and Jim Smith.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, gallery number two, Minow the mayor, 97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 and 96.5 FM WSS.
And of course, the civic media at World Wide 33 degrees in Green Bay, 32 in Ampton, 32 in Oshkosh.
Forecast looks good.
Every day just getting high 30s, low 40s, mid 40s, high 40s.
It just, I like the looks of that.
60s.
Yes.
I like the
there.
Got a couple of texts here for Dan.
We're at Dan Vermeulen, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an amazing grassroots company here that hand-makes beds for people that need beds.
Got a couple of texts.
Who do we contact to help making blankets for the beds?
That's from Patty.
OK, you can go to our website.
So if you go to shpbedsbeds.org and on there, look for the Wisconsin Deep Here chapter.
And there's a link on there.
We also have a, we have a couple of drop off places around town or if you have a large donation, we can come get that from you.
So.
All right.
And by the way, I just want to put a shout out Dennis Peters, our man from the glam band.
His mom has made.
Numerous quilts for our veterans and people showed if they can make a cup again, they're beautiful.
I bet they could use something like that
Yeah, yeah, we've gotten a lot of donations at one point in time I had 500 quilts in my house nice and you know now we've got a warehouse But even that's getting pretty full right now.
We've got 750 probably right now so
Right, we only do this three to 17-year-olds, so we're not doing the toddlers, we're not doing kids that are off to college.
But
mattress, the
house.
I mean, I could be 90 and I would have slept in the bucket.
sheets.
Everything.
It's a brand new mattress, it's brand new sheets, brand new pillow, new comforter, everything that they need.
And you need all that to do this because it's
obvious.
My 18 year old son is between jobs.
I'd like to urge him to volunteer somewhere.
When, where, and how could he get plugged into building beds?
Todd.
Okay.
We build every Wednesday night throughout the winter.
We're wrapping that up tonight is probably our last Wednesday night because we're going to skip the draft one and we've got a youth group coming next week.
But we've got a big build coming June 21st.
And again, you can go to our website SHP beds and look for the DPR chapter.
On June 21st, we're going to have probably have 80 to 90 people that are building beds for
It is a national program.
There's 350 chapters right now over the country doing this.
It's great,
Is it?
Last year we delivered 72,000 beds.
Where's your passion?
Where's my passion?
Because it's like, when I could hear Andy's voice from Verizon, it was more than just, oh, we're taking care of veterans.
And then you take away a...
piece of the onion skin.
And he realized his dad was recovering Vietnam vet and everything that there's some there's a reason you're putting so much into this.
There is a little bit of it.
I lost my wife 10 years ago.
She passed away.
Our condition.
Sorry, sorry.
So I sat around lonely for a while feeling sorry for myself.
Got my dog trained as a therapy dog.
We did that for a while.
Then saw
a show called Returning the Favor that Mike Rowe, everybody knows him from Dirty Jobs, right?
Yeah, which
is a great job.
I'd love that job.
Yeah, you'd be good at it.
But he did this show on Facebook called Returning the Favor, and he was out in Twin Falls, Idaho in this little garage building beds.
I used to live in
Twin Falls,
Idaho.
That was my first TV job, KMVT, Magic Valley Television.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
And they were building beds for kids and he helped them out.
And now that show's been viewed over 10 million times.
And I happened to see it one night and thought, well, I can build beds.
I'm a pretty handy guy.
And looked up, closest chapter was down in Portage, Wisconsin.
And I built with them about three or four times.
And my mother-in-law is only beaver dam.
So it was a short drive over to Portage in the morning and build beds with them.
And finally the chapter president said, hey, I used to be a school teacher.
I know everybody in Portage.
Where are you from?
And I told him Green Bay and DPR area and he said, well, we need a chapter up there.
Wow.
So for a month.
Called your brother?
So I called my brother and, you know, so, well, I was not that.
Which is what you would do.
Absolutely.
It took me a little longer than that.
But it took me a month of every day waking up in the morning and this will tap on my shoulder saying, hey, you're the guy.
Wow.
And I'm like, no, no, I can't do this.
I don't put public speaking.
I'm not a fundraiser.
And yeah, next morning, same thing.
It's you.
beds have you built and distributed?
So in four years, we have built and distributed 2,360 beds.
In
how big of a region?
All in Brown County.
2,300 people that did not have beds would not have beds if you didn't build them for them.
2,300 kids.
That's mind boggling.
You just don't think of this area that
And then when I was talking to Dan at the break and I'm like, you know, is that...
the rough areas.
And he's like, you'd be surprised where these beds go.
Even in, some people think Depeer would be have a little bit more wealth than maybe some.
Well, just because of house prices.
Right.
In the side of Green Bay.
And it's everywhere.
Right.
I grew up in the Depeer area.
And in the last four years, we've delivered 150 beds there.
Some of them just blocks away from where I grew up.
And it was, you know, it's a nice neighborhood.
just
right?
And I think, you know, look, parents' shelter is really important and you can sleep on the floor.
At least we have an apartment and you got to eat.
But, you know, it's eight, nine hours for a little kid, maybe 10 hours that they're going to be in that piece of furniture.
And that's very, very important.
And it should be quality.
The mattress should be quality.
And you deliver all that.
So, I mean, what are you
Our motto is no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
Yeah.
And I take it personally.
Yeah, I tell.
Um, but you're right at that age that, you know, three to 17, their bodies are developing, their minds are developing.
It's a mental thing and not to have a bed to sleep on every night, especially if one of their
friends
comes over and they
see that.
And if those two kids all of a sudden aren't friends anymore, you tell me that that person doesn't have a mean side, possibly.
And
exactly, you know, tell me this, John, does is it a bedroom?
If there's no bed in the bed, right?
No.
It's
a storage room.
It's a storage room.
I had to sleep three to a bed when I was growing up for a few years.
When both of my brothers came home from the army, and now I was out of the crib or whatever, I had to sleep between two full grown brothers.
Oh.
Yeah.
You could have helped me out.
Yeah, I just want to talk and I think that's that's a great mission.
You're on and you're providing this I want to talk more about like, you know you losing your wife and kind of a little soul searching This has been good for you as as a person to meet other Men or and I
feel you would recommend for some of that suffers a very good
right don't just sit
Yep, if you can get out and do something and volunteering has always been a part of my life and my wife's life too.
So it was pretty easy once I got into it, but yeah, your network of circle of friends just grows exponentially.
You
Oh, absolutely.
It's unbelievable, isn't it?
The community is amazing.
Like I say, when I had 600, 500 quilts in my house at one point in time.
and the stuff, it just keeps coming in.
And everything that we've needed has been given to us.
We've received a $65,000 van to deliver.
Wow, nice.
Six of us can ride around in style and we'll have 15 to 20 beds in the back.
Do you have
any down times of the year?
Yes, we do.
That's why we expanded right now into the outlying areas is because this typically is when we go into our slower time, the summertime.
Okay,
could I borrow that van?
When
we get into August.
And a couple beds for my cabin.
When we get into August.
All the kids want, you know, we need to get kids back in bed for school.
Yeah.
All right.
Right now it's like spring break.
Ah, you know what?
We can make it through another month or two and then they're going to have summer.
And you know, teachers aren't so worried about it, but it becomes super important in August.
We'll do the back event school at UWGB with the service league.
Dan, I just got to ask you this, though, because, okay, basically you've done this for some neighbors running.
Have you seen one underlying reason that maybe people don't talk about why people who are seen?
lack of a better to phrase like normal neighbors, normal people in our community that we've grown up with and I think any one underlying thing that you see that puts people in a situation that they're very shocked sometimes to be in and you guys help out.
I know we've done a couple and similar to what the veterans were talking about is the medical issues, the medical pills, you know.
We had a mom, single mom and she applied for the bed for a four year old son and they had been in a shelter for two years because there were
in a car accident, and her fiance passed away, and the medical bills stacked up, and they were at Freedom House for two years.
And when they got out of there, you know, we delivered them a bed, and the little boy was not having it.
And one
minute, everything's fine.
Next minute, her life changes.
Yep.
And, you know, it can happen to
Yeah.
And I just think it's, I want to go back to how important that piece of furniture is for someone.
And you know that.
Just for self-esteem.
Right.
Exactly.
And you want to, you want to be anxious going to bed and you know, you got to sleep on this floor with this, you know what I mean?
Going to bed, that's like, should be, look, you should look forward to that.
Absolutely.
We delivered a bed to a 12 year old girl.
It was the first bed of her life.
Wow.
She'd been on an air mattress.
Right around here.
In Green Bay, West Green Bay.
Just off of Mason Street.
A couple of
texts.
I'm in Oshkosh.
How can I find a chapter here?
Ricky.
There is a chapter in Oshkosh.
There's a chapter in Fond du Lac.
There's a chapter in Appleton.
There are 14 chapters in Wisconsin right now.
So again, if you go to shpbedsbeds.org and the apply for a bed.
If you're looking for a bed, there's an application button.
If you're looking to volunteer, there's a button on there to volunteer.
Could somebody do it for somebody else?
Like if they have no somebody in there, those people come.
Sometimes people don't want to ask.
Absolutely.
Got another text here.
Dan is selling himself short.
He's an amazing man.
He attends my church.
Thank you for everything you do,
Tina.
I thought that was TJ, but.
Maybe it is out of my glasses.
I haven't been struggling
with this screen lately.
Dan, thank you so much for being here.
And you know what's really cool is that just like what Andy said, when I heard it in his voice, there's more to just being a marketing guy and helping veterans like yourself.
I knew there was going to be something more that was motivating you in that way.
And I just think that's awesome.
And I'd like you to be a perfect example.
I got friends that just kind of bad things happen.
they get into a deep hole and it's tough, it's tough to climb out.
It's not just, oh, do this and it goes away, but maybe it's like steps in the right direction, right?
Right, absolutely.
If you can get out and do something, you know, our founder, Luke Mickelson, I mean, even the
people helping, you know, the volunteers.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Our Luke is our founder and Mickelson and he says, oh, he says that, you know, if you're feeling bad and feeling down, go and do something for somebody else.
Absolutely.
It will change your whole attitude.
And I think, and I love the fact that you're engaging youth
to do this, because that will continue.
They're gonna be like, that was awesome when they do that.
Like I said, there's some community service that some of them have to do other ones.
That will be a life skill for them.
And I think that's great that you're doing this.
Yeah, thanks for making the community a better place.
That checks a lot of boxes is what you're doing.
You're one of those people in this
area, man.
Makes a difference.
Really
stuff.
Dan Vermeulen, sleep in heavenly peace, shpbeds.com.
I'm sorry, .org.
If you're looking for somebody, if you need it yourself, if you'd like to volunteer, a lot of different areas you can help, please go on their website.
Dan, no lie, our deepest condolences for your wife, but what an inspiration you are to take that, to help kids that are sleeping on the floor.
It's pretty amazing.
All right, thanks, John.
Good
stuff.
Thank you, buddy.
We're going to center break.
Mind of the mayor, back after this.
Hey, welcome
here.
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Milwaukee Brewers at the Colorado Rockies.
Coming up at seven o'clock tonight on WISS.
Exciting time sports.
Why I'm not the NCAA is over.
You know, the Brewers kind of getting into that fun part of the season before you're out of a
pennant race and the box having that great game and the playoffs and everything.
So Packard draft coming up, kind of fun stuff happening right now.
But what do you, your peer guy live here?
You got your pulse on the committee.
What do you think about the draft?
Are you hearing what's the buzz out there?
You got a lot of friends that you meet with every Wednesday building beds.
What are you?
I'm leaving town.
No.
Intentionally,
I mean Okay, I know a lot
of people
doing that
Yeah, I don't want to do that.
So
think it's this union card for that Yeah
You know, I know so many people that are doing that.
And I'll tell you, if I lived in a certain Ashwabana areas, I think I would too.
Just the daily getting around, getting around.
I know it's a once in a lifetime thing, but just your day to day, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't, I might've think about taking three days off and going to a cabin someplace.
You know just but it's in their defense.
We're talking about 250 people coming in and out, you know, it's like
but I would rather that with like a cop on every corner directing traffic or something versus coming out of the widener like we were talking about an event Yeah
coming 60 miles an hour from both ways and you got people that just been sitting there for three hours trying to look both ways and Jada
and it just like nobody liked it because the leaving was difficult and it was difficult.
Now it's 11 o'clock at night and I want to get home and so I think and the Packers have always been even worked with them when I was in office.
It was important to them that getting in and getting out was
important as a product on the field.
And I always respected that.
I'm like, I like the way you're thinking, because it's like, well, that's your problem.
Our only focus is what's on the field.
They're like, look, we want the Ingress Egress to be smooth.
And I always like that about them.
And it costs them money, right?
We have a lot of cops directing traffic there.
This thing here, though, there's a couple of businesses that were like, I don't know if I like this.
And they're like, you know what?
So, I mean, that's the way it's going to be.
It's important.
250,000 people is, what, three, four games?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so we probably will not be delivering beds on the
see that?
I don't think they're going to be delivering mail.
Right.
Yeah.
1200 people.
I hope, you know, I think it's going to be fine.
I don't know what the numbers are going to be, but it's going to be exciting.
And there's a lot of cool stuff.
There's a lot of stuff going on around there, but there's a lot of stuff that's going to be done downtown.
There's some things happening in other parts of the community.
So I hope people get engaged in some of that, too.
I just have to add one more thing about your program, Dan.
Obviously, you guys have Northeast Wisconsin pretty well covered and even down to the Oshkosh find a lack area, whatever you want to cut, you know, consider that part.
But what about, you know, there's some pretty, I shouldn't say rough areas, but you know, you go off to the West and some of these small towns here in Northeast Wisconsin, some of those, there's people there that really need help.
Do you guys extend that way?
Or do you have, you know, one of your agency offices there or anything?
Or how far would you guys travel?
Yeah.
So believe it or not, most of our chapters.
are on the western side of the state.
Okay.
Where we're missing right now is Manitowak Sheboygan.
Milwaukee does not have a chapter, believe it or not.
Really?
Huge need there, but to find that right person that would lock in and pretty much give up your life to do this, you know, because they're gonna get just run over by a bus when they put open up applications for Milwaukee.
Yeah,
that'd be, you know, on-slot probably not for many, right?
But where else do you say Manitowoc needs a chapter?
Manitowoc does not have a chapter, Sheboygan.
Nothing on the east side of Lake Winnebago at all.
done.
So we're working our way that way.
We
Right.
And pretty giving communities as well.
I mean, I just, wow.
So if there's anybody over in the Manitowoc area, reach out to me.
We'd love to.
to partner with you.
We've got a warehouse to build in.
A lot of chapters don't where they're just portable with pull up in a parking lot, throw their tools out and start building beds.
We have a warehouse to build in so we can make
the
beds.
Okay, go ahead.
And we would partner with somebody where maybe they have a satellite hub down there and we can drop off 10, 15 beds, everything that they need to deliver them and then they would have a team that would go deliver those beds.
What if somebody wanted to open up an actual thing with their own warehouse down there and build the beds there for local help?
They certainly could do that too and open up a chapter or so.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Throwing it out there.
Anybody from Manitowoc to Lakeshore, Sheboygan, did you say?
Yep.
Those areas?
Yeah.
Let us know if you'd be interested in helping us out.
Heavenly sleep, excuse me, sleep in heavily peace.
Right.
Lois is one of our national sponsors.
They give us $1.6 million this year as an organization.
That's a lot.
And there's some discounted pricing in there also from them too.
But we'll take lumber wood from wherever we can get it.
you know, any local lumber yard that wants to donate some lumber or contractor, maybe we've had contractors buy us two brand new saws when they came out to build with us one day and said, Hey, your saws are in rough shape.
Here's $500.
He wrote a check.
awareness.
Right.
I mean, up until you guys first came on, I had no idea you guys existed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's just it.
Nobody knows about the problem.
Nobody knows about the bad listeners.
Nobody knows about the kids.
Nobody knows that it's a way that they can give back locally to the community.
of those houses that people abandon and it's just.
dog crap all over the house or whatever.
And then you go into like the little kids room and the little girl or whomever still has pictures drawn hanging on her wall.
She wants to be a normal little kid.
They all do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was going to share that story about young life before, if we got a minute.
Yeah.
One
minute.
Okay.
So young life youth group came out and did some sanding with us last year and they had 35 kids there, put Palm Sanders on them all and sanded wood for two hours.
Great kids.
hardworking inner city kids and full circle comes around in August, walk into a delivery and boy looks at me and says, Hey, I know you.
Say I know you too.
You came.
We were delivering a bed for a sister.
Oh, and he was one of the kids that kind of made the bed.
He was one of the kids that was
helped building the bed.
I would just give me cool stuff.
I mean, I'm not joking.
I would just give me a goosebumps.
That's awesome.
Thanks for what you do, my friend.
Yeah, this is good stuff.
Folks, help them out in any way you can.
Dan Vermeulen, sleep in heavily peace, shpbeds.org.
That's right.
Awesome.
Thank
you.
You keep in touch with us, alright?
Thanks, Dan.
For WGBW and WISS News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Well, this isn't related to tornadoes, but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications for urban forestry catastrophic storm grants.
The grant funding was made available after Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency from March 29th through April 1st due to severe ice and snow storms across the state.
Individual municipalities, tribal governments, and some nonprofit organizations can apply for between four and 50,000
of grant funding to repair, remove, or replace trees in urban areas that suffered damage during the storms.
A day before his criminal trial was to begin, 56-year-old Scott Hayes of Waukesha pleaded no contest to citations of operating a UTV while intoxicated and operating a UTV with a passenger riding improperly.
As part of the plea deal, a count of homicide by the use of a vehicle while intoxicated was dropped.
The citations, fines and restitution of almost five and a half thousand dollars will be the only punishment Hayes will receive in connection with the death of David Wyman in May of 2022.
The accident happened in Oconto County when Wyman fell off of the UTV driven by Hayes and hit his head on the concrete in the town of Doty.
16-year-old Frederick Love Kennedy was sentenced to 10 years in prison, 10 years extended supervision and 300 hours of community service Tuesday for a shooting last April in Green Bay near Preble High that led to school lockdowns.
Love Kennedy was initially charged with attempted first-degree homicide.
but later pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless injury for the incident that sent another student to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Love Kennedy, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, will remain in a juvenile prison for the time being.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Man, we've had some inspiring people
today.
Andy Brady, Verizon's market president, partnership with the Packers, increasing the...
increasing the, um, 5G?
Yes, the Gs.
Increasing the Gs.
Increasing the Gs.
Yeah.
But also giving over a million dollars to area veterans.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, to help with their debt.
His dad is a Vietnam vet.
Wonderful.
Tom Vermeulen, sleep and heavily peace.
Tremendous organization.
They got a motto, no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
going around building beds for young kids that really need them.
Just awesome.
And then I got somebody here, Deanna Melchor, moving with the Melchors, and you guys are invested in your community as much as anybody.
So
you do.
I
you guys were huge with the toys for Tots, with the Marines, with getting kids in the area toys.
And so I mean, those are cool things.
CP Telethon.
CP Telethon.
Oh, I love that.
That's one of my favorite
Attent
You do.
I didn't leave her.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Bill, Jersey, Jersey, I got a showing.
I got a showing.
I got to go.
Somebody wants to see the Swedish board.
That's gone.
Congratulations on
and
she just
big part of your
mission, isn't
it?
Yeah, be in a part of this community.
we work here.
I
Yeah, we have our big grand opening.
I shouldn't say big.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be casual.
We're doing a happy hour from four to six in our new branch office, and it's right on Main Street.
It's in the old town.
Crossing.
I always say square.
And we're on the second floor.
So we do have stairs to get to our space.
So I just want to let everybody know.
but you can park behind the building and our sign is going up today so you'll know right where we are.
I just love it.
I just want to say Old Town Square is a lot better than where I used to work at one time in real estate.
It's where the public market is going into right now.
It used to be called Old Fort Square.
And I had this lady and her daughter, elderly lady and daughter, and I said, it's right here in Old Fort Square.
And she goes, well, with you being the agent, you should call Old Fort Square.
Wow.
I
Grandma.
not expecting something?
of helping her across the parking lot.
Wow.
Oh, it
the 70s,
where my office was.
put together with spit.
I mean,
could hear everything.
up trying to make it look like your place.
1977 type
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, this is gorgeous.
parking's easy.
The parking's easy right behind the stairs.
We have external stairs on the backside right off of the parking.
But if you go around front, like if you're wearing high heels, you're going to have to go around front and use the internal stairs.
Every time I drive down Main Street in that area, I always got kind of one eye just on those buildings.
Like there's one.
Oh, beautiful.
It's like about four story one up there.
And it's like, I'd love to have like a office or something in one of those old buildings up high looking
down.
Yeah, just the history.
Yeah.
I know.
It's so neat.
So we were excited.
We went to the bar.
Do you know the history of the bar?
Kitty corner from you guys?
Is that cock and pull?
No, old crown.
Or no, crown
comments.
Oh, crown and common.
Yeah.
OK,
we did a thing there, but a video on how to make old fashions.
OK.
And the reason we took that is it's the longest running bar in Green Bay.
Really?
That's that
old part, that's
Green Bay that were you at.
So, isn't, wasn't that like an upholstery place at one point?
I don't know.
It was a, it was a, it may, I don't know.
It was a plastered place at one.
No, I forgot it wasn't upholstery.
I don't know.
But their back part,
George Calhoun, the guy that started up the Green Bay Packers dog, with his dog.
That's where he used to go and he'd sit and have drinks and start talking about the Green Bay Packers with guys around town.
So you want to talk about the birth of the Green Bay Packers?
Is that
what used to be like the standard?
I think it's called the parlor now, kind of the one that you can get to behind Crown and Common.
Yeah, we don't know that either.
Wait, did you put it someplace that were experts at Crown and Common?
You know what, I
only listen to this, I only know because that's where Ben and I met.
When it was
called boomers, and then it was top hat,
then
it was probably standard, and now it's I think in parlor or
I
Vince
George
Bay Packers.
And he just got lost a little bit
Yeah, didn't he?
Curly
think he was starting from
come in there with his dog and
his dog come in and and here's a cool part though, too It was it was it was before prohibition, but then even during prohibition I think they just have like a little back room speakeasy type
thing or
they would go to okay, yeah, and and When old-fashioned started or before old-fashioned started they were making basic basically
bathtub gin, and you know, guys would have certain places to go.
I think
we did that in college, didn't we?
Absolutely.
Those wampatouli.
Absolutely.
But they would drink it, just tasted horrific.
Sort of like, what the heck can we do to make this?
So it's like, they experimented with different kinds of fruits and stuff, and mixed it up with the old fashioned thing.
And it's like, the term came up, just like, oh, this tastes like the old fashioned drinks we used to have.
So we started with gin?
I was
like
were tasted right okay all right but
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can see that out of one of my windows.
say.
It's like, can he come in
here for me again?
Yeah.
They've got great pizza,
too.
They have the best, like, kind of New York style type
pizza.
They do.
Oh, and with the mushrooms that they sautéed their mushrooms, the garlic and butter put them on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tremendous pizza.
I'm
going to say my favorite all time there is pepperoni and green olive.
delicious.
Yeah, I hope and
I just got Texan real
estate
that from your her hubby
and I
well
Yeah, it's a beautiful area and
there's a lot down there.
I love it.
That's where we're walking like Saturday mornings.
That's just a cool walk.
It is.
Then cut through the backside of the park and everything.
Well, let's talk some real estate here.
Let's talk real
estate.
Ben and Deanna moving with the male course.
What is going on in these crazy days?
You know,
it's picking up.
It's picking up.
I think I probably should start with some of the listings that
Ben has
coming.
Let's do it.
And then we'll talk about, maybe after, if we come back
after the break.
Or pizzas, we can talk about pizza.
Yeah, I know.
I can
talk about pizza all day long.
Me too.
There's a lot of homes sitting in the market, so we've got some tips for buyers, I guess.
Listings that we have coming up, and I want to talk about, we have an open house this weekend on Saturday.
kind of hit.
So
it is,
nope, it's
actually,
we have that out there
too.
But this is going to be on, it's called West Point Center
condos.
And
it's right along the Fox River.
And so they are, there's six condos that we hope to get sold, even pre-sold, if possible.
Beautiful views of the river and high end there.
They started about 1.15 million.
Well, I will check one of those out.
Yeah, come and see them.
So
we actually, the, the open house is going to be at the showroom.
So it's not really, there's nothing to see on, on the property
yet.
So, and we have a website.
It's, it's just called West Point Center condos and.com.
And that's center, like S E N T R E. I suppose
that's
French.
Really?
Yeah.
Yep.
I'm
Center?
Yes, he's
from, he's the developers from Canada.
Okay, got it, got it.
So westpointcentercondos.com.
All right.
And we don't have the open house information on there yet, but you can see the showroom information.
So you'll know where the open house is gonna be, and we'll put the, I think it's gonna be from 11 to one
on Saturday.
And when you say showroom.
Yep, so it's the developer's office.
Okay.
We have everything in there.
So we have wonderful renderings.
We have some of the products that are going in so people can see it, touch it, feel it, and really see how it's gonna all come
together.
And where is
that?
That's in a Schwabonon.
It's right on the corner of South Ridge Road and Circle Drive.
Oh, that's easy enough?
Yeah.
Okay, awesome.
And what are the times and everything?
11
to one on Saturday.
11 to one on Saturday.
Yeah.
Oh,
standing.
Yeah, so that's coming.
Ben has a house hitting.
Tomorrow in Denmark in the upper
popular
area is oh my gosh.
That'll go fast.
I was there staging and taking pictures yesterday That town is so cute.
Honestly,
it's it's great.
I love Denmark
Yeah, that and I don't know if you've been to inspired spaces, but I've but that that is an amazing decor lighting and decor Business there, too.
So go to Denmark and check it out.
So it's one of my favorites
also go to Duck Creek Duck Creek slash
Denmark winery.
That's
right, another good one.
It's a great place.
They've been very kind to us too.
They've, you know, at Bay Area, they sponsored a lot of our things that we did.
So yeah, they're a great place.
But so yeah, it is a rehab home.
The investors bought it last year about this time and spent a year refurbishing it and adding a garage.
And
it is
gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
I'm telling you, Denmark, I know realtors, it's like, if you know if...
anybody selling in Denmark, please give us a call.
We've got a waiting list of people that want to live in Denmark.
And it's three bedrooms, two baths, beautiful kitchen, huge.
It's a detached garage, but beautiful new two-stall detached garage.
They've got a front porch, they've got a back porch.
It's wonderful.
And it's going to be in the upper twos.
I think it's somewhere around 280, 290.
These days?
Yeah,
I know.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
So that'll be hitting tomorrow.
And then we've got a bunch of more commercial property on Broadway listing as well.
Oh,
really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know as much about that one.
Ben's kind of handled that
one a little bit more.
And like, you know, we've talked.
There's something about the weather going up.
Yeah,
that people are more willing to get out and walk around We're starting to see
when we're starting to see things hit the market, which we so desperately needed So it's it's real fun.
Okay, we got a lot more to talk about moving to Malacor is with Deanna back after this
Sisters saying in their sleep.
back, come on on the mayor here on a good lucky Wednesday morning.
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Coming your way, 97.9 FM WGVW, 98.3 and 96.5 FM WISS and of course the Civic Media amp along with 1100 AM and 1150 AM.
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It's
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Hope you're happy Brian.
He got you today,
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Brewers at the Colorado Rockies tonight, 7 0 5 on WISS coming your way.
We're with the Anna Malkor.
Moving with the Malkor is really exciting time, exciting week, exciting weekend coming up for real estate and the real kickoff to the season.
Wouldn't
you say?
I'm going to say, honestly, we had talked about it last fall, Ben and I, that we thought the spring market was going to hit a little bit later this year because of the draft.
People hanging on a little bit before they put for sale sign in their yard.
I think we're starting to see that, because it's just starting to pick up
now.
People just want to get out of the house.
Yeah.
We've been in the house since Thanksgiving.
I know you get that little teaser for a couple of days.
Yeah.
I know.
We were so desperate to get out.
We actually bought a heater for our back porch and we sat out in our winter coats and blankets just to get some fresh air one night.
God bless you
because that
wind can come off that
river.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it is.
Also, now tell us about some of the you got condos.
coming to the market.
You've
got another great place coming to the market.
What about, what are you looking for for people looking to put their houses on the market?
Yeah, you know what?
We, well, and we still, I just want to do one more thing.
We've got, we're still really looking up in Door County for our buyers that are from kind of the Milwaukee, Cedarburg area.
And they, they love a harbor.
They love Fish Creek and being right outside.
They want to be on the water.
They're all cash.
They need four bedrooms.
anyone is thinking about selling, please give Ben a call.
So we can hopefully kind of broker this deal for them.
But yeah, they really want to get up there.
So I'm doing what I can for them.
Okay, I might have gotten this question wrong.
Yeah.
On my real estate exam.
Yeah.
And I might have broken the law.
But if somebody calls you for the lead, if somebody calls, hey, Mike, John Deanna, my great uncle.
needs to go to his home, got a great place, doesn't trust realtors, maybe, you know, I tell them it's from you, blah, blah, blah.
You talk to him, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda, you get the listing.
Is it, is it legal for that guy to pay me a few bucks after it's sold for helping out?
Yes or no?
You're a licensed realtor.
No, I'm not, I'm
not.
So that's not, that'd be
illegal.
I'm not gonna go there.
No, that's fine.
All I'm saying is that would make it even sweeter.
It's like
winning
money.
That's kind of black and white, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean, I would say yes.
I didn't know that was in the guy.
I thought it was gray.
Yeah, yeah, beige is way off.
Hey, talk again about your open house tomorrow.
Yeah, open house tomorrow.
We have our grand opening at our branch office and it's called the collective and it's under Berkshire Hathaway Metro Realty.
Um, it is from four to six happy hour.
Um, come and have some, you know, refreshments and some good eats.
We actually, one of our realtors that are in our office, her husband is a chef.
So we.
We've got some good little snacks coming.
Okay, one
more time.
We
need the address.
The actual
address.
It's 1238 Main Street and that's Suite 21.
And you'll see our beautiful sign.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
One more time.
What you got available?
Oh my gosh.
We have got so much available.
We got the condos out in Luxembourg.
We've got the condos coming on the Fox River.
Actually, they're starting to hit now.
We're going to have Denmark tomorrow.
We're actually going to have a house in Schmidt Park in the next couple of weeks.
If you're looking in that area, give Ben a call.
Really
popular
area.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got a bunch of commercial properties on Broadway that are either on the market or coming on the market tomorrow, actually.
What else do we have?
We have a condo up in Dorkoni that's available.
Yeah.
We've got a lot, yeah.
We're ready for you.
Tell them how
to find your website and look at everything you got.
You know what, for our website, all you need to do is type in benmelcore.com.
Okay.
Really nice and simple.
And then you can, if you have any questions, concerns, if you've got a home that you think fits one of our buyers or you're thinking about listing, you can give us a call at 920-495-7653.
anymore.
Right, that's what I was going to say, Johnny.
I
is
don't want to
them.
Yeah, you never know.
I mean, Broadway is, I mean, it is just becoming, you know, one of the hot areas in this whole community.
So, yeah, it's some beautiful locations.
It's all on kind of North Broadway in about the 400 blocks.
And
honestly, it reminds me, when I used to stay around Loyola University in downtown Chicago, and then go walk into some of the little neighborhoods, even like little Italy in the different places.
And it reminds me of those little Chicago
to get some awesome restaurants?
Yeah, it would be.
That would be
maybe a really, well, they've got Jake's.
I was going to say a pizza place, but there's already one there.
I love Jake's too.
You
two or three.
I mean, you got different styles.
It is.
And yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I agree.
One
step.
lot of ickies that you really need to
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely, things are getting busy.
yourselves a plug one more time,
please.
Oh, one more time, bedmailcore.com.
You can find these new condos at westpointcentercondos.com, and you can give him a call at 920-495-7653.
You
got it!
That's
good.
You made up for the bad time.
He made up for not knowing the frequency of the radio station he's
Hey, it works for me.
o'clock.
Four o'clock.
We'll see you there.
Stop by, say hi.
We'd love to see everybody.
That's gonna be fun.
And you guys could be working during the draft?
Oh, well, I mean, a little bit of both.
We're not gonna be able to show anything.
We're gonna be down there enjoying it like everybody else.
Outstanding.
As you should.
Hope to see you there.
Yeah, we definitely.
Diana, always wonderful having you in here.
You can leave him home anytime.
I
bet.
I bet.
Yeah.
I need him here for the spelling.
Ha ha ha ha!
Great point, you had a mallocore, please check them out.
Moving on to the mallocores, they've got some phenomenal places on the market.
We come back, we'll talk little headlines for the press times, back after this.
