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It's the akron podcast for November 3rd.

Hallelujah.

It's voting day.

The commercials are finally over.

Well, I'm sure they'll be over on November 4th or whatever, but holy cow, what a bunch of horse pucky.

As my grandmother used to say.

I always love this clip in this episode from South Park.

Stan, you came back.

Does that mean you learn the importance of voting?

I learned that I better get used to having to pick between a douche and a turd sandwich, because it's usually the choice I'll have.

He's going to vote.

It is important that you vote.

It is sad that it's always, well, do you want worse or worser?

I did see a interview with not Dr. Amy, but Vivek, Mama, Swami, whatever that guy's name is, and he was on Jillian Michaels, and I was not.

I thought his ad with Amy's mom was tacky.

I thought it was below the line.

But I'm not really a fan of Dr. Amy.

And his excuse for why he did it, and I'm not making this up, was like, well, they did it first.

And I was like, what are we, three?

And sure enough, they had proof there that Dr. Amy.

It wasn't a video, but it was an art.

I was just like, why is it giant turd versus.

Oh, it drives me nuts.

But the good news is, you know, tomorrow the ads will be gone.

So let's start off with, well, here's some good news.

This will get you in the mood.

Something to look forward to.

Lock three.

Of course, every year does Winter Blast.

And this is where, you know, they bring out all.

You got Santa coming.

You've got the giant snowman Archie, which, you know, the blinking red eyes, because that's not scary at all for small children.

And of course, the ice rink is going to open up and all sorts of stuff is coming to downtown Akron really does, which is always weird.

Like, granted, we do a lot of cool stuff in the summer, but we don't let winter slow us down.

It's like, who cares if it's freezing outside?

But it kicks off the 27th.

Ice skating again, holiday shopping.

All sorts of stuff will be going on.

And you can check out the schedule.

It's going to be closed on Monday and Tuesdays.

Wednesdays and Thursdays will be 3 to 9.

And then Friday and Saturday when you're ready to party on the weekend with some skating and some.

Some bumper cars on ice, that'll be 11am to 11pm and then Sunday 11 to 6pm and you can check out I'll put a link in the show notes for more information.

But that is something that on one hand, you know, we used to complain like, hey, we, we didn't do Thanksgiving yet.

Why are we getting out?

Look, the commercials on TV are all they were showing Christmas commercials before Halloween was over.

Holy cow.

So I guess we're just all going to just like, all right, we're thankful that Christmas is coming.

How's that?

And I've added this to the calendar.

They did this last year.

Look, we know this is basically a giant commercial for Wayside Furniture, but what they're doing is they are paying for tickets.

They've basically probably just rented the the Civic.

And what they're doing is you can see there are two free movies that you can take anybody to and it's some classics.

You've got Elf and the Holiday Express.

And so what you do is you fill out a form.

You can go again, links in the show notes.

Elf will be playing at 2pm and then the Polar Express will be at 6pm this is December 19, so plan ahead.

And you have to fill out a form, which I'm sure is going to get you on the mailing list of Wayside.

But it's a free movie and you can actually go to both of them if you wanted to.

And for me, anytime you do anything at the Civic, that's always a bonus because that's an amazing place.

If you use the Akron Canton Airport, there's some new things going on there.

It's already started a new aircraft apron and a hangar.

Now, the new hangar will be on the west side of the airport in Green in Summit County.

And the project is expected to cost 6.7 million and could, and this is the good part, could create as many as 50 jobs and provide additional hangar space for aviation companies.

The hangar also will save space for educational programs.

So the groundbreaking has already happened.

It's an investment in the future of Akron Canton Airport and Northeast Ohio, said Ram.

I'm sorry.

Ren Camacho, who is the president of the Akron Canton Airport and the CEO, he says by building the infrastructure aviation business need, we can open the door to new private investment, good jobs and educational opportunities.

We're grateful to our public and private partners for helping make this project possible.

The project will be funded by various sources and they include $250,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation for $415,000 from the city of Green in Aqua, Ohio.

I guess It's a waterline extension.

800.

This is a weird one.

$867,364.56 From the Timken foundation, the educational facility.

$2 Million from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as an environmental and hanger says, and then 3.2 million from the state of Ohio.

One time strateg fun things happening out at the airport.

If you live in Kent or if you're dry driving through it, you might want to know that if you have things in place to feed deer, geese, ducks, raccoons, skunks, rodents.

Foul.

I guess they just mean birds, chipmunks, squirrels, feral cats or other wild animals, it could result in a minor disease misdemeanor citation which carries a penalty of 150 bucks.

Long story short, there are too many deer in Kent.

And residents came out on October 7th to a city council meeting to say, like, we gotta do something.

And so that's what they did.

They basically, they've come through.

I guess if you live in Kent and you had a garden, forget about it because the deer come through.

And the problem is they used to be afraid of humans and now everybody is feeding them.

And so consequently they're just walking right up to you.

And in a nutshell, they said Portage county harvested.

That means killed, by the way, 3,498 deer.

That's 19% greater than the 2,939 average in the 2025, 2026 season.

And so basically deer is up.

They're trying to kind of help out in that area, but it's not helping when you're feeding them.

So you might get a fine if you're caught feeding the deer.

The Beacon Journal did something kind of interesting.

I guess they've done this.

They call it Market Basket.

And they go around and they shop at Acme, Giant Eagle, Walmart and Aldi.

And the answer is, as always, I remember when I was growing up, my mom would, first of all, she had coupons because we grew up not the most richest people in the world.

And then she would plan the route.

She'd go over to Fazio's and then Sparkle Market, trying to think of any other grocery stores that don't exist anymore and hit all these places now today with gas prices, I'm not sure that makes much sense.

But for example, a they were looking for like a family pack of hamburger.

And the cheapest for that was Aldi at 529 with Walmart coming in second and then Giant Eagle at 699.

Acme didn't have any, But I think we all know when it comes to prices,.