Latest / WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio / Talk Line: What's New At Sauk Valley Community College
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning, Soalk Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
- 0:03Speaker 1: on FM ninety five to one and AM fourteen sixty
- 0:07Speaker 1: WI xcent. It's eight fifteen on your Thursday morning, and
- 0:10Speaker 1: that means it's time for talk line and I'm joining
- 0:13Speaker 1: the booth once again by our good friends from Sauk
- 0:15Speaker 1: Valley Community College, Jim grow Jim, how are you.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Morning, Brandon. I'm doing fantastic. It's it's nice outside and
- 0:21Speaker 2: it's not super windy, so it's a good day today.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Absolutely great day today. We were talking about just how
- 0:27Speaker 1: much we're over the wind.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like we were talking. It feels like
- 0:31Speaker 2: Ireland here and I've never been to Ireland, but I
- 0:33Speaker 2: imagine this is what it's like.
- 0:35Speaker 1: So it's absolutely you know when you get a taste
- 0:37Speaker 1: in your mouth, like I think this would taste like that. Yeah,
- 0:39Speaker 1: this is I agree with you. I haven't been always
- 0:41Speaker 1: wanted to go. Yeah, but yeah, this is exactly what
- 0:43Speaker 1: I think Ireland is like all the time.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready for and I'm actually I'm more of
- 0:48Speaker 2: a cold person. I kind of like winters a little bit,
- 0:50Speaker 2: but I'm actually ready for some summer. So yeah, hopefully
- 0:54Speaker 2: that starts coming around here pretty soon.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Yes, yes, bring the warmth, save the humidity.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Yeah right exactly.
- 1:01Speaker 1: But speaking of things warming up, SAUC has some great
- 1:05Speaker 1: classes that are going to be starting, going to be
- 1:07Speaker 1: butting like the flowers.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we have some classes coming up. The first
- 1:11Speaker 2: one I want to talk about is our Industrial Maintenance
- 1:13Speaker 2: Boot Camp, and that focuses on mechanical systems, fundamentals of electricity,
- 1:18Speaker 2: electrical controls, and programmable logic controllers. Say that three times
- 1:23Speaker 2: really fast. But this camp is designed for individuals with
- 1:26Speaker 2: basic understanding of those concepts and offers a practical experience
- 1:30Speaker 2: and installation alignment and troubleshooting. So and that courses. They'll
- 1:34Speaker 2: start May eighteenth. So start May. It's a four day
- 1:38Speaker 2: it's a four session from eight o'clock to eleven thirty,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but starts Monday, May eighteenth. And just check out our
- 1:44Speaker 2: website just search Industrial Maintenance boot and Camp. It just
- 1:47Speaker 2: kind of gets you that basic knowledge to kind of
- 1:49Speaker 2: learn how some of these machines work and that kind
- 1:51Speaker 2: of stuff and in a lot of the industry and
- 1:54Speaker 2: that kind of stuff and kind of helps you with
- 1:56Speaker 2: you know, doing that kind of job. So check thats
- 1:59Speaker 2: just a four day camp or four day boot camp, so.
- 2:03Speaker 3: We've got that.
- 2:03Speaker 2: We also have em T Basic Program. These are informational
- 2:08Speaker 2: sessions on what it's like to be an EMT and
- 2:11Speaker 2: meet the instructors and that kind of stuff. So the
- 2:14Speaker 2: MT Basic Program for students to learn train for the workforce,
- 2:18Speaker 2: learn about the program, and meet the instructors at our
- 2:20Speaker 2: em T Basics Program information centers and we have two
- 2:24Speaker 2: of those going on this summer, so May twenty seventh
- 2:27Speaker 2: and July seventh, and those are just an hour long,
- 2:30Speaker 2: but it's basically just to get information on what it's
- 2:33Speaker 2: like to you know, do that and do that EMT.
- 2:35Speaker 1: I mean that's important. Oh yeah, yeah, this is This
- 2:38Speaker 1: isn't really thing to be glossed over. Like so many
- 2:41Speaker 1: people when they think of a career or what they
- 2:43Speaker 1: want to do or you're going to change to you
- 2:45Speaker 1: have an idea in your head, but you don't really
- 2:47Speaker 1: know until you're actually immersed in it and when you're
- 2:50Speaker 1: going to continue your education, like you should probably do
- 2:53Speaker 1: enough research, find something as close to this as you
- 2:55Speaker 1: can get. If you can't get this, thankfully you guys
- 2:58Speaker 1: have this for this, but that what you'll kind of
- 3:01Speaker 1: know by the end of it like oh.
- 3:02Speaker 4: Like yeah, yeah, this is something where I can tell
- 3:07Speaker 4: you like I would not be good at this, but
- 3:09Speaker 4: this is either I feel like there's one of those
- 3:11Speaker 4: commercials where it's like, you know, need a new job
- 3:13Speaker 4: where a guy comes out at a car crash and
- 3:15Speaker 4: passes out.
- 3:16Speaker 3: That would be me. But this amt basic class. It is.
- 3:19Speaker 2: It's a stepping stone to find out is this what
- 3:22Speaker 2: you really want to get into?
- 3:23Speaker 3: You know?
- 3:23Speaker 2: And I think you have to do this kind of
- 3:25Speaker 2: stuff to be you know, an ambulance and get in
- 3:27Speaker 2: the healthcare system and that kind of stuff. Sorry, it's
- 3:29Speaker 2: a great way to find out is this the kind
- 3:31Speaker 2: of work I work force I want to get into.
- 3:34Speaker 1: I'd like to see more of these. I hope you
- 3:35Speaker 1: guys get more of these for a whole bunch of
- 3:37Speaker 1: different things. I think this is super important.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Yes, yes it is.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Yeah, these these things, You're right, these things are fantastic,
- 3:44Speaker 2: and we do and Brenda and Kathy in our in
- 3:47Speaker 2: our community ed area, they're they're in charge of getting
- 3:51Speaker 2: these things and they do such a great job of
- 3:52Speaker 2: lining up all these different classes. And we're always always
- 3:55Speaker 2: researching to say what is the need out there. We're
- 3:57Speaker 2: always talking to industry, talking to the hospitals and whatever
- 4:00Speaker 2: it may be to find out what do you guys need.
- 4:02Speaker 2: And that's what it is fun working at SOK two
- 4:06Speaker 2: to kind of see how those things happen, and just
- 4:10Speaker 2: all the networking that we do. It's not just stuff
- 4:12Speaker 2: that we just kind of pull out of a hat
- 4:14Speaker 2: and say let's do this, like you know, we we
- 4:16Speaker 2: ask around, we talk and say what's needed, and then
- 4:17Speaker 2: we come up with programs like this. So yeah, it's exciting,
- 4:20Speaker 2: it's exciting. And then now we've got I want to
- 4:23Speaker 2: talk about a couple of trips. Well, one is a
- 4:26Speaker 2: is a trip preview, and that's for the Rhine and
- 4:29Speaker 2: Moselle rivers and that's these are This is a preview trip.
- 4:34Speaker 2: It's a free trip preview and that's on June third, Wednesday,
- 4:38Speaker 2: June third, from six to seven, and you'll learn about
- 4:41Speaker 2: like what that trip is gonna include, so it's it's
- 4:44Speaker 2: just a it's a leisure lead journey to the Netherlands,
- 4:47Speaker 2: Germany and France. And then you'll join an expert, a
- 4:50Speaker 2: local expert of a tour of Amsterdam, so you'll learn
- 4:53Speaker 2: everything you need to know about this trip. This preview trip,
- 4:57Speaker 2: and that's preview is again June third, from six to seven.
- 5:01Speaker 3: And then the last NAST trip we.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Have coming up that I want to talk about, and
- 5:05Speaker 2: this one's not until August. But this one sells out
- 5:08Speaker 2: quickly because the last time we offered this, I think
- 5:10Speaker 2: they sold They said it sold out within a couple
- 5:12Speaker 2: of weeks. So, but this is a Lake Michigan lunch cruise,
- 5:16Speaker 2: so two hour journey featuring the best views of Chicago's
- 5:18Speaker 2: skyline includes a lunch buffet as you're cruising long Lake Michigan.
- 5:24Speaker 2: And this the way we always do our trips. You
- 5:27Speaker 2: head over to Sock, you hop on a nice charter bus,
- 5:30Speaker 2: we take you downtown Chicago and then you'll get on
- 5:32Speaker 2: the cruise, a cruise around Chicago for a little while.
- 5:36Speaker 2: But this trip is limited just to fifty participants and
- 5:39Speaker 2: it can be from ages thirteen and up. And that
- 5:42Speaker 2: trip is August twenty seventh from you know, you leave
- 5:46Speaker 2: SoC at eight thirty and you get back around seven thirty.
- 5:49Speaker 2: They take out to Navy per that kind of you know,
- 5:51Speaker 2: that's where they meet the ship and that kind of stuff.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And it's one hundred and twenty nine dollars a person.
- 5:54Speaker 3: For that trip.
- 5:55Speaker 2: But I was told that this this trip sold out
- 5:58Speaker 2: very quick last time, and this was just kind of
- 5:59Speaker 2: brought up recently to us to say, hey, we're going
- 6:01Speaker 2: to do this again. So so I just wanted to
- 6:04Speaker 2: talk about that Lake Michigan lunch cruise.
- 6:07Speaker 1: I could see why this fills up so quick. My
- 6:08Speaker 1: wife and I have actually been on several of these
- 6:11Speaker 1: Chicago cruises. I love the architecture one done the Lake Michigan.
- 6:15Speaker 1: It's absolutely it's worth it. It is beautiful, it's a
- 6:18Speaker 1: fun experience. We've done some of them more than once,
- 6:21Speaker 1: bringing our kids back and knowing we weren't going to
- 6:24Speaker 1: be bored a second time because it's it's just it's beautiful.
- 6:27Speaker 2: It's such a cool city. Yeah, It's like I've been
- 6:29Speaker 2: to a lot of cities around this country. In Chicago
- 6:31Speaker 2: is just a neat looking city. And to have the
- 6:34Speaker 2: lake there, which is phenomenal, which I've heard people come,
- 6:37Speaker 2: you know who come to Chicago who are not people
- 6:40Speaker 2: from other countries and they think they're at the ocean.
- 6:43Speaker 2: I don't realize how big of a lake that is. Yeah,
- 6:46Speaker 2: but yeah, no, Chicago's a beautiful city. And I've been
- 6:48Speaker 2: on one of those lake cruises a long time ago,
- 6:50Speaker 2: and it was at night too, and it was just
- 6:52Speaker 2: for us.
- 6:52Speaker 1: That was the first one we did was at night.
- 6:55Speaker 1: And you know, the only bad thing I could say
- 6:56Speaker 1: about it is I had to drive, I had to
- 6:59Speaker 1: pay for and I had to deal with Chicago parking.
- 7:02Speaker 1: You guys are putting folks on a charter bus. I
- 7:05Speaker 1: remember going on charter buses for some field trips and
- 7:07Speaker 1: I felt like a big boy because you were, Yeah.
- 7:11Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about you.
- 7:13Speaker 1: You don't got to worry about traffic. You can sit
- 7:15Speaker 1: back and relax. This is this is worth it. I
- 7:17Speaker 1: cannot recommend this more folks.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Oh yeah, these cruises are They are fantastic. So and well,
- 7:22Speaker 2: coming up, we have finals there next week for students,
- 7:25Speaker 2: so we're coming to the end of.
- 7:26Speaker 3: The school year.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So excited about that, although you know, we'll have our
- 7:29Speaker 2: commencement ceremony next Friday. But sad to see students go.
- 7:34Speaker 2: It's it's hard. That's the hard thing with working at
- 7:36Speaker 2: the college is you only get a lot of these
- 7:39Speaker 2: students for two years. I mean some some you know,
- 7:41Speaker 2: go on a little bit longer in that kind of stuff.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Some of our nursing programs take three years and that
- 7:44Speaker 2: kind of thing. But you know, you only get you
- 7:47Speaker 2: get to know these students a little bit their first year,
- 7:49Speaker 2: and then you really get to know them their sophomore year,
- 7:51Speaker 2: and then they're gone and then so it's kind of
- 7:53Speaker 2: it's a it's a happy and sad, you know, time
- 7:56Speaker 2: of year where it's like we're excited to see these
- 7:58Speaker 2: students move on, and but we have commencement next week
- 8:00Speaker 2: and then the summer we'll we'll quiet down around campus
- 8:03Speaker 2: and so but it's it's a good it's a fun
- 8:06Speaker 2: time of year. But then starting after commencement next weekend,
- 8:10Speaker 2: starting on Fridays, we are we're closed. The college campus
- 8:13Speaker 2: is closed. We do longer days Monday through Thursday, but
- 8:16Speaker 2: then the campus is closed on Friday. So if you're,
- 8:18Speaker 2: you know, looking to register for classes or anything like
- 8:20Speaker 2: that for the summer or the fall, just remember that
- 8:23Speaker 2: we're not open on Fridays after starting May twenty second,
- 8:28Speaker 2: But there is you can still sign up for classes.
- 8:30Speaker 2: And that's the important thing I want to talk about.
- 8:31Speaker 2: And we've had we've had I talked to our admissions
- 8:35Speaker 2: just earlier this week, and it's been very busy, like
- 8:38Speaker 2: there we have it's which is great. They're kind of
- 8:41Speaker 2: they're like we're swamped. We're swamped or swamped, which is
- 8:43Speaker 2: always a good thing for us. It's you know, we
- 8:45Speaker 2: want to see lots of students coming on campus and
- 8:47Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So, but it is you got
- 8:49Speaker 2: to register for classes now because they fill up, and
- 8:52Speaker 2: so then it's harder to get into some.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Of those things.
- 8:54Speaker 2: But especially if you're those impact students, you know, if
- 8:57Speaker 2: you're if you're on that deciding what you know, if
- 9:00Speaker 2: you want to go to college or whatever, and you
- 9:02Speaker 2: remember you can use your Impacts hours to go into
- 9:05Speaker 2: the welding program, to go into any of our career
- 9:08Speaker 2: technical education things, so you don't have to go to
- 9:10Speaker 2: you know, two year associate's degree. You can do these
- 9:13Speaker 2: eight sixteen week certificate courses and the Impact Program pays
- 9:16Speaker 2: for that.
- 9:17Speaker 1: So that's an extra piece of information. I've I love
- 9:21Speaker 1: your Guys' Impact Program. I tell people about it any
- 9:24Speaker 1: chance I get because it's fantastic. The way that it's
- 9:27Speaker 1: grown and spreading like wildfire through our communities. To get
- 9:30Speaker 1: these funded for kids has been an incredible but I
- 9:35Speaker 1: did not know that you could use it for those programs.
- 9:38Speaker 1: I'm going to start letting people know that too.
- 9:40Speaker 3: So it's not just getting thanks for sharing that.
- 9:42Speaker 2: No, yeah, absolutely, and so those you know, for those
- 9:44Speaker 2: students who sit there and go that college is not
- 9:46Speaker 2: for me, Well, these certificate programs might be for you.
- 9:49Speaker 2: And so yeah, trade the thing start of that exactly,
- 9:52Speaker 2: and so use those impact hours, you know, to get that,
- 9:55Speaker 2: get it all covered, get those classes covered. And the
- 9:58Speaker 2: thing that a lot of students don't realize is that
- 10:00Speaker 2: if you did this impact program, you do have to
- 10:04Speaker 2: sign up for classes by at least by springtime. So
- 10:08Speaker 2: you get you get one semester to kind of think
- 10:10Speaker 2: about things. But you know, if you're if you're even
- 10:13Speaker 2: on that fence, just sign up, Just sign up and
- 10:15Speaker 2: do it, because I don't.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Want you to lose that.
- 10:17Speaker 2: You know, those hours that you put in, and we
- 10:19Speaker 2: do these you put these guidelines in there for the
- 10:21Speaker 2: e fact of you want students to keep progressing, keep progressing,
- 10:25Speaker 2: and so having these rules in there, get themselves. They
- 10:28Speaker 2: just don't stop. It's like we got to keep you moving,
- 10:30Speaker 2: keep you moving, because once you stop it's hard to
- 10:32Speaker 2: get back going again. Yeah, and so yeah, no, you
- 10:35Speaker 2: can totally use impact hours for that.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Yeah, especially younger kids the first time they're you know,
- 10:40Speaker 1: they're finally to a point in their life where they
- 10:42Speaker 1: don't have to go to school if they don't want to,
- 10:44Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like this is a choice, Like, yes,
- 10:46Speaker 1: it's better to just jump right in. Yeah, keep that
- 10:49Speaker 1: momentum going. And so like my oldest when he first
- 10:51Speaker 1: started college, like and you know, got him to be like, Okay,
- 10:54Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. And then you know, he
- 10:56Speaker 1: comes to me at one point and he's like, well
- 10:57Speaker 1: I'm still not really sure what I'm going to do.
- 10:59Speaker 1: And I'm like, everybody's got gen eds they have to
- 11:01Speaker 1: do no matter what they do. I said, so start there, Yeah,
- 11:04Speaker 1: start researching, start having conversations, and you you will find your.
- 11:09Speaker 2: When SOCC is the best place to do that, It
- 11:11Speaker 2: really is, Oh my goodness, if you don't. My daughter
- 11:14Speaker 2: is one of those. It's it's she didn't know what
- 11:16Speaker 2: she wanted to do, and it's like you're going to
- 11:18Speaker 2: go to SoC because and you figure things out, and
- 11:20Speaker 2: she did. It's it took her a year and a
- 11:22Speaker 2: half and then all of a sudden it clicked and
- 11:24Speaker 2: it's like, oh, this is what I'm going to do.
- 11:25Speaker 2: So soccer is the best place to still continue that
- 11:29Speaker 2: education and continuing, like you said, get those gen eds
- 11:31Speaker 2: done and things like that. Or come and talk to
- 11:33Speaker 2: an advisor and just say like, I don't know what
- 11:35Speaker 2: I want to do in life. Yeah, and they'll walk
- 11:37Speaker 2: you through. They'll they'll say what are your interests. They'll
- 11:39Speaker 2: help you out and they'll say, here's all these different things.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Do any of them interest you. And again, if you're
- 11:44Speaker 2: an impact student, it's why not just do it? Just
- 11:47Speaker 2: jump in and try something.
- 11:48Speaker 1: And your professors are going to approach you. So I mean,
- 11:51Speaker 1: it's not just lip service. For me. I went to
- 11:53Speaker 1: SoC and I the reason I'm here talking to you
- 11:56Speaker 1: in the booth is because I went to sock and
- 11:59Speaker 1: I didn't even originally go for media.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:02Speaker 1: I went to go for physical therapy, right yeah, And
- 12:05Speaker 1: didn't you know it wasn't a passionate thing, but it
- 12:07Speaker 1: seemed like a natural extension at the time.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Nobody knows what they want to do, right, you know.
- 12:11Speaker 1: But I thought, I'm like, this is what I'm deciding,
- 12:13Speaker 1: So I did have a track. It was a professor,
- 12:16Speaker 1: one of my uh, one of my writing professors, was like,
- 12:18Speaker 1: I really think you should do something with writing. Yeah,
- 12:21Speaker 1: and I thought at the time, you know, not rudely,
- 12:23Speaker 1: but I was like, well, I'm not Stephen King, So.
- 12:25Speaker 3: How are we going to How am I going to
- 12:26Speaker 3: make a living with that? Right?
- 12:27Speaker 1: That led to journalism, the college radio and me wanting
- 12:30Speaker 1: to come back and here I am.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Those journeys are so and it's all things to suck.
- 12:34Speaker 1: So yes, I agree with you. I tell everybody like,
- 12:37Speaker 1: just get started.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Just yeah, do something right. Yeah, something right, And it's
- 12:41Speaker 2: and don't I just want to remind people that, you know,
- 12:44Speaker 2: Impact sign up is going on right now. So for
- 12:47Speaker 2: eighth graders going into your freshman year of high school,
- 12:49Speaker 2: it is now is the time to sign up because
- 12:51Speaker 2: you can start working on those hours in the summertime
- 12:54Speaker 2: and they're so much easier to get done in the summertime.
- 12:56Speaker 2: So sign up for Impact now is open. It opened
- 12:59Speaker 2: on April first, and he goes till September first, but
- 13:02Speaker 2: do it now so you can do those hours over
- 13:05Speaker 2: the summertime. So but yeah, it's exciting times around campus
- 13:09Speaker 2: and exciting times one little sad bit is, you know,
- 13:12Speaker 2: seeing doctor David Helmick leaving. You know, this is his
- 13:15Speaker 2: last month at Sock and so we are we're sad
- 13:20Speaker 2: to see him go. I've been there for about four
- 13:22Speaker 2: years now, so almost half of the time that he's
- 13:24Speaker 2: been around, and he's been absolutely fantastic to have around.
- 13:27Speaker 2: So if you see him around the community, and he'll
- 13:29Speaker 2: be greatly missed in the community because he is moving
- 13:31Speaker 2: to Minnesota. That's where his grandkids are.
- 13:33Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
- 13:33Speaker 1: I know that was sad enough.
- 13:36Speaker 2: And so I'm sure people are wondering, It's like, you know,
- 13:38Speaker 2: why is he leaving? Well, he's They love David, Linda
- 13:41Speaker 2: love absolutely love this area. They love the Sock Valley area,
- 13:44Speaker 2: and if it weren't for grandkids, they would be staying here.
- 13:47Speaker 2: But grandkids are pulling them away to Minnesota.
- 13:49Speaker 1: So I don't blame him. Not there yet but moving
- 13:52Speaker 1: ever closer at forty three this year, so I get it.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I would make the same move.
- 13:57Speaker 2: So if you see him around town, tell him congratulations
- 13:59Speaker 2: and retirement, because yeah, he'll he'll be d hudding.
- 14:02Speaker 1: North absolutely, Dave, congrats, enjoy retirement, man, enjoy those grandkids.
- 14:08Speaker 1: I'm so happy to hear this for you, Jim. If
- 14:10Speaker 1: anybody wants any more information on what we talked about today,
- 14:13Speaker 1: because we're about out of time, where can they go
- 14:14Speaker 1: to get that?
- 14:15Speaker 2: Obviously, always go to our SBCC dot edu and just
- 14:20Speaker 2: hit our search button and you'll be able to look
- 14:21Speaker 2: up that Industrial boot Camp. You'll be able to look
- 14:23Speaker 2: up these trips. You can just type in trips in
- 14:25Speaker 2: that search bar and you'll be able to find anything
- 14:27Speaker 2: you need.
- 14:27Speaker 1: So absolutely hop online, find out better yet stop in there.
- 14:31Speaker 3: They will tell you through it.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Jim, thank you so much for coming on the show.