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Kewanee Kiwanis Pancake Day is set for April 6th at the Kewanee United Methodist. Kiwanis Pancake Day is a tradition over 70 years and it continues to be the most important fundraiser of the year for Kewanee Kiwanis. Jolene Efnor and Samantha Rux joined Wake Up Tri-Counties this morning to talk about Pancake Day, what it means for the community, and how it helps kids learn about serving their community. This year, for $10.00, you can pick up, dine in, or drive thru for your Pancake Day breakfast, starting at 7 AM. 

The Boiler Shop is our brand new Kewanee sports show featuring the voice of the Kewanee Boilermakers, Russ Hughes. This week, Russ and Sean are talking about a historic moment in local basketball with both, Kewanee and Wethersfield seeking a new Head Basketball Coach. Recently Coach Matt Clark and Coach Tom McGunnigall, stepped down, resigning their positions as Coach of Kewanee and Wethersfield Head Basketball Coaches. Then Russ recounted the week that was in Kewanee Baseball, Softball, and Track. It's all part of The Boiler Shop every Friday at 8:40 AM on WKEI. 

The Director of the Kewanee Park District, Andrew Dwyer, joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to talk about upcoming events with the Kewanee Park District. These include weekend events for Easter and the upcoming sign up for Baseball. Last season, more than 350 kids played baseball with the Kewanee Park District and more are expected to play this year. Then, we closed our conversation with the Director of Kewanee Parks  by talking about the long term strategic plan for the Kewanee Park District which includes several improvements coming this year and several long term goals going beyond this year. Hear all about it in this conversation on Wake Up Tri-Counties. 

On Wednesday, March 20th, Kewanee Mayor Gary Moore joined WKEI in primetime to deliver the State of the City speech. 

The Kewanee Boilermakers went to the state playoffs in 1971 at a time when there weren't four different classes. The tournament encompassed the whole state and small teams played big teams in a time before the big teams became too big to compete with anything other than other big teams. The 1971 Kewanee Boilermakers played one exciting game after another, all broadcast on WKEI. Thanks to Kewanee Radio Legend, Larry Flannery, clips from those 1971 Kewanee basketball playoff run have been provided and are part of this edition of Kewanee Back When, our very own March Madness, Kewanee's 1971 Basketball Playoff Run.