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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 Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're talking to John Poustuin. You've probably seen John out
that the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds more than a few times.
But a big event that's coming up at the Fairgrounds
on June fourteenth, John tell us all about it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, it's going to be our ninth annual point for
you tractor pull for St. Jude and balance autism ninety years.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I cannot believe it? And I'm also thinking, first off,
truck and tractor polls. You just say it and people
can make money. But it seems like since the very
beginning you've always wanted to help other organizations out. And
what first off, how did you start the truck contractor
poll idea? How nine years ago? How did you decide
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to start doing this?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, be honest with you, we were walking through the
fairgrounds with Sean Loader and Sean goes Matt, I'd really
like to have a truck and tractor pull up here again.
It's been twenty five years, so I said I could
do that. One thing led to another and we got
a lot of response from the community to you know,
and I had a partner to come in and we like,
we can make a lot of money at this and
we're not doing it for the money. Let's do it
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for charities. So we started pulling for you promotions and
every year we picked two different charities that we're going
to donate it all back to.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's the beauty of this now. Saint Jude is near
and dear to our hearts, and we appreciate the help
the last few years. It seems like that you've kind
of you gave us money just on our doorstep. You
just said here, thank you for that. But also Balance Autism,
how did you go through the process of faking them up.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I have some people that are on my board or
help me out that they're either have grandchildren or a
child that goes to that school, and they're like, hey,
can we do this, And I'm like sure. I talked
to Balance Autism and they said, yes, we're going to
keep the money local. That was a very easy decision
for me.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The event is Saturday, June fourteenth, and for people that
maybe have been to truck and tractor pulls before, they
pretty much know the overlying team that we truck contractors.
But I can't believe the different classes you've got going
on here.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh yeah, there's gonna be a lot of local farm classes.
And then ECI always puts on a good show for me.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
E ci. Where did you connect with them?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Actually, I just got on the internet that day and
kind of like, hey, we need to put on a
pretty good show for this, and we hooked up with them,
and you know what, they've been a feach to work
with for the last nine years. I've always you know,
I had to sign a contract with them in March,
and for the last nine years they've always they even
give money back to the organizations that we donate to.
So you're talking about the money. I was trying to
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remember back over nine years. We're gonna after this year,
we're gonna be over one hundred thousand dollars that we've
donated securities in nine years.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That is that is staggering in just nine years that
you've been able to do that. John. And by the way,
we're talking to John Post here, who is the brainchild
behind maybe do we want to give Sean Loader credit
for that? Is he the brainchild for this?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
No, they were walking actually yeah, Scott like yeah, even
calls for a reason.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
John broke in and he said Sean, hold my beer
and it went from there. But with the truck and
tractor pull and certainly we've seen this happen in other
situations too. That Usually organizers and promoters don't always get
long because there's a lot of egos. So that's nice
that you've got people that have both sides that have
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wanted to stay together and help out the great organizations.
Because in the end you could see people getting kind
of greedy after holding on to some dollars there because
they've got bills to pay, but that they want to
also help out these great organizations. That's got to make
you feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
John, It's uh, it's amazing. So the sponsors and they
know who they are. I can't mention them all that
helped put this on. It takes a lot of money
just to put this on. Before we donate, I want
to give a big shout out to my help. I mean,
they've got stuck with me for nine years and I
know it's a strain on them. For a couple of weeks,
three weeks till we get through this. But you know,
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like I sold them the other day at a meeting,
I said, you guys don't get to see when you
go drop that check off, the lives you're changing from
all the different ones I've donated to how they are,
Oh my gosh, this is you know, you put us
over our budget for the year, or oh my gosh,
that wow, that's more than I expected to look on
people's face when you donate. They don't get to see that.
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But I'm just telling the public is something that you
can do. It experiences.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We're now By the time this interview airs, it will
be right around a week before. So you talked about
two to three weeks before you really start to push,
but really doesn't once the event is done. Aren't you
starting to plan for the next year? How many hours
a man, hours, people hours do you guys put into this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'll probably start. I'll probably book a date and month
after we're done, and then I'll start planning and what
we're gonna do for next year, probably in the first
of the year, maybe a little sooner in the ECI
while we're gonna do so it's for me. It's a
process that starts probably in January and goes till June fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The nice thing is here. Just enjoy a truck and
tractor pull, but also know that once you pay for
your ticket, which adults are fifteen dollars, Kids six to
twelve or ten and then five and under free, Man
five and under are free. That's fantastic. But you're helping
out balance autism and also Saint Jude, this is great stuff. John.
(05:47):
It starts what time or what time do the doors open?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Probably around four thirty quarter about four thirty we'll start
letting people in the main event starts at five thirty
after my sister gets done singing the national anthem.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Ooh, now, did she have to work hard for this
or was it just because she's your sister that you
let her in?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
She got nominated really quick.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Did she know she was being nominated? Is this going
to be a surprise to her? About four o'clock on
June fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh, she's done it nine years in a row.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay. To find out more.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Go to Point for You promotions on Facebook. It kind
of has pictures of what we've done the last nine
years to kind of give you. If you've never been
to a truck contractor poll, there's a video on there
it kind of explains what it is. It was from
back in two thousand and eighteen, like the second year
we did it. So if you've never seen a truck
contractor poll, it's a different experience. I don't know, it's
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something you have to I know the Quad Cities is.
It's something different for the Quad Cities, and after nine years,
I don't think people on the Quad City still don't
comprehend what it is. But man, for one hundred dollars,
I mean, it seems like a lot, But for one
hundred bucks, you can take a family of four, go
watch a nice show for a couple hours, have a
hot dog on a beer at the grandstands, walk around seep.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are you there, John, Yeah, I'm here. Yeah, it started
to break up on you.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that's what I was saying. With one hundred dollars,
I mean, for I know, money's kind of tight around everybody.
For one hundred dollars, for a family of four, you
can go see a good show, have a hot dog
on a beer, and have good entertainment for a couple hours.
That's what I was trying to say before I got
cut out.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's still worth noting and again find out Pulling for
You promotions on their Facebook page to find out more.
But Saturday June fourteenth, big crowd record breaker and thanks
again for helping out balance Autism and Saint Jude's.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I would like to give a shout out to you
guys for helping me promost this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, you'll get our bill in the mail here very soon. Okay,
we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Money, well, money well tent.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
John Is always have a great day and we'll see
you out there on the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, all right, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City for them, please visit the contact beach
and our station website. Now back to bat Luke and
Danny Linnell.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We've got Kathy Wine, executive director of River Action, talking
to us here today. River Action always summertimes busy. Every
day of the year, it's busy over at River Action.
There's always something coming up with Kathy. The big thing
that's it's a tradition, but it's a little different than
in the past. Instead of ride the river.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's ride the Island. We've had this limitation to come on.
All the buildings are going to be open for us.
By that, I mean twelve of the iconic landmarks there,
and we are able to celebrate Ride the River, but
also the two fiftieth Anniversity Army, and they're doing so
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much in welcoming us. They're going to have a big
grill cookout at Memorial Park for all the dads and
families and it's just going to be a great time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, it's the best of the best of both things,
because it's it's a tradition. I remember there were highlights
because you couldn't always go onto the island when there
was Ride the River. And it's great that and yet
the island seemingly is a little bit more of a
push to say, hey, wait a minute, it's you. It's
your island too, and they'd love to be. Just a
(09:21):
few months ago they officially opened back up the golf
course again, so you might, well, you lose some people
on ride the Ride the Island where they just bring
their golf clubs and they end up over end up
over golfing too.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's fine, absolutely fine, Yes it is. It's going to
be a great day. Were well, yeah, and you weren't
a lot of history. Whether you're volunteering with us on
that day at one of these stops, or whether you're
riding the ten mile loop and stopping in, you're going
to see a lot of the beautiful history of them,
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of the island, and as well all the beautiful trails.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, the trails are amazing and for a lot of people,
we still think up until this day, most people have
driven by or through or on the island and they
still don't realize how big that island is.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I know, I know they don't. But it is a
new day over there. They are opening it up more
and they're allowing bikers more, and golfers and walkers and
all of that more.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And with all of that more, you need a lot
of volunteers, not only just to get people in to
be doing the riding, but you need some volunteers too
at certain points too.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes we do. I'm glad to ask, because at each
of these stops that we have along the along the route,
there'll be someone handing out stars that me and you
stop there and then it can sew up your license
plate which you get when you sign up for the ride.
You won't need any other admission except the ride the
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island license plate and then you add these stars to
it and when you're finished, if you have them all,
you're eligible for prizes. We have kids prizes, we have
adult prizes. So we're really encouraging everyone to explore all
these things on the island and that's where we need
volunteers as we're open from eight to three thirty and
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we want to be welcoming them from that time to
that time, and that's where we need some volunteers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, when we talk about the island, though, normally you
have to do the visitors thing. So what are we
going to on ride the island. Is that going to
be a little bit different for people to be a
part of it or what are the steps are going
to have to do to get ready for the big day.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yes, those that are riding it, those that are participating
in the ride will have a license that we issue
to them that goes on the bike and that just
comes with registration and that's what you'll need to get
into the gate. The gate will be the Davenport Gate
because we are launching from the Quantity Times parking lot
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and that's a short trip across the Government Bridge to
get into the Davenport gate and then you're on your way.
If you're a volunteer, yes, you will need your paths
to get on the island. But as everything else has
opened up, so has the times that you can get
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your pass. It's open even on Sunday. The time takes
about ten minutes, so I encourage people to get that
too because you can use it all year and it's
a nice thing to have.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And then also for and you brought up a good
point Daviport, so people that would normally come in through
Rock Island or through Moleen there. This is to really
start our and and first off, the date is Father's Day,
but just to give the date, everybody should realize. The
starting point will be over in the Isowa side.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
That's right, it's in the Quadity Times parking lot. And
we'll have an officer helping you get onto the to
the roundabout and onto the island. And yeah, it'll be
an easy jump from there to the.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Easy jump, but a long day for everybody at River
Action because you're gonna you're gonna have to get in there.
But of course they'll find out more when they go
to Riveraction dot Org should there be anything else that
they search or will it be right up there at
the front of the website.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, that it should be right up there. And uh,
it's slash volunteer if you want to volunteer, but to ride,
just go to Riveraction dot org slash r I r
T I Ride the River, got it ride?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That is right?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, but still we get yet we know exactly what
you mean, Kathy. Guys, it's a little bit different, but
yet it's still it's a Father's Day tradition, that River Action.
You've made it a little bit more enjoyable with what's
happened on Father's Day thanks to the hard work that
you've been And you were a part of the very
first one. Not to date you, right, but you were.
(14:21):
That's right, you were the one.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Oh yeah, I'm proud to be back to go back
to the first one. We had two miles of trails
on the Ben Butterworks Parkway at that time, and we
knew we needed more, so we started this advocacy and
riding and showing people how close you could get to
the river if we just had some trails, And now
we have sixty. So it's been a good it's been
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a good thing. We're still working on trails and pedestrian
bridges and all of.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
That, and certainly the work is never done. So even
after ride the Island, or even though I'll slip back
in and say ride the river, but yeah, ride the island,
there's still work to be done where people if they
want to volunteer and help your great organization the rest
of the year, they can just go to that river
axe or see somebody there on Father's Day over on
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the island and just say hey, I want to help,
and then here's Kathy Wine right.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Over here, and you get signing people up.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
The This is good stuff all the time. Now with
the ride the Island, that's great on Father's Day, but
you also have another event that'll happen probably I guess
by the time that'll be like less than two months
after that, with the Floatsilla. How are things working for that?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh? Really well, we have a float Fillapalooza this year. Oh.
It will include a rubber duck hunt. We'll be tossing
ducks down from the crane and people will pick those
up for prizes. We have an obstacle course in the
middle of the lake that people can, you know, try
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their skin. And then we have a cardboard boat race
as well, and some a great band. We've got other
things going on all day.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, this is exciting stuff. And this is still over
at Lake Potter again over in Rock Island. Yes, that's right.
So again to find out more riveraction dot Org probably
one thing to click on after another. You'll be able
to find out on that too. That's right, okay, But
the main thing is Father's Day. One last time, tell
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everybody how they can do it in less than a minute, Kathy,
I hate to force you on this, but just give
us kind of an idea on how people can be
a part of the big Ride the Island Father's Day event.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, all you need to do is to well, you
can always come to our office here at eight twenty
two East River Drive or call us. But go to
the website and get on Ride the Island. You'll be
able to register, we'll questions, you might have pick up
a brochure here. We have special prices for families three
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to eight people in a family, so it's just a
very affordable thing to do on Father's Day. And as
I said, we're not even missing the cookout. We've got
a great, big grill that's being provided by the Arsenal
Food Service. It's going to be going all day, so
it's going to be a wonderful celebration of both the
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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the US Army as
well as dads.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And how many years is that Dad's been around a
lot longer than the army, but still they've it's been
a long time. So and it is again great to
just showcase the island. And it's great that they want
to open their arms a little bit more for us,
and we appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's right, we are and we have veterans who are
helping us of course too, and we're saying we're your hat.
We want people to be able to thank you for
your service. And it's going to be great. Everyone gets
a dog take that signs up, as well as a
really neat Army green shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So why you've thought of everything, although we would bet
come Father's Day you go, oh, I forgot there's one
other thing, but that'll be for next year, right, Kathy
is always thank you for the time. In fact, where
it's always amazing when we can get you in for
the interview because you're always going and doing other things,
but continued success and we'll see you Father's Day.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Thank you for the support so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
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 Linhowe.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Tracy Joe mullikin able to stop by here today from
the University of Illinois Extension. Now, do you want me
to start singing Happy birthday to the master gardeners? We
should fifty. This is a big number.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It is. We are so excited in the fifty year
of la Master Gardener program, and we are hosting one
of the celebrations that is open to the general public.
So on Wednesday, June twenty fifth, here in the Quiet Cities,
we are hosting the Golden Garden Days and we are
celebrating the fifty years of the Master Gardener program in Illinois.
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And like I said, it's open to the public. We're
just really looking to showcase our program to people who
are interested in becoming a master gardener, who are a
master gardener, who were a master gardener, or just curious
about what master gardeners do. So we're starting our day
at ten o'clock am at Riverside and Moline, and then
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we will go through We have a tree walk down there.
We have a pollinator garden. We're going to do a
make and take in the greenhouse. We're going to look
at our demonstration garden. So we're going to start there
from ten to twelve and then we're going to have
lunch on your own. But I am having a food
tree down there so we can sit in the garden
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and talk plants.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Which what do we talk about? And I love I
love the food truck because I love their names, because
what is it Angry Haven, I believe is the food
truck And I'm I just love the names. There's so
much personality just in the names. But it's nice to
have that. And yet there's some other places that they
might be able to go to that are within walking distance,
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and you'll be able to help them out with that too.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Absolutely. So yeah, we are asking that people pre register
for this just so that I know how many people
are coming, what kind of supplies I need to have,
and my method of madness, which I always have a
method to my madness. We were going to start at Riverside,
which has been a Master Gardener Project. I've been here
seventeen going on eighteen years, and it was here just
as I started, So it's been going for a long time,
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and every year we try to add another level of
impact to it. So this year we've added in a
website with a GIF mapping of all the trees down
at Riverside and so you can click on a QR
code and you can tour and be like, oh, this
isn't oak, this is this and this is how it grows.
And so every year we try to add something to it.
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You know, master gardeners, it's helping others learn to grow.
So that's one thing that we're really trying to showcase
in this day is that it's not just having somebody
come over and weed, or not just having somebody come
over and plant flowers. They're teaching you. And that's really
what master gardeners are about. And that's what I think
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a lot of the misconception is is that they are
just out gardening. No, they're not just out gardening there.
They're educating others. And so we started with Riverside because
it is one that we have put so much into
and there's so many different.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Levels to it.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
That you'll really see the impact that they can make
in a community. And then after lunch, we're going to
go over to one of our newer projects at Flora
Sentakey Garden and it is a partnership with the neighborhood.
There are snap people than the horticulture team of Master Gardeners,
and we won an Extension Diversity Award in twenty twenty
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four with that one. But it is a newer project
and it is really a community based project, and so
then you'll get to see a completely different kind of project.
So the purpose of that garden is to grow food
to give to people in need, and so we will
actually be doing a food drive at the Flora Sente
Garden that day for participants. So if your tomatoes have
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come into full blossom and you have extras and you
want to donate them, we will take them off your hands.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'd like it, and I wanted to bring up here Tracy.
And by the way, we're talking to Tracy Joe Mulligan
the University of Illinois Extension. The food drive idea was
something that you had talked about a few months ago
when we talked to you.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Absolutely no, it has really taken off We've gotten great
support from other community partners that are helping us with it,
so we are still taking you know, names and emails.
So how it works is if you sign up for
the gift gardens, we've been let you know, okay, today
is Tuesday. These are our food pantries that are taking donations,
So it helps you know where you have to get
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to get your stuff. Because if you are harvesting tomatoes
and your little local pantry isn't open for six days,
well we all know how that works out for those tomatoes.
So we're trying to give you more outlets of where
to get your food on that day so that it
can get to people quick. Because that organic stuff that
you're growing, it doesn't have the shelf life of the
grocery store stuff. We all know that and that's why
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it tastes so much better. So we're trying to give
people ways to get that to people in need quicker.
And Flora Senta has been it's been great. The community
down there has really embraced it and has taken hold
of it. And it's a little gem, is not a
big garden, and it just really showcases what you can
do with a small, little lot that has not been utilized.
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And one thing that it really does show is that
it is this neighborhood that is doing this. I can't
tell you how many calls I get from different organizations
that they have an empty lot that they want master
gardeners to do it. This is that neighborhood. It is.
We are just showing them and giving them information, but
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they are doing it. And that's what our second stop
in our fifty year anniversary will be will be down
at the Flora Sente neighborhood and we will have a
brief presentation from our master gardener lead down there and
it will be showcasing the difference that this small garden
is making into a community. And then we're going to
go across town over to the Hallburg Estate and that
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will be about two point thirty in the afternoon, and
we are taking on the world over there. That is
a huge, brand new project for us. As we all know,
it had been with the Parks and Rec District for
Rock Island for years and now it's been turned back
over to They have a foundation for it and they
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are just doing fantastic things over there. They're re doing
the landscape back to its original intent. And the Master
Gardeners are taking on a huge project over there, and
so you'll get to see from Riverside a long term
existing project to Flora Sente, a new or smaller project
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who then harbored a new project that is just getting started.
We're redoing the rose garden, We're doing the back trellis.
It's just incredible. If you have not been there, holy cow,
it's beautiful and it's huge, and we will end up
being there. We're going to do appetizers and a house
tour and garden tour and they have a little cocktail lounge.
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So it's just going to be a great day. Hopefully
the weather is fantastic for us June twenty fifth. It's
an all day thing, open to the public. We'd love
to have as many people there as possible. Do you
want people to pre register? You can call them Island
Office to register and that numbers three zero nine seven
five six nine nine seven.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Eight, and give that one more time so that they
can register that number real slow, so they can write
it down.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the fifty year celebration.
Golden Day's Master Gardeners and our great secretaries will get
you signed up and we will love to have as
many people as possible.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And it's June twenty fifth, and for people I would gather. Also,
if somebody gets inspired and they want to become a
master gardener, they could probably ask when they're there and
and maybe the possibility exists where they would become a
master gardener sometime soon.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Yes, absolutely so if you know it's I don't want
people to think you have to be want to become
a master gardener to come to this, but if you
are curious about what master gardeners do and you're kind
of thinking, well, maybe this is a great time for
you to see the different types of projects that we have.
And this is just a little tiny taste of what
the Quad City has to offer as far as Master
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Gardener projects. But yeah, it really is a good day
to just see what it is they do, the different
kinds of projects, the different kinds of people that are
involved with Master Gardeners, and we're really looking forward to
showcasing one of the stronger programs in Illinois. Our Quad
City Master Gardeners are a force to be reckoned with.
They do so many great projects in the area and
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so I'm looking forward to showcasing. I call them my people.
You've been doing this a while, I owe you know
they're my people. Showcasing what my people really do. They
make a huge impact in the Quad Cities and some
of the projects that they take on.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Get a chance to see the great job that your
people do and you do too, Tracy Joe Mulligan, that
we need them to register. So we have an idea.
It's June twenty fifth, in that number one last time.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Sure call our Quad City office in Myland It is
three zero seven five six nine nine seven eight, and
just ask to register for the Golden Garden Days, the
fifty years of Master Gardeners, and they'll get you signed up.
There is no fee on this. It's just so that
we know the kind of supplies because we're going to
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do a make intake and I'm going to have some
snacks over at Hobbard, just so that we know how
to divide people up and how many supplies to have.
So please pre register so we have a proper amount
of stuff. That would be great, Hey, everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The eighteenth, the Annual Love Stuffest, is coming up on Friday,
June Tenteita.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
The water Front Convention.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Set of proceeds go Tofect Roadary Foundation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Supporting charitable clauses throughout the Quad Cities. Get your tickets
today at LOBSTERFESTQC dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
As we wrap up our Quatch City Forum today, a
reminder two weeks from today, on June twenty second, at noon,
we're going to have a Trivia for Life fundraiser for
Stephanie Mudd and Teresa Lopez at the Lulac Club in Davenport,
right off of rick Hill Road. If you want to help,
call either one of these two numbers five six three
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five four nine nine eight oh one. That's five six three,
five four nine nine eight oh one, or you can
call three oh nine three one four oh nine eight one.
That's three oh nine three one, four oh nine eight one.
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And the event is Sunday, June twenty second, at the
Lulac Club forty two twenty four Ricker Hill Road in Davenport.
And thank you for helping. From your iHeartRadio station to
the Quad Cities.
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that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
a Quad City Forum, Pat Luke and Denny Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're talking to John Poustuin. You've probably seen John out
that the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds more than a few times.
But a big event that's coming up at the Fairgrounds
on June fourteenth, John tell us all about it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, it's going to be our ninth annual point for
you tractor pull for St. Jude and balance autism ninety years.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I cannot believe it? And I'm also thinking, first off,
truck and tractor polls. You just say it and people
can make money. But it seems like since the very
beginning you've always wanted to help other organizations out. And
what first off, how did you start the truck contractor
poll idea? How nine years ago? How did you decide
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to start doing this?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, be honest with you, we were walking through the
fairgrounds with Sean Loader and Sean goes Matt, I'd really
like to have a truck and tractor pull up here again.
It's been twenty five years, so I said I could
do that. One thing led to another and we got
a lot of response from the community to you know,
and I had a partner to come in and we like,
we can make a lot of money at this and
we're not doing it for the money. Let's do it
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for charities. So we started pulling for you promotions and
every year we picked two different charities that we're going
to donate it all back to.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's the beauty of this now. Saint Jude is near
and dear to our hearts, and we appreciate the help
the last few years. It seems like that you've kind
of you gave us money just on our doorstep. You
just said here, thank you for that. But also Balance Autism,
how did you go through the process of faking them up.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I have some people that are on my board or
help me out that they're either have grandchildren or a
child that goes to that school, and they're like, hey,
can we do this, And I'm like sure. I talked
to Balance Autism and they said, yes, we're going to
keep the money local. That was a very easy decision
for me.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The event is Saturday, June fourteenth, and for people that
maybe have been to truck and tractor pulls before, they
pretty much know the overlying team that we truck contractors.
But I can't believe the different classes you've got going
on here.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh yeah, there's gonna be a lot of local farm classes.
And then ECI always puts on a good show for me.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
E ci. Where did you connect with them?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Actually, I just got on the internet that day and
kind of like, hey, we need to put on a
pretty good show for this, and we hooked up with them,
and you know what, they've been a feach to work
with for the last nine years. I've always you know,
I had to sign a contract with them in March,
and for the last nine years they've always they even
give money back to the organizations that we donate to.
So you're talking about the money. I was trying to
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remember back over nine years. We're gonna after this year,
we're gonna be over one hundred thousand dollars that we've
donated securities in nine years.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That is that is staggering in just nine years that
you've been able to do that. John. And by the way,
we're talking to John Post here, who is the brainchild
behind maybe do we want to give Sean Loader credit
for that? Is he the brainchild for this?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
No, they were walking actually yeah, Scott like yeah, even
calls for a reason.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
John broke in and he said Sean, hold my beer
and it went from there. But with the truck and
tractor pull and certainly we've seen this happen in other
situations too. That Usually organizers and promoters don't always get
long because there's a lot of egos. So that's nice
that you've got people that have both sides that have
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wanted to stay together and help out the great organizations.
Because in the end you could see people getting kind
of greedy after holding on to some dollars there because
they've got bills to pay, but that they want to
also help out these great organizations. That's got to make
you feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
John, It's uh, it's amazing. So the sponsors and they
know who they are. I can't mention them all that
helped put this on. It takes a lot of money
just to put this on. Before we donate, I want
to give a big shout out to my help. I mean,
they've got stuck with me for nine years and I
know it's a strain on them. For a couple of weeks,
three weeks till we get through this. But you know,
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like I sold them the other day at a meeting,
I said, you guys don't get to see when you
go drop that check off, the lives you're changing from
all the different ones I've donated to how they are,
Oh my gosh, this is you know, you put us
over our budget for the year, or oh my gosh,
that wow, that's more than I expected to look on
people's face when you donate. They don't get to see that.
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But I'm just telling the public is something that you
can do. It experiences.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We're now By the time this interview airs, it will
be right around a week before. So you talked about
two to three weeks before you really start to push,
but really doesn't once the event is done. Aren't you
starting to plan for the next year? How many hours
a man, hours, people hours do you guys put into this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'll probably start. I'll probably book a date and month
after we're done, and then I'll start planning and what
we're gonna do for next year, probably in the first
of the year, maybe a little sooner in the ECI
while we're gonna do so it's for me. It's a
process that starts probably in January and goes till June fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The nice thing is here. Just enjoy a truck and
tractor pull, but also know that once you pay for
your ticket, which adults are fifteen dollars, Kids six to
twelve or ten and then five and under free, Man
five and under are free. That's fantastic. But you're helping
out balance autism and also Saint Jude, this is great stuff. John.
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It starts what time or what time do the doors open?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Probably around four thirty quarter about four thirty we'll start
letting people in the main event starts at five thirty
after my sister gets done singing the national anthem.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Ooh, now, did she have to work hard for this
or was it just because she's your sister that you
let her in?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
She got nominated really quick.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Did she know she was being nominated? Is this going
to be a surprise to her? About four o'clock on
June fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh, she's done it nine years in a row.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay. To find out more.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Go to Point for You promotions on Facebook. It kind
of has pictures of what we've done the last nine
years to kind of give you. If you've never been
to a truck contractor poll, there's a video on there
it kind of explains what it is. It was from
back in two thousand and eighteen, like the second year
we did it. So if you've never seen a truck
contractor poll, it's a different experience. I don't know, it's
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something you have to I know the Quad Cities is.
It's something different for the Quad Cities, and after nine years,
I don't think people on the Quad City still don't
comprehend what it is. But man, for one hundred dollars,
I mean, it seems like a lot, But for one
hundred bucks, you can take a family of four, go
watch a nice show for a couple hours, have a
hot dog on a beer at the grandstands, walk around seep.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are you there, John, Yeah, I'm here. Yeah, it started
to break up on you.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that's what I was saying. With one hundred dollars,
I mean, for I know, money's kind of tight around everybody.
For one hundred dollars, for a family of four, you
can go see a good show, have a hot dog
on a beer, and have good entertainment for a couple hours.
That's what I was trying to say before I got
cut out.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's still worth noting and again find out Pulling for
You promotions on their Facebook page to find out more.
But Saturday June fourteenth, big crowd record breaker and thanks
again for helping out balance Autism and Saint Jude's.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I would like to give a shout out to you
guys for helping me promost this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, you'll get our bill in the mail here very soon. Okay,
we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Money, well, money well tent.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
John Is always have a great day and we'll see
you out there on the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, all right, thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City for them, please visit the contact beach
and our station website. Now back to bat Luke and
Danny Linnell.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We've got Kathy Wine, executive director of River Action, talking
to us here today. River Action always summertimes busy. Every
day of the year, it's busy over at River Action.
There's always something coming up with Kathy. The big thing
that's it's a tradition, but it's a little different than
in the past. Instead of ride the river.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's ride the Island. We've had this limitation to come on.
All the buildings are going to be open for us.
By that, I mean twelve of the iconic landmarks there,
and we are able to celebrate Ride the River, but
also the two fiftieth Anniversity Army, and they're doing so
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much in welcoming us. They're going to have a big
grill cookout at Memorial Park for all the dads and
families and it's just going to be a great time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, it's the best of the best of both things,
because it's it's a tradition. I remember there were highlights
because you couldn't always go onto the island when there
was Ride the River. And it's great that and yet
the island seemingly is a little bit more of a
push to say, hey, wait a minute, it's you. It's
your island too, and they'd love to be. Just a
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few months ago they officially opened back up the golf
course again, so you might, well, you lose some people
on ride the Ride the Island where they just bring
their golf clubs and they end up over end up
over golfing too.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's fine, absolutely fine, Yes it is. It's going to
be a great day. Were well, yeah, and you weren't
a lot of history. Whether you're volunteering with us on
that day at one of these stops, or whether you're
riding the ten mile loop and stopping in, you're going
to see a lot of the beautiful history of them,
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of the island, and as well all the beautiful trails.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, the trails are amazing and for a lot of people,
we still think up until this day, most people have
driven by or through or on the island and they
still don't realize how big that island is.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I know, I know they don't. But it is a
new day over there. They are opening it up more
and they're allowing bikers more, and golfers and walkers and
all of that more.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And with all of that more, you need a lot
of volunteers, not only just to get people in to
be doing the riding, but you need some volunteers too
at certain points too.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yes we do. I'm glad to ask, because at each
of these stops that we have along the along the route,
there'll be someone handing out stars that me and you
stop there and then it can sew up your license
plate which you get when you sign up for the ride.
You won't need any other admission except the ride the
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island license plate and then you add these stars to
it and when you're finished, if you have them all,
you're eligible for prizes. We have kids prizes, we have
adult prizes. So we're really encouraging everyone to explore all
these things on the island and that's where we need
volunteers as we're open from eight to three thirty and
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we want to be welcoming them from that time to
that time, and that's where we need some volunteers.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, when we talk about the island, though, normally you
have to do the visitors thing. So what are we
going to on ride the island. Is that going to
be a little bit different for people to be a
part of it or what are the steps are going
to have to do to get ready for the big day.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yes, those that are riding it, those that are participating
in the ride will have a license that we issue
to them that goes on the bike and that just
comes with registration and that's what you'll need to get
into the gate. The gate will be the Davenport Gate
because we are launching from the Quantity Times parking lot
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and that's a short trip across the Government Bridge to
get into the Davenport gate and then you're on your way.
If you're a volunteer, yes, you will need your paths
to get on the island. But as everything else has
opened up, so has the times that you can get
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your pass. It's open even on Sunday. The time takes
about ten minutes, so I encourage people to get that
too because you can use it all year and it's
a nice thing to have.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And then also for and you brought up a good
point Daviport, so people that would normally come in through
Rock Island or through Moleen there. This is to really
start our and and first off, the date is Father's Day,
but just to give the date, everybody should realize. The
starting point will be over in the Isowa side.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
That's right, it's in the Quadity Times parking lot. And
we'll have an officer helping you get onto the to
the roundabout and onto the island. And yeah, it'll be
an easy jump from there to the.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Easy jump, but a long day for everybody at River
Action because you're gonna you're gonna have to get in there.
But of course they'll find out more when they go
to Riveraction dot Org should there be anything else that
they search or will it be right up there at
the front of the website.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah, that it should be right up there. And uh,
it's slash volunteer if you want to volunteer, but to ride,
just go to Riveraction dot org slash r I r
T I Ride the River, got it ride?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That is right?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, but still we get yet we know exactly what
you mean, Kathy. Guys, it's a little bit different, but
yet it's still it's a Father's Day tradition, that River Action.
You've made it a little bit more enjoyable with what's
happened on Father's Day thanks to the hard work that
you've been And you were a part of the very
first one. Not to date you, right, but you were.
(14:21):
That's right, you were the one.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Oh yeah, I'm proud to be back to go back
to the first one. We had two miles of trails
on the Ben Butterworks Parkway at that time, and we
knew we needed more, so we started this advocacy and
riding and showing people how close you could get to
the river if we just had some trails, And now
we have sixty. So it's been a good it's been
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a good thing. We're still working on trails and pedestrian
bridges and all of.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
That, and certainly the work is never done. So even
after ride the Island, or even though I'll slip back
in and say ride the river, but yeah, ride the island,
there's still work to be done where people if they
want to volunteer and help your great organization the rest
of the year, they can just go to that river
axe or see somebody there on Father's Day over on
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the island and just say hey, I want to help,
and then here's Kathy Wine right.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Over here, and you get signing people up.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
The This is good stuff all the time. Now with
the ride the Island, that's great on Father's Day, but
you also have another event that'll happen probably I guess
by the time that'll be like less than two months
after that, with the Floatsilla. How are things working for that?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh? Really well, we have a float Fillapalooza this year. Oh.
It will include a rubber duck hunt. We'll be tossing
ducks down from the crane and people will pick those
up for prizes. We have an obstacle course in the
middle of the lake that people can, you know, try
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their skin. And then we have a cardboard boat race
as well, and some a great band. We've got other
things going on all day.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, this is exciting stuff. And this is still over
at Lake Potter again over in Rock Island. Yes, that's right.
So again to find out more riveraction dot Org probably
one thing to click on after another. You'll be able
to find out on that too. That's right, okay, But
the main thing is Father's Day. One last time, tell
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everybody how they can do it in less than a minute, Kathy,
I hate to force you on this, but just give
us kind of an idea on how people can be
a part of the big Ride the Island Father's Day event.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, all you need to do is to well, you
can always come to our office here at eight twenty
two East River Drive or call us. But go to
the website and get on Ride the Island. You'll be
able to register, we'll questions, you might have pick up
a brochure here. We have special prices for families three
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to eight people in a family, so it's just a
very affordable thing to do on Father's Day. And as
I said, we're not even missing the cookout. We've got
a great, big grill that's being provided by the Arsenal
Food Service. It's going to be going all day, so
it's going to be a wonderful celebration of both the
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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the US Army as
well as dads.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And how many years is that Dad's been around a
lot longer than the army, but still they've it's been
a long time. So and it is again great to
just showcase the island. And it's great that they want
to open their arms a little bit more for us,
and we appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's right, we are and we have veterans who are
helping us of course too, and we're saying we're your hat.
We want people to be able to thank you for
your service. And it's going to be great. Everyone gets
a dog take that signs up, as well as a
really neat Army green shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So why you've thought of everything, although we would bet
come Father's Day you go, oh, I forgot there's one
other thing, but that'll be for next year, right, Kathy
is always thank you for the time. In fact, where
it's always amazing when we can get you in for
the interview because you're always going and doing other things,
but continued success and we'll see you Father's Day.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Thank you for the support so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
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 Linhowe.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Tracy Joe mullikin able to stop by here today from
the University of Illinois Extension. Now, do you want me
to start singing Happy birthday to the master gardeners? We
should fifty. This is a big number.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It is. We are so excited in the fifty year
of la Master Gardener program, and we are hosting one
of the celebrations that is open to the general public.
So on Wednesday, June twenty fifth, here in the Quiet Cities,
we are hosting the Golden Garden Days and we are
celebrating the fifty years of the Master Gardener program in Illinois.
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And like I said, it's open to the public. We're
just really looking to showcase our program to people who
are interested in becoming a master gardener, who are a
master gardener, who were a master gardener, or just curious
about what master gardeners do. So we're starting our day
at ten o'clock am at Riverside and Moline, and then
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we will go through We have a tree walk down there.
We have a pollinator garden. We're going to do a
make and take in the greenhouse. We're going to look
at our demonstration garden. So we're going to start there
from ten to twelve and then we're going to have
lunch on your own. But I am having a food
tree down there so we can sit in the garden
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and talk plants.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Which what do we talk about? And I love I
love the food truck because I love their names, because
what is it Angry Haven, I believe is the food
truck And I'm I just love the names. There's so
much personality just in the names. But it's nice to
have that. And yet there's some other places that they
might be able to go to that are within walking distance,
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and you'll be able to help them out with that too.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Absolutely. So yeah, we are asking that people pre register
for this just so that I know how many people
are coming, what kind of supplies I need to have,
and my method of madness, which I always have a
method to my madness. We were going to start at Riverside,
which has been a Master Gardener Project. I've been here
seventeen going on eighteen years, and it was here just
as I started, So it's been going for a long time,
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and every year we try to add another level of
impact to it. So this year we've added in a
website with a GIF mapping of all the trees down
at Riverside and so you can click on a QR
code and you can tour and be like, oh, this
isn't oak, this is this and this is how it grows.
And so every year we try to add something to it.
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You know, master gardeners, it's helping others learn to grow.
So that's one thing that we're really trying to showcase
in this day is that it's not just having somebody
come over and weed, or not just having somebody come
over and plant flowers. They're teaching you. And that's really
what master gardeners are about. And that's what I think
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a lot of the misconception is is that they are
just out gardening. No, they're not just out gardening there.
They're educating others. And so we started with Riverside because
it is one that we have put so much into
and there's so many different.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Levels to it.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
That you'll really see the impact that they can make
in a community. And then after lunch, we're going to
go over to one of our newer projects at Flora
Sentakey Garden and it is a partnership with the neighborhood.
There are snap people than the horticulture team of Master Gardeners,
and we won an Extension Diversity Award in twenty twenty
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four with that one. But it is a newer project
and it is really a community based project, and so
then you'll get to see a completely different kind of project.
So the purpose of that garden is to grow food
to give to people in need, and so we will
actually be doing a food drive at the Flora Sente
Garden that day for participants. So if your tomatoes have
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come into full blossom and you have extras and you
want to donate them, we will take them off your hands.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'd like it, and I wanted to bring up here Tracy.
And by the way, we're talking to Tracy Joe Mulligan
the University of Illinois Extension. The food drive idea was
something that you had talked about a few months ago
when we talked to you.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Absolutely no, it has really taken off We've gotten great
support from other community partners that are helping us with it,
so we are still taking you know, names and emails.
So how it works is if you sign up for
the gift gardens, we've been let you know, okay, today
is Tuesday. These are our food pantries that are taking donations,
So it helps you know where you have to get
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to get your stuff. Because if you are harvesting tomatoes
and your little local pantry isn't open for six days,
well we all know how that works out for those tomatoes.
So we're trying to give you more outlets of where
to get your food on that day so that it
can get to people quick. Because that organic stuff that
you're growing, it doesn't have the shelf life of the
grocery store stuff. We all know that and that's why
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it tastes so much better. So we're trying to give
people ways to get that to people in need quicker.
And Flora Senta has been it's been great. The community
down there has really embraced it and has taken hold
of it. And it's a little gem, is not a
big garden, and it just really showcases what you can
do with a small, little lot that has not been utilized.
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And one thing that it really does show is that
it is this neighborhood that is doing this. I can't
tell you how many calls I get from different organizations
that they have an empty lot that they want master
gardeners to do it. This is that neighborhood. It is.
We are just showing them and giving them information, but
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they are doing it. And that's what our second stop
in our fifty year anniversary will be will be down
at the Flora Sente neighborhood and we will have a
brief presentation from our master gardener lead down there and
it will be showcasing the difference that this small garden
is making into a community. And then we're going to
go across town over to the Hallburg Estate and that
(24:45):
will be about two point thirty in the afternoon, and
we are taking on the world over there. That is
a huge, brand new project for us. As we all know,
it had been with the Parks and Rec District for
Rock Island for years and now it's been turned back
over to They have a foundation for it and they
(25:05):
are just doing fantastic things over there. They're re doing
the landscape back to its original intent. And the Master
Gardeners are taking on a huge project over there, and
so you'll get to see from Riverside a long term
existing project to Flora Sente, a new or smaller project
(25:25):
who then harbored a new project that is just getting started.
We're redoing the rose garden, We're doing the back trellis.
It's just incredible. If you have not been there, holy cow,
it's beautiful and it's huge, and we will end up
being there. We're going to do appetizers and a house
tour and garden tour and they have a little cocktail lounge.
(25:46):
So it's just going to be a great day. Hopefully
the weather is fantastic for us June twenty fifth. It's
an all day thing, open to the public. We'd love
to have as many people there as possible. Do you
want people to pre register? You can call them Island
Office to register and that numbers three zero nine seven
five six nine nine seven.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Eight, and give that one more time so that they
can register that number real slow, so they can write
it down.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the fifty year celebration.
Golden Day's Master Gardeners and our great secretaries will get
you signed up and we will love to have as
many people as possible.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And it's June twenty fifth, and for people I would gather. Also,
if somebody gets inspired and they want to become a
master gardener, they could probably ask when they're there and
and maybe the possibility exists where they would become a
master gardener sometime soon.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Yes, absolutely so if you know it's I don't want
people to think you have to be want to become
a master gardener to come to this, but if you
are curious about what master gardeners do and you're kind
of thinking, well, maybe this is a great time for
you to see the different types of projects that we have.
And this is just a little tiny taste of what
the Quad City has to offer as far as Master
(27:08):
Gardener projects. But yeah, it really is a good day
to just see what it is they do, the different
kinds of projects, the different kinds of people that are
involved with Master Gardeners, and we're really looking forward to
showcasing one of the stronger programs in Illinois. Our Quad
City Master Gardeners are a force to be reckoned with.
They do so many great projects in the area and
(27:29):
so I'm looking forward to showcasing. I call them my people.
You've been doing this a while, I owe you know
they're my people. Showcasing what my people really do. They
make a huge impact in the Quad Cities and some
of the projects that they take on.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Get a chance to see the great job that your
people do and you do too, Tracy Joe Mulligan, that
we need them to register. So we have an idea.
It's June twenty fifth, in that number one last time.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Sure call our Quad City office in Myland It is
three zero seven five six nine nine seven eight, and
just ask to register for the Golden Garden Days, the
fifty years of Master Gardeners, and they'll get you signed up.
There is no fee on this. It's just so that
we know the kind of supplies because we're going to
(28:16):
do a make intake and I'm going to have some
snacks over at Hobbard, just so that we know how
to divide people up and how many supplies to have.
So please pre register so we have a proper amount
of stuff. That would be great, Hey, everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The eighteenth, the Annual Love Stuffest, is coming up on Friday,
June Tenteita.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
The water Front Convention.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Set of proceeds go Tofect Roadary Foundation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Supporting charitable clauses throughout the Quad Cities. Get your tickets
today at LOBSTERFESTQC dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
As we wrap up our Quatch City Forum today, a
reminder two weeks from today, on June twenty second, at noon,
we're going to have a Trivia for Life fundraiser for
Stephanie Mudd and Teresa Lopez at the Lulac Club in Davenport,
right off of rick Hill Road. If you want to help,
call either one of these two numbers five six three
(29:06):
five four nine nine eight oh one. That's five six three,
five four nine nine eight oh one, or you can
call three oh nine three one four oh nine eight one.
That's three oh nine three one, four oh nine eight one.
(29:29):
And the event is Sunday, June twenty second, at the
Lulac Club forty two twenty four Ricker Hill Road in Davenport.
And thank you for helping. From your iHeartRadio station to
the Quad Cities.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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service program produced by iHeartRadio. If you were your nonprofit
organization would like to be featured, please visit the contact
page in our station website, or contact quad City Forum
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