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11/09/2023 The Dave Allen Show - Joe Stevens, Tim Minturn, Fred Persinger, Mayor Amy Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Tom Minturn is going to join us, hopefully a little bit later on
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the show, and I'll explain why it's hopefully a little bit later on.
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Plus, Veterans Day is being observed all kinds of activities going on in the
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area of the next couple of days, and we're going to get into those
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five zero zero A want to bring in Joe stevens Now from the Nitro Convention
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and Visitors Bureau. Joe, good morning, how are you, sir?
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I am doing that Dave and I am so impressed with your ability to do
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the beginning of the show without taking a breath. Well you are. You
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are the true definition of a professional pronuncticator. Yeah, something like that.
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Fancy as someone once called me, fancy out loud talker. So so there
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you go. First of all, I want to say, Joe, thank
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you for allowing me to serve as a judge for the UH for the for
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the Chili Cookoff last Saturday. You mayor case bolt everyone of the city of
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Nitro. It was a great time. I think the exact title. If
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I get this wrong, correct me. The Wagon Wagon Tails of Nitro als
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Chili Cookoff and beer Fast. Did I get it right? You're in the
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neighborhood, okay, as long as you had a good time and you were
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in the neighborhood. As a patter, I was in the neighborhood, I
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was, But yeah, I had a great opportunity to come down there and
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to sample the different chilis and helping some of the judges. So thank you
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for that. All right, So let's talk Veterans Day. You know,
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no town does more for its veterans to honor them, in my opinion,
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than the town that was based founded during World War One as a gun powder
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manufacturing center in Nitro. Two big events happening, Joe, talk about it.
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Well, we, like you said, we are a city that really
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respect rescuse me, respects and honors our veterans and the time they served and
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making sure we have each day in front of us the way we do and
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we will have. We we annually have two ceremonies. We have a the
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Nitro Memorial War Memorial Flag Court down on Bank Street, and on Friday tomorrow
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we will be having our annual celebration ceremony starting at about five o'clock. We
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bring in a keynote speaker and this year we're having a special honor for one
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of our local residents. So that is tomorrow and we'll get into detail on
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that, and then we lower the flags on Friday at the flag Court.
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Then on Saturday morning we gather again at seven point thirty for a minor flag
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ceremony. But the larger of the two ceremonies will be tomorrow at five o'clock.
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And again, as I said, I mean, they're not not to
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slight any of the other communities, because I know that all the communities really
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come out for Veterans Day as well. We should some have already had theirs.
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I know Elver in Putnam County. I think that they had their big
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celebration last weekend, and hats off to those folks. But again, Nitro
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is one. I think that just kind of takes it to a whole other
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level. I want to talk about your keynote speaker, Major Mara Boggs for
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a moment. I've known her for some time. I've done different events with
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her over the years. She's really something else Jo. She is one of
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the special ladies of special people in this community. She steps up whenever things
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need to be done. She is currently Maria is currently the state director for
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US Senator Joe Manchin. Also, she is also the mother of the second
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place Bella Bogs, who came in say in place in the state cross country
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championship running for Charleston Catholic. So let's put that out in the front and
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congratulations to Bella. She's a very superb runner. But with that said,
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her mother, Mara is an Army veteran. She was the first woman to
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command an engineering airborne unit into combat in the US Army. Her unit was
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two to five. I mean her unit of twenty two hundred and twenty five
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soldiers. Rather, they performed eight hundred combat missions, earned the Army's annual
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award for Best Engineering Group. But most importantly, all two hundred and twenty
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five soldiers returned home safely. The retired Major Bobs served thirteen years in the
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eighty second Airborne Division and First calv and received a number of honors and against.
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She is going to be speaking tomorrow our keynote speaker, and her talk,
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her speech is going to be on the role of women in the military.
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Throughout the years, we always stepped forward through what we think of the
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military being very male dominant, but the role of the women have been very,
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very important in the Armed services across the board. And I believe Mara
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will step up and explain just the role of women in the military and we're
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looking forward to it. And again we're talking with Joe Stevens from the Nitro
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Convention and Visitors Bureau about there really their two day celebration of veterans that's going
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to be going on, and you said there's some other special recognitions that are
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going to be going on as part of the celebrations as well. David,
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we have a local resident. His name is Robert Bob Denny. He is
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ninety six years old and he is a World War Two veteran. He served
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in the Navy. He was a Machinist Mate third class. He served on
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the USS Marquette, which this was one of those ships that loaded the landing
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barges when there was invasions on the beach or something and the landing crafts that
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went into the beach. His ship was the one that was transporting these and
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he served in the Pacific. He served in the Navy and from nineteen forty
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four to nineteen forty six. And he was we're going to be honoring him,
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but he was sharing this story and you just never know where you're going
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to be when history is being made. And he was explaining to me that
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they had gone through the Panama Canal and they were headed towards Pearl Harbor,
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and actually his ship was going to be and they knew this. The ship
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was going to be involved in the invasion, the eventual invasion of Japan,
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the homeland of Japan, And as they were traveling through the Pacific Ocean,
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word came of the dropping of the first and then second atomic bombs and they
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and the evasion was not then needed. And but he was saying that they
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were on the ship and they got the word from the captain of the ship
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that the bombs had been dropped. So again, you never know where you're
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going to be when history is being made. But he is going to be
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honored by the State Senate. Senator State Senator Glenn Jeffries will be having a
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proclamation for mister Denny. Then also we will be presenting him a flag.
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Mara Boggs will be presenting him a flag that was flown over the US capital
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and that's being presented on behalf of Senator Joe mansion. But it's just a
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way to honor a local hero. I mean, mister Denny put his time
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in and served us well. And I can tell you as time marches on,
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Joe, and you'll know all well about that, as I do.
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When I was a kid, there were were two veterans everywhere, including my
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grandfather, and now sadly because of the march of time. As I said,
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I mean, this gentleman's ninety six years old, and you wished it
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you could have sat down and possibly I know I didn't and talk to my
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grandfather more about it, and that's that's just part of it. So,
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I mean there's a reason why that I think it was. Tom Brokaw called
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him the greatest generation because they definitely were. There's so many different ways in
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the area, not only in Nitro but other areas as well that you can
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honor veterans. So even if you can't make Nitro go to one of these,
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go to as many of them as you can. And you heard me
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tell the story Joe on the show before. You know, my father I
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did not serve in the military. My father did. He was decorated Vietnam
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era veteran who actually served in Vietnam and literally gave his life for the country
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because he died from his exposure to agent orange. And so it's kind of
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personal, you know, for me, a little bit like it is for
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a lot of other people. And Dave, you know, I think Charleston
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has a ceremony on Saturday. Saint Albans had a parade last week. The
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city of Ripley be having a parade, and they do a fantastic job in
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Jackson County there with a Veterans Day parade. But you're right, a number
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of communities throughout West Virginia will be celebrating the veterans. But I would like
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to remind everybody that the Nitro History and Wars Museum located on twentieth Street in
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Nitro, Don just all the volunteers over there have done an awesome job and
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deplicting and bringing back memorabilia on all the wars from World War One, world
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War Two, any conflict that the US was in. There is memorabilia there.
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But most importantly, it is now the final resting area place for the
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Vietnam War Memorial, and we've had a lot of people stop by. You
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know, quite a few West Virginians died in the Vietnam War and their names
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are etched in the war memorial. But that is open daily from noon to
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for every Monday through Friday. So if people coming to the ceremony tomorrow,
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they can also go over and visit the Wars Museum and maybe see somebody a
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relative that we have honored in the museum. Joe, It's always a pleasure
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to talk to you again. Joe Steven's Niger Convention and Visitor Bureau. Information
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is available on the city's Facebook page. Again, just hit us with the
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times of the two events. Again, Okay, Friday, the event will
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get underway, and I've gotten a weather report from the one and only Spencer
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Akins WWKTV, and he says the rain will be out of the area between
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two and three, so we will be good for the five o'clock ceremony right
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there at twentieth and Mank Street at the flag court that we have on First
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Avenue there and then that's at five o'clock. And then Saturday morning we'll have
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a minor celebration with the flags at seven point thirty. David, all right,
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and again all the information is available on the city's Facebook page. Joe,
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it's always a pleasure to talk to you. My friend will talk soon.
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this week. We got big news to get to which a big story breaking
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late last night that Man and Meal and Charleston will no longer be doing food
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distributions. Their food trucks are still out and about, but not at the
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church on Courrier Street, and we're going to talk to the mayor about that.
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Also, she's going to be talking about this Caski project as well,
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the former Seiers location. A big, big happenings there. There's always big
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happenings when this guy's here. Fred Pursinger, the voice of high school sports
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in West Virginia. How are you? I'm well, sir, how are
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you? I am doing fine? Loaded up show today, But there's always
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time for sir Frederick. Well, you know anything I can do to help
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you out, David, I'm here for you. I appreciate that. High
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school football playoffs. It is time. It is time once again quick plug
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for the two games we have this weekend. Tomorrow night to Chris, Jarrett
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and Matt we'll be a hurricane for the Redskins in Parkersburg and then Saturday afternoon
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it's East Fairmont As they'll be taking on the Herbert Hoover Huskies. Both fred
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should be good games. Oh, I think they will be good. You
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know, I'm you keep looking at the Herbert Hoover Last year they finished certainly
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as the number nine seed, just like this year, and they made it
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all the weight of wheeling and talk with Joey Fields on our High School Sports
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Line show last night, and he says, hey, if this is the
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way you have to do it, let's do it. So they also lost
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their first two games last year. They lost the first two games this year,
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so we'll see. But East Fairmont has an outstanding football team led by
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IRV Krik Shanks who is the quarterback, Don Fantasia as or running back.
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So Joey Fields knows he'll have his hands full. Yeah, it should be
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a couple of great contests. And again we have coverage tomorrow night and also
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on Saturday afternoon of that second and we'll talk about some of the other areas
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teams in the playoffs. Fred Winfield faces Lewis County Friday night DOUBLEA. You
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got Nitro playing host Scott Saturday afternoon. That's Scott Skyhawks team. Man,
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they just absolutely had been killing it this season. Then we got tripa a
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Friday night Cable Midland The Muscleman also Friday night gw and Bridgeport and Huntington facing
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Morgantown. Some really good games on tap Rid always are well. You get
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to the field of sixteen in each class and every game really should be good.
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I mean, you know you're getting the sixteen best teams. At least
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the sixteen best teams have played the best during the regular season. And you
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know you mentioned the Scott game and Nitro. Scott was rolling along, like
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you said, undefeated until last week, and then last week they met Nitro
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at Nitro and Natro beat them. So it's a week of an upset.
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Was that in your opinion or was it an upset at all? It was
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an upset, no doubt, undefeated team and really Matt Fry, the quarterback
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for Scott, had just been doing everything perfectly. But we knew that Nitro
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they got quite a few additional players through through the transfer portal or whatever you
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want to call that thing. So Nitro has been good, no doubt,
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and good for them, but I think Scott got the wake up call they
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needed. That'll be a heck of a ballgame, that one. You flip
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a coin, because you know they just met last week. Their meeting again
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this week in Nightro. Figures they stole one at Nightro. Now they got
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to go to Scott, so we'll see what happened. And it's always an
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interesting phenomenon that did you have that really football is really the only one that
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really has that where you meet a team on Friday night and you turn right
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around to play the next Friday or Saturday. Yeah, we have six six
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six games where they met during the regular season, the two teams, but
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this one is certainly the closest. And that was just a week ago.
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Yeah, exactly. And at this point, Fred, as a coach,
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you're I guess you're looking at your players and you're saying, it doesn't matter
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that you won all those games in the regular season or you knocked off your
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crosstown or cross country rivals, because it's a brand new season. Everyone pretty
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much, Fred starts at zero and zero right now, no doubt ed.
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But you know every week a coach will tell you, well, that's just
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one game on the schedule, that's our next game. But time that's that's
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a fact. It's the next game because if you lose this one, your
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season is over. So it is a very very important game. And just
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because you know you're the top seed or a higher seed doesn't mean you're gonna
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win. That's for sorrying. Yeah, what are some of the other games
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outsider area that you're looking at? I think really we got a real good
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game going on over in the Eastern Panhandle tomorrow night, and that's going to
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be Spring Valley at spring Mills. Spring Valley started the season oh to four
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and they have not lost since then. They've won six in a row.
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They're six and four. Going to spring Mills or yeah, spring Mills,
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I said, I think I did that right. Okay, spring Mills eating
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to spring Mills. And the Cardinals are very very good this year, the
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number seven seed. They lost twice during the race of season, one of
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those to Martinsburg. I think that's going to be a really, really good
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When Wheeling Park is playing maybe some of the best football in the state,
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they go to Jefferson, so that's a long trip. I think George Washington
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and Bridgeport g W goes to Bridgeport, Bridgeport at Wayne Jamison Field. They're
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always always good. But the being that GW put on Beckley the last game
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of the regular season proves they can score some points. And Aid Fenwick is
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as good a quarterback as there is in the state. So I think that
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will be a good one as well. Man, it's exciting, it's a
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love time. It's a great time. The countdown to Wheeling is on.
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It's on the Road to the Super Six is on, all right, and
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after the games, of course, just like during the regular season, you
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and Dave Jacqueline, the cast of thousands will have Metro News game night,
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we will indeed, there's three more game nights and we start a new show
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coming up Sunday night. It's a show that we've been doing for the last
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three years. On Sunday Night. We take the last hour of the sports
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line from eight or from seven until eight, called the Road to the Super
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Six, and we'll review what happened and take a look at what will happen
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the next week, because we'll have all the pairings by Sunday night. And
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of course in the middle of all this, we've got college football this weekend
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too, with both the West Virginia Marshall, I know you'll be part of
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the Mountaineer coverage as well. Mountaineer's at Oklahoma, and you know Oklahoma the
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last year of West Virginia welcomed to Oklahoma to Michael push Card Stadium suitors.
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Siters have lost two in a row, but West Virginia will have to bring
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their eight plus game and Marshall. Marshall just needs to win. I mean
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they need to win bad. I know there are last time I look like
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a three point favorite, but this is no pushover game tomorrow and or Saturday
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night. So well, and this is the seventy five games, which it
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means a lot, and it does. I mean, you kind of wrap
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it up, but I tell you, I don't want to spend I don't
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want to talk high school or college football that much. But I will say
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this as a thundering herd guy, somebody spends a lot of time in Huntington.
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It's been extremely difficult last couple of weeks. Five in a row,
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now five in a row. Yeah, and third it out, oh four
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and oh and with the you know, the way we played against Virginia Tech
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and with the victory, and of course going back to last season with Notre
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Dame. I don't there's a lot of questions coming out of coming out of
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the Jewel City right now, no doubt. And I think it starts at
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the quarterback. Is Fancellor the guy? I don't know. I think Pennington's
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a little too young still yet prove that. He proved it. So you
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know, you got to go with what you have, all right. You
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will see Charles. That's a good coach, all right, Fred. As
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always we'll be listening of course our coverage. We have the two games,
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we have one Friday night and one Saturday afternoon, and then after the games
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on Friday night we'll be listening to you and mister Jacklin and the entire crew,
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and we'll be listening on Sunday night as well. Go to work man,
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well well, you know, and for somebody that just got out of the
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dental chair, you sound pretty good. Yeah, yeah, they didn't no
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numming, no number. That was a yeah, that would have been kind
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of messy trying to talk on the radio, for sure. I said that
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Tom mentor or not. I didn't explain to the folks why you were actually
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in the dental chair this morning. You said, I hope to be done
24:07
by round nine twenty nine thirty. I'm glad it was able to work out
24:10
all right. So I had you on a couple of weeks ago to talk
24:11
about temporary closing to the South Ridge location of a Chick fil A for the
24:17
remodeling. Happy to report you guys are back. We're back. We're open.
24:21
We're open six thirty then nine thirty Monday, two Thursday, and six
24:25
thirty to ten on Friday and Saturday seven breakfast catering. You got it.
24:30
We're wide open, ready to roll. What will people see differently Tom when
24:33
they come in. That's a great question. What we did our drive through
24:37
We have the drive through door like we have at the corkorle Avenue, so
24:42
that's one thing. And then our dining room. We don't have a playground
24:48
lookout, so that you'll probably be getting some comments on that one on your
24:51
Facebook page or I will be one of us for both the no playgrounds and
24:56
then we just have our seating. It's more open, all new tile.
25:00
I mean, they we had as a major project because as they had to
25:04
run some drains and run some different you know, do a lot of they
25:08
they had to dig up the part of the foundation to be able to do
25:11
all this stuff. So it's crazy. But yeah, we're go ahead.
25:15
No, no, don't go ahead. And I was I was just taking
25:17
a breath. Go ahead, got it? Okay, I'll say yes,
25:19
And so uh, this we'll have. We're getting new dining furniture as well.
25:25
So it's just a lot of new things. It's basically as a face
25:27
list. I mean it was really it was all in on the inside.
25:30
When you come in, you will you'll know it's Chick fil A, but
25:33
you're not going to recognize it as the old tick fil A that you used
25:36
to come to. And Tom, when you were on the show to me
25:37
a couple of weeks ago, you said it had been how long has there
25:40
been any kind of major remodeling there? Any kind of remodeling. They have
25:44
been about five years okay, So, which which is kind of a lifetime
25:48
in the world of what you do those type of establishments, because I mean
25:51
you're constantly nationwide, whether it's you or one of the other ones. I
25:53
mean, you're constantly coming out with new things. And I know how because
25:56
I got friends that that that that are like you, that that known those
26:00
places, and they're kind of like, go out. You know, corporate
26:02
office is always saying we need to do this, and we need to do
26:03
that. I want to talk about the scheduling a little bit before we let
26:07
you go. How did the scheduling work out for you guys, because sometimes
26:10
you can set a goal with these types of projects and they'll finish right on
26:12
time, and then sometimes they're ahead of scheduling. Sometimes they're they're way behind.
26:18
Where was this one, Tom? It was right on schedule and now
26:22
originally told us two weeks and then I got a phone call halfway through the
26:25
project and they said, hey, I'm we messed up in telling you the
26:27
scope. The scope of this work will take three weeks. So so it
26:32
was right on time. You know, we had planned for two weeks.
26:34
And one question I was asked multiple times last time, which I thought we
26:37
talked about, but I guess I wasn't clear enough. Is what do we
26:41
do as a people who worked at south Ridge? Just to make sure everybody
26:44
knows, nobody got laid off. Everybody came to work in a corcal some
26:48
of them took a little bit of vacation time, but nobody got laid off.
26:49
Everybody got paid, everybody still had a job. We didn't just there's
26:55
basically too bad on you, especially right before Christmas. I mean, you
26:57
know, we want to be a carrying We do our best to make sure
27:00
we take care of our team members. So I was asked that multiple times.
27:07
So I want to make sure we're really clear that everybody who's taken care
27:10
of, everybody can have Christmas. Yes, absolutely, Hey, Tom,
27:12
I appreciate you rolling out of that dentist chair without numbing this morning to come
27:17
on the show to tell us about the upgrades and the remodeling. It's all
27:21
over. You're done now, you're ready to see the people as we head
27:23
into what I would think would be one of the busiest times a year.
27:26
Fore you folks out there at south Ridge. Yes, yes, it's a
27:29
very busy, very busy season, our catering season really ramps up everybody for
27:34
all the Christmas parties, Thanksgiving parties, office parties, our catering really rams
27:38
up. And so as I say that, they we're looking for more great
27:44
team members. And one of the things that people will ask us all the
27:47
time, you know, is what do we offer? You know? So
27:48
we offer full benefits, We offer four one K profit sharing pension and for
27:52
a quick service restent. You don't hear that? So yeah, Okay,
27:56
where do people if they're interested in applying for a job at Chick fil A,
28:00
how do they do that? What's the process? It's really easy.
28:03
Just go to KVCFA dot com. It's for Canall Valley Chick fil A dot
28:07
com, butt KVCFA dot com. Go there and you can pick your store
28:12
and go apply where you ever you want to apply. And that's one of
28:15
the great things I would think about being in this location because there are a
28:18
few that you said, you're allowed to pick your store before we let you
28:21
guys, do want to do one thing? Give you a chance to plug
28:23
that catering because this is the time, as you said, with holiday parties
28:26
and summer in office and summer at private locations. How does that process work.
28:30
How do people get on the schedule to have their events cater by Chick
28:33
fil A. That's a great question. It's actually a very simple process.
28:37
You can you can always call in our number three oh four, two O
28:41
five fifty eight twenty nine, or just go to kbcfa dot com. And
28:45
the one thing about it is a lot of times you get out of Hey,
28:48
y'all do kating for breakfast? Yeah, we cater breakfast, lunch,
28:51
and dinner. We do box mills. We have nugget trades, chicken chip
28:53
trades, and one of my all time favorites that people don't know about is
28:57
we have the mac and cheese trade. And there is nothing better. If
29:00
you want to take something that will be game changing to Thanksgiving dinner, bring
29:06
some mac and cheese and some galls of sweet tea and lemonade and you'll be
29:08
the MVP of your Thanksgiving dinner. Well, I'll tell you people heard me
29:11
talk about this. I was at the mac and Cheese cookoff this past weekend
29:17
at Capital Market. I judged thirty two different kinds of mac and cheese.
29:21
I'm good on the mac and cheese for just a little while myself personally,
29:23
okay, give me till next week and I'll be good to go. Okay,
29:27
all right, Tom, I appreciate you being on the show Man.
29:30
Thanks a lot. We'll talk soon, please, Thanks Dave, thank you
29:33
for having me on. Yeah. Absolutely, Tom mentored again from Chick fil
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Goodwin back with us again. How are you? Good morning? This is
33:08
great? What are you doing tomorrow? I'll be here, No, actually
33:12
tomorrow. It is like fun Friday, right, yeah, Friday Fun.
33:15
Morgan Morrison is gonna be my guest host City Okay, yeah, I'd pick
33:19
her. Yeah, Morgan Morrison will be on the show tomorrow. Actually,
33:22
I texted her earlier in the week. I have a new sweatshirt that I
33:25
purchased for the holiday season, and it says holly Jolly mm hmmm for the
33:30
Holly Jolly Brawley event that's coming up. I know Friday I spent a lot
33:35
of time talking about that. I know that I'm friends with her on her
33:37
social media and I saw that she's been posting a lot about that's kind of
33:39
one of her one of her pet projects. Yeah, it's gonna be really
33:42
great. It's gonna be really great. May we got a lot to uncover
33:45
this morning. Thank you again. Well, I had you on earlier this
33:46
week, so we get to double the amy for the price of one for
33:50
the for the amount of money we pay you to come in here. I'm
33:52
kidding. Don't get that started. I'm just kidding. Absolutely no, no,
33:55
no, no, no, she doesn't even get a T shirt.
33:59
I want to talk about, seriously about the announcement you have today about the
34:01
Caski property, and we'll get to that. But first news broke last night
34:07
that Man and Meal, which operates right across the street from US, would
34:09
be ceasing operations at least temporarily as far as a food distribution site. From
34:14
that location, their food trucks will continue to operate around the city and I'll
34:19
have more on that coming up a little bit later. Now, this all
34:21
comes on the heels of numerous issues. There any comment from your office on
34:24
that, Well, I'll just I'll say this because I think this is the
34:28
most important thing we have had since the time I've been here, and I
34:31
know in the past two a great relationship with Man and Meal. The best
34:37
thing about Man and Mel right now is probably something that most people don't know.
34:39
The best thing they have going for them is a board president Chuck Hamshire
34:45
actually who owns Purple Moon down here. Chuck's been on the show before him.
34:47
He is probably the most incredible community person that I know. But you
34:52
know, it's a good organization. I believe great board members and they know.
34:58
To have a successful organization, just as we all do, you have
35:01
to be flexible. You have to change systems or structures when necessary. And
35:06
you know, after long conversations with lots of folks. By the way,
35:09
Man and Meal, Sacred Heart, the principal Parents, the episcopal dioceses,
35:15
the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, we're included in those conversation
35:22
they're looking to restructure. As a matter of fact, I saw the announcement
35:27
they made when I think everybody else saw it last night of different locations that
35:30
they're going but you know, to go to go backwards. We have been
35:34
working with them and to try to get them a mobile food truck and actually
35:37
we're successful in doing that and securing our funds for Man and Meal to do
35:42
that because you know, taking a page from our care team, we know
35:46
this. We know service is best provided when it's done outreach. You know,
35:51
having it's it's it sounds like it might work. Hey, everybody,
35:55
come here. I am a big believer in if you want to if you
35:59
want to help people and you want to serve people with whatever need that is,
36:01
Dave, you got to go to them. That is the best way.
36:05
It's why actually I went door to door. If you want to talk
36:07
to people and work with people, you've got to meet face to face.
36:09
We learned that over the past couple of years. And you know, quite
36:13
frankly, I'll remind folks that during that COVID time that we had, we
36:19
worked hand in glove with the operations of Man and meal that they didn't serve
36:22
out of their facility, they you know, had to go out and troubleshoot
36:25
and so you know the evolution of that. I think that you know,
36:30
while I wasn't involved in the executive board meeting, I wasn't involved in their
36:32
decisions. I do agree with their decision. I think it's a good decision.
36:37
And you have to look at your structure and say, Okay, what's
36:38
working, what's not working, and how do we do what we do best,
36:44
which is feed people. Okay, great, that will always be Man
36:46
and Maal's mission. You know, there was some you know, I tried
36:49
not to get on social media because most of it is, you know,
36:52
ninety percent incorrect information. What there what you know, rumors, Oh,
36:57
they're shutting them down, the city shutting them down. No, no,
37:00
that's not happening. State that for the record right now. It's Man and
37:04
Meal is not you know, unless that's Manamal's decision to stop serving food to
37:07
folks in our community. That's their mission and by the way, they do
37:12
a good job. And so meals aren't going to stop. Services aren't going
37:15
to stop. As a matter of fact, our care team is already trying
37:17
to troubleshoot, Hey, how may how may we be helpful in this process.
37:22
But rumors that people have out there of the city or the church or
37:27
folks shutting folks down is simply not true. You know what good leadership looks
37:30
like. It looks like Chuck and the board saying, hey, we may
37:34
need to fix some things. Let's work together with the city, Let's work
37:36
together with the diocees, let's work together with the school that's right across the
37:39
street, and let's come up with good solutions. That is what people pay
37:45
us to do, is to produce good results and to provide good leadership,
37:50
not get upset about things, not to start rumors, but to work together
37:53
to say, we've got some challenges, let's fix them. But most important,
37:58
let's feed people in need. And maybe we need to retweak that,
38:01
but that's that's still the goal of Man and Meal, and by the way,
38:04
they have the city's support in doing that. For sure, We're going
38:07
to spend some a little extra time talking about this a little bit later because
38:10
I just got some information that we've got some news crews that are gonna be
38:14
coming here today. I mean, at least I took a shower today.
38:16
You know the hair look, hair and makeup look. Okay, it always,
38:21
always, always, it's almost paid for. You got it, all
38:23
right, So let's talk about we'll get back to mana Mie say sick,
38:27
you look sick meaning good not bad. Okay, it's a thing kids saying,
38:30
okay, all right, all right, Well I understand that we have
38:32
news crews on their way here, so we'll have to we'll go back to
38:36
the man and meal thing. We've got to basically recreate it, all right.
38:38
So let's talk about this Caskey announcement that came out yesterday. It was
38:43
announced that the Municipal Planning Commission has approved sixty five million dollars for a development
38:49
of the Caskie property. Now that's a former Seiers location. Some people refer
38:52
to it as that it's going to be a four story, one hundred and
38:54
twenty thousand square foot building that will hold up to five hundred employees, loading
38:59
dock eighteen thousand square foot and acts no word yet on who will exactly be
39:05
in that building. I'm presuming you still can't give the dates. How's that
39:08
the dates? As the kids say, they say that on the yeah,
39:13
I don't know why kids are stupid, all right, so you can't tell
39:15
this kid on who's covin ind they you know, we have been working on
39:20
this project for you know, close to two years, and so it's so
39:23
nice to see, you know, a large project like this come to fruition
39:27
and you know, you just gave the stats one hundred and twenty thousand square
39:30
feet and sixty five million. You know, what I want to mention is
39:34
that Remington who has this project right now, this is their very first project.
39:39
Let's talk about Remington. Remington is a Yeah, they're the company that
39:43
is managing this property, that is working with the architects on the ground to
39:46
build this building. This is their very first project in the United States.
39:52
So that that is that is worth noting. But what's most important is,
39:54
you know, on the heels of the worldly announcement earlier, Yes, unanimous
40:00
by the way, the Municipal Planning Commission and unanimous. There's no other action
40:05
that needs to take place from the city for this to happen, this incredible
40:09
project to happen. But we're talking about again hundreds of jobs downtown Charleston,
40:16
and that's important. Dave, just like Whirley folks said, well, it's
40:20
only fifty new jobs. No, it's every job that we get to secure
40:24
in the city of Charleston is good for the city of Charleston. It's not
40:28
good for necessarily Amy good when it's good for our small business owners. It's
40:30
good for our pharmacies, it's good for our restaurants. As a matter of
40:35
fact, one of the restauranturs downtown said to me, oh, I can't
40:37
wait till Whirley moves in. I want to give them free free lunch certificate
40:42
so they know how close I am that I do grab and goes or I
40:45
do catering orders. So this is about building up and it goes in line
40:50
with what we have been trying to do in that part of the city for
40:52
quite some time. This is going to work so beautifully with you know,
40:57
the new hotel that's coming in that development, what we've done with the management
41:02
of the coliseum in Convention Center, with the Sports Center, which is absolutely
41:08
going to be great. We're looking at ways to how do we improve the
41:12
municipal Auditorium. You know, that's something that we have been talking about for
41:16
years now, actually decades now. But how do we make that part of
41:22
town what it needs to be. Oh, by the way, when you're
41:25
traveling in from the city of Charleston, if you're a visitor, if you're
41:29
coming in for a concert, that's the gateway. And so this new building
41:31
that you're going to see. And by the way, it's a beautiful building.
41:35
When you're coming down Virginia Street, you know, right now you see
41:38
in a parking lot, you're not going to see that. Now you're going
41:42
to see brand new hotels. Of course, PoCA Valley Blank and Linda Ashley
41:45
have that great property right beside Municipal Auditorium, which is going to be developed
41:50
in this new site. It's going to change the look of that area.
41:53
And yes, that's important, but what's most important we're going to have folks
41:58
working down town Charleston. And the other thing. Then I'll note Dave that
42:01
you know, with Worley and the conversations we're having there and with this announcement
42:06
is what we always work on behind the scenes, which is downtown house housing
42:12
in general. Okay, it's a problem in Putnam County, it's problem Kenon
42:15
County, it's a problem in Cabo County, but especially a lot of these
42:19
workers want downtown housing. People want to walk to class, they want to
42:23
walk to work, they want to walk to go get their lunch, and
42:29
so building a vibrant and robust downtown is always it's an our tenure plan,
42:36
of course that we're revising right now, but it's every mayor's focus is how
42:40
do you make a vibrant and robust downtown. And then you know, obviously
42:45
work with the communities that attached to this great thirty three square mile city that
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43:07
have any idea of a timeframe. Yeah, they started talking about it yesterday,
43:12
you know, twenty twenty five, the fall of twenty twenty five.
43:15
It's going to be fast. Adam Crason, who is with EMM, who
43:20
works with Remington, who's been kind of the man on the ground, and
43:22
Jim Polly were there yesterday and what they both said was in the first,
43:30
I want to say, you said March, you're going to see that building
43:32
come down, because that whole Caskey building is going to come down to the
43:37
ground. So there's you know, the thing that any mayor in any city
43:40
likes to see, or cranes in the city and development. So you'll see
43:45
in that first first part of next year that building come down and then you'll
43:50
start to see that development happen. If you saw some of the photos that
43:54
were posted on it, it's really great. I will note this because this
43:59
was actually brought up by two folks on the Planning Commission. Dave and I
44:02
actually brought it up when this project was first proposed to me a while back.
44:07
I said, oh, I hate a parking lot on the river.
44:10
I hate that. I don't like parking garages and lots on the river.
44:15
However, the way that they have this designed with greenery and green space on
44:22
the opposite side. And again, if you've ever been down Virginia Street,
44:27
most of your listeners have that is the gateway. That is what most people
44:30
see. Yes, you know canan boulevard. You got about eighty two eighty
44:35
three hundred cars that go back and forth. But when you're coming to the
44:37
City of Charleston. So it's a parking lot on either side. Right,
44:42
it's about one hundred and twenty five spaces. The way they have it laid
44:45
out, I am my concerns were subsided, as were some of the commissioners
44:52
yesterday who were asking questions about this project, about the design. So it's
44:58
actually going to be reversed, that's right. It's actually going to be facing
45:01
Canal Boulevard. That's right, it's going to be facing Kanal. Yeah,
45:05
it's going to be well, the building on be on the Virginia Street side
45:07
and the employee parking and but the way, you know, Dan Varent,
45:14
who is our director of Planning here in the City of Charleston and has been
45:16
for Goshi Whiz twenty five years, said yesterday, thank you for bringing this
45:23
project in the state that it's in. It's one of the best design projects
45:28
that we have had. And you know, there's always some tweaking to do,
45:32
right, you got to make sure this sidewalk, this curb cut,
45:37
and we might sure the fire department knows what entrance and extra you know,
45:39
those little picky things that are necessary. But it came to the Planning commission
45:45
in exceptional exceptional form. I will note that the several Planning Commission members,
45:53
I think, including Council Member Sean Taylor, kind of went yay when they
45:58
heard that the power line you know, some of those which are the only
46:00
ones out there, are going to be buried and which is going to make
46:05
a huge difference because it's one of the big complaints that we get on that
46:08
block or all of the exposed power lines, so that will be power lines
46:14
will be buried in that area. So when I say that that, you
46:16
know, we talk about City Center at slack Plas all the time, Dave,
46:20
we talk about different areas of the city that are seeing this type of
46:22
development. This is where a lot of investment is going in. Hundreds of
46:27
millions of dollars are going to go into this area in the city of Charleston,
46:31
and there's going to be some more that's going to be done in that
46:36
area as well. All right, well, I know you got a lot
46:38
to get to today, so we'll go ahead and cut you loose and let
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you let you get out of here. When can we I know, crystal
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Ball, But we'll close with this. When do you anticipate that there could
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be an announcement as to what it's going to be. Yeah, and I
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apologize about that, but you know what, when you're good partners with company
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law, I get it. Yeah. Yeah, and I think it's all
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over. It's kind of the worst kept secret and it has been for a
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long period of It doesn't take long on social media for speculation. But that's
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my job, right. My job is to make sure that we uphold the
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agreements that we have with folks because it's it's it's it's a business, and
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we want to make sure that we're protecting their annemy as well. But I
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would I would imagine sooner rather than later. If most folks probably know this
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already, but that was my commitment to the company and working with them.
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But it is a very large energy company and we are more than excited to
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welcome them to downtown Charleston. All right, Mayor, I appreciate. I
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promise you won't be on the show tomorrow. I promise you, Morgan Well
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to say, that's part of the deal. My Friday guests have to bring
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me something. My favorite thing that she makes are the cream horns and fun
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fact, you know where rock City started, right, Yes? La,
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A girl Duchess Bakery and Rock City, all right, love them that.
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show says, bravo to whomever made the decision to shut down Man and Meal.
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Well, it's not shut down, so to speak. There's still going
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to be offering the food trucks in the various areas over to save a lot
51:09
over on the west side. Is just one of those that one of the
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spots that are available, and we'll get that to the rest of that information
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out there as to where the other one is. But that's it's kind of
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where we are right now. And I can tell you, and I posted
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this last night on social media as someone who works out of this building at
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eleven eleven Virginia Street East, something had to be done. I mean as
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far as having what was going on across the street. This is me,
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I'm not speaking on behalf of the company. That's just Dave talking what was
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going on across the street with the problems that we have in our parking lot
51:45
here. We had nothing to do with the decision, by the way,
51:47
what was going on at the two schools that are within walking distance of that
51:52
facility. You the violence, and I mean actual violence that went on across
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there. You had somebody that did it being killed. Something had to be
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done, it had, it had to be done. Services are still being
52:04
offered. They're just going in an outreach type situation right now. But at
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least tip rarely it's been closed down across the street out of the church on
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Coryer Street. All right, we gotta go. Thank you so much,
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su Mayor a good one for stopping by the show this morning. Joe Stevens,
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Fred Persinger, Tom Minturning more coming up on the show. It's Friday
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fun House Tomorrow. Guest host Morgan Morrison, our good friend from Rock City
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Cake Company, will be on the show. Coming up tomorrow. Hoppy is
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on the way with talk Line covering up at ten o six. Enjoy the
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rest of this smoky Thursday smoke supposedly going away. We'll see you tomorrow till
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then, have fun. I Love Somebody, hs AM ninety six point five
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