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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles.
We have a great show just lined up for you today.
Like we do every single Sunday on News Talk five
sixty KLB on the Roy West Show. Today we are
kicking the show off with the one and only Travis Walker,
director of Community Relations at United Way Beaumont, Golden Triangle.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Of Beaumont and North Jefferson County.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Perfect there it is all right, Well, Travis, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We're super excited to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm excited, always excited to be here. Good good, good good.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So you know, folks United Way, they're incredible, They're all
over the place.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
They're amazing. They do all the things in our community
that you don't even know what they do.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And we've got the guy Travis Walker here to tell
us about it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Travis, for those.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That may or may not be familiar with United Way
and what all y'all do, just give me kind of
an overarching one thousand foot view of United Way.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah. So, what our job is in the community is we,
I like to say, we unite and we mobilize our
community to give everyone in Jefferson County the opportunity to thrive.
So they if they want to thrive with what we do,
they have the opportunity to.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And so how do we do that.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We do that through raising money, of course, and so
we raise money in a few different ways, employee deduction campaigns,
events which we're here to talk about today, a few
other creative ways, individual donors, of course. And then what
we do with that money after we raise it is
we turn around and we fund some of the biggest
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nonprofit names in our area. We have twenty local nonprofits
that we help fund. And that's why we say give
where you live, because when you give to the United Way,
that money is staying here, it's staying in our community,
it's staying where you want it to be. It's helping
your neighbors thrive. Because we have some research that shows,
you know, we have.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
A high poverty rate of bolant and we all.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Know that, but there's enough community that we call Alice
and these people are working individuals that actually don't make
a wage.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To cover all of their expenses, and.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So that percentage bumps it up to fifty percent of
people in Jefferson County actually need assistance, utilize the services
that we help fund, and that's why we do what
we do. And so we and we provide additional layers
of accountability so that people donors know that when they
donate money, it's going to where they want it to go.
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To be one of our twenty local nonprofits is very difficult.
It's a very strenuous application process. And then once it's
very much so of marriage, and so once we are partners,
you know, there's additional steps of accountability. They provide reporting
to us on where that funding is being utilized. We
make sure the money is being utilized the way that
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how they applied for it for and so just additional
accountability steps and then make sure that these nonprofits that
are providing essential services to our community have the funding
that they need to provide the assistance to the people
that we know need the assistance. Fifty percent of our
community is a large percentage that that we can't ignore.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And so that's just search a very short glimpse of
what the United Way it is and what we do.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, and those are some staggering statistics there, I mean,
with fifty percent of the community needing you know, assistance
of some type, some sort, you know, I do know,
I mean I've been involved with that way know about
the United Way all the things, and I have heard
you know, it's a very rigorous process, you know, to
be selected as a nonprofit to be involved with United
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Way and things like that. So not only does your
money stay in South East Texas, it's being spent physically responsibly,
and you can, you know, be guaranteed that you know
when you're giving the United Way, that money is being
used in our community in a way to make the
biggest impact that it can possibly make.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So kudos the United Way.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And with fifty needing you know, our assistance, I mean,
what would we do without the United Way, right? I
mean that's fifty percent of the population or our community
that needs assistance. So that's so cool that we have
y'all right here in our backyard. Now, what areas do
y'all service necessarily?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So we're a little bit of a complicated question, but
I'll answer.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It, and the answer is is that, you know, the
the agencies that provide services for our community. Some of
them are multi county in our area, some of them
are just Jefferson County, some of them are just Beaumont.
So it goes a little bit larger than what our
name is, which is Beaumont and North Jefferson County. What
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that really dictates is where we fund raise. The partners
that we that help us with funding or donations, they're
in that that area of Bomont and North Jefferson County. However,
services that we that we fund, you know, it goes
beyond that. The funds are utilized in our area. But
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you know, when we think about nutrition and services for seniors,
they're they're I mean, they're serving seniors all over the place.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The Salvation Army is the Salvation Army for our area,
you know, so you know, the services go a little
bit larger. However, you know, we are you and I
We have Beaumont in North Jefferson County and that's where
our partners are and also you know, so it's where
we fund raise and where the programming is implemented.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Right, So now I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I mean, you're in this area, you know specifically, you know,
the county and Beaumont, but the organizations that you support
back things like that could be county wide, multiple counties,
Golden Triangle ish sure, lack of a better way to
say it. So okay, awesome, very cool and y'all are
always doing things and always fundraising and always you know,
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trying to figure out the best way to raise money
here in Southeast Texas to do things, you know, kind
of pivoting from United way in which I'll do in
this overarching kind of conversation, what does it look like
in regards to this event that's coming up?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What is it called? And tell me a little bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, we have what I like to call six different
efforts or events throughout the year. The one that's coming
up is Day of Caring. It's on March twenty eighth Friday.
We are really excited. Every single year we send out
hundreds and hundreds of volunteers to go and do some
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great work for our area nonprofits. Because we know our nonprofits.
They stretch a budget. They know how to stretch a
budget because they have to.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All of us nonprofits stretch a budget really, really well.
And sometimes that means that we can't get to everything
that we want to get to landscaping, maintenance, painting, all
kinds of different things. And so Dave Caring is really
an opportunity to address those needs.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And so this year we're really excited.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We're sending over three hundred and sixty volunteers into the community.
All of these are represented from businesses. I'll mention our
top sponsors Exalmobile. We're really excited they're providing forty volunteers.
We're so excited to have them. We have twenty eight
business partners that are part of this providing volunteers, and
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that's what makes up to three hundred and sixty. And
then we're sending them out to twenty three project sites
and so that's twenty three nonprofits or other institutions that
need some assistance and we're happy to provide it through
Day of Caring. And so we how that looks as
we start the day over at Praised Church, have a
good old pep rally, old fashioned pep rally. We've got
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a great announcement coming from JK Subaru, JK Chevrolet and
Ray Financial. They have a big announcement to make. We're
really excited about that. Uh. And then we just introduced
the United Way to have this kind of same conversation
of what the United Way is and what we do. UH.
And then send them out and go spend a few
hours getting their hands dirty, or some of them are
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not getting their hands dirty, but a lot of them
are getting their hands dirty, uh, and and providing some
some volunteer hours for those different organizations and so.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And they're very excited. They want to get this stuff done.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They want to you know, they want beautiful landscaping, they
want everything trimmed up and looking.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Nice, and they deserve it. So that that's what the
day looks like and what we're doing day.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of care awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And it's a huge effort, right, I mean, getting that
many people mobilized with the projects and doing all that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Dumb question, but.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm gonna ask you anyways, Uh, who who is in
charge of like finding the projects orchestrating all that is
that fall on your shoulders and your staff or what
does that look like?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yes, it's a one hundred percent you know United Way
staff that is coordinating this event. You know, we're staff
of three really and you know that's a slim staff.
You know, we work hard to make sure that we
get enough projects, but not just enough projects, but we
make sure that we have enough meaningful projects. We want
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our partners to go feel like they have accomplished something
they've helped and then really going out and making sure
that we're really spreading the message of this is what
Day of Caring is, this is what it's for, this
is why you should be a part of it, and
really justifying the cost if there's a cost, and making
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sure that everybody knows like this is worth being a
part of because it's huge. I mean sending a few
hundred volunteers into the community on the same day at
the same.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Time to do a bunch of great work.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's a big deal and so all credit to our office. Huge,
huge event.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
To put together. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Just coordinating that many people to do anything is incredible,
but much less to put them on different projects throughout
the county and city and all that kind of stuff.
So very cool. So for those people that are having
a little bit of POMO right because they're missing out
because they get to do it, their company didn't sign up,
they missed the deadline.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
When do y'all start pushing this?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
How can people learn more about this in the future
if they have questions, what do they do?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, so a great way to start. If you ever
want to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Get a hold of me, my email is really easy.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's t Walker at UWBMT dot org. Happy to give
you any information that you ever would like. I would
encourage anybody listening that's interested. We start collecting our business
partners in February. It's so definitely that's a great time
to reach out. But I would also push anyone that's
interested in the Day of Caring. Like I said earlier,
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we have six events or efforts throughout the year for
different things, and so we'd love to have y'all involved
in anything that you'd like to be involved in, and
that's a range of things. If you'd like a party,
golf tournament type thing, I've got a golf.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Party tournament for you.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
If you want a feel good thing during the holiday season,
I got that for you too. So we've got a
range of different things, and we'd be happy to get
you involved in Day Caring or another event or effort that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We have throughout the year. Awesome, Travis, We got about
thirty seconds left. Where do people go to find out
more information? As far as the website, Yeah, UWBMT dot org.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's our website. Also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
We push a lot of content out in those channels
and we're happy to have any business partner that really
cares about our community and wants their money to stay
in Southeast sexs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Awesome, Travis, thank you so much for being on the show.
We always appreciate you, man appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
All Right, folks, you got more coming up on the
Royal West Show after this. Stay tuned and we are
back with the roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles.
We've had a great show. We're going to continue to
have an amazing show, and we're going to get to
talk to Ashley Hasten with the education Specialist. I can't
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talk because I'm so excited to have her on the
show with the Crisis Center of Southeast Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Actually, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you, Zach. It's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It is amazing to have you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I just want everybody to know all the things
about the Christis Center of Southeast Texas and we have
you to tell us all about it, and it's super exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So for those people that may or may not know
what the christ Center.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Of Southeast Texas is, please give us kind of just
like a high level overview of all the things.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
So, the Crisis Center of Southeast Texas is here to help.
That's what we're here for. So we service the community
by having a twenty four hour free and confidential hotline
where people can in and talk to trained advocates who
are going to get them to the local.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Resources they need to get the help they need.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
We also are our main other than the crisis line
and helping people in crisis, we also help victims of
sexual assault. We help them through the whole process. We
walk with them from the time they call us, or
from the time they go to the hospital, or from
the time they're at the police station, all the way
until after everything's done. And we actually just recently set
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up in person support group that will be hosting here
at our location. We're pretty excited about. But to give
you a little bit more of a gist of who
we are, our mission is to serve the south east
sexist community and raising awareness, educating and helping victims of
sexual assault in our community to understand it.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But that's the GISTs that man, that's a lot that
y'all do here in Southeast Texas. Now is it all
of Southeast Texas that he serves at Golden Triangle? What
does that kind of look like?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Good question.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
So we serve Jefferson, Harden and Orange.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
County okay, awesome, fantastic, and y'all are a nonprofit and
now do y'all.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Also, I was on our website earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was kind of looking if somebody's deaf, y'all have
a ways to help those folks too, right, we do.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
We actually have interpreter services that we connect to. And
it's not only deaf, but if you speak a different
language of any type, we connect them and they can
speak to you and then they speak it back to
us so we can understand what's going on and really.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, okay, So I do have another burning question because
when I was on the website, I was just like
kind of peruising around. It's a great website, by the way,
but there was a button that stood out to me
that was read and it says I need help.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If somebody puts on that, I mean like, what is that?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
So that basically I believe that connects you to our
hotline or hotline services and it'll get you connected with
an advocate. It might be that you have to fill
out a form and then they contact you for our website,
but you do have the connection there.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Wow, that is what it does.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Had also I'm sorry, Zach, but also I did mention.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Actually my part of the organization, we also have an
education program where we will go out into the community
and talk about anything mental health wise, anything from grief
to fear, to self awareness to suicide awareness, sexual assault awareness,
human trafficking, so many different topics, and we'll go into churches, schools,
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police stations, anywhere that will en to me basically, Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, that's like a big part of it too, Ashley.
So that's fantastic. That's cool. So you'll go and you're
kind of the well you're the education specialist, so obviously
you know what you're talking about, but you'll go out
there and raise awareness about what y'all do. Now, y'all
work pretty closely with the police department and sheriff's department,
things like that.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We do.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
We actually just did a police training here in Beaumont
on how to better help victims of sexual assault. So well,
not only that, but we work closely with them on
the start, which is this Sexual Assault Response Team here
in Southeast Texas, and that basically connects all the services
who would be helping the survivor to move on and
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get the help they need.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So obviously, you know you're doing lots of things within
the community and you're always needing donations things like that.
But one of the things that you're doing in the
community is coming up here kind of mid April.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Talk to me about this resource fair and what that
looks like.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yeah, So, in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which
is this April, we are hosting a resource fair for
anyone to come and get information, but it is for
survivors in the community, and it's in honor of them
to help them get resources, to help people understand the
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impact of sexual assault and what it does to the
community and how we can help people who have been
sexually assaulted.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Just to name off some.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Of our partner agencies who are going to be there
at the resource fair, Dream Center, Land Manor, Healers, Hands Ministries,
Recovery Council of Southeast Texas, Family Services, Spindle Top, Southeast
Texas Food Bank, and there's a whole nother side to
that list, about probably eight other agencies or more so.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Are so all they'll all be there and kind of
being able to talk about what they do. Dream Center
of South East Texas love those folks. Just Michael Connor
and Velma. There's great, great people over there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Love them all, shout out to them.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
But so this is now, Is this open to the public?
Is this How does one get to come to this
resource fair? What does that look like?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
It is open to the public.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
It is going to be on April seventeenth from eleven
to two pm. We are going to have some snacks,
some coffee, and lots of good people to visit with.
And it's going to be here at our location at
seven hundred North Street and Beaumont Downtown, So anybody can
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come and we welcome everyone and we hope to see.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There actually nice, very good So folks get out there
April seventeenth, eleven to two at seven hundred North Street
in Beaumont. You can learn about all of the other
amazing resources here in Southeast Texas helping with from the
list that you read, and there's eight other folks you
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know that you're partnered.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
With, I mean literally anything in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll be able to get information for there and meet
and talk to the people that run these other organizations.
Probably learn lots of things that you didn't even know about.
So even if you know about some of the agencies
that she talked about. I highly recommend you go just
to be there and learn more about our community and
what we have going on in this community for sure,
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So talk to me a little bit about your social media.
And then also when you talk about volunteers, what are
you all looking for in regards to volunteers.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
So I'll start with the volunt tier part.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
We are always looking for helpful, kind individuals who just
want to help people and who are capable of we
are volunteers. Some of them do our crisis hotline where
you do an eight hour training, free training. We train
you and you're gonna be on call. We give you
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a phone and it's pretty simple, So that's pretty awesome.
It's easy to become a volunteer. And then as for
our social media, you know, as most nonprofit organizations, most
people don't know about us here, most people don't know
about the resources.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
That's why we're having a resource fare. So if you're.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Looking to find out more about us, you can find
us at our website at Crisis Center of Southeast t
Southeast t X dot org. Our Facebook with the same tag,
it's Crisis Center of t X our TikTok, which is
the Center se t X. And then Instagram. We also
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have an insta it's christ the Center of Southeast Texas
spelled out. I know they're all a little different, but
we are there and you can find.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Us a promise.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, I mean, And if you go to the website,
you can have there's a link to all of them
at the bottom, so you can use the website and
then hit all of them, follow all of them, support them.
You know, volunteering is awesome because that's volunteering your time.
But as all nonprofits, money is also always needed. So
you can actually and I'm gonna steal Ashley Thunder a
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little bit, but you can actually go to the website
and there's literally a button that says donate and you
can donate at any time. And then one other last
cool thing, and we're in after wrap up the show.
But you know they're also connected with United Way, who
we had Drivis Walker on earlier in the show talking
about the day of carring. So anyway, it's super cool
to make all these connections. Ashley, you're the bomb. Thank
you for being on the show.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Thank you, Zach, So are you all.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Right to come?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I'm on the Roy West Show. Welcome back to the
Roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had
a great show so far and we're gonna keep it
rolling with Megan Pounders, the president of the board for
the Beaumont Farmers Market. Megan, welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Hey, thank you so much. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
N Oh, Megan, So let's talk a little bit about
the Farmer's Market. Okay, sorry, there's a little bit of
a delay there, but yes, glad to have you on
the show. And why don't you go ahead and just
tell me a little bit about the Farmer's Market and
kind of maybe a little bit of the history and
then kind of what y'all offer.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Sure, So the Farmers Market here in Beaumont was started
back in twenty ten, and our goal was to just
provide Southeast Texas with an open air market that offered
a place to shop for fresh produce and food products,
you know, specialty products like that, and just kind of
give Southeast Texas a good foundation and an opportunity to
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have everything in one stop here in Beaumont for fresh
produce and kind of strive to educate the customers of
Southeast Texas all about the diverse local crops that we have,
what is seasonal and just kind of how we can
support you know, sustainable farming methods here in our area.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So that happens every Saturday, and that's going to be
from eight o'clock to eleven am. And didn't you say
something about you have some a coffee vendor out there too,
in case you want to get a cup of joe
and walk around.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yes, we have one of the we have a lot
of vendors right now. We're very proud of that. We've
been working really hard to accept new vendors and visit
these site visits and really make sure that we're just
offering Southeast Tech with some really good options out there.
And one of them is a new coffee vendor they're
going to rotate through. It's called Muse Coffee and they'll
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just have on site some specialty coffee drinks, hot and cold,
lemonades and teas and so far they've they've been really
accepted at the market and customers are really loving it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Awesome. That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So so if somebody wants to come to, you know,
the market and they want to hang out, you know,
y'all take all types of different forms of payment and
things like that, and I know y'll have some exciting
news there, So why don't you diet a little bit.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yeah, So most of our vendors, of course take cash,
and they have moved to accepting some sort of electronic
payment Venmo, cash app, credit cards and things like that.
But we also want to spread awareness that we also
accept SNAP. That is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, so
food stands in essence. We've been accepting that at the
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Farmer's Market for some time now, and very recently we
have been approved by the state to offer a program
called double up Bucks, and that is where a customer
will come up to the welcome table and they're going
to ask us for forty dollars of their SNAP and
the State of Texas will match that dollar for dollar
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up to thirty dollars and give them free money to
spend on produce. So that is for our lower income
families that have already been approved for the SNAP program.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So really making it accessible for really anybody in Beaumont
Golden Triangle to come enjoy the Farmer's Market and be
able to buy this fresh produce. A question for you, Megan,
are y'all constantly rotating people in, I mean vendors in
and out. Do you kind of look at the vendors
every year and then decide, hey, you know we want
to move and have this person in or do you
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have people apply to be yes, So.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
We do, of course have the vendors that have been
with us since the beginning that our customers tell us
time and time again, we love them, don't let them
go anywhere. We have our regular farmers. We are always
looking for more, for more farmers, even the smaller mom
and pop operations, these backyard growers. There there is a
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need for fresh produce in this area. So if you
are starting up a little project in your backyard, please
reach out.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
We would love to.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Just make contact with you and see how we can
help and how we can uh, you know, flourish your
love for gardening and and produce and farming and start
that partnership. And then we just have vendors apply if
you if you're really good at making something or baking
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or i mean the list goes on and on. Really
just just apply and we kind of our market manager
Brandy Verdin, will reach out and really just kind of
talk to you, get to know you better and see
if you're a good fit. We don't. We're not a
craft market, so we don't allow reselling of products. So
it has to be something that you make, you grow,
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you source, or you can recreate turn into something. You know,
maybe you source something from our market and then you
put your own spin on it and then you sell it.
Something like that would be okay, But other than that,
we're not just a reseller that that's really one of
the things that keeps us standing out in this area
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as one of the bigger farmers markets.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, that's awesome and uh, kind of a crazy question,
but I'm gonna ask it anyways.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Where are y'all located every Saturday?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Okay, so we're located at the sports complex on College Street,
right there about the tennis courts. We're under the awning
where the basketball goals are. You can't miss us. We
have lots of signage out there. The physical address is
sixty five twenty five College Street, but once you start
heading to the sports complex on College you'll see us,
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and it's out there right where all the pickleball tournaments
have been taking place on Saturdays. So I'm sure if
you've been out there, you've noticed us either way.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, that's awesome and it's a great location. It's kind
of central. People can get there, get in, get out,
and get your produce. Many forms of payment that Double
up Bucks. Aren't you all one of the only ones
in is it Texas that allows that?
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Yeah, so we are one of the few in Texas.
The other the closer farmer markets are Corpus Christi and
Galveston that offer that Double US program. Everybody loves just
help and supplemental you know, supplemental income for their grocery budgets.
And this Double Up project it's just going to be
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such a game changer for those families that are receiving snap.
You can't go wrong with extra money that isn't going
to cost you to spend on those fresh produce for
your kids and your family.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I love that that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Y'all are constantly like, just moving forward trying to figure
out better ways to be accessible to everybody in Southeast Texas.
And speaking of that, y'all do some fun programs for
the kids and things like that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Why don't we jump into those?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sure, we sure do so. The second Saturday of every
month is kind of what We like to just call
Sprouting Tots a it's just a fun field kid day
out of the Farmer's market and we have we kick
that off every Saturday at ten am with storybook Time
where we have a little area where the Balmut Public
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Library comes out and reads a book to the kids
and they love that. It's just just exciting. We have
a scavenger hunt. We have some little you know, pick
me up for the kids when they're done with the
scavenger hunt, and that rotates sometimes. We have seed planning
for the kiddos. And upcoming on April nineteenth, we're going
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to have our annual Easter egg hunt, which is provided
from the Junior League of Beaumont. We love our partnership
with them together and we have just worked really hard
to make sure our Easter eggs this year are filled
with things other than candy, just to kind of honor
our forefront focus on just having healthy relationships with food
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and access to healthy foods. And of course we're going
to have some prizes for a couple of sparkly eggs
that are hidden out there. So if you find a nice, bright,
shiny silver sequence egg, make sure you bring it back
to the welcome table to get a little basket and
that's going to be April nineteenth at ten am.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
So lots of things happening at the Beaumont Farmers Market,
you know, stay on top of mind with the stuff
for the kids and then just being more accessible with
those double up bucks.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
So folks, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Gonna want to get out there. Check out the vendors
they're rotating. You know, if you go this Saturday, you know,
you go to saturdays from now, it could be something
different or you know, something like that, So check it out.
It's gonna be a good time. Megan, is there anywhere
that they can go learn a little bit more about
the Farmer's Market Facebook, something like that.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah. Our website Baumont Farmersmarket dot org is very up
today and it shows a list of all of our vendors.
It also has a link to their personal websites or
Facebook pages, and then of course you can find us
on Facebook as well. Go ahead and join our newsletter
when you're on the website, because our market manager updates
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that pretty regularly on who's going to be there, what
our new vendors are, and things like that, and then
she posts that every week on Facebook too, So if
you're looking for something special, if you have a sweet tooth,
you want to come find a baker, check that list,
see if they're going to be out there this Saturday.
If not, you might you know, come out and grab
some honey or grab some produce and then check back
the next week and get get your sweet tooth fixed
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when the baker comes back. Different things like that, So
it's always rotating, always fluid out there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Awesome, Well, Megan, our time is up, but thank you
so much for being on the show.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Thanks so much more to.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Come on the roy West Show. Welcome back to the
roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had
a great show so far and we're going to wrap
it up with the one and only Emily Wheeler, Social
Chair elect for year seventy eight, which is next year
(32:32):
for Nature Festival.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Emily, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Thanks for having me, Zach.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
We're super excited to have you on the show.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And we and I have the privilege of serving on
the executive board for Nature of Festival as well, and
we have an exciting event coming up.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Emily, what is the event?
Speaker 6 (32:52):
We are really excited to offer to the community a
new event for the Natures River Festival, which is our night,
the Nature's Golf Classic.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
It's going to be a.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Golf tournament at five under on Friday, the twenty eighth
of March. And the best part about this is that
the purpose is to raise additional funds so that we
can give larger scholarships to our high school participants for
the festival.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And you know, one of the things that make sure
Festival is always trying to do is be more involved
in the community and then also increasing the amount that
we're able to give in scholarships because it's such an
important festival for our community.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And why not just give more money out right?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I mean so, and how can we do that, Well,
we can have a golf tournament and raise a bunch
of money right in money?
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yes, absolutely, And I think that what's awesome about this
too is it's a really a golf tournament at five
under is a great way for people to get out
of the office and have a lot of fun with
their coworkers and friends.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Great.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
You know, you don't have to be a great golfer
to you swing a golf club at five under. And
the other piece to it too, is just kind of
exposing the Nature Server Festival to people who may not
have had a kid participate in it, or may not
have participated for whatever other reason, but are interested in
what we do and what we do is so important
to our community.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, and you know, the Nature Festival, it's just great
for high school kids to get involved in. The princesses
go through a rigorous interview process that really allows them
to shine and just show all the things that they've
done in high school. Gets the guys involved being escorts,
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and it really is just a great way for our
community to rally around our river, rally around our kids
and just kind of support them and just show that, hey,
we're proud of Southeast Texas, We're proud of what you've accomplished.
And then the other side of it is getting to
you know, give a bunch of money away and scholarships,
and all of the funds at the Golf Classic are
all going to go towards the scholarship. In fact, we're
(35:02):
calling it the Scholarship Scramble, which is pretty cool. And Emily,
how are we doing on teams? How many do I
mean we have some teams available? What's the cost on
that and maybe some sponsorships.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah, we do. We have two teams still open before
we sell out, and we're really hoping to reach that goal.
We also have sponsorship opportunities available. But if you want
to purchase a team and come out and hit golf
balls for a few hours on Friday morning, the team
price is five hundred dollars for four people. That does
include your lunch and a swag bag and just a
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lot of fun. We registration. We're going to check everybody
in around nine thirty and we'll tee off at ten.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We'll all be.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Playing the same course on the simulator at five under.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
But you do have to preregister.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
We only have two teams left, two bays open, so
you can reach out through our website. We have a
link at Nature's Riverfestival dot com and it'll take you
right to the registration page.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So yeah, and I mean, what better way to spend
I think it's the last Friday in March. The weather
has been so nice, it's not hot yet. You know,
get out there, hit some golf balls. Lunch and drinks
are going to be included. Or if you're not a
golfer and you don't necessarily want to come out to
golf sponsor the event and come on out and.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Just hang out.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And you know, I think there's like a good mix
of teams too. We've got guide teams, we've got girl teams.
I mean, that's when it's just a great time for
people to come together and have a really good time
and just support Nature Festival and all these kids.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Yeah, absolutely, and we do for those of you that
are playing. We have some fun prizes and some contests
that we'll be doing and those are made possible by
all of our sponsors. We've got a great list of sponsors.
You can check them out on our Facebook page. But
we've just been so lucky that people want to support
the festival because in turn, it just supports our youth.
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And if these high school kids when they graduate, whether
they leave Southeast Texas or they come home to work
in Beaumont or start businesses in Beaumont, they'll know where
they came from. And that's that's the goal is to
keep to teach these kids really what our community is
all about. And we've been doing it for seventy seven years,
so we're really proud of it.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, And I mean we've got to give a shout
out to our title sponsor, right mentioned Tanya Tubes.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
There are title sponsors, so we want to make sure
we're just showing them from love.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
But we've got a bunch of other local, great sponsors
that are helping, you know, just put this event together.
Very excited about it for the first annual, and we
are planning on continuing this year after year. So marketr
calendars for March twenty eight and then, Emily. We're in
full nature Tuver Festival kind of swing right now, aren't.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
We we are. So everything will kick off the first
week of April with the King's arrival and Citizen of
the Year presentation, and then we move right into all
the activities the high school participants are going to. They've
already started attending events. I was just at one on
Sunday at the McFadden Wardhouse that was specifically for the
princesses and it was just a beautiful day. But yeah,
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we'll have two weeks of activities and we have a
community parade that'll be on Friday. I don't have a
calendar in front of me. April eleventh sounds right, I
don't know, look at a calendars act right, Yeah, yeah,
so that's a community parade and all of the local
schools and a lot of organizations are involved in that
(38:28):
in downtown Beaumont. You know, we have over ninety princesses
and escorts participating, thirty kids from out of town. It's
just a really fantastic thing. And we're just so proud
of seventy seven years of celebrating our community and there's
not a lot of things in Beaumont that have lasted
that long, and I think that that's a testament to
the spirit of our community and togetherness.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Absolutely and just quick rundowns.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So we just we did our capes and crowns five
k back in February. It was awesome, well attended, like
four hundred plus registrants for that. And then April eleventh
is to the parade and street party that's downtown Beaumont.
The street party starts in the parade five point thirty
and six thirty. You know, you want to be out
there for that. We've got the coronation April twelfth, the
(39:13):
seventy seventh Coronation.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I think you can maybe get tickets still for that.
Those sell out super fast. And then obviously the Coronation
ball after that. So folks, it's.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That time of year nature Sure festival, but make sure
you're getting out there for that Golf Classic Friday, March
twenty eighth. It's going to be a great time. The
weather's already going to be great. I've already called that
in How to Talk with God. It's going to be awesome.
Any last thing before we wrap it up.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
No, I just you know, second everything that you've said,
we want people to be involved in then Scriver Festival
and you know, keep supporting it. Support those kids, get
them involved and then come out and see all of
them shine at at the parade and at the coronation.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
It's a really great thing for our community.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is awesome. Emily, thank you so much for being on
the show.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Folks. There is more coming.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
We got to do our wrap up on the roy
West Show, so y'all stay tuned and we'll be back.
Thanks Emily, thank you. Welcome back to the roy West
Show Man. We've had a great show today, lots of
things to cover in this two minute wrap up. We
got to kick the show off with Travis Walker with
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United Way talking about the Day of Caring March twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
That's next Friday.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
There's going to be hundreds of volunteers in our community
making a difference.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Super cool folks.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If you want to get involved next year, check out
United Ways website.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
There.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Then we got to talk to the one and only
Ashley Hassan that she is with the Crisis Center of
Southeast Texas. Got to visit and talk about what they
do in our area and just some of the resources
that they provide. Those are just way too many to
cover in a two minute wrap up. Check out their website.
But they do have an event coming up in honor
of Sexual Assault Witness Month. It's called the Resource Fair
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on April seventeenth from eleven to two o'clock at seven
hundred North Street in Beaumont, Texas. Then we got to
talk to Megan Pounders with the Beaumont Farmers Market just
to talk a little bit about what they offer a
little bit of history there, talked about the double up Bucks,
and then every Second Saturday is the Kid's Story Time.
And then April nineteenth is the Easter Egg Hunt. You're
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not gonna want to miss that. And then we wrapped
it with Emily Wheeler with Nature Server Festival talking about
the first annual Golf Classic on March twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Couple teams left, you can still sponsor. Go to Nature.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
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Welcome to the Roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles.
We have a great show just lined up for you today.
Like we do every single Sunday on News Talk five
sixty KLB on the Roy West Show. Today we are
kicking the show off with the one and only Travis Walker,
director of Community Relations at United Way Beaumont, Golden Triangle.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Of Beaumont and North Jefferson County.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Perfect there it is all right, Well, Travis, welcome to
the show.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We're super excited to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm excited, always excited to be here. Good good, good good.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So you know, folks United Way, they're incredible, They're all
over the place.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
They're amazing. They do all the things in our community
that you don't even know what they do.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And we've got the guy Travis Walker here to tell
us about it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Travis, for those.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That may or may not be familiar with United Way
and what all y'all do, just give me kind of
an overarching one thousand foot view of United Way.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah. So, what our job is in the community is we,
I like to say, we unite and we mobilize our
community to give everyone in Jefferson County the opportunity to thrive.
So they if they want to thrive with what we do,
they have the opportunity to.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And so how do we do that.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We do that through raising money, of course, and so
we raise money in a few different ways, employee deduction campaigns,
events which we're here to talk about today, a few
other creative ways, individual donors, of course. And then what
we do with that money after we raise it is
we turn around and we fund some of the biggest
(01:38):
nonprofit names in our area. We have twenty local nonprofits
that we help fund. And that's why we say give
where you live, because when you give to the United Way,
that money is staying here, it's staying in our community,
it's staying where you want it to be. It's helping
your neighbors thrive. Because we have some research that shows,
you know, we have.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
A high poverty rate of bolant and we all.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Know that, but there's enough community that we call Alice
and these people are working individuals that actually don't make
a wage.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To cover all of their expenses, and.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So that percentage bumps it up to fifty percent of
people in Jefferson County actually need assistance, utilize the services
that we help fund, and that's why we do what
we do. And so we and we provide additional layers
of accountability so that people donors know that when they
donate money, it's going to where they want it to go.
(02:32):
To be one of our twenty local nonprofits is very difficult.
It's a very strenuous application process. And then once it's
very much so of marriage, and so once we are partners,
you know, there's additional steps of accountability. They provide reporting
to us on where that funding is being utilized. We
make sure the money is being utilized the way that
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how they applied for it for and so just additional
accountability steps and then make sure that these nonprofits that
are providing essential services to our community have the funding
that they need to provide the assistance to the people
that we know need the assistance. Fifty percent of our
community is a large percentage that that we can't ignore.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And so that's just search a very short glimpse of
what the United Way it is and what we do.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, and those are some staggering statistics there, I mean,
with fifty percent of the community needing you know, assistance
of some type, some sort, you know, I do know,
I mean I've been involved with that way know about
the United Way all the things, and I have heard
you know, it's a very rigorous process, you know, to
be selected as a nonprofit to be involved with United
(03:43):
Way and things like that. So not only does your
money stay in South East Texas, it's being spent physically responsibly,
and you can, you know, be guaranteed that you know
when you're giving the United Way, that money is being
used in our community in a way to make the
biggest impact that it can possibly make.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So kudos the United Way.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And with fifty needing you know, our assistance, I mean,
what would we do without the United Way, right? I
mean that's fifty percent of the population or our community
that needs assistance. So that's so cool that we have
y'all right here in our backyard. Now, what areas do
y'all service necessarily?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So we're a little bit of a complicated question, but
I'll answer.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It, and the answer is is that, you know, the
the agencies that provide services for our community. Some of
them are multi county in our area, some of them
are just Jefferson County, some of them are just Beaumont.
So it goes a little bit larger than what our
name is, which is Beaumont and North Jefferson County. What
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that really dictates is where we fund raise. The partners
that we that help us with funding or donations, they're
in that that area of Bomont and North Jefferson County. However,
services that we that we fund, you know, it goes
beyond that. The funds are utilized in our area. But
(05:08):
you know, when we think about nutrition and services for seniors,
they're they're I mean, they're serving seniors all over the place.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The Salvation Army is the Salvation Army for our area,
you know, so you know, the services go a little
bit larger. However, you know, we are you and I
We have Beaumont in North Jefferson County and that's where
our partners are and also you know, so it's where
we fund raise and where the programming is implemented.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Right, So now I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I mean, you're in this area, you know specifically, you know,
the county and Beaumont, but the organizations that you support
back things like that could be county wide, multiple counties,
Golden Triangle ish sure, lack of a better way to
say it. So okay, awesome, very cool and y'all are
always doing things and always fundraising and always you know,
(06:00):
trying to figure out the best way to raise money
here in Southeast Texas to do things, you know, kind
of pivoting from United way in which I'll do in
this overarching kind of conversation, what does it look like
in regards to this event that's coming up?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What is it called? And tell me a little bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, we have what I like to call six different
efforts or events throughout the year. The one that's coming
up is Day of Caring. It's on March twenty eighth Friday.
We are really excited. Every single year we send out
hundreds and hundreds of volunteers to go and do some
(06:40):
great work for our area nonprofits. Because we know our nonprofits.
They stretch a budget. They know how to stretch a
budget because they have to.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
All of us nonprofits stretch a budget really, really well.
And sometimes that means that we can't get to everything
that we want to get to landscaping, maintenance, painting, all
kinds of different things. And so Dave Caring is really
an opportunity to address those needs.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And so this year we're really excited.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We're sending over three hundred and sixty volunteers into the community.
All of these are represented from businesses. I'll mention our
top sponsors Exalmobile. We're really excited they're providing forty volunteers.
We're so excited to have them. We have twenty eight
business partners that are part of this providing volunteers, and
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that's what makes up to three hundred and sixty. And
then we're sending them out to twenty three project sites
and so that's twenty three nonprofits or other institutions that
need some assistance and we're happy to provide it through
Day of Caring. And so we how that looks as
we start the day over at Praised Church, have a
good old pep rally, old fashioned pep rally. We've got
(07:52):
a great announcement coming from JK Subaru, JK Chevrolet and
Ray Financial. They have a big announcement to make. We're
really excited about that. Uh. And then we just introduced
the United Way to have this kind of same conversation
of what the United Way is and what we do. UH.
And then send them out and go spend a few
hours getting their hands dirty, or some of them are
(08:14):
not getting their hands dirty, but a lot of them
are getting their hands dirty, uh, and and providing some
some volunteer hours for those different organizations and so.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And they're very excited. They want to get this stuff done.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They want to you know, they want beautiful landscaping, they
want everything trimmed up and looking.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Nice, and they deserve it. So that that's what the
day looks like and what we're doing day.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of care awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And it's a huge effort, right, I mean, getting that
many people mobilized with the projects and doing all that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Dumb question, but.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm gonna ask you anyways, Uh, who who is in
charge of like finding the projects orchestrating all that is
that fall on your shoulders and your staff or what
does that look like?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yes, it's a one hundred percent you know United Way
staff that is coordinating this event. You know, we're staff
of three really and you know that's a slim staff.
You know, we work hard to make sure that we
get enough projects, but not just enough projects, but we
make sure that we have enough meaningful projects. We want
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our partners to go feel like they have accomplished something
they've helped and then really going out and making sure
that we're really spreading the message of this is what
Day of Caring is, this is what it's for, this
is why you should be a part of it, and
really justifying the cost if there's a cost, and making
(09:38):
sure that everybody knows like this is worth being a
part of because it's huge. I mean sending a few
hundred volunteers into the community on the same day at
the same.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Time to do a bunch of great work.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's a big deal and so all credit to our office. Huge,
huge event.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
To put together. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Just coordinating that many people to do anything is incredible,
but much less to put them on different projects throughout
the county and city and all that kind of stuff.
So very cool. So for those people that are having
a little bit of POMO right because they're missing out
because they get to do it, their company didn't sign up,
they missed the deadline.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
When do y'all start pushing this?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
How can people learn more about this in the future
if they have questions, what do they do?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, so a great way to start. If you ever
want to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Get a hold of me, my email is really easy.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's t Walker at UWBMT dot org. Happy to give
you any information that you ever would like. I would
encourage anybody listening that's interested. We start collecting our business
partners in February. It's so definitely that's a great time
to reach out. But I would also push anyone that's
interested in the Day of Caring. Like I said earlier,
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we have six events or efforts throughout the year for
different things, and so we'd love to have y'all involved
in anything that you'd like to be involved in, and
that's a range of things. If you'd like a party,
golf tournament type thing, I've got a golf.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Party tournament for you.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
If you want a feel good thing during the holiday season,
I got that for you too. So we've got a
range of different things, and we'd be happy to get
you involved in Day Caring or another event or effort that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We have throughout the year. Awesome, Travis, We got about
thirty seconds left. Where do people go to find out
more information? As far as the website, Yeah, UWBMT dot org.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's our website. Also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
We push a lot of content out in those channels
and we're happy to have any business partner that really
cares about our community and wants their money to stay
in Southeast sexs.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Awesome, Travis, thank you so much for being on the show.
We always appreciate you, man appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
All Right, folks, you got more coming up on the
Royal West Show after this. Stay tuned and we are
back with the roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles.
We've had a great show. We're going to continue to
have an amazing show, and we're going to get to
talk to Ashley Hasten with the education Specialist. I can't
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talk because I'm so excited to have her on the
show with the Crisis Center of Southeast Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Actually, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you, Zach. It's good to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It is amazing to have you.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And I just want everybody to know all the things
about the Christis Center of Southeast Texas and we have
you to tell us all about it, and it's super exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So for those people that may or may not know
what the christ Center.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Of Southeast Texas is, please give us kind of just
like a high level overview of all the things.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
So, the Crisis Center of Southeast Texas is here to help.
That's what we're here for. So we service the community
by having a twenty four hour free and confidential hotline
where people can in and talk to trained advocates who
are going to get them to the local.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Resources they need to get the help they need.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
We also are our main other than the crisis line
and helping people in crisis, we also help victims of
sexual assault. We help them through the whole process. We
walk with them from the time they call us, or
from the time they go to the hospital, or from
the time they're at the police station, all the way
until after everything's done. And we actually just recently set
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up in person support group that will be hosting here
at our location. We're pretty excited about. But to give
you a little bit more of a gist of who
we are, our mission is to serve the south east
sexist community and raising awareness, educating and helping victims of
sexual assault in our community to understand it.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But that's the GISTs that man, that's a lot that
y'all do here in Southeast Texas. Now is it all
of Southeast Texas that he serves at Golden Triangle? What
does that kind of look like?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Good question.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
So we serve Jefferson, Harden and Orange.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
County okay, awesome, fantastic, and y'all are a nonprofit and
now do y'all.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Also, I was on our website earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I was kind of looking if somebody's deaf, y'all have
a ways to help those folks too, right, we do.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
We actually have interpreter services that we connect to. And
it's not only deaf, but if you speak a different
language of any type, we connect them and they can
speak to you and then they speak it back to
us so we can understand what's going on and really.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Help you out.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, okay, So I do have another burning question because
when I was on the website, I was just like
kind of peruising around. It's a great website, by the way,
but there was a button that stood out to me
that was read and it says I need help.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If somebody puts on that, I mean like, what is that?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
So that basically I believe that connects you to our
hotline or hotline services and it'll get you connected with
an advocate. It might be that you have to fill
out a form and then they contact you for our website,
but you do have the connection there.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Wow, that is what it does.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Had also I'm sorry, Zach, but also I did mention.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Actually my part of the organization, we also have an
education program where we will go out into the community
and talk about anything mental health wise, anything from grief
to fear, to self awareness to suicide awareness, sexual assault awareness,
human trafficking, so many different topics, and we'll go into churches, schools,
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police stations, anywhere that will en to me basically, Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, that's like a big part of it too, Ashley.
So that's fantastic. That's cool. So you'll go and you're
kind of the well you're the education specialist, so obviously
you know what you're talking about, but you'll go out
there and raise awareness about what y'all do. Now, y'all
work pretty closely with the police department and sheriff's department,
things like that.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We do.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
We actually just did a police training here in Beaumont
on how to better help victims of sexual assault. So well,
not only that, but we work closely with them on
the start, which is this Sexual Assault Response Team here
in Southeast Texas, and that basically connects all the services
who would be helping the survivor to move on and
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get the help they need.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So obviously, you know you're doing lots of things within
the community and you're always needing donations things like that.
But one of the things that you're doing in the
community is coming up here kind of mid April.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Talk to me about this resource fair and what that
looks like.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yeah, So, in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which
is this April, we are hosting a resource fair for
anyone to come and get information, but it is for
survivors in the community, and it's in honor of them
to help them get resources, to help people understand the
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impact of sexual assault and what it does to the
community and how we can help people who have been
sexually assaulted.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Just to name off some.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Of our partner agencies who are going to be there
at the resource fair, Dream Center, Land Manor, Healers, Hands Ministries,
Recovery Council of Southeast Texas, Family Services, Spindle Top, Southeast
Texas Food Bank, and there's a whole nother side to
that list, about probably eight other agencies or more so.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Are so all they'll all be there and kind of
being able to talk about what they do. Dream Center
of South East Texas love those folks. Just Michael Connor
and Velma. There's great, great people over there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Love them all, shout out to them.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
But so this is now, Is this open to the public?
Is this How does one get to come to this
resource fair? What does that look like?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
It is open to the public.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
It is going to be on April seventeenth from eleven
to two pm. We are going to have some snacks,
some coffee, and lots of good people to visit with.
And it's going to be here at our location at
seven hundred North Street and Beaumont Downtown, So anybody can
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come and we welcome everyone and we hope to see.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There actually nice, very good So folks get out there
April seventeenth, eleven to two at seven hundred North Street
in Beaumont. You can learn about all of the other
amazing resources here in Southeast Texas helping with from the
list that you read, and there's eight other folks you
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know that you're partnered.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
With, I mean literally anything in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll be able to get information for there and meet
and talk to the people that run these other organizations.
Probably learn lots of things that you didn't even know about.
So even if you know about some of the agencies
that she talked about. I highly recommend you go just
to be there and learn more about our community and
what we have going on in this community for sure,
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So talk to me a little bit about your social media.
And then also when you talk about volunteers, what are
you all looking for in regards to volunteers.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
So I'll start with the volunt tier part.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
We are always looking for helpful, kind individuals who just
want to help people and who are capable of we
are volunteers. Some of them do our crisis hotline where
you do an eight hour training, free training. We train
you and you're gonna be on call. We give you
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a phone and it's pretty simple, So that's pretty awesome.
It's easy to become a volunteer. And then as for
our social media, you know, as most nonprofit organizations, most
people don't know about us here, most people don't know
about the resources.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
That's why we're having a resource fare. So if you're.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Looking to find out more about us, you can find
us at our website at Crisis Center of Southeast t
Southeast t X dot org. Our Facebook with the same tag,
it's Crisis Center of t X our TikTok, which is
the Center se t X. And then Instagram. We also
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have an insta it's christ the Center of Southeast Texas
spelled out. I know they're all a little different, but
we are there and you can find.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Us a promise.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, I mean, And if you go to the website,
you can have there's a link to all of them
at the bottom, so you can use the website and
then hit all of them, follow all of them, support them.
You know, volunteering is awesome because that's volunteering your time.
But as all nonprofits, money is also always needed. So
you can actually and I'm gonna steal Ashley Thunder a
(21:38):
little bit, but you can actually go to the website
and there's literally a button that says donate and you
can donate at any time. And then one other last
cool thing, and we're in after wrap up the show.
But you know they're also connected with United Way, who
we had Drivis Walker on earlier in the show talking
about the day of carring. So anyway, it's super cool
to make all these connections. Ashley, you're the bomb. Thank
you for being on the show.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Thank you, Zach, So are you all.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Right to come?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I'm on the Roy West Show. Welcome back to the
Roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had
a great show so far and we're gonna keep it
rolling with Megan Pounders, the president of the board for
the Beaumont Farmers Market. Megan, welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Hey, thank you so much. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
N Oh, Megan, So let's talk a little bit about
the Farmer's Market. Okay, sorry, there's a little bit of
a delay there, but yes, glad to have you on
the show. And why don't you go ahead and just
tell me a little bit about the Farmer's Market and
kind of maybe a little bit of the history and
then kind of what y'all offer.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Sure, So the Farmers Market here in Beaumont was started
back in twenty ten, and our goal was to just
provide Southeast Texas with an open air market that offered
a place to shop for fresh produce and food products,
you know, specialty products like that, and just kind of
give Southeast Texas a good foundation and an opportunity to
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have everything in one stop here in Beaumont for fresh
produce and kind of strive to educate the customers of
Southeast Texas all about the diverse local crops that we have,
what is seasonal and just kind of how we can
support you know, sustainable farming methods here in our area.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So that happens every Saturday, and that's going to be
from eight o'clock to eleven am. And didn't you say
something about you have some a coffee vendor out there too,
in case you want to get a cup of joe
and walk around.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yes, we have one of the we have a lot
of vendors right now. We're very proud of that. We've
been working really hard to accept new vendors and visit
these site visits and really make sure that we're just
offering Southeast Tech with some really good options out there.
And one of them is a new coffee vendor they're
going to rotate through. It's called Muse Coffee and they'll
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just have on site some specialty coffee drinks, hot and cold,
lemonades and teas and so far they've they've been really
accepted at the market and customers are really loving it.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Awesome. That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So so if somebody wants to come to, you know,
the market and they want to hang out, you know,
y'all take all types of different forms of payment and
things like that, and I know y'll have some exciting
news there, So why don't you diet a little bit.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yeah, So most of our vendors, of course take cash,
and they have moved to accepting some sort of electronic
payment Venmo, cash app, credit cards and things like that.
But we also want to spread awareness that we also
accept SNAP. That is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, so
food stands in essence. We've been accepting that at the
(25:01):
Farmer's Market for some time now, and very recently we
have been approved by the state to offer a program
called double up Bucks, and that is where a customer
will come up to the welcome table and they're going
to ask us for forty dollars of their SNAP and
the State of Texas will match that dollar for dollar
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up to thirty dollars and give them free money to
spend on produce. So that is for our lower income
families that have already been approved for the SNAP program.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So really making it accessible for really anybody in Beaumont
Golden Triangle to come enjoy the Farmer's Market and be
able to buy this fresh produce. A question for you, Megan,
are y'all constantly rotating people in, I mean vendors in
and out. Do you kind of look at the vendors
every year and then decide, hey, you know we want
to move and have this person in or do you
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have people apply to be yes, So.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
We do, of course have the vendors that have been
with us since the beginning that our customers tell us
time and time again, we love them, don't let them
go anywhere. We have our regular farmers. We are always
looking for more, for more farmers, even the smaller mom
and pop operations, these backyard growers. There there is a
(26:23):
need for fresh produce in this area. So if you
are starting up a little project in your backyard, please
reach out.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
We would love to.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Just make contact with you and see how we can
help and how we can uh, you know, flourish your
love for gardening and and produce and farming and start
that partnership. And then we just have vendors apply if
you if you're really good at making something or baking
(26:50):
or i mean the list goes on and on. Really
just just apply and we kind of our market manager
Brandy Verdin, will reach out and really just kind of
talk to you, get to know you better and see
if you're a good fit. We don't. We're not a
craft market, so we don't allow reselling of products. So
it has to be something that you make, you grow,
(27:13):
you source, or you can recreate turn into something. You know,
maybe you source something from our market and then you
put your own spin on it and then you sell it.
Something like that would be okay, But other than that,
we're not just a reseller that that's really one of
the things that keeps us standing out in this area
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as one of the bigger farmers markets.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, that's awesome and uh, kind of a crazy question,
but I'm gonna ask it anyways.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Where are y'all located every Saturday?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Okay, so we're located at the sports complex on College Street,
right there about the tennis courts. We're under the awning
where the basketball goals are. You can't miss us. We
have lots of signage out there. The physical address is
sixty five twenty five College Street, but once you start
heading to the sports complex on College you'll see us,
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and it's out there right where all the pickleball tournaments
have been taking place on Saturdays. So I'm sure if
you've been out there, you've noticed us either way.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, that's awesome and it's a great location. It's kind
of central. People can get there, get in, get out,
and get your produce. Many forms of payment that Double
up Bucks. Aren't you all one of the only ones
in is it Texas that allows that?
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Yeah, so we are one of the few in Texas.
The other the closer farmer markets are Corpus Christi and
Galveston that offer that Double US program. Everybody loves just
help and supplemental you know, supplemental income for their grocery budgets.
And this Double Up project it's just going to be
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such a game changer for those families that are receiving snap.
You can't go wrong with extra money that isn't going
to cost you to spend on those fresh produce for
your kids and your family.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I love that that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Y'all are constantly like, just moving forward trying to figure
out better ways to be accessible to everybody in Southeast Texas.
And speaking of that, y'all do some fun programs for
the kids and things like that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Why don't we jump into those?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sure, we sure do so. The second Saturday of every
month is kind of what We like to just call
Sprouting Tots a it's just a fun field kid day
out of the Farmer's market and we have we kick
that off every Saturday at ten am with storybook Time
where we have a little area where the Balmut Public
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Library comes out and reads a book to the kids
and they love that. It's just just exciting. We have
a scavenger hunt. We have some little you know, pick
me up for the kids when they're done with the
scavenger hunt, and that rotates sometimes. We have seed planning
for the kiddos. And upcoming on April nineteenth, we're going
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to have our annual Easter egg hunt, which is provided
from the Junior League of Beaumont. We love our partnership
with them together and we have just worked really hard
to make sure our Easter eggs this year are filled
with things other than candy, just to kind of honor
our forefront focus on just having healthy relationships with food
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and access to healthy foods. And of course we're going
to have some prizes for a couple of sparkly eggs
that are hidden out there. So if you find a nice, bright,
shiny silver sequence egg, make sure you bring it back
to the welcome table to get a little basket and
that's going to be April nineteenth at ten am.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
So lots of things happening at the Beaumont Farmers Market,
you know, stay on top of mind with the stuff
for the kids and then just being more accessible with
those double up bucks.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
So folks, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Gonna want to get out there. Check out the vendors
they're rotating. You know, if you go this Saturday, you know,
you go to saturdays from now, it could be something
different or you know, something like that, So check it out.
It's gonna be a good time. Megan, is there anywhere
that they can go learn a little bit more about
the Farmer's Market Facebook, something like that.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah. Our website Baumont Farmersmarket dot org is very up
today and it shows a list of all of our vendors.
It also has a link to their personal websites or
Facebook pages, and then of course you can find us
on Facebook as well. Go ahead and join our newsletter
when you're on the website, because our market manager updates
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that pretty regularly on who's going to be there, what
our new vendors are, and things like that, and then
she posts that every week on Facebook too, So if
you're looking for something special, if you have a sweet tooth,
you want to come find a baker, check that list,
see if they're going to be out there this Saturday.
If not, you might you know, come out and grab
some honey or grab some produce and then check back
the next week and get get your sweet tooth fixed
(31:56):
when the baker comes back. Different things like that, So
it's always rotating, always fluid out there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Awesome, Well, Megan, our time is up, but thank you
so much for being on the show.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Thanks so much more to.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Come on the roy West Show. Welcome back to the
roy West Show. I'm your host, Zach Styles. We've had
a great show so far and we're going to wrap
it up with the one and only Emily Wheeler, Social
Chair elect for year seventy eight, which is next year
(32:32):
for Nature Festival.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Emily, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Thanks for having me, Zach.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
We're super excited to have you on the show.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And we and I have the privilege of serving on
the executive board for Nature of Festival as well, and
we have an exciting event coming up.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Emily, what is the event?
Speaker 6 (32:52):
We are really excited to offer to the community a
new event for the Natures River Festival, which is our night,
the Nature's Golf Classic.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
It's going to be a.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Golf tournament at five under on Friday, the twenty eighth
of March. And the best part about this is that
the purpose is to raise additional funds so that we
can give larger scholarships to our high school participants for
the festival.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
And you know, one of the things that make sure
Festival is always trying to do is be more involved
in the community and then also increasing the amount that
we're able to give in scholarships because it's such an
important festival for our community.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And why not just give more money out right?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I mean so, and how can we do that, Well,
we can have a golf tournament and raise a bunch
of money right in money?
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yes, absolutely, And I think that what's awesome about this
too is it's a really a golf tournament at five
under is a great way for people to get out
of the office and have a lot of fun with
their coworkers and friends.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Great.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
You know, you don't have to be a great golfer
to you swing a golf club at five under. And
the other piece to it too, is just kind of
exposing the Nature Server Festival to people who may not
have had a kid participate in it, or may not
have participated for whatever other reason, but are interested in
what we do and what we do is so important
to our community.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, and you know, the Nature Festival, it's just great
for high school kids to get involved in. The princesses
go through a rigorous interview process that really allows them
to shine and just show all the things that they've
done in high school. Gets the guys involved being escorts,
(34:40):
and it really is just a great way for our
community to rally around our river, rally around our kids
and just kind of support them and just show that, hey,
we're proud of Southeast Texas, We're proud of what you've accomplished.
And then the other side of it is getting to
you know, give a bunch of money away and scholarships,
and all of the funds at the Golf Classic are
all going to go towards the scholarship. In fact, we're
(35:02):
calling it the Scholarship Scramble, which is pretty cool. And Emily,
how are we doing on teams? How many do I
mean we have some teams available? What's the cost on
that and maybe some sponsorships.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah, we do. We have two teams still open before
we sell out, and we're really hoping to reach that goal.
We also have sponsorship opportunities available. But if you want
to purchase a team and come out and hit golf
balls for a few hours on Friday morning, the team
price is five hundred dollars for four people. That does
include your lunch and a swag bag and just a
(35:35):
lot of fun. We registration. We're going to check everybody
in around nine thirty and we'll tee off at ten.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We'll all be.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Playing the same course on the simulator at five under.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
But you do have to preregister.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
We only have two teams left, two bays open, so
you can reach out through our website. We have a
link at Nature's Riverfestival dot com and it'll take you
right to the registration page.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So yeah, and I mean, what better way to spend
I think it's the last Friday in March. The weather
has been so nice, it's not hot yet. You know,
get out there, hit some golf balls. Lunch and drinks
are going to be included. Or if you're not a
golfer and you don't necessarily want to come out to
golf sponsor the event and come on out and.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Just hang out.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And you know, I think there's like a good mix
of teams too. We've got guide teams, we've got girl teams.
I mean, that's when it's just a great time for
people to come together and have a really good time
and just support Nature Festival and all these kids.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Yeah, absolutely, and we do for those of you that
are playing. We have some fun prizes and some contests
that we'll be doing and those are made possible by
all of our sponsors. We've got a great list of sponsors.
You can check them out on our Facebook page. But
we've just been so lucky that people want to support
the festival because in turn, it just supports our youth.
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And if these high school kids when they graduate, whether
they leave Southeast Texas or they come home to work
in Beaumont or start businesses in Beaumont, they'll know where
they came from. And that's that's the goal is to
keep to teach these kids really what our community is
all about. And we've been doing it for seventy seven years,
so we're really proud of it.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, And I mean we've got to give a shout
out to our title sponsor, right mentioned Tanya Tubes.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
There are title sponsors, so we want to make sure
we're just showing them from love.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
But we've got a bunch of other local, great sponsors
that are helping, you know, just put this event together.
Very excited about it for the first annual, and we
are planning on continuing this year after year. So marketr
calendars for March twenty eight and then, Emily. We're in
full nature Tuver Festival kind of swing right now, aren't.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
We we are. So everything will kick off the first
week of April with the King's arrival and Citizen of
the Year presentation, and then we move right into all
the activities the high school participants are going to. They've
already started attending events. I was just at one on
Sunday at the McFadden Wardhouse that was specifically for the
princesses and it was just a beautiful day. But yeah,
(38:07):
we'll have two weeks of activities and we have a
community parade that'll be on Friday. I don't have a
calendar in front of me. April eleventh sounds right, I
don't know, look at a calendars act right, Yeah, yeah,
so that's a community parade and all of the local
schools and a lot of organizations are involved in that
(38:28):
in downtown Beaumont. You know, we have over ninety princesses
and escorts participating, thirty kids from out of town. It's
just a really fantastic thing. And we're just so proud
of seventy seven years of celebrating our community and there's
not a lot of things in Beaumont that have lasted
that long, and I think that that's a testament to
the spirit of our community and togetherness.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Absolutely and just quick rundowns.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So we just we did our capes and crowns five
k back in February. It was awesome, well attended, like
four hundred plus registrants for that. And then April eleventh
is to the parade and street party that's downtown Beaumont.
The street party starts in the parade five point thirty
and six thirty. You know, you want to be out
there for that. We've got the coronation April twelfth, the
(39:13):
seventy seventh Coronation.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I think you can maybe get tickets still for that.
Those sell out super fast. And then obviously the Coronation
ball after that. So folks, it's.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That time of year nature Sure festival, but make sure
you're getting out there for that Golf Classic Friday, March
twenty eighth. It's going to be a great time. The
weather's already going to be great. I've already called that
in How to Talk with God. It's going to be awesome.
Any last thing before we wrap it up.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
No, I just you know, second everything that you've said,
we want people to be involved in then Scriver Festival
and you know, keep supporting it. Support those kids, get
them involved and then come out and see all of
them shine at at the parade and at the coronation.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
It's a really great thing for our community.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is awesome. Emily, thank you so much for being on
the show.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Folks. There is more coming.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
We got to do our wrap up on the roy
West Show, so y'all stay tuned and we'll be back.
Thanks Emily, thank you. Welcome back to the roy West
Show Man. We've had a great show today, lots of
things to cover in this two minute wrap up. We
got to kick the show off with Travis Walker with
(40:27):
United Way talking about the Day of Caring March twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
That's next Friday.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
There's going to be hundreds of volunteers in our community
making a difference.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Super cool folks.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
If you want to get involved next year, check out
United Ways website.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
There.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Then we got to talk to the one and only
Ashley Hassan that she is with the Crisis Center of
Southeast Texas. Got to visit and talk about what they
do in our area and just some of the resources
that they provide. Those are just way too many to
cover in a two minute wrap up. Check out their website.
But they do have an event coming up in honor
of Sexual Assault Witness Month. It's called the Resource Fair
(41:06):
on April seventeenth from eleven to two o'clock at seven
hundred North Street in Beaumont, Texas. Then we got to
talk to Megan Pounders with the Beaumont Farmers Market just
to talk a little bit about what they offer a
little bit of history there, talked about the double up Bucks,
and then every Second Saturday is the Kid's Story Time.
And then April nineteenth is the Easter Egg Hunt. You're
(41:28):
not gonna want to miss that. And then we wrapped
it with Emily Wheeler with Nature Server Festival talking about
the first annual Golf Classic on March twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Couple teams left, you can still sponsor. Go to Nature.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Riverfestival dot com Golf Classic to check that out. As always,
show's been brought to you by the Royal West team.
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Speaker 3 (42:13):
Stay classy, Beaumont
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