Dana In The Morning Highlights 10/16
Rich & Nancy Kinder have vowed to giveaway 95% of their wealth to help Houston
2nd annual Buffalo Bayou Mural Festival happening this weekend ---> buffalobayoumuralfestival.com
6,200 tickets have been reserved so far for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway --> dreamhome.org
Rich & Nancy Kinder have vowed to giveaway 95% of their wealth to help Houston
2nd annual Buffalo Bayou Mural Festival happening this weekend ---> buffalobayoumuralfestival.com
6,200 tickets have been reserved so far for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway --> dreamhome.org
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety at the
eighties nineties And today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and
the three Things you need to Know to get your
Thursday October sixteenth started well. Houston billionaires have vowed to
give away ninety five percent of their wealth to charities
that will help Houston. Rich and Nancy Kinder responsible for
all kinds of upgrades to parks Disney Green, excuse me,
(00:24):
Discovery Green, Spark, parks in schools, Buffalo Bayou Park, and
they've just agreed to donate eighteen million to the expansion.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of Emancipation Park.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And when you're in Memorial Park and you drive through
those massive land bridges, yep, that was Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And Nancy Kinder.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wow, definitely leave a legacy everything. And I know it's unbelievable. Well,
City Council has voted to permanently close Polk Street in downtown.
That clears the way for the Georgi ar Brown Convention
Center expansion. Residents, we're hoping council would say no and
keep Polk open. And last week we told you about
Halloween movies, but that was so long ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This week it's all about Christmas. Yes, Hallmarks countdown to
Christmas movies.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They all start tomorrow, twenty four to seven holiday movies.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
They've got twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Four original movies this year that they're going to be
premiering and multiple holiday series. Now the new movies will
premiere every Saturday and Sunday night. This series will premiere
Fridays and Mondays. Wow, Mark, you's your calendar, you know,
take some time off from work so you can just
get engrossed.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So I can try to find my radio Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I've been after.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Christmas movie exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Weather today beautiful, not Christmas y at all, but getting
to be fall like sort of. We're going to go
up to eighty six today, real sunny. Right now, it's
sixty seven in Uptown and Europe to date on sunny.
Tell me something good brought to us by our friends
at Goodwill Houston. So I'm at Win Restaurant yesterday right
(01:55):
outside the George R. Brown Consent Center off McKinney, and
I'm having lunch with my husband, and I look at
this cute girl who's given her boyfriend or her husband
a kiss.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Right then she starts walking toward me to go to
the restroom.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
She had this flowered, flowy dress on, kind of teared
with ruffles and fluffy sleeves, and I was just stop
talking to my husband. I just said, that is the
most adorable dress I've ever seen. And she held it
out Anthony and she said Goodwill. I oh shopping at Goodwill?
Do you love them so much?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know when they do for the community.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I was like, oh my gosh, there shrifting. That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I told her about our tell Me Something Good
and how good Will sponsors good news stories.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I just had to chew that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's fun. Producer Anthony Dane. This is also fun. Go
down this weekend. It's the second annual annual Buffalo by
You Mural Festival. This is cool because we almost take
them for granted now, but our city murals have an
incredibly rich history. They date back years as a way
of cultural expression, and we love them, of course now
because they transform seemingly ordinary things into beautiful works of art.
The festivals happening off Canal Street over in Houston's East End,
(03:02):
one of Base Dana's recent hangout areas. Happening all weekend tomorrow,
They're gonna be showcasing in art battle. They're calling Texas
versus the World sounds awesome. They're gonna have a vendor market,
artist Q and a music and all in they're gonna
be showcasing fifty plus artists. In the best part, it's
absolutely free. You can find out more over on INSA.
Find them at Buffalo Bayou Mural Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I love that, and.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I love the Houston Pumpkin Fest going on through November second.
New edition this year that the kids are absolutely loving.
It's the Kid's Slab Car. It's a kids size convertible,
new edition. It's by High Cut Tint. The Kid's Slab
is complete with high glass paint, extensive sound system, It's
(03:45):
got the swangus those wires. Folk Rims is adorable and
once again you can check it out the Houston Pumpkin
Festival at Discovery Green going on through November second. And
for our feel good stories each weekday morning set a
preset on the new and improved iHeartRadio app to Sonny
naty nine point one Sunday naety nine plenty one, Houston's
(04:06):
best variety of the eighties nineties. And today I'm Dana
with producer Anthony and we have got the dreams come true,
lady from Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. I was talking
Tiffany about that beautiful Saint Jude dream home and a
house sitting out on the back. I mean, I'm looking
at this sunrise would be amazing. Now you're the executive
(04:27):
director of the Dream Day Foundation, Tiffany Graves.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now could you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Tell us, Tiffany, what's going on with the tickets to
get this dream home and what this house is doing
for the kids at Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes, I'm incredibly excited to say that there have been
sixty two hundred tickets reserved. That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Thank you so much for the Houston community.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, yes, the home. Honestly, like, if you reserve your
one hundred dollars ticket, you are becoming a part of
a larger.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Community that is raising money for Saint Jude so that
they can continue their mission of providing treatment, travel, housing,
and food to all of those families that are at
Saint Jude and Memphis receiving treatment, so that they don't
have to worry about anything but loving on their child.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And making their child get better.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I just love that and the home.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tiffany, I mean it's valued at almost five hundred thousand dollars.
You're reserving a one hundred dollars ticket, which is pretty
amazing that we can do that, and you know, forget
about the home, just think about those kids that you're helping.
But then getting back to the home. You've also been
so generous in providing these really amazing incentives and the
(05:41):
one that we've got going on now is pretty exceptional.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, So if you reserve your ticket now, you'll
be eligible to win the Dream Day Foundation sponsored prize,
a ten thousand dollars visa gift card that you can
use for whatever you need or whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, you know that's like the big amount of money.
So when how long do we have to reserve our
one hundred dollars Dream Home ticket to be eligible for
this ten thousand dollars Well, I would say you need.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
To reserve your ticket today or as soon as possible.
We are going to sell out tickets and you don't
want to miss your chance to win the visa gift
card or the house. But the rule really is, if
you reserve your ticket by October twenty second, you will
be eligible for the ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dollars get it done. It's one hundred dollars. People, make
it happen before the tickets are all gone and you
miss this opportunity not only for this incredible dream home,
but ten thousand dollars and most importantly, just showing the
kids at Saint you Children's Research Hospital that you've got
their back and you're loving on them and praying for them.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Absolutely, Yes, let's all come together and make this happen,
sell out those tickets and help those children.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
H Tiffany, thank you so much for giving us an update.
We love you guys so much and can't wait for
our radiothon coming up in December.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, I appreciate day you having me. Yeah, everybody reserve
your ticket eight hundred three oh three four four one.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Three or dreamhome dot org. Tiffany, thank you so much. Love,
have a great day and a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
All right, you guys too,
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety at the
eighties nineties And today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and
the three Things you need to Know to get your
Thursday October sixteenth started well. Houston billionaires have vowed to
give away ninety five percent of their wealth to charities
that will help Houston. Rich and Nancy Kinder responsible for
all kinds of upgrades to parks Disney Green, excuse me,
(00:24):
Discovery Green, Spark, parks in schools, Buffalo Bayou Park, and
they've just agreed to donate eighteen million to the expansion.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Of Emancipation Park.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And when you're in Memorial Park and you drive through
those massive land bridges, yep, that was Rich.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And Nancy Kinder.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wow, definitely leave a legacy everything. And I know it's unbelievable. Well,
City Council has voted to permanently close Polk Street in downtown.
That clears the way for the Georgi ar Brown Convention
Center expansion. Residents, we're hoping council would say no and
keep Polk open. And last week we told you about
Halloween movies, but that was so long ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This week it's all about Christmas. Yes, Hallmarks countdown to
Christmas movies.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They all start tomorrow, twenty four to seven holiday movies.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
They've got twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Four original movies this year that they're going to be
premiering and multiple holiday series. Now the new movies will
premiere every Saturday and Sunday night. This series will premiere
Fridays and Mondays. Wow, Mark, you's your calendar, you know,
take some time off from work so you can just
get engrossed.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So I can try to find my radio Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I've been after.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Christmas movie exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Weather today beautiful, not Christmas y at all, but getting
to be fall like sort of. We're going to go
up to eighty six today, real sunny. Right now, it's
sixty seven in Uptown and Europe to date on sunny.
Tell me something good brought to us by our friends
at Goodwill Houston. So I'm at Win Restaurant yesterday right
(01:55):
outside the George R. Brown Consent Center off McKinney, and
I'm having lunch with my husband, and I look at
this cute girl who's given her boyfriend or her husband
a kiss.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Right then she starts walking toward me to go to
the restroom.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
She had this flowered, flowy dress on, kind of teared
with ruffles and fluffy sleeves, and I was just stop
talking to my husband. I just said, that is the
most adorable dress I've ever seen. And she held it
out Anthony and she said Goodwill. I oh shopping at Goodwill?
Do you love them so much?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know when they do for the community.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I was like, oh my gosh, there shrifting. That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I told her about our tell Me Something Good
and how good Will sponsors good news stories.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I just had to chew that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's fun. Producer Anthony Dane. This is also fun. Go
down this weekend. It's the second annual annual Buffalo by
You Mural Festival. This is cool because we almost take
them for granted now, but our city murals have an
incredibly rich history. They date back years as a way
of cultural expression, and we love them, of course now
because they transform seemingly ordinary things into beautiful works of art.
The festivals happening off Canal Street over in Houston's East End,
(03:02):
one of Base Dana's recent hangout areas. Happening all weekend tomorrow,
They're gonna be showcasing in art battle. They're calling Texas
versus the World sounds awesome. They're gonna have a vendor market,
artist Q and a music and all in they're gonna
be showcasing fifty plus artists. In the best part, it's
absolutely free. You can find out more over on INSA.
Find them at Buffalo Bayou Mural Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I love that, and.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I love the Houston Pumpkin Fest going on through November second.
New edition this year that the kids are absolutely loving.
It's the Kid's Slab Car. It's a kids size convertible,
new edition. It's by High Cut Tint. The Kid's Slab
is complete with high glass paint, extensive sound system, It's
(03:45):
got the swangus those wires. Folk Rims is adorable and
once again you can check it out the Houston Pumpkin
Festival at Discovery Green going on through November second. And
for our feel good stories each weekday morning set a
preset on the new and improved iHeartRadio app to Sonny
naty nine point one Sunday naety nine plenty one, Houston's
(04:06):
best variety of the eighties nineties. And today I'm Dana
with producer Anthony and we have got the dreams come true,
lady from Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. I was talking
Tiffany about that beautiful Saint Jude dream home and a
house sitting out on the back. I mean, I'm looking
at this sunrise would be amazing. Now you're the executive
(04:27):
director of the Dream Day Foundation, Tiffany Graves.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Now could you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Tell us, Tiffany, what's going on with the tickets to
get this dream home and what this house is doing
for the kids at Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes, I'm incredibly excited to say that there have been
sixty two hundred tickets reserved. That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Thank you so much for the Houston community.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, yes, the home. Honestly, like, if you reserve your
one hundred dollars ticket, you are becoming a part of
a larger.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Community that is raising money for Saint Jude so that
they can continue their mission of providing treatment, travel, housing,
and food to all of those families that are at
Saint Jude and Memphis receiving treatment, so that they don't
have to worry about anything but loving on their child.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And making their child get better.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I just love that and the home.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tiffany, I mean it's valued at almost five hundred thousand dollars.
You're reserving a one hundred dollars ticket, which is pretty
amazing that we can do that, and you know, forget
about the home, just think about those kids that you're helping.
But then getting back to the home. You've also been
so generous in providing these really amazing incentives and the
(05:41):
one that we've got going on now is pretty exceptional.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, yes, So if you reserve your ticket now, you'll
be eligible to win the Dream Day Foundation sponsored prize,
a ten thousand dollars visa gift card that you can
use for whatever you need or whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, you know that's like the big amount of money.
So when how long do we have to reserve our
one hundred dollars Dream Home ticket to be eligible for
this ten thousand dollars Well, I would say you need.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
To reserve your ticket today or as soon as possible.
We are going to sell out tickets and you don't
want to miss your chance to win the visa gift
card or the house. But the rule really is, if
you reserve your ticket by October twenty second, you will
be eligible for the ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dollars get it done. It's one hundred dollars. People, make
it happen before the tickets are all gone and you
miss this opportunity not only for this incredible dream home,
but ten thousand dollars and most importantly, just showing the
kids at Saint you Children's Research Hospital that you've got
their back and you're loving on them and praying for them.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Absolutely, Yes, let's all come together and make this happen,
sell out those tickets and help those children.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
H Tiffany, thank you so much for giving us an update.
We love you guys so much and can't wait for
our radiothon coming up in December.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, I appreciate day you having me. Yeah, everybody reserve
your ticket eight hundred three oh three four four one.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Three or dreamhome dot org. Tiffany, thank you so much. Love,
have a great day and a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
All right, you guys too,
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