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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 Lynnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Right off the bat, we're talking to Patty McCrae from
the Quad City Animal Welfare Center over in Milan QCAWC
dot org to find out more. If you missed that website,
we'll give it again. But Patty, Danny and I are
just kind of assuming worst kept secret in the world.
You're maybe a little busy.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes we are. We're busy helping the animals and people
all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It seems like that's the thing. And for people that
have not been over And I'm just going to jump
into this interview, Danny, I want to say hi to Patty. Patty,
Patty's right over there. As soon as I knew that
you were going to be able to talk to us,
Danny got all chirpy. Usually she's kind of mopey and moody.
Brought a your name, and then all of a sudden
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things were much better right there.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, you know, you know, and you may or may
not remember, Socks is still around.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He's like, he's like twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I do you know. I fostered him because he had
a broken jaw when we first got him, and I
had him at my house and I was too feeding
him and he had that tube that was like inserted
in his neck, and so I was doing like this
liquid stuff and with a syringe, so it went into
his neck and he was doing really, really good. And
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I got home one day and he had decided that
it was he was done with that, and he was
going to eat on his own and he'd pulled that
tube out by himself, and I was freaking out.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's very opinionated. He just decides he has a like
is that a lot of sons and a lot of daughters,
isn't it where they just have a mind of their own?
And you know, this is great how this conversation has
kind of started here. We still may lead this in
on the Quad City form on Sunday, but that is
amazing after all of that twenty years. Yeah, thanks to
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the work that you guys did, yes, and the good
ownership and the good parenting the dog or the cat
parenting boom, he still gets the zuomies.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah. Yeah, he was a great He is a great cat.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And for those of you that we almost started this
interview mid sentence here, but we are talking to Patty
McCrae from the Quad City Animal Welfare Center, and Patty,
there are many stories like that, much more like socks,
but it is amazing what the great work you've done.
And for people that maybe haven't been over to Mylan,
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how can they find out more or just tell us
like kind of a thumbprint of the great if you do?
And I have been doing for a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, we've been in my Land since nineteen seventy seven,
and our organization is dedicated to helping animals in our community.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So it sounds like you've got somebody online one right now.
You're trying to help some more, you do?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I do. I have someone that wants to adopt one
of our dogs. And I called her earlier and she's
trying to call me back, so I'll get back with her.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We have been helping animals find home. We've been helping
animals and people stay in Newter because we all know
there's an overpopulation problem, especially with cats. There's just way
too many of them. There's not enough good homes. So
that's what we've been doing for many years, trying to
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cut down on that overpopulation problem. And then the ones
that are already born, we've really tried to find them
great homes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And we talk about the not only adoption, which obviously
done a great job at you also have the education center,
so there's we can constantly be learning. Even the good
pet parents, dog cat, whatever it is, we can always
learn and get better.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Absolutely, Yes, we love to have kids come in. We
have Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, different types of youth groups
come in. And we also have Cameron who does our
humane humane education. She will go out to areas, schools
and different organizations and just talk the good word about
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what we're doing and let everybody know how to take
great care of their pets and just how to be
kind to all animals. So she's really great at that,
and we love to go out and see people. We
love to go have kids come in. I really think
that it is so important that we talk with kids
and start a young so they know how to treat
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animals with kindness and respect and how to take good
care of them. I think that's just something so important
that kids need to learn.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, it's and even for the adults sometimes you can
still even though the phrase is you can't teach an
old dog nutricks, and that's not true. You can teach
humans that have been going around for a while, some
of them are stubborn, but again you can. You can
start a have it much even later in life and
you still can make have some successes. But for those
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of you just tuning in right now talking to Patty McCrae,
Quad City Animal Welfare Center, and I would think volunteering donations,
how can they how can people help out? You talk
about going out to the schools. If people want to
just walk a dog or just interact with a cat
or whatever, certainly you'll you'll have volunteering volunteer positions open.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh absolutely, it's a great way to get involved. We
have some people that don't even have pets at home
that are our volunteers but just love to come and
be around the animals. So we do have a volunteer orientation.
It's the first Wednesday of each month. It's at five
point thirty. You just need to go to our website
and sign up and come out. It takes about maybe
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two hours. We give you a tour. We just go
over some of the opportunities and there are so many
things that you can do to help the animals. Definitely
if you'd like to come out and help us, cleaning,
walking dogs, socializing, even something as easy as helping with laundry,
maybe sitting and reading books to animals, because animals love
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to hear our voices, so that's something that definitely we're
looking for. But then we also have events. So we
have a trivia coming up, which has actually sold out already,
but we use a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a good and bad news kind of a thing.
It's great, I was ready to join and then okay,
well that's a good problem to have.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately it does sell out really really quick.
But we have different events, smaller events that we do
throughout the year that we need volunteer help with. So
there's there's always just so many different things that volunteers.
If you're interested, come check us out, come to the
orientation and see if maybe you know there'd be a
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way that you could get involved in help in donations.
We always are looking for pet food. That's something that
obviously we feed them, but there's also cleaning supplies and leashes, collars, toys.
We want to make this as nice of us stay
as we can when they're here at the shelter. Obviously
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it's not a home, but we want it to be
a nice day for them, and we want them to
feel loved and cared for. And we do need we
need need help with that. We need our community to
help us, you know, get those applies and the food
and the things that will make these animals feel loved
and comfort And you know a lot of these animals
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are here just because someone in their family couldn't take
care of them any longer, or they lost their job,
or there's some reason that's not the animal's fault. But
they're here and they need us to give them the
love and then to find them another home, a forever home.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Did not even think about reading the dog the bedtime
is you think? And the dog and the cat. It's
such a we think it's a one way street, their
way coming towards us, but we can still help them
in many ways. I don't know. Did they have a preference.
Do you see good Night Moon working with some of
the pets, or the fact you just start talking and
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that's enough, right, They're.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not particular about the genre.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Of they don't care, warrn we could do, we could
do Warren Peace. You think, okay, well that's right, Hey
give them a show. Well, well you talked about events
that you need volunteers for. Here's one that's big in
the window and it's the Big Kitten Shower that's coming
up on the eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, that is going to be March eighth, Saturday, March eighth.
It's going to be from noon to four pm. We're
going to have that at our shelter in Myland and
it's really just it's a fun event, but we know
the kittens are coming. In fact, yesterday we did take
in a mama cat and she had six baby kittens
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that were probably about two days old. Beautiful, I mean
just beautiful babies. You know, they don't have their eyes
open and they're just so tiny, and she's trying to
take care of all of them. So we know that
they're coming. They're going to be here before we know it.
This is just a way for us to have the
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community help support us by maybe bringing out something on
our wish list kitten chow or there's a kitten mill,
or maybe kitty litter or wet food, just all kinds
of things. This supplies that we need to make sure
that we're taking good care of all the kittens that
are going to be coming soon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Love this idea. On the kitten wish List registry, we
think of weddings for some of that stuff, but this
is a great way for people to just in case
you're wondering, you can find out maybe get that list
at your website right now.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yes, yes, for sure. We call it milk money. Help
us out with the milk money.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I love that. I love this, And of course there'll
be some other things going on too, But the kitten
Shower is win on the eighth.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It is from noon to four on the eighth at
our Adoption and Education Center in Mylin. We're going to
have games, refreshments, raffles. We're also going to have some
adoption specials with cats and dogs. We're not going to
leave the dogs out. And then it's a donation drive
scheme for supplies to help all the baby kittens that
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will be coming soon.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We want a big crowd out there, and for those
of you that have not been out or it's been
a while, seven twenty four Second Avenue West in myland.
Probably just for some people it's muscle memory and they
know exactly where to go. But if they need to
find out more during the week or just sometime in
the future, Patty the website and a phone number if
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they need to find out more.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Sure, our website is QCAWC dot org. That's just our
shelter initials, and then our phone number is three zero
nine seven eight seven six eight three.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Zero Patty as usual. It's amazing all the stuff you're
doing there, and you continue to do. I don't know
how you've reversed the aging process, but you seem to
be going the other way, so you maybe, Uh, if
they do another Benjamin Button, a female version, I think
you're on it. But keep up the great work and
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we'll whenever you need some help. Keep Danny and I busy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, oh of course, Well, thank you so much. It
was so nice chatting with you, and I appreciate it.
I'm so happy to hear about Socks. That's so wonderful,
isn't that something? See a picture of him sometimes too.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
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on our station website.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now back to bat Luke and Denny Linnelle.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Talking to Dan Bridenstein, 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. You guys are out
all the time doing something all year long, whether it's
snowing or not.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
That's right. Yeah, I mean we kind of travel where
the need is, you know, whether it's river cleanups, whether
it's planting trees. You know, we go up and down
the Mississippi, starting all the way to Saint Paul, down
to New Orleans. You know, wherever the problem is is
where it's at, and that's where we're We'll be kind
of engaging local community members, educating kids along the way.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
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 comeback and
put more stuff in it. How do you keep your
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attitude up to go, Hey, we're making a den on this.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
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 come along the way, that's past present, and
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those 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 accomplishment as we go down
the river.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Love that when we go to the website a 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
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not just when I think trash a piece of paper,
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 5 (14:51):
You know, we do find a lot of wild things.
Anything that you see, you know, the landfill, that's what
we're finding a lot of single use plastics, know, bottles,
syrofoam cups, cans. 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 (15:21):
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 had a bad night at the lanes.
So on a bowling ball away?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
One hundred percent. We think about it a lot, and
that's maybe maybe all those obscure and wild thoughts is
what keeps us going and keeps our mind off of
the you know, the enormous cask 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 (15:55):
We're talking to Dan Bridenstein Living Lands and Waters and
and Dan, you're Million Tree project. How is that going
right now?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It's going great. We're you know, we've just been to
start a three weeks residency over at the rust Belt.
We engaged with over nine hundred volunteers of the community
and eight local schools, came out a bunch of businesses
and wrapped over forty two thousand trees. Wow, so our
million trees probably that started back in two thousand and
seven with a gold you know, plant distribute a million
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trees primarily oaks. Surpass 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 (16:41):
This is amazing the footprint that the great things that
you guys are having. Now. Is there a reason why
it's oak other than other trees. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
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 treat plant and oak, and we do primarily
nut bearing, so if it's not an oak, we have pecans.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
This year.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
We've done for simmons some fruit bearing in the past.
Like I said, they got 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 (17:31):
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 that 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
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of your projects.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
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 opportunity 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 want
to do something in their community.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And with high school kids planning for college, there are
scholarships available too, aren't there.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
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.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
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on our station website.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Now back to Fat Luke and Denny linnowe we.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Have Loura 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, I am
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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
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know what's going on. And I always love it. The
first thing you said, Hey, 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 6 (20:11):
Road and Davenport.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
You know, we're 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. We always
say that, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Ten thirty five West Kimberly Road. To see it for yourself,
and if people want to find out more, website.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Ww dot caseiseniors dot org and learn all about the
organization and what we have to offer and kind of
what's on our schedule.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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. No, 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
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are a part of again this year.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, we're super excited. For three years for any fundraising event,
I think is a testament to the community who loves
it and the people that participate every year. But this
is the largest fundraiser for case I. One hundred percent
of those proceeds are going back into servicing older adults
right here in our own quad city community, helping to
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support our services and our activities and all of 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 (21:59):
And it's a special for voting. When I can see
it's the IDEs of March that we're gonna have for
Saint Patty's Day, It's like, don't be scared. It's gonna
be fun because this course and I'm not a big runner.
I walk, but they don't run, But this is an
ideal course to be able to get out there and
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have fun.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You know, 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 Dayway.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
So it is not for the week, you know, you
never know.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
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 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 to get and it's flat, it's fast,
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and it's fun. It is a five k, it's downtown Davenport,
it's an out and back and it's just a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So they could get registered right now where they can go.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
To QC Saint Patrick'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, picked up late registration, all
of that great stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We are talking to Laura cop president and CEO of
KSHI and Laura I mentioned it at the very beginning,
but now tying it in this makes perfect sense. Talked
about synergy with Saint Patty's Day, you have your own beer,
tell us more.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I cannot talk about this enough. We're trying to get
the word out all over the place.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
This year.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
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 were providing. You know, at case
we really love this idea and embrace this idea of
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redefining aging or reimagining aging, and we love things that
kind of flip the aging journey on its 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
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themes that they have on all of their beers. I
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 Grable. You know what
she would be like today if she were still around.
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And our tagline is because You're never too old to
be bad.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
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 6 (25:03):
I created that too. I will let you know with
my you know, uh, not very good AI skills. She
probably has ten fingers on one hand.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
If you look really.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Cool, 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 checking out the upper part and Bette, Betty
looks good. Nice job you drew her a nice way
to go. Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
She's you know, sees 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.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So 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 out on that In case
people can't make it for the initial tapping throughout March,
they can stop in and grab Betty, can't they, Yes.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
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 days 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 well.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You can tell just to the energy and how you're
just talking about them 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 come to
the forefront kind of shed some light on some good people.
(27:09):
If you want to I absolutely do.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
You know, 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 Massey, 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
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Cities community and the service organizations that they partner with
every year. In case I is just glad to be
one of those. We also have many other sponsors including
Eton and sear Seating, Davenport Electric, the Labor Union in
the Trades Union, and you know, we would not be
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able to provide or 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 our organization and our mission. And like you said,
in an environment where you know, public funding continues to
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shrink and governmental funding is going to be a thing
of the past, 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 (28:27):
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
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portion of all the sales on that one. We'll go
to Ksei. But again for people just tuning in, so
you're talking to Laura cop from KASE, I want to
be 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
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they go?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
They can go to QC Spatricksdarace 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 registrant. We can only
guarantee T shirts race T shirts for those folks that
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participate in the early bird registration.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
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Kimberley Road, Davin Forts, Iowa five two eight zero seven
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 Lynnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Right off the bat, we're talking to Patty McCrae from
the Quad City Animal Welfare Center over in Milan QCAWC
dot org to find out more. If you missed that website,
we'll give it again. But Patty, Danny and I are
just kind of assuming worst kept secret in the world.
You're maybe a little busy.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes we are. We're busy helping the animals and people
all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It seems like that's the thing. And for people that
have not been over And I'm just going to jump
into this interview, Danny, I want to say hi to Patty. Patty,
Patty's right over there. As soon as I knew that
you were going to be able to talk to us,
Danny got all chirpy. Usually she's kind of mopey and moody.
Brought a your name, and then all of a sudden
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things were much better right there.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, you know, you know, and you may or may
not remember, Socks is still around.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He's like, he's like twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I do you know. I fostered him because he had
a broken jaw when we first got him, and I
had him at my house and I was too feeding
him and he had that tube that was like inserted
in his neck, and so I was doing like this
liquid stuff and with a syringe, so it went into
his neck and he was doing really, really good. And
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I got home one day and he had decided that
it was he was done with that, and he was
going to eat on his own and he'd pulled that
tube out by himself, and I was freaking out.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's very opinionated. He just decides he has a like
is that a lot of sons and a lot of daughters,
isn't it where they just have a mind of their own?
And you know, this is great how this conversation has
kind of started here. We still may lead this in
on the Quad City form on Sunday, but that is
amazing after all of that twenty years. Yeah, thanks to
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the work that you guys did, yes, and the good
ownership and the good parenting the dog or the cat
parenting boom, he still gets the zuomies.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah. Yeah, he was a great He is a great cat.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And for those of you that we almost started this
interview mid sentence here, but we are talking to Patty
McCrae from the Quad City Animal Welfare Center, and Patty,
there are many stories like that, much more like socks,
but it is amazing what the great work you've done.
And for people that maybe haven't been over to Mylan,
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how can they find out more or just tell us
like kind of a thumbprint of the great if you do?
And I have been doing for a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, we've been in my Land since nineteen seventy seven,
and our organization is dedicated to helping animals in our community.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So it sounds like you've got somebody online one right now.
You're trying to help some more, you do?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I do. I have someone that wants to adopt one
of our dogs. And I called her earlier and she's
trying to call me back, so I'll get back with her.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
We have been helping animals find home. We've been helping
animals and people stay in Newter because we all know
there's an overpopulation problem, especially with cats. There's just way
too many of them. There's not enough good homes. So
that's what we've been doing for many years, trying to
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cut down on that overpopulation problem. And then the ones
that are already born, we've really tried to find them
great homes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And we talk about the not only adoption, which obviously
done a great job at you also have the education center,
so there's we can constantly be learning. Even the good
pet parents, dog cat, whatever it is, we can always
learn and get better.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Absolutely, Yes, we love to have kids come in. We
have Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, different types of youth groups
come in. And we also have Cameron who does our
humane humane education. She will go out to areas, schools
and different organizations and just talk the good word about
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what we're doing and let everybody know how to take
great care of their pets and just how to be
kind to all animals. So she's really great at that,
and we love to go out and see people. We
love to go have kids come in. I really think
that it is so important that we talk with kids
and start a young so they know how to treat
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animals with kindness and respect and how to take good
care of them. I think that's just something so important
that kids need to learn.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, it's and even for the adults sometimes you can
still even though the phrase is you can't teach an
old dog nutricks, and that's not true. You can teach
humans that have been going around for a while, some
of them are stubborn, but again you can. You can
start a have it much even later in life and
you still can make have some successes. But for those
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of you just tuning in right now talking to Patty McCrae,
Quad City Animal Welfare Center, and I would think volunteering donations,
how can they how can people help out? You talk
about going out to the schools. If people want to
just walk a dog or just interact with a cat
or whatever, certainly you'll you'll have volunteering volunteer positions open.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh absolutely, it's a great way to get involved. We
have some people that don't even have pets at home
that are our volunteers but just love to come and
be around the animals. So we do have a volunteer orientation.
It's the first Wednesday of each month. It's at five
point thirty. You just need to go to our website
and sign up and come out. It takes about maybe
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two hours. We give you a tour. We just go
over some of the opportunities and there are so many
things that you can do to help the animals. Definitely
if you'd like to come out and help us, cleaning,
walking dogs, socializing, even something as easy as helping with laundry,
maybe sitting and reading books to animals, because animals love
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to hear our voices, so that's something that definitely we're
looking for. But then we also have events. So we
have a trivia coming up, which has actually sold out already,
but we use a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a good and bad news kind of a thing.
It's great, I was ready to join and then okay,
well that's a good problem to have.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately it does sell out really really quick.
But we have different events, smaller events that we do
throughout the year that we need volunteer help with. So
there's there's always just so many different things that volunteers.
If you're interested, come check us out, come to the
orientation and see if maybe you know there'd be a
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way that you could get involved in help in donations.
We always are looking for pet food. That's something that
obviously we feed them, but there's also cleaning supplies and leashes, collars, toys.
We want to make this as nice of us stay
as we can when they're here at the shelter. Obviously
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it's not a home, but we want it to be
a nice day for them, and we want them to
feel loved and cared for. And we do need we
need need help with that. We need our community to
help us, you know, get those applies and the food
and the things that will make these animals feel loved
and comfort And you know a lot of these animals
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are here just because someone in their family couldn't take
care of them any longer, or they lost their job,
or there's some reason that's not the animal's fault. But
they're here and they need us to give them the
love and then to find them another home, a forever home.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Did not even think about reading the dog the bedtime
is you think? And the dog and the cat. It's
such a we think it's a one way street, their
way coming towards us, but we can still help them
in many ways. I don't know. Did they have a preference.
Do you see good Night Moon working with some of
the pets, or the fact you just start talking and
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that's enough, right, They're.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Not particular about the genre.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Of they don't care, warrn we could do, we could
do Warren Peace. You think, okay, well that's right, Hey
give them a show. Well, well you talked about events
that you need volunteers for. Here's one that's big in
the window and it's the Big Kitten Shower that's coming
up on the eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yes, that is going to be March eighth, Saturday, March eighth.
It's going to be from noon to four pm. We're
going to have that at our shelter in Myland and
it's really just it's a fun event, but we know
the kittens are coming. In fact, yesterday we did take
in a mama cat and she had six baby kittens
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that were probably about two days old. Beautiful, I mean
just beautiful babies. You know, they don't have their eyes
open and they're just so tiny, and she's trying to
take care of all of them. So we know that
they're coming. They're going to be here before we know it.
This is just a way for us to have the
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community help support us by maybe bringing out something on
our wish list kitten chow or there's a kitten mill,
or maybe kitty litter or wet food, just all kinds
of things. This supplies that we need to make sure
that we're taking good care of all the kittens that
are going to be coming soon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Love this idea. On the kitten wish List registry, we
think of weddings for some of that stuff, but this
is a great way for people to just in case
you're wondering, you can find out maybe get that list
at your website right now.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yes, yes, for sure. We call it milk money. Help
us out with the milk money.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I love that. I love this, And of course there'll
be some other things going on too, But the kitten
Shower is win on the eighth.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It is from noon to four on the eighth at
our Adoption and Education Center in Mylin. We're going to
have games, refreshments, raffles. We're also going to have some
adoption specials with cats and dogs. We're not going to
leave the dogs out. And then it's a donation drive
scheme for supplies to help all the baby kittens that
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will be coming soon.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We want a big crowd out there, and for those
of you that have not been out or it's been
a while, seven twenty four Second Avenue West in myland.
Probably just for some people it's muscle memory and they
know exactly where to go. But if they need to
find out more during the week or just sometime in
the future, Patty the website and a phone number if
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they need to find out more.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Sure, our website is QCAWC dot org. That's just our
shelter initials, and then our phone number is three zero
nine seven eight seven six eight three.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Zero Patty as usual. It's amazing all the stuff you're
doing there, and you continue to do. I don't know
how you've reversed the aging process, but you seem to
be going the other way, so you maybe, Uh, if
they do another Benjamin Button, a female version, I think
you're on it. But keep up the great work and
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we'll whenever you need some help. Keep Danny and I busy.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, oh of course, Well, thank you so much. It
was so nice chatting with you, and I appreciate it.
I'm so happy to hear about Socks. That's so wonderful,
isn't that something? See a picture of him sometimes too.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
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Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now back to bat Luke and Denny Linnelle.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Talking to Dan Bridenstein, 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. You guys are out
all the time doing something all year long, whether it's
snowing or not.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
That's right. Yeah, I mean we kind of travel where
the need is, you know, whether it's river cleanups, whether
it's planting trees. You know, we go up and down
the Mississippi, starting all the way to Saint Paul, down
to New Orleans. You know, wherever the problem is is
where it's at, and that's where we're We'll be kind
of engaging local community members, educating kids along the way.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
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 comeback and
put more stuff in it. How do you keep your
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attitude up to go, Hey, we're making a den on this.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
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 come along the way, that's past present, and
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those 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 accomplishment as we go down
the river.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Love that when we go to the website a 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
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not just when I think trash a piece of paper,
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 5 (14:51):
You know, we do find a lot of wild things.
Anything that you see, you know, the landfill, that's what
we're finding a lot of single use plastics, know, bottles,
syrofoam cups, cans. 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 (15:21):
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 had a bad night at the lanes.
So on a bowling ball away?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
One hundred percent. We think about it a lot, and
that's maybe maybe all those obscure and wild thoughts is
what keeps us going and keeps our mind off of
the you know, the enormous cask 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 (15:55):
We're talking to Dan Bridenstein Living Lands and Waters and
and Dan, you're Million Tree project. How is that going
right now?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It's going great. We're you know, we've just been to
start a three weeks residency over at the rust Belt.
We engaged with over nine hundred volunteers of the community
and eight local schools, came out a bunch of businesses
and wrapped over forty two thousand trees. Wow, so our
million trees probably that started back in two thousand and
seven with a gold you know, plant distribute a million
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trees primarily oaks. Surpass 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 (16:41):
This is amazing the footprint that the great things that
you guys are having. Now. Is there a reason why
it's oak other than other trees. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
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 treat plant and oak, and we do primarily
nut bearing, so if it's not an oak, we have pecans.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
This year.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
We've done for simmons some fruit bearing in the past.
Like I said, they got 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 (17:31):
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 that 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
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of your projects.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
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 opportunity 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 want
to do something in their community.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And with high school kids planning for college, there are
scholarships available too, aren't there.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
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.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
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Speaker 4 (18:55):
Now back to Fat Luke and Denny linnowe we.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Have Loura 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, I am
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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
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know what's going on. And I always love it. The
first thing you said, Hey, 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 6 (20:11):
Road and Davenport.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
You know, we're 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. We always
say that, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Ten thirty five West Kimberly Road. To see it for yourself,
and if people want to find out more, website.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Ww dot caseiseniors dot org and learn all about the
organization and what we have to offer and kind of
what's on our schedule.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
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. No, 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
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are a part of again this year.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, we're super excited. For three years for any fundraising event,
I think is a testament to the community who loves
it and the people that participate every year. But this
is the largest fundraiser for case I. One hundred percent
of those proceeds are going back into servicing older adults
right here in our own quad city community, helping to
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support our services and our activities and all of 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 (21:59):
And it's a special for voting. When I can see
it's the IDEs of March that we're gonna have for
Saint Patty's Day, It's like, don't be scared. It's gonna
be fun because this course and I'm not a big runner.
I walk, but they don't run, But this is an
ideal course to be able to get out there and
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have fun.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You know, 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 Dayway.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
So it is not for the week, you know, you
never know.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
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 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 to get and it's flat, it's fast,
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and it's fun. It is a five k, it's downtown Davenport,
it's an out and back and it's just a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So they could get registered right now where they can go.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
To QC Saint Patrick'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, picked up late registration, all
of that great stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
We are talking to Laura cop president and CEO of
KSHI and Laura I mentioned it at the very beginning,
but now tying it in this makes perfect sense. Talked
about synergy with Saint Patty's Day, you have your own beer,
tell us more.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I cannot talk about this enough. We're trying to get
the word out all over the place.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
This year.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
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 were providing. You know, at case
we really love this idea and embrace this idea of
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redefining aging or reimagining aging, and we love things that
kind of flip the aging journey on its 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
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themes that they have on all of their beers. I
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 Grable. You know what
she would be like today if she were still around.
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And our tagline is because You're never too old to
be bad.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
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 6 (25:03):
I created that too. I will let you know with
my you know, uh, not very good AI skills. She
probably has ten fingers on one hand.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
If you look really.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Cool, 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 checking out the upper part and Bette, Betty
looks good. Nice job you drew her a nice way
to go. Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
She's you know, sees 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.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So 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 out on that In case
people can't make it for the initial tapping throughout March,
they can stop in and grab Betty, can't they, Yes.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
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 days 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 well.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You can tell just to the energy and how you're
just talking about them 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 come to
the forefront kind of shed some light on some good people.
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If you want to I absolutely do.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
You know, 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 Massey, 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
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Cities community and the service organizations that they partner with
every year. In case I is just glad to be
one of those. We also have many other sponsors including
Eton and sear Seating, Davenport Electric, the Labor Union in
the Trades Union, and you know, we would not be
(27:55):
able to provide or 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 our organization and our mission. And like you said,
in an environment where you know, public funding continues to
(28:15):
shrink and governmental funding is going to be a thing
of the past, 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 (28:27):
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
(28:48):
portion of all the sales on that one. We'll go
to Ksei. But again for people just tuning in, so
you're talking to Laura cop from KASE, I want to
be 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
(29:10):
they go?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
They can go to QC Spatricksdarace 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 registrant. We can only
guarantee T shirts race T shirts for those folks that
(29:32):
participate in the early bird registration.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
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