Regional Media Podcast Network

When he's not busy as our Kewanee Police Chief, Nick Welgat is laser focused on his favorite pasttime, Baseball. This is the time of the year when the Chief really gets to indulge his passion for the game as the Tournament Director for the annual Nolan Keane Baseball Tournament in Kewanee. 69 teams, more than 700 players, and their families, are coming to Kewanee on Friday, June 16th, Saturday June17th, and Sunday June 18th for a baseball tournament. We talked with Kewanee Police Chief and Nolan Keane Tournament Director Nick Welgat about what goes into organizing Nolan Keane and why it remain so special to him 9 years after the tournament's inception.

Macomb Police Chief Jeff Hamer returns to the K-100 studio to provide some helpful safety tips that'll help keep you, your family, and your home safe this summer including keeping your doors locked and requesting to have your home added to the Macomb PD House Watch program. 

For more information on the House Watch program, contact the Macomb Police Department at (309) 833-4505.

Have you downloaded OSF My Chart? It's an app where you can access your medical information as you need it via your Smartphone. Samantha Rux from OSF Saint Luke Medical Center joined Wake Up Tri-Counties on Monday, June 12th, to talk about the many benefits of OSF My Chart, tracking your medical care, medications, and your family's medical care via the My Chart App. You can schedule your doctor visits, manage medications, and stay in contact with your care team via private direct messages in the My Chart App.

SAL Early Head Start is a service available to parents of children before they go into typical Head Start and Kindergarten. Angela Casteel with SAL Community Services in Moline joined Wake Up TriCounties to talk about the benefits of Early Head Start for soon to be mothers, new mothers and kids through the ages of 3 and 4 years old about to enter into Head Start and Kindergarten. Early Head Start helps with Health, Development, Education, Nutritional Services, and Social Services on a needs assessed basis.

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 Freddie Dobbs and Dick Reck, of Heartsfield, who will playing the Heritage Days Pepsi Main Stage on Friday, June 23rd from 9:15 to 10:30 p.m.

From their band description:

Heartsfield are known for their vocal harmonies and layers of rootsy instrumentation (characterized by accents of pedal steel, dobro, banjo, mandolin, dobro, etc.) and have been credited with influencing such monster '90s acts as The Dave Matthews Band and Phish. The group was also known for their grueling, Grateful Dead-like touring ethic, which saw them playing 300 shows a year throughout the '70s with the likes of Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller, Pure Prairie League, Joe Walsh, Willie Nelson among literally dozens more.

 

Over their decades of touring, the early years found them playing Macomb and Forgottonia on several occasions.

Aletta stopped in this morning to talk about school immunizations available.

Bridget Hinchee is in the studio to chat about some of the wonderful programs coming up at Argyle Lake State Park in June including:

Lake Exploration Pontoon Programs

MOST Fridays, June 9 - Nov 10, 2023

IDNR Free Fishing Days

June 16 - June 19, 2023

Youth Fishing Derby

Saturday, June 17 - 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Stargazing at the Park

Friday, June 23 - 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

"Arts In Nature" Painting Classes

Saturday, June 24 - 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

$20 program free

Materials will be provided

Registration limited to first 20 people

For more information on these or upcoming programs at Argyle Lake State Park, email [email protected] or call the park office at (309) 776-3422.

True Crime is coming to the Kewanee Public Library as Dave Clarke is joined by WKEi's very own Sean Kernan for Murder We Wrote, a presentation on Kewanee's True Crime cases. Dave and Sean presented Murder We Wrote on the Regional Media Podcast, Kewanee Back When earlier this year. Now, on June 20th, at 6 PM, Dave and Sean will take another look at the cases featured on Kewanee Back When including Sean's research into the still unsolved murder of Sandra Brown from August of 1978. That's one of many things the Kewanee Public Library has planned for the month of June. Plans that include continuing the Summer Reading Program and having a booth at this weekend's Pride Festival in Kewanee. Sara Billiet from the Kewanee Public Library was our guest on Wake Up Tri-Counties on Thursday morning.