Welcome back to Good Day Stateline.
Scott is back from Alpine Academy.
And you brought your daughter.
Morgan's with me today. This is exciting.
It's nice to have you. Morgan's nice to meet you.
Yeah.
So we, of course, are going to be talking
about our Plan Academy and perfect for ice cream week.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, I knew that, and I'm aware of that.
And Morgan's got some good stuff to share about it. Yeah.
All right. We're going to take it away.
Actually, the Saturday at 1:00,
we are gathering Open Academy for a trick event.
And this church event, it's just our ice cream social.
So we all gather into the gym and we have a few tables set up
where we have a bunch of different types of ice cream.
I think right now we have vanilla, chocolate
and then a guest. Well, a surprise flavor. Ooh.
Okay, then we have chocolate sirup
and all the other toppings that you can ever dream of.
And this event will
just take place one and probably go on for a few hours.
Everyone can come
in, visit, maybe get a tour if you want, okay.
And all of our donations will go into helping
with the sales tax for mental health disorder.
So we have a gentleman that's coming to talk about
what works being done in Rockford.
With that, the sales tax, we have some sales tax that
kind of was voted in I think it was a year or two ago.
I lose track because all the cool stuff I lose.
So I'm like always a couple of years behind,
but he's coming in.
He's going to talk a lot
about what they're doing with that money
and how that money is benefiting the community.
So it's a good opportunity for people to know where
all the money that they voted to be able
to be spent on the on the mental health
pandemic really of its own.
And so that that's been done
and he's been coming out to do that.
So me get on Saturday
we start at one we go to about four
people can have ice cream but also be able
to learn something there too.
We have some game stuff like I love middle of the day
ice cream.
I feel like it's doesn't happen as much as it should.
Right.
And I'm and we've had one days and so anytime you can have ice
cream on a warm day.
Yeah, I love that.
So anybody can come to this, anybody can come.
In fact, we would love to have everybody in the community.
Everyone you have
everyone I the whole thing when we were talking on the phone.
I know remember how many eggs you said you, right?
We had over 20,000 eggs for Easter.
So we were ready for the whole city to get ready for everybody.
Ready. Happy to do it. So that's awesome.
No signing up or anything. No sign up. Just show up.
What about if they wanted to take 2 hours?
Did they get a tour of the school?
Not just come on, let me know. Okay.
And so then this big announcement
about our school software we've been in, in existence
now for 25 years of helping
with education for elementary students
and doing that for 25 years.
What we've now been able to do
is that we've all probably been aware
or most of us
have been aware of.
There's been a school on the west side of Rockford,
St Paul's Lutheran schools there for years,
and it's on the corner of Kilburn and Locust,
and we are now officially
making that our second Alpine location.
So thank you.
It's great because it's Lutheran education.
We will continue on the west side of Rockford.
That's a community
that we need to be able to serve,
and we're we're able to do it through that location.
We're now partnering
with Resurrection Lutheran Church,
a great congregation here in town
that's doing as much as they can
to partner with other organizations
to be able to serve our community.
And so this is another way that they're able to do that.
So now the big announcement is that
we do have a second location, our 25th year.
It's Alpine Academy, Resurrection Campus.
So we're excited about that. Absolutely.
And so anyway, it's looking for
right now, we're we're enrolling the preschool students there
anyway, looking for that.
It's a great place to be.
It's fantastic. Come on in.
Because we've made some improvements,
we've done some pains and we're getting ready for
for school to start up, which happened soon.
We are still enrolling at our main campus. Okay.
So we're we're Kate, we're pre-K to sixth grade.
So we're happy to be able to do that.
We're happy to be a part of the community
and doing something
that makes us be able to be involved,
not just on the east side, where we've been for now
25 years, but also now be able to expand ourselves to us.
So we have plenty of students that come to see
us on the east side that live on the west side.
Now they don't have it now.
Our goal is that they don't have to do that.
And so partnership with with Resurrection
Lutheran Church is a huge thing for us to have.
Again, a great congregation.
I encourage people to attend the church and check it out.
That's awesome.
So if someone wanted to enroll in the new campus. Yep.
When does that school start?
It'll be in August.
Soon? Yep.
We always start before Labor Day.
I know that a lot of the schools now are struggling. Labor Day.
You know, we see some public schools
that are going before, some that are going after.
But we do start in August.
And so we're excited to be able
to open this new opportunity for people.
Another way to bring Alpine to people and allow people
to join our family at Alpine. It's really important
you can have an even bigger Easter egg.
Absolutely.
You know, start with 20,000 eggs
with one location and now we've got two locations.
And it's funny
that you mention that
because we were just talking about that the other day.
So now do we have an Easter egg hunt
and maybe we do.
Yeah, we've got a great neighbor and the Boys and Girls
Club out there.
Maybe there's something
we can do with them and make something big happen.
And certainly we've had conversation with them already.
So, you know, big things, right?
You're doing it right. Well, congratulations again.
And thank you guys so much. It was so nice to meet you.
MORGAN You, of course, can get all the details now.
There's even more details to get.
We've got an Alpine Academy
and you can get ready if you want your kids to be part
of the Alpine Academy community and you can stop by.
And it's amazing on Saturday.
Coming up next,
we have some tips for parents and grandparents,
anyone who is spending some time with kids as we kind of end
summer to remind those kids
to keep reading and why it's so important. We'll be right back.