Bill Sackter documentary launches Kickstarter Campaign

Hi Fans of "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story" - I just launched my Kickstarter campaign to help make it possible to get this inspiring documentary out to PBS television stations around the country.

Please come to the Kickstarter website at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lane-wyrick/a-friend-indeed-the-bill-sackter-story-tv-broadcas
and watch the intro video to learn more, and please consider being part of our team!!!

As fans of "A Friend Indeed", you are the first to know about this launch which happened just minutes ago. Please share this post with your Facebook friends so we can get the word out. This campaign is running for a limited time, so make sure you check it out today.

I hope you'll join in the effort to share this inspiring true story with the rest of the world!!!

Take care,

Lane Wyrick, Director/Editor
"A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story"

Video from Bill Sackter's 100th Birthday Celebration

Here's some video of Bill's 100th Birthday Celebration, captured on my iPhone. It was nice to have Barry & Bev Morrow, Jack Doepke, Tom Walz and others reminisce about the impact Bill had, and tell some funny stories as well. Lots of cake, music, and more. 

Enjoy!!! - Lane Wyrick

Click here to see the video on Youtube

Bill Sackter 100th Birthday Celebration (Youtube) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0EATO_qzA

Video taken at Bill Sackter's 100th Birthday Celebration in Iowa City. Enjoy the stories and fond remembrances of Bill Sackter, and how he changed the way the world looks at people with disabilities. Featured in the documentary "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story", the main cast joined in Iowa City for the celebration, including Barry & Bev Morrow, Jack Doepke, Tom Walz, and Lane Wyrick.

Friday April 12, 2013 a panel discussion at Pappajohn Business Building, and party afterwards at Wild Bill's Coffee Shop in North Hall. Saturday April 13 on Bill's actual birthday, events took place at Uptown Bill's, with harmonicas, cake, bands and more.

Learn more about the real story of Bill Sackter at

http://www.BillSackter.com

Join our Facebook fan page at

http://www.Facebook.com/BillSackter

Or buy the DVD of "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story" at

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C6WURF8

Bill Sackter's 100th Birthday Celebration

April 13, 2013 marked Bill Sackter's 100th birthday, and people in Iowa City celebrated it with style. All last week there were events, music, the screening of "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story" and more.

Barry and Bev Morrow, Jack Doepke, Tom Walz, and I were at the events, and there will be upcoming video footage from Friday night's panel on Bill, and from Saturday's birthday celebration at Uptown Bill's.

Here's an article about Bill Sackter day being declared by the Iowa City Mayor - more postings will soon follow about upcoming events regarding the documentary including the television broadcast of "A Friend Indeed".

Enjoy!

- Lane Wyrick
Director/Editor of "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story
http://www.BillSackter.com
Join us on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/BillSackter

Iowa City Mayor Hayek declares April 13 Bill Sackter Day

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UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING | 2013.04.09 | 07:00 PM

Bill Sackter. Photo courtesy of the UI School of Social Work.

Iowa City Mayor Matt Hayek has proclaimed April 13 as Bill Sackter Day. The proclamation coincides with a week of special events to mark the 100th birthday of Bill Sackter, April 8-13.

Sackter, a native of Minnesota, was a middle-aged man with a disability who spent nearly half a century in the old Faribault State Hospital. In the early 1970s, he came to Iowa City with Barry and Bev Morrow, a couple he had met in Minneapolis. Barry Morrow had been offered a job at the University of Iowa and Sackter ended up coming along.

Wild Bill's Coffeeshop, 321 North Hall on the UI campus, began as an employment opportunity for Sackter. Later, it became a symbol of "abilities awareness" around Iowa and beyond. The coffee shop thrived and it continues today in the same location in North Hall on the university campus. Staffed by individuals with disabilities, the coffee shop is a service learning project of the UI School of Social Work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The proclamation was signed and awarded at the Tuesday, April 9 City Council meeting and can be viewed at now.uiowa.edu/files/now.uiowa.edu/bill_sackter_day.pdf

(this article is available at: http://now.uiowa.edu/2013/04/iowa-city-mayor-hayek-declares-april-13-bill-sackter-day )