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06/02/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Doug Erwin, Jill Scarbro, Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 3: do in the Charleston area this weekend, and not only
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Speaker 3: I mean the entire Kanal Valley for that man, there
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Speaker 3: was all kinds of stuff going on. Unfortunately, Live on
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Speaker 3: the Levee was canceled because of the rain Friday night.
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Speaker 3: But there was Dirty Birds Baseball. You had the Charlie
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Speaker 3: car show benefit on Saturday for the benefit for the
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Speaker 3: Putnam County Animals Shelter. All in all, pretty busy weekend
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Speaker 3: here in the Canahwa Valley. Coming up a little bit
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Speaker 3: later on, Charleston Mere, Amy Shulter Goodwin will be stopping by,
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Speaker 3: zero eight. Also a special event, a sensory circus for
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Speaker 3: some kids or adults for that matter, that because one
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Speaker 3: reason or another may have difficult time handling an actual circus.
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Speaker 3: Joe Scarborough from a Brighter Futures Learning the Academy. He
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Speaker 3: is here to talk about that. Coming up a little
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Speaker 3: bit later on as well. Our good friend Doug Irwin
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Speaker 3: is here. Doug has been stopping by for the last
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Speaker 3: couple of years of talk about a program called backpack Buddies,
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Speaker 3: and he joins us Now, Doug, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, thank you for being here. Thank you so
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Speaker 3: for people that aren't familiar. We how many years you've been?
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Speaker 3: How many years you've been coming on my show? Like
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Speaker 3: two or three? I guess it's probably our third year,
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Speaker 3: third year, and how and we'll get into what the
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Speaker 3: backpack Buddy program is, But how did the how long
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Speaker 3: has the program been going on?
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Speaker 5: This is actually our thirteenth year supporting kids in Putnam County,
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Speaker 5: and we've actually had an active program in Boom County
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Speaker 5: as well, and this will be our eleventh year there. Okay,
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Speaker 5: And when they explain how the program works, well, what
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Speaker 5: we do is that a lot of schools in our
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Speaker 5: community have programs during the school year that send extra
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Speaker 5: food home with kids during the school year. On Friday,
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Speaker 5: that send home a little extra things to help them
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Speaker 5: get through the through the weekend they can come back
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Speaker 5: and a lot of our kids are supported by free
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Speaker 5: and reduced lunches in their schools, So just a little
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Speaker 5: bit of extra food to help them tie over the
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Speaker 5: weekend to get back to school on Monday, to have
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Speaker 5: breakfast and lunch at school. And one of the things
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Speaker 5: that we identified was that there was not much being
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Speaker 5: able to be done during this during the summer months.
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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of programs have tried to do things,
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Speaker 5: but logistically it just didn't work out for them for
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Speaker 5: one reason or another, where a parent might be working,
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Speaker 5: couldn't meet at a certain time to pick up the
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Speaker 5: extra supplies, or didn't have a car, didn't have gas.
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Speaker 3: For that particular week.
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Speaker 5: So what we did is we developed a program which
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Speaker 5: we actually pack boxes of food and we eliminate the
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Speaker 5: logistics part of it because we mail the food to
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Speaker 5: our participating students and we work very closely with the
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Speaker 5: school systems to help identify and get these kids signed
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Speaker 5: up that received the received the support during the school year,
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Speaker 5: and we continue that through the summer. And I'll tell you,
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Speaker 5: we've got a lot of great community partners that really
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Speaker 5: care and take care of our kids during the school year,
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Speaker 5: and what we're kind of stepping into that gap for
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Speaker 5: the summertime and kind of given those folks a break
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Speaker 5: to say, hey, recharge your batteries because they're working thirty
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Speaker 5: six weeks out of the year because of the school,
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Speaker 5: how long the school year is, and we help out
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Speaker 5: during the summer months where we pack our boxes and
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Speaker 5: uh we will mail will mail boxes four to five
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Speaker 5: times during the school during the summer months and then
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Speaker 5: to help those hope, those participating kids bridge that gap
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Speaker 5: during the summer months and.
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Speaker 3: Talk about that. Uh, you're working with the school system
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Speaker 3: on this, and as as far as getting getting the
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Speaker 3: kid because as as you said, not every not every
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Speaker 3: kid gets or not every kid needs one really or
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Speaker 3: their family doesn't need one. How does that process go
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Speaker 3: when you're working with the schools.
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Speaker 5: We start we start back in March and talking with
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Speaker 5: our counselors and support staff in our school systems, and
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Speaker 5: we offer we have a great communication system within in
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Speaker 5: the within the schools, and that we offer it to
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Speaker 5: everybody because we just because we really truly do not
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Speaker 5: know what's going on by on somebody's closed door, maybe
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Speaker 5: somebody hit a rough spot, and our program is offered
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Speaker 5: to everyone. And then once we get near the end
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Speaker 5: of the sign up period, we communicate with our stat
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Speaker 5: with our counselors that support us and say, hey, these
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Speaker 5: are the folks that we have signed up. You know
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Speaker 5: who who's getting the program during the school year. Please
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Speaker 5: make sure that they get signed up and they work
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Speaker 5: very closely with those families and those get those families
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Speaker 5: signed up so that we can continue the support during
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Speaker 5: the summertime.
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Speaker 3: Now, the reason I actually have you on today is
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Speaker 3: not only to talk about the program, but talk about
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Speaker 3: this event that you've got going on this Saturday, because
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Speaker 3: as you could imagine, this takes a lot of work
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Speaker 3: to put this together, and you actually brought me what
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Speaker 3: one of the boxes actually looks like. I'll try to
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Speaker 3: get a picture that posted on social media. So talk
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Speaker 3: about the event on Saturday. What we've done, this will
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Speaker 3: be our we haven't what we call our annual community
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Speaker 3: packing Days. What we do is we ask everybody, everybody
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Speaker 3: in the community on June the seventh, Saturday, we'll be
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Speaker 3: at the Tayes Valley Nazarene Church there on Tayese Valley
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Speaker 3: Road and where we'll pack all of our boxes that
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Speaker 3: we'll be sending out this summer. We'll be sending out
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Speaker 3: over three thousand boxes this summer alone for the Putnam
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Speaker 3: County region. And what we'll do is we'll have we
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Speaker 3: have we've got about eighteen thousand cans of ravioli coming
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Speaker 3: and that's a lot of ravioli. That's a lot of ravioli.
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Speaker 5: And we got soup, soup, vegetables, fruit, ramen, noodles, cereal bars.
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Speaker 5: We've got all all of our supplies will be there.
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Speaker 5: Uh and we've got all of the boxes ready to go.
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Speaker 5: And what we do is we ask ask our community
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Speaker 5: to come and help us pack our boxes. We'll start
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Speaker 5: at ten o'clock and this is at the Tayes Valley
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Speaker 5: Church of Nazarene, Tayses Valley Church in the Nazarene. We'll
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Speaker 5: line it up on the parking lot. We'll start at
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Speaker 5: ten o'clock. We'll have community service certificates for all of
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Speaker 5: the students that come and participate. So we invite all teams, clubs,
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Speaker 5: any student that would love to come and help. We
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Speaker 5: say that we've got a job for everybody from two
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Speaker 5: to ninety two years old, so we can actually put
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Speaker 5: everybody to work. And we start at ten o'clock and
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Speaker 5: everybody will be by I promise you'll be back in
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Speaker 5: your car by by noon heading home. So give us
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Speaker 5: two hours and you'll be helping over eight hundred kids
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Speaker 5: this summer.
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Speaker 3: How many how many volunteers. Ideally, do you need If
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Speaker 3: we could have two three hundred folks, we can knock
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Speaker 3: this out pretty quick. Yeah, And he said it's great
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Speaker 3: for because students in West Virginia are required to do
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Speaker 3: community service in order to graduate, so it's great for them.
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Speaker 3: It would be great for civic organizations, your Rotary club, Kawanas,
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Speaker 3: Lions Club, that sort of thing, any any of these groups.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and we'd encourage them to wear your team shirts
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Speaker 5: and they can. We've got companies that come every year
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Speaker 5: and they make it a team building event for them
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Speaker 5: and we have a great time. We've got we have
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Speaker 5: a DJ playing some music and it's just a great
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Speaker 5: community event that comes to get there to help our
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Speaker 5: kids that that are less fortunate.
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Speaker 3: Talk to Doug Irwin again from the Backpack Buddy program
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Speaker 3: for those that aren't familiar with the area. It's really
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Speaker 3: easy to find. If you're coming from Charleston and you
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Speaker 3: take the Tayse Valley exit, you hang a left and
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Speaker 3: go what a mile two miles.
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Speaker 5: Up the road two miles stops right before if you
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Speaker 5: go past the hospital you've gone to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's and it's right there on the left.
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Speaker 3: You can't miss. You've got a huge parking lot, easy on,
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Speaker 3: easy off. There's there's a bank going in next door
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Speaker 3: to you right now, I think, so you'll see the
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Speaker 3: construction site there. But that's one of the great things
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Speaker 3: about the location too, Doug, is you've got plenty of
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Speaker 3: room to work there. And if you get your two
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Speaker 3: or three hundred volunteers, you could easily you easily put
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Speaker 3: them all there.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And if we we run out of parking, we've
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Speaker 5: worked with Raindy Hodges at CEMC and we'll be having
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Speaker 5: some overflow parking across the street at the at the
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Speaker 5: new uh, the new facility they have there, so we'll
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Speaker 5: have we've got plenty of parking for everybody, and uh
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Speaker 5: just invite everybody to come out and just it's it's
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Speaker 5: just truly has developed into a great community event.
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Speaker 3: It's it's you can.
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Speaker 5: Mark your calendars for now for for the years to come.
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Speaker 5: It's always the first Saturday in June at ten o'clock
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Speaker 5: in Putnam County. But then also if you can't make
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Speaker 5: this Saturday on June the fourteenth, the second Saturday in June,
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Speaker 5: we'll be at the Madison Civic Center in Boom County
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Speaker 5: and Madison UH and doing the exact same thing in Madison,
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Speaker 5: supporting the kids in Boom County as well.
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Speaker 3: That's good stuff. Doug Irwin from Backpack Buddies. Where can
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Speaker 3: people learn more information about this?
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Speaker 5: We'd invite everybody to visit our website backpackbuddy dot org
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Speaker 5: kind of details details the program there and and then
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Speaker 5: if if there's any questions about you know, if there's
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Speaker 5: we can come to we can come and.
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Speaker 3: Talk to other communities as well.
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Speaker 5: You know, we've got Is this a silver bullet, Absolutely not,
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Speaker 5: but it does help kids And we hit a milestone
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Speaker 5: last year in our twelfth year, we mailed our fifty
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Speaker 5: thousandth box to students to students last year, so you know,
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Speaker 5: in our first twelve years, we've gotten fifty thousand boxes
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Speaker 5: out into hands of kids and there's about fifteen pounds
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Speaker 5: of food in each box, and you know over seven
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Speaker 5: hundred thousand pounds of food have been mailed out to
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Speaker 5: kids in our in our community.
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Speaker 3: And when you go to the website, if somebody's listening
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Speaker 3: right now, they think, I think this is a great
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Speaker 3: program and I would like to make a donation in
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Speaker 3: case there are a way that you can do that
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Speaker 3: on the.
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Speaker 5: Website, there's QR codes there they can and our addresses
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Speaker 5: and everything like that. We can all of that information
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Speaker 5: is on our website as well.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, Doug, well we should the best of luck.
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Speaker 3: It's this Saturday, the event, the packing event as they
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Speaker 3: call it, this Saturday starting at ten Says Valley Church
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Speaker 3: of the Nazarene. That's thirty nine thirty seven Tays Valley Road,
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Speaker 3: and you can visit the website backpack Buddy dot o
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Speaker 3: RG if you need more information on this event. This
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Speaker 3: one is this Saturday, than the following Saturday. They'll be
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Speaker 3: doing one is Doug said, at the Madison Civic Center.
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Speaker 3: That's a two sixty one Washington Avenue in Madison in
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Speaker 3: Boone County. You can also go there. Doug's always a
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Speaker 3: pleasure to talk to you, my friend. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 3: vau I should say food items. You know the way
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Speaker 3: I said, you know how it works. It's a circular
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Speaker 3: parking lot. Actually we argue about that every year. It's
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Speaker 3: not actually circular, it's got another name. But anyway, you
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Speaker 3: pull onto the parking lot and we'll have our staff
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Speaker 3: out there, and we don't care if it's two or
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Speaker 3: three boxes of food, or if it's a few unopened
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Speaker 3: bag of chips, whatever, we don't care. Just bring it
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Speaker 3: to us where we are working with the folks at
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Speaker 3: Union Mission on that. We'll have more as we get
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Speaker 3: a little bit closer. But again, our event is going
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Speaker 3: to be Thursday morning, seven am to six pm on
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Speaker 3: our parking lot here at eleven eleven Virginia Street, East Charleston.
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Speaker 3: Let's bring in a good friend, Jill Scarborough now from
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Speaker 3: Brighter Future Learning Academy. Jill, how you doing.
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Speaker 9: I'm doing great. Dave, how are you?
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Speaker 3: I am doing fine. You got an event this Saturday
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Speaker 3: at Valley Park in a hurricane A sensory circus. What
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Speaker 3: exactly is that?
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Speaker 9: Uh, it's a whole bunch of awesome.
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Speaker 3: So it's a whole bunch of awesome, Ryan, right that Now,
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Speaker 3: it's a whole bunch of awesome.
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Speaker 9: Okay, So what the sensory circus is is we're bringing
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Speaker 9: it is a fundraiser primarily for community autism resources and
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Speaker 9: education systems. Cares. That's the nonprofit that was started out
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Speaker 9: of Bright Futures to serve families in the Greater Kernal
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Speaker 9: region as well as some parts across the states. So
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Speaker 9: what we're doing is at starring at twelve o'clock at
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Speaker 9: Valley Park. We're bringing in performers from the Cincinnati Circus
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Speaker 9: that they will kick off a show. They'll be aerialists.
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Speaker 9: I hear there may or may not be some fire
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Speaker 9: twirling happening that that first performance will happen at twelve.
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Speaker 9: Mostly that performance is for our fundraising teams that families
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Speaker 9: have gathered together. This is a big event for our
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Speaker 9: families that they have some you know, their folks travel
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Speaker 9: in from out of state to join them, to walk
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Speaker 9: together with their kids to demonstrate, hey, this is a
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Speaker 9: place where sometimes folks that are excluded are completely included
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Speaker 9: and the space is designed for you and built for you.
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Speaker 9: And we invite other people to join in. So Circus
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Speaker 9: kicktock at twelve. Then we'll lead into our awards for
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Speaker 9: our fundraising teams and our corporate teams, and then we'll
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Speaker 9: do the Century Walk through Valley Park, which what that
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Speaker 9: looks like is we basically pimp the park but it is.
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Speaker 9: It is so cool, Dave, that we'll have I think
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Speaker 9: it's eight different tunnels that folks will walk through. One
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Speaker 9: of them is a missing tunnel, a wind tunnel, pinwheel tunnel.
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Speaker 9: So it's a completely immersive experience throughout the park and
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Speaker 9: folks walk through that and then end at the soccer
17:55
Speaker 9: field with inflatables and just all kinds of fun. But again,
17:59
Speaker 9: and it's a great time designed to build community. And
18:04
Speaker 9: then we have also at two o'clock basically a second
18:07
Speaker 9: run of show that we Then it's not specifically designed
18:11
Speaker 9: for our fundraising teams, but it is open to everyone
18:16
Speaker 9: and we'll ask we'll just ask for donations. Again, this
18:18
Speaker 9: is a fundraiser. We we've got a heavy lift. You know,
18:21
Speaker 9: takes money to do things, and so we will ask
18:23
Speaker 9: for donations if you're able for the circus and for
18:27
Speaker 9: the walk and for the sun and the activity.
18:29
Speaker 3: Jill explain to us the I don't want to say difficulty.
18:33
Speaker 3: That may not be the right word. You're you're better
18:35
Speaker 3: at this and I am. You can explain it how
18:37
Speaker 3: it's going to be different than a quote unquote traditional circus.
18:42
Speaker 3: I know that's probably not the right term to use.
18:44
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm getting at, and what it
18:47
Speaker 3: is that some of these some of the folks that
18:49
Speaker 3: will be taking part in this, maybe that they couldn't
18:51
Speaker 3: that they would have difficulty handling with a more traditional circus.
18:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you for asking that, Dave. That, as you
18:58
Speaker 9: are aware, at is a broad spectrum of both strengths
19:02
Speaker 9: and challenges, and a lot of times, what our families
19:06
Speaker 9: encounter when they try to do typical things that you,
19:10
Speaker 9: as a parent and as a family would want to
19:11
Speaker 9: be able to do with your kid, like go to
19:13
Speaker 9: a circus, things that can be a problem is the
19:17
Speaker 9: loud noises and the flashy lights and just being in
19:21
Speaker 9: a crowd that that can be hard for our kids.
19:24
Speaker 9: And so what parents also an experience is just they're
19:28
Speaker 9: scared to do that because they don't know if their
19:30
Speaker 9: child is going to be able to handle it. They
19:32
Speaker 9: might have a meltdown, which is then unfortunately a lot
19:35
Speaker 9: of times met with judgment inside eye and just you know,
19:39
Speaker 9: the awkward awkward stairs. Right. Can you imagine like I'm
19:42
Speaker 9: ready to go in the world because people are going
19:44
Speaker 9: to look at me like what's wrong with you? What's
19:45
Speaker 9: wrong with your kid? Why can't you do this, and
19:47
Speaker 9: so all of Caer's events are specifically designed for those families, saying, look,
19:54
Speaker 9: you know, we make accommodations for our circus seating. We've
19:57
Speaker 9: got you know, squishy pillows and places for our kids
20:01
Speaker 9: that may need some extra support to sit right there
20:04
Speaker 9: up close on the ground, with some things to help
20:06
Speaker 9: make them more comfortable. And the most part is the
20:10
Speaker 9: best part is everybody that's there. We say, hey, this
20:15
Speaker 9: event is designed for these kids, So meet greet them
20:18
Speaker 9: with more kindness, greet them with more understanding. If you
20:21
Speaker 9: see a kid that, yeah, may have a challenge, rather
20:24
Speaker 9: than being met with side eye, lend a hand and
20:28
Speaker 9: go hey, can I help you out there? And other
20:30
Speaker 9: families look at each other and go yes, same girl,
20:32
Speaker 9: me too. And so really what happens is families are
20:35
Speaker 9: met with their community that they know they're not alone
20:38
Speaker 9: and that they're not the only ones struggling, and other
20:40
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Speaker 3: So what I'm hearing from you, Jill, is that a
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Speaker 3: lot of this is about it has to do with
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Speaker 3: education as well, educating, educating people, and you spent a
21:20
Speaker 3: lot of time doing that sort of thing coming on,
21:23
Speaker 3: you know, doing a lot of media shows like this
21:26
Speaker 3: and doing television and whatever and social media and whatever,
21:29
Speaker 3: educating the public on things like this.
21:32
Speaker 9: Yes, yep. Yeah. One of the things too that we'll
21:34
Speaker 9: have at the event is celebration signs that families, you know,
21:37
Speaker 9: so a lot of times, especially graduation, see season, you
21:40
Speaker 9: see the sign celebrating Yay, this graduate. We're so excited.
21:43
Speaker 9: So we do a similar thing for our kids and
21:45
Speaker 9: families where they'll say we're celebrating Penny because she's worked
21:50
Speaker 9: so hard and has learned how to communicate and you
21:52
Speaker 9: know those So we do education that way, and we
21:56
Speaker 9: have some educational signs about what Cares does. But the
21:59
Speaker 9: thing that we're most excited about is the sensory experience
22:03
Speaker 9: that we have a fantastic relationship with Valley Park. So
22:07
Speaker 9: something that's new and cool this year is that some
22:10
Speaker 9: of the elements are going to stay up in the
22:12
Speaker 9: park throughout the month of June, and so we invite
22:16
Speaker 9: folks to come to the park and take a minute
22:19
Speaker 9: and look at how cool it is the way we've
22:22
Speaker 9: run fabric through trees and look at the lines, and
22:25
Speaker 9: so again it's another way to try to get folks
22:28
Speaker 9: to shift perspective and notice how it can be cool
22:32
Speaker 9: to look at it through the lens of someone on
22:35
Speaker 9: the autism spectrum who maybe is really interested in the
22:39
Speaker 9: way colors shift the way things feel. And so we
22:42
Speaker 9: invite you to come and enjoy those things too that
22:44
Speaker 9: to go. Yes, autism and folks on the spectrum do
22:48
Speaker 9: experience an enormous amount of challenges, but there's also some
22:51
Speaker 9: real beauty and the way that they look at things,
22:53
Speaker 9: and so we invite this is our opportunity to invite
22:56
Speaker 9: the community to experience that with us.
22:58
Speaker 3: So what do you need from the commune to be
23:00
Speaker 3: right now? I mean, do we need to sponsorships? I
23:03
Speaker 3: mean it's probably a little bit late for that, but
23:05
Speaker 3: what what can what can the listeners do?
23:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you, it's again it's we need dollars. Right one.
23:12
Speaker 9: We need you to honestly, we need you to show
23:13
Speaker 9: up to have a great time with us and come
23:15
Speaker 9: meet our friends and you know, learn how some things
23:19
Speaker 9: might be different for some folks and celebrate that with us.
23:22
Speaker 9: So that's tier one. Again, we won't turn anybody away
23:25
Speaker 9: at these events. Yes we will ask for you know,
23:27
Speaker 9: donations if you're able, but we just want you to
23:29
Speaker 9: come and be with us. And then yes, Step two
23:32
Speaker 9: is yep, we need dollars and so folks can give
23:35
Speaker 9: on our website at wv Cares for Autism dot org.
23:38
Speaker 9: It's there's still time you can sign up to do
23:41
Speaker 9: the walk with us, which is a super cool experience
23:43
Speaker 9: that you see kids just with pure joy, like look
23:47
Speaker 9: at you know, at the at the confetti canons and all.
23:51
Speaker 9: So just come and when right now, you know things
23:53
Speaker 9: are especially stressful, do you want to find some joy
23:56
Speaker 9: and just take a minute. Just show up and have
23:59
Speaker 9: a good time with us, and if you're able to
24:01
Speaker 9: give us some dollars, we would really appreciate.
24:03
Speaker 3: It, all right, Jill, Where can people learn more?
24:05
Speaker 7: Again?
24:07
Speaker 9: WV Cares for Autism f o R not the number
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Speaker 3: And I hate to be the one. No pun intended
24:15
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24:17
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24:20
Speaker 3: to happen there?
24:21
Speaker 9: Yeah, so faithfully as them, we're tracking it right. It
24:24
Speaker 9: mostly looks like it's going to be early in the morning, okay,
24:26
Speaker 9: and so by you know, showtime, we should be in
24:29
Speaker 9: the clear. But what we do an event of rain
24:31
Speaker 9: is our activities, you know, and games and and vendors.
24:35
Speaker 9: That all gets moved inside the conference center at Valley Park.
24:38
Speaker 9: The walk obviously still happens outside, so you know, bring
24:41
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Speaker 9: one more sentry experience right now. It's fully immersive and
24:47
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24:49
Speaker 3: Be ready for it, all right, Jill on big shout
24:51
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24:53
Speaker 3: for doing doing a great job as they always.
24:55
Speaker 9: Do pastic Yeah, we so appreciate that.
24:57
Speaker 3: All right, Jill, best luck at your this Saturday.
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Speaker 9: Thanks a lot, Thank you so much. Dave appreciating twenty.
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Speaker 15: You just had Jill on and I love Jill. Jill's
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Speaker 3: I love an interview when I start by saying, tell
31:10
Speaker 3: us what's going on, and she says a whole lot
31:11
Speaker 3: of awesome, that's what's going on. I love her great.
31:14
Speaker 15: She's so great.
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Speaker 3: And she talked about them pamping out the park, a
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31:20
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Speaker 15: That's Jill Jill, Yes, I do. And this is what
31:25
Speaker 15: I'll say. There are so many incredible We are so
31:28
Speaker 15: lucky and we have so many incredible people working on
31:31
Speaker 15: behalf of so many different constituencies, but Jill's constituency is
31:36
Speaker 15: very important and it's certainly near and dear to my heart.
31:39
Speaker 15: Jill works with children who are on the spectrum, who
31:42
Speaker 15: have Asperger's autism, speech and language disorders, those with cocar
31:45
Speaker 15: imp lands, those with sensory integration issues, and she's a
31:49
Speaker 15: champion for kids when really we don't have. You know,
31:53
Speaker 15: she's a shining star. She's an absolute shining star, and
31:56
Speaker 15: she doesn't get enough credit. She works nights and weekends
31:58
Speaker 15: and holidays like so many do, but she takes care
32:01
Speaker 15: of our kid is who really need that extra help.
32:03
Speaker 15: So it was a pleasure on my car right here
32:05
Speaker 15: to listen to my good friend Jill.
32:08
Speaker 3: Text says, I gotta ask, Yeah, this has nothing to
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32:12
Speaker 15: But it's okay, Yeah fine.
32:14
Speaker 3: I got to ask, is this WVU baseball team really
32:17
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32:24
Speaker 15: I know, I know, I know. Between that and my
32:27
Speaker 15: nephew's team, the Pacers, it was, it was. It was
32:31
Speaker 15: a Saturday night of sitting on the edge of your
32:35
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32:36
Speaker 2: It was.
32:38
Speaker 15: It was a very exciting time. I went up to
32:40
Speaker 15: more Intown a couple of weeks ago to watch this
32:42
Speaker 15: team in action. They're incredible. They're incredible athletes. And you know,
32:47
Speaker 15: when the camera zoom's in, Dave, You're you're looking at
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32:52
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Speaker 3: Forget that sometimes he is sometimes.
32:58
Speaker 15: Did he make that mistake?
32:59
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Speaker 15: Or share like, Okay, he's eighteen, nineteen years old, give
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Speaker 15: the guy a break. You know. It's what they do,
33:07
Speaker 15: it's why they go to school. Hopefully they're also getting
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Speaker 15: an education. I'm sure they are, but these are these
33:12
Speaker 15: are still you know, they're still developing their brains. But anyways,
33:16
Speaker 15: I appreciate it. And I'm a big as you well know,
33:18
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33:24
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33:25
Speaker 3: It is it is.
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33:27
Speaker 3: Another busy weekend. Mayor and Charleston mentioned earlier a lot
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33:37
Speaker 3: up at a couple of weeks. What's fun with the dome,
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Speaker 3: it's coming up. We had a lot of stuff going on.
33:42
Speaker 15: You know, it is the time in which we start
33:45
Speaker 15: stretching in the office because it is and it's important.
33:50
Speaker 15: It's important to always take a step back. You know,
33:55
Speaker 15: we have we have a huge lineup and every single
33:58
Speaker 15: weekend and actually most evenings we have something going on
34:01
Speaker 15: in the city of Charleston, Dave. But you know, like
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Speaker 15: Live on the Levee on Friday, take for instance, we
34:07
Speaker 15: had to step back. We don't do that lightly by
34:11
Speaker 15: the way. You know, our businesses, our vendors, our hotels,
34:15
Speaker 15: our folks really depend upon us being you know, moving forward,
34:20
Speaker 15: even when mother nature is is uh is not is
34:25
Speaker 15: not on our side. But it's important safety first, and
34:28
Speaker 15: you know, just for instance on Friday, yes we're going
34:30
Speaker 15: to reschedule. But these are the things that these are
34:34
Speaker 15: the things that keep you up at night. Yeah. Sometimes,
34:38
Speaker 15: you know, there are so many things that are in
34:40
Speaker 15: our control. As a matter of fact, as I was
34:42
Speaker 15: exiting the building. We have event meetings because the operations
34:47
Speaker 15: that we run and the folks that we support everybody.
34:49
Speaker 15: I don't care if it's a five k race, I
34:51
Speaker 15: don't care. If it's festival, I don't care if it's REGDA,
34:53
Speaker 15: don't care, if it's live on the levee, don't care.
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Speaker 15: It's about we have an entire team of people that
34:57
Speaker 15: have to be coordinated and ready to go. And most important,
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Speaker 15: as General Hoyer used to say to me back in
35:05
Speaker 15: my governor office days, lack of communication or misinformation is
35:11
Speaker 15: how people win wars over you. So keep communicating, keep talking,
35:16
Speaker 15: even if the message isn't what you want to hear.
35:19
Speaker 15: Keep communicating with folks. And so I think that we
35:21
Speaker 15: try to do that. We could always do better. But
35:24
Speaker 15: it's going to be a very exciting, exciting summer once
35:27
Speaker 15: again in the city of Charleston. But to have that,
35:29
Speaker 15: I'm still getting my voice back. I know a lot
35:30
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Speaker 15: to get people in front of your business. Your job
35:48
Speaker 15: is to get them in your store to buy your stuff.
35:50
Speaker 15: For state, your hotel, is the ROI more important than
35:53
Speaker 15: the image the national branding excuse me that you get
35:58
Speaker 15: and you know, my initial response is the branding, the
36:03
Speaker 15: branding for the whole state and not just for the
36:06
Speaker 15: city of Charlestown, because that is, at the end of
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Speaker 15: the day, what we need to make sure that we're
36:11
Speaker 15: always doing is putting our best foot forward. We're on
36:15
Speaker 15: it when we're on a national stage or an international stage.
36:19
Speaker 15: That does drive business, folks, It absolutely does one hundred.
36:23
Speaker 15: Is it nice to have money in the pockets of
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Speaker 15: our businesses. Yeah, sure, but it's uh it's taxing too though,
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Speaker 15: for sure. A lot of heavy lifting and a lot
36:32
Speaker 15: of stretching we do, all right.
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Speaker 3: And uh and again it's just going to get even
36:36
Speaker 3: more as with we're gotta coming up foam with the
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Speaker 3: dome and all these other things that are going on.
36:40
Speaker 3: But uh, let's go to the phones and our good
36:42
Speaker 3: friend Jim is on the line.
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Speaker 15: Go ahead, good morning to a hello, Hey Jim, how's
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Speaker 15: it going?
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Speaker 16: Oh?
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Speaker 17: Not bad at all. I was blowing through, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 17: could be handlets being made up and the local printing
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Speaker 17: shops should you know, get letting people know what's going
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Speaker 17: on in Charleston, keeping that action tactic going. The crowds
37:08
Speaker 17: would be great, hotels would be full and just like
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Speaker 17: to pick a ball, turnlet at night through. I'm sure
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Speaker 17: it was a huge success.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
37:20
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, Jim, it's so funny you mentioned that.
37:22
Speaker 15: My you know, my old hat is communications and my
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Speaker 15: chief of staff, Matthew Sutton, has spent his career in
37:29
Speaker 15: marketing and advertising. In Tina Stinson, who does our comms work,
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Speaker 15: has spent years doing this. And there's actually still a
37:35
Speaker 15: battle right between do you print something, do you put
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Speaker 15: it online? How many views are you getting? And what
37:40
Speaker 15: is the value right of sharing that? And we go
37:44
Speaker 15: round Robin's Barn as we should with one another. I
37:47
Speaker 15: still do believe in the value of printing something and
37:49
Speaker 15: handing something out. You saw that with the bike races.
37:53
Speaker 15: But it is absolutely hands down the best way of
37:58
Speaker 15: communicating Right now we stand here flat footed, is what
38:02
Speaker 15: we're doing now on the radio, reaching out to people
38:05
Speaker 15: you're listening, you know, radio television and that inner Google
38:10
Speaker 15: that wed that social media. Because I can reach twice
38:14
Speaker 15: as many people right now if I were right now
38:16
Speaker 15: to stand here with Dave and run out and hand
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Speaker 15: out as many flyers as I possibly could on Urgatta,
38:20
Speaker 15: I can't reach as many people as I am right
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Speaker 15: now with this microphone. And so but I will say, Jim,
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Speaker 15: there is a balance between doing both. I think we
38:28
Speaker 15: work very well with the CVB and Tim Brady and
38:31
Speaker 15: his team of Jama and Rico and Lauren and Carly
38:35
Speaker 15: and so many people over there that do such a
38:37
Speaker 15: good job of balancing that. But I do appreciate your
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Speaker 15: comment on that.
38:41
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jim, Thank you Jim Not nine forty five Texas. Hey, Dave,
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Speaker 3: could you please ask them mayor about the status of
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Speaker 3: the splash pad down on Magic Island.
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Speaker 15: Oh that's a great question. Let me text Tina right now.
38:53
Speaker 15: Let me go ahead and say this about the splash pad.
38:55
Speaker 15: And man, I do love, I do love, I do
38:57
Speaker 15: love a water feature. One thing that there are several
39:00
Speaker 15: things I've learned as mayor. One of the things that
39:03
Speaker 15: I absolutely learned many many years ago. No mayor likes
39:08
Speaker 15: a water feature. We just simply don't or pools. Though necessary,
39:13
Speaker 15: they're very expensive. They break down all the time, and
39:17
Speaker 15: especially when you build a splash pad in a flood area,
39:22
Speaker 15: because what happens is when it floods, it gets mucked
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Speaker 15: up and gunked up. And the parts that you bought
39:28
Speaker 15: for this park many years ago, maybe the distributor isn't there,
39:33
Speaker 15: maybe they've changed their parts out of business, what have you.
39:38
Speaker 15: But I will check as we're sitting here on the radio,
39:40
Speaker 15: and I'll ask our team right now to check in
39:44
Speaker 15: it for me. But this is also the reason why
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Speaker 15: we did the splash park at a city center at
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Speaker 15: Slack Plaza if you go there. I wanted to have
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Speaker 15: a water feature, and everybody on the team said, you
39:55
Speaker 15: already know mayor what's going to happen when you do
39:56
Speaker 15: a splash pad. It's going to break. But when these
39:59
Speaker 15: splash the when the fountains in city center, it's like
40:02
Speaker 15: plaza break, you know, are not functioning or frozen up
40:06
Speaker 15: or something's happened. They go into the ground. It is
40:09
Speaker 15: not a distraction where people say I want to pond
40:11
Speaker 15: or I want a big fountain, or I want a
40:13
Speaker 15: big then it just takes up space that is not usable,
40:17
Speaker 15: so many many cities did what we did. As a
40:21
Speaker 15: matter of fact, we stole it the idea. It just
40:24
Speaker 15: looks like a pretty pattern on the ground when they're
40:26
Speaker 15: not in use, but because they break and we're a
40:30
Speaker 15: we're a four season destination, so we have a lot
40:34
Speaker 15: of different weather conditions as well that are not always
40:37
Speaker 15: good for not always good. But let me let me
40:41
Speaker 15: check on that while we're sitting here on the telephone,
40:42
Speaker 15: because I really don't know right now she's on it.
40:46
Speaker 15: I'm literally typing. I'm literally typing and.
40:50
Speaker 3: Here's here's what's funny if you could and we're not
40:53
Speaker 3: on This show is not on television yet. It will
40:55
Speaker 3: be on Metro News TV eventually. But but one of
40:58
Speaker 3: the funny things is about people. And you're not old Mayor,
41:01
Speaker 3: so don't don't hit me with that. Yeah, but people
41:03
Speaker 3: of our generation, it's interesting when we have to send
41:06
Speaker 3: a text or check an email or whatever, how we
41:08
Speaker 3: have to stop to do it. People of let's say
41:11
Speaker 3: Ryan's generation, they just keep going, yeah, you know what,
41:14
Speaker 3: I love it.
41:15
Speaker 15: My twenty one year old does it to me and
41:16
Speaker 15: it's annoying because he'll he'll text and I'll say Sam ye,
41:20
Speaker 15: and he'll say what's up, which drives me crazy.
41:23
Speaker 12: Ryan.
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Speaker 15: I don't know, I don't know what that's what's up? Okay,
41:26
Speaker 15: how about excuse me? You need something? I'm sorry, look
41:30
Speaker 15: at me, look at my eyeballs. Please, But they can.
41:33
Speaker 15: I mean it's you know, for for good or bad,
41:36
Speaker 15: for good or bad or the other. That's that's who
41:38
Speaker 15: they that's who they are.
41:39
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Speaker 15: Yep Tina says. Jeremy says, the splash pad is working,
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Speaker 15: and she wanted She said, I wanted to make sure
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Speaker 15: because they had to repair a little something last week.
42:04
Speaker 15: So splash pad tinup per this morning, just moments ago.
42:08
Speaker 15: Nine forty seven says it's up and working.
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Speaker 3: It was up and working. Another big event that's going
42:13
Speaker 3: to bring a lot of people into Charleston happens later
42:15
Speaker 3: this week Mayor and that is the State Baseball Chartament Park.
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Speaker 15: It's absolutely amazing. Again the baseball is. You know, it
42:23
Speaker 15: can't give enough credit to and to Shay for coming
42:25
Speaker 15: in and really working with us in the early days
42:28
Speaker 15: of bringing the Charleston Dirty Birds here at Gomart Park.
42:32
Speaker 15: It is so much fun to watch these outstanding athletes
42:37
Speaker 15: play the game. My dad played the game back in
42:39
Speaker 15: the day. He was an All American. So I love
42:41
Speaker 15: watching baseball. But it's so much more than baseball. If
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Speaker 15: you haven't been, even if this is going to sound crazy,
42:48
Speaker 15: even if baseball is baseball is not your thing, the
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Speaker 15: park is, I can promise you booth and I get
42:54
Speaker 15: my husband both and I get upset every time we
42:57
Speaker 15: go now because when we used to take the boys
42:59
Speaker 15: there to watch a little bit of game, have beer,
43:01
Speaker 15: you a little some deep. Now they have Jupiter jumps,
43:04
Speaker 15: and now they have many putt putt, and now they
43:06
Speaker 15: have all of these things that it's you can still
43:10
Speaker 15: listen to the game, still watch the game if you
43:11
Speaker 15: have littles, and get supper and get yourself something to drink.
43:15
Speaker 15: But there's also so many other things to do. And
43:18
Speaker 15: he's really taken a page from what the you know,
43:20
Speaker 15: the big boys and the big girls are doing all
43:22
Speaker 15: across the country at ballparks. It is about the baseball,
43:26
Speaker 15: for sure, but it's also about you know, your parents
43:29
Speaker 15: listening to me, grandparents listening to me. You need to
43:31
Speaker 15: keep little people busy while they're there as well. Sometimes
43:35
Speaker 15: baseball is not the fastest sport. It's very exciting. If
43:39
Speaker 15: Matthew Sutton's listening to me, he's going to give it
43:41
Speaker 15: to me when I get back to the office to
43:42
Speaker 15: say no, it is the best sport in the entire world.
43:45
Speaker 15: But sometimes in those law times, it is good to have.
43:48
Speaker 15: It is good to have so many things. Charleston sternwol
43:52
Speaker 15: Regatta is top of mind and tip of tongue, Dave,
43:55
Speaker 15: the third through the sixth, I wanted to make sure
43:57
Speaker 15: that I mentioned that so people know, here we go again.
44:02
Speaker 15: It's going to be a great It's going to be
44:04
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44:07
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Speaker 3: It, and we'll be talking a lot more about it
44:09
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44:11
Speaker 3: Tex says though, Hey, Dave, while we're talking about sports.
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Speaker 3: This is softball. How about those Cabble Midland Lady Knights.
44:17
Speaker 3: They won their conference, sectional, regional, and state championship. Great
44:20
Speaker 3: season twenty nine and three. Please give a shout out,
44:23
Speaker 3: thanks Dave. So there you go. Yeah.
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Speaker 15: I love softball, played it all through school and they
44:27
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44:31
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44:35
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44:39
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44:45
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Speaker 15: Well, I know that we are trying to reschedule a group.
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Speaker 15: I asked that on Friday, and I think that they
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Speaker 3: They ended up playing anyway. I saw Street right, they
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Speaker 15: Yes, absolutely incredible. I saw the There is absolutely amazing Texas.
49:02
Speaker 3: Ask the mayor what's going on with the property of
49:04
Speaker 3: the old steel plant on Morris Street fell in something here?
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Speaker 15: May Well, I think they're probably talking about the I
49:16
Speaker 15: think they're probably talking about the Lift Center.
49:18
Speaker 3: Okay, that's kind of what I thought it was.
49:20
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think they're talking about the Lift Center. It
49:22
Speaker 15: is a multimillion dollar project that we have worked on
49:29
Speaker 15: for years now in cooperation with the federal government and
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Speaker 15: the state government. Charleston Aarry Alliance. I think Drew Dunlapp
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Speaker 15: has probably been on the show several times. It was
49:42
Speaker 15: taking down an old steel plant that used to be there,
49:45
Speaker 15: that used to manufacture the carts and the cars that
49:49
Speaker 15: used to run coal and Willie Lively who ran it,
49:54
Speaker 15: and transforming that space in that place right off of
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Speaker 15: Dixie Street. I think that's what they're talking about.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of what I call it too. And if
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Speaker 3: they want to they want to text, watch.
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Speaker 15: Call me or call me three four three four eight
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Speaker 15: eight one seven four.
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Speaker 3: Call me all right, what else you got me?
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Speaker 9: You know?
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Speaker 15: One thing I wanted to mention is hearts of our neighborhood.
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Speaker 15: There is a grant program that is offered right now
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Speaker 15: through the Mayor's Office UH approved by City Council UH
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Speaker 15: to do mini grants for our neighborhoods. If you see
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Speaker 15: a project or something that you see and one of
50:27
Speaker 15: our parks that you'd like to have added, or a
50:30
Speaker 15: light or some type of art piece in your community,
50:35
Speaker 15: uh at one of our centers. Call my office if
50:38
Speaker 15: you need more information. But it's online. It's an application,
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Speaker 15: Hearts of Our Neighborhood, for our nonprofits and our folks
50:44
Speaker 15: who were looking to get engaged and involved. This is
50:47
Speaker 15: why I started the Hearts of Our Neighborhood. I was
50:50
Speaker 15: getting calls and calls or texts, Hey, can you give
50:52
Speaker 15: me money for I think it'd be really cool to
50:54
Speaker 15: have a swing set here. I think it'd be really
50:57
Speaker 15: cool to add a bench here. Hey can you add
50:59
Speaker 15: kind of these flashing lights on this street here? On
51:02
Speaker 15: this city street here? And so last year in my state,
51:05
Speaker 15: earlier this year in my state of the city addressed,
51:08
Speaker 15: I launched it Hearts of Our Neighborhood because you know, listen,
51:12
Speaker 15: we come up with a lot of good ideas, but
51:14
Speaker 15: the best ideas that we get in a city is
51:17
Speaker 15: when people bring them to us. You live there. You
51:20
Speaker 15: live there every single second of every single day. Yeah,
51:22
Speaker 15: I walk your neighborhoods all the time, but you know,
51:25
Speaker 15: because you live there, tell me what you want let's
51:27
Speaker 15: work together to try to make the spaces and places
51:31
Speaker 15: where you have your community work works. Avenue. Hey, we
51:35
Speaker 15: want to grill at our new park. It works Avenue. Okay, great,
51:40
Speaker 15: let's talk about it. But now we have a fund
51:42
Speaker 15: of money that I've set aside to say, if you
51:44
Speaker 15: want these things to happen in your neighborhood, let's work
51:47
Speaker 15: together and get them going. And it could be a
51:48
Speaker 15: program too. It could be a senior program or a
51:51
Speaker 15: youth program that you'd like to help support at one
51:55
Speaker 15: of our facilities. Let's work together and make it happen.
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Speaker 3: All right. We clarification here. There is a lot on
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Speaker 3: Morris across the tracks from bricks and barrels that's been
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Speaker 3: torn up.
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Speaker 15: Oh yeah, okay, thanks so much. So it's actually behind
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Speaker 15: it would be behind bricks and barrels. It's my understanding
52:11
Speaker 15: that that is going to be turned into one of
52:13
Speaker 15: those huge, big drive through car washes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, there you.
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Speaker 15: I think that's what you're talking about, on the opposite
52:19
Speaker 15: side of the bricks and barrels, on the opposite side
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Speaker 15: of the train tracks.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of what I thought too.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot sir, all right, TJ,
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Speaker 3: you're up. What you got me? You got to follow
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Speaker 3: the mayor, So what do you got Yeah to turn
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Speaker 3: my mic on. Yeah, he's new. You're the brother of
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Speaker 3: the board, not me.
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