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in person on US one nineteen and logan today. Welcome to the show.
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Let me start off by saying thanks to Deal Cooper for filling in for me
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yesterday. As I think most of you know I have various business things that
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do outside of this show, and sometimes they take me away from the microphone.
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Not often, but it does happen, as was the case yesterday,
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and it will also be the case for me next Thursday as well, and
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a couple of days during the month of June. Sorry, but it happens.
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I leave you in the capable hands of Dale Cooper those so thanks to
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Coop, He'll be hosting for me next Thursday. And I want to talk
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about this morning show the situation with the Canawa County Commission. As you know,
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longtime county Commissioner Kin Carper resigned for the position last week, one week
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ago today to be exact. Of course, you know that the primary was
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held on Tuesday, with Chris Walters capturing the Republican nomination for commission and Natalie
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Tenant whin He's a Democratic nomination. Those two will face off in November,
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but who takes Carper seed until then? I had Deet Curzy from the Secretary
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of State's office on earlier this week. He was also on Hoppy yesterday talking
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about it. Of course, nothing will happen until canvassing on Monday and the
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certification of the election. What do these sitting commissioners think should happen. We'll
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talk to one of those, Ben Selango later in the show. Plus doctor
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Casey Sacksbridge Valley will be stopping by. There's an event happening tomorrow in Joplin
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Park in South Charleston, the benefit of a local animal rescue group called Pig
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of the Litter. Robert Porter Wagner with the group, who is going to
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join us to talk about that? The bicycle let's continue to roll through downtown
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Charleston. I was downtown last night. Man, what an experience. Brian.
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Those bikes go fast. That's that's my takeaway. The bikes move fast.
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So we got lots to cover this morning, but let's start with the
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returning Hannah Gardner the canaw charlest Remain Association with this week's adopt Me please put
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it the week Handah, Good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning.
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How are you I am? I'm not gonna lie. I'm feeling very
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under the weather, but I'm here right. The show must go on.
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The show must go on. But we'll get through it, all right.
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So I haven't had a chance to talk to you since Tuxas and tales a
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couple of weeks agoing to start with that before we get to the pad of
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the week. How was the big events? It was very successful. We
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did have a lot of people show up. We had a puppy race that
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happened, We had lots of good food, entertainment and it was all around
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just a good night. And I do believe we had a great outcome for
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like the fundraising cart of it as well. And that's what it's all about
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it And I know it was, am I correct? And that it was
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sold out? Yeah, I believe so. Last I heard it it was
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about to be, so I'm pretty sure it was. Well. I saw
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a lot of the pictures. I was unable to attend, but I did
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see a lot of the picture Look like you guys did a fantastic job,
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as you always do. With that, let's talk about our doubt me.
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Please put it the week as always. Picture posted Dave Island Radio on Facebook
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and The Dave Island Show on x Gucci is our petit of the week.
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Tell me about Gucci all right? Well, I personally have spent time with
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him. He hangs out in the back office during the daytime. Sometimes He
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actually is around about so he was. He had a previous owner to which
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the owner did have to surrender due to some other issues. But he is
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around eleven to thirteen years old. We have him listed as thirteen just to
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be on the higher end of saying so that way in case he is actually
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thirteen, people know. But the owner did say he was around eleven to
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thirteen, so he's somewhere around there. But he's very very definitely doesn't act
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like thirteen. He still has some funk to him. He likes to play.
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He's definitely you can tell he's old, so you can tell. He
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definitely likes to lay around. He doesn't like to run too much, but
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he will play with a ball. He'll play with stretch or something like that.
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We had him out in the playyard yesterday playing with him, and he
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absolutely loves play and fetch. He'll bring the ball to you. He doesn't
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really want you to say kid, but you can take it anyway because he'll
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he'll want you to start. But he's a really really good boy. He
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I think, yeah, he is six already. He is a very very
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good with calmer dogs, so he would be good. I was mentioning to
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you, he'd be good with a family that maybe has older kids due to
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him just not really like being restrained or anything. And I know some younger
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kids like to hug one dogs and stuff like that, so he is kind
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of iffy about that. But as long as he's got some supervision, I
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think that it would be okay, as long as you know you're watching them
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and stuff like that. But he is very, very good, all around
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good. Other than that, he's very laid back. He kind of just
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wants to hang out, sit on maybe the couch with you or the porch
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with it. He definitely likes being outdoors, that's for sure. So he
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would be a good dog that if you like to go for like car rides
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or something, he seems like he would be fine with that. Taking him
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on walks every day. He loves being If you have a yard, like
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a big Senson yard or something, it seems like he would be great with
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that because he loves to play. He does pool on the leash a little
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bit, and he is housebroken, so from what we've seen, he keeps
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a very very clean kennel and the owner that had him prior to also said
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that he was housebroken, so it is possible that any dog, even if
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they are the greatest housebroken dog ever, can have accidents because he's routines are
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different and dogs usually go based off of routines, so he could possibly have
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an accident. But he hasn't in the back office either, so he seems
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very well housebroken. He's a beautiful dog. What am I seeing when I'm
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looking at that picture? I mean, I seems like maybe a little bit
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of pit. Is that possible? Yeah, it looks like maybe pitt or
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some type of like bully breed. He's very true to that though I wouldn't
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really know what else he's mixed with. But he's very good and I absolutely
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love teddies and bullieves myself. But he's that up my alley. But Dave
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air and you know it. Sometimes handam with these animals. We talk about
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him every week. Everybody seems to want of a puppy, or they want
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a kitten, or they want something that they can raise around. But sometimes
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we've had so many success stories since we've been doing this segment for about what
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the last year and a half or so, we've had so many success stories
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with people adopting these older pets and bringing him in their home and finding out
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that a lot of times with these pets, not to play animal psychologists here,
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but a lot of them have gone through a lot of stuff. They
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just want to relax, man, They just want to hang out on the
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couch, as you said, They want to sleep that. They don't want
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to cause any problems. They just want fed, They want to be taken
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out. Sometimes the older ones make very very good pets to be adopted.
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Yes, I always, always always say that the older ones at the shelter
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are good candidates to be in a home where somebody's looking for something that sayesn't
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necessarily have to be a puppy, because our puppies and kittens and cats,
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they all go rather quickly like they'll be there for no longer than maybe like
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two weeks or so. But our adult dogs last for a handful of months
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to under a year. I don't think we've had one that has been quite
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a year yet, I don't think, but we've had a lot of them
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that have been there for hot ups to that. So I definitely always recommend
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coming up and meeting them, even taking them for a doggy day out you
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could do where you could come pick them up in the morning, spend the
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whole day with them, see how they do outside of the shelter. Of
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course, they just have to be appruvesed for that, but most of the
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dogs can, and it's a good kind of idea to let you know how
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they might be outside of the shelter because a lot of the dogs that are
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really hyped in their kennels or really they look like maybe they're aggressive or something
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like that, they're really not. It's just being in that stressful environment in
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the shelter is hard on them. A lot of dogs barking all day long.
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It amps them up and it gets their anxiety high. So getting them
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out of that is a really really good idea. All right, before we
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let you go house to search for a new location going, can you tell
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us where that is? Yeah? I believe we have a new location.
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I think we had posted about it or mentioned it on the news or something
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like that, but we did find a piece of land. We are hopefully
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going to be talking more about that soon, okay, and it'll let you
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know exactly where. And I know that we've already put the ideas out on
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what the shelter is going to look like. We presented that at Chextas and
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Tells as well. We should have that online. R Hanna, I appreciate
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you and we'll talk again next week. Thanks a lot, awesome, Thank
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you, Hannah Gardner again from GNAW Charles Humaine Association. This week's Adopt Me
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Please Better the week. Gucci is the dog's name somewhere between eleven and thirteen
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years of age. Newter and housebroken, prefers to be around calmer dogs,
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very laid back older dog. But as Hannah said, on one hand,
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Guccie seems you can tell Gucci's an older dog, but ain't read. Ain't
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ready to cash in yet because the dogs still loves to play fetch. Probably
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would do better with older kids vaccinated and we'll be micro chipped. And again,
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sometimes the older dogs make the best adopted friends. So go get Gucci
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and I've got the picture posted if you want to see what Gucci looks like
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Casey Sachsonbridge Valleys with us. Good morning, welcome to the show that gotta
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chuckle out of the good doctor. Right, Good morning, Dave. Yeah,
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I really appreciate the text. Thank you. Before we get in talking
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about Bridge Valley, I want to throw this out there, as our listeners
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know, you did run for a seat in the Canaw County Board of Education
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tuesday. You've done a great job when you've been on the show in the
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last couple of months of separating your job at Bridge Valley from your run at
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the school board. So before we get to the Bridge Valley stuff, I'll
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give the opportunity if you'd like to thank those who supported you in that pursuit
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of the of the board seat. That's so nice. Thank you. I
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am so honored by the five thousand people who voted for me. I really
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truly appreciate their support, and I will continue to work for our kids in
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our schools. I think it's incredibly important that we all really engage to try
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to make the community stronger. All right, So let's move on to your
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other job, and that is your job at Bridge Valley. I want to
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talk about this win program at Bridge Valley it's really been gaining momentum. For
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those that may have not have heard you on the program in the past,
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Doctor Sax, what is the WIN program? And I think you're into graduation
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mode with that now, Is that right? We are? Oh my gosh,
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it's been so so fun. So the WIN Academy is for students who
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are in high school. They're in their junior and senior year and they have
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decided that they're ready to start their careers early. So it's the workforce initiative.
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So our first group of students all said that they want to be nurses,
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and so they came into Bridge Valley to work on all classes that go
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into an RN so that they can graduate with us with an r N degree
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and start working as a registered nurse here in the community or transfer. We
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have that three plus one agreement with WVU, so some of our students will
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actually stick around with us for three years of college and then do one year
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at WVU. So they're saving almost seventy thousand dollars by making that choice to
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live at home and go to Bridge Valley and then they'll still graduate with their
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bachelor's degree from WVU. So it's a huge cost savings for families. It's
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really an incredible program and everybody's trying to save money right now. Doctor Syche,
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Gosh, yeah, it's it's just so good for families. So the
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Win Academy we enroll twenty students last year. We're allowed to enroll one hundred
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and twenty, so families who hear this and think they're interested, we can
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take more. It's for students in high school who say that they want to
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do college now, and so they leave their assigned high school wherever they are
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by zip code, and they come to Bridge Valley and they are in college
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classes. We treat them like college students. And our first cohort did all
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nursing. We're going to also expand into advanced manufacturing technology here in the fall
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because our employer partners just love this program. And we had our first graduating
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class just last Friday. So we had eight students who completed for them amounted
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to a year of college. We've been open for a year, so they
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transferred in for their senior year and they completed their high school diploma with us.
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They completed their first year of college, so they all now are sophomores
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in college. Half of them are staying with us here at Bridge Valley and
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the other half are transferring somewhere else to go to school, which is both
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are great outcomes and it's been so fun. Several of them started doing their
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nursing clinical rotations and have talked about how great it's been to do things like
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draw blood and go to hospitals and go to nursing homes and they've really gotten
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some clarity about careers and healthcare and what it is that they want to do,
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and they're incredible. I'm so proud of these students. Talk with doctor
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you don't know can hurt you. While we're talking about graduation, doctor Sachs
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just had graduation for the rest of the college. Is that right? We
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did. It's such a fun time of year, so many celebrations, dozens
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of pending ceremonies and leadership banquets and all all kinds of celebrations. But the
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graduation really is the culmination. And we had three hundred students graduate this year
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and a really great celebration at the Convention Center Coliseum. It's been they're just
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they're terrific. Are you being arrested? We're having a fire alarm? So
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do you need to go take care of that? You need to, I
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mean I probably should evacuate the building. It's the right thing. Well,
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you're on a mobile phone, right, No, I'm not, but I
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can call you from the parking lot. Ok, all right, let's do
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that then, So Ryan, she'll call back. How's that all right?
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Dave, I'll call you a minute, right, thanks? All right?
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That may be a new one. Ryan, thirty six years in the business,
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I don't think I've ever had somebody have a fire alarm that. I
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mean, you're the master of the promo. I mean, that may be
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a promo right there that we had some we had we had a call to
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the program interrupted by fire alarm at Bridge Valley. So well, that's good.
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Parents. If you're thinking about or adults or anybody thinking about going to
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Bridge Valley, add that to the list of things that work there. The
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Today coming up on Hoppy at ten o six this morning, He's going to
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start the show off a Democratic consultant, Mike Plant. What do the Democrats
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need to get some victories? Come this fall. We're going to talk to
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Hobbies, going to talk to Mike Plant about that. You know, we
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have the race from governor, which is going to be between Patrick Morrissey and
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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, but also we had the Senate race as well.
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Mike Plant's been doing it for a lot, been doing it like for one
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hundred and eighty years or something. I'm kidding. Plants a friend of mine.
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He's going to be on the show to talk about that with Hoppy.
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John Decker will be stopping by to talk about the Trump trial and the chaos
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in the House of Representatives last night. I mean, I've got the TV
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uist. We got people Marjorie Taylor Green being one of them, and Representative
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Crockett I think was her name, on the other one talking about eyelashes.
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You know, Marjorie Taylor Green saying to the representative, well, I guess,
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and I'm kind of paraphrase, and I guess it was hard for you
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to see with your fake eyelashes that actually happens. So Hobby is going to
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get into that with John Decker cover it up. Also, Brad's on the
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show today and of course Steam Release. We got steam release covering up on
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the show with Hoppy as well. I think doctor Sachs is back with us
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now. Doctor Sachs, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much
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for that break in my morning. I said, you know, in the
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inner while we're waiting on you to call back, I said, look,
24:06
if you need another reason to go to Bridge Valley, if everything we talk
24:10
about, from the WIN program to all these different programs, if none of
24:14
that sells you, you have a stellar fire alarm system. Oh that's true.
24:19
We really do our securities top notch. Parents feel better if you're sending
24:23
your kids there, or adults if you're going, all right, I want
24:26
to move. I want to talk about Faster for a moment in every parent
24:29
or grandparents' nightmare when it comes to financial right, there's been a lot of
24:33
problems with it. Where are we on the whole faster program. It's a
24:37
great question. The federal government has finally fixed their form. We're starting to
24:41
get the data from them that we need for students who have submitted, which
24:45
is terrific. Actually, Governor Justice did us a huge favor by declaring that
24:48
state of emergency about FASPA. It's meant that we've been able to start processing
24:53
at least to our financial aid for continuing students by not requiring the new form.
24:57
So if you are on promise, if you were using the HEAPS grant,
25:02
there's several different state grants that people are eligible for that we had we
25:07
were waiting on, and this has allowed us to not have to keep waiting,
25:11
So that's great. So really, I think the message that I hope
25:15
people hear is fill out the FASTPA. It works now, which is terrific,
25:19
and we're receiving the information and we really want students to come to school
25:22
in the fall. It's a great way to be able to get the skills
25:26
that you need to get a job. And we are actually seeing our transfers
25:29
are way up. One of the things that's happened with all of the FASTPA
25:32
trouble is that students have said and just really worried about how much college will
25:37
cost. So I'm going to go to Bridge Valley for a year and then
25:38
transfer back to somewhere else. And so our transfer numbers are way way up,
25:45
unheard of numbers. It's like something like seventy percent this morning when I
25:49
when I looked at it. That people are saying, you know, I'll
25:52
put a pause on Marshall or WVU for a year and go to Bridge Valley
25:56
and then make other choices. So that's also a great option. Indeed,
26:00
it is before we let you go. And you've heard me say this before.
26:03
One of the things that I really love, doctor Sachs about Bridge Valley
26:07
is the college's universe, of the college's willingness, I should say, to
26:11
work with the business community to give them the type of employees with the skill
26:15
sets that the employees say they need. You've got a program with Blackhawk.
26:18
The folks with Blackhawk talk about that we do. They have been wonderful supporters
26:22
of the college. Blackhawk has started something that we call the Blackhawk co Op.
26:27
They will hire students from our electrical program, the diesel program, the
26:30
welding program. They need all of those skill sets and they'll pay students right
26:36
up front like a signing bonus, and then they will give students a job.
26:41
So you'll work a couple days a week at Blackhawk, you'll come to
26:42
school at Bridge Valley a couple of days a week, so you have a
26:45
job in the field that you actually want to be in. And they want
26:48
to keep the students who go through that program, and they're really hoping you
26:52
get there and you realize it's a great company to work for and decide that
26:56
that'll be your career. All right, Well, information on all these things
27:00
available on your website. It's Bridge Valley dot edu. I appreciate you being
27:06
here, and I appreciate you being a trooper and adhering to the rules of
27:08
your college, and that is to go outside when the fire alarm goes off.
27:11
That's right, you go outside. I mean, was it just a
27:15
drill? Everything cool? There? Do we need to send the news team
27:18
there? It's real. I mean, you're welcome to come up and see
27:21
how well everyone else saw it. Rules. But all right, doctor Casey
27:25
Sachs, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. We'll talk soon. Have
27:27
a great day, Dave, you as well. It's Bridge Valley dot edu.
27:30
If you need more information there. As I said, first time,
27:33
first time for everything, Ryan that I have a fire alarm go off when
27:37
I'm talking to a Guess Bigley Pigliy Wigley Hotline three zero four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight for pharmacy text three zero four nine three five five zero
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zero A text says Shelly Moore. Capito's quote in the Metro News story today
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is quite telling. This is a quote according to A Texture, I am
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the leader of the Republican Party and we'll be supporting the Republican ticket. So
27:56
let's just see what happens in November. Texture goes on to say, Shelley
28:02
is saying, whoa there, Pat. Don't you think for a second you're
28:04
at the top of the Republican Party in West Virginia just because you are the
28:07
gubernatorial nominee. Shelley telling everyone she is still in charge. I heard that
28:14
coming in this morning. I thought that was kind of interesting. Tex said,
28:18
isn't the Democratic Party going to put Mansion on the ballot to replace Steve
28:21
Williams. I mean, they would if they actually wanted to win this.
28:26
And I don't really have time to get into all this right now, but
28:30
these rumors keep going around. And I was talking with a longtime politico on
28:36
my drive in this morning, who was hands free, by the way,
28:40
who was talking about that that there continue to be these rumors floating that Senator
28:45
Mansion is not done with public life and that I need to mayor Steve Williams
28:52
could rumors could could possibly remove himself from the ballot. The Democrats put Joe
29:00
Manchin to run against Patrick Morrison. These rumors were going around big time in
29:06
the primary, and now that the election is over. The primary election is
29:11
over, these rumors continue. So I don't know, well see what happens.
29:17
I do know that the Connaugh County commission has got a vacancy on the
29:22
ballot and whoever the new commissioner is elected by the people in November, whether
29:26
it's Chris Walters and Natalie Tennant, there's an opening though before that commissioner would
29:30
take the reins. We're going to talk to one of the current county commissioners,
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Ben Selango, about that when we come back. The Voice of Charleston
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that's not literally, they were just using an analogy. There not a county
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Commiss Benceulango is here. Good morning. How you doing, man, I'm
32:06
doing well. Last segment with doctor Casey Sachs, we had a fire alarm
32:09
go off during her interview, so I'm we're hoping that doesn't happen here.
32:15
Was it on her end or was it here? I didn't hear it.
32:16
I was in the greenment. Now, we don't have fire alarms here.
32:20
I'm kiddy, I'm Caddy Insurance people. I'm kiddy, and we have fire
32:22
alarms here, Charlton Fire Department. He's just joking. I'm kidding, and
32:27
I'm kidding, Candy Kenny Kidd. All right, So first of all,
32:30
you and I were talking about this, So before we get into this County
32:32
Commission thing, let's got a big shout out to our to Doug's scaff you
32:37
know, and everybody knows the story right now, Secretary state candidate, you
32:40
know, formal legilator Doug Scaff bitten by snakes. Hopey had the story yesterday.
32:45
I actually talked to Doug yesterday and it seemed this is a serious situation
32:51
where all the jokes are being made and whatever. He's one of the ones
32:53
making the jokes, by the way, but yeah, serious situation. But
32:57
I'm holding my jokes. I'm holding all the jokes I've been coming since he
33:00
texted him. He texted me eleven thirty at night. It was was it
33:02
Tuesday night he was bitten? Or was it Wednesday? Oh, it's Friday,
33:07
right, so today? Yeah, he texted me Wednesday night. And
33:12
as soon as he texted me, I started thinking of all the jokes I'm
33:14
going to say when he's better. It's too early right now, so I'm
33:17
gonna wait until he's out and doing well. But we're thinking about him and
33:22
yeh yeah it's bad being bitten once. But man, he got he got
33:25
up. Yeah, yeah he did well. I mean copper heads, yeah,
33:29
and that's been boom County copperheads too. Yeah, they're meaner than the
33:34
county all right. Commission Kent Carper, of course, had his submitted his
33:38
resignation last week. We won't get into all the controversy and stuff. They're
33:42
all been well documented. I'm will give you an opportunity to though, to
33:44
talk about the legacy of Commissioner King Carper. You know, when I when
33:47
I look back on it, and Kent, Kent spent nearly forty years in
33:52
public service. I mean, he was an advocate for law enforcement, for
33:58
public safety, many of the things that we now see and just routine.
34:04
You know, Kent Kent had worked on for years and decades and had had
34:08
really done a wonderful job. I've got to tell you, I was when
34:14
I came on just watching him and learning from him and how he handles like
34:21
the public safety Levey and and so many different things. It was, Uh,
34:25
it was eye opening. And this was Kent's you know, Ken's a
34:29
lawyer, but this was Kent's job. I mean, this was this was
34:30
something he really loved doing. And so you know, it's it's a it's
34:37
big shoes to feel phil and you know, Commission President Wheeler and I are
34:42
going to do our best. Uh, but this last year has been tough.
34:45
It's been tough, you know, not just on Kent and his family,
34:47
but it's been tough on the entire commission. The staff in particular and
34:52
so I understand, you know, his resignation, and it's we just got
34:57
to move forward. I mean, kennaugh County's got to move forward. That's
35:00
it. So you know, now the process is we're gonna on the twentieth,
35:06
which is Monday, we're gonna announce kind of the deadlines to submit applications
35:09
and resumes and things to fill the spot. And then we're gonna have a
35:14
special meeting on May thirtieth to fill the spot. And so my concern we're
35:20
not gonna play I'm not playing politics, We're not playing any of these games.
35:23
It's all about the stability of the commission. You know, this commission
35:27
has been under a cloud for about a year and it's time to move forward.
35:30
You know, we've got to make sure that we bring somebody in that's
35:32
not going to play games, Somebody that can hit the ground running, that
35:36
understands what it means to be a commission. A lot of people have no
35:38
idea what we do, so that that's that's important to me. So we
35:45
know that we'll have a new commissioner come January of next year. We know
35:49
that either be Republican Chris Walters or Democrat Natalie ten of those. That's the
35:52
results of the election Tuesday night. But as we've kind of been talking to
35:55
tell the team of this thing is someone in the meantime has to feel the
36:00
the seat held by mister Carpenter now two days ago been on this show.
36:04
Natalie Tennant stated that she wanted it to be her. Oh yes, absolutely.
36:08
She said that I use the term others have used like a placeholder.
36:13
And this happens frequently politics. You get somebody maybe that says, look,
36:16
I have no interest in this job full time, moving on. I just
36:21
want to help out the county and I'll come in and I'll just then this
36:23
happened as you know all the time in politics, and I'll just stick around
36:27
until the new commissioner, either mister Walter's miss Tenant officially takes takes the role.
36:32
Where are you on this whole thing? Well, so honestly, I've
36:36
received dozens of texts that kind of comment. You know, if you need
36:39
somebody to come in to fill in for whatever it is seven months, they'd
36:45
be hoonder doing. And there's a lot of great people that I think are
36:46
going to apply, you know, in Natalie Tennant, who's the Democratic nominee
36:51
who you know did very well in the election would be a logical choice,
36:55
but keep in mind the process. So the process is there's only two of
36:59
us, you know, Lance and me, and we have to agree one
37:01
Democrat, one Republic, one Democrat, one Republic. We have to agree
37:05
on who's going to fill that sat. It has to be a Democrat that
37:07
will take this. It must be a Democrat, and it must be in
37:08
a Democrat who is not in a currently occupied magisterial district. So I'm in
37:14
District two and Lance, I believe is District three. So it's got to
37:17
be somebody from magister of District one or four. And so there are certain
37:22
qualifications that you have to have in order to be able to apply. And
37:25
so if Lance and I can't agree, then and the legislature changed this long.
37:30
I'm not sure when it was, but I think it was fairly recently.
37:32
Then the Democratic Executive Committee, since that is the party, you know,
37:37
that's where the vacancy is. They submit three names, and now I'm
37:42
the senior commissioner. I would strike out a name, and then Lance would
37:45
strike out a name, and whoever's left is the commissioner. And this is
37:50
a bizarre process. Man, I'm not gonna I just picture you and Wheeler
37:53
are just sitting there, like you said, You've got a list and you're
37:57
going now, no, maybe, No. It's honestly, it's the same
38:00
process that you use in jury trials. It's called peremptory challenges, and you
38:05
at the end of a once a jury panel called the veneer is there and
38:10
you whittle it down to how many ever twelve or fourteen or whatever each side
38:15
gets to start striking, they do their peremptory challenge. That's exactly what this
38:19
process is. So it's, as you know, it's as old as the
38:22
Constitution. What kind of I mean, I know they have to be out
38:25
of the correct magisterial district, as you said, But other than that,
38:29
what qualifications do they have to have in order to be a county? Are
38:31
there? I mean I don't think there are any real qualifications. I think
38:37
I might be eighteen years of age and just all the normal kind of stuff.
38:40
Yeah, And you know, for some of that I'm looking at,
38:42
I want somebody with a level head. I want somebody that is not going
38:46
to get on and cause you know, issues, particularly within seven months,
38:52
you know, and I don't want it to be political. I really don't
38:54
want it about the Kanawh County Commission as it states right now, and not
38:59
all of the other fifty four to state could say this. You guys may
39:02
be different parties, you may have different beliefs in certain things, but as
39:06
a whole, you guys get along pretty darn good compared to compared to what
39:09
we've seen in some other counties. And you know, when I got on
39:12
the commission in twenty seventeen, by the way, this was the process that
39:15
we used. When I was selected in seventeen, I had to run in
39:17
eighteen and I ran in twenty two. But the the process was the commissioners
39:22
had to agree. So Hoppy Shores, you know, who was just an
39:27
absolutely wonderful man, one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life.
39:31
And he's passed now. But he was a Republican and camp was a
39:36
Democrat. They had to reach an agreement and they and we had public interviews
39:39
back then, so everybody had to come in. You know, they asked
39:43
questions. It was almost like you know, miss Usa Paget. They were
39:46
asking you a question, you would give the answer, and then at the
39:50
end Please don't tell me there's a swimsuit competation. No there's not. Oh
39:54
god, I would have definitely lost, and then you have to then they
40:00
selected me at the end. So we're in a very similar situation where you've
40:04
got a Republican and you've got a Democrat and we have to reach an agreement
40:07
on who we pick, and if not, then it goes to that kind
40:12
of the parentery challenge section of the law where the Democrat is a community nominates
40:16
three and then you do strikes. I mean you and Wheeler get along pretty
40:20
well. Absolutely so. I think a lot of Commission President Wheeler. I
40:22
mean he has hit the ground running when he came on. He works hard,
40:28
he works really hard. I mean he's over at the Commission all the
40:30
time. He's taken calls, you know, all day, all night.
40:35
So he's done a wonderful job and I think he's got a very bright future
40:38
ahead. Tex says till Ben. Natalie Tennant should not be appointed since she's
40:43
running for that office, which could skew the election. It should be a
40:45
third party. By third party, I think what they mean is somebody that's
40:49
not part of the process, right, Yeah, And you know, there's
40:51
a lot of people that think that, and there are a lot of people
40:52
that think she should be. I mean, it's a democratic spot, it's
40:55
a democratic opening, and she's the democratic nominee. I mean that's that's logical
40:59
to me. But ultimately comes down and who can we agree to And I
41:04
don't want it to be a big, knockdown, drag out fight. That's
41:07
not what I'm looking for. And I mean this in all sincerity. I
41:10
want there to be stability. We've been through a lot and I want things
41:15
to be calm for a while. But Dave Islands showing five any line Bright
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com. You're a guy that keeps up with the public, and I would
41:35
say that your phone has probably been ringing off the hook, not just from
41:37
people wanting the position, Ben, but people say, well, I think
41:42
this person would be the best person. That person absolutely, I mean there's
41:45
a lot of that going on. And I remember, I remember when I
41:50
was that person that was calling back in twenty seventeen and I went down to
41:53
Hoppy Shores Insurance Agency and his lovely wife Bronson looked at me and she said,
42:00
Ben, why do you want this job? She was like, are
42:04
you crazy? And God, I love Bronson? But and so that's gonna
42:09
be a question. Why do you want it? Why do you want to
42:12
fill in? Why do you want to do this? What are some of
42:14
the questions you're going to ask these people? But what do you want?
42:16
We're not going to do public interviews. I think that one, you know,
42:20
but for a variety of reasons. I think we're going to have people
42:22
submit and then maybe and Lance and I will talk about this on on May
42:27
twentieth. If they if they want to come and make a comment, that's
42:30
fine. But I think because I remember when I was selected, I looked
42:35
around and the people who weren't I felt bad. It was like a public
42:40
spectacle, right and they were in there and they were getting grilled. I
42:44
mean, some of the questions are that they asked back in seventeen were hard
42:47
and they were very pointed. And I don't want to do that to people,
42:52
and I don't think Commission President Wheeler does either. And I don't want
42:55
to make a big public spectacle. My goal is to uh to make sure
43:00
that the Commission is stable, that we're all working together, and that we
43:06
move forward. And then whoever is elected in November and takes office in January,
43:13
I'm gonna work with whoever that is. I've known Chris Walters for a
43:15
long long time. I've known Natalie Tennant for a long long time. So
43:20
we'll see how that shakes out. Final old text before we let you go
43:23
is, Dave, I put all my trust in Lance and Ben to do
43:25
the right thing. We have the best commission in the state. Keep it
43:30
local. I appreciate that, I really do. And you know, a
43:34
big part of that was the way that we all got We all get along
43:37
and commission former Commissioner Carper and Commissioner Shores and Commissioner Hardy, and you go
43:45
back to Duke Bloom and many before. They're the reason for that. There's
43:49
a reason why fifty four other county commissions look to us to see what we're
43:52
doing. Particularly during COVID, you know, we were we were kind of
43:55
setting the example the City of Charleston, and the A. Kund Of Commission
44:00
was stting example and people were following what we were doing. And so there's
44:02
a reason for that because we had decades and decades of experience on the commission
44:07
and now you know, we've just got to we've got to make sure that
44:10
we're making smart choices and we're moving forward. All right? To me,
44:15
I said, I was going to leave with that one, but there's one
44:15
other question, and then I promise we'll let you go. Give me thirty
44:19
seconds. In this Texas? Does the commissioner support the removal of the current
44:22
name of the public Safety building and the renaming of it? Why would we
44:25
Why would we do that? Commissioner Carper was not charged with anything. Apparently
44:30
they didn't have enough evidence to charge him or they would have. It went
44:32
on for a year. Why would we do that? Commissioner Carper, he
44:38
did a lot for this county and the last year has been tough. But
44:43
he was never charged with anything. He didn't get a parking ticket. I
44:47
mean, so you want to strip somebody's name off a building. No,
44:51
I'm not in favor of that. All right, we'll leave it there.
44:53
We'll be in touch man. Thanks a lot, Thank you, County Commissioner
44:55
Ben Selango. It is nine to fifty two back after this. So the
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fired by Morgan to Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. We started the
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show talking about animals, and now we're going to end the show talking about
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animals. There's going to be an event held tomorrow at Joplin Park in South
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Charleston sponsored by a group called the Pick of the Litter Animal Group. Robert
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Porter Wagner is with the group, and you're also with the Charles You Main
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Association too, Is that right? I do maintenance up there. I volunteer
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up there a lot too. You're also a TV star too, at least
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you were a couple of years ago. I was. I used to see
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you with Marilyn mccauliffe or on a regular basis. And Kristin Kinder is with
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You're the founder of this group, is that right? Kristin? Yes,
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sir all right, so we'll be get going on tomorrow. Guys, I'll
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let either one of you kind of jump in here. We have our first
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ever five K walkings on it as a pet friendly event. It's a medical
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fundraiser to help us money for a lot of our new medical need babies that
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we've just recently rescued. I want to talk about this group. Talk about
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the group. We're a nonprofit foster based five and one C three. We
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take owner surrenders, We pull strays off of the streets. We help many
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local shelters here, locally and out of state. We pull from high kill
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shelters to keep babies from euthanasia. I love the way that you refer to
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them as babies too. They are babies. Yeah. Yeah. Also people
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who listen to the show on a regular basis. No, I'm not much
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for people, but I do like animals. I like it. How long
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have you been involved in animal kind of stuff, Robert Well? I started
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working a shelter at twenty fourteen and then kind of retired from there. But
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that I've been doing all my life and been pretty good with animals. I
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got a green paw, that's a good way to put it. What is
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it about animals and that God? Because everybody's involved in something something that they
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care about. What is about animals for you? Well, for me,
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it's like you've heard the extent the saying that the more I meet people,
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the more I like Amazon. That's basically what I just said. Yeah,
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they give your heart their love unconditionally, and just there's so much abuse and
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neglect it seemed like going on. So that's what we're all. We actually
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had a text earlier in the show, and I had Hannah on from the
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Humane Association. Somebody was talking about the amount of stories that we keep hearing
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here in the Kanaal Valley about dogs and cats being abandoned in things of that
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nature, and I just told the story. We had one of our folks
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here at the station whose son found a kitten a dumpster yesterday. But he's
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okay, the kitten is okay. They're trying to get it adopted. There
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are far too many of these stories out here, far too many. Yeah,
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we've had a couple of dumpster babies ourselves. Last year. We found
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two one week apart, one female baby about four weeks old a week later,
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one male baby. They looked identical about a year and a half ago
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from the little Caesars on Patrick Street plaza and their dumpster. It was pretty
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safe to say that the same person did it week apart, and they were
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from the same litter. The vet even agreed, So they're they're in great
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homes now and that's living the good life. We always, we always hope
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for a happy ending. Let's talk about this event again to marguing again,
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time and place and things of that nature, and can can people still get
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involved that they can't make it tomorrow? Yes? Absolutely. It starts at
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noon tomorrow. It's going to be noon to three. You can sign up
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when you get there at Joplin Park in South Charleston. We do have a
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Facebook page as well, and all info is there for anybody that you know
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misses it here needs to check into it. And there will be a T
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shirt giveaways that sign up. At sign up time you will get a walk
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upon T shirt, your rifle tickets for the big awesome drawings that we're going
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to have. Don't hear about the draw until we got We've got lots and
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lots of goodies along the side of the T shirts. We've got some really
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cool personalized pick of the litter tumblers, thermal water bottles with handles, and
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some other stuff. So right, entry fees twenty dollars a person. Kids
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twelve and under are free, and you are invited to bring your pet.
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Absolutely sure, welcome. We actually had a text about that earlier and I
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can't seem to find it right now. Somebody wanted to know if there would
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be pets available there, and so will there be any pets available for adoption
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there? We are going to have one special baby there that is looking for
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his forever home. He did come to us as a very very rare and
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special case. He was born with an autoimmune disease. His name is Kati
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and he was surrendered to us by his breeder owner at seven weeks old because
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he was literally on his deathbed. And he is doing well now, has
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been cleared by the vet, he's fully vetted, and he is looking for
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his forever home. So he is going to be there with us as well.
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Okay, the text I was referring to was somebody asking about the South
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Charleston Armed Forces Day Parade if there would be pets, and that I'm actually
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going to be in part of that with one of our sister stations. I'll
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be taking part in that tomorrow, so I don't know the answer to that.
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Bottom line is there's gonna be a lot of stuff going on in South
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Charleston as we wrap it up, guys, It all happens tomorrow. Joplin
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Park in South Charleston. Facebook page is pick of the letter WV dot word.
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All right, Robert, I appreciate you being here. Thank you,
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Thanks guys for being here. All happen tomorrow noon to three Joplin Park in
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South Charleston. Information available again on their Facebook page. I also have some
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stuff on my social media pages as well. Right, Nichols, it was
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my producer. Thank you so much. Also thank you to Hannah Garter from
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the Caneage Charleston Humaine Association. And also we want to say thank you to
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a a Conaemic Commission Mantsolango doctor Casey Sachs, a Bridge Valley Hopy coming up
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with Metro News talk Line at ten oh six. If you haven't done so
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already, download the Metro News TV app. I'm back on Monday. Have
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yourself for a great weekend. I'll see you tomorrow for the Armed Forces parade
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