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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Keilly Nash, welcome back at the studio. Our friend Jim
Workman is so good to.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Say warning thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
First and foremost, thank you for your service to our country.
And we have so many veterans like yourself that are
taking this Sunday in particular to give back. But this
is an event for the entire community, people like me
as well who never served. It's the twenty fifth annual
VETS Ride.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It sure is, and you know that we need all
of the help that we can possibly get from the
public and from the motorcycle riders that initially started this ride,
and from the community because this VETS Ride is not
only is it the twenty fifth anniversary, but it's no
longer do we just give Christmas to the vets in
(00:43):
the hospital this ride, with the help of the community
and the motorcycle riders, we now give Christmas to the
homeless shelters. We now give Christmas to families in need.
What we accomplished last year in the twenty fourth ride,
we were to give four hundred and twenty families Christmas
(01:04):
baskets that were in need. We were able to give
fifteen hundred meals to veterans off of the street. We
were able to do one hundred and eighty six veterans
move in kits that were moving from basically living on
the street into an apartment with a graduation from a program.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Wow correct.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And last year we raised eighteen thousand dollars in money
and a twenty four foot trailer full of gifts, and
that provided everything that the vets need. South South Carolina
now handles probably close to seventy thousand veterans in the
United States, and excuse me in South Carolina, right and
(01:48):
we'll be going to ninety thousand by the end of
next year.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, Jim. As people go to vetsride dot org the website,
one of the things that says right there is get involved,
and there's a bunch of different ways, including having a
Christmas card, donating a gift, or just donating online, which
is probably the number one thing that they could do.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Donating online. The twenty dollars a ten twenty dollars donor
online last year made this ride the best we've ever had,
and I'm hoping that the public will do the same
this year. If you would give whatever you could afford,
we can afford to buy Christmas gifts for those that
(02:27):
will not get any Christmas, no Christmas with if we
don't bring it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The thing that the.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
VA has added this year is we are now bringing
the Christmas cards back where during the week of Christmas
and New Year's every meal served in the hospital will
have a Christmas card on the tray.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's great. And I know this year in particular and
a lot of people economists and all the point to
the economy is not as good as it should be.
And maybe that's that's been an effectively effective a little
bit or affecting a little bit number of donations that
you've received online because we're running a little behind this year.
We're saying that up front and not it's because we
need your help.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's one hundred percent correct. Usually we're pretty close to
eight around ten thousand dollars right now, we've raised fifty
five hundred. Obviously with the ride. If the weather holes,
I'm sure that we'll have a full house. That'll help
a whole lot. And Carolina Honda, all American Heating and
(03:29):
Air and American Honda are going to donate a Rebel
eleven hundred DCT motorcycle that will be given away at
Dorn VA Hospital for the twenty fifth anniversary of the ride.
It's really simple. You come to Carolina Honda, you bring
your gift, you get registered for the bike, you go
(03:54):
with us over to Dorn and at Dorn we will
pull the winner and somebody will walk away with a
twenty twenty five dark blue beautiful motorcycle Rebel eleven hundred DCT,
which means it's an automatic, so anybody can ride it
out well.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Jonathan was talking about this earlier this morning. I felt like,
it's like, we're weird that we have to bribe people
to be nice to veterans, but this idea of giving
away a motorcycle is so huge. On top of it,
Jonathan came up with the idea of would you just
give five dollars for every year that these people sacrificed
in order to serve the country. Most of them served
(04:33):
four years, whether it was eighteen to twenty two or
twenty two to twenty six. Twenty dollars, it's five dollars
for every year of service is so minimal to say
thank you to a veteran who helped make America great.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And that's really Kelly, that's really important. One of the
largest growing veteran groups that Dorn has that's really stressing
Dorn is female veterans that are homeless with children. It's very,
very hard to take. Obviously, we can help. We not
(05:08):
only bring Christmas. This ride has grown so much with
the help of this radio station who's been with it
all twenty five years. There's probably about three media sources
that have been with us all twenty five years, and
for that we're very grateful. We don't get the TV
coverage we did when we first started. There doesn't seem
to be that interest. But giving back to a veteran,
(05:32):
whether they served one year, five years, or thirty years,
it makes no difference. They are a veteran that served
this nation and they made a difference.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm glad you brought up the female veterans and the
number that is increasing percentage wise every year. And if
you go to the page and you want to take
your kids to go pick out a special gift, you
can see a list of donated items or items that
you can donate that will be perfect. But Kelly makes
a great point in that you can maximize that much
money by just making a donation online because you and
(06:03):
the persons who work with your organization. And by the way,
I can tell you because I have been involved with
it with this event for a while, there is not
one dime that ever goes to Jim Wrtman's hands. Every dollar,
every penny that's ever donated goes directly in the lot
box where it goes from the online donation into the
account that services dorm VA. You guys, Jim Wrtman and
(06:27):
Jean Royer in particular, have done everything possible to and
also some major sponsors who give money to underwrite the
cost of this event. Everything is paid for by sponsors.
All the money that is raised goes directly to the veterans.
And you're right, we have a lot of women in
these shelters outside of the hospital that will depend on
(06:49):
this money year round. It's amazing what you guys are
able to what you started and where you are today.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's totally amazing going from one hundred motorcycles being able
to do very little for the veteran community to where
this ride is at today. And there were actually three
people that started this ride. The person who built Carolina Honda,
the owner Earl Small, actually was one of the founding
fathers Unfortunately he passed away in two thousand and eight.
(07:19):
It was his idea, for example, to bring the Boy
Scouts to Carolina Honda and let them serve the riders. Well,
for the last twenty years Scouts serve the riders. They
make about three thousand dollars. They do everything for donations.
We get all the food donated for them, and they
take one hundred percent of their kids to camp. You
can't ask for anything better. And the best thing that
(07:41):
that thing does is it teaches these young people about
our veterans. And many of them have grown from being
a Scout to now being an adult and they're still
part of the ride.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Jim, you were in the military, you serve this country
for thirty years, and you're in a position to help
these other people. And it just seems like God has
played a big part in what you're doing. And I
know that it starts off every ride with a blessing
of the motorcyclists, and that's going to continue this year.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm assuming one hundred percent we would not be here
if it wasn't for our Lord and Savior. And we
are truly thankful, We are truly grateful for every single
person that comes You don't have to ride a motorcycle
to participate in this event. You can follow the ride over.
You can still register for the bike if you come
(08:30):
into Carolina Honda. You can't park there, but you can
come in there and you can follow the ride over.
It's escorted by Richland County and the Lord plays a
big part.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We pray for two things.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number one, to have safety on the ride and to
be able to have the maximum amount of people participate,
and number two, to be able to meet the needs
of these veterans.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Command Sergeant Major Retired Jim Wortman, Sir, thank you again
for your sir to this country and demonstratively your continued
service to this community and to the veterans. You and
Jean Warrior of course, and all of the sponsors. God,
the sponsors are such a huge part of this and
we know they don't get as much recognition as some
(09:19):
events may give them. But you're quick to point out
if you don't want to do it for the veterans,
don't be a sponsor, because this ain't about you. This
is about the veterans, and we thank you for your leadership.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, thank you, Jonathan, and I thank you Kelly for that,
and I hope people will go to vents ride dot
org and make a donation. But look at the ven
look at the look at the sponsors, and these are
the people.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The best way to pay one of these sponsors back
is use their business, go to their place of business.
That's a that's a nice thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And one of the things that mister Worpman excuse me,
retired Sergeant Major Jim Wortman, has been able to do
is to make sure that this event and being about
the veterans, once you step foot on Carolina Honda's property,
you're not going to be solicited by vendors who are
setting up to try to get your email addressed. They're
not there for anything other than raising money and raising
gifts for the veterans, and we thank them again for
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That, and everything given goes to our veterans.
Keilly Nash, welcome back at the studio. Our friend Jim
Workman is so good to.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Say warning thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
First and foremost, thank you for your service to our country.
And we have so many veterans like yourself that are
taking this Sunday in particular to give back. But this
is an event for the entire community, people like me
as well who never served. It's the twenty fifth annual
VETS Ride.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It sure is, and you know that we need all
of the help that we can possibly get from the
public and from the motorcycle riders that initially started this ride,
and from the community because this VETS Ride is not
only is it the twenty fifth anniversary, but it's no
longer do we just give Christmas to the vets in
(00:43):
the hospital this ride, with the help of the community
and the motorcycle riders, we now give Christmas to the
homeless shelters. We now give Christmas to families in need.
What we accomplished last year in the twenty fourth ride,
we were to give four hundred and twenty families Christmas
(01:04):
baskets that were in need. We were able to give
fifteen hundred meals to veterans off of the street. We
were able to do one hundred and eighty six veterans
move in kits that were moving from basically living on
the street into an apartment with a graduation from a program.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Wow correct.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And last year we raised eighteen thousand dollars in money
and a twenty four foot trailer full of gifts, and
that provided everything that the vets need. South South Carolina
now handles probably close to seventy thousand veterans in the
United States, and excuse me in South Carolina, right and
(01:48):
we'll be going to ninety thousand by the end of
next year.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, Jim. As people go to vetsride dot org the website,
one of the things that says right there is get involved,
and there's a bunch of different ways, including having a
Christmas card, donating a gift, or just donating online, which
is probably the number one thing that they could do.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Donating online. The twenty dollars a ten twenty dollars donor
online last year made this ride the best we've ever had,
and I'm hoping that the public will do the same
this year. If you would give whatever you could afford,
we can afford to buy Christmas gifts for those that
(02:27):
will not get any Christmas, no Christmas with if we
don't bring it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The thing that the.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
VA has added this year is we are now bringing
the Christmas cards back where during the week of Christmas
and New Year's every meal served in the hospital will
have a Christmas card on the tray.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's great. And I know this year in particular and
a lot of people economists and all the point to
the economy is not as good as it should be.
And maybe that's that's been an effectively effective a little
bit or affecting a little bit number of donations that
you've received online because we're running a little behind this year.
We're saying that up front and not it's because we
need your help.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's one hundred percent correct. Usually we're pretty close to
eight around ten thousand dollars right now, we've raised fifty
five hundred. Obviously with the ride. If the weather holes,
I'm sure that we'll have a full house. That'll help
a whole lot. And Carolina Honda, all American Heating and
(03:29):
Air and American Honda are going to donate a Rebel
eleven hundred DCT motorcycle that will be given away at
Dorn VA Hospital for the twenty fifth anniversary of the ride.
It's really simple. You come to Carolina Honda, you bring
your gift, you get registered for the bike, you go
(03:54):
with us over to Dorn and at Dorn we will
pull the winner and somebody will walk away with a
twenty twenty five dark blue beautiful motorcycle Rebel eleven hundred DCT,
which means it's an automatic, so anybody can ride it
out well.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Jonathan was talking about this earlier this morning. I felt like,
it's like, we're weird that we have to bribe people
to be nice to veterans, but this idea of giving
away a motorcycle is so huge. On top of it,
Jonathan came up with the idea of would you just
give five dollars for every year that these people sacrificed
in order to serve the country. Most of them served
(04:33):
four years, whether it was eighteen to twenty two or
twenty two to twenty six. Twenty dollars, it's five dollars
for every year of service is so minimal to say
thank you to a veteran who helped make America great.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And that's really Kelly, that's really important. One of the
largest growing veteran groups that Dorn has that's really stressing
Dorn is female veterans that are homeless with children. It's very,
very hard to take. Obviously, we can help. We not
(05:08):
only bring Christmas. This ride has grown so much with
the help of this radio station who's been with it
all twenty five years. There's probably about three media sources
that have been with us all twenty five years, and
for that we're very grateful. We don't get the TV
coverage we did when we first started. There doesn't seem
to be that interest. But giving back to a veteran,
(05:32):
whether they served one year, five years, or thirty years,
it makes no difference. They are a veteran that served
this nation and they made a difference.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm glad you brought up the female veterans and the
number that is increasing percentage wise every year. And if
you go to the page and you want to take
your kids to go pick out a special gift, you
can see a list of donated items or items that
you can donate that will be perfect. But Kelly makes
a great point in that you can maximize that much
money by just making a donation online because you and
(06:03):
the persons who work with your organization. And by the way,
I can tell you because I have been involved with
it with this event for a while, there is not
one dime that ever goes to Jim Wrtman's hands. Every dollar,
every penny that's ever donated goes directly in the lot
box where it goes from the online donation into the
account that services dorm VA. You guys, Jim Wrtman and
(06:27):
Jean Royer in particular, have done everything possible to and
also some major sponsors who give money to underwrite the
cost of this event. Everything is paid for by sponsors.
All the money that is raised goes directly to the veterans.
And you're right, we have a lot of women in
these shelters outside of the hospital that will depend on
(06:49):
this money year round. It's amazing what you guys are
able to what you started and where you are today.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's totally amazing going from one hundred motorcycles being able
to do very little for the veteran community to where
this ride is at today. And there were actually three
people that started this ride. The person who built Carolina Honda,
the owner Earl Small, actually was one of the founding
fathers Unfortunately he passed away in two thousand and eight.
(07:19):
It was his idea, for example, to bring the Boy
Scouts to Carolina Honda and let them serve the riders. Well,
for the last twenty years Scouts serve the riders. They
make about three thousand dollars. They do everything for donations.
We get all the food donated for them, and they
take one hundred percent of their kids to camp. You
can't ask for anything better. And the best thing that
(07:41):
that thing does is it teaches these young people about
our veterans. And many of them have grown from being
a Scout to now being an adult and they're still
part of the ride.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Jim, you were in the military, you serve this country
for thirty years, and you're in a position to help
these other people. And it just seems like God has
played a big part in what you're doing. And I
know that it starts off every ride with a blessing
of the motorcyclists, and that's going to continue this year.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm assuming one hundred percent we would not be here
if it wasn't for our Lord and Savior. And we
are truly thankful, We are truly grateful for every single
person that comes You don't have to ride a motorcycle
to participate in this event. You can follow the ride over.
You can still register for the bike if you come
(08:30):
into Carolina Honda. You can't park there, but you can
come in there and you can follow the ride over.
It's escorted by Richland County and the Lord plays a
big part.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We pray for two things.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number one, to have safety on the ride and to
be able to have the maximum amount of people participate,
and number two, to be able to meet the needs
of these veterans.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Command Sergeant Major Retired Jim Wortman, Sir, thank you again
for your sir to this country and demonstratively your continued
service to this community and to the veterans. You and
Jean Warrior of course, and all of the sponsors. God,
the sponsors are such a huge part of this and
we know they don't get as much recognition as some
(09:19):
events may give them. But you're quick to point out
if you don't want to do it for the veterans,
don't be a sponsor, because this ain't about you. This
is about the veterans, and we thank you for your leadership.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, thank you, Jonathan, and I thank you Kelly for that,
and I hope people will go to vents ride dot
org and make a donation. But look at the ven
look at the look at the sponsors, and these are
the people.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The best way to pay one of these sponsors back
is use their business, go to their place of business.
That's a that's a nice thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And one of the things that mister Worpman excuse me,
retired Sergeant Major Jim Wortman, has been able to do
is to make sure that this event and being about
the veterans, once you step foot on Carolina Honda's property,
you're not going to be solicited by vendors who are
setting up to try to get your email addressed. They're
not there for anything other than raising money and raising
gifts for the veterans, and we thank them again for
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That, and everything given goes to our veterans.
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