Regional Media Podcast Network

The OSF Saint Luke Medical Center Innovation Hub is up and running and officials at OSF say that the hub is already beginning to pay off. The OSF Innovation Hub has honored the first big approved project brought forward by the Innovation Hub. Brenda Streit from OSF has received the Trail Blazer Award for her idea for bringing High School kids into the Innovation Hub to learn about the job possibilities within OSF Saint Luke Medical Center. As Brenda Streit and Lori Christenson from OSF explained the project they are working on and the several runner-up projects that will also be part of the Innovation Hub in the future.

Garry Peterson is a founding member of the legendary rock band, The Guess Who. Best known for hits like These Eyes, No Sugar Tonight, and the iconic American Woman, The Guess Who are still around today, still touring and still recording new music. The newest The Guess Who record is called Plein D'Amour, and the band is hitting the road starting this week, Wednesday, Jnue 28th, 2023. Garry Peterson tells RegionalMediaNews.com all about the new record, reflects on the iconic history of the band, and talks about being back on the road again.

Every Friday in June leading up to Heritage Days, K-100 is showcasing the bands performing on the Pepsi Main Stage and giving you the chance to preview their music before showtime.

This week Sparks chats with Naomi Ashley and Ralph Baumel of Real Pretenders, who will playing the Heritage Days Pepsi Main Stage on Saturday, June 24th from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.

From their band description:

Real Pretenders are four Chicago music scene veterans with a passion for the hard-driving rhythms, catchy melodic hooks, soul-tortured lyrics, and back alley sex appeal that characterize the music of Chrissie Hyde & the Pretenders.

 

They aren’t a costume act; they don’t play the original members of the band as characters. Instead, these established players, with audiences of their own, have come together to thread the musical needle between faithfully rendering the Pretender’s sound and joyfully harnessing these timeless and lustful pop rock gems as a means to expressing their own musical identity.

 

Not only do they take on both the band’s classics and deep cuts, they also offer a new take on songs covered by the Pretenders, as well as those that perhaps might have been. Real Pretenders aren’t simply a tribute to the music of the Pretenders, they are a tribute to their essential spirit.

Kewanee City Councilman Steve Faber is in the fight of his life. Next week, following Monday's Kewanee City Council Meeting, a meeting he will lead in place of Mayor Gary Moore, Councilman Faber will travel to Northwestern Medical Center where he will undergo a double lung transplant. It's a rare and complicated procedure. It may also include a heart transplant if issues with Mr. Faber's heart emerge in the process of replacing his lungs. Regardless of these challenges however, Councilman Faber is putting his best foot forward. He wants Kewanee to know that you can still call on him as a Councilman and ask for his help. He's only planning to miss two Kewanee City Council Meetings while recovering from surgery and plans to return via Zoom as soon as doctors allow. The bottom line, he's not planning on going anywhere as a City Leader. If you'd like to help Councilman Faber with what will be a large amount of bills following his surgery, his friends have started a GoFundMe campaign on his behalf. Councilman Faber talked all about his challenges on Thursday's Wake Up Tri-Counties.

Sara Billiet from the Kewanee Public Library was our guest on Wake Up Tri-Counties on Thursday, June 22nd. Sara joined WKEI to talk about the ongoing success of the Summer Reading Program and how you can still get involved. Sara also discussed several upcoming events at the Kewanee Public Library heading into the month of July. Events on Mindfulness as well as Yoga for Parents and Kids are part of the upcoming schedule at the Kewanee Public Library. You can hear all about it in our conversation with Sara Billiet from the Kewanee Public Library.

Greg talks about how the South Main Corridor project, Trail Project, and other city projects in the near and not so near future.  Listen to the interview here!

Carolyn Spencer, Campaign Coordinator, Northern Illinois Cancer Treatment Center, to talk about “Renewing Hope for Tomorrow” Northern Illinois Cancer Treatment Center Campaign to Advance Local Cancer Care.

For more information on Renewing Hope For Tomorrow visit nicancer.com/renewinghope

To make a donation, please send a check to Northern Illinois Cancer Treatment Center, 327 IL-2, Dixon, IL 61021 or call us at 815.284-1111.

On the 4th of July, 2023, a Kewanee tradition will resume. The tractor show at a Francis Park in Kewanee is back and part of it will include a tractor drive through Kewanee organized by FFA Alumni members, Brett Bennett and Mark Rose. With that in mind, Dave Clarke came up with the idea to take a look back at Tractor collecting with a man who has a lengthy and deep knowledge of the subject. For more than a few decades, Dr. Marshall Martin, a Professor at Purdue University, who grew up not far from Kewanee, not far from Dave Clarke in fact, has collected and restored tractors. He's been part of numerous tractor shows over the years with plans to soon be in Rantoul, Illinois for one of the biggest tractor shows in the state of Illinois. Dr. Marshall Martin reflects on the history of collecting tractors on this edition of Kewanee Back When...