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08/17/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Alexandra Pfost, Kathie Hess Crouse, Dr. Tom Williams, Jim Workman · The Dave Allen Show

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who is the superintendent of Conall County Schools is going to join us talk
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about the upcoming school year, and a little later on. Our good friend
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Jim Workman from Wiley and Whimpie's Football Digest is going to stop by as well,
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but we're gonna play a little tourism game now this morning, I want
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to welcome into the show Alexandra. Alexandra Post, who is the marketing and
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aggratourism manager for Grit's Farm, which is near Buffalo in Putnham County. Alexander,
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good morning, how are you. Good morning, Dave. I'm well,
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how are you. I'm doing fine. Thank you for being here.
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Now, before we get into what you're actually here to talk about, there
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may be some that aren't familiar with Grit's Farm, which is it's surely a
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treasure here in West Virginia. So just give us a little bit of a
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background, little history behind the back Grits Farm why this is such a big
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deal for West Virginia. Sure, Gritz Farm is located in Putnam County,
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West Virginia. We are in Buffalo and we're currently a three season plant and
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produce farm, but we're also an aggratourism farm. So we like to put
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on lots of fun events throughout the year, and our most popular, well
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known event would be Grits Fun Farm that takes place each September and October,
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so it is a six week falsell. We have about thirty different attractions for
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family and friends to come and explore. There's about three hundred acres on our
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property, so there's lots going on. We have pumpkin patches and a corn
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maize and great places to eat and rides and gain. So we typically see
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people come from all fifty states to visit Grits Fund Farm each fall. And
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we're really excited for our season that we've got coming up here starting September sixteen.
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And you're gonna need some workers or we're gonna get into that of just
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a little bit. But I didn't want to say this. I actually mentioned
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this, I think on the show last week. But I moved to Putnam
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County, Alexander, and I moved nine years ago there. I did not
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realize, I guess what a big deal the Grits Farm was. That was
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until I started hearing from a lot of my friends from all over the state
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about taking their kids and grandkids there to visit and the field trips and whatever.
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Again literally from all over the states. And you're saying, not just
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all over the say of West Virginia. You're talking about fifty states coming here
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for these things. Yes, yes, sir, we're really grateful for that.
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And over the years, we try to add something new or a couple
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of new things every time so that way people aren't getting the same experience.
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We're always trying to elevate whatever it is that we're doing, and we just
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wanted to be a special place for families and kids. And as you mentioned,
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we do school tours on weekdays and then we're open to the public on
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the weekends. And again, the reason I have you here to talk about
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this day is because you need workers. You got to have people to pull
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this off. Talk about that we sure do, yep. So we are
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hiring currently for our fun Farm team, and we have many positions available.
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So we're looking for everybody from admissions to help with ticket check in attractions,
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to help monitor our playground, food and beverage. We've got lots of sweet
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treats and we can't put them out there unless we have great people to help
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us do it. So we're looking for front and back of house workers as
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well as down to general labor. Tractor drivers to help drive people to and
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from all of the amazing attractions that they'll experience, and how many people are
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we looking for? Just give me a ballpark figure. I know you'll take
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as many as you can get, but just what would you like to have?
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Ideally we love to have one hundred. One hundred is a great number
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for us. Yet what kind of wages we looking at? So we start
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at ten dollars per hour and it's a great seasonal position for those looking for
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a little bit of extra work, whether it's their first job and they just
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want to have something fun to do outdoors, or they may even be retired
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and just want to save up some money for the holidays. So we have
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a little bit of something for everybody. It's a really fun job, and
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we offer some special tickets and perks. Joe, Yeah, I want to
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get into those perks. I'm all about the perks. So if I go
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to work out there, if i'm if i'm and by the way, what
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what's the age minimum here? What do you have to have to be at
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least? What aged to work there? Fifteen years old? All right?
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So whether I'm fifteen or eighty five, you're going to give me some perks
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if I come to work there for this right. Absolutely, absolutely, everybody
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gets the perks, no matter the age. But we have a discount on
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our food and other items that we offer, and we also do special ticket
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perks and passes for families and the employees themselves, so they will get to
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not only experienced Grits Fun Farm, but they'll get to share tickets with family
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and friends as well. But for our high school and college students, specifically
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specifically high school seniors, we do offer a scholarship fund program. So any
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tips that we received during Grits Fun Farm at any of our food locations,
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anytime a tip is put into a tip jar, we add that money up
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at the end of every week, and then at the end of the season,
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all of that is tallied and dispersed amongst select high school seniors in college
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students. Wow, they work for us, our employees. Yes, So
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what if somebody can only work a certain amount of hours. I know you
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need workers for all these different hours, but what if somebody comes to you
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and says, you know, I'm a college student and because I can only
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work these two days a week, or I can only work evenings, or
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I can only work well, are you willing to work with our schedules.
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Yes, yes, we are very flexible with scheduling as long as we know
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ahead of time. We like to give everyone the breeding room to work around
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their schedules, and we have many different shifts available, for example, Wednesdays
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through Friday mornings. This year we're going to be offering school tours, So
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if they just want to work a certain school tour days in the mornings,
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that's fine. If they can only work Thursday and Friday evenings to the general
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public, that's fine. Or Sundays only Saturday Sundays only. We're really flexible
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with it. We just ask to be notified in advance. So when the
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kids come there, the school students, and they come in there field trips,
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what seems to be the highlight for them, Oh, my goodness,
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probably the goats. The goat visits that we do. Everybody loves beating the
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goats, and last year we built our goats at brand new goat barn facility
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that's beautiful and huge and they have all the room to frolic and be fed
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by the public. But when we do school tours during the weekdays, they
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are so excited to pet the goats and be able to see them, Well,
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it sounds like it's a great time. And again you're looking to hiring
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a bunch of people for this, and this would be you know, this
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is not necessarily going to be a retirement kind of career, but if somebody's
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looking for what I would think is a fun job, especially if you're more
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of an outdoors person. And again we're talking about hiring some younger people and
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you can go as as as young as fifteen. But this will be a
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great job, especially when it comes for the school tours and whatnot. Would
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be a great time, a great job for somebody that's retired, you know,
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just looking for a little extra income. It's maybe supplement their retirement and
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i'd have something something fun to do in the in the outdoors in the fall
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months. Absolutely. Yeah, there is something for everybody, and we encourage
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anyone that's interested to apply online at gritsfarm dot com. The application is on
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our main home page there and on our job page, and we've made some
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announcements on our site. Actually this week, we've got a season pass flash
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sale going on right now, so you can actually start to see a little
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bit of what we're going to be offering for the fall season and get a
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season pass Flashdale if you're interested. Sounds good, Alexander, I have to
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ask you, you're a veteran out there, what's your favorite part of Grits
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Farm. I think that's a great question. Seeing the people, seeing the
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people come and just the joy that they have when they're on the farm and
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adding something new every time. But aside from that, it has to be
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the food that we offer and the creativity that goes behind it with our team.
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And we're in the process of testing some recipes. What every day?
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I mean, do you need some people to help with that, because my
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producer Ryan and I would be all about that if you need day Okay,
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all right, what kinds of foods do you have there? Oh? We
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have everything from what we're probably most known for are the fresh cake doughnuts that
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we have, and then we'll have some barbecue. We do chicken and fries
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and all of the festival foods. We do, homemade cookies and pepperoni rolls.
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Okay, all right, you can stop now, you can stop now.
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Okay. I know it's a little early, but it might be time
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for lunch. It's never too early for lunch, Alexander. I appreciate you
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taking time to join us talk about this again. Great opportunities. You need
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to hire a bunch of people out there. So whether you're high school,
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whether you're college, whether you get into you know, people that are retire
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just anybody wants a little extra income and to be able to do it in
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a fun, fun atmosphere out there with Grits and have all these people coming
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from all fifty states to come out there and taking all the festivities and all
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the school kids and whatnot. Give us the website again and tell us about
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the application process for these jobs. Yep, absolutely so anyone can apply online
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at gritsfarm dot com now through the end of next week. We have our
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team orientation next Saturday, so we definitely encourage you to apply as soon as
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possible. It's a very simple process. Just it takes a few minutes to
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complete and they can always reach out to us directly if they have any questions.
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All right, well, I have a question for you that will send
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in via the text line here, so you're already getting your own text here,
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Alexandra. So someone wants me to ask you, do you have a
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design for your corn maze and how does the maze work. We do have
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a design for the corn Maze and we're very excited about it this year.
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So there was a certain popular movie that was just released within the last couple
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of weeks, and it is inspired by this movie and the design. The
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steam rather is called farmy Land. So if you're a farmy girl in a
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farmy world, you need to come. You need to come to Grit's Fun
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Farm and experience the Corn Maze. It falls. Look even I know what
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you're talking about. And I'm the most dense person in the world when it
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comes to pop culture, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Alexandra.
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We wish you the best with everything. We'll have you on again maybe
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at some point, maybe you're in the middle part of the process, and
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give us an update on how things are going. I appreciate them. It
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sounds great. Thanks day. Alexandropost who as a marketing and agriturism manager for
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Grit's Farm in Putnam County. Big things going on there and Ryan, they
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said they may need somebody to sample food to, you know, kind of
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do quality assurance. I think I like the part where they said that they
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have the goats are the highlight and that they just get the frolic and eat
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all day. I mean, that's got radio written all over right there.
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But the Alexander just doing a great job out there with the folks of Grit's
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Farm. We appreciate her taking time at her schedule to be here today.
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okay, now, I have no interest in the corn maize. I'm
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not a Barbie girl and could care less about anything Barbie related. Well,
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then just eat a corn dog and frolic with the goats, all right,
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Don't be don't be difficults, don't be difficult. Somebody who's never difficult,
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always easy to get along with, at least for me anyway. Maybe not
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her fellow legislators, but I'm kidding. She gets along with everybody. They'll
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get to Kathy hess Cross, how are you, dear? I'm doing great
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day. How are you doing the day? I'm doing fine, Thank you.
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Na. That's sort of kind of your part of the world over there.
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Will you serve over at Grits Farm area? Yes, I do so.
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Well, what do you think of Gritz Farm? I love it out
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there. They have a beautiful place. And you know what, they're growing
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pineapples out there now too. They're growing pineapples out there now, and there
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are greenhouses and stuff. They've been doing pineapples and everything too. Okay,
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what's your favorite part of Gritz Farm? Oh? When you get to shoot
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the apples when they do of course, of course it is of course,
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of course, it is getting getting to shoot and blow things up. That's
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what Kathy has crowds on today. I mean, how can you how can
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you have more fun than that? Well, there you go, there you
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go. Nothing says fun, you know, quite up like blowing things up.
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U promo there Ryan on that. You know. Kathy always like to
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talk to members of our legislature, but I especially like to talk to you
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folks during the so called off season, because I think that there is this
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idea that the men and women of the legislature worker sixty day session and then
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that's it. Uh, most, if not all, the legislators have full
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time jobs outside the legislature and course families and all the other responsibilities. But
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you do a lot of legislative working during the non session months, suit meeting
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with different groups and constituents and stuff. Yes, well, just like yesterday,
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what was yesterday? Third? Yesterday was Wednesday? Yes, thank you?
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After they do. Tuesday afternoon I had my wins say finally free and
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open. I had a few things I was going to be able to work
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on still for the legislature, but I had it open to work on things
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all day, and by late Tuesday, I had had a nine am phone
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call schedule. I had a constituent that had an issue needed to talk to
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me about it, so I got on a phone call with them at nine
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am. Eight am, though, I had another phone call from someone within
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the area also want me to come and visit the the War Memorial Museum at
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Nitro they were having an open house. Went and stopped also. While I
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was there, ended up talking to the fire chief in Nitro because that's although
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he's right outside my district, he covers my district and I needed to talk
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with him about things with the fire bills we just passed. I had to
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go to the capitol for a little while pick up some information that I needed
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for the previous phone call that day. I finally called it quits about five
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pm him and sat down by my fault, by my pond to relax for
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a few minutes. So that was my day off. But I had nothing
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to do, and then you went and did family things after that, you
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know. So the reason and the reason I bring that up is because you
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know, no matter who the legislator legislator is, I think people do have
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a tendency to think, well, you know, they only worked during the
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session. Your phone, and I've known this from several of the state senators
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and delegates, and I'm friends with your phone probably rings more during the non
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session than what it does during the session. And that's what you're here for.
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I mean, that's what you did. That's what you that's what you
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signed up for. A matter of fact, I was talking to one of
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your fellow delegates yesterday. We were having a conversation and he was telling me
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about when he first went into the legislature that he'd had a particularly bad day
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and then he went into the speaker's office and told him about his day,
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and the speaker said, well, you signed up to have days like these.
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Yeah, exactly. It never stops. I have I will wake up
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some mornings and have and see that I have had text messages at three am
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in the morning. Yeah, I mean, it goes all day long,
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all night long. But we are constantly working and working on different things,
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different issues. Lord knows. I'm constantly on the phone with d Oh trying
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to get road issues taken care of and problems. So it's it's not a
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sixty day done kind of thing. It's is all year long. I put
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more hours in than anything. Now, you just wrapped up a special session
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which coincided with interims last week. Your thoughts overall on the special session and
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the interims. It was fast and furious, it's one way to put it.
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Yet, we had forty four bills and out of that I believe we
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passed thirty five of those. Okay, So we took care of some issues
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with corrections. We have more to take care of during next session. We
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took care of some problems with fire volunteer fire depart months. We still have
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some more to do on that next session too. So both of those will
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be worked on on this off time that we supposedly do nothing. So we
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have a lot that we do, and we had a lot that we got
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done during something. What do you think about that? You called it that
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lightning quick session, because there's been people that that have said, you know,
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that maybe it went a little bit too fast, and others said that
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this is what they're supposed to do. What was your overall take on a
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little bit of both. Okay, it was, like I said, it
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was fast and furious, but on the House side, we still took it
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seriously. Our bills were referenced to committees to make sure you know, they
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were what they were supposed to be or if we needed to make any change
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off yes, okay, well it's my watch going on, all right,
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I've just put it on. I'll put it under my legs right there.
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But we sent ours to committees. The only ones that we passed on that
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first day were ones that we had already passed in the previous session, or
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they were some fixes like to the tax the personal property tax code, because
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that's kind of a I want to say it was a mass. It was
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just kind of confusing for a lot of people. I know, Hoppy spent
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several days talking about it, trying to trying to make people understand it.
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And I'll be honest with you, I've listened to Hoppy every day talking about
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I'm not so sure that I still understand you know the way, but hopefully
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we'll be able to get that straight out again. We're talking with Dela get
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Kathy hess Krause here on five eighty Live. You mentioned corrections and also foster
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care. I'll throw that in there. Those are two of the big items
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that seem that seemed to be creating a lot of and we had a lot
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of good things going on in West Virginia right now, We've got a long
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way to go as far as the corrections and the foster care system. Care
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to comment on either one of those and some of the things that you'd like
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to see happen. The foster care system I believe needs a complete, in
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total overhaul. I've had well, I've had three calls this week alone on
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CPS issues, so I need, I know, we need to work with
24:00
CPS and children that are being removed that shouldn't be removed. Maybe they need
24:03
watched over a little bit more, but shouldn't be removed from their homes,
24:08
and then those that do need removed from their homes. We need to figure
24:12
out how to get more foster parents. But there's a big problem there is
24:19
it takes so many hours to get approved for foster care. I had looked
24:23
into it many years ago, but with my husband's full time job and I
24:29
had kids at home at the time, I had all five of mine at
24:32
home at the time, it was impossible to do. I think it was
24:36
probably close to forty hours worth of training and stuff, and I was already
24:41
raising kids. And then some of the special things we had to do around
24:45
our farm that just wasn't cohesive to farm life. It made it difficult.
24:51
So there's a lot of things, a lot of stipulations they put in place
24:55
that I think they could probably change too to enable more people to become foster
25:00
parents to help alleviate that. And then, of course the big thing lead
25:06
into foster care is the drug problem we have. And as much as I
25:10
want to fix that, I'm at a loss on how we go about fixing
25:14
that. At times, it is so bad and it's everywhere, and everybody
25:18
has it that where it has touched their lives one way or there's not a
25:21
person out show that hasn't had somebody that's that's touched their lives. I've told
25:26
you stories people in my family as well, talking with Delna get to Kathy
25:29
Heskrouss. You know, another big economic announcement came out yesterday in an area
25:33
close to where you serve, a major operation going into Mason County. And
25:38
there's a complete story about that available at the website wv metronews dot com.
25:41
But overall, it's more good news for the Mountain state. Looks like,
25:45
yes, it looks like, you know, close to a thousand permanent jobs
25:48
once it's done. Thousands. I think it was like fourth out a little
25:52
over four thousand construction jobs in the process. And it's great for Putnam County
25:57
because we are that wonder full bedroom community and we have quick and easy access
26:03
to Mason County, Cabell County, Kanall County, and we have the we
26:07
have the land for the growth and Putnam County is one of I believe that
26:12
eight growth counties in the state and it's a wonderful county to live in.
26:19
I grew up here in Kanall County, moved to Puttnham twenty two years ago,
26:22
and I know I'll never move out. That's where everybody should come live.
26:27
You're like a part time employee the Chamber of Commerce there exactly. But
26:32
you know I'm gonna ask you this question too. Why do you think the
26:34
Republicans are just dominating the political landscape in West Virginia. I mean, because
26:38
you and I are both old enough to remember when it wasn't that way,
26:41
when the Democrats ruled West Virginia for well over eighty years, and now we've
26:45
done a complete flip on that. Why, in your opinion, is the
26:48
conservative message resonating so well with voters. I think it's because West Virginia always
26:55
had those conservative values and the left has went so far left. They are
27:02
out there with the transgender surgeries and transitions, you just name it. And
27:08
the left is so far out there that those who just cannot look at that
27:15
side and say, you know, I agree with that, They just they
27:18
can't do that, and they want what the conservatives have and what we're doing
27:23
and what we stand for. We're bringing in jobs, we're bringing in money,
27:27
we're making the state better, and they look at that and they can
27:32
see that we've made some great changes over the last what almost ten years we've
27:37
been in control. It's been slow at times, but we've got eighty three
27:41
years to clean up. So but I think people are really seeing that we've
27:47
brought in just in the last two years, thousands of permanent jobs once more
27:52
and more and more comings, you know. And again I think one of
27:56
the one of the keys to that is, and if you need an indicator
27:59
of that, is the number of people that are running on the Republican side
28:03
for all of these positions. You know, I mean, for for governor,
28:06
we've got what three running for Secretary of State, We've got three candidates
28:11
for that, a Republicans running for attorney general, just to name a few
28:15
other races, let alone local you've got county officials that are switching. And
28:18
you can get into okay, why are they switching. You know, there's
28:22
doing it, you know, for for political gain or whatever. But this
28:25
time twenty years ago, to think, okay, we have this many Republicans
28:30
running for governor, you know, would have been almost usually one two maybe
28:36
and that was that. That was the Democrats. And of course you know
28:40
there's you got a field of five or six and you know, only only
28:42
one or two probably have got a legitimate shot. But but my point is
28:47
is that that would have been unheard of years ago to have that many Republicans,
28:52
and it just it just goes to show that I think that the you
28:56
know, and I had the debate between Mike Pushkin and Tony Hodge a couple
28:59
of days ago on the show. I thought it actually went pretty well,
29:02
but the Democratic message, and Mike even admitted I'm not trying to put organism.
29:07
I even admitted that, you know that maybe the Republicans have done a
29:10
little bit better job with messaging and tying as you just did as tying the
29:15
Democrats to the National Democratic Party. So it's kind of where we are.
29:19
You and the others in the House are up for re election next year.
29:23
I've heard were heard rumors that there could be others that will be seeking your
29:27
office on the Republican side, which goes kind of what I was just talking
29:30
about it. I know you and your attitude just bring it on. But
29:34
thoughts on the future for Kathy has Crist What are you going? What are
29:37
you doing? What are you doing? I am running again. I have
29:40
a campaign kickoff scheduled for next month. I'm staying in my seat I'm not
29:45
moving up. I'm not trying for another office. I love representing Putnam County.
29:51
I love the people there, and I'm going to continue to stay there.
29:53
And if anybody thinks they can outwork me, they have another thing coming.
30:00
I will say this, Not everybody will agree with you, but I
30:03
don't think anybody would ever ever accuse you of not working for the people.
30:07
I will say that regardless of your political ideology. Texas Dave A delicate.
30:11
Krauss's husband, Mark is arguably the most talented pinball and video arcade restorationist in
30:17
West Virginia. Any chance we could get a pin bought pinball and miss pac
30:22
Man under the Gold Dome. It cutn't hurt. And I know your husband,
30:25
Mark, I had no idea we want to talk about that. Oh
30:27
yeah. He restores old pinball machines. It is his love and passion.
30:33
And I've actually thought about a couple of times do I put one of them
30:36
in my office at the Capitol, But it stays so full any way of
30:40
people. I would just imagine if I had a couple of pinball machines in
30:42
there. Well, it's probably been worse things under the Capitol Dome. Over
30:45
the years. So then I'll get to Kathy. Heats crossed. It's always
30:48
a pleasure to talk to you. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot,
30:51
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Connectics of Huntington and Cross Lanes, Texas, the governor could start by appointing
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Director of Drug Control Policy. It's been eight months. Tex says Delegate Krause
34:16
works very hard for her district. Putnam County is thankful to have someone who
34:21
works very hard like Kathy. Texas says slow pitch, softball pitiful. I
34:28
guess that's part of my fan club there, Texas, dave, I'm an
34:30
independent voter. Don't know what part of your guest is from the problem I've
34:35
had with legislators with social issues. Leave people alone and stop running people out
34:38
of our state. Kathy has Krouss as a Republican to the core. All
34:43
right, we'll try to get some more of their sex a little bit later
34:45
on Spring in the Superintendent of Kannon County Schools Doctor Tom Williams. Doctor Williams,
34:47
good morning, how are you. I'm fine. Thanks, thanks for
34:51
having me, Thank you for being here. It's the most wonderful time of
34:52
the year. It's talking about back to school time. I know you're looking
34:55
forward to it. Absolutely. How could you not be excited about the first
35:00
stay of school. I think this is my fifty eighth first day of us.
35:05
It's an exciting time, indeed, it is. Do you still get
35:08
butterflies on opening day? Doctor Williams? Absolutely? I mean the kids coming
35:14
to school, the kids coming back to us. It's just an exciting time.
35:17
And to see the smiles on their faces and know that they're going to
35:22
get a good education and be productive citizens. It's just it's a good feeling.
35:27
Nothing's better than working with kids, doctor Williams. We've all heard about
35:30
the difficulty in finding bodies to fill the various positions in the school system,
35:34
not only here, but literally across the country. How are we looking in
35:37
Kanaw County Sir, all of our all of our classrooms are staffed. We
35:43
some of them have long term subs in there. We are short a few
35:45
bus drivers and a couple aids, and some cooks and custodians. But you
35:51
know, anyone wants a job in Kanall County. And I'll have to disagree
35:54
with the lady who spoke earlier. I think Kanall County is the greatest place
35:59
to live. I was born and raised here and still am here. But
36:01
anyway, we have jobs available. If you're interested, you need to contact
36:07
our Human resource office and we'll be happy to take your application and see if
36:12
we can place you somewhere. Of course, a lot of buzz superintended this
36:15
school year in Kanaw County has to do with the opening of the all new
36:19
Herbert Hoover High School following the devastationary of the floods of twenty sixteen. Brand
36:22
new school, Sir, state of the art facility and a guy named Brad
36:25
Paisley coming to town to this Saturday night are pretty exciting times, Aaron elk
36:30
River, Yes, it really is. And you know, the folks up
36:32
there have been so patient and so kind, and we've been working with FEMA
36:37
for the last seven years. And I have to thank our local politicians,
36:43
the governor's office as well as our senators and the County Commission that have helped
36:47
us through the way. But it's opening Saturday. It's one hundred and eighty
36:52
five thousand square feet with another twenty thousand square feet of athletic facilities, and
36:59
the kids up there absolutely deserve this. It looks it reminds me of like
37:02
a college campus. Everything is right there, uh ninety acres of education going
37:09
on. It's just incredible to see. And when I had earlier in the
37:15
week Superintendent on Monday, I had the football coach of the Huskies, U
37:19
Joey Fields, and also had their principal, Mike Kelly, on the show.
37:22
And the principal, Kelly, if I heard him, correctly, said
37:23
that despite all that those students had to go through, those high school students
37:28
are at Herbert Hoover High School. They were in in the in the modular
37:31
type buildings, and you know, and and the sports you know, were
37:35
a mess as far as you know, trying to find practice facilities things of
37:37
that nature. And the kids in the classrooms as well, their their academic
37:42
scores actually went up they did, and Herbert Hoover is twelfth in the state
37:46
among high schools as far as their academics, you know, they're standardized SAT
37:52
tests, so we're very proud of them. And uh, mister Kelly does
37:57
a wonderful job. His first focus is all has always been students first.
38:02
Education first, So we've got to educate the kids. And they've got several
38:07
wonderful programs up there that do that. Anything from academics to help you on
38:13
in college to career technical skills, they've got it at Herbert Hoover. Doctor
38:19
Williams, I know you're really busy, so we'll have kind of cut this
38:21
short, but I didn't want to get this in there. As we begin
38:23
the new school year here in Kana County tomorrow. I know that I saw
38:28
a little press coverage of you and Sheriff Rutherford and others talking about slowing down
38:31
in the school zones and things of that nature. Is there anything else that
38:36
parents or grandparents should be doing there with the youngsters are getting ready for school,
38:42
anything they should be able to lookout for this year? What do you
38:44
see any advice? I guess is what I'm looking for for parents or grandparents.
38:47
I think that they need to make sure their kids get a good night's
38:51
sleep every night. They need to make sure that their children are well fed.
38:54
Are we will be feeding three again, all of our students in Kina
38:59
County for breakfast lunch. But I think just keep up with their school work
39:02
and make sure they get to school every day. You know, a child
39:07
wakes up sometimes and they've got a stomach ache or whatever. But the rule
39:09
in my house was if you don't have a fever, you're going to school.
39:13
Yeah, that's the way it was in my house too. This headache
39:15
stuff doesn't cover it, absolutely not. We can't educate them if they're not
39:19
there well. And what it does, sir is, and this is a
39:21
show for probably another time, is it sets them up for when they enter
39:23
the workforce later on. And you you know, you can't call in sick
39:29
because you have a headache or because you have a stomach ache. And that's
39:31
I think the earlier you teach kids at the better. Would you agree,
39:35
Absolutely, would agree. And that's what we call sauce skills. And those
39:38
are some of the things that are really important. You've got to be in
39:40
school on time and be ready to work because that's a job skill. Be
39:46
at your job one time and ready to work well. Superintendent Doctor Tom Williams.
39:50
I appreciate you and your staff are making you available to us this morning
39:54
again the day before. You get a lot going on. Best of luck.
39:58
We hope you and your team and the person I knowed all the schools
40:00
from the bus drivers, the cook's teachers, maintenance on down. Everybody has
40:02
a great school year and we will talk soon. Thanks a lot, sir,
40:06
all right, I appreciate it. You have a good day as well.
40:07
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Lineup starts at two right in front of the station here eleven eleven Virginia
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it today, so hope you can bring you down. And again we're limited
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come on out and join us for that today. Tex says, going back
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to Kathy Kraus, don't let this radical Crous lie there are no transgender surgeries
42:13
for kids. Also, she doesn't have the integrity to admit jobs are coming
42:16
to West Virginia because of federal money. I'm done, says a texture with
42:21
bad faith Republicans. Texas Krous is another right to life fraud. All life
42:25
is precious unless it means I have to wear a mask or get a vaccine.
42:30
In that case, anyone I may infect can just die because I can't
42:34
be inconvenience. Textu says social workers for foster care need paid better. How
42:38
many and what kind of workers do the legislators expect to get for sub thirty
42:44
thousand dollars a year wages? Texas, We have to put some real money
42:50
into foster care. Doing away with the standards and oversight doesn't work. Foster
42:52
families haven't had a raise in ten years. Legislative leadership doesn't want to spend
42:58
money on our children, Texas. Why are the taxpayers footing the school lunch
43:04
bill for middle class, upper middle class at upper class students. Let's see
43:08
reference to what doctor Williams told us there about free lunch is being available for
43:13
Kna County schools, Texas. Dave delicate, Cathy Kraus is cool. I'm
43:20
not even in her district, and she took my phone called multiple times when
43:22
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It's football season's right? Oh yeah, absolutely a week from today. Yeah,
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Hard Knocks. I've watched episode two yet, I've just watched episode one.
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I'm gonna catch up on episode two. Probably at some point over the weekend.
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You are getting together with a couple of hundred of your closest friends tonight
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at Buffalo Wild Wings Across Lanes. Talk about it, man, It's gonna
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be a great time tonight between six pm and seven thirty pm. It's while
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he's in Wimpy's Night at Buffalo Wild Wings and Cross Lanes. And I'm gonna
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be giving away a pair of tickets to the West Virginia University home opener against
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Duquane and also a pair of tickets to Marshall's home opener when they play Albany.
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So that's on the September two. WVU starts on the road, they
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come back to the ninth, so home openers for both Marshall on w you
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can win some tickets tonight about the Mountaineers and Penn State. That's a renewal
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of an old rivalry playing up in Happy Valley. What do you think about
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that? Well, you know, the line is going to be double digits
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in not in West Virginia's favor, but here in the last couple of weeks
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there's been people talking about WVU Maven pull the upset, So it's gonna be
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interesting. You never know, I mean the first game of the season,
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but I do know that's a really tough environment to walk into State. It's
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not happy, It's it's not appropriately named Happy Valley. It's not for the
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opponents. When you think about the quarterback situation WV. You know, I've
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heard some good things about Garrett Greene. I think he probably has improved.
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He showed some signs, some glimpses in the time that he's been on field,
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and you know, I think primarily he's been known as a runner or
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a kind of an option guy or maybe a versatile athlete kind of guy.
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But I'm getting reports that his arm has improved. So and they really like
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their new receiver corps, so you never know, and they already have a
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pretty good Running Game and C. J. Donaldson. So if they get
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the defense shored up in Morgantown, they may not be as bad as people
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predict them, at least not last in the Big twelve. Will it be
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enough to save Neil Brown's job? Oh, that's the tough question. If
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it was not year six, it would be a little easier to say,
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yes, he'll probably stick around. But the fact that you know he's that
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deep into it that people who have been trusting the time for so long,
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I don't know that you know his favors are running out. I believe five
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trying to do here? Man? I'm seeing these little glimpses, a little
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hints on social media that's trying to become the next day Alan. Here I'm
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trying to I'm trying to become a multi media star. What's up with that?
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I don't know about star, but you know I've I'm just overwhelmed with
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ideas of things that I should do. It could do when you grow up,
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when I grow up exactly. I don't know that that's ever gonna happen,
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but you know, I've I've had a lot of interest outside of sports.
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It will have some sports, but it's gonna be like a podcast or
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something. You're knowing. I don't use that word, but it's gonna be
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an online show show. You'll be able to listen to it at your leisure.
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Uh huh and uh it's I'm really excited about it. So when we
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when? When can we expect to know more? Because you've been teasing this
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thing, you know, in the next couple of weeks, a couple of
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weeks. It's gonna Do you ever need a sidekick? I got, I
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got tons of time on my hands. Man, I'll tell you I want
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you in there as often as you want to be there. I gotta bring
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Ryan, my producer. Is that Okay? Absolutely? Come on, Ryan,
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all right, let's do it. How many years is Waly and Whippy
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has been in existence? This is my sixth season that I since I took
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it over as a sports digest. It was Wally's and Whimpy's Football Digest by
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light point publishing for nearly thirty years. I'm thinking this is like the thirty
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fifth year and people love it. Oh, I mean pick one up there.
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I mean they're available in all your local Parmer stores among other places.
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Yeah, I get that a lot. We just need to get out there
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and get it out there in people's hands. But they can also subscribe online
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to get the digital edition, which is that's kind of new Wally's and Whimpy
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Wally Wimpey sports dot com for information how to subscribe to that or where to
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pick it up, and you can always pick them up at Palmer's store.
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All right, let's talk about the big event tonight. Let's wrap it up
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Cross Lanes, Buffalo Wild while he's in Whippy's Night, come on out six
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to seven thirty and Buffalo Wild, Wings and Cross Lanes love to have you
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out, all right, Jim is always pleasure to talk to you. Coming
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up on tomorrow's show, guest host Andy Bernhardt. She's the morning news anchor,
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one of them from w w k TV thirteen. She'll be with us
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tomorrow, Hannah Gardner with our adot me please pet of the Week. And
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also we're gonna talk about live on the levee. But we're also gonna talk
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Tomorrowight's the last night for Live on the Levy. We'll talk about South Charleston,
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Summer FETs two. It's all coming up on the show tomorrow. Loading
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up Show, Jim. We'll see tonight at Buffalo Wild Wings. Till tomorrow.
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