Internet within my reach...

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The first 5 days of The Squeaky Wheel Tour we the "Clementine Band" started off in our bus at the world famous Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA for the kick off event on Oct 17th. Artists and families of the missing are meeting face to face for the first time. Each day that passes more events are gaining press for the missing who have never received press before. Then, it was off to Napa on the 18th at Downtown Joe's with Saul Kaye. On Oct 19th we were in Ashland, OR. 5 families of the missing came to tell us their stories and profile their loved ones. One of the family members actually had a tip about another families missing daughter that brought everyone to tears. Without the Squeaky Wheel Tour would that particular tip have been received? Everywhere we go we meet new people who have missing loved ones who need our help. In Ashland, OR the DJ at the radio station has a brother who has been missing for 5 years. She did not know where to turn for help and now she does. On Oct 20 we traveled for 22 hours from Ashland, OR to Denver to get to CBS 4 Denver in time for a LIVE TV interview. On our way when we stopped at truck stops in Wyoming we not only flyered the truck stops, but we went up to truckers as they were getting ready to leave and asked them to take flyers of the missing wherever they might go. Today at the "Unity Church" one man was visibly shook up when he realized we were profiling his friend who was a missing person. We all think that missing is something that will never touch us and yet everywhere we go we are meeting people who have been directly affected by a missing person in their lives. As the Nielson ratings use a statistic of over 200 to represent each family they interview if we multiply the 100,000 active missing persons cases in the US the numbers are staggering. The Chicago Sun Times is on a week long series to profile missing people, then we arrive in Chicago on Friday for the tail end of their series. We have radio, print news and TV News everywhere we are going as well as press via 100's of other artists throughout the world during the Squeaky Wheel Tour. Oh and all the while we are filming our reality TV series FINDing Gina every day all day long...as we continue to Squeak as loud as we can. If we miss a few days it's because Internet connection is spotty. We sleep when we can on the bus. It's a great time all in all...with great connections and an amazing group of talented people with hearts all the way to the moon and back...until the Internet is within my reach. Jannel







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