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It's a full studio today as Sparks is joined by both Macomb Mayor Mike Inman and Savannah Ballard from the City of Macomb Marketing and Downtown Development Office to talk about the Small Business Competition Big Pitch event on Thursday, March 21st at Park Place in Macomb starting at 6:00 p.m.

It's all been building to this as the prospective business owners have been hard at work after attending the workshops, and now they'll making their pitches to a panel of experienced judges who will determine the three prize winners. 

For more information about the Small Business Competition, contact Savannah at sballard@cityofmacomb.com or call her at (309) 575-3015.

It's National Athletic Trainers Month and OSF Saint Luke Medical Center is celebrating one of their own in Emma Corkill, who joined Wake Up Tri-Counties on Monday, along with Samantha Rux, to talk about what an Athletic Trainer does and the role she plays at Kewanee High School in the sports department. Emma partners with Coaches and staff to teach student athletes about weight training, injury prevention, and, after an injury, how to train safely for a return to the field. Emma works year round with numerous student athletes and she talked about her experience this morning with Wake Up Tri-Counties. 

The new movie Imaginary is in theaters nationwide this weekend. The film follows a woman, played by DeWanda Wise,  and her new family who move to New Orleans to live in her childhood home. There, she finds a teddy bear from her childhood and gives it to her new stepdaughter. What the woman doesn't know is that the Teddy Bear is imbued with an angry spirit, eager to take revenge on his former owner by harming the little girl. Tom Payne co-stars in Imaginary as the new husband of DeWanda's Jessica, and he joined Wake Up Tri-Counties on Friday, March 8th, 2024, opening day in theaters for Imaginary, to talk about the movie, the horror genre, his time as Jesus on The Walking Dead, and his time working in theater.