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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
a quad City Forum, Hot Luke and Denny Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hi Dan, Pat Luke? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Pat? You know what, young man, I'm hoping. You know,
I'm gonna I'm not gonna grow you, but I just
wanted to talk a little living lands and Waters right now?
Is that okay?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love it? I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, then I'll try to I'll try to meet your
energy level here. I think everybody there living lands and
Water before we get into the interview, each one of
you guys just wake up every day and go, man,
this is going to be the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I think it is. We're we're catered in that way,
but that's how that's how the vibe and the energy
is here. And you know, we work with literally one
hundreds of thousands of volunteers throughout the country and we're
we're blessed. We always say it, but the ones that
show up are the ones that we want to be with.
And you know, you got to go a little bit
the extra mile to do. We do at times so
the people that come out to join us, you know
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that the energy we bring is kind of reflective the
energy that they're already bringing to the table.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's infectious. It's like a snowball. It starts to
instead of going downhill. Sounding like that's dramatically bad, it
just builds that momentum. It's not. And it's fitting now
as we look outside. Now, the weather's going to change
here soon and start getting a lot warmer. But when
we start to talk about Living Lands and Waters, and
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for those of you just tuning in right now because
we're Dan and I just started the conversation and now
I better let you know here in the quot city form,
we're talking to Dan Bredenstein, Living Lands and Waters, vice
President of Living Lands and Waters. And when we look
at that warmer weather that's coming around, we don't think
about it now. But you guys are out all the
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time doing something all year long, whether it's snowing or not.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's right, yeah, I mean we kind of travel where
the need is, you know, whether it's river cleanups, whether
it's plant and trees. You know, we go up and
down the Mississippi starting all the way to Saint Paul
down to New Orleans. You know where the wherever the
problem is is where it's at, and that's where we're
we'll be kind of engage in local community members, educating
kids along the way.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When I start to clean up around our house in Orient,
I can I don't have the energy that it seems
like you guys. Now, there has to be times you'll
go into some areas and you'll clean it up and
it seems like almost a day later, somebody's come back
and put more stuff in it. How do you keep
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your attitude up to go, hey, we're making a dent
on this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a great question. We get that question a lot.
A lot of it is we're not necessarily looking the
stuff ahead of us what we're working on in the moment.
We're looking at that big pile of trash behind us
that we've already pulled out. So with all the people
that cumulative status we talk about that snowball effect again,
everyone that's along the way that's past present and those
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that are continuing to help us, we're looking at that
and that's what's kind of keeping the drive going because
we can see the accomplishments as we go down the river.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Love that when we go to the website at Living
Lands and Waters you have the just the people impacted
and the pounds, the pounds of garbage that you've been
able to take and take back some of these incredible
waterways that sometimes are being strangled because of trash. And
not just when I think trash a piece of paper,
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it's what is the wildest thing that you guys have
come across when you're you know, instead of just thinking
you're picking up trash, what is the wildest thing that
you found?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know, we do find a lot of wild things.
Anything that you see, you know, on a landfill, that's
what we're finding. A lot of single use plastics, you know, bottles, diyrofoam,
cup scans, but we find cars, we find boats, we
get you know, large scrap piece, a lot of appliances toilets. Uh,
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you know. Really the list goes on bowling balls. We
have quite a collection of bowling balls down there.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Do you ever look at it? Sometimes you go how
did did Sometimes you look at that go how did
that get? Who gave? Who threw away a perfectly good
They must have been a bad night at the lanes
throwing a bowling ball away.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
One hundred percent. We think about it a lot, and
that's maybe maybe all those pure and wild thoughts is
what keeps us going and keeps our mind off of
the you know, the enormous task at hand. But we
do have a lot of fun. You know, we talk
trash about each other's trash, and we have fun with
what we do.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We're talking to Dan Bredenstein Living Lands and waters and
and Dan big stuff that's happened. Even though we've had
colder snap here lately. You're a million tree project. Obviously,
we have to start planning. We always want to be planning.
How is that going right now?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, it's going great. We're you know, we've just been
a start a three week resident residency over at the
rust Belt. We engaged with over nine hundred volunteers in
the community and eight local schools, came out a bunch
of businesses and wrapped over forty two thousand trees.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So our million Trees products that started back in two
thousand and seven with a gold you know, plant distribute
a million trees, primarily oaks. To pass that goal twenty sixteen,
twenty twenty four, we got the two million tree marks
and again just keeping things rolling. We're got another one
hundred and seventy five thousand going out to about twenty
five different states this spring.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
This is amazing the footprint, the great things that you
guys are having. Now, is there a reason why it's
oak other than other trees. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We we try to do the most bang for our
buck with whatever we do. And you know, with the trees,
we're looking for something that can also feed the wildlife.
You know, the if they say, if you're going to
plant a tree, plant an oak, and we do primarily
nut bearing, so if it's not an oak, we have
pecans this year. We've done for simmons and fruit bearing
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in the past. Like I said, they go out to
not just this region but twenty five different states. So
we're looking for something that's not just beautifully aesthetic and
providing some oxygen for us, but that's also gonna you know,
hold the soil back and provide some food for the
wildlife wherever it's getting planted.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Your job is never done, but the energy. It's just
great to see that with the volunteer group. And when
I looked at the website, it's amazing. That's a small
little group of people at Living Lands and Waters. But
that's not really accurate because you've helped thousands of people
have come to help out with each and every one
of your projects.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, I mean it's like, you know, we have ten
to fifteen full time staff varying throughout the year, and
we're just basically facilitators. We're allowing people the opportunity that
want to do good for the environment and our waterways.
We're providing them an opportunit to come out in our
boats a lot of times, to pick up the river banks,
plant trees, wrap trees, to help get distributed. We're just
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kind of providing that opportunity for those that you know,
want to do something in their community.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And with high school kids planning for college, there are
scholarships available too, aren't there.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, we do our Alternative Spring Break program every year.
We go down to Memphis, Tennessee, and we have a
lot of fun with college kids throughout the country. Scholarship
opportunities for those students that come to join us down
in Memphis, but they spend their week of spring break
down there picking up trash out of the Mighty Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, that seems like it's redefining what spring breakers used
to do back when maybe you were younger, Dan, would
you have been one of those where you said, hey,
I want to go do the I want to help out, Chad.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think I said something about getting trash.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Remember exactly how how that year it is there, that's been,
that's and redefined too.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, Listen, we're glad you're on this side here too,
because and it is amazing how grounded and how it's
realism when you're down there trying to help out and
try to help the Mississippi start to kind of become
a living river again, at least in some sections it
there for a while, it's almost been lost because before
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you guys came along where the Mississippi was and a
lot of our waterways were in trouble thanks to the
great work you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, Pat, locally, like you said, you know, we've we've
been working on the river cleanup initiative for quite some
time since Chats started back in the late nineties. And
there isn't a ton and here in the Quad Cities
river cleanup opportunities for them to get involved with. But
our tree season is starting right now and it is
full force. We are looking for volunteers to help us
individually wrap I said, we've got forty two thousand trees
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wrapped to go to twenty five different states, but we
got another forty thousand that need to be wrapped. So
if an individual or a group of people would like
to come volunteer with us, reach out out on our website.
We got my phone number on there or an email
address for sure. And then you know, we're also looking
for drivers to help us deliver these trees because we
we hand deliver many of them that we're looking for
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volunteer drivers. If you're retired or you got some time
to take off from work and everything, we'd love to
you know, be connected and figure out ways to get
these trees to the hands of those that want to plant.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You got it. So if anybody listening right now wants
to help out, do a search on living lands and
waters and see how you can become a part of
that that crew and make the world a better place.
Dan Bredenstein, thank you again for taking some time with
us today. Love the energy. Even when this interview airs
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early in the morning, I'm going to get I'm going
to get out there and try to make the world
a better place. Just thinks.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
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Speaker 1 (09:53):
Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We have Laura cop President and CEO of the Center
for Active Seniors, Incorporated, ten thirty five West Kimberly Road
in Davenport. I want to find out more. Sometimes this
number works for me. I think they have me blocked
whenever they see me come up and they don't ever
help me when I call, but they'll help you five
six three three eight six seven four seven seven. Now
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I am not going to go long here before I
start bringing up your own beer for the month the
month of March. But I want to just make sure
for the people that have maybe just don't know, because
even though I can talk about Center for Active Seniors
or caseize, a lot of people know you by sometimes
they don't really know what's going on. And I always
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love it the first thing you say, this is not
your Grandma and Grandpa's Active Center to go over anywhere.
This is a completely different ballgame what you've got going
on off of Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Road and Davenport.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
You know, we're kind of a unique service model. We're
one of a kind where the largest senior center in
the state of Iowa. We've been opened a little over
fifty years, and we really are a place where adults
can go to stay active, stay connected, and you know,
age as successfully as they can through our multiple and
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hundreds of activities, our supportive services, and just having a
place to go with like minded people. So it's really
you have to see it to believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We always say that, yeah, ten thirty five West Kumberly Road,
to see it for yourself. And if people want to
find out more website what can they do, they probably
can access that.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Too cool ww dot KSI seniors dot org and learn
all about the organization and what we have to offer
and kind of what's on our schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By the time this interview airs will be fairly close
to it. But it is a tradition. I think I've
said it's a tradition like none other. And people think
of the Master's Golf term, know, this is a different
way to kind of celebrate Saint Patty's Day with the
forty third annual Saint Patti's Day Race that you guys
are a part of again this year.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yes, we're super excited. Forty three years for any fundraising event,
I think is a testament to a community who loves
it and the people that participate every year. But this
is the largest fundraiser for a case I. One hundred
percent of those proceeds are going back into servicing older
adults right here in our own Quad Cities community, helping
to support our services and our activities and all of
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the great stuff that we have going on over at
case I. So I hope everyone will join us this year,
despite what weather we might get.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You never you never know. I mean it's this year,
and it's especially foreboting when I can see it's the
IDEs of March that we're going to have for Saint
Patti's Day. It's like, don't be scared. It's going to
be fun because this course and I'm not a big runner.
I walk, but they don't run. But this is an
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ideal course to be able to get out there and
have fun. You know.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Some people challenge themselves with a tough mutter. Other people
do the iron Man. Here in the Quad Cities, we
have the case I Saint Patrick's Play Race.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It is not for the week.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
You know, you never know. It could be sixty degrees,
it could be negative eight like it was two years ago.
You never know, but it's not you know, it's only
for the strong of heart. So yeah, it's just a
really good time. Folks really love the event because it's
one of the first events of the spring where you're
coming back out getting your running journey started again. And
it's flat, it's fast, and it's fun. It is a
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five k it's downtown Davenport, it's an out and back
and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Now to get registered, it's fairly easy, but why don't
you give them the website they want when this airs now?
It will air this weekend, but then a couple more
times before the actual race, so they could get register
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Where they can go to Qcsaintpatrick's Day race dot com
and we have a link to the registration page as
well as an FAQ page to give you all the
information you need about race day, packet, pick up, late registration,
all of that great stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We are talking to Laura cop president and CEO of Ksehi,
and Laura I mentioned it at the very beginning, but
now tying it in this makes perfect sense talk about
the synergy with Saint Patti's Day you have your own beer,
tell us more.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I cannot talk about this enough. We're trying to get
the word out all over the place.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This year.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
We're partnering with my favorite brewery, which is Front Street Brewery,
the makers of Cherrybomblonde, and they are creating a specialty
brew just for case I to be sold during the
month of March, with proceeds coming to support the organization
and the services that we're providing. You know, at case I,
we really love this idea and embrace this idea of
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redefining aging, a reimagining aging, and we love things that
kind of flip the aging journey on it head and
doing things that people would never expect to see from
a senior center. And what we met with Front Street Brewery,
we knew without a doubt this is what we wanted
to do. We wanted to embrace their pin up girl
themes that they have on all of their beers. I
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know that's become for me, especially a beloved kind of
icon here in the Quad Cities community. And so we
came up with Bad Betty Blonde, which is based on
the original pin Up Girl Betty Grabel. You know what
she would be like today if if she were still around.
And our tadline is because you're never too old to
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be bad.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, i'll tell you what. I love the picture. I'm
looking at the website now and I'm going, Betty Grabel,
all right, way to go, nice one.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I created that too. I will let you know with
my you know, not very good AI skills. She probably
has ten fingers on one hand.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
If you look really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well, I quite quite frankly there, Laura, when I'm looking
at the website, I did not make it down to
her fingers. I'm sorry if I'm coming off that way,
but I'm I'm checking out the upper part and Bette
Betty looks good. Nice job you drew her a nice
way to go.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
She's you know, she's the inner part in all of
us as we age, that still wants to have fun,
wants to be adventurous, maybe be a little mischievous. Just
because we're aging doesn't mean that we, you know, somehow
surrender that inner child or inner bad girl or bad
boy inside of us. So we're gonna be having a
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launch of the beer a tapping if you will, we're
calling it Bullarney Bash and it's going to be next Thursday,
February twenty seventh at five point thirty pm down at
the Front Street Brewery tap room in the Freight House,
So I hope everyone will come join us. We get
a dollar per pore of every drink cooard that night
of the beer, and we will also be having some
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guest bartenders, So I hope everyone.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Will come out and join us this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It sounds fantastic And by the way, nice job on
the AI skills that's you've got just in case you
want to multitask even more. Nice nice job on that.
But in case people can't make it for the initial
tapping throughout March, they can stop in and grab batty,
can't they.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yes, they can. It'll be served down at Front Street
Brewery as well as it's going to be the exclusive
beer of the Saint Patrick's Day Race after party. We
have Fantastic Five coming out on Saturday Race Day to
host our after party and we'll be having the beer there.
But we've also talked with a couple of really special
bars around the community that are offering the beer throughout
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the month of March and support of Case I. So
we're super excited to get the name out there and
really grow this every year to be you know, a
really fun partnership with Front Street Brewery. They're great guys
over there and we've loved working with it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Can you can tell just the energy and how you're
exploiting you're just talking about them. But so many times
when we talk about funding sometimes and certainly case I
can be victim of not you know, you never know
sometimes if certain avenues get shut off almost by the second.
You certainly have a lot of great sponsors that have
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come to the forefront, not only for the Blarney Bash,
but for the run too. Do you want to kind
of shed some lightam some good people if.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
You want to, I absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Modern Woodmen of America stepped up this year to be
our presenting sponsor. We've had a long time relationship with them.
Their former CEO, Kenny Matthew used to be our board chair.
We have representation from the organization now that still sits
on the case I board and they just really have
a huge heart for the Quad Cities community and the
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service organizations that they partner with every year. In case
I is just glad to be one of those. We
also have of many other sponsors, including Eton and sear Seating,
Davenport Electric, the labor unions, in the trades Union, and
you know, we would not be able to provide or
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offer these kind of fundraising events and these really fun
events for our community if it wasn't for our sponsors.
Because of our sponsors, one hundred percent of what we
raise is able to go back into, you know, our
organization and our mission. And like you said, in an
environment where you know, public funding continues to shrink and
governmental funding is going to be a thing of the past,
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it really is important that we have the buy in
of the entire community. So we are so grateful for
everyone who supports us every year, and we hope you'll
continue to do so.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Got it. Blarney Bash, I've already been drinking some of
the Betty Blonde there. Sorry about that. The Blarney Bash
Front Street Brewery tap Room for twenty nine West River
Drive in Davenport. That's February twenty seventh, But the whole
month of March, you can probably stop into a lot
of spots and they'll be able to get that and
you'll get a portion of all the sales on that one,
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we'll go to KSI. But again for people just tuning in,
so you're talking to Laura cop from KSI. Want to
be a part of the run. It's March fifteenth this
year Saint Patty's Days on Monday, but the big celebrating
will happen Saturday on the fifteenth. Is people get to
jump on things. So if they want to register, where
do they go?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
They can go to Qcstpatrick's Day race dot com. Early
bird registration ends on Thursday February or Friday February twenty eighth,
and that is how you guarantee a commemorative T shirt
is to be an early bird registerran. We can only
guarantee T shirts Race T shirts for those folks that
participate in the early bird registration, so make sure you
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register by February twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page and
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Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now back to patlu and Denny Linnell.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Rebecca Canto, Chief Development Officer, Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities
right off of Mississippi Avenue and Davenport And for me,
the landmarks are doll Ford and they've got Davenport Guns
and sometimes both those spots are so crowded along with Habitat,
I have to park over on the other side of
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Kimberly Road just to get over to your place. So
you guys are doing great things there. It's a good
problem to have, Rebecca. But I was over there just
the other day and I saw that you've got a
big event that's coming up, and maybe we can talk
about that a little bit later on. But there are
other things that Habitat's all about, and you've got some
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program applications that you want to maybe talk about now.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, well, thank you for having me on today. So
I really want to let you know that we have
we're taking applications right now for our home ownership program.
So we have five home builds in progress right now,
and one of those homes we are searching for a family,
so it'll be kind of a fast track through the
Habitat home ownership program. We're taking applications now and those
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are due March fourth, So anyone who's interested in our
Habitat homeownership program should go to our website and find
more details there. We are also taking applications for our
Central City repair program.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You have been and before we talk about go any
farther into that, that has really had an impact already
and it's still there's still time to get some more
help there. But what's entailed in that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Yeah, So our repair program is currently focused in the
central city area of Davenport. So those boundaries are on
our website. So yes, currently we're just serving a specific
area of need. Applications available on our website as well
in more details on how to qualify and what types
of project we do. But some examples would be a
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front porch that needs repairing, some doors or windows that
might need to be replaced, anything to do with health
or safety or accessibility concerns would be our top priority.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
When we see we hear about this program. Does that
is it similar to when the house is being built
sweat equity. Will there be some people from habitat that
will help some of the people or is this primarily
the people to get the application or get the money
they have to take care of it themselves.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Now we'll be there, so we have some great construction
staff and volunteers who will come and help do the
repair work. We might hire some subcontractors to do some
specialized things that we're not able to do. But the
homeowner is expected to help contribute some sweat equity hours
and there may be a fighting scale fee depending on
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the total cost of the project. So that's all based
on income. But yet we do hope that our homeowners
will help get their hands dirty and help with the project.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They will get their hands dirty, and the project, once
it's done, will be just incredible. When we talk about
the house and the next house that you're taking applications for,
is there normally a waiting list for some of these
or is this kind of a surprise that somebody could
fast track it this quickly.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yes, this is unusual, so we typically would once somebody
comes into the program, you take classes, you earn sweat
equity hours, and it could take one year to three
years from start to finish before you move into your home. Wow,
this is an unusual opportunity where we have a home
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already in progress. Now those classes and sweat equity requirements
will still be required, but that movement they will be
much quicker than normal. Wo.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's just incredible that this can work out. But good
news for you, good news for somebody if they can
time it out right where they could be able to
be a part of this whole thing. And when we
talk about Habitat in general, if people maybe they aren't
in the running for the house a situation right now
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or that application, if they want to volunteer or just
learn a little bit that you guys have classes all
the time, Yes we do.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
We have volunteer orientations once or twice a month. Those
can be found on our website as well. So that's
one great way to support Habitat and to just learn
how to build and give back to your community.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And for those of you just tuning in right now,
Rebecca Knto from Habitat is on the phone with us
and in case they missed it, a couple of important
things there.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
We are taking applications for our home ownership program right
now for a home that's already being built in Davenport.
More information can be found on our website. We are
also taking applications for our Central City Repair program in
the central area of Davenport. And we third we are
taking we are going to be taking applications starting March
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first for our Accessibility Ramp program. So all three of
our programs are it's application time now.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So this is this is amazing. You better get going
on this because this is impressive to watch these ramps.
It's similar to whenever you see a pit crew in NASCAR.
Once they start the ramps, these ramps are done and
they're done right in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Really yeah, I don't know about seconds, but hours for sure.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
They're very I.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Didn't mean to be that makes it sound like they're
rushing things and they're not. They're not rushing things at all.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
No, they do a great job.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I love the fact that you've given people a lot
of ways that they can benefit from habitat. But let's
just say I'm that person who's like, hey, I can
swing a hammer.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm lucked out.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah, So we're always looking for more volunteers. So if
we take volunteers for our construction activities or our home builds, repairs, ramps,
whatever you want to learn how to do, or whatever
your specialty may be. But we also need volunteers what
we call behind the hammer, So that would be volunteering
at our restore, on a committee or here in the office.
(27:22):
Even so, lots of volunteer opportunities, we also need donations
at restore, right Now the winter time kind of slows
down a little bit. So if you're cleaning up the
house and you have things to get rid of, think
of restore, right.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And I just want to apologize because I was the
one that cleaned out all that stuff. I was there
for a few weeks in to row and I noticed
that the shelves are bare, and I am sorry. Now
I'll try to try to make sure I start well
donating some more stuff.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
You're going to say, if you get an application from
a pat loop, you should not hire him for the
restore because you'll never sell anything.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, you'll sell it. You'll sell it, but it will
it won't ever make it to the shelf because I'll
keep I'll take that home and my wife will go
to wait a minute, honey, where are we putting all
of these things? But for thanks Dandy, I appreciate that.
But and I saw something where are you tearing down
a was there a house that you were tearing down?
Is just for the donations too, because that's that's where
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the construction workers are great, being able to get into
a house and saving some of this great wood.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah, that was actually what we call a harvest that
restored it recently. So usually it's a house that's being
torn down or being renovated. Someone will contact us and
we'll go and harvest whatever we can because a lot
of that old hardwood is really hard to find, right
if you're doing a repair on.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The home for a lot of people that need to
find out more. When we talk about the donations, yes,
and we talk about financial donations or if you just
want to donate something that you maybe aren't using anymore.
All takes money to have happen. And you've got a
big event for people that love the golf just want
to socialize, big event coming up that you need sponsors for.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
We do. We have our golf four Homes tournament coming
up on May ninth at Highlands Springs Golf Course. We
aren't signing up individual golfers yet, but we are taking sponsorships.
So if you're a company or even an individual person
who wants to sponsor a team, or sponsor a whole
or even more, that information can be found on our
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website as well.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
What's that website again, Rebecca, www dot HABITATQC dot org.
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Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
a quad City Forum, Hot Luke and Denny Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hi Dan, Pat Luke? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Pat? You know what, young man, I'm hoping. You know,
I'm gonna I'm not gonna grow you, but I just
wanted to talk a little living lands and Waters right now?
Is that okay?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love it? I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, then I'll try to I'll try to meet your
energy level here. I think everybody there living lands and
Water before we get into the interview, each one of
you guys just wake up every day and go, man,
this is going to be the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I think it is. We're we're catered in that way,
but that's how that's how the vibe and the energy
is here. And you know, we work with literally one
hundreds of thousands of volunteers throughout the country and we're
we're blessed. We always say it, but the ones that
show up are the ones that we want to be with.
And you know, you got to go a little bit
the extra mile to do. We do at times so
the people that come out to join us, you know
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that the energy we bring is kind of reflective the
energy that they're already bringing to the table.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's infectious. It's like a snowball. It starts to
instead of going downhill. Sounding like that's dramatically bad, it
just builds that momentum. It's not. And it's fitting now
as we look outside. Now, the weather's going to change
here soon and start getting a lot warmer. But when
we start to talk about Living Lands and Waters, and
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for those of you just tuning in right now because
we're Dan and I just started the conversation and now
I better let you know here in the quot city form,
we're talking to Dan Bredenstein, Living Lands and Waters, vice
President of Living Lands and Waters. And when we look
at that warmer weather that's coming around, we don't think
about it now. But you guys are out all the
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time doing something all year long, whether it's snowing or not.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's right, yeah, I mean we kind of travel where
the need is, you know, whether it's river cleanups, whether
it's plant and trees. You know, we go up and
down the Mississippi starting all the way to Saint Paul
down to New Orleans. You know where the wherever the
problem is is where it's at, and that's where we're
we'll be kind of engage in local community members, educating
kids along the way.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When I start to clean up around our house in Orient,
I can I don't have the energy that it seems
like you guys. Now, there has to be times you'll
go into some areas and you'll clean it up and
it seems like almost a day later, somebody's come back
and put more stuff in it. How do you keep
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your attitude up to go, hey, we're making a dent
on this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a great question. We get that question a lot.
A lot of it is we're not necessarily looking the
stuff ahead of us what we're working on in the moment.
We're looking at that big pile of trash behind us
that we've already pulled out. So with all the people
that cumulative status we talk about that snowball effect again,
everyone that's along the way that's past present and those
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that are continuing to help us, we're looking at that
and that's what's kind of keeping the drive going because
we can see the accomplishments as we go down the river.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Love that when we go to the website at Living
Lands and Waters you have the just the people impacted
and the pounds, the pounds of garbage that you've been
able to take and take back some of these incredible
waterways that sometimes are being strangled because of trash. And
not just when I think trash a piece of paper,
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it's what is the wildest thing that you guys have
come across when you're you know, instead of just thinking
you're picking up trash, what is the wildest thing that
you found?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know, we do find a lot of wild things.
Anything that you see, you know, on a landfill, that's
what we're finding. A lot of single use plastics, you know, bottles, diyrofoam,
cup scans, but we find cars, we find boats, we
get you know, large scrap piece, a lot of appliances toilets. Uh,
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you know. Really the list goes on bowling balls. We
have quite a collection of bowling balls down there.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Do you ever look at it? Sometimes you go how
did did Sometimes you look at that go how did
that get? Who gave? Who threw away a perfectly good
They must have been a bad night at the lanes
throwing a bowling ball away.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
One hundred percent. We think about it a lot, and
that's maybe maybe all those pure and wild thoughts is
what keeps us going and keeps our mind off of
the you know, the enormous task at hand. But we
do have a lot of fun. You know, we talk
trash about each other's trash, and we have fun with
what we do.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We're talking to Dan Bredenstein Living Lands and waters and
and Dan big stuff that's happened. Even though we've had
colder snap here lately. You're a million tree project. Obviously,
we have to start planning. We always want to be planning.
How is that going right now?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh, it's going great. We're you know, we've just been
a start a three week resident residency over at the
rust Belt. We engaged with over nine hundred volunteers in
the community and eight local schools, came out a bunch
of businesses and wrapped over forty two thousand trees.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So our million Trees products that started back in two
thousand and seven with a gold you know, plant distribute
a million trees, primarily oaks. To pass that goal twenty sixteen,
twenty twenty four, we got the two million tree marks
and again just keeping things rolling. We're got another one
hundred and seventy five thousand going out to about twenty
five different states this spring.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
This is amazing the footprint, the great things that you
guys are having. Now, is there a reason why it's
oak other than other trees. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We we try to do the most bang for our
buck with whatever we do. And you know, with the trees,
we're looking for something that can also feed the wildlife.
You know, the if they say, if you're going to
plant a tree, plant an oak, and we do primarily
nut bearing, so if it's not an oak, we have
pecans this year. We've done for simmons and fruit bearing
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in the past. Like I said, they go out to
not just this region but twenty five different states. So
we're looking for something that's not just beautifully aesthetic and
providing some oxygen for us, but that's also gonna you know,
hold the soil back and provide some food for the
wildlife wherever it's getting planted.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Your job is never done, but the energy. It's just
great to see that with the volunteer group. And when
I looked at the website, it's amazing. That's a small
little group of people at Living Lands and Waters. But
that's not really accurate because you've helped thousands of people
have come to help out with each and every one
of your projects.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, I mean it's like, you know, we have ten
to fifteen full time staff varying throughout the year, and
we're just basically facilitators. We're allowing people the opportunity that
want to do good for the environment and our waterways.
We're providing them an opportunit to come out in our
boats a lot of times, to pick up the river banks,
plant trees, wrap trees, to help get distributed. We're just
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kind of providing that opportunity for those that you know,
want to do something in their community.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And with high school kids planning for college, there are
scholarships available too, aren't there.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, we do our Alternative Spring Break program every year.
We go down to Memphis, Tennessee, and we have a
lot of fun with college kids throughout the country. Scholarship
opportunities for those students that come to join us down
in Memphis, but they spend their week of spring break
down there picking up trash out of the Mighty Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, that seems like it's redefining what spring breakers used
to do back when maybe you were younger, Dan, would
you have been one of those where you said, hey,
I want to go do the I want to help out, Chad.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think I said something about getting trash.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Remember exactly how how that year it is there, that's been,
that's and redefined too.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, Listen, we're glad you're on this side here too,
because and it is amazing how grounded and how it's
realism when you're down there trying to help out and
try to help the Mississippi start to kind of become
a living river again, at least in some sections it
there for a while, it's almost been lost because before
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you guys came along where the Mississippi was and a
lot of our waterways were in trouble thanks to the
great work you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, Pat, locally, like you said, you know, we've we've
been working on the river cleanup initiative for quite some
time since Chats started back in the late nineties. And
there isn't a ton and here in the Quad Cities
river cleanup opportunities for them to get involved with. But
our tree season is starting right now and it is
full force. We are looking for volunteers to help us
individually wrap I said, we've got forty two thousand trees
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wrapped to go to twenty five different states, but we
got another forty thousand that need to be wrapped. So
if an individual or a group of people would like
to come volunteer with us, reach out out on our website.
We got my phone number on there or an email
address for sure. And then you know, we're also looking
for drivers to help us deliver these trees because we
we hand deliver many of them that we're looking for
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volunteer drivers. If you're retired or you got some time
to take off from work and everything, we'd love to
you know, be connected and figure out ways to get
these trees to the hands of those that want to plant.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You got it. So if anybody listening right now wants
to help out, do a search on living lands and
waters and see how you can become a part of
that that crew and make the world a better place.
Dan Bredenstein, thank you again for taking some time with
us today. Love the energy. Even when this interview airs
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early in the morning, I'm going to get I'm going
to get out there and try to make the world
a better place. Just thinks.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
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Speaker 1 (09:53):
Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnhowe.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We have Laura cop President and CEO of the Center
for Active Seniors, Incorporated, ten thirty five West Kimberly Road
in Davenport. I want to find out more. Sometimes this
number works for me. I think they have me blocked
whenever they see me come up and they don't ever
help me when I call, but they'll help you five
six three three eight six seven four seven seven. Now
(10:21):
I am not going to go long here before I
start bringing up your own beer for the month the
month of March. But I want to just make sure
for the people that have maybe just don't know, because
even though I can talk about Center for Active Seniors
or caseize, a lot of people know you by sometimes
they don't really know what's going on. And I always
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love it the first thing you say, this is not
your Grandma and Grandpa's Active Center to go over anywhere.
This is a completely different ballgame what you've got going
on off of Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Road and Davenport.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
You know, we're kind of a unique service model. We're
one of a kind where the largest senior center in
the state of Iowa. We've been opened a little over
fifty years, and we really are a place where adults
can go to stay active, stay connected, and you know,
age as successfully as they can through our multiple and
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hundreds of activities, our supportive services, and just having a
place to go with like minded people. So it's really
you have to see it to believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We always say that, yeah, ten thirty five West Kumberly Road,
to see it for yourself. And if people want to
find out more website what can they do, they probably
can access that.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Too cool ww dot KSI seniors dot org and learn
all about the organization and what we have to offer
and kind of what's on our schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By the time this interview airs will be fairly close
to it. But it is a tradition. I think I've
said it's a tradition like none other. And people think
of the Master's Golf term, know, this is a different
way to kind of celebrate Saint Patty's Day with the
forty third annual Saint Patti's Day Race that you guys
are a part of again this year.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yes, we're super excited. Forty three years for any fundraising event,
I think is a testament to a community who loves
it and the people that participate every year. But this
is the largest fundraiser for a case I. One hundred
percent of those proceeds are going back into servicing older
adults right here in our own Quad Cities community, helping
to support our services and our activities and all of
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the great stuff that we have going on over at
case I. So I hope everyone will join us this year,
despite what weather we might get.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You never you never know. I mean it's this year,
and it's especially foreboting when I can see it's the
IDEs of March that we're going to have for Saint
Patti's Day. It's like, don't be scared. It's going to
be fun because this course and I'm not a big runner.
I walk, but they don't run. But this is an
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ideal course to be able to get out there and
have fun. You know.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Some people challenge themselves with a tough mutter. Other people
do the iron Man. Here in the Quad Cities, we
have the case I Saint Patrick's Play Race.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It is not for the week.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
You know, you never know. It could be sixty degrees,
it could be negative eight like it was two years ago.
You never know, but it's not you know, it's only
for the strong of heart. So yeah, it's just a
really good time. Folks really love the event because it's
one of the first events of the spring where you're
coming back out getting your running journey started again. And
it's flat, it's fast, and it's fun. It is a
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five k it's downtown Davenport, it's an out and back
and it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Now to get registered, it's fairly easy, but why don't
you give them the website they want when this airs now?
It will air this weekend, but then a couple more
times before the actual race, so they could get register
right now.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Where they can go to Qcsaintpatrick's Day race dot com
and we have a link to the registration page as
well as an FAQ page to give you all the
information you need about race day, packet, pick up, late registration,
all of that great stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We are talking to Laura cop president and CEO of Ksehi,
and Laura I mentioned it at the very beginning, but
now tying it in this makes perfect sense talk about
the synergy with Saint Patti's Day you have your own beer,
tell us more.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I cannot talk about this enough. We're trying to get
the word out all over the place.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This year.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
We're partnering with my favorite brewery, which is Front Street Brewery,
the makers of Cherrybomblonde, and they are creating a specialty
brew just for case I to be sold during the
month of March, with proceeds coming to support the organization
and the services that we're providing. You know, at case I,
we really love this idea and embrace this idea of
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redefining aging, a reimagining aging, and we love things that
kind of flip the aging journey on it head and
doing things that people would never expect to see from
a senior center. And what we met with Front Street Brewery,
we knew without a doubt this is what we wanted
to do. We wanted to embrace their pin up girl
themes that they have on all of their beers. I
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know that's become for me, especially a beloved kind of
icon here in the Quad Cities community. And so we
came up with Bad Betty Blonde, which is based on
the original pin Up Girl Betty Grabel. You know what
she would be like today if if she were still around.
And our tadline is because you're never too old to
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be bad.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, i'll tell you what. I love the picture. I'm
looking at the website now and I'm going, Betty Grabel,
all right, way to go, nice one.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I created that too. I will let you know with
my you know, not very good AI skills. She probably
has ten fingers on one hand.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
If you look really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well, I quite quite frankly there, Laura, when I'm looking
at the website, I did not make it down to
her fingers. I'm sorry if I'm coming off that way,
but I'm I'm checking out the upper part and Bette
Betty looks good. Nice job you drew her a nice
way to go.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
She's you know, she's the inner part in all of
us as we age, that still wants to have fun,
wants to be adventurous, maybe be a little mischievous. Just
because we're aging doesn't mean that we, you know, somehow
surrender that inner child or inner bad girl or bad
boy inside of us. So we're gonna be having a
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launch of the beer a tapping if you will, we're
calling it Bullarney Bash and it's going to be next Thursday,
February twenty seventh at five point thirty pm down at
the Front Street Brewery tap room in the Freight House,
So I hope everyone will come join us. We get
a dollar per pore of every drink cooard that night
of the beer, and we will also be having some
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guest bartenders, So I hope everyone.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Will come out and join us this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It sounds fantastic And by the way, nice job on
the AI skills that's you've got just in case you
want to multitask even more. Nice nice job on that.
But in case people can't make it for the initial
tapping throughout March, they can stop in and grab batty,
can't they.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yes, they can. It'll be served down at Front Street
Brewery as well as it's going to be the exclusive
beer of the Saint Patrick's Day Race after party. We
have Fantastic Five coming out on Saturday Race Day to
host our after party and we'll be having the beer there.
But we've also talked with a couple of really special
bars around the community that are offering the beer throughout
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the month of March and support of Case I. So
we're super excited to get the name out there and
really grow this every year to be you know, a
really fun partnership with Front Street Brewery. They're great guys
over there and we've loved working with it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Can you can tell just the energy and how you're
exploiting you're just talking about them. But so many times
when we talk about funding sometimes and certainly case I
can be victim of not you know, you never know
sometimes if certain avenues get shut off almost by the second.
You certainly have a lot of great sponsors that have
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come to the forefront, not only for the Blarney Bash,
but for the run too. Do you want to kind
of shed some lightam some good people if.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
You want to, I absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Modern Woodmen of America stepped up this year to be
our presenting sponsor. We've had a long time relationship with them.
Their former CEO, Kenny Matthew used to be our board chair.
We have representation from the organization now that still sits
on the case I board and they just really have
a huge heart for the Quad Cities community and the
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service organizations that they partner with every year. In case
I is just glad to be one of those. We
also have of many other sponsors, including Eton and sear Seating,
Davenport Electric, the labor unions, in the trades Union, and
you know, we would not be able to provide or
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offer these kind of fundraising events and these really fun
events for our community if it wasn't for our sponsors.
Because of our sponsors, one hundred percent of what we
raise is able to go back into, you know, our
organization and our mission. And like you said, in an
environment where you know, public funding continues to shrink and
governmental funding is going to be a thing of the past,
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it really is important that we have the buy in
of the entire community. So we are so grateful for
everyone who supports us every year, and we hope you'll
continue to do so.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Got it. Blarney Bash, I've already been drinking some of
the Betty Blonde there. Sorry about that. The Blarney Bash
Front Street Brewery tap Room for twenty nine West River
Drive in Davenport. That's February twenty seventh, But the whole
month of March, you can probably stop into a lot
of spots and they'll be able to get that and
you'll get a portion of all the sales on that one,
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we'll go to KSI. But again for people just tuning in,
so you're talking to Laura cop from KSI. Want to
be a part of the run. It's March fifteenth this
year Saint Patty's Days on Monday, but the big celebrating
will happen Saturday on the fifteenth. Is people get to
jump on things. So if they want to register, where
do they go?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
They can go to Qcstpatrick's Day race dot com. Early
bird registration ends on Thursday February or Friday February twenty eighth,
and that is how you guarantee a commemorative T shirt
is to be an early bird registerran. We can only
guarantee T shirts Race T shirts for those folks that
participate in the early bird registration, so make sure you
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register by February twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
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Speaker 1 (20:58):
Now back to patlu and Denny Linnell.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Rebecca Canto, Chief Development Officer, Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities
right off of Mississippi Avenue and Davenport And for me,
the landmarks are doll Ford and they've got Davenport Guns
and sometimes both those spots are so crowded along with Habitat,
I have to park over on the other side of
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Kimberly Road just to get over to your place. So
you guys are doing great things there. It's a good
problem to have, Rebecca. But I was over there just
the other day and I saw that you've got a
big event that's coming up, and maybe we can talk
about that a little bit later on. But there are
other things that Habitat's all about, and you've got some
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program applications that you want to maybe talk about now.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, well, thank you for having me on today. So
I really want to let you know that we have
we're taking applications right now for our home ownership program.
So we have five home builds in progress right now,
and one of those homes we are searching for a family,
so it'll be kind of a fast track through the
Habitat home ownership program. We're taking applications now and those
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are due March fourth, So anyone who's interested in our
Habitat homeownership program should go to our website and find
more details there. We are also taking applications for our
Central City repair program.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You have been and before we talk about go any
farther into that, that has really had an impact already
and it's still there's still time to get some more
help there. But what's entailed in that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Yeah, So our repair program is currently focused in the
central city area of Davenport. So those boundaries are on
our website. So yes, currently we're just serving a specific
area of need. Applications available on our website as well
in more details on how to qualify and what types
of project we do. But some examples would be a
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front porch that needs repairing, some doors or windows that
might need to be replaced, anything to do with health
or safety or accessibility concerns would be our top priority.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
When we see we hear about this program. Does that
is it similar to when the house is being built
sweat equity. Will there be some people from habitat that
will help some of the people or is this primarily
the people to get the application or get the money
they have to take care of it themselves.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Now we'll be there, so we have some great construction
staff and volunteers who will come and help do the
repair work. We might hire some subcontractors to do some
specialized things that we're not able to do. But the
homeowner is expected to help contribute some sweat equity hours
and there may be a fighting scale fee depending on
(23:57):
the total cost of the project. So that's all based
on income. But yet we do hope that our homeowners
will help get their hands dirty and help with the project.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They will get their hands dirty, and the project, once
it's done, will be just incredible. When we talk about
the house and the next house that you're taking applications for,
is there normally a waiting list for some of these
or is this kind of a surprise that somebody could
fast track it this quickly.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Yes, this is unusual, so we typically would once somebody
comes into the program, you take classes, you earn sweat
equity hours, and it could take one year to three
years from start to finish before you move into your home. Wow,
this is an unusual opportunity where we have a home
(24:49):
already in progress. Now those classes and sweat equity requirements
will still be required, but that movement they will be
much quicker than normal. Wo.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's just incredible that this can work out. But good
news for you, good news for somebody if they can
time it out right where they could be able to
be a part of this whole thing. And when we
talk about Habitat in general, if people maybe they aren't
in the running for the house a situation right now
(25:20):
or that application, if they want to volunteer or just
learn a little bit that you guys have classes all
the time, Yes we do.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
We have volunteer orientations once or twice a month. Those
can be found on our website as well. So that's
one great way to support Habitat and to just learn
how to build and give back to your community.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And for those of you just tuning in right now,
Rebecca Knto from Habitat is on the phone with us
and in case they missed it, a couple of important
things there.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
We are taking applications for our home ownership program right
now for a home that's already being built in Davenport.
More information can be found on our website. We are
also taking applications for our Central City Repair program in
the central area of Davenport. And we third we are
taking we are going to be taking applications starting March
(26:13):
first for our Accessibility Ramp program. So all three of
our programs are it's application time now.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So this is this is amazing. You better get going
on this because this is impressive to watch these ramps.
It's similar to whenever you see a pit crew in NASCAR.
Once they start the ramps, these ramps are done and
they're done right in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Really yeah, I don't know about seconds, but hours for sure.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
They're very I.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Didn't mean to be that makes it sound like they're
rushing things and they're not. They're not rushing things at all.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
No, they do a great job.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I love the fact that you've given people a lot
of ways that they can benefit from habitat. But let's
just say I'm that person who's like, hey, I can
swing a hammer.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm lucked out.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Yeah, So we're always looking for more volunteers. So if
we take volunteers for our construction activities or our home builds, repairs, ramps,
whatever you want to learn how to do, or whatever
your specialty may be. But we also need volunteers what
we call behind the hammer, So that would be volunteering
at our restore, on a committee or here in the office.
(27:22):
Even so, lots of volunteer opportunities, we also need donations
at restore, right Now the winter time kind of slows
down a little bit. So if you're cleaning up the
house and you have things to get rid of, think
of restore, right.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And I just want to apologize because I was the
one that cleaned out all that stuff. I was there
for a few weeks in to row and I noticed
that the shelves are bare, and I am sorry. Now
I'll try to try to make sure I start well
donating some more stuff.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
You're going to say, if you get an application from
a pat loop, you should not hire him for the
restore because you'll never sell anything.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, you'll sell it. You'll sell it, but it will
it won't ever make it to the shelf because I'll
keep I'll take that home and my wife will go
to wait a minute, honey, where are we putting all
of these things? But for thanks Dandy, I appreciate that.
But and I saw something where are you tearing down
a was there a house that you were tearing down?
Is just for the donations too, because that's that's where
(28:20):
the construction workers are great, being able to get into
a house and saving some of this great wood.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah, that was actually what we call a harvest that
restored it recently. So usually it's a house that's being
torn down or being renovated. Someone will contact us and
we'll go and harvest whatever we can because a lot
of that old hardwood is really hard to find, right
if you're doing a repair on.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The home for a lot of people that need to
find out more. When we talk about the donations, yes,
and we talk about financial donations or if you just
want to donate something that you maybe aren't using anymore.
All takes money to have happen. And you've got a
big event for people that love the golf just want
to socialize, big event coming up that you need sponsors for.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
We do. We have our golf four Homes tournament coming
up on May ninth at Highlands Springs Golf Course. We
aren't signing up individual golfers yet, but we are taking sponsorships.
So if you're a company or even an individual person
who wants to sponsor a team, or sponsor a whole
or even more, that information can be found on our
(29:29):
website as well.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
What's that website again, Rebecca, www dot HABITATQC dot org.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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