September 2, 2025 • 30 mins
This week’s show featured Kim Foundation executive director Molly Verble discussing their work to prevent suicide, OmahaHawks president Grant Schulte promoting their fundraising event for Make-A-Wish Foundation, and Paul & Neva Grace Foundation co-founder and executive director Kelly Sparr talking about their efforts to provide hospice care for those without the financial means to access the care they need.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Community Matters, a weekly public affairs program to
inform and entertain you with some of the great people, organizations,
and events in and around Omaha. Now here's the host
of the program from news radio eleven ten KFAB. It's
Scott for Heats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
This week, we welcome Mally Verbal to the program. She
is the executive director of the Kim Foundation, not only
doing incredible work here in our community, but also in
addition to the very serious work they do, they're doing
a very unseerious night A night Out is coming up
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this Thursday, featuring the incredibly funny Angela Johnson Reyes, best
known from being on Mad TV for several years. But
let's talk before about the event. Let's talk first about
the Kim Foundation. Mally Verbal, welcome to Community Matters.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you so much, Scott. It's a pleasure to be
here on behalf of the Kim Foundation.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I always like talking about a really fun event for
a great cause. Let's first talk about the cause. Tell
me about the Kim Foundation.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The Kim Foundation was founded in two thousand and one.
We are approaching our twenty fifth year being in service,
and our mission is to serve as a supportive resource
and compassionate voice for lives touched by mental illness and suicide.
So we provide programming free of charge out in the
community to raise awareness about suicide and mental illness. We
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do trainings, education, we provide prevention materials and resources to
the community. And then we also have a program that
provides post suicide support. It's called Loss and that program
works to provide resources, supports, and help to families and
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loved ones who've been affected did personally by a suicide.
So all of these programs will be really getting the
funding from the proceeds of our event that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, as I said, a very serious cause and a
very unserious night. Tell me about what's going on this Thursday, Mollie.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes, So this Thursday at the Astro Theater in La Vista,
we are hosting a night out. So this is a
new format that we are doing to highlight the Kim
Foundation's impact. So we are now providing everyone who comes
with some type of talent every year, So this year,
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as you mentioned, we are featuring the stand up comedian
Angela Johnson Reyes for a night of humor and dialogue
that will encompass insights into identity belonging in mental health.
So Angela is going to perform a comedy set followed
by a Q and eight to raise awareness on mental
health through her lived experience. So it's going to be
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a great night. We are also going to be promoting
local artists, so we'll have a variety of artwork in
our reception that will be up for sale during a
silent auction. And these pieces of art are really focused
on exploring the realities of mental health, so they have
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been the artists themselves have been inspired by their own
mental health journeys through their artwork. So a lot of
really cool things we're doing this year to make the
event special and to raise awareness and get people talking
about mental health.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How was it that the Kim Foundation got acquainted with
Angela Johnson Reys for this event. I didn't realize that
she had some of this in her personal history that's
related to what the Kim Foundation's mission is.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
We got connected to her, I think just through some
different agents because she has done similar events before and
was willing to really raise awareness as this is a
topic that was important to her as well. So then
when we really looked into her work and saw how
talented she was. We figured she'd be an amazing person
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to have come to Omaha and to showcase at this event.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, she on Mad TV. I don't know how familiar
you are with her alter ego Bonky Key, but she
is y. She is so funny, whether she's in that
character or out of it. I've had a chance to
talk with her and she's just incredibly delightful and I
know that she'll do a wonderful job for you guys
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this Thursday night. It's at the Astro in La Vista.
So for people who want to be a part of this, Molly,
what do they need to do right now so they
can be there this Thursday?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All right? Now, you can go to our website and
under events, you can look up a night out and
we have tickets available. Still we're close to selling notes,
so get them while you can. But we've got some
individual tickets remaining, so there are one hundred dollars and
you can purchase the online very easily, and then everything
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is going to be run through an app, so you
will get an app that'll give you all the details
on registration and food and silent auction and everything else
for the event. So we're looking forward to getting a
few more seats sold so we can have a full
house the night of the event.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The website is the Kimfoundation dot org. That's the Kimfoundation
dot org. We're talking with their executive director, malliverbal here
on community matters. For those who aren't familiar with the Kimfoundation,
tell me Molly about the significance of the name, the
Kim Foundation.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, so the Kimfoundation came about in two thousand and one.
Larry and Kathy Cortinage are the founders of the organization
and their daughter, Kim, battled mental health issues throughout her
life and unfortunately she died by suicide in the nineteen eighties.
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So the Cortinage family has done wonderful work to really
promote prevention efforts and raise awareness around mental health issues
and help other families that have had to deal with
similar issues. So the Kim Foundation name is very special
to all of us. And yeah, we're looking to just
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continue to get the word out and get more people
involved in our mission and making some needed changes around
suicide prevention and mental illness.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Sometimes it ends up happening and You've got people left
behind who are often left with that ache in their
heart's saying is there anything more I could have done?
I should have been able to do more, There's something
I could have done. I'm sure you hear people addressing
that all the time, Molly. What is done to help
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be there for them, to help them realize they're not
at fault here?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, So what we utilize as a group of people
who have lived experiences, we work with a lot of
licensed clinicians as well, and then volunteers who have dealt
with similar tragedies in their own lives, and we know
that that is a huge support system for others who
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have gone through similar things. So really working with those
peer to peer groups and connecting folks to other people
who have that lived experience has been a huge support
system as well as just getting you know, clinical treatment
and getting help from support groups and grief groups, all
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of those to know that it's nobody's fault. That suicide
and mental illness is a disease, and almost all the time,
over ninety percent of the people who die by suicide
haven't underlying mental health condition and are in a state
of crisis. So what we're trying to do is really
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promote prevention as well and getting those lethal means restriction
items out. We provide lock boxes, we provide trigger locks,
We provide deterra packs that safely dispose of old medications
in the household. So really, if anyone is in need
of any of those resources, they can call our office
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at any time and we'll provide those for free, because
we know that is the number one way to really
prevent suicide is taking away the means, because it's often
an impulsive act in a time of crisis.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Details at the Kimfoundation dot org. If there are people
who want to help out the Kim Foundation with their
mission on all these different fronts, but they can't be
there this Thursday for some reason, how can they help
you today? What can they do?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, we have a lot of volunteer opportunities, so give
us a call at our main number and we can
connect you to a variety of different ways to help.
We have events throughout the year. We have a Youth
Empower Summit. We're looking for volunteers for that. We offer
two conferences during the year for school mental health professionals,
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as well as one coming up in October called the
Lost conference that is to provide resources to families who
have dealt with loss or professionals who work with families
dealing with loss. So all of these events we are
really looking for more volunteers, But we also just need
volunteers every day because we do a lot of programming
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out in the community, and we do a lot of
letters and affirmations and positive things where we need people
who have some creative juices that can help come to
our office and help work on some of these with
some of our partners at Children's Hospital and the public
schools that we work with. So yeah, lots of opportunities
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to volunteer. Give us a call because we can always
use more people.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You can reach the Kim Foundation, as I said, online
at the Kimfoundation dot org or call four oh two
eight nine one six nine one one. That's four oh
two eight nine one six nine one pint one. Kimfoundation
dot org is the website. One more time, Mollie tell
me about how if people are able to and want
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to be there this Thursday night, what do they need
to do today so they can be with the Kim
Foundation and Angela Johnson Reyes at the Astro on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
All you have to do is go on to our website,
the Kim Foundation dot org, and under events, we have
a link you can click on to buy tickets really
easily online and then you'll get a receipt and you'll
get your ticket information, so it's very easy. The event
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is from six pm to nine pm September fourth at
the Astro and please come join us for a wonderful
night where we can make a difference in save life.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So good to get together for a great cost here
and it'll be laughing, celebrating, raising funds, being together with friends,
and everyone's gonna love your headliner for a night out,
Angela Johnson Reyes from Mad TV. Molly Verbal is executive
director of the Kim Foundation at the Kimfoundation dot org. Mollie,
thank you so much for what you're doing for those
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in our community. Have fun this Thursday night. Thanks for
telling us all about it here on Community Matters.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You're welcome, Thanks so much, Scott.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're listening to Community Matters. And something else coming up
this week is coming up a little sooner than this Thursday.
It's actually coming up Monday, Labor Day is the annual
Make a Wish fundraising event that is featuring the Olmahawks.
We have their president with us, Grant Shulti is here
on community matters. Grant, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hi Scott, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Great to have you. As always, I always love a
good show by the Olmahawks. Before we give all the
details about the event coming up Monday, tell me about
this club.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Sure, well, the Omahawks. We are the largest RC airplane
club in Nebraska with almost two hundred members, and we
specialize in building and flying model aircraft, whether that's six
wing airplanes or helicopters or fun items like flying American flags.
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And it's a great hobby and we encourage people to
get involved with it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, it is super fun and a big show like this,
a big air show for RC planes, proves that most
of your members are delightfully nuts. They have so much
fun seeing what they can fly, seeing how they can
fly it, sometimes dog fighting to knock other planes out
of the air. It's got to be a lot of
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fun to be a part of this club.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh, absolutely. And the camaraderie we have is just great.
We're a very welcoming club. We have folks from all
walks of life. And the one thing we have in
common is we love flying things. It's one of those
hobbies where you're constantly learning and even you know, for me,
I've been in the hobby for a number of years
now and I go out to the field and there
are still times when I'll learn something I didn't learn before,
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and it's it's just a thrill to not only to
build something, but also to fly fly a plane and
work on your skills and really develop, really develop yourself
in the hobby.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So how can they see what's going on this Monday?
What are they going to see and where are they
going to see it?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Absolutely so, we are having our annual Labor Day air
Show at standing Bear Lake Park and that's the one
hundred and thirty eighth and fourth Street entrance here in Omaha.
Basically you go down to that entrance and there's a
fork in the road, you hang a right, and our
field is just down the road from there. The Labor
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Day air Show is a fundraiser for Make a Wish Nebraska,
which is an organization that helps children with life altering
and critical illnesses. It grants wishes for them which has
been shown to help, you know, help them fight through
treatment or you know, or give gives them hope and
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a little bit of positivity as they're as they're dealing
with whatever illness they may have. The show itself is
a is a great opportunity. We showcase all kinds of
different aircraft and we have a lot of very talented
pilots who fly and we try to put on a
good show for the crowd.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, the Make a Wish Foundation is a wonderful organization.
I would hope that everyone is certainly aware of what
they do and how many people they have helped, families
they've been there for. How was it that the Omahawks
organization got to be hooked up with the Make a
Wish Foundation for a fundraiser such as this.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, so we have been raising money for Make a
Wish for more than forty years now. It's been a
long time tradition. Some of our more senior members hooked
up with them. Initially, in the first few years we
raised money for toys for tots, I believe, but it
became difficult to do an air show during December and
Nebraska obviously it's pretty cold then, and so in the
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first couple of years we changed it up a little
bit and made a connection with Make a Wish Nebraska
and to raise money for them. Since we've been doing that,
we've raised well over one hundred thousand dollars for them
over the course of the last forty years or so,
and last year we raised about eight thousand dollars them.
So it's usually a pretty significant amount that we're able
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to raise, and that's through the generosity of the folks
who come to watch.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, and the people who come to watch. There's no
ticket to get in, right, it's it's a fundraiser that
raises funds other ways, including with some really good hot
dogs exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, So parking and admission are totally free. You're welcome
to Anyone is welcome to come and watch we do.
If you like, you are welcome to make a free
will donation to Make a Wish Nebraska. And the way
we raise money is, as you said, through food, beverage,
and raffle ticket sales. So we have hot dogs, we
have pizza, We have some local businesses that generously donate.
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We have stoysage dogs and and and buns from Rotella's
and a number of other organizations. Uh, and we use
our volunteer member members to UH to prepare the food
and all the net proceeds from those sales go to
make a wish. We also do Raffle Raffle tickets as well.
So we have some cool prizes this year to hopefully
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gin up interest.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Awesome. What are some of the prizes any idea?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah, so we have some cool ones this year. One
of the prizes is a PlayStation, a new PlayStation. We
have our remote control trainer plane that was donated to
us from HobbyTown. We have one really cool new one
that we're doing this year is someone will have the
opportunity to win a free discovery flight with Red Aviation
and Council Bluffs. It's a gift certificate where they can
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go over there and get a free discovery flight with
a pilot and a full scale plane.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh, very cool. Yeah, there's the great Raffle prizes at
this event every year, and it's coming up this Monday
at standing Bear Lake Park right off one hundred and
thirty eighth and for it there on the north side
of Ford Street. You'll see the signs and you'll know
where to go. You'll hear the buzzing of the planes
as you get closer.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What time.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Is this happening on Monday? Grant?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Absolutely, So. The show starts at eleven four forty five am.
If you want to come a little early the parking lot,
we do have quite a few people come out. The
parking lot tends to fill up, but we'll make room
for you. And yeah, so you can show up a
little earlier if you want, around eleven AM. But the
show starts at eleven forty five and runs till four PM.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Runs until four so there's flying going on most of
those times. Sometimes you got to retool and you have
the next wave of guys come out there, and it's everything,
as I said, from let's see if I can fly
this lawnmower, to let's do dog fighting, to here's some
bigger things. Here are some really fast fighter jets. Here's
a guy, you know, flying a pizza upside down. I mean,
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I've seen so many crazy things there at this show
over the years, and it's always fun. And the guys
who are part of your organization, the Amahawks Omahawks love
putting this on not just to raise money for Make
a Wish Foundation, but to be there to entertain those
who show up, especially the kids who show up and
see this every single year grant for people who want
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to learn more about radio controlled airplanes and your club.
Where can they learn more about the Omahawks.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Absolutely so for one, you can visit our website it's
just omahawks dot org. Or if you want to come
out and watch or even try flying yourself for no cost.
We offer what's known as a training night, so it's
during the spring, summer, and fall. We're getting toward the
end of it this season, but every Thursday night when
the weather permits, we have people out seasoned instructors and visitors.
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If they want to try flying one of our club planes,
they can do that, no expense, no commitment. It's really
just to give folks a chance to see if the
hobby is something that might interest them, and we've had
great results with it. We get a lot of people
out who want to fly, and we welcome all people.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Omahawks dot org for more organization details and all of
the event details about what's coming up This Monday day
at standing Bear Lake Park about one hundred and thirty
eighth and Ford Street between eleven forty five and four o'clock.
You'll see all kinds of RC planes and other things
in the air, you can get some food, you can
maybe win a raffle prize, and you can have a
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lot of fun as well. Grant Sholti, President of the Olmahawks,
thank you so much for doing this fun fundraiser for
Make a Wish Foundation. Thanks for telling us about it
on Community.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Matters, absolutely, thank you for having me appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Finally, on Community Matters this week, we welcome the co
founder and executive director of the Paul and Neva Grace Foundation,
also known as the Grace Space. It's an incredible organization
with an amazing mission, and they've got a golf tournament
coming up here in just about two and a half weeks,
so we welcome Kelly Sparr to Community Matters. Kelly, it's
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good to have you here.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Before we talk about the golf tournament to be a
fundraiser for everything that you do. Tell me about this
foundation and everything.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
That you do.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Absolutely so. The foundation was established as a five oh
one c three nonprofit organization and it is named after
my grandpa Paul and my business partner's grandma Niva, who
both were very generous, very loving people, but also have
really amazing hospice stories, and so we wanted to name
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it after them because the goal of the foundation is
to provide funds for benevolent care, so folks that can't
afford to live with us, we use scholarship money to
be able to pay for their stay at the Grape Space,
and at the Grace Space we do all hospice and
end of life care. So this allows people to not
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worry about the financial burden if they can't afford it,
but still receive really great end of life care because
we just truly believe that people deserve the same kind
of care no matter if they can afford it or not.
So last year at our golf tournament, we raise a
little over forty thousand dollars and we've used almost every
dollar of that this last year to really just bless
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people and provide them with really amazing end of life care.
We're hoping to maybe double that this year. So we
have a golf tournament coming up at Hidden Valley Golf
Course in Lincoln on Thursday, September the eighteenth, and we
still have a few room for a few golf teams
if you can sign up or there is a donation
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link on our website if you just want to give
to the foundation. It is a tax deductible donation, so
we would be happy to have you either come hang
out with us or give a notation.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And that website is thegracespace dot com. That's where you
can learn more about this organization and the upcoming golf tournament.
I presume this is a scramble format, so even if
you're a great golfer, or if you only have swung
a club once in your life, this is still a
fun time to come out and play, right.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, so we are not very serious about our golf.
We just come and have a really great time. You know,
everybody's there to support the event. We do have some
prizes and some things like that. We'll be showing a
video at our luncheon just to show people how the
dollars that were raised last year have impacted the people
that we have cared for. And then all of our
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staff will be there to help run the event, and
so it's just a fun time for people to come
and meet our staff. And sometimes families of people that
we've cared for come back and participate, and so it's
a fun time to reunite with them also and just
share memories of their loved ones and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So Hidden Valley, very nice golf course there in southeast Lincoln.
And this event's coming up on a Thursday as an
early morning deal here at nine o'clock shotgun start on Thursday,
September eighteenth. So if people want to do this, but
you know, they say, well, I don't know if I
can get a team of four together. What's the best
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way for people to be able to play in this?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, they can sign up as an individual and we'll
put together a team for them. That's not a problem. Again,
you don't have to be a great golfer to come
and golf. Just come and golf and fellowship and have fun.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, excellent, that's all. At the gracespace dot com, Kelly
sparr is with US co founder and executive director of
the Grace Space, the Paul and Neva Grace Foundation. So
trying to figure out how all of this works. The
foundation supports people who can then stay at the Grace Space.
Is that the most simplified way of saying that.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Absolutely, So we are licenses in this is still living.
We're a small fourteen bed facility that looks like a
giant house on the inside with lots of bedrooms. The
goal is to have a really homelike environment, and we
provide all hospice and end of life care in our facility.
So if someone can't afford to stay with us, they
can apply for a scholarship through the foundation and then
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the foundation piece for their stay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Got it. And that's in Lincoln. We're in Lincoln, the
Grace Space located.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
It's in northwest Lincoln, about seventeens and Superior, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And there are people who, certainly, I'm sure want to well,
that's the wrong way of saying it. No one wants
to be in hospice care. But my wife works in
hospice care, so I know the angels who work in
this world who are there for not just the individuals
who stay there, but they're families as well. And there
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certainly there's a lack of opportunity for people to get
that end of life care in an environment like this.
It's got to be hard for you sometimes, Kelly, because
I'm sure that there are more people who could stay there,
families who want a loved one to stay there than
you have room for in some instances, right.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, we you know, we unfortunately do have to
turn a lot of people away because we're full, which
is hard because we just want to be able to
take care of everybody. We have some really fantastic staff
that just are, like you said, angels, and we get
a lot of people wanting to come live with us
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just for whatever reason, you know, Families can't help take
care of them at home, or they just can't be
at home by themselves anymore. And so yeah, we we
have a lot of people wanting to come and stay
and and it's hard to turn people away. It's a
it's a super emotional, it's a high emotion job, you know.
But our staff are just so dedicated to loving on
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people and you'll you'll typically find them just hanging out
in rooms with people or laying in bed with them.
Yesterday morning, I got a text from a staff member
that said, I need to call me right away. And
they're just so in tune with what's going on with
our folks that they listen for those like I want
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to do one last thing, and our foundation helps support
some of those final wishes also. And so they called
me and they said, this resident, like she all she
wants to do is celebrate her birthday, and she doesn't
think she's going to make it to her birthday because
we really believe in talking about dying out loud with
our people because they know that they're dying. I know
death is scary, but we just embrace it. And they said,
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she wants two things. She wants a giant birthday party
and she wants a tattoo. And so I made a cut,
I made a cook I know it's not crazy. I
made a couple of phone calls and with the support
of the Dream Weaver Foundation, we're throwing her this giant
birthday party for her ninetieth birthday. We're going to do
it early because she doesn't feel like she's going to
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make it. And I got a local tattoo artist to
agree to come into the building and give her the
tattoo that she's always wanted, and her family was thrilled that,
you know, we were able to make that happen for her.
So it's not just doing gloom. It's not just people
laying in that dying. We are living while we're dying,
and we are just trying to make delight their lives
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the best possible with whatever time they have left.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I have to ask this question on behalf of every
single listener wondering this. If it's not a hip of
violation to say, what kind of tattoo did she want
at the age of ninety.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You know, I shouldn't say. They didn't say. They just said,
we have to make this happen. So we're gonna have
to figure out what tattoo. Yeah, I'm sure she's got
something something in mind.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So her last name and calligraphy across her shoulder blades
is what I expect, so she can walk around the
prison yard and everyone knows who she is.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
The Paul and Neiva Grace Foundation and the Grace Space
there in Northwest Lincoln. They've got the golf tournament coming
up on Thursday, September eighteenth. That's at Hidden Valley Golf
Club that's in Southeast Lincoln. It's a nine o'clock shotgun start.
And there's still a few spots available for individuals or
teams to be a part of this. And as you said, Kelly,
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if someone says, why I love that's what you guys
are doing there. And I want to donate to the
foundation to give people that dignity that add through the
Gray Space. I just want to give you guys a
bunch of money.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yep? They can go to our website www dot the
grayspace dot com, go to our foundation page and there
is a link in a QR code for people to
be able to donate directly through our website.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The gracespace dot com is that website. Kelly spar co founder,
executive director at the Gray Space and with the Paul
and Neva Grace Foundation, thank you so much for what
you're doing for people here in our community.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Kelly.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's so sweet and I love that story. Thank you
so much for sharing it with us here on Community Matters.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it, and.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
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This is Community Matters, a weekly public affairs program to
inform and entertain you with some of the great people, organizations,
and events in and around Omaha. Now here's the host
of the program from news radio eleven ten KFAB. It's
Scott for Heats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
This week, we welcome Mally Verbal to the program. She
is the executive director of the Kim Foundation, not only
doing incredible work here in our community, but also in
addition to the very serious work they do, they're doing
a very unseerious night A night Out is coming up
(00:41):
this Thursday, featuring the incredibly funny Angela Johnson Reyes, best
known from being on Mad TV for several years. But
let's talk before about the event. Let's talk first about
the Kim Foundation. Mally Verbal, welcome to Community Matters.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thank you so much, Scott. It's a pleasure to be
here on behalf of the Kim Foundation.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I always like talking about a really fun event for
a great cause. Let's first talk about the cause. Tell
me about the Kim Foundation.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The Kim Foundation was founded in two thousand and one.
We are approaching our twenty fifth year being in service,
and our mission is to serve as a supportive resource
and compassionate voice for lives touched by mental illness and suicide.
So we provide programming free of charge out in the
community to raise awareness about suicide and mental illness. We
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do trainings, education, we provide prevention materials and resources to
the community. And then we also have a program that
provides post suicide support. It's called Loss and that program
works to provide resources, supports, and help to families and
(01:58):
loved ones who've been affected did personally by a suicide.
So all of these programs will be really getting the
funding from the proceeds of our event that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, as I said, a very serious cause and a
very unserious night. Tell me about what's going on this Thursday, Mollie.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes, So this Thursday at the Astro Theater in La Vista,
we are hosting a night out. So this is a
new format that we are doing to highlight the Kim
Foundation's impact. So we are now providing everyone who comes
with some type of talent every year, So this year,
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as you mentioned, we are featuring the stand up comedian
Angela Johnson Reyes for a night of humor and dialogue
that will encompass insights into identity belonging in mental health.
So Angela is going to perform a comedy set followed
by a Q and eight to raise awareness on mental
health through her lived experience. So it's going to be
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a great night. We are also going to be promoting
local artists, so we'll have a variety of artwork in
our reception that will be up for sale during a
silent auction. And these pieces of art are really focused
on exploring the realities of mental health, so they have
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been the artists themselves have been inspired by their own
mental health journeys through their artwork. So a lot of
really cool things we're doing this year to make the
event special and to raise awareness and get people talking
about mental health.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How was it that the Kim Foundation got acquainted with
Angela Johnson Reys for this event. I didn't realize that
she had some of this in her personal history that's
related to what the Kim Foundation's mission is.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
We got connected to her, I think just through some
different agents because she has done similar events before and
was willing to really raise awareness as this is a
topic that was important to her as well. So then
when we really looked into her work and saw how
talented she was. We figured she'd be an amazing person
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to have come to Omaha and to showcase at this event.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, she on Mad TV. I don't know how familiar
you are with her alter ego Bonky Key, but she
is y. She is so funny, whether she's in that
character or out of it. I've had a chance to
talk with her and she's just incredibly delightful and I
know that she'll do a wonderful job for you guys
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this Thursday night. It's at the Astro in La Vista.
So for people who want to be a part of this, Molly,
what do they need to do right now so they
can be there this Thursday?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All right? Now, you can go to our website and
under events, you can look up a night out and
we have tickets available. Still we're close to selling notes,
so get them while you can. But we've got some
individual tickets remaining, so there are one hundred dollars and
you can purchase the online very easily, and then everything
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is going to be run through an app, so you
will get an app that'll give you all the details
on registration and food and silent auction and everything else
for the event. So we're looking forward to getting a
few more seats sold so we can have a full
house the night of the event.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The website is the Kimfoundation dot org. That's the Kimfoundation
dot org. We're talking with their executive director, malliverbal here
on community matters. For those who aren't familiar with the Kimfoundation,
tell me Molly about the significance of the name, the
Kim Foundation.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, so the Kimfoundation came about in two thousand and one.
Larry and Kathy Cortinage are the founders of the organization
and their daughter, Kim, battled mental health issues throughout her
life and unfortunately she died by suicide in the nineteen eighties.
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So the Cortinage family has done wonderful work to really
promote prevention efforts and raise awareness around mental health issues
and help other families that have had to deal with
similar issues. So the Kim Foundation name is very special
to all of us. And yeah, we're looking to just
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continue to get the word out and get more people
involved in our mission and making some needed changes around
suicide prevention and mental illness.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Sometimes it ends up happening and You've got people left
behind who are often left with that ache in their
heart's saying is there anything more I could have done?
I should have been able to do more, There's something
I could have done. I'm sure you hear people addressing
that all the time, Molly. What is done to help
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be there for them, to help them realize they're not
at fault here?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, So what we utilize as a group of people
who have lived experiences, we work with a lot of
licensed clinicians as well, and then volunteers who have dealt
with similar tragedies in their own lives, and we know
that that is a huge support system for others who
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have gone through similar things. So really working with those
peer to peer groups and connecting folks to other people
who have that lived experience has been a huge support
system as well as just getting you know, clinical treatment
and getting help from support groups and grief groups, all
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of those to know that it's nobody's fault. That suicide
and mental illness is a disease, and almost all the time,
over ninety percent of the people who die by suicide
haven't underlying mental health condition and are in a state
of crisis. So what we're trying to do is really
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promote prevention as well and getting those lethal means restriction
items out. We provide lock boxes, we provide trigger locks,
We provide deterra packs that safely dispose of old medications
in the household. So really, if anyone is in need
of any of those resources, they can call our office
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at any time and we'll provide those for free, because
we know that is the number one way to really
prevent suicide is taking away the means, because it's often
an impulsive act in a time of crisis.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Details at the Kimfoundation dot org. If there are people
who want to help out the Kim Foundation with their
mission on all these different fronts, but they can't be
there this Thursday for some reason, how can they help
you today? What can they do?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, we have a lot of volunteer opportunities, so give
us a call at our main number and we can
connect you to a variety of different ways to help.
We have events throughout the year. We have a Youth
Empower Summit. We're looking for volunteers for that. We offer
two conferences during the year for school mental health professionals,
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as well as one coming up in October called the
Lost conference that is to provide resources to families who
have dealt with loss or professionals who work with families
dealing with loss. So all of these events we are
really looking for more volunteers, But we also just need
volunteers every day because we do a lot of programming
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out in the community, and we do a lot of
letters and affirmations and positive things where we need people
who have some creative juices that can help come to
our office and help work on some of these with
some of our partners at Children's Hospital and the public
schools that we work with. So yeah, lots of opportunities
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to volunteer. Give us a call because we can always
use more people.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You can reach the Kim Foundation, as I said, online
at the Kimfoundation dot org or call four oh two
eight nine one six nine one one. That's four oh
two eight nine one six nine one pint one. Kimfoundation
dot org is the website. One more time, Mollie tell
me about how if people are able to and want
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to be there this Thursday night, what do they need
to do today so they can be with the Kim
Foundation and Angela Johnson Reyes at the Astro on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
All you have to do is go on to our website,
the Kim Foundation dot org, and under events, we have
a link you can click on to buy tickets really
easily online and then you'll get a receipt and you'll
get your ticket information, so it's very easy. The event
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is from six pm to nine pm September fourth at
the Astro and please come join us for a wonderful
night where we can make a difference in save life.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So good to get together for a great cost here
and it'll be laughing, celebrating, raising funds, being together with friends,
and everyone's gonna love your headliner for a night out,
Angela Johnson Reyes from Mad TV. Molly Verbal is executive
director of the Kim Foundation at the Kimfoundation dot org. Mollie,
thank you so much for what you're doing for those
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in our community. Have fun this Thursday night. Thanks for
telling us all about it here on Community Matters.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You're welcome, Thanks so much, Scott.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're listening to Community Matters. And something else coming up
this week is coming up a little sooner than this Thursday.
It's actually coming up Monday, Labor Day is the annual
Make a Wish fundraising event that is featuring the Olmahawks.
We have their president with us, Grant Shulti is here
on community matters. Grant, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hi Scott, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Great to have you. As always, I always love a
good show by the Olmahawks. Before we give all the
details about the event coming up Monday, tell me about
this club.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Sure, well, the Omahawks. We are the largest RC airplane
club in Nebraska with almost two hundred members, and we
specialize in building and flying model aircraft, whether that's six
wing airplanes or helicopters or fun items like flying American flags.
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And it's a great hobby and we encourage people to
get involved with it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, it is super fun and a big show like this,
a big air show for RC planes, proves that most
of your members are delightfully nuts. They have so much
fun seeing what they can fly, seeing how they can
fly it, sometimes dog fighting to knock other planes out
of the air. It's got to be a lot of
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fun to be a part of this club.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh, absolutely. And the camaraderie we have is just great.
We're a very welcoming club. We have folks from all
walks of life. And the one thing we have in
common is we love flying things. It's one of those
hobbies where you're constantly learning and even you know, for me,
I've been in the hobby for a number of years
now and I go out to the field and there
are still times when I'll learn something I didn't learn before,
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and it's it's just a thrill to not only to
build something, but also to fly fly a plane and
work on your skills and really develop, really develop yourself
in the hobby.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So how can they see what's going on this Monday?
What are they going to see and where are they
going to see it?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Absolutely so, we are having our annual Labor Day air
Show at standing Bear Lake Park and that's the one
hundred and thirty eighth and fourth Street entrance here in Omaha.
Basically you go down to that entrance and there's a
fork in the road, you hang a right, and our
field is just down the road from there. The Labor
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Day air Show is a fundraiser for Make a Wish Nebraska,
which is an organization that helps children with life altering
and critical illnesses. It grants wishes for them which has
been shown to help, you know, help them fight through
treatment or you know, or give gives them hope and
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a little bit of positivity as they're as they're dealing
with whatever illness they may have. The show itself is
a is a great opportunity. We showcase all kinds of
different aircraft and we have a lot of very talented
pilots who fly and we try to put on a
good show for the crowd.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, the Make a Wish Foundation is a wonderful organization.
I would hope that everyone is certainly aware of what
they do and how many people they have helped, families
they've been there for. How was it that the Omahawks
organization got to be hooked up with the Make a
Wish Foundation for a fundraiser such as this.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, so we have been raising money for Make a
Wish for more than forty years now. It's been a
long time tradition. Some of our more senior members hooked
up with them. Initially, in the first few years we
raised money for toys for tots, I believe, but it
became difficult to do an air show during December and
Nebraska obviously it's pretty cold then, and so in the
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first couple of years we changed it up a little
bit and made a connection with Make a Wish Nebraska
and to raise money for them. Since we've been doing that,
we've raised well over one hundred thousand dollars for them
over the course of the last forty years or so,
and last year we raised about eight thousand dollars them.
So it's usually a pretty significant amount that we're able
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to raise, and that's through the generosity of the folks
who come to watch.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, and the people who come to watch. There's no
ticket to get in, right, it's it's a fundraiser that
raises funds other ways, including with some really good hot
dogs exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, So parking and admission are totally free. You're welcome
to Anyone is welcome to come and watch we do.
If you like, you are welcome to make a free
will donation to Make a Wish Nebraska. And the way
we raise money is, as you said, through food, beverage,
and raffle ticket sales. So we have hot dogs, we
have pizza, We have some local businesses that generously donate.
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We have stoysage dogs and and and buns from Rotella's
and a number of other organizations. Uh, and we use
our volunteer member members to UH to prepare the food
and all the net proceeds from those sales go to
make a wish. We also do Raffle Raffle tickets as well.
So we have some cool prizes this year to hopefully
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gin up interest.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Awesome. What are some of the prizes any idea?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah, so we have some cool ones this year. One
of the prizes is a PlayStation, a new PlayStation. We
have our remote control trainer plane that was donated to
us from HobbyTown. We have one really cool new one
that we're doing this year is someone will have the
opportunity to win a free discovery flight with Red Aviation
and Council Bluffs. It's a gift certificate where they can
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go over there and get a free discovery flight with
a pilot and a full scale plane.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh, very cool. Yeah, there's the great Raffle prizes at
this event every year, and it's coming up this Monday
at standing Bear Lake Park right off one hundred and
thirty eighth and for it there on the north side
of Ford Street. You'll see the signs and you'll know
where to go. You'll hear the buzzing of the planes
as you get closer.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What time.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Is this happening on Monday? Grant?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Absolutely, So. The show starts at eleven four forty five am.
If you want to come a little early the parking lot,
we do have quite a few people come out. The
parking lot tends to fill up, but we'll make room
for you. And yeah, so you can show up a
little earlier if you want, around eleven AM. But the
show starts at eleven forty five and runs till four PM.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Runs until four so there's flying going on most of
those times. Sometimes you got to retool and you have
the next wave of guys come out there, and it's everything,
as I said, from let's see if I can fly
this lawnmower, to let's do dog fighting, to here's some
bigger things. Here are some really fast fighter jets. Here's
a guy, you know, flying a pizza upside down. I mean,
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I've seen so many crazy things there at this show
over the years, and it's always fun. And the guys
who are part of your organization, the Amahawks Omahawks love
putting this on not just to raise money for Make
a Wish Foundation, but to be there to entertain those
who show up, especially the kids who show up and
see this every single year grant for people who want
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to learn more about radio controlled airplanes and your club.
Where can they learn more about the Omahawks.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Absolutely so for one, you can visit our website it's
just omahawks dot org. Or if you want to come
out and watch or even try flying yourself for no cost.
We offer what's known as a training night, so it's
during the spring, summer, and fall. We're getting toward the
end of it this season, but every Thursday night when
the weather permits, we have people out seasoned instructors and visitors.
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If they want to try flying one of our club planes,
they can do that, no expense, no commitment. It's really
just to give folks a chance to see if the
hobby is something that might interest them, and we've had
great results with it. We get a lot of people
out who want to fly, and we welcome all people.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Omahawks dot org for more organization details and all of
the event details about what's coming up This Monday day
at standing Bear Lake Park about one hundred and thirty
eighth and Ford Street between eleven forty five and four o'clock.
You'll see all kinds of RC planes and other things
in the air, you can get some food, you can
maybe win a raffle prize, and you can have a
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lot of fun as well. Grant Sholti, President of the Olmahawks,
thank you so much for doing this fun fundraiser for
Make a Wish Foundation. Thanks for telling us about it
on Community.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Matters, absolutely, thank you for having me appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Finally, on Community Matters this week, we welcome the co
founder and executive director of the Paul and Neva Grace Foundation,
also known as the Grace Space. It's an incredible organization
with an amazing mission, and they've got a golf tournament
coming up here in just about two and a half weeks,
so we welcome Kelly Sparr to Community Matters. Kelly, it's
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good to have you here.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Before we talk about the golf tournament to be a
fundraiser for everything that you do. Tell me about this
foundation and everything.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
That you do.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Absolutely so. The foundation was established as a five oh
one c three nonprofit organization and it is named after
my grandpa Paul and my business partner's grandma Niva, who
both were very generous, very loving people, but also have
really amazing hospice stories, and so we wanted to name
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it after them because the goal of the foundation is
to provide funds for benevolent care, so folks that can't
afford to live with us, we use scholarship money to
be able to pay for their stay at the Grape Space,
and at the Grace Space we do all hospice and
end of life care. So this allows people to not
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worry about the financial burden if they can't afford it,
but still receive really great end of life care because
we just truly believe that people deserve the same kind
of care no matter if they can afford it or not.
So last year at our golf tournament, we raise a
little over forty thousand dollars and we've used almost every
dollar of that this last year to really just bless
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people and provide them with really amazing end of life care.
We're hoping to maybe double that this year. So we
have a golf tournament coming up at Hidden Valley Golf
Course in Lincoln on Thursday, September the eighteenth, and we
still have a few room for a few golf teams
if you can sign up or there is a donation
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link on our website if you just want to give
to the foundation. It is a tax deductible donation, so
we would be happy to have you either come hang
out with us or give a notation.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And that website is thegracespace dot com. That's where you
can learn more about this organization and the upcoming golf tournament.
I presume this is a scramble format, so even if
you're a great golfer, or if you only have swung
a club once in your life, this is still a
fun time to come out and play, right.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, so we are not very serious about our golf.
We just come and have a really great time. You know,
everybody's there to support the event. We do have some
prizes and some things like that. We'll be showing a
video at our luncheon just to show people how the
dollars that were raised last year have impacted the people
that we have cared for. And then all of our
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staff will be there to help run the event, and
so it's just a fun time for people to come
and meet our staff. And sometimes families of people that
we've cared for come back and participate, and so it's
a fun time to reunite with them also and just
share memories of their loved ones and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
So Hidden Valley, very nice golf course there in southeast Lincoln.
And this event's coming up on a Thursday as an
early morning deal here at nine o'clock shotgun start on Thursday,
September eighteenth. So if people want to do this, but
you know, they say, well, I don't know if I
can get a team of four together. What's the best
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way for people to be able to play in this?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, they can sign up as an individual and we'll
put together a team for them. That's not a problem. Again,
you don't have to be a great golfer to come
and golf. Just come and golf and fellowship and have fun.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, excellent, that's all. At the gracespace dot com, Kelly
sparr is with US co founder and executive director of
the Grace Space, the Paul and Neva Grace Foundation. So
trying to figure out how all of this works. The
foundation supports people who can then stay at the Grace Space.
Is that the most simplified way of saying that.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Absolutely, So we are licenses in this is still living.
We're a small fourteen bed facility that looks like a
giant house on the inside with lots of bedrooms. The
goal is to have a really homelike environment, and we
provide all hospice and end of life care in our facility.
So if someone can't afford to stay with us, they
can apply for a scholarship through the foundation and then
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the foundation piece for their stay.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Got it. And that's in Lincoln. We're in Lincoln, the
Grace Space located.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
It's in northwest Lincoln, about seventeens and Superior, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And there are people who, certainly, I'm sure want to well,
that's the wrong way of saying it. No one wants
to be in hospice care. But my wife works in
hospice care, so I know the angels who work in
this world who are there for not just the individuals
who stay there, but they're families as well. And there
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certainly there's a lack of opportunity for people to get
that end of life care in an environment like this.
It's got to be hard for you sometimes, Kelly, because
I'm sure that there are more people who could stay there,
families who want a loved one to stay there than
you have room for in some instances, right.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, we you know, we unfortunately do have to
turn a lot of people away because we're full, which
is hard because we just want to be able to
take care of everybody. We have some really fantastic staff
that just are, like you said, angels, and we get
a lot of people wanting to come live with us
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just for whatever reason, you know, Families can't help take
care of them at home, or they just can't be
at home by themselves anymore. And so yeah, we we
have a lot of people wanting to come and stay
and and it's hard to turn people away. It's a
it's a super emotional, it's a high emotion job, you know.
But our staff are just so dedicated to loving on
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people and you'll you'll typically find them just hanging out
in rooms with people or laying in bed with them.
Yesterday morning, I got a text from a staff member
that said, I need to call me right away. And
they're just so in tune with what's going on with
our folks that they listen for those like I want
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to do one last thing, and our foundation helps support
some of those final wishes also. And so they called
me and they said, this resident, like she all she
wants to do is celebrate her birthday, and she doesn't
think she's going to make it to her birthday because
we really believe in talking about dying out loud with
our people because they know that they're dying. I know
death is scary, but we just embrace it. And they said,
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she wants two things. She wants a giant birthday party
and she wants a tattoo. And so I made a cut,
I made a cook I know it's not crazy. I
made a couple of phone calls and with the support
of the Dream Weaver Foundation, we're throwing her this giant
birthday party for her ninetieth birthday. We're going to do
it early because she doesn't feel like she's going to
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make it. And I got a local tattoo artist to
agree to come into the building and give her the
tattoo that she's always wanted, and her family was thrilled that,
you know, we were able to make that happen for her.
So it's not just doing gloom. It's not just people
laying in that dying. We are living while we're dying,
and we are just trying to make delight their lives
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the best possible with whatever time they have left.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I have to ask this question on behalf of every
single listener wondering this. If it's not a hip of
violation to say, what kind of tattoo did she want
at the age of ninety.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You know, I shouldn't say. They didn't say. They just said,
we have to make this happen. So we're gonna have
to figure out what tattoo. Yeah, I'm sure she's got
something something in mind.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So her last name and calligraphy across her shoulder blades
is what I expect, so she can walk around the
prison yard and everyone knows who she is.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
The Paul and Neiva Grace Foundation and the Grace Space
there in Northwest Lincoln. They've got the golf tournament coming
up on Thursday, September eighteenth. That's at Hidden Valley Golf
Club that's in Southeast Lincoln. It's a nine o'clock shotgun start.
And there's still a few spots available for individuals or
teams to be a part of this. And as you said, Kelly,
(28:58):
if someone says, why I love that's what you guys
are doing there. And I want to donate to the
foundation to give people that dignity that add through the
Gray Space. I just want to give you guys a
bunch of money.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yep? They can go to our website www dot the
grayspace dot com, go to our foundation page and there
is a link in a QR code for people to
be able to donate directly through our website.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
The gracespace dot com is that website. Kelly spar co founder,
executive director at the Gray Space and with the Paul
and Neva Grace Foundation, thank you so much for what
you're doing for people here in our community.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Kelly.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's so sweet and I love that story. Thank you
so much for sharing it with us here on Community Matters.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it, and.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
God bless this has been Community Matters, a weekly public
affairs special on Cat one O three, Omaha's Greatest Hits
ninety nine point nine, KGr News Radio eleven ten, KFAB
Country's Greatest Hits ninety three three The Wolf and ninety
six to one Kiss That Them. Thank you so much
for listening and enjoy the real severe day
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