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April 25 is a very special day for me and four other people. It was 29 years ago today that 99Q hit the airwaves of the Hannibal-Quincy area. On April 25, 1985 at 5:30 a.m., WQCY-FM changed its format, as well as my life. The format went from “Easy Listening” to “Top 40″ and with it a legacy began.

Over the weekend, the United States Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescued a sick 1-year-old child from a disabled sailboat in the deep seas of the Pacific Ocean. This family of four was in the midst of sailing around the world in their sailboat when it lost power and shortly thereafter one of the children became ill.

Former Quincy University Hawks basketball coach Steve Hawkins will be on the sidelines today guiding his Western Michigan Broncos against the highly touted Syracuse University Orangemen in the second round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The game can be seen this afternoon locally on KHQA-TV with a 2:45pm scheduled start time.

So here we are some 17 days away from making our 28th stroll down Maine Street as part of the St. Patrick's Parade. As of this writing we have 31 entries and most likely will be around 90 again like last year. One of the things we always are in need of is Irish music in the parade.

Another one of those all time classic Christmas TV programs will air tonight on CBS-television (KHQA-TV locally) as they broadcast "Frosty the Snowman".

It is one of the all time great Christmas shows and it airs tonight as CBS broadcasts the classic 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' program tonight. It will air at 7 p.m. locally on KHQA-TV.

Spots still are available for the 12th annual Alzheimer’s Pro-Am golf tournament, to be held Monday, July 15th, two weeks from today. Hurry, though, because this popular event is filling up. Registration for the 18-hole golf tournament at Spring Lake Country Club in Quincy begins at 10 a.m. the day of the tournament, followed by an 11 a.m. shotgun start. Lunch will be provided.

The number one question in Quincy this week is “what’s going on with the water?”  That question was asked even more today when a report came out on a Facebook post and other news web sites that a young Quincy girl was taken to St. Louis Children’s Hospital with flu-like symptoms.

Ok so I got home Monday and I put the TV on only to find that the U.S. Open Men’s Tennis Championship game was on CBS.  It seems like this event went on forever and I mean days not hours. I remember when the championship game would be played on Labor Day in New York...

One never knows where you will end up and just what you may be doing in the future. I guess that’s what makes life so interesting. Take Amy Drescher. Amy is a private investigator for Rosetta Stone Investigations, LLC and lives in Tennessee, outside of Nashville. Amy will be on Anderson Cooper’s daytime syndicated show which can be seen locally tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11am on C-GEM-TV.