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Holy Cow, we're cruising through this week. I've got a couple of
fun things we're going to chat about. First of all, I would like
to invite you to join me this Saturday, the sixteenth of September for a
free event at the Sioux Falls Arena. It's called the Health Connect Festival.
Now. For years we called it the health Connect Fair, but this year
is the Health Connect Festival, and you can see photos from past events.
Been doing this thing for a long time and I've been honored to be a
part of it for like the last decade, a little over the last decade,
I think eleven till three this Saturday to sixteenth at the Sioux Falls Arena.
It is free to get in. There's a bunch of health information,
a lot of fun stuff for kids. There's entertainment. I'll be there playing
music and broadcasting having some fun. I would love for you to come and
join us. There's a free lunch, there's all kinds of great stuff.
All of the details can be found at health connect sd dot org. Again
health connect sd dot org and I've got a link to that on our Facebook
page as well. Coming up in a moment, we're gonna be visiting with
the folks from Midwest Honor Flight and we're gonna be talking everything. Elvis.
Yeah, there's a really cool event coming up where they've got some fun Elvis
music. Everybody gets to be Elvis that night, well not everybody, but
quite a few people get to be Elvis that night, and then there's a
fun band playing afterwards as well. It's a lot of fun. It's coming
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Excited right now to visit about a really fun event that's coming up. Midwest
Honor Flight has an event called Everybody's Elvis and this is a really cool thing
and I've got on the line Aaron Van Beek with Midwest Honor Flight. First
of all, sir, thank you for all the time and effort you put
into this amazing organization. You guys do some really really cool things, and
this little fundraiser is a cool thing. But the fundraiser is a cool thing
to raise money to do the really cool things you do. Absolutely now,
it's at least we can do for the best. I got to go and
we're very excited for the opportunity for more and more veterans to get the opportunity
to visit their memorials of DC. And of course we couldn't do that without
the donors or the fundraisers like Everybody's Elvis and Everybody's Elvis. That is a
really fun event and it's coming up here before you know it on October twenty
feet at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance West Russell and Sioux Falls. If
people would like to go to this, we're going to tell them how to
get tickets in a minute, but let's talk about what happens at this event
because it's a cool event. Yeah, this is the second year that we've
done this. We used to do in annual hanger downs, but unfortunately the
cost of that was just getting to be too much. So we had a
vocal group of fourteen artists last year come together and they wanted to raise money
for us since we had lost out on that fundraiser, and put together what
they called Everybody's Elvis and they then sold out. We had over three hundred
people at the Stanford Barn. It's a really fun night. The first little
bit of the program as impersonators that are picking a song of Elvis, and
while it's the Elvis song, there's a little bit of a twist on the
songs that those artists has specifically gone ahead and done just to make it their
own. And then of course then we'll have a dance after that with Surf
and Safari. We'll kind of do a fifties sixties dance for us to close
out the rest of the night. And so all the tickets and the silent
auction will all go towards supporting flights in twenty twenty four. And the nice
thing is this is something that you can definitely dress up and come and just
kind of have a really fun night. But if you don't dress up,
you're still welcome, right, Oh, absolutely absolutely. It's fun to see
the poodle skirts and all that stuff. But you know, we're not going
to turn anybody away for just wanting to come. And I don't dance myself,
So if you want to be like me and just watch everybody else or
listen to good music, feel free to come out and support not only the
veterans but also the local artist that will be performing that night. And it
can be a spectator sport. You don't have to participate but if you want
to, you certainly can, and you can't ask for a better place to
do it in a better to be performing. Surf and Safari's amazing, Absolutely
they are. They are fun groups to listen to. And I'm looking at
this list of all the people that are going to be performing leading up to
that as well, and I think that's really cool because again, everybody's Elvis.
I think the thing that's neat is all of these people, many of
these are people from right around here who are going to be getting up and
performing an Elvis song, like you said, maybe with a little twist.
But the thing that's cool about it is it's it's just a really neat way
to kind of everybody get on the same page, have a whole lot of
fun together and raise money for a really good cause. Absolutely so, Midwest
Honor Flights. Everybody's Elvis tickets available now twenty five dollars in advance. If
you wait until the day, it's a little more. It's thirty dollars at
the door, So don't wait. Get your tickets now. Aaron, where
do I go if I would like to get tickets? Absolutely so, anybody
that wants to get tickets an advanced can visitor website Midwest Honor Flight dot org
slash elvis that I'll have all the information in regards to the ticketing itself,
but also all the group's performing and also at that link there'll be the list
of our silent auction items that will be up for bids at night as well.
And I'm on that page right now, and there's some photos here.
The photo on the top is that from last year. Yes it is,
Yep, it is. And again it just looks like a really fun time.
And again it's sneaking up here before you know it. If you'd like
to go, I'll give you all the details on it once again. But
again I want to say thank you to Midwest Honor Flight for all that you
guys do. And Aaron, how long have you guys been around Midwest Honor
Flight has been going off? Is it about a decade? We were incorporated
in twenty seventeen, so coming up on ten years, I guess here in
a couple couple of years, but it feels like it's been a decade with
the amount of flights that we've done, and you've squeezed a lot of flights.
How many flights have you done. Now there's a bunch. Yeah.
As of this spring, we had done our fifteen flights. We've flown over
thirteen hundred veterans over those fifteen flights. There's two of them going out this
fall, so there will be another one hundred and seventy veterans getting that chance
to go, and then our hope is for more in twenty twenty four and
then continuing that in the twenty twenty five. Currently there's over seven hundred and
sixty vestans in our weight, so we'll be busy for a couple more flights
at least. Nice well, and the thing that's nice, if people listening
want to contribute, they could just write a check to you if they want
that's that's certainly welcome. But if they want to contribute and have some fun
with you, Elvis Knight would be a great way to do that. Again,
that's coming up just here. Before you know it, it's it's a
Saturday. I'm trying to find my date here. I just had in front
of me Saturday, October twenty first at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance.
And again, that would be a really good way you could get your tickets
at Midwest Honor Flight dot org slash Elvis and then we're gonna be chatting here
soon about another opportunity coming up in November. So all of the money that
you guys are raising now is for next year, and we want to get
ahead of that and raise a bunch right, absolutely, absolutely, well,
thank you for all that you do. And again I had the honor to
come along as a media representative in one of the flights this year, and
I've always been a big fan of Midwest Honor Flight and all that you do,
and after seeing it with my own eyes, I just I'm amazed at
how much you guys get done with the team that you have, hardworking people,
huge hearts, they care so much and it's just amazing. Thank you,
thank you, thank you. Absolutely at least we can do, and
again, we couldn't do about the community's support. If you'd like to know
more, you can find them at Midwest Honorflight dot org. And I've got
a link to all of the information about Elvis Night at facebook dot com slash
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