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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We are back with the Roy Wett Show here on
News Talk five sixty klv I and folks, we always
have the best guest and we love to keep you about,
keep you informed about what's happening here in Beaumont in
Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I have my good friend doctor.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Melinda George online with me right now and she is
with Spindletop Boomtown Square, which has been known as Spindletop Museum,
Gladys City many things, but it's a super cool place
that is a part of Lamar University that everybody doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And y'all have made lots of changes. So welcome to
the show.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, thank you Roy. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, it's always a pleasure to have you on. And
as this airs, we're recording it. I was just out
there this past weekend because y'all had a big event
out on Saturday that included a rodeo across the street
in the field, y'all had a corral set up so
tell people about the new if you will, spindle Top
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Boomtown Square.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So thank you Roy for that. So we we've always
had spindle Top Boomtown Museum or well it was previously
known as Gladys City. It was built in nineteen seventy five.
It opened in nineteen seventy six. So a lot of
people think this is the original location of the Spindle
Top Boomtown, but it's just a replica of the city,
kind of give them a little step back in history.
(01:34):
So that was here first. And then we have the
Caroline Room, which is where people watch the video before
they go on a tour, but it's also a rental space.
Plus the saloon is an exhibit but it's also a
rental space. And now we've added the pavilion, which you
saw this weekend. The pavilion, and we have tiny house
as opens for special events. That's a barbecue hut. So
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because of everything is called Boomtown Square.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, it has really changed.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I went out to Lamar starting in nineteen seventy
nine to nineteen eighty three. I'm a Lamar graduate and
it was relatively new then and we had several events
out there. But over the years there's been times when
it's been underutilized. It is certainly there's been a lot
of rehab in recent years to it, as well as
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the new pavilion. There's been lots of additions, and this
is to reach out to the community as well as
the student life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yes, so a lot of people I have three degrees
from Lamar and myself and number once that I think
you can actually come here, and so a lot of
people think it's something you can drive by but not
actually enter. And a fun fact, Roy the most people
that we have are from out of the country, not Texas,
not US citizens, out of the country, and so we've
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had them from France, Australia, name of country, we probably
had it. And so we're trying to encourage our local
people to come to the museum. So we do have
a Facebook page. We have lots of history. We're training
all of our work studies so everyone will know the history,
be able to give a tour. But there are various
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exhibits that they can go in and out of. We
encourage the kidtos, not the touches. A lot of interesting things,
but it's a lot of history. We have a home
what a home would have looked like back then, the
owner of the general store, and so lots of neat
exhibits that are it's a minimal price for the public.
Lamar and students I'm sorry. Lamar and lt students are
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free of course.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, and now y'all are I think y'all have plans
for some concerts and other things in the future.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So we'll have events going on, especially during the fall
and spring semester. We'll have events, but we'll have it
planned out way ahead of time. I know that our
next event, I believe is October eighteenth, and that's what Baptists.
They're having a barbecue bash that is a fundraiser for
their new facility that they're building. So we'll have that.
So if they just pay attention to the Facebook page,
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we'll have those events.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
On there well.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And I just want to applaud y'all in you for
thinking outside the box. It is certainly something that brings people.
And you know, and I know this is a collaboration
a lot with Lamar. This weekend it was with the
resiliency center out at Lamar that many people are unfamiliar with.
(04:36):
I've had them on the radio show, but I think
more and more people will be aware of them. And
Lamar started a rodeo team this year and I had
one of my grandson's Mutton bus and I don't think
he's going to be a cowboy, but nevertheless, it was
a fun time. There was bull riding and then it
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ended the evening with a concert and that was happening
from about noonday.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, there was a I got here at eight that morning,
so I got to see it from nothing, to see
everything coming up. So it was really neat to see
all of the constituous come out, the nonprofits that were
represented here, to see everyone out enjoying the festivities. The
weather was nice. There was a car show. Yeah, people
(05:26):
said we missed it. So I told them to follow
the Lamar University rodeo team so that they'll have their
couple events so they can actually come to those as well.
But this is just the first year, so there'll be
more of the rodeo well.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And you know that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know doctor Homie Taylor, the president of Lamara, that's
been out there, I guess a little over two years now,
but he's made lots of changes as well as the
whole staff in terms of rethinking how to interact with Beaumont.
They've been a good partner with the city of Beaumont
pass but they've even brought more to it now and
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the and the student population continues to grow out there,
both at.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Lamar and l I T. And the programs, you know,
are stellar programs.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
People can get an incredible education right here locally. But
now with the uh uh spindle top Boomtown Square, there's
gonna be a whole new level of attractions out there,
and uh, you know, it's it's just so incredible that
Lamar has done that, and it's such an incredible space,
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I know, the first time. Well it's been a while now,
but the print shop, I assume it's still out there,
you know, very authentic Blacksmith.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Uh you know, I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This has real presses and and how you know with
all the little letters and everything else, and people can't
even you know, it's hard to even imagine, uh, all
of that.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So I'll give you a little one fact. Probably people
don't realize this, but January tenth, nineteen oh one, Beaumont
swelled from ten thousand to fifty thousand people overnight, and
so land that was one's worth one hundred and fifty
dollars sold for fifty thousand within minutes, and welles that
cost ten thousand a drill went up to one million.
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So everything went up, and it all started started right
here in Beaumont, and you're right. We have several exhibits
and you mentioned the print shop which is owned locally
by the Lamb family. The Lamb family actually keeps the
building up so if you go in it, it smells new,
it looks new, so they're constantly putting things in there.
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One of the other exhibits that's owned by local family
is College Building. They sponsored that building to keep it up.
They now own Stage Automation, which opened in nineteen ninety five,
and the son and the father both graduated from Lamar University.
So we have lots of ties here. They can come
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in and the blacksmith is here on Thursdays and Fridays
from eleven to four. His name is Rob, and so
he's here and he actually makes things while people are here,
so they get to see him make a knife or
whatever mister Rob is working on.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, I didn't even realize that was happening.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And another reason to take your kids, grandkids out there,
but also too look for the ongoing activities that are
happening out there, and certainly the Facebook page is a
great way to do that. And also for those that
are rodeos, and we have quite a few in this area.
You might want to follow the Lamar University a rodeo
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team as well, and that there's going to be continued opportunities.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There as well.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And you mentioned earlier that y'all do it is venues
that are rentable for oftentimes organizations are looking to do
something different, and y'all have some great facilities. And we
mentioned the pavilion earlier, but that is really incredible and
it's brand new, uh you know, so it's behind that
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so it's not as easily seen from the freeway, but
it's a great venue that's also available for rent.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yes, so we'll have that. We'll have things the coaches
corner once football season really cook kicks off in our
home games right now, they're at the patio on campus,
but they'll move here. The baseball teams will do things
out here as well. So we have lots of things
as rentals are free for the students. For student organizations
that have things, it's free for them. But I want
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to encourage everyone to come out, not only use the
rental space, but just come out and see a little
bit of the history. It's people are talking about us
in different countries just because of the all boom and
I want the ship. I want to share that love
locally as well.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And it is something that you know, many people in
Beaumont forget how significant was, but you know, uh, Texico,
many of the sun Ole, many of the national brands
that still exist began here in Southeast Texas because of that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And that was transforming for the industrial world.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And you know, people figured out how to create all
the and use all the petroleum products. And you know,
many people are unaware of how much petroleums and everything
that we touch, but it's very prevalent. Most people just
think about gas or all in their car, but it
goes well beyond that. But uh, you know, so super
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cool to go out there for the museum tour. And
y'all also have earphones? Is that right that you can
rent if you're going to it?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Not yet. We're working on this. A couple of things
that I've added. We're working on curriculum for grade level
based and so we're working on getting that. We have
pre K, third grade, pre K from second grade already done.
And so we also have bingo that we do reverse bingo,
like on a rainy day, if they came in, we
would do Bengal will we tell them the pick space
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and then we give them the facts. So we have
lots of ways. So don't let the rain stop you
from coming. We'll find a way to still give you
that history. And as I said, just follow our Facebook
page or our website for more information.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Well, doctor Belinda George, certainly you know, thank you for
all that you do for Southeast Texas, for Beaumont, and
you certainly your reach reaches well beyond Lamar University, the
Spindle Top Boom town Square. But such a good member
of the community and such a good friend. So I
(11:46):
want to thank you so much for coming on the
show today and I expect people to really enjoy the
new Spindle Top Boom town Square.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Thank you, Roy.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
All right, Sartia said, all right, oh bye, we are
back with the Roy West Show here on News Talk
five sixty k LV, and folks, we always have the
best guests.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And I got back with me Sarah Harden with the
Arc of Greater Boma.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Welcome back to the show, Sarah.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Thanks for having me. I always love getting to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, it's always my pleasure and let's talk a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Most people will put it this way.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
A lot of people in Southeast Texas are familiar with
the Arc of Greater Boma, but there are some that
may not be.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So let's tell people a little bit about the Arc
of Greater Boma.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Okay, So, the Arc of Greater Baumat is a local
nonprofit that supports people with disabilities and their families. We've
got programs for adults and kids, a lot of fun stuff,
a lot of social opportunities, educational opportunities, and our leadership
group we really like to get them out in the
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communeity and kind of show our entire community the value
that they can bring to our area and the skills
they have and really just a lot of the cool
stuff that they're capable of doing. But we do serve Beaumont,
We've got families and Chambers Harden, Orange County. We do
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it all everywhere. So that's just a little bit about
us in a nutshell.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, it is a five oh one C three and
uh you know this is there's a lot of volunteers
involved with the Archiprator MoMA and it is a real
privilege to get to participate in anything that y'all have
going on. It always brings me great joy and uh
(13:46):
so we want to talk about some upcoming events, but
we also want to talk about how people can get
involved and uh and whether you're participating in a fundraiser
or not, y'all always can use resources.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Yeah, so we don't We one of the coolest things
about us, we don't charge for any of the programs.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That we have.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
That's where the community and our industries and stuff come
in and a lot of a lot of just private
direct public support as well. But we do have two
big fundraisers, one of which is our annual Buddy Walk.
This will be our fourteenth year to do this, and
we do it down at the event Center and it's
a it's a fun one mile walk to raise awareness
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for all of those individuals that have Down syndrome in
our community. The teams are formed and they get out
there and have a big party. Pretty much. We do
award that's top fundraising team and the team that has
the most number of walkers. We also will kind of
highlight our most spirited team, which is always fun because
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some of our teams can get wild and crazy out there.
So it's a it's a really fun day. There's a
lot of people, you know, normally we have a to
fifteen hundred people show up and so all those people
be in there. It takes a lot of volunteers as well.
So if anyone is interested in coming out and helping
us put this big suckern, we would love it. We
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need people along the route, which the map will be
on our Buddy Walk site so that you can kind
of see exactly where we go. It's just downtown, one
quick little mile loop around. We passed by Sugar or
not Sugars anymore, hearsay, and it ends back up at
the event center. So that is one thing that we've
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got coming up, and all of that money goes straight
into our programs to happen. I mean to have more
cool opportunities for our people, help them with social skills,
you know, give them that typical, typical social opportunity like
you or I would have that we're able to kind
of do more naturally. But yeah, Betty Walk website, if
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you search the Beaumont Buddy Walk twenty twenty five, you
can find the site to get registered, or you can
call our office up here at four nine eight three
eight nine zero one two if you'd like to volunteer,
and we'll definitely find you a spot out there. Another
exciting thing we have coming up, and we're getting a
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little ahead of ourselves, but in November every year, we
do a Thanksgiving feast for all of our individuals that
come to our programs with intellectual and developmental disabilities here
at our building, and so we will always need servers
for those. You know, a lot of a lot of
our friends live in group homes, don't have a whole
lot of family left around, and so a lot of
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them this is their opportunity to have that traditional Thanksgiving meal,
and so we like to do it at Big Corville's
cooks for us and it's you know, if it's coreville Is,
it's going to be good. So absolutely, But those are
two big things coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, it's an incredible opportunity to volunteer in your community,
and I tell you people are going to be more
blessed than the blessings they're given.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's an incredible The ARC is an incredible place, and
you meet a lot of incredible people and there's always
so much joy. Uh yeah, you know, that's one of
the things that I enjoy probably most. And but also
the fact that family community, you know, people need each
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other and this is a chance for people to come together,
and like you say, some of them have more trouble
making friends, perhaps in a traditional way.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
So you know, when you give transportation, transportation is a
huge issue for our people. And so the fact that
we have these we have these opportunities set up, like
tonight we have a bingo night and we've got I
think around one hundred of our adults come in to
play bingo. It is a set time where they can
get together and be social. They work towards finding that
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transportation to get to our event that night, and so
transportation is a huge one for us. That's a huge difference,
I should say, between like you and I meeting and
having dinner and our people they have to plan those
things out. They just can't hop in their car and
cruise on over there. Some of them can't. We've got
a lot of people that drive as well and work
and really give to the community and so, but the
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bulk of our people that come, our friends here at
the art don't have transportation at you know, their at
their at their ready all the time. So yeah, disposal
there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, uh so they're there and you know, being on
your website, which it's easy to find you know, you
can sit there. Y'all always have a lot going on, y'all,
Having events can all the way.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, the easiest way to kind of stay up, the
most current is our Facebook page. We have events for
pretty much every single every single event that we have.
There's an easy registration in there a lot of the times,
just so we can make sure we have enough food,
we've got enough supplies for whatever fun activity we're going
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to be doing. Our big events, like our dances and
stuff like that, we normally have people call in and
just get on the list, because we'll have one hundred
and twenty five to one hundred and forty people for
a dance, you know, and it's we try to change
them up. We have a lot of different fun activities
and like you said, you can't help but feel all
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the joy in the room. Our people are so appreciative
of everything. Maybe I say we take we tend to
do and do and do and can take things for granted,
that's not the case up here. A lot of the time.
They're so appreciative of all these opportunities that we're able
to do because of our community, because of all the
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support around us, and so it's I have a great job,
you know, like it's they have here one.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, I know you love it and you are a
blessing to the organization, but I know the organization blesses you.
We've got just under a minute. That's again, people need
to sign up. How do they do it again?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
So give us a call if you want to volunteer
Buddy Walk. If you want to get on the site
and get registered, just search the Beaumont Buddy Walk twenty
twenty five and it should pull up our site for you.
Or give us a call in our office at four
nine eight three eight nine zero one two and we'll
get you all set up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well, folks, you need to be involved. This is a
great event. Bring the family out there, bring your kids,
bring your grandkids out there, sign up, donate and invite
your neighbors. Sarah, thank you so much for being on
the show and all to me. You do so much
in the community and it's always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Talk to you later.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
We are back with the Roy We Show here on
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Apple podcasts, our Android podcasts, and I've Got with Me.
Kathy Chesher with the American Cancer Society, who's been a
guest many times. But this is certainly awareness is always important.
But you know, cancer is something that has touched almost
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everybody already. If not, it may well be in the future.
So tell people about the American Cancer Society.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
For those that may not know, the.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
American Cancer Society is a nationwide organization and we are,
oh goodness, we are over one hundred years old. We
were formed in nineteen thirteen. Believe it or not. It
was first formed some doctors got together and decided we've
got to collaboratively, come together in the fight to end
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cancer as this dreaded disease and change, you know, dedicate dollars,
dedicate research and start this movement. But that's how old
we are. Long we've been around, and so many progressive
things have happened since those days, in those early days,
but we continue the fight. We provide. We dedicate a
(22:50):
lot of our dollars to funding research and The reason
for that roy is because we prioritize research. Because I
just spoke to someone the other day, they're coming out
with this treatment or that treatment, those new cutting edge
treatments that we're all going to benefit from. That is
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a result of research that closer we get to curing
different types of cancers, which is hundreds of diseases by
the way, It's going to happen because we make research
a priority. I know it's not a sexy cell, but
it's got to happen or otherwise we will not make
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the progress that we're seeing in a lot of these
different types of cancer. But it is exciting to hear
if you dive in on some forms of cancer, are
really closing the gap on finding like making it more
of a chronic illness versus a life threatening illness. So
it is exciting the progress that we are making against
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a lot of different types of cancer. In addition to that,
we fund all kinds of services that minimize the suffering
that takes place after a cancer diagnosis in the financial
burden associated with a lot of the diagnosis. You know,
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transportation getting to treatment sometimes is a big struggle and
a big barrier for a lot of people, both financially
and just emotionally and physically. Sometimes people just are so
sick they can't drive themselves, or they don't want a
person to take them, or they can't afford the gas.
There's a lot, right, We try to we try to
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take those barriers away with our transportation and lodging grants
that we fund. We give them a place to stay
with local hotels, or if a person is good for treatment,
we can work with them, or they're we have the
nation's largest Hope Lodge and so that work directly with
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their their case manager who's overseeing their treatment, and they
can get into Hope Lodge free of charge during those
treatment appointments, which really minimizes the hotel stays and the
back and forth up and down I ten, and the
parking garages and the gas you know, the gas costs
and wear and tear on your car, which really really
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adds up. Just Hope Lodge is a huge blessing. Really.
We have so many patients go to the Houston Hope
Lodge as well as the New Orleans Hope Lodge. You
would be surprised how many go over there, because we're
kind of stuck in between, right, those two, you know
those two areas. We do have a Hope Lodge in
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New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Markets.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It is incredible all the different services y'all offer in
because of the size and scope of cancer, you know,
there's is more and more that is needed, but y'all
are beating those needs. And it's it's through individual and
company support that y'all are able to do this. And
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uh yeah, and y'all y'all have fundraisers that help with that.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
We do, we do we like like in October, we
have Men Wear Pink, which Roy, you're familiar with this
and so is your laws back.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Pink is a is a great campaign that uh really
focuses in on the issue of breast cancer and it
gives men a platform to show their support for the issue.
Not only do your you know, your sisters, your wives,
your daughters, an uh those those ladies in your life
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that are sometimes diagnosed with breast cancer. But sometimes men
get breast cancer. It's a low percentage, like one percent
of all cases. But yeah, that's it's it's a for
us to address and raise funds for that issue. So
Men We're Pink is starting officially October first, although our
ambassadors are already out there fundraising, and then the big
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one that we have coming up that we're so excited
about is Cattle Barons Ball. It's the Southeast Texas Chevy
Dealers Cattle Bearans Ball, with Chevy the Chevy Lma being
our title sponsor for the second year. We changed the
name last year because their gifts increased and we thought, well,
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we're just going to change the name of the ball
to reflect their generous support. And we've been doing that
and we're so excited to again be working with them,
as well as so many other generous sponsors in our community.
We are excited because this year we have the first
female headliners, headline entertainers since the very first Cattle Bearans
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Ball thirty five years ago. Wow, it's Pam Tillis and
Laurie Morgan are coming and they're gonna be our headline
entertainers and we're thrilled and uh they're just gonna have
a good old time in Beaumont. We're gonna be all
besties with with these ladies and over time, and uh
Van Doos is catering the ball again this year, so
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it'll be a delicious menu for our guests and our
honorees is the Baptist Regional Cancer Network. This is a
group of dedicated people who we have been longtime supporters
of and partners with, and their entire group will be
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there celebrating and you know, raising the bar for the
fight against cancer.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well, and y'all do an incredible job.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And you know we're talking a lot of incredible events.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
What is y'all's website?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Well, the the cancer dot org is the nationwide website.
But if you want specifics on Cattle barans Ball you
can go to s E t X Cattle barons Ball
dot com. Barons has one r.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Okay, yeah, well, and and also I know there's all
there's a lot on social media. Y'all have a presence
on social media as well that can drive people there.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
If you're looking on Facebook, we have a Facebook page
the Southeast Texas Cattle Bearans Ball. You can find us
there and get all kinds of great event updates. We've
been our social media presence has really uh been strong
the last few years, and so you can find out
all kinds of information and updates at the on the
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on the Facebook page. Two things I wanted to Adroly.
I know we have just a brief time left. Yeah,
I wanted to think our our hard working committee, because
without them, there's no way we could put an event
of this scale together. We start in February and right
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have led us to success the entire year, and I
just want to give them a shout out, everybody on
the committee a shout out and make them for their
hard work and dedication. It takes a lot of work
to put this event together.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, and you can tell because if you go, it's
an incredible experience. And if you are not able to
participate in any of these events, you can still make
donations locally correct, oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
You can, like if you wanted to reserve atable or
buy individual tickets, you could sponsor a pig. We have
pig races coming to the fall. You can buy even
a concert balcony ticket, which is you know, you don't
get to come downstairs. It's for the concert only, but
we're selling balcony tickets this year. There'll be drink tickets
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available for those ticket holders. Those are only fifty dollars
and we'll give each guest three complimentary drink tickets. We
were going to sell have a cash bar up there,
but we changed it. We're going to give them tickets
for their three drinks and you know the folks downstairs
will enjoy. You've got individual tickets that are available, a
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reserve table starting at twenty five hundred, a pig sponsor
at a thousand, and just on a there's different opportunities
available on the website.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, we are out of time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I want to thank Cafe American Cancer Society Southeast Texas
the work that you do, the commitment that you have,
and and the funds that you raise that you know
that stay here and help people right here locally.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So we are out of time, but thank you again, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Roy.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Absolutely, 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 man, do I
have a great guest today. Carol Fernandez with Catholic Charities
is on the show. She's been on many times before,
(32:32):
but uh, it's always a pleasure. And you've got such
a great attitude and you do such important work and
Catholic Charities does so much for Southeast Texas and many
people don't even realize all that they do. And uh,
and that it's also uh, you know, it's a it's
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for everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, getting that word out, letting people know that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
These services, you don't have to be Catholic to receive
these services.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That is correct, you know, And I tell you that
I wouldn't change the name of our agency, you know,
but it definitely is misleading sometimes for people because they
see Catholic charities and they think, well, oh, that's just
for Catholics, and no, so it's it is Catholic with
the capital letter C in terms of that is our faith.
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But it's Catholic with the little letter C, and that
means universal. And so we our services are available to
anyone in need within the nine counties of our service area. Right,
So we're not you know, nationally, you're serving across Texas,
but within the nine counties that have the same.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Footprint as the Diocese of Beaumont.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
And so anyone who needs our services within those nine counties,
it doesn't matter what religious affiliation they have, we will
serve them. And the same thing goes for volunteers, for donors,
and for our employees. Even there are two positions here
that say we have to be a Catholic, and that's
mine and the vice president of Programs, and so it's
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not a requirement even to be an employee of our
agency to be Catholic. So definitely, thank you, thank you
for saying that we always welcome everyone to have a
share in the work of Catholic Charities. I'm so grateful
for the opportunity to be here today because I want
to tell you. I know you know, but you're listening
(34:30):
audience may not have heard. On August first, we opened
a thrift stores. The thrift Barn is the name of it.
It's in Winnie, Texas. This is our first.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Run, our first entry in the.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
World of social enterprise, and so you know, social enterprise
is a way for nonprofits to create revenue to support
its mission in the programs that we're serving. So all
of the re from the thrift store, anything that we sell,
all the money that's raised there support the programs of
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Catholic Charities, and so it's really important. It's it's just
another piece in the pie to be able to finance
the work of our agency, right and so we have
our fundraisers, we have grants, we have regular donations, but
hopefully the thrift store will bring us great revenue to
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just really give a better firm support for our agency.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
So Thrift Barn.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
It's open Tuesdays through Saturday. It's on Highway one twenty
four in Winning nine oh nine Highway one twenty four.
It's about a mile from I ten when you're headed
to the beach. So all those folks who you know
love going down to the beach on the weekends or
during the week even I please encourage everybody to stop
(35:55):
buy and check out the store. Shop. Yes, shop shop
of course, but we also accept donations, and so donations
are accepted on Tuesdays and Thursdays only right now between
eleven and three and I'm sorry I skipped the store
hours or ten am to four pm right now Tuesday
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through Saturday. So we are very very excited. Like so
we've just opened August first, and it's a wonderful place.
You can also we have a YouTube channel for Catholic
Charities and so you can look up the Threat Farm
or Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas on YouTube. And we
have a wonderful video that shows the store. There's one
(36:39):
of our dedication and grand opening and then one of
just kind of a virtual tour of the store, So
please please ask everyone to look at it, but it's
nothing like seeing it in person, so please go and
check it out.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Well, you know, I want We've only got a little
over three minutes left, and I want people to know
about all the other services that you offer as well.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
So of course we have well, so we have six programs,
six programs, one of them being Elijah's Place. Elijah's Place
is a grief support program for children who have had
the unfortunate experience of a parent or sibling to use died.
But we also do grief or grief in education in churches,
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schools or other organizations for adults who work with children
so they can better help those children when they are faced.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
With that situation. We have the Hospitality Center.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
That's our soup kitchen that's in Port Arthur, opened every
day of the year to serve a hot meal. We
have Market to Hope, with Hope being an acronym for
help other people eat. Market to Hope is here in Beaumont,
but also at our office in Winnie and so we
give food. We have a client Choice food pantry and
we also offer curbsite service just like a regular grocery store,
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so that's our free pantry. We also offer immigration, legal assistance,
mental health counseling and program Home Matters and Home Matters
does rental housing counseling, also financial coaching and assistance. That
we have free income tax preparation during the tax season
through Home Matters as well. So all of those programs
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are available to the community. We are privileged and honored
to be able to have a share in the work
and serving those who need our help. I'd like to
just give a plug too, please, Mayor that November sixth,
coming up right around the corner is Harvest of Hope
and so like I mentioned, the thrift barn is kind
of to help supplement give us some additional revenue. Well,
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Harvest of Hope is another piece of the pie. And
that event again November sixth, it's going to be at
Holiday Inn five thirty Cocktails six thirty is the program
and dinner. Please check it out on our website c
c SDTX dot org. That's for Catholic Chair Southeast Texas
dot org.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And that your website couldn't be any easier. Y'all.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Also put information out on social media, y'all do a
great job, and y'all are providing much needed services. You're
always in need of volunteers and that financial support. And
if they go to the website, they can also find
out information on how they can do that, right, have.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
A volunteer or even if you need help, you can
find out how to get that on the website as well.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Again, Carol Fernandez, y'all are making a difference in such
an important difference in nine counties in southeast Texas, which
is really incredible. And folks support Catholic charities. They're taking
care of your friends and neighbors, and also volunteer if
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you have time, because it becomes you know, it's very
important to give back. So Carol, I just want to
thank you again for coming on the show and bringing
this great information.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
Thank you so much, Mayor thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Absolutely talk to you say rest of your day.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
All right now, bye bye bye. We are back wrapping
up another Roy West show here on News Talk five
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West team of Guilt Mortgage and go to Roywesteam dot
com for more information. So, folks, this week we had
great guests Belinda George, doctor Belinda George out at Lamar
University at the Spin on top of Boomtown Square, which
also is known as Gladys City. All the changes that
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have made out there and now it is not only
still a museum, but it's a venue and they've built
a pavilion and provided lots of other services. Be sure
to check them out, and they're offering lots of different
events there as well. Then I talked to Sarah Hardin
with the Arc of Greater Beaumont that is right around
(41:44):
the corner of the Buddy Walk. Will be sure to
sign up for that. Kathy Chessler with the American Cancer
Society here in Southeast Texas. It's talking to her about
the upcoming Cattleburians Ball, and what the American Cancer Is
Society does.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Wrapped up with.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Carol Fernandez with Catholic charities that they serve nine counties, providing.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Lots of services. Folks.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Thank you so much for tuning in today and until
we talk again, God bless you all.
We are back with the Roy Wett Show here on
News Talk five sixty klv I and folks, we always
have the best guest and we love to keep you about,
keep you informed about what's happening here in Beaumont in
Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I have my good friend doctor.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Melinda George online with me right now and she is
with Spindletop Boomtown Square, which has been known as Spindletop Museum,
Gladys City many things, but it's a super cool place
that is a part of Lamar University that everybody doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And y'all have made lots of changes. So welcome to
the show.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, thank you Roy. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, it's always a pleasure to have you on. And
as this airs, we're recording it. I was just out
there this past weekend because y'all had a big event
out on Saturday that included a rodeo across the street
in the field, y'all had a corral set up so
tell people about the new if you will, spindle Top
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Boomtown Square.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So thank you Roy for that. So we we've always
had spindle Top Boomtown Museum or well it was previously
known as Gladys City. It was built in nineteen seventy five.
It opened in nineteen seventy six. So a lot of
people think this is the original location of the Spindle
Top Boomtown, but it's just a replica of the city,
kind of give them a little step back in history.
(01:34):
So that was here first. And then we have the
Caroline Room, which is where people watch the video before
they go on a tour, but it's also a rental space.
Plus the saloon is an exhibit but it's also a
rental space. And now we've added the pavilion, which you
saw this weekend. The pavilion, and we have tiny house
as opens for special events. That's a barbecue hut. So
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because of everything is called Boomtown Square.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, it has really changed.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I went out to Lamar starting in nineteen seventy
nine to nineteen eighty three. I'm a Lamar graduate and
it was relatively new then and we had several events
out there. But over the years there's been times when
it's been underutilized. It is certainly there's been a lot
of rehab in recent years to it, as well as
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the new pavilion. There's been lots of additions, and this
is to reach out to the community as well as
the student life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yes, so a lot of people I have three degrees
from Lamar and myself and number once that I think
you can actually come here, and so a lot of
people think it's something you can drive by but not
actually enter. And a fun fact, Roy the most people
that we have are from out of the country, not Texas,
not US citizens, out of the country, and so we've
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had them from France, Australia, name of country, we probably
had it. And so we're trying to encourage our local
people to come to the museum. So we do have
a Facebook page. We have lots of history. We're training
all of our work studies so everyone will know the history,
be able to give a tour. But there are various
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exhibits that they can go in and out of. We
encourage the kidtos, not the touches. A lot of interesting things,
but it's a lot of history. We have a home
what a home would have looked like back then, the
owner of the general store, and so lots of neat
exhibits that are it's a minimal price for the public.
Lamar and students I'm sorry. Lamar and lt students are
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free of course.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, and now y'all are I think y'all have plans
for some concerts and other things in the future.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So we'll have events going on, especially during the fall
and spring semester. We'll have events, but we'll have it
planned out way ahead of time. I know that our
next event, I believe is October eighteenth, and that's what Baptists.
They're having a barbecue bash that is a fundraiser for
their new facility that they're building. So we'll have that.
So if they just pay attention to the Facebook page,
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we'll have those events.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
On there well.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And I just want to applaud y'all in you for
thinking outside the box. It is certainly something that brings people.
And you know, and I know this is a collaboration
a lot with Lamar. This weekend it was with the
resiliency center out at Lamar that many people are unfamiliar with.
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I've had them on the radio show, but I think
more and more people will be aware of them. And
Lamar started a rodeo team this year and I had
one of my grandson's Mutton bus and I don't think
he's going to be a cowboy, but nevertheless, it was
a fun time. There was bull riding and then it
(05:00):
ended the evening with a concert and that was happening
from about noonday.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, there was a I got here at eight that morning,
so I got to see it from nothing, to see
everything coming up. So it was really neat to see
all of the constituous come out, the nonprofits that were
represented here, to see everyone out enjoying the festivities. The
weather was nice. There was a car show. Yeah, people
(05:26):
said we missed it. So I told them to follow
the Lamar University rodeo team so that they'll have their
couple events so they can actually come to those as well.
But this is just the first year, so there'll be
more of the rodeo well.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And you know that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know doctor Homie Taylor, the president of Lamara, that's
been out there, I guess a little over two years now,
but he's made lots of changes as well as the
whole staff in terms of rethinking how to interact with Beaumont.
They've been a good partner with the city of Beaumont
pass but they've even brought more to it now and
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the and the student population continues to grow out there,
both at.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Lamar and l I T. And the programs, you know,
are stellar programs.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
People can get an incredible education right here locally. But
now with the uh uh spindle top Boomtown Square, there's
gonna be a whole new level of attractions out there,
and uh, you know, it's it's just so incredible that
Lamar has done that, and it's such an incredible space,
(06:36):
I know, the first time. Well it's been a while now,
but the print shop, I assume it's still out there,
you know, very authentic Blacksmith.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Uh you know, I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
This has real presses and and how you know with
all the little letters and everything else, and people can't
even you know, it's hard to even imagine, uh, all
of that.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So I'll give you a little one fact. Probably people
don't realize this, but January tenth, nineteen oh one, Beaumont
swelled from ten thousand to fifty thousand people overnight, and
so land that was one's worth one hundred and fifty
dollars sold for fifty thousand within minutes, and welles that
cost ten thousand a drill went up to one million.
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So everything went up, and it all started started right
here in Beaumont, and you're right. We have several exhibits
and you mentioned the print shop which is owned locally
by the Lamb family. The Lamb family actually keeps the
building up so if you go in it, it smells new,
it looks new, so they're constantly putting things in there.
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One of the other exhibits that's owned by local family
is College Building. They sponsored that building to keep it up.
They now own Stage Automation, which opened in nineteen ninety five,
and the son and the father both graduated from Lamar University.
So we have lots of ties here. They can come
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in and the blacksmith is here on Thursdays and Fridays
from eleven to four. His name is Rob, and so
he's here and he actually makes things while people are here,
so they get to see him make a knife or
whatever mister Rob is working on.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, I didn't even realize that was happening.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And another reason to take your kids, grandkids out there,
but also too look for the ongoing activities that are
happening out there, and certainly the Facebook page is a
great way to do that. And also for those that
are rodeos, and we have quite a few in this area.
You might want to follow the Lamar University a rodeo
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team as well, and that there's going to be continued opportunities.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There as well.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And you mentioned earlier that y'all do it is venues
that are rentable for oftentimes organizations are looking to do
something different, and y'all have some great facilities. And we
mentioned the pavilion earlier, but that is really incredible and
it's brand new, uh you know, so it's behind that
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so it's not as easily seen from the freeway, but
it's a great venue that's also available for rent.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yes, so we'll have that. We'll have things the coaches
corner once football season really cook kicks off in our
home games right now, they're at the patio on campus,
but they'll move here. The baseball teams will do things
out here as well. So we have lots of things
as rentals are free for the students. For student organizations
that have things, it's free for them. But I want
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to encourage everyone to come out, not only use the
rental space, but just come out and see a little
bit of the history. It's people are talking about us
in different countries just because of the all boom and
I want the ship. I want to share that love
locally as well.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And it is something that you know, many people in
Beaumont forget how significant was, but you know, uh, Texico,
many of the sun Ole, many of the national brands
that still exist began here in Southeast Texas because of that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And that was transforming for the industrial world.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And you know, people figured out how to create all
the and use all the petroleum products. And you know,
many people are unaware of how much petroleums and everything
that we touch, but it's very prevalent. Most people just
think about gas or all in their car, but it
goes well beyond that. But uh, you know, so super
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cool to go out there for the museum tour. And
y'all also have earphones? Is that right that you can
rent if you're going to it?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Not yet. We're working on this. A couple of things
that I've added. We're working on curriculum for grade level
based and so we're working on getting that. We have
pre K, third grade, pre K from second grade already done.
And so we also have bingo that we do reverse bingo,
like on a rainy day, if they came in, we
would do Bengal will we tell them the pick space
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and then we give them the facts. So we have
lots of ways. So don't let the rain stop you
from coming. We'll find a way to still give you
that history. And as I said, just follow our Facebook
page or our website for more information.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Well, doctor Belinda George, certainly you know, thank you for
all that you do for Southeast Texas, for Beaumont, and
you certainly your reach reaches well beyond Lamar University, the
Spindle Top Boom town Square. But such a good member
of the community and such a good friend. So I
(11:46):
want to thank you so much for coming on the
show today and I expect people to really enjoy the
new Spindle Top Boom town Square.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Thank you, Roy.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
All right, Sartia said, all right, oh bye, we are
back with the Roy West Show here on News Talk
five sixty k LV, and folks, we always have the
best guests.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And I got back with me Sarah Harden with the
Arc of Greater Boma.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Welcome back to the show, Sarah.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Thanks for having me. I always love getting to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, it's always my pleasure and let's talk a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Most people will put it this way.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
A lot of people in Southeast Texas are familiar with
the Arc of Greater Boma, but there are some that
may not be.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So let's tell people a little bit about the Arc
of Greater Boma.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Okay, So, the Arc of Greater Baumat is a local
nonprofit that supports people with disabilities and their families. We've
got programs for adults and kids, a lot of fun stuff,
a lot of social opportunities, educational opportunities, and our leadership
group we really like to get them out in the
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communeity and kind of show our entire community the value
that they can bring to our area and the skills
they have and really just a lot of the cool
stuff that they're capable of doing. But we do serve Beaumont,
We've got families and Chambers Harden, Orange County. We do
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it all everywhere. So that's just a little bit about
us in a nutshell.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, it is a five oh one C three and
uh you know this is there's a lot of volunteers
involved with the Archiprator MoMA and it is a real
privilege to get to participate in anything that y'all have
going on. It always brings me great joy and uh
(13:46):
so we want to talk about some upcoming events, but
we also want to talk about how people can get
involved and uh and whether you're participating in a fundraiser
or not, y'all always can use resources.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Yeah, so we don't We one of the coolest things
about us, we don't charge for any of the programs.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That we have.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
That's where the community and our industries and stuff come
in and a lot of a lot of just private
direct public support as well. But we do have two
big fundraisers, one of which is our annual Buddy Walk.
This will be our fourteenth year to do this, and
we do it down at the event Center and it's
a it's a fun one mile walk to raise awareness
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for all of those individuals that have Down syndrome in
our community. The teams are formed and they get out
there and have a big party. Pretty much. We do
award that's top fundraising team and the team that has
the most number of walkers. We also will kind of
highlight our most spirited team, which is always fun because
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some of our teams can get wild and crazy out there.
So it's a it's a really fun day. There's a
lot of people, you know, normally we have a to
fifteen hundred people show up and so all those people
be in there. It takes a lot of volunteers as well.
So if anyone is interested in coming out and helping
us put this big suckern, we would love it. We
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need people along the route, which the map will be
on our Buddy Walk site so that you can kind
of see exactly where we go. It's just downtown, one
quick little mile loop around. We passed by Sugar or
not Sugars anymore, hearsay, and it ends back up at
the event center. So that is one thing that we've
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got coming up, and all of that money goes straight
into our programs to happen. I mean to have more
cool opportunities for our people, help them with social skills,
you know, give them that typical, typical social opportunity like
you or I would have that we're able to kind
of do more naturally. But yeah, Betty Walk website, if
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you search the Beaumont Buddy Walk twenty twenty five, you
can find the site to get registered, or you can
call our office up here at four nine eight three
eight nine zero one two if you'd like to volunteer,
and we'll definitely find you a spot out there. Another
exciting thing we have coming up, and we're getting a
(16:20):
little ahead of ourselves, but in November every year, we
do a Thanksgiving feast for all of our individuals that
come to our programs with intellectual and developmental disabilities here
at our building, and so we will always need servers
for those. You know, a lot of a lot of
our friends live in group homes, don't have a whole
lot of family left around, and so a lot of
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them this is their opportunity to have that traditional Thanksgiving meal,
and so we like to do it at Big Corville's
cooks for us and it's you know, if it's coreville Is,
it's going to be good. So absolutely, But those are
two big things coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, it's an incredible opportunity to volunteer in your community,
and I tell you people are going to be more
blessed than the blessings they're given.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's an incredible The ARC is an incredible place, and
you meet a lot of incredible people and there's always
so much joy. Uh yeah, you know, that's one of
the things that I enjoy probably most. And but also
the fact that family community, you know, people need each
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other and this is a chance for people to come together,
and like you say, some of them have more trouble
making friends, perhaps in a traditional way.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
So you know, when you give transportation, transportation is a
huge issue for our people. And so the fact that
we have these we have these opportunities set up, like
tonight we have a bingo night and we've got I
think around one hundred of our adults come in to
play bingo. It is a set time where they can
get together and be social. They work towards finding that
(18:09):
transportation to get to our event that night, and so
transportation is a huge one for us. That's a huge difference,
I should say, between like you and I meeting and
having dinner and our people they have to plan those
things out. They just can't hop in their car and
cruise on over there. Some of them can't. We've got
a lot of people that drive as well and work
and really give to the community and so, but the
(18:33):
bulk of our people that come, our friends here at
the art don't have transportation at you know, their at
their at their ready all the time. So yeah, disposal
there you go.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, uh so they're there and you know, being on
your website, which it's easy to find you know, you
can sit there. Y'all always have a lot going on, y'all,
Having events can all the way.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, the easiest way to kind of stay up, the
most current is our Facebook page. We have events for
pretty much every single every single event that we have.
There's an easy registration in there a lot of the times,
just so we can make sure we have enough food,
we've got enough supplies for whatever fun activity we're going
(19:22):
to be doing. Our big events, like our dances and
stuff like that, we normally have people call in and
just get on the list, because we'll have one hundred
and twenty five to one hundred and forty people for
a dance, you know, and it's we try to change
them up. We have a lot of different fun activities
and like you said, you can't help but feel all
(19:44):
the joy in the room. Our people are so appreciative
of everything. Maybe I say we take we tend to
do and do and do and can take things for granted,
that's not the case up here. A lot of the time.
They're so appreciative of all these opportunities that we're able
to do because of our community, because of all the
(20:04):
support around us, and so it's I have a great job,
you know, like it's they have here one.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, I know you love it and you are a
blessing to the organization, but I know the organization blesses you.
We've got just under a minute. That's again, people need
to sign up. How do they do it again?
Speaker 6 (20:26):
So give us a call if you want to volunteer
Buddy Walk. If you want to get on the site
and get registered, just search the Beaumont Buddy Walk twenty
twenty five and it should pull up our site for you.
Or give us a call in our office at four
nine eight three eight nine zero one two and we'll
get you all set up.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well, folks, you need to be involved. This is a
great event. Bring the family out there, bring your kids,
bring your grandkids out there, sign up, donate and invite
your neighbors. Sarah, thank you so much for being on
the show and all to me. You do so much
in the community and it's always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Talk to you later.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
We are back with the Roy We Show here on
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(21:31):
Apple podcasts, our Android podcasts, and I've Got with Me.
Kathy Chesher with the American Cancer Society, who's been a
guest many times. But this is certainly awareness is always important.
But you know, cancer is something that has touched almost
(21:54):
everybody already. If not, it may well be in the future.
So tell people about the American Cancer Society.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
For those that may not know, the.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
American Cancer Society is a nationwide organization and we are,
oh goodness, we are over one hundred years old. We
were formed in nineteen thirteen. Believe it or not. It
was first formed some doctors got together and decided we've
got to collaboratively, come together in the fight to end
(22:26):
cancer as this dreaded disease and change, you know, dedicate dollars,
dedicate research and start this movement. But that's how old
we are. Long we've been around, and so many progressive
things have happened since those days, in those early days,
but we continue the fight. We provide. We dedicate a
(22:50):
lot of our dollars to funding research and The reason
for that roy is because we prioritize research. Because I
just spoke to someone the other day, they're coming out
with this treatment or that treatment, those new cutting edge
treatments that we're all going to benefit from. That is
(23:13):
a result of research that closer we get to curing
different types of cancers, which is hundreds of diseases by
the way, It's going to happen because we make research
a priority. I know it's not a sexy cell, but
it's got to happen or otherwise we will not make
(23:34):
the progress that we're seeing in a lot of these
different types of cancer. But it is exciting to hear
if you dive in on some forms of cancer, are
really closing the gap on finding like making it more
of a chronic illness versus a life threatening illness. So
it is exciting the progress that we are making against
(23:56):
a lot of different types of cancer. In addition to that,
we fund all kinds of services that minimize the suffering
that takes place after a cancer diagnosis in the financial
burden associated with a lot of the diagnosis. You know,
(24:16):
transportation getting to treatment sometimes is a big struggle and
a big barrier for a lot of people, both financially
and just emotionally and physically. Sometimes people just are so
sick they can't drive themselves, or they don't want a
person to take them, or they can't afford the gas.
There's a lot, right, We try to we try to
(24:36):
take those barriers away with our transportation and lodging grants
that we fund. We give them a place to stay
with local hotels, or if a person is good for treatment,
we can work with them, or they're we have the
nation's largest Hope Lodge and so that work directly with
(25:00):
their their case manager who's overseeing their treatment, and they
can get into Hope Lodge free of charge during those
treatment appointments, which really minimizes the hotel stays and the
back and forth up and down I ten, and the
parking garages and the gas you know, the gas costs
and wear and tear on your car, which really really
(25:23):
adds up. Just Hope Lodge is a huge blessing. Really.
We have so many patients go to the Houston Hope
Lodge as well as the New Orleans Hope Lodge. You
would be surprised how many go over there, because we're
kind of stuck in between, right, those two, you know
those two areas. We do have a Hope Lodge in
(25:44):
New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Markets.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It is incredible all the different services y'all offer in
because of the size and scope of cancer, you know,
there's is more and more that is needed, but y'all
are beating those needs. And it's it's through individual and
company support that y'all are able to do this. And
(26:11):
uh yeah, and y'all y'all have fundraisers that help with that.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
We do, we do we like like in October, we
have Men Wear Pink, which Roy, you're familiar with this
and so is your laws back.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Pink is a is a great campaign that uh really
focuses in on the issue of breast cancer and it
gives men a platform to show their support for the issue.
Not only do your you know, your sisters, your wives,
your daughters, an uh those those ladies in your life
(26:48):
that are sometimes diagnosed with breast cancer. But sometimes men
get breast cancer. It's a low percentage, like one percent
of all cases. But yeah, that's it's it's a for
us to address and raise funds for that issue. So
Men We're Pink is starting officially October first, although our
ambassadors are already out there fundraising, and then the big
(27:12):
one that we have coming up that we're so excited
about is Cattle Barons Ball. It's the Southeast Texas Chevy
Dealers Cattle Bearans Ball, with Chevy the Chevy Lma being
our title sponsor for the second year. We changed the
name last year because their gifts increased and we thought, well,
(27:33):
we're just going to change the name of the ball
to reflect their generous support. And we've been doing that
and we're so excited to again be working with them,
as well as so many other generous sponsors in our community.
We are excited because this year we have the first
female headliners, headline entertainers since the very first Cattle Bearans
(27:59):
Ball thirty five years ago. Wow, it's Pam Tillis and
Laurie Morgan are coming and they're gonna be our headline
entertainers and we're thrilled and uh they're just gonna have
a good old time in Beaumont. We're gonna be all
besties with with these ladies and over time, and uh
Van Doos is catering the ball again this year, so
(28:22):
it'll be a delicious menu for our guests and our
honorees is the Baptist Regional Cancer Network. This is a
group of dedicated people who we have been longtime supporters
of and partners with, and their entire group will be
(28:42):
there celebrating and you know, raising the bar for the
fight against cancer.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Well, and y'all do an incredible job.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And you know we're talking a lot of incredible events.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
What is y'all's website?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Well, the the cancer dot org is the nationwide website.
But if you want specifics on Cattle barans Ball you
can go to s E t X Cattle barons Ball
dot com. Barons has one r.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Okay, yeah, well, and and also I know there's all
there's a lot on social media. Y'all have a presence
on social media as well that can drive people there.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
If you're looking on Facebook, we have a Facebook page
the Southeast Texas Cattle Bearans Ball. You can find us
there and get all kinds of great event updates. We've
been our social media presence has really uh been strong
the last few years, and so you can find out
all kinds of information and updates at the on the
(29:57):
on the Facebook page. Two things I wanted to Adroly.
I know we have just a brief time left. Yeah,
I wanted to think our our hard working committee, because
without them, there's no way we could put an event
of this scale together. We start in February and right
(30:20):
have led us to success the entire year, and I
just want to give them a shout out, everybody on
the committee a shout out and make them for their
hard work and dedication. It takes a lot of work
to put this event together.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, and you can tell because if you go, it's
an incredible experience. And if you are not able to
participate in any of these events, you can still make
donations locally correct, oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
You can, like if you wanted to reserve atable or
buy individual tickets, you could sponsor a pig. We have
pig races coming to the fall. You can buy even
a concert balcony ticket, which is you know, you don't
get to come downstairs. It's for the concert only, but
we're selling balcony tickets this year. There'll be drink tickets
(31:14):
available for those ticket holders. Those are only fifty dollars
and we'll give each guest three complimentary drink tickets. We
were going to sell have a cash bar up there,
but we changed it. We're going to give them tickets
for their three drinks and you know the folks downstairs
will enjoy. You've got individual tickets that are available, a
(31:37):
reserve table starting at twenty five hundred, a pig sponsor
at a thousand, and just on a there's different opportunities
available on the website.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, we are out of time.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I want to thank Cafe American Cancer Society Southeast Texas
the work that you do, the commitment that you have,
and and the funds that you raise that you know
that stay here and help people right here locally.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So we are out of time, but thank you again, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Roy.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Absolutely, 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 man, do I
have a great guest today. Carol Fernandez with Catholic Charities
is on the show. She's been on many times before,
(32:32):
but uh, it's always a pleasure. And you've got such
a great attitude and you do such important work and
Catholic Charities does so much for Southeast Texas and many
people don't even realize all that they do. And uh,
and that it's also uh, you know, it's a it's
(32:55):
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, getting that word out, letting people know that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
These services, you don't have to be Catholic to receive
these services.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
That is correct, you know, And I tell you that
I wouldn't change the name of our agency, you know,
but it definitely is misleading sometimes for people because they
see Catholic charities and they think, well, oh, that's just
for Catholics, and no, so it's it is Catholic with
the capital letter C in terms of that is our faith.
(33:24):
But it's Catholic with the little letter C, and that
means universal. And so we our services are available to
anyone in need within the nine counties of our service area. Right,
So we're not you know, nationally, you're serving across Texas,
but within the nine counties that have the same.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Footprint as the Diocese of Beaumont.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
And so anyone who needs our services within those nine counties,
it doesn't matter what religious affiliation they have, we will
serve them. And the same thing goes for volunteers, for donors,
and for our employees. Even there are two positions here
that say we have to be a Catholic, and that's
mine and the vice president of Programs, and so it's
(34:10):
not a requirement even to be an employee of our
agency to be Catholic. So definitely, thank you, thank you
for saying that we always welcome everyone to have a
share in the work of Catholic Charities. I'm so grateful
for the opportunity to be here today because I want
to tell you. I know you know, but you're listening
(34:30):
audience may not have heard. On August first, we opened
a thrift stores. The thrift Barn is the name of it.
It's in Winnie, Texas. This is our first.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Run, our first entry in the.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
World of social enterprise, and so you know, social enterprise
is a way for nonprofits to create revenue to support
its mission in the programs that we're serving. So all
of the re from the thrift store, anything that we sell,
all the money that's raised there support the programs of
(35:06):
Catholic Charities, and so it's really important. It's it's just
another piece in the pie to be able to finance
the work of our agency, right and so we have
our fundraisers, we have grants, we have regular donations, but
hopefully the thrift store will bring us great revenue to
(35:26):
just really give a better firm support for our agency.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
So Thrift Barn.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
It's open Tuesdays through Saturday. It's on Highway one twenty
four in Winning nine oh nine Highway one twenty four.
It's about a mile from I ten when you're headed
to the beach. So all those folks who you know
love going down to the beach on the weekends or
during the week even I please encourage everybody to stop
(35:55):
buy and check out the store. Shop. Yes, shop shop
of course, but we also accept donations, and so donations
are accepted on Tuesdays and Thursdays only right now between
eleven and three and I'm sorry I skipped the store
hours or ten am to four pm right now Tuesday
(36:16):
through Saturday. So we are very very excited. Like so
we've just opened August first, and it's a wonderful place.
You can also we have a YouTube channel for Catholic
Charities and so you can look up the Threat Farm
or Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas on YouTube. And we
have a wonderful video that shows the store. There's one
(36:39):
of our dedication and grand opening and then one of
just kind of a virtual tour of the store, So
please please ask everyone to look at it, but it's
nothing like seeing it in person, so please go and
check it out.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Well, you know, I want We've only got a little
over three minutes left, and I want people to know
about all the other services that you offer as well.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
So of course we have well, so we have six programs,
six programs, one of them being Elijah's Place. Elijah's Place
is a grief support program for children who have had
the unfortunate experience of a parent or sibling to use died.
But we also do grief or grief in education in churches,
(37:26):
schools or other organizations for adults who work with children
so they can better help those children when they are faced.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
With that situation. We have the Hospitality Center.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
That's our soup kitchen that's in Port Arthur, opened every
day of the year to serve a hot meal. We
have Market to Hope, with Hope being an acronym for
help other people eat. Market to Hope is here in Beaumont,
but also at our office in Winnie and so we
give food. We have a client Choice food pantry and
we also offer curbsite service just like a regular grocery store,
(38:00):
so that's our free pantry. We also offer immigration, legal assistance,
mental health counseling and program Home Matters and Home Matters
does rental housing counseling, also financial coaching and assistance. That
we have free income tax preparation during the tax season
through Home Matters as well. So all of those programs
(38:22):
are available to the community. We are privileged and honored
to be able to have a share in the work
and serving those who need our help. I'd like to
just give a plug too, please, Mayor that November sixth,
coming up right around the corner is Harvest of Hope
and so like I mentioned, the thrift barn is kind
of to help supplement give us some additional revenue. Well,
(38:43):
Harvest of Hope is another piece of the pie. And
that event again November sixth, it's going to be at
Holiday Inn five thirty Cocktails six thirty is the program
and dinner. Please check it out on our website c
c SDTX dot org. That's for Catholic Chair Southeast Texas
dot org.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And that your website couldn't be any easier. Y'all.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Also put information out on social media, y'all do a
great job, and y'all are providing much needed services. You're
always in need of volunteers and that financial support. And
if they go to the website, they can also find
out information on how they can do that, right, have.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
A volunteer or even if you need help, you can
find out how to get that on the website as well.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Again, Carol Fernandez, y'all are making a difference in such
an important difference in nine counties in southeast Texas, which
is really incredible. And folks support Catholic charities. They're taking
care of your friends and neighbors, and also volunteer if
(39:54):
you have time, because it becomes you know, it's very
important to give back. So Carol, I just want to
thank you again for coming on the show and bringing
this great information.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
Thank you so much, Mayor thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Absolutely talk to you say rest of your day.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
All right now, bye bye bye. We are back wrapping
up another Roy West show here on News Talk five
sixty klv I and folks, I like to remind you
that the Roy West team of Guild Mortgage helps people
buy homes, whether it's their primary residence, whether it's a
(40:30):
second home, or investment property.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Give us a call at four zero.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Nine eight sixty six one nine zero one. Also, we
do all types of home loans FHA, VA, USDA and
certainly conventional and jumbo as well, so we can meet
all your needs for your home mortgages, we do refinances
and we also do reverse mortgages. So remember the Roy
(40:59):
West team of Guilt Mortgage and go to Roywesteam dot
com for more information. So, folks, this week we had
great guests Belinda George, doctor Belinda George out at Lamar
University at the Spin on top of Boomtown Square, which
also is known as Gladys City. All the changes that
(41:22):
have made out there and now it is not only
still a museum, but it's a venue and they've built
a pavilion and provided lots of other services. Be sure
to check them out, and they're offering lots of different
events there as well. Then I talked to Sarah Hardin
with the Arc of Greater Beaumont that is right around
(41:44):
the corner of the Buddy Walk. Will be sure to
sign up for that. Kathy Chessler with the American Cancer
Society here in Southeast Texas. It's talking to her about
the upcoming Cattleburians Ball, and what the American Cancer Is
Society does.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Wrapped up with.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Carol Fernandez with Catholic charities that they serve nine counties, providing.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Lots of services. Folks.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Thank you so much for tuning in today and until
we talk again, God bless you all.
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