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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good afternoon, Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're listening to the Roy West Show here on News
Talk five sixty KLV and I have with me Kelly
Jackson and we are talking Beaumont Civic Ballet today. We're
talking about the upcoming Nutcracker that is December fourteenth and fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to the show, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hi, Roy, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And if you would tell people a little bit about
Beaumont Civic Ballet, well, thank.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You so much. Beaumont Civic Ballet is a nonprofit organization
that was started by our late founder, marsh Marshall Wooding
and it has been a nonprofit since nineteen eighty three
or nineteen seventy one. Excuse me. We have over about
eighty dancers that perform with us for the Nutcracker performance.
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This year will be our fifty third annual production of
the Nightcracker, so we're so excited. Those two performances will
be December fourteenth and fifteenth at two pm at the
Julie Rogers Theater, So we are looking forward to that
show this year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, me too, and this is very exciting and we
are so fortunate to have that here in Beaumont, and
this is a great family event. It's two pm, so
you can bring your kids, you can bring your grandkids,
but you don't need any kids to go.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You don't need any kids. It's become a family tradition
for a lot of families, a date date and day
date for a lot of couples, a girls' day out,
so anyone really is welcome to join us. We'll have
lots of fun things to get you in the spirit
for the holidays. We'll have a nutcracker bazaar which sells
all of our nutcrackers. We will also have a lot
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of little vendors in there as well, so you can
get some Christmas shopping done. Those tickets will go on
sell to the public on our website on Monday, October
twenty eighth at nine am. And our website is www
dot Beaumont Sibit Ballet dot net. So we're really excited
about that this year. One thing that we're doing. If
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you have been an attendee to our Netcarker performances in
the past, you know that a key character in act
too is Mother Ginger. Well, this year we are searching
for a new Mother Ginger and we have a fun
contest that I would love to share with your viewers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The contest is going to be called Battle for the
Ginger Crown. And we have four local celebrities and one
of them is sitting here with me right now. So
four local celebrities that have agreed to be a part
of this contest. Along with our esteem Mayor Roy West,
we also have doctor Ray Callis, we have doctor Galen Latham,
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and we also have Morgan Walker and these gentlemen we'll
be doing is battling each other out to see who
will be our two mother Gingers this year. The how
this will be played out is we will have a
voting competition. The link will be available on our website
from November sixth through November twentieth, and each vote is
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a dollar. So we're so excited the two highest vote
getters will be our mother Gingers for this season. So
we're so thrilled that these generous men have agreed to
be a part of this competition.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, and this is for people that don't know. Bonmat
Civic Ballet is a five oh one c three organization.
We are and so you know, raising funds is a
part of it because putting on a production like this
is certainly not cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Putting on a production like this is not cheap. And
this year we are doing in the spring our spring production,
which is Beauty and the Beast, which is a brand
new so choreographed and designed by our own artistic director
co director Megan Anderson. So we're doing that. But one
really exciting thing that we are doing next year we
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are going to be joining with the Symphony of Southeast
Texas announcing it for the first time here that we
are going to do a collaboration where next year our
third production of this performance will be a fully, fully
choreographed and performed ballet with the Symphony of Southeast Texas
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and Beaumont Civit Ballet. We have never had these two
organizations perform a full ballet together. This will be the
first time, and the cost of that is a little
higher than our normal ballet would be, so in order
to make that happen, this is where the battle for
the Ginger Crown has stemmed from. So we're so excited
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to be able to work in collaboration with this other
nonprofit organization in the area and really bring Beaumont and
the surrounding area a fantastic performance value, so that is
where the money will be going to well.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I love this and I actually just recently was
at Botanical Garden seeing the symphony play outdoors, and our
symphony is fabulous and we're so fortunate to have a
symphony and a ballet right here in Beaumont, and it's
something that many communities our size do not have. So
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oftentimes we don't you know, we can kind of take
for granted what we've got here in our backyard. But
I want to remind people that this is a treasure
to have here in Beaumont, Texas. And I know people
from the surrounding areas come to both the ballet and
the symphony, so it's not limited to Beaumont. But you know,
we are so fortunate that we're not having to drive
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ninety miles for a plus symphony in ballet, and this
is a way that people can support this, and you know,
I really want to encourage people that if you you know,
you need to support the Nutcracker coming up December fourteenth
and fifteenth, because it is it's an incredible performance and
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its first rate and some you know, bring your kids
and bring your grandkids because of some of your kids
may may have not had the experience of seeing a
ballet in person, and it could draw.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Them to want to get involved in dance.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Absolutely and one of the exciting things, and we were
so blessed to have Houston Ballet let us use one
of their dancers, Aaron Sharat, last year as our prince
and he is coming back again this year, so we
will have a principal dancer from Houston Ballet performing with
our dancers, so that lets you know a little bit
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more of the caliber of dancing that we will have
here in moment. So we are thrilled to get to
share this with our community and it means so much
to our dancers. And you know, also one of the
things that we're able to do is on that Friday
before these performances, we do two full performances with our
local schools and that goes as far out as Mott
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Bellevue and to Louisiana that we do two free productions
for our local area school children. So we do do
a lot of giving back to our community. And so
we are so thrilled that our guests have allowed us
to provide these opportunities and our patrons have allowed us
these opportunities.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, and you know, I'm on your website and y'all
have got a great website, and you know, and of
course I know we're going to be sharing the fundraiser
over social media is as well as promoting the event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But let's talk a little bit about I see.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know it talks about the history that we talk about,
but there's also membership and membership requirements and what does
that look like for We've got about four minutes left, sure,
no problem.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, two things I'd like to share about that. Yes,
we do a membership every excuse me an audition every
year for local dancers. You do not, even though we
are housed in Marshall Whitty Academy of Dance, you do
not need to be a member of Marshall Whitty to
be a member of our company. So each season, after
our final performance, which this year will be Beauty and
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the Beast on Saturday February twenty second and Sunday February
twenty third, that following Wednesday, which is February twenty six,
is when we'll do auditions for the next season. So
we will have our junior company members that go down
as low as fourth grade that will audition all the
way to our senior company at six o'clock. That will
be up to seniors in high school. So we will
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have those dancers try out and they will be able
to audition for the next season. Like I said, next
season is going to be huge because we'll have the
ballet with a full orchestra and you don't be right opportunity.
So that is exciting news. So you know, we have
lots to look forward to it. But wants a bit ballet.
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We have a lot of excitement going on and we
would love to have any and all dancers come in
an audition to be a part of our company.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And you could also be a patron so that you
can And that's really what I was meant meant to say,
but uh so, and that's also available on the website.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's available on the website. We offer season patron opportunities.
We offer also scholarship opportunities through we have a scholarship
fund named after our founder, Marshall Wooding. We have a
scholarship fund that allows our dancers to apply for scholarship
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money to be able to go out of state or
two different ballet uh summer intensives and we help pay
for those dancers to go away each year so that
they can learn and grow in their ballet skills and
in their you know abilities. So that is what that
money goes toward. And in the past we've also bought
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point shoes, dance point shoes for our dancers as well,
because it helps, you know, the company. These dancers do
go through quite a few point shoes during the season
and so it allows them the opportunity to get some
of that and covered by our patrons as.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, so that that is awesome. And folks, I'm a
real believer in giving where you live, and this is
a great opportunity to give back to the arts here
in Southeast Texas, specifically the Beaumont Civic Ballet and UH,
whether you're able to attend or not, you can participate
as a patron and UH and that is at Beaumont
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Civicballet dot net, so it's super easy to get to
you're gonna see on social media. And let's go over
the times one more time. We've just got about a
minute left of when this is going to be available,
and also the shows and the times, so sure.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Our performances at the Nutcracker will be December fourteenth and
fifteenth at two pm. Those tickets will go on sell
to the public on Monday, October twenty eighth at eight am.
That will be on our website www dot Beaumont Civict
Ballet dot net. And then the voting for the Battle
for the Ginger Crown will occur November sixth through November twentieth,
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and then we'll announce that winner as well, those two
winners as well, so that will begin then and tickets
are on sale for our other We didn't get a
chance to really to talk about it, but we do
have a Nutcracker experience that's prior to our Saturday Nightcracker performance,
but that information is on our website as well. So
we would love to have you guys come look at
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our website, check out us on social media Instagram and Facebook,
and we hope to see all of the ballet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Thank you so much, Kelly, and we are out of time,
so I'll see you soon.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Thanks Roy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We are back with the Roy West Show here on
News Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Five sixty k lv I and I have with me
Jancy Kimball with Nutrition Services for Seniors also known as
Mills on wheels here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Jancy Kimball, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Thank you, mister mayor. We love to be on here
with you. Love to start out the community.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You are regular guests on because what y'all do is
so important, and you know, we got to keep it
top of mind awareness because oftentimes people take for granted
some of the wonderful services that are offered to our
seniors here.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And they don't just happen.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It takes by a community to help make this happen,
So tell people about it.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Well.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Nutrition and Services for Senior has been around for over
forty years and you alluded to it already. Our largest
program is Meals on Wheels and currently we are serving
anywhere between sixteen to eighteen hundred meals per day for
homebound seniors throughout Jefferson and Hartin counties. We also have
seventeen meal sites throughout those counties where people who can
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drive and our ambulatory can go and enjoy a meal
and company with like minded people and they can play games.
We do nutrition education, and we do little educational spots
for them so that they can learn about things in
the community that they might not normally know but We
also have a huge transportation department, and we have eighteen
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wheelchair vans. It's hard to uber when you're in a wheelchair,
and so we can roll them up on the lift
and actually roll them onto the van in their wheelchair and.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Strap them in right there so they don't have to
get out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Because it's so important that we keep these seniors at
the front of our minds and make sure that they
are not being left behind, because we don't want them
sitting at home, malnourished, isolated, because that's when the loneliness
kicks in, that's when depression kicks in, that's when poor
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health kicks in. We want to be here so that
we can do activities. That's our mission is to come
up with activities to ensure that they stay in their
own homes and they can remain independent for as long
as they possibly can well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And this is something as.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
People that can't see me, I've got white hair, so
I'm getting old, and I.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Tell her mine, you.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Know, and certainly you know both my parents have passed
and going through all that with them, you know, aging.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, people are living.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Longer because of better health care, but that doesn't always
mean better quality of life.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And this helps you.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Know beyond meet and just basic needs and you know,
and in terms of your volunteers, it blesses them too,
because you're a part of somebody's life.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Absolutely, and we hear from volunteers all the time that
say they get more out of it than the client does,
and that is something that we rely a lot on
as volunteers.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And delivering meals is not as arduous as you would think.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And if you've got a business, or if you've got
a couple of friends that you want to gather together
and come get trained on how to do meal delivery,
you can do it five days a week, you can
do it once a week, you can do it every
other week. We will work with your schedule. And it's
so important that we have this because as this rises,
food and security is a big buzzword and it's something
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that if we don't face it and deal with it,
it's going to touch everybody's life in some way at
some point in their life.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There is no demographic that has more food.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And security than a homebound senior, and we need to
be very aware of that and we need to ensure
that those seniors are being taken care of in any
way that we can, and so that's why we try
to stretch our dollars and we try to get as
many volunteers as we can to deliver these hot noon
meals to bring a bright spot to these people's lives
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because many times, although income is not a criteria for
participation in our program, many times, no matter how much
money you have, this might be the only meal you
get all day, and it may be the only human
interaction that these seniors get because maybe they don't have
family around here. But it's something that really has become
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important to all of us to make sure that we
talk about it all the time, because it really is
a crisis, and we our funding is being cut as
COVID funding continues to dry up, and the need for
our services does not go away. It is a year
round thing, and the last thing we want to do
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is tell these seniors who have paved the way for us,
who have built the infrastructure for us, is hey, I'm sorry,
mister veteran, you have to take a number to eat.
Hey I'm sorry, educator, you have to take a number
to eat. That's just it's appalling to me, and I
know that we can do better, and as a community
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we do better.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And I love this community.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Because they answer the call and they come out, and
the businesses come out, the individuals come out, and they
support us in everything that we do. And that's what
we're going to continue to do. And I'm hoping that
on Giving Tuesday, especially that people who are listening, or
if you've got friends that you want to share this with,
I'm hoping that you will remember us on Giving Tuesday
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and do an extra special donation, maybe in honor of
your mother or father, or maybe an aunt or an
uncle or something, just to honor them in the way
that we can share that taking care of them with
someone else. And maybe they're not using our services, but
you know that as they age, and maybe you don't
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live near them, it's terrifying to think if we don't
have an organization like nutrition and services for seniors, what
would happen to them? So on Tuesday, please remember the
nonprofits in our area and all of the hard work.
But also remember too that it doesn't stop after the holidays.
We need to continue that sense of giving year round
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because this is an issue that sadly does not go
away well.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And I mean it's right on point because As medicine
gets better, as people take better care of themselves, they
live longer. But older people, you know, it becomes more
difficult to get out and about. You may not see
quite as well, you don't feel comfortable driving. All these factors,
and then clearly finances can run into it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh h So.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But you know, giving, you know, right in a five hundred,
one thousand, two thousand and five thousand dollars check is
great also, but just an ongoing giving.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Setting that up to give monthly.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We have that on our website.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If you go to Senior Meals dot org, if you
visit there, there is a place where you can set
that up, where you can do a monthly gift. And
it can be in like I said, in honor of somebody.
I can't think of a better way to honor, even
if they're not old enough to be on our service,
but just in honor of a parent or an aunt
or an uncle that will one day be touched by
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this in one way or another. Because, like I said,
the food insecurity.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Among our homebound seniors.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is often overlooked, and I think that that is a
battle cry that we are more than willing to pick
up and to let people know that they are here
and they are in need, and that it's our responsibility too.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You know, step up, Well, we've just got a couple
of minutes left, and you can financial need is very
much needed, but also you can volunteer and do both.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
And I think many times people.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
End up doing both that get in because they understand
the value of what Meals on Wills Nutrition Services for
Seniors does. And like you said, funding, you know, the
government continues to take money away, and that's fine because
I think as a community we can stand up, but
we need to remind people that we have a responsibility
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and these are our seniors and like you said, they're
the ones that have showed up for us in order
for us to be here. And I applaud you, and
I applaud all that you do. Uh and uh So
if somebody say we got about a minute left, if
somebody wants to volunteer, what's that process look like and
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how much of a commitment do they have to make?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
As much as a commitment as you want to make,
a call our office at four O nine eight nine
two four four five five, or you can visit our
website at Senior Meals dot org and we have a
short training that you go through and we kind of
train you on what to do. But it is an
activity of the heart, for sure, and this is the
season and we need it.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
All the time. So come on and join us and
try it out and see what you think. It's a
great way to give back.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, and the phone number and the website one more time,
sure four O.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Nine eight nine two four four five five or senior or.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, folks, you know now there's no excuse and here
we are entering the holiday season and we need to
be mindful of all those that need us and because
together we are better.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thank you so much, Dancy.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Thank you, mister mayor. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're back with the Roy West Show here on News
Talk five sixty k l V. I and folks, I
love getting to talk to people from across our community
that are having a huge.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Impact right here in southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And the next person I have is Joe Evans, the
new executive director of Revision that is brand new here in.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Jefferson County. Joe, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, it's my pleasure to have you. And now Joe
wears multiple hats. He's also on the school board for
Bombing Independent School Discreet, but we're not talking school district today.
And even though there may be overlaps on all this
tell people about the new Revision program that I've gotten
to see firsthand, So I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yes, sir, so, Revision Southeast Texas is modeled directly after
Revision Houston, and our goal is to build and leverage
relationships with the faith based community to help us get
positive role models and mentors in front of our children.
So we mostly work with children who have become involved
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with the juvenile justice system or if they're vulnerable or
at risk of becoming involved with a juvenile justice system.
And we just want to increase positive interactions between you know,
positive role models in our youth.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And that's the primary goal.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And the model is, you know, breaking the cycle of
of school to prison pipeline, and that's what our focus is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, and you know, you and I and several others
from Beaumont, Jefferson County and went over to Harris County
UH Juvenile Probation UH Department and UH and Revision partners
with them. We got to see a lot of what
they're doing. And and you know, I think I think
the general takeaway as anybody knows that we have more
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and more youth that are unsupervised, that they don't have
parents that either were taught how to parent or were
parented themselves. And so uh, some of our more violent offenders, uh,
and certainly youth in general are more involved in criminal activity.
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And I attribute it to a lack of supervision and
a lack of being taught, uh, you know by parents
and neighbors. And you know, we culturally we've just gone
through a lot of changes. And this effects kids across
socioeconomic boundaries too. Sometimes people think it's just poorer kids,
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but sometimes, you know, uh, kids that come from middle
class the upper middle class families run into these problems too,
just don't have the skills developed to function well and
end up getting into mischief. And and so what what
kind of partner? What does a partnership with the church
look like?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Uh, first, so we we we're housed and we'll have
our activities in that first United method as we're plan
on doing something official probably early December as far as
ribbon cutting and opening it up so the community can
so the community can see what type of activities and
resources will provide. And what we do is we try
to partner with with churches to recruit mentors from the
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faith based community. Doesn't necessarily have to be from one
of the churches, but it's kind of where we That's
kind of the partnership that REAL is based on, and
it's based on leveraging those relationships with the faith based
community and bringing those mentors to our children.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
But anybody can can volunteer.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know, if you feel like it's something that you're
passionate about and you want to get involved with our youth.
We ask mentors to make a six month to one
year commitment to meet with the child for thirty minutes
to an hour a week to do basically nothing more
than listen, you know, be a listening ear. You're not
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asked to be an authority figure. You may get into
a situation where you're tutoring or sharing some positive life skills,
which is always a great thing, but for the most part,
you're just a listening ear and someone for that child
to talk to and then also model some positive behaviors
for that child so they know that one there is
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a path to being a productive citizen.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And for two, someone loves and cares about you.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
So it's important that we get them to love and
care about themselves.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
And ultimately, like you said, it comes down to.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Them making better decisions when they know that people are
in their corner, people believe in them and give them
something to believe in. As far as believing in themselves.
We talk about the lack of supervision. In some cases,
there's not only a lack of supervision, but there's just.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
The lack of a positive role model.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
You know, a lot of people in our community, a
lot of children in our community. They never see someone
get up and go to work. They never see someone
get up and go to church. It's always, you know,
them taking care of themselves or siblings. And so we
want to let them understand that there's a different approach
to life and that you can have a.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Good, positive life if you just make great decisions.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
And so that's kind of what it boils down to.
But and if mentoring in your thing, you know, there's
other ways to get involved. We have to have an
activity center, we have to raise money, we have to
make sure that we're out in front of the community.
So there's a place for you. You know, I volunteer
mentoring in where you want to volunteer. We can always
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use help in some form or fashion.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, and I think you know, when I've heard you
talk about it, sometimes people say, well, you know, you
know this is parents' responsibility. Well, if parents aren't beating
that gap and we're aware of it, I think it
falls on us as a community to show up and
make that difference.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And this is that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And some people may not feel equipped, but it's only
because they hadn't.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Tried right right, very gratifying process.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
My best mentors are people who thought that they didn't
have a knack for it. They tried it out, they
fell in love with it, and they'll tell you every
time you know, the pleasure belongs to them and they
get so much out of mentoring and helping these kids.
So it's a very gratifying process, and you never know.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Try it out. I encourage to try it out.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
You know, I'll be with you every step of the
way until you're comfortable with the process. And if I'm
not with you, my assistant or somebody from my team
will be with you, so we won't just throw you
out to the wolves. If they go out there and mentor,
we'll we'll guide you through the process. There's a training
process and the vetting and out onboarding process that takes place,
and we will make sure that we give you all
the resources you need, you know, be a great mentor well.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And I think that's the important part is at the
end of the day, these are kids that what you're
doing is you're just you're providing, You're paying attention to them,
yes and uh, and navigating through that it's not that difficult,
it's just uh, you know, but understanding that you know,
it can seem a little overwhelming perhaps if you hadn't
(29:41):
done it before.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
But these are.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Kids that are just looking for uh, somebody that lets
them know that they matter.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Yes, absolutely, And that's that's the biggest part, you know.
We find we find that when kids know someone cares
about them and it tends to help them feel a
little bit better about themselves, they tend to make better decisions.
And while we don't serve as an accountability tool, sometimes
you know, having on your mind if you don't want
to let someone down, may also prompt you to make
(30:11):
some better choices and decisions as well.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
So and I can't.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Speak enough about the work that the Revision Houston has
done just through the years and playing such a vital
role in transforming Harris County's juvenile justice system into more
of a rehabilitative type of a setting. And don't get
me wrong, the punitive aspect cannot go away, but I
(30:36):
think we need to make sure that we're all working
in conjunction to want to once again make sure we're
making the best decisions on behalf of these children in
their future.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, and that's right, and at the end of the day,
we want we you know, keeping people incarcerated isn't a
good solution. It costs a lot of money and uh
and we're losing a work force. So you know, training
people how to function in this world becomes so important.
And like you said, they have had huge success. You
(31:08):
can't argue with the numbers. You know, recidivism have really
impacted it by providing additional skills and letting kids know
that there's a brighter future.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Form absolutely absolutely, And speaking of that, you know, when
you say incarceration isn't always the best route. Something else
that we try to address too with some of those
mental health and subst abuse issues that so many of
our children struggle with and suffer through. So we try
to address the whole child and try to make them
a more wholesome individual.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, I know that y'all are doing great work. I'm
excited that you're doing it. We're about out of time.
How do people get in touch with you? If they
want to give money or volunteer?
Speaker 7 (31:50):
They want to give money a volunteer, the best way
is to send an email to Infold at Revision set
X dot com and me or somebody from my team,
we'll get back to you Fronto Infold at revisiting SDTX
dot com and we'd love to hear from you. We
need as many people as we can get. It takes
(32:11):
an army, it takes a village, and we'd love to
have you.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Joe Evans, the new executive director with Revision of Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Thank you so much and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
We are back with April talking about the Saint Mark's
Chili Supper that is coming up right around the corner
of Thursday, November fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
April, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, it's my pleasure in tell people. For people that
missed the last show or people that are unfamiliar with
the Saint Mark's Chili Supper, which if they've been here
in Beaumont in any length of time.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
At all, that'd be kind of hard, but tell people
about it.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Sure, sure, So on November fourteenth, we will have our
eighty third annual Chili Supper, which is just I consider
absolutely amazing to be able to say that we've been
doing this for eighty three years. We will be serving
what we our logo is serving christ community in Chili
that day. A lot of people don't realize they come
(33:16):
and they have a bowl of chili and get full
and shop at our bizaarre, and we have a silent auction,
several different things going on, and they don't realize what
they're actually buying is love and a gift to our
nonprofits here in the area. I don't think there's a
lot of different organizations that can say that they turn
(33:37):
out every dollar of the proceeds out to our community.
So it is a day where we love having everyone in.
It has become a community tradition for everyone to come enjoy.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
A bowl of Chili visit.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
We will have a full parish hall, will serve well
over a thousand people.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That day.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, and it is quite the community event because it
is at lunch and dinner, right it is.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
We'll have lunch from eleven to two and dinner from
five to seven. And you have several different options there
so you can you can choose to come and sit
and enjoy all you can eat.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Chili.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
You got chili, rice, beans, cheese. I don't know if
you're a beans you're a no beans person. You know
that's a real contested thing, right, So we'll have all
of that. You get all the trimmings, the friedo's, the jalapenos,
the crackers, tabasco, sauce. However you like to dress it.
It's how you dress it. So you come in, you
enjoy that. That's all you can eat. And or if
(34:36):
you need to get it to go, we understand a
lot of people, you know, grab it, go, take it home,
take it to a relative, you know, what have you.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
So you can come and purchase a ticket. The cost
is the same.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
You can get a to go and it's going to
come in a paper bag and it's going to have
everything that you would have had upstairs in the hall.
And then also we have the frozen chili for sale
as well, so you can come and you will buy it.
It's frozen and courts and you can defrost and do
whatever you want with it at home. We also have
spice packs, so if you have someone in your family
(35:08):
that is gluten free or wants to make it with
deer meat, or wants to make it with chicken, ground
chicken or ground turkey, your option is there for that
as well. And then of course we'll have the shopping
so you really have a lot of different options there.
The Bizarre runs all day ten to seven, and then
we'll have serving meals both in house and takeout, and
(35:29):
the frozen chili seals from eleven to two and five
to seven.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So this is a full day and so I know
this takes a lot of volunteers and everybody's going to
sleep well that night, but there's a whole lot of
prep done beforehand, and you can also be making purchases
before that day as well.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Yeah, so right now you can go to Saint Mark's
Chili dot com and you can purchase tickets. Adults are fifteen,
children or ten and a ticket is going to buy
you either all you can eat or one to go meal.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
You can also pre.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Purchase your frozen chili, so if you want to come
enjoy the hot chili, enjoy how it is there, but
also get frozen on the way down. You can either
pre purchase online we'll have it all backed up and
ready for you, or you can purchase while you're there,
and then you can also purchase a spikes pack excuse
me spice packs online or make a donation. So all
of that's online on Saint Mark's Chili dot com. We'll
(36:25):
sell tickets up until the day before, so Wednesday at
five o'clock we cut off the online ticket sales, so
if you go online and buy your ticket, you'll get
a receipt in your email and then we'll have all
those ready at the ticket booth.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, and I'm looking at your website as we talk
here in the y'all got quite the bizarre there, too,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
We do?
Speaker 8 (36:48):
We do.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
We have several different vendors. I always get a jump
on that Christmas shopping every year. We'll also have Treasure House,
which is one of our other nonprofit that they come
in and they bring in, don't Nations and they have
an amazing setup and you can come purchase from them
at our bazaar as well, or they're just right down
the road on the other side of Saint Mark's, so
(37:10):
you're more than welcome to go shop there as well
while you're downtown, which would be amazing, hitting both blocks.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
But we'll be there at six point eighty calder.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
If you don't get a chance to go ahead of
time purchase, you'd rather doing cash check, what have you,
we'll be there ready to sell. It's like you said,
it's a full day, it's busy, so we just we
love it. The entire congregation comes together. We've been cooking
for ten weeks waiting for this one day.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It is a lot of preparation, and y'all have a
lot of freezers there because y'all have to freeze a
lot of chili in advance too.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
We do.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
We do everything. There is no chili cooked day of.
The only cooking you'll see day of is rice and beans.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
That's it. The beans.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
They get up there about four or five in the
morning and start cooking those and the rice.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
But other than that, it's all cooked in advance.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
We have some huge, huge freezers that we store all
those courts and pines in as well as we start
moving to the big roasting pans and that's what we
put in the roasters and starting heating that chili up
early that morning because as people start flowing in, it
starts going quick.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Well, and on the website, if people aren't able to
go or they're just not chili fans, they can donate
because this, like you said, this all goes back to
local charitable organizations right here.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
It does last year, So for our twenty twenty three supper,
in twenty twenty four, we were able to award thirty
eight thousand dollars, which is just a huge amount of money.
Some different organizations you might have heard of KASA. I
feel like everybody's heard of KASA, the Nutrition and Services
for Seniors also known as Meals on Wheels they depend
(38:52):
on that help. Some other place that helps in the community,
the Southeast Texas Food Bake. Everybody hears about that for
thanks Giving, but they takes year round. So so that's
all very imperative to our community and these nonprofits that
serve so many people in our community.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Well, it's all about giving where you live and this
is UH and it's also a great community event, so
you're going to see people from all over and there's
a lot of people that have traditions of going there
either for lunch, dinner, going to the bazaar. And uh
so you're going to see I'm going to say in Beaumont,
(39:32):
but really at Southeast Texas because there are so many people.
But you can go to a Saint Mark's Chili dot
com and you can just give a gift. Besides, you
can also buy a Chili Supper ticket for dine in
or take out. So y'all make it super easy for folks. Yeah, yeah,
And I just want to applaud you and and all
(39:55):
the volunteers. It's quite a chore to uh undertake so
and I imagine there's some prep because here you are
find yourself in this position.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
How many years have you been participating in it?
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Harvey was my first year to chair the Chili Supper,
So that was an interesting year.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
But since then, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Once you're in and you see it's I say, every year,
this is my Christmas is the Chili Supper.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (40:21):
I love seeing everyone in. Everyone comes in hungry and
leaves full and happy. So I can't ask for more
than that.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, April, thank you so much. We're out of time,
but we're looking forward to it and I'll see you Thursday.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
We are back with April talking about the Saint Mark's
Chili Supper that is coming up right around the corner
of Thursday, November fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
April, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well, it's my pleasure in tell people For people that
missed the last show or people that are unfamiliar with
the Saint Mark's Chili Supper, which if they've been here
in Beaumont any length of time at all, that'd be
kind of hard, but tell people about it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Sure, sure.
Speaker 9 (41:07):
So on November fourteenth, we will have our eighty third
annual Chili Supper, which is just I consider absolutely amazing
to be able to say that we've been doing this
for eighty three years. We will be serving what we
our logo is serving christ community in Chili that day.
A lot of people don't realize they come and they
have a bowl of chili and get full and shop
(41:30):
at our bizaar and we have a silent auction several
different things going on and they don't realize what they're
actually buying is love and a gift to our nonprofits
here in the area. I don't think there's a lot
of different organizations that can say that they turn out
every dollar of the proceeds out to our community. So
(41:51):
it is a day where we love having everyone in.
It has become a community tradition for everyone to come
enjoy a.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
Bowl of chili. Visit.
Speaker 9 (42:00):
We will have a full parish hall, will serve well
over one thousand people that day.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Well, and it is it is quite the community event
because it is at lunch and dinner, right it is.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
We'll have lunch from eleven to two and dinner from
five to seven. And you have several different options there
so you can you can choose to come and sit
and enjoy all you can eat.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Chili.
Speaker 9 (42:22):
You got chili, rice, beans, cheese. I don't know if
you're a beans you're a no beans person. You know
that's a real contested thing, right right, So we'll have
all of that. You get all the trimmings, the friedo's,
the jalapenos, the crackers, tabasco, sauce, however you like to
dress it.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
It's how you dress it so you come in, you
enjoy that. That's all you can eat.
Speaker 9 (42:44):
And or if you need to get it to go,
we understand a lot of people, you know, grab it, go,
take it home, take it to a relative, you know,
what have you.
Speaker 8 (42:53):
So you can come and purchase a ticket. The cost
is the same.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
You can get a to go and it's going to
come in a paper bag and it's going to have
everything that you would have had upstairs in the hall.
And then also we have the frozen chili for sale
as well, so you can come and you will buy it.
It's frozen, it's in pints and quartz, and you can
defrost and do whatever you want with it at home.
We also have spice packs, so if you have someone
(43:17):
in your family that is gluten free or wants to
make it with deer meat, or wants to make it
with chicken, ground chicken, or ground turkey, your option is
there for that as well. And then of course we'll
have the shopping so you really have a lot of
different options there. The Bizarre runs all day ten to seven,
and then we'll have serving meals both in house and takeout,
(43:39):
and the frozen chili seals from eleven to two and
five to seven.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So this is a full day.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And so I know this takes a lot of volunteers
and everybody's going to sleep well that night, but there's
a whole lot of prep done beforehand, and you can
also be making purchases before that day as well.
Speaker 9 (44:01):
Yeah, so right now you can go to Saint Mark's
Chili dot com and you can purchase tickets. Adults are fifteen,
children or ten and a ticket is going to buy
you either all you can eat or one to go meal.
You can also pre purchase your frozen chili, so if
you want to come enjoy the hot chili, enjoy how
it is there, but also get frozen on the way down.
You can either pre purchase online we'll have it all
(44:23):
backed up and ready for you, or you can purchase
while you're there. And then you can also purchase a
spikes pack excuse me spice packs online or make a donation.
So all of that's online on Saint marks Chili dot com.
We'll sell tickets up until the day before, So Wednesday
at five o'clock we cut off the online ticket sales,
So if you go online and buy your ticket, you'll
(44:44):
get a receipt in your email and then we'll have
all those ready at the ticket booth.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, and I'm looking at your website as we talk
here in the y'all got quite the bizarre there, too,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
We do, we do.
Speaker 9 (44:59):
We have several different vendors. I always get a jump
on that Christmas shopping every year. We'll also have Treasure House,
which is one of our other nonprofit that they come
in and they bring in donations and they have an
amazing setup and you can come purchase from them at
our bazaar as well. Or they're just right down the
road on the other side of Saint Mark's, so you're
(45:20):
more than welcome to go shop there as well while
you're downtown, which would be amazing hitting both blocks.
Speaker 8 (45:26):
But we'll be there at six point eighty calder.
Speaker 9 (45:28):
If you don't get a chance to go ahead of
time purchase you'd rather doing cash check, what have you,
we'll be there ready to sell. It's like you said,
it's a full day, it's busy, so we just we
love it. The entire congregation comes together. We've been cooking
for ten weeks waiting for this one day.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It is a lot of preparation and y'all have a
lot of freezers there because y'all have to freeze a
lot of chili in advance too.
Speaker 9 (45:54):
We do, we do everything. There is no chili cooked
day of. The only cooking you'll see day of is
rice and beans.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
The beans.
Speaker 9 (46:04):
They get up there about four or five in the
morning and start cooking those and the rice.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
But other than that, it's all cooked in advance.
Speaker 9 (46:10):
We have some huge, huge freezers that we store all
those courts and pines in as well as we start
moving to the big roasting pans, and that's what we
put in the roasters and start cooking heating that chili
up early that morning because as people start flowing in,
it starts going quick.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Well.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
And on the website, if people aren't able to go
or they're just not chili fans, they can donate because this,
like you said, this all goes back to local charitable
organizations right here.
Speaker 9 (46:42):
It does last year, So for our twenty twenty three supper,
in twenty twenty four, we were able to award thirty
eight thousand dollars, which is just a huge amount of money.
Some different organizations you might have heard of KASA. I
feel like everybody's heard of KASA, the Nutrition and Services
for Seniors also known as Meals on Wheels they depend
(47:02):
on that help. Some other place that helps in the community,
the Southeast Texas Food Bank. Everybody hears about that for Thanksgiving,
but they takes year round. So so that's all very
imperative to our community and these nonprofits that serve so
many people in our community.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Well, it's all about giving where you live and this
is uh and it's also a great community event. So
you're going to see people from all over and there's
a lot of people that have traditions of going there
either for lunch, dinner, going to the bazaar and uh,
so you're going.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
To see.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Someone you know, you're going to say in Beaumont, but
really at Southeast Texas because there are so many people.
But you can go to a Saint Mark's Chili dot
com and you can just give a gift. Besides, you
can also buy a chili supper ticket.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
For dining in or take out. So y'all make it
soon pretty easy for folks.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, yeah, and I just want to applaud you and
all the volunteers. It's quite a chore to undertake, so
and I imagine there's some prep because here you are
find yourself in this position. How many years have you
been participating in it?
Speaker 9 (48:18):
Harvey was my first year to chair the Chili Supper,
so that was an interesting year. But since then, I'll
tell you what. Once you're in and you see it's
I say every year, this is my Christmas is the
Chili Supper.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (48:32):
I love seeing everyone in. Everyone comes in hungry and
leaves full and happy. So I can't ask for more
than that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Well, April, thank you so much. We're out of time,
but we're looking forward to it and I'll see you Thursday.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
Okay, thank you so much,
Good afternoon, Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're listening to the Roy West Show here on News
Talk five sixty KLV and I have with me Kelly
Jackson and we are talking Beaumont Civic Ballet today. We're
talking about the upcoming Nutcracker that is December fourteenth and fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to the show, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hi, Roy, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And if you would tell people a little bit about
Beaumont Civic Ballet, well, thank.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
You so much. Beaumont Civic Ballet is a nonprofit organization
that was started by our late founder, marsh Marshall Wooding
and it has been a nonprofit since nineteen eighty three
or nineteen seventy one. Excuse me. We have over about
eighty dancers that perform with us for the Nutcracker performance.
(00:54):
This year will be our fifty third annual production of
the Nightcracker, so we're so excited. Those two performances will
be December fourteenth and fifteenth at two pm at the
Julie Rogers Theater, So we are looking forward to that
show this year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, me too, and this is very exciting and we
are so fortunate to have that here in Beaumont, and
this is a great family event. It's two pm, so
you can bring your kids, you can bring your grandkids,
but you don't need any kids to go.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You don't need any kids. It's become a family tradition
for a lot of families, a date date and day
date for a lot of couples, a girls' day out,
so anyone really is welcome to join us. We'll have
lots of fun things to get you in the spirit
for the holidays. We'll have a nutcracker bazaar which sells
all of our nutcrackers. We will also have a lot
(01:53):
of little vendors in there as well, so you can
get some Christmas shopping done. Those tickets will go on
sell to the public on our website on Monday, October
twenty eighth at nine am. And our website is www
dot Beaumont Sibit Ballet dot net. So we're really excited
about that this year. One thing that we're doing. If
(02:16):
you have been an attendee to our Netcarker performances in
the past, you know that a key character in act
too is Mother Ginger. Well, this year we are searching
for a new Mother Ginger and we have a fun
contest that I would love to share with your viewers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The contest is going to be called Battle for the
Ginger Crown. And we have four local celebrities and one
of them is sitting here with me right now. So
four local celebrities that have agreed to be a part
of this contest. Along with our esteem Mayor Roy West,
we also have doctor Ray Callis, we have doctor Galen Latham,
(02:57):
and we also have Morgan Walker and these gentlemen we'll
be doing is battling each other out to see who
will be our two mother Gingers this year. The how
this will be played out is we will have a
voting competition. The link will be available on our website
from November sixth through November twentieth, and each vote is
(03:21):
a dollar. So we're so excited the two highest vote
getters will be our mother Gingers for this season. So
we're so thrilled that these generous men have agreed to
be a part of this competition.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, and this is for people that don't know. Bonmat
Civic Ballet is a five oh one c three organization.
We are and so you know, raising funds is a
part of it because putting on a production like this
is certainly not cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Putting on a production like this is not cheap. And
this year we are doing in the spring our spring production,
which is Beauty and the Beast, which is a brand
new so choreographed and designed by our own artistic director
co director Megan Anderson. So we're doing that. But one
really exciting thing that we are doing next year we
(04:14):
are going to be joining with the Symphony of Southeast
Texas announcing it for the first time here that we
are going to do a collaboration where next year our
third production of this performance will be a fully, fully
choreographed and performed ballet with the Symphony of Southeast Texas
(04:36):
and Beaumont Civit Ballet. We have never had these two
organizations perform a full ballet together. This will be the
first time, and the cost of that is a little
higher than our normal ballet would be, so in order
to make that happen, this is where the battle for
the Ginger Crown has stemmed from. So we're so excited
(04:57):
to be able to work in collaboration with this other
nonprofit organization in the area and really bring Beaumont and
the surrounding area a fantastic performance value, so that is
where the money will be going to well.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I love this and I actually just recently was
at Botanical Garden seeing the symphony play outdoors, and our
symphony is fabulous and we're so fortunate to have a
symphony and a ballet right here in Beaumont, and it's
something that many communities our size do not have. So
(05:34):
oftentimes we don't you know, we can kind of take
for granted what we've got here in our backyard. But
I want to remind people that this is a treasure
to have here in Beaumont, Texas. And I know people
from the surrounding areas come to both the ballet and
the symphony, so it's not limited to Beaumont. But you know,
we are so fortunate that we're not having to drive
(05:55):
ninety miles for a plus symphony in ballet, and this
is a way that people can support this, and you know,
I really want to encourage people that if you you know,
you need to support the Nutcracker coming up December fourteenth
and fifteenth, because it is it's an incredible performance and
(06:21):
its first rate and some you know, bring your kids
and bring your grandkids because of some of your kids
may may have not had the experience of seeing a
ballet in person, and it could draw.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Them to want to get involved in dance.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Absolutely and one of the exciting things, and we were
so blessed to have Houston Ballet let us use one
of their dancers, Aaron Sharat, last year as our prince
and he is coming back again this year, so we
will have a principal dancer from Houston Ballet performing with
our dancers, so that lets you know a little bit
(06:59):
more of the caliber of dancing that we will have
here in moment. So we are thrilled to get to
share this with our community and it means so much
to our dancers. And you know, also one of the
things that we're able to do is on that Friday
before these performances, we do two full performances with our
local schools and that goes as far out as Mott
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Bellevue and to Louisiana that we do two free productions
for our local area school children. So we do do
a lot of giving back to our community. And so
we are so thrilled that our guests have allowed us
to provide these opportunities and our patrons have allowed us
these opportunities.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, and you know, I'm on your website and y'all
have got a great website, and you know, and of
course I know we're going to be sharing the fundraiser
over social media is as well as promoting the event.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But let's talk a little bit about I see.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know it talks about the history that we talk about,
but there's also membership and membership requirements and what does
that look like for We've got about four minutes left, sure,
no problem.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, two things I'd like to share about that. Yes,
we do a membership every excuse me an audition every
year for local dancers. You do not, even though we
are housed in Marshall Whitty Academy of Dance, you do
not need to be a member of Marshall Whitty to
be a member of our company. So each season, after
our final performance, which this year will be Beauty and
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the Beast on Saturday February twenty second and Sunday February
twenty third, that following Wednesday, which is February twenty six,
is when we'll do auditions for the next season. So
we will have our junior company members that go down
as low as fourth grade that will audition all the
way to our senior company at six o'clock. That will
be up to seniors in high school. So we will
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have those dancers try out and they will be able
to audition for the next season. Like I said, next
season is going to be huge because we'll have the
ballet with a full orchestra and you don't be right opportunity.
So that is exciting news. So you know, we have
lots to look forward to it. But wants a bit ballet.
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We have a lot of excitement going on and we
would love to have any and all dancers come in
an audition to be a part of our company.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And you could also be a patron so that you
can And that's really what I was meant meant to say,
but uh so, and that's also available on the website.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It's available on the website. We offer season patron opportunities.
We offer also scholarship opportunities through we have a scholarship
fund named after our founder, Marshall Wooding. We have a
scholarship fund that allows our dancers to apply for scholarship
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money to be able to go out of state or
two different ballet uh summer intensives and we help pay
for those dancers to go away each year so that
they can learn and grow in their ballet skills and
in their you know abilities. So that is what that
money goes toward. And in the past we've also bought
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point shoes, dance point shoes for our dancers as well,
because it helps, you know, the company. These dancers do
go through quite a few point shoes during the season
and so it allows them the opportunity to get some
of that and covered by our patrons as.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, so that that is awesome. And folks, I'm a
real believer in giving where you live, and this is
a great opportunity to give back to the arts here
in Southeast Texas, specifically the Beaumont Civic Ballet and UH,
whether you're able to attend or not, you can participate
as a patron and UH and that is at Beaumont
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Civicballet dot net, so it's super easy to get to
you're gonna see on social media. And let's go over
the times one more time. We've just got about a
minute left of when this is going to be available,
and also the shows and the times, so sure.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Our performances at the Nutcracker will be December fourteenth and
fifteenth at two pm. Those tickets will go on sell
to the public on Monday, October twenty eighth at eight am.
That will be on our website www dot Beaumont Civict
Ballet dot net. And then the voting for the Battle
for the Ginger Crown will occur November sixth through November twentieth,
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and then we'll announce that winner as well, those two
winners as well, so that will begin then and tickets
are on sale for our other We didn't get a
chance to really to talk about it, but we do
have a Nutcracker experience that's prior to our Saturday Nightcracker performance,
but that information is on our website as well. So
we would love to have you guys come look at
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our website, check out us on social media Instagram and Facebook,
and we hope to see all of the ballet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Thank you so much, Kelly, and we are out of time,
so I'll see you soon.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Thanks Roy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We are back with the Roy West Show here on
News Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Five sixty k lv I and I have with me
Jancy Kimball with Nutrition Services for Seniors also known as
Mills on wheels here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Jancy Kimball, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Thank you, mister mayor. We love to be on here
with you. Love to start out the community.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You are regular guests on because what y'all do is
so important, and you know, we got to keep it
top of mind awareness because oftentimes people take for granted
some of the wonderful services that are offered to our
seniors here.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And they don't just happen.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It takes by a community to help make this happen,
So tell people about it.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Well.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Nutrition and Services for Senior has been around for over
forty years and you alluded to it already. Our largest
program is Meals on Wheels and currently we are serving
anywhere between sixteen to eighteen hundred meals per day for
homebound seniors throughout Jefferson and Hartin counties. We also have
seventeen meal sites throughout those counties where people who can
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drive and our ambulatory can go and enjoy a meal
and company with like minded people and they can play games.
We do nutrition education, and we do little educational spots
for them so that they can learn about things in
the community that they might not normally know but We
also have a huge transportation department, and we have eighteen
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wheelchair vans. It's hard to uber when you're in a wheelchair,
and so we can roll them up on the lift
and actually roll them onto the van in their wheelchair and.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Strap them in right there so they don't have to
get out.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Because it's so important that we keep these seniors at
the front of our minds and make sure that they
are not being left behind, because we don't want them
sitting at home, malnourished, isolated, because that's when the loneliness
kicks in, that's when depression kicks in, that's when poor
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health kicks in. We want to be here so that
we can do activities. That's our mission is to come
up with activities to ensure that they stay in their
own homes and they can remain independent for as long
as they possibly can well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And this is something as.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
People that can't see me, I've got white hair, so
I'm getting old, and I.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Tell her mine, you.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Know, and certainly you know both my parents have passed
and going through all that with them, you know, aging.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, people are living.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Longer because of better health care, but that doesn't always
mean better quality of life.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And this helps you.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Know beyond meet and just basic needs and you know,
and in terms of your volunteers, it blesses them too,
because you're a part of somebody's life.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Absolutely, and we hear from volunteers all the time that
say they get more out of it than the client does,
and that is something that we rely a lot on
as volunteers.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And delivering meals is not as arduous as you would think.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And if you've got a business, or if you've got
a couple of friends that you want to gather together
and come get trained on how to do meal delivery,
you can do it five days a week, you can
do it once a week, you can do it every
other week. We will work with your schedule. And it's
so important that we have this because as this rises,
food and security is a big buzzword and it's something
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that if we don't face it and deal with it,
it's going to touch everybody's life in some way at
some point in their life.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There is no demographic that has more food.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And security than a homebound senior, and we need to
be very aware of that and we need to ensure
that those seniors are being taken care of in any
way that we can, and so that's why we try
to stretch our dollars and we try to get as
many volunteers as we can to deliver these hot noon
meals to bring a bright spot to these people's lives
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because many times, although income is not a criteria for
participation in our program, many times, no matter how much
money you have, this might be the only meal you
get all day, and it may be the only human
interaction that these seniors get because maybe they don't have
family around here. But it's something that really has become
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important to all of us to make sure that we
talk about it all the time, because it really is
a crisis, and we our funding is being cut as
COVID funding continues to dry up, and the need for
our services does not go away. It is a year
round thing, and the last thing we want to do
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is tell these seniors who have paved the way for us,
who have built the infrastructure for us, is hey, I'm sorry,
mister veteran, you have to take a number to eat.
Hey I'm sorry, educator, you have to take a number
to eat. That's just it's appalling to me, and I
know that we can do better, and as a community
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we do better.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
And I love this community.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Because they answer the call and they come out, and
the businesses come out, the individuals come out, and they
support us in everything that we do. And that's what
we're going to continue to do. And I'm hoping that
on Giving Tuesday, especially that people who are listening, or
if you've got friends that you want to share this with,
I'm hoping that you will remember us on Giving Tuesday
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and do an extra special donation, maybe in honor of
your mother or father, or maybe an aunt or an
uncle or something, just to honor them in the way
that we can share that taking care of them with
someone else. And maybe they're not using our services, but
you know that as they age, and maybe you don't
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live near them, it's terrifying to think if we don't
have an organization like nutrition and services for seniors, what
would happen to them? So on Tuesday, please remember the
nonprofits in our area and all of the hard work.
But also remember too that it doesn't stop after the holidays.
We need to continue that sense of giving year round
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because this is an issue that sadly does not go
away well.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And I mean it's right on point because As medicine
gets better, as people take better care of themselves, they
live longer. But older people, you know, it becomes more
difficult to get out and about. You may not see
quite as well, you don't feel comfortable driving. All these factors,
and then clearly finances can run into it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh h So.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But you know, giving, you know, right in a five hundred,
one thousand, two thousand and five thousand dollars check is
great also, but just an ongoing giving.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Setting that up to give monthly.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
We have that on our website.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
If you go to Senior Meals dot org, if you
visit there, there is a place where you can set
that up, where you can do a monthly gift. And
it can be in like I said, in honor of somebody.
I can't think of a better way to honor, even
if they're not old enough to be on our service,
but just in honor of a parent or an aunt
or an uncle that will one day be touched by
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this in one way or another. Because, like I said,
the food insecurity.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Among our homebound seniors.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is often overlooked, and I think that that is a
battle cry that we are more than willing to pick
up and to let people know that they are here
and they are in need, and that it's our responsibility too.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You know, step up, Well, we've just got a couple
of minutes left, and you can financial need is very
much needed, but also you can volunteer and do both.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
And I think many times people.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
End up doing both that get in because they understand
the value of what Meals on Wills Nutrition Services for
Seniors does. And like you said, funding, you know, the
government continues to take money away, and that's fine because
I think as a community we can stand up, but
we need to remind people that we have a responsibility
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and these are our seniors and like you said, they're
the ones that have showed up for us in order
for us to be here. And I applaud you, and
I applaud all that you do. Uh and uh So
if somebody say we got about a minute left, if
somebody wants to volunteer, what's that process look like and
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how much of a commitment do they have to make?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
As much as a commitment as you want to make,
a call our office at four O nine eight nine
two four four five five, or you can visit our
website at Senior Meals dot org and we have a
short training that you go through and we kind of
train you on what to do. But it is an
activity of the heart, for sure, and this is the
season and we need it.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
All the time. So come on and join us and
try it out and see what you think. It's a
great way to give back.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, and the phone number and the website one more time,
sure four O.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Nine eight nine two four four five five or senior or.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, folks, you know now there's no excuse and here
we are entering the holiday season and we need to
be mindful of all those that need us and because
together we are better.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thank you so much, Dancy.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Thank you, mister mayor. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
We're back with the Roy West Show here on News
Talk five sixty k l V. I and folks, I
love getting to talk to people from across our community
that are having a huge.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Impact right here in southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And the next person I have is Joe Evans, the
new executive director of Revision that is brand new here in.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Jefferson County. Joe, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, it's my pleasure to have you. And now Joe
wears multiple hats. He's also on the school board for
Bombing Independent School Discreet, but we're not talking school district today.
And even though there may be overlaps on all this
tell people about the new Revision program that I've gotten
to see firsthand, So I'm super excited about it.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yes, sir, so, Revision Southeast Texas is modeled directly after
Revision Houston, and our goal is to build and leverage
relationships with the faith based community to help us get
positive role models and mentors in front of our children.
So we mostly work with children who have become involved
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with the juvenile justice system or if they're vulnerable or
at risk of becoming involved with a juvenile justice system.
And we just want to increase positive interactions between you know,
positive role models in our youth.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And that's the primary goal.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And the model is, you know, breaking the cycle of
of school to prison pipeline, and that's what our focus is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, and you know, you and I and several others
from Beaumont, Jefferson County and went over to Harris County
UH Juvenile Probation UH Department and UH and Revision partners
with them. We got to see a lot of what
they're doing. And and you know, I think I think
the general takeaway as anybody knows that we have more
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and more youth that are unsupervised, that they don't have
parents that either were taught how to parent or were
parented themselves. And so uh, some of our more violent offenders, uh,
and certainly youth in general are more involved in criminal activity.
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And I attribute it to a lack of supervision and
a lack of being taught, uh, you know by parents
and neighbors. And you know, we culturally we've just gone
through a lot of changes. And this effects kids across
socioeconomic boundaries too. Sometimes people think it's just poorer kids,
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but sometimes, you know, uh, kids that come from middle
class the upper middle class families run into these problems too,
just don't have the skills developed to function well and
end up getting into mischief. And and so what what
kind of partner? What does a partnership with the church
look like?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Uh, first, so we we we're housed and we'll have
our activities in that first United method as we're plan
on doing something official probably early December as far as
ribbon cutting and opening it up so the community can
so the community can see what type of activities and
resources will provide. And what we do is we try
to partner with with churches to recruit mentors from the
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faith based community. Doesn't necessarily have to be from one
of the churches, but it's kind of where we That's
kind of the partnership that REAL is based on, and
it's based on leveraging those relationships with the faith based
community and bringing those mentors to our children.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
But anybody can can volunteer.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
You know, if you feel like it's something that you're
passionate about and you want to get involved with our youth.
We ask mentors to make a six month to one
year commitment to meet with the child for thirty minutes
to an hour a week to do basically nothing more
than listen, you know, be a listening ear. You're not
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asked to be an authority figure. You may get into
a situation where you're tutoring or sharing some positive life skills,
which is always a great thing, but for the most part,
you're just a listening ear and someone for that child
to talk to and then also model some positive behaviors
for that child so they know that one there is
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a path to being a productive citizen.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And for two, someone loves and cares about you.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
So it's important that we get them to love and
care about themselves.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
And ultimately, like you said, it comes down to.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Them making better decisions when they know that people are
in their corner, people believe in them and give them
something to believe in. As far as believing in themselves.
We talk about the lack of supervision. In some cases,
there's not only a lack of supervision, but there's just.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
The lack of a positive role model.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
You know, a lot of people in our community, a
lot of children in our community. They never see someone
get up and go to work. They never see someone
get up and go to church. It's always, you know,
them taking care of themselves or siblings. And so we
want to let them understand that there's a different approach
to life and that you can have a.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Good, positive life if you just make great decisions.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
And so that's kind of what it boils down to.
But and if mentoring in your thing, you know, there's
other ways to get involved. We have to have an
activity center, we have to raise money, we have to
make sure that we're out in front of the community.
So there's a place for you. You know, I volunteer
mentoring in where you want to volunteer. We can always
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use help in some form or fashion.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, and I think you know, when I've heard you
talk about it, sometimes people say, well, you know, you
know this is parents' responsibility. Well, if parents aren't beating
that gap and we're aware of it, I think it
falls on us as a community to show up and
make that difference.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And this is that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And some people may not feel equipped, but it's only
because they hadn't.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Tried right right, very gratifying process.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
My best mentors are people who thought that they didn't
have a knack for it. They tried it out, they
fell in love with it, and they'll tell you every
time you know, the pleasure belongs to them and they
get so much out of mentoring and helping these kids.
So it's a very gratifying process, and you never know.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Try it out. I encourage to try it out.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
You know, I'll be with you every step of the
way until you're comfortable with the process. And if I'm
not with you, my assistant or somebody from my team
will be with you, so we won't just throw you
out to the wolves. If they go out there and mentor,
we'll we'll guide you through the process. There's a training
process and the vetting and out onboarding process that takes place,
and we will make sure that we give you all
the resources you need, you know, be a great mentor well.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
And I think that's the important part is at the
end of the day, these are kids that what you're
doing is you're just you're providing, You're paying attention to them,
yes and uh, and navigating through that it's not that difficult,
it's just uh, you know, but understanding that you know,
it can seem a little overwhelming perhaps if you hadn't
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done it before.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
But these are.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Kids that are just looking for uh, somebody that lets
them know that they matter.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Yes, absolutely, And that's that's the biggest part, you know.
We find we find that when kids know someone cares
about them and it tends to help them feel a
little bit better about themselves, they tend to make better decisions.
And while we don't serve as an accountability tool, sometimes
you know, having on your mind if you don't want
to let someone down, may also prompt you to make
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some better choices and decisions as well.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
So and I can't.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Speak enough about the work that the Revision Houston has
done just through the years and playing such a vital
role in transforming Harris County's juvenile justice system into more
of a rehabilitative type of a setting. And don't get
me wrong, the punitive aspect cannot go away, but I
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think we need to make sure that we're all working
in conjunction to want to once again make sure we're
making the best decisions on behalf of these children in
their future.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, and that's right, and at the end of the day,
we want we you know, keeping people incarcerated isn't a
good solution. It costs a lot of money and uh
and we're losing a work force. So you know, training
people how to function in this world becomes so important.
And like you said, they have had huge success. You
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can't argue with the numbers. You know, recidivism have really
impacted it by providing additional skills and letting kids know
that there's a brighter future.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Form absolutely absolutely, And speaking of that, you know, when
you say incarceration isn't always the best route. Something else
that we try to address too with some of those
mental health and subst abuse issues that so many of
our children struggle with and suffer through. So we try
to address the whole child and try to make them
a more wholesome individual.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, I know that y'all are doing great work. I'm
excited that you're doing it. We're about out of time.
How do people get in touch with you? If they
want to give money or volunteer?
Speaker 7 (31:50):
They want to give money a volunteer, the best way
is to send an email to Infold at Revision set
X dot com and me or somebody from my team,
we'll get back to you Fronto Infold at revisiting SDTX
dot com and we'd love to hear from you. We
need as many people as we can get. It takes
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an army, it takes a village, and we'd love to
have you.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Joe Evans, the new executive director with Revision of Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Thank you so much and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
We are back with April talking about the Saint Mark's
Chili Supper that is coming up right around the corner
of Thursday, November fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
April, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, it's my pleasure in tell people. For people that
missed the last show or people that are unfamiliar with
the Saint Mark's Chili Supper, which if they've been here
in Beaumont in any length of time.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
At all, that'd be kind of hard, but tell people
about it.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Sure, sure, So on November fourteenth, we will have our
eighty third annual Chili Supper, which is just I consider
absolutely amazing to be able to say that we've been
doing this for eighty three years. We will be serving
what we our logo is serving christ community in Chili
that day. A lot of people don't realize they come
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and they have a bowl of chili and get full
and shop at our bizaarre, and we have a silent auction,
several different things going on, and they don't realize what
they're actually buying is love and a gift to our
nonprofits here in the area. I don't think there's a
lot of different organizations that can say that they turn
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out every dollar of the proceeds out to our community.
So it is a day where we love having everyone in.
It has become a community tradition for everyone to come enjoy.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
A bowl of Chili visit.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
We will have a full parish hall, will serve well
over a thousand people.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
That day.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, and it is quite the community event because it
is at lunch and dinner, right it is.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
We'll have lunch from eleven to two and dinner from
five to seven. And you have several different options there
so you can you can choose to come and sit
and enjoy all you can eat.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Chili.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
You got chili, rice, beans, cheese. I don't know if
you're a beans you're a no beans person. You know
that's a real contested thing, right, So we'll have all
of that. You get all the trimmings, the friedo's, the jalapenos,
the crackers, tabasco, sauce. However you like to dress it.
It's how you dress it. So you come in, you
enjoy that. That's all you can eat. And or if
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you need to get it to go, we understand a
lot of people, you know, grab it, go, take it home,
take it to a relative, you know, what have you.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
So you can come and purchase a ticket. The cost
is the same.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
You can get a to go and it's going to
come in a paper bag and it's going to have
everything that you would have had upstairs in the hall.
And then also we have the frozen chili for sale
as well, so you can come and you will buy it.
It's frozen and courts and you can defrost and do
whatever you want with it at home. We also have
spice packs, so if you have someone in your family
(35:08):
that is gluten free or wants to make it with
deer meat, or wants to make it with chicken, ground
chicken or ground turkey, your option is there for that
as well. And then of course we'll have the shopping
so you really have a lot of different options there.
The Bizarre runs all day ten to seven, and then
we'll have serving meals both in house and takeout, and
(35:29):
the frozen chili seals from eleven to two and five
to seven.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So this is a full day and so I know
this takes a lot of volunteers and everybody's going to
sleep well that night, but there's a whole lot of
prep done beforehand, and you can also be making purchases
before that day as well.
Speaker 9 (35:51):
Yeah, so right now you can go to Saint Mark's
Chili dot com and you can purchase tickets. Adults are fifteen,
children or ten and a ticket is going to buy
you either all you can eat or one to go meal.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
You can also pre.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Purchase your frozen chili, so if you want to come
enjoy the hot chili, enjoy how it is there, but
also get frozen on the way down. You can either
pre purchase online we'll have it all backed up and
ready for you, or you can purchase while you're there,
and then you can also purchase a spikes pack excuse
me spice packs online or make a donation. So all
of that's online on Saint Mark's Chili dot com. We'll
(36:25):
sell tickets up until the day before, so Wednesday at
five o'clock we cut off the online ticket sales, so
if you go online and buy your ticket, you'll get
a receipt in your email and then we'll have all
those ready at the ticket booth.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well, and I'm looking at your website as we talk
here in the y'all got quite the bizarre there, too,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
We do?
Speaker 8 (36:48):
We do.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
We have several different vendors. I always get a jump
on that Christmas shopping every year. We'll also have Treasure House,
which is one of our other nonprofit that they come
in and they bring in, don't Nations and they have
an amazing setup and you can come purchase from them
at our bazaar as well, or they're just right down
the road on the other side of Saint Mark's, so
(37:10):
you're more than welcome to go shop there as well
while you're downtown, which would be amazing, hitting both blocks.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
But we'll be there at six point eighty calder.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
If you don't get a chance to go ahead of
time purchase, you'd rather doing cash check, what have you,
we'll be there ready to sell. It's like you said,
it's a full day, it's busy, so we just we
love it. The entire congregation comes together. We've been cooking
for ten weeks waiting for this one day.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It is a lot of preparation, and y'all have a
lot of freezers there because y'all have to freeze a
lot of chili in advance too.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
We do.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
We do everything. There is no chili cooked day of.
The only cooking you'll see day of is rice and beans.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
That's it. The beans.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
They get up there about four or five in the
morning and start cooking those and the rice.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
But other than that, it's all cooked in advance.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
We have some huge, huge freezers that we store all
those courts and pines in as well as we start
moving to the big roasting pans and that's what we
put in the roasters and starting heating that chili up
early that morning because as people start flowing in, it
starts going quick.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Well, and on the website, if people aren't able to
go or they're just not chili fans, they can donate
because this, like you said, this all goes back to
local charitable organizations right here.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
It does last year, So for our twenty twenty three supper,
in twenty twenty four, we were able to award thirty
eight thousand dollars, which is just a huge amount of money.
Some different organizations you might have heard of KASA. I
feel like everybody's heard of KASA, the Nutrition and Services
for Seniors also known as Meals on Wheels they depend
(38:52):
on that help. Some other place that helps in the community,
the Southeast Texas Food Bake. Everybody hears about that for
thanks Giving, but they takes year round. So so that's
all very imperative to our community and these nonprofits that
serve so many people in our community.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Well, it's all about giving where you live and this
is UH and it's also a great community event, so
you're going to see people from all over and there's
a lot of people that have traditions of going there
either for lunch, dinner, going to the bazaar. And uh
so you're going to see I'm going to say in Beaumont,
(39:32):
but really at Southeast Texas because there are so many people.
But you can go to a Saint Mark's Chili dot
com and you can just give a gift. Besides, you
can also buy a Chili Supper ticket for dine in
or take out. So y'all make it super easy for folks. Yeah, yeah,
And I just want to applaud you and and all
(39:55):
the volunteers. It's quite a chore to uh undertake so
and I imagine there's some prep because here you are
find yourself in this position.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
How many years have you been participating in it?
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Harvey was my first year to chair the Chili Supper,
So that was an interesting year.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
But since then, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Once you're in and you see it's I say, every year,
this is my Christmas is the Chili Supper.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (40:21):
I love seeing everyone in. Everyone comes in hungry and
leaves full and happy. So I can't ask for more
than that.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Well, April, thank you so much. We're out of time,
but we're looking forward to it and I'll see you Thursday.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
We are back with April talking about the Saint Mark's
Chili Supper that is coming up right around the corner
of Thursday, November fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
April, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well, it's my pleasure in tell people For people that
missed the last show or people that are unfamiliar with
the Saint Mark's Chili Supper, which if they've been here
in Beaumont any length of time at all, that'd be
kind of hard, but tell people about it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Sure, sure.
Speaker 9 (41:07):
So on November fourteenth, we will have our eighty third
annual Chili Supper, which is just I consider absolutely amazing
to be able to say that we've been doing this
for eighty three years. We will be serving what we
our logo is serving christ community in Chili that day.
A lot of people don't realize they come and they
have a bowl of chili and get full and shop
(41:30):
at our bizaar and we have a silent auction several
different things going on and they don't realize what they're
actually buying is love and a gift to our nonprofits
here in the area. I don't think there's a lot
of different organizations that can say that they turn out
every dollar of the proceeds out to our community. So
(41:51):
it is a day where we love having everyone in.
It has become a community tradition for everyone to come
enjoy a.
Speaker 8 (41:58):
Bowl of chili. Visit.
Speaker 9 (42:00):
We will have a full parish hall, will serve well
over one thousand people that day.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Well, and it is it is quite the community event
because it is at lunch and dinner, right it is.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
We'll have lunch from eleven to two and dinner from
five to seven. And you have several different options there
so you can you can choose to come and sit
and enjoy all you can eat.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Chili.
Speaker 9 (42:22):
You got chili, rice, beans, cheese. I don't know if
you're a beans you're a no beans person. You know
that's a real contested thing, right right, So we'll have
all of that. You get all the trimmings, the friedo's,
the jalapenos, the crackers, tabasco, sauce, however you like to
dress it.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
It's how you dress it so you come in, you
enjoy that. That's all you can eat.
Speaker 9 (42:44):
And or if you need to get it to go,
we understand a lot of people, you know, grab it, go,
take it home, take it to a relative, you know,
what have you.
Speaker 8 (42:53):
So you can come and purchase a ticket. The cost
is the same.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
You can get a to go and it's going to
come in a paper bag and it's going to have
everything that you would have had upstairs in the hall.
And then also we have the frozen chili for sale
as well, so you can come and you will buy it.
It's frozen, it's in pints and quartz, and you can
defrost and do whatever you want with it at home.
We also have spice packs, so if you have someone
(43:17):
in your family that is gluten free or wants to
make it with deer meat, or wants to make it
with chicken, ground chicken, or ground turkey, your option is
there for that as well. And then of course we'll
have the shopping so you really have a lot of
different options there. The Bizarre runs all day ten to seven,
and then we'll have serving meals both in house and takeout,
(43:39):
and the frozen chili seals from eleven to two and
five to seven.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So this is a full day.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
And so I know this takes a lot of volunteers
and everybody's going to sleep well that night, but there's
a whole lot of prep done beforehand, and you can
also be making purchases before that day as well.
Speaker 9 (44:01):
Yeah, so right now you can go to Saint Mark's
Chili dot com and you can purchase tickets. Adults are fifteen,
children or ten and a ticket is going to buy
you either all you can eat or one to go meal.
You can also pre purchase your frozen chili, so if
you want to come enjoy the hot chili, enjoy how
it is there, but also get frozen on the way down.
You can either pre purchase online we'll have it all
(44:23):
backed up and ready for you, or you can purchase
while you're there. And then you can also purchase a
spikes pack excuse me spice packs online or make a donation.
So all of that's online on Saint marks Chili dot com.
We'll sell tickets up until the day before, So Wednesday
at five o'clock we cut off the online ticket sales,
So if you go online and buy your ticket, you'll
(44:44):
get a receipt in your email and then we'll have
all those ready at the ticket booth.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, and I'm looking at your website as we talk
here in the y'all got quite the bizarre there, too,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
We do, we do.
Speaker 9 (44:59):
We have several different vendors. I always get a jump
on that Christmas shopping every year. We'll also have Treasure House,
which is one of our other nonprofit that they come
in and they bring in donations and they have an
amazing setup and you can come purchase from them at
our bazaar as well. Or they're just right down the
road on the other side of Saint Mark's, so you're
(45:20):
more than welcome to go shop there as well while
you're downtown, which would be amazing hitting both blocks.
Speaker 8 (45:26):
But we'll be there at six point eighty calder.
Speaker 9 (45:28):
If you don't get a chance to go ahead of
time purchase you'd rather doing cash check, what have you,
we'll be there ready to sell. It's like you said,
it's a full day, it's busy, so we just we
love it. The entire congregation comes together. We've been cooking
for ten weeks waiting for this one day.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It is a lot of preparation and y'all have a
lot of freezers there because y'all have to freeze a
lot of chili in advance too.
Speaker 9 (45:54):
We do, we do everything. There is no chili cooked
day of. The only cooking you'll see day of is
rice and beans.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
The beans.
Speaker 9 (46:04):
They get up there about four or five in the
morning and start cooking those and the rice.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
But other than that, it's all cooked in advance.
Speaker 9 (46:10):
We have some huge, huge freezers that we store all
those courts and pines in as well as we start
moving to the big roasting pans, and that's what we
put in the roasters and start cooking heating that chili
up early that morning because as people start flowing in,
it starts going quick.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Well.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
And on the website, if people aren't able to go
or they're just not chili fans, they can donate because this,
like you said, this all goes back to local charitable
organizations right here.
Speaker 9 (46:42):
It does last year, So for our twenty twenty three supper,
in twenty twenty four, we were able to award thirty
eight thousand dollars, which is just a huge amount of money.
Some different organizations you might have heard of KASA. I
feel like everybody's heard of KASA, the Nutrition and Services
for Seniors also known as Meals on Wheels they depend
(47:02):
on that help. Some other place that helps in the community,
the Southeast Texas Food Bank. Everybody hears about that for Thanksgiving,
but they takes year round. So so that's all very
imperative to our community and these nonprofits that serve so
many people in our community.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Well, it's all about giving where you live and this
is uh and it's also a great community event. So
you're going to see people from all over and there's
a lot of people that have traditions of going there
either for lunch, dinner, going to the bazaar and uh,
so you're going.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
To see.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Someone you know, you're going to say in Beaumont, but
really at Southeast Texas because there are so many people.
But you can go to a Saint Mark's Chili dot
com and you can just give a gift. Besides, you
can also buy a chili supper ticket.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
For dining in or take out. So y'all make it
soon pretty easy for folks.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, yeah, and I just want to applaud you and
all the volunteers. It's quite a chore to undertake, so
and I imagine there's some prep because here you are
find yourself in this position. How many years have you
been participating in it?
Speaker 9 (48:18):
Harvey was my first year to chair the Chili Supper,
so that was an interesting year. But since then, I'll
tell you what. Once you're in and you see it's
I say every year, this is my Christmas is the
Chili Supper.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I love it.
Speaker 9 (48:32):
I love seeing everyone in. Everyone comes in hungry and
leaves full and happy. So I can't ask for more
than that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Well, April, thank you so much. We're out of time,
but we're looking forward to it and I'll see you Thursday.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
Okay, thank you so much,
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