Show: On The Town Station: KNCO File: 10:2.mp3 Air date: 2026-10-02 Source: OpenAI whisper-1 · shrunk from 30.6 MB to 6.1 MB --- transcript --- 1133, 82 degrees, and Tom Fitzsimmons is On The Town at Grass Valley Brewing. Good morning, Tom. Well, good morning, Melia. Downtown Grass Valley is where you'll find the Grass Valley Brewing Company. It is a great place to be, and of course, this is a huge weekend for beer fans and beer lovers all over the place because Brewfest is happening this weekend. Of course, one of the marquee businesses there, Grass Valley Brewing Company. Jenny, how are you? I'm doing well, Tom. How are you? I'm doing fine. It's great seeing you. Last time you were here, Megan was actually standing up and walking on countertops and stuff when you weren't here. Did you hear about that? I did hear about that. She does that on occasion. It's okay. We accept it. People actually called up the radio station and said, what time does she do that? So I don't know if it's on demand or what. It's usually when we're closed. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Brewfest is this weekend. How does it work to be down at the Brewfest and also be in here? Well, it works pretty well because we're the title sponsors of the Brewfest. And so what we do is we give everybody samples of our beer and let them know that the after party is here. So from 5 to 8, we have live music. We have drink specials, food specials. And what we really like to do is capture the audience that goes, yes, they go up there and they participate in the Brewfest, but usually people want some sort of dinner or something afterwards. And we like to capture that audience. And this is our third year of being the title sponsors. And we really enjoy it. It's a great event. It helps all the local businesses downtown. And it's really fun to be a part of. And it seems like the breweries all support each other, you know, the way it is, too. Yeah. You know, we're very fortunate in this county that all of the breweries very much support each other. We all buy each other's beer. You know, sometimes we even have to lend each other brewing products. But, you know, it's a very fun community to be a part of what we like to refer to it as the brew-munity. It's pretty impressive. I see a whole bunch of ribbons over there where the swag used to be. There's a whole bunch of ribbons up there. Yeah. David, our brewer, has been bringing home some pretty great ribbons. He brought home two bronze this year. And so, yeah, we're very fortunate. He's been winning some awards. We just reentered some beers into the GABF. And so we will see what happens there. But one thing I would like to mention is starting next week, we are open seven days a week for lunch. I know. That kind of came up last week. So it's next week that it starts? Yeah. Monday it starts. We will be opening at 1130 every single day. We'll be open all day long. Our kitchen will be closing at 8 o'clock Sunday through Friday. I'm sorry, Sunday through Thursday. And then Friday, Saturday, our kitchen will be open until 9. You know what? I think people are going to eat it up over here for lunch. I mean, no kidding. People are waiting for a different place to have lunch. This is a great idea. You know, we decided to finally open up for lunch because we sit in here and have meetings usually every Wednesday and Thursday. And the amount of people that have walked by wanting to come in and have a lunch with us. We're like, we should just open for lunch. So excited to see what that holds in store for us. There's not a lot of lunch options in downtown Grass Valley these days. So we're excited to offer that to the community. And it's a great place to be. The atmosphere is just kind of fun in here. You know, we like to keep it light and fun in here. Whether Megan's walking on countertops or not. Whether she's on countertops or not, it's still fun in here. All right. So what happens at your meetings when you have meetings? I didn't even know you guys had that many meetings here. Oh, you know, mostly just, you know, brainstorming ideas. You know, what beers we're going to brew next, what events we're going to promote next. You know, all the fun stuff that goes behind managing a business. Do people come to you, too, and ask you to brew certain beers or put certain labels on cans or things like that? Yeah. So we actually just did a collaboration beer with the Pizza Joint in downtown Nevada City. It's called Joint Effort, and it is a honey blonde ale that we did in conjunction with them and Golden West Bees, which is a local honey company. So, yeah, it's kind of a collaboration of Nevada County's finest. And we love doing that. Earlier this year, we did a collaboration beer with Jernigan's. Yeah, we enjoy working with people in the community who, you know, want a specific beer that they'd like for their restaurant or for themselves or, you know, just for an event or for fun. I heard the Joint thing. I thought it was Grass Valley Provisions, maybe, but not that. Oh, no. They haven't approached us yet, but, you know, we wouldn't mind doing something with them. All right. And what beers are going to be at the brew fest, do you know? At the brew fest, we're probably going to have our Grateful Haze, which is our, you know, our signature beer. It's the one that started the company. And our fest beer, which was, we brewed in honor of Oktoberfest. We had our Oktoberfest celebration last weekend, and it is a light German lager. All right. Anything that's your favorite right now that's up there? Oh, my favorite is always the Irish Getaway. It's the Irish red ale. It's always been my favorite. It always will be my favorite. But we did just put on draft a Czech Pilsner that's poured on a side pole, which makes it very rich and creamy. Very nice. Okay. And as I got the extension cord, I looked out in the, I call it the garage area out there. There were two tables that had names on it. So was that for people reserving tables for parties and stuff? Oh, yeah. We love doing table reservations, party reservations, events. You know, it's a great space to gather. We keep it really light. We can do anything from a sit down buffet to people just ordering off the menu and having the space set aside for them to gather. Very good. Well, Jenny, I'm excited about lunch starting next week. So congrats on that. Thank you. We're excited about it, too. Can't wait to see what happens. Check out Grass Valley Brewing Company anytime, but certainly during the brew fest this weekend. We're going to take a quick time out, check in on Wall Street, then we're talking Nevada City Rotary Club when we come back. 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Yes, I will probably wear that, but I might save it for the World Series, but we shall see. Okay. While we're anticipating what might happen with tomorrow's game, what's going on with Wall Street? We've got solid gains across the board that we've had since this morning. We've given back a little bit, but still very positive. We've got the Dow up 219 points to 51,146. S&P 500's up about 52 points to 7718. And the NASDAQ's up 291 points, it's a little over 1%, to 27,162. Taking a look at commodities, we've got oil down $1.66 to $91.21 a barrel. Gold's also down about $34 to $4,168 an ounce, with silver giving out 52 cents right now at $60.66 an ounce. And the 10-year Treasury, currently that yields at 5.28%. So, bonds are down quite a bit from yesterday. All right, and we'll get an update from you on the entire week following the 5.30 newscast this afternoon. 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Have you always been a Rotarian, or just since you've been here? No, I feel like I'm still a bit of a fetus in the world of Rotary. I've only been in it for about three years, and I joined when I had capacity for more in my life once my daughters were graduated from high school. So I've only been in for three years, and they decided that I would be a good president. So we're going to see how that goes. All right, so I'm kind of curious, because there's a lot of places you could have joined. Why did you decide on Rotary? Well, my dad is a lifelong Rotarian, and so I've heard about it. I've known about the organization for years, and when I decided that I had time on my hands, and I wanted to be of service to our community, Rotary was the first organization that I thought about. When does your club meet? Because we just sat on, I was telling you off the air, the breakfast club, and of course they just had their duck race. So when do you guys meet, and where? We alternate our meetings. We do every other week is a lunch meeting and then a dinner meeting, and I really enjoy the flexibility of that schedule. It's why I chose the Nevada City Rotary Club. Because we have a lot of working professionals in our club who can't always get out of the office and make it to the lunch meetings, and so our lunch meetings are currently at Bodie Hive off Providence Mine in Nevada City, and our evening meetings are at Round Table in Brunswick. How's that Bodie Hive? You know what? I have not checked out Bodie Hive. If it's not on my bailiwick, I kind of go by it and don't think about it. No, it's been a fine location for us. It's kind of a black hole of cell phone reception service, but it has the space that we need for our club. So it's been a great meeting there. No one can get a hold of you on the phone too when you're having a meeting. You have to be safe for that. Now you have, of course, October's here. You have a special event coming up that's almost like October themed. It is. So we have Pumpkin's Palooza coming up on October 15th at the Miner's Foundry in Nevada City, and this is the second year that we're doing this, but we've expanded the programming a little bit. We are going to have a silent auction, a live auction. We are going to do a paddle raise for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, but really the big draw for this event has been a restaurant raffle that we're doing, and as of right now, we have $1,800 in gift cards to local Nevada County restaurants that we are going to be giving away in a raffle. So we're only selling 100 tickets. We will sell out of them, so each ticket is $100. The first drawing that we're doing is for 10 gift certificates, so you could walk away with $1,000 in gift cards to local restaurants. Then we're doing two more drawings of at least $400 apiece, so the raffle is the big ticket item for the evening. Wow, that's thinking out of the box. That's pretty cool. Any problem getting restaurants or they're anxious to help out Rotary? You know, we have had amazing success reaching out to our local restaurants. We have such a generous community, and it has been an easy ask, and one of the reasons for that is because one of our major programs that our club started and is actively engaged in is Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, and so when we mentioned that this fundraiser is in support of our community programs, our youth programs, as well as the Imagination Library, it's been very easy for people to want to say yes. So our community has been very generous. We may even get some more gift certificates in by the time we do, so we could have a drawing of 10 and then 5 and 5. I like the symmetry of those numbers, so that's what I'm hoping for. How exciting. All right, so how do they get tickets? Do we look for you? Do we look for other Rotarians, or how? So you can buy tickets from any member of the Nevada City Rotary Club. You can go to our website, and you can send an email to our information email that we have on there. You can get a hold of me at any time. So the only way you can purchase tickets is directly from members themselves. All right. It just goes into then a bin, and then somebody's going to be pulling these things out? That's going to be pretty exciting to kind of watch. It is going to be exciting. That's going to be the last event of the evening, and so we will literally be drawing ticket stubs out of a hat, and like I said, there will be three drawings. We're only selling 100 tickets, so the odds are pretty good. All right. Part of the thing is there's been so many traditional things. We were talking off the air how crazy fun the duck race is, and it has become just this life onto itself. But thinking out of the box, coming up with new things, this is a very exciting thing. It's like one of the better things I've heard Rotary Clubs doing. Well, it was a new event for us last year, and so there's always some tangles with a new event. You never quite know how it's going to go over. But it was successful last year, and we wanted to do it again this year. And we have an amazing group of talented painters and artists who are decorating pumpkins. And as of right now, any time you walk around in Nevada City, you're going to see some of those decorated pumpkins in the storefront windows, and those pumpkins will be available either in the silent auction or the live auction. So if you're doing some fall decorating and you want pumpkins that aren't just a standard pumpkin, come to the event. Check out what we have. Check out what we have. We're going to have so many amazing pumpkins and other items in the silent auction as well. So we're going to have a variety of things to offer. All right. Well, you mentioned, I think, the term paddle race. Yes. And so I thought of paddle boat, but I'm sure it's not a paddle boat thing. So what's the paddle race about? So a paddle raise is a fundraising mechanism purely to raise funds for a specific purpose. And our specific purpose for the paddle raise is to ensure that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library here in Nevada County continues on so that we can continue to be a part of her legacy. It was terribly sad, the news that we lost her, but the way that our community, the way that we can honor her, is by ensuring that her mission of philanthropy and giving and dedication to literacy and children continues. And so our paddle raise is a specifically focused fundraising event just for that program. So is it literally like raising your paddle, like auction paddles and type of thing? Yes. So everyone who comes in will be assigned a bidder number, and then we'll have various levels of giving all the way down to $15.50, which is the cost for one child to get free books every month for a year. And so there will be a level of giving that feels comfortable to everyone in the room during the paddle race. And everybody can get involved. Yeah, I love that idea. All right, so where's the event happening and when? The event is happening on October 15th at the Miner's Foundry. It starts at 530 and it wraps up at 8. The foundry will be running the bar. It's $10 to get in the door, but that also includes food. We're going to feed you. The Nevada City Police Department is partnering with us. They're going to come down and barbecue some hot dogs for us. Is Chief Foss doing the barbecuing game now? Either Chief Foss or Lieutenant Mason will be doing the barbecuing, but they should both be there. So yeah, $10 to get in the door, and you'll get a hot dog and some chips, and there's going to be candy everywhere. We're going to have a face painter there for the kids and adults. I will probably get my own face painted. We're also going to have a table set up for kids to paint their own pumpkins. So it's a family-friendly event, no matter the age range. Sounds like a fun event. You see, I was thinking it was going to be a pumpkin race thing, because you guys are always doing crazy things in Nevada City and stuff. But no, this is kind of like a combination high class and very exciting drawings and stuff. So it's very cool. It is. It's going to be a great event. We've had some great publicity surrounding it. We sent out press releases. We're all over social. So we're expecting good attendance, and we know the raffle tickets are going to sell out. So if you haven't purchased one, get a hold of a Nevada City Rotarian, and we'll make sure that we have your name down for a raffle ticket. October 15th is less than two weeks away now, right? It's a Thursday night? It is. We are coming down to the wire. So we have artists who are still diligently painting pumpkins. I am one of them. 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It's really about personal outreach and reaching out to members of our community, whether they are personal friends or professional contacts, to help spread the good word about who Rotary is and what we do and why it's important to get involved. We have members in this community who have been Rotarians for 50 years. And it's amazing. And also there comes a point when a new generation steps up and says, you know what, we're going to take this and we're going to run with it. And so engaging new membership I know is important for every Rotary Club in western Nevada County. We have five of them. So Rotary is a wonderful international organization. And we're always looking for new members who want to give back to their community in some way. All right. Now if there's somebody listening out there, I was thinking about Rotary. Why is the Rotary Club of Nevada City the best place for them to join? We are the best place to join because, number one, we love to have fun. I think as adults we don't engage in play often enough. And so we love to have fun. As president, I try to keep things lighthearted and joking. We have amazing programs that we run. We are involved with the Girls Who Code program at Seven Hills, which is a STEM program, getting women, young ladies, involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We also partner with the Nevada City Police Department with Summer Nights, with National Night Out, and Victorian Christmas. Yeah, and we're very focused on youth. We have scholarships that we give out. We send incoming eighth graders as well as incoming seniors to youth leadership camps that are pretty transformational for them. Last night we had a young lady who came to spoke to our club who we sent to RYLA, which is the high school age leadership camp, and told us about her experience. And these events that Rotary provide for youth are pretty transformational for them, so it feels very rewarding. Is there anything since you're president, this is what, second year you're president or what? No, first year. First year. Do you have some things that you're thinking out of the box doing in the year to come and stuff? Well, I have all sorts of ideas, but since I haven't told my club members about them, I probably should keep them under my hat for now. But no, I have all sorts of ideas about additional ways that we can get involved in the community and ways that we can make an impact. Every year Rotary International has a new theme, and this year's theme is create lasting impact. And I really like that theme because it sets the bar exactly where we can reach it. It doesn't say create perfect impact. It doesn't say create immediate impact. It just says lasting. And we can do lasting. The programs that we run through the Nevada City Rotary Club have impacted this community for years and will continue to do so, so we can do lasting impact. Polio around the world almost eradicated because of Rotary. That's an incredible legacy that that is. Exactly, and that's one of the programs that our fundraiser, Pumpkins Palooza, will be raising money for is Rotary's mission to eradicate polio. All right, Pumpkins Palooza, since we have a couple of minutes left here, let's go over the specifics for people to get involved. Make sure they get signed up, tickets, and, of course, the raffle ticket. Yes. So attendance is open to the general public. Like I said, it starts at 530 on October 15th at the Miner's Foundry. Kids welcome. We'll have activities. Family friendly. We'll have activities for them. It's $10 to get in the door. Kids are free. And once you come in, there will be tables set up all around the room with gift baskets for the silent auction, with painted pumpkins for the silent auction. Like I said, the bar will be open. The Nevada City Police Department will be there grilling up hot dogs, and so you'll get some food when you come in. And so the silent auction will close, and then we're going to move on to our live auction. And the live auction, we have an auctioneer coming for the event, and those are going to be the cream of the crop of the most beautifully decorated pumpkins that you can imagine. And so we auction those off. And after that's done, then we'll do the fundinee, the paddle raise for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. And the last event of the night is going to be the restaurant raffle drawing. Awesome. Pumpkins Palooza. It is a great event that is happening at the Miner's Foundry. It is October 15th. What time does it start? What time should people get there? It starts at 530, but as we all know, parking in Nevada City can be a bit challenging sometimes. Yeah, doors open at 530. The program goes until 8 o'clock, and we hope to see you there. Find a Rotary member because, boy, if you win that grand prize on those restaurants, are you talking about $1,000? $1,000 in local restaurant gift certificates is the grand prize. And the other two drawings aren't chintzy either. Right now they're at $400 apiece, so it's still worth the investment of buying a ticket. It's a limited amount of tickets, so you get your ticket, you have a good shot at maybe winning one of those prizes, which is going to be awesome. So I want to thank Andrea for making time out of her busy day talking to us here on the town. I want to thank Grass Valley Brewing Company hosting us here today as well. That does it for us. We've got ABC News coming up right now. --- end of transcript ---