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Coal Piles, Community Spirit, and Summer Safety (Hour 2)
Maino and the Mayor · Fri Jun 6, 2025
And we do.
I'll take this.
Last night, I think the word Supervisor Evans used was epic.
Um, a vote last night to relocate the coal piles here in Green Bay.
They've been there for 120 years.
I think we've been fighting to move them for the last 60 years and it happened last night.
Supervisor Evans, welcome.
Well, good morning.
Thank you for the opportunity to come on the show.
And Mark, I'm sorry, we're going to reduce the injuries for you guys skiing Green Bay, but you have to find somebody else.
This
is big news.
So no, you
guys
could definitely take this
Pat, what'd you think last night?
Were you expecting the unanimous vote?
I kind of liked what you just said.
You know what Pat said?
I obviously take 20 seconds because if you don't vote for this, you're probably not going to get reelected.
And he took some a little pushback.
But anyway, I thought that was that was
fun.
Well, yeah, I mean, I wasn't anticipating.
There was three people that are three suit for one, two, three, four supervisors that I was worried that weren't going to support it.
And then it came down to a talk to a couple of months ago.
OK, maybe we get it.
But that's where I decided to make that push on.
And, you know, Mayor, you've seen this in politics.
People can do great work.
And for many years, in one vote, gets them pushed out of office.
And you remember former Alderman supervisor, Dan Haiths.
And that happened to Dan on a vote.
years ago.
Right.
I remember him telling me, yeah, I'm talking to this guy and blah, blah, blah, but you know, whatever.
But that can happen.
So just press that.
But it was a great vote, historic.
You'll remember, I mean, we've been working on this.
When you first came into office as mayor, remember we were meeting with Searice.
We had the Kelsey administration and we thought things were going to go.
And then the one day she decides, no, I'm not even going to the meeting and blows it out of the water.
So yeah.
Some setbacks.
Pat,
I mean, this thing was, you kind of looked at it three weeks ago.
We felt really good.
And it's like, oh, we got to put this on hold.
And everybody's like, come on, you guys.
What moved it last night?
Or what was it?
Because you didn't give us the deal.
I mean, you guys went into closed session, kicked us out, negotiated a little bit, or talked a little bit more, and then came back in and took the vote.
Well, really what happens is there, I mean, this is what happens when
These are big negotiations.
It's not like people just get together and you've known this for over years, that you just sit down and an hour later, you come to a deal.
Really, it was that C-Rice up the money, they went to 350,000 versus the 100,000.
They're going to be able to swap.
Really, what they're doing is people think that the coal is going to go to the pollium site.
If not, it's going to go to the Foxtra or a terminal where they have salt already.
And they're just flipping it, because it's going to work easier for them to put the coal piles where the salt was, and then put the salt to the area that we're going to develop.
They got 16 acres where before they were about 14.
It's a 60-year lease.
They wanted 100.
But you know, people on the county, some of the county board members only wanted like a 25.
And so I think that's good.
Yeah, that was a good give and take and then the only thing I still have you know a little trepidation about is and I said this in closed session is that but I mean I guess both parties agreed to it was to have a September 15th Deadline to execute the the entire lease right.
I mean I said where could we push that out?
But but if everybody's agreeing to it.
I mean everything is basically Set in stone.
It's just getting the evil
lease agreement done because we have to build out that site.
The people need to know that are listening, it's that the coal piles aren't going to be gone next month.
They're going to be there for another probably a year to two years because they're just going to use them down and there could be anywhere between 12 to 18 months of coal at that site as it is.
We need time to develop a port.
I mean, we got to put in a port.
out there I mean to build a little port wall and everything and then we you know we're looking at some rail as well so it's gonna railroad rail let me say rail of course so there's there's some work that's gonna be done and it's gonna take some time
night.
It's going to
I heard two years.
Maybe even up to three years It's gonna be located and then the development's got to start.
So this is a long process, but it's happening I mean, it's like acquiring something at least you got it now.
You got to work out the details So I sort of congratulate you you're you've been on the county board.
What 22 years?
Yeah,
22 years.
So and I haven't missed a meeting yet.
So I'm awesome.
All right I've missed some committee meetings, but I haven't missed that but you know, I'm just real happy with the
the way that we were able to move forward.
I appreciate you and Mayor Jaden being there.
Uh, the, uh, I didn't really, not taking a shot anybody, but you know, it's interesting to see all the different state representatives.
Oh,
They all showed up there for, oh, and then they're going to tell us, Oh yeah, you guys got to work together and come to agreement.
This is so great.
I'm like,
No, you guys go back to your place in Madison.
You guys start working together and figure things out.
Well, Pat, you did it.
That was great last
Pat Evans, Brown Party Board.
You all have a great day.
Like I was saying, I was involved with the group to try to bring that baseball stadium here to Green Bay at the shipyard district, because people don't see, I mean, that spot, looking over that river, we've got a nice landscape to look at now.
And it's not like high rises or whatever it at, but it's a nice horizon.
But you almost have to be on the water to see it when you're going down broadly.
There's prime property on that river, on that east side of the, or west side of the river that, man, the potential is huge.
We
It needs it bad.
Yeah, now it's just, you get people have to be patient.
It's not going to happen overnight, but it's a, that's a huge vote.
Yeah, I'm coming forward for the community.
We were just talking Lisa Hale had a good thing on her whole WISCO week, or not her entire, but one of the main.
Themes is safety in the summer and we're talking about a Emergence room doctor.
I talked to one or actually I read about it You know and he had a top 10 things the only things I can remember about was about his daughters or his kids It's like you don't drive a motorcycle until you absolutely know what you're doing and you're whatever whatever and you do every safety thing when you ride a bike You got to be bright.
You got to wear the brightest clothes possible or have a light or whatever would ever You never dive into water.
That's not it
at least like twice as deep as you are head first.
Those are just some of the things.
What about for your sales market?
And another thing to talk to was young kids.
Even young kids can get dehydrated.
I mean, you know, I was watching a thing last night.
It's an amazing thing.
I can't think of any of this documentary on soldiers in Afghanistan.
And they were walking across the desert kind of and they were taking fire.
And everybody had to run to this one thing and there's where, where so and so, where so and so.
And they saw him laying down.
Like, you know, it's like, oh my God, he must have been hit.
They went out there.
Well, he had passed out.
He said, all of a sudden things start to, I just passed out.
And so I mean, it can, most well trained people, people don't understand.
Once that hits, it's a scary
situation, isn't it, Mark?
In the heat.
And think about it here.
You know, we get, we just talked about it.
I think when you were gone, heat, when it gets warm, we were not used to it.
So you just got to be, you know, you got to, you
get used to it.
You got,
acclimate.
I mean, it just, it's one of those things though, you just don't,
figured out so when you go over overseas where it's warmer over there and the sun's just baking down here you know it takes a time so it is I mean but you know what a lot of this is schools out summer begins yeah people are more active I think I heard you guys on the radio talking about you know when you're driving more kids are out you know and so it's you know it or you know everyone's just out everyone's out doing more activity so
When we talk about safety, it could be just, are you being seen?
Are you doing something safe?
You know, we always see injuries go up at this point.
You know, kids are out of school.
They're on, you know, monkey bars, they're on trampolines and different things happen.
Um, you hope that these things don't happen, but hey, how can you prevent
and they're excited and they
But I also talk about this of, I was building a deck the last couple of weekends, my wife telling me, hey, are you putting on your sunscreen?
As simple as, and I'll admit, I was one of those guys who have done woodworking and not putting on glasses.
go saw, you saw something.
All it takes is one little piece to kick up and get you in the eye
So it's one of those things.
Put on your glasses, put on your hearing protection.
I mean, there's things that you can do.
Think about how many times I probably went to a concert where now you can get those little foam, put them in your ears.
You still can hear the concert, but it helps your
I was doing it right before Dominic's graduation from high school.
We were talking, getting the party ready.
And I forget what it was.
I needed this metal like
a corner piece for something, a planter, whatever, okay?
So I was like, I'll just, I'll just do it super quick.
So I just grabbed it and I cut it and I just grinded it a little bit.
Didn't put on the safety glasses because it's gonna be one small thing.
A piece of metal came up and it hit me right here, okay?
There might still be a scar.
If that had been what, an eighth of an inch, I could have lost my eye.
In that quick of a thing, it's like, this is gonna take 10 seconds and that piece hit me like a BB gun, right
That guy, the doctor put out the top 10 things you got to do for safety in the summer.
Wearing a helmet's got to be way up there, way, way up there.
For not just biking, but for skateboarding, for rollerblading, that's not the most popular thing anymore.
But I mean, just a helmet, and there's some cool looking helmets.
You just got to have your kid pick up whatever one they
want.
Yeah, I think color.
I know, you know, make stickers.
They can put names on them if they want.
Exactly.
I mean, but it's, you know, I heard you talking about the flookies.
They're going to preach this, but it's like.
Think of how many times that, well, Tracy was, they were hit, you know, and if you did not have the helmet on, you know, how that could have affected you.
So it split a split second.
So many, you know, you just talking about cutting something, you're going to do something real quick.
You don't think it's going to happen.
And then bam.
So yeah, it's one of those things.
Guess what?
You have to kind of think ahead.
had
on.
I think it's just being aware.
We're at the auxiliary.
Right.
Sometimes it's just being aware.
Right.
You know, like, we love going over to rivers and to show the beach.
It may be one of the best beaches, maybe in the Midwest.
No question.
It's one of the most hidden gems.
Absolutely.
But if it's cold, you know, you go over there June, July, it could still be a little cold.
Or...
if the waves start to come in.
Okay, we were
Jim, I think it was last summer I told you or the summer before we were there and it started getting kind of nasty with the waves and we saw a bunch of kids that's like, boy, they seem a little further out and when the kids drowned.
Oh, do you remember that?
It was a year ago or two years ago.
She
I got nervous watching that.
And it happens.
It can happen so quick.
So I think it's one of those things.
You have to be aware.
You have to be aware of your other friends, people you're with, and just sometimes speak up and say, hey, maybe we need to head back in.
Or, hey, is that what's going on?
So I think that's when you guys talk about summer kicking off, and it's just being aware.
And probably just think it ahead.
Again, go back to sunscreen.
My wife says, did you apply it?
Sure.
Did you apply it again, you know, at lunchtime or this afternoon afternoon?
Nope.
Well,
John, my dad drove a concrete truck for 30 plus years, and I would say... Did he have his arm out the window?
causes of skin cancer is truck drivers.
Bucket hat was probably his biggest thing.
So he's got to take care of himself.
Once again, shameless plug here for our man, Todd.
Miracle League of Green Bay starts tomorrow at L.A.
Optimus Park.
It's a beautiful facility, right on libel.
Would that be libel or Baird?
at that part, I guess.
I guess it switches over there.
Yeah, it does.
Runs through June and July, 215 players on 16 different teams.
It's the 19th season of the Miracle League, provides kids with mental or physical challenges, an opportunity to play baseball, stop by anytime, Todd of Green Bay.
Folks, I know Manitowoc has one in different places.
It is one of the greatest
athletic type of things that has come up over the last 20 years in this community.
And they've got a
I think, Jim, you hit it, or John, you said it's in multiple communities too.
Yeah, that's what's great.
You know, you probably barely drive 10, 15 miles and just take your kids out, take your families out, support that group.
I was doing a story one time when Ap or excuse me, a man at walk was putting a really great friend of mine was very instrumental in getting it built and everything going fundraise.
So I went down to do a story on it.
I said, could you have a couple of the kids, you know, make shirts?
And he goes, well, I've got this one kid is really good, you know, like infielder and stuff.
And he was hitting and I was right behind.
like right about shooting over his head.
And the guy hit a little bit of a harder one than he did.
And it took one of those hops.
And the kid ducked and hit my camera and knocked the lens right out of the camera.
I said, I thought
and amplify whatever we're calling
Yeah, it's called the bell and run.
It is.
Still will continue to be called the bell and run.
10,000,
join
June 14th.
Yeah, a week from Saturday.
Wow.
So it's coming quick.
It's usually that's, you know, we say it's kickoff summer.
There's so many things that, but there's a lot of things already going on.
You know, kids are out of school, and there's, I'll tell you what, that's another great support of kids for running program in that run.
There's a lot of kids that will come.
You know, the school's done, but they'll come back out this next week and they'll run the 5Ks, 10Ks.
Most of those kids run 10Ks, 6.2 miles.
That's awesome, man.
which I think is very cool.
Yeah, walk it.
There's a 5K now.
You know, I think there's, you know, it's not like everyone's doing marathons and it takes a lot of commitment.
So come out and do, you know, you can walk or run a 5K.
It
music and there's activities and there's Come out and see the elite runners and autographs and I haven't seen the list of who's all coming in but I you know, I'll
John's bell and run is always the Friday night before.
ask.
They're great.
They're more than willing to autograph the talk.
I just done that for years.
You know, it's funny.
I remember one time for NBC 26, we televised the bell.
Okay.
So my day was, I did that and then went out and worked the Jerry parents event after that was, that was a long day.
And that's coming up.
Dave, that's coming up Saturday.
Correct.
The Jerry parents ride for cancer.
What a great thing Jerry's done over the years.
Huh?
Yeah.
It's a, again,
just giving back to your community, supporting it, you know, and heck, I've told people for that Jerry parents run a ride as if you don't have a motorcycle.
You can still go to the side of the road, find out where that, you know, the road is and watch them go by.
is the day.
Oh, Sunday.
The bell in is
exact same day.
It used to be the same day.
Hey,
You got to look a little bit, but, and so much of the stuff we do here on Green Bay, we're talking about that yesterday, is family focused.
It's, it's not date night.
I mean, it's great, there's a lot of that too, but I mean, it's just, there's things that the kids can go with you.
Family focused, but either no cost.
For very little cost, right?
You know, I think that's the other thing It's not gonna cost you a ton to do we just need a whole bunch of things.
It's very little cost to no cost,
You're gonna drive in by yourself.
You know what you ever go to buffet by yourself.
I Have I've done both done that.
I can't say I've gone to a drive-in, but I heard that yes you everyone should go through a drive-in and There's there's a whole bunch of them in this area.
I know freedom Chilton one up in shilton was
I don't think
about where it was?
Because we
Yeah.
And you know what though?
Yeah.
If I went by myself, I'd be checking that backseat.
Make sure that those kids aren't in their backseat.
Right.
You know, again, not now again, cost you something to go to a drive-in.
do it once.
You know, we know we laugh.
My anniversary is coming up and we always go up to Door County and we see that drive in and it's just it's never worked out.
But I think if you were up there for a week, you had to do it.
But around here, feel the scenes is down and free.
That's right.
Feel it's really cool.
And they used to have two projectors.
I don't know if they still do,
the street with school,
too.
break.
Right now, this was taking place in Normandy.
And I want to read the excerpts of an interview I did with another local gentleman who was heavily involved in this day.
I was 29 years old and had a baby at home.
We'd been told that they weren't going to draft married guys with kids.
I probably could've gotten out, but like everybody else I knew, I thought, what the heck?
I might as well go in and do my duty.
After a while, I wondered why it was so foolish.
I was in an anti-tank unit at Fort Bragg when one night they burst through the door and told us we were now in the 82nd Airborne.
I could've fallen through the floor.
Airborne?
Well, they put us in a glider unit, or gliders were made of aluminum.
Thank God they weren't like the plywood ones.
Thank God I don't know how those guys survived.
They all seemed to burst apart as soon as they landed.
All I remember on the trip over was the flak.
That's all you could see.
I swear it felt like you could walk on it.
I can't believe we didn't get knocked down.
I still don't know how in the devil we got over in one piece.
I don't know how they missed us.
I consider myself a lucky guy.
That's all it was.
Pure luck.
The landing was pretty rough.
There was a lot of stuff set up to bust up the gliders.
Stuff nobody knew about.
A lot of gliders got clobbered by the hedgerows and whole squads were wiped out.
We lost our first guy right after we landed.
It was one of our young guys.
One of those guys who never complained about anything.
A shell hit near him and tore his back wide open.
That was hard for all of us.
A lot of people talk about how tough the gliders had it.
But you know,
I still think we had a damn sight easier than the guys landing on the beach.
Those guys were in the water.
They caught hell.
Those poor guys, they paid the price.
Dennis Nagan, 87 Airborne glider unit, Kokona.
Well, there you go.
We're talking about Cowboy Dave here and his dad was unit there and the gliders and a lot of those were built in the UP and
Mark, I know the respect you have for all of our veterans and once again, 81, you know, the thing is too, it's like, you know, those were guys that grew up around us.
Oh, somebody just, what the heck's, what Todd, what in the world is going on here?
I thought we didn't have our musical guests for another hour.
Who is this guy?
Why is he here?
one job
Official doughnuts.
is doughnut day.
These are doughnuts.
Uncle Mike, now we're
there.
There's a couple
Big
Now we got a couple of things going
on.
Yeah, let's hear about what you got going on.
I'm just getting older.
We've got Jackson Square is gonna be a fun one because There's a lot of events at night and all over all over the place
in honor of Jim's birthday.
In honor of Jim's birthday.
But
I think you had downtown Green Bay in here a few days ago.
did.
We said, what do you have during the day that people would like to just come and get a sandwich or something during the lunch time?
Or some of the seniors that are a little more intimidated coming down at night and parking in the mall and stuff like that.
And I mean, where the old parking ramps were.
And so we said, you maybe we should do one.
So we're actually teamed up with downtown Green Bay on the 26th.
And they're moving into Jackson Square.
You probably remember when the old ones used to be with the Y and the church was not happy when that moved.
So that's great.
That's
back.
So they're going to have food trucks and ice cream trucks.
And we're playing a two hour concert from 11 one free for all ages coming to have lunch, bring your mom folks out seniors.
It's just a great walkable.
It's just, yeah, that's going to be great.
And then
week, I got the partner in crime here.
Yeah.
He's got a fabulous rock and roll show that I'm playing in.
Yeah, and daddy can kind of talk about that.
May I just
night?
We did not have a show last night.
We had a party
Yeah.
Why is that?
Okay, sure.
Does it got stuff?
Oh, it's inside out.
That's hilarious.
You know, oh my gosh, my wife is going to kill me.
My wife is going to kill me.
What?
What?
oversleep?
Can
and you get done at four o'clock in the
morning.
Full disclosure, I gotta be honest, I haven't had a drink in 13 years.
So I don't want anybody to start thinking I'm, you know, hitting the sauce.
Are you still
Well, never.
Never, nice.
I got a gasoline, I have it, I lean
No, let me tell you, so I got up this morning and my dear bride was asleep.
I didn't want to wake her up.
So I just grabbed the shirt that I had laid out.
I put it on and then I got here.
I cannot believe my shirt's inside out.
You gotta get the graminals, whatever that's called.
Oh my gosh, how embarrassing.
Anyway, so what do you got going on besides inside out shirts?
Okay, yeah, that's the name of the band.
That was a good name of a band.
No, it's the Vibra Slaps in the inside out.
Okay, we got old time rock and roll at the Riverside Ballroom.
your favorite place, isn't it?
Oh man.
We do shows at...
at Riverside and would do some at the automobile gallery too.
We enjoyed that.
Those are great
there.
But this one here is at the Riverside Barroom.
It's music of the 60s and 70s.
It runs June 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th.
We have a matinee on the 12th, but that's sold out.
So we've got some great tickets available for the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th.
You can go on DaddyDs.com, D-A-D-D-Y-D-S.com or call 920-371-2250.
give me a little time because I'll need to change my shirt.
Order
today to get a
free shirt.
You call in and you mention my inside out shirt.
I'll save you the sales tax.
How does that sound?
Five and a half percent.
And you know
right?
Oh, that's hilarious.
the music we're doing if you if something you dig it come on down and check it out we're doing the four seasons walk like a man in his kiss run away some Beatles when I'm 64 hey Jude I fought the law the wall won Aquarius give me some loving staying alive dancing Queen little Elvis can't help falling in love with you I got the music in me great that loving this also I mean come on we know
what Chuck
Man,
you
feel so good on soprano sax.
Yeah, Kevin.
That's a great part of the
Todd, a little sample that may they play that way.
Oh, my gosh.
That's
now.
We're
because it's my birthday because he let's never mention it again.
From now on, when I come in, I'm wearing my shirt inside out.
You
will say that I
That's what I
this is your busy time We just played this week was a lot of fun.
We played with the car club
the Dementia of Curative over on the West Side.
All the cars came and then we did a half hour concert and the place went wild.
Usually does when you get up on the table.
Yeah.
He usually does.
We get the
beat
tossing and the Ambrose going, it's wild.
Well, I'll tell you too, sticking with the theme of today as well, we always pay tribute to our veterans.
We acknowledge them.
Oh, you do.
Every show that we do, whether we got.
Oh, you're the one.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, I served in the Army.
Absolutely.
And so this show,
we're gonna do the battle we do the battle him a traditional battle him and then we wrap that into a medley with
Elvis trilogy.
That's awesome.
So yeah, it's a big, big powerful ending to the show.
So we appreciate you veterans.
And we do give a veterans discount too.
I just want to
When I was graduating from high school, my class was the first one that didn't have to register for the draft since before World War one.
Okay.
And the politicians were going crazy.
It's like, my God, we're vulnerable.
Everybody's going to attack us.
We don't, we got a draft.
And all these young kids like yourself said, you know what, we got this.
Yeah.
And you guys put together, so an incredible military force, the greatest military force in the nation or in the
just by volunteers.
Well, you know, my MOS, I signed up.
I was going to be in broadcasting.
I was going to do television.
I was going to be a military reporter.
I got to Milwaukee,
MEP Center, and this
of a recruiter guy goes, wouldn't your parents be more proud if they had an engineer?
in their family.
Go out and find landmines.
He signed me up as a 12th Bravo.
Switched my MOS on me and I was out there like Bugs Bunny.
Looking for booby traps.
Wow.
you must feel good.
Next week, we're at the Farmers Market with the band.
Then we're up in Ephraim on Monday and then just keeps going on.
And Wednesday, we're in Seymour.
you
but more music in this community.
And we need that.
Oh, it's all over, Jim.
We played after we played that.
We went over to the Bellevue Senior Living.
Yeah, that's good place.
It was just wild.
We played their happy hour.
It's like Evergreen.
is awesome.
It's like a cruise ship.
It's just
you know what I mean?
Yeah, well, I mean you guys you walk into a place like the Riverside Ballroom and there's nostalgia there There's neat architecture, you know even once again We don't have a show coming up in October at the automobile gallery But the aesthetic to go in and have other things to to look at while you're there to do a
a 50s and 60s show and have the 50s and 60s cars around you.
It was really cool.
And Green Bay's music community and scene is really, really great.
I mean, people.
We talked about that yesterday.
Man, there's so many great places to go.
And then there's a lot of really, really good bands out there.
But the thing
just something else
too.
Oh my God.
Darrell is just the nicest guy.
I mean, always just.
kind and very kind.
He wants
Just Google Kevin Vanessa in the talk of the town or whole schedules area.
Right.
Like I say, and put down the 26 Jackson Square 11
to one.
We're
going to have a fun summer afternoon.
We'll be there.
Kevin Vanessa, Daddy D. Daddy D's.
Daddy D's.
Daddy D's, D-A-D-D-Y-D-S.
Rock and roll.
Dot com.
Easy to find.
well, we're welcoming a special guest here, and we, as fun as this show is, we have to talk about some things that maybe aren't so great in our community, and that's homelessness.
And I do think the community's doing better.
And thanks to you, Beverly, who
You run the safe parking program.
Is that what it's called?
Yes, safe place parking program is part of wise women gathering places programs.
Yes.
We had no idea it was going to be such a need.
We found it's a real gap in our community.
We thought it would be just a temporary COVID response back in 2020.
well you want it to be
yeah a place a place to belong because they get shoot off residential streets shoot off business place uh business parking lots yeah uh and tell our listeners it's not
There's kids, there's a real cross-section.
Men and women, some people with their pets, it's just they can't part with their pets.
So there's so many different stories that are on the lot.
Some are working, trying to get their security deposit or find a place with a 4% vacancy.
It's so hard to find a place right now.
Some just come.
and spend a few weeks or months and then we don't see them again.
Some come every month, a couple nights as they need it.
So just year-round?
It is, yeah.
But are you seeing an increase?
Every year we've had an increase.
Every winter, every summer it goes down in the winter.
Soon as the shelters close, we jump like 10 cars.
So it's just one shelter that
Yeah, we had a blip last year where our insurance, we had to find new insurance.
And then when we did, it was a lot more.
So it's 5,000 for just a lot for the insurance.
We have safety monitors on site.
Safety monitors.
Yep, they check them in and then they check them out.
And when we started, we were there, had them there the whole time the parkers were there, but as time went.
We've navigated, you know, funding, Patrick, the funding and the need.
So we're there more on the weekends.
Can
One quick question.
I had somebody a couple of years ago and I was at their home in Appleton.
And it was like miserably below zero and there was no place for this guy and he was going to be sleeping in his truck.
And I brought him sleeping bags and whatever.
Could you still, he might die of exposure.
I didn't know what to do.
What do you do on those unbelievably cold nights with people in their cars?
So we provide, we have electrical outlets on one side of the lot so they can plug in with electric blankets.
We've got people who donate electric blankets for them.
We also have those portable batteries, Jackery brand.
And we charge them during the day and loan them out to the parkers during the night.
This is pretty wealthy community.
Well, the whole country's wealthy.
There's two people that we want to connect with today.
And one is I want to just give out the number.
If you need a safe place to park tonight or tomorrow or the rest of the summer and that, they could just call you at, oh, you want a different number here?
Okay, 920-883-7202.
So that's a safe place parking program, 920-883-7202.
The other thing I,
They need money.
I mean, all nonprofits need money.
And yours is a huge campaign, what, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000?
That's very doable.
But if you want to donate to this really worthy cause, it's 920.
490-0627 and that's that's your phone.
Yeah Get you to us.
Yeah, and then and then on our on our website as well.
We have a button There's two buttons.
So if you want to dead it designate it straight for safe parking push that button on our website.
All right
It's bad anything.
We just had the author of the book home housing is a homeless problem and Anything below 5% we're gonna continue to see homelessness increase in Green Bay So it's a bigger bigger issue our community needs to build build housing so that and that will will impact the homelessness, right?
That would be great.
Yeah, that would be great.
Volunteers, we do have some community groups that come in and bring a hot meal a few nights a week and Salvation Army brings a breakfast once a week.
We are open to volunteers to help with the safety monitor role, which would reduce some of our operating costs.
We're so thankful to the Oneida Nation letting us use that parking lot for the purpose.
Um, so yeah, we're always open to new ways.
Um, gas cards are appreciated for the parkers at different times.
So that's,
Yeah.
And
And there's a real nice sense of community.
The parkers take care of each other.
They're letting each other know where there's resources.
We have our safety monitors who can connect them to resources as
It is.
Mine or the mayor, back at this.
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