Regional Media Podcast Network

The 2024 Miss World Festival Queens and Jeanna Moore joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to discuss why they joined the pageant and charity work. The Teddy Bear and Toy fundraiser is right around the corner, and the Miss World Festival Pageant wants to raise $10,000 for toys for the kids at the Children's Hospital in Peoria.  The pageant raised $8,000 for toys last year and wants this year to be even bigger. Help Miss World Festival Marissa Nelson, Junior Miss World Festival Mollie Parr, Little Miss World Festival Breckyn Granell, and Mini Miss World Festival Hensley Powell raise $10,000 to get toys and teddy bears for the children in a hospital over the holiday season.

Cassandra Schmoll joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to talk about the meal delivery program, Bingo, Chair Yoga, noon lunch on weekdays, Tuesday dinner, and Friday morning cinnamon rolls. The Labor Day breakfast is the second biggest fundraiser.  The golf outing raised $6,000 for the meal delivery program. 

RaeAnn Tucker from the Henry and Stark County Health Department joined Wake Up Tri-Counties with RaeAnn Tucker to talk about student immunizations and physicals, the upcoming flu season, and mosquitoes. 

Katie Laleman joins Wake Up Tri-Counties to talk about upcoming events for the Henry County Farm Bureau.

Senator Neil Anderson joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to talk about the 2024 Children's Safety Expo this weekend in Kewanee. Senator Neil Anderson and Representative Travis Weaver are hosting the 2024 Children's Safety Expo on August 17, 2024, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, at the Black Hawk College Educational Center on East 3rd Street in Kewanee.