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12/05/2024 The Dave Allen Show - Vicky Vaughn, Jeremy Young, Matt Sutton, Joe Stevens · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 2: the United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
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  Speaker 2: city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on five
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  Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure the milky.
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  Speaker 3: Dave Allen, Good morning to you, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: good morning, happy Thursday. If you're like most and you
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  Speaker 3: don't like the cold temperatures, and it's gonna actually get
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  Speaker 3: colder as the day goes on, it's gonna get better
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  Speaker 3: because the meteorologis meteorologists type folks tell us that we
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  Speaker 3: could be up near sixty soon, but not today, so
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  Speaker 3: keep that am. I could be a couple of slick
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  Speaker 3: spots here there on the nothing major in our part
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  Speaker 3: of the world, unlike the rest of the state. If
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  Speaker 3: major around here. There could be a couple of slick
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  Speaker 3: spats here or there, though, please so just use caution
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  Speaker 3: there there cold temperatures and the wind chills tonight for
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  Speaker 3: the reason that the City of Charleston has postponed their
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  Speaker 3: Christmas parade. We're going to talk to the chief of
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  Speaker 3: staff for the Mayor, Matt Sutton about that decision. Coming
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  Speaker 3: up a little bit later on South Charleston Christmas parade
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  Speaker 3: is going on. We're gonna get into that conversation here
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  Speaker 3: in just account of moments bus a little bit later
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  Speaker 3: on now that we're talking about cold weather ski season
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  Speaker 3: officially here, Joe Stevens from the West Virginia Ski Areas
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  Speaker 3: Associational join us in Kanawak County has a new county
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  Speaker 3: manager's name is Jeremy Young. He'll join us a little
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  Speaker 3: bit later on in the show as well. So lots
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  Speaker 3: to get to this morning again. Bigley Bigley Wiggley hotline
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  Speaker 3: five five zero zero eight And I'm gonna bring in
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  Speaker 3: now because Christmas is always big in South Charleston always
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  Speaker 3: as Vicky Vaughn. As with the City of Charleston, South
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  Speaker 3: Charleston and the CVB, there is that rights center. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's great to have you with us. And you are
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  Speaker 3: not responsible in any way, shape, form or fashion for
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  Speaker 3: the Christmas tree at the Capitol falling. Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: I am not all right If you don't know what
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about, we get pictures posted about. It's the
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  Speaker 3: lead story this Morningwe metro news dot com. They had
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  Speaker 3: the Joyful Night celebration there last night and because of
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  Speaker 3: the high winds the tree fell. I'm sure they're working
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  Speaker 3: on as we speak to put it back up again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it fell that this morning. But you are not
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  Speaker 3: responsible for that. No, I am not anyway. So what
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  Speaker 3: do we have going on in South Charleston.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Friday evening we have the Christmas tree lining and
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  Speaker 6: drone show over the mound and it begins at five
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  Speaker 6: point thirty. It goes until seven o'clock. We'll have Christmas music.
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  Speaker 6: The Women's Club of South Charleston will serve free hot chocolate. Also,
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  Speaker 6: the Road South Charleston Rotary Club will serve free hot
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  Speaker 6: chocolate and cookies. Downtown Ford free cookies, we'll have frost
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  Speaker 6: see Rudolph snow White. Santa will be on stage for
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  Speaker 6: the children to sit on his lap and tell them
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  Speaker 6: what they want for Christmas. And we will be passing
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  Speaker 6: out candy canes, coloring books, crayons, and we're just really
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  Speaker 6: excited about the drone show that'll happen around six point
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  Speaker 6: thirty and then the Mayor of South Charleston will like
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  Speaker 6: the tree at six forty five.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all coming up tomorrow tomorrow, tomorrow night, all right,
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  Speaker 3: and so and I know your businesses are going to
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  Speaker 3: be a big part of that as well. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned a few of them there, because we want to
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  Speaker 3: encourage people that when you go out to these events,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's South Charleston or any time, to try to
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  Speaker 3: make time to stop into the businesses that are open.
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  Speaker 6: Down there exactly. And there also is a window decorating
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  Speaker 6: contest in South Charleston, and so check out the windows,
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  Speaker 6: decide which one is your favorite, and then you can
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  Speaker 6: get on our website, visit south Charleston, WV dot com
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  Speaker 6: and vote for your favorite favorite window decoration and that
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  Speaker 6: puts you in a drawing for a five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 6: value basket of lots of goodies and gift cards. Shops
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  Speaker 6: in South.
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  Speaker 3: Charles, and there are plenty of shops in South Charleston.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they got a lot of little quaint
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  Speaker 3: to hate that term because it's so over you, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of little quaint shops in South Charles. We
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  Speaker 3: definitely have had bigger shops too.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, we certainly do.
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  Speaker 3: Talk with Vicky Vaughan again from the Sydney of South
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  Speaker 3: Charles and the Visitors Center. Now, the Christmas Parade is
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  Speaker 3: going to be Saturday, and that's one of over the
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  Speaker 3: next couple of days. That's well Charleston was postponed tonight,
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  Speaker 3: but one of four that our station are going to
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  Speaker 3: be involved in, one Friday night and three on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to it. Talking about the Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: Breade, Yes, the Christmas Parade will be at twelve noon
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  Speaker 6: on D Street. There's plenty of parking on all the
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  Speaker 6: side streets. D Street will be blocked off obviously because
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  Speaker 6: that's where the parade will be. There'll be lots of
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  Speaker 6: candy thrown out for the kids, decorated floats, grinches, Santa
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  Speaker 6: church groups, Spinny keatam Highland Landers, the band, the Bagpipes,
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  Speaker 6: the Oriental Band. We'll have motorcycles, classic cars, antique track.
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  Speaker 6: There's dancers, marching bands, beauty queens and twirlers. So bring
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  Speaker 6: bundle up, bring the kids, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 6: such a fun, fun parade. We have about one hundred
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  Speaker 6: units in the Prey this year.
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  Speaker 3: It's always big. I mean, any guys do it upright,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's this parade or whatever, you know, the other
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  Speaker 3: praise that you do. Can people still sign up to
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  Speaker 3: be in the Prey?
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  Speaker 6: They absolutely can.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, That's what's the best way to do that.
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  Speaker 6: They what they want to do is get on our website,
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  Speaker 6: which is visit South CHARLESTONWV dot com, and right there
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  Speaker 6: on the front pages a sign up for the parade.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get back to talking about the Christmas stuff in
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  Speaker 3: South Charleston here in a capital moments. But I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to ask you about your role as as president. You're
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  Speaker 3: with the Visitors Center there in South Charleston. Tell me
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  Speaker 3: about some of the things that you do and some
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  Speaker 3: some other exciting things going on in South Charleston.
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  Speaker 6: I am with the Visitor Center, so I am to
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  Speaker 6: promote anything in South Charleston, and my focuses are places
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  Speaker 6: to eat and events going on. So that's what I do.
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  Speaker 6: I promote anything South Charleston and the events, work on
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  Speaker 6: the events, and so we on social media we tell
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  Speaker 6: you about everything going on and also places you can
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  Speaker 6: shop and eat and fun things that you can do.
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  Speaker 6: So that is what I do.
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  Speaker 6: Vicki's it seems like it's a small town, but it's
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  Speaker 6: really not. There's something going on all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we have the ice skating rink. We something that people
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  Speaker 6: don't know is we have a museum right beside the
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  Speaker 6: Lavelle Theater on D Street, and that museum has Carbid artifacts.
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  Speaker 6: It has everything that was in the mound, you know,
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  Speaker 6: mockups of everything that was in the mound and the
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  Speaker 6: Ordnance Center information. So it is it is full of
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  Speaker 6: different things for you to see, arrowheads, Indian eraheads and
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  Speaker 6: all that. It's like a hidden gym in South Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: And with all these activities that have been going on
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  Speaker 3: in the Kanaal Valley, I mean it's really ramped up
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  Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, you know, sports tourism
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  Speaker 3: and what's going on out Shawnee and what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: you know in Charleston with Regatta and all these different
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  Speaker 3: festivals and on down to Putnam County too, and include
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  Speaker 3: those folks in here as well. South Charleston is a
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  Speaker 3: good location for people to check out when they come
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  Speaker 3: to town.
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  Speaker 6: We are in the middle of everything and we have
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  Speaker 6: several hotels and the hotels are really nice and so
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  Speaker 6: people really like to stay in our hotels. We have
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  Speaker 6: a fair Field by Marriott. We have a holiday in
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  Speaker 6: Charleston West that has an indoor swimming pool and that's
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  Speaker 6: a draw for a lot of people. And don't forget
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  Speaker 6: about Little Creek Park, so when people are visiting, they
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  Speaker 6: can go over to the park and new this year,
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  Speaker 6: we have lights in the park, the first annual and
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  Speaker 6: so that will be every evening from six to nine
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  Speaker 6: until Christmas Eve and it's free, there's no charge. And
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  Speaker 6: on the thirteenth December thirteenth and fourteenth there will be
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  Speaker 6: Santa and the kids can have free hot chocolate and
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  Speaker 6: cookies and see Santa.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of exciting stuff going on there in
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  Speaker 3: South Charleston. Of course, you got the mall project and
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  Speaker 3: it's not not said something you're here to talk about,
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  Speaker 3: but you got the mall project and also excited about yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because it's going to be a really really big deal.
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  Speaker 3: It already is. And then there's some changes coming to
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  Speaker 3: the South Charleston Community Center I understand as well, just
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  Speaker 3: to report about.
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  Speaker 6: That the other day, Invention Center and Sports center. So
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  Speaker 6: we're excited about can you give it to you. I
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  Speaker 6: don't really have the information on that. I'm not on the.
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  Speaker 3: Economics development, but it's going to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: But it's going to be a big deal, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: sure the mayor would like to come in absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to the mayor yesterday. In fact, anytime that
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  Speaker 3: any of our mayors are have something to promote, all
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  Speaker 3: they could do is reach out to me. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: back and kind of recap everything you got going on
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow night and also on Saturday christ So.
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  Speaker 6: The tree lighting and drone show at the Mound and
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  Speaker 6: the drune show, it's very captivating. It's a wonderful thing
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  Speaker 6: to see in the sky. You know, we had one
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  Speaker 6: at Summerfest and people loved it. There's going to be
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  Speaker 6: music there, the free hot chocolate cookies. We have characters
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  Speaker 6: Frosty Rootolph, snow White Santa on stage for the kids.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to be passing out candy canes, coloring books
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  Speaker 6: and crayons. And the drune show begins at six thirty
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  Speaker 6: and the Mayor will light the tree at six forty five.
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  Speaker 6: Don't forget to follow the South Charleston Convention and visitor
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  Speaker 6: Beer on social media. We will have the parade at
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  Speaker 6: twelve noon. There's lots of side street parking, There'll be
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  Speaker 6: lots of candy thrown out, lots of really cool things
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  Speaker 6: in the parade, one hundred different units to see. Bundle
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  Speaker 6: the kids up and come. They're going to have a
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  Speaker 6: blast and Little Creek Park the lights there now from
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  Speaker 6: six to nine each evening through December twenty fourth, and
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  Speaker 6: on the thirteenth and fourteenth of December, they'll be Santa
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  Speaker 6: for the kids, hot chocolate and cookies.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of stuff going on in South Charleston, and you
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  Speaker 3: can check out what's the give us a couple of
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  Speaker 3: the social media sites in the way again.
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  Speaker 6: On Facebook and Instagram. It's the South Charleston Convention and
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  Speaker 6: Visitor Bureau. And then also we have that would be
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  Speaker 6: the social media that you would want to check. And
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  Speaker 6: then our website where you can vote for your favorite
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  Speaker 6: decorated Christmas decorated window is visit South Charleston, WV dot
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  Speaker 6: com is our website. So there's a lot of good
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  Speaker 6: information on there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Vick, you appreciate you being here. I got
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  Speaker 3: a text here. I don't think you can do anything
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  Speaker 3: if they stayed open until say eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I'll pass along that information. I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: you've ever had Susie's ham sandwich on a biscuit.
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  Speaker 3: It is like to die for. That's what you know.
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  Speaker 3: lunch there. How's that?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, that sounds like a good plan.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you can't appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Hang out with you one second. It is nine nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh hold on, hold on, got a question. Will the
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  Speaker 3: Drone show be live streamed? If you can't make it downtown?
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  Speaker 6: It will not. The parade will be live stream, but
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  Speaker 6: the Drone show will not.
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday. Well, it looks like now there could be
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  Speaker 3: a special session added onto that, and I'm told it's
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  Speaker 3: in part at least to talk about a major economic
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  Speaker 3: He'll join happy to talk about that and some PEIA
• 16:24
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  Speaker 3: the girls basketball coach, Greenbrier East, So Brad will get
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  Speaker 3: State's annual Joyful Night celebration was held to kick off
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: the Christmas season at the Capitol. The State's tree was
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: put up and then with the high winds, the tree
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: fell down last night. We got a picture posted about that.
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  Speaker 3: As Chris said this morning, it's actually laying Lincoln's feet
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: on the Capitol grounds. At least it was early. I'm
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: sure they're probably working on it as we speak to
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: get it back up if they haven't already. Chris Lawrence
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: will join Hoppy to talk about the Apple's former Charleston
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: mayor Danny Jones is on. There are some major concerns
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: about the declining enrollment at West Virginia University. Hopey, we'll
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: get into that. And rumors continue to swirl that Marshall
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: head football coach Charles Huff may be leaving the Herd,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: of course, set to play for the Sun Belt Conference championship.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Saturday night, Dave Wilson will join Hoppy to talk a
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  Speaker 3: He is the new county manager for Kanawha County. Joins
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  Speaker 3: us now in the par of Marshroll's studio. Jeremy, good morning,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. Good morning, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Give us a little background on Jeremy.
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  Speaker 10: Who are you good question? Well, I grew up here
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: in Kennall County. I graduated from Niro High School in
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: nineteen ninety six. Uh grew up in Cross Lanes and
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: I went to school at Glenville State on a basketball scholarship,
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: and then I ended up transferring to w U got
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: my undergrad from there, and I came back here to Charleston.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: I actually worked here downtown for I was an accountant
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: for the Charleston alley Cats, and then they converged over
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: to the Power and I was part of the new
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: Appalachian Power Parks as the team accountant there, and then
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: I moved on to Brooksallivin LifeWay Center. I was the
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: CFO for for the nonprofit agency there. And then a
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: job opportunity popped up in Putnam County and I got
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: into county government. I ended up being the county manager
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: for Putnham County for ten years. And this opportunity that
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: came up in Connall, Jennifer Harold retired or left to
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: go out of state, and she did a wonderful job.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I was gonna that was gonna be one of my
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: comments about Jennifer. You had some pretty big shoes to
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: fill there, man.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Yes, absolutely, And and uh, you know, I've not heard
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: one bad word about Jennifer. She she has done an
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: excellent job and and kind of grew up within the
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: courthouse here at all counties.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: She and her husband are fellow Georgia Bulldogs fans, so
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: like I am right, And so I said that on
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: the air a couple of times, and she would send
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: me a text about it, and I actually got to
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: meet him at an event downtown. We talked a little
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Georgia football.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean, I still get to tie. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: just just got off the phone with her earlier this morning.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: She's still in a contract with the county on on
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: certain things that she was involved with in the transition,
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: so she's going to be very helpful. And I feel like,
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: you know, working in Putnam County, we've had a lot
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: of projects over the years and a lot of positive
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: things there that that have increased my knowledge of of
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: how county government works. And you know, when when this
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: opportunity came up, I thought it was something that would
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: be really good at. And you know, I've really enjoyed
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: working in county government. It's really unique because you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: you work for three different commissioners, but also the relationships
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: within the courthouse of other elected officials, and it's kind
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: of like being the peacemaker, being the county manager and
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: making sure everybody's you know, moving in the right direction,
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: and making sure everybody has open lines of communication.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: You know. But it's exciting.
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  Speaker 10: You know. I like to say, no two days are
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: the same in county government, and that's why it's exciting
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: to get up and go to work every day because
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: you you know, it's not always positive things, as we know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: but but you know, I never turned down a challenge
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: and it's been really exciting and be able to come
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: back home to the county I grew up in and
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: be able to to help and keep moving the county forward.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Is exciting to me.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Talk about some of the duties. What is on the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: job description. I know you mentioned some of it there,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: but overall, what are the job duties of a county manager?
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and every county is a little bit different. We're
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: fortunate here in Kanaw County to have a larger staff.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Obviously it's a it's a big county, but here in Kanaw,
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: it you know, it's a lot of it's a lot
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: about relationship building. It's it's managing your your staff inside
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: the courthouse. You know, there's multiple departments that that report
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: to to the County Commission that are under our control,
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: you know, so managing those department heads on a daily
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: basis and any employee related matters, making sure that we
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: we stay on budget, all the budgeting go through through
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: the commission office, you know, and being on constant communication
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: with with your commissioners, and you know, making sure that
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: you're prepared for anything that needs to be made public,
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: you know, and getting ready for commission meetings, and you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: there's there's just really a lot to it, but it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: it's about managing people, managing budget, and have working relationships
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: with with the public.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Speaking of the County Commission, we would be remiss if
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: we did not mention that today is the birthday of
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: one of the Knaw County Commission, the Commission President Lance Wheeler.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: So we want to give a big shout out at.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Wheel Happy birthday to the commission President.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Wheeler.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: You got to keep your boss happy, that's right, you know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So what are some of the things that are on
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: your radar now, Jeremy, as you head into the new
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: year and the year twenty twenty five. I mean, what
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: are some of the things that have got you excited
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: about Knawa County moving forward?
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, there's a lot of positive things going on.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, from a from a tourist standpoint,
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: I know that the county and both the city with
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: Mayor Goodwin, they've they've done a lot of really good
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: things to revitalize downtown Charleston and bring people back to
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: the city. I know the Capital Sports Project is one
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: that has been discussed a little bit with the mall.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: And you know, growing up with or having kids in sports,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: and I still coach girls basketball high school, so just
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: seeing youth activities for kids and I see what that
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: sports tourism has done in other communities when we've gone
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: out of state, and to be able to have something
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: like that here locally, I think it's going to be
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: a huge draw for not just for for financial reasons,
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: but for forgiving youth plau a place to go to
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: to to work out, to play sports, and to draw
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: people back into the town center because as we know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: everything's kind of moved away to the outlet malls and
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: things like that, so to get that foot traffic, I
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: think that's exciting. Also, we're we're involved with the judicial project.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: I know we we we had initial bids that that
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: came over budget, so that's something that we're on top
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: of and trying to go back to the drawing board
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: and making sure that we're we're able to complete that
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: project under budget. It is going to be a lengthy
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: project is as you know, we have to stay open,
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: the courts have to stay open during this, so it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: going to take a little longer to go through that remodel,
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: but we we we're going to make sure that we
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: get it done and under budget and on time.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Let's go back and talk a little bit about the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: proposed Capital Sports Center. I mean I know, and every
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: time I have a commissioner Selangowan, he says, well, we
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: got we have number one. We have to get another name.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: We know that we've all just kind of been calling
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: it that, but it will eventually have another name. Where
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: are you and what is your vision? What would you
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: like to see happen there at the well?
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: And I've not been in any meeting, so I don't
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: speak for for anybody else, but but obviously I know
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: that you know, having having indoor facilities that have basketball, volleyball.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I know there's been mentioned of a pool. I don't
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: know if that's going to happen or not.
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: I know there's a lot of folks out there that
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: that that see the need for for a you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: Olympic sized swimming pool and so forth. But you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: have an indoor you know, we've had, We've got the
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: Shawnee Sports Complex. I know in Putnam County we had
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: the Valley Park project and the city Hurricane did a
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: project and we've seen what that does from a baseball
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: standpoint in outdoor sports, but there's really not that indoor
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: facility like you said at Bridgeport and Wheeling and some
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: of these places in the state that have that and
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: just how positive that is. So, you know, just just
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: having the flexibility of multiple sports where it's not locked
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: into one or two, where you got four or five,
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: six different types of sports in one big venue, I
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: think is going to be huge.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Talking to Jeremy Young again, who is the new county
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: manager here in kanaw Canton. One of the things about
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Kanawah County that I think sometimes, you know, West Virginia
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: as a whole is a is a smaller sized state,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you know, compared to other states. And Kanawah County, though,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: is the largest county in the state. And the diversity
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: of Kanawah County and what I mean by that, And
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I talk with the commissioners all the time about this
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: what necessarily it seems like sometimes they can there's there's
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: so much of a disc between let's say, the Upper
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Canal Valley into into Saint Albans into downtown Charleston. And
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: as a county manager and the county commissioners as well,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: and for that matter, all of county government, you've got
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: to kind of got to bring all these people in.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: You got to dip your toe in the water of
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: everything going on in every individual area.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's a challenge for sure. And you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: we kind of had that in Putnam County. You know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: people people would like to say, oh, the north side
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: of the River and south southern different, two different regions.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: So it's no different here, you know. And and I
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: think the commissioners, from what I understand, do a really
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: good job of including everybody. You know. I think the
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: for example, the Coonskin Park event was very well attended.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: I think Commissioner Wheeler attended that. But from what the
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: feedback that I got was the Christmas event, Yes, a
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: Christmas event, I believe that was Tuesday night, and you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: I think that was something for not just here in Charleston,
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: but but folks on the east end of the county
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: that that's probably more accessible to two events up at Coonskin.
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: So I know that they're there's food pantries on the
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: east end that the commissioners are are wanting to help. So,
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: you know, just being inclusive of everyone in the in
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: the county. And I know that's a hard challenge being
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: so diverse, but I do know that the commissioners have
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: every resident at their best interest here.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Well, Jeremy, we certainly wish you the best of luck
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: with the job. As we said, you get some pretty
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: big shoes to fill with With Jennifer Oakli, she did
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: a fantastic job and you did a great I know
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: of your work in Putnam County where I live, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: so I know you'll do a great job here in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Kanawa County. Appreciate you being here. You're always welcome on
• 26:32
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• 26:38
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing fine. So you know, the calendar may say, Matt,
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  Speaker 3: from the Ski Association. I mean, he's took go to
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  Speaker 3: And the decision was made yesterday I guess what two
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  Speaker 12: Decision, yes, I mean, you know, as you know, Dave,
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  Speaker 12: because you help us promote a lot of them. As
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  Speaker 12: we do a lot of events in the city of Charleston,
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  Speaker 12: right we have a lot of things from big to small.
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: And when people come to the mayor with ideas that
• 31:34
  Speaker 12: the answer is typically yes, with the caveat if we
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: can do it safely, and that always becomes the number
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: one priority is that can we do it safely? And
• 31:43
  Speaker 12: as we've began to track the weather and we began
• 31:46
  Speaker 12: to talk to various individuals, including our Homeland Security Director,
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: Chad Jones, our events coordinator and parade coordinator, and Miranda
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: Dylan and others, it became clear that we weren't going
• 31:58
  Speaker 12: to be able to do this safely tonight, and the
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: decision was made to postpone the parade till December seventeenth
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: at seven pm, same setup, same line up, everything will
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: happen exactly the same one the seventeenth, but it just
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: wasn't going to be safe. And I think that the
• 32:12
  Speaker 12: final decision was made after some conversations with local school
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: bands Capital High GW.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: John Adams, and they did not feel comfortable.
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: With their with their kids participating, and we completely understood
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: that and we weren't going to put anybody, especially our youth,
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: in any potential danger tonight. And then and then just
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: the logistics of wind, right, I mean, when wind happens,
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: it's hard for floats, it's hard for.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Some people to see the Capitol Christmas tree.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, that's right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: So you know, we a couple of years ago, Holly
• 32:40
  Speaker 12: Jolly Bradley, we we dealt with a lot of wind
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: issues with our Christmas trees. And thankfully we have an
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: amazing public grounds crew that built these. If you go
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: look at the boxes that are under the trees for
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: Holly Jolly Bradley, those are very stylish, but they're also
• 32:52
  Speaker 12: are practical. They were built with the purpose of not
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: letting the trees turn over, and we only had a
• 32:56
  Speaker 12: couple that bent over last night. So a lot goes
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: into that and you learn a lot. But with wind
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: and then the wind shield tonight, it just wasn't worth it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: It's never easy to make a decision like that because
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: no matter what you do, Matt, somebody ain't going to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: be happy.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Sure's I mean, that's with anything.
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: But at the end of the day, safety comes first,
• 33:16
  Speaker 12: the safety of our citizens, the safety of our staff
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: and everybody who was going to participate.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: It's not worth it.
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: Yes, there will always be negative comments, there will always
• 33:24
  Speaker 12: be things on social media, but we're all very content
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: with the decision and it really wasn't that difficult decision
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: at the end of the day, because one is is
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: we want as many people to participate as possible. So
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: if people were going to start to not participate, then
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: that makes the parade less than what it should be.
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: People weren't going to be able to come out with
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: their kids. You know, we have a lot of staff
• 33:42
  Speaker 12: members that have very young kids and just asking them,
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: are you willing to bring your kids out? And when
• 33:45
  Speaker 12: they start saying no, then that's very clear to us
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: that not only is it not safe, but we're actually
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: going to have a not as good a parade as
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: we want to have. So we want to put on
• 33:54
  Speaker 12: the best show as we possibly can. That goes into
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: it as well, but you know it's easy to sit
• 33:59
  Speaker 12: online and say, oh, I'd stand out there. Yeah, but
• 34:02
  Speaker 12: you might not have a four year old that wants
• 34:04
  Speaker 12: to see the parade.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: And so we're a.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Seventy four year old older folks that don't want to
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: be out there.
• 34:10
  Speaker 12: Very true, and you know, we have a lot of
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: good streaming servant people who are streaming it. But at
• 34:13
  Speaker 12: the end of the day, safety comes first in all
• 34:16
  Speaker 12: of our events, in everything we do, and that's why
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: you know, we we institute in these large events. We
• 34:20
  Speaker 12: have a lot of planning means we also have safety
• 34:22
  Speaker 12: meetings in all of them. So and part of that
• 34:25
  Speaker 12: is weather and that's why we have you know, we
• 34:27
  Speaker 12: have the people we do and we're fortunate to be
• 34:30
  Speaker 12: able to pick up the phone and call our good
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: friend Brian Hughes and ask him what is going to
• 34:33
  Speaker 12: look like and what it's going to be and he
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: takes the time to help us out and the right
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: decision was made.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's never easy.
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: The mayor doesn't like to have to make these decisions,
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: but it is an easy decision when the safety of
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: our residents and our visitors or is it's say that's
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: that's easy.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: That's a no brainer.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: And if you want to have some fun with Brian Hughes,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: talk to him about blizzards.
• 34:54
  Speaker 12: That's also severe weather storms. I'll leave that alonecause I
• 34:58
  Speaker 12: don't want to. I don't want to conjure up anything.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Well, no, The thing about Brian is Brian I've been
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: great friends, you know, for a number of years. But
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Brian gets you know, sometimes people want people want to
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: argue online with meteorologists, and I've never quite understood how
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: someone on social media. I'm not a meteorologist. I'm going
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: to leave that up to those guys and why I'm
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: going to argue. But there was there was an incident
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: where Brian got into a little back and forth with
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: somebody in social media about a blizzard. And you know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: a blizzard is not necessarily just snow. You can have
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: twenty inches of snow and it's not a blizzard. You
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: need to look up with the depth. And I like
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: to give Brian a hard time about it. I was
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: texting with him when he was on the other this morning.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: So now the bride has been moved and it is
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: the night of the WVU Bowl game, And it was
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: kind of funny the way this whole thing happened yesterday
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: because your announcement. I was in the office here, came
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: down about two thirty or so, and then I was
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: sitting in I was helping out coop a little bit
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: with hotline yesterday and Aaron Parker from her news team
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: comes running down here and says, we know the WVU
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Bowl and it just happened to be on the same
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: time on the same night. But I will say this,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: wvu's Bowl game doesn't start till nine o'clock, plenty of time,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: and you should for those that want to watch the
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: WVU Bowl game there, you should be on at least
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: on your way home by that point. And we're going
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: to have it on the radio, so you know, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: we're also going to broadcast the parade on the radio.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: We're playing on do that. Chris Lawrence and Bobby Spry
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: will be doing that. So we're just transitioning everything to
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: December seventeenth. But if you're concerned about, you know, that
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: bowl game, you should be time home in time to
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: see the Mountaineers of Memphis and the and the Scooter
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Coffee Ball in Frisco, Texas.
• 36:33
  Speaker 12: Yes, it was, I mean, there were you know when
• 36:35
  Speaker 12: we started to look like you look in the early
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: part of next week and the weather doesn't look great.
• 36:38
  Speaker 12: It looks warmer, but it looks like it's going to rain.
• 36:40
  Speaker 12: And then you know, okay, we'll push it into the
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: back part of the week. Well, we got to stay
• 36:43
  Speaker 12: high school football championships coming up, so we can't you know, can't,
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: can't step on top of that. And so then the
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: early part of the following week week look good and
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: you know, as with anything you could, you couldn't predict it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 12: Sometimes we say, you know, you can't make this stuff up.
• 36:57
  Speaker 12: Like as soon as we announced that, you're right, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: then I look on Metro News and there's the there's
• 37:01
  Speaker 12: the bold date.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: But now I think the timing does work out.
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: Well, get your get your holiday joy and come out
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: and see Sannah and all the other parades. And the
• 37:08
  Speaker 12: other thing we do is is we really, we really desperately,
• 37:11
  Speaker 12: UH want our local kids and the bands and the
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: art groups to be able to perform. So we had
• 37:15
  Speaker 12: to work with you know, Capitol I and George Washington
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: High to to make sure that they didn't have performing
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: arts or something going on that day. And that's what
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: ended up a lot of the date ended up being
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: with them as well, because a big part of our
• 37:26
  Speaker 12: parade is our is our local our local students being
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: able to participate, and that's that was a big part
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: of the schedule as well. Somebody would have called us
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: from WU, we might have taken a different look, but
• 37:35
  Speaker 12: the timing worked out.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: The time he worked out really well.
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  Speaker 3: so you mentioned football. We all know what happened in
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: the court system with us going back and forth, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: starting with volleyball, with football and whatever the football championship.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: We just moved everything ahead a week, right, and we're
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: good to go.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Everything's s got for now.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Super eight, I guess call it super eight. I don't
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: think no Elite eight is out. Eight is enough. I
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: don't know why I do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 12: It's just the state high school FOOTBA champions right, That's
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: what That's what we'll call it. That's another thing that
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: was always always interested. We talked about, you know, folks
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: being unhappy that somehow when the when it moved to Charleston,
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: that that lawsuit started, and obviously that didn't have anything
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: to do with us, But yeah, I know, we're super
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: excited for that, and I Tim Brady and his entire team,
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: I know the Mayor is going to be there for
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: for several of the games and.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: It's really gonna be exciting.
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: Not only that, but we have cheerleading championships coming in
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: that same weekend, and it's going to be a tremendous
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: weekend in the city of Charleston, and we're very excited.
• 38:43
  Speaker 12: High school sports is is one of, if not our
• 38:46
  Speaker 12: top economic driver. When we think about the events we
• 38:48
  Speaker 12: have around the state high school basketball tournament's volleyball, now,
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: we have cheerleading, now we.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Have football, We've got track.
• 38:55
  Speaker 12: So so these are are huge economic drivers, but they're
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: also extremely great opportunities for our youth and our state,
• 39:00
  Speaker 12: and we're real excited about it. And I know that Tim
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: worked with Andy Shay over at the ballpark and hopefully
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: some kids from the football will get to go over
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: and see the light to night and have some fun
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: over there as well, so it we're excited about it.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: And yeah, the games will go on and made the
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: best teams win all right.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Before we let you go. Tuesday night, the city had
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: what was I guess the last and a series of
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: public meetings about the proposed Capital Connector project. How was
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: that and what's your takeaway?
• 39:26
  Speaker 12: I have these three We've had three public meetings with
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: the Capitol Connector. And in my career, even before I
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: went to government, I did a lot of community outreach
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: and public meetings and things like that. I've never seen
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: as good a participation as we've had. And with this
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: Capital Connector meetings, we probably had fifty or sixty people there.
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: I think overall we've had over seven hundred comments. I
• 39:44
  Speaker 12: know James Jost with gi who's running this, has challenged
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: everybody to get us to a thousand, and it's been
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: a great experience, and I think people are really dedicated,
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: they really want to see what's best for the boulevard,
• 39:56
  Speaker 12: and we've gotten a lot of great ideas. And I
• 39:58
  Speaker 12: think one thing that, especially if you talk to folks
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: who were there and the residents who are participated, you
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: know a lot of times you go to these meetings
• 40:05
  Speaker 12: and people say, well, what do you want to see,
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: and then nobody listens to them. Well, we've listened, and
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: we've incorporated a lot of different things, including benches and
• 40:12
  Speaker 12: restroom stops, and where we're and where we're putting things,
• 40:15
  Speaker 12: and how we're designing the parks. We've really listened a
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: lot of the If you look from the thirty percent
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: designed and the sixty percent, a lot of the changes
• 40:21
  Speaker 12: have been because.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Of community feedback.
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: So you haven't still until right after the first of
• 40:25
  Speaker 12: the year January third.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: You can go online.
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: You can you can find the link of the City
• 40:29
  Speaker 12: of Charles's website, you can find on Gai's website. There's
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: a Capital Connector website as well. If you just search
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: Capital Connector Charleston, West Virginia, you'll find that. And you
• 40:36
  Speaker 12: could still provide your feedback up until January third, and
• 40:39
  Speaker 12: please do because we can't think of everything. Because what
• 40:42
  Speaker 12: we want more than anything is the users of the
• 40:44
  Speaker 12: space to tell us what they want in the space.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: And this is pretty much going to connect the west
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: side to the east side.
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: Yes, I mean, you know, if you think about what
• 40:51
  Speaker 12: happened on the West side over you know the Mayor
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: Jones and the administration did before they left taking it
• 40:58
  Speaker 12: up to Magic Island. We're going to pick up where
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: they left off at Magic Island and go all the
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: way down to the thirty fifth Street Bridge. And it
• 41:04
  Speaker 12: is one of, if not the This is the probably
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: the most successful project I've ever worked on, because it's
• 41:12
  Speaker 12: city government, state government, and federal government all working together
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: because it's city roads, it's state roads, and it's funded
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: by the Feds. And we also have the county involved
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: because they're right there and we have to deal with
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: some of their traffic and courthouse issues as well. So
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: all these folks are working together for this one tremendous project.
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: But we're going to go all the way from Magic
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: Island thirty fifth Street Bridge. You'll see a little cut
• 41:33
  Speaker 12: off on Greenbrier Street to create a much nicer entrance
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: way into our city and into the capital. But it's
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: very exciting, so please please go check it out. You
• 41:41
  Speaker 12: can again, you can find a Lincoln on the City
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: of Charleston's website. It is a very, very excited project.
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: And I would be remiss to say that, you know,
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: the mayor had this vision when we first started that
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: she wanted to make us some more or use our
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: riverfront more, and we've done the Regatta, we've done other events,
• 41:56
  Speaker 12: but we've not had anything that was sort of full time.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: This is what we're going to be able to do and.
• 42:01
  Speaker 12: Really set a vision to this, but we couldn't have
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: done it without both Senator Joe Mansion and Senator Shelley
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: Moore Capital. They saw the vision the mayor had and
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: the members of the community had, and they helped us
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: find the funding for it. And truly will be appreciative
• 42:14
  Speaker 12: of them forever because you know when you're walking on
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: that in a couple of years, it's going to be
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: because they believed in what is sort of the next
• 42:21
  Speaker 12: phase of the city at Charleston, which is being much
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: more utilized in our riverfront and being a very community friendly,
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: high quality of life, and a great destination for people
• 42:31
  Speaker 12: to visit.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Matt Sutton, the chief of Staffordmery good one. I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: even though the calendar says it's not one guy who's
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  Speaker 3: always excited about it. As Joe Stevens for the West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia Ski Areas Association, Joseph, good morning, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, But December first, as I understand from your
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  Speaker 13: good friend Brian Hughes, who the meteorological would start exactly
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  Speaker 13: December first.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly right and over there and over in that part
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  Speaker 3: of the world. It is certainly a bunch of winners
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  Speaker 3: rolled up into one, Joe.
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  Speaker 13: It is today, for sure, but about it less than
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  Speaker 13: an hour ago at nine o'clock both Canaye Valley. I
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  Speaker 13: no excuse me, but Timberline and Snowshoe they opened up
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  Speaker 13: for the season. As the saying goes, the ropes dropped,
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  Speaker 13: and there's actually people out there. If you go into
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  Speaker 13: the webcams right now, you will see people skiing and
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  Speaker 13: snowboarding out there at the top of Snowshoe and the
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  Speaker 13: top of Timberline. So it's a good time. We're basically
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  Speaker 13: on schedule for opening this season, and boy do we
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  Speaker 13: have an opening with all the natural snow that we've
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  Speaker 13: gotten in the mountains, all the temperatures we got for snowmaking.
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  Speaker 13: It's a really good opening. And we're opening with quality
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  Speaker 13: and quantity instead of just opening to say we're open.
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  Speaker 13: There's a big base and there's plenty of terrain open.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing beats Mother Nature lenning to help at hand, right Joe.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, Mother Nature. We filled up her tip jar extensively
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  Speaker 13: in the last few days, without a doubt. The wind
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  Speaker 13: chill's out there right now. I mean, my goodness, I'm
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  Speaker 13: in my office in Nitro right now, and the wind
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  Speaker 13: chill out there. So if you are going to go
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  Speaker 13: out there and play, dress accordingly. Got some good news yesterday. Also,
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  Speaker 13: we've got another ski resort opening up in Ohio County, Ogilby.
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  Speaker 13: They have a little some trails, they do some nighte
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  Speaker 13: skiing right there, and they will be opening tomorrow, coming
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  Speaker 13: up on the fourteenth will be winter Place just ninety
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  Speaker 13: minutes away from us here in Charleston, and then on
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  Speaker 13: the twenty first, Canaine Valley, which is right side by
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  Speaker 13: side with Timberline, they will be opening for the season.
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  Speaker 13: So it's all on the way. We're having a good
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  Speaker 13: time and we're letting gravity be our friend.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Before we let you go, I dud need to Askabpabs, can
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  Speaker 3: you put your other hat on here for a moment?
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  Speaker 3: With your role with the city of Nitro, I was
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  Speaker 3: talking with the folks from South Charleston earlier. The Charleston
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  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade, of course was postponed with the others the Dunbar, Nitro,
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  Speaker 3: Saint Albans, and they're all still going on as scheduled
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  Speaker 3: this weekend. And I know Nitro's got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: big stuff going on. I'll give you a little time
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  Speaker 3: to talk about it.
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know, all kid, decide if you want to
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  Speaker 13: see Santa this weekend, the Canal Valley Metro area is
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  Speaker 13: the place to be because, like you said on Friday night,
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  Speaker 13: and three o'clock Saint Albans at six o'clock will be
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  Speaker 13: our parade, the Nitro Parade, and then also in Clindenna
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  Speaker 13: on Saturday night at six o'clock they'll be having a
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  Speaker 13: Christmas parade, but the Nitro Parade will kick off at
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  Speaker 13: six o'clock. We've got about one hundred and fifty exhibits
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  Speaker 13: our entrance into the parade and it's all about It's
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  Speaker 13: all about kids, candy and Santa Claus and we will
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  Speaker 13: have plenty of that. It will start at Pickens Road
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  Speaker 13: right dere A McDonald's on Route twenty five First Avenue
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  Speaker 13: and it'll go straight on First Avenue all the way
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  Speaker 13: down to nineteen Street. So get their early, dress warm
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  Speaker 13: and have a good time. Santa's coming to town, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Joe. Always a pleasure to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk again soon, my friend. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck with that. Thanks a lot, buddy. It
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow's show. Got a couple of texts to get to
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  Speaker 3: Texas Dave. The Capitol folks knew there were high winds expected.
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  Speaker 3: If they had invested a few dollars into proper tie
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  Speaker 3: down straps instead of thousands of dollars on loud fireworks,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we'd still have a tree standing scared every dog
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  Speaker 3: on the East End. And speaking of safety, not smart
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  Speaker 3: to launch fireworks in high winds. Here's your sign, says
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  Speaker 3: a Texter. I think the fireworks last night at a
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  Speaker 3: joyful night kind of caught some people by surprise, including
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  Speaker 3: Governor Justice. If you heard the audio that we played
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  Speaker 3: on the morning news this morning, I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: he was expecting the fireworks. But again in case you're
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  Speaker 3: joining us late, and we got a picture posted a
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  Speaker 3: to WV metronews dot com and all of our social
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  Speaker 3: media sites as well, including my own Dave Island Radio
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  Speaker 3: and at Dave A seventy on X. Yeah, the Capital
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  Speaker 3: Christmas tree. They put it up and it fell back
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  Speaker 3: down a few hours later. But I'm sure, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a webcam on it. I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 3: working on it now. They'll have it back up if
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  Speaker 3: they don't already have it back up. But the fireworks
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  Speaker 3: last night did take a few people by surprise. From
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  Speaker 3: what I understand, Texas Dave Judicial Building should not be built. First.
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  Speaker 3: Majority of taxpayers don't want this new court and it's
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  Speaker 3: going to cost nine to ten million dollars to run.
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  Speaker 3: Put them in a vacant building downtown. Government keeps growing
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  Speaker 3: under this legislature. I don't know how much this legislature
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  Speaker 3: had to do with this. Maybe they did, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean the building is crowded, the Building's the
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  Speaker 3: buildings outdated? I mean, that's kind of my take on.
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  Speaker 3: Tex says, I thought Republicans into the war on Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: Why then are they incapable of protecting a Christmas tree
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  Speaker 3: from the wind. This is Jesus telling the phony Christian
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  Speaker 3: Republicans that they are hypocrites and do not follow God's teachings.
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  Speaker 3: Repent or, better yet, pray for salvation from the One
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  Speaker 3: True God. Spaghetti Monster says a textrier. If you're listening,
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  Speaker 3: folks and heaven, I just read the texts. That's all
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  Speaker 3: I did, all right. Thanks to all our guests on
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  Speaker 3: the show today, the key Vaon from the South Charleston
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  Speaker 3: Convention of Visit Bureau, Joe Stevens from the Westernrginion Skiers
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  Speaker 3: Association also with the Nitro CVB, and the new County
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  Speaker 3: County Manager here in Kanawha County, Jeremy Young, and also
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  Speaker 3: the chief of Staffer Mayor good one Matt Sutton for
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  Speaker 3: being here on the show today as well. Oh by
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  Speaker 3: the way, Tex says, tree is still down, no one
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  Speaker 3: working on it, just drove by. Okay, there we go,
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