Welcome to from the clerk's office. For those of you who are interested, [music] there is a primary election on Tuesday, September 1st from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 [music] p.m. at the Littleton Middle School, Charles
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37 Shaddock Street. The schedule for the in-person early voting >> [music] >> is as follows. Saturday, August 22nd, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday, >> [music] >> August 24th,
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Thank you. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Good afternoon. My name is Roger Hartley. I'm the chairman of the Littleton Rotary Club's 22nd Appleman Triathlon race that is going to be held
Sunday, July 19th, starting at 8:00 a.m. down at the Long Lake in Littleton. So, this is our largest fundraiser of the year and all of the proceeds of
this event are going to local charities that that we have been involved in. We've been doing this for 22 years, so we think we're getting things right finally and it's a very popular race. We expect
somewhere around 450 entrants to participate in the run, bike, and swim event. Our event is sanctioned by the United States Triathlon Association and
that brings us runners from all around the area who participate in various uh uh point types of contest and the reason why this is so popular is that our timing of this
event is uh pretty exact. Uh we have a a professional timing group, New England Timing, that comes and they time the the runners for each part of the of event and that goes into the USAT TA's
database for all the various competitions. We're we have some kind of unique things about our our our race. We are giving a medal for everyone who finishes. It's kind of a fun medal, so we do that.
And the winners, the prize, no trophies for us, but we give a nice bottle of maple syrup for the the winners on the victory stand. And then every swimmer is required to wear a swim cap, so we have the
our Appleman logo on the the swim caps and they all get that as well. But what makes our event really special is the participation. We we get to to make this a big fundraiser. We are receiving funds for
both the the participants and the sponsors. And today we have our premier sponsor with us, Jake Basnett from Basnett Plumbing and Heating is is here and it's he's they have stepped up in a big way
and they are really participating and so good to have you here Jake. I'm just curious as what really made you come to us? >> Well, you know, we've been we started, you know, family owned in 1987 in Littleton. We've been in
Littleton, you know, since then. Couple different areas, but Littleton's our home and we we love to be part of the community, give back to the community as much as possible. And you know, as of recently, the last, you know, couple years, we've we've joined
the Appleman Triathlon just being a a large community event with hundreds of people and not just from Littleton, too, which is cool. You know, you get people from all over the area. But it was just it was one of those events that we thought was was great to
help out, great to be a part of, and um yeah, that's kind of what brought us brought us to you guys. >> And you have a number of your own personnel participating, right? >> Yeah, yeah, we have about 13 people I think across roughly five teams. Um
so we'll be doing the the duathlon portion, um the run bike run. Um and it'll be kind of fun, kind of cool cuz we'll have a little internal competition between everyone, obviously competing with with everyone else, you know, that's uh that's joining the
the triathlon. So I think it'll be really fun and really engaging and get to see a lot of great people. So. >> That's that's that to us that's really special. That's that's great participation. And and you also because you are our premier sponsor, you get to have that nice colorful truck of yours
down at the beach so that everyone can see it. Tell us about your trucks. That's kind of interesting. >> Oh, yeah. So they've they've developed throughout the years. We've had a couple different logos and renditions of designs and uh we've always had that purple and kind of gold.
Um and a few years back we decided to get our all of our vehicles wrapped completely instead of just, you know, a standard logo with some colors. Um part of our brand recognition, brand awareness, and uh it really it it really pops and it's hard to miss. >> Oh, it certainly is. >> [laughter]
>> Yeah. Uh as our premier sponsor, you will also uh be front and center on all our posters that we have around town. And um all the all the volunteers, all the participants, everybody that takes part in this gets a t-shirt, too. So all the
logos of our sponsors are on the back of the t-shirt. Yeah. And you'll be right up there uh at the top. So that's that's going to be very nice for >> Yes, absolutely. That's awesome. >> Yeah. Well, Jake, thanks very much for uh joining us here today. We look forward to seeing you Sunday, July 19th,
8:00 at Long Beach Long Lake Beach. And we hope that all your participants do well and have fun doing it. >> Oh, absolutely. They're going to have a blast. [music] >> Okay. >> I appreciate it. >> [music]