Houston Texans have new owner, Veterans Employment services at Goodwill Houston, Do you still have friends from elementary school?

Dana In The Morning Highlights 3/24

Cal McNair is now the new principal owner of our Houston Texans
Goodwill Houston has programs to help our veterans find skills AND jobs
Do you still have any friends from elementary school?

Episode Transcript

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Sunny ninety nine, Point Wine,Houston's Best variety of the eighties nineties,
and Today Dana in the Morning andproducer Anthony and the Three Things You Need
to Know to get your Wednesday,March twenty seven started well. The Texans
have a new principal owner, HalMcNair yep. It was approved at their
annual league meeting yesterday, the rolepreviously held by his eighty seven year old

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mom, Janie. He said hismom has been an inspirational leader. Janis
says she's so proud her son calwill be taking over and continuing the team,
and she said that she knows herhusband Bob would have been so pleased
and proud of his son. Well, pool season is coming in light of

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the tragic death of eight year oldElijah Jcob. Pool experts are saying it's
essential to stay vigilant. Pool owners. Be sure to get your seasonal inspections.
If you're at a hotel pool walkthrough and look for safety hazards.
You can actually look up inspection reportstheir open the public at Houston consumer dot

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org. Meanwhile, the lawyer forAleai's family in this wrongful death lawsuit against
Doubletree's parent company Hilton. They're suingfor a million dollars in damages. Say,
this whole thing could have been avoidedhad there not been a sixteen inch
unsecured open gap in the pool's flowsystem. Well, your weather today,

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it's going to be cool. Wemight see some showers. We're only going
to go up to sixty nine.Right now, it's super cool. It's
fifty in Uptown and you're up todate from sunny ninety nine point one.
Tell me something good brought to usby our friends at Goodwill Houston. This
is under the Texans Helping Texans category. His name is David McConnell. He's

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lovingly referred to as Coach. He'sthe principal of Dickinson's ISD alternative programs.
He helps kids achieve a better life. He offers a college fare at the
school, even at the Galveston CountyJuvenile Detention Center. He is all about
helping these kids get a better life. Oh, the assistant principle, Rush

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sheet Ce also helps with the jobfair. Coach Max says his goal is
helping at risk youth get back ontheir feet and envision upright future. So
good job, David McConnell. PrettySante Dane. Goodwill Houston knows how hard
it can be to start over,and it's reality that's very close to our
veterans. Many of them end upfacing homelessness on employment, incarceration, and

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a lack of civilian skills once they'redischarged. Goodwill Houston not only acknowledges these
struggles, but strives to be theanswer with their veterans employment and training services.
They bring together in house employment trainingwhile fostering an environment for stability,
growth, and consistent support and theiroperation. Good Jobs assists with financial strengthening
services for vets and their connected householdmembers to re establish financial security, planning,

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peace of mind. The best part, Dane, All these services are
free for all veterans to take advantageof. Goodwill Houston Veterans Workforce Investment Program
identifies these experiences that turn into reliableand marketable skills for employment, and they
believe in people and empower them byoffering them second chances. The many programs,
partners, and local locations that GoodwillHouston dedicates to vets and their families

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shows why they continue to be apillar in our Houston community. That is
amazing news. Thank you for sharingthis and Julia Daniels. She leads a
free library barbershop program. She workswith Alpha Alpha da Omega and they provide
books at barbershops. Kevin Neil,one of the barbershop owners in Katie,

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has these books at his barbershop.He says, sometimes kids just come in
to get a book. They don'teven need a haircut. If you would
like to be a Texan helping Texans, you can check out the website Alpha
Alpha eita Omega dot com and wealways have our tell Me Something Good stories
up to inspire you at Sunday ninetynine dot com. You can follow us

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on Facebook X and Instagram too atSunny ninety nine Sunday ninety nine point one,
Houston's Best variety of the eighties nineties. And Today Dana in the Morning
and producer Anthony and we're talking aboutour elementary school friends in our nearly Impossible
Question this morning, we find thattwelve percent of us still have our elementary
school friend is our best friend.And I was thinking back, I do

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too. I met Wendy when wewere two, almost three. She had
just moved to Bayville, Long Island, and I was invited to her birthday
party and I just remember this littlegirl had everything, and she had long
blonde hair, she had her canopybed. Her mom always dressed her so
cute. My mom didn't. Ijust I loved her. And then we
went our separate ways and we gotback in touch with each other when we

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found out we both were pregnant atthe same time with our first baby.
And it's just so cool to bein touch with someone that long. And
that's what we're asking you about yourelementary school friends? Do you still have
them? And you can answer ourFacebook question already of you said, actually,
yes, it's our question up atSunny ninety nine Houston, so definitely

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check it out. And Anthony,you don't have any. You kind of
have a bunch of friends just onFacebook keep in touch from Afar. Now
we have got Izzy calling in fromJamaica Beach. Now you're in eighth grade
and Izzy, do you still haveyour elementary school friends as friends today?
Yes? I have a lot ofmy best friends, Brooklyn, Rihanna,

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great names Brooklyn and Rihanna. Sowhat are the three of you girls love
to do so much as eighth graders. We like to go to the Cardinals
like Pleasure Peer and Keema and themovies and just hang out excellent. And
what are your favorite things about Brooklyn? About your friends? I love how
we can always get along whenever,Like even if I'm sad, They'll always

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make me happy and they're always justfun to be around. That is so
that's what best friends do. Okay. What are your guys' favorite foods to
eat together? Wing stop than Yeah? And your favorite fashion Do you guys
wear the same types of clothes now? All right? What's trending in the
fashion world amongst eighth graders? Forthem? They like just basic tee shirts

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and like leggings. Me, Ilike, I like kind of dressing up
I like, I don't know.They like darker colors like kink. Okay,
that's okay, you can be youright, That's what makes your girlfriends
work. That is so great?Is he? It's so nice to talk
to you. Yeah, listen,how did you find Sunday ninety nine point
one? Me and my family welistened every day in the morning, eploydool

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and everywhere. That is well,Izzy, We appreciate you and your family.
Thanks for sharing a little bit ofyour life. We hope you have
an excellent day at school today withBrooklyn and Rihanna. Yes, thank you.
Let's hit overdue the East End speakwith Linda. Linda, are you
still friends with anyone from elementary schooldays? Seventy years? I have at

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least fifty of them. Wait aminute, no, tell us about your
mind, you crazy lady. Wewere raised in the east Side off of
Harrisburg. Our parents belonged to theAmerican Legion. Yeah, and that's where
we met our kids, and thenwe all went to school, elementary,
junior, high, high school,birth of our kids, our kids got

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married with each other, first kids, and we did now meet. Oh
lady, what a fulfilling life thatmust be, right, Yes, exactly,
Oh I love it. What doyou think? What do you think
the key is like that that keptyou guys all hanging together. Well,
we never really moved out of thearea that we were raised. We're still

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around here. We're about within tenmiles from each other, a nice maybe
sometimes box from each other. That'sso good, Linda, that's like the
olden days. I love to hearthat. Yeah, and we enjoy and
we still keep, like I said, our kids, the grandkids. I'm
a great grandmother and I love it. Thank you for sharing, and my

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friend so glad you listened to Sonnyevery day