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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 (00:16):
We have Tony White, the president of the Bettendorf Lions Club,
on the line here this morning for our Quad City Forum.
And when we talk about the Lions Club, Tony, it
has amazed me. This is a service organization that has
been It was founded way back in the last century,
but since since what the late nineteen teens and the twenties,
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has done so many great things. Each each community has
a chapter and you could tell how good the community
is if they have a Lions Club, you know, it's
got to be a pretty good place. And certainly that's
the case with the Bette North Allonce Club. So when
we start to talk about all the things that they
do though, that's where each one is a little different.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But let's just talk about some of the great things
that the Betenorf Lions Club has done.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just in the is some recent history.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Very good. Yeah, thank you for the intro. That's so true.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I'll have my bill later at the end of
the interview, Tony, so.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Okay, it sounds good, so good, I love it. So yeah.
The Lions Club has been around since nineteen seventeen, and
our chapter in Bettendorf since nineteen forty two. I always
like to tell people this that one our motto as
we serve it's a very simple motto. Everyone in the
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Lions Club, whatever chapter they're in, everyone's a volunteer. All
of the money that goes towards the administrative functions of
the club all come from our dues. So nothing that
we get from fundraisers that we do, all of that
goes back into the community, one hundred percent of it. Absolutely,
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None of that goes to the to the operation or
the administration of any of the clubs or the international
club at all. All of it goes back into the community.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So in this day and age, there's transparency there that
that's what we A lot of people will appreciate too.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So true.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I always kind of joke about this that as the
president of the vat North Lions Club, I make the
same amount of money as the international director of the
Mine Club, which is nothing. Which that's okay with me.
It's all right. Yes, So you had mentioned kind of
the things that we do, and all of these are
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just services that we provide to the community and ones
that we've we've done for quite a long time. I
think a lot of people associate the Lions Club with eyeglasses, right.
We see the little collection boxes at pharmacies, and we
see them at at optometrist office and libraries and such,
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and so what we do is we collect eyeglasses that
people aren't using anymore, and as a as an entire organization,
we clean those and we we check the prescription on
those and in essence we repurpose them. But we cannot
distribute those in the United States because of there's certain
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laws in place that we cannot do that it would
be competing with you know, optometrists and eyeglass manufacturers and such.
So what we do with those is we send them
around the world to third world countries where people would
never have access to better vision like that. So, so
those are those are distributed worldwide. For years and years,
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the Lions Club has been known for helping with with
vision and any vision related problems and so on our level,
and I'm sure most clubs do the same thing. We
get requests from either school age kids or from older
adults that cannot afford a either a vision screening or
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a hearing screening, and so we provide that free of
cost to those who request it. And that also comes
with either hearing aids if they need that, and eyeglasses
if they need those. So again, these are people who
likely would not be able to afford that. And you know,
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if you've ever had a visit to the eye doctor,
how much that costs. It really does cost.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There's no yeah, there's no free stuff there.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And certainly with some families we can you can talk
the level of comfort for certain families, but if you
have a couple of three kids and money's a little tight,
this it becomes an almost insurmountable kind of a pile
that you have to try to get over and you
have to do that times three. So that's where the
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Lines Club and really, when I was saying about Bettendorf chapter,
it's a great point that you make where yeah, it's
still your footprint, though will go outside of Bettendorf sometimes too.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So absolutely you're.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Helping maybe the Bettendorf Lines Club, but they are helping
many other people and they can with the big fundraiser
that's coming up. And this doesn't matter if you're in Bettendorf, Davenport, wherever.
You want to come and help out a great service organization.
This is the thing to do on March twenty ninth.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yes, for sure. Yeah, we're having our trivia night fundraiser.
We've been doing those since twenty eleven. I've done one
just about every year. I think the exception was COVID,
but other than that, I did one every year and
it's it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
If we wait, wait a minute, Tony, Tony. I hate
to break into the president of the Bettendorf Lions Club,
but sometimes they every person says the trivia nights are fun.
But if you get the groups that are really good,
this is there are sometimes near the end of the
night they're having fun, but they want they only have
want to have fun if they win. Yes, so there's
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a there's a competitive edge, but it's always great when
as the night goes on, it's it's good natured competitive
fun and then there's always just a good time. Generally,
the over the over writing theme is it's going to
be a good time. Now, How exactly is there a
theme to the trivia or will it be Bettendorf history stuff,
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or how how do you work it out? How much
time does it take to get that going?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You know, Yeah, that's those are great questions. Our Trivia
Knights are always ten rounds and have ten questions in
each round. I always try to make mine a pretty
diverse group of categories, so I always have like a
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music category and a TV category, and a movies and
a current events and a history and a geography and yeah,
a lot of times I do some quant Cities trivia,
and I'll do some Iowa and Illinois trivia and things
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like that. I always try to do something kind of current,
like it's going to be at the end of March.
So in the past I've done March Madness category or
Saint Patrick's Day category.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh okay, yeah, depending on where where it is, Yeah,
where it's showing up on the day.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, yep, exactly exactly. And I always recommend to people
we have teams of eight, so there's tables of eight.
You can have a team of eight, and I just
recommend get the diverse team together, people that kind of
span the generations a little bit. That tends to help
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because I try to make my questions cover the generations.
You know, some younger people will know a little bit more,
and some older people might know a little bit more,
and some kind of in the middle. You know, I
don't want to focus just on one group because that's
going to feel like it alienates too many people, and
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so I try to make it cover the ages, and
we do. We tend to have quite a few different
you know, age ranges come into these. Ours are always
known for having a lot of door prizes. We have
some great members that go out into the community and
we have so many wonderful and generous businesses in the
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area that that donate some gift cards and things, and
we put together some raffle baskets and we have door
prizes and a couple of signent auction items and things
like that. And cost per person is fifteen dollars and
so what that gives you, of course, is the entry fee.
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But for ours, we always include ten Mulligan stickers.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh wow, that's normally a lot you have to pay
for those, Yeah, a little bit more so you're getting
you're helping them with the Mulligan it is, yeah, yeah,
the idea, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And then we also have included in at a double
down sticker.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So well, wait a minute, what is it? Double down?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
This seems like a it sounds like a political thing
I've heard here.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So it could, but it's not. It's not.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, So I guess we find out when people show
up on March twenty nine, they're going to find out
what your double down thing makes right.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, Well what it is is if you feel like
we've answered all of these questions, we feel pretty good
about it. Okay, you put your double down sticker on
and then you get twice the point.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh my gosh, that's fair.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Everyone has the same opportunity to do this because in
other trivia nights and kind of the way we used
to do it is we would sell the Mulligan stickers
and the double down stickers separate, and we decided, you
know what, let's just wrap it all in and that
way everyone gets the same chance.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I love that. This sounds good.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Now it's March twenty ninth, Tanglewood Hills Pavilion. That's right
off of Middle Road for a lot of people heading
I guess it would be east. You're heading towards the TBK,
you'll see it off to the left.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yep, right off of tanglefoot. Yeah, middle middle road. Entanglefoot
is where that is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's what you get, that tangle thing and a tangle
foot in the tanglewood lane.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You just I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Starting You're starting to lose me a little bit, Tony
when you start throwing all that in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
There, but the mill and once you get there.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
With that, once you gild wood too.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, but once you get there, you go, oh, that
was easy to get. I mean, it really is not.
It just confuses some people. But the main thing is
if people want to be a part of they start
booking their tables because well, it's a it's less.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Than it'll be.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, it'll be fairly big date there on the calendar
by the time they hear this interview. So how can
they book a table now to be a part of this?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So just have them just call me? Is it okay
if I give you my my phone number.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Tony, it's okay with us as long as it's okay
with you. So give it now now. Sounds like it's
stick perfect opportunity we walk.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, yeah, you might.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
You might never put down the phone.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You might never know it's okay. It's a nice problem
to have.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But then again, we'll we'll just give them the number
and let's let's take it from there.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Sounds good. It is five six three three four zero
one five one seven.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Let's do it one more time, becaus soon as you
start to write it down there just looking for the paper,
I'm gonna give them. We're gonna give them enough chance.
Now just hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I could they are real well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Dereck Olton. Now okay, we're right.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Okay, now we're good. Now we're good. It is five
six three three four zero one five one seven.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page on
our station website. Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnhwe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We have Lola Vanderwally being able to talk to us
here this morning, being able to find some time in
their busy day. And Lolo, of course with the Quantity
Veteran Outreach that you can find out more QCVET outreach
dot com. And they're a big event that's going to
be coming in in April that we're going to have
Lola talk about. But Lola, for the people that see
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the Quad City Veteran Outreach Center and they think, first off,
they think, oh, it must be it's connected to the VA.
It's not connected to the VA. So there's I mean,
even though you maybe work with them, you're constantly also
trying to raise money and other sources, and it seems
like you've you've got a lot of people helping you out.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
We sure we are not connected at all. We receive
no state or federal funding. We work very hard each year,
all our volunteers, our board, and everybody including our veterans,
to raise funds to cover our costs and everything far
overhead and that way we raise funds for that and
all the donations one hundred percent go towards the center
or directly to take care of all of our veterans needs.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Now, when we last talked to you, and I think
it was you had the run walk last year, and
right around that time, you were moving into a school
that probably an old school that probably now you can
look in the outline of it and go, yeah, it's
a school, but inside it has completely been transformed since just.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
May it has been. It is a whole different a
whole different atmosphere, and a whole different center. Now it
is all about our ears from one end to the next.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Now one of the things and I talked to one
of the people that work here at the building in
our building here and Mangren had said, you can walk
around and you can see like there's a theater for
the veterans. You've also even have something as simple as
a haircut for the vets. They could just maybe come
in there and boom, get whatever they want and be
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able to go about their day.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
That is correct. We have a hair salon, we have
a movie room. We have the gym where they can
work out, they can walk, or they can be a
part of our Adaptive sports which is our wheelchair program.
We have a weekly grocery mart in there where they
can come in and pick up stuff. But then we
also have a full grocery store on the other side
of the building, which is our monthly grocery and they
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come in and get their full groceries each month. We
have all kinds of programs that go on. We have
our library where we have our computer corner, we have
our DVD exchange. There's resource programs offered throughout the building.
So yes, we have stuff going on all the time.
We have a big new gift shop in the building
so it's all about meeting the needs of our veterans
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and camaraderie. We have a coffee bar where a lot
of them come in and sit and just talk. And yes,
it's all about our veterans at the center.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It is amazing just in a few seconds there, how
much you're talking about, how this school you can't even
tell it's a school, it was a school at one time,
and how great it is now for those of you
just tuning in, we're talking to Lola Vandwally and she
is with the Quad City Veteran Outreach Center And if
you need to find out more, you know somebody that
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would love to be able to stop by there. It's
at forty five fifteen North Fairmont Street in Davenport. You
can find out more too at qcvetoutreach dot com where
you can call them five six three, five two nine
four seven eight two. Now, even though we talked about
how you're not connected with the VA directly, you still
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have a connection and where you're helping or get to
I guess referrals sometimes, But if people want to help
out in some way, shape or form, how can they
donate or volunteer?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
How can they find out They.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Can go to qcvetsoutreach dot com. They can also call us.
They can also participate in our events coming up, the
big race coming up in April. We have all kinds
of programs going on. They can come in and sign
up to volunteer. And our newest program is our Battle
Buddy program which started last year. They become a Battle
Buddy of the Center which includes a monthly donation and
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to take care of our veterans needs for the month.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And you also have something I think this is such
a great thing. It can work on raising a little
bit of money, but also honoring anybody that's serving currently
or has served.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Is your Honor Wall? Tell us a little bit more
about that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yes, our Honor Wall is where people have purchased cracks
in memory of or in honor of, and they come
in and they get a chief, use the name, the symbol,
everything they want, and it is now filling our halls
on our bricks with a plaque about a veteran. And
we invite everybody to come and visit the wall in
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our Honor Room of all the things that veterans have
brought to us, to see their pictures, their uniforms, everything
and just come and visit and look at the possibility
of putting up a plaque on the wall. We want
the school full of all the plaques to remember all
of our veterans. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's such a great way to put the spotlight on
deserving people. One other a big funders that's happening in
March is the first time for it put the Veteran
Outreach Craft and Vendor show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
It is. Yes, that is a big day for us.
It's going to be a big weekend for us. I
should say, two days of all kinds of vendors coming
in to sell their products and their crafts on the
twenty second and twenty third, and it's free to the
public and we tell everybody to come in, maybe grab
a little lunch and enjoy the day shopping.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's going to be fantastic. And of course this probably
is a what do you want to call it? It's
kind of a signal is how you want the rest
of the year do unfold. Every month there's something going
on to put the spotlight and help out the veterans
and the people in the military offer. The big one
is going to be happening in April. You already alluded
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to it, but it's the five k and one mile
run and walk, that's correct.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
It's the big run for veterans. On Saturday, April twelfth,
we have the five k in the one mile. It
is a timed race, but people are invited to either
run or walk and participate. This year we have added
a wheelchair division and a K nine division, So if
you have a dog or support dog, or anybody you
want to walk or run with you, please sign them up.
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They get medals dislike the rest of everybody does. It'll
start at the American Legion in Walcott. The American Legion
there has been a great supporter of the center and
our veterans. They will be cooking for all participation participants
after the race, so everybody will get a meal that's participating,
and you can also come and make a donation if
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you're not even signed up to eat with our veterans.
So we ask everybody to turn out, sign up, be
a part of it, volunteer to help, or just show
up to support. Everybody as a run to support our veterans,
it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Now hopefully you're not going to be too busy where
you can grab some of that food too. It seems
like you'll be so busy you probably won't eat at
all on April.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Twelfth, Probably won't.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's going to be a great.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Thing, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So for people that want to be a part or
find out more. Again, we said the website a few
times and said the numbers, but as we're going out
here this morning for people, or is it possible to
do tours, but for people that want to find out
more on the great work that you're doing, not only
for the big run in April or the craft and
vendor show that's going to be coming up in March.
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How can people find out more on the great work
that you do over at the City Veteran Outreach Center.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
They can call, but you can come in. You come in,
stop in and visit the center. We would love to
give you a tour of the center. We have people
there all the time, So stop in and see us
Monday through Thursday till three o'clock daily and we'll give
you a tour. Or call. Look on the website and
we would be at We'd love to have all the
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community come and visit.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City forum. Please visit the contact page and
our station website. Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnewe.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Lexi bowl communications and Events manager at Cancer Support Community
of Iowa and Northwestern Illinois. You can find out more
CSC Iowa Illinois dot org. How am I doing on
that website there, Lexi CSC Iowa Illinois dot org. Of course,
Cancer Support Community of Iowa Northwestern in Illinois at one
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time was Gilda's Club. Now with the more accurately adjusted name,
you could see the footprint how many people are helped
along with this, and some people there this is maybe
the first time they've heard of it. So if you
need to find it more, CSC Iowa Illinois dot org.
First thing that I know is starting to get big
in a windshield here Lexi Live from QC.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, we're really excited and looking forward to this event.
It's an annual fund raising gala that we host to
help us offer the free services that we do to
those in our community being impacted by cancer, and it's
actually one of the biggest fundraisers that we do all year.
This year, our goal story is over one hundred and
five thousand dollars to support our program.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
So tell us a little bit more of what people
are going to be able to see when they head
out there.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
So we're going to be at the Waterfront Convention Center
on April fifth. Doors open at six pm. So we
will have our comedian joining us, Andy Woodhull. He's been
seen on The Late Night Show with James Cory, He's
been on Conan Live at Gosham City of the Half
Hour on Comedy Central. He's also been on This Night
show with Jimmy Fallon. But then we also have Funtastic
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Five coming to perform and they're a local favorite, so
they'll play before the comedian goes on. They will also
play after a program. During the program, we do all
of our fundraising initiative, so we have everything from a
fund of need, we have a silent auction, a live auction,
and we just have so many different ways that the
community can get involved and give back but also while
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enjoying a great night out.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Ticket prices individual.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Tickets are ninety dollars. A table of eight is going
to be six hundred and fifty dollars, and then we
have a few tables of ten. I think we have
three tables left for those really.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So we gotta go. Okay, So and that's for it.
So I'm gathering then that's a nine hundred dollars for ten.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
No, if you actually save a little bit of money
if you get a table of ten or a table
of eight. So it's eight hundred dollars a table at
ten or six hundred and fifty for a table of eight.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, if I want to, I'm just going to go
ahead and give you the full price on the thing,
because we know it's going to go to a great cause.
And of course all of that is a big text
deduction too.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
And then plus you know, you get to enjoy a
great night out while feeling good about what you're supporting.
And all the funds RAIS stay here to support local
families and individuals navigating a cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I asked you this the last time.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I don't think Danny was in on this interview, But
will you be doing any stand up or will you
step in and do a little help with the fantastic five?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I've had a little bit more time to think about it.
I think i'd be better at I.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Don't know that anybody hey, and that night, give it
a shot there, Lexi and hopefully it all works out. Okay,
So along with that, and again that date is April
fifth at the Waterfront. But again if they want to
get the tickets, and that's ninety bucks and then tables
of eight and you still have room on tables of ten.
But to get their tickets, now, what do they do?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
They can go to a csc Iowa Illinois dot org
slash live and makes it easy. And even if they
go to our regular website, it actually will just pop
up and prompt them about our tickets right now.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
All right, next up, even though it depends on when
this interview airs, But this seems like a weird time
to be asking kids to register for camp.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
It does. But you know what, everybody's dreaming of summer
right now for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So first things first, to find out more on camp.
What did they do?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Camp Hope is one hundred percent free. It's funded by
Mercy One Genesis Foundation, so every kid can attend camp
at no cost. We can host up to forty campers.
It's really just a great camp where kids can really experience,
you know, the magic of being kids because oftentimes when
they're impacted by a cancer diagnosis, they're forced to grow
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up really quickly. So any kids between fourth and ninth
grade are able to attend camp at no costs. It's
out at Camp Shalom in the Cocada and it's a
week long sleep away camp. The kids get a participate
in all the regular camp activities like ziplining, art activities,
you know, making floors and all that fun stuff. But
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then they also get to experience sitting down with one
of our social workers and they can talk about their
feelings and you know, really how how life is having
a cancer diagnosis within their family. There's a lot of
different things that happen at camp, and actually one of
them in the middle of the week is where they
come into the our Davenport Clubhouse and they get to
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play and have fun. But then they get to go
downstairs in the cancer center and chat with oncologists and
the nurse navigators and it kind of just helps make
cancer a little less scary for kids.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Now, when we talk about making the smores, do I
have to share with the s'morest when I'm make Can
I keep them to myself?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
LEXI?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I just want to you can keep you can keep
it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh, thank you so much. It's so nice of you,
but it's nicely. Yeah, she is just the best. She
is the Beasneys.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
They tell you what now, when we talk about the
camp thing, when you talk about forty spots, that may
not take long, and those spots are going to be
going to be gobbled up here fairly quick. So people,
it's probably not one of those things where you wait
until late April.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Now's the time to start booking those spots.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's actually an application process. So the families can just
go online to our website at Csseiowa Illinois dot org
and they can find more information about the camp. There's
an application online. It's fairly simple, and once they submit
that then I believe the families of campers get notified
early May, and then from there they get to go
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on and enjoy the summer camp when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay, so give that website again so people can find
out more.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
It's a long moment. It's CSSE Iowa Illinois dot org.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
All right, sounds good. Do you need to take care
of somebody right now? We're fine, We're good. Be sure
about that.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Okay, it's actually csd Iowa, Illinois dot org slash camp.
I wanted to make sure it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Has Okay, do it, do it one more time because
somebody maybe went somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Give it one more time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
C Sciowa Illinois dot org slash camp.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Okay, because I was throwing people off by saying I
wanted to keep all this some worts to myself.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So I am so sorry distracting people.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Let's talk golf, and it sounds like your big golf
event is building a lot of momentum but still looking
for sponsors and volunteers and participants.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yes, so our golf outing is actually a lot of fun.
Last year we almost sold out. So our golf outing
is going to be at Palmer Hill Hills on May second,
at the Friday. So it's a perfect chance to get
on the office.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Sure, yeah, go ahead and start working on your reason
why you're leaving work already.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, okay, got it.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
You know some people use it to close deals clients out.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I love that. Up selling their young lady. That's
a good way to do it. So not only people
that want to close sales or sometimes they say they
tell their boss, yeah I'm going out to close the
sale and the boss follows them out there and there's
no closing going on there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
There's just a good time, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So if people want to be a part of it,
like I said, volunteers, also for sponsors and participants, all
three can find out a little bit more right.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
They can find all that information online at CSSE Iowa
Illinois dot org, slash golf, and we do still have
plenty of teams available. We do expect to sell out
quickly though, and we still have some whole sponsorships available.
This gives businesses a chance to get out on the
course and interact with all the golfers.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And similar to the live from QC, that's text deductible.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah, and all funds raised here stay here to support
are no cost services.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That we offer exactly that. Such good stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Okay, well, now listen one more even though for those
of you just tuning in, you're near the end of
the interview.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We're going to run this a few more times. But
we are talking to Lexi Bowl, communications and events manager
at Cancer Support Community of Iowa and Northwestern Illinois. A
lot of big events that are going to be happening
in these next two months, one more time to take
us out there, Lexi, why don't you give that website?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Our main website's going to be Csciowa, Illinois dot org
and you can find all the information about our upcoming
fundraising events as well as information about our upcoming summer camp.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have Tony White, the president of the Bettendorf Lions Club,
on the line here this morning for our Quad City Forum.
And when we talk about the Lions Club, Tony, it
has amazed me. This is a service organization that has
been It was founded way back in the last century,
but since since what the late nineteen teens and the twenties,
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has done so many great things. Each each community has
a chapter and you could tell how good the community
is if they have a Lions Club, you know, it's
got to be a pretty good place. And certainly that's
the case with the Bette North Allonce Club. So when
we start to talk about all the things that they
do though, that's where each one is a little different.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But let's just talk about some of the great things
that the Betenorf Lions Club has done.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just in the is some recent history.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Very good. Yeah, thank you for the intro. That's so true.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I'll have my bill later at the end of
the interview, Tony, so.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Okay, it sounds good, so good, I love it. So yeah.
The Lions Club has been around since nineteen seventeen, and
our chapter in Bettendorf since nineteen forty two. I always
like to tell people this that one our motto as
we serve it's a very simple motto. Everyone in the
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Lions Club, whatever chapter they're in, everyone's a volunteer. All
of the money that goes towards the administrative functions of
the club all come from our dues. So nothing that
we get from fundraisers that we do, all of that
goes back into the community, one hundred percent of it. Absolutely,
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None of that goes to the to the operation or
the administration of any of the clubs or the international
club at all. All of it goes back into the community.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So in this day and age, there's transparency there that
that's what we A lot of people will appreciate too.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So true.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I always kind of joke about this that as the
president of the vat North Lions Club, I make the
same amount of money as the international director of the
Mine Club, which is nothing. Which that's okay with me.
It's all right. Yes, So you had mentioned kind of
the things that we do, and all of these are
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just services that we provide to the community and ones
that we've we've done for quite a long time. I
think a lot of people associate the Lions Club with eyeglasses, right.
We see the little collection boxes at pharmacies, and we
see them at at optometrist office and libraries and such,
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and so what we do is we collect eyeglasses that
people aren't using anymore, and as a as an entire organization,
we clean those and we we check the prescription on
those and in essence we repurpose them. But we cannot
distribute those in the United States because of there's certain
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laws in place that we cannot do that it would
be competing with you know, optometrists and eyeglass manufacturers and such.
So what we do with those is we send them
around the world to third world countries where people would
never have access to better vision like that. So, so
those are those are distributed worldwide. For years and years,
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the Lions Club has been known for helping with with
vision and any vision related problems and so on our level,
and I'm sure most clubs do the same thing. We
get requests from either school age kids or from older
adults that cannot afford a either a vision screening or
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a hearing screening, and so we provide that free of
cost to those who request it. And that also comes
with either hearing aids if they need that, and eyeglasses
if they need those. So again, these are people who
likely would not be able to afford that. And you know,
(04:37):
if you've ever had a visit to the eye doctor,
how much that costs. It really does cost.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There's no yeah, there's no free stuff there.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And certainly with some families we can you can talk
the level of comfort for certain families, but if you
have a couple of three kids and money's a little tight,
this it becomes an almost insurmountable kind of a pile
that you have to try to get over and you
have to do that times three. So that's where the
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Lines Club and really, when I was saying about Bettendorf chapter,
it's a great point that you make where yeah, it's
still your footprint, though will go outside of Bettendorf sometimes too.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So absolutely you're.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Helping maybe the Bettendorf Lines Club, but they are helping
many other people and they can with the big fundraiser
that's coming up. And this doesn't matter if you're in Bettendorf, Davenport, wherever.
You want to come and help out a great service organization.
This is the thing to do on March twenty ninth.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yes, for sure. Yeah, we're having our trivia night fundraiser.
We've been doing those since twenty eleven. I've done one
just about every year. I think the exception was COVID,
but other than that, I did one every year and
it's it's pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
If we wait, wait a minute, Tony, Tony. I hate
to break into the president of the Bettendorf Lions Club,
but sometimes they every person says the trivia nights are fun.
But if you get the groups that are really good,
this is there are sometimes near the end of the
night they're having fun, but they want they only have
want to have fun if they win. Yes, so there's
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a there's a competitive edge, but it's always great when
as the night goes on, it's it's good natured competitive
fun and then there's always just a good time. Generally,
the over the over writing theme is it's going to
be a good time. Now, How exactly is there a
theme to the trivia or will it be Bettendorf history stuff,
(06:45):
or how how do you work it out? How much
time does it take to get that going?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You know, Yeah, that's those are great questions. Our Trivia
Knights are always ten rounds and have ten questions in
each round. I always try to make mine a pretty
diverse group of categories, so I always have like a
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music category and a TV category, and a movies and
a current events and a history and a geography and yeah,
a lot of times I do some quant Cities trivia,
and I'll do some Iowa and Illinois trivia and things
(07:33):
like that. I always try to do something kind of current,
like it's going to be at the end of March.
So in the past I've done March Madness category or
Saint Patrick's Day category.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh okay, yeah, depending on where where it is, Yeah,
where it's showing up on the day.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, yep, exactly exactly. And I always recommend to people
we have teams of eight, so there's tables of eight.
You can have a team of eight, and I just
recommend get the diverse team together, people that kind of
span the generations a little bit. That tends to help
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because I try to make my questions cover the generations.
You know, some younger people will know a little bit more,
and some older people might know a little bit more,
and some kind of in the middle. You know, I
don't want to focus just on one group because that's
going to feel like it alienates too many people, and
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so I try to make it cover the ages, and
we do. We tend to have quite a few different
you know, age ranges come into these. Ours are always
known for having a lot of door prizes. We have
some great members that go out into the community and
we have so many wonderful and generous businesses in the
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area that that donate some gift cards and things, and
we put together some raffle baskets and we have door
prizes and a couple of signent auction items and things
like that. And cost per person is fifteen dollars and
so what that gives you, of course, is the entry fee.
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But for ours, we always include ten Mulligan stickers.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh wow, that's normally a lot you have to pay
for those, Yeah, a little bit more so you're getting
you're helping them with the Mulligan it is, yeah, yeah,
the idea, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And then we also have included in at a double
down sticker.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So well, wait a minute, what is it? Double down?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
This seems like a it sounds like a political thing
I've heard here.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So it could, but it's not. It's not.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, So I guess we find out when people show
up on March twenty nine, they're going to find out
what your double down thing makes right.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, Well what it is is if you feel like
we've answered all of these questions, we feel pretty good
about it. Okay, you put your double down sticker on
and then you get twice the point.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh my gosh, that's fair.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Everyone has the same opportunity to do this because in
other trivia nights and kind of the way we used
to do it is we would sell the Mulligan stickers
and the double down stickers separate, and we decided, you
know what, let's just wrap it all in and that
way everyone gets the same chance.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I love that. This sounds good.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Now it's March twenty ninth, Tanglewood Hills Pavilion. That's right
off of Middle Road for a lot of people heading
I guess it would be east. You're heading towards the TBK,
you'll see it off to the left.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yep, right off of tanglefoot. Yeah, middle middle road. Entanglefoot
is where that is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's what you get, that tangle thing and a tangle
foot in the tanglewood lane.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You just I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Starting You're starting to lose me a little bit, Tony
when you start throwing all that in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
There, but the mill and once you get there.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
With that, once you gild wood too.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, but once you get there, you go, oh, that
was easy to get. I mean, it really is not.
It just confuses some people. But the main thing is
if people want to be a part of they start
booking their tables because well, it's a it's less.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Than it'll be.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, it'll be fairly big date there on the calendar
by the time they hear this interview. So how can
they book a table now to be a part of this?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So just have them just call me? Is it okay
if I give you my my phone number.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Tony, it's okay with us as long as it's okay
with you. So give it now now. Sounds like it's
stick perfect opportunity we walk.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, yeah, you might.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
You might never put down the phone.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You might never know it's okay. It's a nice problem
to have.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But then again, we'll we'll just give them the number
and let's let's take it from there.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Sounds good. It is five six three three four zero
one five one seven.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Let's do it one more time, becaus soon as you
start to write it down there just looking for the paper,
I'm gonna give them. We're gonna give them enough chance.
Now just hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I could they are real well.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Dereck Olton. Now okay, we're right.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Okay, now we're good. Now we're good. It is five
six three three four zero one five one seven.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page on
our station website. Now back to Pat Luke and Danny Linnhwe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We have Lola Vanderwally being able to talk to us
here this morning, being able to find some time in
their busy day. And Lolo, of course with the Quantity
Veteran Outreach that you can find out more QCVET outreach
dot com. And they're a big event that's going to
be coming in in April that we're going to have
Lola talk about. But Lola, for the people that see
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the Quad City Veteran Outreach Center and they think, first off,
they think, oh, it must be it's connected to the VA.
It's not connected to the VA. So there's I mean,
even though you maybe work with them, you're constantly also
trying to raise money and other sources, and it seems
like you've you've got a lot of people helping you out.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
We sure we are not connected at all. We receive
no state or federal funding. We work very hard each year,
all our volunteers, our board, and everybody including our veterans,
to raise funds to cover our costs and everything far
overhead and that way we raise funds for that and
all the donations one hundred percent go towards the center
or directly to take care of all of our veterans needs.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Now, when we last talked to you, and I think
it was you had the run walk last year, and
right around that time, you were moving into a school
that probably an old school that probably now you can
look in the outline of it and go, yeah, it's
a school, but inside it has completely been transformed since just.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
May it has been. It is a whole different a
whole different atmosphere, and a whole different center. Now it
is all about our ears from one end to the next.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Now one of the things and I talked to one
of the people that work here at the building in
our building here and Mangren had said, you can walk
around and you can see like there's a theater for
the veterans. You've also even have something as simple as
a haircut for the vets. They could just maybe come
in there and boom, get whatever they want and be
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able to go about their day.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
That is correct. We have a hair salon, we have
a movie room. We have the gym where they can
work out, they can walk, or they can be a
part of our Adaptive sports which is our wheelchair program.
We have a weekly grocery mart in there where they
can come in and pick up stuff. But then we
also have a full grocery store on the other side
of the building, which is our monthly grocery and they
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come in and get their full groceries each month. We
have all kinds of programs that go on. We have
our library where we have our computer corner, we have
our DVD exchange. There's resource programs offered throughout the building.
So yes, we have stuff going on all the time.
We have a big new gift shop in the building
so it's all about meeting the needs of our veterans
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and camaraderie. We have a coffee bar where a lot
of them come in and sit and just talk. And yes,
it's all about our veterans at the center.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It is amazing just in a few seconds there, how
much you're talking about, how this school you can't even
tell it's a school, it was a school at one time,
and how great it is now for those of you
just tuning in, we're talking to Lola Vandwally and she
is with the Quad City Veteran Outreach Center And if
you need to find out more, you know somebody that
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would love to be able to stop by there. It's
at forty five fifteen North Fairmont Street in Davenport. You
can find out more too at qcvetoutreach dot com where
you can call them five six three, five two nine
four seven eight two. Now, even though we talked about
how you're not connected with the VA directly, you still
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have a connection and where you're helping or get to
I guess referrals sometimes, But if people want to help
out in some way, shape or form, how can they
donate or volunteer?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
How can they find out They.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Can go to qcvetsoutreach dot com. They can also call us.
They can also participate in our events coming up, the
big race coming up in April. We have all kinds
of programs going on. They can come in and sign
up to volunteer. And our newest program is our Battle
Buddy program which started last year. They become a Battle
Buddy of the Center which includes a monthly donation and
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to take care of our veterans needs for the month.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And you also have something I think this is such
a great thing. It can work on raising a little
bit of money, but also honoring anybody that's serving currently
or has served.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Is your Honor Wall? Tell us a little bit more
about that.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Yes, our Honor Wall is where people have purchased cracks
in memory of or in honor of, and they come
in and they get a chief, use the name, the symbol,
everything they want, and it is now filling our halls
on our bricks with a plaque about a veteran. And
we invite everybody to come and visit the wall in
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our Honor Room of all the things that veterans have
brought to us, to see their pictures, their uniforms, everything
and just come and visit and look at the possibility
of putting up a plaque on the wall. We want
the school full of all the plaques to remember all
of our veterans. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's such a great way to put the spotlight on
deserving people. One other a big funders that's happening in
March is the first time for it put the Veteran
Outreach Craft and Vendor show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Tell us about that.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
It is. Yes, that is a big day for us.
It's going to be a big weekend for us. I
should say, two days of all kinds of vendors coming
in to sell their products and their crafts on the
twenty second and twenty third, and it's free to the
public and we tell everybody to come in, maybe grab
a little lunch and enjoy the day shopping.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's going to be fantastic. And of course this probably
is a what do you want to call it? It's
kind of a signal is how you want the rest
of the year do unfold. Every month there's something going
on to put the spotlight and help out the veterans
and the people in the military offer. The big one
is going to be happening in April. You already alluded
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to it, but it's the five k and one mile
run and walk, that's correct.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
It's the big run for veterans. On Saturday, April twelfth,
we have the five k in the one mile. It
is a timed race, but people are invited to either
run or walk and participate. This year we have added
a wheelchair division and a K nine division, So if
you have a dog or support dog, or anybody you
want to walk or run with you, please sign them up.
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They get medals dislike the rest of everybody does. It'll
start at the American Legion in Walcott. The American Legion
there has been a great supporter of the center and
our veterans. They will be cooking for all participation participants
after the race, so everybody will get a meal that's participating,
and you can also come and make a donation if
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you're not even signed up to eat with our veterans.
So we ask everybody to turn out, sign up, be
a part of it, volunteer to help, or just show
up to support. Everybody as a run to support our veterans,
it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Now hopefully you're not going to be too busy where
you can grab some of that food too. It seems
like you'll be so busy you probably won't eat at
all on April.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Twelfth, Probably won't.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's going to be a great.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Thing, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So for people that want to be a part or
find out more. Again, we said the website a few
times and said the numbers, but as we're going out
here this morning for people, or is it possible to
do tours, but for people that want to find out
more on the great work that you're doing, not only
for the big run in April or the craft and
vendor show that's going to be coming up in March.
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How can people find out more on the great work
that you do over at the City Veteran Outreach Center.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
They can call, but you can come in. You come in,
stop in and visit the center. We would love to
give you a tour of the center. We have people
there all the time, So stop in and see us
Monday through Thursday till three o'clock daily and we'll give
you a tour. Or call. Look on the website and
we would be at We'd love to have all the
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community come and visit.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
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 2 (20:38):
Lexi bowl communications and Events manager at Cancer Support Community
of Iowa and Northwestern Illinois. You can find out more
CSC Iowa Illinois dot org. How am I doing on
that website there, Lexi CSC Iowa Illinois dot org. Of course,
Cancer Support Community of Iowa Northwestern in Illinois at one
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time was Gilda's Club. Now with the more accurately adjusted name,
you could see the footprint how many people are helped
along with this, and some people there this is maybe
the first time they've heard of it. So if you
need to find it more, CSC Iowa Illinois dot org.
First thing that I know is starting to get big
in a windshield here Lexi Live from QC.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's Saturday night.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, we're really excited and looking forward to this event.
It's an annual fund raising gala that we host to
help us offer the free services that we do to
those in our community being impacted by cancer, and it's
actually one of the biggest fundraisers that we do all year.
This year, our goal story is over one hundred and
five thousand dollars to support our program.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
So tell us a little bit more of what people
are going to be able to see when they head
out there.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
So we're going to be at the Waterfront Convention Center
on April fifth. Doors open at six pm. So we
will have our comedian joining us, Andy Woodhull. He's been
seen on The Late Night Show with James Cory, He's
been on Conan Live at Gosham City of the Half
Hour on Comedy Central. He's also been on This Night
show with Jimmy Fallon. But then we also have Funtastic
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Five coming to perform and they're a local favorite, so
they'll play before the comedian goes on. They will also
play after a program. During the program, we do all
of our fundraising initiative, so we have everything from a
fund of need, we have a silent auction, a live auction,
and we just have so many different ways that the
community can get involved and give back but also while
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enjoying a great night out.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Ticket prices individual.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Tickets are ninety dollars. A table of eight is going
to be six hundred and fifty dollars, and then we
have a few tables of ten. I think we have
three tables left for those really.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So we gotta go. Okay, So and that's for it.
So I'm gathering then that's a nine hundred dollars for ten.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
No, if you actually save a little bit of money
if you get a table of ten or a table
of eight. So it's eight hundred dollars a table at
ten or six hundred and fifty for a table of eight.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, if I want to, I'm just going to go
ahead and give you the full price on the thing,
because we know it's going to go to a great cause.
And of course all of that is a big text
deduction too.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
And then plus you know, you get to enjoy a
great night out while feeling good about what you're supporting.
And all the funds RAIS stay here to support local
families and individuals navigating a cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I asked you this the last time.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I don't think Danny was in on this interview, But
will you be doing any stand up or will you
step in and do a little help with the fantastic five?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I've had a little bit more time to think about it.
I think i'd be better at I.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Don't know that anybody hey, and that night, give it
a shot there, Lexi and hopefully it all works out. Okay,
So along with that, and again that date is April
fifth at the Waterfront. But again if they want to
get the tickets, and that's ninety bucks and then tables
of eight and you still have room on tables of ten.
But to get their tickets, now, what do they do?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
They can go to a csc Iowa Illinois dot org
slash live and makes it easy. And even if they
go to our regular website, it actually will just pop
up and prompt them about our tickets right now.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, sounds good?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
All right, next up, even though it depends on when
this interview airs, But this seems like a weird time
to be asking kids to register for camp.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
It does. But you know what, everybody's dreaming of summer
right now for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So first things first, to find out more on camp.
What did they do?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Camp Hope is one hundred percent free. It's funded by
Mercy One Genesis Foundation, so every kid can attend camp
at no cost. We can host up to forty campers.
It's really just a great camp where kids can really experience,
you know, the magic of being kids because oftentimes when
they're impacted by a cancer diagnosis, they're forced to grow
(24:53):
up really quickly. So any kids between fourth and ninth
grade are able to attend camp at no costs. It's
out at Camp Shalom in the Cocada and it's a
week long sleep away camp. The kids get a participate
in all the regular camp activities like ziplining, art activities,
you know, making floors and all that fun stuff. But
(25:15):
then they also get to experience sitting down with one
of our social workers and they can talk about their
feelings and you know, really how how life is having
a cancer diagnosis within their family. There's a lot of
different things that happen at camp, and actually one of
them in the middle of the week is where they
come into the our Davenport Clubhouse and they get to
(25:36):
play and have fun. But then they get to go
downstairs in the cancer center and chat with oncologists and
the nurse navigators and it kind of just helps make
cancer a little less scary for kids.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Now, when we talk about making the smores, do I
have to share with the s'morest when I'm make Can
I keep them to myself?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
LEXI?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I just want to you can keep you can keep
it to yourself.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Oh, thank you so much. It's so nice of you,
but it's nicely. Yeah, she is just the best. She
is the Beasneys.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
They tell you what now, when we talk about the
camp thing, when you talk about forty spots, that may
not take long, and those spots are going to be
going to be gobbled up here fairly quick. So people,
it's probably not one of those things where you wait
until late April.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Now's the time to start booking those spots.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's actually an application process. So the families can just
go online to our website at Csseiowa Illinois dot org
and they can find more information about the camp. There's
an application online. It's fairly simple, and once they submit
that then I believe the families of campers get notified
early May, and then from there they get to go
(26:46):
on and enjoy the summer camp when the time comes.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay, so give that website again so people can find
out more.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
It's a long moment. It's CSSE Iowa Illinois dot org.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
All right, sounds good. Do you need to take care
of somebody right now? We're fine, We're good. Be sure
about that.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Okay, it's actually csd Iowa, Illinois dot org slash camp.
I wanted to make sure it.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Has Okay, do it, do it one more time because
somebody maybe went somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Give it one more time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
C Sciowa Illinois dot org slash camp.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Okay, because I was throwing people off by saying I
wanted to keep all this some worts to myself.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So I am so sorry distracting people.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Let's talk golf, and it sounds like your big golf
event is building a lot of momentum but still looking
for sponsors and volunteers and participants.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yes, so our golf outing is actually a lot of fun.
Last year we almost sold out. So our golf outing
is going to be at Palmer Hill Hills on May second,
at the Friday. So it's a perfect chance to get
on the office.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Sure, yeah, go ahead and start working on your reason
why you're leaving work already.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, okay, got it.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
You know some people use it to close deals clients out.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I love that. Up selling their young lady. That's
a good way to do it. So not only people
that want to close sales or sometimes they say they
tell their boss, yeah I'm going out to close the
sale and the boss follows them out there and there's
no closing going on there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
There's just a good time, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
So if people want to be a part of it,
like I said, volunteers, also for sponsors and participants, all
three can find out a little bit more right.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
They can find all that information online at CSSE Iowa
Illinois dot org, slash golf, and we do still have
plenty of teams available. We do expect to sell out
quickly though, and we still have some whole sponsorships available.
This gives businesses a chance to get out on the
course and interact with all the golfers.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
And similar to the live from QC, that's text deductible.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah, and all funds raised here stay here to support
are no cost services.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That we offer exactly that. Such good stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Okay, well, now listen one more even though for those
of you just tuning in, you're near the end of
the interview.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We're going to run this a few more times. But
we are talking to Lexi Bowl, communications and events manager
at Cancer Support Community of Iowa and Northwestern Illinois. A
lot of big events that are going to be happening
in these next two months, one more time to take
us out there, Lexi, why don't you give that website?
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Our main website's going to be Csciowa, Illinois dot org
and you can find all the information about our upcoming
fundraising events as well as information about our upcoming summer camp.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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