August 6, 2024 • 26 mins
Dr. Ashley and the Boss talk with Sandy Burkholder & Tim Chandler. Sandy and Tim co-chair this year’s Veterans Appreciation Day on August 10th beginning at 11 am at the Ashland County Airport. Planning for this year’s event intentionally included an emphasis on the whole family. When the veteran deploys the entire family is impacted. Learn more at the Ashland County Veteran Appreciation day Facebook page.
(Record Date: July 29, 2024)
(Record Date: July 29, 2024)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and thank you
very much. Very special edition of the Doctor Ashley and
the Boss podcast. How are you doing though, Doctor Ashley
doing well? I always like to ask her first, yeah,
or else I get in trouble later on. So okay,
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So Doctor Ashley and I are in the studio with
two very very very special guests we have with us,
Sandy Burke Holer Hello, and Tim Chandler. Hello, Tim and Sandy?
Are co chaaring? You correct me from wrong on this
the Veterans Appreciation Day which is coming up Saturday, August tenth,
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twenty twenty four, at eleven o'clock out at the Ashton
County Airport.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You've got it all right, Okay, nice job?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yes, well, thank you. We are gonna mention those details
a few times because sometimes our listeners don't have a
pen at the red or a keyboard to type that down,
so I want to make sure we get the uh,
the specifics correct. But we wanted to spend a little
bit of time talking about this Veterans Appreciation Day for
twenty twenty four, because I believe you and Tim, this
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is your first time being the co chairs of this.
It is how did that happen? Well? Gee, the story
that we can, we can put on the on air.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So I went to one of the meetings early on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I was invited to one of the first meetings, and
as I walked out, I had that responsibility. So don't
show up at a meeting that you, you know, not
really sure what's going to happen, because this.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Is this is how it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, it's saying okay, yes, I couldn't say no.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, then, Tim, what happened? How did you did? Say Itny?
Get you involved?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
On?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Actually I got involved last year.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Denny Baum had approached me about getting a Vietnam traveling.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wall out there. Uh huh uh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
So we ended up doing that and I was put
in charge of just the wall, not the rest of it.
So this year they asked me, you know, it's like, hey,
can you you know, kind of hang on and you know,
help us out with the next year. And I'm like, yeah,
I guess I can. Long story short, Just like Sandy.
It's like I show up at a meeting and They're like,
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you two handle this real well, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
See you Yeah, I like that. It's the ash and way.
I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Natural leaders natural, that's what came through. I think, so
they would have asked otherwise.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it's for a very awesome event. So how
can you not?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Right? Absolutely well, and again, you know, I want to
get into some of the details on what folks can expect,
but I think we can all agree, uh, you know,
any efforts to recognize honor our veterans, we should take
and do it to the best of our abilities. And
I was really struck and I know we'll get into
talking about it that. You know, Tim, who's the veteran himself,
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you know, emphasize one of the differences, and there I
think there are several differences. This year maybe then previous years.
Is one of the differences that he really sees the
veteran in the context of the family. So it's not
just the veteran. Of course, we want to appreciate our veterans,
but we also want to support the entire family because,
right Tim, when when the veterans deployed, or when the
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veteran is involved with things, the families involved too.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Very deeply and a lot of veterans, myself included, we
kind of overlook it because, you know, we deploy, we
have a job to do, and our focus and concentration
is on that job, making sure everything goes right. And
you say goodbye to your family, your friends and everything,
and you think, okay, they're back home, they're safe and
no worries, But we forget that when we leave. Now
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all the responsibilities that we had at home now falls
on the spouse or mom, dad, whoever you leave behind.
So now they have to take care of, you know,
paying all the bills, making sure everything gets fixed. You know,
if a branch comes through the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Roof, who are they going to call?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
You know, So this is our way of saying, you know,
we appreciate the veterans greatly, do always will, but let's
appreciate the family along with the veteran for what they
do when the veteran's not there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, that's great. So having you know, broadening maybe the
focus of the event, I think, to include families more intentionally.
I thought that was one difference from maybe in previous years,
and I thought that was a good difference because again
for doctor Ashley and I working in our system, with
our partners. I can tell you that it's not just
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the veterans that are struggling with mental health or substance
use issues. It's oftentimes whether it's relational issues directly or
maybe that spouse is struggling with again, all the demands
you talked about, Tim, they can feel overwhelmed, anxious, and
you know, sometimes just not sure where to go and
who to rely on. And also that that idea, I
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want to be that solid core for the veteran that maybe,
like you said, is deployed. You know, I don't want
to be there. You know, he's got enough or she's
got enough on her plate. I don't want to be
an additional you know, so helping them negotiate all that
while at the same time taking care of their own self,
because as you say, these are difficult situations. So it's
so for for that alone. I can tell you this
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is appreciated from our perspective.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a great, great way of
saying it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, So Sandy, tell us a little bit more about
some of the changes. This more inclusive family focus is
certainly one thing, but some of the other things that
are going to be going on, folks, could expect. And
again we're talking about the Veterans Appreciation Day Saturday, August tenth,
twenty twenty four at the fair grounds, eleven o'clock and
not the airport. Not the fair grounds.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, at the airport, not a fair grounds.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, airport? Is it seven hundred Township Road one one
oh two? Absolutely, seven hundred Township Road one one oh two, Yes, ma'am.
Other things that maybe are going to happen, folks could
expect when they get there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We have a ton of vendors are going to be there,
so we've added probably twenty five to thirty vendors of
all different types. So we're gonna have something for the
entire family. So whether it's for the females, the males,
or the kids, we're gonna have a lot of kids
activities there. One of the things that's going.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
To be kind of neat and new is the Foam Bash.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh, I'm telling you I'm gonna be the first one kid.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It sounds violent.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, No, it's just foam that shoots out of a
something that you can run through.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I mean they just keep shooting cool.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So it's just like you know, the kids can run
through it'll be cooling. So that's gonna be one of
the things that we're going to have. You know that,
there's going to be kids. The CROC Center is going
to be there with some different.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Games and such and happen. Yeah, they're gonna have some
different things there as far as with some other kids.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think we're going to have some military victuals out there,
and one of them is going to be a military
fire truck that might be shooting some water cool down,
it could be shooting some water.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You know, it is Ohio. We cannot predict what kind
of weather. It could be snow, it could be ninety Yeah,
it's hard to know.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The Ashland County Historical Society is going to set up
a huge, you know booth with just a lot of
different things that they're going to be showing off for
that for the whole area, for for the veterans, you
know that way. So they'll have some really nice displays
to be able to show.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
As well as we're going to.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Do free haircuts okay for any veterans, so just.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
High and tight only or old. There'll be other kind
of other styles. Oh I see, okay, Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
From twelve to two. So that was you know, that's all.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know, obviously I shouldn stay obviously, but that's something
that we're trying out, you know this year as well.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Let's do timing schools about to start to write free
haircut for the veterans.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
For purchase for the Yes, No, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I know that's what I'm saying. I mean, they might
be real specific, but I guess after you know, when
you're in retirement mode, right, you can wear your anyway
you won right, Yes, okay, if you still have it.
I didn't want to say that audience, but mister Chum
doesn't have a whole lot of styling going on with
that hair.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But the YMCA is going to be joining us too,
so they're going to be doined like health and fitness.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So it's just extremely important for any age, you know,
and it doesn't matter who you are.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So those are a few of the just a few
additionals that we were bringing in. So there's going to
be something that everybody's going to.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Now is any cost for folks to come?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh, it's absolutely free. Yes, I mean we're going to
start at eleven o'clock with the opening ceremony. Yes, okay,
and right after that we'll do a veterans picture. All right,
and right after that it's a free lunch open to
everyone that comes through.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Wow, free lunch, anybody shows up? Yes, all right at noon.
You've heard that this is a township road. There's a
lot of activity that are going on, some new, some
things that they've done before. Now I think there is
an opportunity if folks do cost a little bit of money.
But there's something about helicopter rides. Can somebody tell me
about that? Oh and they're all looking at me.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So we have a uh one and Huey helicopter coming up.
They're actually coming from Georgia coming up here. They will
be offering Huey helicopter rides. It is one hundred and
twenty five dollars a person. Ten dollars off for a veteran,
so one hundred and fifteen for a vet. On our
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Facebook page, there is a link that they sent us.
You can pre purchase your tickets online and it's saved
ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
The Hueo take up anywhere from five to ten riders
at a time. The ride lasts approximately twelve to fifteen
minutes and they'll pretty much fly you all over Ashland,
the city and everything. The nice thing that's different about
a Huey versus a lot of the other helicopters is
the other helicopters you're in a bubble. They closed the
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doors on the Hueys. The doors are left wide open.
Oh you are a seat belted in with just a
single seat belt, okay, and it is just exhilarating. I
was fortunate enough to write a hue up in Volville,
Wisconsin one time for training, and yeah, I'd do it
every time.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's really cool.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I didn't know that's what a Huey was, and I
did that when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I remember that, Yeah, and it was no, it was wild.
I'm like, why is there no door?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But it's fun interesting and what the I don't know
this is I'm springing this on yet, but what theaters
out were those used in in conflict? Did they use
Huey's in Vietnam or Korea or the.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Largest conflict that Huey was used in was Vietnam? Okay,
And we have a lot of Vietnam vets that are
really interested in getting back on one for whatever their
memory is.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And everything.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
They have been used in others after that, but then
the Blackhawks were developed, and the Blackhawk is the most
recently used one.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So okay, yeah, I thought it had to be one
of the older ones. I was familiar with the Blackhawks,
but I just wanted to make sure so that So
keep in mind, if you would like to fly in
a helicopter without any doors, this is your chance to
do that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
For you're a risk risk.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Taker, but you have that. You know that single lap belt,
which I'm sure we'll bring a degree of. Is that
what that's called? Well, doctor Ashley, you may not notice,
but you know the single lap belt used to be
very common in most vehicles. You know that that whole
chest strap was a relatively new invention. In fact, seat
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belts themselves weren't even in a lot of vehicles. If
you go back too far.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
At least there's a belt.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
At least there's a belt, right there? Is that?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well? That does sound fun And there are some musical
folks that are going to be there. Now is this
just going to be period specific music or are we
going to have music from different eras? Is this going
to be swing bands? Only?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Everybody's going to be able to do a little you
know movement. Yeah, you could just see me now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, this is an audio podcasting. The audience is not
gonna benefit by this.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, no, I mean, but our first one is going
to be the bluegrass Okay, so that's gonna be fun.
It's going to be you know, I feel like bluegrass.
But and then we've got general patent that's going to
be there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I heard patent is coming. I don't know how you
manage this. Is this like a hologram? Oh no, it's
a real person, a real person, okay, person?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes, Fils was it? Fil? Was just your for ashl
Was that discern?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That was.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Phil Dirt and do there's a lot of Ashlanders old timers.
We remember them from way back in the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
They've been around for like fifty years.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
They play a lot of the music accustomed to elect
the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Era and everything.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
So okay, yeah, I mean, if you want a beach party,
this is the place to be.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right all right. And then Disco Inferno two.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yes, oh wow, Well I'm gonna let Tim talk about
Thisco Infernal too, because you know he's the one that
you know, checks all these out. Yeah, and he's you know,
he's he's Trice's dance moves on them. You know, make
sure that they're going to be okay for the dance
to one Man.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
We gotta get a video podcast we do. Y.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You don't believes falling Down works for any views? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Disco Inferno. They're based out of Cleveland. They are a
very high energy, very active band. Uh. They were here
just in June for the Myers Banshell Summer concerts there. Okay,
it was very hot that day, so they moved them
up to Hugo Young. They were here about five years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They got rained on. We moved it to Hugo Young.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
They're an outdoor band, but for some reason they keep
getting moved indoors. But they play a lot of the
seventies music, disco music, but.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Very high energy. They draw the crowd in.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
They'll come down, put a mic in in your face
and say come on sing with me and all that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh no interactive, Yeah, yeah that sounds fin Now.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We've been doing this event nationals for some time. Do
you know what year this is?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This year number eleven eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Years of doing the Veterans Appreciation Day. Okay, well, This
is exciting. I mean, you're going to cap things off
with something super exciting.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my goodness, we are gonna we were really excited
about this. Yeah, we were going back and forth between
fireworks and a drone show. Sure, but we are going
to do a drone.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Show and we have three.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Hundred, three hundred drones, three hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's amazing, it is.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We've seen a rough draft of it. It's it's gonna
be awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So you need to come out, but you need to
come more into the airport to see it because they
only they go about four hundred feet high, as fireworks
go about six hundred feet high, so there's a little
bit of a difference.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But it's gonna take up the entire sky.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now, there is a rumor that they're gonna configure themselves
into an image of the mayor face. Is that is
that true? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I can't reveal, can I cannot seek You're gonna you're
gonna have to come out and see. But you are
gonna want to be on on the airport. You're gonna
want to come in because you don't want to step out,
you don't want to stay on the road. You need
to come into the airport and just you know, bring
your launch or whatever the case may be, and come in.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, if folks aren't familiar with these drones shows, it's
it almost looks unreal because of the precision I think
of these drones and how they're controlled. It's I guess
the best way to say it, doctor Ashley is you
have to see it to believe.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Seriously. I saw my first one this past weekend. Yes,
and I would encourage anyone who has the opportunity to
come out and check this out because I was in awe,
Like it was so cool to see in real life.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, the degree of technology maybe AI.
I don't know how they're doing all this, Tim, but yes,
I've heard this is becoming more and more of an
alternative to fireworks. And Tim mentioned before the program started
there was some thought that went into fireworks versus drones,
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and maybe speak a little bit to that, Tim, I
think this was more of an intentional choice because you know,
fireworks maybe aren't everybody's favorite thing, but for maybe reasons
that folks wouldn't think of right off hand.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, we, like you say, we went back and forth
on it, and we've had fireworks in the past every year,
and fireworks are a great show and you can see
them from anywhere, any direction.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But fireworks carry.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Loud noises with them, very loud booms. Many veterans do
not want to hear those booms anymore. It brings back
bad memories, nightmares, things they can do without. So with
the drones, there's no real noise. I mean, it's a
humming noise, like about ten thousand bees up in the
air just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That traumatizes me. But I watched The Swarm and that
was a very scary movie in the seventies. But that's okay,
that's okay.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
But without the loud noises. We're hoping that more veterans
will come out and see this spectacular show. We did
get a brief viewing of it, and it will be
very awesome, very veteran, patriotic oriented. And as Sandy said,
you need to come to the airport where fireworks are
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three dimensional and you can see them from anywhere. The
drone shows basically two dimensional. Oka you want to be
there right in front of it, because if you're on
a side road looking at it sideways, you're not really
going to see the You'll just see a bunch of
pretty lights up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And I see that's important. So and do you think
there's plenty of parking there at the Ashton County Airport
for this? Yes, okay, we'll.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Have plenty of parking, parking and we'll have you know,
we'll be able to get you to.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And from because we have golf carts running all over
the place. But yes we will.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But that's important. Thank you for saying that, Tim, that
folks have to be watching the show from a particular
angle or else they won't get the full effect of
what you're trying to do. Correct, excellent. Well, we are
talking about the Veterans Appreciation Day that is coming up Saturday,
August tenth, twenty twenty four, eleven o'clock out at the
Ashton County Airport in studio with doctor Ashley and I's
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Tim Chandler and Sandy brookele Where are the co chairs
this year of this wonderful event. And we're just excited.
I told you before we jumped on. We just we
want to promote this event and you're doing a lot
of promotion efforts. We're just hoping that folks will come out.
If they can't stay the whole day at least come
out for part of this. And as you say, you've
made it so accessible to not just the veterans, but
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the whole family. I'm hoping that they can come out
and they can see or take part in something that
will again appreciate our veterans, but also you know, talk
about community in the importance of family and community and
just supporting one another with.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This, I mean, the community has definitely been involved in that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We have to give a shout out to the entire
community and surrounding because of all the different This event
doesn't happen without.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Donations in the community's evolvement.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So thank you to everyone that has supported us for
the Veterans appreciation, because it takes a lot to make
it happen. Yeah, and Tim and I you know, we're
just two people, but the committee is made up of
so many that have that put forth a lot of
time to make that so because we could not do
it just the two of us. It's huge and we
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have a great team that helps me.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, do you have any idea how many people have
been on the committee that we're in some way touching
this event in the planning. That's got to be a lot, folks.
I would imagine I.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Bet we'ds of at least twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
At least at least just.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You know that with our meetings, because you know we meet,
yeah frequently, but everybody, they do their parts.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
And on that, I want to a huge shout out
to Denny Baum. He's the airport manager, has been for
years out there, and Denny works tirelessly every time because
he has to make sure where if we have the
room for whatever's coming out, and he has to reconfigure
you know, which taxiway might be used, or which runway
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might be altered. He does a great deal and and
the like she said, the rest of the committee, Carl
Reichert and the rest of them, uh don with the buses,
and everybody pitches in. It's not a one or two
person effort. It's definitely everybody involved to make this happen.
And I do want to add this is not just
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Ashland County veterans. This is open to veterans anywhere you are.
If you hear this, please come. This is your day.
It's a Veterans Appreciation Day. Bring your family, have some fun,
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Enjoy it. Yeah, and you'll get to meet Timmy or Sandy,
they will be happy to autograph anything that you bring
them that's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Quite that famous.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But absolutely, that's right, you will be. I can forge
John Elway's name real will.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
We're also going to be out there the Mental health
and Recovery. Yeah, we're gonna have a table, so you
kids stop by our table table. There's gonna be lots
of other vendors too, but there's gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Be quite a few veterans services you know, that are
going to have tables out there too. So yeah, I
say there's going to be something for everybody. And I
think it's just nice for just like for you guys just.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
To be involved.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, because it's an honor for us.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
We don't know what we don't know, so it's it's
a learning for everybody, I think too.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, And I always struck because I read a piece
recently in the Ash and Source about you know, Tim
being a veteran, but also yourself. Sandy, You've got You've
got a couple boys I think that have served or
are currently serving.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So they're out now, but they have served it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I mean, I've always appreciated and been very thankful for everybody,
all of our men and women that have served in
all of our veterans. But it puts you, it gives
you a different perspective when you've had a family member
or you know someone that is close that. But my
boys always think everyone that's going on before them, because
that's huge to half the veterans before them that have
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paved the way.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And it's it's nice to say thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
No and there's a saying kind of it came out
in the sixties, but the slogan nothing about us without us.
I had a former board member who said that a
lot in the context of mental health issues, but basically
what it was getting at, and it's true. I think
for you and Tim is you're going to have an
event that's honoring veterans. How many veterans were involved with
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the planning of that event? You know that that you
know that seems like an obvious thing to add to ask,
but you'd be maybe you wouldn't be Tim's been or
but you know, sometimes events are put on for somebody's behalf,
but then nobody, nobody that's represented on the planning for that.
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And that's why sometimes events fall flat, because you know,
and people scratch your head and I'm like how did
this come? So it's whether we're talking about mental health
or veterans or any group. And this is a I'm
giving you guys a free tip audience. If you're going
to put on an event or a training, make sure
you include people that you're trying to impact on your
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planning committee, because they will help steer you in the
right direction and hopefully keep you from pitfalls that are
pretty obvious to them but wouldn't be if you don't know.
So Tim's point about the fireworks, you know, I don't
know if everybody would have caught that right off the bat,
for instance. So anyway, I just that's my little plug
for I was just very happy to read that you're
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both have veteran experience, either directly or through family. So
thank you. Yep, Doctor Ashley closing comments, As we let
these two go, they've got things to do, you know,
there's only a few days left.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
There going to be doing.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No I just want to say thank you so much
for coming to the podcast today and also for allowing
us to be part of the event.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
We're really looking forward to that very much.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So now we will sign things. I mean, I'm sure
we've got plenty of people will come to the booth.
We will sign stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We will for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So Veterans Appreciation Day this year is at the Ashton
County Airport, seven hundred Township Road one one two. You're
gonna probably have to put that into Google Maps. That's
what I had to do last time I won, I
got lost. It is Saturday, August tenth, twenty twenty four,
at eleven a M. If folks, Sandy, they shouldn't have
any questions after this informative podcast. But in the event
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that somebody wasn't a close listener and they have questions,
what's the easiest way, Go to your Facebook page, Go
to our Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, so it's message, we'll get right back to you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And it's the web Ashton County Veterans Appreciation Committee or
is that they type that in? Okay, Ashton County Veterans
Appreciation Committee. All right, Well, we expect to see you
out there. We'll know if you're not there. We expect
to see if the Veterans Appreciation Day, Come see Tim,
come see Sandy, doctor Ashley and I and all the
wonderful vendors that will be out there at the events.
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As you heard from eleven o'clock on ending in a
spectacular drone show on Saturday, August tenth, beginning at eleven o'clock.
Thank you Tim, Thank you Sandy for being on the program.
Thanks for having thank you appreciate it well. Until next time,
thank you for listening to another episode of the Keeping
an Ashline Healthy podcast. The podcast is a production of
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Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and thank you
very much. Very special edition of the Doctor Ashley and
the Boss podcast. How are you doing though, Doctor Ashley
doing well? I always like to ask her first, yeah,
or else I get in trouble later on. So okay,
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So Doctor Ashley and I are in the studio with
two very very very special guests we have with us,
Sandy Burke Holer Hello, and Tim Chandler. Hello, Tim and Sandy?
Are co chaaring? You correct me from wrong on this
the Veterans Appreciation Day which is coming up Saturday, August tenth,
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twenty twenty four, at eleven o'clock out at the Ashton
County Airport.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You've got it all right, Okay, nice job?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yes, well, thank you. We are gonna mention those details
a few times because sometimes our listeners don't have a
pen at the red or a keyboard to type that down,
so I want to make sure we get the uh,
the specifics correct. But we wanted to spend a little
bit of time talking about this Veterans Appreciation Day for
twenty twenty four, because I believe you and Tim, this
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is your first time being the co chairs of this.
It is how did that happen? Well? Gee, the story
that we can, we can put on the on air.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So I went to one of the meetings early on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I was invited to one of the first meetings, and
as I walked out, I had that responsibility. So don't
show up at a meeting that you, you know, not
really sure what's going to happen, because this.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Is this is how it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, it's saying okay, yes, I couldn't say no.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, then, Tim, what happened? How did you did? Say Itny?
Get you involved?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
On?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Actually I got involved last year.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Denny Baum had approached me about getting a Vietnam traveling.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wall out there. Uh huh uh.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
So we ended up doing that and I was put
in charge of just the wall, not the rest of it.
So this year they asked me, you know, it's like, hey,
can you you know, kind of hang on and you know,
help us out with the next year. And I'm like, yeah,
I guess I can. Long story short, Just like Sandy.
It's like I show up at a meeting and They're like,
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you two handle this real well, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
See you Yeah, I like that. It's the ash and way.
I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Natural leaders natural, that's what came through. I think, so
they would have asked otherwise.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think it's for a very awesome event. So how
can you not?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Right? Absolutely well, and again, you know, I want to
get into some of the details on what folks can expect,
but I think we can all agree, uh, you know,
any efforts to recognize honor our veterans, we should take
and do it to the best of our abilities. And
I was really struck and I know we'll get into
talking about it that. You know, Tim, who's the veteran himself,
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you know, emphasize one of the differences, and there I
think there are several differences. This year maybe then previous years.
Is one of the differences that he really sees the
veteran in the context of the family. So it's not
just the veteran. Of course, we want to appreciate our veterans,
but we also want to support the entire family because,
right Tim, when when the veterans deployed, or when the
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veteran is involved with things, the families involved too.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Very deeply and a lot of veterans, myself included, we
kind of overlook it because, you know, we deploy, we
have a job to do, and our focus and concentration
is on that job, making sure everything goes right. And
you say goodbye to your family, your friends and everything,
and you think, okay, they're back home, they're safe and
no worries, But we forget that when we leave. Now
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all the responsibilities that we had at home now falls
on the spouse or mom, dad, whoever you leave behind.
So now they have to take care of, you know,
paying all the bills, making sure everything gets fixed. You know,
if a branch comes through the.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Roof, who are they going to call?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
You know, So this is our way of saying, you know,
we appreciate the veterans greatly, do always will, but let's
appreciate the family along with the veteran for what they
do when the veteran's not there.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, that's great. So having you know, broadening maybe the
focus of the event, I think, to include families more intentionally.
I thought that was one difference from maybe in previous years,
and I thought that was a good difference because again
for doctor Ashley and I working in our system, with
our partners. I can tell you that it's not just
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the veterans that are struggling with mental health or substance
use issues. It's oftentimes whether it's relational issues directly or
maybe that spouse is struggling with again, all the demands
you talked about, Tim, they can feel overwhelmed, anxious, and
you know, sometimes just not sure where to go and
who to rely on. And also that that idea, I
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want to be that solid core for the veteran that maybe,
like you said, is deployed. You know, I don't want
to be there. You know, he's got enough or she's
got enough on her plate. I don't want to be
an additional you know, so helping them negotiate all that
while at the same time taking care of their own self,
because as you say, these are difficult situations. So it's
so for for that alone. I can tell you this
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is appreciated from our perspective.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a great, great way of
saying it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
No, So Sandy, tell us a little bit more about
some of the changes. This more inclusive family focus is
certainly one thing, but some of the other things that
are going to be going on, folks, could expect. And
again we're talking about the Veterans Appreciation Day Saturday, August tenth,
twenty twenty four at the fair grounds, eleven o'clock and
not the airport. Not the fair grounds.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, at the airport, not a fair grounds.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, airport? Is it seven hundred Township Road one one
oh two? Absolutely, seven hundred Township Road one one oh two, Yes, ma'am.
Other things that maybe are going to happen, folks could
expect when they get there.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
We have a ton of vendors are going to be there,
so we've added probably twenty five to thirty vendors of
all different types. So we're gonna have something for the
entire family. So whether it's for the females, the males,
or the kids, we're gonna have a lot of kids
activities there. One of the things that's going.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
To be kind of neat and new is the Foam Bash.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh, I'm telling you I'm gonna be the first one kid.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It sounds violent.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, No, it's just foam that shoots out of a
something that you can run through.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I mean they just keep shooting cool.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So it's just like you know, the kids can run
through it'll be cooling. So that's gonna be one of
the things that we're going to have. You know that,
there's going to be kids. The CROC Center is going
to be there with some different.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Games and such and happen. Yeah, they're gonna have some
different things there as far as with some other kids.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think we're going to have some military victuals out there,
and one of them is going to be a military
fire truck that might be shooting some water cool down,
it could be shooting some water.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You know, it is Ohio. We cannot predict what kind
of weather. It could be snow, it could be ninety Yeah,
it's hard to know.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The Ashland County Historical Society is going to set up
a huge, you know booth with just a lot of
different things that they're going to be showing off for
that for the whole area, for for the veterans, you
know that way. So they'll have some really nice displays
to be able to show.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
As well as we're going to.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Do free haircuts okay for any veterans, so just.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
High and tight only or old. There'll be other kind
of other styles. Oh I see, okay, Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
From twelve to two. So that was you know, that's all.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know, obviously I shouldn stay obviously, but that's something
that we're trying out, you know this year as well.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Let's do timing schools about to start to write free
haircut for the veterans.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
For purchase for the Yes, No, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I know that's what I'm saying. I mean, they might
be real specific, but I guess after you know, when
you're in retirement mode, right, you can wear your anyway
you won right, Yes, okay, if you still have it.
I didn't want to say that audience, but mister Chum
doesn't have a whole lot of styling going on with
that hair.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But the YMCA is going to be joining us too,
so they're going to be doined like health and fitness.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So it's just extremely important for any age, you know,
and it doesn't matter who you are.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So those are a few of the just a few
additionals that we were bringing in. So there's going to
be something that everybody's going to.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Now is any cost for folks to come?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh, it's absolutely free. Yes, I mean we're going to
start at eleven o'clock with the opening ceremony. Yes, okay,
and right after that we'll do a veterans picture. All right,
and right after that it's a free lunch open to
everyone that comes through.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Wow, free lunch, anybody shows up? Yes, all right at noon.
You've heard that this is a township road. There's a
lot of activity that are going on, some new, some
things that they've done before. Now I think there is
an opportunity if folks do cost a little bit of money.
But there's something about helicopter rides. Can somebody tell me
about that? Oh and they're all looking at me.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So we have a uh one and Huey helicopter coming up.
They're actually coming from Georgia coming up here. They will
be offering Huey helicopter rides. It is one hundred and
twenty five dollars a person. Ten dollars off for a veteran,
so one hundred and fifteen for a vet. On our
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Facebook page, there is a link that they sent us.
You can pre purchase your tickets online and it's saved
ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
The Hueo take up anywhere from five to ten riders
at a time. The ride lasts approximately twelve to fifteen
minutes and they'll pretty much fly you all over Ashland,
the city and everything. The nice thing that's different about
a Huey versus a lot of the other helicopters is
the other helicopters you're in a bubble. They closed the
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doors on the Hueys. The doors are left wide open.
Oh you are a seat belted in with just a
single seat belt, okay, and it is just exhilarating. I
was fortunate enough to write a hue up in Volville,
Wisconsin one time for training, and yeah, I'd do it
every time.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
That's really cool.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I didn't know that's what a Huey was, and I
did that when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I remember that, Yeah, and it was no, it was wild.
I'm like, why is there no door?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
But it's fun interesting and what the I don't know
this is I'm springing this on yet, but what theaters
out were those used in in conflict? Did they use
Huey's in Vietnam or Korea or the.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Largest conflict that Huey was used in was Vietnam? Okay,
And we have a lot of Vietnam vets that are
really interested in getting back on one for whatever their
memory is.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And everything.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
They have been used in others after that, but then
the Blackhawks were developed, and the Blackhawk is the most
recently used one.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So okay, yeah, I thought it had to be one
of the older ones. I was familiar with the Blackhawks,
but I just wanted to make sure so that So
keep in mind, if you would like to fly in
a helicopter without any doors, this is your chance to
do that.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
For you're a risk risk.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Taker, but you have that. You know that single lap belt,
which I'm sure we'll bring a degree of. Is that
what that's called? Well, doctor Ashley, you may not notice,
but you know the single lap belt used to be
very common in most vehicles. You know that that whole
chest strap was a relatively new invention. In fact, seat
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belts themselves weren't even in a lot of vehicles. If
you go back too far.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
At least there's a belt.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
At least there's a belt, right there? Is that?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well? That does sound fun And there are some musical
folks that are going to be there. Now is this
just going to be period specific music or are we
going to have music from different eras? Is this going
to be swing bands? Only?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Everybody's going to be able to do a little you
know movement. Yeah, you could just see me now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, this is an audio podcasting. The audience is not
gonna benefit by this.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, no, I mean, but our first one is going
to be the bluegrass Okay, so that's gonna be fun.
It's going to be you know, I feel like bluegrass.
But and then we've got general patent that's going to
be there.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I heard patent is coming. I don't know how you
manage this. Is this like a hologram? Oh no, it's
a real person, a real person, okay, person?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yes, Fils was it? Fil? Was just your for ashl
Was that discern?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That was.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Phil Dirt and do there's a lot of Ashlanders old timers.
We remember them from way back in the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
They've been around for like fifty years.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
They play a lot of the music accustomed to elect
the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Era and everything.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
So okay, yeah, I mean, if you want a beach party,
this is the place to be.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right all right. And then Disco Inferno two.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yes, oh wow, Well I'm gonna let Tim talk about
Thisco Infernal too, because you know he's the one that
you know, checks all these out. Yeah, and he's you know,
he's he's Trice's dance moves on them. You know, make
sure that they're going to be okay for the dance
to one Man.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
We gotta get a video podcast we do. Y.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You don't believes falling Down works for any views? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Disco Inferno. They're based out of Cleveland. They are a
very high energy, very active band. Uh. They were here
just in June for the Myers Banshell Summer concerts there. Okay,
it was very hot that day, so they moved them
up to Hugo Young. They were here about five years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They got rained on. We moved it to Hugo Young.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
They're an outdoor band, but for some reason they keep
getting moved indoors. But they play a lot of the
seventies music, disco music, but.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Very high energy. They draw the crowd in.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
They'll come down, put a mic in in your face
and say come on sing with me and all that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh no interactive, Yeah, yeah that sounds fin Now.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We've been doing this event nationals for some time. Do
you know what year this is?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This year number eleven eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Years of doing the Veterans Appreciation Day. Okay, well, This
is exciting. I mean, you're going to cap things off
with something super exciting.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my goodness, we are gonna we were really excited
about this. Yeah, we were going back and forth between
fireworks and a drone show. Sure, but we are going
to do a drone.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Show and we have three.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Hundred, three hundred drones, three hundred.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's amazing, it is.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We've seen a rough draft of it. It's it's gonna
be awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So you need to come out, but you need to
come more into the airport to see it because they
only they go about four hundred feet high, as fireworks
go about six hundred feet high, so there's a little
bit of a difference.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But it's gonna take up the entire sky.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now, there is a rumor that they're gonna configure themselves
into an image of the mayor face. Is that is
that true? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I can't reveal, can I cannot seek You're gonna you're
gonna have to come out and see. But you are
gonna want to be on on the airport. You're gonna
want to come in because you don't want to step out,
you don't want to stay on the road. You need
to come into the airport and just you know, bring
your launch or whatever the case may be, and come in.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, if folks aren't familiar with these drones shows, it's
it almost looks unreal because of the precision I think
of these drones and how they're controlled. It's I guess
the best way to say it, doctor Ashley is you
have to see it to believe.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Seriously. I saw my first one this past weekend. Yes,
and I would encourage anyone who has the opportunity to
come out and check this out because I was in awe,
Like it was so cool to see in real life.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, the degree of technology maybe AI.
I don't know how they're doing all this, Tim, but yes,
I've heard this is becoming more and more of an
alternative to fireworks. And Tim mentioned before the program started
there was some thought that went into fireworks versus drones,
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and maybe speak a little bit to that, Tim, I
think this was more of an intentional choice because you know,
fireworks maybe aren't everybody's favorite thing, but for maybe reasons
that folks wouldn't think of right off hand.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, we, like you say, we went back and forth
on it, and we've had fireworks in the past every year,
and fireworks are a great show and you can see
them from anywhere, any direction.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But fireworks carry.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Loud noises with them, very loud booms. Many veterans do
not want to hear those booms anymore. It brings back
bad memories, nightmares, things they can do without. So with
the drones, there's no real noise. I mean, it's a
humming noise, like about ten thousand bees up in the
air just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That traumatizes me. But I watched The Swarm and that
was a very scary movie in the seventies. But that's okay,
that's okay.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
But without the loud noises. We're hoping that more veterans
will come out and see this spectacular show. We did
get a brief viewing of it, and it will be
very awesome, very veteran, patriotic oriented. And as Sandy said,
you need to come to the airport where fireworks are
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three dimensional and you can see them from anywhere. The
drone shows basically two dimensional. Oka you want to be
there right in front of it, because if you're on
a side road looking at it sideways, you're not really
going to see the You'll just see a bunch of
pretty lights up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And I see that's important. So and do you think
there's plenty of parking there at the Ashton County Airport
for this? Yes, okay, we'll.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Have plenty of parking, parking and we'll have you know,
we'll be able to get you to.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And from because we have golf carts running all over
the place. But yes we will.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But that's important. Thank you for saying that, Tim, that
folks have to be watching the show from a particular
angle or else they won't get the full effect of
what you're trying to do. Correct, excellent. Well, we are
talking about the Veterans Appreciation Day that is coming up Saturday,
August tenth, twenty twenty four, eleven o'clock out at the
Ashton County Airport in studio with doctor Ashley and I's
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Tim Chandler and Sandy brookele Where are the co chairs
this year of this wonderful event. And we're just excited.
I told you before we jumped on. We just we
want to promote this event and you're doing a lot
of promotion efforts. We're just hoping that folks will come out.
If they can't stay the whole day at least come
out for part of this. And as you say, you've
made it so accessible to not just the veterans, but
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the whole family. I'm hoping that they can come out
and they can see or take part in something that
will again appreciate our veterans, but also you know, talk
about community in the importance of family and community and
just supporting one another with.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This, I mean, the community has definitely been involved in that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We have to give a shout out to the entire
community and surrounding because of all the different This event
doesn't happen without.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Donations in the community's evolvement.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So thank you to everyone that has supported us for
the Veterans appreciation, because it takes a lot to make
it happen. Yeah, and Tim and I you know, we're
just two people, but the committee is made up of
so many that have that put forth a lot of
time to make that so because we could not do
it just the two of us. It's huge and we
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have a great team that helps me.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, do you have any idea how many people have
been on the committee that we're in some way touching
this event in the planning. That's got to be a lot, folks.
I would imagine I.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Bet we'ds of at least twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
At least at least just.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You know that with our meetings, because you know we meet,
yeah frequently, but everybody, they do their parts.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
And on that, I want to a huge shout out
to Denny Baum. He's the airport manager, has been for
years out there, and Denny works tirelessly every time because
he has to make sure where if we have the
room for whatever's coming out, and he has to reconfigure
you know, which taxiway might be used, or which runway
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might be altered. He does a great deal and and
the like she said, the rest of the committee, Carl
Reichert and the rest of them, uh don with the buses,
and everybody pitches in. It's not a one or two
person effort. It's definitely everybody involved to make this happen.
And I do want to add this is not just
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Ashland County veterans. This is open to veterans anywhere you are.
If you hear this, please come. This is your day.
It's a Veterans Appreciation Day. Bring your family, have some fun,
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Enjoy it. Yeah, and you'll get to meet Timmy or Sandy,
they will be happy to autograph anything that you bring
them that's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Quite that famous.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But absolutely, that's right, you will be. I can forge
John Elway's name real will.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
We're also going to be out there the Mental health
and Recovery. Yeah, we're gonna have a table, so you
kids stop by our table table. There's gonna be lots
of other vendors too, but there's gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Be quite a few veterans services you know, that are
going to have tables out there too. So yeah, I
say there's going to be something for everybody. And I
think it's just nice for just like for you guys just.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
To be involved.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, because it's an honor for us.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
We don't know what we don't know, so it's it's
a learning for everybody, I think too.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, And I always struck because I read a piece
recently in the Ash and Source about you know, Tim
being a veteran, but also yourself. Sandy, You've got You've
got a couple boys I think that have served or
are currently serving.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So they're out now, but they have served it.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I mean, I've always appreciated and been very thankful for everybody,
all of our men and women that have served in
all of our veterans. But it puts you, it gives
you a different perspective when you've had a family member
or you know someone that is close that. But my
boys always think everyone that's going on before them, because
that's huge to half the veterans before them that have
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paved the way.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And it's it's nice to say thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
No and there's a saying kind of it came out
in the sixties, but the slogan nothing about us without us.
I had a former board member who said that a
lot in the context of mental health issues, but basically
what it was getting at, and it's true. I think
for you and Tim is you're going to have an
event that's honoring veterans. How many veterans were involved with
(22:50):
the planning of that event? You know that that you
know that seems like an obvious thing to add to ask,
but you'd be maybe you wouldn't be Tim's been or
but you know, sometimes events are put on for somebody's behalf,
but then nobody, nobody that's represented on the planning for that.
(23:11):
And that's why sometimes events fall flat, because you know,
and people scratch your head and I'm like how did
this come? So it's whether we're talking about mental health
or veterans or any group. And this is a I'm
giving you guys a free tip audience. If you're going
to put on an event or a training, make sure
you include people that you're trying to impact on your
(23:31):
planning committee, because they will help steer you in the
right direction and hopefully keep you from pitfalls that are
pretty obvious to them but wouldn't be if you don't know.
So Tim's point about the fireworks, you know, I don't
know if everybody would have caught that right off the bat,
for instance. So anyway, I just that's my little plug
for I was just very happy to read that you're
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both have veteran experience, either directly or through family. So
thank you. Yep, Doctor Ashley closing comments, As we let
these two go, they've got things to do, you know,
there's only a few days left.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
There going to be doing.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
No I just want to say thank you so much
for coming to the podcast today and also for allowing
us to be part of the event.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
We're really looking forward to that very much.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
So now we will sign things. I mean, I'm sure
we've got plenty of people will come to the booth.
We will sign stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
We will for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So Veterans Appreciation Day this year is at the Ashton
County Airport, seven hundred Township Road one one two. You're
gonna probably have to put that into Google Maps. That's
what I had to do last time I won, I
got lost. It is Saturday, August tenth, twenty twenty four,
at eleven a M. If folks, Sandy, they shouldn't have
any questions after this informative podcast. But in the event
(24:46):
that somebody wasn't a close listener and they have questions,
what's the easiest way, Go to your Facebook page, Go
to our Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, so it's message, we'll get right back to you.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And it's the web Ashton County Veterans Appreciation Committee or
is that they type that in? Okay, Ashton County Veterans
Appreciation Committee. All right, Well, we expect to see you
out there. We'll know if you're not there. We expect
to see if the Veterans Appreciation Day, Come see Tim,
come see Sandy, doctor Ashley and I and all the
wonderful vendors that will be out there at the events.
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As you heard from eleven o'clock on ending in a
spectacular drone show on Saturday, August tenth, beginning at eleven o'clock.
Thank you Tim, Thank you Sandy for being on the program.
Thanks for having thank you appreciate it well. Until next time,
thank you for listening to another episode of the Keeping
an Ashline Healthy podcast. The podcast is a production of
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the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio.
You can reach the Board by calling four one nine
two eight one three one three nine. Please remember that
the Board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis
line through Applese Community Mental Health Center. It can be
reached by calling four one nine two eight nine sixty
one one one. That's four one nine two eight nine
(25:57):
six to one one one. Until next time, please join
us in keeping Ashland Healthy.
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