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so excited to visit right now with Melissa from East River Legal Services. Now
I've heard the name before, but I don't even pretend to know exactly what
you guys do. The good news is we've got Melissa to explain that.
But before I even introduce Melissa, I want to let you know that you
can see her and their crew tomorrow at the Human Race. And that is
one of the fun events that happens through our friends at Health Connect of South
Dakota. And when you sign up to run or walk in the Human Race,
your money goes to a nonprofit. One of those nonprofits is the one
we're going to talk about. So Melissa, tell me a little more about
what you guys do at East River Legal Services. So we provide free civil
legal versus to people in the thirty three Eastern counties in South Dakota. So
that means helping people with protection orders or evictions, bankruptcies and all kinds of
civil legal issues. And I'm looking at the logo, it looks like it's
basically from the river all the way east to like the Minnesota border. Correct.
We just don't have on the eastern side of the state the upper two
Court counties in the corner because those are Native American land and we actually do
not get grant funding to do that. Oh okay, Well, mainly this
the whole area that we cover. If you're listening on the radio in the
Sioux Falls area, they definitely cover this area. And what is it that's
usually something happening in somebody's life when they're reaching out saying, Melissa, I
need your help help me out here, lady. Well, they're usually not
reaching out to me. They're reaching out to an intake person. But usually,
you know, when they're in a domestic violence situation, maybe they're going
through custody or divorce. We also deal with a lot of people who are
trying to get public benefits, so social security disability, as well as people
facing eviction and homelessness. We actually have a street outreach para legal in our
office who work specifically with homeless people. So the thing that's nice, You
guys provide amazing services. They're absolutely needed and a lot of the time these
are probably services people didn't even realize they could get from you. Is that
pretty accurate? That is accurate. And then in addition to that, we
also have advocates that help people when we have cases, who maybe help connect
people with resources in the community. So that's kind of how we got involved
with Health connect. But they connect people with all kinds of housing resources,
public benefits, counseling services, all kinds of things like that that maybe are
tied to their court issue as well. And the human race is coming up
tomorrow. I cannot believe tomorrow is June. How did that happen? I
mean, I have no luck. I don't quite understand, but I double
checked and it still is. Yes, tomorrow is June, Sir Thoma Park
nine am, Will you actually be at this event tomorrow? I will be
there. Well, you got to say hello, I'm going to be there
as well. I'll be the guy with the microphone and the music making some
noise, having some fun. Sounds good. I will definitely look for you,
and East River Legal Service is one of the nonprofit organizations that's involved in
this. Also Center of Hope, eat Well Sioux Falls Mobile Market, Faith
Temple, Food Giveaway, Midwest Street Medicine, Minihaha County County Family Violence Council,
Owen's Outfitters, Project Cars, Saint Francis House, and the Foster Network.
I mean, all of these amazing organizations that you can choose, and
I'll bet if we ask Melissa, she'd say, I kind of hope if
you're going to be there, that you'll choose East River Legal Service. It's
because when they choose you, you guys get some of those funds, right.
Absolutely, all of the organizations are wonderful and deserve support. But I
hope you'll consider us. I hope so too. It sounds like you do
some amazing things, and I look forward to chatting with you tomorrow a little
bit more about and again, thank you for being a part of the event,
and thank you for taking the time to chat with me. Wonderful.
Thank you so much. We appreciate it. And if you get a chance
tomorrow, folks, come out and join us. I've been a part of
the human race since the very beginning. It's a great event and one of
my favorite things, just the name. Here's the thing that's funny. I
was wearing a shirt that says the Human Race and I had a guy who
point at the shirt and laugh. He goes, that is hilarious. I'm
like, what's up? He goes, is that a real thing? I'm
like, no, that really is a thing. But he just thought it
was a joke shirt, you know, because the name the Human Race kind
of sounds like it could be a joke. But it is a real thing,
right, Yep. Absolutely, and it's a fun thing. And again
it is coming up tomorrow. If you get a chance, come out and
join us. It is at Sirtoma Park tomorrow morning, nine am. All
of the details can be found. I've got a link to all the information
at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash sous Falls News.
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