April 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Guest Nancy Davis talking about A Race to Erase MS 2024 Gala. PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs-Adoptions Soar. LA considers monthly stipend for volunteers who foster animals from city shelters. Come see us at the Wiggle Waggle Walk tomorrow! Author Laurena Townsend "Write by Number" talks about what they do: They sell a kindergarten through 12th grade writing curriculum for schools, tutors, homeschools, etc. that takes students from writing one sentence to eight paragraph essays. Its National Organ Donation Month in SoCal. 2 SoCal families forever intertwined after donating organs to each other's siblings.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is to
Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kfI AM six forty Soul Cal Saturday on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. It'sso Cal Saturday. Now DeFi to Wallace
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Sharp is on the show. Isso Cal Saturday? This, this is
so Cal song. It's so CalSaturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday, Saturday Saturday. Word isthe word. This is Soul Cal KFI
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AM six forty Live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app in Vernon, Sunland, Newport
Beach, and Marino Valley. Thisis Soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host
Twala Sharp inviting you to the Raceto Erase Ms. The Race to Erase
Ms is holding a twenty twenty fourgala. This is happening at the Fairmont
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Century Plaza Friday, May tenth,where you will be able to experience an
unforgettable evening that includes an auction,dinner and live music, but more importantly,
it helps to raise funds to yeserase MS. Multiple sclerosis is a
long lasting chronic disease of the centralnervous system that is thought to be in
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autoimmune disorder A condition in which thebody attacks itself by mistake. MS is
an unpredictable disease that affects people differently, and to help us learn more about
this, I want to welcome MissNancy Davis. Miss Nancy Davis founded the
Race to Erase MS in nineteen eightythree after she was diagnosed with MS.
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Miss Nancy Davis, I welcome youto soul cal Saturday today to introduce us
to this amazing event, but alsoto tell us more about your fight to
erase MS. How are you doingtoday? First of all, I'm probably
the luckiest person that's living with MS. I'm doing very well. When I
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was first diagnosed, was not givena very good prognos of the young mom
with three kids, and at thetime I was told they would never walk
again. I'm so grateful that Iam doing well. Not everybody's doing as
well as I am. I starteda foundation. Back then the time there
was no known cause, no cure, no drugs in the market whatsoever.
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It helps out the progression MS.Luckily today there's now twenty six drugs in
the market. Much of it isbecause of a lot of the research that
we have done. It's such abrilliant team of doctors and there's so many
medications. So for that young persontoday being diagnosed with them as the future
is a lot brighter. Now.By definition, we know what multiple sclerosis
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is, but as someone who hasdealt with this autoimmune disorder for as long
as you have, if you can, how does it attack you? How
does it affect you on a dailybasis? Well, for anybody that has
a mass, the M starts formultiple s is for sclerosis. It's many
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scars that form on your brain andyour spinal column. No two people with
the a mass have the same exactsymptoms, you know. Sometimes you can
have a lot of pain, sometimesyou just have numbness. There's a variety
of different things, and you don'talways have the same symptoms when you're having
an attack as you did the lasttime. Very often, the thing that
happened to me is I lose feelingin different parts of my body. I
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can't can't often as I can't seevery well. Affects my eyes. But
you know, other people are different. Some people, you know, can't
walk at all, some can.I feel very fortunate that my MS is
doing really well today versus when Iwas diagnosed thirty two years ago. There's
so many medications that are available,and you watch you know TV, you
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see there's all these commercials are onTV advertising MS medications. It's nothing short
of a miracle. They happen becauseso many people got behind, you know,
our early efforts here and funding reallyimportant basic science research. We have
something called the Center with Outwalls,which is a too arguably the best doctors
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in our entire country who work togetheras a team, and you know,
they meet in person four times ayear and they communicate monthly via database on
everything good and bad in MS research, which really enables all the doctors to
really benefit off each other's research.It's a great wave of coming together and
so we have this event every yearthat's coming up. May attends. It's
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at the Century Plaza and we areraising fund to you know, empower these
amazing doctors to further the research.And we have lots of cures for people
with chronic and not with people withrelapsing or emitting MS, which is the
most common form of MS. Thatmeans it kind of comes and goes.
Sometimes you're having an attacks them asyou're not, but some of it heals.
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There's other forms of MS that aremuch more acute, that are primary
progressive or chronic progressive. So alot of the research that is really trying
to identify how do we help peoplewith much more severe types of MS.
There's these medicines now that we didn'tknow in the beginning, why do your
T cells that start attacking each other. We didn't understand why your T cells
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would start attacking each other. Wenow know if we can kill off your
B cells, that the T cellsnever start attacking each other. So there's
two amazing medications out there that simplystopped the BE cells from acting up so
that the tea cells won't start attackingeach other, which is kind of a
brilliant thing. So Adam, youknow, the thirty one years of research,
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we've had lots of events. Westarted in the mountains of Aspen and
they went to bail. We've doneVegas, but mostly we've done in Los
Angeles. This year we're doing atthe Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on Friday night,
Made the tenth. We have thisinsanely fun event. We have the
best auction, we have the bestentertainers. We have a fashion show by
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the designer Kittle called le Jean's.They have gorgeous fashions. We have Natasha
Beddingfield singing, who's amazing. Wehave Carol Ray hosting it. We have
another band called Great Big World,and one of the singers from Great Big
World has ms Saa Garrett will besinging something too. She's a person who's
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sang Man in the mirror and she'sgoing to sing a do what of the
song lean on Me. We alwaysend our evening singing the song lean on
Me. It's always been our youknow, our thing that we have every
year. So she'll be doing thatwith Natasha Benning, so that will be
a special moment for anybody to watch. Saita has a mess. She's doing
really well, thank God, andshe's just been a very big supporter.
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So we're so happy. We havesuch a great community of people, like
so many fun celebrities will be there. It's just we're very lucky that the
Hollywood community has always embraced us andcome and it'll be a fun night.
We have the best auction items ever, great you know, great trips.
We even have a boat trip.We have great artwork, just everything you
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could possibly imagine, every every greatrestaurant, and clothing, give certificates,
just exotic fun opportunities, you know, and people can all go to a
race MSS dot org and they canbuy tickets or about a week and a
half, they can also figure outa way to be done some of our
great auction times if they just wantto be involved in a different way too.
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I love it. So if anyonelistening wants to buy tickets, they
can go to erase ms dot org. They can always go there to donate
just in general, if they wantto help fund they want to donate,
and we have a great we havea great sort of T shirt campaign.
Lejohn's would be the wonderful clothing designerwho is doing our fashion sho made a
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very exclusive T shirt and that willbe also sold there, and they can
go erase ms dot org and thenthey can also put shop to erase a
mess if they wish to make adonation, buy tickets to the event,
or you know. Eventually we willin about about a week and a half
will have our auction up there too. People can be we have the most
unique items. We have about fourhundred of the most incredible auction times you
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could ever imagine. MSS Davis inaddition to the Race to Erase MS twenty
twenty four gala, what else ishappening the weekend of May the tenth,
the day after the event, soon Saturday morning, they eleventh, we
have our our symposium, so anybodywho has a mess wants to learn,
you know, from the doctors ofwhat's going on. They will do this
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amazing presentation and people can come tothat. It's free and it's open to
the public, and we love tohave people come into the Fire Month Century
Plase at ten in the morning onmaybe eleventh, and that's a great thing
to go to if you want tolearn more about what's happening. And there's
also a virtual way to attend thatfor people all over if you if they
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can't come to you know, LosAngeles, they can go on at racemas
dot org and also sign up tobe able to watch it. And it's
it's really amazing. The doctors areso brilliant, there's so much happening.
It's at a very fast and furiouspace, and people can also submit questions
for the doctors to answer too,and and you know, there's never going
to be a more amazing room,you know, brilliant MS doctors than we
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will have that day, and there'llbe some they're interesting celebrities who have MS
will be on the panel as well. So it's going to be fun.
You should definitely be there. It'sjust and it's every year at our everybody
gets up and dances no matter what. We have a very high spirited event.
People get dressy. It's not blacktib but it's dressy, but they
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get there and everyone dances. It'skind of our tag. Every year.
Everyone has a really great time andwe're so grateful to have, you know,
fun people that come every year andreally support what we're doing. And
the bottom line is we're doing thisbecause we're raising really important fund to fund
really good basic basic science research forfun doctors at USC att U, c
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l a U See San Francisco,at Cedar Sinai. We're funding doctors at
Harvard, at Yale, at JohnsHopkins at Oregon House Funds University. We
have seriously the most brilliant doctors inthe country who are doing this research and
they've been doing it for years.But what's so nice about as they work
as a team. It's quite awhole weekend very comprehensive. It's all about
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you know, helping us, youknow, win this terrible race. We
want to win the race to aRace as and so grateful for everybody helping
us. We've have such a wonderfulgroup of people and everybody should comments.
It's going to be amazing. Asamazing as you are, Miss Davis.
Thank you for joining us today andintroducing us to a race to a race
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MS and thank you most importantly forall your hard work in helping to cure
this disease. You are an angel. Thank you so much, Thank you
so much for having me. I'mso grateful for your time. You're listening
to Soul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharpon demand from KFI A M six forty,
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kfive AM sixty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app and Stevenson Ranch Pair,
Blossom Desert Center and Mira Loma.This is Soul Gallus Saturday. I'm your
host, Twalla Sharp and on theeve of the Wiggle Waggle Walking Run,
which is going down tomorrow at theBrookside Park in Pasadena, make sure you
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join us. Okel's going to beout there. Ammy King's gonna be out
there, and believe you, producerMichelle, Everyone that works at KFI that
has a dog will be out there, and so should you meet your favorite
KFI personalities and walk with your dograise funds for the Pasadena Humane Why not?
And looking at all that and allthings dog. Something that really stood
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out to me this week and wasreally a nice story. There is a
pe coach that is going about pairingunmotivated students, like students who are just
like maw whatever, pe sh me, I'll sit here on my phone now.
He is pairing these students with shelterdogs. Yes, what he is
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doing is he is bringing shelter dogsto join his cross country running team.
And because these dogs need to runand play and all that, and he's
encouraging these unmotivated students to say,hey, I know you may not want
to run, but look at thispup. This pup has been confined,
This pub is in a shelter.This dog he needs to run. Why
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don't you run with him? Giveus a little run with his dog.
And this program is just it's changingthe lives of these kids. It is
finding homes for these shelter dogs.These shelter dogs are finding homes, will
be more adoption has happening because thesechildren are bonding with these dogs, and
that is just getting the word outabout adoption. I absolutely love everything about
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this. This is happening at theSaint Joseph High School in Santa Maria,
California, and this is a programI hope I hope they pick up across
Southern California, Northern California too.Anywhere in California. If you are able
to partner your track team or maybeyour cross country team with dogs from a
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shelter that need to get out andrun and exercise, please do it.
Look up how it's being done.I think that this is an absolutely amazing,
amazing program. So bravo to theSaint Joseph High School distance cross country,
cross country track team and their coachfor getting getting these dogs involved in
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getting them out. And I knowyou heard it earlier in the KFI newsroom.
There is a new program happening herein southern California where LA is considering
offering a monthly stipend for volunteers whofoster animals from city shelters. That's the
Los Angeles City Council approved this motionjust yesterday seeking to establish a monetary stipend
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to encourage Angelina's to foster animals fromthe city six shelters and help rescue and
help reduce overpopulation at these facilities.This was the thirteen thirteen oh vote.
It was overwhelmingly approved. And yeah, and they're looking at providing monetary compensation
for anyone looking to take on apet that is absolutely beautiful. Why not.
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Yeah. I think a lot ofthe things that halt adoptions is financial
restrictions or time restrictions. So ifthey can release one of those restrictions or
you know, make it a littlebit lighter, then I'm open to going
to one of these places and maybelooking at a little pump, you know,
look at a puny, get alittle chin chin for it, a
little yeah, park, Well,I don't know if you're gonna be OK.
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Why not next year? Never saynever, never say never, never
say never. And tomorrow Yes,it is going down the twenty twenty four
Wiggle Waggle Walk at Brookside Park thirdthree sixty North Royal Boulevard in Pasaden.
Look, if you go to Pasaden, you go to the Rose Bowl.
Brookside Park is right there, rightnext to it, the wiggle Waggle Walk
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and run one of Pasadena Humane's biggestfundraisers of the year, with proceeds helping
to save the lives of thousands ofanimals in our community with programs such as
foster care, they have a kit, nursery, Animal ICU, Wildlife and
more. All the funds go toall those programs and yes, KFI has
been the top fund raising team forthe last three years, raising just under
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fifteen thousand dollars last year alone andtogether we will raise even more money for
Pasadena Humane than we ever could.And if you are not able to make
it, If you can't make itout there and you would like to support
anyway, visit give dot Pasadena Humanedot oorg Ford slash team Ford slash five
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six seven zero three zero. Onceagain, that's give dot Pasadena Humane dot
oorg Ford slash Team Ford slash fivesix seven zero three zero. The process
is fast and easy and secure andthen you can be sure that it will
be benefiting all the animals and needs. So I hope you get on out
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there, take a picture with moKelly and post it on social media.
Hang out with Amy King. Sheloves hanging out with people and their pooches.
Why don't you be one of them. This is kfive AM six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadioapp and when we come back,
we will be joined by this week'sSmall Business Saturday for our soul Cal Saturday
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Small Business Saturday Salute. Yes,we will be visited by author Loreena Townsend
who gives us right by Number.Yes, go on and uh keep it
where you got it, don't yougo nowhere? Soul Cal Saturday Small Business
Saturday Spotlight is next. You're listeningto soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
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demand from KFI AM six forty KFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and with Netca West Athens,Santa Anna and Rancho Kucka Manga. This
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is soul Cal Saturday. I'm yourhost, Twala Sharp, welcoming you to
another soul Cal Saturday Small Business Spotlight. Today, we are introducing you to
Right by Number, the simplest writingprogram you will ever use. With Right
by Number, they sell a kindergartenthrough twelfth grade writing curriculum for schools,
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tutors, homeschools, et cetera,on and on. This program takes students
from writing one sentence to eight paragraphessays. This is a program where parents
and teachers can use this simple,step by step curriculum to make sure students
know how to write coherent, correctparagraphs and essays for school, standardized testing,
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and for life in general. Nowthey only sell the writing curriculum,
which includes a teacher book and astudent book, but with this program you
can take your student to the nextlevel. It is my absolute pleasure to
welcome the author of this amazing program, Miss Laurena Townsend. Miss Townshend,
How are you doing today? Duringgreat thank you tell me what inspired you
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to create right by Number. Well. I started developing this curriculum back in
nineteen ninety one when I taught Englishninety nine at the college I had just
graduated from, and I had aclass full of students who could not write
well enough to get into English oneoh one, and it was my job
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to get them to that point.So at first I tried all the things
that had worked for me and thatI had learned in college about teaching others
to write, and none of themworked. They were still completely lost.
And what I realized was most ofthe writing curriculum out there is written by
people who are natural writers, andso they include the methods that work for
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them. For example, hey,read this great passage of literature and now
write about it, or think aboutwhat inspires you and write about it.
And that just doesn't work. SoI got desperate and I pulled out some
materials written by a guy named JaSparks back in the day. He's you
know, long gone, and Idon't think his stuff is public anymore.
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And he had written about this ideaof power reading and power writing, and
the idea is that every sentence hasa job and it's related to another sentence
in terms of power. And heassigned them numbers so you could see the
relationships between sentences. So he turnedthose turned writing into mathematical relationships. And
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this actually makes sense to more peoplebecause it's not this kind of subjective out
there. How do I figure outhow to put this on a paper.
It's just a very objective and itputs things in perspective. So I started
teaching them how to write using thatmethod. Then I went into the classroom
full time top seventh through twelfth grade, and I realized, I have to
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figure out how to do this ona large scale, because you know,
I had classrooms full of kids.I'd add about one hundred and twenty kids
a year I have to teach towrite, and some of them they can't
write a sentence. Others were writingnovels on their own times. So the
question that I faced as a teacherwas how do I teach every single student
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to write without dragging the advanced writersdown and or leaving behind the struggling writers.
And honestly, to teach people towrite, you can't just say,
hey, write this, give thema couple pointers, and walk away.
You have to do real editing.You have to give real life feedback if
you want them to change. Andthat's why people don't really learn to write
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in school because most teachers don't havethe time to check that many essays,
and they can just spot check aboutone hundred and twenty essays a week,
they can't actually do editing and feedback. So I developed a system where everybody
could move at their own paces.I as a teacher, was able to
edit, everyone was able to learnwhat they needed to learn, and then
the program was eventually implemented across theentire school I was teaching, and students
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just picked off picked up where theyleft off every year. Tell me,
is this a program that work forstudents of all learning levels? I asked
that because I during the day workwith children with special needs, and I
look at a system like this aswould this possibly work for a child on
the spectrum? You have you hadany experience with that? Yes? Absolutely.
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In fact, the curriculum is actuallyused in two different special ed programs
that I know for sure, publicschool systems across the United States, one
in Maine and one in Texas.And it's also used in tutoring centers.
But I personally have a son whoseverely dislikes it. Could barely read and
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write, and when he took thechessbe here in California, he couldn't pass
anto the other sections, but hepassed the writing portion with accommodations on the
computer of course, that he wasable to get to the point where he
wasn't writing an eight paragraph essay,but he was able to write enough to
pass the Chessbee. So it absolutelydoes work. It's really good with students
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on the spectrum because it's very objectiveand achievable, and the rules don't change
and they get immediate feedback, whichis really good for them. So this
is a program that is easily absorbedby students. Would you say, so,
this isn't something that they're going tolook at it as, this is
yet another hurdle for them to climbover, right, because everybody starts at
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the very beginning. It's a masterybased program. So if you were to
start my program, you would startat stage one, just like everybody else,
and you would learn to write asentence correctly, because this is the
issue. If you can't write asentence, how are you going to be
able to write an essay? Andwhat we do to kids is we say,
hey, write this essay. Nowyou have thirty sentences that are a
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mess. I'm going to mark themup and I'm going to hand them back.
And what you feel is just discouraged. Why try? So what we
do is we just say, learnto write one sentence correctly, and then
you only have to correct one sentenceover and over until you get it right.
You practice writing it correctly, thenyou write the next sentence and so
you're learning all your spelling, allyour punctuation, all your grammar, capitalization,
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spacing between words in one sentence insteadof having to do a whole essay
to learn those same things. Andthen once you can do one sentence easily,
okay, now we're just going tomake you do three sentences. Now
you're going to write. You know, I have two toys. First,
I have a ball, Second,I have a doll. That's it.
You're just learning to do the threesentence paragraph. So we keep it really
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small and manageable so that you neverget discouraged. And that's usually what happens
to kids. It's just the jumpsin skills are too overwhelming in the way
we teach writing. This is absolulutelyamazing. I know for a fact that
we have several teachers that listen tosoul Cal Saturday. I know that we
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have several individuals that represent various schooldistricts that listen to soul Cal Saturday.
How can any of this who needthis program, be it for an after
school program or just for implementation withintheir classes. How can they get in
touch with you to get a holdof this amazing program. They can just
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go to write by Number dot comread about it. You can subscribe to
a fourteen day free trial and getfull access to a PDFs of both the
student book and the teacher book tomake sure it's for you. Anybody can
buy it, but we do.We are vendors with charter schools, public
schools, private schools, so wetake purchase orders, we take whatever finances
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people however they want to pay forit. It's fine. It's just a
website. I love it. Sheis Miss Loreena Townsend. She is the
author of Write by Number, whichis the simplest writing program you will ever
use. They sell a kindergarten throughtwelfth grade writing program for schools, tutors,
homeschools, and more. They takestudents from writing one sentence to eight
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paragraph essays. And if you,like me, have learned anything, you
now know how amazing this program actuallyis. Ms Townsend, thank you for
joining us today and introducing us toright by Number. Thank you so much
for having me. I appreciate it. You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with
Tawala Sharp on demand from KFI AMsix forty, KFI AM six forty live
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everywhere on di iHeart Radio app andArcadia, Seal Beach, West Hollywood and
Eaglewood. This is soul Cal Saturday, and it is a national organ donation
month. Yes, April is national, I'm sorry National Donate Life Month.
National Donate Life Month has to dowith the donation of organs. If you
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do not know, I am adual transplant recipient going on close to fourteen
years now. I had a kidneypancreas transplant, going strong. Everything is
looking good. We have a fewKFI family members here who are part of
the organ transplant family. Folk reporterNeil Sevager, we talk about it all
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the time, and Mondo the GuacKing he is also an organ donation recipient.
So for National Donate Life Month,it is a very special time for
us, time when we really getto think about this second gift of life
that we have. And there's astory that popped up here in SoCal that
really just touched my heart. Isa story about two families who are now
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forever intertwined after donating organs to eachother's siblings. Yes, through genetic luck
and perfect timing, two families fromthe San Gabriel Valley took part in a
dual organ donation swap that has onlyhappened twice in medical history. Kathiah Roca,
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please forgive me if I am mispronouncingyour name. Kathiah Roca twenty eight
was set to donate her kidney toher forty year old brother, Haimi Roca
Fernandez, when doctors discovered complications withher kidneys because there were too many veins
and arteries around the kidneys, itwasn't impossible. It would have been impossible
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for the transplant to happen. Roca'sbrother was born with kidney's too small to
support his body, and this issomething that happens more often than you think,
so he was in need of dialysis. Well, fast forward and then
we are introduced with Joscelyn Cassius twentyeight, who was born with by Larry
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Artesia, a birth defect that preventsbio from the liver reaching the gulf bladder
in After years of living with fatigueand rarely living her home, she was
told her liver function was failing.Her brother, Saul, was prepared to
donate part of his liver to hisolder sister until doctors told him it wasn't
going to work. Now. Throughthe Keech Medicine Program at USC and doctor
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Jim Kim, who is the directorof the Kidney and Pancreatic Transplant Program at
Keech Medicine at USC, he saysthat timing, which again this is a
first time this has ever happened.Thing worked out where both of the siblings
who were willing to donate organs wereactually a match for the siblings in need
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of organs. And it's just tome, this is such a miraculous story
that this was able to happen.I encourage everyone if you are able to
put your name on that list asfar as being an organ donator, I
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encourage you to do so. Iknow that there are a lot of religious
beliefs and just personal beliefs as well, that maybe people hesitant for putting that
dot on their license or for eventhe idea of organ transplantation. But I'm
telling you it's someone who has receivedagain this second gift of life. You
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have no idea how much this meansto those who receive new organs. The
young man who donated, whose familydonated organs that I received, I will
not put his name out there torespect the family's privacy, But this young
man was not only able to provideme with a new kidney and a new
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pancreas. I know that one familybenefited from his eyes, another family benefited
from his liver, another family benefitedfrom his heart. This one young man,
in his passing and in his family'swillingness to give life and honor their
son, and honor the beautiful humanbeing that he was, he has touched
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the lives of several families, givenall of us a second lease on life.
Before my transplant, I was ondialysis and I was on DALLASAS three
days a week, and I wason DALLASIS for six and a half years
before I got the call. Andlet me tell you, it was six
and a half of the worst yearsof my life going on dialysis. I
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mean, I was sick every day. And this is around the time when
my son was born, So itwas rough. It was rough for me
being able to engage with him.It was just it just was a really,
really tough period. I watched peoplepass away while I was on dialysis.
I was on the machine knowing thatI have to come back in another
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day or so for another treatment.There is no I'll skip dialysis, there
is no I don't feel like doingit this week. No, without dialysis,
you will die. And so Inever in my life imagine being on
dialysis. And at the time Iwas, I was Type one diabetes.
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And so when my kidnies failed.It's a long story as to why they
failed. But I thought, great, you know, and now I've got
diabetes and my organs are failed.You know what, what else can go
wrong? But when I received newsthat I could become the recipient of a
pancreas and a kidney transplant, Iyou know, to this day, I
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will never forget that moment of justknowing that I wouldn't be diabetic anymore.
Something some people when their kids theygrow up and they say, I want
to be an astronaut, I wantto be president, I want to do
this, that and the other.All I wanted to be when I was
a kid was not diabetic. Thatis the thing that I wanted most in
life out of anything. I didnot want to be diabetic anymore. And
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now again, going on some fourteenyears later, thanks to transplantation, I
am not. Thanks to transplantation,I am as close to one hundred percent
that I can get. So forNational Donate Life Month, I encourage you
to become an organ donor. Nextweek we will be joined by another small
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business for our Salute to Small BusinessSaturday. But first, Robin, if
you could spin the wheel force,who do we have Kata, we have
Leah Brigg, and Leah Brigg sellsan extensive umbrella collection ranging from everyday kh
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to rare one of a handmade treasuresand they are showcased at county affairs and
state fairs, and you can alsopurchase them at any time online. So
we'll be learning about umbrellas. Umbrellas. Even though they say it never rains
in southern California, proof positive we'rewrong. It's raining a lot. Actually,
this looks like there's we're going tosee some rain next week. Even
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so we need this conversation comes righton time. I look forward to that
the name of the business one moretime, Leah Brigg, Leah Brigg Specialty
Umbrellas. I look forward to speakingto miss Brigg and I look forward to
you joining us again next week.I thank you for spending some time with
us today. We truly, trulyappreciate it and we do not take your
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listenership for granted. Thank you,super producer, Kayla for another outstanding show.
You put together such magic on paperand I love it. Robin,
thank you for holding it down onthe board. We appreciate you. Heather.
We always just love just seeing yourface. Ah, I love it,
and I want to tell you tothank you for sharing your story.
I am a proud organ donor myself, and I love hearing people share how
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important it is and how it canchange someone's life. So thank you for
being so open about that. Iappreciate it. Look, I absolutely have
to. This is what we dohere. We share. We share in
the hopes that it can just blesssomeone's life exactly. Yeah, you've been
listening to soul col Saturday. Youcan always hear us live on KFI AM
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six forty five pm to seven pmon Saturday, and anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app.
Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is to
Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kfI AM six forty Soul Cal Saturday on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. It'sso Cal Saturday. Now DeFi to Wallace
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Sharp is on the show. Isso Cal Saturday? This, this is
so Cal song. It's so CalSaturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday, Saturday Saturday. Word isthe word. This is Soul Cal KFI
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AM six forty Live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app in Vernon, Sunland, Newport
Beach, and Marino Valley. Thisis Soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host
Twala Sharp inviting you to the Raceto Erase Ms. The Race to Erase
Ms is holding a twenty twenty fourgala. This is happening at the Fairmont
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Century Plaza Friday, May tenth,where you will be able to experience an
unforgettable evening that includes an auction,dinner and live music, but more importantly,
it helps to raise funds to yeserase MS. Multiple sclerosis is a
long lasting chronic disease of the centralnervous system that is thought to be in
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autoimmune disorder A condition in which thebody attacks itself by mistake. MS is
an unpredictable disease that affects people differently, and to help us learn more about
this, I want to welcome MissNancy Davis. Miss Nancy Davis founded the
Race to Erase MS in nineteen eightythree after she was diagnosed with MS.
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Miss Nancy Davis, I welcome youto soul cal Saturday today to introduce us
to this amazing event, but alsoto tell us more about your fight to
erase MS. How are you doingtoday? First of all, I'm probably
the luckiest person that's living with MS. I'm doing very well. When I
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was first diagnosed, was not givena very good prognos of the young mom
with three kids, and at thetime I was told they would never walk
again. I'm so grateful that Iam doing well. Not everybody's doing as
well as I am. I starteda foundation. Back then the time there
was no known cause, no cure, no drugs in the market whatsoever.
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It helps out the progression MS.Luckily today there's now twenty six drugs in
the market. Much of it isbecause of a lot of the research that
we have done. It's such abrilliant team of doctors and there's so many
medications. So for that young persontoday being diagnosed with them as the future
is a lot brighter. Now.By definition, we know what multiple sclerosis
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is, but as someone who hasdealt with this autoimmune disorder for as long
as you have, if you can, how does it attack you? How
does it affect you on a dailybasis? Well, for anybody that has
a mass, the M starts formultiple s is for sclerosis. It's many
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scars that form on your brain andyour spinal column. No two people with
the a mass have the same exactsymptoms, you know. Sometimes you can
have a lot of pain, sometimesyou just have numbness. There's a variety
of different things, and you don'talways have the same symptoms when you're having
an attack as you did the lasttime. Very often, the thing that
happened to me is I lose feelingin different parts of my body. I
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can't can't often as I can't seevery well. Affects my eyes. But
you know, other people are different. Some people, you know, can't
walk at all, some can.I feel very fortunate that my MS is
doing really well today versus when Iwas diagnosed thirty two years ago. There's
so many medications that are available,and you watch you know TV, you
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see there's all these commercials are onTV advertising MS medications. It's nothing short
of a miracle. They happen becauseso many people got behind, you know,
our early efforts here and funding reallyimportant basic science research. We have
something called the Center with Outwalls,which is a too arguably the best doctors
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in our entire country who work togetheras a team, and you know,
they meet in person four times ayear and they communicate monthly via database on
everything good and bad in MS research, which really enables all the doctors to
really benefit off each other's research.It's a great wave of coming together and
so we have this event every yearthat's coming up. May attends. It's
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at the Century Plaza and we areraising fund to you know, empower these
amazing doctors to further the research.And we have lots of cures for people
with chronic and not with people withrelapsing or emitting MS, which is the
most common form of MS. Thatmeans it kind of comes and goes.
Sometimes you're having an attacks them asyou're not, but some of it heals.
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There's other forms of MS that aremuch more acute, that are primary
progressive or chronic progressive. So alot of the research that is really trying
to identify how do we help peoplewith much more severe types of MS.
There's these medicines now that we didn'tknow in the beginning, why do your
T cells that start attacking each other. We didn't understand why your T cells
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would start attacking each other. Wenow know if we can kill off your
B cells, that the T cellsnever start attacking each other. So there's
two amazing medications out there that simplystopped the BE cells from acting up so
that the tea cells won't start attackingeach other, which is kind of a
brilliant thing. So Adam, youknow, the thirty one years of research,
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we've had lots of events. Westarted in the mountains of Aspen and
they went to bail. We've doneVegas, but mostly we've done in Los
Angeles. This year we're doing atthe Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on Friday night,
Made the tenth. We have thisinsanely fun event. We have the
best auction, we have the bestentertainers. We have a fashion show by
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the designer Kittle called le Jean's.They have gorgeous fashions. We have Natasha
Beddingfield singing, who's amazing. Wehave Carol Ray hosting it. We have
another band called Great Big World,and one of the singers from Great Big
World has ms Saa Garrett will besinging something too. She's a person who's
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sang Man in the mirror and she'sgoing to sing a do what of the
song lean on Me. We alwaysend our evening singing the song lean on
Me. It's always been our youknow, our thing that we have every
year. So she'll be doing thatwith Natasha Benning, so that will be
a special moment for anybody to watch. Saita has a mess. She's doing
really well, thank God, andshe's just been a very big supporter.
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So we're so happy. We havesuch a great community of people, like
so many fun celebrities will be there. It's just we're very lucky that the
Hollywood community has always embraced us andcome and it'll be a fun night.
We have the best auction items ever, great you know, great trips.
We even have a boat trip.We have great artwork, just everything you
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could possibly imagine, every every greatrestaurant, and clothing, give certificates,
just exotic fun opportunities, you know, and people can all go to a
race MSS dot org and they canbuy tickets or about a week and a
half, they can also figure outa way to be done some of our
great auction times if they just wantto be involved in a different way too.
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I love it. So if anyonelistening wants to buy tickets, they
can go to erase ms dot org. They can always go there to donate
just in general, if they wantto help fund they want to donate,
and we have a great we havea great sort of T shirt campaign.
Lejohn's would be the wonderful clothing designerwho is doing our fashion sho made a
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very exclusive T shirt and that willbe also sold there, and they can
go erase ms dot org and thenthey can also put shop to erase a
mess if they wish to make adonation, buy tickets to the event,
or you know. Eventually we willin about about a week and a half
will have our auction up there too. People can be we have the most
unique items. We have about fourhundred of the most incredible auction times you
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could ever imagine. MSS Davis inaddition to the Race to Erase MS twenty
twenty four gala, what else ishappening the weekend of May the tenth,
the day after the event, soon Saturday morning, they eleventh, we
have our our symposium, so anybodywho has a mess wants to learn,
you know, from the doctors ofwhat's going on. They will do this
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amazing presentation and people can come tothat. It's free and it's open to
the public, and we love tohave people come into the Fire Month Century
Plase at ten in the morning onmaybe eleventh, and that's a great thing
to go to if you want tolearn more about what's happening. And there's
also a virtual way to attend thatfor people all over if you if they
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can't come to you know, LosAngeles, they can go on at racemas
dot org and also sign up tobe able to watch it. And it's
it's really amazing. The doctors areso brilliant, there's so much happening.
It's at a very fast and furiouspace, and people can also submit questions
for the doctors to answer too,and and you know, there's never going
to be a more amazing room,you know, brilliant MS doctors than we
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will have that day, and there'llbe some they're interesting celebrities who have MS
will be on the panel as well. So it's going to be fun.
You should definitely be there. It'sjust and it's every year at our everybody
gets up and dances no matter what. We have a very high spirited event.
People get dressy. It's not blacktib but it's dressy, but they
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get there and everyone dances. It'skind of our tag. Every year.
Everyone has a really great time andwe're so grateful to have, you know,
fun people that come every year andreally support what we're doing. And
the bottom line is we're doing thisbecause we're raising really important fund to fund
really good basic basic science research forfun doctors at USC att U, c
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l a U See San Francisco,at Cedar Sinai. We're funding doctors at
Harvard, at Yale, at JohnsHopkins at Oregon House Funds University. We
have seriously the most brilliant doctors inthe country who are doing this research and
they've been doing it for years.But what's so nice about as they work
as a team. It's quite awhole weekend very comprehensive. It's all about
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you know, helping us, youknow, win this terrible race. We
want to win the race to aRace as and so grateful for everybody helping
us. We've have such a wonderfulgroup of people and everybody should comments.
It's going to be amazing. Asamazing as you are, Miss Davis.
Thank you for joining us today andintroducing us to a race to a race
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MS and thank you most importantly forall your hard work in helping to cure
this disease. You are an angel. Thank you so much, Thank you
so much for having me. I'mso grateful for your time. You're listening
to Soul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharpon demand from KFI A M six forty,
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kfive AM sixty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app and Stevenson Ranch Pair,
Blossom Desert Center and Mira Loma.This is Soul Gallus Saturday. I'm your
host, Twalla Sharp and on theeve of the Wiggle Waggle Walking Run,
which is going down tomorrow at theBrookside Park in Pasadena, make sure you
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join us. Okel's going to beout there. Ammy King's gonna be out
there, and believe you, producerMichelle, Everyone that works at KFI that
has a dog will be out there, and so should you meet your favorite
KFI personalities and walk with your dograise funds for the Pasadena Humane Why not?
And looking at all that and allthings dog. Something that really stood
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out to me this week and wasreally a nice story. There is a
pe coach that is going about pairingunmotivated students, like students who are just
like maw whatever, pe sh me, I'll sit here on my phone now.
He is pairing these students with shelterdogs. Yes, what he is
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doing is he is bringing shelter dogsto join his cross country running team.
And because these dogs need to runand play and all that, and he's
encouraging these unmotivated students to say,hey, I know you may not want
to run, but look at thispup. This pup has been confined,
This pub is in a shelter.This dog he needs to run. Why
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don't you run with him? Giveus a little run with his dog.
And this program is just it's changingthe lives of these kids. It is
finding homes for these shelter dogs.These shelter dogs are finding homes, will
be more adoption has happening because thesechildren are bonding with these dogs, and
that is just getting the word outabout adoption. I absolutely love everything about
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this. This is happening at theSaint Joseph High School in Santa Maria,
California, and this is a programI hope I hope they pick up across
Southern California, Northern California too.Anywhere in California. If you are able
to partner your track team or maybeyour cross country team with dogs from a
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shelter that need to get out andrun and exercise, please do it.
Look up how it's being done.I think that this is an absolutely amazing,
amazing program. So bravo to theSaint Joseph High School distance cross country,
cross country track team and their coachfor getting getting these dogs involved in
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getting them out. And I knowyou heard it earlier in the KFI newsroom.
There is a new program happening herein southern California where LA is considering
offering a monthly stipend for volunteers whofoster animals from city shelters. That's the
Los Angeles City Council approved this motionjust yesterday seeking to establish a monetary stipend
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to encourage Angelina's to foster animals fromthe city six shelters and help rescue and
help reduce overpopulation at these facilities.This was the thirteen thirteen oh vote.
It was overwhelmingly approved. And yeah, and they're looking at providing monetary compensation
for anyone looking to take on apet that is absolutely beautiful. Why not.
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Yeah. I think a lot ofthe things that halt adoptions is financial
restrictions or time restrictions. So ifthey can release one of those restrictions or
you know, make it a littlebit lighter, then I'm open to going
to one of these places and maybelooking at a little pump, you know,
look at a puny, get alittle chin chin for it, a
little yeah, park, Well,I don't know if you're gonna be OK.
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Why not next year? Never saynever, never say never, never
say never. And tomorrow Yes,it is going down the twenty twenty four
Wiggle Waggle Walk at Brookside Park thirdthree sixty North Royal Boulevard in Pasaden.
Look, if you go to Pasaden, you go to the Rose Bowl.
Brookside Park is right there, rightnext to it, the wiggle Waggle Walk
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and run one of Pasadena Humane's biggestfundraisers of the year, with proceeds helping
to save the lives of thousands ofanimals in our community with programs such as
foster care, they have a kit, nursery, Animal ICU, Wildlife and
more. All the funds go toall those programs and yes, KFI has
been the top fund raising team forthe last three years, raising just under
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fifteen thousand dollars last year alone andtogether we will raise even more money for
Pasadena Humane than we ever could.And if you are not able to make
it, If you can't make itout there and you would like to support
anyway, visit give dot Pasadena Humanedot oorg Ford slash team Ford slash five
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six seven zero three zero. Onceagain, that's give dot Pasadena Humane dot
oorg Ford slash Team Ford slash fivesix seven zero three zero. The process
is fast and easy and secure andthen you can be sure that it will
be benefiting all the animals and needs. So I hope you get on out
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there, take a picture with moKelly and post it on social media.
Hang out with Amy King. Sheloves hanging out with people and their pooches.
Why don't you be one of them. This is kfive AM six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadioapp and when we come back,
we will be joined by this week'sSmall Business Saturday for our soul Cal Saturday
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Small Business Saturday Salute. Yes,we will be visited by author Loreena Townsend
who gives us right by Number.Yes, go on and uh keep it
where you got it, don't yougo nowhere? Soul Cal Saturday Small Business
Saturday Spotlight is next. You're listeningto soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
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demand from KFI AM six forty KFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and with Netca West Athens,Santa Anna and Rancho Kucka Manga. This
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is soul Cal Saturday. I'm yourhost, Twala Sharp, welcoming you to
another soul Cal Saturday Small Business Spotlight. Today, we are introducing you to
Right by Number, the simplest writingprogram you will ever use. With Right
by Number, they sell a kindergartenthrough twelfth grade writing curriculum for schools,
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tutors, homeschools, et cetera,on and on. This program takes students
from writing one sentence to eight paragraphessays. This is a program where parents
and teachers can use this simple,step by step curriculum to make sure students
know how to write coherent, correctparagraphs and essays for school, standardized testing,
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and for life in general. Nowthey only sell the writing curriculum,
which includes a teacher book and astudent book, but with this program you
can take your student to the nextlevel. It is my absolute pleasure to
welcome the author of this amazing program, Miss Laurena Townsend. Miss Townshend,
How are you doing today? Duringgreat thank you tell me what inspired you
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to create right by Number. Well. I started developing this curriculum back in
nineteen ninety one when I taught Englishninety nine at the college I had just
graduated from, and I had aclass full of students who could not write
well enough to get into English oneoh one, and it was my job
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to get them to that point.So at first I tried all the things
that had worked for me and thatI had learned in college about teaching others
to write, and none of themworked. They were still completely lost.
And what I realized was most ofthe writing curriculum out there is written by
people who are natural writers, andso they include the methods that work for
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them. For example, hey,read this great passage of literature and now
write about it, or think aboutwhat inspires you and write about it.
And that just doesn't work. SoI got desperate and I pulled out some
materials written by a guy named JaSparks back in the day. He's you
know, long gone, and Idon't think his stuff is public anymore.
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And he had written about this ideaof power reading and power writing, and
the idea is that every sentence hasa job and it's related to another sentence
in terms of power. And heassigned them numbers so you could see the
relationships between sentences. So he turnedthose turned writing into mathematical relationships. And
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this actually makes sense to more peoplebecause it's not this kind of subjective out
there. How do I figure outhow to put this on a paper.
It's just a very objective and itputs things in perspective. So I started
teaching them how to write using thatmethod. Then I went into the classroom
full time top seventh through twelfth grade, and I realized, I have to
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figure out how to do this ona large scale, because you know,
I had classrooms full of kids.I'd add about one hundred and twenty kids
a year I have to teach towrite, and some of them they can't
write a sentence. Others were writingnovels on their own times. So the
question that I faced as a teacherwas how do I teach every single student
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to write without dragging the advanced writersdown and or leaving behind the struggling writers.
And honestly, to teach people towrite, you can't just say,
hey, write this, give thema couple pointers, and walk away.
You have to do real editing.You have to give real life feedback if
you want them to change. Andthat's why people don't really learn to write
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in school because most teachers don't havethe time to check that many essays,
and they can just spot check aboutone hundred and twenty essays a week,
they can't actually do editing and feedback. So I developed a system where everybody
could move at their own paces.I as a teacher, was able to
edit, everyone was able to learnwhat they needed to learn, and then
the program was eventually implemented across theentire school I was teaching, and students
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just picked off picked up where theyleft off every year. Tell me,
is this a program that work forstudents of all learning levels? I asked
that because I during the day workwith children with special needs, and I
look at a system like this aswould this possibly work for a child on
the spectrum? You have you hadany experience with that? Yes? Absolutely.
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In fact, the curriculum is actuallyused in two different special ed programs
that I know for sure, publicschool systems across the United States, one
in Maine and one in Texas.And it's also used in tutoring centers.
But I personally have a son whoseverely dislikes it. Could barely read and
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write, and when he took thechessbe here in California, he couldn't pass
anto the other sections, but hepassed the writing portion with accommodations on the
computer of course, that he wasable to get to the point where he
wasn't writing an eight paragraph essay,but he was able to write enough to
pass the Chessbee. So it absolutelydoes work. It's really good with students
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on the spectrum because it's very objectiveand achievable, and the rules don't change
and they get immediate feedback, whichis really good for them. So this
is a program that is easily absorbedby students. Would you say, so,
this isn't something that they're going tolook at it as, this is
yet another hurdle for them to climbover, right, because everybody starts at
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the very beginning. It's a masterybased program. So if you were to
start my program, you would startat stage one, just like everybody else,
and you would learn to write asentence correctly, because this is the
issue. If you can't write asentence, how are you going to be
able to write an essay? Andwhat we do to kids is we say,
hey, write this essay. Nowyou have thirty sentences that are a
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mess. I'm going to mark themup and I'm going to hand them back.
And what you feel is just discouraged. Why try? So what we
do is we just say, learnto write one sentence correctly, and then
you only have to correct one sentenceover and over until you get it right.
You practice writing it correctly, thenyou write the next sentence and so
you're learning all your spelling, allyour punctuation, all your grammar, capitalization,
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spacing between words in one sentence insteadof having to do a whole essay
to learn those same things. Andthen once you can do one sentence easily,
okay, now we're just going tomake you do three sentences. Now
you're going to write. You know, I have two toys. First,
I have a ball, Second,I have a doll. That's it.
You're just learning to do the threesentence paragraph. So we keep it really
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small and manageable so that you neverget discouraged. And that's usually what happens
to kids. It's just the jumpsin skills are too overwhelming in the way
we teach writing. This is absolulutelyamazing. I know for a fact that
we have several teachers that listen tosoul Cal Saturday. I know that we
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have several individuals that represent various schooldistricts that listen to soul Cal Saturday.
How can any of this who needthis program, be it for an after
school program or just for implementation withintheir classes. How can they get in
touch with you to get a holdof this amazing program. They can just
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go to write by Number dot comread about it. You can subscribe to
a fourteen day free trial and getfull access to a PDFs of both the
student book and the teacher book tomake sure it's for you. Anybody can
buy it, but we do.We are vendors with charter schools, public
schools, private schools, so wetake purchase orders, we take whatever finances
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people however they want to pay forit. It's fine. It's just a
website. I love it. Sheis Miss Loreena Townsend. She is the
author of Write by Number, whichis the simplest writing program you will ever
use. They sell a kindergarten throughtwelfth grade writing program for schools, tutors,
homeschools, and more. They takestudents from writing one sentence to eight
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paragraph essays. And if you,like me, have learned anything, you
now know how amazing this program actuallyis. Ms Townsend, thank you for
joining us today and introducing us toright by Number. Thank you so much
for having me. I appreciate it. You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with
Tawala Sharp on demand from KFI AMsix forty, KFI AM six forty live
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everywhere on di iHeart Radio app andArcadia, Seal Beach, West Hollywood and
Eaglewood. This is soul Cal Saturday, and it is a national organ donation
month. Yes, April is national, I'm sorry National Donate Life Month.
National Donate Life Month has to dowith the donation of organs. If you
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do not know, I am adual transplant recipient going on close to fourteen
years now. I had a kidneypancreas transplant, going strong. Everything is
looking good. We have a fewKFI family members here who are part of
the organ transplant family. Folk reporterNeil Sevager, we talk about it all
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the time, and Mondo the GuacKing he is also an organ donation recipient.
So for National Donate Life Month,it is a very special time for
us, time when we really getto think about this second gift of life
that we have. And there's astory that popped up here in SoCal that
really just touched my heart. Isa story about two families who are now
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forever intertwined after donating organs to eachother's siblings. Yes, through genetic luck
and perfect timing, two families fromthe San Gabriel Valley took part in a
dual organ donation swap that has onlyhappened twice in medical history. Kathiah Roca,
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please forgive me if I am mispronouncingyour name. Kathiah Roca twenty eight
was set to donate her kidney toher forty year old brother, Haimi Roca
Fernandez, when doctors discovered complications withher kidneys because there were too many veins
and arteries around the kidneys, itwasn't impossible. It would have been impossible
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for the transplant to happen. Roca'sbrother was born with kidney's too small to
support his body, and this issomething that happens more often than you think,
so he was in need of dialysis. Well, fast forward and then
we are introduced with Joscelyn Cassius twentyeight, who was born with by Larry
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Artesia, a birth defect that preventsbio from the liver reaching the gulf bladder
in After years of living with fatigueand rarely living her home, she was
told her liver function was failing.Her brother, Saul, was prepared to
donate part of his liver to hisolder sister until doctors told him it wasn't
going to work. Now. Throughthe Keech Medicine Program at USC and doctor
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Jim Kim, who is the directorof the Kidney and Pancreatic Transplant Program at
Keech Medicine at USC, he saysthat timing, which again this is a
first time this has ever happened.Thing worked out where both of the siblings
who were willing to donate organs wereactually a match for the siblings in need
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of organs. And it's just tome, this is such a miraculous story
that this was able to happen.I encourage everyone if you are able to
put your name on that list asfar as being an organ donator, I
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encourage you to do so. Iknow that there are a lot of religious
beliefs and just personal beliefs as well, that maybe people hesitant for putting that
dot on their license or for eventhe idea of organ transplantation. But I'm
telling you it's someone who has receivedagain this second gift of life. You
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have no idea how much this meansto those who receive new organs. The
young man who donated, whose familydonated organs that I received, I will
not put his name out there torespect the family's privacy, But this young
man was not only able to provideme with a new kidney and a new
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pancreas. I know that one familybenefited from his eyes, another family benefited
from his liver, another family benefitedfrom his heart. This one young man,
in his passing and in his family'swillingness to give life and honor their
son, and honor the beautiful humanbeing that he was, he has touched
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the lives of several families, givenall of us a second lease on life.
Before my transplant, I was ondialysis and I was on DALLASAS three
days a week, and I wason DALLASIS for six and a half years
before I got the call. Andlet me tell you, it was six
and a half of the worst yearsof my life going on dialysis. I
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mean, I was sick every day. And this is around the time when
my son was born, So itwas rough. It was rough for me
being able to engage with him.It was just it just was a really,
really tough period. I watched peoplepass away while I was on dialysis.
I was on the machine knowing thatI have to come back in another
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day or so for another treatment.There is no I'll skip dialysis, there
is no I don't feel like doingit this week. No, without dialysis,
you will die. And so Inever in my life imagine being on
dialysis. And at the time Iwas, I was Type one diabetes.
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And so when my kidnies failed.It's a long story as to why they
failed. But I thought, great, you know, and now I've got
diabetes and my organs are failed.You know what, what else can go
wrong? But when I received newsthat I could become the recipient of a
pancreas and a kidney transplant, Iyou know, to this day, I
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will never forget that moment of justknowing that I wouldn't be diabetic anymore.
Something some people when their kids theygrow up and they say, I want
to be an astronaut, I wantto be president, I want to do
this, that and the other.All I wanted to be when I was
a kid was not diabetic. Thatis the thing that I wanted most in
life out of anything. I didnot want to be diabetic anymore. And
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now again, going on some fourteenyears later, thanks to transplantation, I
am not. Thanks to transplantation,I am as close to one hundred percent
that I can get. So forNational Donate Life Month, I encourage you
to become an organ donor. Nextweek we will be joined by another small
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business for our Salute to Small BusinessSaturday. But first, Robin, if
you could spin the wheel force,who do we have Kata, we have
Leah Brigg, and Leah Brigg sellsan extensive umbrella collection ranging from everyday kh
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to rare one of a handmade treasuresand they are showcased at county affairs and
state fairs, and you can alsopurchase them at any time online. So
we'll be learning about umbrellas. Umbrellas. Even though they say it never rains
in southern California, proof positive we'rewrong. It's raining a lot. Actually,
this looks like there's we're going tosee some rain next week. Even
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so we need this conversation comes righton time. I look forward to that
the name of the business one moretime, Leah Brigg, Leah Brigg Specialty
Umbrellas. I look forward to speakingto miss Brigg and I look forward to
you joining us again next week.I thank you for spending some time with
us today. We truly, trulyappreciate it and we do not take your
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listenership for granted. Thank you,super producer, Kayla for another outstanding show.
You put together such magic on paperand I love it. Robin,
thank you for holding it down onthe board. We appreciate you. Heather.
We always just love just seeing yourface. Ah, I love it,
and I want to tell you tothank you for sharing your story.
I am a proud organ donor myself, and I love hearing people share how
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important it is and how it canchange someone's life. So thank you for
being so open about that. Iappreciate it. Look, I absolutely have
to. This is what we dohere. We share. We share in
the hopes that it can just blesssomeone's life exactly. Yeah, you've been
listening to soul col Saturday. Youcan always hear us live on KFI AM
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six forty five pm to seven pmon Saturday, and anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app.
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