February 5, 2025 • 48 mins
Tonight Bob and Rick discuss several things that are going on in Parkersburg including the Parkersburg Engagement Project, the new Wood County Resiliency, Proactive Planning, the new City Park Pavilion, the Parkersburg Homecoming Festival Update, and more.
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Well, if I get rid of the picture, we'll be able to go.
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Well, right then.
Yeah, all righty. Well, for Pete's sake.
No, for Rick's sake.
Well, I
isn't that something?
What happened?
I can't get rid of this picture.
Well, what they don't want to look at that.
That's a bad picture.
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Well, I don't know how to do this, Bob.
Really?
Where we are.
Design.
Design.
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Oh, my word.
I don't know what in the world happened there.
I just could not. Well, that was kind of scary.
Yeah.
Good evening, everybody.
It's Wednesday evening, 630.
Welcome to Wrap Around MOV with Rick and Bob.
This is the original amateur hour, obviously.
OK.
Well, anyway, I'm your amateur hour host, Bob Mercer.
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Your host, Rick Sawyer.
How's it going, buddy?
Hi there.
A lot going on this week.
I tell you what, I got some real quick announcements to make.
Wood County Historical Society will have a meet again the last Wednesday of March at 630 p.m.
We'll talk more about that as it gets there.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be at the
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downtown, I believe.
So we'll get that from Mike, from Mikey Hess.
My granddaughter Riley's birthday is coming up in about, oh, I don't know, six days.
She'll be 20 years old.
You believe that, Rick?
She ain't many.
20 years old.
Riley Mercer.
So just be ready to wish her a happy birthday, as many as she can get.
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She loves it.
Here's a good one, Rick.
Yeah, 70th anniversary of the Arc of the Mid-Ahaya Valley.
They're having a dinner and dance this Saturday.
Let me pull this up here.
It's going to be at the Parkersburg Arts Center.
725 Market Street.
It's going to be from 6 to 10.
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Dinner provided by Valley Catering, Cash Bar, Gift Basket Raffle, Live Music by Insured Sound.
Tickets and sponsorships are available now.
Tickets are on sale now.
Tickets are on sale at the address at givebetter.com slash arc after dark.
For more information on sponsorships, call 304-422-3151.
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That was submitted by our good friend, the gentleman Doug Hess, Airbine Museum.
FOP is going to have a pickleball thing, contest, pickleball games, in August 26 and 27.
April.
Raise funds for the Shop with the Cop program.
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If you'd like to partner up, send Mike Pipe for a message and to chat.
I believe last year it was in Jackson Park, so I'm not sure what they're going to do this year.
We'll have to find out from Mike and get back to let you guys know about that.
So we're going to just keep that in mind.
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I don't think I have any others.
Let me see here real quick.
I may have another one.
Okay.
Well, that's all the information.
Well, that's all the announcements I have.
So yesterday was the beginning was the grand opening of the resiliency center downtown.
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There were the old county jail used to be.
Beautiful building.
Beautiful, beautiful building.
I went down today and I got to talk.
Of course, I had met Sidney Webber, the director, at another time when I was down there.
And she just absolutely she's just a very good person.
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She sent me some information on on the building and how much everything was going to be.
But they were in the process of getting ready for the ball this weekend.
So forgive me, I'm not exactly sure, but there's some information there and their tickets are on sale and stuff.
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But this is the big we have a picture of the big ballroom.
This place is huge, people.
I mean, I mean, huge.
And they were working on that.
And over to the left here of your screen in the hallway, there's like three separate meeting rooms.
There's a small meeting room, a medium meeting room, a large meeting room, small meeting room could help hold 12 gas, medium 35 and large medium room, meeting room 50 gas, which is huge.
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Each one of them has its own unique style to it.
And it's just awesome.
I liked it. I went through it.
In fact, if we can, I would try to have at least a couple of them coming meetings down there since it's downtown.
And that's where that's where homecoming is going to be.
So I'm looking forward to that.
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And if you need if you need to get a hold of finding prices again, Sydney Weber is the resiliency center director.
Her phone number is 304-419-3874.
Say that again, toward the end of the show.
Very nice and very, very beautiful place.
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They've got everything there.
They've got a courtroom.
They've got judges quarters.
They've got a honing cell.
They've got backup 9-1-1.
They've got places for the maintenance crews to bring their vehicles inside.
And it's just an amazing building.
I absolutely love it and it fits perfectly there on the footprint.
And I guess they're going to tear down the old sheriff's department.
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I'm not exactly sure what's going to go in there.
If anything part of the building, I do not know.
But I was told that they are going to tear down the old sheriff's department there to the left of the resiliency building.
And so, you know, if you get a chance and you can get a hold of them, see if you could take a tour or if your group is looking for a place to have a
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group, have a meeting, downtown would be the perfect place.
And that would be ideal.
And like I said, get a hold of Sydney Weber and she'll hook you up.
Very, very nice lady.
And she's very excited about telling people about the building, taking tours.
And the people there, the maintenance people that I met, the street crews and stuff that were there at the time doing, I forget what they were doing.
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But they were just like unreal happy, you know, because it's a new building.
A lot of things to do with it, a lot of good things to do with it.
And so, you know, get down there, see what you think.
And like I said, if you're a group looking for a place, get down there and talk to Sydney and take care of business.
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You've not been down there yet, have you, Ray?
No, I haven't. I haven't seen it yet.
We'll have to.
I'm sure they won't, you know, I'm sure she would love to be able to take us a tour of the building and let us, you know, so she could show everybody.
We're going to start doing once a week.
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This week we did resiliency center.
Next week is going to be City Park where they're building a new pavilion.
We'll be taking pictures of that and talking to people that are involved in that. That's going to be an amazing place all by itself.
Southwood Pool, Southwood Pool is going to under complete, the slides going to under complete renovation.
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They're going to raise the level of the lake with, I forget what they call it, risers or razors or something where they can raise the level of the lake.
And it's going to be nice and it's going to bring Southwood pretty good.
It's going to be up there where it needs to be.
I know there was a couple of us, I mean everybody, but there was a couple of us in general that was very picky about, you know, Southwood wasn't getting.
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But the mayor is very, he's very proactive in that stuff. He's got people over there working on it.
He sent out pictures yesterday on Facebook.
Everybody should have seen it. But if not, go down there.
You're going to have to go to the Southwood Water Slide Pool area and take a look.
It's just going to be great. I think anything that betters the city parks, anything that's in the city, we do have some new development going on in the Southside.
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But Woodkine Development is kind of teasing us on that one because they said, you know, that people are guessing what it is.
I don't even know what it is. Of course, I'm not involved in council anymore, but I don't even know what it is.
So anything, any developments great. It's going to be it's over there on Bosley Parkway.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on with it, but I'm excited about it.
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I mean, things are starting to happen around the middle of Ohio Valley, and it makes it nice to see that stuff going on.
And I think that if people just relax a little bit and stop getting angry about things,
I think they'll they'll start to see that there's things happening that all the caves are alive and well.
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Exactly. I mean, you can't do something. You can't do something overnight.
It takes a lot of planning and a lot of a lot of thought, a lot of money.
I know I found that out because I've been trying to get things and God love the mayor of Parkerberg, Tom Joyce.
He's like, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. I agree. But where's the money? OK, well, I get it.
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I was going to write him a check, but I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in Mexico.
So there's a there's a program moving on.
Like I said, we'll be we'll be hitting different spots. Mount Wood Park, Southwood Park, City Park, Jackson Park, Spencer Park, everything.
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We're hitting all these parks. We're going to bring them to you.
Anything that's going on in the city in around the middle, High Valley, Viana, Williamstown, Parkersburg,
Mineral Wells, Lubac, Valpree, Marietta, even Marietta.
They always have a lot going on. So we're going to try to bring it to you as we get it.
We're busy working on other things as well. So we're trying to we're trying to bounce two different trying to juggle two different
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bowling pins at the same time and end up getting hit in the head sometime with it because it's just tough, tough.
So there's a program and I've kind of been talking about it off and on.
And I was going to have the director come on. One of the directors come on, Lisa Doyle.
I'm just going to kind of mention it.
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It's called PEP or Parkersburg Engagement Project.
Now, this project was Parkersburg was picked out of multiple, multiple cities to do this pilot program that's privately funded.
I'm on a steering steering committee to spearhead it.
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Lisa, Lisa Doyle and Wendy Tuck, Fourth District City Council are kind of the people in charge here.
So what what basically what it is is it is a program that works together to identify a problem,
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come up with a solution for the problem and implement the solution and then move on to something else.
And we're hoping to get a lot of people. I mean, we have another meeting tomorrow night.
We're just kind of getting the moving gears put together, if you would.
And it's going to be really good because I think that's what we need.
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We need to we need to work together, all of us together to bring to make things happen,
whether it's entertainment or here in a few minutes, my next topic, which, you know,
but I think that that everybody will once PEP and the businesses start figuring out what PEP is,
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then I think that we can all start working together to better.
And it doesn't necessarily it's not a bad thing. It's not anybody not doing what they're supposed to do.
It's just people they want to see how it's going to work.
If people can work together with with government and business for the betterment of the city,
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the Mid Ohio Valley and stuff like that, it's going to be great.
And I'm excited to be a part of it. And the people on the board, there's like 12 of us, maybe 10 or 12.
Everybody is just so excited about this. And I'm excited about it myself.
I mean, I'm excited to see how it's going to happen.
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So stay tuned for more of PEP.
Parkersburg Engagement Project, which, as a little disclaimer, is not an entity of the city of Perkinsburg by any way or means.
It's a privately funded organ thing that I think that you all will enjoy.
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So that brings me to a next topic that Rick and I talked about today in our meeting.
We have meetings like all the time. And we just do we just talk a lot.
I think I think in the last three or four months, Rick and I probably solved every problem along with John Reed.
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Long John Reed. Yeah, John John's been a big help.
John's been a big help. But we I think we've solved every problem in the United States of America. So I get back.
Don't worry about it now. We got it covered.
I don't know. We haven't helped Mr. Trump with with the Gaza situation yet.
But that's next on our list. I'm going to go to work at the casino.
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There you go. Heck with it. I'm going to deal cards, mister.
My brother works in a casino down in it's a new one called Danville.
It's a casino down down Danville, Virginia.
Him and my brother, Jimmy Scott and my brother, Jimmy are card dealers and they make big bucks, mister.
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I'm in the wrong business being retired. I need to be I need to be a card dealer.
But anyway, I move along. The next thing.
And I'm going to I'm going to try to figure out how to approach this good, Rick, because I don't I'm not putting anybody down.
Rick and I talked about proactive planning and basically what that's going to deal with if we can get the proper people lined up to do it and people behind the effort.
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We want to start now. Soon within the next month and a half, maybe probably end of March, 1st of April when it starts clearing up a little bit.
I know I know what you want to say. We need it now.
But what I want to do is get with people and come up with plans to have get blankets, pillows, cots, clothes, water,
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and have all this stuff centrally located for because from what I understand, these warming centers, this past cold snap we have.
I know you heard this, Rick. The warming centers were screaming for help.
So the plan being is if we can get Parkersburg Homecoming, Circles Campaign, which is a huge big help all the time, that they're always into something.
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Latrobe Street Mission, Salvation Army, different places that deal with the homeless and come up with a program to continue.
We can we can also help at the same time, Rick. We can also help stock the food pantries in the Mid Ohio Valley.
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Now, this doesn't necessarily have to be just a Parkersburg program.
It can be the entire Mid Ohio Valley, including Belkrie Marietta.
You know, and I think that would be an amazing idea if we could get that to happen.
We're going to work on that in conjunction with Homecoming.
I know we have a lot of things going on with the Homecoming that that take our time away, but we do have moments in life to where we come up with other things to do.
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We're going to try very hard to make this happen. What do you think, Rick?
I think so. I'd like to see it happen.
I mean, we can work with we can work with Dale McEwen. He's the emergency management director up at the new 911 Center. If you haven't been up here, it's fantastic.
My peeps, they're up there. We're going to try to get with him and see how see if we can coordinate as well with him.
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Very smart man and knows what he's doing. So I'm going to check in with that.
And that way, if we run into the situation we ran into this year to where people needed blankets and different things like that, we will have them at a centralized location where the churches or the Latrobe Street mission and the other agencies can go to that central location.
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And there'll be somebody there to say, OK, you need 15 blankets. Here's 15 blankets or here's whatever they need.
Have it on hand. Work with everybody in this town. I know it's kind of a tall order, but it can be done. It can be done. It's not something that's impossible where I wouldn't even come up with the idea.
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Rick and I sit and discussed it. We need it to death, I think. But I think we're I think if once we start doing this and we get everybody involved that wants to be involved with it.
Excuse me, Rick. I'm going to do something here real quick because I need to find out something here.
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I want to make sure because he last time on the Bob cast, we missed we were missing certain we were missing some people that were commenting.
I don't know why we're not getting them on the restream. But I don't I don't want people to think that we're ignoring you because sometimes it pops up on Facebook.
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Sometimes it pops up here. I know we had talked to several people here.
So anyway, back to what I was talking about. I'm sorry I'm jumping around, but I'm just trying to make cover some bases here.
So I think that we'll start that very soon. I want to get with the board of directors for Parkerberg Homecoming and make sure and it's just kind of art.
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Not only do we give back during the Homecoming Festival in April, we can give back all year round and be a part of it and bring everybody on board.
I mean, it doesn't make you don't have to be a business if you want.
If you have some stuff that you want to donate, let us know. And we will put them will find a central location.
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I know one of the churches or somebody will absolutely step up and say, you know, let us so we're going to be talking with them pretty soon.
So we'll be looking more for that coming up as well.
Okay, Sharon said, okay, that's not for me.
Sorry about that. So, again, be looking for that we've already talked about the FOP pickleball that's coming up April 26 27.
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I will get you a location as soon as I get with Mike Pfeiffer and find out for sure, because I don't want to tell you it's going to be at City Park.
It's going to be at Jackson Park. I don't want to tell you it's going to be at Jackson. It's going to be a city.
But last year, I do know they had it at Jackson Park. So I don't know if that's going to be that be that or not.
I don't know if a lot of you know, I've been told here recently, the new pavilion, they're really, really, really moving around over there.
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That place is going to be just and we're going to have pictures next week.
We'll have pictures of what's going on next Wednesday night on wraparound.
That place can be huge and it's going to be awesome. And I'm excited for it.
I can't wait. And, you know, it has displaced a couple of festivals like the Multicultural Festival is going to be in Belpris this year.
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I talked to one of the one of the organizers of it and he said it's just the best thing for it right now.
But he believes this is a temporary thing, which I hope so, because everybody always looks forward to the Multicultural Festival.
Once next year gets here, I think that there'll be more room to put it.
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And I think they'll they should be OK.
If you haven't been over there to the city park, it's so different. You know, I called the mayor.
Well, the mayor called me one one day a couple of weeks ago.
He asked me what I was doing. I said, I'm over here looking at how clean this park looks.
This park was just amazing. And they had.
But now now they're really, really getting into the construction of the building.
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We'll have pictures of what it's going to look like if you haven't already seen it over to the city park.
There as you come along the main strip, one past one toward the band shows on the left.
You'll see what it looks like in the daytime and what it's going to look like at the night and nighttime.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. And I think you're going to be well pleased when we get when it gets done.
So I'm looking forward to that. Making sure that that, you know, we'll bring that to you.
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We'll probably even bring the ribbon cutting.
We'll probably tape it and bring it to you so you'll know.
We wanted to get the resiliency building.
Ribbon cutting.
But we were tied up with homecoming stuff and we didn't do it.
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So we need to kind of just.
What's the word I'm looking for? We need to put them in order how we want to do them.
So we don't forget anything like that, because that was very important.
There was a lot of very a lot of big shots, a lot of very important people that were there.
And so. All right. So.
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We'll get you more on that. Homecoming, homecoming 2025 back to the river.
It's going to be 15th, 16th and 17th of August, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, like we've been talking about on the Bobcast.
The last couple of three times.
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When was it yesterday? You put the online or day before the survey?
Couple of days ago. OK. Couple of days ago, Rick put an online survey at Parsburg homecoming dot com.
Our website and what this online survey is, is asking you what you want to see in homecoming.
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What is it that you want us to do that you would like to see? I'm sorry that you would like to see.
I know I told you on the Bobcast the other night, I have been inundated with ideas.
I mean, we had a meeting last night for last night before last.
And a very nice lady from here in Parker Park talked to us about having Dachshund Doxon or whatever they call them.
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They Dachshund or Dachshund? Dachshund.
Yes, you're welcome. Thank you, man. They're Dachshunds.
We're going to have a Dachshund race down at the well, hopefully downtown.
But if not, it's going to be somewhere close by where it's got grass.
But we're going to the more we talked about, the more excited we got about it because Marietta has it.
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Who else did they tell you? Who was it? Oh, my God. I don't remember. I'm sorry.
Anyway, anyway, this brings in a lot of people.
Now, if you have a Dachshund, you want to the the it's going to be on on our website and you can you can sign up and it'll take you right.
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It won't take you to us. It'll take you to. Oh, my gosh, I forget her name.
I'm so upset. And anyway, take it to her and she'll set you up and get this ticket.
I just think it's going to be exciting. I I I can just see it coming and it's going to be just exciting.
So go on. Go on. Partsburg homecoming dot com. Take the dot com.
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Take the online survey, the interest survey as Rick has it and let us know your thoughts.
And nothing's too stupid. I mean, as long as it's safe, we could take a look at it.
Of course, you know, we don't want to overdo ourselves to where we're running out of time to do everything.
This this particular survey is just multiple choice on a scale of zero to 10.
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How interested are you in seeing this thing? OK, all right.
So one there and take I love multiple choice questions. Oh, yeah. I did good.
I'm in school. Yeah. Yeah. The only part I didn't get in school was my name.
I always missed that. I've got to be so. So anyway, go on there and take the online survey and let us know what you think.
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Open mic sign up. We're going to have all day open mic, whether you're banned, whether you're in a single or duet.
You know, we're going to have an open mic. We're going to have comedians, G and PG only, please, because there's going to be little kids.
It's going to be exciting because we're going to showcase local talent.
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We do have some other talent that we've been reached out to from St.
Mary's and I think Pennsylvania, but most of it's going to be open mic for our local talent here and here in Parker's or the Middle Valley.
We're looking forward to that. I hope we get a couple of magicians in there, too, because I love your magician.
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Give us go in there and fill out fill out a car. You know, I think I'd be great.
I think kids would love magicians and I think that's going to be fun, too.
So we're going to have that. We're working with people right now.
Like I told you, we're working with Evie Schaefer and everybody that she deals with.
Rick knows, Madison knows some people and Chuck Lips knows some people.
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I mean, I think it's going to be a good turnout as far as that goes. So basically what we want to do is probably at the amphitheater, we're going to put another stage either around the corner or like I said, we're going to be up on third or up toward Third Street.
So we could put something up there if we need to.
And that way, it won't interfere with each other because we have to use the stage for the big acts, you know, whatever we have coming up.
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So that's going to be fun, I think. Vendor apps are coming soon. We have a little bit of we need some Arch and Crafts vendors.
We'll have the app coming soon. It has to be kind of tweaked a little bit with some times and stuff.
So again, you can go on parkerberghomecoming.com slash vendors and fill out a vendor sheet and get it to us and we'll get a hold of you just as quick as we can and get you set up.
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You know, because we're going to we're we'll take as many as we can get. Truck vendors, food vendors, Arch and Crafts vendors.
You make something, bring it in.
Sit down there and enjoy it and we'll try to make it as comfortable as possible for you.
So we're looking forward to that.
Again, the what did I say April 26th or is it when's Alexis having her pageant out at WVUP?
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Oh, I don't have that right here in front of me.
Have a Saturday on the Bobcast.
We're having an Easter pageant at the Vienna Community Building.
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Okay.
The Queen's pageant is April the 26th.
WVUP.
That's April 26th.
Okay, April 26th. Keep them dates in mind and when's the one that began, Rick?
April 5th.
April 5th.
That's for kids.
Nine years and another.
Easter parade.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
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So be watching for that.
We'll talk more about it on each week till it happens.
That's where we're also working on the outback give back.
If you go to outback on March the 11th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and give them the coupon that's going to be on our website, they'll give 20% of your total bill to us for homecoming.
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So basically how that works, you don't have to actually have it.
You can show them the coupon on your phone.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what they're so far.
They've told us what the coupon in hand.
We'll see.
No, because that's how we've always that's how the baton.
Okay.
Yeah.
And they go with that too.
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I mean, but if there'll be people there and we'll be there probably to pick up tickets if you have.
So, you know, come out and support us.
Stay tuned.
We're going to have at least two more bingos.
We talked to board members Charlotte Nester last night and we're keeping one open for Alexis and the Queens.
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We're going to have a bingo for the Queens pageant.
So we'll keep you advised on that.
That's a real big issue that there's a lot of a lot of wheels involved in that when you know what I mean.
A lot of things.
It's a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving parts.
But you know what?
And I'm going to say this because I do it every time.
I mean, Alexis on top of it, she is all over it and she does a great job.
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She sent a thing today on Facebook.
The Queens are going to have their own directors chairs.
You know, I think that's going to be cool with their names on it.
So anyway, the vendor app coming soon.
Sponsorship ads.
The app is up.
Correct, Rick.
I'm sorry.
The sponsorship app is a pages up.
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Yes, yes.
We have a sponsorship page and also the other for vendors and stuff.
Right.
Vendors is on the way.
I just said that.
I just want to double check.
Yes, we do have a vendors page up.
The application will be up hopefully tomorrow.
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Tomorrow afternoon.
I hope to get that poster on our vendor page.
There's just a lot to do and like I told you Saturday, everybody on the Bobcast,
I mean, on the homecoming board of directors, it's just amazing.
They're trying to keep up with everything.
It's ever changing.
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And so I did that.
It's ever changing and they're keeping up with it and we're right there with them.
I'm excited about everything.
We're going to have a lot of fundraisers between now and then.
We're kind of dealing with how we want to do rubber ducky.
We're dealing with that.
I mean, I want to have three, one for adults, one for teens and one for younger kids.
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But we have to check the legality of that.
I know you all don't want to hear that, but we have to check the legality of that to make sure we can do that without getting ourselves in trouble
because I think that every genre, every age group should have prizes instead of just the adults.
That's just my opinion.
And we're going to have a lot of good things happening for the kids, for the teenagers, for the adults.
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And I think it's going to be just a great time.
I just had this wild thought running through my head.
Oh, dear Lord, we're in trouble.
For the six-year-olds, for their prize, we had to get them BB guns.
Drive moms crazy.
You'll shoot your eye out.
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Red Ryder BB gun. I had one.
I had a BB gun, but I don't know exactly.
I'm sure it was a Red Ryder because I think that was the big thing back when I was at Children last year.
So, yeah, but I remember I had a pellet rifle too and accidentally shot my cousin with the BB gun.
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Actually, I caught him right here.
You almost put an eye out with that.
I didn't mean to.
I mean, they were cleared down.
But anyway, that's what happened.
That happened double lot 70 something.
We used to go out in the woods that used to be down around Pond Run, all apartments now and houses.
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There used to be all woods down there.
We'd go down there and play war with our BB guns.
Everybody wore safety glasses.
But when you got hit, you know you got hit.
Oh, my goodness.
That would hurt.
I'm not a big fan of getting shot with a BB gun.
No, no.
It's smarts.
Let's see here what I got.
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One moment.
Oh, bitch, Raina.
Now, my daughter loves me.
Jessica.
God love her.
So anyway, so just again, we're putting it all together.
We're making it going to make it happen.
We're just trying very hard to make sure that what we got going on.
So that brings us to the next thing.
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This is on our Web page as well.
And I've been posting it and we need help.
We need people to help us.
We'll need army of volunteers to assist in making a homecoming 2025.
The best ever.
If you're interested in being part of CR volunteer interest page,
let us know because we need you.
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We need teenagers.
We need adults.
We need people to help us out because there's how many on the board, Rick?
We're short 13 right now.
We've got 13 right now.
And we got unless the person who asked me about it the other night comes on
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and we won't be one down.
We can't do it by ourselves.
And we want this to be the very best.
And I think it will be once we get once we get past everything.
And basically, the qualifications for helping out are basically,
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are you drawing breath?
If you're drawing breath, we'll find something to put you to work.
It's not going to be hard stuff.
It's not going to be really difficult.
A lot of it's going to be directing traffic.
I don't mean car traffic, I mean foot traffic.
You know, somebody says, well, where's this event?
Well, it's over there.
Just like in an information booth.
And we're going to have to walk around with identification on.
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So ask me.
Just like in Home Depot.
You go into Home Depot and the guy's sitting there with an apron and says,
ask me.
There's a joke in there somewhere.
So anyway, again, just go on there.
And if you sit at our information booth, that would be great.
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You know, if you can.
We would absolutely put you somewhere where it's whatever you're comfortable
with doing, we will put you there to where we're not overdoing it.
So again, if you want to volunteer, please help us out.
Sponsors.
Alexis needs sponsors for the Queens pageant.
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She has things up everywhere on Facebook.
It costs a bunch to put these kids for the sashes, the crowns, the prizes.
They need prizes to put in bags for the girls.
And so if you can do that, let us know.
If you can help out there, let us know.
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Yeah, on our pageants page, she's got a list of on our pageants page.
She's got a list of sponsorship opportunities that she's looking for.
Yeah.
So just go to our website, click on pageants.
com.
We'll put you in the description.
We'll put you in the description.
And we'll get you a link to it.
Rubber Duckie Derby, the same thing.
Tim, Tim can use all the help you can get as far as sponsorships and stuff
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like that.
We're going to try to have interesting gifts for, you know, as we can for
everybody.
Just every, every director that's involved in something, we need help with
that.
It's going to be real fun.
So what else, Rick?
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We've got the sponsors.
There was something we were discussing today that I wanted to talk about, but
I can't remember what it was.
We had so much.
Just come be a part of it and be a part of the new proactive planning that
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will be coming up soon.
We're going to have people working on that even if we have to bring people in
on a whole new committee.
But we want it.
We want it to happen.
And we don't want to, you know, I read, like I said, I read a thing this
morning, I think it was, where some of these warming centers were screaming
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for help getting, they need stuff.
Let's start now.
Put all this stuff together, come up with it where we don't have to, where we
won't run into this problem.
Non-perishable foods, why not?
Dog crates, why not?
Dog food.
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Baby diapers, you know, stuff for the kids.
Personal hygiene items we can do.
We'll take just about anything too and we'll let you know exactly when we're
going to start collecting stuff.
You'll see it in the paper and on TV, I know, because I'm really big about
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putting stuff like that on.
But we want to make sure we have a place to put it first before we start
collecting it and it's not sitting at somebody's house.
We want to make sure that it's either at a church or at the Latrobe Street
Foundation, Salvation Army, Red Cross.
Or if you own a building that is sitting partially empty and you want to have
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us, you know, let us use a piece of that, you know.
Good idea.
Open to that also.
Good idea.
Good idea.
That would be amazing as well.
And we can absolutely do that.
But anyway, look forward to it's getting to that time of the year where things
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are going to start happening, not just with us but with everybody.
And there's going to be a lot of excitement in the air, I think.
I personally believe so.
People are starting to get a little bit antsy and they want to start doing
things.
Come out and volunteer with us or even anywhere that needs help.
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I mean, we have circles, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Latrobe Street Mission,
any place that needs volunteers, come out and volunteer to get out of the
house, you know.
So I think that will be an amazing thing to do.
We're a community and we need to work together as a community and I think we
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have the people in the community to do it.
And I don't see why it can't work.
The only reason it can't work is people don't want to but I think people really
want to because especially after the cold weather, it was unseasonably cold.
It was like really, really bad.
And so I had to stay in with my feet, my little footsies covered up.
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I just think we're supposed to get some more snow tomorrow night.
Get out of here, mister.
My sister lives in Punxsutawney and she has gone groundhog hunting the last
couple of days but she hasn't been able to find him yet so she's still looking.
You know what's going to happen next year, right?
We're taking Scooby up.
That's right.
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We'll take Scooby up to Punxsutawney and let him chase the groundhog.
Right.
You won't have a chance to see us that day.
The only thing I saw was that big dog.
So.
Scooby's going to check in.
Exciting.
And we'll get with you on everything that we talked about tonight.
You will hear about it in the upcoming weeks on the podcast.
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Wrap around MOV and anything else we could possibly put it in the newspaper, TV.
And that's the only thing too.
I want to say hopefully somebody knows somebody at WTAP because I've been
trying to reach them for like two weeks.
Tell them to answer their phone.
I've been leaving messages after message after message and nobody will call me back.
I don't know why, but I may end up having to get out there tomorrow.
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We need to get on about PEP.
Me and Lisa and then Chuck and I are going to go on with part of her homecoming
and talk to everybody about basically what we're talking about tonight.
So I'm thinking that we need to.
If you know somebody at WTAP, have them call me at 304-588-8074.
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Please.
I just sent them another message today with my phone number and stuff.
We'll see what happens.
Did somebody ding on something?
Yeah, my sister just sent me a message.
Oh, no.
She probably heard that dag on Punks to Tony Phil joke.
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Anyway.
Oh, boy.
I'll have to call you here, Rick.
I just got a message.
Okay.
You will enjoy this mystery.
All right.
Anything else going on, Rick?
I think that about covers it for this week.
Well, like I said, happy birthday to those who we didn't get.
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So, Raleigh will be 20 years old.
That scares me.
20?
20 years old.
My goodness.
I can remember when she was a baby.
I was...
Anyway.
Like it?
Yeah.
So, I got to tell you something's funny.
And it's already happened.
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So, my youngest granddaughter is 18, Aubrey.
She's 18 years old.
Or she will be...
No, she'll be 19.
She's 18.
The other day she had a traffic accident.
She was too bad.
So, she comes home, call the insurance company.
And she comes over and she goes, he hit me, Papon.
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I got out of the car and she goes, I felt so bad for him.
He was just a baby.
He was 16.
And I went, oh, my gosh.
That was the funniest thing I have ever heard.
He was just a baby, Papon.
Both of them.
He had somebody in the car with him.
And...
Wow.
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Anyway.
So, that's pretty much the end of that.
So, Saturday, tune in with us at 6.30 p.m.
for the Bobcast MOV.
And then next Wednesday we'll have, again, wrap around.
So, Rick, you don't have anything else to say, right?
I think we pretty much have everything.
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But if you can remember what I've said,
because I know y'all love to hear me talk,
think about some of the things we were talking about,
proactive, the proactive planning, being part of homecoming,
anything we talked about.
And if we missed it tonight, we'll try to catch it Saturday night.
Yeah, pretty much.
We got three days to catch it.
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So, just let us know.
So, with that being said, Rick, we're going to end it for the night.
And we'll see you guys Saturday.
6.30 for Bobcast MOV with Rick, Tee, and Bob.
I'm going to see if Tee wants to be involved.
Because I hate not asking her.
It's just been, we've been off.
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And so, it's been fun.
We'll do it again.
You guys be careful if we get any ice or snow.
If you have anything you want me to put on here,
Rick and I to put on here, get with us.
Send us an email, a message, or whatever you want to do.
So, we'll get it.
I'm looking forward.
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I think y'all need to really help out the Arc on their dance this Saturday night.
That's a long time, 70, what did I say, 70 years?
I think it was.
That was right.
Sweetheart ball?
Yeah.
There you go.
Okay.
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Yep.
70th anniversary of the Arc of Middle High.
Doug and his people do amazing work.
They do.
They do great things for this community.
And I'm just proud to be even mentioning them.
Because they just do great work.
And so, other than that, have a very good night.
Be safe.
Be careful.
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We love you guys.
We'll see you Saturday night on the Bobcast MOV.
And with that, we are done.
And out.
We'll see you Saturday night.
All right, buddy.
Bye.
Wait a minute.
Sounds good.
Well, if I get rid of the picture, we'll be able to go.
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Well, right then.
Yeah, all righty. Well, for Pete's sake.
No, for Rick's sake.
Well, I
isn't that something?
What happened?
I can't get rid of this picture.
Well, what they don't want to look at that.
That's a bad picture.
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Well, I don't know how to do this, Bob.
Really?
Where we are.
Design.
Design.
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Oh, my word.
I don't know what in the world happened there.
I just could not. Well, that was kind of scary.
Yeah.
Good evening, everybody.
It's Wednesday evening, 630.
Welcome to Wrap Around MOV with Rick and Bob.
This is the original amateur hour, obviously.
OK.
Well, anyway, I'm your amateur hour host, Bob Mercer.
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Your host, Rick Sawyer.
How's it going, buddy?
Hi there.
A lot going on this week.
I tell you what, I got some real quick announcements to make.
Wood County Historical Society will have a meet again the last Wednesday of March at 630 p.m.
We'll talk more about that as it gets there.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be at the
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downtown, I believe.
So we'll get that from Mike, from Mikey Hess.
My granddaughter Riley's birthday is coming up in about, oh, I don't know, six days.
She'll be 20 years old.
You believe that, Rick?
She ain't many.
20 years old.
Riley Mercer.
So just be ready to wish her a happy birthday, as many as she can get.
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She loves it.
Here's a good one, Rick.
Yeah, 70th anniversary of the Arc of the Mid-Ahaya Valley.
They're having a dinner and dance this Saturday.
Let me pull this up here.
It's going to be at the Parkersburg Arts Center.
725 Market Street.
It's going to be from 6 to 10.
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Dinner provided by Valley Catering, Cash Bar, Gift Basket Raffle, Live Music by Insured Sound.
Tickets and sponsorships are available now.
Tickets are on sale now.
Tickets are on sale at the address at givebetter.com slash arc after dark.
For more information on sponsorships, call 304-422-3151.
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That was submitted by our good friend, the gentleman Doug Hess, Airbine Museum.
FOP is going to have a pickleball thing, contest, pickleball games, in August 26 and 27.
April.
Raise funds for the Shop with the Cop program.
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If you'd like to partner up, send Mike Pipe for a message and to chat.
I believe last year it was in Jackson Park, so I'm not sure what they're going to do this year.
We'll have to find out from Mike and get back to let you guys know about that.
So we're going to just keep that in mind.
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I don't think I have any others.
Let me see here real quick.
I may have another one.
Okay.
Well, that's all the information.
Well, that's all the announcements I have.
So yesterday was the beginning was the grand opening of the resiliency center downtown.
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There were the old county jail used to be.
Beautiful building.
Beautiful, beautiful building.
I went down today and I got to talk.
Of course, I had met Sidney Webber, the director, at another time when I was down there.
And she just absolutely she's just a very good person.
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She sent me some information on on the building and how much everything was going to be.
But they were in the process of getting ready for the ball this weekend.
So forgive me, I'm not exactly sure, but there's some information there and their tickets are on sale and stuff.
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But this is the big we have a picture of the big ballroom.
This place is huge, people.
I mean, I mean, huge.
And they were working on that.
And over to the left here of your screen in the hallway, there's like three separate meeting rooms.
There's a small meeting room, a medium meeting room, a large meeting room, small meeting room could help hold 12 gas, medium 35 and large medium room, meeting room 50 gas, which is huge.
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Each one of them has its own unique style to it.
And it's just awesome.
I liked it. I went through it.
In fact, if we can, I would try to have at least a couple of them coming meetings down there since it's downtown.
And that's where that's where homecoming is going to be.
So I'm looking forward to that.
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And if you need if you need to get a hold of finding prices again, Sydney Weber is the resiliency center director.
Her phone number is 304-419-3874.
Say that again, toward the end of the show.
Very nice and very, very beautiful place.
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They've got everything there.
They've got a courtroom.
They've got judges quarters.
They've got a honing cell.
They've got backup 9-1-1.
They've got places for the maintenance crews to bring their vehicles inside.
And it's just an amazing building.
I absolutely love it and it fits perfectly there on the footprint.
And I guess they're going to tear down the old sheriff's department.
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I'm not exactly sure what's going to go in there.
If anything part of the building, I do not know.
But I was told that they are going to tear down the old sheriff's department there to the left of the resiliency building.
And so, you know, if you get a chance and you can get a hold of them, see if you could take a tour or if your group is looking for a place to have a
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group, have a meeting, downtown would be the perfect place.
And that would be ideal.
And like I said, get a hold of Sydney Weber and she'll hook you up.
Very, very nice lady.
And she's very excited about telling people about the building, taking tours.
And the people there, the maintenance people that I met, the street crews and stuff that were there at the time doing, I forget what they were doing.
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But they were just like unreal happy, you know, because it's a new building.
A lot of things to do with it, a lot of good things to do with it.
And so, you know, get down there, see what you think.
And like I said, if you're a group looking for a place, get down there and talk to Sydney and take care of business.
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You've not been down there yet, have you, Ray?
No, I haven't. I haven't seen it yet.
We'll have to.
I'm sure they won't, you know, I'm sure she would love to be able to take us a tour of the building and let us, you know, so she could show everybody.
We're going to start doing once a week.
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This week we did resiliency center.
Next week is going to be City Park where they're building a new pavilion.
We'll be taking pictures of that and talking to people that are involved in that. That's going to be an amazing place all by itself.
Southwood Pool, Southwood Pool is going to under complete, the slides going to under complete renovation.
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They're going to raise the level of the lake with, I forget what they call it, risers or razors or something where they can raise the level of the lake.
And it's going to be nice and it's going to bring Southwood pretty good.
It's going to be up there where it needs to be.
I know there was a couple of us, I mean everybody, but there was a couple of us in general that was very picky about, you know, Southwood wasn't getting.
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But the mayor is very, he's very proactive in that stuff. He's got people over there working on it.
He sent out pictures yesterday on Facebook.
Everybody should have seen it. But if not, go down there.
You're going to have to go to the Southwood Water Slide Pool area and take a look.
It's just going to be great. I think anything that betters the city parks, anything that's in the city, we do have some new development going on in the Southside.
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But Woodkine Development is kind of teasing us on that one because they said, you know, that people are guessing what it is.
I don't even know what it is. Of course, I'm not involved in council anymore, but I don't even know what it is.
So anything, any developments great. It's going to be it's over there on Bosley Parkway.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on with it, but I'm excited about it.
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I mean, things are starting to happen around the middle of Ohio Valley, and it makes it nice to see that stuff going on.
And I think that if people just relax a little bit and stop getting angry about things,
I think they'll they'll start to see that there's things happening that all the caves are alive and well.
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Exactly. I mean, you can't do something. You can't do something overnight.
It takes a lot of planning and a lot of a lot of thought, a lot of money.
I know I found that out because I've been trying to get things and God love the mayor of Parkerberg, Tom Joyce.
He's like, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. I agree. But where's the money? OK, well, I get it.
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I was going to write him a check, but I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in Mexico.
So there's a there's a program moving on.
Like I said, we'll be we'll be hitting different spots. Mount Wood Park, Southwood Park, City Park, Jackson Park, Spencer Park, everything.
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We're hitting all these parks. We're going to bring them to you.
Anything that's going on in the city in around the middle, High Valley, Viana, Williamstown, Parkersburg,
Mineral Wells, Lubac, Valpree, Marietta, even Marietta.
They always have a lot going on. So we're going to try to bring it to you as we get it.
We're busy working on other things as well. So we're trying to we're trying to bounce two different trying to juggle two different
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bowling pins at the same time and end up getting hit in the head sometime with it because it's just tough, tough.
So there's a program and I've kind of been talking about it off and on.
And I was going to have the director come on. One of the directors come on, Lisa Doyle.
I'm just going to kind of mention it.
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It's called PEP or Parkersburg Engagement Project.
Now, this project was Parkersburg was picked out of multiple, multiple cities to do this pilot program that's privately funded.
I'm on a steering steering committee to spearhead it.
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Lisa, Lisa Doyle and Wendy Tuck, Fourth District City Council are kind of the people in charge here.
So what what basically what it is is it is a program that works together to identify a problem,
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come up with a solution for the problem and implement the solution and then move on to something else.
And we're hoping to get a lot of people. I mean, we have another meeting tomorrow night.
We're just kind of getting the moving gears put together, if you would.
And it's going to be really good because I think that's what we need.
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We need to we need to work together, all of us together to bring to make things happen,
whether it's entertainment or here in a few minutes, my next topic, which, you know,
but I think that that everybody will once PEP and the businesses start figuring out what PEP is,
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then I think that we can all start working together to better.
And it doesn't necessarily it's not a bad thing. It's not anybody not doing what they're supposed to do.
It's just people they want to see how it's going to work.
If people can work together with with government and business for the betterment of the city,
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the Mid Ohio Valley and stuff like that, it's going to be great.
And I'm excited to be a part of it. And the people on the board, there's like 12 of us, maybe 10 or 12.
Everybody is just so excited about this. And I'm excited about it myself.
I mean, I'm excited to see how it's going to happen.
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So stay tuned for more of PEP.
Parkersburg Engagement Project, which, as a little disclaimer, is not an entity of the city of Perkinsburg by any way or means.
It's a privately funded organ thing that I think that you all will enjoy.
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So that brings me to a next topic that Rick and I talked about today in our meeting.
We have meetings like all the time. And we just do we just talk a lot.
I think I think in the last three or four months, Rick and I probably solved every problem along with John Reed.
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Long John Reed. Yeah, John John's been a big help.
John's been a big help. But we I think we've solved every problem in the United States of America. So I get back.
Don't worry about it now. We got it covered.
I don't know. We haven't helped Mr. Trump with with the Gaza situation yet.
But that's next on our list. I'm going to go to work at the casino.
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There you go. Heck with it. I'm going to deal cards, mister.
My brother works in a casino down in it's a new one called Danville.
It's a casino down down Danville, Virginia.
Him and my brother, Jimmy Scott and my brother, Jimmy are card dealers and they make big bucks, mister.
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I'm in the wrong business being retired. I need to be I need to be a card dealer.
But anyway, I move along. The next thing.
And I'm going to I'm going to try to figure out how to approach this good, Rick, because I don't I'm not putting anybody down.
Rick and I talked about proactive planning and basically what that's going to deal with if we can get the proper people lined up to do it and people behind the effort.
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We want to start now. Soon within the next month and a half, maybe probably end of March, 1st of April when it starts clearing up a little bit.
I know I know what you want to say. We need it now.
But what I want to do is get with people and come up with plans to have get blankets, pillows, cots, clothes, water,
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and have all this stuff centrally located for because from what I understand, these warming centers, this past cold snap we have.
I know you heard this, Rick. The warming centers were screaming for help.
So the plan being is if we can get Parkersburg Homecoming, Circles Campaign, which is a huge big help all the time, that they're always into something.
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Latrobe Street Mission, Salvation Army, different places that deal with the homeless and come up with a program to continue.
We can we can also help at the same time, Rick. We can also help stock the food pantries in the Mid Ohio Valley.
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Now, this doesn't necessarily have to be just a Parkersburg program.
It can be the entire Mid Ohio Valley, including Belkrie Marietta.
You know, and I think that would be an amazing idea if we could get that to happen.
We're going to work on that in conjunction with Homecoming.
I know we have a lot of things going on with the Homecoming that that take our time away, but we do have moments in life to where we come up with other things to do.
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We're going to try very hard to make this happen. What do you think, Rick?
I think so. I'd like to see it happen.
I mean, we can work with we can work with Dale McEwen. He's the emergency management director up at the new 911 Center. If you haven't been up here, it's fantastic.
My peeps, they're up there. We're going to try to get with him and see how see if we can coordinate as well with him.
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Very smart man and knows what he's doing. So I'm going to check in with that.
And that way, if we run into the situation we ran into this year to where people needed blankets and different things like that, we will have them at a centralized location where the churches or the Latrobe Street mission and the other agencies can go to that central location.
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And there'll be somebody there to say, OK, you need 15 blankets. Here's 15 blankets or here's whatever they need.
Have it on hand. Work with everybody in this town. I know it's kind of a tall order, but it can be done. It can be done. It's not something that's impossible where I wouldn't even come up with the idea.
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Rick and I sit and discussed it. We need it to death, I think. But I think we're I think if once we start doing this and we get everybody involved that wants to be involved with it.
Excuse me, Rick. I'm going to do something here real quick because I need to find out something here.
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I want to make sure because he last time on the Bob cast, we missed we were missing certain we were missing some people that were commenting.
I don't know why we're not getting them on the restream. But I don't I don't want people to think that we're ignoring you because sometimes it pops up on Facebook.
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Sometimes it pops up here. I know we had talked to several people here.
So anyway, back to what I was talking about. I'm sorry I'm jumping around, but I'm just trying to make cover some bases here.
So I think that we'll start that very soon. I want to get with the board of directors for Parkerberg Homecoming and make sure and it's just kind of art.
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Not only do we give back during the Homecoming Festival in April, we can give back all year round and be a part of it and bring everybody on board.
I mean, it doesn't make you don't have to be a business if you want.
If you have some stuff that you want to donate, let us know. And we will put them will find a central location.
(20:32):
I know one of the churches or somebody will absolutely step up and say, you know, let us so we're going to be talking with them pretty soon.
So we'll be looking more for that coming up as well.
Okay, Sharon said, okay, that's not for me.
Sorry about that. So, again, be looking for that we've already talked about the FOP pickleball that's coming up April 26 27.
(20:59):
I will get you a location as soon as I get with Mike Pfeiffer and find out for sure, because I don't want to tell you it's going to be at City Park.
It's going to be at Jackson Park. I don't want to tell you it's going to be at Jackson. It's going to be a city.
But last year, I do know they had it at Jackson Park. So I don't know if that's going to be that be that or not.
I don't know if a lot of you know, I've been told here recently, the new pavilion, they're really, really, really moving around over there.
(21:27):
That place is going to be just and we're going to have pictures next week.
We'll have pictures of what's going on next Wednesday night on wraparound.
That place can be huge and it's going to be awesome. And I'm excited for it.
I can't wait. And, you know, it has displaced a couple of festivals like the Multicultural Festival is going to be in Belpris this year.
(21:55):
I talked to one of the one of the organizers of it and he said it's just the best thing for it right now.
But he believes this is a temporary thing, which I hope so, because everybody always looks forward to the Multicultural Festival.
Once next year gets here, I think that there'll be more room to put it.
(22:16):
And I think they'll they should be OK.
If you haven't been over there to the city park, it's so different. You know, I called the mayor.
Well, the mayor called me one one day a couple of weeks ago.
He asked me what I was doing. I said, I'm over here looking at how clean this park looks.
This park was just amazing. And they had.
But now now they're really, really getting into the construction of the building.
(22:41):
We'll have pictures of what it's going to look like if you haven't already seen it over to the city park.
There as you come along the main strip, one past one toward the band shows on the left.
You'll see what it looks like in the daytime and what it's going to look like at the night and nighttime.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. And I think you're going to be well pleased when we get when it gets done.
So I'm looking forward to that. Making sure that that, you know, we'll bring that to you.
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We'll probably even bring the ribbon cutting.
We'll probably tape it and bring it to you so you'll know.
We wanted to get the resiliency building.
Ribbon cutting.
But we were tied up with homecoming stuff and we didn't do it.
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So we need to kind of just.
What's the word I'm looking for? We need to put them in order how we want to do them.
So we don't forget anything like that, because that was very important.
There was a lot of very a lot of big shots, a lot of very important people that were there.
And so. All right. So.
(23:50):
We'll get you more on that. Homecoming, homecoming 2025 back to the river.
It's going to be 15th, 16th and 17th of August, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, like we've been talking about on the Bobcast.
The last couple of three times.
(24:11):
When was it yesterday? You put the online or day before the survey?
Couple of days ago. OK. Couple of days ago, Rick put an online survey at Parsburg homecoming dot com.
Our website and what this online survey is, is asking you what you want to see in homecoming.
(24:32):
What is it that you want us to do that you would like to see? I'm sorry that you would like to see.
I know I told you on the Bobcast the other night, I have been inundated with ideas.
I mean, we had a meeting last night for last night before last.
And a very nice lady from here in Parker Park talked to us about having Dachshund Doxon or whatever they call them.
(24:59):
They Dachshund or Dachshund? Dachshund.
Yes, you're welcome. Thank you, man. They're Dachshunds.
We're going to have a Dachshund race down at the well, hopefully downtown.
But if not, it's going to be somewhere close by where it's got grass.
But we're going to the more we talked about, the more excited we got about it because Marietta has it.
(25:22):
Who else did they tell you? Who was it? Oh, my God. I don't remember. I'm sorry.
Anyway, anyway, this brings in a lot of people.
Now, if you have a Dachshund, you want to the the it's going to be on on our website and you can you can sign up and it'll take you right.
(25:44):
It won't take you to us. It'll take you to. Oh, my gosh, I forget her name.
I'm so upset. And anyway, take it to her and she'll set you up and get this ticket.
I just think it's going to be exciting. I I I can just see it coming and it's going to be just exciting.
So go on. Go on. Partsburg homecoming dot com. Take the dot com.
(26:07):
Take the online survey, the interest survey as Rick has it and let us know your thoughts.
And nothing's too stupid. I mean, as long as it's safe, we could take a look at it.
Of course, you know, we don't want to overdo ourselves to where we're running out of time to do everything.
This this particular survey is just multiple choice on a scale of zero to 10.
(26:30):
How interested are you in seeing this thing? OK, all right.
So one there and take I love multiple choice questions. Oh, yeah. I did good.
I'm in school. Yeah. Yeah. The only part I didn't get in school was my name.
I always missed that. I've got to be so. So anyway, go on there and take the online survey and let us know what you think.
(26:52):
Open mic sign up. We're going to have all day open mic, whether you're banned, whether you're in a single or duet.
You know, we're going to have an open mic. We're going to have comedians, G and PG only, please, because there's going to be little kids.
It's going to be exciting because we're going to showcase local talent.
(27:18):
We do have some other talent that we've been reached out to from St.
Mary's and I think Pennsylvania, but most of it's going to be open mic for our local talent here and here in Parker's or the Middle Valley.
We're looking forward to that. I hope we get a couple of magicians in there, too, because I love your magician.
(27:40):
Give us go in there and fill out fill out a car. You know, I think I'd be great.
I think kids would love magicians and I think that's going to be fun, too.
So we're going to have that. We're working with people right now.
Like I told you, we're working with Evie Schaefer and everybody that she deals with.
Rick knows, Madison knows some people and Chuck Lips knows some people.
(28:05):
I mean, I think it's going to be a good turnout as far as that goes. So basically what we want to do is probably at the amphitheater, we're going to put another stage either around the corner or like I said, we're going to be up on third or up toward Third Street.
So we could put something up there if we need to.
And that way, it won't interfere with each other because we have to use the stage for the big acts, you know, whatever we have coming up.
(28:35):
So that's going to be fun, I think. Vendor apps are coming soon. We have a little bit of we need some Arch and Crafts vendors.
We'll have the app coming soon. It has to be kind of tweaked a little bit with some times and stuff.
So again, you can go on parkerberghomecoming.com slash vendors and fill out a vendor sheet and get it to us and we'll get a hold of you just as quick as we can and get you set up.
(29:09):
You know, because we're going to we're we'll take as many as we can get. Truck vendors, food vendors, Arch and Crafts vendors.
You make something, bring it in.
Sit down there and enjoy it and we'll try to make it as comfortable as possible for you.
So we're looking forward to that.
Again, the what did I say April 26th or is it when's Alexis having her pageant out at WVUP?
(29:40):
Oh, I don't have that right here in front of me.
Have a Saturday on the Bobcast.
We're having an Easter pageant at the Vienna Community Building.
(30:03):
Okay.
The Queen's pageant is April the 26th.
WVUP.
That's April 26th.
Okay, April 26th. Keep them dates in mind and when's the one that began, Rick?
April 5th.
April 5th.
That's for kids.
Nine years and another.
Easter parade.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
(30:24):
So be watching for that.
We'll talk more about it on each week till it happens.
That's where we're also working on the outback give back.
If you go to outback on March the 11th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and give them the coupon that's going to be on our website, they'll give 20% of your total bill to us for homecoming.
(30:49):
So basically how that works, you don't have to actually have it.
You can show them the coupon on your phone.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what they're so far.
They've told us what the coupon in hand.
We'll see.
No, because that's how we've always that's how the baton.
Okay.
Yeah.
And they go with that too.
(31:10):
I mean, but if there'll be people there and we'll be there probably to pick up tickets if you have.
So, you know, come out and support us.
Stay tuned.
We're going to have at least two more bingos.
We talked to board members Charlotte Nester last night and we're keeping one open for Alexis and the Queens.
(31:31):
We're going to have a bingo for the Queens pageant.
So we'll keep you advised on that.
That's a real big issue that there's a lot of a lot of wheels involved in that when you know what I mean.
A lot of things.
It's a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving parts.
But you know what?
And I'm going to say this because I do it every time.
I mean, Alexis on top of it, she is all over it and she does a great job.
(31:57):
She sent a thing today on Facebook.
The Queens are going to have their own directors chairs.
You know, I think that's going to be cool with their names on it.
So anyway, the vendor app coming soon.
Sponsorship ads.
The app is up.
Correct, Rick.
I'm sorry.
The sponsorship app is a pages up.
(32:20):
Yes, yes.
We have a sponsorship page and also the other for vendors and stuff.
Right.
Vendors is on the way.
I just said that.
I just want to double check.
Yes, we do have a vendors page up.
The application will be up hopefully tomorrow.
(32:43):
Tomorrow afternoon.
I hope to get that poster on our vendor page.
There's just a lot to do and like I told you Saturday, everybody on the Bobcast,
I mean, on the homecoming board of directors, it's just amazing.
They're trying to keep up with everything.
It's ever changing.
(33:04):
And so I did that.
It's ever changing and they're keeping up with it and we're right there with them.
I'm excited about everything.
We're going to have a lot of fundraisers between now and then.
We're kind of dealing with how we want to do rubber ducky.
We're dealing with that.
I mean, I want to have three, one for adults, one for teens and one for younger kids.
(33:32):
But we have to check the legality of that.
I know you all don't want to hear that, but we have to check the legality of that to make sure we can do that without getting ourselves in trouble
because I think that every genre, every age group should have prizes instead of just the adults.
That's just my opinion.
And we're going to have a lot of good things happening for the kids, for the teenagers, for the adults.
(34:00):
And I think it's going to be just a great time.
I just had this wild thought running through my head.
Oh, dear Lord, we're in trouble.
For the six-year-olds, for their prize, we had to get them BB guns.
Drive moms crazy.
You'll shoot your eye out.
(34:20):
Red Ryder BB gun. I had one.
I had a BB gun, but I don't know exactly.
I'm sure it was a Red Ryder because I think that was the big thing back when I was at Children last year.
So, yeah, but I remember I had a pellet rifle too and accidentally shot my cousin with the BB gun.
(34:43):
Actually, I caught him right here.
You almost put an eye out with that.
I didn't mean to.
I mean, they were cleared down.
But anyway, that's what happened.
That happened double lot 70 something.
We used to go out in the woods that used to be down around Pond Run, all apartments now and houses.
(35:05):
There used to be all woods down there.
We'd go down there and play war with our BB guns.
Everybody wore safety glasses.
But when you got hit, you know you got hit.
Oh, my goodness.
That would hurt.
I'm not a big fan of getting shot with a BB gun.
No, no.
It's smarts.
Let's see here what I got.
(35:26):
One moment.
Oh, bitch, Raina.
Now, my daughter loves me.
Jessica.
God love her.
So anyway, so just again, we're putting it all together.
We're making it going to make it happen.
We're just trying very hard to make sure that what we got going on.
So that brings us to the next thing.
(35:47):
This is on our Web page as well.
And I've been posting it and we need help.
We need people to help us.
We'll need army of volunteers to assist in making a homecoming 2025.
The best ever.
If you're interested in being part of CR volunteer interest page,
let us know because we need you.
(36:08):
We need teenagers.
We need adults.
We need people to help us out because there's how many on the board, Rick?
We're short 13 right now.
We've got 13 right now.
And we got unless the person who asked me about it the other night comes on
(36:29):
and we won't be one down.
We can't do it by ourselves.
And we want this to be the very best.
And I think it will be once we get once we get past everything.
And basically, the qualifications for helping out are basically,
(36:51):
are you drawing breath?
If you're drawing breath, we'll find something to put you to work.
It's not going to be hard stuff.
It's not going to be really difficult.
A lot of it's going to be directing traffic.
I don't mean car traffic, I mean foot traffic.
You know, somebody says, well, where's this event?
Well, it's over there.
Just like in an information booth.
And we're going to have to walk around with identification on.
(37:14):
So ask me.
Just like in Home Depot.
You go into Home Depot and the guy's sitting there with an apron and says,
ask me.
There's a joke in there somewhere.
So anyway, again, just go on there.
And if you sit at our information booth, that would be great.
(37:36):
You know, if you can.
We would absolutely put you somewhere where it's whatever you're comfortable
with doing, we will put you there to where we're not overdoing it.
So again, if you want to volunteer, please help us out.
Sponsors.
Alexis needs sponsors for the Queens pageant.
(38:00):
She has things up everywhere on Facebook.
It costs a bunch to put these kids for the sashes, the crowns, the prizes.
They need prizes to put in bags for the girls.
And so if you can do that, let us know.
If you can help out there, let us know.
(38:22):
Yeah, on our pageants page, she's got a list of on our pageants page.
She's got a list of sponsorship opportunities that she's looking for.
Yeah.
So just go to our website, click on pageants.
com.
We'll put you in the description.
We'll put you in the description.
And we'll get you a link to it.
Rubber Duckie Derby, the same thing.
Tim, Tim can use all the help you can get as far as sponsorships and stuff
(38:48):
like that.
We're going to try to have interesting gifts for, you know, as we can for
everybody.
Just every, every director that's involved in something, we need help with
that.
It's going to be real fun.
So what else, Rick?
(39:09):
We've got the sponsors.
There was something we were discussing today that I wanted to talk about, but
I can't remember what it was.
We had so much.
Just come be a part of it and be a part of the new proactive planning that
(39:30):
will be coming up soon.
We're going to have people working on that even if we have to bring people in
on a whole new committee.
But we want it.
We want it to happen.
And we don't want to, you know, I read, like I said, I read a thing this
morning, I think it was, where some of these warming centers were screaming
(39:52):
for help getting, they need stuff.
Let's start now.
Put all this stuff together, come up with it where we don't have to, where we
won't run into this problem.
Non-perishable foods, why not?
Dog crates, why not?
Dog food.
(40:14):
Baby diapers, you know, stuff for the kids.
Personal hygiene items we can do.
We'll take just about anything too and we'll let you know exactly when we're
going to start collecting stuff.
You'll see it in the paper and on TV, I know, because I'm really big about
(40:35):
putting stuff like that on.
But we want to make sure we have a place to put it first before we start
collecting it and it's not sitting at somebody's house.
We want to make sure that it's either at a church or at the Latrobe Street
Foundation, Salvation Army, Red Cross.
Or if you own a building that is sitting partially empty and you want to have
(40:59):
us, you know, let us use a piece of that, you know.
Good idea.
Open to that also.
Good idea.
Good idea.
That would be amazing as well.
And we can absolutely do that.
But anyway, look forward to it's getting to that time of the year where things
(41:20):
are going to start happening, not just with us but with everybody.
And there's going to be a lot of excitement in the air, I think.
I personally believe so.
People are starting to get a little bit antsy and they want to start doing
things.
Come out and volunteer with us or even anywhere that needs help.
(41:43):
I mean, we have circles, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Latrobe Street Mission,
any place that needs volunteers, come out and volunteer to get out of the
house, you know.
So I think that will be an amazing thing to do.
We're a community and we need to work together as a community and I think we
(42:05):
have the people in the community to do it.
And I don't see why it can't work.
The only reason it can't work is people don't want to but I think people really
want to because especially after the cold weather, it was unseasonably cold.
It was like really, really bad.
And so I had to stay in with my feet, my little footsies covered up.
(42:27):
I just think we're supposed to get some more snow tomorrow night.
Get out of here, mister.
My sister lives in Punxsutawney and she has gone groundhog hunting the last
couple of days but she hasn't been able to find him yet so she's still looking.
You know what's going to happen next year, right?
We're taking Scooby up.
That's right.
(42:48):
We'll take Scooby up to Punxsutawney and let him chase the groundhog.
Right.
You won't have a chance to see us that day.
The only thing I saw was that big dog.
So.
Scooby's going to check in.
Exciting.
And we'll get with you on everything that we talked about tonight.
You will hear about it in the upcoming weeks on the podcast.
(43:10):
Wrap around MOV and anything else we could possibly put it in the newspaper, TV.
And that's the only thing too.
I want to say hopefully somebody knows somebody at WTAP because I've been
trying to reach them for like two weeks.
Tell them to answer their phone.
I've been leaving messages after message after message and nobody will call me back.
I don't know why, but I may end up having to get out there tomorrow.
(43:37):
We need to get on about PEP.
Me and Lisa and then Chuck and I are going to go on with part of her homecoming
and talk to everybody about basically what we're talking about tonight.
So I'm thinking that we need to.
If you know somebody at WTAP, have them call me at 304-588-8074.
(43:58):
Please.
I just sent them another message today with my phone number and stuff.
We'll see what happens.
Did somebody ding on something?
Yeah, my sister just sent me a message.
Oh, no.
She probably heard that dag on Punks to Tony Phil joke.
(44:19):
Anyway.
Oh, boy.
I'll have to call you here, Rick.
I just got a message.
Okay.
You will enjoy this mystery.
All right.
Anything else going on, Rick?
I think that about covers it for this week.
Well, like I said, happy birthday to those who we didn't get.
(44:46):
So, Raleigh will be 20 years old.
That scares me.
20?
20 years old.
My goodness.
I can remember when she was a baby.
I was...
Anyway.
Like it?
Yeah.
So, I got to tell you something's funny.
And it's already happened.
(45:09):
So, my youngest granddaughter is 18, Aubrey.
She's 18 years old.
Or she will be...
No, she'll be 19.
She's 18.
The other day she had a traffic accident.
She was too bad.
So, she comes home, call the insurance company.
And she comes over and she goes, he hit me, Papon.
(45:32):
I got out of the car and she goes, I felt so bad for him.
He was just a baby.
He was 16.
And I went, oh, my gosh.
That was the funniest thing I have ever heard.
He was just a baby, Papon.
Both of them.
He had somebody in the car with him.
And...
Wow.
(45:53):
Anyway.
So, that's pretty much the end of that.
So, Saturday, tune in with us at 6.30 p.m.
for the Bobcast MOV.
And then next Wednesday we'll have, again, wrap around.
So, Rick, you don't have anything else to say, right?
I think we pretty much have everything.
(46:14):
But if you can remember what I've said,
because I know y'all love to hear me talk,
think about some of the things we were talking about,
proactive, the proactive planning, being part of homecoming,
anything we talked about.
And if we missed it tonight, we'll try to catch it Saturday night.
Yeah, pretty much.
We got three days to catch it.
(46:35):
So, just let us know.
So, with that being said, Rick, we're going to end it for the night.
And we'll see you guys Saturday.
6.30 for Bobcast MOV with Rick, Tee, and Bob.
I'm going to see if Tee wants to be involved.
Because I hate not asking her.
It's just been, we've been off.
(46:56):
And so, it's been fun.
We'll do it again.
You guys be careful if we get any ice or snow.
If you have anything you want me to put on here,
Rick and I to put on here, get with us.
Send us an email, a message, or whatever you want to do.
So, we'll get it.
I'm looking forward.
(47:18):
I think y'all need to really help out the Arc on their dance this Saturday night.
That's a long time, 70, what did I say, 70 years?
I think it was.
That was right.
Sweetheart ball?
Yeah.
There you go.
Okay.
(47:39):
Yep.
70th anniversary of the Arc of Middle High.
Doug and his people do amazing work.
They do.
They do great things for this community.
And I'm just proud to be even mentioning them.
Because they just do great work.
And so, other than that, have a very good night.
Be safe.
Be careful.
(48:00):
We love you guys.
We'll see you Saturday night on the Bobcast MOV.
And with that, we are done.
And out.
We'll see you Saturday night.
All right, buddy.
Bye.
Wait a minute.
Sounds good.
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