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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
Quad City Forum, Nott Luke and Denny Lynn Howe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Getting a chance to talk to Tracy Joe Mulligan with
the University of Illinois Extension Offices. Tracy, it's been a
few weeks since we talked to you. One of the
big things that you had was the big fifty year event.
How did that all go? It sounded like it was
a success, but most of your things are how did
it end up working out?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was awesome. We had a fantastic day. We had
about sixty participants show up. And I think I shot
you a little email telling you I had a gal
come and chase me down that she had heard me
on the radio with you whoa And we said the
phone number, and she didn't have a piece of paper,
and so she ended up running to get one and
kept Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
So hey, it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Worked, it worked. Radio works. Welcome to hear it's not
in not surprising the radio works. But I'm glad it
was a great event. But a lot of work goes
into that, and so congrats on your end there, young lady.
But you do have a couple of big events that
are coming up. One of them is a short term involvement,
the other one's a little bit longer. So let's talk
about the one that's coming up here in a few
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weeks out in Aledo.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
All right, So we have the Fall Harvest of Horticulture,
which is put on by my Mercer County Master Gardeners,
who are I like to refer to them but small
but mighty. They're small in numbers, but they do a
heck of a lot for that awesome community out in Aledo.
So we have a night they put together. We are
having Nicole Flowers from the Peoria County Extension Office, which
(01:42):
I know you're going to love her last name.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, I like the tyan, I love the ti In,
I love the ti In on that. You got to
have a last named flowers, You got to have it
in there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So she's talking about native pollinators and then our own
Emily Swiheart is going to talk about garden tasks that
you do year round. So when it's September, you need
to do this, when it's October you need to do this.
So different tasks that you should be doing, with practical takeaways,
a chance to ask questions, all of those things. So
it's a night that the Mercer County Master Gardeners put on.
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We partner with the Alito Fire Station, which has a
beautiful fire station out there, and it is on a
Thursday evening from five thirty to seven thirty on September eighteenth,
and it is We do ask that you pre register.
They do have the farmers market out there beforehand, so
you could go out, go to the farmers market, you know,
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grab some goodies for the house, and then come on in.
We'll have appetizers and drinks. There is a ten dollars fee,
and then you can learn those two different topics that
Nicole and Emily will be presenting.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What if I happen to be from Rock Island County,
I mean, is this just like they'll stop people with
a with a chirard a license from Chirard, and they'll
stop even though you're Mercer County, they won't let you in.
I mean I would imagine some.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh, we take them all. We're looking forward to. We
have a lot of our master Gardeners from Rock Island County.
They support their other master gardeners. So I have a
great group. As I've told you before, I serve as
Henry Mercer, Rock Island and Stark Counties, so we do
stuff as a conglomerate master gardener as a unit, but
then we also do these little one offs as separate counties.
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So this is our Mercer County night to shine. And
like I said, if you've not been out to Aledo
with Rubarbfest and the farmers' markets, it's a great community.
They really support their own. They've got a beautiful fire
station that we utilize with you know the technology, and
it's right there on the main little square where they
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had the farmers market. So make a night of it.
Come out shop the farmers market, come and watch Nicole,
come and watch Emily learn about native pollinators and what
you can do in your garden.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And they also have they're doing a groundbreaking because they've
gone this summer without a pool and they're going to
be started to do it with their in conjunction with
the y, they're going to be digging a new pool
and even a splash pad. So there are a lot
of things happening out in Alito, but of course this
main thing again, the date for this is what Tracy Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It is September eighteenth, which is a Thursday evening. Our
event starts at five thirty and it goes from five
thirty to seven thirty, with each presenter doing about forty
five minutes, taking about a fifteen minute break to answer questions,
to get the appetizers that we'll have, and then for
the galve to switch you know, the slides, and then
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you'll hear the second presentation, which would be then six
thirty to seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, sounds good for that. Now, the other one
we talked about a little bit off the air before
we even started this interview. It's a little bit more
of a commitment. In fact, it's a bigger commitment, but
it's still something that is just as important.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It absolutely is. So the Master Gardeners are adult trained
volunteers and like we said before, I service Henry Mercer,
Rock Island Stark. So that's where we're looking to look
for people who are interested in becoming a Master Gardner
volunteer and this is their training. So each week you
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have a different topic that you get trained on. So
this is what we call a hybrid training. So we
have two times where you would come into the Milind
office on those Tuesdays. So the training starts on September
ninth and it runs Tuesdays all the way until November
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twenty sixth. Now we do only need you to come
in twice, which would be September thirtieth and October twenty eighth.
The rest of them are online. So how each week
would work is you would read your textbook, you would
watch the videos and snippets that we have and read
the articles, and then you would come online through Zoom
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on those Tuesdays just for about an hour and a half,
and then you would have a live webinar with the
educator that specializes in that area. So, as I've mentioned,
Emily Swihart is our local person. So when you're doing trees,
she would do the trees. When you have botany, we
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would have an educator that they may be down in Springfield,
they may be up in Cook County, but it's a
live webinar and that's their specialization. Each week you also
then have a quiz that you take to go on
to the next week. So it's a way for us
to really help people that when we first started doing
Master Gardener training, you'd come into the extension office, you'd
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be here for eight hours a time. Well, I don't
know about you, but after about I don't know, two
or three, your brain is just I mean, you're just done.
So this way it's it's you know, you can study
when you have time at home, you can you know,
if you're an early bird person, you know, like I
got my master's that way. I'd get up at five
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o'clock in the morning before the kids would get up,
and I would read my articles or watch my recordings.
And then you get onto line and then you have
that live interaction with not only the educators but the
other people in our unit, but also the other people
around the state. So if you have a question, chances
are somebody else is going to have that same question
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and you'll get your questions answered live right then. So
it's a really a neat way to get that training
without having to come into our office and sit and
try to concentrate for six to eight hours a week.
We just we just don't function that way kids, nor adults,
and especially adults. It's a way, it's a way to
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break it up for you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Your brain does start to shut off in this particular
case is is not like trying to pass the bars.
You're going to have people on the other side that
want you to succeed, and in the process you're gonna
be able to make a lot of inroads just with
the great support that you guys have.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And I you know, when I use the term test,
it's not to scare anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well I was scared.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's open book. It's open notes and open friendships, is
how I describe it. Okay, so what as a master gardener.
You don't realize what you don't know until somebody asks you.
So when you leave master gardener training, you've had one
week of botany. There are people that have a doctrine
in one portion of botany. So when they use the
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term master gardener, it's telling the public that you are
a trained volunteer and that you know how to look
up and research and what is a valid source. So
you don't leave master gardener training knowing everything about anything.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You just know a small snippet. We spend one week
on vegetables. Well, heck, there's a lot of vegetables. I
don't want to scare anybody that it's not a closed
book where you know it's not like when you were
back in grade school. You put the papers around so
they can't cheat off your I want people to get
together and go to the library or go to a
coffee shop and look up these answers in the Master
Gardener Manual together and have those conversations about those questions,
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because as a master gardener, that's what you're doing. We're
servicing the public and answering their horticulture questions. And one
thing about the u OFI Extension is that we give
you those research based, non biased answers, so we're not
going to tell you that we're not trying to sell
a specific product that it's going to be. Here are
your options. You can do organic, you can do chemicals,
(09:41):
you can what are your options as a homeowner to
answer these questions?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Is there a cost for any of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So for the Master Gardener training, there is a two
hundred and twenty five dollars cost, and that gets you
your textbook, which is well over half of the cost,
and it gets you all of your webinars, it gets
you all of the software, it gets you all of that,
and then you would register. But we are also giving
out two scholarships through our four ah Foundation. So what
I would suggest is people can either google University of
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Illinois Extension, Rock Island County. You can call the office
which is three zero nine seven five six nine nine
seven eight.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Give it again, give it whoa, whoa, whoa, give it again.
We had that one lady that was trying to get
the number.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I love it. Three zero nine seven five six nine
nine seven eight. And that's for the Fall Harvest Apport
for Master Gardener Training. Keep our gals busy, you know,
make them answer those questions. So call the office. They
can get you registered for the Fall Harvest Apport. They
can send you the links for the Master Gardener training
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so you can see what weeks are, what topics, what
else is involved. Because the Fall Harvest Ahort is a
one and done, come in, you learn, you go about
your business. The Master Gardner Training is you know, more
weeks involved. There's a little bit more of a time commitment.
So we do have information online. So if you call,
we can send you the link to that. It's cool.
(11:10):
We give you mentors. You have an internship, so we
don't just you know techa, then release you. Please call register.
It's a great group of volunteers. To get involved with.
They have monthly meetings. We do a lot for the community.
So if you're interested, do you think you want to
learn more, give the office a call, have us send
you the link so you can read more. I'm going
(11:31):
to give the phone.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Number one more time.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Please do because that way you can write it on
your hand, because that's what that gallon is.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'm ready, she got she has a paper. Now she's ready.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It is three zero nine seven.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm going to repeat it in case she did run
out of ink. Three oh nine seven five six nine
seven eight.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now back to bat Luke and Danny linnowe.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Getting a chance to talk to Valerie Rumler. Valerie who
has wears many hats. She's a jack of all trades.
Are you a master of none or just jack of
all trades? Valerie?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'll go with the jack of all trade.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There we go. That's what we're gonna a'moul in high
grad knows many things, has many positive things that she
brings to the table. Certainly in Vale's case, that's certainly
something that we can count on, but Valerie does, among
other things, a big part. Maybe not the only person
doing this, because volunteers are such an important part of
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any kind of an organization, but certainly with the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention or AFSP. Big event that's coming
up in September. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, we are still doing it again this year. Our
venue is going to be at Wharton field House and
we're going to be probably one of the first to
be on the new field right in track. Yeah, they're
just remodeling it and I'm being told everything should be
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on schedule and I will be able to use their
venue for my event.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, this is a fantastic because not only is Browning
Field getting work, then I believe they were also doing
something over at Orton field House. But it still is
a matter of you know, when you've been around like
the field has been and the fieldhouse has been occasionally
it needs a little help, a little cosmetic help, and
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maybe something a little bit deeper than that. But the
main thing is we're we're expecting all systems to go.
Really by that point, they're going to be playing football,
so we have to feel that they're done. But that's
you know, beside the point. Really this is about something
that is a very it still is a chapter in
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a lot of people's lives. If somebody has passed away
and completed suicide, they need support and they should not
be looking at this in any darker of a lens
than they should. And that's really what the American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention does in a lot of ways, not
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only working as a fundraiser, but just trying to help
out these families.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yes, they're bringing awareness and they're also they do a
lot of education, so they advocate to educate the community
as well.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How many times have we seen in when something like
this happens to a family that they don't know where
to turn or they want to turn.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Inward, right, And definitely turning inward is a lot of
what they do because they feel ashamed or the stigma
that's out there in the community. But by educating the
community and letting them know that there are ways to
educate the community to prevent this from happening. It's not
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going to happen overnight. Just like research on cancer, it's
not happening overnight. So it's out there to educate and
bring awareness to the community. The law is there to
let the community know and let them come forward and
know that nobody's alone in this race.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well it also just lets them realize too not only
can they talk about it, but how many times is
the grieving process stunted because they feel they just don't
know where to turn. So as we look at this
this big event, it's September twenty first, now they say
here Wharton Field House, but really it's browning Field is
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where you're going to see it. And is this a
rain or shine kind of event or is it will
there be could there be a rain date?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
No rain date, It is a rain or shine we'll
have tents there and we'll have little pop up tents
around for people to stand under, maybe want to get
what to walk around the new track m But yes,
it'll be rain or shine.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well that's the beauty of September weather. Once you get
into the really the latter half of September, the morning
could be terrible and the afternoon is fantastic, and then
there's snow by nightfall. So you really never know what's
going on. But some of the things that people maybe
if they've gone to some of the past AFSP events,
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the walk for Darkness. Are there other things that are
added this year that people would want to check out?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
We are going to have a knock on wood, We're
going to have Sunny's Coffee shops going to be have
a little pop up there. Okay, you never really had
any food pop ups. We just have tables that are
set around for different organizations to advertise. But the Mulling
Booster Club has always been faithful and helpful handing out
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or giving having food for the people there. So we
had the free water and that was really all we had.
So Sunny's is offered to come and do a pop up.
So it's Sunny's Coffeehouse that's out in Cole Valley on
the way to Cole Valley. I should say that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And even if there's somebody that hang on, say we
hang on, yeah, go ahead, come on back. I got
a guy he's checking out things. Is everything? Okay, okay,
you got it? Sorry, thank you man. You know this
is even though this is browning Field and the Molling
Boosters are a part of it, I certainly don't want
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anybody thinking as they're hearing this, going, well, this is
only for people that are part of Mollin school system.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No, No, this is available for the whole community. We
want to bring as much awareness to the community, and
we have all kinds of information brochures that show you
how you can educate yourself. I mean, you're not going
to get educated there, but you're going to get to
read brochures and know how to sign up.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To do that and help out the organization. Because even
though you were bringing up cancer a few minutes ago,
much like cancer, suicide touches more people than most people realize.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yes, yes, And the interesting thing is we weren't up
in the era there where cancer was don't talk about
type things. So as I was growing up, they did
talk about cancer. How long did it take for people
to open up and do all this with all their
fundraisers that helped them to know that they were and
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alone and that not to be afraid to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, it takes a while for that snowball to really
start to gain steam and help out. Well, it's certainly
the case here. So if people want to find out
a little bit more and we would gather now there
can be possibly they can do some fundraising right now.
But what can they do right now since we're still
by the time this interview airs, at least for the
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first time, will be about a little lesson a month
away because the event is September twenty first. So what
could people do to maybe raise some money and awareness
on their end? What could they do right now?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well, if you go to afsp dot org and look
for community walks, that's going to be the simplest way.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, so let me give that again, AFSP dot org
a correct f SP dot org.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Got it, Yes, And then you would go to community
walks and then what it will do is walk you
through to find your local community walk and then you
just look for Illinois and then it will give you
the Quad Cities Illinois Out of Darkness Walk to go
ahead and sign up as a team or donate or
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whatever you'd like.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And that is again give that. So once they go
to AFSP dot org, go to community walks, and then
you want to go to Illinois because there probably are
some other chapters close by that you might get a
little confused. They all do great work, but we want
to make sure we get them to the right spot.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, and our name is Quad Cities Illinois Out of
Darkness Walk.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, got it, and are there any other things that
people should know about other than probably Even though there's
organization in all of this event and we have certain
things that we're going to be doing certain times for
certain things, this is also an event where you don't
have to worry. There's not going to be a test here.
There's just going to be people coming together and just
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showing solidarity and trying to help others correct.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
There will be no commitment. I mean, even if you
were to walk up to come in and sign up
the day of and donate the day of, that's acceptable.
You can walk in. We're not expecting everybody to have
to pay to come in, just to come and be
a community. If that's what so be it you want
to do, so, there's no pressure on having to donate,
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but it would be helpful.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Of course it would be. We're talking to Valerie Rumler
with the AFSP or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Their big day is September twenty first at Browning Field,
So there's a lot of other I mean, it's just
amazing exciting too to think of all the changes that
that part that not only the field, Wharton and even
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Browning Park a little bit to the west of field
has changed just in the last couple of months, really,
so you could be a part of it as you
do a little gathering, even though you can kind of
drive by and see a lot of it happening right now.
But September twenty first stop by and the event starts
at one. But if they want to go to the
website to find out more right now, Valerie, why don't
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you give them that website one more time as we're
heading out?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay, if you go to AFSP dot org and look
for community walks. When you click on community walks, you'll
click on for Illinois, and when you get to Illinois,
you'll find out the Illinois Walks and our name is
Quad City, Illinois. Out of Darkness walk Boom.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How much time did this take you to get going here?
How many? How many hours? And again I keep wanting
to go back to you doing all of it, but
oh goodness, volunteers involved? How many how many people? Hours
are you dealing with there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We kind of kicked off a little early this year
because we're doing fundraisers, So we kind of kicked off
in April and tried to keep up on everybody with
fundraising and stuff like that. I probably have a good commitity,
a good committee of at least eight people that helped
me out, and on the day of I have found
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more community people willing to come and help out, which
gives me bigger ideas on how to have the committee
help the people that are coming in. Like I got
Quad City or QC Narratives, a young adult group. They're
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going to donate their time to help my event work
as well, so I think mightity members.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think that's amazing how many times people maybe don't
want to start initially, but you will see people near
the end, Okay, can I help you with it? Maybe more.
I don't want to call them worker bees because that
seems dismissive, but so many other people that want to Okay,
you need that rock moved, I'm going to move that rock,
and I'm going to help you out, and then once
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the day is done, they'll help with cleanup and then
they're off to help out some other people. So that's
really the great thing about the Quad City area.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yep, for sure, and WQAD is donating a lot of
airtime for us.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I've noticed that during the month of August they had
you kind of set up with their three degree guarantee
and that most times that means they're going to give
away a lot of money and every penny is going
to help big time. So if people want to kind
of take that page from what chan Late is doing,
just want to make a donation right there AFSP dot
org and look for the donate button.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yes, definitely look for the donate button.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Why don't we give that website one more time?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Okay, you go to AFSP dot org and when you there,
you'll go to community walk and then when you click
on those, you'll find you'll find the state that you're in,
so you type in Illinois and then when you get there,
our walk name is quad City's Illinois Out of Darkness Walk.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
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Speaker 1 (25:24):
Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnewe.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Getting a chance to talk to Lexi Bowl from the
Cancer Support Community of Iowa Northwest Illinois Guildes's Club. Lexi
who is the communications and event manager at CSC Iowa
Northwest Illinois. Big event that's coming up here and just well,
by the time this interview airs, it'll be within seconds.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
For people who aren't familiar with dragon boat racing, it's
pretty neat. There's not a lot of festivals around here
in our area. We'd be bringing the first one to
the Quad City. So we'll be hiring a company that's
going to be bringing in these twenty foot long boats
that have a dragon head on them, and then each
team will have sixteen rowers. They row to the beat
of a drum. It's not only have teams racing, but
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will have vendors set up selling items and food vendor.
It's going to be a great day for a great
cause to support our mission. So teams can either purchase
their team or they can go online and they can
set up a fundraiser and they can fundraise to get
on a boat.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you touched on it the last time that we talked,
but the dragon boat racing kind of can bring people.
When you're watching everybody on the boat working together, it
kind of reminds of what happens when somebody in the
family has been dealing with cancer, how everybody has to
come together exactly.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
And you know what dragon boat racing is actually super
beneficial for cancer survivors is which is part of the
reason we decided to bring the festival here and do
it as a fundraiser. There's a lot of cancer survivor
teams across the US and they kind of just develop
a connection with one another. They experience a unique team
building aspects that they get to bond, but they also
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get to rebuild their strength by doing dragon voating.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So this isn't just viewing. I mean some people are
like maybe initially thinking, oh, this would be great to
look at and you will be able to But if
you want to get a team together, you can be
a part of this. You cannot only talk to talk,
you can row the boat.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So again, if they want to be a part of that,
what do they do?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Visit csc Iowa Illinois dot org slash Dragon.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, give it one more time, girl, because we just
we always as soon as you're saying that, people are
reaching for things or they're trying to type it in
on the computer. So give it one more time and
then they're ready to go.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's csc Iowa, Illinois dot org, slash Dragon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
How did the Run for Hope Go?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Run for Hope went amazing. We had over four hundred registrations.
And you know what, it's funny you run because we
are actually a charity program for the Quad City's Marathon
this year. So if anyone listening is running the Quad
City Marathon and they would like to help us raise
funds for our services, if they raise four hundred dollars,
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they actually get their registration fee.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Waived, similar to Birdie's for charity, which you, of course
were a part of. Now this is another way to
get little extra help. So for people that are running
in the marathon, and that'll be right after the dragon
boat racing you're going to be running, think about Cancer
Support Community of Iowa Northwest Illinois and again to find
out more on that, let's give that website again a
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couple of times.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
It's Csciowa Illinois dot org. Csciowa Illinois dot org.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
And as we wrap up the forum today, just want
to give you some options of things to do you
can support KSIE. They have their fourth annual Chip in
for Seniors golf outing at Glenn's Creek coming up on
September fifth. It's the best ball tournament. You can help
a senior and have some by visiting Kseiseniors dot org
to register.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And You've also got a big event that's happening today
at Edwards United Church of Christ. It's a thirty four
to twenty Jersey Ridge. We've got a family friendly carnival
that'll be happening Petting Zoo. I think those who got
a magic show. That a lot of different things going
on for the whole family. If you want to check
it out. It's from eleven thirty to one thirty today.
That's at the Edwards United Church of Christ thirty four
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to twenty Jersey Ridge Road in Davenport. And thank you
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Getting a chance to talk to Tracy Joe Mulligan with
the University of Illinois Extension Offices. Tracy, it's been a
few weeks since we talked to you. One of the
big things that you had was the big fifty year event.
How did that all go? It sounded like it was
a success, but most of your things are how did
it end up working out?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was awesome. We had a fantastic day. We had
about sixty participants show up. And I think I shot
you a little email telling you I had a gal
come and chase me down that she had heard me
on the radio with you whoa And we said the
phone number, and she didn't have a piece of paper,
and so she ended up running to get one and
kept Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
So hey, it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Worked, it worked. Radio works. Welcome to hear it's not
in not surprising the radio works. But I'm glad it
was a great event. But a lot of work goes
into that, and so congrats on your end there, young lady.
But you do have a couple of big events that
are coming up. One of them is a short term involvement,
the other one's a little bit longer. So let's talk
about the one that's coming up here in a few
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weeks out in Aledo.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
All right, So we have the Fall Harvest of Horticulture,
which is put on by my Mercer County Master Gardeners,
who are I like to refer to them but small
but mighty. They're small in numbers, but they do a
heck of a lot for that awesome community out in Aledo.
So we have a night they put together. We are
having Nicole Flowers from the Peoria County Extension Office, which
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I know you're going to love her last name.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, I like the tyan, I love the ti In,
I love the ti In on that. You got to
have a last named flowers, You got to have it
in there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So she's talking about native pollinators and then our own
Emily Swiheart is going to talk about garden tasks that
you do year round. So when it's September, you need
to do this, when it's October you need to do this.
So different tasks that you should be doing, with practical takeaways,
a chance to ask questions, all of those things. So
it's a night that the Mercer County Master Gardeners put on.
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We partner with the Alito Fire Station, which has a
beautiful fire station out there, and it is on a
Thursday evening from five thirty to seven thirty on September eighteenth,
and it is We do ask that you pre register.
They do have the farmers market out there beforehand, so
you could go out, go to the farmers market, you know,
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grab some goodies for the house, and then come on in.
We'll have appetizers and drinks. There is a ten dollars fee,
and then you can learn those two different topics that
Nicole and Emily will be presenting.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What if I happen to be from Rock Island County,
I mean, is this just like they'll stop people with
a with a chirard a license from Chirard, and they'll
stop even though you're Mercer County, they won't let you in.
I mean I would imagine some.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh, we take them all. We're looking forward to. We
have a lot of our master Gardeners from Rock Island County.
They support their other master gardeners. So I have a
great group. As I've told you before, I serve as
Henry Mercer, Rock Island and Stark Counties, so we do
stuff as a conglomerate master gardener as a unit, but
then we also do these little one offs as separate counties.
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So this is our Mercer County night to shine. And
like I said, if you've not been out to Aledo
with Rubarbfest and the farmers' markets, it's a great community.
They really support their own. They've got a beautiful fire
station that we utilize with you know the technology, and
it's right there on the main little square where they
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had the farmers market. So make a night of it.
Come out shop the farmers market, come and watch Nicole,
come and watch Emily learn about native pollinators and what
you can do in your garden.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And they also have they're doing a groundbreaking because they've
gone this summer without a pool and they're going to
be started to do it with their in conjunction with
the y, they're going to be digging a new pool
and even a splash pad. So there are a lot
of things happening out in Alito, but of course this
main thing again, the date for this is what Tracy Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It is September eighteenth, which is a Thursday evening. Our
event starts at five thirty and it goes from five
thirty to seven thirty, with each presenter doing about forty
five minutes, taking about a fifteen minute break to answer questions,
to get the appetizers that we'll have, and then for
the galve to switch you know, the slides, and then
(04:43):
you'll hear the second presentation, which would be then six
thirty to seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, sounds good for that. Now, the other one
we talked about a little bit off the air before
we even started this interview. It's a little bit more
of a commitment. In fact, it's a bigger commitment, but
it's still something that is just as important.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It absolutely is. So the Master Gardeners are adult trained
volunteers and like we said before, I service Henry Mercer,
Rock Island Stark. So that's where we're looking to look
for people who are interested in becoming a Master Gardner
volunteer and this is their training. So each week you
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have a different topic that you get trained on. So
this is what we call a hybrid training. So we
have two times where you would come into the Milind
office on those Tuesdays. So the training starts on September
ninth and it runs Tuesdays all the way until November
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twenty sixth. Now we do only need you to come
in twice, which would be September thirtieth and October twenty eighth.
The rest of them are online. So how each week
would work is you would read your textbook, you would
watch the videos and snippets that we have and read
the articles, and then you would come online through Zoom
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on those Tuesdays just for about an hour and a half,
and then you would have a live webinar with the
educator that specializes in that area. So, as I've mentioned,
Emily Swihart is our local person. So when you're doing trees,
she would do the trees. When you have botany, we
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would have an educator that they may be down in Springfield,
they may be up in Cook County, but it's a
live webinar and that's their specialization. Each week you also
then have a quiz that you take to go on
to the next week. So it's a way for us
to really help people that when we first started doing
Master Gardener training, you'd come into the extension office, you'd
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be here for eight hours a time. Well, I don't
know about you, but after about I don't know, two
or three, your brain is just I mean, you're just done.
So this way it's it's you know, you can study
when you have time at home, you can you know,
if you're an early bird person, you know, like I
got my master's that way. I'd get up at five
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o'clock in the morning before the kids would get up,
and I would read my articles or watch my recordings.
And then you get onto line and then you have
that live interaction with not only the educators but the
other people in our unit, but also the other people
around the state. So if you have a question, chances
are somebody else is going to have that same question
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and you'll get your questions answered live right then. So
it's a really a neat way to get that training
without having to come into our office and sit and
try to concentrate for six to eight hours a week.
We just we just don't function that way kids, nor adults,
and especially adults. It's a way, it's a way to
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break it up for you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Your brain does start to shut off in this particular
case is is not like trying to pass the bars.
You're going to have people on the other side that
want you to succeed, and in the process you're gonna
be able to make a lot of inroads just with
the great support that you guys have.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And I you know, when I use the term test,
it's not to scare anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well I was scared.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's open book. It's open notes and open friendships, is
how I describe it. Okay, so what as a master gardener.
You don't realize what you don't know until somebody asks you.
So when you leave master gardener training, you've had one
week of botany. There are people that have a doctrine
in one portion of botany. So when they use the
(08:39):
term master gardener, it's telling the public that you are
a trained volunteer and that you know how to look
up and research and what is a valid source. So
you don't leave master gardener training knowing everything about anything.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You just know a small snippet. We spend one week
on vegetables. Well, heck, there's a lot of vegetables. I
don't want to scare anybody that it's not a closed
book where you know it's not like when you were
back in grade school. You put the papers around so
they can't cheat off your I want people to get
together and go to the library or go to a
coffee shop and look up these answers in the Master
Gardener Manual together and have those conversations about those questions,
(09:20):
because as a master gardener, that's what you're doing. We're
servicing the public and answering their horticulture questions. And one
thing about the u OFI Extension is that we give
you those research based, non biased answers, so we're not
going to tell you that we're not trying to sell
a specific product that it's going to be. Here are
your options. You can do organic, you can do chemicals,
(09:41):
you can what are your options as a homeowner to
answer these questions?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Is there a cost for any of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So for the Master Gardener training, there is a two
hundred and twenty five dollars cost, and that gets you
your textbook, which is well over half of the cost,
and it gets you all of your webinars, it gets
you all of the software, it gets you all of that,
and then you would register. But we are also giving
out two scholarships through our four ah Foundation. So what
I would suggest is people can either google University of
(10:11):
Illinois Extension, Rock Island County. You can call the office
which is three zero nine seven five six nine nine
seven eight.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Give it again, give it whoa, whoa, whoa, give it again.
We had that one lady that was trying to get
the number.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I love it. Three zero nine seven five six nine
nine seven eight. And that's for the Fall Harvest Apport
for Master Gardener Training. Keep our gals busy, you know,
make them answer those questions. So call the office. They
can get you registered for the Fall Harvest Apport. They
can send you the links for the Master Gardener training
(10:49):
so you can see what weeks are, what topics, what
else is involved. Because the Fall Harvest Ahort is a
one and done, come in, you learn, you go about
your business. The Master Gardner Training is you know, more
weeks involved. There's a little bit more of a time commitment.
So we do have information online. So if you call,
we can send you the link to that. It's cool.
(11:10):
We give you mentors. You have an internship, so we
don't just you know techa, then release you. Please call register.
It's a great group of volunteers. To get involved with.
They have monthly meetings. We do a lot for the community.
So if you're interested, do you think you want to
learn more, give the office a call, have us send
you the link so you can read more. I'm going
(11:31):
to give the phone.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Number one more time.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Please do because that way you can write it on
your hand, because that's what that gallon is.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'm ready, she got she has a paper. Now she's ready.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It is three zero nine seven.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm going to repeat it in case she did run
out of ink. Three oh nine seven five six nine
seven eight.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now back to bat Luke and Danny linnowe.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Getting a chance to talk to Valerie Rumler. Valerie who
has wears many hats. She's a jack of all trades.
Are you a master of none or just jack of
all trades? Valerie?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'll go with the jack of all trade.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There we go. That's what we're gonna a'moul in high
grad knows many things, has many positive things that she
brings to the table. Certainly in Vale's case, that's certainly
something that we can count on, but Valerie does, among
other things, a big part. Maybe not the only person
doing this, because volunteers are such an important part of
(12:41):
any kind of an organization, but certainly with the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention or AFSP. Big event that's coming
up in September. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, we are still doing it again this year. Our
venue is going to be at Wharton field House and
we're going to be probably one of the first to
be on the new field right in track. Yeah, they're
just remodeling it and I'm being told everything should be
(13:14):
on schedule and I will be able to use their
venue for my event.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, this is a fantastic because not only is Browning
Field getting work, then I believe they were also doing
something over at Orton field House. But it still is
a matter of you know, when you've been around like
the field has been and the fieldhouse has been occasionally
it needs a little help, a little cosmetic help, and
(13:42):
maybe something a little bit deeper than that. But the
main thing is we're we're expecting all systems to go.
Really by that point, they're going to be playing football,
so we have to feel that they're done. But that's
you know, beside the point. Really this is about something
that is a very it still is a chapter in
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a lot of people's lives. If somebody has passed away
and completed suicide, they need support and they should not
be looking at this in any darker of a lens
than they should. And that's really what the American Foundation
for Suicide Prevention does in a lot of ways, not
(14:26):
only working as a fundraiser, but just trying to help
out these families.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yes, they're bringing awareness and they're also they do a
lot of education, so they advocate to educate the community
as well.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How many times have we seen in when something like
this happens to a family that they don't know where
to turn or they want to turn.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Inward, right, And definitely turning inward is a lot of
what they do because they feel ashamed or the stigma
that's out there in the community. But by educating the
community and letting them know that there are ways to
educate the community to prevent this from happening. It's not
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going to happen overnight. Just like research on cancer, it's
not happening overnight. So it's out there to educate and
bring awareness to the community. The law is there to
let the community know and let them come forward and
know that nobody's alone in this race.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well it also just lets them realize too not only
can they talk about it, but how many times is
the grieving process stunted because they feel they just don't
know where to turn. So as we look at this
this big event, it's September twenty first, now they say
here Wharton Field House, but really it's browning Field is
(15:55):
where you're going to see it. And is this a
rain or shine kind of event or is it will
there be could there be a rain date?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
No rain date, It is a rain or shine we'll
have tents there and we'll have little pop up tents
around for people to stand under, maybe want to get
what to walk around the new track m But yes,
it'll be rain or shine.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well that's the beauty of September weather. Once you get
into the really the latter half of September, the morning
could be terrible and the afternoon is fantastic, and then
there's snow by nightfall. So you really never know what's
going on. But some of the things that people maybe
if they've gone to some of the past AFSP events,
(16:40):
the walk for Darkness. Are there other things that are
added this year that people would want to check out?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
We are going to have a knock on wood, We're
going to have Sunny's Coffee shops going to be have
a little pop up there. Okay, you never really had
any food pop ups. We just have tables that are
set around for different organizations to advertise. But the Mulling
Booster Club has always been faithful and helpful handing out
(17:15):
or giving having food for the people there. So we
had the free water and that was really all we had.
So Sunny's is offered to come and do a pop up.
So it's Sunny's Coffeehouse that's out in Cole Valley on
the way to Cole Valley. I should say that's great.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And even if there's somebody that hang on, say we
hang on, yeah, go ahead, come on back. I got
a guy he's checking out things. Is everything? Okay, okay,
you got it? Sorry, thank you man. You know this
is even though this is browning Field and the Molling
Boosters are a part of it, I certainly don't want
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anybody thinking as they're hearing this, going, well, this is
only for people that are part of Mollin school system.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No, No, this is available for the whole community. We
want to bring as much awareness to the community, and
we have all kinds of information brochures that show you
how you can educate yourself. I mean, you're not going
to get educated there, but you're going to get to
read brochures and know how to sign up.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
To do that and help out the organization. Because even
though you were bringing up cancer a few minutes ago,
much like cancer, suicide touches more people than most people realize.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yes, yes, And the interesting thing is we weren't up
in the era there where cancer was don't talk about
type things. So as I was growing up, they did
talk about cancer. How long did it take for people
to open up and do all this with all their
fundraisers that helped them to know that they were and
(19:00):
alone and that not to be afraid to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, it takes a while for that snowball to really
start to gain steam and help out. Well, it's certainly
the case here. So if people want to find out
a little bit more and we would gather now there
can be possibly they can do some fundraising right now.
But what can they do right now since we're still
by the time this interview airs, at least for the
(19:24):
first time, will be about a little lesson a month
away because the event is September twenty first. So what
could people do to maybe raise some money and awareness
on their end? What could they do right now?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well, if you go to afsp dot org and look
for community walks, that's going to be the simplest way.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, so let me give that again, AFSP dot org
a correct f SP dot org.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Got it, Yes, And then you would go to community
walks and then what it will do is walk you
through to find your local community walk and then you
just look for Illinois and then it will give you
the Quad Cities Illinois Out of Darkness Walk to go
ahead and sign up as a team or donate or
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whatever you'd like.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And that is again give that. So once they go
to AFSP dot org, go to community walks, and then
you want to go to Illinois because there probably are
some other chapters close by that you might get a
little confused. They all do great work, but we want
to make sure we get them to the right spot.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, and our name is Quad Cities Illinois Out of
Darkness Walk.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, got it, and are there any other things that
people should know about other than probably Even though there's
organization in all of this event and we have certain
things that we're going to be doing certain times for
certain things, this is also an event where you don't
have to worry. There's not going to be a test here.
There's just going to be people coming together and just
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showing solidarity and trying to help others correct.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
There will be no commitment. I mean, even if you
were to walk up to come in and sign up
the day of and donate the day of, that's acceptable.
You can walk in. We're not expecting everybody to have
to pay to come in, just to come and be
a community. If that's what so be it you want
to do, so, there's no pressure on having to donate,
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but it would be helpful.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Of course it would be. We're talking to Valerie Rumler
with the AFSP or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Their big day is September twenty first at Browning Field,
So there's a lot of other I mean, it's just
amazing exciting too to think of all the changes that
that part that not only the field, Wharton and even
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Browning Park a little bit to the west of field
has changed just in the last couple of months, really,
so you could be a part of it as you
do a little gathering, even though you can kind of
drive by and see a lot of it happening right now.
But September twenty first stop by and the event starts
at one. But if they want to go to the
website to find out more right now, Valerie, why don't
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you give them that website one more time as we're
heading out?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay, if you go to AFSP dot org and look
for community walks. When you click on community walks, you'll
click on for Illinois, and when you get to Illinois,
you'll find out the Illinois Walks and our name is
Quad City, Illinois. Out of Darkness walk Boom.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How much time did this take you to get going here?
How many? How many hours? And again I keep wanting
to go back to you doing all of it, but
oh goodness, volunteers involved? How many how many people? Hours
are you dealing with there?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We kind of kicked off a little early this year
because we're doing fundraisers, So we kind of kicked off
in April and tried to keep up on everybody with
fundraising and stuff like that. I probably have a good commitity,
a good committee of at least eight people that helped
me out, and on the day of I have found
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more community people willing to come and help out, which
gives me bigger ideas on how to have the committee
help the people that are coming in. Like I got
Quad City or QC Narratives, a young adult group. They're
(23:44):
going to donate their time to help my event work
as well, so I think mightity members.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think that's amazing how many times people maybe don't
want to start initially, but you will see people near
the end, Okay, can I help you with it? Maybe more.
I don't want to call them worker bees because that
seems dismissive, but so many other people that want to Okay,
you need that rock moved, I'm going to move that rock,
and I'm going to help you out, and then once
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the day is done, they'll help with cleanup and then
they're off to help out some other people. So that's
really the great thing about the Quad City area.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yep, for sure, and WQAD is donating a lot of
airtime for us.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I've noticed that during the month of August they had
you kind of set up with their three degree guarantee
and that most times that means they're going to give
away a lot of money and every penny is going
to help big time. So if people want to kind
of take that page from what chan Late is doing,
just want to make a donation right there AFSP dot
org and look for the donate button.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yes, definitely look for the donate button.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Why don't we give that website one more time?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Okay, you go to AFSP dot org and when you there,
you'll go to community walk and then when you click
on those, you'll find you'll find the state that you're in,
so you type in Illinois and then when you get there,
our walk name is quad City's Illinois Out of Darkness Walk.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
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Speaker 1 (25:24):
Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnewe.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Getting a chance to talk to Lexi Bowl from the
Cancer Support Community of Iowa Northwest Illinois Guildes's Club. Lexi
who is the communications and event manager at CSC Iowa
Northwest Illinois. Big event that's coming up here and just well,
by the time this interview airs, it'll be within seconds.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
For people who aren't familiar with dragon boat racing, it's
pretty neat. There's not a lot of festivals around here
in our area. We'd be bringing the first one to
the Quad City. So we'll be hiring a company that's
going to be bringing in these twenty foot long boats
that have a dragon head on them, and then each
team will have sixteen rowers. They row to the beat
of a drum. It's not only have teams racing, but
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will have vendors set up selling items and food vendor.
It's going to be a great day for a great
cause to support our mission. So teams can either purchase
their team or they can go online and they can
set up a fundraiser and they can fundraise to get
on a boat.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you touched on it the last time that we talked,
but the dragon boat racing kind of can bring people.
When you're watching everybody on the boat working together, it
kind of reminds of what happens when somebody in the
family has been dealing with cancer, how everybody has to
come together exactly.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
And you know what dragon boat racing is actually super
beneficial for cancer survivors is which is part of the
reason we decided to bring the festival here and do
it as a fundraiser. There's a lot of cancer survivor
teams across the US and they kind of just develop
a connection with one another. They experience a unique team
building aspects that they get to bond, but they also
(27:05):
get to rebuild their strength by doing dragon voating.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So this isn't just viewing. I mean some people are
like maybe initially thinking, oh, this would be great to
look at and you will be able to But if
you want to get a team together, you can be
a part of this. You cannot only talk to talk,
you can row the boat.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So again, if they want to be a part of that,
what do they do?
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Visit csc Iowa Illinois dot org slash Dragon.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, give it one more time, girl, because we just
we always as soon as you're saying that, people are
reaching for things or they're trying to type it in
on the computer. So give it one more time and
then they're ready to go.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
It's csc Iowa, Illinois dot org, slash Dragon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
How did the Run for Hope Go?
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Run for Hope went amazing. We had over four hundred registrations.
And you know what, it's funny you run because we
are actually a charity program for the Quad City's Marathon
this year. So if anyone listening is running the Quad
City Marathon and they would like to help us raise
funds for our services, if they raise four hundred dollars,
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they actually get their registration fee.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Waived, similar to Birdie's for charity, which you, of course
were a part of. Now this is another way to
get little extra help. So for people that are running
in the marathon, and that'll be right after the dragon
boat racing you're going to be running, think about Cancer
Support Community of Iowa Northwest Illinois and again to find
out more on that, let's give that website again a
(28:37):
couple of times.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
It's Csciowa Illinois dot org. Csciowa Illinois dot org.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
And as we wrap up the forum today, just want
to give you some options of things to do you
can support KSIE. They have their fourth annual Chip in
for Seniors golf outing at Glenn's Creek coming up on
September fifth. It's the best ball tournament. You can help
a senior and have some by visiting Kseiseniors dot org
to register.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And You've also got a big event that's happening today
at Edwards United Church of Christ. It's a thirty four
to twenty Jersey Ridge. We've got a family friendly carnival
that'll be happening Petting Zoo. I think those who got
a magic show. That a lot of different things going
on for the whole family. If you want to check
it out. It's from eleven thirty to one thirty today.
That's at the Edwards United Church of Christ thirty four
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to twenty Jersey Ridge Road in Davenport. And thank you
for supporting these events. Here at your iHeartRadio stations to
the Quad Cities.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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