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01/29/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live: Real Estate, USDA Insights, and Charleston’s Restaurant Week · The Dave Allen Show

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Coming up on the show today, we have got we were loaded up.
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Today. Restaurant Week officially kicks off in Charleston today this evening. Dickinson
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Gold from Buzz Foods is going to join us to talk about that. Plus
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Ryan Thorn, who is the state director for the USDA, is going to
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join us on the show as well. Well, let's uh, let's bring
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in our good friend now, Thorn Meeks from Meek's Realty. We scheduled to
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have Rich the realtor on the show today. We apologize for Rich not being
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able to be here, he's dealing with a sick kid at the moment,
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but instead we had the namesake of Meek's realty, Thorn Meeks is wh us
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via the Big Lee Pickley Wiggly Hotline Thor Good morning, How are you sir?
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I'm doing great, David? How are you doing this morning? I'm
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doing fine. I think it's actually because you know, I was going to
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talk about this with Rich. Rich actually got married not long ago, and
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I think maybe his wife has already you know, put the put the hammer
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down that he can't leave the house. Is that it? That's exactly right?
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You know how it goes? David? Well, yeah, through thirty
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Yeah, I probably wouldn't know that. But anyway, glad to have you
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with us on the show today. On yesterday's show, I had Terrell Ellis
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from Advantage Valley with the results of their recent housing survey here in the Kanaal
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Valley. Now you can go back, anyone can listen to that interview we
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did with Tarrell. It's on my social media or on your favorite podcast provider
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the station social media as well. But but Tarrell said, thor what Rich
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and I have talked about ever since we started doing the segments a year or
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more ago, and that is we simply need more housing here in the Kanaal
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Valley. Yeah, you're spot on, and you know, we're really fortunate
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to have Terrell and kind of lead the lead attack there and get that housing
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study completed force for the surrounding county counties of the Metro Valley. And you
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know, we were our intuition was correct, and obviously it's it's pretty black
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and white. We need more houses. We need you know, every scale
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and size that we can possibly put on the land. So that's what we're
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lacking right now today. Yeah, and you're right, and a lot of
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it has to do with a lot of these you know, folks that are
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coming in with these new jobs. You know, we talk about new Core
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and Berkshire, Hathaway and all these others, but there's there's a lot more
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to it than just that. And we're when we talk about housing, we're
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not just talking about things and subdivisions. We're talking about simple polices for people
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who live like dwellings and you know, apartments and things like that. I
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know that's something that you guys kind of specialize there, but we definitely definitely
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need more of those. I want to talk about something that we don't talk
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about a lot with riches as kind of you're into the things, and that
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is property management. Exactly how many units do you guys have so right now,
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Dave, we managed about four thousand units and that's a mixed bag.
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So we manage everything from single family dwellings to apartment complexes to commercial, retail,
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industrial, light industrial, and so we cover all the bases and manage
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pretty much anything that would be able to be leased. Four thousand units.
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You know, people are probably like me, scratching head going. I didn't
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know there were four thousand properties available in the Kanal Valley, but but there
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are. There's a lot of properties out there. We need more, as
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we said earlier, but there's a lot of properties out there. Not just
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we're talking about residents is thor, but we're also talking about, as you
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said, commercial properties as well. Yeah, that's exactly right. Obviously,
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the residential is where the main need is right now. But anything is anything
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is good. Any progress is good progress. So we're all on board for
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that. So now you also, I understand as far as your services go,
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and again we're talking with four meeks of meeks realty, I also understand
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that you do you manage properties for other people that may own them. How
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does that work? Yeah, of course, so obviously outside of our state,
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it's a very common practice and we were very fortunate to kind of bring
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that here to the to the Metro Valley. And so if you own a
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piece of property and you see have rental income potential, obviously we can facilitate
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a lease for that property, facilitate the the tenant for that property and bringing
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in we'll manage the process. So we'll get a lease executed on your behalf,
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collect your rents, do all your accounting, due diligence, and then
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transfer that those fund see at the end of the month and continue to create
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a good relationship between us and the tenant and active liaison between between Seth and
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exactly. Well, I know it's going to vary depending on the individual property.
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But give me a ballpark. What do you guys charge for that kind
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of service? Yeah, it's all over the park. It's all over the
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ballpark. So you know, you look at a commercial property that you may
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be at, you know, six and a half, seven and a half
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percent of the rents collected. You may look at a single family home,
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it's upwards of fifteen percent. So it definitely varies. The size of your
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portfolio definitely has some factors in with that, and it's it's all dependent.
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It's more of an all a part special than anything. Talking again with Meeks
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largest injury law firm, thor if someone would like to invest in some of
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your properties or like or like you to manage them. As we talked about
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before, what's the best way to get in touch with you? Yeah,
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so the best the first and foremost, the best thing to do is just
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check out our website. So if you go to our website, you're going
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to go to www dot Meeks dot us. That's going to take you to
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a landing page. It's going to allow you to go to our reality website
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and as well as our property management services website. Also, as I said
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to Rich was scheduled to be with us today, but he's taking care of
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a of a sick kid right now. I hope that everything goes okay there.
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But he did want to mention, Uh, he's got quite a presence
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on Facebook, and I share a lot of what he does on my Facebook
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page on Dave alland Radio because he does have a just look up Rich the
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Realtor on Facebook. He cheap plug there or he asked me to put that
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in there this morning. Sure, but he also here's the thing about it
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is, it's not just properties. That's not really what he does on his
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Facebook page. He's actually giving people advice on things on and you know,
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from home improvement to things that you can do if you're thinking about selling your
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house, or things you can do if you're thinking about looking into a property
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or something or something of that nature. Yeah, all those early early stage
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due diligent items. Rich is very good at He can give you some insight
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before you if you're thinking about listing a house or thinking about buying a house,
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he can definitely guide you through the process early on and before you have
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to make any decisions. And that's obviously at no charge. That's that's definitely
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one of his specialties. Well, and there's nothing exactly like no charge.
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We like to hear the term no charge. I got to have a little
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fun with you this morning thora before we let you go. I understand that
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you're about to show off your dancing skills for charity. Is that right?
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You know, it's funny. It's the reason I'm calling you instead of in
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the studio this morning. We're actually in the middle of dance rehearsal right now,
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I got my team here and we're rocking and yeah, so we're gonna
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be Dancing with the Stars in June, and I'll give I'll give a shameless
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plug whenever you're ready for the so we can get some donations. I'm ready,
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ma'am. Go ahead, and I'll offer this to any of the teams,
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by the way, that are competing Dancing with the Stars. But since
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you're the first one that asks, go right ahead. So we're going to
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text number seven one seven seven seven. And whenever you text that, you're
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gonna text dance one, it's gonna go to a great cause. You're going
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to see me do all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm in here practicing right
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now and they got me hanging from the ceiling. It's crazy. What who's
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your partner? So, Bree Lemon is my dancing part Okay, I know
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Bree very well. Yeah, actually very good friends with her husband. Yeah,
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so absolutely, So, now are are you in? I know you
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were a stellar athlete. I do know that, But now what about dancing
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is that's a totally different thing. No, it's spot on. It's the
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same. I got to move, I can rock and roll. You get
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a little confidence issue there, don't you. Man? Well, when actually
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is the the big Dancing with the Stars event? When is it happening?
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So the events in June, and so we'll have a few other events prior
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to to raise some money obviously for a great cause, and that's what it's
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all about, and then make a fool of myself here in June. But
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it'll it'll all be good. Well, we wish you the best of luck
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with that. We wish you and Bree the best of luck with that.
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And again, if you need any information about anything we talked about, just
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to log onto your guys website. That's Meekcreally dot Usa. Thor as always,
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I appreciate you being here man, Thanks a lot and good luck and
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don't break anything that you might need for the dancing competition. Okay, we'll
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still steer clear and rock and roll right. Good luck. That is Thor
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Ryan Thorne is the state director for the West Virginia USDA and he joins us
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now. Ryan, good morning, Welcome to the show. Hey Dave,
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good morning, Thanks for having me on this morning. Thank you for being
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it. First of all, I'm going to ask a really, really dumb
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question, because that's what I do. Nobody does dumb day, like Dave.
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What exactly does the us DA do specifically here in West Virginia. That's
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a that's a great question, Dave. So who are we at USDA Rule
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Development folks here us and they automatically think, okay, you all inspect me.
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You helped the SNAP program and commodities, you help farmers. Sure,
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our sister agencies under the USDA umbrella do all of those things and much more.
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But at USDA Role Development, I always say that we're the community and
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economic development arm of the USDA, you know. In short, I always
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say that we are advocates for investors in and partners to rural communities and the
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people, businesses, and organizations that make up those communities. You know.
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Our investments range from anything from basic infrastructure water sewer projects, we have high
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speed internet projects, housing programs, and then programs that can support small and
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local businesses. We're talking to Ryan Thorn with the USDA. Now I understand
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Ryan that you folks who are working with some recent census information that actually came
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out of the twenty twenty census. I believe here in the Canal val I
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talk about that a little bit. Yeah, So on our business programs,
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and we have probably about two dozen programs that can support small businesses and entrepreneurship
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growth. But for the most part, eligible areas for those programs or areas
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of fifty thousand when it comes to population fifty thousand or less, and with
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the implementation of the twenty twenty census data for the first time and probably I
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want to say the history of those programs, the Kanal Valley is now eligible
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to participate in those programs with the sort of the city of Charleston, Colleen
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just below the fifty thousand mark, that opens up small businesses and other organizations
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to now be eligible for some of those programs. I want to talk about
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specifically some of those programs. We get people listening to us right now that
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are saying, well, I mean, and I guess because I've known people,
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including yourself as worked with the USDA. First thing you think about with
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USDA's you think farm you know, and we do certainly have those in West
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Virginia. But you folks have a lot of different types of program that can
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businesses across the board get into some of those specifically. Yeah, so I'll
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talk about one. It's our Rural Business Development Grant Program or our BDG.
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And so this program is designed to support economic and workforce development projects and initiatives.
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In short, your eligibility your applicants will really be your local economic development
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authorities, colleges and universities and other nonprofit organizations. And typically those grants range
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from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars in nature, and in the past we've
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provided those grants to let's say, for example, the Pendleton County Economic Development
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Authority received one last year to create a sort of innovation hub and co workspace
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up in Franklin, Westroginia. For example, in blue Field, the blue
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Field e DA used one of these grants to help bolster their food truck startup
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initiative. So it's really brought odd the eligibility of sort of what type of
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programs we can or what kind of projects that we can fund through that program.
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But basically, if it has to do with economic development and workforce development
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job creation, more than likely it would be eligible to compete under that RBDG
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program. And these are some very very valuable programs that are used and people
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all have For what I understand and doing a little research on this, Ryan
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again we're talking to Ryan Forn with the USDA. People have been taking advantage
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of these. Yeah, for sure, it's very competitive. The RBDG program
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is very competitive. Last year we probably had close to thirty applications and we're
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able to aword out about ten awards. We receive a state allocation every year,
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which ranges in the you know, six to seven hundred thousand dollars range.
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So typically, like I mentioned before, the grants tend to range in
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the fifty to one hundred thousand per per project rain in addition to our BD
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you know a lot of folks think that, and I've heard this a lot
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throughout my career, is you know, there's got to be grant federal grants
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for for profit business. That's sort of a myth for the most part.
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But we do have two programs at USDA Role Development that specifically cater to for
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profit small businesses, being the DEEP program or the Rural Energy for America Program
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and the VAPG or the Value Added Producer Grant program. And I can go
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into a little bit on those programs if that's something you'd like me to do,
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go ahead, and so our our REEP program or the Rural Energy for
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America program, there's sort of two tracks to that program. There's the Energy
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efficiency track and the renewable energy track. And so like I said, uh,
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local small businesses that meet the definition of a small business from the Small
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Business Administration are eligible to compete for this program. They can receive grants of
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up the fifty percent for the project cost, up to five hundred thousand for
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energy efficiency projects, and up to a million for renewable energy projects. So,
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for example, you have a let's say a warehousing company who's building fifty
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years old. They decide they want to upgrade the lighting, the windows,
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the insulation, things of that nature. They can potentially apply for this program
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and get a grant of up to five hundred thousand dollars to complete those those
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renovations to make their building more energy efficient and in turn saving utility costs.
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Now we're talking you've been talking primarily about grants, but there are also loans
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available too, is that right? That is correct? The reprogram that is
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sort of a grant loan combination. So if you exceed your the max on
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the grand side, you can also apply for a loan guarantee UH in order
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for us to be able to kind of fund up to seventy five percent of
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the total project cost and on the on the value added producer grant side.
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This is a really unique program where let's say you have a farmer who's growing
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tomatoes. Everybody talks about how great this farmer salsa is. Well that the
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Value Added Producer Grant program to be utilized to help that farmer commercialize that that
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salsa, get it to market. It can help do feasibility studies, help
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with marketing, packaging, and even in some instances by equipment to help prepare
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that. And another example, let's say a beef farmer, you know,
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raising cows for beef, decides he wants to create a beef turkey company to
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you know, sell his product at all your locally owned far More stores and
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other convenience stores and grocery stores. They could use this program to buy you
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know, a commercial dehydrator to do the marketing to get that product to market.
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So it's really a unique program where it's we can provide grants of up
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to seventy five thousand on the sort of to do studies and then two hundred
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and fift two thousands actually produced the value added product. What's It's all good
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stuff and I'll tell you it, Ryan. One of the things about it
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is over the last i don't know, ten, fifteen, twenty years or
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so, there seems to be more of an emphasis on a lot of these
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things. When it comes to you mentioned getting these products into stores, into
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places like convenience stores, grocery stores. I'm talking about a lot of West
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Virginia products, you know, homegrown, farm to table kind of stuff for
24:25
be it at Capital Market or local farmers markets or things of that nature.
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I mean, you've really got a big market for this stuff out there now.
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Yeah. I think one thing that maybe the COVID pandemic showed us is
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how important local food security may be. Where folks went to their grocery stores
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maybe saw some shelves empty because it depended on products from across the country from
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you know, other countries in general. And for example, a Mountain Steer,
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a company out of Greenbrier County, you know, sol this and join
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the pandemic and they actually applied for VAPGH to produce and process locally raised and
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processed meat products. And so this is incredibly valuable not only for our food
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security, but also to help these farmers and small businesses grow their product line
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and become generate more revenue and become more profitable. You know, we've been
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talking to Ryan Thorne, who is the State Director at the USDA Rural Development
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Division. Ryan, you've thrown a lot of information out at us Man,
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where can people learn more about all these things? Sure? Well, we
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have our website. It's our d dot USDA dot gov. Again, that's
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at three zero four two eight four four eight seven one and we'd be happy
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to get you in touch the right individual within our offices that can tell you
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a little bit more about these programs. Well, Ryan, and again I
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think it's for some times you've been on the show to talk about this.
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I appreciate you being here and anytime it's good stuff. Man, anytime you
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want on the show, just have your people call my people. Who am
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I kidding? I don't have people. I just have me, but reach
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out to We'll have you back out against you man. I appreciate it a
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lot, all right, Thank you, sir. Thanks Dan, appreciate it
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all right, man, Thank you, Ryan Thorn again he is with the
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that I absolutely love, and that's food. It is Restaurant Week officially kicks
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off the cevening and Charleston Dickinson Gold of buzz Foods joins us now to talk
31:18
about it. Good morning, sir, welcome back to the show. Morning
31:22
Dave, Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here now. If
31:25
you're a foodie like I am, and the boss is producing the show today,
31:27
Dale Cooper, it is the most wonderful time of the year in Charleston.
31:30
Oh, I share your enthusiasm. This is something that a lot of
31:33
people look forward to, particularly the owners and operators of local restaurants. It's
31:38
traditionally a slow time of year in the restaurant business, so this promotion is
31:41
meant to just shine a little bit of light on locally owned establishments and get
31:47
the public thinking about eating out again after the holidays and after the credit card
31:49
bills, and once they've shaken off their New Year's resolution, so it's time
31:55
to eat, Time to make your reservations. Indeed, now I have the
31:57
graphic posted in fact, I just did it again at the top of the
32:01
show. It's on Dave Allen Radio and Facebook and also The Dave Allen Show
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on XE RTIs is fromly known as Twitter, so you can take a look
32:08
at all of the restaurants that are participating and the prices for those restaurants,
32:14
and you've got some some pretty heavy hitters up to the plate, no doubt.
32:19
We're really fortunate to have sixteen participating restaurants this year and including some very
32:23
well known, well established venues around town. I'll quickly read through the list.
32:28
Ten ten Bridge Barcada's at the Fort, Bricks and Barrels, Dem,
32:31
Two Brothers and a Grill that's the downtown location, only Ichibon pan Asian Restaurantia
32:37
Brutzi So Host Capital Market, The Lookout, Tidewater Grill, Bridge Road Bistro,
32:42
Sam's Uptown Cafe, Fernbank Public House, DT Prime, Volsted Room,
32:46
Aidelphia and Black Sheep Burrito. And again, the buy in from these people
32:53
is really incredible and it's great to see. Oh. I totally agree.
32:58
These restaurants really make a to do it up and put their best foot forward
33:00
this week. Each year it ends up being a really significant and busy week
33:07
for every participating restaurant. We've got two first timers this year, which I
33:12
always like to mention. Fernbank Public House, which is on Bridge Road in
33:15
South Hills and then the Volstead Room, which is beneath ground level on Dickinson
33:20
Street. I hope they know what they're in for because Restaurant Week usually brings
33:24
the crowd, especially for brand new venues. Talking to Dicket's a goal to
33:29
get a buzz foods. Talk about the history of this event. Sure,
33:32
yeah, this is so. We started this event eleven years ago. This
33:37
is actually the tenth event. We took a year off for social distancing,
33:39
but it was born in twenty fourteen. We had actually planned the event before
33:49
anyone had ever thought or dreamed of a water crisis like we had in Charleston,
33:52
and so we you know, it was November and December and we said,
33:54
hey, let's do this at the end of January, and we had
33:57
everything lined up, including eight restaurants that first year. And then the water
34:00
crisis hit and the public, you know, the public stayed out of restaurants.
34:06
Heck, the Health Department ordered restaurants closed, and so there were days
34:10
where restaurants had no revenue, no understanding of what they could and couldn't do
34:16
it. It was an absolute low point in the local restaurant business. And
34:20
then once the Health Department said Okay, it's safe to reopen, follow these
34:24
standards. Let's get the public back out. This plan was already sort of
34:30
baked in, and so it gave the public a good reason to come out
34:32
and really support local restaurants, really turn up the tips, as they say,
34:37
and take care of the hospitality and weight staff that had been really struggling
34:42
for a couple of weeks. And it just snowballed after that. So,
34:45
yeah, I didn't realize. I guess maybe I just didn't learn my lest
34:47
on when I had union show last year. But I didn't. I mean,
34:50
I knew this was kind of born out of the water crisis, but
34:52
I didn't realize this was actually already in place or in planning stage before the
34:57
water crisis. Well you're not alone. I mean most people think that I
34:59
thought it actually came out of the water. Yeah, we weren't. We
35:00
weren't. It wasn't a response to the water crisis. We had already thought,
35:05
Hey, this could be a good thing for Charleston, and then the
35:07
fact that it came that it happened when it did just made it just brought
35:10
it into more people's awareness and made it the successful annual event that it still
35:14
is. And I know that a lot of these restaurants they're all friends,
35:17
you know, behind the scene. What I would think most of them are
35:20
anyway, because they like to support local and hey, if I can't get
35:22
you in my place, then go down the street and see our friends down
35:25
the street. But there's a little bit of competitiveness that goes into this as
35:29
well. Oh, I'm sure you know. We ask restaurants to share anonymously
35:34
share their results at the end of each promotion, just so we have an
35:37
idea of like how well we did. There's a couple of operators who always
35:39
ask me if they quote unquote one and I tell there's everybody wins in this
35:45
event. But you're right. I think these these small businesses see this as
35:50
a chance to support each other. There's a lot of stories of the owners
35:53
and operators of one restaurant taking a big crowd to a different restaurant during Restaurant
35:58
Week. The fact is that a good, healthy restaurant scene is good for
36:04
everyone in the business. And you know, I'll bring it up. Paul
36:07
Smith is having so much success on the regional and national stage. That's good
36:10
for everyone, right. That helps people think of Charleston as a town with
36:15
good restaurants, and it's true, and so Paul's notoriety and success is helping
36:22
people bring new faces to the area and people think about eating out. And
36:27
Coop is producing the show, as I said, and Chef Paul is a
36:30
regular on the Hotline segment with Coop and weekly, Yeah, Chef Pall comes
36:35
on. He's been one for I mean since the beginning we started doing the
36:37
show. Chef Ball and I were doing some media when he still worked at
36:42
Bud Food Services when he was the corporate chef over there. With Chef Paul
36:45
was coming on here and he started sort of his career and outreach and something
36:50
he always wanted to do. And yeah, he's been a great ambassador for
36:52
that. And people made the mistake, I think after the water crisis that
36:55
the two were related, and they really was, and it was just a
36:59
it was just a good timing as far as getting people back out into the
37:01
community after the water crisis. Are actually is when they were still suffering through
37:06
the water crisis. It was a good timing for that. It's been such
37:08
a fantastic event that we've had here ever since then. It's one of my
37:13
favorite times a year, just like you talk about Dickinson. And I'll say
37:15
this too. It's all well and good. We can do all the pr
37:19
on it. We can help out with it. I know, my gad.
37:21
The food gat Steven Keith does a great job over at the over at
37:23
HD meeting and the gazette mail. But without a buy in from the public,
37:28
this thing wouldn't take off. And the public, not only in the
37:31
Kadau Valley but from all over the state comes in for this thing, so
37:35
I think they deserve some kudos as well. Oh, we are so lucky
37:37
to have the support and the attention that we get from you in the station
37:42
and from Stephen Keith in the newspaper. As you said, But you're right,
37:45
it's the public who like and share the Facebook posts and get excited about,
37:49
you know, pouring through the public menus and deciding where they want to
37:52
eat. It's the public discussion that really makes the event fun. And that's
37:58
sort of an annual tradition for a lot of folks. They wait and they
38:00
beg us for when or the menu is going to be released, and then
38:04
the day that they come out that's always the most popular, most viewed download
38:07
or post of anything that we do, and people are anxious to sit down
38:10
and compare one restaurant's menus to another, what looks the best? Where are
38:14
we going to go? And then the most important thing is to make those
38:16
reservations because you may think that in the middle of the week in late January
38:21
and Charleston, West Virginia, you don't need a restaurant reservation, but this
38:23
week you do. And it's important because it helps the restaurants plan for your
38:28
presence and know how much food and how much staff to have on hand.
38:31
And again, would we talk about the weather always plays a big factor into
38:35
this because at the end of Jay, I mean, look at where we
38:37
were this time two weeks ago. Well this week, you know, it's
38:40
been kind of nasty with rain or whatever. But as we head toward end,
38:44
the weak temperatures are going to be in the fifties and there's going to
38:46
be a whole lot of people that are going to be heading out, you
38:50
know, call it cabin fever, call it I'm done with the New Year's
38:53
resolutions, whatever the case may be. There's going to be a whole lot
38:55
of people going out. That's why, Niggodson, you really need to make
39:00
those reservations. Yeah, we really lucked out with the weather and the forecast
39:04
and the timing this year. I wish I could take credit for it.
39:06
It's just dumb luck. But yeah, I think that we're going to have
39:08
nice clear nights this week. And there's a lot of people that have not
39:12
left the house in two weeks. I'm probably one of them. But it's
39:15
a good time to get out, try a new restaurant or try your old
39:19
favorite, meet up with a friend, join a coworker, take some family.
39:22
But it's a great atmosphere this week in Charleston. And I always like
39:27
to say the food tastes better in a crowded restaurant. It just does when
39:30
the atmosphere is busy and lively and your server is, you know, working
39:35
twice as many tables as they usually do. Everybody rises to the occasion and
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touched on this with the success of Chef Paul and so many others in the
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area led by him, of course. And by the way, congratulations to
40:07
Chef Paul. He's a Beard nominee again second consecutive year. But Charleston really
40:13
is Digotson becoming a food destination. I mean, you think about those and
40:17
I'm not saying we're on we're on part with like New Orleans or something right
40:22
now. But again, people for this restaurant, we in order to make
40:25
it successful, we want all the local people here. But it's becoming a
40:29
food destination for people to come in from Morgantown or Martinsburg or Columbus or whatever.
40:35
They're coming here. It's absolutely true, and it's about time, right.
40:37
I think we're getting our moment in the sun, and Paul has a
40:39
lot to do with that. There's a lot of evidence that people are traveling
40:45
a couple of hours to eat in Paul's restaurants and they're spending the night and
40:49
they're seeing what else the town has to offer. This is how you build
40:52
a tourist and hospitality culture, and it's a great thing. But anybody who
40:58
comes to Charleston for the first time, if they're lucky enough to have it
41:00
happen this week, they're going to find lots of great options, lots of
41:05
affordable but very high end menus, plenty to eat, great service model,
41:08
and a town that's full of great, locally owned independent restaurants. Now,
41:13
where is the best place? I know it was printed in the paper,
41:15
but where is the best place for people to go? Look at the actual
41:17
menus? So there is a great rich website that has all the menus and
41:22
the addresses and phone numbers to call and make your reservations. And I would
41:27
suggest googling Charleston, WV Restaurant Week and that'll get you where you need to
41:31
go. But of course there's a content rich Facebook page and an Instagram page
41:36
that gets a lot of traffic just because there's beautiful pictures. That's what people
41:38
love to look at, the pictures of the food, and so that'll get
41:42
your mouth watering. So anything better than pictures of pictures of food in my
41:45
opinion, Dickinson, I appreciate you being here. We wish all the restaurants
41:47
the best luck. Again, just run down the list for us of the
41:50
restaurants that are participating. Sure ten ten Bridge, Barcada Is at the Fort,
41:53
Bricks and Barrels, Dem two Brothers in a Grill, Eachibon, pan
41:57
Asian Restaurantia Brutzi So hosts Capital Market, The Lookout, Tidewater Grill, Bridge
42:02
Road Bistro, Sam's Uptown Cafe, Fernbank Public House, DT Prime, Volstead
42:08
Room Adelphia and Black Sheep Burrito. And I do like to give special mention.
42:14
We have three restaurants on that list of sixteen that have participated in every
42:17
year of this event, and that is SO host Capital Market, Bridge Road
42:22
Bistro and Each Bond on Capitol Street. We really appreciate their you know,
42:28
never ending support. Yeah, indeed, all right, Dickinson, and I
42:30
appreciate it. We'll see you in the restaurants this week man. Thanks Aday
42:32
say goold again from Buzzfu's Restaurant Weekend. Again, if you want to see
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up the price for real estate and make home ownership unattainable for people who don't
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have the financial resources the corporations have. Also, it leads to a perpetual
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renter class. I heard a reason to move to West Virginia or the communities.
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What kind of communities do you get from corporate home ownership and perpetual renter
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classes, it says a Texter Hoppy Kirchiwal will be coming up a ten oh
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six with talk Line. First up on the show is Riley Gaines. Riley
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Gaines, of course, is a former big time college swimmer. She was
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in University of Kentucky. She was at the Cappitol yesterday as a guest of
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the governor. She is men an outspoken critic of allowing transgender women to compete
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against biological women in sports. Now, she spoke yesterday in support of the
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Women's Bill of Rights as it's called moving now the legislature. It's house built
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fifty two to forty three. In short, it would add the words female,
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woman and mother into the West Virginia law that is modeled after independent women's
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voices. That's the group's own model that they put out Now. Representatives in
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addition to Riley Gains from that group also joined the governor at the Capitol yesterday
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when he announced his endorsement of the bill. And according to info from the
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group if h if HB fifty two forty three passes. The Independent Women's Voters
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Women's Bill of Rights would define sex based terms used in state law and declare
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that the state has an important interest in protecting single sex spaces and to ensure
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the accuracy of public data collection. It would also give their words a clear
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definition of what a man is and what a woman is. Now. Riley
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Gaines really got involved in all this when she faced one Leah Thomas, who
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was a swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania who is transgender. Now on the
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other side, the ACLU of West Virginia is speaking out against the bill.
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The ACLU called it the bill quote bad for all women and if the bill
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passes. I'm kind of paraphrasing here. This is their words, West Virginia
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women are both separate and unequal. That is again if this bill passes.
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Again. They are saying that that would be the case of the bill passes.
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And they're also saying, quote, shame on a governor, and that
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women want access to healthcare and equal pay. We don't want to micromanage where
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people can go to the bathroom, to kick trans people out of homeless shelters,
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etc. Et cetera. Fairness West Virginia also speaking out against the bill.
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The bill is currently in the House Judiciary Committee, and we need to
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pass both the House and the Senate before he goes to the governor for his
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decision. And again Riley Gains, who is kind of at the center,
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kind of a spokesperson for all this, she was on, she was with
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the governor. You have today, she'll be the first guest on with Hobby
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coming up at ten o six this morning. Text says do not work into
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polls. I did it and I was harassed by GOP during COVID. Well
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that's the case, that's a crime. And if that is the case,
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then you probably not the victim, shamier. You probably should have reported that
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because harassment of poll workers is a crime in the state of West Virginia.
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So texture that happens again, called the police because it's crime to harass poleworkers.
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I'd like to get into the parking building business. Well. Jeff Jenkins
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with a story post to wv metronews dot com. Judge Dave Hardy has ruled
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the Town Center parking garages can be auctioned off, probably sometime in April or
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May. The garages were owned by the Charleston Building Commission, but they've been
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in receivership since last fall. That receiver is Boyd real Estate Resources, and
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the ask Judge Hardy to allow for the auction so the investors in the garages
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would get some of the money that's owed to them. We're talking about somewhere
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between twelve and fifteen million dollars that they're owed since the mall was open in
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the mid eighties. KURA, that is, the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority,
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has owned the ground where the garages said. It all gets kind of complicated
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now. The actual mall, of course, is owned by the whole group
51:37
who could bet on the garages. The proposed Capital Sports Complex also could bid,
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or one of the local hotels, MARYETTMBC, Switechs or others could also
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bid as well. Jeff as the story post to wv Metronews dot com tech
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says that Bill is a wonderful scientific bill as a Texter. All right,
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gotta go. My producer was Dale Cooper, Thank you so much. Restaurant
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Week Again kicks off this evening. Complete list of restaurants available Dave Allen Radio
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on Facebook and The Dave Allen Show on x Dicktson Gould. I appreciate him
52:07
being here today. Also Ryan Thorn from the USDA and Thorn meets from Meeks
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Realty tomorrow on the show. Robert Stone Street with the Marsa Quarterback Club will
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stop by. Senator Amy. Nicole Grady is here and the newest member of
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the Canawa County Board of Education, Kate White, will be on the show
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tomorrow as well. Bottle the News of the daywv Metronews dot com at WCCHS
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Network dot com for my producer, the boss Dale Cooper, thank you so
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much, see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody.
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