 And very happy to welcome you here, along with all of our guests, our happy volunteers and our staff and the family organization. The CCTV in Channel 17 is Jess Wilson is here. She just runs Channel 17. You don't always have a chance to see her, but she makes it all work. And we also have Jean Schaber, who is a member of the Channel 17 board from the city of Burlington, along with Sophia, his granddaughter. And as I said, I'm Lauren Glendavidian and this is Stella Rose, Davidian Johnson. So we're going to just spend a little time this evening recognizing our volunteers and talking briefly about some of the things we hope to accomplish in the next year. So thank you so much for joining us and feel free to call if you have any holiday wishes that you would like to extend to the Channel 17 viewing audience. We would love to hear from you. So Jess, why don't we, well first let me just ask Jean a question because he's having the best time with Sophia. Now Jean, you have been on the Channel 17 board for the past couple of years, haven't you? Yeah, actually going on the third day. Is that right? Now, what do you get out of being on the board? Why do you help us? I gain insight to what's happening here and I think it's a great operation. Tell us a little bit about Sophia. How old are you? Sophia is 14 months. She's the daughter of Eric and Gail, son. And she's just all dressed up for the holidays? She's just all dressed up. That's great. Was her first television appearance? She's here for fun. She doesn't know how much she's being paid for this and she finds out. That's right and this is Stella Rose. Okay, thank you so much. Stay right here with us because we like the whole look of the children. I need a child. Anybody have a child? I could borrow. So Jess, why don't we start by recognizing some of the folks that contribute to running the live show on Channel 17, which is run by volunteers and we couldn't do it without them. So I think we're going to start to call people. I just want to say that what you're watching here is live at 525 and this happens every single weekday here on Channel 17 and it would not be possible without our group of volunteers and they are an amazing group of people. And we've got many of them here at our Christmas party tonight and so I'm going to just start calling out names and maybe relying on some folks over there to relay who they are. Mindy Bennett is Mindy here. Come on over Mindy. Thank you to all our volunteers and all their hard work. Come on over. Mindy is a Tuesday night volunteer here at Channel 17. So do you want to give you this? You want to come on over here? Stand up. It's fine. Whatever. And Tuya who's in the booth, the Friday night volunteer, come on out. Come and stay up here Mindy and tell us Mindy a little bit. Tell us, come stand over here. We're sort of short on the mics but it would be, we're not singing yet so it's at the end of the program. It would be really great for you to tell us why you come and volunteer here at Channel 17 and why do you like doing it? I volunteer for Channel 17 because I really love running the camera and I was also wanting to get into that for our career. Great. I was thinking about that and I figured, hey, it's my foot in the door. And what would you tell other folks who might be thinking about volunteering here? I would have to say that this is a great place to volunteer for. Great. Well thanks. Happy holidays. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. Okay, actually another Tuesday night volunteer, Andrea Scott. Hi, Patricia. Andrea, come on over. Great. That's great. Thank you very much for all your work. Nice work. Thanks. Andrea, do you want to, can we just ask you a couple of questions? Yeah, tell us about your experience here at Channel 17 with some of the other places. We're going to give Andrea its her turn. Okay. Thank you. What I like about this place is that the staff is wonderful. Russ is really a great person and Chris, and of course yourself too, because Mindy and I really enjoy getting to know you. And this has been a great experience for me because I've never done anything like this before. And never really gave it a thought that this is what I wanted to do. And it's just been great getting to know everybody here and filming and being a really big part of it. And I'd like to do some more stuff like this in the future. Great, Andrea. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. We appreciate it. Okay. Is it Stella's turn? We're going to give out our next award. We have some people coming out from behind the cameras as soon as, how about Josh? Come on up. Josh, all right. Wednesday night volunteer. One of our friends from Pine Ridge School. Nice job, Joshua. Josh, you might want to give us just a minute about why you like volunteering here or do you like volunteering here? Just hopefully you learn how to use cameras and stuff. Great. So you've been here for almost a year, is that right? Yeah. It's like September maybe. Oh, that's right. Okay. So you came with Shane. Yeah. So it's good. So you like doing it and we're really glad that you're here. Thanks. Thanks a million. Okay. All right, so we'll give Josh a second to step back behind the camera. All right, Shane, come on up. Shane has been here for more than a year and Shane is actually training to be a director on Wednesday night. Is that right? Shane is going to be in charge of the whole shebang on Wednesday night. Shane, can we give Shane a turn with the microphone? Great. Shane, thanks for joining us. What's been the highlight of your being here at Channel 17? I'm just working with great people pretty much. I love coming here. It's so nice to be here. And you're going to be moving from camera up to director pretty soon, right? Well, I'm started a little bit in training, you could say. Good. Well, we'll be looking forward to that. Well, thank you. Thanks a lot. Okay. That's great. Okay, Stella's turned. Great. I think that we don't have any more volunteers here but I just want to recognize the other folks that contribute and they're Ivan Jacobs and Carl Jax, who Carl has been a volunteer on Monday nights here for, I think, six years, a really long time. David Schoolcraft from Wunewski, a Friday night volunteer and also Jerry Trudell from Burlington, who is a Thursday night volunteer. So again, he's also a pilot taking us up in his plane to get some footage of Burlington and some aerial stuff. So a lot of fun people that come to the door here to help us make this live show possible. That's great. We also have Richard Kemp who's going to join us up here. Richard is a longtime board member of CCTV and maybe he can come on up and... What's this? Two city counselors. This is a power spot here, right here on the channel. Come on up. Come stand over here. We're going to look up at you. I can get on my knees. No need to. So Richard, you've been on the CCTV board for years and years and CCTV is the organization that does the work for Channel 17. Tell us what your hopes are for the year coming up 2002. Well, I just hope that we continue to do the kinds of things that we've done in the past and maybe on a larger scale and having more people involved. The job is pretty challenging but I think that the kinds of things that we've had happen over the years, over the past few years have been very good and let's keep it up. Great. Richard, thank you so much. And thanks for your service to the community. We really appreciate it. We could not do it without all our wonderful board and staff and volunteers. And I spy on a volunteer who just walked in over cutting some cake. Carl Dex, come on over. You're not going to get away with that easy. Carl, our longest serving volunteer here at Channel 17. Thank you very much. And I get the pleasure of working with Carl on Monday nights. Carl and I put the show together on Monday nights and it's so great to have you behind the camera because you're a pro. Let's give Carl a turn. Carl, what's been the high point after your many years here at Channel 17? Oh gosh, I don't know. It's an opportunity to meet a lot of people in government that you wouldn't have a chance to meet otherwise. So I think that's it. It's interesting to see people close up that way. Well, we certainly appreciate it. I remember when you came in with your son and you've stayed on and he's moved on to other things. That's right, yeah. Thanks so much. Happy New Year. Okay, so we're going to thank everyone for joining us and tuning in. And I think we can make this a short show. Thanks so. And stay tuned to Channel 17 because we've got big things coming in 2002. And I'd also like to thank the entire staff at CyberSkills Vermont, and the other one at CCTV's Project for all the work that they're doing to advance your knowledge and skills in the Information Age. I think she's singing. Could you sing Twink a Little Star? And then we'll tune off. Sign off. Hello. Oh, Jean has some. You've got it. Very good. Very good. And Jean's going to wrap up for us. Let me thank all these people also that Channel 17 really does a lot for the city in finding and everybody find out what's going on. And it lets all the parties have a little time to talk as well as many, many, many news action items and meetings. Okay, we'll give it back. Okay. So thank you very much. Thank you very much, Jean. And thank you Jess and thanks for watching and Happy New Year 2002. We'll see you later. Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.