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Talk-Line: Tarah Ziegler, Ogle County Public Health Nurse · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Monday, It's
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  Speaker 1: February ten, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of talk Line here at
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  Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five to one WIXN. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Marco. It is time to talk to our
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  Speaker 1: friends from the Ogle County Health Department. News and Information
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  Speaker 1: bi monthly that we get with our friends north of
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  Speaker 1: the border, and we go to the Ogle County Health
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  Speaker 1: Department today and talk with a representative who has been
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  Speaker 1: a board with us before. She has graced our earwaves before,
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  Speaker 1: and she is back with us for a look at
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting activity coming up through the Ogle County
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  Speaker 1: Health Department. Public health nurse with the Ogle County Health Department,
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  Speaker 1: Tarah Zigler, is live with us this morning here at
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  Speaker 1: wix IN by telephone. Tara, good morning, Good to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. Thanks for joining us today. Always appreciate
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  Speaker 1: a visit from the Ogle County Health Department. And as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned up front, Tara, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a very interesting activity that the Ogle County Health Department
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  Speaker 1: is sponsoring. And I believe we if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: you and I talked about this briefly the last time
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  Speaker 1: that you were with us, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we did. We touched on it very briefly.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, But now we are moving closer to this activity
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  Speaker 1: taking place, so we are taking center stage with this activity.
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  Speaker 1: Tara wants to really kind of take the wraps off
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  Speaker 1: of it for you today, tell you what it's all
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  Speaker 1: about and how you can participate in a community baby shower.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Tara today? Yes, community baby shower?
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, well, first of all, community baby shower.
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  Speaker 1: Now how does how does this? How does this work?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, how's the Ooga County Health Department putting
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  Speaker 1: this together? I mean, take the wraps, tell us all
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  Speaker 1: about this now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this will actually be the third time that
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  Speaker 2: we have hosted an event like this, and as with
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  Speaker 2: most traditional baby showers, the whole idea is to be
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  Speaker 2: able to provide new families with the supplies that they
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  Speaker 2: need for their new edition and their family. So we
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  Speaker 2: are taking it upon ourselves of collecting all all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of different products for both moms and babies so that
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  Speaker 2: anybody in the community that might be in need of
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  Speaker 2: those products is welcome to get them for for completely free.
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  Speaker 2: So we are collecting all sorts of different donations to
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  Speaker 2: have diapers, white, a ton of baby clothes, maternity products,
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  Speaker 2: care products, anything that you would normally gift to an
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  Speaker 2: expecting family or maybe somebody who recently had a baby.
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  Speaker 2: All of those types of products are going to be
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  Speaker 2: at this event for anybody who wants to attend.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think I think it's great. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's I think it's wonderful that you guys are doing this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let's face it, you know, costs of things
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  Speaker 1: have gone up, uh, you know, and and things are
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  Speaker 1: not as inexpensive as they were before raising a family today,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with with what you need, Tara, I believe right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll agree or not, but it
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  Speaker 1: you know, you've seen it, you you you know, with
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  Speaker 1: your experience, you know, as a public health nurse with
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  Speaker 1: the old County Health Department, you've probably seen you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rising. And it's getting tougher to raise families, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It is? Yeah, The cost of you know, just the
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  Speaker 2: simplest of things that you need for your baby, diapers,
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  Speaker 2: white food, all those things really add up and it
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  Speaker 2: can be really hard, especially with more kiddos that you have,
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  Speaker 2: So we're hoping to take a little bit of that
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  Speaker 2: burden off some of our not even just expectant families,
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  Speaker 2: will even have things for up to toddler age, So
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  Speaker 2: anybody with little's or anybody who's expecting can can come
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  Speaker 2: or send a friend or a family member on their behalf.
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  Speaker 2: There will not be any requirement or sign up or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. You can just come and take what
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  Speaker 2: you need. That day, I thought, and.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get We're gonna tell you about the days.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you about the day you know that
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  Speaker 1: the Oga County Health Department has spotlighted for this event.
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  Speaker 1: In just a couple of seconds, we're taking the wraps
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  Speaker 1: off of what is known as a community Baby Shower,
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  Speaker 1: and you say, Tara, that this is not the first
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  Speaker 1: time we've had this before, Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? This will be our third year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So the third year of the Oga
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department sponsor a community baby Shower. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: may get, you know, kind of a different connotation, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really, you know, just a one day event to
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  Speaker 1: support families across our Northern Illinois area in what they
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  Speaker 1: need to raise their kids and well, at least you know,
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  Speaker 1: to start. I mean, this is probably not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the all out, but at least an aid, right Tara,
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  Speaker 1: to those that need to absolutely, yeah, yeah, that's great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, give us the details on when and
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  Speaker 1: where now this is going to be held.
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  Speaker 2: So this will be on Friday, April eleventh, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be hosted at the Rochelle Ogle County Health Department
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  Speaker 2: office and it is from ten to four pm open house,
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  Speaker 2: so anybody can show up any time between ten am
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  Speaker 2: and four pm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, And this is at the again Ogle
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department offices in Rochelle. This will be held
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  Speaker 1: again on April the eleventh. Now I'm not sure today
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  Speaker 1: is February the tenth. March April is the next time
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  Speaker 1: we talk with our friends from the Ogle County Health Department.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure if that will be available during
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  Speaker 1: that time period because we have, you know, pretty much
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  Speaker 1: put solidly in place our good friends from the Ogle
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department. So we'll just have to look at
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  Speaker 1: the calendar to see if we're able to reiterate before
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  Speaker 1: this happens. And that's why Tara wants to get out
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  Speaker 1: the word now obviously not just for those that want
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  Speaker 1: to participate, but those that want to maybe donate. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're looking for right now, right, Tara, I
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  Speaker 1: mean is donations.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are actively collecting and seeking donations from anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the community. So yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So April the eleventh, again, circle the date on
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  Speaker 1: your calendar. It's a Friday. It runs from ten until four,
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  Speaker 1: so right in the middle of the day on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday in Rochelle at the Ogle County Health Department facilities
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  Speaker 1: in Rochelle, that is where this community baby Shower will
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  Speaker 1: take place. And Tarah Ziggler is here to tell us
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  Speaker 1: about it. She's a public health nurse with the Oga
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department. She's live with us this morning here
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  Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixty n FM ninety five to one
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this very special event through the Ogle
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department that is being held in April. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we've told you about the dates, we've told you about
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  Speaker 1: the times, and you mentioned, Tara that there's really no obligation,
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  Speaker 1: no prerequisites or anything like that, you know, no you know,
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  Speaker 1: guidelines or any kinds of criteria that that people need
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  Speaker 1: to be under to to visit and hell and to
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  Speaker 1: get assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right correct? Yep. It is open to any
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  Speaker 2: anybody in the community who wants to participate. No questions
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  Speaker 2: as no name, no sign up or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, just visit, right, I mean, it's just it's just visiting. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what are they what are they going to find there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean once you know, maybe an expected mom or
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  Speaker 1: maybe a mom that just had a new board, or
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  Speaker 1: you know that they're you know this this is this
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  Speaker 1: is pretty much open to those you know that are
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  Speaker 1: that are you know, involved in raising families across our
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  Speaker 1: northern Illinois area. I mean, what what who is the procedure?
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  Speaker 1: Then when you get to the Old County Health Deponment
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  Speaker 1: that April day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you come in, you'll be greeted by
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  Speaker 2: the health department staff. We will kind of explain the
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  Speaker 2: process of just walking through the events. There will be
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  Speaker 2: a community health and Information fair as well, so we
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  Speaker 2: have quite a few different organizations who will be there
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  Speaker 2: as well, with a booth giving away all sorts of
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  Speaker 2: information connecting them with programs. There's a ton of raffle
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  Speaker 2: baskets and just fun little giveaways that all of these
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  Speaker 2: businesses and organizations will have with So families will first
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  Speaker 2: be greeted by all of those organizations and given the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to kind of connect with some other resources in
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  Speaker 2: our communities, and then they'll enter the room with all
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  Speaker 2: the giveaways and all the free goodies. So that's where
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  Speaker 2: they can pick up their clothes, their diapers, anything that
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  Speaker 2: they might need. In that room is kind of where
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  Speaker 2: they would head last before leaving. So just a big
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  Speaker 2: walk through event where they can kind of greet and
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  Speaker 2: meet a lot of different places and says, and then
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  Speaker 2: take home anything that they need that day.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great. You know, again, this is a
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  Speaker 1: win win for the Ogle County Health Deponent and with
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  Speaker 1: those that participate, especially those families that are you know,
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  Speaker 1: finding it tough. And I can't believe that a family
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  Speaker 1: these days is it isn't in a tougher situation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in raising kids, you know, and especially at that age,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting the supplies they need to obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: know this will you know not be you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know anything, you know long term, Tara, right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you know you're you're just kind of setting up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for those that need it right away to get these
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  Speaker 1: articles and and and to get them home right sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and hopefully along the way they will be able
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  Speaker 2: to be connected with more long term resources. We're hoping
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  Speaker 2: to spread the word about, you know, programs that are
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  Speaker 2: offered like the wik program, connecting them with other resources
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  Speaker 2: so that even though they might be leaving with just
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  Speaker 2: some short term supplies, they might also get connected with
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  Speaker 2: long term support from some of these other.
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  Speaker 1: Pro I'm glad, I'm glad you mentioned the wik program. Tera,
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  Speaker 1: How mean, how's that is it still being meeting and
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  Speaker 1: greeted you know, you know, hopefully with open arms by
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot, but I know you know that
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  Speaker 1: that people are still kind of hesitant, and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of find that surprising. Hesitant, you know, and taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of all of the great opera, especially with something like
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  Speaker 1: the WIG program, which offers you know, materials and aid
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  Speaker 1: and assistance to those you know, raising families.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yes, and yes, we are absolutely you know, with
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  Speaker 2: open arms, trying to spread the word about this program.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful support for nutrition, provide some food benefits,
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  Speaker 2: breastfeeding support. So yes, we absolutely hope that we can
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  Speaker 2: spread the word about that as well and get as
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  Speaker 2: many new families signed up as we can. That's our goal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now I know that there are criteria that
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  Speaker 1: you have to meet for the WIG program. The criteria
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  Speaker 1: that you have to meet, you know, as far as
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  Speaker 1: the Community Baby Shower is minimal, but you do have
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  Speaker 1: to meet a little bit more of criteria to you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to participate in the WIK program. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not that difficult, right there. It really isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. It's it's definitely based on income
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  Speaker 2: or if a family is participating with Medicaid or has
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  Speaker 2: you know, the medical card for insurance, they might automatically
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  Speaker 2: qualify regardless of their income or if they're using Snap benefits.
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  Speaker 2: So there are ways to easily qualify without you know,
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  Speaker 2: without having to meet much. So we if any families
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  Speaker 2: are interested at that event, we will have staff members
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  Speaker 2: there that are with our WIK program to be able
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  Speaker 2: to kind of help figure out their eligibility and sign
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  Speaker 2: them up right then and there. If they're there for.
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  Speaker 1: It, that's great. Again. One of the agencies, obviously is
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  Speaker 1: the Ogle County Health Department and their WIK opportunity at
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  Speaker 1: the Community Baby Shower in April on April the eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: ten until four at the Rochelle offices of the Ogle
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department. Now, with our couple of minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: we still need to go over how people can get
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  Speaker 1: involved and you know, support the effort of Ogle County's
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  Speaker 1: Health Department in this community. Baby Tara, how are you
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  Speaker 1: going about getting donations now?
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  Speaker 2: So there are a couple different ways that people can help.
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  Speaker 2: They can drop off donations directly to either of our offices,
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  Speaker 2: so they can come to the organ office and drop donations,
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  Speaker 2: or they can take them to Rochelle. We're obviously accepting
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  Speaker 2: all of the basic baby care items like diapers and
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  Speaker 2: wipes and soaps. If anybody is doing any spring cleaning
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  Speaker 2: cleaning out their clothes and they have some older baby
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  Speaker 2: clothes that they're trying to get rid of, we will
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  Speaker 2: take secondhand items as well, as long as they're in
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  Speaker 2: good condition. The second way for donations to be collected
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  Speaker 2: is there is actually an Amazon wish list that we've
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  Speaker 2: created that can be found on our Facebook page and
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  Speaker 2: people can just directly purchase and then have the items
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  Speaker 2: shipped to us. So it kind of takes that step
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  Speaker 2: away of having to actually drop anything off.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, What an easy way to donate. Go to
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  Speaker 1: that Facebook page, check it out, make your donation check
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  Speaker 1: off again, will do the rest then and delivered to
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  Speaker 1: the Ogle County Health Department. There are ways that you
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  Speaker 1: can help out with this community Baby Shower again and
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  Speaker 1: support families indeed as we move into this area with
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  Speaker 1: the Ogle County Health Department and again in April on
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  Speaker 1: April the eleventh, ten until four at the Rochelle offices
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  Speaker 1: of the Ogle County Health Deploment Derek. Can a person
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  Speaker 1: get more information? They can obviously go to your Facebook
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  Speaker 1: page right and see all the information that's available right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a Facebook event that's been created that you
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  Speaker 2: can follow along and see updates. And there's also some
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  Speaker 2: contact information for myself as well as anybody needs to
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  Speaker 2: talk on the phone or email for more information.
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  Speaker 1: What's your phone numbert the Ogle County Health.
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  Speaker 2: Deplomit Tara eight one, five, five, six, two, six nine seven.
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  Speaker 1: If you have questions about the Community Baby Shower, if
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to be a part of it, if you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to donate. Organizations are pretty much in place, but
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  Speaker 1: they continue to organize that and they'll have those organizations
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  Speaker 1: there at the Community Baby Shower. It sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: marvelous one day event through the Oga County Health Department
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  Speaker 1: for families across our Shock Valley. Do you have to
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  Speaker 1: be from Ogle County to come over to Rochelle, Tara,
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  Speaker 1: We will.
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  Speaker 2: Not be asking for any proof of idea residency, so
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  Speaker 2: ideally you know we are looking to serve our community itself,
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  Speaker 2: but no questions will be asked, So send anybody that
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  Speaker 2: you feel you know might be in need.
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  Speaker 1: The Oga County Health Department's third annual Community Baby Shower
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  Speaker 1: is in April. On April the eleventh, that the Rochelle
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  Speaker 1: Offices of the Ogle County Health Department and Tarah Ziggler
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  Speaker 1: has told you all about it today here at AM
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  Speaker 1: fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one. Tara, pleasure having you
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  Speaker 1: on board. We thank you so very much for sharing
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  Speaker 1: the information. Good luck with the event. Maybe we'll get
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  Speaker 1: another opportunity to talk about it. We don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a calendar in front of me, so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure when will schedule the Oga County Health DEPUBMA. It
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  Speaker 1: will be some time in April that we will be
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  Speaker 1: visiting with our good friends from the Oga County Health Depumbment.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we thank you Tara Ziggler for
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  Speaker 1: joining us today here at WIXM. Thank you our public
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  Speaker 1: health nurse from the Oga County Health Department, Tarah Ziggler,
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  Speaker 1: has been our guest on the eight fifteen talk line
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  Speaker 1: today at w Yxand let's go to press next with
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  Speaker 1: Tim Lee.