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09/18/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Frank Mullens Junior, Ben Salango, and Morganne Tenney · The Dave Allen Show

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bit later on. Also, we're gonna have Morgan Tentny making her debut on
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came late last week at an event held Thursday night in Putnham County and that
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share that with you coming up a little bit later on in the show.
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But it is Monday, which means we bring a different mayor in to the
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show. Which week want to welcome in our good friend from the Land of
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the Black Eagles, talking about South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullins Junior. Good morning,
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sir, how are you good morning? Days going fine? Thank you
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thanks for being here. How are things in South Charleston? I do want
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to ask this though. Now we're just I guess a couple of weeks away
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from when you did Summerfest, how a Summerfest. Summerfest was great, well
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attended. May have been our biggest weekend ever. I think this estimated crowd
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on Friday was like seven thousand, So it was. It was a great
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event as usual, good time to meet everybody, talk to folks you haven't
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seen for a while. Just just a big success. It's just one of
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those big events the you know, of what you look forward to every year,
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and all the you know, most of the towns in the area and
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the cities have events like to have. A Summerfest is certainly one that everybody
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looks forward to, and it draws in as we always talk about Mayor,
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it draws in people from all over the region. It does it does dinner
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over a little over twenty years now and so it's it's one of people's favorite,
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I think, from around the valley. So again, good time,
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good time. What else have we got going on? Do we have anything
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exciting like that going on over the next couple of months in South Charleston.
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Well, you know what, we just kind of wounded down our wided down.
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Our busy time was Summerfest and then we had our Moundfest Arts and Crafts.
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So now we're kind of in that in that in between now and the
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next thing we really have is is the Christmas Parade. So what us through
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some normal city business developments, all the good things we got going on?
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Try to get those across the finish line? What kind of city developments do
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we have going on? What can you tell us? Well, same thing.
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I think it's pretty much the same thing we talked about before day with
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the Jefferson Road and the flash pawn, our fiber build and our subdivision up
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a little creek golf course, all those things going. And we did complete
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our new fire station down Quarter g so that's done up and operating serving those
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folks out that way. So things are going well? How are things looking
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at them all? Let's break that down specifically, good going real well?
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Of course you saw obviously Chick fil A's there and doing well. Starbucks is
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getting ready to start construction this month and any day now they'll get started,
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and hopefully Minars will two as well a late fall, so we've got their
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site pad ready as well. So to see some good things have plus we're
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about six months ahead of time on the field, so that clock's ticking down
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there for the settlement process, which is a six to twelve months I think
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the clocks started July one, so that was nice news to get from up
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though. We about six months ahead of time on that. Now, for
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somebody that doesn't know anything about this, which I don't, may or why
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are you ahead of schedule? How did what goes into being ahead of schedule?
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Well, it's just the PHIL. The phil proces us went a little
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bit faster than one was anticipated. That that's all. It's pretty simple.
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But once that was done, then the site that is on field, the
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other side of where Chick fil As at the other side where the pond actually
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was, that's where the settlement process has to take place, which it's about
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a sixty to twelve months waiting period. And once that's over with then you'll
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see all these all these stores and restaurants we have lined up, you'll see
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a bunch of them being built all at the same time. And there's a
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lot of development going on within the city as South Charles, not just as
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it relates to the mall. You've always got something new going on and do
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business coming in talk about that, yeah, we do. And I think
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WU Medicine coming to spring Hill has been a big help to us down there
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as they're doing some doing some great things. They had their helopathic obviously is
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up and running. They moved their their physical therapy over the river Walk,
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and they've added I think close to forty or fifty new new physicians or anticipating
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that. So that's going well. We do have a couple of business and
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not quite ready to announce the names yet, but we have sold some property
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in spring Hill near the hospital as well for two new businesses to go in
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there, and hopefully it'll start building some time to fall as well. Let's
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let's talk about the subdivision a little bit. I hadn't hadn't heard a lot
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about that, uh, And you know, I have people on the show
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all the time, different governmental officials, and they all talk about the lack
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of housing here in the Kanaal Valley. It's a problem. I mean,
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it really is. Talk about the subdivision, Yeah, it is. It
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is the problems. It's been a need for for decades around here as well.
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We talked about this back and when I was a public works director.
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But we do have a new subdivision. It's a small subdivision. It's up
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a little Creek golf course, and uh, there's gonna be twenty one new
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homes built there. There's already I believe three families that are living in that
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area is right now, and the other properties you see under roof are all
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sold. So it's a very popular small subdivision. But it's needed. Like
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you say, Dave, housing is an issue, and particularly new housing.
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Yeah, and you have a lot of people And I was talking to a
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realtor friend of mine the other day. What is happening is too is that
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you know, we have we have people that are moving into the area.
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I mean, and you know, with with the with the plants that you
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know, the different projects that are coming, and we have people moving in
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the area. And sometimes I mean, my wife and I were just having
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this discussion last night. You know, we're perfectly happy in our house.
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We could probably sell our house and make a make decent money on it right
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now, but then where would we go. That's the problem is because because
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there is a lack of a housing. I'm want to talk about Little Creek
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for a moment, Little Creek golf Course, that whole area up there because
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I think that's kind of a hidden gym. Uh in this here, A
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lot of people may not know about it. It's a beautiful course, great
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restaurant up there. Uh talk about how that benefits South Charleston. It is.
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It is probably one of the best kept seekers, particularly the restaurant,
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the Eagles Nest restaurant. They do a great job up there, have a
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great lunch buffet, have a good breakfast, bunk brunts on Sunday. The
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golf course is doing well. We surpassed twenty thousand rounds of golf last year.
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We'll see what we're wrap this year. That was kind of our goal
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back in the day, get the twenty thousand rounds, and that's where we
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got to. And it's again it's you're right, it's a it's a really
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it's it's a hidden gym. And so we've we've tried to market it really
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well. But at the end of the day, the restaurant, I think,
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I think can do a little bit better. But it's it's going good.
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And we sunk a lot of money in into it over the years,
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invested a lot into it to bring it up the bar and so it's Uh,
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I enjoy it and we have a happy hour up there on Fridays from
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peak four thirty to seventh thirty. That's been pretty popular. We can do
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free appetizers. People come up and have some cocktails after a long days,
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long week's work. So things are going well up there. And Dean again,
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we're talking with Frank Maudel Junior, the Mayor South Charleston here on five
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eighty Live on our Mayor Monday's segment. So let's talk about now coming up
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on our next segment, I'm gonna have Conacunda Chmistry Ben s Lango on the
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show, and he made it. He and the Mayor Barbersville A Chris Tatum,
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came together for an announcement last week about this big soccer event that's that's
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going to be going on. We'll let to Commissier s Lango get into that
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a little bit more. But when we see these things mayor that are coming
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here, whether it's you know, Shawnee or whether any of these places South
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Charleston and he's Saint Alban's and Nitro, everybody benefits from these Everybody benefits.
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I've said that for years, and we did our investment at Little Creek Park
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with our turper field. Now we have about eight tournaments a year, softball,
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baseball tournaments and every you know, they'll bring sixty two, one hundred
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teams on our team. And you're right. Everybody benefits. Hotels from all
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over the area, from from Barbersville to Charleston and all in between. Everybody
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benefits, and it's a great economic impact and it's a great quality of life
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thing for people that live in our communities. We had a text to the
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show here Mayor, about the golf course of golf course, and we'll let
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you go. Someone ask if the golf course offers memberships. No, we
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do not. It's a public course, we don't. We do have a
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summer pass it to our swimming pool oper but the golf course we do not.
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It's just a daily, daily fee. Well, Mayor, I'll tell
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you it's an exciting time to be here in the Canal Valley, exciting time
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for South Charleston. And with the mall and with all the other business you
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got going on, it sounds like exciting things going on in South Charleston.
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Is always it's pleasure to have you on the show. We'll talk again soon,
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Mayor. Thanks a lot. They appreciate, appreciate. It is always
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partner. Take care now, have a good day. Hey you as well.
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Frank Mullins Junior, the Mayor of South Charleston on Mayor of Monday.
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the dumbest thing ever, they surprise you. Along I sixty four near the
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way station. They cleared all the trees and shrubs from about an acre of
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slope. It's hundreds of feet from the roadway and has no burying on the
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highway. Costs a lot to clear and will cost a lot to mow.
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According to We've I've spent more time or more text about moween here as of
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late than I probably have in the three years I've done the show. Everybody's
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concerned, Commiser Ben Selango is here. Are you concerned about Moeen, Sir,
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I'm always concerned about mowing. Yeah, I'm never concerned about well,
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but I mean obviously people I don't mean to make a lot of it.
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I mean people have some some issues with it there and they're saying that and
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this is nothing that you can you can handle. But I mean as far
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as a lot of the a lot of the news out of the Department of
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Highways has been about moeen projects because they've kind of gone by the wayside.
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I guess, yeah, well, you know what, I Departament Highways has
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always helped us. I mean anytime we've had an issue. We had some
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problems out at Shawnee. We need a turn light. Jimmy Riston made that
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happen. We've had issues in the Upper Canall Valley after the floods, the
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Governor Jimmy Riston stepped up and helped. Even had you know, roads falling
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in and they they repaired them this same weekend. I mean it was so
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yeah. I mean it's a big operation, a big statewide operation, and
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there's you know, they're always going to have some issues. But I think
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they've done a remarkable job. I really do. And I don't think sometimes
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and I talk about you know, West Virginia is a relatively small state,
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and I've used the term one time. I said that it was a diverse
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state, and somebody let me up over how could they be a different Now,
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what I'm saying is what goes on in Martinsburg could not be any more
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different than what goes on in Pineville. It isn't, honestly, and everything
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is so different. Eastern Panhandle was completely different than five different states. No
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othern Panhandle was different. I mean, so wherever you travel and each each
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area, the state has a very unique issue with regard to roads. You
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know, you got a sudden wash in. They're literally bridges falling in.
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You can walk out onto a bridge and in McDow County and see the river
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or the creek below. Yeah, I mean so that you know they've got
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some serious, serious issue. Well, and some of the flooding that we
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had, you know, up in the Upper Kanalla Valley here recently some a
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great deal that some of the problems were being called because of infrastructure. Infrastructure
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problems, that's right, but you know, and like I said, you
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know, even the recent flooding, but every time we have an issue,
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Jimmy Riston and the governor stepped up to help. When we have those issues
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in the Upper Knalla Valley. Otherwise, I mean you get roads collapsing,
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and also some of the private companies up there have stepped up and helped out
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as well. See that a lot in West Virginia. I don't know that
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it goes on in other areas, but anytime there is a disaster, you
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know, usually you will have some private entities, you know, if somebody's
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got a bulldozer or somebody's got this, and they're right there on the scene.
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And that's just part of being in West Virginia. It's right one of
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the energy companies and this was the not the most recent flood, but the
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one before, came in and helped out with one of the private roads and
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even one of the public roads. They were up there putting gravel down and
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leveling things out and removing debris. And so yeah, we've got we've got
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a good a good group up there. Can I kind of comistier Ben s
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langoes here it's nine to twenty three, huge announcement commissioner. Last week as
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it pertains to a big regional soccer event. I saw my good buddy at
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Chris Tatum the Mere Barber's Ville out there. What's going on. Yeah,
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So you know, we've been we've been kicking and clawn to try to get
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this tournament, and we thought it was going to go to Virginia again or
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maybe even Pennsylvania. Back in May, we announced the USU Soccer Eastern President's
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Cup was going to be hosted by the Shawnee Sports Complex and also Barbersville.
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You know, Barbersville has really stepped up their games out there and put some
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new turf fields in and the facility looks incredible. So we did not think
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we were and that's a ten million dollar economic impact. You've got about one
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hundred and twenty five teams from oh nearly a dozen states, So we were
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trying to get the big one. You know, the big one is the
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Eastern Regional, the Championship Series, the National Championship Series, which we've hosted
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several times. That's a two hundred and fifty team tournament. Two hundred and
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fifty teams, right, how many people per team? Fifteen players per team,
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and statistically about three point five people travel with every are you talking about
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either siblings or parents or grandparents, So you calculate that out, that's thirteen
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thousand people coming into the area. Four or five days. Yeah, and
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the hotels love that, the restaurants love that. Hotels love it, restaurants
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love it. Everybody loves it. I mean, it's it's packed. So
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I tell people, if you have to wait in line to get your blooming
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on and at out back, I apologize, but that's exactly what we're trying
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to talk about, right, Hey, it's in beads, as Tim Brady
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would say, Yeah, that's that's exactly right. So we've got the we
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were you know, very fortunate, very proud to announce that we are getting
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the Eastern Regional National Championship Series next year as well. So that's two hundred
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fifty teams from nearly a dozen states, about thirteen thousand visitors are going to
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be here for a week. And so if you look at what we have
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lined up for next year, June fourteenth through the eighteenth, you have the
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President's Cup USU Soccer President's Cup. That's that's going to bring in about seven
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thousand people. And then you have we get ten days off. Then you
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have June twenty eight through July fourth, which is the big one, you
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know, the National Championship Series that ends third. That's you know about thirteen
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thousand people, twenty eight million dollar economic impact. And then we turn around
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and go straight in the regatta. Yeah, July third through the seventh,
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and that's going to be at least another thirty eight million dollars. So you
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look at those three weeks alone, when you combine the USU Soccer events with
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the regatta, that's seventy six million dollars of economic impact less than a month.
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That's amazing. And when we talk about this Commissioner, we talk about
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people that come in and the grandmas and everybody that comes. I want to
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see that point five person by the way, that that comes in with us.
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But it takes people on this end to put these events on and that's
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that's where the economic impact for us. You know that that's also going to
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be factored in. Yeah, and you know, we work with all the
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local businesses to make sure that they know what's coming in because if you all
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of a sudden, have you know, one hundred or two hundred extra people
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showing up at your restaurant and you haven't prepped for it either with make sure
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you've ordered additional food or make sure you have enough staff, it can be
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a disaster. You know, the first year we did this when Shawnee was
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when Shawnee had just opened in twenty and eighteen, restaurants were running out of
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food. And so after that we learned a lesson that we need to start
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working with our local businesses to make sure that they know exactly what's going on.
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So we're doing that. We put out we have an email list that
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goes out to them and so they know exactly what to order and you know,
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how much to order and how many staff to bring in. And staffing
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has been an issue all over you know, all over the country, not
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just unique to Charleston, but we have we have, you know, some
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staffing issues that they have to work on between now and then because it's just
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going to be slammed for three consecutive weeks. And talk about the hotels,
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where do we put all these people when they come in, Well, we
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don't have enough hotels unfortunately in the you know, between Charleston and Huntington,
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we don't have enough. So people for this one with they'll stay two two
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and a half hours away. Yeah, you know, we will fill up
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every hotel in Canau County, every hotel in Cabell County. People will stay
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down in Logan. People will you know, at the UH at the resort
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down there lodge and people will stay all the way up, you know,
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towards flight. I ran, I've told this story when you've been on the
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when you are on with me. Once before, I was having a dinner
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a year or so ago in Gallipolice, Ohio. I was at a Buffalo
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wild Wings and Gallipolice, Ohio, and struck up a conversation with these people
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and they were in for an event at Shawnee and that was the nearest hotel
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that they had was in Gallipolice. Yeah, yeah, it's you know.
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So I think that we've we've got some things going on. I think additional
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hotels are coming in one in particular, it's going to be downtown. I
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think maybe two. But the key is that that West Virginia Soccer Association,
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you know, Lynn Rodgers and Dave Lraba have done such a wonderful job dating
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back to like two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine time frame and
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letting people know, letting USU Soccer know that we can do these tournaments.
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I mean, it takes hundreds and hundreds of volunteers and a lot of other
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states can't pull that off. I mean in Virginia, you know, they've
20:48
struggled, Pennsylvania struggled. But when we're talking about the number of states that
20:52
try to get these tourns because they want that economic impact too. But they
20:55
keep coming back. They keep coming back to Shawnee, they keep coming back
20:57
to Barba. What is it? Why do they keep coming? They really
21:00
like the way that we put on a tournament. I mean we make sure
21:03
that every detail is covered, every single detail. Uh, you know when
21:07
USU Soccer, because we use more than just the turf. You know,
21:11
we've got six turf fields. Barbersville has three turf but we also have to
21:15
play in the grass. They got to measure our grass. I mean they
21:17
will take a ruler out onto the field and measure to make sure that our
21:19
grass is cut to the appropriate length. And we always we get it right.
21:23
You know, we've run that facility very well. We've got to make
21:26
sure that everything, everything detail is covered and so they know that we can
21:30
do this, and they were doing it before I got here. You know,
21:33
the USU Soccer was bringing those tournaments to Barbersville. They were smaller,
21:37
but they were bringing them here and so they did such a good job,
21:40
they always want to come back. And even though you know, we're competing
21:42
with New York, we're competing with Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
21:48
Jersey. Everybody's trying to get these tournaments. We keep winning them. We've
21:51
won five out of the last six. Right, And what do people when
21:55
they come in and what are some of the comets maybe that you've heard from
21:57
people about, not necessarily the feel olds commissioner or the grounds, but what
22:02
do they talk? What do they say about the people of us? They
22:04
love the people. They love going to the restaurants. The servers are nice,
22:07
the owners of the restaurants are nice. You know, they go downtown
22:11
to Ellen's, they get an ice cream. They love being able to go
22:14
to Live on the Levee on Friday night. So they love the people everybody,
22:18
you know. That's it's what Virginia is. A hospitality state. I
22:22
mean, we're so if you're pulled over on the side of the road with
22:23
a flat tire, you won't be there more than five minutes before somebody stops.
22:26
Yeah, and they enjoy that. They like being catered to, They
22:30
like the friendliness of the folks in town, and you know that's one thing
22:34
that we have that maybe other states. Yeah, you're exactly right about that.
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you tell us about the indoor sports complex? How are we how are we
22:51
doing all of that? It's moving along. So we have obviously we have
22:53
named the board that's overseeing the complex. They are interviewing architects and they're interviewing
23:00
a basically a liaison that will go that will serve between the board and the
23:04
construction team. It's called an owner's rep. And so they're interviewing people for
23:10
that position as well. And so I think those interviews are scheduled this month.
23:14
I think in October you'll see some significant movement. Had a texture to
23:18
the show about Coonskin. Texture said, please ask the commissioner how much counting
23:22
state moneys were involved in the new Coonskin golf course. You know what,
23:26
I have to pull it to see exactly how much counting money. I actually
23:30
went to the golf course for the first time. I wasn't there on opening
23:33
day. I went out there with Jeff Hutchinson and General Island Hackett the other
23:36
day and was to say I was blown away would be an understatement. I
23:41
mean, so they took that as a par three nine hole course where they
23:45
basically modeled it after famous holes in in England, in Ireland. It's incredible.
23:51
I mean it is those guys on the air talking about and I got
23:52
an education for sure that day. So I went out for the first time
23:56
it was probably two weeks ago, and could not believe what an amazing job
24:02
they did. So yeah, I think the I think overall is around a
24:06
million men and a half and how much exactly was county versus state Parks also
24:11
has a separate budget too, so yeah, I can pull those numbers,
24:14
but I don't have them on me today. Where are we on the flood
24:17
recovery? We've what a month or so out now or nearly that. Where
24:22
are we on that clean I had Commissier Carper on the show I think it
24:23
was last week talking about it and where are we now on foot clean up?
24:27
So I mean we've picked up tons and tons of debris. I think
24:30
our debris cleanup has finished, and now we're just doing that, you know,
24:34
trying to get some feme of money and state assistance, you know,
24:38
some money and try to rebuild as you know best we can. But it's
24:44
a shame. I mean, hell, as soon as we finish up with
24:45
one, we get another one. Right. It's just been and so much
24:48
and so much of this, sir, is not and you know this a
24:52
lot better than I do. So much of it is not just your traditional
24:55
flooding. I mean, you know, you get that much rain, you
24:57
know, in that short of amount of time, but a lot of it
25:00
is not what you would constitute is flooding as much as it is. You
25:03
know, rock slides are a problem, and roads caving in and thing that
25:07
all goes back to infrastructure. It is an infrastructure issue. But we have
25:11
a lot of the flooding. You know, some of the creeks get get
25:14
clogged up. Yeah, you get backed up. You get some some of
25:18
those private bridges that are are used across creeks, those things get backed up.
25:22
And we have a lot of those ways for a lot of those a
25:25
lot of them get wiped out and people you're gonna go ten miles down the
25:27
road, you know, yeah, And I mean it's a it's a big
25:30
it's a big problem. But we've we're working with VOAD to try to get
25:33
them, you know, to help with some of the private bridges. We
25:36
just gave them some money. So you know, we've got a lot going
25:40
on up there. The infrastructure problem is the biggest problem up there. Just
25:44
the you know, everything is just antiquated and it's unfortunate. But we're trying
25:48
to keep those creeks clean the best we can, you know, so that
25:52
when we do have another rain event, you know, it won't flood as
25:56
badly as it did in the past. But it's it's a big task,
26:00
really is well. And again, you know they talk about things like five
26:03
hundred year floods, a thousand year floods. You had them two years in
26:06
a row. You had a thousand year flood basically, right, And those
26:08
people really, you know, they've borne the brunt up. It's been.
26:11
It's been terrible for them. It really has come. I kend of Commissier
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you go. And that is there's been all kinds of political announcements. I
26:38
would be remiss if I didn't ask you what's the future look like for a
26:42
Ben Selango. Your friend Steve Williams just announced that over the Labor Day holiday,
26:47
as was expected, he's going to be running for governor. So far,
26:49
as far as I know, the only Democrat that is announced to run.
26:53
What are you? What are you looking at next year? Sir?
26:56
You know what I'm always watching. I mean, I'm I'm on the count
26:57
of commission to til twenty and twenty eight. This year wasn't the right This
27:02
was not the right time for me to run for governor. I mean for
27:03
just a host of reasons that I've been on the show and talked before.
27:07
But I'm going to sit back and watch this one. You know, we'll
27:10
see what happens. You know, Steve Williams is a great guy. He's
27:12
he's a very hard worker. The Republican side has some very good candidates as
27:17
well. You know, we'll see how this one shakes out. But I
27:21
think that Republican primary is going to be a gonna be a nice fight to
27:23
watch. Well, I think it is. I think it is, and
27:26
and so far it's been, you know, pretty civil, but it probably
27:30
won't say that way, not because the Republicans, but if it were Democrats
27:33
probably would be the same thing. And they're you know, taken a couple
27:37
of shots. I'll tell you one race that I think is going to be
27:40
really interesting and already has started to be, and that's that attorney general race.
27:44
That is going to be an interesting race. And you know, jab
27:47
mccuski has won several statewide elections. Mike Stewart is feisty and did an excellent
27:52
job as US attorney. So we'll see, we'll see how that s And
27:56
then Ryan will You've got him up in the you know, northern Panhandle,
27:57
so we'll see how that one shakes out. But yeah, there's some very
28:00
interesting Secretary of State races state. Yep, on the on the GOP side.
28:04
So I'm gonna step back and eat some popcorn and watch those watch the
28:07
whole thing happened. Uh texts here before we let you guess is can you
28:11
imagine if Slango were governor of the state, how we would be booming right
28:15
now? He gets business here. Well, I appreciate that. I you
28:18
know, I signed Ben's mom But but anyway, No, I think the
28:22
governor's doing a great job. I do. I think he has. They've
28:25
brought in some new business. I think our legislature has done a very good
28:27
job on several key things. So I appreciate that comment. But you know,
28:33
honestly, there's probably not a lot of things that I would have done
28:37
differently differently during COVID or we're after, than what the governor's done. To
28:41
be completely candid, I mean, I think he's I think he's doing a
28:44
good job. No, you can't speak for your wife. But somebody ask
28:47
ask why your wife switched parties? You can you can answer much about your
28:52
wife is probably I can answer about mine. Right, I get in trouble
28:55
when I go home. But you know, I think that you know,
28:57
there were a lot of reasons, a lot of things that factored into that.
29:00
But you know, she's running again for circuit judge. People had speculated
29:03
she was running for the Weshington Spring Court appeal. She's not. She's running
29:06
for circuit judge. She's filed. She's you know, running to keep her
29:08
seat. So we'll see. All right, You're always welcome on the show,
29:12
sir. Appreciate you coming on giving us good news from and we got
29:17
a lot of it here in West right now we do things are going well
29:18
all right. County Commissioner Ben Silango, I appreciate twenty four minutes away from
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good morning, how are you? Thank Good morning, Dave. I'm great.
32:44
How are you today? Thank you for being here. The good news
32:47
keeps rolling out of Puttnham County. Now, I was had an opportunity last
32:52
Thursday night to attend the annual Putnham County Development at forty dinner and you dropped
32:55
some big news on the folks and attendance of Valley Park talk about him.
33:00
Yeah, absolutely, So we wanted to celebrate everything that has happened with the
33:05
Putnam County Development Authority and in Putnam County this last year. We were so
33:09
thankful everyone that came out. You know, that was a fundraiser for our
33:14
organization, and you know, we wanted to show everyone that was participating,
33:17
what is happening, what is you know, what's moving forward? How are
33:22
we driving development in Putnham County. So we had two major announcements at our
33:27
denner last Thursday evening Putnam County Development Authority. If you don't know, David,
33:32
we're actually a sixty plus year old organization and historically we have started many
33:38
industrial parks and one of the ones we currently owned. It's the Putnam Business
33:43
Park located on Route thirty five and Prager's Bottom. And we announced two different
33:49
companies that are both Putnam County companies that are growing. They're expanding in our
33:54
park. One is Diesel Drilling Corporation, who's currently not in the park.
34:00
They are building a six thousand square foot garage and shop facility there in our
34:07
park and they're doubling their staff. And then we also announced that Multi Code
34:13
Corporation, who is already in the park, is expanding. They actually have
34:17
two expansions, two phases DAVE where they are immediately going to build a sixty
34:24
thousand square foot facility and add about twenty jobs, and in the second phase
34:30
will actually replicate that. So very exciting stuff. We are seeing growth in
34:35
Putnam County and I was just so thankful to those companies to let us celebrate
34:38
that at our general last week. And again we're talking with more contending from
34:42
the Putnam County Development Authority. And we always welcome job announcements and we love
34:45
when companies expand, but there's something special about having a West Virginia company announce
34:52
an expansion project like this. Morgan add to have it in Putnam County,
34:57
that's makes it even more exciting. Absolutely, so they've you know, we
35:02
we do try to attract new businesses into Putnham County, but research shows that
35:08
well over eighty percent of job creation is actually from your companies that are already
35:14
here. And my team we really try to work with staying in touch with
35:19
businesses in the area and retain them and help them grow because we know that
35:23
that's where growth front it comes from. And you know, you can bring
35:27
in new businesses, but if you're not retaining the ones you have, then
35:30
it's kind of for nothing. So we're so thrilled that we have two companies
35:35
that have chosen to stay here and grow here. And I think that that
35:38
is a big test of money to how great it is to do business in
35:44
only Putnam County, but it's West Virginia as a whole. Well, and
35:46
I know a little bit about the multi coat multi coate folks they do.
35:51
This is a I mean, even though this company is based in Puttnham County,
35:54
Morgan, this is a company that has operations and they do business literally
36:00
around the world from little old Putnam County. Talk about them, Yeah,
36:04
it's awesome. So that was actually the theme of our annual dinner last week,
36:07
is that Putnam County is globally competitive, and you know, we wanted
36:10
to show that there are international companies in Putnam County. Obviously, most people
36:15
know about Toyota, but what I wanted to highlight at that dinner is how
36:19
many of our companies and even small companies have products and services in countries all
36:25
around the world, and Multi Code is one of those. They export a
36:29
lot of their products overseas, so they do sealings and coatings for pools,
36:36
patios and decks, things like that. If you can imagine how big their
36:39
market is down in the Caribbean as well as places that are a little bit
36:45
warmer than West Virginia, Dave. But they export and they have been very
36:51
successful. I believe they're in sixteen countries now. But we have a lot
36:54
of companies in Putnham County that do that, and I think that that's wonderful.
36:59
And we're selling grating, Yeah, I would agree. What don't we
37:01
see in the future for Putnham County. Of course, we're seeing all these
37:06
job announcements that are coming, you know, all over the state of West
37:08
Virginia and this outfit and that out that anything in particular that you can let
37:13
us in on about what we may expect from the future in Putnam County.
37:15
Yeah, absolutely. So we are focused on multi facets of how can we
37:22
develop Putnam County. Obviously, we want to continue developing our business community and
37:28
growing jobs, but we're also focusing on workforce development, and we're focusing on
37:34
housing development, so how can we get more people to live in Putnam County,
37:38
but also how can we retain our talent, our young talent to stay
37:44
here in West Virginia and in the region. So we're doing a lot of
37:47
work on housing. We know that we have a great school system in Putnam
37:52
County and people want to live in Putnam County. So we've just announced last
37:59
week as well that we have a housing tax credit that the state passed.
38:05
Puttnam County is now the only county in this region that has that tax credit
38:08
for housing developers. So you're going to see more houses, Dave, we
38:13
need it, and with that, you know will come more retail. And
38:17
then we're also working on how do we keep our students here. So we
38:22
have also started an apprenticeship program with tweet a, New Core and several other
38:28
companies at Bridge Valley. So we're not only focused on business retention and expansion,
38:34
but also our people. You know, we love our community. How
38:37
can we get more people to live here, and then how can we keep
38:40
them here as well? And as far as New Core goes. I mean,
38:45
these folks, you know, aren't even up in I mean they're doing
38:49
things. If you've been through Apple Grove here lately, of our in Mason
38:52
County, they're doing things. They're already but they're already making a huge investment
38:58
in the state of West Virginia. I mean they show up on day one
39:00
and give what was it, a million dollars to the Mason County Board of
39:02
Education. Hello, welcome to town. You know, here's a million dollars.
39:07
But they're also doing things in Putnham County because they realize that once we
39:10
have these jobs in here and again they're already coming in for the construction of
39:15
whatever, that a lot of these people, a lot of a lot,
39:19
are going to choose to live in there. Not everybody's going to live in
39:22
Mason County. There's gonna be some in Cable County, Kanalla County, because
39:24
if you're paying enough money, people are morgan are gonna be willing to drive.
39:29
But there's gonna be a heck of a lot of them that are going
39:30
to live in Putnham County. And i live in the heart of Tays Valley
39:34
and I'm already seeing them. I'm already seen them coming in coming in.
39:37
Absolutely, you know there's there's going to be so many people coming in,
39:43
and then you know they're also going to be hiring folks that live here as
39:45
well. But I've had the pleasure of actually entertaining a lot of the managers
39:50
that they were recruiting from other states and plants, And you know, what
39:55
a privilege to have someone come and you be the first West Virginian that they
40:00
meet and meet their kids. I mean, it's just incredible. And then
40:06
a few months later to see them at your church, see them in the
40:08
grocery store, like that makes my heart happy. That is why I love
40:14
what I do. It's been incredible to welcome new Core into our community.
40:19
They have been a huge partner to pc DA, both financially and in other
40:24
just partnerships. We did buy a building earlier this year. It's a manufacturing
40:30
building and New Core as our first tenant, which is also allowing us another
40:34
source of income. So they are making a huge impact both as a business
40:38
and just as a community. They have been so great to work with.
40:45
They've been so sweet and frankly, some of them I can already call my
40:50
friends just from welcoming them into our community. And I'm sure if you have
40:54
kids in school in Punnham County, they more than likely have a kid in
40:59
their school. Cool that just moved here from from another New Core plant.
41:04
Yeah, exactly right, Morgan, Before we let you go, when when
41:07
you are trying to sell Putnham County to people, and I'm talking about you
41:12
know, whether it's a New Core or whether it's you know whoever that you're
41:15
trying to get to come into Putnam County, what do you have in the
41:19
toolbox that you can give them to say, Hey, here's why you should
41:23
locate here in in this area. Here's what we have to offer. What
41:28
is it that Putnam County, in your opinion, has to offer that maybe
41:30
other areas of the state don't have. Absolutely, so our kind of commissioners
41:36
would agree with me on this one. We say we have three things,
41:39
and I know You're Putnam County in two days, so I'm sure you'll agree.
41:44
We are a safe community, we have a great school system, and
41:49
we are in a wonderful location. We are very blessed to have I sixty
41:52
four driving right through Putnham County. We I know plenty of people that once
41:57
spouse works in Huntington and one spouse works in Austin. It's just a great
42:01
community. We have wonderful parks and just the people. But I think you
42:07
know a lot of West Virginia is about the people. But those three things
42:12
specifically make Putnam County different than some of the surrounding areas. We'regan Tenny,
42:17
doing great work there with the Putnam County Development Authority, great announcement, great
42:22
economic news for the area. I appreciate you being there. We'll talk again
42:23
soon. Thanks a lot. Thanks Dave, have a great day as well.
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Dave, mister Slango is wrong about Jim Boys Jim's Boys, referring to Governor
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Justice doing a good job. Look at the Washington Street Bridge. According to
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a texture, I want to get this out there. There is going to
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be here is talking a lot about this between now and no. There is
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an event that they're calling a part Now. What I mean by that,
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Jeff, is it's Paar dash Tee and it's benefiting the club's in Hand Foundation.
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Now. It's being presented by the John L. Dickinson Family and Embassy
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Suites on Saturday, November the eleventh, starting at seven o'clock. The idea
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of this group, First T West Virginia is to give young people from all
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backgrounds an opportunity to gain life lessons through the game of golf. It's kind
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of a neat thing. I was doing some reading about early webs some people
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on to talk about that. But the event itself is a black tie affair.
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It's happening on Saturday, November the eleventh and Embassy Suites and for more
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information you can visit First T West Virginia dot org first t West Virginia dot
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org. Just a couple of things making news. The City of Charleston is
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going to be kicking off a series of community meetings that are designed to get
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input from the public on a variety of issues and complaints and concerns. And
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this is something that the administration of Mayor Goodwin actually implemented when her administration first
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took office. So it's your chance to in a public setting, and they're
47:16
going to be several of them. We're run down the schedule for you to
47:20
go out and to vent or to give ideas or whatever. Now, you
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know, sometimes these things turn into complaint sessions and that's okay, that's that's
47:30
that's actually what they want. But you can give praise as well or ideas
47:34
things that you think should be done within the city. Now, the first
47:37
one is going to be happening tomorrow night at the Kanawa City Community Center,
47:40
and then on Thursday, September twenty eight at mary See Snow Elementary, Wednesday
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October eleventh at Elizabeth Memorial United Methodist Church that's on Oakland Road, and then
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Tuesday, October twenty fourth at the Kanawa County Public Library downtown and the final
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one is going to be on Wednesday, November first, at the Roosevelt Neighborhood
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Center. Now, if you didn't catch all those again, the first one
48:09
is tomorrow night, kanas City Community said. All these will start about six
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o'clock. By the way, first one is tomorrow night at the Kanasa City
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Community Center, Thursday the twenty eighth at mary See Snow, Wednesday the eleventh
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of October at elizab Memorial Night at Methodist Church, Tuesday October twenty fourth at
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the Kanaan County Public Library, and the final one Wednesday, November the first,
48:28
at the Roosevelt Neighborhood Center. If you need more information, you can
48:30
call three oh four three four eight eight one seven four And that's three oh
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four three four eight eight one seven four. Now. I have a complete
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list of all the meetings posted on my Facebook page it's Dave Allen Radio and
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also at Dave a seventy on x the artist formerly known as Twitter. There's
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also a story posted about it at WCHS network dot com. But again I've
48:52
got the entire schedule. If you want to drop those down, just go
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over to my Facebook page Dave Allen Radio and Facebook or at Dave A seventy
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on Twitter. There's also a story posted about it at WCHS network dot com.
49:02
So it's an opportunity for you to get out and you got some issues,
49:07
concerns or questions, comments, whatever going on with the city and you
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maybe you can't make it to a city council. I mean, this is
49:12
a lot smaller setting too for you to be able to go out, And
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of course we'll be covering those o our award winning news team will be covering
49:20
those as well. The whole state still basking in the glory of the Mountaineer
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win over Pitt Saturday United Morgantown. Uh, the final of the game was
49:31
a WVU seventy pit six and it really it really wasn't even that close.
49:37
If you were in Morgantown or you watched the game on television, it really
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wasn't even that that close. Uh. Pitt is, with all due respect
49:45
to the guys from from the Steel City, Pitt is a really really,
49:51
really bad team. I mean they're they're they're bad, and I'm not trying
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to take away from anything WVU did, but they're a bad team. That
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may be the worst performance by cour back up everything I felt sorry for the
50:00
guy. I mean, I really did. The pit quarterback Neil Brown needed
50:06
this win badly and he got it. Now is it enough to save his
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job? It helped for now, but he still got a bunch of games
50:13
to go, including getting into the meet and the heart of conference play this
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weekend. Great wind though always great to beat the Pitt Panthers. Now my
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thundering Herd of Marshall off this week. They have a little team from Virginia
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known as Virginia Tech coming into the jone this weekend, sold out Jonesy Edwards
50:34
Stadium, Go Hurd and I want to mention this a great event in Charleston
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this pass it actually ran the Thursday through Sunday. And talking about rib Fest
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and my man Rob Reel from her sister station Superstar Country ninety six one kwus
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in his words, I had him on the show Friday and his words,
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the only person who can go to rib Fest and lose weight because he got
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his head shaped. And Rob had this and he explained the story as to
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why he grew his hair long had to do it when his mother got sick
51:06
and his mother sadly passed away, and he said he wasn't going to cut
51:09
it, but he did cut it. Now I've got the video posted on
51:14
my Facebook page Dave Allen Radio and the reason he did it. He had
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set a goal for the radiothon that we did a couple of weeks ago with
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WV Medicine Children's and because of our listeners, not only on his station,
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but all of the stations here in the building, we were able to achieve
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the goal. And he's a man of his word. So Rob got his
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head shaved completely, I mean even the beard. Better him than me.
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The videos posted again on my Facebook page. Ribfest was a huge success to
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it, so everybody that came out, all our stations where thank you so
51:45
much. Our guys did not do so well in the wing eating competition that
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we had. We had Rob Reel out there and we also had Woody Woods.
51:52
Neither one of them were able to win. The defending champion, Brian
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Ockley down thirty three wings. I'm not really sure what the timeframe was,
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but he down thirty three wings. That's pretty much all you need to know,
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all right. Coming up on tomorrow show, Rusty Webb is gonna be
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here to talk about thunder in the Mountains. Add Our old friend, former
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State Senator Rich Lindsay is on the show tomorrow and he says he's got a
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big announcement to make m roll tape on that one. We'll see what Rich
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Lindsay has to say coming up on the show tomorrow, Hollywood, Jeff Patty,
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my producer, thank you so much. Talk line coming up bottow the
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