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Speaker 1 (00:02):
For listening to the Roy West Show here on News
Talk five sixty k l V and folks, I love
doing this show. I have the best guests. And Chelsea Tipton,
who is the director conductor of the Symphony of Southeast Texas,
been on the show many times. He is back. Welcome back,
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Chelsea back.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm back, looking forward to the upcoming season, and thank
you Mayor for having me on the show. Congratulations to
you on your reelection and we're so happy. We appreciate
we appreciate you because you support the arts here in
this great community. Our symphony is going to be celebrating
seventy three years.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Seventy three years and for a community the size of
Bamat serving all of Southeast Texas, we are so blessed
to have such a have a symphony in one of
this quality. And you I know you've been leading it
now for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Sixteen years, and you know we say this every time
to come on the show, and it's important to say it.
It's important for these institutions am set Lamar University to
be taken for granted. But don't take it for granted
because you go to other communities that do not have
this art scene that we have here, you see a
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very different type of community, So we don't take it
for granted. We celebrate the all the different types of
arts that we have here in this community, the educational
opportunities we have to provide for our young people in
the community. So it's a wonderful thing. And we just
had our fourth of July concert. We appreciate you being
on stage with us for that and what I love
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about that concert it's about the community. We had Saint
Andrew's Choir and just Presbyterian Church Choir to join us
on the concert, and we get to showcase the wonderful
talent musical talent that we have here. Not only do
we bring and great artists from around the world to
play with us, but we have great young artists and
young artists here in our community as well.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, and such incredible local talent.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I know some of.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The symphony comes in from Houston, which is also a
real blessing to us. So our symphony, and we say
this every time, but or I say it every time
because my wife and I were seasoned ticket holders, and
I always didn't for many years, I didn't realize I
enjoyed the symphony, and perhaps I don't know that I
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would have had it not been you being a.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And what I mean by that is you you bring
such passion and there's an education component. I know you
do it for our public schools and y'all reach a
lot of students, but for those of us that didn't
grow up around a lot of music, and you can
even tell us what to be looking for, and it's
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you know, it really engages the audience.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, it is a certain amount of edutainment that
we provide when people come into the concert. I sally
don't want them to feel like, well, I'm the teacher
and I'm gonna teach you about this piece. No, we
want you to have an entertaining experience. But as you
alluded to, if a few things can be shared to
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listen for and to understand the structure of the piece,
it makes it a more impactful experience for people. And also,
we keep in mind a lot of these pieces that
we're playing maybe the first time that you've heard them,
and so to give a little bit of an insight
gives it a little bit more of a structure and
things to listen for to make it more impactful for your.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Experience well, and you know, for those that are unfamiliar
in our habit been to the symphony in a long
time or perhaps never, they really don't know for the
treats that they're in for, because.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You do it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You put together an incredible season year after year, and
I know that comes through your experience and your nationwide connections.
And you know, but it also benefits Southeast Texas Beaumont
so much because you know, every there is something for everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We try to make it something for everyone. And I
think arts organizations we cannot be just mired in the Beethoven,
in the Mozart, in the Bach and the and the wc.
Those are great composers, those are great works. But how
can we connect this wonderful art form and this wonderful
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type of institution to twenty first century audiences that are
coming to see us. Audiences are changing, their expectations are changing.
If you listen to pop music, which I love pop music,
it's going to be a three and a half to
four minute experience and everything's kind of put in there.
You can come to hear an orchestra, a symphony, or
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a symphonic symphony that an orchestra puts together for the
second half of a concert. That could be thirty five minutes,
that could be forty five minutes, So it's a much
longer type of experience, and that's why it does help
to have some insights into the music. But we try
to provide a broad buffet of music and different styles
and we have a great season that we're looking forward
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to sharing with our communities starting in September. We work
like a school year.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, let's talk a little bit about that. And for
those that where the website is because you can get
season tickets and I highly recommend it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Absolutely. There's season tickets and there's single tickets. If you've
never been to the orchestra before, come and just see
what it's about. I think one of the things we
have to always address with people is their perception of
what they believe that orchestras are about, and we try
to break down those perceptions as well. Our first concert
will be September twentieth. We're going to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month.
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We've got some great music by Mexican composer Marquez. We're
going to do this piece by Rodrigo his catar concerto,
which many people have heard, and we're going to conclude
that concert with the piece by a French composer, but
it's a Spanish dance called balero. It's probably one of
the most popular piece is written for the orchestra, and
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it really shows off it's a very difficult piece and
it shows off the musicianship that we have in our orchestra.
But what we want to bring one thing we want
to do and I think you share in this vision.
We want the orchestra to be for everyone. The entire community,
whether you live in Beaumont, proper Port, Nature's Port, Arthur Vider, Orange,
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all of those communities are invited to come and see
our orchestra. And we don't We don't want people to
feel that it's not for them. Don't worry about what
you have to wear, don't worry about when you just
come and have an experience. And I think those types
of things what should I wear can be the things
that hold people back. Wear something comfortable and bring your
heart open to receive some wonderful music. You'll like some
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of it and maybe you won't like it. But what
kills me sometimes is people will say I don't like
going to classical music or going into the symphony and
they've never been see it. If you like it, great,
If you don't, you don't need to come back. That's okay,
that's okay. I don't like all music, but come and
see it. I think you'll be surprised at the experience
that you'll have. So that'll be our opening concert. As
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I said, we're kind of like a school year. We
have circ Della Symphony who's going to be coming as
our pops concert in October. We'll be playing classical music
and they'll be doing acrobatics things, strong man things, balance things.
They'll be doing silks and kind of flying all throughout
the all over the stage and everything. It's a great
combination of physical beauty that is just athletic, being athletic,
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and just incredible, incredible music that we will be providing
behind the scenes. So we do pops concerts, we do
Glasgow concerts, we do chamber concerts. Will be back at
Taroll Park to do a performance out there in October.
And so it's not enough for us to say come
to us. We have to be willing to go out
into the community as well well.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And and y'all what's your website because people can get
all kinds of information there as well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Absolutely, you can call our office at eight nine four
zero nine eight nine two two two five seven, or
you can go to s o st dot org look
at our season. We could. We would love to have
you as a subscriber, but as this your first time
coming to the orchestra, just get a single ticket and
bring your family. It's a very it's a very family
friendly type of environment and it's in the beautiful, beautiful
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downtown Julie Rogers Theater, which I know you know very
well well, but we're so blessed to have a theater
of that level in our community.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well we are. And beyond the concerts and beyond the
you know you and you have free concerts a couple
of times a year and which are really important, but
y'all invite the kids down. And I love that because
now kids in Southeast Texas get exposed to the orchestra,
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where before they might have not known whether they liked
it or not, maybe heard what somebody said that hadn't
even seen it before, but they get to have that
individual experience and that can plant seeds in their future.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, that worked for me when I was a young
fourth and fifth grader in Greensboro, North Carolina, and North
Carolina something came and played in our community and it
had a profound impact. And of course my parents are
both musicians and music teachers, so they had a tremendous
impact on me. We want to plant those seas. We
want people to say we have I remember when I'd
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come into the Julie Rogers Theater, and I have so
many adults who come to me, whether whether maybe whether
it's during my tenure here at sixteen years or before it,
where they remember going into the Julie Rodgers Theater and
experiencing either the Ballet Company or the Nutcracker. And this
year we're gonna we're gonna be performing in the pit
the same you're gonna be performing the pit for the
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Nutcracker for the first time. We're gonna do the entire
piece with the dancers of one of our one of
our wonderful ballet companies here in town. They're so excited
about it, and what a great experience for those young
people in the ballet company to perform with a live orchestra.
It's not like performing with the pre planned recording. This
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is our live orchest strap, and we're so excited about that.
But again it's other ways we're trying to reach out
into the community and also cross pollinate different audiences together.
We're hoping to do things with BCP, both my community players,
We're hoping to do things with other schools. So there's
lots of opportunities that we have that we're trying to
reach out to the community to affect the young people
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as well.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Chelsea Tipton Symphony of Southeast Texas and folks, you can
find them on Facebook, you can find them on the Internet.
They've got a phone number you can call them. I'm
telling you it'll be a huge treat. And you know,
whether it's just you and your spouse or you and
a friend, or bring your kids or grandkids. And we
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brought our grandkids and they've been very entertained at every show.
So I applaud you the Symphony, all the members, all
the hard work y'all do, and the quality that y'all
bring to Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Thank you for getting the word out, Mayor. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
All right, see you soon. All right, we are back
with the Roy West Show. So here on News Talk
five sixty KLBI and there is so much good stuff
happening across Beaumont in Southeast Texas. I have with me
Kaylee Henry with girls Heyn. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Girls Haven's made quite an announcement recently, and y'all got
big projects on the horizon are underway right now. Tell
people about it.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, So we actually just announced on May twenty ninth,
We had a big kickoff event, but we announced that
we are building a new Girls Haven residence and so
just right down the street from where we are currently,
we're in the process of building a new residence. It's
going to be a bit more of a homelike environment.
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We're really following all of the state rules and the
foster care rules and regulations to give them the most
safe environment that we can and also really trying to
make it a very therapeutic environment for the girls. So
they'll have a therapy room, we'll have windows that'll be safe,
but also have that therapeutic natural lighting that comes in,
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so that's a really big deal. They don't have that now.
So several things that we're doing to make it a
better home for the girls, and then on top of that,
our current residence is going to be transformed into the
extra grade levels for Airhart. So air Heart Charter School
is where the girls go to school currently, and it's
just up until ninth grade. So once we get the
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additional space, they'll be able to do pre k through
twelfth grade. So once our girls come into our care,
they can be in the same grade school throughout the
time that they're here. And they actually created Airheart Charter School.
It's governed by the same board as Girls Haven, and
they created it for the girls, so it's smaller classroom
or one on one. We have a lot of communication
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with Airhart, with the superintendent, the principal, the teachers, so
they really understand the girls, They know their situation and
are able to better care for them and offer them
some trauma informed care, which is really important. So a
lot happening. We're very excited and because of that, obviously
that's very expensive, so we're in the middle of a
capital campaign to help raise the funds for that and
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to raise awareness about what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well and tell let's go a little bit deeper about
what Girls Haven is and how girls you know, how
it is that they end up being a part of
Girls Haven because there's a lot of people that are
familiar with Girls Haven because it's been here what twenty
something years.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Now, thirty one, yeah, thirty one, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So but not everybody knows, and let's tell people about
what Girls Haven is because there sometimes could be misconceptions.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yes, so Girls Haven is a home for girls between
the ages of six and eighteen. All of our girls
are in the foster care system, so they've been pulled
out of their homes at no fault their own, by
situations of abuse, neglect, homelessness, and so they get pulled
out of their homes by CPS and get placed into
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foster care homes or facilities like Girls Havement and so
we're a group home. We can house up to We
normally have about sixteen to eighteen girls at a time
in our facility. And so not only do we offer
basic care to the girls like the shelter, clothing, food,
but also therapeutic care. So we have our licensed counselor
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that's on staff, so she offers individual therapy to the
girls and group therapy. We have case management twenty four
hour staff, and then we also offer education, so we
have the air Heart Charter School that offers a little
bit more of a one on one classroom environment. That's,
like I said, governed by the same board. And so
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we're really the only one kind of in this area
that offers that full wrap around service with therapy, education,
basic care for the residents. So yeah, we're right here
in Beaumont.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, it's pretty tremendous and you know, being able to
provide those resources to young young ladies that you know,
their situation could could be really much more difficult, and
this is through circumstances that are beyond their control. So
how many people are y'all hoping to be able to
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house in the in the in the new residence, it'll
be the same amount.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
So we're just moving from one facility to the next.
So this facility has, I mean, it's been around for
a very long time. A lot of people know. It
used to be the BPM Club back in the day,
and so they transformed it into Girlshaven, I want to say,
back in two thousand and one, and so it's been
a really really great environment. But it is since it
is a little bit older, we got grain fathered in
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to a lot of the state regulations, and so it
doesn't quite follow along to a lot of the guidelines
that we would like to be following. So our new
facility is going to be really following the state guidelines
for foster care and offering a lot more of a
therapeutic environment. So that's really our focus is to make
sure that the girls are in the safest and most
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therapeutic environment that they can be in. And then when
we talked about creating a new facility, then it was
said that we could transform this one into the additional
grade levels, which is huge because the girls right now
they go through ninth grade and then after being already
pulled from their homes, pulled from their school and their friends,
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they come over here and they start school at Aarhart
and then they're pulled out again from what they know
and their friends to a different school. So them being
able to stay here on campus and at the Airheart
School all the way through all their grade levels, saying
with their same friends, is going to be really exciting.
The girls already know about it. They're very excited.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So we're happy to be doing in and to help
people understand further, is this often a temporary living arrangement.
Farm ors do sometimes do they spend several years there?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, so sometimes it completely depends on the situation. But
the girls can stay for a few weeks up to
several years. So not all of our girls have you know,
been completely pulled out their homes. Their parents haven't lost
full custody, and so a lot of them are you know,
going to court and their parents are fighting for custody still.
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So because of that situation, some of them can stay
for a few weeks and then go back with family
or a family member, or they could stay for several years,
depending on their situation.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I got you, so, so y'all are you're providing this
Girls Haven? But it's also can be a home for
some because some may not have parents that are able
to get them back. So, yes, they have to learn
how to do life and learn how to manage. And
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so that was where the school came from. So how
many do kids outside of Girls Haven? Do they go
to Airport Air?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yes, Yes, it started for the girls, but it's been opened.
It's a charter school that's opened to the to the
public now. I think there's like a two hundred plus
waiting list. So they've got incredible test scores and it's
just a really, really great school. So we're very blessed,
and we want to get the word out about them
as well, because a lot of people don't know that
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Earhart exists over here. And they've like I said, they
have great test scores. They're doing really good things at
that school. So we're very blessed to have it and
thankful that the girls get to be there, and like
you said, they are, you know, learning all of their
skills from us, So we're having to not only have
the basic care and therapy and education, but also teaching
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them all of the skills. So whenever they leave at eighteen,
they you know, they're not on their own. They can
always call us. We're always a resource to help them out.
But we've taught them, you know, we help them to
get jobs, We help them to go to school and
apply for schools and to get into schools. Because they're
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in CPS care, they actually get free education, so we
help them to apply for that and get in, get
into that and learn basic skills cooking. We have people
who're very blessed to have a really great group of
volunteers and mentors who come and teach the girls different
things and continue to mentor. Even after the girls age out,
they continue to mentor them and be a part of
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their lives. So it's really great having such a wonderful community.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, we're about a minute out from wrapping up the interview,
so I want you to also let people know how
they can go about getting more information, whether it's volunteering,
and also obviously there's a real need for fundraising and
how they can do that.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yes, so our website it's girls Haveninc. Dot org so
I n C so you can go on our website.
Our Facebook is also the same girls Haven Ink, so
we're constantly posting on there about what we're doing, fundraisers,
that we're doing, about the campaign, so you can learn
more there, learn more about volunteer opportunities. You can also
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call our numbers four O nine eight three two six
two two three, so you can call up, call up
to girls Haven, ask for me Kaylee Henry, and I
can get you set up to volunteer here, get involved
in any way that you would like to.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, I just want to thank you for coming on
the show. You've been on several times before, and thank
you for for Girls Haven and the work that they
do and the impact they make in so many young
people's lives, and folks check them out at Girls Haven,
I Inc, I nc UH and for more information. And
I know that the community will continue to show up
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for y'all as y'all have for the community.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yes, thank you so much for having me again.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All righty talk to you soon. Well, we are back
with the Roy West Show here on News Talk five
sixty k l v I and folks. We always have
the best guests and today certainly no exception to it.
Here we are in July, it is summertime, it is
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hurricane season. There is lots going on, and I have
with me Lee and Terry Potter. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Thanks for having us, Roy, Thank you, my brother.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, I have y'all on regularly talking about all the
different events that y'all chair giving back to the community.
But y'all also have a business and your business is
booming this summer. Tell people what y'all do.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Well, I'll tell you what it is. We have been
blessed by Southeast Texas who has taken care of us
for forty three years, and this is what we do.
We number one, we're a service based business, so we're
here to take all those issues and challenges that those
people that our neighbors and friends have and find solutions.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
So we do.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Top notch HVAC, heating, air conditioning, and ventilation. That's what
we grew up on since nineteen eighty two. We also
do the generatic homestand by generators, we do plumbing, and
we do the same type of get our teeth sunk
into it, just like we do on everything else, which
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has allowed us to have all sorts of other things
such as water filtration and conditioning and now backflow prevention.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, and you know this is this is the season
that oftentimes, you know, air conditioned one of those things,
and heating for that matter, in the wintertime. We just
have a lot more need for AC throughout the year
that people take for granted. But uh, you know, we
all experience all of a sudden, your air condition's not
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working as well? Are it goes out all together? And uh,
you know, certainly that industry has continued to change. But
dealing with a professional that is looking around the corner
not just for the next two weeks but also for
the coming years for you, I know, y'all do a
great job with that we try.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
We do try, we do try, and right now with
it being so hot and we're in the thickest summer,
we just really encourage because you're, let's be honest, your
AC is an investment, absolutely, and we encourage everybody, even
if they're not our customer, to sign up for a
maintenance plan. You know, have that in place where your
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your unit is checked twice a year and you don't
even have to think about it. Once you're signed up
and rolled with the maintenance plan, we call you, hey,
miss Smith, it's time, when can we come out? It
just takes that extra pressure off the customer of I
have to remember to get my AC maintenance spot on well.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And this is what's also so important about that is
that can save you lots of money because y'all can
find problems before they get worse.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Absolutely absolutely, And what again, what Terry Lynn's talking about
is it does make sense because in our busy world
and our busy life. I meant, Roy, we've already gone
through half a year. Oh man, I forgot, and we're here,
our office is here to make sure that we cover
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and just take as much pressure off of you as
best we can. But she's absolutely right. And it doesn't
matter if it's us or not. Get a professional to
go look at your air conditioning system.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's too critical in this area.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, but as you were pointing out early forty three
years in the area giving back to the community, y'all
are here, y'all aren't going anywhere, and you're out, you know,
showing up for our community. So it's important to give
where you live, but also do business with where you live.
And American Air Systems is certainly that. And now let's
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spend a couple of minutes talking about generators because you know,
I think generacks become kind of a term that a
lot of people know in Southeast Texas because when it
comes to storms, and it's certainly we think of hurricanes
because we've had periods of time where your power could
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be down for actually weeks, but that's kind of the
worst case scenario. But we have storms, We have events
that happen where you lose power for a few hours
to a day or two, and it's really inconvenient, and
y'all have a solution for that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
We do.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Now remember we're not April Tobert, so we don't say
the H word, you know, But and here, you hit
it right on the head and talk about the circuits.
Over the last couple of weeks, they have gone down
two or three times hours at a time. And for
some people out there, that inconvenience is something they'll live with.
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But for others that going into the plants and they're
required to stay and they're taken care of other things
and things of that nature, it's pivotal that they have
something where they in a situation where we've lost power,
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they have the ability to come back home, sleep in
their own bed, stay in their own house, and that
stress level comes down, so they can be able to
go back and get Southeast Texas put back together if
we had a major storm and they're not loving stressed
out across the board. So yeah, there's all sorts of
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different ways. And generack's almost like coke. Now everybody knows,
you know, Coca Cola is a pop or whatever they
call it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Generak is that generator. So yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
It doesn't even have to really be hurricane a hurricane
event if you think about it. More and more people
work from home, right, so we're finding a lot of customers.
It's just it's an inconvenient because if they're working from
home and their powers out for a couple of hours
or a couple of days, they have to pack up
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and find somewhere else to go or you know that
that amount of time because they work from home.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Correct well, and so making sure you're getting this done
professionally because generators, you know, there's you know, there's people
that some people try to do that out of the
back of the truck or whatever, and it can it
could be a real cost and a real problem for home.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, you got to be careful.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Number one, safety, these machines create carbon monoxide. We have
COO detectors in our homes to protect us well in
an event where you have a machine that's pushing carbon
monoxide into your home because they've pushed this machine to
blow it directly at your house or through a window.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Or something like that. That's number one.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Number two, you've just got to be careful. These things can,
if installed incorrectly, cause problems and you just it sometimes
Roy you get what you paid.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
For, absolutely well, be sure. Let's share y'all contact information.
I know you're all over social media, you're on your
got a website, phone number. How do people get in
touch with y'all, Well.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
They can call either office four oh nine eight four
to two twenty four zero two are four zero nine
seven five one five out the way.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Correct, And then you can find us on the web
A M E R AI R dot com. And we
got a load of content on there, all sorts.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Well, and I'm assuming when we're talking about generators, we're
talking about ac and I'm this is not discussed before.
Do y'all have any financing plans for people that might
be thinking about doing this but may not have complete
cash to do it, but they can pay for it
over time.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Absolutely, absolutely, so we do. What we're doing is and
this again goes back to our work on trying to
be local. We have enlisted the help of one of
our local financial areas. First Financial is one of our
local branches that we can finance from, and we were
very close to having a secondary local branch to be
(30:50):
able to do all of.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Our financing from.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
So but we still have Wells Fargo and we still
have Synchrony. But absolutely we can find a way to
make this thing work for you.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, So you need to give them a call if
you're thinking about generator, if you're thinking about a waterfield
tradition system. Easy for me to say, yeah, and our
air condition and certainly we can be talking about heat.
We got about forty five seconds left. I know y'all.
Are y'all got a big fundraiser coming up around the
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corner too.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
We do, we do look for us.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
We do have a website.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
It's called go forthebell dot com and it's the number four.
It is a five oh one three c who. It's
been created to help families with children that have gone
through or going through currently pediatric cancer. And the difference
is the money stays here in our Southeast Texas area.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
And I'll tell you real quick. Cattle Baron's Ball. We're
in charge of the VIP with Tarn Charlie Holver. So
that's a coming too.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
So that's in.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
That's later on in the.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Year, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Terry and Lee Potter are always giving back to the community.
Be sure to support American Air Systems. Thank y'all so much.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We are back with the Roy West Show here on
News Talk five sixty k lv I and I have
with me David Marcelle and David you are you got
your hands in lots of different things. You got a
great business. You're very involved in the community, and you
are having a golf tournament to raise money for Sickle
(32:37):
Sell disease kids with scholarships, and you sent me something
and I thought, man, we need to be talking about
this on the radio.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Right right right. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
What we're doing, Roy is Matthews Wings is my son's
foundation has just got a start up and wanting to
get a started since he was a kid.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
He's seventeen now, so.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Finally got it done and we're gonna start it off
with the golf tournament. It's gonna be at Babes and
Harri's Golf Tournament golf course in Port Off the September nineteenth.
We're just trying to get everybody out, trying to get
more sponsors. So what it is is we're gonna give
maybe three to four scholarships a year.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
It's gonna be ye with Sickle Sale.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
So they're gonna write an essay and we're gonna pick
from net and try to get it going. But that's
the focus that we're at right now.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's awesome and I'm not surprised that you came through
and you're kicking it off because you believe in investing
in things that matter to you and giving back to
your community. And this is just another example. And I
also think it can create some awareness because sickle cell
touches a number of people and it can you know,
(33:53):
we were talking before we went on the air, how
well your your son has managed it, but not everybody has.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Benefits exactly exactly.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Yeah, the main thing is bringing awareness to it because
like my wife knew she had the trade before Matthew
was born, but I never knew I had it. So
a lot of people that didn't go to the doctors
and stuff like that coming up, they don't even know
they have the trade. So that's kind of what I
would really like to bring awareness to the people that
don't don't even know they have the trade and try
to get get it out there so people can get
(34:23):
tested and uh, because we never ever knew it. When
Matthew was born, I didn't know, and I'd done some
research and come to find out it was on my
daddy's side.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Of the family. So that's that's that's that's one of
the things.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
But like I said, if everybody gets aware and know
what's going on, they could take better care of theirself.
And you know, realize what you know, what's really happening
with sickle cell, but it's it's a very painful disease.
I wouldn't wish it on nobody. I've seen the things
that my son go through. A lot of kids go
through it a lot worse than him. But he's really
been blessed, truly blessed to not have a very many
(34:56):
sickle cell crisis. He take his medicine every day, so
it's been helping him out a whole lif.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well, God praise God that he has had the experience.
But I appreciate your heart in terms of wanting to
be able to serve kids that have had that have
sickle sale and be able to fund these scholarships. And
as a result of that, you started this golf tournament.
So tell people we've talked about when it is. It's
(35:25):
September nineteen, but so people are going to be able
to play in this, but they're also going to be
able to sponsor it as.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Well, right right, right, Yeah. We have five sponsorship packages.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
We have the you can sponsor just a whole have
a hole at the golf tournament, or you can do
the Bronze silver goal of Platinum package and We have
it on our website, which is Matthewswings dot com. All
you can do Matthews Wings twenty twenty five, gmail dot com.
So we have many ways that we have the PayPal
(35:58):
on there. You can skin in the pay pad, the
cash app, anything. But we just look forward to having
everybody out. We're gonna have food, drinks, uh, swag bags
for everybody, t shirts, it's gonna be real nice. We're
gonna make it a nice event. It's gonna be a
little higher than the on a golf tournament. So everybody
have a lot to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Well, I know that, I.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Know it'll be wonderful. And back then too, we're gonna
be starting to hopefully get out of the a little
bit of the hot weather at that.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Exactly is that?
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Yeah, September September, September sickle sickle seale awareness much so
that's why one reason I wanted to do it in September,
and uh, another thing is the heat also, so yeah,
we should.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Be getting up. We should be in about the eighties
by then hopefully.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Well that'll make a difference. And yeah, they and the
website again is I'm looking as we talk here.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Yeah, you see it on the on the on the
it should be on the back of the flyers Matthew's
Wings and then uh, I can say the where email
addresses Matthews Wing's twenty twenty five at Gmail. And we
have like four or five different ways to get the
funds to us. And like I said, we're just trying
to look for more sponsors, more golfers.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
We're doing it real cheap this first year.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
We're doing the one man team at seventy five dollars,
four man team at three hundred, So I figured that's
a pretty good price for everything. Normal normally golf tournaments
is a little higher than that, but we want to
start off kind of low and get everybody in there
and give them a chance to play and to see
what we can.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Do for this first year and keep on pushing well.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
And you you're a part of a lot of events,
so you know how to put on events, pull people together,
so I know it's going to be a fabulous event.
You also have your human door Cigar lounge. Tell people
a little bit about.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
That, yeah, humor door Cigarrell Lines. We just celebrated our
three anniversary last week. We made three years on Father's
Day actually, so two weeks ago. We made three years,
so we blessed for that. We're sixteen forty five Jefferson.
For anybody that don't know, well, we are sixteen forty
five Jeffson Drive put off the Texas and me and
my partners, we've been real blessed and we made three years.
(38:09):
Looking to see a whole lot more in the future
and keep on pushing.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, I know that you will. And and again you're
always about in the community getting things done. You told
me we can give a little teaser. We got a
couple of minutes left, about a minute and a half
left on another event you got coming up in August.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
August sixteenth, we're doing Brian Jack and step Rito at
the Port off the Civic Center. Step Rito on Brian
Jack Poured off the Civi Center. It's gonna be real
nice boots and dukes, and it's gonna be seven o'clock
start time. Doors open at six o'clock. So we're looking
to see the whole Golden Triangle come out and support.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Now, are they gonna be able to find out more
information there on social media as well?
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Yeah, we have tickets on the event bright Also we
have hard cop Is at the lounge. So if you
want to get them online's event bright. If you want
to come into the lounge and grab it's twenty dollars
either way, whether you're going line or you come into
the lounge, about twenty dollars either way.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
All right, and.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Tell me we got a couple of other We got
a couple of moments here. Uh so, uh they and
what do they experience at the uh at humidor.
Speaker 7 (39:24):
Oh man, it's a great experience. We have a full ball.
We have over two hundred different cigaares to choose from.
So it's anything you can think of. We have a
lot of small brands. We have a lot of bigger
brand cigars, but we kind of try to cater to
the boutique brands. But we have anything you can think of. Man,
we have uh person, we have sections. If you want
to have a party, uh we have uh man, we
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have we have it always. We have live bands, we
have we have something going on every weekend, so we
try to change it up.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Have different DJs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You always can see a lot this week this Friday,
this fourth of July, so this Thursday, we'll stay up
a little later and try.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
To get people in and have a good weekend fourth
of July.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Well, thank you so much, and we're gonna be talking
again soon, but because I want to make sure people
know what's happening.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Thank you so much, David.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
Hey, Roy, I just want to thank you man for
always always supporting his man since day one. And I
really do appreciate you man, really appreciate you for that.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Well, it's a privilege. Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
All Right, Thank you Roy.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Good afternoon, Southeast Texas. We are wrapping up another Roy
West show here on News Talk five sixty k LV
and also can be heard on Apple podcast, Android podcast,
the iHeart app, and Spotify. Folks always have the best
guests and first segment, I was talking to Chelsea Tipton,
(40:53):
who is the conductor of the Symphony of Southeast Texas,
and we were talking about the upcoming season. If you
hadn't been to the Symphony, you need to go check
it out.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You will be glad you did.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
They have pop music, they have all different types of
music and it's very entertaining. My wife and I have
season tickets and we go off. And then we had
Tayla Henry with Girls Haven talking about their capital fundraiser.
They are building a new residence for the young ladies
(41:27):
that live there and they're going to be expanding the
Earhart Charter School, so a lot's going on there and
be sure to check them out. Then I was talking
to Lee Potter with American Air Systems, but also talking
about what's going on in the community. Lee is always involved.
And then I ended things up with David Marcel with
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Matthew's Wings Empowering Scholars golf tournament that is coming up,
and folks, this is for sickle cell anemia his son,
and Matthew's doing well now, but certainly not all kids
have that benefit. So it's so important to give back
where you live. And David Marcel with the Humidor Cigar Lounge,
(42:14):
is just one of the people that does that on
a regular basis. Folks, you can tune in every Sunday
from noon to one right here on News Talk five
sixty kl I for my show, or check it out
on podcasts and until we talk again, God bless you all.