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October 12, 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
Quad City Forum, Nott Luke and Denny Linnhowe.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Luanne Palissant is able to talk to us again, and
it's kind of like everything old is new again. I'm
sorry that we have to do this, but I'm also
glad to see it back where we have a chili
fundraiser helping out the people of Haiti. That's going to
be coming up. More on that in just a bit.
But Lewani, even though you maybe haven't had the fundraiser

(00:37):
for a while, the situation down in Haiti continues. If
it's possible, it gets worse almost every.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Day, that's true.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's just unbelievable the struggles these people have on a
day to day basis. It's you know, fear of going
out the gang's rule quarter of prints, but they douce
read into the countryside where our villages are, and it
is it's dangerous for anybody just to set foot outside

(01:08):
and to continue their daily life, to try to find food,
to try to get education. You know, all those things
are just really really dangerous every single day, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I was at another just happened to stumble into a
there was a pastor that had gone down there, and
he had gone down a couple of times, and he
was promising to go down again. But he's just just
the peril of going from one block to the next.
The things that we take for granted, going to a store,

(01:41):
going to a store, or driving down the street to store.
There's places that you can't even there's not even a
store down there anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
True, true, And I'm impressed that he was actually there,
because it's extremely dangerous for anybody to be traveling or
visit there these days too, So I'm I'm pleased that
he was able to make it safely. But it's it
is a different world down there completely, and we've not
been able to get down there well since twenty nineteen.

(02:14):
So I would love to go. I would love to
get back there and see my friends, but that's just
not an option for me these days.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And that started there, and that started well. And it's
great to keep people aware of the situation because in
this day and age, we can be distracted by a
lot of things, and maybe sometimes we feel like everybody's
putting all of it on our shoulders to make it better,
but letting people know that the plight. Haiti is a

(02:44):
beautiful country if we could clean out, for lack of
a better term, the riff raff and get the warlords
out of there so the country can go back to
being a country again.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yes, I do believe they're supposed to have some political
elections coming up in November. I don't know how that's
going to go. I haven't really talked to anybody about that.
But you know, the government is lucy gucy as it
is right now. There's nobody really in charge.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
When we talk about Haiti. This was a situation that
even with your mom and.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Dad, My mom and dad started an organization in nineteen
eighty nine called Friends of the People of Haiti, and
we went and adopted a village, so to speak, the
village of twenty and we helped out the first financial
support certainly, and then we went down with medical missions

(03:45):
for several several years, and then we switched and pivoted.
Once there was a after the earthquake that happened, there
was a clinic that did get set up in the town,
and so we pivoted and started doing work missions, which
meant repairing their houses with giving them a cement floor

(04:06):
instead of the dirt floor, and giving them a new
tin roof so it didn't drip on them when it rained,
and that sort of thing. So we would go down
there on those mission trips, but as I say, we've
not been able to go since twenty nineteen, and indeed
just not this past March, the march before Friends of

(04:29):
the People of Haiti folded, and so we were looking
for another organization to help out our village. Our membership
was just getting aging out and we needed some help.
And so there's another organization called Love for La Lamandeka
and La lamand is the name of the village that
they already were working with, and they just took our

(04:55):
village as well. They just decided we're going to help
help the village of twin as well, so they are
taking care of both villages and I couldn't be more pleased.
Laurie mackenzie is the president of that organization, and her
love for Haiti and the Haitian people is almost almost

(05:17):
as fascinated as I am.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, and I know that we had talked to Laurie
a while back because you wanted to make sure that
you knew that she was doing a fundraiser over on
the Iowa side whenever it happened to be. But it's
just so great how people want to help as best
they can. But there again, this isn't like it's just

(05:40):
two miles down the road we got. There's a lot
of moving parts to make this happen. So it all
starts right now for people to, you know, how can
they find out first off on the villages and the
people that they're gonna help. Is there any way to
access some background on them?

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Absolutely, we have They Love for Lalamand has a website
and I would say that's a good place to start, okay.
And that website is love for Lalamond dot org. That's
l O V E f O r l A l

(06:19):
L E m A and.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
D dot org.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And they also will have a Facebook page.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Great, fantastic And of course even though the event that
we're talking about is coming up on the seventeenth, that
will be a drive through. I would imagine the line
every now and again might get a little long because
you'll be right out there in the front line. Probably
helping helping people just to learn a little bit more
about the project, and maybe are there going to be

(06:51):
flyers that you can also hand out so people can
have some access to on their own on their drive home.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
I think that's a great idea. We will certainly make that.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I am full of great ideas, Luanne, you know me,
you remember me for I always come up with the
ideas and then people say, well, do you want to
help with that or go, well, wait a minute, I
don't know about that. But the main thing that we
want to make sure that people are a part of
here is the drive up and go chili fundraiser helping
out Haiti or those two villages. But give us the

(07:23):
details on the date and the time, maybe some specifics
what they're going to get. We would imagine it's chili,
but you go ahead and take it from there.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yes, Captain Obvious, we have a.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Chili Watch it, polissant watch it.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
This is a drive up and go chili dinner. It
is a fifteen dollars suggested donation and for that donation
you would get one quart of chili, right, crackers and
some spoons to go with at and four cookie Okay,
so that would make a nice little dinner for a
couple of people. The date is Friday, October seventeenth from

(08:09):
four to six pm at Coleman's Hall, which is the
hall at Take Her Heart Mollein. He addresses fourteen hundred
and sixteenth Avenue in.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Molin, Okay. And again it's a drive up thing, so
that's that'll be great too for people. Now, is there
a way to get like an advanced order or do
you just drive up and drive up and say hey,
I want four to go.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yes, and we do have spicy or mild those are
our two options, but just the one size the court size.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yes, you can pre order with an email to Lauri
and her email is Lori l r I mc k
n Z ninety four at gmail dot com.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, I would like this. I just like the energy here,
paul A Santon mackenzie at it here. You guys will
look they're good. You're gonna knock down a bunch of
walls here and a bunch of things. But for people
that need to maybe find out more, because we certainly
want people to find out home, you know, do their
homework on this particular cause again to kind of refresh

(09:24):
it or to at least find out more. Where can
they go?

Speaker 4 (09:29):
H The website is loveflalamand dot org. Let me sell
that one more time. Sure l o v E f
o r l A l l E m A n
d dot org. Or the Facebook page at love for

(09:50):
lalamand that's l O v E the number four l
A l l E m A n d.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
And even though you can pre order for people that
want to go. October seventeenth, the drive up and go
Chili fundraiser event for Haiti will be at Cooman's Hall
and that's fourteen hundred sixteenth Avenue in Molean or over
by Sacred Heart Church, Seaton. Seaton is the name of
the school now. But Luanne not to say how old

(10:22):
she is, but she remembers when that was Sacred Heart.
Don't you? Thank you? Captain obvious. I appreciate what's good
for the goose is good for the gander. All right,
that's right, I'll take it, Luanne. Continued success and in
such a passion after all these years, just to hear

(10:42):
how much you want to see the real people of Haiti.
You want to see and be able to succeed anything
else that people should know or want to do, right
now as they're listening to this interview, just keep the.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
People of Haiti in your prayers as well. We will
always always ask for that. Again, their situation is extremely dire,
and just close your eyes. Picture the worst of the
worst and that's probably what you'll get for haitis.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, the worst of the worst and multiplied by ten exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
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 Pat Luke and Danny Linnewe.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
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 on Channel six
for a long time or twenty years. But Gary, when
you when you look back at some of the now,

(11:47):
it 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 I mean that's correct. That was kind of a grind,
wasn't it. It was?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
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 their world, and I
had a chance and the privilege to be able to
do that three times a day for them. Yeah, that
was very important.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
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 kinda slowly but surely moving into

(12:35):
that award winning where you're hitting all the major ones. Man,
where to go?

Speaker 5 (12:40):
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 distory out there saying, hey, this is good

(13:01):
work too, and that's all that matters to me at
the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, and one of the great things that we've seen
your YouTube channel of the heart of the story.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
That is just to me.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
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 you seemingly have just easily
transitioned into let's use some of these other forms of

(13:34):
media to get out the story, and using YouTube is
just so great for the heart of the story.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, I'll tell you, in a mix of negative and positive,
I'm gonna give you guys a scoop right here. Okay,
this is exciting stuff here for day 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 a new owners and new management that hey

(14:02):
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

(14:25):
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

(14:47):
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 some much face.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, and you've also done with the success of the podcast.
In 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 becoming prolific.
But you're seeing the traction on that one too. Certainly,
my mask, my war, but one that's very touching, If

(15:20):
I Could Fly That it sounds like an incredible book.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
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 goals 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 explore

(15:48):
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 6 (16:06):
You know, my grandkids are having a fantastic time with it.
In fact, my daughter is using it as a teaching tool.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Oh that's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
We've actually built a we're 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 2 (16:36):
Oh? Yeah, they love it.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
I love the look on their faces. It's because they're
discovering these things for the first time.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Right when they can see an eagle's eye or an
owl right up close and personal, it kind of really
presents this awe in them. And I think we need
more awe in our lives.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Too, and it's not always in front of a computer
screen or a TV screen and 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 be so interesting?

Speaker 5 (17:11):
I was on an honor flight and I got a
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
you doing with all this beautiful photography? He says, well,

(17:33):
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
share it with even more people and would become very

(17:55):
close friends and been working together now for the past
five years now.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Partnership was born. So if people, if they're hearing us,
just talk about if I can fly, how can they
find the book? How can they get the book?

Speaker 5 (18:07):
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 the book and we have Explorers packs
on there too, which are binoculars, plush animal book bag,
trading cards with different facts about different animals and with
featuring all Jay's photos. And that's all at the tvamedia
dot com. You can also get the My Mask, My War.

(18:29):
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 (18:38):
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 book, right.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
For sure, for sure that when I did the book
with Norma, we spend by 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 American veterans,

(19:17):
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 Ksei and
we met for almost a year to get her story down.

(19:40):
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 (19:51):
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 cans And Film Fest and people are
recognizing it, job will done. Mister Mtva.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
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 Camp, 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

(20:28):
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

(20:49):
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 greats of
those who fought mostly the Battle of the Bolts liberating
their country. So those people, as a thank you, they
all adopted a grave and passed it down from generation generation.

(21:11):
They send photos, letters, they stay in touch with the
families here. It's just a remarkable way of saying thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah after and almost handed it has been handed off
to other generations now and the pride that they take
in the connections and it's really just like you said
with Norma that continued on. There 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 be coming

(21:38):
up sometime in October.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yes, I believe that October fifteenth, if I have that right.
I'm just finding out about it. Well, I'm on my trip.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
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, yeah, somebody else get credit.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
For it, but shrug off the good stuff here because
you can accomplish and you.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Can talk about the smaller can 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 the some of
these other events with this movie?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
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
our questions too about sort of the process. Because and

(22:49):
we'll be posting more about A two on our website
and I start 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

(23:11):
shared so much with us, and they're friends of mine.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Now.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
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 coming days leading
up to Veterans Day. I think that's important. So that's
what we're going to be doing.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh man, it's going to be perfect. And again, Tim
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 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 5 (23:49):
Yep, it's Matvamedia 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 that you can just just put
in my name in Google, ET, I V I E R.
And I'll come up because I think I'm kind of

(24:10):
everywhere right out.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
It is.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
It is a good thing. You're kind of like Martha
Stewart and away. It's a good thing. It's a mitva
thing and Gary continued success. Thanks for taking the time
out to talk to us today.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Oh, thank you so much, put 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 (24:37):
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.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Danny linnowe 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
got a big one coming up here in a little bit,

(25:06):
Yes we have.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's a 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 stations offered here,
but we kind of just wait for them to initially
find somebody that sits with us, so we don't get
notification till closer to the time. If you went to

(25:30):
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 (25:40):
Offering what's that website again.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
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 (25:53):
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'll be the day.
Even though it's national, the day will be it's a Saturday,
but what day.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
October twenty fifth.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
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 supposed 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 3 (26:31):
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 (26:46):
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 leave the label so they
at least know what kind of pills they are? Or
do they They just get dumped.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
It just gets dumped. But he 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.

(27:22):
The police don't inspect anything. It goes to a burn
unit and there it is disposed of.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's October twenty fifth that you want to be a
part of the Drug take Back Day here in the
Quatity 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 ready to go.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
So it's on the DA dot gov website buy zip code.
I know the Rock County Oh goodness, I could be wrong,
but Rock Island County courthouses where the drug TakeBack is
happening there. They don't have it at the Rock Island
Police station. And then they have the Molling one for

(28:14):
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 (28:26):
And again the date is October.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Twenty fifth, on a Saturday from ten to two.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
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 3 (28:55):
Go DA dot gov.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
And as we wrap up the forum today. We have
a couple of firefighter fundraisers that are happening. There are
in opposite locations of the listening area, so you pick
one if you can and help the Osco Andover Fire
Department having their pancake breakfast today. It's from seven to one,
but it's even though it's helping out both those towns.
This will be in Osco and.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
There's a pancake, omelet and sausage breakfast going on until
noon at the Preston Fire Department now. Also a bake
sale to by the Women's Auxiliary. So great ways for
you to fill your tummy and also help a great cause.
We appreciate you. From your iHeartRadio station.

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