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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
Quad City Forum, Thatt Luke and Denny Lynnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We are going to shift gears a little bit. Talk
to Ashley Hicks. Now, Ashley, of course we know you
from hand in hand. Another great organization that you are
a part of is Junior League of the Quad Cities.
And a lot of people might be saying to themselves
right now, not really sure what Junior League of the
Quad Cities is, So can you kind of give an
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overview of what Junior League does?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So, Actually, Junior League has been in the Quad Cities
for several decades now, but they've kind of been this
unsung hero group that's worked behind the scenes. They were
pivotal in bringing the Susan J. Coleman Breast Cancer Race
for the Cure here to the Quad Cities. They had
a part in doing the River Action Ride the River
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for Father's Day. So they're kind of just this great
group of women that get together like most women get
things done and don't expect this huge hoop law of recognition.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I would like what brought you to the Junior League.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I actually was getting to a stage where my kids
were older, and honestly, I flipped the Junior League because
I had always volunteered, even back in high school. I
had been a volunteer kind of girl and thought it
was a great way to meet new friends that maybe
had that same mindset and maybe had things that were
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that we had in common. And also I was in
the business world, so I thought it was another way
to network and checked a lot of boxes.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You can find out more at JLQC dot org how
to get hooked up with that. And again they're looking
for ladies, but it's really ladies of any age.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Absolutely. That's what's great about Junior League is there is
no do we do asset you be eighteen, but once
you hit that eighteen, there is no like cut off,
you know age. We have people of all different ages
walks of life, which is great because I feel like
there's somebody that I can sit and talk to at
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an event that is in the same place as me.
I can get some advice from somebody who's maybe been there,
done that I can help mentor a younger Junior League
get the core is all about women leadership and women's growth,
and so it's you get you get to fill all
your buckets again. You can be a mentor be mentored
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and make a friend.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
All of the same events.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Again JLQC dot org and again we are talking to
Ashley Hicks and Ashley is a part of Junior League
of the Quad Cities and there is Ashley a huge
initiative right now that you are looking for support and
this is called period project. Explain what that means.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So we again we got together and started talking about
what it was that we felt like we did good.
You know, coming off of COVID Junior League with one
of those organizations that kind of took a hit, and
we needed to figure out where our strength was, where
we could grow and gain new members. And one of
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the things we had always done really well was hygiene drives,
and we had always come alongside a different nonprofit, whether
it be Humility Homes and Services, the YWCA, we did
a hygiene drive for area school. We always were really
successful at the drive.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Park. Junior League board is full of a.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Lot of other great nonprofit leaders and so we knew
that there were nonprofits in the Quad City area doing
great stuff with the items. They just were constantly having
to do these drives, and the same with our area schools.
We were watching area schools who have their resource rooms
for their students if they need items, and so we
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got to talking and really thought, what if all of
those nonprofits and what if the schools didn't have to
constantly be asking for the products. How much more work
and impact could they make if all they had to
do was say, Hey, we're out of tampons, we need
more tampons to give to our students, or hey we're
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out of this product or that product, and then they
could just do what they do great, which is working
with whether it be the schools and the kids, or
Humility Home and their outreach services. And so that was
really where the period projects came to be. We took
the idea to bet North Rotary and they saw the
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potential in an US and it really kind of went
from there. And so what it's intended to do is
Junior League will constantly beholding these HIJI drives and collecting
all of these products, and then nonprofits and area schools
can go onto our website and request the products that
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they need to fulfill their mission, and we come bearing
all of the items and they get to do what
they're doing in a community and making that impact, and
we get to be a part of that by doing
what we do good, which is kind of basically getting
everybody together, rallying all the products, rallying the support, and
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helping them not have to manage that part of their output.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
This is a great time for everybody to get together
because this initial push is through the end of this month.
And just tell me what are you looking for people
to donate?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So we've got an Amazon wishlist which has a ton
of different products that we know there is a need for.
We also have the ability to donate money. What we're
using that money for is we have found, especially with
the schools that we put together these little kids that
will provide one girl with enough product for the week.
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So there's some tampons in there, there's some pads in there,
there's some pantyliners, and so the teacher can then provide
that to the student who has the need, and that
student can take that bag home and have some discretion too.
They're not you know, necessarily that students not walking down
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the you know, hallway with a tampon in their hands,
and so that's been really successful with the schools, especially
even the grade schools. You know, despite what we think,
we think that this need is only in the high school. Well,
actually what we're finding is that in the junior highs
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and even the grade school. And then along with the
period items we also have on our Amazon site or
people can just buy and deliver donate them as a
need for underwear in leggings. And the reason for that is,
especially going back to those grade school in junior high
we know that there are several times in which that
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situation happens out of surprise. Yes, and so a lot
of times in the United States, one out of four
teams are struggling and are missing school because of that happening.
So they're going home. Because so what we want to
do is be able to provide in the schools the
nurses with some black leggings, some underwear so that that
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student can have some dignity, be able to change and
still stay in school and not have this shameful exit
of having to go home because a surprise happened.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So you're looking for products, you're looking for monetary gifts. Now,
if somebody wants to host their own collection. Could they
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Too, absolutely, I would say reach out to our website,
our emails on there, let's have that conversation. We would
love any support that anybody is willing to get.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay, So that website again is JLQC dot org. That's
JLQC dot org. You can find out more information about
Junior Leak and also this great fun drive or drive
that they're doing right now called the Period Project. And
Ashley Hicks, thank you for talking to us today. You're
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always a wealth of knowledge and a pleasure to talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Thank you so much for having me. Always enjoyed to
get to chat with you.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
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 Linnhowe.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Steve Garreton Hub, director of Honor Flight to the Quad
Cities talking to us today. It's going to be busy, busy,
busy this year. More on that in just a few minutes.
But Steven, if you can just tell us a little
bit about what the honor Flight is all about.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, first of all, we're honoring our veteran We are
taking applications from veterans who serve before nineteen seventy five
otherwans as we go along. That includes Vietnam and Korea
and World War II. So we're trying to get all
those veterans and we're taking them to DC on a
one day flight. Flight sixty two is coming up in May.
It should be fantastic. Those guys will go there, they'll
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see the monuments, they'll see some of the old equipment
that they used to use at the museum. They're just
going to have a good and we're going to feed
them a lot.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
With all that they've gone through, that's certainly deserving of that. Now,
when we talk about sixty two flights, I would think
everybody from before nineteen seventy five knew about this and
has already gone on. But you probably still will run
run into this where a lot of veterans say, no, no, no,
I don't deserve that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're here. Oh well, some of it
was more important than me, and they did that, and
I'm just not. Veterans are the most humble people actually
you'll meet there. They're very humble about what they did.
Guys who have the Silver Star, the bronze. Now, well,
I you know there was a mistake or something or
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just very humble. Except for me, of course, ebody else
really umble.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We are telling you did the humble Steve Garrington, hub
director at the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities. If
people want to find out more website to do just that, just.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Google Honor Flight Quad Cities. You'll get to US.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Okay, Honor Flight quad Cities. Just do a Google search
in that and you're good.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah. And on that you will find applications for veterans
and applications for guardians, and we would like to have
a lot more guardians. The nice thing about a guardian
who doesn't know a veterans come in. He hasn't heard
the veterans story before. The veteran has already told that
their kids the story fifty seven times. They don't want
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to hear it again. The new guardian coming in is
the hey, tell me all the stories. They make such
good new friends. And when people get my age, you
got to make new friends because some of them are
going quick. So you like making new friends and that's
great for so we need people to sign up to
the Guardians and that's on that same website. Google on
a flight quad Cities. There is one little problem though,
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the TSA. That's the Transportation Security Agency, not the Salvation Army.
The TSA requires the new real ID. We have a
star in the corner of your driver's license to your
ID card. So if you know a veteran, tell them
go get your real ID because you can't fly without it.
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They're just not gonna let us take it. And I
don't want to have anybody show up at the airport
and say, well I don't have a real ID, you
can't use a passport. But the real idea is what
we'd really like to have every veteran. So if you
know a veteran, say have you got your real ID yet?
Go get it. And that's by the way, I think
it's different between I and I know I as to
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what you have to take and give them. So you've
got to call the driver's license bureau to find out
what you need. But the real idea is going to
become very important. We're just holding our breath that we
don't have any problems with that.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And while you're at it, as people are listening to
this today, for some people they could have a passport,
but it's out of date, so it certainly is a
good idea to always update those and make sure that
you're ready to go. And that would be the similar
thing if people want to volunteer and be a guardian,
you've got to make sure you get all this in
order because the day of is too late to be
doing some of this stuff. There's quite a lead time.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Certainly is it's hurry up and right in there. We'll
call you.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
It's going to be a busy year in twenty twenty
five because not just one flight or I would think
sometimes it would be two, but you've got three this year,
you got three.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So we're looking forward to doing that. There's good times.
Spring is hard to do in DC. They have a
very blossom festival and you can't hire a bus is
because all the buses are taking tours on the Turer
Bossom festival tours. So it's really difficult. So we do
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one kind of lateness bramelet in May and then we
do a couple in the fall, and that's that's beginning
to work out pretty well.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So the first couple of steps, what should our veterans
or our veterans families start to do outside of making
sure they get the real ID, also update the passport.
First couple of steps after.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That, just get the application in first, and then what
we'll do is we take the guys who are before
nineteen seventy five, by the date that they applied. We'll
call them and we'll say are you available now? Since
we're going to have some people who may not be available.
We always call our things come up. So if we're
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going to take eighty people on the flight, we'll call
one hundred and say are you available. If that works out, well,
we'll send out a letter to room and then they'll
tell them all the details what they need to do,
what they need to bring, dates and times and all
that sort of stuff. But we will call them when
their turn comes up.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Guardians, first off, apply because there'll be some cost in
that too.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
There will be that helps pay for the airplane. It's
not keep during an airplane for a day. They all
of the guardians pay four hundred dollars to go. And
now I have got many guardians who have had such
a wonderful time that they have paid it three or
four times to go on flight. They just have a
great time. Some of them take pictures and make up
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those little picture books and give them to the veterans
after the flight's over. They're just so wonderful. Some of
them write veterans to their house for Thanksgiving dinner. I
mean it's just really really great. You mean, they make
a real, real good vacation and then a meeting of
new friends. We'll call them well ahead of time say
are you are you available? And we need extra guardians
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because a lot of people will work and that dayton
may not work for them. You know, if I want
a guardians, I better call one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
And when you talked about some of the veterans how
they've maybe told stories to some of their family, then
getting a chance to talk to some of the guardians,
I would still think Steve, that some of the veterans
still can be tight lips. Sometimes they're not going to talk,
and it's a great chance for that guardian to be
able to help that veteran come out of their shell.
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Like you said, you can maybe you can start a life,
even though it's a little bit later in life, you
can start a lifetime friendship with this flight.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It is that is probably one of the greater things
it comes out of the flight. I mean It's nice
for them to go and see the memorial, but to
really make a true friend that's going to you know,
meet them and talk to them, listen to their stories.
I mean, a guardian is going to spend a whole
day focusing in on that veteran a whole day. The
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last time I had somebody spend the whole day focusing
on me with my honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Hey wait a minute, Steve, Now let's stop getting too
personal on that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Okay, what it is, it's a day when somebody really
focuses in and there's questions and I want to hear
the story. Well what about this? Well what was that?
Who did you get love letters from while you were
in the service besides your wife? You know, I mean
those those questions. They have wonderful questions, and they get
and and what really happens. In many many cases, the
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guardian will say, now, don't forget, You've told me some
great stories, but you need to go back to your
family and tell them the stories. And some families say,
it's the first time we heard these stories after they
got back from the after they got back, so it's
a time when there's nobody to judge them. There if
anybody's or with these guardians who are eager to see them,
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they're just going to have a good time and they
can lie.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well it's there, you know what, it's their therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Well, they don't really lie, they just leave out parts
and stretch the others. You know, it's kind of like,
go effiicient.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do the guardians just meet the veteran that they're on
just on the flight that day or is there a
little bit of lead time before the flight?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
There is ten days before we have a meeting for
all of the veterans and their guardians. They get a
chance to meet each other. We'll tell them a little
bit about this. We'll send the veterans home and then
we'll talk to guardians and we'll give them some training
things that they may not think about, things that they
have to do, you know, lots of little odds and
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ins that will teach them to help them have a
really wonderful day, help them with the question questions you
might want to ask. Remember, if they get a bottle
of water, you need to unscrew it because with arsritis.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well you think about this, if it's a veteran before
nineteen seventy five, So that probably means that veteran most
cases is in their seventies at least.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Now for people that are just tuning in, Steven Garrington,
hub director Honor Flight to the Quad Cities is talking
to us.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
They just need to go to our website, download their
application and we'll take care of it. They have a
good time, they really really Some of the guys come
back and say it's the best day of their whole
life other than their wedding. I mean, it's this is
a great, great time for them. They just really enjoy it.
And many of the guardians come back into the exact
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same thing.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, so Flight sixty two, we're still looking for veterans
to fill it, and we're also looking for guardians to
help out. They need their real ID. But the main
thing is fill out the application when you can find
it at the website when you do a little search
Honor Flight to the Quad Cities and you get right
to it. But we would certainly think volunteers or maybe
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people that are listening now just want to donate. How
can they do it?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Sure? Oh yes, again, there's a app address on the
website the check or drop it by Richcrest Village that's
where we have our office and they just put in
our mailbox. But that's always great and we do so
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much appreciate it. And a lot of other groups have
fundraisers and then they and then they say, hey, we
had a fundraiser and we're gonna give you the money.
Well that's swell. I mean, that's great. I love having
doing it. And we have people from way down in
southern Illinois. We have people over in Stirring and Rock
Falls and Dixon and people over and uh Alla up
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and down the river. We have lots of friends, lots
of groups that help. We had at school at uh Sabula,
Illinois just did a bicycle thing. Sinnus gave us the money.
I mean, it's wonderful. This is always say quad cities,
but we're the Quad city area. We go way out
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in the area. We just love it.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I would say instead of the quad city area, let's
just call it the quad City region because it's like
one big welcome at.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We actually have a veteran from Minnesota. His daughter lives
here in town. So he's going to drive dowf of Minnesota,
stay a couple of weeks with his daughter and son
in law and go on the flight.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Wow, that is SI great, It's fantastic. And again we're
talking to Stephen Garrington, hub director Honor Flight to the
Quad Cities. Stephen, as we wrap this up here today
because I still feel like we could talk another ten
to fifteen minutes on all the great things that are happening.
If people want to find out more as they get
ready for that first flight. There's going to be three
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this year, sixty two, sixty three, and sixty four. But
give us the date and how they can be a
part of this in one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Well, the date is May, May thirteenth, is a flight.
And of course if they and some people I can't
give with this time I can't go, that's fine. Come
out to the airport on that date. Will We'll have
a information out about that later, but it's May thirteen.
Come out about nine thirty ten o'clock that night and
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welcome the guys home. Say thank you to these deference
for their service. I mean, let them know how much
they're appreciated. That that is, if nothing else, that is
a great thing to do. Come out and say thank
you as they as they come home.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page in
our station website. Now back to bat Luke and Danny Linnhowe.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
We're getting a chance to talk to Carrie Fa and
it's a name that maybe you don't know. Her and
her husband Jonathan have done a great thing and when
we talk about we talked about it a few times
on the radio, but Heini Heroes and Carrie thanks again
for talking to us on the Quad City Forum today.
But when we talk about Heini Heroes, I saw it
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and I thought, I automatically thought, if this is an
organization that's been around forever, international or a national kind
of organization, we have a chapter here, but this all
started with you and Jonathan.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yes, yes, we have four kids and the youngest two
or twins, so they were about fifteen months.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Oh no, I'm just.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Realizing, like how much money we're spending on diapers every month,
And they're like, what do people do that? Can't you
know they don't have great paying jobs, that don't what
are they what's options for families that are really struggling
to make that one hundred two hundred dollars a month
just for diapers?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Right? And there's there's also issues and isn't there the
issue too that sometimes when you're trying to stretch it
out and if a child stays in a diaper a
little bit too long, that it can cause some health
problems alone.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Absolutely diaper wrath. Also you think about like a child
that's in a diaper too long is a crime more right?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
We know the babies that crime war are more susceptible
to abuse things like that, Like it's bad.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
So you and Jonathan out of it's really necessity. And
when you think about I mean twins, twins are fantastic,
but probably out of all of the highs and lows,
the least favorite thing for anybody to do, even if
it's just one child, is changing a diaper. And sometimes
you talk about the pressure of the expense, let alone
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feeding the child, but just the diapers, they're probably what
as the child grows, you're probably talking about ten to
twelve times a day they're changing diapers, and that can
get expensive really quick.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Absolutely one hundred a month. It's kind of average.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So as you and Jonathan are trying to survive changing
diapers of twins after already having two other children, when
did Heini hero how'd your first off coming up with
the name Heini? Is just that you weren't the ones
that came up with Heine, but there is something about, hey,
I want to help somebody with involved with Heine. I
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don't know why, but how did you come up with
the name and how did you get everything started? Because
you can't you could not have been doing this all
by yourself right.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Now, Well, we whenever we realized how much we were spending,
we got to wondering, like what people do. We kind
of did some research like what if people do that
can't afford enough diapers and they're not covered by SNAP,
not covered by WIT and so there aren't government safety nets,
and so we kind of let it lay there. We
were like, oh gosh, And then we found there's a
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diaper bank out of Guildsburg called Loving Bottoms, and so
kind of we're like, oh, there's something there that helps
people with diapers, but there's nothing here in our community,
and we kind of let it lay there. But my
husband like a week later, comes home and he's like,
what do you think of Heini Heroes? And I was like,
Heine what And he's like he's like, I just admitted
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paperwork to start a nonprofit to help people with ciphers,
And first off, I was like, is that how you
spell Heine?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Are you sure? And so that's how it started.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
He kind of jopped it in my lap a little bit,
but you know, we've always been kind of those people
that want to help others, and so it works out.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I think it's fantastic. Even though I love the organization
down in Geilsburg. Loving bottoms is great, but I think
you guys hit a home run. You hit a home
run with Heini heroes, and that's great. And one other
one of the articles and I've seen a few of them,
and this is your organization now has been how old
is it now? Happy birthday? How many years?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I think seven years?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Wow? Seven years after after surviving toilet training your twins
and you had said too, the good news out of
all of that was that they trained early, they came
out early.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
They did early. Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Okay, so yeah, winning the diaper lottery.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, And we're volunteer organization.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
We don't make any money. My husband and I both
have other jobs. This is our unpaid five gig I
like to call it.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
And you it's nice too that you have since we
have many diapers being changed on both sides of the river.
You have locations on both sides. But for people that
want to get involved, I think some people want to
go out right now and buy some diapers. Probably the
one thing to do now. There's a couple you could
donate money if you wanted to, but if you did
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want to go get the diapers. It seems like the
newborns are great, but the kids are out of the
newborns so quickly, so probably the bigger sizes would be
the better way to go.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yes, for sure, babies tend to sail through like newborn
ones and twos, and they'll be in size three through
six for about a year to kind of stall out
in one. So three through six are definitely the ones
we need the most.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
A better way to go sometimes is since you're maybe
some people are listening right now. And by the way,
we're talking to Carrie Fa she and her husband Jonathan
came up with the incredible Heini heroes. It's just amazing,
how you must copy you better copyright that because I
think that's uh. I think you've you can make some
money on the on the side or moving down the
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road on that, but they came up with the idea
of providing diapers for other parents that maybe, as we
all know, it's very expensive to try to buy diapers,
try to keep up with the as the kids go
through the diapers. But as you're going through this, if
people want to donate, how could they do maybe financially?
How can they just help you out by swiping a
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cart or giving you a cash donation?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Yeah, for sure. If you go to our website it's
heiniheroes dot com and you sell heine h I n
e y hero.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
You and Jonathan have always you and Jonathan have already
double checked on how to spell okay. So again, where
do you Where do you go again to make the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Donation himiheroes dot com okay And our address is also
on that site, so you can send us the check
if you prefer to you that.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
It sounds fantastic And you can't do any of this stuff.
I mean we've already talked about with your with both
of you holding down jobs, you have a lot of
partners that have helped out in the Quad City area.
So to say it's just Carrie and Jonathan doing it all,
It just started with your great idea that maybe was
inspired from Gailsburg. But you have a lot of partners
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you probably want to thank to.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
We do.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
We do.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
We have wonderful partners that get our diapers into the
hands of families that are struggling. So they are kind
of the frontline.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
And even though we talk about a big push in
the month of May, this is something that will not
go away once we get into the month of June
and July and August and all year long. So again,
for people that want to help out, and we know
that we're going to see you all over the place.
You see me. Are you doing like a Quad City
TV tour right now? It seems like you're showing up
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at all the TVs.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You know a little bit.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I hope, Well, you're getting the job, You're getting the
word out. No, they would never do that. But again,
if people want to help out with Heini Heroes and
all the great work that you and so many other
people are doing behind the scenes, donate or website to
find out more.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Is Heiniheroes dot com. And then we're also on Facebook
social media.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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Welcome to Quad City Forum, a weekly community service program
produced by iHeartMedia to look at the issues and opportunities
that exist in our community. Now here's your hosts for
Quad City Forum, Thatt Luke and Denny Lynnhowe.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We are going to shift gears a little bit. Talk
to Ashley Hicks. Now, Ashley, of course we know you
from hand in hand. Another great organization that you are
a part of is Junior League of the Quad Cities.
And a lot of people might be saying to themselves
right now, not really sure what Junior League of the
Quad Cities is, So can you kind of give an
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overview of what Junior League does?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So, Actually, Junior League has been in the Quad Cities
for several decades now, but they've kind of been this
unsung hero group that's worked behind the scenes. They were
pivotal in bringing the Susan J. Coleman Breast Cancer Race
for the Cure here to the Quad Cities. They had
a part in doing the River Action Ride the River
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for Father's Day. So they're kind of just this great
group of women that get together like most women get
things done and don't expect this huge hoop law of recognition.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I would like what brought you to the Junior League.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I actually was getting to a stage where my kids
were older, and honestly, I flipped the Junior League because
I had always volunteered, even back in high school. I
had been a volunteer kind of girl and thought it
was a great way to meet new friends that maybe
had that same mindset and maybe had things that were
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that we had in common. And also I was in
the business world, so I thought it was another way
to network and checked a lot of boxes.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You can find out more at JLQC dot org how
to get hooked up with that. And again they're looking
for ladies, but it's really ladies of any age.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Absolutely. That's what's great about Junior League is there is
no do we do asset you be eighteen, but once
you hit that eighteen, there is no like cut off,
you know age. We have people of all different ages
walks of life, which is great because I feel like
there's somebody that I can sit and talk to at
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an event that is in the same place as me.
I can get some advice from somebody who's maybe been there,
done that I can help mentor a younger Junior League
get the core is all about women leadership and women's growth,
and so it's you get you get to fill all
your buckets again. You can be a mentor be mentored
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and make a friend.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
All of the same events.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Again JLQC dot org and again we are talking to
Ashley Hicks and Ashley is a part of Junior League
of the Quad Cities and there is Ashley a huge
initiative right now that you are looking for support and
this is called period project. Explain what that means.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So we again we got together and started talking about
what it was that we felt like we did good.
You know, coming off of COVID Junior League with one
of those organizations that kind of took a hit, and
we needed to figure out where our strength was, where
we could grow and gain new members. And one of
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the things we had always done really well was hygiene drives,
and we had always come alongside a different nonprofit, whether
it be Humility Homes and Services, the YWCA, we did
a hygiene drive for area school. We always were really
successful at the drive.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Park. Junior League board is full of a.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Lot of other great nonprofit leaders and so we knew
that there were nonprofits in the Quad City area doing
great stuff with the items. They just were constantly having
to do these drives, and the same with our area schools.
We were watching area schools who have their resource rooms
for their students if they need items, and so we
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got to talking and really thought, what if all of
those nonprofits and what if the schools didn't have to
constantly be asking for the products. How much more work
and impact could they make if all they had to
do was say, Hey, we're out of tampons, we need
more tampons to give to our students, or hey we're
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out of this product or that product, and then they
could just do what they do great, which is working
with whether it be the schools and the kids, or
Humility Home and their outreach services. And so that was
really where the period projects came to be. We took
the idea to bet North Rotary and they saw the
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potential in an US and it really kind of went
from there. And so what it's intended to do is
Junior League will constantly beholding these HIJI drives and collecting
all of these products, and then nonprofits and area schools
can go onto our website and request the products that
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they need to fulfill their mission, and we come bearing
all of the items and they get to do what
they're doing in a community and making that impact, and
we get to be a part of that by doing
what we do good, which is kind of basically getting
everybody together, rallying all the products, rallying the support, and
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helping them not have to manage that part of their output.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
This is a great time for everybody to get together
because this initial push is through the end of this month.
And just tell me what are you looking for people
to donate?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So we've got an Amazon wishlist which has a ton
of different products that we know there is a need for.
We also have the ability to donate money. What we're
using that money for is we have found, especially with
the schools that we put together these little kids that
will provide one girl with enough product for the week.
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So there's some tampons in there, there's some pads in there,
there's some pantyliners, and so the teacher can then provide
that to the student who has the need, and that
student can take that bag home and have some discretion too.
They're not you know, necessarily that students not walking down
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the you know, hallway with a tampon in their hands,
and so that's been really successful with the schools, especially
even the grade schools. You know, despite what we think,
we think that this need is only in the high school. Well,
actually what we're finding is that in the junior highs
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and even the grade school. And then along with the
period items we also have on our Amazon site or
people can just buy and deliver donate them as a
need for underwear in leggings. And the reason for that is,
especially going back to those grade school in junior high
we know that there are several times in which that
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situation happens out of surprise. Yes, and so a lot
of times in the United States, one out of four
teams are struggling and are missing school because of that happening.
So they're going home. Because so what we want to
do is be able to provide in the schools the
nurses with some black leggings, some underwear so that that
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student can have some dignity, be able to change and
still stay in school and not have this shameful exit
of having to go home because a surprise happened.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So you're looking for products, you're looking for monetary gifts. Now,
if somebody wants to host their own collection. Could they
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Too, absolutely, I would say reach out to our website,
our emails on there, let's have that conversation. We would
love any support that anybody is willing to get.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Okay, So that website again is JLQC dot org. That's
JLQC dot org. You can find out more information about
Junior Leak and also this great fun drive or drive
that they're doing right now called the Period Project. And
Ashley Hicks, thank you for talking to us today. You're
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always a wealth of knowledge and a pleasure to talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Thank you so much for having me. Always enjoyed to
get to chat with you.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
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 Linnhowe.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Steve Garreton Hub, director of Honor Flight to the Quad
Cities talking to us today. It's going to be busy, busy,
busy this year. More on that in just a few minutes.
But Steven, if you can just tell us a little
bit about what the honor Flight is all about.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, first of all, we're honoring our veteran We are
taking applications from veterans who serve before nineteen seventy five
otherwans as we go along. That includes Vietnam and Korea
and World War II. So we're trying to get all
those veterans and we're taking them to DC on a
one day flight. Flight sixty two is coming up in May.
It should be fantastic. Those guys will go there, they'll
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see the monuments, they'll see some of the old equipment
that they used to use at the museum. They're just
going to have a good and we're going to feed
them a lot.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
With all that they've gone through, that's certainly deserving of that. Now,
when we talk about sixty two flights, I would think
everybody from before nineteen seventy five knew about this and
has already gone on. But you probably still will run
run into this where a lot of veterans say, no, no, no,
I don't deserve that.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're here. Oh well, some of it
was more important than me, and they did that, and
I'm just not. Veterans are the most humble people actually
you'll meet there. They're very humble about what they did.
Guys who have the Silver Star, the bronze. Now, well,
I you know there was a mistake or something or
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just very humble. Except for me, of course, ebody else
really umble.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We are telling you did the humble Steve Garrington, hub
director at the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities. If
people want to find out more website to do just that, just.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Google Honor Flight Quad Cities. You'll get to US.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Okay, Honor Flight quad Cities. Just do a Google search
in that and you're good.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah. And on that you will find applications for veterans
and applications for guardians, and we would like to have
a lot more guardians. The nice thing about a guardian
who doesn't know a veterans come in. He hasn't heard
the veterans story before. The veteran has already told that
their kids the story fifty seven times. They don't want
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to hear it again. The new guardian coming in is
the hey, tell me all the stories. They make such
good new friends. And when people get my age, you
got to make new friends because some of them are
going quick. So you like making new friends and that's
great for so we need people to sign up to
the Guardians and that's on that same website. Google on
a flight quad Cities. There is one little problem though,
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the TSA. That's the Transportation Security Agency, not the Salvation Army.
The TSA requires the new real ID. We have a
star in the corner of your driver's license to your
ID card. So if you know a veteran, tell them
go get your real ID because you can't fly without it.
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They're just not gonna let us take it. And I
don't want to have anybody show up at the airport
and say, well I don't have a real ID, you
can't use a passport. But the real idea is what
we'd really like to have every veteran. So if you
know a veteran, say have you got your real ID yet?
Go get it. And that's by the way, I think
it's different between I and I know I as to
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what you have to take and give them. So you've
got to call the driver's license bureau to find out
what you need. But the real idea is going to
become very important. We're just holding our breath that we
don't have any problems with that.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And while you're at it, as people are listening to
this today, for some people they could have a passport,
but it's out of date, so it certainly is a
good idea to always update those and make sure that
you're ready to go. And that would be the similar
thing if people want to volunteer and be a guardian,
you've got to make sure you get all this in
order because the day of is too late to be
doing some of this stuff. There's quite a lead time.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Certainly is it's hurry up and right in there. We'll
call you.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
It's going to be a busy year in twenty twenty
five because not just one flight or I would think
sometimes it would be two, but you've got three this year,
you got three.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So we're looking forward to doing that. There's good times.
Spring is hard to do in DC. They have a
very blossom festival and you can't hire a bus is
because all the buses are taking tours on the Turer
Bossom festival tours. So it's really difficult. So we do
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one kind of lateness bramelet in May and then we
do a couple in the fall, and that's that's beginning
to work out pretty well.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So the first couple of steps, what should our veterans
or our veterans families start to do outside of making
sure they get the real ID, also update the passport.
First couple of steps after.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
That, just get the application in first, and then what
we'll do is we take the guys who are before
nineteen seventy five, by the date that they applied. We'll
call them and we'll say are you available now? Since
we're going to have some people who may not be available.
We always call our things come up. So if we're
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going to take eighty people on the flight, we'll call
one hundred and say are you available. If that works out, well,
we'll send out a letter to room and then they'll
tell them all the details what they need to do,
what they need to bring, dates and times and all
that sort of stuff. But we will call them when
their turn comes up.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Guardians, first off, apply because there'll be some cost in
that too.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
There will be that helps pay for the airplane. It's
not keep during an airplane for a day. They all
of the guardians pay four hundred dollars to go. And
now I have got many guardians who have had such
a wonderful time that they have paid it three or
four times to go on flight. They just have a
great time. Some of them take pictures and make up
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those little picture books and give them to the veterans
after the flight's over. They're just so wonderful. Some of
them write veterans to their house for Thanksgiving dinner. I
mean it's just really really great. You mean, they make
a real, real good vacation and then a meeting of
new friends. We'll call them well ahead of time say
are you are you available? And we need extra guardians
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because a lot of people will work and that dayton
may not work for them. You know, if I want
a guardians, I better call one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
And when you talked about some of the veterans how
they've maybe told stories to some of their family, then
getting a chance to talk to some of the guardians,
I would still think Steve, that some of the veterans
still can be tight lips. Sometimes they're not going to talk,
and it's a great chance for that guardian to be
able to help that veteran come out of their shell.
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Like you said, you can maybe you can start a life,
even though it's a little bit later in life, you
can start a lifetime friendship with this flight.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It is that is probably one of the greater things
it comes out of the flight. I mean It's nice
for them to go and see the memorial, but to
really make a true friend that's going to you know,
meet them and talk to them, listen to their stories.
I mean, a guardian is going to spend a whole
day focusing in on that veteran a whole day. The
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last time I had somebody spend the whole day focusing
on me with my honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Hey wait a minute, Steve, Now let's stop getting too
personal on that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Okay, what it is, it's a day when somebody really
focuses in and there's questions and I want to hear
the story. Well what about this? Well what was that?
Who did you get love letters from while you were
in the service besides your wife? You know, I mean
those those questions. They have wonderful questions, and they get
and and what really happens. In many many cases, the
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guardian will say, now, don't forget, You've told me some
great stories, but you need to go back to your
family and tell them the stories. And some families say,
it's the first time we heard these stories after they
got back from the after they got back, so it's
a time when there's nobody to judge them. There if
anybody's or with these guardians who are eager to see them,
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they're just going to have a good time and they
can lie.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Well it's there, you know what, it's their therapeutic.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Well, they don't really lie, they just leave out parts
and stretch the others. You know, it's kind of like,
go effiicient.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Do the guardians just meet the veteran that they're on
just on the flight that day or is there a
little bit of lead time before the flight?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
There is ten days before we have a meeting for
all of the veterans and their guardians. They get a
chance to meet each other. We'll tell them a little
bit about this. We'll send the veterans home and then
we'll talk to guardians and we'll give them some training
things that they may not think about, things that they
have to do, you know, lots of little odds and
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ins that will teach them to help them have a
really wonderful day, help them with the question questions you
might want to ask. Remember, if they get a bottle
of water, you need to unscrew it because with arsritis.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well you think about this, if it's a veteran before
nineteen seventy five, So that probably means that veteran most
cases is in their seventies at least.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Now for people that are just tuning in, Steven Garrington,
hub director Honor Flight to the Quad Cities is talking
to us.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
They just need to go to our website, download their
application and we'll take care of it. They have a
good time, they really really Some of the guys come
back and say it's the best day of their whole
life other than their wedding. I mean, it's this is
a great, great time for them. They just really enjoy it.
And many of the guardians come back into the exact
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same thing.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, so Flight sixty two, we're still looking for veterans
to fill it, and we're also looking for guardians to
help out. They need their real ID. But the main
thing is fill out the application when you can find
it at the website when you do a little search
Honor Flight to the Quad Cities and you get right
to it. But we would certainly think volunteers or maybe
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people that are listening now just want to donate. How
can they do it?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Sure? Oh yes, again, there's a app address on the
website the check or drop it by Richcrest Village that's
where we have our office and they just put in
our mailbox. But that's always great and we do so
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much appreciate it. And a lot of other groups have
fundraisers and then they and then they say, hey, we
had a fundraiser and we're gonna give you the money.
Well that's swell. I mean, that's great. I love having
doing it. And we have people from way down in
southern Illinois. We have people over in Stirring and Rock
Falls and Dixon and people over and uh Alla up
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and down the river. We have lots of friends, lots
of groups that help. We had at school at uh Sabula,
Illinois just did a bicycle thing. Sinnus gave us the money.
I mean, it's wonderful. This is always say quad cities,
but we're the Quad city area. We go way out
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in the area. We just love it.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I would say instead of the quad city area, let's
just call it the quad City region because it's like
one big welcome at.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We actually have a veteran from Minnesota. His daughter lives
here in town. So he's going to drive dowf of Minnesota,
stay a couple of weeks with his daughter and son
in law and go on the flight.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Wow, that is SI great, It's fantastic. And again we're
talking to Stephen Garrington, hub director Honor Flight to the
Quad Cities. Stephen, as we wrap this up here today
because I still feel like we could talk another ten
to fifteen minutes on all the great things that are happening.
If people want to find out more as they get
ready for that first flight. There's going to be three
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this year, sixty two, sixty three, and sixty four. But
give us the date and how they can be a
part of this in one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Well, the date is May, May thirteenth, is a flight.
And of course if they and some people I can't
give with this time I can't go, that's fine. Come
out to the airport on that date. Will We'll have
a information out about that later, but it's May thirteen.
Come out about nine thirty ten o'clock that night and
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welcome the guys home. Say thank you to these deference
for their service. I mean, let them know how much
they're appreciated. That that is, if nothing else, that is
a great thing to do. Come out and say thank
you as they as they come home.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If you or your organization would like to be featured
on Quad City Forum, please visit the contact page in
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Speaker 5 (21:44):
We're getting a chance to talk to Carrie Fa and
it's a name that maybe you don't know. Her and
her husband Jonathan have done a great thing and when
we talk about we talked about it a few times
on the radio, but Heini Heroes and Carrie thanks again
for talking to us on the Quad City Forum today.
But when we talk about Heini Heroes, I saw it
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and I thought, I automatically thought, if this is an
organization that's been around forever, international or a national kind
of organization, we have a chapter here, but this all
started with you and Jonathan.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yes, yes, we have four kids and the youngest two
or twins, so they were about fifteen months.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Oh no, I'm just.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Realizing, like how much money we're spending on diapers every month,
And they're like, what do people do that? Can't you
know they don't have great paying jobs, that don't what
are they what's options for families that are really struggling
to make that one hundred two hundred dollars a month
just for diapers?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Right? And there's there's also issues and isn't there the
issue too that sometimes when you're trying to stretch it
out and if a child stays in a diaper a
little bit too long, that it can cause some health
problems alone.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Absolutely diaper wrath. Also you think about like a child
that's in a diaper too long is a crime more right?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
We know the babies that crime war are more susceptible
to abuse things like that, Like it's bad.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
So you and Jonathan out of it's really necessity. And
when you think about I mean twins, twins are fantastic,
but probably out of all of the highs and lows,
the least favorite thing for anybody to do, even if
it's just one child, is changing a diaper. And sometimes
you talk about the pressure of the expense, let alone
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feeding the child, but just the diapers, they're probably what
as the child grows, you're probably talking about ten to
twelve times a day they're changing diapers, and that can
get expensive really quick.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Absolutely one hundred a month. It's kind of average.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So as you and Jonathan are trying to survive changing
diapers of twins after already having two other children, when
did Heini hero how'd your first off coming up with
the name Heini? Is just that you weren't the ones
that came up with Heine, but there is something about, hey,
I want to help somebody with involved with Heine. I
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don't know why, but how did you come up with
the name and how did you get everything started? Because
you can't you could not have been doing this all
by yourself right.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Now, Well, we whenever we realized how much we were spending,
we got to wondering, like what people do. We kind
of did some research like what if people do that
can't afford enough diapers and they're not covered by SNAP,
not covered by WIT and so there aren't government safety nets,
and so we kind of let it lay there. We
were like, oh gosh, And then we found there's a
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diaper bank out of Guildsburg called Loving Bottoms, and so
kind of we're like, oh, there's something there that helps
people with diapers, but there's nothing here in our community,
and we kind of let it lay there. But my
husband like a week later, comes home and he's like,
what do you think of Heini Heroes? And I was like,
Heine what And he's like he's like, I just admitted
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paperwork to start a nonprofit to help people with ciphers,
And first off, I was like, is that how you
spell Heine?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Are you sure? And so that's how it started.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
He kind of jopped it in my lap a little bit,
but you know, we've always been kind of those people
that want to help others, and so it works out.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I think it's fantastic. Even though I love the organization
down in Geilsburg. Loving bottoms is great, but I think
you guys hit a home run. You hit a home
run with Heini heroes, and that's great. And one other
one of the articles and I've seen a few of them,
and this is your organization now has been how old
is it now? Happy birthday? How many years?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I think seven years?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Wow? Seven years after after surviving toilet training your twins
and you had said too, the good news out of
all of that was that they trained early, they came
out early.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
They did early. Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Okay, so yeah, winning the diaper lottery.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, And we're volunteer organization.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
We don't make any money. My husband and I both
have other jobs. This is our unpaid five gig I
like to call it.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
And you it's nice too that you have since we
have many diapers being changed on both sides of the river.
You have locations on both sides. But for people that
want to get involved, I think some people want to
go out right now and buy some diapers. Probably the
one thing to do now. There's a couple you could
donate money if you wanted to, but if you did
(26:40):
want to go get the diapers. It seems like the
newborns are great, but the kids are out of the
newborns so quickly, so probably the bigger sizes would be
the better way to go.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yes, for sure, babies tend to sail through like newborn
ones and twos, and they'll be in size three through
six for about a year to kind of stall out
in one. So three through six are definitely the ones
we need the most.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
A better way to go sometimes is since you're maybe
some people are listening right now. And by the way,
we're talking to Carrie Fa she and her husband Jonathan
came up with the incredible Heini heroes. It's just amazing,
how you must copy you better copyright that because I
think that's uh. I think you've you can make some
money on the on the side or moving down the
(27:26):
road on that, but they came up with the idea
of providing diapers for other parents that maybe, as we
all know, it's very expensive to try to buy diapers,
try to keep up with the as the kids go
through the diapers. But as you're going through this, if
people want to donate, how could they do maybe financially?
How can they just help you out by swiping a
(27:48):
cart or giving you a cash donation?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Yeah, for sure. If you go to our website it's
heiniheroes dot com and you sell heine h I n
e y hero.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
You and Jonathan have always you and Jonathan have already
double checked on how to spell okay. So again, where
do you Where do you go again to make the.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Donation himiheroes dot com okay And our address is also
on that site, so you can send us the check
if you prefer to you that.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
It sounds fantastic And you can't do any of this stuff.
I mean we've already talked about with your with both
of you holding down jobs, you have a lot of
partners that have helped out in the Quad City area.
So to say it's just Carrie and Jonathan doing it all,
It just started with your great idea that maybe was
inspired from Gailsburg. But you have a lot of partners
(28:39):
you probably want to thank to.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
We do.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
We do.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
We have wonderful partners that get our diapers into the
hands of families that are struggling. So they are kind
of the frontline.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
And even though we talk about a big push in
the month of May, this is something that will not
go away once we get into the month of June
and July and August and all year long. So again,
for people that want to help out, and we know
that we're going to see you all over the place.
You see me. Are you doing like a Quad City
TV tour right now? It seems like you're showing up
(29:09):
at all the TVs.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
You know a little bit.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
I hope, Well, you're getting the job, You're getting the
word out. No, they would never do that. But again,
if people want to help out with Heini Heroes and
all the great work that you and so many other
people are doing behind the scenes, donate or website to
find out more.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Is Heiniheroes dot com. And then we're also on Facebook
social media.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
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