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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
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I'm Wayne Wally and I'm currently the president of the
Leclair Tourism Board and your host of Living in Leclair,
where I like to talk about what's going on when
you live in Leclair. Well, we're in the middle of August,
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and now on August nineteenth, that's Monday, there is a
regular City Council meeting at six pm at City Hall
at three twenty five Wisconsin Street. Now, immediately following the
City Council meeting this Monday, there will be a Committee
of the Whole meeting where the first item on the
agenda is a Wisconsin Street Improvement update. Now, people may
have heard different things about what's going going on in
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What's happening, and this is an opportunity to come down
to city Hall and learn where this project stands and
what's going to be happening again. This is a large
improvement project that's going to redo Wisconsin Street all the
way from Cody Road downtown all the way up to
Fifteenth Street. You will have the path that currently takes
you all the way up to Pleasant Valley Junior High
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School be extended from Fifteenth Street all the way down
to Cody Road, and a sidewalk is going to be
put in on the other side of the road extending
all the way from Cody Road up to fifteenth This
is an extensive project, something Leclair has been planning for years.
The project also has federal funding, so it's not just
all being paid for by Leclair. But it's a very
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interesting project. It's taken a lot of time to put together.
There's been a lot of work put into this. And
if you're a Wisconsin Street resident, or if you're somebody
that lives adjacent, or if you're just in Leclair and
you want to know more about this project, come to
city Hall learn about it firsthand. I'll be there and
I hope to see you there on Monday, August nineteenth.
Now when we return, we're going to talk about another
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great event that's coming back to Leclair again, and that's
Vets on the River that's happening Saturday, August the twenty fourth,
down on the Levee. It's an interesting and great event
to see lots of new and old corvettes. It's kind
of wild to be downtown early in the morning and
see this parade of cars coming down Cody Road after
getting off the interstate that all come down and make
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that turn to go on the levee to find their
parking spot so they can show off their car during
this event. It really is pretty cool and when Will returned,
we'll be talking to the organizers of this event to
learn more about Vets on the River.
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Speaker 3 (03:19):
Harry one and welcome back to Living in Leclair where
today we're talking to Cherrie Zoruba Cassette, who is president
of four Vets and this is the organization that puts
on the Vets on the River event down on the
Levy and Leclair, which is happening this year on Saturday,
August twenty fourth. Cherry, thank you for joining us. I
just wanted to talk a little bit with you about
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what is Vets on the River and what's going on
this weekend of August twenty fourth in Leclair.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Well, thanks for having me this year our All Corvette
Car Show where it's a charity event that we hold
once a year and all the proceeds go to our
Vietnam veterans and then the Vietnam Veterans disperse it amongst
other Vietnam Veterans organizations that are all non federally funded.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, very very interesting and this is an event that's
been coming to Leclair for several years. I think the
Midwest Corbette clubs has been involved. What can people expect
to see or if you want to get involved, what
do you need to do well?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
To get involved? You can contact us at vetsond theriver
dot com. You can also look us up on Facebook.
We're always looking for volunteers. We're always looking for people
to be on the board help make some decisions for
next year's events.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But yes, Jade and Randy started the event.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
They were they actually started it because they were looking
for ways to meet new people, ways to get out
and just make new friends. And they started having their
think their first organized event. They had I want to say,
fourteen corvettes that showed.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Up, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And then it kind of it started in the Claire
and then they took it to Dubuque, then they brought
it back to Leclair, and they.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Did different as it grew.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
They gave the money to different organizations, and then one
year they decided vets supporting vets like that sounded great,
and then that's how Vets on the River came about.
And I think that was about twenty fourteen, if I
remember correctly. In twenty eighteen, they had over six hundred
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and fifty corvettes in Leclair.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I remember that year well, I mean you had corvettes
not just on the levee, but they were streaming all
the way up into overflow areas up Wisconsin Street.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Down Jones Crossed, Fourth and Third, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It was quite crazy that year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's always an amazing sight too, if you come to
LaClaire early that morning when cars started coming in, because
you see all these corvette streaming off of I eighty
and they're coming down Cody Road to get to the levee,
and you just see all these It's a whole parade
of cars for it almost seems like forever.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, they start lining up sometimes at six in the
morning because they want to get down on the levee.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Eight back in twenty.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Eighteen, you can pre register and make sure you got
on the levee, otherwise you were in the overflow out
on the streets. Twenty nineteen, we probably that was the
first year that I took over the organization.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Jane and Randy had moved out out of state, and.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I had just stepped down from being vice president of Tugfest.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And I kind of went to the committee and said,
I need something to do.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I thought, oh, send out emails or welcome new
businesses to Leclair. And they're like, there's an event, and
I'm like, I do not want to be another event organizer.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't want to do that. And I met with a.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Couple of the Midwest Corvette Club members that still wanted
the event to go on, they just didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Be in charge, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And then I met with a couple of the local veterans, and.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That made me more hooked.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I had both my dads were Vietnam veterans, and kind
of was a heart tugging moment and I thought, okay,
is this has to go.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm not just for you.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Know, it benefits the businesses and Leclair obviously. You bring
in that many corvettes and people and their husbands usually
driving the corvettes, and the women's want to go shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And I thought.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Not just for the town, but for the veterans, like
this needs to go continue for the veterans. So I
founded a nonprofit organization called for Vets, so that we
could be a nonprofit and hold the vet still keep.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The event going.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And then twenty nineteen, I think we had two hundred
and fifty plus, I don't remember the exact number. That
was quite the feat for our first year. We were
pretty green and pretty scared holding such a big event
with that many corvettes. Turned out really well in two thousand. Actually,
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last year twenty twenty three, we were able to raise
in the one day event and give to our local
veterans eighteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Wow, one day, that's one day event.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
That's pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I was pretty proud of our team.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We're gonna take a short break and we'll be right
back to talk more with Sherry Eruba Cassette.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Hi, this is Rob Kane, and I just want to
remind you it's all there in Leclair.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You guessed it.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Cody Road and the Cody Road Historic District honors the
namesake of the iconic William Buffalo Bill Cody, an American soldier,
bison hunter, and showman with national notoriety. Today, over sixty
structures create the Historic District in Leclaire, Iowa, a nine
block of US sixty seven reaching all throughout our Rivertown
both picturesque views of the mighty Mississippi River. This district
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contains both residential and commercial structures filled with some of
the best eateries, boutiques, gift shops, museums, and historical sites
found in Leclaire, Iowa. On your visit, you'll find a
healthy mix of old timey appeal in the rustic downtown
buildings and modern dwellings with glass fronts and large parking
lots for visitors. So yes, there's a little something for everyone.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
That's right. It's all there in Leclair. We can't wait
to see.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You everyone, and welcome back to living in Leclair where
again our guest today is Sherry's Eruba Cassette, and we
are talking about the Vets on the River event that's
happening Saturday, August twenty fourth in Leclair. Coming out and
check out all these cars. We'll see how many we
get this year. I don't know, Sherry, what's your early projection.
What do you think in another two fifty three hundred
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maybe more?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, we're kind of thinking it seems to depend on
the weather.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
When it gets really super high, we have less and
less people show up.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The day of preregistration is currently closed, but you can
show up the day of and still participate in the
event as long as you have a Corvette.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You have to have a Corvette to show up to participate.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Now you can show up as just the public can
come down and look at the cars.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do ask please don't touch.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Bring your kids, you know every little kids seem to
love Corvettes, especially little boys. I can't say that we
have twin granddaughters that are big time in the cars. Anyway,
it is free for the public the day of. If
you come down the day of, it is a thirty
dollars registration fee. We do have a very limited amount
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of extra merchandise that we order, so there is merchandise
to sell that if you want corvette that's on the
rever T shirt or hat or something like that, you
need to be there early.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The registration tent opens at.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Eight and usually by ten thirty eleven o'clock we're pretty
sold out. We don't buy a whole lot of extra
because we don't want to waste the money.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We want to make sure that everything goes to the veterans.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Now, how does the day progress?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I mean, if I remember right, it's ten thirty, you
have a color garden, a presentation of the flags. What
is the schedule of events that people could expect for
that day.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, we seem to have people start.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Like I said previous, we have people start to line
up around six thirty seven. They don't have to line
up that early. Please, you don't have to line up
that early. We used to say that we opened the
gates at eight. My husband is started being in charge
of the parking and he's kind of let that open
at eight. We tell everybody we'll let you come in.
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We'll let you park at eight o'clock. If you have
not registered and you have to register, you pay at
the opening of the gate and then they give you
a paper.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You bring that down the registration tent. The registration tent.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Does not open till eight o'clock, just because it takes
us a little longer. We do have raffles, we have
silent auctions. We have fifty to fifties and we have
some amazing Thank you, Aunt Heavies, we have some amazing
things to raffle off and auction off, and that helps us.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Raise some of our money.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And then the veterans sell the fifty to fifty tickets
they walk around and sell. They seem to sell more
when we have a veteran doing that, so that helps
them raise a little bit more money that way.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But anyway, then we do have our opening ceremonies. We
start at ten thirty.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Last year, I don't remember seeing a dry eye after
that opening ceremony last year. I do have it on
good authority that they the veterans are going to have
the same type of ceremony where they're teaching you what
the thirteen folds of the flag are.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
So it's really really interesting. They they drank a flag
over a table that was symbolic, and then they had
last year it was me, hopefully I'll get to have
that honor again this year. Sit and then they presented
me the flag after they explained the thirteen folds last year,
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they asked me to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Give the flag back, and I'm like, you're gonna have
to wait a minute. I have to hold it for
just a second. I was so moved, I couldn't stop crying.
I'm just like, I'm just gonna hold it for a minute.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh my gosh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well they're like, like you said, the General public can
come and look at all the cars, please don't touch.
Can they also buy raffle tickets, silent silent auction items
and all that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yes, absolutely, we're more than everyone's more than welcome to
come down and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Participate in stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Some of the cars will even open their hoods so
that you can see the motors, and they'll put out
signs explaining about their car. Corvette enthusiasts are pretty enthusiastic
about their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's so much so that I've done this organization.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Like I said, since twenty nineteen, and did not even
own a Corvette. Last year, I speak a lot on
the announcements and I was teasing, please everyone, when you
see my husband tell him I don't own a Corvette,
and I'm and I said, this is not a rumor,
this is true fact. My husband last year we purchased
our first Corvette. Cannot wait to have this event this
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year so he can participate with his car.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
And you buy a brand new one. Oh, no, one
of the more vintage.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Mon Yeah, it's a little more vintage. It's twenty twelve
or thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I should know that. I tease all the time. I
told him, I said, could you please tell people, you
bought this for me, and he's like no, And I said,
then I'm telling everybody I bought it for.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You, and he goes, okay, it's my.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Car, and yes, I will agree.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
The Corvette enthusiasts are very very interesting group and they
are very particular. Yes, I and realizes that there are
different flags for different years of cars, and that when
they are collecting things, it needs to be the right
flag or they're not touching it right.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And so there are classes. There's C one through C eight.
So this new the new Corvettes that came out last
year started the C eights. So that's the first we
do give out trophies. Now, our veterans, we we have
to explain this to our Corvette enthusiasts because we have
had some that were like, well, my car was way
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nicer than this car, and that car went, okay, we
are not.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Our veterans get to pick. Our veterans get to pick.
They might not know that you have an.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Extra thirty thousand dollars in you know, your chrome in
this car. They're they're picking what they like. So they
get to pick first in second place in each category.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
And then we do Now we went back, and in
the past we've had the biggest club, so like the
Midwest Corvette Club was the group that held this event.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So there were a lot of clubs that used to come,
and so the highest amount of participation from a club
now is getting.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Trophy.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And then we have the Furthest Away, so we actually
track the mileage of who's driving the Furthest. So if
you're coming from California and somebody we used to have
people come from Canada, oh my gosh, okay, well Canada
is actually closer than California. So the person in California
and they're like, well wait we keep from another country.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm like, okay, but we're going by mileage. So that
person actually won.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I think it's a person from Florida's one a couple
of times.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We brought those back this year.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, we're going to take another short break and we'll
be back talking to sharing in a moment.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
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Speaker 3 (17:24):
Harveryone and welcome back again to Living in the Claire
where our guest today is Cherry z Aruba Cassette, who
is talking to us about the Vets on the River
event coming up on Saturday, August twenty fourth. Sherery's we've
talked earlier. This event has been coming to Leclair for
quite a few years now. You've been involved for at
least the last with six eight ten over many years.
We want to figure it out, but Leclair just seems
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to be a perfect backdrop for a car show. Obviously,
we have Cars and Coffee that is happening once a
month from April to October. We have the British Car
Show coming here every year in early August in vets
on the River. What makes it special for Leclair to
have a car show or for people to bring their
car to show it off in Leclair.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Well, we have some amazing shops in the clare. We
have some really good places to eat. You have the
absolute beautiful backdrop of the Mississippi. The car show actually
did move up to Dubuque, like I said, and they
tried to do it on a riverfront and it was
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concrete everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I've had a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Of people say to me, oh, take it out to
the bet Plex and take it to you know, someplace
downtown Bettendorf, and I'm like, uh no.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
People come here because it is so relaxing and and
sometimes it's hot and it's kind of torturous, but with
that river breeze, yeah, it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
The airbnb's are almost in, the hotels are almost full
every weekend that we come. So it really helps the town.
That way brings revenue. It brings a lot of people
into town, and people pre book. They want to know
at this year's Corvette show August twenty fourth, they will
ask me when is next year so we can book
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our airbnb, so we can pre book our room, and
they'll be pre booked for a year in advance.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So it really helps Leclair.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I've had a couple of smaller businesses than Leclair tell
me it's their Black Friday.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, so that's good to hear. We like to hear
that it actually does bring in business to our small.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Town exactly events. As a shop.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Owner as well in downtown Leclair, I know that when
we have events in town, it just brings people in.
They see what you have, they'll at least come in.
Maybe they're not buying that day, but now they know
you're there, and we'll come back. And I think That's
on the River is another one of those events that
introduces people to Leclair and gets them coming back year
after year after year.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We've had a lot of people that we'll see us
for the first time on Facebook or something and they're like, oh,
we should go try and do that, and then they're
hooked and they come back. We had a couple last
year that randomly founded on Facebook and said we don't
have anything to do, let's try this. They ended up
we oh, so we do have We brought it back
last year a meet and greet on Friday. We do
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meet down on the River. It's nothing organized. We just
say we're going to meet down there. I want to
say we meet at five thirty or six. We will
post that on Facebook and on our social media, but
we meet down there for people that haven't been to it,
so they can say, Okay, you're going to come in,
You're going to drive in here on the south end
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of the levee, start lining up on the south end
of town if there is a line, that kind of thing,
you know, just kind of answer their questions for the day,
what to expect, and then we usually do a little
caravan and this year we're going to go up to
three thirty three and have dinner. Last year we stayed
in Leclaire and had dinner, So this year we're going
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to drive a little bit further and have dinner and
come back.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So they kind of.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Get to know what to expect for Saturday, get to
ask questions, get to meet everybody on the board, that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So it's fun, but we're not we're trying to.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Help our veterans, but we're also helping our small businesses.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I feel.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think you know now that I've heard all this background,
now that I know that you created a nonprofit to
be able to do this event. Now we know it's
going to stay in Leclair for a while. It's not
going to balance around you're going to keep it here.
And the idea that you've been able to raise thousands
and thousands of dollars for local veterans is fantastic and
I hope people do come down to the levy on
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August twenty fourth support this event. And again you talked
earlier you were volunteering and doing work for Tugfest, but
then you decided to get into this event. What what
encourages or inspires you to do this.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I think the thing that really inspired me the most
to do bets in the River. Again, I didn't worn
a corvette. I couldn't tell you a single thing about
a corvette. What inspired me were the veterans. The veterans
inspired me the most. And then a couple of shopkeepers
that I had spoke to said, you know this, this
really does help us. You know, sometimes it gets a
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little slow because school is going back and we kind
of slowed down a little bit. And I own a
small business in Leclaire. I actually closed my business down
to run this event, so I know what it's like.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To be in a small town and need that revenue.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
So I just after talking to everybody, I thought, yeah,
this really needs to stay, And then I thought for
it to stay, it it had to be.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Run by a nonprofit.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, and that's we worked really hard the first year
and with help from our now board members, they were
to help us get our nonprofit in six months, which
was amazing because I know people that have taken a
couple of years to get their nonprofit. So I was
so my first year was like oh, but once we
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got that nonprofit status, then it was are we are a?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Five? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
One? C?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Three?
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Now those are your listening.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
If the name's Arubas sounds familiar, it's because one of
the stores or shops or whatever you want to call it.
One of the attractions downtown is Ruba's Daspaan Salon. It's
been here for twenty three years.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
It's been in this location for twenty four, but I've
been in Leclaire for twenty eight.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
How did you get into this sort of business?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I used to set my dad's hair and my grandma's
hair on rollers when I was like four or five
years old. I just always wanted to make people feel
good about themselves, and I loved playing with hair. I
was the one little girl that her barbie still had
hair because I knew if I cut it, it had never
come back. I became a massage therapist because I wanted
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to help people.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm getting a little older, so I know what it
feels like.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
To like, oh my back hurts or my shoulders are
killing me, and I just wanted to really help people
feel and look good. You can look at on the
outside and still not feel good. I like to help
people feel good about themselves all the way around.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
And as we've discussed before, you are planning to move
to a new location. I am, what's this new place
going to be?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's not going to be any bigger than what I
currently have.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
We're just a small, little boutique style salon, but now
we're going to have an unobstructed view of the river,
which I'm the most excited about. So as my husband,
who claims he's going to retire and be our porch setter,
our deck setter, and I'm like, well, you're gonna have
to learn how to make appointments and sit on the
phone for us, if that's what you're gonna do. He said,
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just obsessed with setting and watching the river. And he
said he we live just right out side of the Clair.
We live in the Clair but a little tiny housing condition.
But anyway, he said, doing the construction on this place,
he's actually had more people stop and say hi to him.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's obsessed now with being there.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
He's like, I love like people I don't even know
stop and say hi. And it's really cool because we
had a couple of women coming in our salon the
other day that they're staying at one of the local
Arabian be's. They came in just to get foot massages
and they're like, we love this town.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We love it. Like everybody is so friendly here.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Everybody will talk to anybody, like you can ask you
questions to somebody and they're like, oh, I'll just show
you where that's at, or oh yeah that's two blocks
down on the left hand side, and oh don't forget
to try this place over here.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And they're like, we love it here. And I'm like,
so do we We all love it here. That's why
we're here.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
But it was just really cool and it's need for
me to finally, after all these years, for my husband
to see that. Because he works construction, he's everywhere. He's
not really been in the Clare that much where he's like,
you're daily, but so for him to see how friendly
everybody is and everybody wants to talk to you, and
everybody wants to see what's going.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
On with all the construction, and it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Schrey, I want to thank you for your time
today and we're the best of luck with this event
and hopefully we'll see that two hundred and fifty, three
hundred and fifty five hundred.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Who knows how many corvettes four.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
But are we are thinking that it's probably going to
be close to three hundred this year. We were at
to seventy seven last year, and we're thinking that we're
going to be pushing right at three hundred.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Great, well, very good, good luck and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
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Speaker 3 (27:25):
Welcome back to living in Leclair. Where I want to
thank our guest today, Sherry's Zeruba Cassette, for talking to
us about vets on the river that's coming up again
on the Levee and Leclair on Saturday, August twenty fourth.
You know, it's a great event to see a whole
lot of curve vets down there on the river. Great backdrop.
Come on down and check it out. And another reminder,
those of you live in Leclair, if you're interested in
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learning more about this Wisconsin Street project, come to the
Committee of the Whole meeting right after the City council
meeting on Monday, August nineteenth. The City Council meeting starts
at six pm with the Committee of the Whole coming
right after it. So be sure and come down and
hear that so you understand what's going to be going on.
With Wisconsin Street and again I want to thank you
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Speaker 6 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
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Leclair Tourism Board and your host of Living in Leclair,
where I like to talk about what's going on when
you live in Leclair. Well, we're in the middle of August,
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and now on August nineteenth, that's Monday, there is a
regular City Council meeting at six pm at City Hall
at three twenty five Wisconsin Street. Now, immediately following the
City Council meeting this Monday, there will be a Committee
of the Whole meeting where the first item on the
agenda is a Wisconsin Street Improvement update. Now, people may
have heard different things about what's going going on in
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What's happening, and this is an opportunity to come down
to city Hall and learn where this project stands and
what's going to be happening again. This is a large
improvement project that's going to redo Wisconsin Street all the
way from Cody Road downtown all the way up to
Fifteenth Street. You will have the path that currently takes
you all the way up to Pleasant Valley Junior High
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School be extended from Fifteenth Street all the way down
to Cody Road, and a sidewalk is going to be
put in on the other side of the road extending
all the way from Cody Road up to fifteenth This
is an extensive project, something Leclair has been planning for years.
The project also has federal funding, so it's not just
all being paid for by Leclair. But it's a very
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interesting project. It's taken a lot of time to put together.
There's been a lot of work put into this. And
if you're a Wisconsin Street resident, or if you're somebody
that lives adjacent, or if you're just in Leclair and
you want to know more about this project, come to
city Hall learn about it firsthand. I'll be there and
I hope to see you there on Monday, August nineteenth.
Now when we return, we're going to talk about another
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great event that's coming back to Leclair again, and that's
Vets on the River that's happening Saturday, August the twenty fourth,
down on the Levee. It's an interesting and great event
to see lots of new and old corvettes. It's kind
of wild to be downtown early in the morning and
see this parade of cars coming down Cody Road after
getting off the interstate that all come down and make
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that turn to go on the levee to find their
parking spot so they can show off their car during
this event. It really is pretty cool and when Will returned,
we'll be talking to the organizers of this event to
learn more about Vets on the River.
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Speaker 3 (03:19):
Harry one and welcome back to Living in Leclair where
today we're talking to Cherrie Zoruba Cassette, who is president
of four Vets and this is the organization that puts
on the Vets on the River event down on the
Levy and Leclair, which is happening this year on Saturday,
August twenty fourth. Cherry, thank you for joining us. I
just wanted to talk a little bit with you about
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what is Vets on the River and what's going on
this weekend of August twenty fourth in Leclair.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Well, thanks for having me this year our All Corvette
Car Show where it's a charity event that we hold
once a year and all the proceeds go to our
Vietnam veterans and then the Vietnam Veterans disperse it amongst
other Vietnam Veterans organizations that are all non federally funded.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, very very interesting and this is an event that's
been coming to Leclair for several years. I think the
Midwest Corbette clubs has been involved. What can people expect
to see or if you want to get involved, what
do you need to do well?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
To get involved? You can contact us at vetsond theriver
dot com. You can also look us up on Facebook.
We're always looking for volunteers. We're always looking for people
to be on the board help make some decisions for
next year's events.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But yes, Jade and Randy started the event.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
They were they actually started it because they were looking
for ways to meet new people, ways to get out
and just make new friends. And they started having their
think their first organized event. They had I want to say,
fourteen corvettes that showed.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Up, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And then it kind of it started in the Claire
and then they took it to Dubuque, then they brought
it back to Leclair, and they.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Did different as it grew.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
They gave the money to different organizations, and then one
year they decided vets supporting vets like that sounded great,
and then that's how Vets on the River came about.
And I think that was about twenty fourteen, if I
remember correctly. In twenty eighteen, they had over six hundred
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and fifty corvettes in Leclair.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I remember that year well, I mean you had corvettes
not just on the levee, but they were streaming all
the way up into overflow areas up Wisconsin Street.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Down Jones Crossed, Fourth and Third, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It was quite crazy that year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's always an amazing sight too, if you come to
LaClaire early that morning when cars started coming in, because
you see all these corvette streaming off of I eighty
and they're coming down Cody Road to get to the levee,
and you just see all these It's a whole parade
of cars for it almost seems like forever.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, they start lining up sometimes at six in the
morning because they want to get down on the levee.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Eight back in twenty.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Eighteen, you can pre register and make sure you got
on the levee, otherwise you were in the overflow out
on the streets. Twenty nineteen, we probably that was the
first year that I took over the organization.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Jane and Randy had moved out out of state, and.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I had just stepped down from being vice president of Tugfest.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And I kind of went to the committee and said,
I need something to do.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I thought, oh, send out emails or welcome new
businesses to Leclair. And they're like, there's an event, and
I'm like, I do not want to be another event organizer.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't want to do that. And I met with a.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Couple of the Midwest Corvette Club members that still wanted
the event to go on, they just didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Be in charge, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And then I met with a couple of the local veterans, and.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That made me more hooked.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I had both my dads were Vietnam veterans, and kind
of was a heart tugging moment and I thought, okay,
is this has to go.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm not just for you.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Know, it benefits the businesses and Leclair obviously. You bring
in that many corvettes and people and their husbands usually
driving the corvettes, and the women's want to go shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And I thought.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Not just for the town, but for the veterans, like
this needs to go continue for the veterans. So I
founded a nonprofit organization called for Vets, so that we
could be a nonprofit and hold the vet still keep.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The event going.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And then twenty nineteen, I think we had two hundred
and fifty plus, I don't remember the exact number. That
was quite the feat for our first year. We were
pretty green and pretty scared holding such a big event
with that many corvettes. Turned out really well in two thousand. Actually,
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last year twenty twenty three, we were able to raise
in the one day event and give to our local
veterans eighteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Wow, one day, that's one day event.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
That's pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I was pretty proud of our team.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We're gonna take a short break and we'll be right
back to talk more with Sherry Eruba Cassette.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
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Speaker 3 (09:31):
You everyone, and welcome back to living in Leclair where
again our guest today is Sherry's Eruba Cassette, and we
are talking about the Vets on the River event that's
happening Saturday, August twenty fourth in Leclair. Coming out and
check out all these cars. We'll see how many we
get this year. I don't know, Sherry, what's your early projection.
What do you think in another two fifty three hundred
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maybe more?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, we're kind of thinking it seems to depend on
the weather.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
When it gets really super high, we have less and
less people show up.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The day of preregistration is currently closed, but you can
show up the day of and still participate in the
event as long as you have a Corvette.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You have to have a Corvette to show up to participate.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Now you can show up as just the public can
come down and look at the cars.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do ask please don't touch.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Bring your kids, you know every little kids seem to
love Corvettes, especially little boys. I can't say that we
have twin granddaughters that are big time in the cars. Anyway,
it is free for the public the day of. If
you come down the day of, it is a thirty
dollars registration fee. We do have a very limited amount
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of extra merchandise that we order, so there is merchandise
to sell that if you want corvette that's on the
rever T shirt or hat or something like that, you
need to be there early.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The registration tent opens at.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Eight and usually by ten thirty eleven o'clock we're pretty
sold out. We don't buy a whole lot of extra
because we don't want to waste the money.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We want to make sure that everything goes to the veterans.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Now, how does the day progress?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I mean, if I remember right, it's ten thirty, you
have a color garden, a presentation of the flags. What
is the schedule of events that people could expect for
that day.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, we seem to have people start.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Like I said previous, we have people start to line
up around six thirty seven. They don't have to line
up that early. Please, you don't have to line up
that early. We used to say that we opened the
gates at eight. My husband is started being in charge
of the parking and he's kind of let that open
at eight. We tell everybody we'll let you come in.
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We'll let you park at eight o'clock. If you have
not registered and you have to register, you pay at
the opening of the gate and then they give you
a paper.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You bring that down the registration tent. The registration tent.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Does not open till eight o'clock, just because it takes
us a little longer. We do have raffles, we have
silent auctions. We have fifty to fifties and we have
some amazing Thank you, Aunt Heavies, we have some amazing
things to raffle off and auction off, and that helps us.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Raise some of our money.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And then the veterans sell the fifty to fifty tickets
they walk around and sell. They seem to sell more
when we have a veteran doing that, so that helps
them raise a little bit more money that way.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But anyway, then we do have our opening ceremonies. We
start at ten thirty.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Last year, I don't remember seeing a dry eye after
that opening ceremony last year. I do have it on
good authority that they the veterans are going to have
the same type of ceremony where they're teaching you what
the thirteen folds of the flag are.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
So it's really really interesting. They they drank a flag
over a table that was symbolic, and then they had
last year it was me, hopefully I'll get to have
that honor again this year. Sit and then they presented
me the flag after they explained the thirteen folds last year,
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they asked me to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Give the flag back, and I'm like, you're gonna have
to wait a minute. I have to hold it for
just a second. I was so moved, I couldn't stop crying.
I'm just like, I'm just gonna hold it for a minute.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Oh my gosh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well they're like, like you said, the General public can
come and look at all the cars, please don't touch.
Can they also buy raffle tickets, silent silent auction items
and all that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yes, absolutely, we're more than everyone's more than welcome to
come down and.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Participate in stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Some of the cars will even open their hoods so
that you can see the motors, and they'll put out
signs explaining about their car. Corvette enthusiasts are pretty enthusiastic
about their vehicles.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's so much so that I've done this organization.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Like I said, since twenty nineteen, and did not even
own a Corvette. Last year, I speak a lot on
the announcements and I was teasing, please everyone, when you
see my husband tell him I don't own a Corvette,
and I'm and I said, this is not a rumor,
this is true fact. My husband last year we purchased
our first Corvette. Cannot wait to have this event this
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year so he can participate with his car.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
And you buy a brand new one. Oh, no, one
of the more vintage.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Mon Yeah, it's a little more vintage. It's twenty twelve
or thirteen.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I should know that. I tease all the time. I
told him, I said, could you please tell people, you
bought this for me, and he's like no, And I said,
then I'm telling everybody I bought it for.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You, and he goes, okay, it's my.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Car, and yes, I will agree.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
The Corvette enthusiasts are very very interesting group and they
are very particular. Yes, I and realizes that there are
different flags for different years of cars, and that when
they are collecting things, it needs to be the right
flag or they're not touching it right.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And so there are classes. There's C one through C eight.
So this new the new Corvettes that came out last
year started the C eights. So that's the first we
do give out trophies. Now, our veterans, we we have
to explain this to our Corvette enthusiasts because we have
had some that were like, well, my car was way
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nicer than this car, and that car went, okay, we
are not.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Our veterans get to pick. Our veterans get to pick.
They might not know that you have an.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Extra thirty thousand dollars in you know, your chrome in
this car. They're they're picking what they like. So they
get to pick first in second place in each category.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
And then we do Now we went back, and in
the past we've had the biggest club, so like the
Midwest Corvette Club was the group that held this event.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So there were a lot of clubs that used to come,
and so the highest amount of participation from a club
now is getting.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Trophy.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And then we have the Furthest Away, so we actually
track the mileage of who's driving the Furthest. So if
you're coming from California and somebody we used to have
people come from Canada, oh my gosh, okay, well Canada
is actually closer than California. So the person in California
and they're like, well wait we keep from another country.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm like, okay, but we're going by mileage. So that
person actually won.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I think it's a person from Florida's one a couple
of times.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We brought those back this year.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, we're going to take another short break and we'll
be back talking to sharing in a moment.
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Speaker 3 (17:24):
Harveryone and welcome back again to Living in the Claire
where our guest today is Cherry z Aruba Cassette, who
is talking to us about the Vets on the River
event coming up on Saturday, August twenty fourth. Sherery's we've
talked earlier. This event has been coming to Leclair for
quite a few years now. You've been involved for at
least the last with six eight ten over many years.
We want to figure it out, but Leclair just seems
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to be a perfect backdrop for a car show. Obviously,
we have Cars and Coffee that is happening once a
month from April to October. We have the British Car
Show coming here every year in early August in vets
on the River. What makes it special for Leclair to
have a car show or for people to bring their
car to show it off in Leclair.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Well, we have some amazing shops in the clare. We
have some really good places to eat. You have the
absolute beautiful backdrop of the Mississippi. The car show actually
did move up to Dubuque, like I said, and they
tried to do it on a riverfront and it was
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concrete everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And I've had a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Of people say to me, oh, take it out to
the bet Plex and take it to you know, someplace
downtown Bettendorf, and I'm like, uh no.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
People come here because it is so relaxing and and
sometimes it's hot and it's kind of torturous, but with
that river breeze, yeah, it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
The airbnb's are almost in, the hotels are almost full
every weekend that we come. So it really helps the town.
That way brings revenue. It brings a lot of people
into town, and people pre book. They want to know
at this year's Corvette show August twenty fourth, they will
ask me when is next year so we can book
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our airbnb, so we can pre book our room, and
they'll be pre booked for a year in advance.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So it really helps Leclair.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I've had a couple of smaller businesses than Leclair tell
me it's their Black Friday.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, so that's good to hear. We like to hear
that it actually does bring in business to our small.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Town exactly events. As a shop.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Owner as well in downtown Leclair, I know that when
we have events in town, it just brings people in.
They see what you have, they'll at least come in.
Maybe they're not buying that day, but now they know
you're there, and we'll come back. And I think That's
on the River is another one of those events that
introduces people to Leclair and gets them coming back year
after year after year.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
We've had a lot of people that we'll see us
for the first time on Facebook or something and they're like, oh,
we should go try and do that, and then they're
hooked and they come back. We had a couple last
year that randomly founded on Facebook and said we don't
have anything to do, let's try this. They ended up
we oh, so we do have We brought it back
last year a meet and greet on Friday. We do
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meet down on the River. It's nothing organized. We just
say we're going to meet down there. I want to
say we meet at five thirty or six. We will
post that on Facebook and on our social media, but
we meet down there for people that haven't been to it,
so they can say, Okay, you're going to come in,
You're going to drive in here on the south end
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of the levee, start lining up on the south end
of town if there is a line, that kind of thing,
you know, just kind of answer their questions for the day,
what to expect, and then we usually do a little
caravan and this year we're going to go up to
three thirty three and have dinner. Last year we stayed
in Leclaire and had dinner, So this year we're going
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to drive a little bit further and have dinner and
come back.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So they kind of.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Get to know what to expect for Saturday, get to
ask questions, get to meet everybody on the board, that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So it's fun, but we're not we're trying to.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Help our veterans, but we're also helping our small businesses.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I feel.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think you know now that I've heard all this background,
now that I know that you created a nonprofit to
be able to do this event. Now we know it's
going to stay in Leclair for a while. It's not
going to balance around you're going to keep it here.
And the idea that you've been able to raise thousands
and thousands of dollars for local veterans is fantastic and
I hope people do come down to the levy on
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August twenty fourth support this event. And again you talked
earlier you were volunteering and doing work for Tugfest, but
then you decided to get into this event. What what
encourages or inspires you to do this.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I think the thing that really inspired me the most
to do bets in the River. Again, I didn't worn
a corvette. I couldn't tell you a single thing about
a corvette. What inspired me were the veterans. The veterans
inspired me the most. And then a couple of shopkeepers
that I had spoke to said, you know this, this
really does help us. You know, sometimes it gets a
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little slow because school is going back and we kind
of slowed down a little bit. And I own a
small business in Leclaire. I actually closed my business down
to run this event, so I know what it's like.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To be in a small town and need that revenue.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
So I just after talking to everybody, I thought, yeah,
this really needs to stay, And then I thought for
it to stay, it it had to be.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Run by a nonprofit.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, and that's we worked really hard the first year
and with help from our now board members, they were
to help us get our nonprofit in six months, which
was amazing because I know people that have taken a
couple of years to get their nonprofit. So I was
so my first year was like oh, but once we
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got that nonprofit status, then it was are we are a?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Five? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
One? C?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Three?
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Now those are your listening.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
If the name's Arubas sounds familiar, it's because one of
the stores or shops or whatever you want to call it.
One of the attractions downtown is Ruba's Daspaan Salon. It's
been here for twenty three years.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
It's been in this location for twenty four, but I've
been in Leclaire for twenty eight.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
How did you get into this sort of business?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I used to set my dad's hair and my grandma's
hair on rollers when I was like four or five
years old. I just always wanted to make people feel
good about themselves, and I loved playing with hair. I
was the one little girl that her barbie still had
hair because I knew if I cut it, it had never
come back. I became a massage therapist because I wanted
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to help people.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm getting a little older, so I know what it
feels like.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
To like, oh my back hurts or my shoulders are
killing me, and I just wanted to really help people
feel and look good. You can look at on the
outside and still not feel good. I like to help
people feel good about themselves all the way around.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Very good.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
And as we've discussed before, you are planning to move
to a new location. I am, what's this new place
going to be?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's not going to be any bigger than what I
currently have.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
We're just a small, little boutique style salon, but now
we're going to have an unobstructed view of the river,
which I'm the most excited about. So as my husband,
who claims he's going to retire and be our porch setter,
our deck setter, and I'm like, well, you're gonna have
to learn how to make appointments and sit on the
phone for us, if that's what you're gonna do. He said,
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just obsessed with setting and watching the river. And he
said he we live just right out side of the Clair.
We live in the Clair but a little tiny housing condition.
But anyway, he said, doing the construction on this place,
he's actually had more people stop and say hi to him.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's obsessed now with being there.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
He's like, I love like people I don't even know
stop and say hi. And it's really cool because we
had a couple of women coming in our salon the
other day that they're staying at one of the local
Arabian be's. They came in just to get foot massages
and they're like, we love this town.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We love it. Like everybody is so friendly here.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Everybody will talk to anybody, like you can ask you
questions to somebody and they're like, oh, I'll just show
you where that's at, or oh yeah that's two blocks
down on the left hand side, and oh don't forget
to try this place over here.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And they're like, we love it here. And I'm like,
so do we We all love it here. That's why
we're here.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
But it was just really cool and it's need for
me to finally, after all these years, for my husband
to see that. Because he works construction, he's everywhere. He's
not really been in the Clare that much where he's like,
you're daily, but so for him to see how friendly
everybody is and everybody wants to talk to you, and
everybody wants to see what's going.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
On with all the construction, and it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Schrey, I want to thank you for your time
today and we're the best of luck with this event
and hopefully we'll see that two hundred and fifty, three
hundred and fifty five hundred.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Who knows how many corvettes four.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
But are we are thinking that it's probably going to
be close to three hundred this year. We were at
to seventy seven last year, and we're thinking that we're
going to be pushing right at three hundred.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Great, well, very good, good luck and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Hi. This is Rob Gaine and I just want to
remind you it's all there and Leclaire.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
It's been over a decade strong for one of television's
most popular history loving partnerships. American Pickers may be the
hit show on the History Channel, but antique archaeology holds
a special place in the hearts of Leclaire locals, including
show host Mike Wolfe. For him, the most beautiful aspects
of picking are usually the least attractive. We're talking dirty fingernails,
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rust covered metal, and even those tough negotiations with strong
willed owners and collectors. All these bits and pieces work
together to create this everlasting story of how closely tied
are present is to history's past.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
That's right, it's all there in Leclair. We can't wait
to see you.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Welcome back to living in Leclair. Where I want to
thank our guest today, Sherry's Zeruba Cassette, for talking to
us about vets on the river that's coming up again
on the Levee and Leclair on Saturday, August twenty fourth.
You know, it's a great event to see a whole
lot of curve vets down there on the river. Great backdrop.
Come on down and check it out. And another reminder,
those of you live in Leclair, if you're interested in
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learning more about this Wisconsin Street project, come to the
Committee of the Whole meeting right after the City council
meeting on Monday, August nineteenth. The City Council meeting starts
at six pm with the Committee of the Whole coming
right after it. So be sure and come down and
hear that so you understand what's going to be going on.
With Wisconsin Street and again I want to thank you
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for listening.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
This is Living in Leclair.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Thank you for listening to this week's edition of Knowledge
Is Power with your host Rob Kine. If you have
a question for Rob and would like it answered on
an upcoming show, email him at r Kane at citiesig
dot com. Please tune in again next Saturday morning.
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