Dana In The Morning Highlights 12/15
Dave Ward was at Channel 13 more than 50 years - passed away at 86 years old
CJ Stroud Foundation recently helped furnish a South Houston woman's home
Ladders are used even more during the holidays - but Dana knows how risky they can be!
Dave Ward was at Channel 13 more than 50 years - passed away at 86 years old
CJ Stroud Foundation recently helped furnish a South Houston woman's home
Ladders are used even more during the holidays - but Dana knows how risky they can be!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine point one day notte with producer Anthony.
We are Houston's holiday music station with the three things
you need to Know to get your Monday December fifteen
started well. He had such a friendly greeting for so
many decades.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good evening friends.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm Dave Ward. Oh yeah. Ward the son of a preacher,
born in Dallas, grew up in Huntsville. He wanted to
be just like Walter Cronkite. In nineteen sixty two he
became a street reporter. He was hired in nineteen sixty
six by ABC Channel thirteen. Nineteen sixty eight he started
doing the evening news. What made it into the Guinness
(00:38):
Book of World Records longest tenure for a TV news
broadcaster more than fifty years. Dave Ward died December thirteenth.
He was eighty six years old. Now, for all of
you listeners in mont Bellevue, will you know you are
grown by leaps and bounds. A matter of fact, Rice
Land is coming your way. The location off I ten,
(00:59):
access to Bait and Beaumont and the Ship Channel area.
Forty five hundred homes are coming, thirty miles of trails, lakes, parks,
of Full Town Center. It's gonna be the Eagle Drive
near FM five sixty five and the Texans win over
Arizona yesterday. Now Texans have a ninety five percent chance
(01:19):
to make the playoffs this season. Number seven seed. Three
games left Las Vegas at home. Let's see, they've got
the Chargers in La and then the Colts back here
at home. Your weather today cold, It's gonna be beautiful
though it's already starting out. Crispin's Sonny, we're gonna go
up to let's see, we're gonna go up to fifty
(01:39):
three today. We do have a freeze warning. That's until
nine and it's still cold. Anthony, it's thirty four in
uptown and you're up to date on Sunday ninety nine
point one. Tell me something good brought to us by
our friends at Goodwill Houston. While the Astros, Jeremy Paana
already has a World Series ring, but soon he's going
to have a more important ring, probably the most important
(02:02):
ring of his life, a wedding ring. Yep, he's now
engaged to Julia Grosso. She is a professional soccer player
for the Canadian national team. They went to Instagram Official
and it said a lifetime with you so cute? You
know his paycheck surpasses two hundred million. How do you
even be in what? Whoa comprehending such a light? I
(02:24):
can't producer Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Dane This is so good. Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud and
his foundation recently partnered up with Ashley Furniture to surprise
one Houston woman with a fully furnished home. She was
the grand prize recipient through the second annual Delivering Dreams initiative.
Her name is Ashley Scott Jones. She received nearly thirty
community dominations for her compassion, leadership and dedication to assisting
(02:47):
families in need in her South Houston neighborhood. Friends say,
she goes out and tries to make that change we
want to see in the world. That's why so many
people felt she deserved this, because she gives so sacrificially
to so many. CJ got to show up to Ashley's
house surprise her with her new fully furnished home. Big
ups to Texans CJ. Shraut and his foundation continuing to
leave an impact wherever they go.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Talk about leaving an impact. Bundee and is Og Trilberger. Wow,
Anthony's got a big smile on his face. Frillberger's in
the Montrose they opened in twenty twenty three. They're the
brick and Mortar and RG Stadium TDECU. Also at the
Rodeo new location in Spring. And now you guys in
southwest Houston, Missouri City in Fort Ben County, the Town
(03:29):
Center there at the Fort Ben Tollway. They had a
soft opening last Wednesday. The big grand opening is coming
the first week of January.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So exciting, very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Listen. We always have our tell Me Something Good up
at Sunday ninety nine dot com, or you can follow
us on our iHeartRadio app. Download it totally free. Make
sure you make us a first preset. That way, it's
even easier for you to listen to Houston's holiday music station,
Sunny natty nine point one Sunny ninety nine point one.
And we hope you're enjoying the holiday music. AT's really
(04:00):
good with the cold weather, doesn't it? Anthony?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh yeah it does.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we are Houston's holiday
music station. And in our nearly impossible question this morning,
we learn we do this forty percent more, this dangerous
activity more during the holidays than any other time of
the year. Well, hello, how are we going to get
the Christmas lights up and the big star on the
Christmas tree? We use ladders and they can be so dangerous,
(04:26):
and honestly, I never realized how dangerous they were. I
love ladders. I'm a do it yourself for kind of person.
I love my ladder. It's very important. It's very heavy ladder, Anthony.
But the one that I used one morning in twenty
eighteen when my husband and I were painting a warehouse
and he's on the other side of the warehouse. I'm
(04:47):
at the front side and all I needed to do
is just stretch a little bit further with the paintbrush
to just get that last little inch, and I fell
off the.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Ladder and there was nobody spotting.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The ladder one or whatever, and the ladder that was
the problem. That was the problem. If Bob had been
holding the ladder, it would have been a completely different story.
But broke my legs severely and I'll never forget that.
So last week, when we're doing the our Saint Jude
Children's Research Hospital radiothon, Yeah, I had this idea to
(05:18):
create this amazing wall of honor with all the names
of everyone who became a partner in Hopeful for the
kids at Saint Jude.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Beautiful, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Just had so many that I knew there was a
ladder behind one of the doors down the hall here.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, really sweet ladder. Dana says, you're going to get
a ladder. I'm thinking a step ladder, like you know,
just like two three steps, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I had to get up to this ceiling.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, this was a ladder ladder And I was like
what And it wasn't just me. Our boss, our boss's
boss is look at a data like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What the ladder and man there are there's got to
be so any stories. One of our bosses, like our
immediate boss, Mark Sherman, he didn't fall off a ladder
during the holidays. He was up in the attic getting
Christmas decorations and he fell through the ceiling. I mean
that that's crazy right there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's wild too.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, the things that we do to get the house
all decorated for the holidays, we would love to hear
you had a story and you survived it, just to
get that perfect Christmas tree or that perfect haul lit
up with Christmas lights. Give us a call seven one
three two one two five ninety nine one Sunday, ninety
nine point one, Houston's Holiday Music Station. It's seven twenty
(06:39):
now I'm data with producer Anthony. We're talking about ladders. Yeah,
we learned in our nearly impossible question at six forty
this morning that we use ladders forty percent more during
the holidays than any other time of year because we
got to put up the Christmas lights.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, they got to get there somehow on.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Christmas tree, right, so be very careful. Things could happened.
We only want funny stories. Now, we had Jennifer from Cypress.
We actually told the story of Mark Sherman, our boss.
He was upstairs in the attic getting his Christmas decorations down.
He didn't even get on the ladder. He fell through
the roof of the ceiling there. And Jennifer was about
(07:17):
to tell she's in Cypress. I was about to tell
her attict story. But she sounds great, she's okay. We
lost her though, Jennifer, feel free to call back. But
we've got Richard calling in from Dayton. We want a
funny ladder story, Old Richard, Well, Well, I was I
was actually building a house from my mom next door.
(07:38):
And I had a back door and I had like
a four foot step stool and I went up it
and I said, you know what, I gotta go down
because if I flied out, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Out that door with this ladder.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And as soon as I took a step down to
get off.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Of it, it went through the door.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh, Richard. I went in the yard and my leg
trossed the left side of the eves and I wish
I'd had a video. It was probably funny. Lucky I
didn't killed myself. Oh my god, what happened to your leg? Well,
it twisted at my knee a little bit, but believe
it or not, I was okay.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You guys do for your moms, right. I hope she
loves her new house. He does. I built it from
the ground up. She's very happy with it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're such a good son. I love that. And so
she lives right next door to you.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, right next door, Yes, Sam, that is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, blessed mom. Richard, thank you for sharing. I'm so
glad nothing severe happening to your leg. May Christmas to
both of y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Y'all have a great heart of a
Sunday ninety nine point one day notte with producer Anthony.
We are Houston's holiday music station with the three things
you need to Know to get your Monday December fifteen
started well. He had such a friendly greeting for so
many decades.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good evening friends.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm Dave Ward. Oh yeah. Ward the son of a preacher,
born in Dallas, grew up in Huntsville. He wanted to
be just like Walter Cronkite. In nineteen sixty two he
became a street reporter. He was hired in nineteen sixty
six by ABC Channel thirteen. Nineteen sixty eight he started
doing the evening news. What made it into the Guinness
(00:38):
Book of World Records longest tenure for a TV news
broadcaster more than fifty years. Dave Ward died December thirteenth.
He was eighty six years old. Now, for all of
you listeners in mont Bellevue, will you know you are
grown by leaps and bounds. A matter of fact, Rice
Land is coming your way. The location off I ten,
(00:59):
access to Bait and Beaumont and the Ship Channel area.
Forty five hundred homes are coming, thirty miles of trails, lakes, parks,
of Full Town Center. It's gonna be the Eagle Drive
near FM five sixty five and the Texans win over
Arizona yesterday. Now Texans have a ninety five percent chance
(01:19):
to make the playoffs this season. Number seven seed. Three
games left Las Vegas at home. Let's see, they've got
the Chargers in La and then the Colts back here
at home. Your weather today cold, It's gonna be beautiful
though it's already starting out. Crispin's Sonny, we're gonna go
up to let's see, we're gonna go up to fifty
(01:39):
three today. We do have a freeze warning. That's until
nine and it's still cold. Anthony, it's thirty four in
uptown and you're up to date on Sunday ninety nine
point one. Tell me something good brought to us by
our friends at Goodwill Houston. While the Astros, Jeremy Paana
already has a World Series ring, but soon he's going
to have a more important ring, probably the most important
(02:02):
ring of his life, a wedding ring. Yep, he's now
engaged to Julia Grosso. She is a professional soccer player
for the Canadian national team. They went to Instagram Official
and it said a lifetime with you so cute? You
know his paycheck surpasses two hundred million. How do you
even be in what? Whoa comprehending such a light? I
(02:24):
can't producer Anthony.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Dane This is so good. Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud and
his foundation recently partnered up with Ashley Furniture to surprise
one Houston woman with a fully furnished home. She was
the grand prize recipient through the second annual Delivering Dreams initiative.
Her name is Ashley Scott Jones. She received nearly thirty
community dominations for her compassion, leadership and dedication to assisting
(02:47):
families in need in her South Houston neighborhood. Friends say,
she goes out and tries to make that change we
want to see in the world. That's why so many
people felt she deserved this, because she gives so sacrificially
to so many. CJ got to show up to Ashley's
house surprise her with her new fully furnished home. Big
ups to Texans CJ. Shraut and his foundation continuing to
leave an impact wherever they go.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Talk about leaving an impact. Bundee and is Og Trilberger. Wow,
Anthony's got a big smile on his face. Frillberger's in
the Montrose they opened in twenty twenty three. They're the
brick and Mortar and RG Stadium TDECU. Also at the
Rodeo new location in Spring. And now you guys in
southwest Houston, Missouri City in Fort Ben County, the Town
(03:29):
Center there at the Fort Ben Tollway. They had a
soft opening last Wednesday. The big grand opening is coming
the first week of January.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So exciting, very excited.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Listen. We always have our tell Me Something Good up
at Sunday ninety nine dot com, or you can follow
us on our iHeartRadio app. Download it totally free. Make
sure you make us a first preset. That way, it's
even easier for you to listen to Houston's holiday music station,
Sunny natty nine point one Sunny ninety nine point one.
And we hope you're enjoying the holiday music. AT's really
(04:00):
good with the cold weather, doesn't it? Anthony?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh yeah it does.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we are Houston's holiday
music station. And in our nearly impossible question this morning,
we learn we do this forty percent more, this dangerous
activity more during the holidays than any other time of
the year. Well, hello, how are we going to get
the Christmas lights up and the big star on the
Christmas tree? We use ladders and they can be so dangerous,
(04:26):
and honestly, I never realized how dangerous they were. I
love ladders. I'm a do it yourself for kind of person.
I love my ladder. It's very important. It's very heavy ladder, Anthony.
But the one that I used one morning in twenty
eighteen when my husband and I were painting a warehouse
and he's on the other side of the warehouse. I'm
(04:47):
at the front side and all I needed to do
is just stretch a little bit further with the paintbrush
to just get that last little inch, and I fell
off the.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Ladder and there was nobody spotting.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The ladder one or whatever, and the ladder that was
the problem. That was the problem. If Bob had been
holding the ladder, it would have been a completely different story.
But broke my legs severely and I'll never forget that.
So last week, when we're doing the our Saint Jude
Children's Research Hospital radiothon, Yeah, I had this idea to
(05:18):
create this amazing wall of honor with all the names
of everyone who became a partner in Hopeful for the
kids at Saint Jude.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Beautiful, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Just had so many that I knew there was a
ladder behind one of the doors down the hall here.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, really sweet ladder. Dana says, you're going to get
a ladder. I'm thinking a step ladder, like you know,
just like two three steps, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I had to get up to this ceiling.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, this was a ladder ladder And I was like
what And it wasn't just me. Our boss, our boss's
boss is look at a data like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What the ladder and man there are there's got to
be so any stories. One of our bosses, like our
immediate boss, Mark Sherman, he didn't fall off a ladder
during the holidays. He was up in the attic getting
Christmas decorations and he fell through the ceiling. I mean
that that's crazy right there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's wild too.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, the things that we do to get the house
all decorated for the holidays, we would love to hear
you had a story and you survived it, just to
get that perfect Christmas tree or that perfect haul lit
up with Christmas lights. Give us a call seven one
three two one two five ninety nine one Sunday, ninety
nine point one, Houston's Holiday Music Station. It's seven twenty
(06:39):
now I'm data with producer Anthony. We're talking about ladders. Yeah,
we learned in our nearly impossible question at six forty
this morning that we use ladders forty percent more during
the holidays than any other time of year because we
got to put up the Christmas lights.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, they got to get there somehow on.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Christmas tree, right, so be very careful. Things could happened.
We only want funny stories. Now, we had Jennifer from Cypress.
We actually told the story of Mark Sherman, our boss.
He was upstairs in the attic getting his Christmas decorations down.
He didn't even get on the ladder. He fell through
the roof of the ceiling there. And Jennifer was about
(07:17):
to tell she's in Cypress. I was about to tell
her attict story. But she sounds great, she's okay. We
lost her though, Jennifer, feel free to call back. But
we've got Richard calling in from Dayton. We want a
funny ladder story, Old Richard, Well, Well, I was I
was actually building a house from my mom next door.
(07:38):
And I had a back door and I had like
a four foot step stool and I went up it
and I said, you know what, I gotta go down
because if I flied out, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Out that door with this ladder.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And as soon as I took a step down to
get off.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Of it, it went through the door.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh, Richard. I went in the yard and my leg
trossed the left side of the eves and I wish
I'd had a video. It was probably funny. Lucky I
didn't killed myself. Oh my god, what happened to your leg? Well,
it twisted at my knee a little bit, but believe
it or not, I was okay.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You guys do for your moms, right. I hope she
loves her new house. He does. I built it from
the ground up. She's very happy with it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're such a good son. I love that. And so
she lives right next door to you.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, right next door, Yes, Sam, that is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, blessed mom. Richard, thank you for sharing. I'm so
glad nothing severe happening to your leg. May Christmas to
both of y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Y'all have a great heart of a
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