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07/10/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Scott James, Ben Salango, Brian Jozwiak · The Dave Allen Show

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Jose, we act former WVU All America Kansas City Chiefs, going to join
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the end of the week in Morgantown. Also, Cana Kenne commistterer Ben Selango
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is going to be stopping by the show as well. But it's Monday,
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which means we welcome in a different mayor to the show each week. One
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of our favorites, they're all our favorites, but this guy, especially one
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of our favorites. It's Sam to Alban's Mayor Scott James. Good morning,
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sir. How are you? Good morning, Dave. I am wonderful for
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a Monday, especially for any anytime you're actually all out about on the Monday,
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it's it's a good thing. How are How are things in the lands
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of the of the Red Dragons? There mayre just great things are happening all
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the time. People are coming to Saint Albans to attend our events and eat
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at our restaurants and shop at our shops, and good things are happening.
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And uh, you know, we're always looking to get better. So it
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keeps me busy. I'm sure it does. We've got several things I want
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to talk to you about this morning, but to overall, what's what's new
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in town? Well, Friday night or this past Saturday night. You know,
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we build a plaza there off Old Main on C Street, and we
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had a dedication this past Saturday night. We call it named it the Joe
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Dobbs Plaza. Now for people that it's not familiar with Joe, he passed
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away in two thy fifteen, but he come to Appalachia about fifty eight years
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ago, and he brought Appalachian music to the world. I mean he's he's
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now worldwide. Was a great fiddler player, but he was the original owner
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of Fret and Fiddle right there off Main Street on Pennsylvania. And you know,
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he has a lot to do with the exploding live music scene that we
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have gone on on Old Maine in Saint Albans. I mean, three four
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nights a week, there's music being played somewhere. So he had the dedication.
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Yes, we did if well attended. And you know, I couldn't
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think of a better person than name it that. Yeah, And that's kind
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of one of those iconic places. And long before I even moved here,
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I was familiar with Fred and Fiddle because it's just one of those places that
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people kind of if you're into live music, people kind of gravitates toward music
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of all kinds. They just kind of travitate toward the place. Yeah,
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they used to have a lot of jam sessions. And there's a friend of
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mine that used to go and have jam sessions with Joe. I personally,
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in my sixty four years, I never met the gentleman, but I've heard
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nothing but great things about him, and I would love to have heard him
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play the fiddle. I know, you guys have been working. Last time
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you were here, the last couple of times you talked about the demolition of
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the old high school. How's that coming along. It's coming along fantastic.
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We've got the gym area down, we've got the auditorium area down there in
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the process of kind of abating the middle part of the building, and once
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they getting it abated, the rest of it's going to come down. So
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we're excited about there. It's been there an iore for thirty two years and
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soon to be no more. And again, it's just one of those things.
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We talk about this with you and with others from county officials on down.
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The public sees these buildings, they drive by him, they see what
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iceores they are, how dangerous they are for for kids, and sometimes you
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have squatters and things like that, and there it's not that easy to just
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go in and say tear it down. There's a long process that goes along
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with them. That's a huge process. We didn't own the building, yeah,
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and we started finding the owner and he owed us seven hundred plus thousand
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dollars in fines, so in lieu of the fines, he signed the building
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over to us. But we had a lot of legal issues and hoops we
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had to jump through, but it is coming down now and then once it's
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done, then city council will determine what the purpose of that property is going
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to be. Now. One of the issues we have in Saint Albans is
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newer housing. I personally think one thing it needs to be discussed about that
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is subdividing it into lots, build single dwelling homes that people own, no
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rental property and start bringing property values back up in the area, but also
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start bringing newer housing to Saint Albans, and that's certainly something that has needed.
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Scott James with us, the Mayor of Saint Alban's. Let's review a
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little bit. How was yack Fest of the Tour de col biggest and the
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best yack fest that we've had to date. Saturday night might have been the
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biggest evening we ever had. We had Bucky Covington at six o'clock and Davidson
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Brothers at eight o'clock. It was unbelievable. Friday night we had Handed Asher.
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There was some geo fencing done on numbers. We haven't gotten those back
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yet, but we're expecting that they'll show that it's the biggest crowd we've ever
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had, and they estimated they had about fourteen fifteen hundred paid participants for the
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Torticol, but they estimated probably closer to twenty two hundred going down the river
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because people just put in wherever and join the party and everything else. So
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it was a great weekend for Saint Albans, the Coal River Group, and
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just the area in general. The great thing about those events, Mayor is
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people don't just as you said, put in the river, they eat,
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they go to the restaurants, say, they go to the various businesses and
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stuff. And so I'm presuming over the next couple of months you'll get the
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final numbers and even into the economic impact, because i mean hotels or fall
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everything right, You're exactly right, and you know we have airbnbs in Saint
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Albans. We're trying to get in touch with you there to see if you
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know. I'm sure they were rented. I know people were looking for him.
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Hotels in neighboring communities. The businesses in the area always have record weekends
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during that weekend, and so we are trying to figure out the economic impact.
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It's gotta be six figures in there. I'm not sure exactly how high,
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but uh, it's just a great event and it's great for the city
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of Saint Albans and neighboring community. Yeah, it's not just about Saint Albans,
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it's in It impacts South Charleston, Tays Valley and all the other areas
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as well as somebody who is a native Saint what do you what do you
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guys call yourself Saint Albion's, Saint albans Nights, Saint albans Tonians, Saint
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albans Tonians. All right, As a native Saint alban Tonian, did you
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ever think that you would have that many people that would be interested in coming
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to float down the river and to come. I mean, I know Saint
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Alban's and when you were grown up was I mean it was a hub for
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everything. He had a lot more people there. But did you ever think
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it would be a destination like it is now? No? Not until we
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started, when I became mayor and started the yac Fest, we didn't know
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how it was going to go. We knew the tour to Cold grows every
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year. Bill Curry and the Cold River Group does a great job, but
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uh, you know, a lot of volunteers just grabbed the bull by the
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horns and no, to be honest, I did not see that happening.
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But now we just see bigger and better things coming to Saint Alban's. Any
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new businesses coming to town here? Lately? We had a Curry Creations open
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up on Old Maine. It's a cool little store. She will customize water
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bottles, t shirts, different things like that. She's got a variety of
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items there. It's fantastic. Just out as Saint Alban's Sight Sounds open up
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there where the Go Marty is. They're in Jefferson right behind there. So
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uh, you know, we continue to look for businesses. We've been in
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contact with our d Management out in New York about the mall. They've had
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a couple of bites on a couple of the buildings there, but they're not
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the easiest company to work for. You know, they won't go in and
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fix the building up for companies. They expect them to do it themselves.
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And you know, you got to work with people to be successful. Indeed,
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again we're talking to Mayor Scott James here on Mayor Monday five eighty live
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from the Parmar Stores Studio a couple of big events I want to get to.
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One of those actually involves us, and that's the stations here at WVRC
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Media teaming up with Parmar Stores to give away five hundred gallons of free gas.
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Now you can registrate a number of places to get that gas including Trojan
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Landy, Marine Valley Outdoors, the West Virginia Marketplace, inside Capital Market,
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Kidderouse, p Furniture, Pepperoni Grill, Saint alban City Hall, or the
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Appalachian Cannabis Company. And we're actually going to draw the winner of that.
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Again, that's five hundred gallons of free gasoline. We're gonna draw the winner
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on July twenty ninth. We'll all be down there a broadcasting live down at
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Old Maine. Big Old Party starts at ten am noon down there. So
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it's a great opportunity to possibly come down and win yourself five hundred gallons of
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gas and who couldn't use that, but an opportunity to kind of hang out
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an old main too. Yeah. Well, it's a great opportunity to bring
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people again to Old Maine, to Saint Albans in the process of them participating
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in the gas giveaway. They're going to visit our shops, and you know,
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we always encourage our business owners to leave your doors open during these events
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so people can visit and see what we have to offer, and good things
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usually happen from that. We appreciate West Virginia Radio Corps choosing Saint os O
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Main Street to uh hold this event, and we're looking forward to it again.
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That's July twenty ninth, ten to twelve, five hundred gallons. We
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have a place over at City Hall, the Parmar and Saint Albans any Parmar
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storm, Yeah, and the other other locations that Dave mentioned. Put your
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name in, guys and come on down on July twenty nine. Is gonna
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win it to me as well. Be you. You got a couple of
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other big events going on in Saint Aubuns you want to talk about, Yeah,
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we do. August twelfth is Heritage Days. It used to be known
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as Founders Day. It's put on by the Saint Augus Historical Society. They
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have formed a committee. Uh there. We're excited about that. It just
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you know, just celebrate the heritage in the history of Saint Albans. It's
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going to be a great event. And then on that's August twelfth, starting
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at eleven am, goes to five pm. Then August twenty sixth, we're
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gonna have the second Mountaineer Mayan Street. Last year was a great event.
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This year it's gonna be bigger. I know the pep bands coming. H
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They're gonna have at least five athletes there to sign autographs and pictures, including
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Owen Schmidt. Were excited about that. Uh, it goes from one to
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eight. Uh, they're gonna, like I said, the mascot's going to
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be there, the dance team, that cheerleaders. Again. It is a
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wonderful event. So mark you calendar and come on down. It's always the
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Saturday before w opens this season. A lot of good things going on in
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the Land of the Red Dragons. Mayor is always. I appreciate you being
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here. Well, I appreciate you having us, Dave, and we're excited
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about the direction we're headed in. And Uh, anytime you need me up
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here to talk about Saint Alban's you know that's one thing I do well.
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You do. See you're a good talker. Yeah there, You're gonna be
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okay once you learn how to open up a little bit more. Yeah,
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Lanes course. Big news over the weekend as it pertains to WVU with the
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Bob Huggins situation. Yet another another turn in that Jeff Jenks is going to
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join us from the newsroom to talk about that a little bit later on.
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I want to welcome in though now Conankanicy Commissier Ben Celano. Good morning,
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Sarah, how are you? Good morning doing great? Thanks for having me
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on. Thank you for being there because I know it's a busy day for
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you and not just you, but everybody in the county. And I'm gonna
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get to that a little bit later on, but before we get into that
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and the dealings of the Commission, I'll talk about to you a little bit.
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You made the announcement last week via social media and press release and also
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you were on Hoppy Show that you will not be running for governor on the
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Democratic ticket next year. What led to that decision, you know, it
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was I'd been considering it for months, and you know, when I got
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into the twenty twenty race, I got in late. It was around Octo
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of twenty nineteen when I announced. I knew that I had an uphill battle
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against the sitting governor, and I knew that it would be a tough race.
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But I've never really backed down from a fight, so decided to get
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in. Had a blast, honestly, especially the debate and you know,
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even the Democratic debates in the primary. But uh, you know, when
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you make a decision like that, it's not just my decision, it because
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it affects everyone. It affects my family, it affects my law firm,
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it affects the other businesses that I'm a part of. And so ultimately,
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when I decided that I wasn't going to run, it was based on,
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you know, several factors. Number one, did I want to put that
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much money into a race, you know, try to thread that needle in
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the general at the end and try to win it, you know, when
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there's considerable risk, you know, running statewide without the last named mansion as
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a Democrat is very difficult, and so I didn't know if I want to
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do that. I didn't know if I wanted to take a year off from
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my you know, being with the family and miss soccer matches and everything else,
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and and and uh, you know, also taking a year off from
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my law firm. That that would be very to end the commission. You
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know, I need to be at the Commission right now. And so those
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things were really ultimately decided. Um made me decide that I wasn't going to
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It was all those things. And it is believe that Huntington Mayor Steve Williams,
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your friend, is going to be running for governor. Formal announcement is
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expected from him at some point soon. Could be some opposition from the other
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Democrats, but if he runs, he will be the nominee and he'll face
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off against filling name here could be Attorney General Patrick Morris, He's Secretary of
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State, Warner Automagneate, Chris Miller, Auditor J. B. Mccuski,
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out of More Cabina, et cetera, et cetera. Will you be actively
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campaigning for Mayor Williams? You know what, I'm gonna wait and see.
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I you know, the mayor hasn't announced. Obviously, we are good friends.
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I think the world of him. I think he's done a great job
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in Huntington. I think he'll do a great job if he wins the election
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as governor. But he's got an uphill battle as well. You know.
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It's one of the good things that I had was statewide, decent statewide name
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recognition, not to the point of you know, some of the others that
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have been in politics forever, but I was between seventy and eighty percent statewide.
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So he's he's got to spend some money. He's got to raise some
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money and spend some money gainst name I d up there, and then convince
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people that he's not one of the national Democrats. You know that. They
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say, that's a big battle for Democrats right now. It is tough.
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It is tough, and whenever you're fighting kind of that message, it is
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an uphill battle. But I you know, obviously Steve Is is a dear
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friend, uh And I've got dear friends on the Republican side too. You
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know, I think the world Chris Miller, he and I you know,
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he's helped a lot of a lot of families in Kanaan and in Cabal and
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more capital. You know, there's some really good people on both sides.
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So we'll see what I do. UM, I want to get to Commission
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business. First of all, Commission President Kent Carper was back behind the desk
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last week followed his health issues and everything else will win along any comment on
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Commissioner Carper being back, You know what I'm I'm glad he's back. You
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know, this is uh Commissioner Wheeler. Commission Wheler does a great job.
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He and I've tried to hold down the fort while Kent was gone. You
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know, it's there's a lot that goes on, particularly when you're you know,
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he's the president, so he deals with a lot of stuff every day,
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just administrative type of things, and so we would try to fill in
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for him. And you know he's back. Uh, it's hard to replace
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that kind of experience. Uh. Whatever happens at the County Commission quite frankly,
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Kent has seen it before. Uh. And and Hill reference you know,
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oh, well this happened back in you know, nineteen ninety eight,
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and this is how we dealt with it. And we just don't have that
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institutional additional knowledge, you know, so uh, you know, we're glad
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that that that is back and um you know Lance, uh, Lance and
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I you know did all we could while he was gone, and uh,
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you know, now that he's back, that will that will definitely help out,
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particularly when you're dealing with the what's in your first foundation those types of
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things coming up, and Kent was very involved in the drafting of of you
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know that law and uh you know, worked with folks at the state to
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kind of move that forward. Talk with the canal Kunty Commissier Ben Selango here
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on five ety live. Editors note, I have reached out to Commissioner Carper
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and his staff and I hope hope to have him on the show either to
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day tomorrow. That's fingers crossed. I'm working on that right now. Five
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talk about today. Today's a special day. Hey, it's a big day.
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If five years ago today we cut the ribbon at the Shawnee Sports Complex
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and today we're going to we're having an event at ten thirty at the Shawnee.
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Everybody's welcome. It's free play, all day, pools free, everything's
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free. We've got snow cones that'll be it'll be a nice event. I
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think the weather is looking good last time I chat. Yeah, it's gonna
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be great. So, and we're also going to unveil the economic numbers,
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which you know, thanks to Charleston CVB for calculating those numbers. Over the
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years. I would get the numbers from individual tournaments, individual events, but
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I had never seen the actual overall economic impact calculated. But just to give
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you, I'll let you break a couple of the numbers here this morning,
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just to give you some idea of what we're talking about. Since Shawnee opened
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in twenty eighteen, we have had fifty three thousand, five hundred and sixty
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four athletes at the facility. There are over thirty seven thousand hotel rooms sold
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directly attributable to the Shawnee Sports Complex. So those are the type of numbers
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we're going to release today just to kind of give people an idea of,
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you know, how their money was spent and how it's impacted the community since
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twenty eighteen when you first, you and others first came up with the idea,
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and it was I mean, you were you were the big dog behind
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this when you first came up with this idea. You knew commission that it
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would be big, But did you have any idea in your wildest imagination that
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it would be this big? What I knew is I knew it would work.
23:41
I didn't know if it would work to this extent. And you know
23:45
it's we had that commercial during the governor's race a few years ago when when
23:49
we talk about how I sketched Shawnee out and Hapy, that's absolutely true.
23:52
I was sitting Autadelphia with a couple of other people and sketched it out and
23:56
it was a terrible rendering. It was awful when oh, you're not an
23:59
arc, Oh yeah, trust me, I am not. I cannot draw.
24:02
But um, I knew it would work. I knew it would bring
24:04
people into town because I had seen it. You know, our youngest son,
24:08
Cayden, played travel soccer all over He's been all over the world playing
24:14
and so I knew that there would be a nice draw coming in. Would
24:18
we be able to do it on budget was a big question that I had.
24:22
You know that that area is primarily it's fielded, and so you had
24:27
we had to go in and put I think it was like a million cubic
24:30
feed of concrete down just to stabilize here. And so there was a lot
24:34
of challenges with that area. So I knew that it would if we could
24:37
build it, it would work. The question was could we built it on
24:41
budget on time, and we did and it's been a overwhelming success. So
24:45
the entire community is in the county and all other regions are invited out for
24:49
for the big happenings today and new it starts at what time ten thirty?
24:52
I think Mayor James was here just a minute where he's a tough act follower,
24:56
but the I think he's coming out too. I think he's coming out.
24:59
So you would have a lot of mayors and others will be out there
25:00
too because it's a a weather's going to be great, So invite everyone and
25:03
if you've never had an opportunity to see what they've done, you know,
25:07
maybe you don't have kids or grandkids that will take apart and just go out
25:08
there and check it out. Today. Yeah, come out, you know,
25:11
We've made a lot of upgrades since twenty eighteen. We've added the Shawnee
25:15
Pavilion, We've enhanced the grass area so it's more in line with what USU
25:21
Soccer requires when they're when we're hosting larger and larger events. We're getting ready
25:26
to build the new entrance building. You know, the Senator of Mansion was
25:30
able to secure a three million dollars grant, and you know Kudo's to Governor
25:33
Justice, he also got us a million dollar grant. So we're building a
25:38
four million dollar entrance building and just expanding on what we have. So we've
25:42
made a lot of upgrades. We've got pickleball, We've spent a lot of
25:45
money on the pool. We've added a championship style basketball courts out there.
25:51
So a lot going on. If you have not been out, police stop
25:53
bytes free to play all day. Bring the kids, let them run around.
25:56
It'll wear them out for a bedtime. What is the latest commission with
26:02
the Capital Sports Complex downe to him, we're moving. I mean, you
26:06
know that's uh. In fact, it's I'm glad this event is today because
26:10
when people see the numbers, I think that even those are that are a
26:11
little bit hasn't about the Capital Sports Complex. Will understand how significant of an
26:15
impact these facilities can have. So we're We've got a board meeting that will
26:19
be coming up soon and then we'll be making some decisions. Obviously, any
26:25
decision the board makes, it's more of a recommendation that goes back to city
26:27
Council and goes to the County Commission. So you know, the board won't
26:33
have a blank checkbook. You know, if they want to spend money,
26:34
it has to be approved by the by the City Council and by the County
26:38
Commission. So but we're pressing forward. There's been some criticism, uh,
26:42
Commissioner levied at the projects, and it isn't funded properly. The money isn't
26:47
there. It's a kind of pie in the skytop project, which, by
26:49
the way, some of the thing things that said about the Shawnee Sports Complex.
26:53
Any comment to any of the naysiers, Well, um, first of
26:57
all, I yeah, I mean I'm used to that. I think anytime
27:00
that there's a project, there are folks that are that are critical. But
27:04
that's that's good. I mean I want to hear their perspective. Uh,
27:08
you know, when we when we move forward with the Capital Sports Complex.
27:14
We went forward, we went and we've asked for We did a forty million
27:17
dollar grant requests through the Federal Government, Center's mansion and capita that was a
27:22
joint through the city in the county. Twenty five million of that is advanced.
27:26
We're actively working with um. I've got some meeting schedule with some local
27:30
companies that want naming rights to the facility. We've got hospitals interested in the
27:36
facility using it for therapy, So there's a there's a lot of money out
27:40
there that can come in. Of course, the kind of Commission just transferred
27:42
five million dollars over for the architectural engineering side and potential property acquisition. But
27:49
yeah, no, I hear those comments. I hear those criticisms. It's
27:52
the same thing I heard with Shawnee. And here we are, you know,
27:56
five years later, and it's been a tremendous success. Speaking of criticism,
27:59
we got a tech for you, because I know you're always open any
28:00
time you come on the show to take a text or social I got one
28:03
for you. Said, how in the world can the Kanaw County government justify
28:07
three new magistrates, one new circuit judge, while closing three Title one schools
28:12
due to declining population. It doesn't add up. Well, um, that
28:18
was the state legislature did that? I mean they, I guess there was
28:22
a survey that went out from the Supreme Court and then it was presented to
28:26
the legislature. The legislature added three magistrates and one circuit judge in Kanaw County,
28:33
and there were other magistrates and other circuit judges throughout West Virginia. And
28:36
so it wasn't our decision, it wasn't our option. When you get a
28:40
mandate from the legislature, you follow it. And so the only thing that
28:44
we have to do is figure out how to pay for it. Yeah,
28:45
I mean that truly. They it was an unfunded mandate. And now we're
28:51
we've hired we're going to hire an architect to come up with a plan where
28:53
we can add space. It's it's actually considerable amount of space that you need.
28:57
It's not just like a magister courtroom or a circuit court. You've also
29:00
need office space either. So yeah, no, I hear you. And
29:04
there was some some some talk in the news last week about some security issues
29:10
that need to be addressed. I know, we don't want to go into
29:11
all the I loved by the way I was listening, I think to the
29:15
kind of commission meeting and somebody had made it. One of the judges made
29:18
a comment or something, and you said, do you really want to do
29:19
this online? Well? Probably not a good idea, but overall, let's
29:23
talk about yeah, so security. Yeah, and in fairness that judge,
29:26
I don't think he realized it was streaming. And so anytime we get like
29:30
undercover police officers or indent or some of the others that come in, we
29:34
always cut the live feed for their safety and for their protection. So I
29:37
didn't want there to be you know, you don't want any perceived security deficiencies
29:44
broadcast. YEA, generally speaking, not a good idea. Yeah, so
29:48
that's the only reason I said that. But I will tell you that the
29:51
judges concerns I think are well founded, and we've been working on them for
29:56
several months now. You know, we've engaged he is an architect, we're
30:00
working with the Sheriff's department. It makes sure that we can we can solve
30:03
any any of those issues. Covered a lot of ground that day in a
30:07
short amount of time. I know, you got to get out to Shawnee,
30:08
So Commistreser Slango's always pleasure to having the show. We'll talk soon man.
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come off the top of my head. I don't I don't actually plant Texas
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naming rights means a constant name change instead of good steady branding. Talking about
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the Capital Sports complace, Well, I understand what the text is saying there,
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but that's you know, you lock him into a long term deal.
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I mean, if you're a major league fan of NFL, major League
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What a welcome in now WV all American, former Kansas City chief and all
33:50
around good dude, Brian, Joe's we act, Joe's what's up? Man?
33:53
Oh? Brother, Hey, it's good to be here with you.
33:57
I appreciate the invite on a show, and it's always it's always a pleasure.
34:01
How you doing day, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I
34:04
guess I'll be seeing you in Morgantown Thursday night and Friday for the Joes Knows
34:08
Kids Golf Tournament and all that goes along with it. Yes, sir,
34:12
looking forward to it. Yeah, this is our this is our thirty third
34:15
year rock in this thing, and we haven't missed the year, even even
34:20
the COVID year. We were we were able to slide this thing in prior
34:23
to them shutting the state down. So we're we're excited. I mean,
34:29
a bunch of great, great alumni going to be involved this year and uh
34:32
and you know, keeping my fingers crossed for the weather and hopefully the weather
34:37
is is uh, you know kind to us, and you know, just
34:42
a great gathering for for a wonderful cause. Man, it's all about them
34:45
kids and and the hospital up there WVU, the Children's Hospital and the Buddy
34:52
Walks supporting them them folks. Uh, it's just a it's just a it
34:57
warms my heart day. It just warms my heart that this thing is still
35:00
doing what it's doing. And thanks to you know, Parmar and types of
35:05
you guys are our title sponsors, and you guys have been very generous to
35:09
us and to them kids as you are in all the communities that you can
35:15
find a Parmar store. Uh. You know, we love you guys and
35:17
appreciate you being part of it. Anxious to see y'all. It's gonna be
35:22
a great time, you know, it always is. And of course it
35:23
all starts on Thursday. There's a be a kickoff party at Tropics. They're
35:29
at Cranberry Square, Morgantown, followed by the golf with a lot of a
35:32
lot of folks from the business community and a lot of WVU legends are on
35:36
here. I mean last year Joe's was my first time at the golf tournament
35:38
and I'm out there with a couple folks and I'm looking around them going,
35:43
Okay, my god, there's you know, filling name here, and there's
35:45
this one, there's it's it's it's hard to believe there's that many WVU legends
35:50
all in one place. At this golf tournament. Well you know something I
35:54
think again, Uh, you know, the motivation is as the Children's hospital.
36:00
You know, these guys and gals, uh, you know, because
36:05
we've got cheerleaders and you know basketball represented and and you know the football guys
36:10
and you know, we all we all were part of you know the relationship
36:16
with Children's Hospital. We went over and visited the kids when we were in
36:22
college and you know, keeping that going, uh, and the camaraderie of
36:25
it. You know, we're all mountaineers. Man, we're mountaineers and we
36:30
get together and you know, we we share the stories and we you know,
36:35
we feel the love and it's just a it's a real it's a real
36:39
treat. And yeah, the list, the list of of folks, I
36:44
mean we're talking you know, the who's who of Mountaineer at athletics and Mountaineer
36:50
football. And really some of these guys are are the you know, the
36:55
crown Jewels. I mean you know you're talking about you know, the major
36:59
Harry Susan and Jeff Hostetler's and of course Coach Neeland and mister past Along both
37:05
attend uh. Coach Neeland has been our honorary chairman because he's the one that
37:08
got us going way back when with the relationship of the children's hospital. But
37:14
I mean, dude, we got like thirty five guys that are gonna be
37:19
uh you know, Mike Fox, Aaron Beasley, Bull or Land of Avon,
37:22
Cobur and Major Harris, Mike College, Quincy Wilson, Charlie Bowman,
37:25
Willie Edwards, Brad and Hunt oh Schmidt, Jake Kels, there the Snakes,
37:30
I mean, you know, Mike Vander Jack's coming. Uh So,
37:35
just just some just some great, great time, good people and they all
37:38
take they all take again. Uh, they all take time and and come
37:43
and support this thing and and uh, you know makes me feel makes me
37:47
feel pretty good that that. You know, I'm kind of that ring leader
37:51
with this thing. And uh, you know, we all we all get
37:53
together and you know, we're there, you know for a lot of reass
37:58
we're raising money and awareness, you know for w Chovi's Hospital. That's that's
38:01
what we're doing. And that's what this relationship is all about. Uh,
38:06
seeing to it that you know, those kids get that everything they need to,
38:10
you know, make it true whatever they're making it true, you know
38:14
what I mean. Yeah, and these kids Joe's I mean, you guys
38:16
are big, tough football players because you went on to play in the NFL.
38:19
But these kids are are the real warriors, not somebody that carries a
38:22
ball. With all due respectaball players, would you agree with that? Oh,
38:27
you know that in the psychological realm of it all, that was one
38:31
of the reasons why you know, Coach Sneelin would take us over there,
38:36
not only to bring a smile to a kid's face, meet their family,
38:42
uh you know, represent WZU. But I think I think really part of
38:47
that motivation was, you know, you're you're you know, you're out there
38:52
trying and moaning about a couple of sprints in the heat, and you know,
38:57
little little Betsy's over there dealing with stage three leutinia and she's eight years
39:01
old, so put this in some perspective. They're young men. So it
39:07
helped keep us on the ground. Uh yeah, you're a you're a big
39:10
time football player, but you know you better look around and know that that,
39:15
uh, other people are are really the true warriors because a lot of
39:21
them are in the battle for their life. Yeah exactly. You know,
39:25
that's a realization that that I think is as a youngster, uh, you
39:30
know, eighteen nineteen years old is very impactful. Yeah. Indeed, talking
39:36
about with Brian Joe's, we act about that, Joe Joe's, No's,
39:38
kids, golfing and everything that goes along with it later this weekend Morgantown,
39:43
Joe's before we let you got one of the things that always amazes me,
39:45
you know, in the world of college athletics, even going back to the
39:49
days when when you play not everybody is a West Virginian per se. You
39:53
know, you come here from you know, wherever, Florida, Pennsylvania,
39:57
whatever, to play at at WVU. But there's something about West Virginia,
40:02
the state I'm talking about, that just leaves a mark on people. And
40:06
so they come to a WVU and they play sports, and they go on
40:10
to pursue that the NFL, or are they in their careers and they go
40:15
to the business world, or they move out of state. Even the ones
40:17
that aren't native West Virginians, and the majority of the ones Joe's that you
40:22
mentioned are not native West Virginias. They may have only been here three or
40:25
four years, but it leaves a mark on the man, and they want
40:29
to come and they want to give back. That's I can't. I can't
40:34
say any better than that. You know, it's not that it even leaves
40:37
it a mark on you. It gets into your soul. The mountains,
40:43
the people that occupy this this state have a love and a passion for it,
40:49
and those natives, you know, when you come. You know,
40:52
I'm from Baltimore, and when I came over here, I was I was
40:55
welcome into the I'm with you, the West Virginia family, and we're all
41:02
over the place. I see that West Virginia logo all over the places I
41:07
travel and drive around this this great country man, and honestly, goodness,
41:12
Uh, it just gets into your soul. And uh yeah, I can't
41:19
say any better than the way you just said. You know, you want
41:21
to come back. I get to come back, you know, thirty three
41:24
years now in a row for this golf tournament. And every time I come
41:30
back, you know, when I when I hit that West Virginia line,
41:34
I'm home. Yeah, it's wonderful. All right, Joe's we gotta go.
41:39
I appreciate it, and we'll talk to you soon and I'll see you
41:42
a Thursday and Friday in morgantime. Man, Thanks a lot. Absolutely,
41:45
brother, Hey, we appreciate you. Travel safe and we'll see a Thursday.
41:49
Than sounds good, Brian, Joe's react mountaineer legend and one of the
41:53
all around nicest guys you will ever meet. I never got a chamber,
41:57
of course. I remember Joe's got playing with the most Hawk and everything that
42:00
they did all American, played for the Kansas City Chiefs as well. And
42:02
I didn't get to meet Joe's in person till a couple of years ago.
42:06
And you talk about a class act man, he is a class act and
42:07
he's doing some great things with his organization. So again, in the annual
42:13
Joe's Knows Kids Golf Classic, sponsored by Pepsi and Parmar Stores this Friday at
42:16
lake View Resorted, Morgantown, things will get underway. There's a kickoff party
42:20
Thursday night at Tropics followed by the golf tournament and lots of WVU legends.
42:24
Man. I just I was blown away by it when I was there last
42:28
year. Proceeds benefit WU Medicine and the Hoss Foundation. There's they got a
42:31
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42:36
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42:39
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check it out. Speaking of WVU, not so much positivity out of Morgantown
42:51
over the weekend with the situation with Coach Huggins. Jeff Jenkins from the Newsroom's
42:55
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45:31
the resignation or maybe not from wvuhead basketball coach Bob Huggins. Jef Jenkins from
45:37
the newsroom joins the Jeff Good Morning. It seems all the Huggins controversies happened
45:42
over the weekend. He was busted for DUI and Pittsburgh on a Friday night,
45:45
then that resignation came that weekend, hours after the DUI. Now over
45:49
this past weekend, he says he never resigned. What's up, That's what
45:52
he says. I mean, that's what an attorney out of Cleveland has sent
45:57
the university a letter and said, and you can read all these letters at
46:00
our website ww Metronews dot com. UH university got a letter Friday that said
46:05
that Bob Huggins didn't resign and UH that he voluntarily went to rehab and when
46:12
he's done with rehab, he's ready to take back over his job, and
46:15
that the university, didn't you know, didn't give him a chance for rehab,
46:20
didn't discuss anything with him, just basically, uh said you have to
46:24
you know, you have to resign and so but they said that the letter
46:30
says that he didn't really resign, although WVU did provide a an email from
46:39
his wife, June Huggins's account that says, I resign and retire basically um.
46:46
And but they're saying that he did not resign. Their threatening to lawsuit
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if w doesn't reinstate. Now key here is wvuh answered all of that.
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So they just you know, the story didn't come out with just here's Huggins's
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letter and w's kind of back tracking box skate. They release their response at
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the same time, right, so you website, you get the letter release
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plus the ww response, which says this is revisionist history. Basically, uh,
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he did resign. Here's the conversation dot dot dot dot dot. And
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they also say, hey, we're frankly confused because his attorney bought fitz Simmons
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is talking to our attorney on Thursday saying, Okay, what are the benefits
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since the resignation. Let's settle this out. You know what are you know,
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what's the financial what's the final pay, what's the benefits? And then
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the next day we get this letter from another attorney saying you didn't resign,
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and you know, they say, you know, they say these the the
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uh, the letter does not represent the fox and they will go. It
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sounds like to me, toe to toe on this uh. And so now
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I would guess the next move would be in his court so to speak,
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um to you know, to see if they're going to file a lawsuit.
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Now, remember when you file lawsuits and think back to the Rich Rodriguez thing,
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all the depositions, all the things that came out in depositions. That
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opens you up to a lot of things. You have to go under oath
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give a deposition, and people get in trouble for lying there. So I
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mean, so we'll see, you know, we'll see where it goes.
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H what's the play here? Does he really that that's that's the question.
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Does he really want to coach? Is it financial? Is it? I
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mean, what is it? Yeah? It's uh, you know, and
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you know, just from social media reaction, it seems to me to be
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ninety percent or more that are criticizing Huggins for doing this. Yeah, and
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and and this is what I guess I don't understand, Jeff. It's just
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this is just it's embarrassing, uh, not only for the university, but
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for a true Mountaineer legend and one of the greatest college coaches of all time
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in Bob Huggins. I mean, he's better than this. And in my
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opinion, he and maybe, like you said, we don't know all the
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details, but he's better than this, Jeff, in my opinion, Well,
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it is uh, you know any um, you know, any different,
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any opportunity I think for you know, things to get healed up within
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the next couple of years. You know, I think that that makes it
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very uh minute that anything would happen. It would take a long time for
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this type of thing to heal. But we'll see. I mean the university,
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uh, you know, they they released all this information. You can
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read a point by point from their attorneys their answer, uh saying this,
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you know this is indeed now you know this might get down into contract law
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and all those things. But WVU feels obviously that is in a pretty strong
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position here. Um, you know, with the resignation in hand. All
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right, Well, again, you can read all the documentation the Jeff's referring
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to on the website ww metronews dot com. Joe Procado's got a great story
50:05
up there. Plus, you know, may want to check out the podcast
50:07
The Hobby and the Gays did yesterday before the game. Jeff, I appreciate
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it. Man. We'll be following the Straill today again. And Harvey Peyton's
50:13
going to be on first guest with Dave Wilson acting all right to comment on
50:16
this, and there's someone of a great legal mind. Yes, we'll be
50:21
on to talk about it. We'll be listening. I appreciate Jeff. Thanks
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51:07
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51:37
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