Dana In The Morning Highlights 3/6
Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner passes away at age 70
Pearland teen with cancer becomes honorary secret service member
Dana helping with Armed Forces Appreciation Day @ the Rodeo and discovered 'A Warrior's Table'
Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner passes away at age 70
Pearland teen with cancer becomes honorary secret service member
Dana helping with Armed Forces Appreciation Day @ the Rodeo and discovered 'A Warrior's Table'
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Sunday ninety nine pointy one, Houston's Best Variety of the eighties,
nineties and today on Data with producer Anthony, and we
have got the three things you need to know to
get your Thursday. It's March sixth started and well, he
became our sixty second mayor in twenty fifteen. It's when
he was elected, and then he was re elected in
(00:23):
twenty nineteen. I'm talking about Mayor Sylvester Turner, and he
has died. He was remembered as a remarkable public servant.
He led Houston through many challenges like Harvey. So impressed
with his determination, Anthony. He was always sitting next to
me at the HPD Cadet graduations. No matter his schedule,
(00:44):
he always took time to be there to honor those.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Who keep the city of Houston safe.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And even when he found out that he had bone cancer,
it was through a root canal that he found out.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He was still there after the surgery.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He was at the Rodeo parade on Saturday, he was
at the President's speech at Congress, and his family says
he was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and then
he was released. He got home early Wednesday morning, and
our current mayor Whitmeyer said he was a dear, dear
friend that he has lost.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Earlier this morning, at six o'clock, we had the International
Space Station fly over our city. I'm still looking on
social media if anyone captured pictures over in the studio
so we couldn't see it, but anyway, it was an
exciting event. I'll never forget seeing it when it flew over.
I was out in Cat's Spring at nine o'clock one
night and Anthony it was spot on the exact time.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It was like nine thirteen at night. That's the coolest
thing to see.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, when you catch an international's amazation, Yeah, flying over.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, today is just going to be a crystal clear,
beautiful day. Another great day at the Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Sunny. We're going to go up to sixty eight right now.
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's forty eight and uptown and you're up to date
from Sunday ninety nine point one. Tell me something good
brought to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Well,
we mentioned DJ yesterday and our tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
He is from DJ Daniel. He is from Parland. Now.
We learned about DJ when he was six years old. Anthony.
He had brain cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He had cancer on his spine, and apparently he became
friends with fellow cancer fighter Abigail Arius.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Who had been made an honorary.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Officer by Freeport Police, the police sergeant or police chief
rather Raymond Garavey. Now, unfortunately Abigail lost her life to cancer,
but she so inspired DJ. He asked if he could
become an honorary officer and the chief responded with absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But then DJ took it even further. Anthony.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He has been sworn in by over nine hundred agencies.
Now I met him when he was ten out at
the one hundred Club. He was sworn in by HPD there.
It was an incredible ceremony. His dad follows him wherever
he goes. And then he is the one that we
learned about has been dubbed a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
SEKH honorary Secret Service Agent. That is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
He was at Congress with the President and now apparently
Chief Garavey, who is now a Chema police chief, he
is going to be giving He's called Daniel on the phone,
was so proud of him, or DJ is so proud
of him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
He is now going to be giving DJ the key
to Keema. Look at him. That's so incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What a great story he is now, by the way,
thirteen years old, and I swear this love and support
just keeps that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Teenager now going on. You know it does. Yeah, Producer
Anthony Dane.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
One of the big draws of our Houston Rodeo every
year is the shopping. And there's a new vendor creating
some buzz over at Energy Center. It's called The Hive
and it's a collection of twelve Houston based brands bringing fashion,
accessories and home decord to the Rodeo for the first time.
One of the vendors featured is Glamour Gypsies. I love
the name. It's owned by Gretchen Gilliam. She says she
brings her bling to shoppers, but she says they have
(04:10):
someone who does gifts and home decorse, several that do jewelry,
a candle lady, and several selling things you'd find in
a boutique clothing, shoes, bags, jackets, hats and just for
you Dane boots. An amazing selection and even better, it's
all locally owned. To check it out, it's called The Hive.
Find it at Booth B ten to twenty nine Insight
and RG Center. You had to tempt us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, Dane, come on, come on, hey, this is
caused to celebrate Houston.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hisd has three schools that have made it to the
state finals in boys basketball Class Boat Booker t Washington Eagles.
They are Division one finals against Dallas Kimball. Wheatley is
in Division two finals against Kennandale, and in Class six A,
(04:55):
bel Air is in Division one finals against Duncanville. Now
I do want to see at Whitley High School. No
one believed they could go this far. They have three
simple words plastered all over their gym.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Prove them wrong. Oh man, what a motivator.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Geez chiotte to our Houston HISDC. That's awesome and boys
basketball that is incredible. We always have our tell Me
Something Good stories up at Sunday nighty nine dot com.
You can also follow us on Facebook, ex Instagram, and
TikTok at Sunday Nineties, Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's
Best Variety of the eighties nineties, and Today Dan in
(05:33):
the Morning and producer Anthony Sonny Beautiful Day. We're gonna
go up to sixty eight right now, it's chilly, it's
forty eight and uptown Winsome can describe men as well
as women. It's gentle and courageous, kind and loving, and
that so describes Lee Smith.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I met Lee Smith at the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Armed Forces Appreciation Day at the Rodeo years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He got me involved. It's now my most favorite day.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's the day that we just make our military VIPs
shower them with love, attention, and free barbecue.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh yeah, and we have Lee on the line.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Lee, how did you become involved in Armed Forces Appreciation
Day for our military, a day of free, a free
barbecue lunch.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well, when the committee first got started, they were looking
for someone who had the ability to feed large crowds,
and since I had been doing that for so long
on the World Championship Barbecue Committee, they asked if I
would join the task force that eventually became the Armedforces
Appreciation Committee to help feed our military.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
All right, now, let's go back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
How did you get on the barbecue Like, what do
you do that you were able to be such a
phenom in the barbecue world.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Well, when I got to that point in my life
where I decided I was going to start giving back
I thought, who would I give back to? What organization
in Houston would best fit my schedule and lifestyle, and
I settled on the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. I remembered
when I was very small and we went to the
road video holding the rope and carrying on a soda
and aluminum four on a plastic in a paper sack.
(07:05):
And I decided to join the Barbecue Committee. I grew
up barbecuing and thought that would be a good fit
for me. And through my time at the Barbecue Committee,
I got better and better at feeding large crowds. And
that's how I just moved into the arm Forces Committee.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And so how many did we feed yesterday?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The numbers around five thousand em and I had some.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I had the ribs, they were amazing. And that potato salad,
Oh my gosh. So then you hand me a card
and you say, Dana, I just want you to know
that I have also become the co founder of a
Warrior's Table. This is phenomenal. I even donated to you guys.
And when I read this story, I was like, I
(07:51):
have to share this with our sunny listeners.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So tell us about a Warrior's table.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well, A Warrior's Table was founded by three friends who
had been feeding the active duty military on their basis
for years on our own at our own expense, and
we decided that we would pull all our resources together
and create a vehicle where people could make donations to
help us feed the activuty military. You know, when a
military member goes off to serve, they don't serve by themselves,
(08:16):
the whole family service. There's a whole left back at
home that has to be filled by the remaining partner
when one leaves. It's what we'd like to do is
we work with senior based military leadership to plan these meals.
About two weeks post deployment, when the families are back together,
we give them a thank you meal for everything they've
done both at home and for those away overseas on deployment.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Isn't that a love thank you barbecue meal totally free
for our military coming back home to see their families.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Lee, I just love that, I think.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know, and I was talking to one of
the presenters yesterday who has never been to the Houston
Rodeo yet. He is a world champion rodeo person, but
this was his first time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
In hughting in Houston because he was he was serving.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He was giving the belt buckles to the military rodeo winners,
and he said he has never seen such compassion towards
our military as he saw at Armed Forces Appreciation Day yesterday.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Well, I can tell you you're a huge part of that.
You know, when you and I talked to your son
who was serving at the time, and you wanted to
know how you could become a better part and honor
his service. And so you being on the committean being
the face of what it is that we do that
day on the stage is fantastic. We certainly couldn't do
it without people like you.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, ye, we appreciate you offering that opportunity to just
like I said, love on our military, treat them like
VIPs and a warrior's table. How can people get in
touch with you and and donate and learn and maybe
maybe even serve.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, we have a website, a Warrior's Table dot com,
and then you can follow us on social media. We
have a great team of cooks who go out to
the bases create these meals. The person who makes our
chili is actually the reigning world championship chili cook Don Collum.
It's fantastic. We have great other cooks for briskets and
(10:11):
things like that. So we need the financial backers that
allow us to continue to go on these meals as
we travel around Texas and our bordering states.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A Warriors Table dot com Lee Smith, co founder, thank
you so much for sharing, and I hope you get
lots of Sunny listeners to join you and help you
out as well.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well. Thank you, Dan, I will tell you what I
love you to death and we appreciate everything you do
for us
Sunday ninety nine pointy one, Houston's Best Variety of the eighties,
nineties and today on Data with producer Anthony, and we
have got the three things you need to know to
get your Thursday. It's March sixth started and well, he
became our sixty second mayor in twenty fifteen. It's when
he was elected, and then he was re elected in
(00:23):
twenty nineteen. I'm talking about Mayor Sylvester Turner, and he
has died. He was remembered as a remarkable public servant.
He led Houston through many challenges like Harvey. So impressed
with his determination, Anthony. He was always sitting next to
me at the HPD Cadet graduations. No matter his schedule,
(00:44):
he always took time to be there to honor those.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Who keep the city of Houston safe.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And even when he found out that he had bone cancer,
it was through a root canal that he found out.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He was still there after the surgery.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He was at the Rodeo parade on Saturday, he was
at the President's speech at Congress, and his family says
he was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and then
he was released. He got home early Wednesday morning, and
our current mayor Whitmeyer said he was a dear, dear
friend that he has lost.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Earlier this morning, at six o'clock, we had the International
Space Station fly over our city. I'm still looking on
social media if anyone captured pictures over in the studio
so we couldn't see it, but anyway, it was an
exciting event. I'll never forget seeing it when it flew over.
I was out in Cat's Spring at nine o'clock one
night and Anthony it was spot on the exact time.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It was like nine thirteen at night. That's the coolest
thing to see.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, when you catch an international's amazation, Yeah, flying over.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, today is just going to be a crystal clear,
beautiful day. Another great day at the Rodeo.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Sunny. We're going to go up to sixty eight right now.
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's forty eight and uptown and you're up to date
from Sunday ninety nine point one. Tell me something good
brought to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Well,
we mentioned DJ yesterday and our tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
He is from DJ Daniel. He is from Parland. Now.
We learned about DJ when he was six years old. Anthony.
He had brain cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He had cancer on his spine, and apparently he became
friends with fellow cancer fighter Abigail Arius.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Who had been made an honorary.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Officer by Freeport Police, the police sergeant or police chief
rather Raymond Garavey. Now, unfortunately Abigail lost her life to cancer,
but she so inspired DJ. He asked if he could
become an honorary officer and the chief responded with absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But then DJ took it even further. Anthony.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He has been sworn in by over nine hundred agencies.
Now I met him when he was ten out at
the one hundred Club. He was sworn in by HPD there.
It was an incredible ceremony. His dad follows him wherever
he goes. And then he is the one that we
learned about has been dubbed a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
SEKH honorary Secret Service Agent. That is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
He was at Congress with the President and now apparently
Chief Garavey, who is now a Chema police chief, he
is going to be giving He's called Daniel on the phone,
was so proud of him, or DJ is so proud
of him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
He is now going to be giving DJ the key
to Keema. Look at him. That's so incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What a great story he is now, by the way,
thirteen years old, and I swear this love and support
just keeps that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Teenager now going on. You know it does. Yeah, Producer
Anthony Dane.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
One of the big draws of our Houston Rodeo every
year is the shopping. And there's a new vendor creating
some buzz over at Energy Center. It's called The Hive
and it's a collection of twelve Houston based brands bringing fashion,
accessories and home decord to the Rodeo for the first time.
One of the vendors featured is Glamour Gypsies. I love
the name. It's owned by Gretchen Gilliam. She says she
brings her bling to shoppers, but she says they have
(04:10):
someone who does gifts and home decorse, several that do jewelry,
a candle lady, and several selling things you'd find in
a boutique clothing, shoes, bags, jackets, hats and just for
you Dane boots. An amazing selection and even better, it's
all locally owned. To check it out, it's called The Hive.
Find it at Booth B ten to twenty nine Insight
and RG Center. You had to tempt us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, Dane, come on, come on, hey, this is
caused to celebrate Houston.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hisd has three schools that have made it to the
state finals in boys basketball Class Boat Booker t Washington Eagles.
They are Division one finals against Dallas Kimball. Wheatley is
in Division two finals against Kennandale, and in Class six A,
(04:55):
bel Air is in Division one finals against Duncanville. Now
I do want to see at Whitley High School. No
one believed they could go this far. They have three
simple words plastered all over their gym.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Prove them wrong. Oh man, what a motivator.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Geez chiotte to our Houston HISDC. That's awesome and boys
basketball that is incredible. We always have our tell Me
Something Good stories up at Sunday nighty nine dot com.
You can also follow us on Facebook, ex Instagram, and
TikTok at Sunday Nineties, Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's
Best Variety of the eighties nineties, and Today Dan in
(05:33):
the Morning and producer Anthony Sonny Beautiful Day. We're gonna
go up to sixty eight right now, it's chilly, it's
forty eight and uptown Winsome can describe men as well
as women. It's gentle and courageous, kind and loving, and
that so describes Lee Smith.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I met Lee Smith at the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Armed Forces Appreciation Day at the Rodeo years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He got me involved. It's now my most favorite day.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's the day that we just make our military VIPs
shower them with love, attention, and free barbecue.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh yeah, and we have Lee on the line.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Lee, how did you become involved in Armed Forces Appreciation
Day for our military, a day of free, a free
barbecue lunch.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well, when the committee first got started, they were looking
for someone who had the ability to feed large crowds,
and since I had been doing that for so long
on the World Championship Barbecue Committee, they asked if I
would join the task force that eventually became the Armedforces
Appreciation Committee to help feed our military.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
All right, now, let's go back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
How did you get on the barbecue Like, what do
you do that you were able to be such a
phenom in the barbecue world.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Well, when I got to that point in my life
where I decided I was going to start giving back
I thought, who would I give back to? What organization
in Houston would best fit my schedule and lifestyle, and
I settled on the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. I remembered
when I was very small and we went to the
road video holding the rope and carrying on a soda
and aluminum four on a plastic in a paper sack.
(07:05):
And I decided to join the Barbecue Committee. I grew
up barbecuing and thought that would be a good fit
for me. And through my time at the Barbecue Committee,
I got better and better at feeding large crowds. And
that's how I just moved into the arm Forces Committee.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And so how many did we feed yesterday?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The numbers around five thousand em and I had some.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I had the ribs, they were amazing. And that potato salad,
Oh my gosh. So then you hand me a card
and you say, Dana, I just want you to know
that I have also become the co founder of a
Warrior's Table. This is phenomenal. I even donated to you guys.
And when I read this story, I was like, I
(07:51):
have to share this with our sunny listeners.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So tell us about a Warrior's table.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well, A Warrior's Table was founded by three friends who
had been feeding the active duty military on their basis
for years on our own at our own expense, and
we decided that we would pull all our resources together
and create a vehicle where people could make donations to
help us feed the activuty military. You know, when a
military member goes off to serve, they don't serve by themselves,
(08:16):
the whole family service. There's a whole left back at
home that has to be filled by the remaining partner
when one leaves. It's what we'd like to do is
we work with senior based military leadership to plan these meals.
About two weeks post deployment, when the families are back together,
we give them a thank you meal for everything they've
done both at home and for those away overseas on deployment.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Isn't that a love thank you barbecue meal totally free
for our military coming back home to see their families.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Lee, I just love that, I think.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know, and I was talking to one of
the presenters yesterday who has never been to the Houston
Rodeo yet. He is a world champion rodeo person, but
this was his first time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
In hughting in Houston because he was he was serving.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
He was giving the belt buckles to the military rodeo winners,
and he said he has never seen such compassion towards
our military as he saw at Armed Forces Appreciation Day yesterday.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Well, I can tell you you're a huge part of that.
You know, when you and I talked to your son
who was serving at the time, and you wanted to
know how you could become a better part and honor
his service. And so you being on the committean being
the face of what it is that we do that
day on the stage is fantastic. We certainly couldn't do
it without people like you.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, ye, we appreciate you offering that opportunity to just
like I said, love on our military, treat them like
VIPs and a warrior's table. How can people get in
touch with you and and donate and learn and maybe
maybe even serve.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, we have a website, a Warrior's Table dot com,
and then you can follow us on social media. We
have a great team of cooks who go out to
the bases create these meals. The person who makes our
chili is actually the reigning world championship chili cook Don Collum.
It's fantastic. We have great other cooks for briskets and
(10:11):
things like that. So we need the financial backers that
allow us to continue to go on these meals as
we travel around Texas and our bordering states.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A Warriors Table dot com Lee Smith, co founder, thank
you so much for sharing, and I hope you get
lots of Sunny listeners to join you and help you
out as well.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well. Thank you, Dan, I will tell you what I
love you to death and we appreciate everything you do
for us
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