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October 5, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
a Quad City Forum, Pat Luke and Denny Linhowe.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're getting a chance to talk to Gary Matvia today
on our Quad City Forum. And Gary, it's amazing when
we look at this list of things that you've done,
because for a lot of people, they recognize you from
when you were doing the news on Channel six for
a long time or twenty years. But Gary, when you
when you look back at some of the now, it

(00:36):
seems like they're a little bit I don't want to
knock some of your former colleagues, but now they do
one newscast and you were doing three a day for
a lot. I mean, that's correct. That was kind of
a grind, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It was. But it was important to me, you know,
because I thought it was important for people to have
a comprehensive look at what was happening in the world,
and I had a chance, in the privilege to be
able to do that three times a day for them. Yeah,
that was very important.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, it was definitely. It was in your blood. And
certainly you weren't just doing it. You were there were
a lot of awards. Now you're almost I'm getting you're
getting closer to being like an egot person because you're
an Emmy winner and the Edward R. Murrow stuff and
the awards that you're winning for the documentary. So you're
kind of you're you're gonna slowly but surely moving into

(01:24):
that award winning where you're hitting all the major ones. Man,
where to go?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
So then I'll have to start wearing some blame or
do something, right of course, yes, you know, you know,
at the end of the day, all the awards mean
to me is that the work is being recognized for
having an impact. And that's what's kind of cool to
us is that we can tell stories that connect with people,
and if they happen to win awards, that's just sort
of the industry out there saying, hey, this is good

(01:50):
work too, uh, And that's all that matters to me
at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, and one of the great things that we've seen
the your YouTube channel at the heart of the story,
that is just to me. When you were working as
a broadcaster in the media, were you always kind of
thinking this was going to be your next thing or
because when you first started doing the news, I mean,
YouTube wasn't around. None of this stuff was around. But

(02:15):
you seemingly have just easily transitioned into let's use some
of these other forms of media to get out the story,
and using YouTube is just so great for the heart
of the story.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, I'll tell you, in a mix of negative and positive,
I'm going to give you guys a scoop right here. Okay,
this is exciting stuff here for Dandy and Pat. One
of the things what drove me to that is that
I always wanted to share inspiring stories. And one of
the reasons I left the TV station was I was
told by new ownership and new management that day we

(02:50):
were not into these inspirational stories as much from you.
So I said, wow, I have to be able to
tell stories that inspire. I can't just get on the
news every day and bring you down with bad news.
So I was like, how else can I share stories?
I have to share stories. That's just sort of in
my blood. So I started my own YouTube channel right
away after leaving Channel six, and it's off. I got

(03:13):
to tell you, guys, I'm celebrating we just reached more
than a million views on YouTube, and we have more
than I think it is. I think we just got
the forty thousand subscribers, and it's growing so fast because
people are looking for something that's going to lift them up,
especially now in our world. You know, we need we
need a dose of inspiration. We need to look at

(03:35):
other people doing cool things in our world and saying, hey,
maybe I could do something with my talents too, or
at least just enjoy this and share it with other
people and put a smile on so much face.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, and you've also done with the success of the
podcast and the heart of the story. You're also delving
into being an author and you're doing you Even before
we started the interview, we were asking you how many
books you've done. You kind of lost tracks, so you're
gonna you're becoming prolific. But you're seeing the traction on
that one too. Certainly My Mask, my War, but one

(04:06):
that's very touching. If I could fly that it sounds
like an incredible book.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, that book is so important because it's a nature
photography book with a beautiful story, and we feature the
children of Jay Wolf, the wildlife photographer who inspires people
with his nature, and his big goal is always to
share images with people that can't get out and see
these things for themselves, and to inspire kids to get
out and put things down and pick up binoculars and

(04:35):
explore our world. So we kind of got together on
this and that's what we came up with this book,
If I Could Fly, And it's being really really welcomed
by families and by grandparents that want to give their
kids something special. It's a really high quality book and
we think it's going to go and sweep the country
as well.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
You know, my grandkids are having a fantastic time with it.
In fact, my daughter is using it as a teaching tool.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh that's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
We've actually built a more built in school curriculum around
the book too, and we've visited a couple of schools
as a practice with it with multimedia with video clips,
and the kids all come up to us at the
end and say, hey, I saw an eagle in my
backyard or I saw an owl. And it's just kind
of fun to see kids come alive with it, isn't it, Danny.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh Yeah, they love it. I love the look on
their faces. It's because they're discovering these things for the
first time.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Right when they can see an eagle's eye or an
owl right up close and personal. It kind of really
presents this awe and depth, and I think we need
more awe in our lives too.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
And it's not always in front of a computer screen
or a TV screen. Get out there and enjoy life.
How did you and Jay meet up? Was it just
somebody suggested or did you see some of his work?
How did that all come to.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Be so interesting? I was on an Honor Friday and
the text from Jay, who I didn't know at the time,
and said, Hey, my dad's on the honor flight with you.
Could you take care of him today? It's a very
special day for him. And Jay took a photo of
me and his dad when we came back from the
honor flight at the airport, and I started noticing his
nature photography, his wildlife, and I said, Jay, what are

(06:17):
you doing with all this beautiful photography. He says, well,
it's just sort of my therapy because he was injured
a while back, and every day he gets up in pain,
so he goes out and takes photographs of nature as
a way to focus on something. So I said, why
don't we team up and we can use your images
for books and for our YouTube series That's Wild with
Gary the TVA, and we could profile your work and

(06:39):
share it with even more people and would become very
close friends and been working together now for the past
five years now.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Partnership was born. So if people they're hearing us just
talk about if I could fly, how can they find
the book? How can they get the book?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, so matvamedia dot com. I know it's not the
easiest thing to spell, but it's the tvamedia dot com
and we have a book and we have Explorers packed
on there too, which are binoculars, plush animal book bag,
trading cards with different facts about different animals and featuring
all Jay's photos. And that's all at at tvamedia dot com.

(07:14):
You can also get the My Mask, My War. We
have a special edition hardcover only available there too. Amazon
has the soft covers for that one, but not the hardcover,
so we have them there.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And since you brought up My Mask, My War, that
kind of leads into what is another award winning section
in your resume. Here is the Forever Family's film. These
are kind of kind of connected because of from the.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Book, right for sure, for sure that when I did
the book with Norma, we spent about a year capturing
her stories of a little girl living outside of London
during the blitz of World War Two and then the struggles,
but also some of the joys of being a kid.
You still have to be a kid even though you're
in a war zone. But she grew up hungry and

(08:01):
American veterans, American servicemen staying at her house for a
couple of days brought her food and gave her hope
for a better tomorrow. So she spent the rest of
her life collecting food here in the States. Once you
got here to get to hungry veterans here. And she's
now almost ninety and we sat down every Friday at

(08:21):
KSEI and we met for almost a year to get
her story down. And that connects because she was bringing
the food to the Quantity Veterans Outreach Center, who I
then teamed up with to produce some videos. And one
of those videos happens to be our new documentary, Forever Families.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And that's an award winning not just I mean it's
great to pick up that award, but when you can
go to the can Fin Film Festival and people are
recognizing it. Job will done, mister Mtva.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well, I was so excited. I have to tell you
because my son and I and my wife took our
first trip together overseas and we were in can France
last year, and then to know that our film played
there this year and that the festival said, this is
not the big camp festival, it's a smaller festival, but
they said, we have chosen your film to close out

(09:14):
the entire festival because we think it really encapsulates everything
we are all about and we just want to share
this with the world. So when we won Best Documentary
there and we're final screening in front of a huge
crowd in France, I was like, that's really kind of
cool because that means more veterans are going to see it,
more families are going to see it, more children are
going to say, wow, look at what these people did.

(09:35):
You know Forever Families is basically it's just we visited
the American cemeteries overseas that where people have come out
and adopted and kept them for generations. American graves of
those who fought, mostly the Battle of the Bults liberating
their country. So those people thank you. They all adopted
a grave and passed it down from generation generation. They

(09:57):
send photos, letters, they stay in touch with the families here.
It's just a remarkable way of saying thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah after and almost handed off. It has been handed
off to other generations now and the pride that they
take in the connection that's and it's really just like
you said with Norma, that continued on. It was a
big part of enormous life. And the nice thing is
for people that want to see it, we will be
able to see it at the last Picture House. It'll

(10:24):
be coming up sometime in October.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yes, I believe it's October fifteenth, if I have that right.
I'm just finding out about it. Well, I'm on my trip.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, we didn't mean to throw it at We're not
trying to scoop you too much on that, but that
is nice. Now will you be out there that night
or how how will that work out? Because this is
this seems like a not that you're about the bows,
because I do, don't you feel Danny Like Gary is
almost like, oh okay, yeah, somebody else get credit.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
For it, but shrug off the good stuff here because
you can huge accomplish and.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
You can talk about the smaller hand film festival then
the bigger one. That's still pretty amazing that you can
get that kind of recognition. But will you be able
to Will you be speaking at some of these other
events with this movie?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think so. I think it's important. Like you said,
I'd rather I let my work kind of speak for
myself generally, so I don't say a whole lot around it,
but I think I will, in particular at the last
Picture House on the fifteenth, because I think it's important
to be out in front and in case people have
a questions too about sort of the process. Because and

(11:34):
we'll be posting more about a two on our website,
and I started a substack, so I'll be having a
long thing on substack with some really cool clips because
these families, by the way, the families adopted these graves,
some of them took time to share with us. We
only had about three hours to interview all these families.
We were only there three days, and so we had
to get enough for a full documentary. And these people

(11:57):
shared so much with us, and they're friends of mine. Now.
It's kind of cool because we stay in touch sending
me pictures and updates, and it's just kind of nice
to have that going. So we'll be sharing more behind
the scenes too with people in the in the coming
days leading up to Veterans Day. I think that's important.
So that's what we're going to be doing.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh man, it's going to be perfect. And again, Last
Picture House, we think it's October fifteenth. But the best
thing to do is probably you'll see something at the
Last Picture House website. But Gary, your your website again,
so people can check out all the things you're ever
changing website when things are going on there, why don't
you give it to us?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yep, it's Mitvamedia dot com. And of course you can
always find me on Facebook. On Facebook, I have a
GARYMTVA page, and then we have a That's Wild page,
which is our video series on YouTube and the heart
of the story. So yeah, you can just just put
in my name in Google M E T I V
I E R and I'll come up because I think

(12:54):
I'm kind of everywhere right out.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's a good thing, it is. It is a good thing.
You're kind of like Martha Stewart and away. It's a
good thing. It's a Mitervia thing and Gary continued success.
Thanks for taking the time out to talk to us today.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, thank you so much both of you for highlighting
this and for all the kind things you've said about
the work and for helping share positive inspirational stories because
that is more important, as we mentioned now more than
ever before. So thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page and
our station website. Now back to bat Luke and Danny Linnhowe.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
We have Becky Buckdrop from the University of Illinois Extension Offices.
I have always thought a lot of people think that
four H is for the rural communities, and that's nowhere
close to the truth.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Now it's for all ages. And here in Rock Island
County we do a lot of things. We have special
interest clubs, so you can join us for activities that way.
But yeah, we have clubs throughout all areas of the
cod cities and in the rural areas as well. But no,
the programming, there's like a ton of science and we
also because we're associated with the University of Illinois, we

(14:07):
have things like the Leadership Illini Summer Academy, So then
you can actually go to the University of Illinois for
a summer weekend and get lessons and from all the
professors there. They have you know, leadership activities too for
youth that they can also go in, like junior high
there's a junior Leadership conference. So there's lots of great things.

(14:28):
That way too, is the association with the university. We
have a ton of art programs, we have you know,
dog obedience, and even for city kids that want to
do some farm stuff, we actually have a gentleman that
will bring in goats to the Rock Island County Fairgrounds
and he shows them how to show goats. They can
show one of his goats, and so you know, even
if you're a city kid and you want to try

(14:50):
some of that. No tons, Yes, and we have like
our general Projects areas, the biggest area at the fair
that's where we have just hundreds of projects. That's where
you do showcase your science, your photography, your woodworking, electric
you know, all those skills and things that people like
to do. So yeah, it's definitely for everybody, not just

(15:11):
for farm kids for sure.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's social aspect that you had touched on earlier. That's
so important. It really does help not only the children,
but the families open up too with four age.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, and I also want to encourage, like if there's
any parents that are thinking, you know, oh, I'd like
to get my kid involved. You know, you can also
become a leader. So you can start a club with
as few as five kids. So maybe you have a
couple of cousins, a couple of neighbors, and then you
can plan and you know, have your monthly meeting. We
do tons of you know, we'll do your training, your screening,
give you all kinds of resources, and then you can

(15:44):
start that for your own kids in your community, your school,
your church, whatever you think. You know, we'd love to
have more leaders that because the leaders are what make
four age possible. You know, we have the resources and everything,
but it's those leaders that give their time to say
we want to fire the next generation. And so that's
a key to four H is really having those good leaders.

(16:04):
So we'll have resources on that, and please visit our
website and talk to us about you know, ways you
can get involved as a leader.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
When you talk about the resources too, for some people
to think, well I can't start a club, I don't
have enough money for that, and that's not necessarily The
University of Illinois Extension offices can help with some of
that stuff too.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh yeah, so we do and like to join FOACH
for the year is twenty dollars, but we also have
waivers and stuff for kids that can afford that. But
that gets you the full year access to all of
our programs, workshops, you know, everything that we do. And
then we have our fourage Foundations. They assist clubs if
they need anything, they can help provide, you know, funding
and things like that that they might need. So yeah,

(16:46):
we're here for the resources and the curriculum and the
project guides and stuff. So it is just incredible. I've
judged projects before too at the fair and it's so
amazing to see these kids all come in and it's
you know, showcase something that they've learned about, you know,
have things on clouds or photography or art or you know,
so and it's just amazing to see and they share

(17:08):
what they've learned and it's just so incredible to see
what you can actually do.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, it's like a team building thing too.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
A little bit.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
This is so cool. Now I'm still a little worried
that four each would let me be a leader. Now
that you're sure, would it be properly vetted or you
do a very serious you're not gonna let me. You're
not gonna let one of my kinds slip on through.
That's probably a good idea, but yet at the same time,

(17:37):
it's amazing some of the people that maybe could be
intimidated because they don't want to They don't want to
poorly run a club. They want to they want to
do a great job. You guys will be able to
help them, right.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
We have monthly leader meetings that they can come to
and can get resources. Yeah, so the staff is definitely here.
Our program coordinators you know, are there for them, and
the leaders love you know, they make friends too with
other leaders and stuff, so they have a good time.
And then we do also have another thing coming up.
If you're a teen and you want to learn more
leadership skills, we are having our four age teen teachers

(18:11):
coming up. That'll be October fourteenth, So that'll be a
club that'll meet monthly. In the teens. What they get
trained to help lead programs for youth. They get a curriculum.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
And we're talking to Becky Buckrop from the University of
Illinois Extension. And that's probably a great thing too. Now,
mom and dad leading the club is one thing that
would be perfect for younger kids to see a teen
leading them. Not that mom and dad are an adult,
isn't It is a bad thing, not at all, but
seeing a teen help that's got to be great for

(18:42):
the kids looking up at that team too.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, it's great for them to We'll teach them how
to lead a booth or whatever, so they'll do like
activities for youth. And then there's always you know, some
adults there to oh yeah too. But it gives them
the skills because that's so important as you you know,
develop and get older, to know how to interact and
lead a program, especially if you're interested in doing anything
with the youth and being a teacher or leader.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
But you've got another big event that's coming up with
and I want you to explain this Gardening in the
Air that sounds like it's imagination station there. What's going
on with that?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Well, we call it Gardening in the Air because it's
a virtual gardening symposium and it actually kicked off during COVID.
But then everybody's been loving it. We have people from
actually the entire nation that actually signed up for this,
but it's an We combine it with Iowa State University
and as our horticulture educators from both Illinois Extension and
Iowa State University Extension, and they do workshops online and

(19:43):
it's via zoom and there's nine different workshops that folks
can choose from three sessions per so it starts it's
October eighteenth. I don't know if I said that. October eighteenth, Saturday,
from nine to noon. And it's called Gardening in the Air.
So we have great experts. So one of them the
first session like nine to ten, they can do learn

(20:05):
about how to dry and press flowers. There's a guy
presenting on on good bugs bad bugs. So like there's
bugs and bees and butterflies are all part of.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Like all things we think that we think that bugs
can creep us out sometimes and they could be an annoyance,
but there are there are some good and bad in
the bug world too, right, how.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
To learn about you know, yeah, all the things that
they are, the important role they play. We also anybody
that has to maintain their school, you know, football, soccer
fields and stuff, We're going to have this professor from
Iowa State University. He's a turf grass specialist. He's going
to do one on how to turf and sports maintenance
for those fields. Then the next sessions are going to

(20:47):
be on grasses and sedges, a lot of you know,
beautiful ways to make a natural landscape with some of those.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
And that works for you know, even though we're talking
about the field or how to work on a big
football field or a soccer this is sounds like part
of this also can help for our smaller field or
our lawn.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Right well, he'll be talking a little bit about the
differences on that like the home lawn and stuff. But
turf is always a huge area for folks. We have
really great turf information on our extension pages.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
And stuff is there registration the team teachers.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
There is legislation on our page for that and that'll
be on the fourage page and you can visit our
front page too. I'll have some links there, and then
the gardening in the air is also you can join
that on our web page as well.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
And we're talking to Becky Buckrop right now with the
University of Illinois Extension. So this ought to be great
stuff in October. And of course the beauty of what
you guys do is it's NonStop information. So if anybody
ever needs anything, and this is really we've talked about
it before, you guys are it's like a welcome Matt

(21:57):
to the world. Anybody and everybody can come up and
and check out what you've got going on or ask
a question. So if they need to find out more
on anything or just the things you guys, you guys
and ladies have going on, where can they find out
that information? What's the website?

Speaker 5 (22:14):
All right? It is Extension dot Illinois dot ed U,
and then ours is backslash hmrs because our unit serves
Henry Mercer, Rock Island and Stark. But if you google,
you know, University of Illini Extension or Illino Extension, you're
gonna you're gonna find a web page that'll get you
to us as well. Yes, Extension dot Illinois dot edu

(22:35):
backslash hmrs. And our phone number if anybody needs to call,
is three oh nine seven five six nine nine seven eight.
Then we can also answer questions every Wednesday. Our master
gardeners are still available too for horticulture questions, so they
can find that from nine to noon on Wednesdays through
the middle of October.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
So you guys are ready on that as well. You're
you're like a like a convenience store open twenty four
to seven.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Right, Oh yeah, seems like it. Our website is for sure,
is it that? And we really appreciate you guys sharing
these because I hope you know, people take advantage. We're
here for the community, and so we appreciate you guys
will helping us get the word out about these because
we don't want to be the best kept secret. We
want to be the one that everybody hears about. And
we appreciate you guys helping us spread the word.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page on
our station website. Now back to bat Luke and Danny Linnhowe.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Valerie Rumler, who is like involved in everything, it seems like,
but two big things that we always seem to talk
to her about the big suicide Awareness Walk and then
also the drug take back Day, and that'll happen a
couple of times during the year. We've got a big
one coming up here in a little bit. But since
I brought up the walk. How did it go? Weather cooperated?

Speaker 6 (23:57):
The yepp the weather cooperator. The walk was fabulous. There
was a lot of participants, very hectic that day, but
it was a good one.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
It's a good kind of hectic. Yeah, that's that's nice.
I guess it would be. It would be more difficult
if you were just standing there and nobody was there
and then you were just trying to figure out, you know,
how to get all the stuff back in the car.
So that's great. And just even though that is kind
of in the rear view, if people still need to
find out how they want to help out your organization,

(24:31):
do you want to give that website? And I'm kind
of popping that on you, but do you want to
maybe just bring up that website again just in case
people want to help for next year or just help
in some way, shape or form these next couple of months.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah. Yeah. We We have a Facebook following page which
has our email on it, but we are promoting to
get more committee members and volunteers on The email is
the Quad Citi's IL Walk at gmail dot com if
anybody is interested in volunteering. Most of the people are

(25:05):
following our page on the Quaud City, Illinois Suicide Prevention
out of the darkness. I can't even tell you what
order those words are in, but you'll be able to
find it.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, you go start the search and it'll it'll pop
up eventually. So okay, great, Now that we want to
make sure that we at least make people aware that
that website is out there and there is a place
to support and there's a great spot to go to.
But now we talk about we shift gears in a

(25:37):
completely different way. On the drug take Back Day that's
coming up in the latter part of October.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yes, we have, it's national as well. Drug take Back
Day here in the Cloud Cities is going to be
October twenty fifth, from ten to two at. I would
almost want to say one hundred percent of the police
station's offered here, but we kind of just for them
to initially find somebody that sits with us, so we
don't get notification until closer to the time. If you

(26:07):
went to the DEA dot gov and ask for your
zip code, you would be able to find all the
different police departments that are.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Offering what's that website.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Again, DEA dot gov. Since it's a national it'll list
anyone in the United States by zip code to tell
you where they're going to be at the police stations.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And I like that because as user friendly. Put in
your zip code and then it'll it'll pop up whichever
one is closest geographically. Great idea, so that that'll be
the day, even though it's national, the day will be
it's a Saturday.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
But what day October twenty fifth?

Speaker 2 (26:49):
But now's the time for a lot of people to
start going throughout their house and finding that medication, that
probably that bottle. Even though you're support to go through
them all, sometimes you don't and that bottle just ends
up in a drawer, It ends up over here and
you forget about it. Do a sweep now, correct.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
We want everybody to look through. We don't collect liquids
or needles, but collecting anything else bottle in all the
name's on the bottle, nobody looks through it checks it
out because it gets sent somewhere else to be burned.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I've done this before, but I'll scratch off the label
because I just don't want anybody else to see it.
But is that proper to lead the label so they
at least know what kind of pills they are or
do they? They just get dumped.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
It just gets dumped. Nobody looks at the bottles. A
lot of people do dump their bottles into a plastic bag,
which is fine as well. That the bottles and all
are no problem. Throw it in there, nobody. We don't
inspect them, We don't look at them. We just make
sure there's no liquid and needles. And then it gets
dumped and sealed by the police department because they're the
ones that transport it. So we don't inspect anything. The

(28:00):
police don't inspect anything. It goes to a burn unit
and there it is disposed of.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's October twenty fifth that you want to be a
part of the drug take back day here in the
Quad City area. But again for people that are just
tuning in, now's the time, right Valerie, to start finding
those pills, getting them ready for the big day. So
what is the name of the website so people are

(28:27):
ready to go?

Speaker 6 (28:29):
So it's on the da dot gov website by zip code.
I know the rock Onland County. Oh goodness, I could
be wrong, but rock Onland County courthouses where the drug
take back is happening there, they don't have it at
the Rock Island Police station. And then they have the

(28:50):
Molling one for sure in the East Mulling one for
sure I know now, but if you go in buy
zip code under DA dot gov you will find a
local police department that is sponsoring that.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
And again, the date is.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
October twenty fifth, on a Saturday from ten to two.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Valerie Rumler, I can't wait for the next time you're
helping out another great cause. It always gives us a
chance to talk. Keep up the great work that you're doing,
young lady, and for everybody else listening Drug take Back
Day October twenty fifth. Website again is to find out
where you.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Go DA dot gov.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
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