses have a range of about 130 miles between charges, which of course will handle everyday run of the mill bus routes. It takes about four hours to charge the batteries, and that's if the batteries are completely drained. And as far as emissions are concerned between these two buses, zero. Angelo says he's looking to work with neighboring school districts when the school buses are needed for longer journeys like school field trips. We're trying to now establish some relationships with other districts. So if we do have to go out to Beverly or if we're going to Conk and Collyle, we can plug into their facilities as well. And we'll allow that to happen here. So we're trying to develop some reciprocity. So hopefully as this catches on, we'll have relationships throughout and we'll take these further. They'll be used for further distances. One advantage to these buses is that they are more student friendly in more ways than one. They do the job. They transport the kids. They're quieter. The research shows that we have some autistic children, children that have special needs. These buses are more conducive to their transportation. They don't get wound up. There's no triggers by sound. It's a much quieter ride. Angelo says you can bet that in the future, you will be hearing less of this and seeing more of this. If you want to take a closer look at these buses, at least one will be on display at Jason Street and Mass Ave on Town Day, September the 23rd. Take a look. These are state of the art buses. On Arlington Town's Day, I'm here with Arlington's Friends of the Drama. And who am I speaking with today? Susan Harrington. Susan Harrington. Nice to meet you. Can you tell us a little bit about who you are? Okay, I am a longtime member of Arlington Friends of the Drama. I'm in charge of ushers. I've produced a couple of shows. I'm producing the third show this season. And I've done a number of other things too. I'm a past vice president. Nice, nice. Sounds like a lot of fun. And what is your mission? Theater. You can even come and enjoy themselves to see a show, to be in a show and express themselves. This theater group has been around for 100 years and in that spot for 70 of those 100 years. Wow, that's a long time. And just so people can locate you, where are you guys located? We're located at 22 Academy Street in Arlington. And the one thing that's nice about our facility is, if we have anybody that's in a wheelchair, or if they have mobility issues, we have a lift that can bring you right into the theater. And we also have a restroom facility on that level as well. Oh, that's really helpful so that anybody can have access to what you guys do. And then, do you guys have a website? Oh, yes. It's AFDtheater.org. Okay. And I'm assuming this isn't your first town's day? Oh, no. I've been to a number of them and having been vice president before, I had to be kind of the host of it for three years. So you're used to seeing all these people. Do you ever get nervous with all the people that come to you? I think I do. That's why I produce shows on behind the scenes rather than on the stage. Okay. And are you enjoying town's day today so far? Yes. Even though it's a little cool, I went back to the car and got my coat to put on over my hoodie, but this is great. Okay. Well, thank you for joining us today and thanks for speaking with me. Thank you for visiting us and coming to your show, please. I will. Thank you. Can you tell us who you are, what your organization is, and what's your mission? Yeah. So I'm Dr. John Lindgren. I'm the owner of Arlington Orthodontics. We are located right down the street, right next to Whole Foods. And we basically strain people's teeth, do initial oral health assessment. And we see kids. We see teens. We see adults basically kind of to align the jaws, align the teeth, and to give them a good foundation for oral health. Yeah. So you can go to our website, ArlingtonOrthodontics.com. You can go to our Facebook page, Instagram. And yeah, we also offer free consultations. So if you give us a call, we'll set up an appointment, we'll take some records, and we'll do an exam, and sit down and talk to you guys about what your options are, any fees, and all that good stuff. And it's free. That's very nice. And then what do you love about town day? Oh, town day is the best. I mean, look around, you know, like you get all the businesses out. You get all the people talking and seeing people and learning about what's available in your own town, you know. And for the most part, it's all local, which is great. And so, yeah, it's just a special day, you know. Well, that's basically all the questions we have. Thank you so much. Have a great day. All right. And yeah, all right. That's ACMI. Hi, I'm Frances. I'm reporting for ACMI. Can you tell us who you are and what your organization is? Yeah, I'm Stella, Arlington Ultimate Club. Yeah. And what do you guys do? Like what's your mission? Just like giving more opportunities for people who want to play Ultimate, get into sport. It's a great community. Yeah. Nice. If you know, that's great. Do you know where you're located? AHS, but people from other schools do it too. We have a few people like from private schools or like Minuteman who do it also because it's technically a club. So a lot of people can join. And then how do people find out about you? Is there like a website or? We have a website. We have an Instagram. Usually a town debut. People wearing our merch, which I should be wearing right now. Just a lot of things. All right. And then what do you love about town day? Town day. See so many things that you haven't seen before. You just get to hang out with your friends. Like I'm here with Abby. I'll probably see some of my other friends later. Do sort of whatever you want in the middle of town with a lot of people. Just pass people that you know and wave and it's really fun. Well, thank you so much. That's kind of all the questions we have. Have a good day. It's all for ACMI, guys. My name is Francis. I'm reporting for ACMI. Can you tell us who you are, what your organization is and what your mission is? Sure. My name is Stewardy Kedda. I'm the co-chair of the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture. We're a town-wide umbrella committee that collects all of the public arts activities in town, including Arlington Public Art, the festivals and programs, and the local grant council, which provides funding for artists and for arts organizations. We participate in the public poet laureate committee. We also manage the cultural district here in town. That sounds awesome. I think you just said what your mission is. Can you tell us where you're located? We're a town-wide commission, so we don't have one physical space. We have 13 volunteer commissioners. We have several subcommittees and some liaisons to the town. We do work closely with the Department of Planning and Community Development. So we do have some space in town hall right next to us. Really, the best way is to sign up for artsarlington.org. You can see our logo right here behind us. That is a free town website with a cultural calendar. We do listings of all different cultural assets throughout the town. We have a listing of artists. We have opportunities, funding and exhibition opportunities for artists and arts organizations. We have a town-wide calendar of all the cool arts and culture events that are happening through town. We also have a newsletter, artsarlington newsletter. We encourage everyone to sign up for all of our resources are free for anyone who would like to use them. That sounds awesome. Quick question. Do you do any of the art that's maybe displayed there at your booth? So the commission does sponsor a great deal of public art throughout town. From large or small, we've promoted projects such as the new Remembrance of Climate Futures project in partnership with many of the interns from Arlington High School. That's a public art installation to call attention to the effects of climate change. You'll see throughout town. We've promoted arts projects on the Minuteman bike path. The painted utility boxes you've seen around town are ours. The youth banners that hang here in the spring. So we are beginning artists, student artists, very established internationally exhibited artists that we support here. And we have a live art series. If you've seen some of the busking concerts around town and Broadway Plaza and elsewhere, we support those kinds of programs. So it's a really wide range of programming that we do support. All of it is free and accessible to the public though. It's not ticketed. And lastly, what do you love about town day? The sheer diversity and variety of people who come here get to know about our town. We're really passionate about what we do here, especially in the arts and culture in our town. We really want to show off the great talent that's here in our town. So when visitors come from far and wide and get to know about the talent and the great assets and the restaurants and the businesses and the organizations, the great architecture, the history, that's what's really exciting about town day. Well, that's all the questions I have. Thank you so much. Have a great day. Great. And artsarlington.org. That's all for ACMI. Hi guys. My name is Leonard Poole and I am reporting right now for ACMI. We are here for one of the biggest events I would love to say in history. I am here with a local event right now and I'm super excited and let's see what's going on. Hi. Welcome. And can you tell me a little bit about what's going on today? Yes. I'm Lydia Kenickshire. I'm the commission of the Arbenthe Commission of Arts and Culture. And today is town day. So this is our second annual and plein air painting competition. And so we have artists from all areas to compete to get three prizes. It's the first and second prize, $500 and $250. And it's a $100 gift certificate for the Arlington Volts Prize. So from two to three, all of the artists who are now painting around there will be exhibiting it on the 10th. There will be two jurors selecting the winner for the first and second prize. And there's a little box over there where Arlington is going to vote for their favorite. So I'm very excited because even though it's cloudy, it may rain, and we may have to paddle on the 10th. I'm excited because it is a really, there's no other event here that puts artists in great painting outdoors, which is a wonderful thing to do in the spring, summer and winter. So we do this a second and we'll do it again. So is there anything else that you'd like to know? Yeah, absolutely. So I actually, we have an artist right behind us right now. Super excited about that. Could you tell me, I guess, how do you chose the artist? What is the selection process? How many artists did you say you have today? We have eight artists from a pool of 18 applicants. We want to keep the level of artists very high. So the people selected today are really, really good. They're all professional artists. They're okay. They're there. And so it is important that this has that kind of quality. My job as a commissioner is to promote artists, to really be the artist advocate in the town. So it is important that people come and get to say, oh my, Arlington is a really good artist. So it was something that I conceived about before the pandemic. As obviously it took no longer. Okay. But last year we had a very successful event. We had 12 artists out of the pool of 20 applicants. They're really good too. So this is something that I just really, the commission of arts and culture really, really has made a mark in town. We have murals coming out. We have events. We have live arts programs in the spring. And it's so much going on. We cooperate with other artists. We cooperate with the school and with other institutions. So that's about it. It's something that I hope to continue. Awesome. My last question for you today is, could you tell me what you expect for the future? Any like big plans or events or anything coming up? I hope they will be bigger and better. And so that I will have more sites. I just hope to be something that people in this area in surrounding look forward to. That's my big plan for the future. So it's going to happen again next year. In a crazy circumstances. That's the big plan is that we want the arts commission to really help the public understand the importance of the arts, especially in times that we went through the pandemic. If it wasn't for the arts and press and cooking and all that stuff, people would have really, really languished. And instead, we really still created programs to serve the community. So we didn't just like that, which we met online, like everybody else. Zoom was our meeting space. And we continue to do that. So we have now all kinds of art programs for people to choose from. From kids, we have window painting in our house. And that is such a success for me. We have a festival coming up. I have an art and artisan market and I have exhibits coming up. And I also am opening another exhibit site, which is at a pop cafe, which is one of our business. We do a lot of business schools. So that's really bigger and better, only because the more they are, the happier we are. All right. Well, thank you so much. You guys heard it firsthand, bigger and better. Super excited. And we'll be reporting live on ACMI. See you guys next time. Can you tell us about your organization? Well, I'm Black Walnut Fiber Arts. And I do hand-dying with Indigo and some variety of other modern and natural dyes, both. And on pretty much entirely on various kinds of natural fibers, wool and silk and blends of wool and silk, cotton, rayon and linen. And that's what I've got here. And the designs and the decoration is done with various Shibori techniques where you compress the fabric in just a staggering number of different ways that you can make that compression happen. And compress the fabric in various patterns and then dye it. And when you pull it out and take it all apart and undo the binding, then you have all these various patterns. Like this one, this one's called Horses' Teeth. Because it kind of looks like a dental x-ray, doesn't it? And that one's called Kirameki, which means sparkle in Japanese. And so all these various different patterns are created by different ways of some stitching, sometimes folding and clamping, and sometimes tying knots and binding up with string and tying. This is just an amazing number of different ways of doing it. It's very often associated with Japan, although it's done all over the world. There's a very strong African tradition of doing this kind of compressed resist. Especially with Indigo. And Indigo is a wonderful dye to work with, so I really, really enjoy it. So I'm out here. I'm delighted that it's cool today. I was at a fair a couple of weeks ago, and it was that weekend that was so hot. Oh, really incredible. So this is a great day. I hope everyone is thinking of scarves and wrapping themselves up nice and warm, and they come on by and buy something. That'd be great. So how are you located, and how can people find you? I'm located just about a mile from here on Walnut Street in Arlington, just up the road. So I'm totally local. I have a shop on Etsy, Black Walnut Fiber Arts, all on Word Like They Do. And I have a website, also Black Walnut Fiber Arts, named for a Black Walnut tree that fell over a couple of years ago, which is sort of sad. But I actually do do some dyeing with Walnut hulls. Some of the browns that you see around are done with Walnut hulls. So the Black Walnut does participate. So anyway. So here we are, and it's a cool, great day. It's not raining. I'm delighted. At least so far, knocking on wood and hoping it hasn't really started to rain yet. So got my fingers crossed. Amazing. And lastly, what do you like about Town Day? Oh, it's really, well, it's nice to have a show that's close. You know, I'm not driving all over the place. That's really, that's really fun. And it just really brings the whole town out. And it sounds like when I was, I mean, I kind of can't go check things out very much. I need to be here. But what I was reading about all the things that are planned, it sounds like there's just a lot of fun activities going on and new, some new stuff. And sounds like a lot of fun. So I hope people have a great time. And sometimes it's really hot for Town Day. So I'm really glad that it's, I just hope it doesn't rain. I just hope it doesn't rain. So. Amazing. Thank you. Yeah. Hi, my name is David Atkins. I'm the president of Arlington Children's Theater. We do community theater here in Arlington for kids around the Boston area. Which is 7 to 18. You know, half a dozen shows a year, as well as camps during school vacation. And you know, the mission is to get kids involved in theater, help them grow as people. And yeah, have a great time while, while working on the performing arts. What shows have you guys done recently that we might know about? Yeah. So over the summer we did the SpongeBob musical, which, yeah, which was, you know, Tony Award winning on Broadway. So, yeah, really, it was a really fun show. And this year we're doing 13 the musical. We're doing Peter Pan. And next summer we're doing School of Rock. Oh. Okay, that all sounds really awesome. And then, do you serve anyone specifically? Yeah, so, I mean, we're open to all kids throughout the, yeah, throughout the Boston area. I think our mission is just, yeah, to get as many kids as possible involved in, in drama. All right, awesome. And then where are you guys located and how do people find out about you? Yeah, so you can visit our website, ArlingtonChildrensTheater.org. And that's theater with an RE at the end, the British way. And we rehearse right up the street here in town at the old High Rock Church building. And most of our performances are over in Lexington in the brand-new renovated theater at Minuteman Tactical High School. All right. Well, I was actually about to ask you for your website. Thank you. And then what do you love about Arlington Town Day? I think it's just really great to see all the, the organizations out here and have a chance to talk to other groups. I know about half the people in our organization aren't in the booth right now because they're out, you know, making friends with the rest of the community. And, you know, we, we meet people from other businesses who come over and see us. So it's just really great to get everyone in one place. Yeah. Well, that's about it. Thank you so much. Have a good day. Yeah, you too. Can you tell us about your organization? Sure. I'm with the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. We're right here in the center of town in Whittemore Park. And we are a local art museum full of sculpture and paintings by Cyrus Dallin. Can you tell us a little about who Cyrus Dallin is? Sure. Cyrus Dallin was an Arlington resident in the early 1900s. He was born out west in Utah, but came here to study art as a late teenager and stayed and raised his family here in Arlington. He's a world-famous sculptor and Arlington is lucky to have so many of his works. Amazing. Thank you. And how can people get involved or visit? Sure. We're always looking for volunteer tour guides. You can come for a tour on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 4 every weekend. And there are lots of ways to volunteer. So if you're interested, please be in touch with the museum. Our website is dallin.org. Awesome. And lastly, what do you like about Town Day? Town Day is sort of unique to this area, I think. And I really enjoy it now that I've been in Arlington for a long time, get to see everybody in the community. Lots of great food and art, crafts to buy, learn about other town organizations. So it's just a great day to be out and about. Miss Francis, I'm reporting for ACMI. Can you tell us who you are, what your organization is and what's your mission? Hi, Francis. My name is Elizabeth Nogueira, and this is the second owner. Elizabeth Llanes. And we are owners of Elizabeth's Day Care and Pre-School Center here in Arlington, right next to the high school. We serve nursery, infants, toddlers, pre-school and pre-K. Hola. Nosotros somos una escuela bilingüe en la ciudad de Arlington. Hemos fundado esta escuela en español y muchas lenguas, que hablamos muchas, muchas lenguas. Entonces, 2006 fue el día que fundé mi escuela en la ciudad de Arlington, Massachusetts. Somos más conocidas por el habla hispana y la comunidad a quien Arlington es también un poco hispana. Nosotros damos a los niños muchas inquietudes y ahora se lo va a decir mi hija. And I think you already told us where you located near the high school, right? And then how do people find out about you? So we've been operating as a family day care in East Arlington since 2006. And then we had a waiting list about 27 families on the waiting list in one year. So we surpassed our waiting list, and we ended up expanding right next to the high school. It's very central for most of the parents in Arlington. Crescimos con Family Day Care en el 2006 el número uno. De ahí crecimos en el 2008 con el número dos Family Day Care. Después crecimos con el tercer Family Day Care en el 2009 y seguimos expandiendo. Ahora en el 2018 abrimos nuestra primer location en Arlington, Elizabeth Day Care Center, la nueva escuela grande, que es bilingüe aquí en la ciudad de Arlington. También estamos expandiendo uno en la ciudad de Cambridge, en español, bilingüe. So en todo tenemos tres locaciones. Dos en Arlington y una en Cambridge. También tenemos los Families Day Care, que son la cadena y los fundadores. Yes, I forgot to add we are currently expanded in Cambridge by Huron. So we're also going to be local in Arlington and in Cambridge. All right. And then last question, what do you guys love about Town Day? What do we love about Town Day? All the families here in Arlington that we currently serve. We serve about a hundred and sixteen families currently. And so most of our families are from Arlington and I would say maybe fifteen percent come from Cambridge or Somerville. Bueno el Town Day es más que todo la fiesta de la ciudad de Arlington. Nosotros como fundadoras de Elizabeth Day Care lo agradecemos la ciudad de Arlington por darnos esta oportunidad después de ellos conocernos que la ciudad de Arlington tiene una escuela hispana aquí en este town. Entonces estoy muy emocionada porque esta ciudad nos abrió las puertas, nos dio la oportunidad y lo queremos mucho. Tenemos viviendo ya veinticinco años en la ciudad de Arlington. Well that's all. Thank you so much for your time. Have a good day. Hi everybody. My name is Karen and I'm here at ACMI with the Arlington Fire Station. And can you tell us who you are? Firefighter Brian Carr. Okay. And what is your organization? Arlington Fire Department. As you can see with the nice red truck here. What is your mission? Just to spread the word to the community of what we do. You know good PR that the kids out here touch the truck, explain to them sort of what we do for the community and show them different gear and let them get on the truck. Yeah, they seem to enjoy it. Is this your first towns day? This is my first town day, yeah. Like you specifically or the department? The department's done this for several years. If you've seen the background too, they have the smoke van back there. The kids can get the simulation of what it's like to be in a smoke-filled environment and what to do and how to get out. Yeah, I think it's like something that everybody should know but not everybody does know. So how can we find you? Do you guys have like a website? We do. You can get it. There's a link on the town's website. We have a social media feed as well. I'm on the spot here. I don't know what it is exactly. No problem. We can find it. There's some information on that for you. Oh, great. It was nice meeting you and thank you for your assistance. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Can you tell us about your organization? Sure. This is the Friends of the Robbins Library and we support the library through fundraisers and activities and programs that we do all year long. Where are you guys located, just in the Robbins Library? Yes, yes. We actually support both the Robbins and the Fox Library but we are a volunteer board, volunteer group of members, lots of members that support the library. Awesome. How can people get involved or find out more? Absolutely. We have a website. Just go Friends of the Robbins Library, Google it, or whatever you happen to use and you'll find our website and there's a, you know, become a member right on there. You can also look at the Robbins Library website and find their friends link there. Amazing. And what do you like about Arlington Town Day? Oh, I love Town Day. The problem is this year, it's all indoors, but it's a lot of fun. It's great for us. We do the book sale annually so we always have a book sale on Town Day and people are very familiar with it. They know that it's going to happen and we get lots of books that are donated for it. So that's what we like especially about Town Day. Hi, welcome everyone. My name is Karen and I'm reporting here at ACMI with Arlington Towns Day. And we're here with, what's your organization? We're here with the independent publishers of New England. Oh, great. And how long have you been doing Towns Day? Your organization? Well, I've been doing it. This is my first year, but Ipni has been coming to Arlington Town Day for how long have we been doing this? Ten years. Ten years. Wow. That's a long time. So what's your mission? Our mission is to engage with the people of Arlington and to tell them about our organization and, honestly, to sell books. That sounds great. How can people... Find out about you. We do have a website, ipne.org. You can go there and find out all about the things that we do, the events that we host, and the different things that are available to both authors and independent publishers. And so I've been told that this is your first Towns Day. Is there anything that you've loved so far about Towns Day? Well, I like that we're kind of in the middle of the street here and they've just kind of blocked off the whole street so people can just walk up and down. This is the first time that I've seen something like this, but it seems to definitely promote a lot of traffic. And, of course, I like being in Arlington, being a different town than I'm normally used to, and it helps everybody's reach here. Arlington seems to go quiet down, especially at night. So it's like during the day, it's really busy, so it's nice to see it come alive. Yeah, I like that everybody's come out, even though it's a cloudy overcast day, and I especially like that we're right in front of the sushi place. Free sushi. Well, thank you for joining us. Thank you. My name is Brenda. I am the Chief Operating Officer for Nursing on Demand. I'm Rula. I'm a nurse, and I'm the CEO of the company. We're based at Belmont. We serve as Belmont Surrounded Communities. We provide in-home chaos services, whether it be live-ins for home health aides, CNAs, and nurses. We also have some nurse practitioners on our staff as well. And we are here to help out the community in anything they need, whether somebody needs medication or check-in on their parents or they just got finished up with surgery. We had a help in any way that we can to make their time of need most comfortable. They can visit us on our website at nursing-on-demand.com. Our phone number is also 617-249-5305. We do answer the phone 24-7. So should there ever be an immediate need, we'd be able to provide that assistance. Lay Arlington does their town day is unbelievable. We did Belmont town day last week. And this is about 10 times bigger and better. It's just so many neighbors and just seeing faces and people I haven't seen in a while. So we both grew up in Belmont, but I live in Arlington now since 1995. And it's just nice seeing kids that my kids grew up with and other businesses, et cetera. Hey, this is Karen from ACMI. And on town day in Arlington and this wonderful weather we're having. Can you tell us who you are and what organization you are with? I'm Durham Whitaker. I'm the president of the Schwann Mill Preservation Trust, which most people know as the old Schwann Mill. Great. And what is your mission? Well, the mission is to keep the mill building in good shape and to keep the machinery operating so that we can make oval picture frames. The same item that the Schwanns made by the thousands in the 19th century when they were a small employer in Arlington and the other Schwann mills in town employed up to hundreds of people. Wow. So is this your first town's day? No, we've been coming to this for decades now. Oh, wow. Okay. And what do you love about town's day? Well, we love town day because obviously a lot of people who've never heard of the mill or who've heard of it but never been there have a chance to get a little bit better idea of what it is and hopefully come visit us. And of course we take time during the day to walk up and down the street and see the other organizations too. It's good exercise. Thank you for having us. Okay. Yeah, you're welcome. Can you tell us about your organization? Sure. So I'm Maggie Fertac and I run paint ceramics out of Maldon Mass and I do hand-thru and pottery and I've also brought some cards today. Awesome. And how do people find out about you? What's your website or social media? I've got a very sad looking little website but people are welcome to look at it. It's paint ceramics.blogspot.com. Awesome. And can you tell us about some of the techniques used in these pieces? Sure. So this is all stoneware pottery. It's a very solid, very user-friendly kind of pottery. So earthenware is very low temperature but it tends to chip easily. Porcelain is a very high temperature firing but that means your energy costs are a lot higher and so this sits right in the middle so it's a little more environmentally friendly. You can still get a lot of really nice bright colors and then it's very user-friendly. It goes in the dishwasher, it goes in the oven. It's very easy to work with. And I mix all the glazes from scratch from natural ingredients. So this for example is a Timoku glaze. These glazes are thousands of years old but this is my own personal version of the recipe. So it's an iron-based glaze. It's iron oxide is what gives you the brown color so basically just rust. Yeah, that's so cool. And what do you like about Town Day? Alex, you're not from Arlington maybe, but... I love Town Day. This is always an absolutely wonderful event and I love all the fair food and all the fun people watching, petting all the dogs and getting to see all the other artists around. Awesome, thank you so much. Thank you. Hi, my name is Leonard Cooler. I'm reporting for ACMI. I'm here with Mike the Boss, office manager for Regent Theatre. Could you tell me a little bit about your organization? What's your mission? What are you guys' whole purpose? Well, all our whole purpose is to entertain. That's what we're here for. We've been here since 1916. Now that's a pretty old theater and like I was telling you before the interview, you can tell we're old because we have the British spelling of theater, R-E-NOT-E-R. So you can visit www.regenttheatre.com. We've got a whole list of shows coming up from the fall and the winter. Really excited. We have movies. We have live entertainment. We have magicians. We have mentalists. Practitioners of the dark arts. No, I'm not doing many of those. But we've got the acro cats, right? We have dog shows. We have pony shows. We have everything. So we're just here, really in the heart of our community and we're excited to be part of our community and to be here to entertain. Awesome. Could you tell me a little bit about I guess your most memorable event maybe you guys put on, maybe a guest you guys invited. What was your favorite memory? Well, I think my favorite memory recently is a series of shows that we've been doing with another local artist, Debo-Rae. We're in the second of four shows of her residency. She did a classic rock showcase last night and coming in October, at the end of October. She's going to do a Halloween and some spooky spectacular. There's going to be costumes. There's going to be great. So we're really looking forward to Debo-Rae in October. Awesome. Well, thank you so much. If you guys get a chance, come feel free to check out The Region of Peter. And I'll see you guys next time. Can you tell us about your organization? Yeah, sure. So I'm Anna Lytton. I'm the director of the Robbins Library. Robbins Library serves the community of Arlington through three locations. Robbins Library here in Arlington Center, the Fox Branch Library in East Arlington and our 24-7 location, robbinslibrary.org. What do you love about Arlington Town Day? I love the opportunity to meet people and to hear people, so many people come up to us and tell us why they love our libraries. And I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. There is nothing more exciting than talking to library lovers. Amazing. Thank you so much. Have a great Town Day. Thank you. Thank you. So hi. My name is Frances. I'm reporting for ACMI. Can you tell us who you are, what your organization is, and what is your mission? Sure. My name's Beth Saltsberg, and I'm a volunteer at the Arlington-Tayosinte sister city project. And Arlington and the village of Tayosinte El Salvador have been sister cities since 1988. It's been a while. It's been over 35 years. And we're here selling crafts from Tayosinte and neighbor villages. All the proceeds go back to the villages and just letting people know about our amazing sister city. All right. Well, that sounds awesome. Can you say where you're located? Where Tayosinte is located? Yeah, so we're all volunteer runs. So we don't actually have a physical location for our organization. But we do have a website, ArlingtonTayosinte.org. And we love for people to look us up and get in contact. We have plenty of volunteer opportunities. And Tayosinte itself is a rural, beautiful village near the border of Honduras in El Salvador, Central America. So I think you just said how do people find out about you through your website? That or you can email us at ArlingtonTayosinte at gmail.com. And Tayosinte is T-E-O-S-I-N-T-E. And that word actually means an ancestor of corn. Oh, that's cool. And then what do you love about Town Day? Town Day is just a great chance for us to connect with people in town. It's really fun. And we want to remind people that we have this amazing person-to-person connection with the village of Tayosinte. Well, that's about all the questions we have. It's a pretty short interview. But thank you so much. Have a good day. Thank you. All right. That's all for ACMI. All right. I'm reporting for ACMI. Can you tell us who you are and what your organization is? Sure. I'm Rebecca Whitcomb and I am from the Thompson Schools Parent Teacher Organization. Can you say what your mission is? It is starting to rain, yes. We try to support all of the teachers and the students at Thompson School and raise money to help the students go on field trips and do enrichment and just allow all of the students to have a great education. And then where are you located and how do people find out about you? We are at the Thompson School in East Arlington. And we have a website. I think it's ThompsonPTO.org, but I'm not entirely sure. But today at Town Day, we are selling the Arlington Community Card where you can get discounts at local businesses. And so that costs $10. You get discounts all year round at a bunch of local businesses. Oh, that sounds awesome. And then what do you love about Town Day? I just love the energy. I love seeing lots of friends and lots of meeting lots of new people. Well, that's all we have. Also, the rain is kind of stressing us out. So thank you. Have a good day. Thank you. That's all for ACMI. Can you tell us about your store? I'd love to. I have an eco shop. It's in East Arlington. And the same block is the Capitol Movie Theater in Colorado Bakery. Everything at the store is designed to help reduce plastic packaging, single-use plastics. We have a bulk refill station where you can fill things like shampoo, dish soap, laundry detergent. You can just bring in your own container and keep refilling the same one. And we also have a variety of products that will help reduce single-use plastics or single-use items with reusable versions. This is just a little sampling of what we have. So there's a lot more at the store. Amazing. Thank you so much. And do you guys have a website or social media? Yeah. It's yesplasticfree.com. It's the website. And we're also on Instagram. But yeah, the website will send you to all of the information you need. Thank you so much. That's great. And could we ask what you like about Arlington Tunday? I love being able to show people what we're up to. Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much. Have a great Tunday.