 We have more than 600 people here who got off the bus, 5.45. I got on a bus, I came over here to play music for you folks to start off this day. So thank you very much. As I said, we're going to have almost 550 people work around the county this wonderful day. So I'm going to come out a little bit later. It's kind of nice that you have a nice cool atmosphere to work during the morning, get a little warmer this afternoon, get some sunshine on you. And we have to thank you for what you're going to do today. The memory agencies and the organizations that you're going to help today would not have things accomplished if you would not do them. It just would go undone. So thank you for the efforts that you're going to put in. At this point in time, I would like to introduce Holly Green and the Elkhart Lake Choir. They're going to start off the day with our next plan called Bankel. So please stand in the middle of that. And Dan, very nice to be here this morning. I am an ex-school administrator. And if you think about it, they started school a week and a half ago. That means they picked up their instruments and their vocal voices probably a week and a half ago as well. So for them to come out on the second week of school, it was pretty cool. So let's give them a round of applause. And we need to give a shout-out to our staff because it's no small accomplishment to get this all established and get all the different projects and all the different volunteers. So Leanne Riley, if you could sneak out here if you're back there. And Emily, come on out here. Emily's going to have to wait for Leanne because I think she's still going to have to listen to the show. So let's give her a round of applause. We're very honored and proud to give away and invest more money last year than we ever have in the United Witnesses' History this morning. We're certainly going to want to do that again this year because our agencies and you all benefit from what happens with the United Way. Last year we were able to have Todd and Kerry Niles serve as our campaign chairs and one of the pillars of the United Way is financial stability. As some of you know, I'm sure Todd is a banker so certainly the finances come in there. And Kerry works for a Surgento and that certainly talks about stability in the community. This year we took a turn and we wanted to talk about another pillar that we have and that's education. And so we're very, very pleased and honored when we asked Dr. Joe Sheehan and Dr. Jackie Joseph Silverstein, I apologize for that, to come and help us with this campaign. Jackie has got a very, very difficult job. She is the dean of three different colleges. She is the dean of UW-DeVoygan, Washington, and Waukesha County. So she is all over the southern part of the state. And Joe, as many of you know, is the superintendent of the school district, DeVoygan. So without further ado, please have a round of applause for Jackie and Joe. I'm coming in and said, okay, what are we going to start the morning out with? Well, first of all, I had some work that I was going to say and I talked to some of you and you said, inspire us, Joe. Seriously, look to your left, look to your right. You are Sheeboygan. And when we talk about Sheeboygan, yeah, it's a great community. It is, but why? Because of you. Because of people that understand, I have to get back. Because people that understand that my time is important to give. The people that model to our youth, our little kids, stuff to bigger kids, that this is an important thing to do. The most important is your attitude. You know, you're here, I'm sure actually, you don't have to admit it. You get out of bed going, yes, I get to do this here and do that. Thank you. That's what makes Sheeboygan so great. So I hope that's a little bit of an inspiring question because you know we couldn't do any of this stuff. You are the backbone. And lastly, I also hope, you know, when you got up this morning, and tonight when you go to bed and you develop H2B, you're smiling. You know, it's not just great to be back in the community, you're openly in your heart and you're going, hey, I've done such a good job today. And you do. And especially with you. You do it all the time. So we have to go, not just touch it, but go to the whole county, our whole Sheeboygan community. Thanks for what you do. This is really, you are Sheeboygan. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Let me tell you how honored that I was to be able to be co-chair along with Joe Sheehan here. When I look out at all of you, you and by your name, the time and effort that you put in to helping our community. Throughout my career, I've been a participant in the United Way campaign. My organization has asked me to give and I've contributed. But it's only been in the last several years that I've had a chance to truly be behind the scenes in United Way and see all of the wonderful work that our community action volunteers and our other volunteers do on behalf of this community. There are people who spend hours trying to determine which of our organizations we should invest our resources in. The resources that all of us do for this community. They make sure that we are invested in our dollars that we invest in what are being invested wisely to help move the dial in our community. As educators, Joe and I see every day how we can empower individuals by providing them with knowledge and the tools and the support they need to have productive lives and a successful future. The United Way support and progress around education, financial stability and health help to make a difference in the lives of individuals in our community and in the lives of those individuals. I'd like to thank all of you for your participation and I'll give a chance to visit you, some of you today and I'm looking forward to seeing you on site as you're doing your volunteer work. We'd now like to introduce the United Way sponsors. As we call the name of your company, we'd love to have the scene stand up and be recognized. Thanks, Joe. Thank you. And when you call your name, you stand up. What now? BMO Harris. It's your huge stand up. 5.30 in the morning. Welcome. At first, I would like to invite somebody to come out here. Emily, is Emily over there yet? Could I have her come here? I'd like to thank Emily personally last year. You are all aware that the end of the day today we hope we'll see you all at K. Sheboygan at St. Park. We know you all have some food tickets in your gift bag for today. Okay. We don't know that you've got it. Gee, Santa, you told me what I'm getting for Christmas. I would say that there's nobody more committed to anything than Emily has done to aid of this organization and to sharing the message and attitude of everybody in this place. If there's anybody here, I appreciate if you raise your hand that is going to have a baby today because that's what she did last year. She went to have a baby after our baby. And for those of you who have seen her baby, she not only had one, but she had, I think, the cutest little guy in Sheboygan. Don't you think? I'm up to offering her $65 and she still won't let me have one. I've never paid the baby $50 before, but I'm willing to pay. I'll be a rascal out of breath, dear. All right. I'll be here. Thank you Emily for everything you've done. Thank you. Before I get into this introduction of our special guest, I just want to mention I have a family member who just moved to Los Angeles, Fisher Boygan. They wanted to change the life. They've been here now a year, out of their lives. The life has never lived out of Los Angeles. And the first thing she said to me after two weeks was, Sheboygan isn't a real city. It's a Disney movie set. Everybody here is acting and they're all incredibly nice. And I said, no, thanks. We all are here. And then one day we were on the bench and you might relate to this. She was taking a picture like this. And I walked over and I said, can I ask what you were doing? She said, I was just taking a picture of this guy to send all my family in Los Angeles. Think about it. You'll get it. The other thing and this sums it up and this represents all of you. This statement that she said to me. The biggest challenge I've had here is a four way stop. In Los Angeles you go up to one and the other guys all look at you like, go ahead, make my day. Here you get to a four way stop and you look around and everybody's got their hand in the windshield going like this. And then the most interesting thing so you go this far, then they all go too. So traffic isn't as insane as LA but getting through a four way stop before it's down here. Go ahead. And I'm hoping by next year and I'm working on this, I'm hoping I can get every guy a complimentary treatment of what I'm working on in my basement with with the chemist which is Brot Frey for Long. I mean lady, wouldn't you? The guy walks into some place and he's got Brot Frey for Long. He goes, hey. We'll be appearing at every baseball you're going to play. Oh my God. Okay, yeah, thank you, thank you. For those of you who've not been here before we have our incredible incredible champions who represent the companies that some of them that are on your shirt and for all of those who have grown in an international platform from our Cheboygan in my lifetime is just amazing. Our special guest today let's see, we'll take first off coming wearing a wonderful bun, I'm sure it's made in Cheboygan too, but there is nothing finer for breakfast, lunch or dinner than a Johnsonville Brot, that's right. Oh man, what's going on? So you've got to admire anybody who can have one eyebrow with mustard and one ketchup. All right, and then also somebody who makes things happen more than we would ever imagine and the things, we don't even know we drive by the building and go what are they doing in there? From plastic engineering, the chemist, Leo the chemist, come on out Leo and Leo is my technical advisor on Brot Frey for Long and okay, from a company that just dominated the world at what they do and somebody told me that they were in a shower the other day and all they had to say was fall home and their cell phones fall home and they said the shower is hot. Oh my god, I hope I get to have one of those some day. So okay, coming from Polar, Moxie, come on down from Polar Moxie, I'm here, I'm here. Wow Moxie, I'm taking back, if I spun around twice in that seat I'd be laying down. All right Anne, what else do we need if we're going to have Brot and we're going to sit around with a chemist and we've got something to shower in afterwards which is always wonderful. Let's have a little bit of cheese here for the subgenres all of a sudden. Could I have the traveling trophy can you get that out here? Last year, now we've done this for I think it's four years, three years something like that, you guys haven't aged eight at all, you just look great. This is the traveling trophy. This trophy is awarded to the fastest, most agile of these characters behind us here. They're all looking going, what am I doing? Anyway, this trophy last year it says down here, 2016 Sargento Poole. Let's take a look at it. And of course, 2015 which is when the traveling trophy was created, from 2015 what's Machi Francole company. Now, they're going to participate in an Olympic event here which is sanctioned by UACA YLGA E-A-E-L and they're going to also be introduced as Dr. today at 6.30 at pace so be down there because we'll probably do a front passing kick competition. There's no admission to pace but it's worth it to see that kind of passing kick competition. So, then trophy master, would you take these characters where they begin their event and I think they begin back here. Are you going to do a front passing right here I think? They're going to lead you over follow that wonderful young lady there and here we go Emily, this is Emily said, of all the things I do this is one of them. Okay, so here we go we're going to have one race it's sort of a drug match that's why they have pushed the moxie over there next to Sarge Leo's ready Leo's got a new hairstyle here called it earlier and of course, drop man you just said drop man in front of me, I'd win any race in America, would you? Alright, are you what are you? Are you characters ready? Get set, first one through here is going to win this trophy, sorry get set, go Okay, are you guys ready? Let's go Okay, that was a follow up spin I can't believe I was thinking about this one all day. Ladies and gentlemen for the first time ever a drop man drop man congratulations and here we go and that trophy will be available for us all to drive out to Johnsonville Valley to the trophy and they'll welcome you, congratulations congratulations yeah, you dropped talking to me, I can't hear you they talk to me but normally after I eat you but anyhow, thank you all again we'll see you throughout the day and be safe all of you thanks again, we'll see you in another one we'll send you much back to town as I said, we have a great group here today and thank you all for making Cheboygane a better place than Cheboygane County where it is a place where everybody should run on it thank you all I'm going to come up from the Cheboygane excuse me, I was going to come up from the Cheboygane and they have a couple words hi everybody, good morning welcome to Wildwood Park home of the Cheboygane we know United Way is a great community partner and all of you are as well and I know you're going to go out in the community and have a great day supporting Cheboygane and Cheboygane County and the Cheboygane Athletic Club and the Cheboygane Aves are also a great community partner we've been around since 1963 serving baseball for the community and the community as a whole we developed this park back in 1982 we started baseball at the high schools and we used baseball in the community the park is used by both high schools Cheboygane North and South as well as the Allegiant program and there's also a home also on the Rock of the Cheboygane Baseball so if you've never come out to the park and you've never seen an Aves game or a high school game please in 2018 come out it's a great fair experience and we do a lot of things we've got races and games on the field and speaking of brats that's the number one seller out of our concession stand maybe butt lights a little bit better than that we love butt lights so please come out to the park we're in a process of doing a major renovation here and we're always looking at raising money for that effort new lighting, new parking all new concession facilities and wonderful community partners that are helping with that but come on out to the Saturday to help us because we're going to have a broad cry on our needs fields from 9 to 2.30 so you can support Cheboygane Baseball and Cheboygane by coming out the needs fields on Saturday and have one of those great brokers so thank you all for coming have a great day and support the community thank you very much at this time I would just like to recognize our partner agencies our partner agencies are the people that we give money to and invest in the money that you give the money that you support us with that's where the money goes so at this point in time our partner agencies can just give away so everybody can recognize them thank you very much this might be a little difficult but we'd like to get a group photo with everyone in your jackets so we can see all those great yellow shirts and we can slide as far over as we can this way and this way we're going to get a good photo of everyone so if you could help us out with that we would appreciate it I'm looking right at him I can totally do this I'm all here to smile this is going to be a groupie one come on thank you if groupiers can come out on the field here and get yourselves together and then the team leaders and the team leaders can get all their volunteers thank you everyone for volunteering have a great day today