Quick Dick brings internet notoriety to Humboldt stage, thousands raised for food bank

“I’m so proud to be from a place where people just really rally and support our community so well.”

The past few years has seen the food bank clientele change as people who were able to make ends meet once before are now needing help to put food on the table, Shepherd told northeastNOW.

“It’s been a busy couple of years, but our community has supported us well through it and we have been able to help our community well.”

According to the Fraser Institute’s annual 2022 Generosity Index, individual donations to non-profits are at an all time low while corporate donations have increased.

Shepherd said they are still seeing those loyal individual donors who are continually supporting the food bank but they are seeing that increase of corporate donations too.

The grand opening of Lakeview’s new Humboldt location was hampered by the first big snowstorm of winter, including their planned fundraiser for a community organization, so they wanted to do something bigger to make up for the poor turnout, Eric Yeager, regional director for Humboldt and Lake Lenore, told northeastNOW.

Dickson Delorme, who also goes by the name Quick Dick McDick, is also a client of Lakeview and was able to work a Humboldt stop into his very busy schedule as a Saskatchewan YouTuber, stand up performer, and a cattle producer. He was quite the draw for the event, said Yeager.

“We were sold out in less than a day once I announced it,” said Yeager. “It was unbelievable, actually. And everybody here tonight sounds like they had a great time… I’ve been standing at the exit here, saying goodbye to everyone. Everyone is just smiling, it couldn’t have been better.”

Dickson Delorme, who also goes by the name Quick Dick McDick, came to Humboldt to entertain people with his rural Saskatchewan humor and raise money for the Humboldt and District Food Bank. (Submitted photo/Becky Zimmer)

Delorme never tires of doing these performances, especially when he can support a local organization like the food bank, however, even Humboldt a little bit bigger of a centre than what he is used to, he said.

“All of our little small communities that we have, they just all have so much in common and this is one of them,” he told northeastNOW. “Humboldt is a bigger center, but it doesn’t change the fact that we’re in rural Saskatchewan and the causes are kind of all the same in all these towns.”

That is where Delorme gets his inspiration from for his YouTube videos and stage performance is the humor in small town living.

That is the key to his ongoing success as a performer, he said, is being honest and being able to laugh at himself first rather than laughing at how other people live.

“If there’s one person that’s the most important person that you need to be able to laugh at, it’s yourself. Once you can laugh at yourself, honestly laugh at yourself, then it’s okay for you to laugh at everybody else.”

Delorme describes Quick Dick as himself but, “with a little bit of hot sauce on him,” as he ventures into things like farming, issues of the day, and politics, both live on stage and on the internet. While it can be challenging waters to tread, Delorme also said he is always willing to engage with people in discussing these issues.

“I’ve gone out of my way to try and get in touch with people that disagree with me or hold a different opinion of me and either have conversations with them or jump on a podcast with them or their radio show with them and stuff just to try and show that side of like, ‘Hey, I’m open to conversation’.”

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becky.zimmer@pattisonmedia.com

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by Becky Zimmer

Quick Dick brings internet notoriety to Humboldt stage, thousands raised for food bank

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