QC Forum - 6-9-24

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Quad City Forum, aweekly community service program produced by iHeartMedia to
look at the issues and opportunities thatexist in our community. Now here's your
hosts for a Quad City Forum,Pot Luke and Denny Linhowe. We have
Michael Coyne Logan, the education facilitatorwith Living Lands and Waters, is here

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today to talk to us in theQuad City Forum. And Mike, welcome
to the program. But it's greatto talk about the barge party. Even
though you had it last year,it really had a little bit of a
break because of the pandemic, andit's great to be back into party mode
on the barge. Yeah, thanksso much for having me. Yes,
it is. It is good nowLiving Lands and Waters. For a lot

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of people, they may not necessarilyknow what it's all about. They I
think a lot of people go,oh, Chad Pergraky. Yeah, but
it's not just Chad Pergraky And whatdoes Living Lands and Waters do? Oh
yeah, So le Melan, there'sa crew of us, you know,
like fourteen of us that work andlive on a barge about seven months out
of the year, on and off, traveling up and down different river systems,

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and our main focus is to removetrash, and in our history,
we've worked on a total of twentysix rivers, engaged with you know,
over one hundred and thirty thousand volunteers, and removed thirteen point three million pounds
of trash from our river systems.We've got our our million Trees program,
which is you know, continue togrow and actually we plan distributed our planet

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our two millions tree this year,which was a big monumental goal, primarily
oak trees, and those go throughoutWe distribute those and plant those throughout the
country, so that was a bigcompliment. And then we've got education.
We've had you know, some restorationsand invasive species removal, but really excited

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one of the things we've we've alreadyhad an educational classroom, but just launched
our new educational classroom which people willbe able to see and tour during the
barge party. In that classroom,you know, continues to talk about ports
of the river as a natural resourceand ecosystem, but also highlights a lot
of different career opportunities that you know, many young people maybe are unaware of
just all the great opportunities that areassociated just how the river is. You

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know, not only an important ecosystem, but a working river as well too.
Well, how many times when youtalk about the what I guess we're
talking about millions of pounds or wein the billions already. I know it's
two million trees a lot, butprobably a lot of garbage. How many
how have you seen some of thesethese rivers come back to life after the
work that you guys have been ableto the guys and ladies have been able

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to do. You know what,Well, it's just one of the things
is just for example, just aroundhere locally, you know, we still
do cleanup, so it's more ona maintenance level. You know, you
used to do bigger cleanups and youtake people out to different locations and you
can have you know, one hundredpeople come out and participating in the cleanup.
Now it's just like you know,we can bring maybe you know,
maybe twenty after like you know,some high water and do one cleanup and

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then you know it's it's good andyou know, not to say there's not
stuff out there, but it's justabout maintenance and it's a lot better.
But unlike other locations, we gowhere you know, we've got an excavator
that allows us to get bigger thingsthan we're you know, like on the
Ohio River for example, where wefocus you know, starting to focus more
of our attention and time, andin different places on the Mississippi just where
the issue is worse, but youknow, around here locally it's gotten a

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lot better. And there's other examplesthat of different locations too, in places
that we were too. Now arethere ways sometimes to maybe go to a
website where people can just see allthe great work that you guys have done.
Yeah, one of the fun thingspeople like to look at if you've
got our website. We we likeI physically actually, so it's not you
know bs numbers. We actually trackevery bag, every tire, ey refrigerator,

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and every like you know, uniquefine like we even once found a
volunteer on a Civil War mortar shelvesone and probably the more unique finds,
but we track that stuff and wehave a charter that you know, shows
like, you know, all theunique things we found from clown shoes to
you know, fifty five gallons,how many fifty five gallon plastic barrels byggawn
buckets? You know, how manybags of trash? How many tires we
have all that stuff in those numberstracked and you can check that out our

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website living Lands and Waters dot org, Living Lands and Waters dot org.
And it is interesting the history lessonthat you can find sometimes just as you're
like a forensics book report on thatparticular area, some of the things that
you find. So that's Living Landsand Waters dot org. Yes, Living
Lands and Waters dot org is correct. Yes. And is that also a

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place people could go to like maybedonate or to sign up to help somewhere,
yes, correct, Yeah, Andthat's you can look for volunteer opportunities,
you can donate, you can checkout you know, what we're doing,
what's going on, what our schedulelooks like. It gets all that
information and we try to keep thatupdated, you know, and let people
know about those different opportunities. Andanother great opportunity to find out what you

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do is coming up with the bargeparty that's just a few days away.
Correct. Yeah, that's going tobe June thirteenth, from five thirty to
nine thirty in East Moleen at BeaconHarbor Parkway. You know, we'll have
some music, we'll have good food, even you know catfish that's been caught
on the river by one of ourcommercial fishermen friends and just you know,

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and some other stuff going. Youknow. Of course beer is a part
of the equation. Well you nobeer, But then I also see there's
a wine pull, so you're kindof you're hitting a lot of different demographics
in one place. There, Yeah, a lot of different you know,
just a variety of livations you know, so well, and then there is,
of course, there is a costto be. People can't just like

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go, oh hey, I'm goingto the barge party and it's all good,
but there is a cost to gobecause obviously you want to be able
to fund your projects. Yeah yeah, and you know, and we make
a little bit It's kind of likeit's one of those things we make a
little bit money, but it's alsoa celebration and I think the cost is
fifty dollars per ticket. You canyou can buy purchase tickets beforehand. But
we look to have a pretty goodturnout, hoping to have like a thousand

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people there this year. Hopefully it'sa good Like I said, it's a
good time to get together to celebrateour great partners and sponsors and the people
that have sports over the years andjust another way to celebrate. You know,
this is a really really important resource, the Mississippi River that you know
sometimes we take for granted and overlook. Well, I would say sometimes a
lot of times we do. Andthere are limited table reservations too for eight

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for four hundred dollars. Tickets canbe purchased online l L and W barge
party tickets. Maybe you can doa Google search and find out on that.
But again, why don't you givethe date, the time and then
the website again just to make surewe can get some more people in there
and maybe go for since you're overtwo million trees that you've been able to

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plant, how about let's go overtwo thousand. Huh, we've got the
room, right, yeah, well, yes, exactly, yea, we
got we can definitely go you knowwhere. You know, that's one of
those pers that start out a millionand we'll keep going. But the barge
party once again is five thirty tonine thirty next Thursday, June thirteenth,
and our website is Living Lands andWaters dot org. If you want to

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check out abou Voluntar Opportunities are lookingfor opportunities to purchase party tickets. That's
where you can go do so.Let's make them get two barges for this
party. Next year we're gonna gothree. Maybe let's you shoot big for
them. We've got it up fromMike coin Logan. Thank you so much
for the time and continued success withthe great work Living Lands and Waters does

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well. Thanks so much. Iappreciate you guys having us on here to
help promote us and help promote thebars party and celebrate the river. If
you or your organization would like tobe featured on Quad City Forum, please
visit the contact page and our stationwebsite. Now back to Pat Luke and
Danny Linnhoue. We have Christian Boudonusfrom the University of Illinois Extension talking to

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us today. And once I sawthis article, it was last week.
I saw it in the Quad CityTimes. And Christian will have articles.
Is it once a month or willit just show up whenever in the papers
with your artist every it's every fiveweeks? Okay, Well, I caught
the one. I caught the lastthe one last week. And I got

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to tell you, I wasn't sureright off if you were a big fan,
or if you had to be,you had to be convinced but I
thought this was interesting that you actuallygot together and had like a food tasting
event together involving cooking stuff with cicadas. Yeah, it was a really fun
opportunity that I had a few ofmy colleagues at u OFI Extension. They're

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on the horticulture team. They havea podcast called Good Growing, and it's
a weekly podcast. So they wantedto do something for all of the periodical
cicadas that were coming out this spring. So they know I'm kind of like
the adventurous eater type. I askedif I would take part and come up
with some recipes that we could usefor a cicada tasting event that they were

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doing in Springfield. I guess itwas two or three weeks ago now,
and so yeah, it was alot of fun. I had a good
time. I did not know this, and I don't know if you knew
this all along, but that thecicadas are related to the shrimp and the
option. Now, this is nota first cousin thing. This seems like
this is a shirttail relation. Butas is the case with most bugs,

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for people that in some other placesof other parts of the world, bugs
are on the menu a little bitmore than they maybe are in the United
States. But there is a lotof healthy There are healthy nutrients in a
lot of bugs. It's just thatgag factor for some people saying Nope,
I'm not doing that, Yeah,because we don't grow up eating those things

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here, at least not in thisA lot of people probably do not some
people might, but it's more commonin like Asia, Africa, you know,
parts of South America. So it'sdefinitely it takes a lot more for
us to, I guess, toget over that fear factor. But like
you were saying, there's a lotof good nutrients found in various types of
insects, and if we can getover that little hump hurdle, we can

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enjoy them like we would shrimp orlobster. And they are related. Some
people call them tree shrimp. Soreally, I've never heard that before.
Did you always know that or wasthis just when you were putting together the
article you said, oh, wow, they're related. Yeah, Well I
knew that they were related because thereis some allergy you know, precautions like

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if you're allergic to shrimp, theysay, you know, not to eat
certain types of insects that have theheart exoskeleton, because there could be like
cross reactivity, like you might beallergic to the cicada or cricket as well.
So if you're really interested in tryingand you do have a shrimp allergy,
you can always talk to your allergiestfirst, just double check. But

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other than that, you know,you should be good to go as long
as you know how to harvest andproperly like prepare them for your rescue.
Well, I thought in the article, I thought that was that was interesting
too, and in a lot ofit's common sense. But if you're going
to go into let's just say anybody'syard and maybe it's your own yard,
and you're going to look, well, if you've used a lot of pesticides,

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you can't be you can't go grabbingand harvesting those cicadas because of the
poison that's probably in their system.Yeah, something else too that my horticulture
colleagues we're talking about is you know, not harvesting around areas that have a
lot of like heavy construction that mightbe having a lot of like heavy metals
in the soil. So just likeyou would before you know, starting a

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gardener community garden, you can getyour soil tested, So if that's something
you're interested in, you can dothat and then make sure you know your
soil is good. If the soilis good, you know, the cicadas
that are coming out of the groundwill be fine, okay. Otherwise,
if you are in a wooded arealike a park and you find cicadas there,
those will be fine as well,well, well away from the urbanized

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areas. Right, So just outand somebody's like a force preserve. Now
would a force preserve, would youstill have to worry about rules and regulations
about taking those or would that besomething just checking with the the rangers just
to see if it's okay. That'sa good idea. Yeah, I would
say double check with them before youtake anything out now. And again you

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I don't know how much of thisyou already knew and how much you didn't,
but you can. Actually people havebeen known to freeze their cicadas.
Yeah, that's something that we suggestto before you cook with them, because
they will stay you know, youknow, fresh in the freezer for a
long period of time. So onceyou harvest, you know, you may
only find a few here, fewthere, and they may not be enough

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for a particular recipes. So Iwould say just you know, once you
harvest them, you can pop theminto like a freezer bag or freezer container
and then when you have enough,you can take them out and you want
to blanch them. So that's justa simple a minute, when you talk
about blanching, what's blanching and boilingand blanching sound like they're similar, but

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it's it's probably more the time ifyou're blanching it, right, is that
in and out and that's it.Yeah, So you want to get a
pot of boiling water and you cantake your cicadas and just let them you
just PLoP them in there for aminute or two. It doesn't really take
that long. So this simple stuffwill help get rid of you know,
like the dirt that might be ontheir utershell or any potential pathogens that might

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be in or on their body.So it's just a good first you know,
food safety step to do before youuse them in any recipes. And
we'd had I forget the conversation thatwe had with somebody else from the extension
a few weeks ago, but alot of this is just where people instead
of people going oh, or howannoying the cicadas are they are in a

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lot of ways part well not ina lot of ways. They're part of
the food chain and this will endup helping in a lot of ways.
But it seems like with the extension, you're really just trying to make people
realize, let's embrace this. Let'sjust not ignore it, Let's embrace the
cicadas. Yeah, it's a reallycool time. You know, this doesn't
happen every day. So yeah,like as you were saying, embrace this,

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you know, really cool natural phenomenonand try to make some fun out
of it. Okay for the andit seemed like you had a lot of
fun with some of the titles becauseit start the week off right crunch time.
And then also cicadas are all thebuzz, so you were having fun
with some of the play on words. But with the recipes, if people
want to find out more, isthere a way that they could maybe check

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out some of these cicadas recipes thatyou would put up or maybe some of
the other ones that are up atthe website. Absolutely, we have,
you know, the recipes that wecan print. We have some at our
front office. If you are inthe neighborhood, I want to stop by
Or Island Extension office. They're alsoonline. So I mentioned that Good Growing
podcast and we have them linked there. And so if you know, if

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somebody wants to watch that particular episode, they can see the tasting event and
action and how we prepared the recipesand talked about each of the recipes in
more detail. And it has alot of good information in it, so
they can find that in the shownotes. Okay, and again, what's
the podcast they're looking for again?And where can they find it? Sure,

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it's on YouTube. It's called GoodGrowing Podcasts and it's put on by
University of Illinois Extensions. Christian,thank you again for the time and and
just to all each time there's anarticle that you'll put out or anything that
the University of Illinois Extension puts out. It's amazing how much we learned.
We just have to open our mindoccasionally. Continued success. I will try

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to embrace that, Cicada. Idon't know if I'm going to get to
that point, but thanks again forthe continued the great articles. Keep up
to fantastic work. Well. Thankyou for all that. I really appreciate
it. If you or your organizationwould like to be featured on quad City
Forum, please visit the contact pageand our station website. Now back to
Pat Luke and Danny linnowe Kelly Krabfrom Guilda's Club talking to us today.

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Everything's it's always going on, alwaysgoing on at Guilda's Club, and yet
we still feel like, Kelly,we need you to kind of let the
people that are just coming to theparty later, just to let them know
what Guilda's Club is all about.Absolutely so, Gildas Club quad City is
a cancer support community and we providesocial and emotional support at no cost to

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anyone impacted by cancer. So that'sthe person with an active diagnosis now that
survivors, friends and family of someonewith a diagnosis, and kids and teens.
And we have programs like support groups, educational workshops, healthy lifestyle activities
like yoga and meditation, social events, and then we're also a hub for
resources and referrals. Well. Alongwith though that list of things that you

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do, it seems like every daysomething else will happen or something else will
come up and we'll want to talkabout it. But June no exception,
and one of them is the educationalworkshop. Frankly, speaking about cancer,
non melanoma skin cancer. How you'vegot a big thing coming up with that
soon. Yep. On Monday,June tenth, six o'clock to seven thirty

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at our Molene Clubhouse, we're havingthe educational Workshop about non melanoma skin cancer.
We're going to talk about all thedifferent types of non melanoma skin cancer,
different treatments and side effects, clinicaltrials, and also emotional concerns of
a diagnosis. And we're having dinnerfor all of the registered in person attendees,
and that workshop can be joined inperson or via zoom. I don't

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think you'll be eating if you're inzoom I saw that Too's okay, but
it's okay you can vicariously eat it. Well yeah, but obviously it's going
to be limited, right, Soif people want to be by the time
this interview airs, it would beit would behoove them to get registered.
So how can they do that?What would be the website They go to

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again, Gildas Club QC dot org, or they can give us a call
at five six three three two sixseven five zero four and then we have
eyes and I love camp. Ilove Camp Genesis because this gives kids a
great outlet. Plus you're camping.What's better than that. Yeah, I'm
so excited. We still have roomfor kids at camp for Camp Genesis.

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Camp Genesis it's a week long overnightcamp June sixteenth through twenty first this year
for kids impacted by cancer going intofour through ninth grade next year. So
those kids can have cancer themselves orthey can be impacted by a loved once
diagnosis. And it's a whole freeweek of overnight camp at Camp Shaloanook,
Cocoa where they get to make connectionswith other kids impacted by cancer and then

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do all the other fun camp stufflike archery and canoeing and campfires and swimming
all that other good stuff. Andwe still have room for some more campers,
so reach out if you want yourchild to join in. Now the
next item I see here at theeducational workshop, it seems like it's it's
covering a lot of stuff. Weare. Yeah, we have a few

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of them in June. And soon Monday, June twenty fourth, five
thirty six thirty at our Devnport Clubhouse, we're having another educational workshop, this
one about oral health. We're goingto learn how mouthhealth can affect our overall
health and vice versa. And we'lllearn about oral health clearance before cancer treatment,
tips on maintaining that oral health throughtreatment, and also other oral health

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resources in our community. And thatworkshop can also be joined in person or
via zoom. It's what I loveabout the information that comes from Guild's Club
because there are things I would neverhave thought of, and there you are
that information for a group of peoplewho really need it well and I and
when we talk about what's happening upin Clinton, lymphidima is one of those

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where it's not just people that areaffected with cancer that have this, but
it's a misunderstood kind of a thingthat can happen to a family. And
you've got a big workshop coming upwith that. We do so for our
Clinton friends at the YWCA in Clintonon Friday, June twenty eighth, one

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to two pm. We're having workshopall about lymphedema. There's a lot of
questions there. We're bringing in occupationaltherapists and certified lymphidima therapists from Mercy One
Clinton. Lymphiedema in general is swellingcaused by fluid that's usually drained through the
lymphatic system and limphiedema can be causedby some cancer treatments that remove our damage
lymph nodes and also other causes.So we're going to talk about what it

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is, how to prevent it,and how to treat it. Well,
it's a catch twenty two with lymphidimabecause a lot of times people will say,
well, you got to move,you get a move, and that
doesn't always especially when you've you've dealtwith some sort of a cancer treatment where
you don't want to move or youcan't move, and so it's a it
ends up being like you're on ahamster treadmill. But that's again, just

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like you were talking about, Danny, that's the beauty of what Guilda's Club
does. It's educating and it's alsoletting people know they're not And Kelly,
you've always brought this out too,you're not. You don't have to go
through this alone, you don't.There's a lot of support out there and
if people want to find out more, say somebody, they're just kind of

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again coming to the table and findingout a little bit more about Guild's Club.
Or maybe they didn't really think aboutGuildess Club because they hadn't had cancer
really affect them personally, but herethey are. How can they get a
hold of you and take advantage ofall these resources? Yep, all of
our information is on our website GuildessCLUBQC dot org. You can give us

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a call three two six seven fivezero four or stop into our clubhouses both
and Davenport Animaline. Lexi Bowl fromGuilda's Club, the development and event manager
has a lot of things going on, always a lot of things on her
plate. In fact, if wejust picture a dinner plate, it's completely
full. There's stuff kind of spillingout on the ends. That's pretty much

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Lexi's day, every day and Lexifour Gildes's Club. The people that have
supported Gilda's Club over the years,they know all about it. But as
you guys celebrate twenty five years now, why don't you tell some people a
little bit about Guilda's Club and allthe great things they do. Yeah.
So at Gilda's Club we offer nocost supportive services to anyone being impacted by

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cancer in the community. So whetherthat's the person with a diagnosis or their
loved ones, we're here to helpthem navigate their cancer journey. And give
them the support and community that theyneed while navigating that. You make it
sound fairly simple, but it's alittle bit tougher than that, and certainly
it's it's more involved in that.And yet at the same time, all

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of that takes money to have thathappen. So as people are listening to
you this morning, and maybe theywant to volunteer, or they want to
find out more, or they justwant to donate, numbers or a website
that they could go to, sothey can go to GILDASCLUBQC dot org slash
donate to make a donation, orthey can call five six three three two

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six seven five zero four to learnmore about how their donation is going to
make a difference. Last year alone, we saw a sixty one percent increase
in visits to our facilities, andwe've just seen a vast amount of growth
in this past year. We've addedthree new support groups in twenty twenty four
alone, and then we are alsooffering free meals now with a meal collaboration

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with a local meal prepper. Andthen we actually have our wig salon opening
here in the next few weeks,which we're really excited about. We're doing
a ribbon cutting, so anyone canwalk in and get free wig because wigs
can be expensive, and we knowthat that's important to a lot of people.
It's hard to lose your hair,so we want to be able to
offer that as a free resource.Well, it's a self esteem issue too,

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and of course you still have thefood. With the angerer Each is
still a great way for people tograb something free too if they need it.
Certainly, when you start talking aboutsomebody in the family or that person
dealing with cancer, the last thingthey need to worry about is where the
next meal is coming from. Andwith Guildness Club and angerer Each, that's

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a fairly simple, simple answer tothat question. Right. Yes, we've
actually had out almost four hundred mealsand twelve weeks since that program has started,
so it's been a very in demandresource. But in addition to all
that we offer, you know,our healthy lifestyle activities so people can come
in and do free yoga. Weoffer our free supportive services resources and referrals.

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We really offer a variety of programs. Particularly when people come in our
doors for the first time, they'reblown away by everything that we have to
offer. Just because sometimes people don'trealize until they're in need of it at
that moment. Well, how manytimes do people drive by a certain building
and they know a business is there, but they don't even know what the
business is all about. And somepeople they know about Guilda's Club, but

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they really don't realize. Okay,yep, it's connected to cancer, but
they don't know all the other waysthat you support people and their families with
cancer. So all you have todo is just keep up the great work.
Right. Oh yeah, Well,certainly a big event when we talk
about fundraisers, a big one that'scoming up. By the time this airs,

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we will be in June, butthis will be at the end of
the month and it's a big racethat it sounds like, what the second
year in a row you've been inCole Valley for the Guilda's Quad Cities Run
for Hope. Yes, we're reallyexcited to be out in Cole Valley again
this year. The village of CoalValley has been very welcoming and we just
want to give a special thank youto the Rock and the police station and

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the fire department. They've welcomed uswith open arms. They actually donate all
their time to help us put onthis event and it's just very special to
us. We do the fivee kand it's actually a pretty unique route.
So it goes through the residential neighborhood. There's little hills and whatnot in there,
so well, wait a min lexio, whoa, whoa who don't tell

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me about the little hill because there'ssome big hills out there too. There's
one big hill. But once youget we're that big hill, the rest
are a little well. When youknow that you're you're doing it all for
a great cause and you've got friendsout there there, nobody's going to leave
you behind. So so hopefully wejust have some good weather for it.
But you've also got that one milefun run too. Yes, if you're

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not about the hills and you're moreof a flat land surface runner or walker,
we have something for you as well. It's just the one mile fun
run and you can actually bring yourdog along and it's on the Indiana that
says cancer bite mm hmm. OurDoggie Dash is sponsored by Purina, so
we'll have Pirina down there and we'llhave some fun dog treats and all that

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good stuff. But yeah, it'sjust such a great day to come together
as a community, and maybe youhave a loved one who's been impacted by
cancer, or a fan friend inyour family, whomever it may be.
We actually have custom bibs where youcan pin photos of the person you're running
for to say I'm running for mymom or I'm running for grandpa, and

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it's just a nice way to honorthem and show them your support. Now,
even though we don't want to saywalk ups are welcome, because we
also don't want to rush at fiveminutes before the race starts, where two
hundred people come in and say,hey, is there still an opening?
Is there a way for people tomaybe start this process a little early so
they can be a part of thingson June twenty ninth. Yes, they

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can visit Gildas Club QC dot orgslash run and they can register online.
It's pretty simple if they aren't muchof a runner. We do still need
quite a few volunteers, so there'salways that option as well. But be
sure to sign up before June ninth, because we do have to place our
order for our shirts, so wewon't be guaranteeing shirts after June ninth.

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June ninth, and again it couldall start by going to the website,
which is again Guildess Club QC dotorg slash run Okay, so we've got
that all lined up. Any otherbig events that are going to be happening
here in June and beyond that,people should at least put on the radar
for Guildess Club in June. Wedo have a ribbon cutting on June twenty

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seventh. The community is welcome tojoin us at four point thirty at our
Davenport location. We'll be doing ourribbon cutting for our Wig Salon and we
just like to encourage the community tomaybe consider volunteering with us during the month
of June or reaching out to seehow you can give back, whether that
be a monetary donation or helping volunteerin some way. We actually a celebrating

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our community is Stronger than Cancer Dayon June twenty eighth, which is a
day really for the community to justcome together, celebrate and honor their loved
ones who may have been impacted bycancer. And we'd like to encourage anyone
who's used their services or found whatwe do beneficial to share their stories and
just help us spread the word ofthe work that we're doing in the community.

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We are talking to Lexi Bowl developmentand events manager with Gilda's Club and
Lexi it seems fitting now with therun for Hope and then also for the
ribbon cutting. How can they findout more because the website changes all the
time. I know you've mentioned itmore than a few times. Well let's
mention it one more time again andgive us some phone numbers as we wrap
up the interview. Yes, so, if you're interested in learning more about

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our run or any of the otherthings I've mentioned, you can visit Gildas
Club QC dot org and you cangive us a call at five six three
three two six seven five zero fourto figure out how to register for a
run or just figure out how toget involved. You've been listening to Quad
City Forum, a weekly community serviceprogram produced by iHeartRadio. If you were

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