ROB SEIDEMAN AND BRI WILKERSON.... FROM THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION "MAY WE HELP"... AND THEY ARE PARTNERING WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE A FREE EXPO THEY'VE NAMED S.O.A.R. IT'S COMING UP SEPTEMBER 23RD... AND IT'S GEARED TO THOSE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES WHO MAY NEED A LITTLE SPECIALIZED HELP... IN ORDER TO WORK, COMMUTE, COOK OR EVEN PLAY SPORTS... ROB AND BRI ARE HERE TO EXPLAIN ALL THAT...
Then, GREAT PARKS IS GATHERING ALL THEIR RESOURCES... FROM ANIMALS, TO OUTDOOR ADVENTURES LIKE CANOEING, ROCK CLIMBING AND SO MUCH MORE... IT'S ALL FREE, AND TODAY, YOU'LL HEAR FROM RACHEL DEARING, THE DIRECTOR OF GUEST EXPERIENCE AT GREAT PARKS OF HAMILTON COUNTY. WE'LL HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION TO TAKE YOUR FAMILY, OR YOUR GROUP ... TO THE LARGEST FREE OUTDOOR EXPO FOR CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY! AND IT'S RIGHT HERE IN CINCINNATI....
The SOAR Expo is presented by UC’s Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Division, May We Help, and The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Recreation.
UC’s PM&R Division works closely with physical, occupational, and speech therapists, psychologists, rehabilitation nurses, prosthetists and orthodontists, primary care physicians, and subspecialists throughout the greater Cincinnati area.
The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Recreation increases awareness of adapted sports and recreation, empowers existing programs, helps develop new programs/teams, provides and customizes adaptive equipment, and improves research to improve the experience of adaptive athletes.
It's no surprise, then, that there’s tons of overlap between our three organizations, and that we’ve been collaborating and supporting each other’s needs - on behalf of the people we serve - for years. SOAR is really just another extension of that collaboration.
As just one example, May We Help supports The Bridge when it needs a particular device in order for a team to form or evolve, or to allow an individual with specific needs to participate, like these examples:
Here’s a link to pics of a bike modification May We Help did for a Bridge athlete that allowed him to compete in the Flying Pig: https://www.dropbox.com/t/hslLmd8uLhV50KB9
And here’s a link showing devices and equipment May We Help provided the Bridge for its sled hockey participants: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3NFC_Ocrf/
And here’s a link to a disc golf thrower we made for The Bridge too: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrYkEHDsd5H/
Also, the best way for vendors to get more information about the Soar Expo, or to register, is to visit: https://maywehelp.org/soar-expo/ or to simply call May We Help at 513-834-6443.
Then, GREAT PARKS IS GATHERING ALL THEIR RESOURCES... FROM ANIMALS, TO OUTDOOR ADVENTURES LIKE CANOEING, ROCK CLIMBING AND SO MUCH MORE... IT'S ALL FREE, AND TODAY, YOU'LL HEAR FROM RACHEL DEARING, THE DIRECTOR OF GUEST EXPERIENCE AT GREAT PARKS OF HAMILTON COUNTY. WE'LL HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION TO TAKE YOUR FAMILY, OR YOUR GROUP ... TO THE LARGEST FREE OUTDOOR EXPO FOR CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY! AND IT'S RIGHT HERE IN CINCINNATI....
The SOAR Expo is presented by UC’s Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Division, May We Help, and The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Recreation.
UC’s PM&R Division works closely with physical, occupational, and speech therapists, psychologists, rehabilitation nurses, prosthetists and orthodontists, primary care physicians, and subspecialists throughout the greater Cincinnati area.
The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Recreation increases awareness of adapted sports and recreation, empowers existing programs, helps develop new programs/teams, provides and customizes adaptive equipment, and improves research to improve the experience of adaptive athletes.
It's no surprise, then, that there’s tons of overlap between our three organizations, and that we’ve been collaborating and supporting each other’s needs - on behalf of the people we serve - for years. SOAR is really just another extension of that collaboration.
As just one example, May We Help supports The Bridge when it needs a particular device in order for a team to form or evolve, or to allow an individual with specific needs to participate, like these examples:
Here’s a link to pics of a bike modification May We Help did for a Bridge athlete that allowed him to compete in the Flying Pig: https://www.dropbox.com/t/hslLmd8uLhV50KB9
And here’s a link showing devices and equipment May We Help provided the Bridge for its sled hockey participants: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3NFC_Ocrf/
And here’s a link to a disc golf thrower we made for The Bridge too: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrYkEHDsd5H/
Also, the best way for vendors to get more information about the Soar Expo, or to register, is to visit: https://maywehelp.org/soar-expo/ or to simply call May We Help at 513-834-6443.
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This week on iHeart Cincy. Ifyou have a disability, the only thing
standing in the way of you gettingon with your life is the right device
or the right technology. But whatdo you do if that device or technology
that you need is not available commercially? My first guess here on iHeart sins
are here to talk about a freeexpo for those who are living with disabilities.
It's a comprehensive event coming in September, showcase and cutting edge healthcare products,
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services, mobility devices, and adaptivesport and recreation for people with disabilities.
Rob Siderman and Bree Wilkerson are herefrom May We Help. It's a
nonprofit here in the Tri State thatprovides free, customized devices and technology to
improve people's lives living with disabilities.We have all the information on the SORE
Expo and the resources available here inthe Tri State and later with Great Parks.
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We like to be outdoor guides,so we bring up everything that you
could possibly do and the outdoors.Great Parks is gathering all their resources from
animals to outdoor adventures like canoeing,rock climbing, and so much more.
It's all free and today you're goingto hear from Rachel Deering. She is
the director of the Guest Experience atGreat Parks of Hamilton County. We're going
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to have all the information to takeyour family or your group to the largest
free outdoor expo for children in thecountry, and it's right here in Cincinnati
now on iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins. First up today, Rob Seiderman and
Brie Wilkerson from the nonprofit organization MayWe Help. They are partnering with other
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organizations to create a free expo they'venamed SORE s O a R. It's
coming up September twenty third, andit's geared to those living with disabilities who
may need a little specialized help inorder to work, or commute, cook
or even play sports. Rob andBree are here to explain all of that.
Let's start with the name SORE.Let's talk about what that stands for.
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Rob, you want to start theresure Solutions, Opportunities, Adaptations and
recreation and that's the purpose of thisexpo coming up in September. You're partnering
with you see, is that right? Yeah? You see? And the
bridge so it's you see's PM andour department, which is what does that
breed physical medicine and rehabilitation. Andthen the Bridge is they're another group sports
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and recreation of a long history ofpartnering with RIGHT and so you're going to
bring this expo. This is thefirst time you've done this. Tell me
how this is different than what younormally do, which is to help individuals
that have needs for adaptation for theirgetting around, for their you know,
working for their playing. How isthis a bigger and better than what you
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normally do? You want to do? You want to talk about that,
sure, I mean our our typicalum you know work that we do with
creating custom solutions for people with alldifferent types of disabilities, as you said,
to kind of help with their mobility, independence, just bringing recreation and
leisure to their life. And sothat's more on an individual or group basis,
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And this is an opportunity for thecommunity to come together and to see
all of the resources that are outthere, not just that maybe help in
the Bridge and University of Cincinnati offer, but also just lots of other organizations
and opportunities within our community and beyond. And we're really trying to bring really
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specialized pieces of equipment that aren't seeinga lot and lots of opportunities for people
to participate in demonstrations of sports relatedactivities and things like that. And Sandy
Sore is the only ex BOL ofits kind in our region, but nationally
there are nine cities that benefit froman ex Bowl like this, and we
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just felt like Cincinnati was the mostdeserving of an X Bowl like like Sore.
And I have a story I canthat helps illustrate what we felt that
way that I'd love to share absolutely, So I was. It takes place.
I'm just down the road from mayWe Help, in fact, at
the Frish's mainliner, and I washaving lunch there with a friend of mine
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named Gary, and Gary had broughthis son, Dominique with him, and
Dominique has a host of conditions.Uh, he's in a he's in a
power chair, he's nonverbal, hecan't feed himself. And so we're having
lunch and I'm, you know,shoving food in my face and Gary's feeding
Dominique. And I still have noidea when Gary eats. He's just so
busy caring for Dominic's needs. Buton this particular day, m Gary was
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sharing with me a story about whenhe and his wife first met and his
wife is named Laura. They metin Cincinnati, and as soon as they
met, they decided that they weregoing to sit down and figure out where
they should begin their lives together.What city in the country. You lend
itself best Tom to helping them seethrough their dreams and aspirations. And so
they got out a map at theUnited States in some straight pins in their
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computer, and they started doing researchbased on their dreams and aspirations and started
putting pins in the in the citieswhere they thought them that they would have
the most fun together and realize theirdreams together. And when the process was
done, they aligned on Boulder.They were gonna pick up and move to
Boulder and start their lives together.And shortly thereafter they gave birth to Dominic,
and they quickly realized that, um, you know, they had to
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come up with a different plan andtheir new goal was to provide quality of
life for Dominic. And so theygot the map of the United States back
out, and they got the straightpins back out, and they got their
computer back out, and they starteddoing a bunch of bunch of research again,
albeit a completely different sort of resoarch. This was based on, you
know, providing dominique quality of life. And so they started putting straight pins
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in, you know, in thecities where they thought that that they were
the best and the most resources forDominique. And what was so interesting is
that when the process was done,they realized they weren't going anywhere. They
were going to stay right here inCincinnati. And like, why is that?
You know, Cincinnati is not thisbig metropolis like since like Chicago or
La or something like that, andso why do we have the best and
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most resources? And what we whatwe decided on was that it really had
a lot to do with with areally long standing and deep rooted culture that
Cincinnati has of philanthropy and volunteerism.Because these resources that we're here for Dominique
rely on philanthropy and volunteerism. Andso it's that culture that that allowed Cincinnati
to have so many resources, Likemay we help in all these others that
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are represented at the SORE Expo.And so we talked to ourselves, you
know, Cincinnati is more deserving thanany of these other cities that are having
these big, three day expansive exposand so that's why we started SORE for
folks that have disabilities or someone intheir family with a disability from birth.
They are most likely semi well versedin what's available out there. They've been,
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you know, navigating that. Butwhen people have a sudden disability,
and we've talked about that before,whether it's from from a stroke or from
an accident or some paralysis, thosepeople are thrust into this community quickly.
This is a great opportunity for themas well to come and see what is
available to them for what they need. And if I was in a power
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chair, I wouldn't think about recreationnecessarily. I wouldn't be thinking about having
you know, fun. You're justtrying to survive. But at some point
you've got to start looking at thosethings and saying what can I do and
how can this group may we help? And then the Sore expo get me
to things that I don't even realizeor out there. So how many vendors
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will you have there and kind ofgive us an idea of the broad spectrum
of who will be at the expo. And this is a free expo,
is that correct? Yeah? Okay, so give us an idea of what
vendors and what sponsors will be thereso people will get an idea of what
they can research. So last yearwe had about thirty five vendors there and
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this year we hope to obviously expandthat to hopefully twice that or even more.
And we have some vendors there thatare that are providing durable medical equipment
and things that are needed for mobilityand independence and things like that. But
our big are really our bigger focusis on showing what recreation and leisure activities
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are out there for people. Whata way to get involved in sports,
a way to get involved in amaybe a gym or a boxing club,
or gaming, UM or an artactivity or even cooking. And so we
have lots of UM partners that willbe there and vendors that will be there
around those type of things. UM. The Cincinnati Dragons did a great wheelchair
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basketball demonstration last year that a lotof the participants watched and then we're able
to take take a chance to youknow, shoot on the basket and play
against some of the more professional wheelchairbasketball players on that team, and that
was a lot of fun. TheBolts to Nuts Farm was there and they
provide and they will be there againthis year, and they provided cooking demonstrations
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with adaptive cooking utensils and tools.That was a really popular item. The
able gamers were there and provided anopportunity for people to trial adaptive video gaming.
Cincinnati Icebreakers were there and people hadan opportunity to sit in the sleds
and sort of the Lunkan Airport hangarwhere we had the expo is a really
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big space, so it allowed peopleto get into some of the equipment that
they use for some of these activitieslike that the Cincinnati Icebreakers do and roll
around in the sleds and trial thosekind of things. So it's really all
about, you know, having thatopportunity to try things that you've never tried
before and maybe find a new interest. We had a long term maybe help
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client that tried some adaptive of fencingand she would never in a million years
think that that was something she liked. And her mom is like, we
are signing her up next week foryou know, an adapt defencing club.
So that's really the goal is toget people to trial and experience things that
they might not even know about thatexist, and get them excited about something
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that they can still participate in.I think Sandy, like you mentioned,
you know, especially for people whomay have a new disability. There's a
lot of you know, a lotof things with just figuring out daily living,
and like you said, you kindof forget about that other piece of
enjoying life to its fullest still andthere's some hopelessness I think that comes with
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that initial maybe experience. But thenI've heard from many many people that once
they can get past that initial phaseand then they can start to see that
there are things that they can stillbring them enjoyment and passion and those kind
of things, that they start toget better, They start to feel better,
they start to be more engaged,and so this is a real opportunity
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for those people and people who havelifelong disabilities to really find those interests in
those passions. If you just tunedin my guests today or from May we
Help. They have joined with UC'sPhysical Medicine and Rehab Division and the Bridge
Adaptive Sports and Recreation to create aunique showcase of opportunities, organizations, technology,
and devices for those living with limitedmobility or disability. Now you see,
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the Physical Medicine and Rehab Division workswith doctors and therapists for a physical,
occupational and speech rehab. Also theyhave a nurses and other specialists to
help tristaters get the most out oflife. And the Bridge Adaptive Sports and
Wreck supports the recreation community, providingopportunities for adaptive sports, the equipment needed
to participate and improve the adaptive athletesexperiences. I can imagine that this could
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be a very interesting and life changingevent for people to go to. It's
absolutely free. Rob let's talk aboutmay we help for just a minute for
those who didn't hear our last broadcast, give me your elevator pitch plus a
minute of what may we Help does? And the people that you provide services
for sure. Thanks so often ifyou have a disability, the only thing
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standing in the way of you gettingon with your life is the right device
or the right technology. But whatdo you do if that device or technology
that you need is not available commercially? Just what are you supposed to give
up on achieving a more independent lifestyleor pursuing a particular passion. No,
you simply call me we help,and we will design, build and deliver
that device for you free of charge. And we do that for hundreds of
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people every year. The reason we'reable to do that is because of our
incredible volunteer base. They are teamof about seventy five volunteers right now whose
skill sets range from engineering and industrialdesign to those volunteers who are welders and
woodworkers and seamstresses, and yet anothersubset of volunteers who are doctors and occupational
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therapists and physical therapists, And dependingon the device that needs to be made,
we'll put together a team with therespective skill sets that are needed to
create that device. It's very uniqueyet very critical service, and there's only
about five organizations like us in theworld, and we have the most reach
of any of them. So it'sand we're growing like crazy, continuing to
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meet different needs in the community.Four years ago, we had one program
and now we have five, andwe've we've grown our client base fivefold.
Two. Your start with the threebills, the three engineers that were friends
that came together having I think itwas lunch, and all realized that they
were doing this kind of work,this adaptation for people in their own personal
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lives. Sparked an idea in themand said we should get together and do
this for more people because there's alot of people that need this. And
it's grown to this enormous organization,May we help. The great part is
that you do it for free.You have the equipment giveaways where someone who
maybe outgrows a power chair or getsa new one, they don't just throw
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it away, They bring it toyou. You fix it, you do
whatever needs to be done, andthen you can give that to someone who
can't afford it or doesn't have it. And it's that kind of an organization
which is just so so interesting.What would you say to elderly people?
Let's let's talk about that, becauseI know as my mother started to decline,
there were things that she needed thatshe couldn't do. Do you do
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you work with the elderly at all, like people that need some sort of
adaptation for them to be able tostay in their homes. Yeah, and
to help them stay in their homes. We just did a project for an
elderly person with MS whom she couldn'treach the shutoff valve on her water supply
in her house. And you know, with all the colder temperatures this past
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winner, she was getting really nervousthat she wanted to be able to shut
the water off when when needed,but she couldn't access it and so one
of the bills, as you referencebefore, simply made a lever that attached
to the lever that shuts off her. It sorts like like an extension of
the lever that it closes off herher water supply, and it just just
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a little thing like that completely changedher life. We did another one for
an elderly person who loves to travel, but she travels with the cane and
every time she sets her cane downat TSA, it falls to the ground
and she can't bend over to pickit up. One of the bills again
put a little magnetized her cane andput a little magnet on on the travel
shirt that she wears, and nowinstead of setting the cane down, she
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just leans it up against the magneton her chest and it stays there.
So when she's done with TSA,she just grabs her cane. Those are
some of the more simple ones.But we also just did a project for
an elderly person who lives in Alabamaand she loves to garden, but she
doesn't have the use of her eggs, and so we literally took a bill,
took a wheelchair apart, and thenput it back together and it is.
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It's a gardening wheelchair that allows herto access her entire property and keep
it trimmed and beautiful, and itjust allows her to pursue her passion.
But it's lower to the ground.Gardening wheelchair. It's lower to the ground,
and it allows her to the wheelsare bigger or different so that they
don't get stuck in the mud andthings like that, all those things.
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It literally you're absolutely right. Itgoes all the way down to the ground
and then she can rise herself backup is needed. So let's go back
to the Sore Expo September twenty third. You're looking for three populations of people.
You're looking for folks who need yourservices. You're looking for sponsors and
vendors. So let's talk to thesponsors and vendors. Vendors first, who
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are you looking for to be apart of this showcase free Anyone who has
a product, a service, ora recreational opportunity for individuals with disabilities that
they want to showcase that they wantto again, you know, we want
to make it a little bit moreinteractive than typical vendor fares, and so
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we're looking for people who want todo demonstrations who want to showcase their products,
let people try out their product.We are really into, again,
like I said, the recreation andleisure part of things, so sports,
music, art, cooking, allof those type of opportunities. So anybody
who has those type of products orservices that want to come out meet lots
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of people, share about their productand their service to the community as a
whole and the people that they serve. Those are the type of vendors that
we're looking for. So the vendorsdon't necessarily have to have a disability focus.
They can just be a vendor thatcould provide services for these folks that
need these services. Is that accurate? Would you say, yeah, that's
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a great point. Absolutely. Yes, most of our vendors have been disability
focused in the past, naturally becauseof the type of expo. But yes,
that's a great point. Absolutely.Anybody that wants to to showcase their
service, maybe that there's people thatyou know, want to get want to
get more people with disabilities involved intheir services or their activity. Absolutely.
I mean I can imagine even contractors, you know, building contractors. Yeah,
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here here, here's where we are. Do you need to build an
addition on the side of your house, do you need to ramp? The
folks at M PwC do that aswell, and they have a commercial arm
as well, so they'll do stufffor free and then they'll turn around and
they have a commercial side that willhelp, uh, you know, make
homes available so that people have therailings and get rid of the lead based
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paint that are in houses and thingslike that. So, um, you
know, if you're if you're abusinessperson and you'd like to get in front
of these folks, just to contactthe folks at May we help and we'll
give you that information here in justa second. Let's talk about sponsors,
Rob, you have some big sponsorsalready and you need more, so you
want to give a shout out tothem and talk about that. Yeah,
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Bree, do you want? Breeknows more about them than I do.
All right, yes, right now, our presenting sponsor is m Care Medical
Durable Medical Equipment, and they willbe our presenting sponsor this year so far,
but we are looking for many,many more people that want to sponsor
the event. Get their name onall of the marketing materials, get on
all of our social media and allof those kind of things to get their
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name out there a little bit morethan just the typical vendor. It also
could be a vendor that just wantsto provide you know, family fun.
Last year, for example, um, you know Skyline was there, Mom
and Am Coffee was there. Sovendors like that, they just want to
provide some you know, some entertainmentor some great food or drink for the
families that come. Is also great. You know, we had some we
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had magicians there and you know peopledoing balloon animals and those sorts of things
too that anybody that wants to participatethat way would be welcome also. So
they're going to be on the twentythird and it's going to be at the
Linkan Airport. Yeah, which isa great venue for for it because a
lot of the things that take placeinside, but there's a lot of stuff
that has to be done outside.So for example, we've there are the
vendors that set up and they havethese really cutting edge power chairs that'll take
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you up mountains and allow you togo into a lake and go fishing.
And then there's also big lifts forpeople who have disabilities but are in the
agriculture industry and maybe they can't getinto their giant rig anymore because of some
disability. But there's a but youknow, there's a vendor there who who
will show you how to use andthing. They'll put you in it into
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a lift that'll get you twenty fivefeet into the air if you need to
get up there and continue to workbecause you can sit and you can farm
and your John Deer tractor, youjust need help getting up there. That
is just exactly right. It's mindblowing, Rob what you guys do.
And I just have all the allthe respect in the world for what you
guys do. How do we geta hold of you? The easiest way,
Bree, I would say our websitewould be the easiest way. Www.
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Dot maywehelp dot org is the easiestway to connect with us. We
also have a Facebook page and maywe help Facebook page. Those are probably
the quickest, yeah, most effectiveways. Well, I'll tell you what.
We'll check in with you again onemore time before September so we can
kind of get an idea of whereyou're at and promote it once again.
But thank you both so much.The Sore Expo Solutions, Opportunities, adaptations
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and recreation for folks that have disabilitiesand need mobility devices, healthcare products and
adaptations for them to just enjoy theirlife the way they are now. So
thank you both for being here,Thanks so much. And coming up we
have pot Pote for the kids totry. So it's a great outdoor experience.
All the information about the largest freeoutdoor adventure expo for kids, Rachel
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Deering is here from Great Parks ofHamilton County with all the information you need
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Welcome to the good stuff. I'mJacob Chick, a third generation combat
marine, and I'm his co hostand wife, Ashley Schick. We believe
everyone has a story to tell,not only about the peaks, but the
valleys they've been through to get themto where they are today. We're joined
by some amazing guests who share thelessons they've learned that shaped who they are
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and what they're doing to pay itforward and give back. Listen to the
good stuff on the iHeartRadio app orwherever you get your podcasts. Hi,
this is i Heeart Cinc. ATry state public affairs program produced right here
in Cincinnati. For this iHeartRadio station, I'm Sandy Collins today. My next
guest is Rachel Deering. She's herefrom Great Parks of Hamilton County with a
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free event for children and families comingup in July to get kids outside playing
and doing things that they may nothave had access to before, like fishing
and canoeing and rock climbing, potpot in golf, and so many more
fun outdoor experiences. Rachel Deering,the director of Guest Experience at Great Parks
of Hamilton County. The Kids OutdoorAdventure Expo is July fourteenth. Tell us
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about this year's Kids Outdoor Adventure Expo. So, this event is one of
the biggest events that we do atGreat Parks. We have been doing it
for six years. We took acouple of years off due to COVID because
we weren't allowed to have large groupsof people come out. But it is
the biggest outdoor adventure expo our kidsand the United States how many so we
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do anywhere from thirty five hundred tofive thousand kids come and see us.
And so this is on a Friday, It is the fourteenth, starts at
nine thirty in the morning. Whata kids get to do when they come
out with great parks. We liketo be outdoor guides, so we bring
up everything that you could possibly doand the outdoors, so we have the
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huge drafts that Morgan's Canoe is niceenough to donate for the day, and
we get the kids out on thelake. We do fishing with the kids,
so all the kids can get oneof our fishing rods and go out
and stick it in wint To Lakeand pull out a fish. We have
a climbing wall. We have ahuge education section. This year it's going
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to be all about eagles, sowe have we actually have eagles at Winton
Lake. We had baby eagles thisyear, so all of our interpreters are
going to be talking about the eaglesthat are actually on Winton Lake, along
with a whole bunch of nonprofit groupsfrom the Greater Cincinnati area come in and
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talk about We have the Girl Scoutsthere, We have a Board of Health
there so that the kids also getsome educational components to this event. To
right, your friends at the libraryand the museum center going to be their
Gorman Heritage Farm. FC Cincinnati isgoing to have their mascot come out.
Yeah, the kids will pictures.Yeah, the kids will be able to
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take a picture with the lion.We also our golf team comes out,
so the kids will actually be ableto hit golf balls with our nets.
We have pot pot for the kidsto try. So it's a great just
outdoor experience. You also are encouraginggroups to come out together. Do they
need to do anything in particular?Do they have to register or anything.
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They don't need to do anything special. We do have a large group that
we provided. It was early onthat we provided free bussing too to bring
some of the kids from the innercity school groups to come out and see
us. But if you have agroup and you want to come out,
we do say get there early becauseparking is very limited. If you want
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to part closer to the harbor instead, of further away. We've got plenty
of parking, but to be ableto part closer to the harbor ways they
get there, get there earlier.Earlier is better than later in the day.
They're not going to be able toget to do a whole lot.
And we've had plenty of people comeat nine thirty in the morning and they
are still there when we're closing upthe event at three o'clock. Is there
going to be a refreshments? There? Is there anything to eat or drink
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for these people? Should they bringup something for themselves to eat? So
our Wintonwoods Snack Bar will be there. We'll have ice cream and hot dogs
and nachos, all that stuff thatyou find and a snack and that's not
real expensive stuff. So tell ushow to get to the for folks that
don't know where the Winton Woods Harboris, So Winton Woods Harbor, it's
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centrally located. It is right offof the Forest Park exit right off at
two seven five and the event islocated right there at the lake. You
can't miss it. So if you'regoing down Winton Road on the left,
you'll see the big lake that isthe harbor point and we fill that entire
area with activities. What's your favoritepart of the whole event. I think
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my favorite part is we have Parkey'sFarm. Our farm comes out, we
bring the animals from Parkey's Farm,and it is always so surprising how many
kids we'll see a cow for thevery first time and just smile, and
just seeing the kids actually like beinvolved in everything that we do every day,
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Like this isn't work for us.It's stuff that that we do every
day, but it's exciting to seethe kids get involved in it, and
I'm sure it sparks their interest incoming back to parks for other events and
getting to know what all is availableto them here in the in the area.
And that's our hope is they gohome and say, I have this
great trip at Winton Woods, momand dad and I got to do you
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know, I got to see thecal and I got to go out on
the lake and I caught a fishand I climbed up on the climbing wall.
We need to go back there thisweekend and see what else is happening.
Every weekend we have programming and eventshappening in the parks. You can
find that on your website. AtGreat Parks dot org. All right,
so July fourteenth, it's a Friday, nine thirty to three get there early
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Winton Woods. And do we haveany other things that we need to talk
about that I forgot to mention?I don't think so, tis all.
Check out our website. All theinformations on our website. Rainer Shann,
Rainer Shann. The free Kids OutdoorAdventure Expo is Friday July fourteenth, nine
thirty am to three pm at WintonWoods Harbor. Groups are encouraged and welcome.
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Get more information at Great Parks dotorg. Look for the Kids Outdoor
Adventure Expo right there on the homepage. And thanks to May we Help
you see Physical Medicine and Rehab Divisionand the Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation for
the SORE Expo s O a R. It's coming up September twenty three at
the Lunkan Airport. It's free andanyone who needs accommodations to get around,
work or play and for those wholove them. Everyone encouraged to attend.
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More information about the SORE Expo atmay We Help dot org. Can hear
this show on the iHeartRadio app alongwith other iHeart since shows showcasing the best
of what makes Cincinnati great is you'vegot an idea for a show, well,
just email me, Sandy Collins.The address is iHeart Cincy with an
eye at iHeartMedia dot com. iHeartCincy is a production of iHeartMedia Cincinnati
This week on iHeart Cincy. Ifyou have a disability, the only thing
standing in the way of you gettingon with your life is the right device
or the right technology. But whatdo you do if that device or technology
that you need is not available commercially? My first guess here on iHeart sins
are here to talk about a freeexpo for those who are living with disabilities.
It's a comprehensive event coming in September, showcase and cutting edge healthcare products,
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services, mobility devices, and adaptivesport and recreation for people with disabilities.
Rob Siderman and Bree Wilkerson are herefrom May We Help. It's a
nonprofit here in the Tri State thatprovides free, customized devices and technology to
improve people's lives living with disabilities.We have all the information on the SORE
Expo and the resources available here inthe Tri State and later with Great Parks.
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We like to be outdoor guides,so we bring up everything that you
could possibly do and the outdoors.Great Parks is gathering all their resources from
animals to outdoor adventures like canoeing,rock climbing, and so much more.
It's all free and today you're goingto hear from Rachel Deering. She is
the director of the Guest Experience atGreat Parks of Hamilton County. We're going
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to have all the information to takeyour family or your group to the largest
free outdoor expo for children in thecountry, and it's right here in Cincinnati
now on iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins. First up today, Rob Seiderman and
Brie Wilkerson from the nonprofit organization MayWe Help. They are partnering with other
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organizations to create a free expo they'venamed SORE s O a R. It's
coming up September twenty third, andit's geared to those living with disabilities who
may need a little specialized help inorder to work, or commute, cook
or even play sports. Rob andBree are here to explain all of that.
Let's start with the name SORE.Let's talk about what that stands for.
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Rob, you want to start theresure Solutions, Opportunities, Adaptations and
recreation and that's the purpose of thisexpo coming up in September. You're partnering
with you see, is that right? Yeah? You see? And the
bridge so it's you see's PM andour department, which is what does that
breed physical medicine and rehabilitation. Andthen the Bridge is they're another group sports
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and recreation of a long history ofpartnering with RIGHT and so you're going to
bring this expo. This is thefirst time you've done this. Tell me
how this is different than what younormally do, which is to help individuals
that have needs for adaptation for theirgetting around, for their you know,
working for their playing. How isthis a bigger and better than what you
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normally do? You want to do? You want to talk about that,
sure, I mean our our typicalum you know work that we do with
creating custom solutions for people with alldifferent types of disabilities, as you said,
to kind of help with their mobility, independence, just bringing recreation and
leisure to their life. And sothat's more on an individual or group basis,
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And this is an opportunity for thecommunity to come together and to see
all of the resources that are outthere, not just that maybe help in
the Bridge and University of Cincinnati offer, but also just lots of other organizations
and opportunities within our community and beyond. And we're really trying to bring really
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specialized pieces of equipment that aren't seeinga lot and lots of opportunities for people
to participate in demonstrations of sports relatedactivities and things like that. And Sandy
Sore is the only ex BOL ofits kind in our region, but nationally
there are nine cities that benefit froman ex Bowl like this, and we
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just felt like Cincinnati was the mostdeserving of an X Bowl like like Sore.
And I have a story I canthat helps illustrate what we felt that
way that I'd love to share absolutely, So I was. It takes place.
I'm just down the road from mayWe Help, in fact, at
the Frish's mainliner, and I washaving lunch there with a friend of mine
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named Gary, and Gary had broughthis son, Dominique with him, and
Dominique has a host of conditions.Uh, he's in a he's in a
power chair, he's nonverbal, hecan't feed himself. And so we're having
lunch and I'm, you know,shoving food in my face and Gary's feeding
Dominique. And I still have noidea when Gary eats. He's just so
busy caring for Dominic's needs. Buton this particular day, m Gary was
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sharing with me a story about whenhe and his wife first met and his
wife is named Laura. They metin Cincinnati, and as soon as they
met, they decided that they weregoing to sit down and figure out where
they should begin their lives together.What city in the country. You lend
itself best Tom to helping them seethrough their dreams and aspirations. And so
they got out a map at theUnited States in some straight pins in their
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computer, and they started doing researchbased on their dreams and aspirations and started
putting pins in the in the citieswhere they thought them that they would have
the most fun together and realize theirdreams together. And when the process was
done, they aligned on Boulder.They were gonna pick up and move to
Boulder and start their lives together.And shortly thereafter they gave birth to Dominic,
and they quickly realized that, um, you know, they had to
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come up with a different plan andtheir new goal was to provide quality of
life for Dominic. And so theygot the map of the United States back
out, and they got the straightpins back out, and they got their
computer back out, and they starteddoing a bunch of bunch of research again,
albeit a completely different sort of resoarch. This was based on, you
know, providing dominique quality of life. And so they started putting straight pins
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in, you know, in thecities where they thought that that they were
the best and the most resources forDominique. And what was so interesting is
that when the process was done,they realized they weren't going anywhere. They
were going to stay right here inCincinnati. And like, why is that?
You know, Cincinnati is not thisbig metropolis like since like Chicago or
La or something like that, andso why do we have the best and
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most resources? And what we whatwe decided on was that it really had
a lot to do with with areally long standing and deep rooted culture that
Cincinnati has of philanthropy and volunteerism.Because these resources that we're here for Dominique
rely on philanthropy and volunteerism. Andso it's that culture that that allowed Cincinnati
to have so many resources, Likemay we help in all these others that
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are represented at the SORE Expo.And so we talked to ourselves, you
know, Cincinnati is more deserving thanany of these other cities that are having
these big, three day expansive exposand so that's why we started SORE for
folks that have disabilities or someone intheir family with a disability from birth.
They are most likely semi well versedin what's available out there. They've been,
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you know, navigating that. Butwhen people have a sudden disability,
and we've talked about that before,whether it's from from a stroke or from
an accident or some paralysis, thosepeople are thrust into this community quickly.
This is a great opportunity for themas well to come and see what is
available to them for what they need. And if I was in a power
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chair, I wouldn't think about recreationnecessarily. I wouldn't be thinking about having
you know, fun. You're justtrying to survive. But at some point
you've got to start looking at thosethings and saying what can I do and
how can this group may we help? And then the Sore expo get me
to things that I don't even realizeor out there. So how many vendors
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will you have there and kind ofgive us an idea of the broad spectrum
of who will be at the expo. And this is a free expo,
is that correct? Yeah? Okay, so give us an idea of what
vendors and what sponsors will be thereso people will get an idea of what
they can research. So last yearwe had about thirty five vendors there and
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this year we hope to obviously expandthat to hopefully twice that or even more.
And we have some vendors there thatare that are providing durable medical equipment
and things that are needed for mobilityand independence and things like that. But
our big are really our bigger focusis on showing what recreation and leisure activities
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are out there for people. Whata way to get involved in sports,
a way to get involved in amaybe a gym or a boxing club,
or gaming, UM or an artactivity or even cooking. And so we
have lots of UM partners that willbe there and vendors that will be there
around those type of things. UM. The Cincinnati Dragons did a great wheelchair
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basketball demonstration last year that a lotof the participants watched and then we're able
to take take a chance to youknow, shoot on the basket and play
against some of the more professional wheelchairbasketball players on that team, and that
was a lot of fun. TheBolts to Nuts Farm was there and they
provide and they will be there againthis year, and they provided cooking demonstrations
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with adaptive cooking utensils and tools.That was a really popular item. The
able gamers were there and provided anopportunity for people to trial adaptive video gaming.
Cincinnati Icebreakers were there and people hadan opportunity to sit in the sleds
and sort of the Lunkan Airport hangarwhere we had the expo is a really
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big space, so it allowed peopleto get into some of the equipment that
they use for some of these activitieslike that the Cincinnati Icebreakers do and roll
around in the sleds and trial thosekind of things. So it's really all
about, you know, having thatopportunity to try things that you've never tried
before and maybe find a new interest. We had a long term maybe help
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client that tried some adaptive of fencingand she would never in a million years
think that that was something she liked. And her mom is like, we
are signing her up next week foryou know, an adapt defencing club.
So that's really the goal is toget people to trial and experience things that
they might not even know about thatexist, and get them excited about something
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that they can still participate in.I think Sandy, like you mentioned,
you know, especially for people whomay have a new disability. There's a
lot of you know, a lotof things with just figuring out daily living,
and like you said, you kindof forget about that other piece of
enjoying life to its fullest still andthere's some hopelessness I think that comes with
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that initial maybe experience. But thenI've heard from many many people that once
they can get past that initial phaseand then they can start to see that
there are things that they can stillbring them enjoyment and passion and those kind
of things, that they start toget better, They start to feel better,
they start to be more engaged,and so this is a real opportunity
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for those people and people who havelifelong disabilities to really find those interests in
those passions. If you just tunedin my guests today or from May we
Help. They have joined with UC'sPhysical Medicine and Rehab Division and the Bridge
Adaptive Sports and Recreation to create aunique showcase of opportunities, organizations, technology,
and devices for those living with limitedmobility or disability. Now you see,
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the Physical Medicine and Rehab Division workswith doctors and therapists for a physical,
occupational and speech rehab. Also theyhave a nurses and other specialists to
help tristaters get the most out oflife. And the Bridge Adaptive Sports and
Wreck supports the recreation community, providingopportunities for adaptive sports, the equipment needed
to participate and improve the adaptive athletesexperiences. I can imagine that this could
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be a very interesting and life changingevent for people to go to. It's
absolutely free. Rob let's talk aboutmay we help for just a minute for
those who didn't hear our last broadcast, give me your elevator pitch plus a
minute of what may we Help does? And the people that you provide services
for sure. Thanks so often ifyou have a disability, the only thing
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standing in the way of you gettingon with your life is the right device
or the right technology. But whatdo you do if that device or technology
that you need is not available commercially? Just what are you supposed to give
up on achieving a more independent lifestyleor pursuing a particular passion. No,
you simply call me we help,and we will design, build and deliver
that device for you free of charge. And we do that for hundreds of
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people every year. The reason we'reable to do that is because of our
incredible volunteer base. They are teamof about seventy five volunteers right now whose
skill sets range from engineering and industrialdesign to those volunteers who are welders and
woodworkers and seamstresses, and yet anothersubset of volunteers who are doctors and occupational
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therapists and physical therapists, And dependingon the device that needs to be made,
we'll put together a team with therespective skill sets that are needed to
create that device. It's very uniqueyet very critical service, and there's only
about five organizations like us in theworld, and we have the most reach
of any of them. So it'sand we're growing like crazy, continuing to
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meet different needs in the community.Four years ago, we had one program
and now we have five, andwe've we've grown our client base fivefold.
Two. Your start with the threebills, the three engineers that were friends
that came together having I think itwas lunch, and all realized that they
were doing this kind of work,this adaptation for people in their own personal
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lives. Sparked an idea in themand said we should get together and do
this for more people because there's alot of people that need this. And
it's grown to this enormous organization,May we help. The great part is
that you do it for free.You have the equipment giveaways where someone who
maybe outgrows a power chair or getsa new one, they don't just throw
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it away, They bring it toyou. You fix it, you do
whatever needs to be done, andthen you can give that to someone who
can't afford it or doesn't have it. And it's that kind of an organization
which is just so so interesting.What would you say to elderly people?
Let's let's talk about that, becauseI know as my mother started to decline,
there were things that she needed thatshe couldn't do. Do you do
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you work with the elderly at all, like people that need some sort of
adaptation for them to be able tostay in their homes. Yeah, and
to help them stay in their homes. We just did a project for an
elderly person with MS whom she couldn'treach the shutoff valve on her water supply
in her house. And you know, with all the colder temperatures this past
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winner, she was getting really nervousthat she wanted to be able to shut
the water off when when needed,but she couldn't access it and so one
of the bills, as you referencebefore, simply made a lever that attached
to the lever that shuts off her. It sorts like like an extension of
the lever that it closes off herher water supply, and it just just
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a little thing like that completely changedher life. We did another one for
an elderly person who loves to travel, but she travels with the cane and
every time she sets her cane downat TSA, it falls to the ground
and she can't bend over to pickit up. One of the bills again
put a little magnetized her cane andput a little magnet on on the travel
shirt that she wears, and nowinstead of setting the cane down, she
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just leans it up against the magneton her chest and it stays there.
So when she's done with TSA,she just grabs her cane. Those are
some of the more simple ones.But we also just did a project for
an elderly person who lives in Alabamaand she loves to garden, but she
doesn't have the use of her eggs, and so we literally took a bill,
took a wheelchair apart, and thenput it back together and it is.
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It's a gardening wheelchair that allows herto access her entire property and keep
it trimmed and beautiful, and itjust allows her to pursue her passion.
But it's lower to the ground.Gardening wheelchair. It's lower to the ground,
and it allows her to the wheelsare bigger or different so that they
don't get stuck in the mud andthings like that, all those things.
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It literally you're absolutely right. Itgoes all the way down to the ground
and then she can rise herself backup is needed. So let's go back
to the Sore Expo September twenty third. You're looking for three populations of people.
You're looking for folks who need yourservices. You're looking for sponsors and
vendors. So let's talk to thesponsors and vendors. Vendors first, who
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are you looking for to be apart of this showcase free Anyone who has
a product, a service, ora recreational opportunity for individuals with disabilities that
they want to showcase that they wantto again, you know, we want
to make it a little bit moreinteractive than typical vendor fares, and so
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we're looking for people who want todo demonstrations who want to showcase their products,
let people try out their product.We are really into, again,
like I said, the recreation andleisure part of things, so sports,
music, art, cooking, allof those type of opportunities. So anybody
who has those type of products orservices that want to come out meet lots
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of people, share about their productand their service to the community as a
whole and the people that they serve. Those are the type of vendors that
we're looking for. So the vendorsdon't necessarily have to have a disability focus.
They can just be a vendor thatcould provide services for these folks that
need these services. Is that accurate? Would you say, yeah, that's
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a great point. Absolutely. Yes, most of our vendors have been disability
focused in the past, naturally becauseof the type of expo. But yes,
that's a great point. Absolutely.Anybody that wants to to showcase their
service, maybe that there's people thatyou know, want to get want to
get more people with disabilities involved intheir services or their activity. Absolutely.
I mean I can imagine even contractors, you know, building contractors. Yeah,
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here here, here's where we are. Do you need to build an
addition on the side of your house, do you need to ramp? The
folks at M PwC do that aswell, and they have a commercial arm
as well, so they'll do stufffor free and then they'll turn around and
they have a commercial side that willhelp, uh, you know, make
homes available so that people have therailings and get rid of the lead based
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paint that are in houses and thingslike that. So, um, you
know, if you're if you're abusinessperson and you'd like to get in front
of these folks, just to contactthe folks at May we help and we'll
give you that information here in justa second. Let's talk about sponsors,
Rob, you have some big sponsorsalready and you need more, so you
want to give a shout out tothem and talk about that. Yeah,
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Bree, do you want? Breeknows more about them than I do.
All right, yes, right now, our presenting sponsor is m Care Medical
Durable Medical Equipment, and they willbe our presenting sponsor this year so far,
but we are looking for many,many more people that want to sponsor
the event. Get their name onall of the marketing materials, get on
all of our social media and allof those kind of things to get their
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name out there a little bit morethan just the typical vendor. It also
could be a vendor that just wantsto provide you know, family fun.
Last year, for example, um, you know Skyline was there, Mom
and Am Coffee was there. Sovendors like that, they just want to
provide some you know, some entertainmentor some great food or drink for the
families that come. Is also great. You know, we had some we
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had magicians there and you know peopledoing balloon animals and those sorts of things
too that anybody that wants to participatethat way would be welcome also. So
they're going to be on the twentythird and it's going to be at the
Linkan Airport. Yeah, which isa great venue for for it because a
lot of the things that take placeinside, but there's a lot of stuff
that has to be done outside.So for example, we've there are the
vendors that set up and they havethese really cutting edge power chairs that'll take
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you up mountains and allow you togo into a lake and go fishing.
And then there's also big lifts forpeople who have disabilities but are in the
agriculture industry and maybe they can't getinto their giant rig anymore because of some
disability. But there's a but youknow, there's a vendor there who who
will show you how to use andthing. They'll put you in it into
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a lift that'll get you twenty fivefeet into the air if you need to
get up there and continue to workbecause you can sit and you can farm
and your John Deer tractor, youjust need help getting up there. That
is just exactly right. It's mindblowing, Rob what you guys do.
And I just have all the allthe respect in the world for what you
guys do. How do we geta hold of you? The easiest way,
Bree, I would say our websitewould be the easiest way. Www.
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Dot maywehelp dot org is the easiestway to connect with us. We
also have a Facebook page and maywe help Facebook page. Those are probably
the quickest, yeah, most effectiveways. Well, I'll tell you what.
We'll check in with you again onemore time before September so we can
kind of get an idea of whereyou're at and promote it once again.
But thank you both so much.The Sore Expo Solutions, Opportunities, adaptations
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and recreation for folks that have disabilitiesand need mobility devices, healthcare products and
adaptations for them to just enjoy theirlife the way they are now. So
thank you both for being here,Thanks so much. And coming up we
have pot Pote for the kids totry. So it's a great outdoor experience.
All the information about the largest freeoutdoor adventure expo for kids, Rachel
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good stuff on the iHeartRadio app orwherever you get your podcasts. Hi,
this is i Heeart Cinc. ATry state public affairs program produced right here
in Cincinnati. For this iHeartRadio station, I'm Sandy Collins today. My next
guest is Rachel Deering. She's herefrom Great Parks of Hamilton County with a
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free event for children and families comingup in July to get kids outside playing
and doing things that they may nothave had access to before, like fishing
and canoeing and rock climbing, potpot in golf, and so many more
fun outdoor experiences. Rachel Deering,the director of Guest Experience at Great Parks
of Hamilton County. The Kids OutdoorAdventure Expo is July fourteenth. Tell us
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about this year's Kids Outdoor Adventure Expo. So, this event is one of
the biggest events that we do atGreat Parks. We have been doing it
for six years. We took acouple of years off due to COVID because
we weren't allowed to have large groupsof people come out. But it is
the biggest outdoor adventure expo our kidsand the United States how many so we
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do anywhere from thirty five hundred tofive thousand kids come and see us.
And so this is on a Friday, It is the fourteenth, starts at
nine thirty in the morning. Whata kids get to do when they come
out with great parks. We liketo be outdoor guides, so we bring
up everything that you could possibly doand the outdoors, so we have the
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huge drafts that Morgan's Canoe is niceenough to donate for the day, and
we get the kids out on thelake. We do fishing with the kids,
so all the kids can get oneof our fishing rods and go out
and stick it in wint To Lakeand pull out a fish. We have
a climbing wall. We have ahuge education section. This year it's going
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to be all about eagles, sowe have we actually have eagles at Winton
Lake. We had baby eagles thisyear, so all of our interpreters are
going to be talking about the eaglesthat are actually on Winton Lake, along
with a whole bunch of nonprofit groupsfrom the Greater Cincinnati area come in and
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talk about We have the Girl Scoutsthere, We have a Board of Health
there so that the kids also getsome educational components to this event. To
right, your friends at the libraryand the museum center going to be their
Gorman Heritage Farm. FC Cincinnati isgoing to have their mascot come out.
Yeah, the kids will pictures.Yeah, the kids will be able to
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take a picture with the lion.We also our golf team comes out,
so the kids will actually be ableto hit golf balls with our nets.
We have pot pot for the kidsto try. So it's a great just
outdoor experience. You also are encouraginggroups to come out together. Do they
need to do anything in particular?Do they have to register or anything.
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They don't need to do anything special. We do have a large group that
we provided. It was early onthat we provided free bussing too to bring
some of the kids from the innercity school groups to come out and see
us. But if you have agroup and you want to come out,
we do say get there early becauseparking is very limited. If you want
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to part closer to the harbor instead, of further away. We've got plenty
of parking, but to be ableto part closer to the harbor ways they
get there, get there earlier.Earlier is better than later in the day.
They're not going to be able toget to do a whole lot.
And we've had plenty of people comeat nine thirty in the morning and they
are still there when we're closing upthe event at three o'clock. Is there
going to be a refreshments? There? Is there anything to eat or drink
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for these people? Should they bringup something for themselves to eat? So
our Wintonwoods Snack Bar will be there. We'll have ice cream and hot dogs
and nachos, all that stuff thatyou find and a snack and that's not
real expensive stuff. So tell ushow to get to the for folks that
don't know where the Winton Woods Harboris, So Winton Woods Harbor, it's
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centrally located. It is right offof the Forest Park exit right off at
two seven five and the event islocated right there at the lake. You
can't miss it. So if you'regoing down Winton Road on the left,
you'll see the big lake that isthe harbor point and we fill that entire
area with activities. What's your favoritepart of the whole event. I think
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my favorite part is we have Parkey'sFarm. Our farm comes out, we
bring the animals from Parkey's Farm,and it is always so surprising how many
kids we'll see a cow for thevery first time and just smile, and
just seeing the kids actually like beinvolved in everything that we do every day,
(27:37):
Like this isn't work for us.It's stuff that that we do every
day, but it's exciting to seethe kids get involved in it, and
I'm sure it sparks their interest incoming back to parks for other events and
getting to know what all is availableto them here in the in the area.
And that's our hope is they gohome and say, I have this
great trip at Winton Woods, momand dad and I got to do you
(28:00):
know, I got to see thecal and I got to go out on
the lake and I caught a fishand I climbed up on the climbing wall.
We need to go back there thisweekend and see what else is happening.
Every weekend we have programming and eventshappening in the parks. You can
find that on your website. AtGreat Parks dot org. All right,
so July fourteenth, it's a Friday, nine thirty to three get there early
(28:21):
Winton Woods. And do we haveany other things that we need to talk
about that I forgot to mention?I don't think so, tis all.
Check out our website. All theinformations on our website. Rainer Shann,
Rainer Shann. The free Kids OutdoorAdventure Expo is Friday July fourteenth, nine
thirty am to three pm at WintonWoods Harbor. Groups are encouraged and welcome.
(28:44):
Get more information at Great Parks dotorg. Look for the Kids Outdoor
Adventure Expo right there on the homepage. And thanks to May we Help
you see Physical Medicine and Rehab Divisionand the Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation for
the SORE Expo s O a R. It's coming up September twenty three at
the Lunkan Airport. It's free andanyone who needs accommodations to get around,
work or play and for those wholove them. Everyone encouraged to attend.
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More information about the SORE Expo atmay We Help dot org. Can hear
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