August 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Lori Bishop from the Flint Hills Volunteer Center and board member Ronnie Grice are discussing their upcoming 9/11 Family Event and Picnic on September 7th at Pottorf Hall.
• Annual event honors the memory of 9/11 through community service projects
• 400 pairs of athletic shoes will be distributed to children in grades K-5
• First responders will personally fit children with their new shoes
• Emergency vehicles will be on display for children to explore
• Activities include commemorative rock hunt, tattoos, and coloring pages
• Barbecue provided by Riley County Police Department
• Event creates opportunity for younger generations to learn about 9/11
• First responders share personal memories of where they were on September 11, 2001
• Event runs from 3-6 pm at Pottorf Hall and the surrounding areas
Join us Sunday, September 7th, at Pottorf Hall from 3-6 pm for this meaningful community event that honors our heroes while serving local families.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Philanthropy Today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour, asheard on NewsRadio KMAN.
We are back the GMCF CommunityHour on NewsRadio KMAN, and Lori
(00:20):
Bishop is joining us.
She is with the Flint HillsVolunteer Center.
Welcome back, thank you, gladto be back.
It's always good to HillsVolunteer Center.
Welcome back, thank you, gladto be back.
It's always good to have youhere and you brought a buddy
along.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I brought one of our I mean one of your friends.
I brought our board member pastpresident, mr Ronnie Grice.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey dude, good morning, how you doing, dave?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You gave us all a little scared, but you're doing
good.
Now you look good.
I mean it is, you know,considering.
You know I'm good.
The standard, yeah, I'm good.
Yeah, I've got a clean, cleanbill about a month ago, so
awesome.
Back in the cell again andthank you for all your concerns
and prayers and blessings.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, yeah, those prayers are powerful, aren't
they Tell me?
The three of us know all aboutthat in a lot of different ways.
We definitely do.
We definitely do.
Well, lori, you came up withthis concept a few years ago
about recognizing theanniversary of 9-11.
It's hard to believe that'scoming up and I was just talking
(01:19):
to Vern.
That's 24 years this year.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Can you believe that?
Gosh, yeah, yeah.
And you look back, that's 24years this year.
Can you believe that?
Gosh, yeah, yeah.
And you look back today, youknow parents, children that
weren't around at that time.
And so that's our goal is we?
That's history, you know, andjust we've got to keep that
history alive and stuff.
And so that's why we came upwith our 9-11 family event, and
(01:45):
picnic.
Last year was a huge successfor us, and so we're doing
everything again the same,except we're moving to the
Potter of Halsico Park area thisyear.
But what's exciting is that'son Sunday, september 7th, from 3
to 6 pm, and we're going to bedoing a service project and we
will be giving away free 400pairs of shoes, athletic shoes,
(02:12):
to children in grades K to 5.
And so Shoot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I wear a 12.
I don't think, ronnie.
Yeah, yeah, we're not going toget those.
You're not young enough.
No, oh, fine, but you know it's.
I've heard that before.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
With the events of that day.
You know, on September 11ththere were 2,977 lives lost that
year in 2001.
And after that family memberskind of came together and came
up with this idea of remembering9-11 by doing a service project
and doing things in yourcommunity and honoring, you know
(02:47):
, our heroes and stuff andkeeping this way it keeps their
memory alive too.
So that's kind of why we wantedto participate in that and give
those.
So, and Ronnie, he can sharewith you all the what was really
fun about giving out thoseshoes last year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, what was really fun last year we had a lot of
different law enforcementagencies along with Fort Raleigh
and they participated inactually fitting the kids with
the shoes and they had a runnerand the kids got fitted.
But just to watch theinteraction between the
(03:24):
emergency services and the kidsand their parents was just
awesome.
And also last year Pete Hughesloaned us his baseball team and
we couldn't get those kids outof there.
They had such a ball just beingthere, relating with the kids,
the parents, emergency services,and it was just a wonderful
(03:46):
event.
Matter of fact, it was one ofthose events.
If you've never experienced it,it would actually bring tears
to your eyes to see the joy ofthe kids when they received the
shoes and the little bags.
So emergency management and,excuse me, emergency services,
they had a great time and weeven had some that when they
shift was over, they stayed forthe full event.
(04:07):
They would not leave.
So we are encouraging theparents to get the kids there.
And don't think we're doingdifferent this year.
As Laura stated earlier, wejust changed the location.
The format is the same andwe're hoping to have vehicles
from all of the differentemergency services set up on the
north end of Park Trust Hall,rcpd, who have been doing a
(04:31):
great job on providing the meal,the barbecue, the cooking, will
be there to continue theircontributions to the event.
So we're just encouragingeveryone if you can make it,
please come out, please bringyour kids, because it's one of
these events that will bememorable and once you do it
once, you will never forget itagain.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They're bringing the big grill.
Yes, that's an attraction inits own right, isn't it?
That was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
One of the things too , I'll add.
With the shoes Each child getsa tote bag.
We are partnering withSamaritan's Feet, so this is
where all these shoes are comingfrom.
It's an international programand their program is.
Their goal is to providehealthy communities and things
like that.
So this is our third year.
The very first year we did itwas seniors for shoes, so we
(05:21):
gave shoes away to our elderlypopulation.
So anyway, the shoes are goingto be shipped here.
We'll get those here soon.
So that's quite a few boxes ofshoes we'll have.
But last year we had topreregister.
We're not doing that this year.
So we have little cards that asthey come in they will get a
card with their child's shoesize and then if it's wrong size
(05:45):
then we swap it out and we'llhave a big board there that kind
of will cross out if we're outof that shoe size.
So I think it'll just make it alittle bit easier for us this
year that they just come andthey get the correct shoes.
But in the bag there'll be somethings.
There'll be a littleinformation about 9-11.
And then we also have some ofour first responders that have
(06:06):
some things that they'rebringing us this week to put in
the tote bags too.
So I don't know what those are,but it's going to be kind of
cool.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Let's go back to some of the specifics about the day
You're at Potter Fall andactivities in and around Potter
Fall and Seco Park.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What time, or fall, and activities in and around
potter fall and in seco park.
Yeah, what time do we start?
So it starts at 3 pm, so it'sit.
So this year the um, thebarbecue will be out on the west
side of potter.
There's two entrances in, sothe north side and and the back
entrance from um of potter, sothe south door will be closed,
so there's two ways in and out.
Uh, so we'll have a big tableup with everything.
(06:45):
We, of course, our cookiebrigade, uh, our rsvp volunteers
.
We were finding the homemadelike the best people.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They are.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They're excellent cookies.
Yeah, so it's from three to sixand then um, so they will come
in.
The shoes will be in the firstresponders.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Uh will all be inside potter of hall and then to the
uh outside of that between is itbetween there and bishop
stadium is where y'all are youknow it's uh, it's uh, the open
area uh to the immediate northoh okay, and that's uh, we're
gonna have all of the emergencyservices vehicle where we had a
family night out and that's justto the north and it's a big
(07:23):
area so to fit all of if itdoesn't rain it's like during
the food court and the food areawent during the county fair
right that area there yeah,that's what it's going to be at
off in that area, so if itdoesn't rain and the ground's
solid, that's where we should beable to get all the emergency
services vehicles at, soeverybody can just run around.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So I want to channel your nine-year-old Ronnie Grice.
Which of all those vehicleswould you be most jacked up
about?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, the one they're going to be most jacked up
about is not going to be therethis year, and that's the Semi.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Semi.
Yes, yes, laura can talk aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, he came from Georgia.
He came from Georgia and he hasthis semi.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That is just gorgeous and it's all dedicated to
veterans.
Really, it's really awesome.
It's nice, you know, I get tosee the run-of-the-mill stuff
every day.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well, okay, well, let me rephrase this Of all the
run-of-the-mill stuff every daythat you see, channel your
nineyear-old ronnie grice whichwould you be most excited about?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
probably the fire trucks yeah you know, if we go
back and look at photos fromlast year because we had fort
ronnie, brought the bomb squadoh yeah you'll see kids with the
actual outfit on the even thefireman let them get into the
vehicle.
Uh, have the hat.
There's like a little uh gearthat they can put on and try it
on.
I mean, I would just lovewatching some of those, looking
(08:44):
back on some of those photos,but just seeing them interact
with all that.
And then also inside Potter ofHall during this time, our youth
program, our CSC, connectingStudents to Communities Youth
will be there and they have atable set up so they're doing
tattoos and coloring pages, soit's like anything related to
(09:06):
9-11 first responders, and thenthey can go give it to them or
they can take it home, but alsowe have.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're still doing the rocks too.
Yeah, I was just getting readyto say that I saw a Rotary Club
guy painted a bunch of those.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So we had.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is there a Ronnie Grice rock?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, not this year.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'd make one a VIP.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That would be kind of special, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So we had the Manhattan Concert, rotary and
the Hilton Garden Inn.
I love that we have corporatevolunteers, and so they brought
five.
And then we have a fraternitycoming in today, delta Chi
Fraternity, who's going tofinish painting up our rocks too
.
So the Rotary Club will bethere.
Those will be hidden, and thenRotary you'll watch for them in
(09:51):
their shirt.
But what's nice is there willbe one special hidden rock that
they have to find, and there isa prize if they find that one
hidden rock.
Yeah, so they don't know what,what it looks like, but I'm sure
they'll know when they, whenthey possibly find it.
So so it's another thing to dowhile you're out there get your,
(10:11):
you get the family together, golook for the rock.
They're really nice, nicecommemorative rocks and stuff,
but one is, um, it is the the uhhidden, kind of like the jingle
bowl rock.
This is the hidden rock.
Uh of like the Jingle Bell Rock.
This is the hidden rock thatthere will be a prize with, and
so you'll see some Rotarymembers in their shirts and you
would go up to them and see ifthat's it, and then they'll get
(10:31):
their prize and stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ronnie, as a first responder, what do you hope that
people take away from thisevent?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Never to forget all of the men and women who
represent emergency services,who actually died that day as
first responders, but also thinkabout those who are still
dealing with health issues fromthat day forward, and there's
still a lot of those.
There's still a lot of those,there's still a lot of those,
(11:03):
and this was probably thelargest loss of emergency
services in the history of theUnited States in one day.
And I just think you know,right now I have a campus that's
full of kids who will neverknow, because this happened 24
years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You know and you talked about Coach Pete Hughes
and the K-State baseball team.
Those guys weren't around theneither, so they've got takeaways
, hopefully, from this.
Not just a fun deal, that theyget to participate with kids,
they get to learn.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They get to learn the history, they get to feel maybe
some of the agony that some ofthe families were dealing with
and just seeing some of thoseretired emergency services
people there that get emotionaljust from what happened 24 years
ago.
Because, you know, it's kind oflike that magic question.
The question is asked what wereyou doing on that day?
(11:55):
And I remember vividly what Iwas doing, where I was when it
happened, and once we werenotified after the first plane
hit, we went and turned on thenews and actually saw and
witnessed the second plane hit,and so I was in a meeting at
Manhattan Fire Department.
Mike Watson, who was theRaleigh County director, was at
(12:19):
IACP, our InternationalAssociation of Chiefs of Police,
in Atlanta, florida.
Well, guess what?
First thing they did was thatthey closed all of the airspace.
Now you got all of these policechiefs trying to get back to
their jurisdiction, so theyrented cars and they teamed up
just to get home.
So it's something that you willnever forget.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
We'll always remember that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We'll always remember that day in history.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, I know we had purchased a 15 passenger van, so
we had drivers taking ourvolunteers to things, and so my
assistant and I were on our wayto Hutchison to pick that up and
you know, we didn't have theradio on, we were talking.
And we get there and the guycomes down and said, oh, I
didn't think you'd come.
I said, well, why wouldn't we?
And he said, oh, didn't youhear?
(13:06):
I said hear what?
And then he said when we wentin and like there's like small
tv with several people watchingthe screen and it just like it
just blew our minds watchingthat all go.
And then the people that wehave here locally that actually
responded, that day we hadsomeone for Salvation Army and
(13:28):
set up a site there, and thereare people still here in our
area that were a part of thatday too.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Sunday September 7th.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yes, correct.
Padre Fall 3 to 6 pm.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is that what that is?
3?
Yes, 3.
You want me to remember that byshowing me 1, 2, 3 fingers.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I want to make sure, okay thanks, appreciate it, but
don't forget the barbecue,because it's going to be a great
meal.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, why else do you have Ronnie Grice involved?
Chief Grice, I'm sorry we didnot address you as Chief Grice.
Chief Ronnie Grice from K-StatePolice Department Appreciate
what you do with this.
Thanks for all you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so good to see you doing well and we're also
proud and appreciative to theRyder County Police Department
for donating their services todo the barbecues.
Awesome, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely.
It's Lori Bishop and RonnieGrice here on behalf of the
Flint Hills Volunteer Center.
It's Lori Bishop and RonnieGrice here on behalf of the
Flint Hills Volunteer Center.
When we come back after thebreak we'll go through our
community update list and giveyou a preview of next week's
show here on the GMCF CommunityHour on NewsRadio KMAN.
Philanthropy Today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour, asheard on NewsRadio KMAN.
We are back the GMCF CommunityHour on NewsRadio KMAN, and Lori
(00:20):
Bishop is joining us.
She is with the Flint HillsVolunteer Center.
Welcome back, thank you, gladto be back.
It's always good to HillsVolunteer Center.
Welcome back, thank you, gladto be back.
It's always good to have youhere and you brought a buddy
along.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I brought one of our I mean one of your friends.
I brought our board member pastpresident, mr Ronnie Grice.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey dude, good morning, how you doing, dave?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You gave us all a little scared, but you're doing
good.
Now you look good.
I mean it is, you know,considering.
You know I'm good.
The standard, yeah, I'm good.
Yeah, I've got a clean, cleanbill about a month ago, so
awesome.
Back in the cell again andthank you for all your concerns
and prayers and blessings.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, yeah, those prayers are powerful, aren't
they Tell me?
The three of us know all aboutthat in a lot of different ways.
We definitely do.
We definitely do.
Well, lori, you came up withthis concept a few years ago
about recognizing theanniversary of 9-11.
It's hard to believe that'scoming up and I was just talking
(01:19):
to Vern.
That's 24 years this year.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Can you believe that?
Gosh, yeah, yeah.
And you look back, that's 24years this year.
Can you believe that?
Gosh, yeah, yeah.
And you look back today, youknow parents, children that
weren't around at that time.
And so that's our goal is we?
That's history, you know, andjust we've got to keep that
history alive and stuff.
And so that's why we came upwith our 9-11 family event, and
(01:45):
picnic.
Last year was a huge successfor us, and so we're doing
everything again the same,except we're moving to the
Potter of Halsico Park area thisyear.
But what's exciting is that'son Sunday, september 7th, from 3
to 6 pm, and we're going to bedoing a service project and we
will be giving away free 400pairs of shoes, athletic shoes,
(02:12):
to children in grades K to 5.
And so Shoot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I wear a 12.
I don't think, ronnie.
Yeah, yeah, we're not going toget those.
You're not young enough.
No, oh, fine, but you know it's.
I've heard that before.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
With the events of that day.
You know, on September 11ththere were 2,977 lives lost that
year in 2001.
And after that family memberskind of came together and came
up with this idea of remembering9-11 by doing a service project
and doing things in yourcommunity and honoring, you know
(02:47):
, our heroes and stuff andkeeping this way it keeps their
memory alive too.
So that's kind of why we wantedto participate in that and give
those.
So, and Ronnie, he can sharewith you all the what was really
fun about giving out thoseshoes last year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, what was really fun last year we had a lot of
different law enforcementagencies along with Fort Raleigh
and they participated inactually fitting the kids with
the shoes and they had a runnerand the kids got fitted.
But just to watch theinteraction between the
(03:24):
emergency services and the kidsand their parents was just
awesome.
And also last year Pete Hughesloaned us his baseball team and
we couldn't get those kids outof there.
They had such a ball just beingthere, relating with the kids,
the parents, emergency services,and it was just a wonderful
(03:46):
event.
Matter of fact, it was one ofthose events.
If you've never experienced it,it would actually bring tears
to your eyes to see the joy ofthe kids when they received the
shoes and the little bags.
So emergency management and,excuse me, emergency services,
they had a great time and weeven had some that when they
shift was over, they stayed forthe full event.
(04:07):
They would not leave.
So we are encouraging theparents to get the kids there.
And don't think we're doingdifferent this year.
As Laura stated earlier, wejust changed the location.
The format is the same andwe're hoping to have vehicles
from all of the differentemergency services set up on the
north end of Park Trust Hall,rcpd, who have been doing a
(04:31):
great job on providing the meal,the barbecue, the cooking, will
be there to continue theircontributions to the event.
So we're just encouragingeveryone if you can make it,
please come out, please bringyour kids, because it's one of
these events that will bememorable and once you do it
once, you will never forget itagain.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They're bringing the big grill.
Yes, that's an attraction inits own right, isn't it?
That was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
One of the things too , I'll add.
With the shoes Each child getsa tote bag.
We are partnering withSamaritan's Feet, so this is
where all these shoes are comingfrom.
It's an international programand their program is.
Their goal is to providehealthy communities and things
like that.
So this is our third year.
The very first year we did itwas seniors for shoes, so we
(05:21):
gave shoes away to our elderlypopulation.
So anyway, the shoes are goingto be shipped here.
We'll get those here soon.
So that's quite a few boxes ofshoes we'll have.
But last year we had topreregister.
We're not doing that this year.
So we have little cards that asthey come in they will get a
card with their child's shoesize and then if it's wrong size
(05:45):
then we swap it out and we'llhave a big board there that kind
of will cross out if we're outof that shoe size.
So I think it'll just make it alittle bit easier for us this
year that they just come andthey get the correct shoes.
But in the bag there'll be somethings.
There'll be a littleinformation about 9-11.
And then we also have some ofour first responders that have
(06:06):
some things that they'rebringing us this week to put in
the tote bags too.
So I don't know what those are,but it's going to be kind of
cool.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Let's go back to some of the specifics about the day
You're at Potter Fall andactivities in and around Potter
Fall and Seco Park.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What time, or fall, and activities in and around
potter fall and in seco park.
Yeah, what time do we start?
So it starts at 3 pm, so it'sit.
So this year the um, thebarbecue will be out on the west
side of potter.
There's two entrances in, sothe north side and and the back
entrance from um of potter, sothe south door will be closed,
so there's two ways in and out.
Uh, so we'll have a big tableup with everything.
(06:45):
We, of course, our cookiebrigade, uh, our rsvp volunteers
.
We were finding the homemadelike the best people.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They are.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They're excellent cookies.
Yeah, so it's from three to sixand then um, so they will come
in.
The shoes will be in the firstresponders.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Uh will all be inside potter of hall and then to the
uh outside of that between is itbetween there and bishop
stadium is where y'all are youknow it's uh, it's uh, the open
area uh to the immediate northoh okay, and that's uh, we're
gonna have all of the emergencyservices vehicle where we had a
family night out and that's justto the north and it's a big
(07:23):
area so to fit all of if itdoesn't rain it's like during
the food court and the food areawent during the county fair
right that area there yeah,that's what it's going to be at
off in that area, so if itdoesn't rain and the ground's
solid, that's where we should beable to get all the emergency
services vehicles at, soeverybody can just run around.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So I want to channel your nine-year-old Ronnie Grice.
Which of all those vehicleswould you be most jacked up
about?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, the one they're going to be most jacked up
about is not going to be therethis year, and that's the Semi.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Semi.
Yes, yes, laura can talk aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, he came from Georgia.
He came from Georgia and he hasthis semi.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That is just gorgeous and it's all dedicated to
veterans.
Really, it's really awesome.
It's nice, you know, I get tosee the run-of-the-mill stuff
every day.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Well, okay, well, let me rephrase this Of all the
run-of-the-mill stuff every daythat you see, channel your
nineyear-old ronnie grice whichwould you be most excited about?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
probably the fire trucks yeah you know, if we go
back and look at photos fromlast year because we had fort
ronnie, brought the bomb squadoh yeah you'll see kids with the
actual outfit on the even thefireman let them get into the
vehicle.
Uh, have the hat.
There's like a little uh gearthat they can put on and try it
on.
I mean, I would just lovewatching some of those, looking
(08:44):
back on some of those photos,but just seeing them interact
with all that.
And then also inside Potter ofHall during this time, our youth
program, our CSC, connectingStudents to Communities Youth
will be there and they have atable set up so they're doing
tattoos and coloring pages, soit's like anything related to
(09:06):
9-11 first responders, and thenthey can go give it to them or
they can take it home, but alsowe have.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're still doing the rocks too.
Yeah, I was just getting readyto say that I saw a Rotary Club
guy painted a bunch of those.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So we had.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is there a Ronnie Grice rock?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, not this year.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I'd make one a VIP.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That would be kind of special, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So we had the Manhattan Concert, rotary and
the Hilton Garden Inn.
I love that we have corporatevolunteers, and so they brought
five.
And then we have a fraternitycoming in today, delta Chi
Fraternity, who's going tofinish painting up our rocks too
.
So the Rotary Club will bethere.
Those will be hidden, and thenRotary you'll watch for them in
(09:51):
their shirt.
But what's nice is there willbe one special hidden rock that
they have to find, and there isa prize if they find that one
hidden rock.
Yeah, so they don't know what,what it looks like, but I'm sure
they'll know when they, whenthey possibly find it.
So so it's another thing to dowhile you're out there get your,
(10:11):
you get the family together, golook for the rock.
They're really nice, nicecommemorative rocks and stuff,
but one is, um, it is the the uhhidden, kind of like the jingle
bowl rock.
This is the hidden rock.
Uh of like the Jingle Bell Rock.
This is the hidden rock thatthere will be a prize with, and
so you'll see some Rotarymembers in their shirts and you
would go up to them and see ifthat's it, and then they'll get
(10:31):
their prize and stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Ronnie, as a first responder, what do you hope that
people take away from thisevent?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Never to forget all of the men and women who
represent emergency services,who actually died that day as
first responders, but also thinkabout those who are still
dealing with health issues fromthat day forward, and there's
still a lot of those.
There's still a lot of those,there's still a lot of those,
(11:03):
and this was probably thelargest loss of emergency
services in the history of theUnited States in one day.
And I just think you know,right now I have a campus that's
full of kids who will neverknow, because this happened 24
years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You know and you talked about Coach Pete Hughes
and the K-State baseball team.
Those guys weren't around theneither, so they've got takeaways
, hopefully, from this.
Not just a fun deal, that theyget to participate with kids,
they get to learn.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They get to learn the history, they get to feel maybe
some of the agony that some ofthe families were dealing with
and just seeing some of thoseretired emergency services
people there that get emotionaljust from what happened 24 years
ago.
Because, you know, it's kind oflike that magic question.
The question is asked what wereyou doing on that day?
(11:55):
And I remember vividly what Iwas doing, where I was when it
happened, and once we werenotified after the first plane
hit, we went and turned on thenews and actually saw and
witnessed the second plane hit,and so I was in a meeting at
Manhattan Fire Department.
Mike Watson, who was theRaleigh County director, was at
(12:19):
IACP, our InternationalAssociation of Chiefs of Police,
in Atlanta, florida.
Well, guess what?
First thing they did was thatthey closed all of the airspace.
Now you got all of these policechiefs trying to get back to
their jurisdiction, so theyrented cars and they teamed up
just to get home.
So it's something that you willnever forget.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
We'll always remember that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We'll always remember that day in history.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, I know we had purchased a 15 passenger van, so
we had drivers taking ourvolunteers to things, and so my
assistant and I were on our wayto Hutchison to pick that up and
you know, we didn't have theradio on, we were talking.
And we get there and the guycomes down and said, oh, I
didn't think you'd come.
I said, well, why wouldn't we?
And he said, oh, didn't youhear?
(13:06):
I said hear what?
And then he said when we wentin and like there's like small
tv with several people watchingthe screen and it just like it
just blew our minds watchingthat all go.
And then the people that wehave here locally that actually
responded, that day we hadsomeone for Salvation Army and
(13:28):
set up a site there, and thereare people still here in our
area that were a part of thatday too.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Sunday September 7th.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yes, correct.
Padre Fall 3 to 6 pm.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is that what that is?
3?
Yes, 3.
You want me to remember that byshowing me 1, 2, 3 fingers.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I want to make sure, okay thanks, appreciate it, but
don't forget the barbecue,because it's going to be a great
meal.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, why else do you have Ronnie Grice involved?
Chief Grice, I'm sorry we didnot address you as Chief Grice.
Chief Ronnie Grice from K-StatePolice Department Appreciate
what you do with this.
Thanks for all you're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so good to see you doing well and we're also
proud and appreciative to theRyder County Police Department
for donating their services todo the barbecues.
Awesome, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely.
It's Lori Bishop and RonnieGrice here on behalf of the
Flint Hills Volunteer Center.
It's Lori Bishop and RonnieGrice here on behalf of the
Flint Hills Volunteer Center.
When we come back after thebreak we'll go through our
community update list and giveyou a preview of next week's
show here on the GMCF CommunityHour on NewsRadio KMAN.
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