The Boone Show - S5 E2 - Cancer Association of Anderson Executive Director Angie Stringer - The Boone Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, welcome to the Boone Show on
MyPulse Radio.
Glad to have you along with ustoday.
I'm John Boone, along with theboss lady here at the Career
Center, Holly Harrell.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good afternoon, got a good show today.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yes, we do, we always do.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Always.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Puggles is here, if you don't know.
Hey, puggles was our first babyplatypus for our mascot, and we
found out that platypuses it's,it's platypuses.
It's not platypi really, buttheir babies are named puggles,
so we get the nickname stuck, sothat's where it came from

(00:35):
except for four years, yeah, andit will continue to stick as
long as I know you, just totorture you when you get older.
But puggles is not our specialguest here tonight.
We have a couple of specialguests from the cancer
association of anderson.
It's kind of like our annualthing absolutely.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
We always look for them coming.
We do.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
We need a dose of hot air, and so we call in angie
stringer, the Executive Directorof the Cancer Association of
Anderson and Katie Beth Irby ishere too.
She's their new ResourceDevelopment and Marketing
Coordinator.
So welcome, ladies.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hello, it's great to be here again.
You know we always look forwardto coming and visiting.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And it's always an exciting time of year.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
Always.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
This is an exciting event, so let's hop right into
it.
The hot air affair, angiewhat's going on this year?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Oh, wow, we have more balloons, balloons, balloons,
balloons.
So when you look out your doorwindow, whatever beginning on
Friday morning all the waythrough Monday morning, you may
see balloons in the skies.
This year we have our largestnumber ever, which we have 46
pilots.
And the thing you have tounderstand about hot air balloon
pilots they tell me they'renever wealthy because they

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collect balloons.
So some of them have more thanone.
So we're going to have a lot ofballoons here.
One of my favorites is Laska,the beautiful unicorn, baby
unicorn.
So she'll be here again thisyear, so we're real excited.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
What other ones are kind of unique that, like the
kids, will be looking for this?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
year we have the pirate's booty that will be
debuted at our event.
It is a purple, yellow and alittle bit of green color to it

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and it's got flip-flops on theside, so it's really cool.
So it'll be making its debut atthe Hot Air Fair this year.
But we have a.
It's going to be a great lineup.
We have some wonderful pilots.
You know we're real picky aboutour pilots.
They have to be safe, they haveto have a good reputation, they
have to be, and we just don'tjust let anybody in.

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So we're real excited.
We've got a great lineup thisyear of some wonderful pilots
who will come out and who lovepeople, love to fly, love their
balloons, and so it'll show outin our event where people can
come up.
The one thing that's differentabout our event than some of the
ones you'll go to is you canget up, close and personal with

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the pilots and with the balloons.
You can get right up there,touch them, talk to them.
It's great.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
So how many balloons do you normally have?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
touch them you know, talk to them.
It's great.
So how many balloons do younormally have?
Last year we had 32, which wasthe biggest we'd ever had.
We started out with about 20the first year and then we've
grown it a little bit every year.
So this year, like I said, wehave 46 pilots.
We'll probably have about 50balloons, because some of them
are bringing multiples and theyhave crew chiefs who can put

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them up while they fly, so we'llhave balloons everywhere.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know, what I've always enjoyed when you guys
used to do this in Williamstonwas the fact that you got to
help everybody.
Yes, Like the kids got to getin there and help move the
balloons and actually assistthose pilots and those things.
Whether you weren't going up ornot, it didn't matter, they
gave you that opportunity andthat was always cool for

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families.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
We wanted it to be a community event, which we need
volunteers.
So anybody out there that'slooking for something fun to do
come out there.
They'll say, hey, grab thisrope, pull it.
That way we need to spread theballoon out, you know, and then
help take it down when they land.
It is a lot of fun and usually,if you help, they usually give
you a little prize of somethingmaybe a pin from their balloon

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or card and it's real rewardingbecause you get to learn.
They talk about what they'redoing and why they're doing it,
and so it's a fun educationalopportunity too, because you get
that aviation component of howdoes a balloon fly?
Why does it fly.
I love it when people say howdo you steer it?
Well, you don't.
And then they learn about theatmosphere being in layers and

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how some's faster than the other, some blows one way when the
other goes the other way andthey drop and go up and that's
how they quote, steer theballoon by the layers in the
atmosphere.
So when you come out you'll getan educational lesson.
But it's fun, you know, andplus, you get to know some great

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people, because the pilots thatcome in here are just, they're
a great community and they loveone another.
They love showing off theirballoons and they love to share
the joy of ballooning.
So it's going to be a good timeand if you're looking for
something to do, we definitelycould use some volunteers.
Katie Beth will tell you allabout that.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
All right, and this is going on down at the Civic
Center Grounds.
Yes, it is Sports andEntertainment Center, whatever
it's officially called now.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
We really do miss Williamston, though, and we have
to come to the school on Fridaymorning because we've got to
get our taste of Williamston.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I know it's so nice that y'all include us.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
We love you guys and I really miss doing it there.
It was so nice, but you have somuch growth going on and when.
But you have so much growthgoing on and when you finish,
we'll talk.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
So you are going to have a couple balloons out here
on Friday.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
We are Friday morning .
Yes, holly's going up there.
Yes, we're going to take careof her.
We're going to try.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Better make sure you have a good pilot.
That's right, can't lose thatone.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
No, can't lose anyone .

Speaker 1 (06:21):
That sounded bad when I said that.
But everybody driving intoschool and everything will get
to see that.
And I remember a couple ofyears ago when we almost went up
and it was too windy.
It's kind of that process youwere talking about of seeing how
they prep and then blow up theballoons.
It's really kind of an involvedthing.
It takes a while to geteverything ready to go.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was amazing, though, of how quick they can
get the balloon out of theirtrailer or vehicle and how quick
they can get it set up andready to go.
I mean, I was amazed.
I thought it was going to takeforever, but they've literally
got to a science they do.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
They do.
They can fold those things upsmall.
Yes, I mean they should.
We have a number of things theycould fold up around here for
us.
I think our tent, when we foldit up, takes up more room than
those giant balloons in thosetrailers they have.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
They do, man.
They pack those things up andget all the air out of it, and
they even have really neat tools.
I would love to have been theperson that invented this PVC
pipe and it's kind of a weirdway, and they pull it through
and it just gets the air out ofit as it goes.
But whoever did that is makinga fortune because, they patented
that it was, but it is cool tosee them put it up and then take

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them down so again it's.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's all part of the celebrate anderson bigger
festival going on down there.
Um, in anderson they've gotconcerts and everything and the
balloon thing is going on at thesame time.
So, um, tell us about theschedule, about when they can
possibly see the balloons?
How's the weather looking thisweekend?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
The weather's looking pretty good, you know for a
while it looked like it wasgoing to rain.
Yeah, it's going to be warm, sowear your short-sleeved shirts
and your shorts.
But if you want to get aroundthe balloon, I'll tell everybody
.
Definitely, if you get aroundthem, wear closed-toed shoes,
that's the best thing.
Wear tennis shoes.
Don't wear sandals.
They're harder to deal with.
But, yeah, the schedule isgoing to be pretty cool.

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We've got Friday morning.
We'll be here at the CareerCampus.
So if you're out and about, comeby.
I mean, we had the busespulling over last year and
watching.
We did that's right, so we'llhave that.
We'll be here probably around630, 645.
Sun up is right around 7, andthat's usually when they start

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sunrise.
So we'll be out here.
But sometimes you know, likeJohn was saying, they'll come
out, they'll check the weather,they let what they call a pie
ball, which is basically a blackballoon.
They let it go and they watchit to see what it does as it
goes up, so they can see howit's affecting things, and then,
if they deem it safe, thenwe'll put up and they'll take

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off.
One year we couldn't flybecause it was higher up, it was
windy, but they could put themup on the ground and let people
come up and see them.
I think they even did sometethers here, they did, they did
.
So that was fun.
But Friday we'll be here overat the Civic Center Balloon
Launch Field.
That's where our event will be.
We're going to have everythingup there this year, so all our

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vendors, our food trucks, ourkid zone, everything will be up
on Balloon Launch Field.
And then, like you said,celebrate Anderson will take
place Sunday night, but theyactually, since this is the 25th
anniversary, they're also goingto have a concert on Saturday
night there.
So they have Randy Houser I'mgiving them a plug too.

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They have Randy Houser onSaturday night and Ashley
McBride on Sunday night.
Great concerts, both people yeahso that'll be nice and you can
hear the music up from wherewe'll be or you can go down to
the concert too.
But every morning we will fly,usually around by the time they
get set up, and everything about7 to about 9, 9.30 is the

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window.
So Saturday morning, sundaymorning and Monday morning
they'll fly, and then Fridaynight, saturday night, sunday
night, they will fly from about6, 530-ish to about 9.
And we're going to break it upso that we have like half
glowing on the field and halftaking off.

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That we have like half glowingon the field and half taking off
, so you get to see them fly butat the same time you get to
enjoy the glow when they'll beon the field and walk around and
meet the pilots.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
That is to me.
I think that's my most favorite.
The glow, the glow, yeah, yeahyeah.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
And that's what the really cool thing is combining
it with the other festivals.
If you're going to the concertand then you you stop by, you
see the balloons and then, whileyou're watching the concert,
you can see the glow going on upin the sky and all that.
I mean it's a really coolweekend combining the two things
.
Uh, down there in anderson.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Now tell us a little bit about the the why of why
this event is important to thecancer association well, um, on
a personal level, it's veryimportant to me because, uh and
I probably have told you allthis story every year but when I
was going through chemo, I leftone day and it was a
particularly rough one, and Iwas leaving and I had been

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involved with the balloons atthe county.
I had helped put on the greatSoutheast Balloon Fest, and
before that I had worked withFreedom Weekend Aloft, and so I
loved the balloons and I knew alot of the pilots that were
local and close by, and so I washaving a really rough day and I
kind of leaned my head againstthe window and when I looked up,
one of the balloons was in thesky and I just felt, like, you

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know, god spoke to me and saidyou've got to rise above this,
just like that balloon.
So it stuck with me.
It's one of those things, youknow just a little seed planted.
And so years later, you know,in 2016, that was 2013.
2016, when I came to the CancerAssociation, is when we talked
about having a signature eventand their balloons had left

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Anderson.
They weren't there anymore, andI said well, guys, I'd love to
do a hot air fair rising abovecancer.
And they loved it and so westarted it in.
2017 was our first year and itwas just really a great, great
opportunity to bring someballoons in and to do something

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unique and, at the same time,with us.
All of our fundraisers that weput on have a programming
component and it's all about thepatients and the survivors, and
I like to tell people that HotAirfare is an opportunity for us

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to raise awareness about theCancer Association and cancer
prevention and what we do in ourservices, but also it's an
opportunity to give cancerpatients and survivors an
opportunity to forget aboutcancer for a little while,
because you're having so muchfun you don't think about it,
but it does a lot for us.

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And Katie Beth, you want totalk about what it does for us,
but it does a lot for us.
And Katie Beth, you want totalk about what it does for us.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, it does a lot for us.
You know, I've been there sinceFebruary and I've met so many
people who have ridden in theballoon or flown in the balloons
and just kind of even ones whohave said I'm scared of heights
but when I was up there I didn'tfeel anything, you know, and
just just hearing those storiesand even hearing the stories

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about those who got to checkthat off their bucket list
before, you know, theyultimately finished their, their
battle with cancer and passedaway, you know, I think we had
several last year who got to flyat the end of their battle, and
hearing those types of storieskind of makes it worth it in the
sense of you know, we'reputting in long hours and we're
putting in a lot of hard work onthis, but hearing just that

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little tidbit from people whohave flown in these balloons
makes every bit of it worth it.
And I can think of, you know, 10off the top of my head who have
shared, you know, it feels likeyou're flying on a cloud,
you're sitting on a cloud andjust the peace that they felt in
the balloon and even carry itinto the next year when we're

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planning the event and they'reencouraging us and they're
encouraging people to getinvolved.
They use that experience on howit made them feel better.
I'm really excited this yearbecause one of my mom's best
friend was recently diagnosedand she's going to ride with me
this weekend, so I'm reallyexcited about that.
And you know she's only on hersecond week of chemo.

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Well, this will be her thirdweek of chemo, so she needs that
freedom feeling for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, that's good, I mean the closest thing that I've
come to this.
Well, if you've gone to the topof the Empire State Building,
you kind of get a feel for it.
I mean, the city of New York isso loud and everything, but you
don't hear anything when you'reup at the top.
It's so quiet and peaceful.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's what.
I've heard a lot how quiet itis up there.
I've never flown, so it'll bemy first time too, so I'm super
excited.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
So I mean that that's cool.
The other thing I did wasparasailing back when I was a
kid in ocopoco, which was uhkind of the same feeling that
you get up there and you justdon't hear anything yeah, it's
just, uh, just really cool.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
You've done any of that stuff?
No, no, no skydiving so thiswill be a first and kind of the
oh, wow, yeah, stepping out,that's good you'll take puggles
with you well, why don't you?

Speaker 1 (15:24):
I hope hope I'm going to take my mom.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
She's a cancer survivor.
Oh yeah, that'd be good.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know here at work who's our vending lady.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Tammy.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
She came in just the other day and said she rang the
bell.
That was the first thing I saidhow are you doing?
I'm like what?
I didn't even know you hadcancer, but she had what?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
kidney cancer.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
She did stage 3, I believe it was and overcame it
and yeah, she looks great backon the job.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Our associate director, stacy Scott, is going
through chemo.
Actually, she's going to herthird chemo tomorrow, so I was
actually not going to sayanything.
I was going to try to get herto go Friday instead of me.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
That'd be awesome.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah, probably we may be able to get you both.
Yeah, we'll have to see howthat goes.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
We'll work on that.
We might know a few people, youmight know somebody.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
We might have some peeps, yeah, but it's just it's.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know not to be a downer or anything a downer or
anything but when I talk to mykids about making as students,
you know about making the psa'sand everything I tell them about
you know.
There's so many issues thatteenagers have that you can list
.
I could go around the room andeach one of them could name an
issue that a teenager has, butsomething that everybody is
connected to is cancer it doesnot discriminate you either have

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had it or it's in your family

Speaker 2 (16:40):
or you know, somebody you know, or somebody you
everybody's connected every timewe are helping.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Right now, we have four patients that we're helping
under the age of 13 right nowand, I believe, two of those are
under the age of five.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Wow think about the impact of that.
I mean that's huge, and that'sjust this month, the referrals
that we got this month.
We had a few before as well, soI mean we don't have many,
thankfully, but we youngerdiagnoses are are coming through
, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Well, before we jump on, there's a lot more we want
to talk about with the CancerAssociation.
But Katie Beth Angie hadmentioned tell people how they
can volunteer for this.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, absolutely.
I need you all to come outthere and volunteer with us.
You guys can email me at katie,K-A-T-I-E, dash, Beth, B-E-T-H,
at C-A-A-Anderson I think Iadded an extra A in there
C-A-Andersonorg.
But we have severalopportunities.
You can come out and crew forthe pilots which we kind of

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touched on that a few minutesago where you kind of help them
set up to fly.
Some of you will help chase theballoons in the cars and then
help them pack up the balloons.
So that's a really coolexperience.
I hear all kinds of greatthings about that.
Most people who do that oncecome back and do it again.
We have informational tents thatwill need volunteers.

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We'll have ground supportparking.
You know I need somebody to runaround for me.
So if that sounds like fun toyou, I will definitely take you
up on it.
And so if you, if you'reinterested in volunteering, get
my contact information and I'llget you set up.
We have several students fromthe area up here, the REN

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students in action.
They like to come out andvolunteer as well.
So if you have, if you're apart of SIA, we'd love to have
you back out there.
So there's a lot ofopportunities and I can get you,
get you, get you hooked up.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right.
So if you didn't get thataddress, you can just go to the
website right which iscaandersonorg, all right.
And finally, talk about how youraise funds.
With this, I mean, it's a freething to go to but, how do you
get the money you need to make?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Well, you know it's interesting.
A lot of people look at me like, why are you doing this?
A lot of work and it's you know, and you know, when you're
building an event like this andyou guys probably know this it
takes a number of years toreally kind of get some traction
and to get it to where itreally is profitable event,

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which we've been very fortunate.
I mean for the work.
It's a labor of love too.
I mean, we love this and welove this and we love ballooning
and we love what it does forour patients.
But we've averaged around$20,000 that we've brought in.
It's a lot of work for $20,000.
However, it's growing and theway that we build it is and
that's where your listeners cancome in, coming out there and

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people seeing how many peopleare there, they want to sponsor
and we've got more sponsorsevery year we've gotten more and
that's what pays the bills.
So once we get the sponsors, itpays everything, and then
everything else that comes in ismoney for cancer patients.
So this year we've added a fewthings.
We're going to have a dunk tank.
Maybe somebody from here mightwant to be in the dunk tank, so

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we're going to sell chances todo that.
And then we're also going tohave one small area.
You know all the parking andeverything is free, but we're
going to have a real close uparea that we're going to sell
VIP parking.
So if you want to park up close, you can pay and park up close.
That's kind of nice, so youdon't have to but you can.

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And then we have other thingswe're doing.
We're going to have acompetition between the balloon
pilots for them to have a bucket, and they get to kind of be a
ham for everybody and see ifthey can get people to give them
a dollar, and it'll be a dollar, a vote, and at the end of it
we're going to give them a prizefor raising the most money.
So we'll have all of them outthere with buckets and they'll

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probably be doing some antics toget people to donate.
And then how else are we doingit?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
we are going to have t-shirt sales.
We had some t-shirts made thatare super awesome with a
painting that a local artist didhas been printed onto the
t-shirt.
We'll have our old t-shirts forsale for five dollars.
Posters um the posters are good.
The posters they'll have.

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Each balloon that's attendingthis year will be listed on the
poster with a picture, and ithas a beautiful picture by Craig
Johnson on the front that is ofthe glow.
So there's a few little thingshere and there that we have
plugged in.
I think, like Angie said, wetry to keep this free to the
community, but it's also toraise funds for cancer patients

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to the community.
But it's also to raise fundsfor cancer patients.
So we have those little thingsthat if you feel led to make a
donation and get something inreturn, we have it out there for
you and tethering, oh andtethering.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
We'll be able to do tethering.
We don't sell the flights.
The pilots deal with that ontheir own because it's beyond
our liability.
They have their own.
So we list the pilots and ifyou want to fly, you contact
them directly.
However, if you want to tether,we do sell tether rides and so
we'll have tether rides outthere and you can come out and

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we get.
There's several of the balloonsthat are commercial and we get
all the money and it's $25 totether.
So we'll get all that money andthen if it's one of the pilots
that are there that are aprivate pilot, they give us half
of it.
So we'll get half the fundsfrom that and they take the rest
.
But it's.

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We should make pretty goodmoney this year.
I think this will be the bestone we've done, so we're real
excited about that.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
And know, as a reminder, you do not get any
money from nationalorganizations or anywhere else.
This is solely done within yourorganization.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yes, anderson county we have to raise our own money
because of that, and a lot ofpeople don't know that.
They think, oh, I'm, you knowI'm gonna do, and it's great.
The American Cancer Society iswonderful.
They do great things and Iwould love to be worked out of a
job when they cure cancer.
I'll find another one.
I'll come see if I canvolunteer for you, john.

(23:11):
There we go, but until thathappens we have to raise our own
money because they do mostlyresearch, do mostly research,
and so we do it.
We raise our funds by doingevents and by the generosity of
organizations, civicorganizations, churches,
generous donors in our community, and then writing grants.

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We write grants and that's howwe keep going.
So it's a long road.
It's tough for us to do, but atthe same time there's a lot of
joy in it and this is one of thejoy.
Events that we do is theballoon event, but every penny
from this goes to cancerpatients and and that's what we

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do, you know I mean it's.
We are a local non-profit andthe things that we're able to
accomplish always amaze me withthe small little funds we have.
I always loved the Scripturewhen we were growing up and I
actually have it cross-stitched,it said, and he bid them make
bricks without straw, becausethat's what we feel like.

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A lot of times we don't evenhave any straw and we've got to
make these bricks, but it alwayshappens and we're able to give
back to the community and that'swhat keeps us going.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
All right, much more coming up with Angie and Katie
Beth, but now take a breath.
We got to shift gears becauseZach is on the line.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh, zach, and.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Zach, who missed last weekend because he had to.
Well, he didn't do anything.
The phone went dead on us.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
And we've gotten that fixed.
Holly had the guy on it thenext day, first thing in the
morning.
It got the phone fixed.
Zach, are you there?

Speaker 9 (24:53):
I sure am.
Oh, it works, Darn it Anyway.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Zach, how you been man Did you have a good summer?

Speaker 9 (25:01):
Man, I did, man man, me and the family, we took a
little vacation, just four of us.
We went to myrtle beach and itwas nice because it was in
between I don't think it gothigher than 85, 86 degrees and
uh, just, you know, just it's.
It's different when it's justyour little family.

(25:21):
You know, we went with herfamily and went with my family,
but it's just something whenit's just your family.
And we had a good time.
Me and my 4-year-old went to aMyrtle Beach Pelicans game and
we went there and then, you know, just found some, just tried to
find some cheap seafood downthere.

(25:41):
That's hard to do down at thecoast, but we ate until we
couldn't eat no more and justkind of just enjoyed the time
together and just ready forSaturday.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, I'm sure you are .
This is what we live up to andyou know, know, when everybody's
injured on your baseball team,you gotta let little brother
yeah, okay, excuses excuses butlet me tell you this after,
after you get your butts whoopedon saturday, you can go out to
the um hot air fair and use alot of your hot air to blow up

(26:17):
some of those balloons.
Take your daughters out there,have a good time seeing the
balloons.
Maybe see a concert to, youknow, get you back in a good
mood after that whooping you'regoing to take on Saturday.

Speaker 9 (26:29):
Yeah, well, you know it's going to be funny when you
have to eat that crow onSaturday at about 3.30, because
I'm going to be honest with you.
If I was a bit, you know, Iwanted to say this last week,
but somebody wouldn't answer thephone.
But anyway no, if I was abetting man and I was doing the

(26:52):
Vegas, I would take Georgia.
But I think Clemson is going tokeep it close.
I really do.
I think it's going to be closerthan a lot of people think.
But I just think Clemson willmake too many mistakes, because
if you make too many mistakesagainst Georgia you will lose.
If this was Georgia from twoyears ago, oh yeah, we get blew

(27:15):
out by ten touchdowns.
Y'all know how much of a Clemsonfan that I am, but there wasn't
nobody stopping that Georgiateam from two you know, two
three years ago.
I mean, you know so.
But I'm looking forward to it.
You know it will depend onfield position.
It's going to be a defensivegame, I think, because both

(27:35):
defenses are doing well, but I'mlooking forward to it.
I've been looking forward to itsince last year.
Matter of fact, I've had acountdown on my phone the day
that the bowl game ended.
I started the countdown andit's just crazy how fast we've
gotten here.
I mean, it's unbelievable.

(27:56):
But I'm looking forward to it.
You know, win or lose, you knowit's not really going to hurt
them much, especially with theexpansion of the 12-team playoff
.
I'm looking forward to thatthat's going to be neat, but
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Florida State helped you out there by losing their
first game.
Well, and I called that game.

Speaker 9 (28:17):
I mean, I called that game.
Look who they have atquarterback.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's his fourth school.
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Fourth, school At least.

Speaker 9 (28:25):
Third right it's his third school and his fourth
offensive coordinator.
He had two at Clemson, becauseTony Elliott went to Virginia,
and then he had Jonathan Smithat Oregon State and now Mike
Norvell, and that's what thetransfer portal does to you.

(28:46):
I mean, yeah, I think that boatshould use it here and there,
but when you get a bunch of guysin that ain't never played
together, that's what it can do.
Georgia Tech shouldn't run allover them like that, like they
did.
But they did, and I called thatgame.
I knew Georgia Tech was goingto be ready to play because of
DJ.
I mean, no, dj didn't make allthe mistakes.

(29:07):
He didn't make all the mistakeswhen he was at Clemson, but he
missed two wide-open passes, twowide-open passes Two.
That should have been touchdownson Saturday.
Yeah, and I mean you know I'veheard from Florida State people,
mike G Saturday.
And I mean you know, I've heardfrom Florida State people, mike
Norvell knows how to developplayers.
He'll develop DJ.
Dabo Sweeney don't know how todevelop nobody.
You know how many nationalchampionships has Dabo won and

(29:29):
how many has Mike Norvell won?
You know, I mean it's justcrazy what people think.
Yes, I think Dabo should usethe transfer portal.
But when tampering comes out,when people say, oh, they've
done this, they've done that,you ain't got to put Clemson's
name in the hat becausetampering goes on, I mean
Clemson just lost a commit froma four-star defensive end that

(29:52):
went to Duke after he committedto Clemson, you know.
So I mean you know it is whatit is and that's just the state
college football's in right now,but I won't stop watching it.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, there's one thing I can guarantee you about
that game on Saturday is it willbe closer than I think it will
be, because I don't think itwill be very close.
So you are right about that,that it will be closer than I
think it will be.
But anyway, shifting gears, I'mjust messing with you.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
as you know, I'm looking forward to that game too
Do.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
I not get to speak now?
No, no, you've spoken enough.
I mean, this is only anhour-long show.
I mean, come on, we've got toget you your own show.
But all right, now you haven'tspoken.
As we switch to high schoolfootball and I know you're a big
ring guy now at 4A, so how doyou think that's going to go?

Speaker 9 (30:47):
The only team I'm worried about in our region is
Westside.
I think that's going to be yourregion championship.
We play TL Hanna.
We either play TL Hanna orPottersville, week three.
I cannot remember the order.
I think it's Pottersville, weekthree.
I cannot remember the order.
I think it's Pottersville thenHannah, or it's Hannah then
Pottersville.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, it's Pottersville at rent on week
three.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
Okay, and then so I don't.
I don't with Hannah.
We make too many mistakes andthey always sneak out the win.
Pottersville's always up in theair.
It don't matter ifPottersville's 0-3, 0-8, ritz
0-8 8-0, that game's alwaysclose, always.

(31:30):
It always has been.
So.
As far as the 4A, I don't thinkwe'll have a problem Until we
get into the playoffs, becausethen you start matching up with
the Green Wolves, then you startmatching up with the Green
Wolves, then you start matchingup with.
You know, I just hope we don'tever move to 5A because we won't
be able to compete in 5A.
You know, easily they bumped upto 5A.
They're not going to be able tocompete in 5A, you know.

(31:50):
I just, you know that's why I'mtalking on this show right now
and I don't get paid enough todo that kind of thing.
I hear you so.
I hear you so, you know so.
But yeah, I think we cancompete.
I just, we play Westside, thelast game, and I believe that we
have a salesman that comes intowork that sells us some of our
lumber, and he is a Westside guyand he thinks just like I think

(32:15):
that's going to be the regionchampionship.
Yeah, I've heard from multiplepeople.
We we can score on west side,but we cannot stop west side.
They're just that good.
I mean, they're bringing backjust about everybody.
They won the state championshiplast year, yeah so all right.
Well, you got easily thisweekend right yeah, yeah, yeah,

(32:35):
we've got uh that team fromright down the road.
Yeah, but yeah, I hope that's abetter game than Palmetto was,
because I left with sevenminutes to go in the third
quarter.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
You could have left with seven minutes to go in the
first quarter and still got thesame amount out of that game I
know kind of like.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
You know it was like them.
They were playing like thePhillies doing the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, at least that's better than the Braves playing
the playoffs.
They're playing like thePhillies do in the playoffs.

Speaker 9 (33:02):
Yeah, at least that's better than the Braves playing
in the playoffs.
Yeah, I know.
Well, you've got to let littlebrother win every now and then.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll see.
I've had enough of you now.
Now you come on next.
Wait, we don't even have a shownext week, but we will talk.
We will talk about what happensthis back.

Speaker 9 (33:17):
Hey, just yeah.
Yeah, you got that right Off.
Subject Friday night SmackDowncomes October the 11th and.
I am taking my four-year-oldwith me.
I know you would.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
You know I have a kid and one of my seniors reminds
me a lot of you.
He's a tall, big guy, like youare, and he watches every minute
of wrestling all the time andthat's all he ever does is come
in and talk to me aboutwrestling.

Speaker 9 (33:41):
My little girl, tiffany, told me.
She said, because we told herabout the beach and I bet we
heard for three, four, fivemonths Mom, I want to go to the
beach, daddy, I want to go tothe beach.
So Tiffany told me.
She said you can take her, butyou ain't saying one word to her
because she will not shut upabout it, will?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
not shut up about it.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
I don't know when I'll get to tell her.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
I'll get to tell her sometime.
But that girl wakes up.
She calls it W.
She wakes up watching W, shegoes to sleep watching W.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
So she is my.
I don't know if that's good orbad.
Yeah, I don't know how to thinkabout that.

Speaker 9 (34:16):
Oh well, to leave y'all with something funny.
Tiffany come home one day andshe said Zachary, y'all, when
Tiffany calls me Zachary, it'snot a good thing.
So she said you and Carson aregoing to have to quit wrestling
because she is doing them typeof moves when her friends at
school are getting in trouble.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Uh-oh, uh-oh.

Speaker 9 (34:38):
Because I'll tell Carson every now and then I'll
bust you upside the head.
You're going to have to quitsaying that too, because she's
telling her friends that it'sgoing to be, trouble.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
That's what runs up to them From out of nowhere.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's it , that's it.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
All right, Zach.
Man, it's good to hear yourvoice.
We'll talk soon.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
All right, Zach.
Man, it's good to hear yourvoice.
We'll talk soon.
All right, brother.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Y'all take care.
All right, you too.
All right, the one and onlyZach Howard with his view on
sports.
He's a mess, he is a mess, buthe's our mess, that's right.
All right, so let's shift backinto gear.
I want to know a little bitabout this young lady to your
right.
Angie that has come along andhas the nice long title.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Resource Development and Marketing Coordinator Looks
like on her pin there she had toadd a couple extra lines.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
I have two pins just to fit it on there.
It takes people five minutes toread it.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Katie Beth Irby, tell us a little bit about your
background, how you wound up atthe Cancer Association.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, so I am from Anderson.
I have a one-year-old littlegirl and she's precious.
I was a dispatcher at thesheriff's office for the
majority of my 20s, for aboutseven years.
I loved that job very much.
Angie knows that I did, but theburnout period for that is five

(36:03):
years and I made it two overthat.
So I made it Anyway, fastforward.
I didn't work through my entirepregnancy and then when it was
time to go back to work, I foundthe first thing I could find
and it was horrible.
So I had a friend call me andthey said I I think that you
need to talk to Angie, she's afriend of mine and it's actually

(36:24):
a deputy that I used todispatch for and she said I just
had lunch with her, she'slooking for somebody and it came
to my mind I think you need tocall her.
So I did and we met.
I think I called you on aThursday and we met on that
Friday and I left the officewith a start date of the next
Monday and it's been wheels onthe ground since.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
No doubt, with Angie, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's not going to be boring.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
I'll say it before she can say it, because she says
it every time that it comes up.
She says there's no frying pan,straight into the fire, and
that's absolutely true, but it'sa good fire.
I'm going to call it a campfirebecause it's warm and toasty
and we, we do good things.
So, um, I'm really thankful tobe there.
Um, my, my primary roles arecommunity outreach, so I'm

(37:11):
constantly running into town andmaking those connections and
trying to, you know, let peopleknow that we're there or, you
know, trying to raise funds, andthen marketing, which plays
into the event portion of it.
So I'm kind of, you know, in asense, angie's assistant in
these events, to kind of takesome of that stuff off of her,

(37:32):
because we all know she goes andgoes and goes and we can.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
She'll try to do it all.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
And we'll sit there and tell her what can we do?
Give it to us.
So we're a great team and wehave a great team in general.
Our whole office is a bunch ofwomen.
We've got women power up there,suede is here.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
But we all work really well together and finally
she's starting to listen to usand say you don't have to do
that.
You hired us to help you and wewant to help you.
So that's my story.
That's how I got here.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, that's awesome.
If you've done the dispatching,then I think Angie would be a
nice change of pace.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
She might be fire, but it's not like real fire.
Yeah, literally Like you weredealing with before.
Do you ever watch the 911 showson TV and?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
say this isn't really like this?

Speaker 3 (38:24):
I do not.
And you know what's so funny?
It's so funny because myparents watch those shows and
then my whole family's in thefire department.
So they have the scanners goingin the house all of the time
and it drives me crazy.
And they're like why do you notwant to hear it?
And I say I spent 12 hours anight listening to this and
these shows.
No, I don't watch them.
And people tell me all the timeyou need to watch 9-1-1.

(38:47):
And no, I would sit there andprobably roll my eyes the whole
time.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Give me an example of like a real crazy call that you
got.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh my gosh, you know this is the hardest question
that a dispatcher has ever asked.
Yeah, and oh my gosh, you knowthis is the hardest question
that a dispatcher has ever asked.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, and I imagine everybody asks it too, but
anyway, it can be something.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
It probably has to be family friendly.
Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
And it doesn't have to be serious, it could just be
weird or strange.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
You know, this isn't really strange.
Well, I guess it kind of is,depending on who you ask.
But we called them frequentflyers that called every night,
you know, and typically they'reelderly people who you know have
have alzheimer's or whatnot.
But we had one, one guy, and helived in the pendleton area.
Well, you couldn't understand aword that he said and I loved

(39:35):
him.
Uh, I wanted to talk to him.
Every time that he called andhe would call and he'd say they,
he'd say they're outside myhouse, they're outside my house.
And you know, no one wasactually out there, but if he
did not call, we called himbecause we were worried yeah.
And so we took him presents onValentine's Day and Christmas

(39:55):
and all the things and I'd callhim and I'd say, hey, hey,
mister, you know, I'd say hisname.
I'd say, hey, hey, mister, I'dsay his name.
I'd say, hey, are you okay?
You haven't called us tonight.
He'd say, well, they're notoutside my house tonight.
And so I loved him very muchand he was fun.
You had to learn how to get tounderstand him because he was
very hard to understand.
But he would be like, hey, girl, they're outside my house,

(40:18):
they're going to take me awaytonight.
You know, and bless his heart,they weren't, that was never
happening.
But those, those kinds ofstories I'm going to tell you.
All my other stories I can'ttell.
I can't even the first one thatcame to my mind.
I was like oh, check yourself,you don't need to tell that one.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right, Um, we're going to take a quick little
break here and then we're goingto come back.
We're going to take a quicklittle break here and then we're
going to come back.
We're going to talk about alittle of the history and
mission of the CancerAssociation and talk about all
the other events that you havecoming up.
It's not like a one-time shotwith this hot air affair.
There's a lot of stuff going onthat's coming up as we continue
with Angie and Katie Beth fromthe Cancer Association of

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Speaker 1 (43:03):
Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio, visiting
tonight with Angie Stringer andKatie Beth Irby from the Cancer
Association of Anderson.
We've talked about the hot airaffair with all the balloons
happening down in Anderson thisweekend and let's talk about for
people that may have not heardthe complete story of the Cancer

(43:24):
Association.
Let's spend a few minutes withthat, angie, as you talk about
the history of it, the missionof it, some of the services and
stuff that you do.
Holly's already mentioned thefact that it's, you know, all
local and it's really kind ofamazing and you amaze me every
year, because you have differentnumbers as it keeps growing

(43:44):
about how many people you'reable to take care of and how few
people you have that manage totake care of them.
It's really amazing.
So tell us where you're at thisyear, a little bit of history
and what the Cancer Associationis all about.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Well, in 2003, in March, a group of leaders in
Anderson County recognized thefact that there were people who
were falling through the cracksin our community that really
needed help and weren't able toget it.
Either they had insurance butnot enough, or they didn't have
insurance and couldn't get totheir treatment.

(44:23):
And leading that charge wasKatherine Smith, who's the
original founder.
She worked with Dr Malick andhis wife, Dr Malick they're both
oncologists and also somepeople in the community and
started raising funds to puttogether and bring about Birth

(44:45):
of the Cancer Association ofAnderson.
And it started in a small housethat was over 110 years old on
East Calhoun Street and has beenthere ever since.
We've moved next door.
We still have that property,but the house was literally
falling in around us.
So we are in the next doorhouse now but getting ready to

(45:07):
start a building campaign.
We've already had our capitalcampaign and we're about
two-thirds of the way there, andso we're going to be breaking
ground in October on our newfacility, which is great.
But just to give you a synopsisof what we do, our mission,
summed up, is to lessen theburden on Anderson County

(45:29):
residents who are battlingcancer, and we do that by
providing financial assistance,whether it's mileage
reimbursement or if someoneneeds to go out of town or to
Emory, MUSC, MD Anderson or adistant facility for treatment,

(45:49):
we give them a stipend based onthe distance.
If you're going to MD Anderson,it's $250.
If you're going to Emory it's,I think, $100.
If you're going to Levine, it's$100.
So there's different levelsdepending on where you're going.
So we do that.
We also pay for prescriptionmedicine.

(46:10):
We do not pay for chemo drugs,obviously, because one chemo
drug would put us under thetable.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
They're expensive.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Unfortunately and don't get me on my soapbox there
paying for, like painmedication, antibiotics when you
get infections, nauseamedication, things that your
oncologist prescribed to helpyou get through treatment.
So we do that.
We also pay for, like a lot ofpeople who have like, maybe

(46:43):
colon cancer or kidney cancersor anything like that, may have
some incontinence problems.
So we pay for diapers you knowthe adult diapers and we have
those on hand and also orderthem for them.
We pay for nutrition.
A lot of times when you're goingthrough chemo I mean I can
certainly attest not only do younot want to eat food but you

(47:04):
don't want to smell it, see itor anything, and so the
nutrition drinks.
They don't have much of a smelland you can usually just drink
them down and make yourself doit to keep your strength up and
your calorie count up.
So we pay for things like that.
We also have a vehicle thatwe've had for three years now
almost three years to where wecan actually pick people up

(47:28):
across the county and take themto their treatment and back home
.
We got that through a grant andthat poor car is still going.
It looks great but it's gotabout 95,000 miles on it in
those years.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
We're pushing 100.
We're close.
I'm pretty sure we're gettingeven closer.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Yeah, so it's five to eight patients a day and that's
two trips one there and thenback home From all over.
It can be in Williamston,powdersville, iva Star,
pendleton, everywhere, and itmay be one here and then one
over there.
So we're pushing it on that.
When we can't get them all in,we supplement with Uber.
We can get an Uber and do that.

(48:06):
We are trying to build up agroup of volunteers who we could
call in to help with that whenwe get in trouble and need more
people to go.
So if you're interested in thator know somebody that would
like to drive and just be anencouragement to patients, we
could use that.
So we do that.
We help with wigs and hats andscarves and things like that.

(48:29):
We have classes on nutrition.
We have classes on.
We have one class that I lovecalled Face Forward, where
patients can come in and we havetwo wonderful, wonderful women
that come in and talk to themabout skincare, talk to them
about how to draw your eyebrows.
You know people think, becauseit changes your body, changes

(48:51):
Absolutely it does, your skin islike completely different, and
your hair and when you get itback that is, if you lose it,
when your hair comes back, it'scompletely different.
So they teach them how to dothat, how to put on makeup.
You know a lot of people don'trealize that you don't just lose
the hair on your head, but youlose all your hair.
I didn't have to shave my legs.

(49:11):
That was the best part.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
That's the only good part, that was the positive.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I had to find it.
But you lose your eyebrows andyour eyelashes and people don't
think about your eyelashes, butthey have a job to do and when
you don't have them, your eyesstay red and they burn and you
get dust in them.
So these gals come in.
They show them how to putmakeup on so they feel normal
because you know you don't feelnormal when you're going through

(49:37):
treatment.
And they show them how to fixtheir wigs, how to clean them,
how to make sure that theirmakeup brushes and everything
are clean and sanitized, becauseyou don't want an infection
when you're going through it.
So that's a great class.
It's called face forward.
I love that class and everybodythat goes in, that go in and
they're a little nervous andwhen they come out they're

(49:57):
laughing and talking and theyhave made new friends.
So that's a great thing.
We do it once a month, um, sowe do all kinds of things like
that and every bit of it is free.
Yes, it is it really is.
Everything and we get to love onpeople too.
That's the best part.
We do get attached to peopleand you know, when you come in
our door you might be a stranger, but you don't leave that way.

(50:19):
You have several friends andfamily when you leave, and so
it's.
It's just a wonderful place towork and, like Katie Beth was
saying a while ago, we're allfamily there and we have the
best team and when one of usstruggles, all of us struggle
and we have our little thing.
You don't think about it.

(50:39):
You get tired of the people youwork with a lot of times.
I know y'all don't understandthat, because you love one
another.
But you can get tired of people, but not these gals, I mean.
We're texting each other allthe time, you know, day or night
.
You know, hey, I got thiscoming up, hang in there and
things like that.
So it's a great group of peopleand you never leave a stranger.
But the Cancer Association isjust such a wonderful

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organization and I've been thereand I am a little partial to it
, but I've been on both sides.
When I came through the door asa cancer patient, they were
there for me and now it's a joyto be able to give back and to
see somebody feel that relief,and you can see it in their eyes
when you say you know, I mightnot have the same cancer you did
, but I sat where you did and Ifelt totally helpless and that I

(51:28):
wasn't in control.
And you see, the the stressstart fading away because
they're not alone, and so whenyou come through our doors
you're never alone again, and sothat's, that's our big thing,
and I'm just real grateful tothose that built the platform
that we have now and it's grownevery year, like you said,
they're still so heavilyinvolved as well.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Those that started, founded the cancer association,
and we see them all the time,often all the time and if I
don't, I'm like where's?
Where are they?
Where's katherine?

Speaker 4 (52:01):
but yeah, it's, it's just, uh, it's a great mission,
we and, uh, we're able to do itand we feel blessed that we are.
I laugh.
We used to have our banker.
He would.
He'd call me and be talking tome and I'd say I don't know what
you have going on with thoseloaves and fishes over there,
but keep it going.
So we've always managed to havewhat we need and it's due to

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the generosity of people thatlive in our community.
We live in a great, greatcommunity.
People don't take it forgranted.
You have no idea.
When we start talking aboutwhat we do in the Cancer
Association when we're outsideof Anderson County, people are
amazed and I've had people fromGreenville even say y'all are so
lucky and it's a blessing and Ifeel like we're in like a

(52:48):
unicorn, magical place becausegreat things happen there and so
I feel blessed.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
So how many people do you take care of now and how
many people are you working foryou?

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Because this ratio always amazes me, yeah right now
we have well, I'm the director,so I'm full-time, which is 24-7
, pretty much directors, so I'mfull-time, which is 24-7, pretty
much.
I have three staff who are 32hours, including Katie Beth, and
so they're there, which isfull-time, because our doors are

(53:19):
only open Monday throughThursday, so we use Friday, in
the weekend and evenings to dothe work, to bring the money in,
so that we can do what we doMonday through Thursday.
But we have also have oneperson that started, probably in
March, right after you did, whoBrooke, and she's wonderful.

(53:41):
She is working about 24 hours aweek and she's starting to help
me with special projects andthings like that and she's our
real organizer and she's gotthat.
You know, get in line, she'smilitary.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
She really does.
I gave her a new nickname.
I call her Warden Farmer.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
She's great, I love her I really do.
She's wonderful and she's veryorganized, so we're very
thankful for her.
And, of course, haley has beenwith me since October.
She started and she filled aniche that we have needed so
long.
She's our patient servicesadvocate, so as soon as we get

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the referrals coming in, shecalls them and talks to them and
tells them one-on-one what wedo and sets up an appointment
for them to come in and tour andsee our place, which is great,
and so it's really adding.
That extra thing that we neededthere is to have that hands-on,
one-on-one and they feel likethey have friends there.

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So that's been amazing.
And she's been able to, becausefor a long time people would get
the prescriptions paid and theywould think you know that the
hospital paid it.
You know they didn't realizebecause the pharmacist maybe
wasn't saying you know, this ispaid for by the Cancer
Association.
So we were lacking some of thatloyalty too from people that

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realized that we were the onesdoing it.
So she's made that niche andthen we have Kim.
Kim has been with me thelongest and she is our site
manager, so she's the firstperson when you walk through the
door.
She's the first person you seeand she has got the most tender
heart.
You could come in and tell hera story and she'll cry with you.

(55:22):
And you'll be crying with herEvery time and she'll come in my
office and she'll say can Ijust stand here a?

Speaker 3 (55:29):
minute.
Yesterday I called her in thehall.
I said are you okay?
She said I just need to getmyself together before I go back
up there for the next patient.
I said okay.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Because she sees them when they come in and maybe
they just left.
She's a survivor as well.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
She's been through it as well, so she feels it on a
deeper level.
She's a colon cancer survivor.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
So she's amazing.
But she just loves on them andhugs them and she knows their
whole story and what their dog'sname is and where they live and
how many grandkids they have.
So she's perfect for the job.
So she's great.
And then we have a volunteerslash, one day a week really,

(56:12):
marilyn, who comes in, and she'sfrom up north, so she comes in
and tells us we're going to doit this way.
So she's great too.
She's there.
So that's us.
So really it's me, katie, bethh, hayley brooke and kim, and uh,
we and how many people you havecoming through your door oh, we

(56:36):
had.
We average new referrals now umsame as before, probably around
60 a month as a medium number.
Um, some months it's higher,some months it's a little bit
lower.
Very rarely much lower.
But that's about where we areand those are new referrals.
So we still have those otherpeople coming in and there are

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days when our phone will ring 60times a day.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
so we're really busy and last year I'm trying to
remember off the top of my head,but we had patient contacts and
that's you know.
It could be one person morethan once, but the people that
we're spending time with patientcontacts different times they
come in.
We had over 11,000 last year.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Wow, I think one day last week Kim had 99 people walk
through the door on one day.
Wow, and think about that,divided by five, people walk
through the door on one day.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Wow, and think about that.
Divided by five people, whichnot all of them are full time.
Right.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Yeah, and I don't have any patient contact, so
it's really divided between four.
I won't say any, but you knowmy primary role is not, so it's
really putting.
Kim and Haley have the mostcontact with patients, you know,
and then we have the rest ofthe yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
It's crazy.
We're able to do it.
I don't know how, I do not knowhow and I can't take credit.
None of us can take credit,it's, you know.
I mean, I'm one to say I giveGod the credit for that, because
he gets us through every dayand we're able to help more
people than I can even imagine.
And, um, it's, it's one ofthose things you go home and you
can lay your head down andyou're exhausted, but it's a
good exhaustion you know,because you know somebody

(58:15):
difference.
Yeah, somebody got some helptoday because you were.
You showed up, and sometimesthat's all we can do is show up.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
You know, that's right all right, we're going to
take a quick time out and thencome back and kind of wrap it up
with, uh, kind of a summary ofall the events that Cancer
Association of Anderson hascoming up and we'll get our
guest recommendations.
Yes, we're going to ask Angieand Katie Beth to give us
entertainment and foodrecommendations.
It's something we're doing.

(58:42):
We're going to write a bookeventually About all of our
guests and all theirrecommendations.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
The local areas.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Be ready for that.
Did you want to say somethingover there?

Speaker 2 (58:50):
What.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
No, no, I thought you were pointing to me.
Okay, we'll be right back towrap things up on the Boone Show
on MyPulse Radio.

Speaker 10 (59:01):
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When you come to Nick Henry'sin Powdersville, home of the
bird dog, great food made fresh.
Call 864-605-0561 now to placean order.
Again, that's 864-605-0561.
Don't forget to try one ofGranny Henderson's cakes at Nick

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.

Speaker 12 (59:27):
Henry's.
Founded from a dream anddedication and built with a
warming aesthetic, comfortablemerchandise and coffee at great
prices.
Maple Bakery and Coffeehouseopens its arms to everyone with
a sweet tooth, so come andembrace the friendly adornment

(59:48):
and enjoy hot or cold treat atWilliamston's Mabel Bakery, or
place an order for a specialoccasion.
Located at 908 Anderson Drive,we hope you enjoy it as much as
we do.

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
Bro, I swear this is the dumbest car ever.
It doesn't even want to crank.
No, it's a nice car, it justneeds some work done to it.
No, it's a nice car, it justneeds some work done to it.
No, it's just a piece of junk.
Okay, well, why don't you justlisten to me and take it to L&C
Automotive Repair in Pelzer?
What's so special about them?
Well, for starters, they arefamily-owned and operated and
offer full auto repair that youcan trust for affordable prices,
and every employee is ASCcertified.

(01:00:26):
Well, I guess that's what we'regoing to right now to get this
thing fixed.
For more information, go tolncautomotiverepaircom or call
864-402-0570.

Speaker 7 (01:00:35):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Welcome back to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio
Speaking of Hill Electric.
They're going to be our nextguests on our next show in
September.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Oh, they are phenomenal people.
Wow, the bosses.
So Trey's coming.
Yeah, yay, trey and David,right, yep.

Speaker 9 (01:01:22):
And the ladies will be here too.
Oh, yes, angie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Angela and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Oh, so are you having the women's confidence builders
?
They're all coming, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
They listed it as Hill Electric is coming.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
So, on the 17th of September.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
That's the next show that we do live.
Okay, They'll be in here, andthen the week after that we'll
have the Denver Downs Forum.
Catherine, yes, okay so that's,the show is coming up in
September, but for right nowwe're having a great time
talking about the CancerAssociation of Anderson, all the

(01:01:59):
great things that they do andgot going on.
So I imagine we're shifting itover to Katie Beth here to tell
us about all the other eventsoutside of the Hot Air Affair
this weekend that you can getinvolved in and help out the
Cancer Association of Andersonand have some fun.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Yeah, so well, you know we didn't even mention.
The craziest part of thisweekend is that we decided to
combine three events with oneevent.
So, along with the Hot AirAffair, this weekend, saturday
morning will be our annual colorrun.
It's our third annual color runcolors against cancer.
That will be at 7 30 am at thesame location, the balloon

(01:02:37):
launch field where the balloonswill be taking off.
So the balloons will be takingoff and our runners will be
running.
You'll have color in the skyand color on the ground, and sky
and color on.
I should have used that, that'sgood that's good.
Yeah, so we'll also have oursurvivors walk, which we do
every year as well, and, youknow, wear white.
If you want to come out andregister, registration is still

(01:02:58):
open.
You guys can do that on the dayof as well.
Monday, on Labor Day, we'll behaving our second annual Derwood
Penninger Classic Car Show.
He was a cancer patient as well, and his daughter works for the
People's Bank and they startedthis event last year.
He was a big car guy, soregistration is still open for

(01:03:21):
that as well.
If you like classic cars, youcan come on out.
Of course, I need volunteersfor both of those as well.
But outside of this weekend wehave the golf tournament, which
will be the Teed Off AgainstCancer October 11th.
That'll be our next.
Oh, I'm sorry I totally skippedour biggest event aside from
the hot air fair.
Our concert of hope andremembrance is September 14th at

(01:03:47):
Boulevard Baptist Church.
This year it is folk songs fromthe heart, so they'll be
singing songs like when theSaints Go Marching In A Danny
Boy, a Marriage.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Either of you in it this year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
I will be introducing everybody, but, as you can tell
, sinuses are not my friendright now.
They're not mine either.
So and also I don't know dr.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Dr kim might be like katie beth we don't need you,
we've got enough members butyeah, so that that's our a
little bit about that event isit's the event that started the
cancer association.
It was started two years beforethe founding actually happened
and it was used to raise moneyto make it happen.
So it's kind of treasured.

(01:04:31):
Everyone loves it and it sellsout every year.
So we'll have that.
And then, like I said, the golftournament in october.
We'll also get together aroundhalloween for you know community
, drop in and trick or have acouple of vendors Scare away
cancer, scare away cancer.
There you go, yep.
And then November, beginning ofDecember, we'll hold a sip and

(01:04:53):
shop.
So that's our year end and thenwe'll start over in February
with our girlfriend's tea.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
But you know what you guys could do.
We do every year the sheriff'soffice and Anderson Police
Department.
We do a no-shave November, andso it's a dollar a day.
I can handle that, and sopeople pay it not to shave, and
so you know they do that.
We've even had some women saythey would do that too.
I don't know that everybodywould be happy about that, but

(01:05:22):
they do that and then we get themoney from it.
So no Shave November, have acompetition.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Of course, october is Breast Cancer from it.
So no shame.
November yes, and of course, ofcourse, october is breast
cancer awareness month, which isa huge month for for us in
general, because you know, Imean, there are multiple types
of cancer but breast cancer is.
Everyone comes together forthat and we've already got
people holding fundraisers.
You know restaurants contactingus and we have a pest control
company who wants to do at-shirt fundraiser, so so they

(01:05:48):
really come through in Octoberfor us to raise some money.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
And that's not just women either.
I know a couple of friends ofmine.
Guys have had breast cancer.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Yes, you know, what I really want to do one year is
have the schools compete witheach other in October to see who
can raise the most money.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
I mean all the schools and we'll do a big
trophy yeah.
And then you know kind of likea spirit trophy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
It goes to each school each year.
Whoever wins gets the trophyfor that year, and then the next
school year they get Switch itaround, yeah, so if y'all want
to get in on that, yeah, we canhelp you with that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
That'd be fun.
That'd be students involved.
Yeah, exactly, I'd love to.
Um, okay, so now is the time ofour show, when we wrap things
up, that we get our guestrecommendations first.
Uh, entertainmentrecommendations.
It could be a book.
You're reading, somethingyou're streaming, binge watching

(01:06:41):
, if you have time, tv movie,whatever, um, and then we'll get
to food after that, and thatcould be a recipe that you've,
you've tried, you've madeyourself, or a restaurant, or a
dish at that restaurant,whatever.
So we're gonna start withentertainment.
Angie, what, what can yourecommend to our listeners?

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
entertainment wise well, I started watching a show.
It's not new, but it's onnetflix and I have been glued to
it.
Um, it's called the Residentand it is so good it's a that's
a doctor.
Show it's a doctor show and Iwas surprised I liked it that
much because I don't really getinto.

(01:07:18):
You know, I don't watch a lotof series, so but my son told me
he goes, mom, you'd really likethis, and I started watching it
and it's really good and it'lljust draw you in, um, but it,
the dynamics of it and therelationships of the people, and
then you, you get to get mad atyou know some of the companies
and some of the things thathappen and you get mad at that.

(01:07:39):
It's not fair, um, which I getreally upset about.
How expensive chemo drugs are,you know, and everything.
So you get to feel that too.
And then Justice is Served, youknow, I mean it's just really
good.
It's a great show.
It's called the Resident, so Ilove that.
And then I will tell you that Ido love to read and I got

(01:08:01):
involved in reading this book.
It's a Christian book.
John and Lisa Bevere are afamily.
They're in the ministrytogether, but they mostly do
podcasts and books andeverything, and so Lisa had a
series called Girls with Swordsand it is so good and it breaks
down things that we go throughin our lives and how God, you

(01:08:24):
know, has a plan for us andeverything, and how we get
targeted to throw us off trackand all, and so it's really been
an encouragement to me.
But it's Lisa Bevere and it'scalled Girls with Swords.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
All right, sounds good.
The resident and girls withswords.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
All right, Katie Beth , what do you got for us?

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Well, you know, I've read 60 books this year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Yeah, I got a Kindle for Christmas.
I like to read or I'm trying toget back into liking to read
and it's working so far, so Icould not say so.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I could not.
I don't think I've read that inmy life, me neither.
I wish I could read more.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
I know I got on my Amazon the other day to look at
how many I'd read and I was likethat is insane.
But I'm also one of thosepeople who, once I read it, I
couldn't tell you what it wasabout.
I have no idea I mean I couldtell you general the gist of it,
but if you, if you were likewhat, what was?
The details?
So the comprehension, can'tremember 60 books.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Like she has a one-year-old yeah, I read late
enough I read late at night okayoh, does those 60 books include
, like the, the books you readto your one-year-old?
No, oh, these are adorable,because I could probably get
that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Yeah, no but currently I am in the
psychological thriller genreNice.
So I'll just tell you what I'mreading right now and I just
started it last night or nightbefore last.
It's called Thirteen and it'sabout a jury and the actual
criminal is on the jury.
So they're you know he's on thejury to to send whoever to

(01:09:53):
prison for this crap, for murdereven though he did it even
though he did it, so I'm only onchapter two.
So I have to follow up, I haveto call in and let you guys know
what what the follow-up was.
Um very interesting, veryinteresting.
Already just in the secondchapter I'm like, well, this is
totally weird, but I'm excited.
But then of course I read theColleen Hoover books, so of

(01:10:14):
course I took myself on a littledate by myself to see.
It Ends With Us last weekend orthe weekend before and it's a
great movie.
All the girls are talking aboutthat, yeah, and I think they did
a really good job of making itto where a teenage girls can go
see it without it beinginappropriate, and I think that
that's a good lesson, for Ithink boys should go see it too,

(01:10:36):
because it teaches good lessonsabout healthy relationships.
So I'm all for advocating forthat, and so it was a great
movie, and I read the book aswell.
I think the book's probablybetter, of course, but naturally
, and yeah, take, take the youngones to see it, let them learn
some lessons, and if you'reneeding some encouragement, I
think everybody could benefitfrom it, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
The books are always better, of course.
Yeah, that's a given.
It's much more detailed,obviously.
Yeah, you can't fit a wholebook into a movie, see the movie
, read the book, and 13 was theother book she recommended there
.
All right Food, angie Food, oneof my favorite subjects or a
place to eat or something, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
One of my favorite subjects.
Well, my favorite place to eatis at home, because I have a
wonderful cook for a husband andmy favorite thing he fixes is
he does a pork tenderloin on thegrill and he hand makes mango
chutney and blue cheese crumblesand he puts it on it once he

(01:11:32):
like divots out a little bit ofit, you know, and then he puts
all that on there and it justmelts when it's hot and so all
those tastes together it's justlike whoo, and then he'll do the
asparagus on the grill andthat's that's like good eating
there.
That's my very favorite favorite, but if you're looking for some

(01:11:53):
place to go, I've reallyenjoyed going to Culver's in
Anderson Culver's is good, I'veheard they're good they are.
They have a great fish sandwich.
That's what I've heard.
I've heard their fish sandwichis good.
It's really delicious, and thenyou can get a concrete before
you leave.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
Yes, and they're great supporters of the Cancer
Association as well?

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Yes, they are.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
They are very.
I mean, that's not a plug we doreally like.
Culver's, but they are verysupportive of us.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
They are yeah, that's great.
I like their burgers andthey're kind of like Freddy's,
but kind of like Freddy's onsteroids.
Freddy's, yeah, but kind oflike freddy's on steroids, yeah,
freddy's but better, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
So what do you have?
Um well, okay, so it's not ananderson, but my mom and I have
been going to full platecreperie in, uh, downtown
pickens, so wait downtownsomewhere I'll tell you where it
is some little town holly willhave it.
Yeah, her nickname is google, soit is in pickens okay yeah, so

(01:12:53):
if you like crepes, they havecrepes, meat southern like their
current summer savory, yes,savory or sweet, they have both,
but like their current summermenu I think they only have a
few days on their summer menu,but they have like blt crepes
and it has duke mayonnaise likesprayed on top and it is so good
.
And then they have um biscuitsand gravy a crepe oh my god so I

(01:13:18):
mean like different things likethat, and then some of them are
a little more sophisticated butand their dessert crepes are of
course, to die for, and sowe've got to get back up there.
But that's my current.
I kind of crave it all the timewhat's it called the what
creperie?

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
full plate, full plate creperie.
Looks like it's downtown.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
It is, yes, it's right there near coyote coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
So yeah, yeah all right, that's very cool, all
right.
Well, ladies, thank you so muchfor spending an hour with us.
Thank, you you guyshave so much great going on.
We love checking in with youevery year.
Um, and everybody get out andsee the hot air fair this
weekend down in anderson.
There's lots to do, asmentioned that.
They've got all that going onand you've got celebrate

(01:14:00):
anderson going on all in thesame place, so you might as well
just go spend the weekend downin anderson and, uh also, you
know, support the cause here aswell.
Again, tremendous, tremendouswork that you do.
I'm amazed every year at thestories you're able to tell us,
and nice to meet you, katie Beth.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Nice to meet you.
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Welcome.
Welcome to the team, I'm sureyou love working with Angie.
I've never heard a bad thingabout her in my life, so the
pressure's on but we hope to seeyou again soon and, of course,
you guys can chime in anytimeyou want us to help out with
something.
We'd love to send some kidsover there, help you out with
some campaigns, whatever thereis.
And yeah, we'll see you againsoon.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Yeah, by the way, you guys got your students did our
very first poster for our eventfor Hot Air Fair, and so all
I've done every year is justchange the balloons out.
So it is still the poster, thebackground and the layout that
your students did.
Oh, wow, oh, that's kind ofcool.
Yeah, that's been several yearsnow.

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Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Yeah, that is really cool.
So, okay, next week we're allall.
Well, we're off for a coupleweeks, our two weeks in
september, the 17th and the 24th, hill electric, and then denver
downs uh, talking about the, uh, the, the festival, the far
fall festival at denver downsfarm, uh, coming up and uh,
we'll be there for openingweekend on the 28th, as a matter

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