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NOVEMBER 24–DECEMBER 22, 2020 DUBUQUE365.com ISSUE #375 18 THE 26TH ANNUAL HILLCREST REFLECTIONS IN THE PARK ENJOY THE HOLIDAY LIGHT DISPLAYS FROM NOV. 26 TO JAN. 3. IN LOUIS MURPHY PARK PHOTO: BOB FELDERMAN FEATURES SECTIONS 16 DUBUQUE FIGHTING SAINTS HOCKEY 6 EVENTS 16 HOTEL JULIEN 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS 24 NIGHTLIFE 17 DSO HOLIDAY CONCERTS 26 COLUMNISTS 20 HOLIDAY PET ADOPTIONS 22 SKULLDUGGERY GROOMING PRODUCTS PRODUCTION STAFF CONTRIBUTING WRITERS BRYCE PARKS GWEN BEATTY PUBLISHER, EVERYTHING ELSE GOOD ADVICE [email protected] [email protected] KRISTINA NESTEBY MATT BOOTH LAYOUT NINJA, DESIGNER MATTITUDE [email protected] [email protected] MIKE IRONSIDE SARA CARPENTER FEATURE WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER DO IT YOURSELF ADVICE [email protected] [email protected] DANNY FAIRCHILD ADVERTISING STAFF DINING [email protected] LISA STEVENSON [email protected] BOB GELMS 563-580-1691 BOB’S BOOK REVIEWS [email protected] PAM KRESS-DUNN COLUMNIST [email protected] SUNIL MALAPATI DINING [email protected] SPECIAL THANKS STEPHENMOUSE CHRISTY MONK, GINA SIEGERT, NEIL QUESTIONABLE HOROSCOPES STOCKEL, KAY SCHROEDER, RICH [email protected] BELMONT, MARGIE BLAIR, FRAN PARKS, JULIE STEFFEN, RON & JENNIFER TIGGES, JULIE GRIFFIN, MARK DIERKER, BACON, STEVEN SCHLEUNING, TIM BRECHLIN, ROY WHERE’S WANDO? & DEB BUOL, JEFF LENHART, GEN. BOB 365INK MAGAZINE FELDERMAN, DAVE HAAS, LISA OLSON, MIKE WE’VE HIDDEN WANDO 432 BLUFF ST, DUBUQUE, IA 52001 • DUBUQUE365.COm • 563-588-4365 • [email protected] DAMASO, PAUL GILLIGAN, PAUL & SANDY SOMEWHERE IN THIS MEYER, ALL OF OUR 365 FRIENDS AND ISSUE OF 365INK. CAN ALL CONTENTS © 2006–2020, COMMUNITY INCORPORATED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ADVERTISERS... AND YOU FOR READING. YOU FIND HIM? ALL BACON SERVED SEMI-CRISPY. slate of theater tickets. Like, no theater tickets… at all. Ugh. This was going to be rough. I thought if we expanded the auction to include some quality pre-owned items donated The holidays are here, and we definitely have by Dubuquers we just might clear $10,000 this things to celebrate since the last issue of 365ink. : ) year. Well, a lot of emails and phone calls later… You know, like Thanksgiving (albeit alone) and generosity far beyond what I thought we and soon… Christmas (hopefully not alone). would see in 2020, something crazy happened. What did you think I was referring to? We did AWESOME with the auction. We didn’t If you read regularly, you know that I’m the just beat my $10,000 goal; we beat last year’s jolly fat man who brings toys to thousands of $21,000 haul by a couple hundreds bucks. And kids every Christmas across the Tri-States, and here’s how great Dubuquers are: when people paid since it’s already Thanksgiving, I am officially for their items, we got a LOT of people rounding up to my eyeballs in holiday… um… cheer. up to the nearest $10, $50, or $100 level. So we Of all the things I thought would be a problem will exceed $22,000 when all is said and done. with getting toys to 5,000 kids, I never thought The ugly side of the auction is, now that we actually giving the toys away would be the are in the full swing of toy season, I’m also trying issue, but here we are in 2020! Joy! Two of my to fulfill these auction packages. In one day, I sent biggest distribution partners had to cancel their toys out to two agencies, picked up five pallets distributions this year because of the threat of of toys from Tomy Toys in Dyersville, IA using COVID-19 exposure. So a month out, we were the awesome Runde Auto Group Community wondering how we connect those 600–800 Support box truck, I delivered an auction air kids to the toys we were planning to give them. hockey table, and picked up a donated used The answer was to gather the minds of snow blower (that got sold for $500) to give to Dubuquers who have a vested interest in solv- the winner later. I make multitasking look like a ing this problem and do just that. Enter my walk in the park. Note: I also managed to knock first real Zoom meeting of 2020. Okay, I called out this issue of 365ink in the same week. into a couple, but this is the first one I actu- Of course, knocking out this issue and con- ally proactively organized. And by organized, I necting so many auction winners with their loot mean I was hoping it would work when I tried could not have happened without Kristina keep- to invite people 15 minutes before the meeting. ing the ship afloat at 365ink while I play with toys. Thankfully, Danielle from the United Way offered Someone should really buy her something nice. to setup the meeting invite in advance so I once So in the next few days we will attempt again dodged having to learn how to do that. to safely Black Friday shop at a couple select Within 45 minutes, we had a plan. A huge Dubuque retailers and sort those toys with thank you to Beth McGorry and St. Mark Youth only 10 masked people, spaced out in the toy Enrichment, Randy Rennison at Veterans warehouse. That’s instead of an army of 50 Affairs, Jacqueline Hunter at the Multicul- doing the job in two hours. On Dec. 5, we will tural Family Center, Danielle Peterson from be outside at Theisen’s Home • Farm • Auto United Way, and Beverly Maas from HACAP stuffing the truck with toys. We’ve been doing for helping save Christmas for so many kids. that for 12 years, and who knew that the safe Despite being Santa in the Dubuque area social-distancing nature of the event would one for 12 years, I’ve never actually helped organize day make sense, since we have frozen our butts an actual distribution event unless you count off many, many times for this cause. And I think the kids party at Five Flags. But that was just a there will still be a Teddy Bear Toss for Toys For big party where everyone got the same thing… Tots at a Saints game, but it might come later and lot of cookies. THIS IS HARD. It’s not just in the season, and then we’ll have all the plush giving out toys; it’s a crazy scheduling nightmare toys we’ll need for 2021 already in the bag. Like where you help hundreds of families without all 200 bags. Glad lawn and leaf bags to be exact. of them coming in at the same time. After all, So, I KNOW you were wondering how you can we can’t have more than, what is it, 15 people in help out. Hey, glad you asked. This is easy. When a room at a time? Whoaboy. This is going to be you are out buying toys for other kids this year, interesting. But we got it. Already, every person buy one more for our kids and put it in a Toys For or company I asked to chip in to make it work Tots box. There are boxes all over town, but if you has said yes without hesitation. THAT IS WHAT can’t find one, we suggest Theisen’s, Steve’s Ace, IT MEANS TO LIVE IN DUBUQUE! THANK YOU! Hartig Drug, or Dollar General. And if you ain’t So, now that smart people are helping leaving the house until there is a COVID vaccine, me with that, I can go back to just fundrais- you can go online to ToysForTots.org, take a few ing, buying, collecting, sorting, packing, seconds for FIND THE DUBUQUE PAGE on the and delivering 15,000 toys in the next three site, and make a tax-deductible cash donation weeks. Piece of cake! Hold my beer! to our program. We would really appreciate it. Just last week I hosted my annual Facebook And, because a few people have asked, Silent Auction for Toys For Tots. Over the years, I’m happy to say that this is the first holiday we have grown from $7,000 to $15,000, to an season in two years that I don’t have cancer. amazing $21,000 last year. We made a LOT So when I spend January in bed, it’s because of money auctioning off concert and theater I earned it, not because I’m recovering from tickets packaged with great local dinners thanks having organs removed! That’s enough to be to a lot of crazy generous partners who run thankful for right there. But I’ll still take a pecan those venues. Then coronavirus happened. pie or a cheesecake if anyone’s offering. And they took a hit. A devastating hit. So this Happy Holidays to you and yours year’s auction was not going to have a huge from all of us at 365ink. n 4 365INK MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 24–DECEMBER 22, 2020 ISSUE #375 DUBUQUE365.COM EVentS TURKEY NIGHT COMEDY FEATURING NATHAN TIMMEL, DOUG T, AND ANNAROSE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 @ 8 PM FIVE FLAGS THEATER (405 MAIN ST) The Five Flags Center will be add- was the supporting act for a nation- ing laughs to the Thanksgiving menu wide theater tour with the stars of the this year with Turkey Night Comedy Impractical Jokers television show. in the historic Five Flags Theater Dubuque native AnnaRose was on Wednesday, Nov. 25, the night the first and only female hypnotist to before Thanksgiving, at 8 p.m. headline a show on the Las Vegas strip Nathan Timmel is a stand-up com- when she booked a residency at the edy veteran, masterful storyteller, and Paris Hotel and Casino.