Regional Media Podcast Network

Mary Jean Derreberry, CGH Director of Nursing Professional Development and Stephanie Waller, RN, CGH Digestive Health Services and DAISY Award Coordinator talk about the wonderful nurses at CGH during Nurses Week.

To nominate your nurse (RN, LPN, Nurse Practitioner) for a Daisy Award, please go to cghmc.com/daisy to fill out an online nomination form.

In our final Good News Segment of the school year with our Kewanee third grade students, we were told a story about being fully prepared for a camping trip. Thank you to Averie Taylor and Victoria Weber for reminding us all to be prepared for our summer camping trips in today's Good News Spotlight.

This Saturday, May 13th, 2023, the City of Kewanee will host the Kewanee Citywide Cleanup. The event will take place from 7 AM to 11 AM on Saturday at the former Kewanee Hospital site on Elliott Street in Kewanee. Anyone participating in the Kewanee Citywide Clean-Up must be a Kewanee resident and have a proof of residency, an ID and a Utility Bill that shows you reside in Kewanee. All vehicles must be hand unloadable. This means that your items can be moved easily and quickly from your vehicle to the dumpsters on site. No electronic waste, no toxic materials, no wet paint or motor oil will be accepted during the Clean-Up. Construction waste will also not be accepted though some items will be accepted, large amounts of construction waste will be turned away from the Clean-Up area. Volunteers are needed to help move the crowd through the area of the Clean-Up as quickly as possible.

The Kewanee Salvation Army will play host to an Epilepsy Support Group on Wednesday, May 10th at 5 PM. Eddie Tolliver with the Kewanee Salvation Army and Stephanie Harcharik joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to invite the community to the Epilepsy Support Group. If you are someone dealing with Epilepsy or someone who cares for someone with Epilepsy, you are welcome to be part of Wednesday evening's meeting. There you will find a supportive group and here about the various kinds of support available for people with Epilepsy and their caregivers. This is free to the public.

Sparks chats with Chris Adams from the McDonough County Health Department about National Drinking Water Week, which runs May 7th through May 13th and seeks to bring attention to the quality of rural and municipal drinking water quality. 

During this week, the McDonough County Groundwater Protection Education Committee (MCGPEC) will be distributing free water testing kits at the Farm King in Macomb on Monday from 8a to 12p, Tuesday from 12p to 4p, and Wednesday from 8p to 12p. Kits will also be available at the McDonough County Health Department Monday through Wednesday from 7:30a to 12p. 

For more information about water well testing, call the McDonough County Health Department at (309) 837-9951.

What happens when a utility pole needs to be replaced? Brian Bretsch from Ameren Illinois joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to answer some questions about what Ameren does with utility poles that are damaged, broken, or simply aged out of safe use. If you've ever wondered what Ameren does with Utility Poles or where Poles come from, what kind of wood are they made from, and how many poles are made and recycled each year.

Representative Fritts stopped by this morning on his way to Springfield. We talked about the budget session stating today, the ComEd outcome, and the announcement of The Summer Tour.

The annual Letter Carrier Food Drive is set for Saturday, May 13th, 2023. That day, if you'd like to donate money to the Kewanee Food Pantry, all you need to do is leave a bag or box of non-perishable food items outside along with your mail that Saturday. Letter carriers and their assistants will be picked up and taken directly to the Kewanee Food Pantry. Lisa Janey from the Kewanee Food Pantry joined Wake Up Tri-Counties on Friday to talk about the Letter Carriers Food Drive and to share a brief thank you and remembrance of Bud Johnson, the late Wanee Cinemas owner who made donating to the Food Pantry a central focus of his charitable efforts during the pandemic.

Dr. Ian Smith has a new book all about the Met-Flex Diet. Metabolic Flexibility is a key component of weight loss at any age. Dr. Ian Smith has a new diet that he calls The Met-Flex Diet that is aiming to aid Metabolic Flexibility. Dr. Ian believes, and has research to back up his claim, that Metabolic Inflexibility is why so many people struggle to lose weight. If you could get your metabolism working, losing weight gets a little easier. However, if you have developed inflexibility in your metabolism, you will struggle to lose weight. A diet that aims to fire up your metabolism, moving it from inflexible to flexible, is at the heart of the Met-Flex Diet. Dr. Ian Smith was our guest on Wake Up Tri-Counties on Friday.