March 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Amber Banda interviews for the El Paso Public Forum on this segment include:
Deliris Montanez, Founder and President of Dance for Dreams Foundation
Rough Riders MC:
Daniel "Jack N the Box" Kroutil, President
John "Drop_Itt" Durham, SAA
Deliris Montanez, Founder and President of Dance for Dreams Foundation
Rough Riders MC:
Daniel "Jack N the Box" Kroutil, President
John "Drop_Itt" Durham, SAA
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to El Paso Public Forum, a weekly half hour
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome back to the l Paso Public Forum.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am your host, Ambrabanda with iHeart and here I
have the ladies Montaniez, founder and president of Dance for
Dreams Foundation, and I got this off online to foster
support and develop l Paso youth in organized sport event competitions.
And we're going to talk. We talking about whole lot more.
(00:45):
But the leadies, thank you so much for being here
with me today.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Definitely, you and I go a little way back. I'm
just gonna let the audience know. I think I first
met you out a bodybuilding competition, and you know my
mom from her.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Work as a nurse, and so we know each other
a little bit, and that's how I know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
About this foundation. But I know a lot of people don't.
And I mean, I know like dance. I love dance.
Nonprofit so this is, you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Know, something that I really wanted to have on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And so explain to us, the ladies, a little bit
about this nonprofit Dance for Dreams Foundation.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Well as you said it before, we go way back
for whenever I was competing and I realized how expensive
it was to compete and actually reach your goals and
your dreams. And I am not a dance T shirt.
But I used to love dancing and I still do.
It's just that I haven't done it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
For a while.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
And I was always going around town going to events
like dancing events, and I started celebrating my birthdays every year.
And then because I needed to pay for you know,
the food, the rental of the venue, we were charging
people at the entrance. But I didn't want it to
keep my money and I didn't want it to go
(01:58):
to another organic say because I said, well.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I am doing most of the work anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So in twenty fourteen, I decided to register Dance for Dreams,
which is actually a nonprofit organization public charity, so we
actually can use some of our funds to feed other
nonprofits in our local community that are dealing with the
same costs as we are. So they're nonprofit feeds children
(02:27):
that are US citizens between the age of ten and
seventeen that live in the Elpaso County. And the reason
because I did it that way was because at the
time I was working for the United States Boarder Patrol
and I didn't want any conflicts of interest because somebody
was not legal or didn't have a residence. So I say,
(02:51):
you know what, just to keep it clean, let's just
have it with US citizens. As long as they're in
school or their homeschool and they're being ten and seventeen
and they live in the Ol Paso County, they qualify
for our nonprofits. So basically, before we.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Started doing up to five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Scholarships to feed the kids that were involved in organized
or events competition, they needed to be either locally, regional, national,
or international because I competed international as well, and you
have to pay, you know, for the flight and the
hotel and the meals.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It gets really expensive.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
And I want the organization to feed underserved children. But
at the same time I understand that, you know, we
might have children that qualify for our scholarships.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That let's say that they are coming from a.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Let's say that the parents are separated, or let's say
that they're divorced. Let's say that the dad is a doctor,
but the mom, let's say that she worked for Walmart.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So in reality, the mom.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Doesn't have the funds to help the child to reach
their goals and dreams, because I mean, let's be realistic.
I mean, how much do employees in Walmart, you know, earn,
you know, a week. So I wanted to go by
their earned income. But at the same time, you know,
(04:22):
be cognizant that some children, even though they come from
a you know, high income family, maybe something happened around
the way that they're not from a high income family
and now they're from low income family.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
You know, I know that some organizations have these.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Tables, right like for example, like you get benefits, Like
if you have one person living in the household, I
think that the maximum that the person can earn, Let's
say it's twenty six thousand dollars, But it doesn't take
in consideration what that parent spends during that year.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So maybe that income.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It's twenty six thousand dollars, but maybe their expenses are
thirty thousand dollars. Was then they cannot spend the money
on their kids and they have to prioritize what they
spend their earnings on.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So that's how dance for Drink came along. And then
I have.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
A passion for horses, and I do have a personal story.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I was a bully, I was harassed, I was discriminated
and retaliated in the workplace. And whenever I was little,
my mom used to have a horse and we used
to go riding with my cousins in the mountains. And
I go back to my childhood on how refreshing it
(05:45):
was to be with a four legged partner.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Right, And I had a dog, her.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Name was Stacy, and she passed away the same day
that I went to Korea with the military, so it
was very emotional for me and I didn't want it
to have another dog, so I said, well, I started
researching on mental illness, mental health and the symptoms and
why does it occurs. And a lot of people think
(06:13):
that mental illness have to do with people being paranoid, crazy, lunatic, aggressive,
and that's the furthest from the truth. So whenever I
came back from Japan. I found this horse on Facebook.
His name is DOMINOI fact, he's paint black and white.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He's a mud he'll never race on a race track
because he doesn't have.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Any papers, but he helped me so much with processing
my trauma. And then it was one horse after the other.
So right now we have a horses. We have some
race horses, We have some horses that we use for
equinnesses to therapy, and we have some horses that we
use for mounta therapy inside the facility because.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The insurance is really expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Now, I didn't want the horses to be within the
nonprofit because I am the one that feeds and care
for the horses, meaning it's coming from my pocket.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So so horses.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So, just so the audience knows, you have an LLC,
it's called Equestrian Holistic Retreat Getaway for those who serve
you as and we'll talk more about you know, the
serving the US part, but that's what you're referring to.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You invested your money into these horses, made it a business,
and this business is what feeds the nonprofit Dance for
Dreams Foundation.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And the reason because I did that was because at
the time I was working for Customs and Border Protection.
You know, it was hard to get grants from the government.
And then most of the time the government was getting
grants to organizations that were already in assistance for five
to ten years, and you know, they were having like
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full time employees part of employees, and I just didn't
have that. Whenever I went through my troph you know,
my several traumatic events, I wasn't dancing anymore. I wasn't
celebrating my birthdays at events. So I wasn't able to
gather the funds that I needed to move the organization forward.
And then COVID hits, and then after COVID people after
(08:16):
that they didn't want it to go out anymore. Everything
was on zoom, you know, like you have meetings, people
don't show up, they want to do them on zoom
because they are on pajamas at home. So I needed
a way to feed the organization in a way that
it was realistic and accessible to me in where I
have a little bit more control where the funds were
(08:38):
coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And so the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Organization is not fed by grants from the government. It
is fed by donations from the community, and we provide
equalin Assystem Services because equine is a sport. Equestrian is
a sport as long as the children are involved in
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organized you know, sport events.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean, it's not like going to the park and
play basketball.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You know, they have to because the scholarship goes to
let's say, for example, you have a kid that goes
to Tucson to compete with another teammate. You know, it
can pay for the transportation to the for the food,
for the uniform, the entry fees to the sports, and
things of that nature. So that's you know, And then
(09:28):
I registered the organization with the government, you know, SAMs
dot org. And I realized that there are no grants
for children in sports. So you know, I am not
a grand writer, but I have been constantly looking for
or for funding, you know, from the federal government to
be able to bring them to our community in Alpasso.
(09:51):
And I have a friend of mine that works for
the community college and she's a grand writer, and she
told me there's no funding for organizations like yours.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, and as it is right now, they're taking away
funding from schools period. But that's another discussion. And if
you're just joining us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I have Delidi's Montaignies, founder and president of Dance for
Dreams Foundation again to foster support and develop Alpaco youth
in organized sport event competition. So she talked a little
bit about how the organization came to be. It is
a nonprofit about her LLC A question holistic retreat get
away for those who serve us and that's the organ
(10:31):
that's the business part that feeds the nonprofit because, like
you're saying, there's no funding really for kids in organized
sports and you're able to have these kids, uh, you know,
give them money if they qualify and then they can
use that money towards whatever sporting event that they're doing.
And if the if the community did want to help,
if they do, if they do want to help, there
(10:51):
is an event coming up that I'm excited to talk about.
It might seem a little early, but it really isn't.
Uh it's the Family Easter Egg Hunt for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Can you tell us a little bit more about this
event and how the public can attend this and how
this is going to help your foundation.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Okay, So, if the if the community goes to our
Facebook page, which is Dance for Dreams Foundation, they will
find a post and it will take them directly to
the link in where they can.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Get the tickets.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
The tickets are between zero for kids between you know,
like days old to five, and then if it's one
parent that goes with the child, it's five dollars, and
for any additional parent is three dollars. For children between
five and seventeen is five dollars. And then all that
(11:44):
money is going to use to Obviously we have to
have insurance to be able to do the event, you know,
we have to get the refreshments, and then the parents
can actually pay for whatever event they want to do.
You're going to have a competition with like a the sacs,
like people put sex on their under their pants.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, it's kind of like events for the kids.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, we're gonna have uh Easter egg hunt around the facility.
You know, obviously away for the horses because of the safety,
but the energy is there, you know, because the kids
are around the horses and in nature.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And I am excited because I don't know how.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Texas row House found out, but probably because of We
actually had an advertisement on Spotlight News because the executive
director and the owner of the of the newspaper is
actually one of the board members for our organization. His
name is or Rodriguez and he's uh, he has always
(12:47):
been to my events. Uh, he has always supported me
for the nonprofit. You know, I'm extremely accountable to him.
You know, if he asked me a question where the
money goes, where the money comes, you know, it's full transparency,
you know, with both the nonprofit and the and the business.
And we're gonna have music, We're gonna have the sports
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for the kids, you know, the games.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We're gonna have refreshments. What else are we gonna have.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
We're gonna have a two for one sale for the
equinessis therapy for So the two for one works. The
said that you have a child and you get the
introductory section services and you get two sessions for the
price of one. Or if you have two children, then
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you can use one session for one and the free
one for the other one.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So equin therapy it's not just for veterans, it's also
for for children.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm gonna tell the audience. I've said this on another
I had another lady.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
She had a ranch. It was also a nonprofit and I.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Growing up, I had a really bad eating disorder. And
I was sent to a place called Remutera Ranch in
Wickenberger's and they used equine therapy. And let me tell you,
horses are so I was afraid of them. I had
never been around them. I didn't want to be around them.
When I got there, they're like, you're getting your horse.
You're going to take care of him. His name is Hollywood.
He stepped on my foot the first day I got there.
(14:14):
I fell in love with this horse so much so,
this horse changed my life just taking care of something
other than yourself, this big beast, this big innocent beast.
And so you know, anyone out there that has never
experienced they're not sure about equine therapy.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I wasn't either, But that horse. I mean I have
a tattoo of him on my arm, you know, a
little symbol. He changed my life.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And also for everyone listening, I'm part of a nonprofit
Guardance of the Children. We did an Easter egg hunt
event for our kids and our organization at a ranch
away from the horses. But like you said, the vibe
is there, and it's just something about the horses being
there while the kids are doing these these games. It
does It changes the dynamic. It gets you into nature,
not just trees and grass and everything like you're there
(14:56):
with these horses. That and these horses are actually helping
people will overcome these traumatic events.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And so I just this. That's why I think that
this event is going to be a great event.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
This family Easter Egg Hunt twenty twenty five, Saturday, March
twenty second.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's going to be at.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Two nine zero one girl Scout Lane in Sunland Park,
New Mexico. Now this is the ranch. If you want
to tell everyone, like a little quick what you told
me earlier. This is money that you invested into this location.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So I am a resident of Texas. I live actually
by Franklin High School. But on the prior administration, there
were a lot of talk about the government actually using
our savings. Right, Federal employees have what is called a
four one K, they have the TSP, and throughout my
entire career supported Tralasian for twenty one years, I was
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putting money into those savings. And then I say, well,
I have these horses. I were spending a lot of
money on boarding and I didn't want it to spend
and waste my money. I wanted to invest it so
I took all my savings and then I purchased this
runch and I made it in a way that serves
the business but actually serves the nonprofit as well. So
(16:08):
the nonprofit is both the business and the nonprofit are
both are registered with a state of Taxes. But because
the facilities in New Mexico, but we actually register in
New Mexico as well as I guess that they call
it domestics foreign business or something like that.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So yeah, so you know, the facility runs.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
On its own except obviously the property taxes that we
have to pay, you know, the maintenance and the caring
for the horses, which are expensive.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We have goats. We actually got three newborn goats.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yesterday, and we're gonna have more because we have another
goat that's pregnant and.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
She should be due this month. So we have like
a goats, not counting the ones that are coming.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We have roasters.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Chickens.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh you can have my yeah, a double of mine
right there with those choices.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh yes, yes, of eggs, just.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A partner eggs. You can fund the Dance for Dreams foundation.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
If my chickens will decide to have eggs, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I think that they're like, yeah, I mean we're feeding them,
you know, the the fat that he's for for chickens
to have eggs.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But I don't know. I mean it was only like
one to day.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Oh no, well I've heard in the winter there they're
a little finnicky that once they wear they'll be good.
But so again, Family Easter egg on twenty twenty five, Saturday,
March twenty second. If people want more information, go to
Facebook Dance for Dreams Foundation or go to Dance for
Dreams Foundation dot org and of course on our instagram.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
For Power one on our Instagram.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And Facebook for Power one or two point one Sunday
ninety nine point nine or ninety six point three k
Country go find us on Instagram or Facebook. The information
will be posted there the flyer what we talked about today,
you know, Dance for Dreams Foundation. I love this organization,
the ladies. Is there anything else that you would like
to tell the listening audience.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm actually going next week to Solem Park School District.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I'm going to talk with the board members.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'm going to talk with the superintendent from the elementary school.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Because what people have to.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Realize is, you know, we have a lot of issues
with mental health suicide. You know, I see the kids
becoming more aggressive as time pass on, and I think
that there is a lot of issues, a lot of
anger that some of these kids have in side that
if we can address with holistic more in a holistic
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approach than medication, we can actually solve them. Says of
money that we're wasting in our country. So you know,
not everybody's into horses, right, but people can also, you know,
can always donate to the nonprofit. One hundred percent of
the donations are deductible. We are actually working on some
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businesses that I have that a percentage is going to
go to the nonprofit itself. So the person that I
you know, like for example, like yourbook Makeup Right. So
I'm a beauty consultant with Mary Kay and ten percent
of the fifty percent that I earned as a beauty consultant,
ten percent goes to Dance for Dreams, ten percent will
go to a nonprofit of your choice, which could be
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the nonprofit that you're involved with.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And then the other.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Thirty percent is going to go to equestrian as it's
the services in our district. So you know, even though
I'm involved with this, you know, because I am retired,
right so I use the products.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I love the products. I believe in the products. And
instead of going to Message.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Jays Penny or Ultra and buy a make cup, you
can buy from Mary Kay and the same way you
can say, you know, you can help our local organizations
because I'm telling you the government is gonna cut a
lot of that funding because there's no oversight, there's no
transparency on that money. That money has been misused and
unless they can come up with as fresh shit where
(20:17):
the money is going to, you know, a lot of
these nonprofits are going to lose their funding.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Most of them are going to have to close.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, well, let's hope that, you know, people out there
start shopping some Mary Kay post your links on your
Dance for Dreams Foundation. That way people can start shopping
local and supporting these local nonprofits.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The ladies, thank you so much for being here with
me today.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
No, thank you for having me. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Welcome back to the Alpaso Public Forum.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I am your host, Amberbanda with iHeart and right now
I have two bikers. They are part of the Rough
Riders MC motorcycle club. I have here Daniel crotal. Jack
in the Box is his road name. We'll explain that
a little bit later. He is the president of Rough
Riders MC daniel, thank you for being.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Here with me today.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Thank you so much for having.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Me, definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And we are also accompanied by John Durham aka drop It.
He is the sergeant at arms for Rough Riders, MC John.
Thank you for being here with me today.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
My pleasure. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Of course, so you all are not the first motorcycle
organization I've had on this show, but I always like
to explain road names.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To people because you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Jack in the Box, drop It. I am known by
Amber and I am known by Flex. So I'm going
to ask.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Each of you individually.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I'll start with the pres Jack in the Box, How
did you get your name?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Why that name?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Well, when I was when I first started out, I
was known for drinking a lot of red bulls, and.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I was very cool, calm and collective.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
But when the red bulls came out out, you know,
I would pop out of nowhere and.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I would kind of be all over the place.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And so that's you know, kind of the history you
know behind that name right there, and nothing too.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Crazy about it.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Just one minute, I'm calm, the next it's out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So some names are given, some names you kind of
get them your own. Mostly they're given. Was that given
to you? Or did you name yourself? Jack in the box?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
That was given to me?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I love me, Parson was a red bull, and John
drop it with two te's.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I'm very interested in how you got that name, because
when I think drop it, I think drop it, leg
it's hot, drop it low.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
How did you get your name?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Yeah, so typically in our world, you you get your
road name either by doing something cool, by doing something crazy,
doing something stupid, or you know a lot of people
by by something that they say a lot, like something
catches us to say a lot. I usually like to
leave it mysterious because you know, I've been known to say, like,
(23:06):
drop it when people are talking about something all the time.
If there's arguments, you know, my thing is just drop it.
Also when we're out doing stuff, you know I can
drop it. But in our lifestyle, you know, we've never
(23:28):
there's always issues that happen where sometimes you might drop it,
so you never know, I like to leave it a
little bit mysterious.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, we're just gonna leave it at that. It's a mystery.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And so I always love to have bikero organizations on here.
Of course, people people that listen to me. No, I'm
part of Guardians of the Children. We're a nonprofit a
little bit different from from an MC, but we still
follow a lot of the same protocols.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So you know, we have our names to flex. I
just like to live weights.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
People, it's like, oh, it's I just like to lift weights.
My first tattoo is or one of my first is
a whereas it's a dumbbell. So in case anyone was wondering,
But right now, what we're going to talk about rough
riders MC more bikers doing good in the community. And
like I tell people, I've been a part of the
nonprofit world for a long time, even before I got
into Guardians of the Children in the biker world. And y'all,
(24:19):
if you say you're going to do something, you're going
to do it. That's that's you know, both amazing and
a little bit scary. But in this case we're talking
about good stuff. So before we get into this event,
which is going to be your twenty second annual Veterans
Run for the Waco Chapter, can you tell us a
little bit about your other involvement the Rough Riders MC
(24:39):
involvement in the community.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So here in Opaso since we've been here in Opaso
since two thousand and three two thousand and four time frame,
our main focus is veterans. We are a five oh
one c three nonprofit organization as a club, as a
whole club and here in a passo.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
For our chapter.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
So it's not it's not just something that we do
and say we do, but we actually are a nonprofit
organization as a club and as a chapter. Uh So
when we say we do things, these things, we actually
do them, we account for them, and we actually go
to these organizations.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
During the first part of the year, our annual Veterans Run,
we allocate the funds for different organizations that do certain things.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Later on we can talk.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Well, so this this one, we are donating money towards
the the hospiceal passo, Okay, because they do things for
veterans during that the last part of their life.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cycle, that's right, like a separate veterans program.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yes, yeah, so that is part of what this event
is going to go towards, or the funds from this event.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
So let's get.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Into let's get into this event. This event.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's March ninth. It's the twenty second, twenty second annual
Veterans Run for the Waco chapter. And like you said,
all proceed support projects for veterans in the l Passo community.
So can either one of you explain a run because
here on the show, we've had five k's, we've had
bicycle events, but this is not a run where you
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have to bring out your teny shoes. What does it
mean when bikers have a run.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Yeah, so it's a it's not a physical event where
you have to put on your running shoes and go
run five miles.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I don't think any of us would like to do that.
I definitely don't want to do that.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
But you know, our run is basically a big gathering
you know, motorcyclist and motorcycle clubs in the community. And
so usually you can do it at one stop and
have everybody meet there, or you can do you know,
a poker run where there's multiple stops to give a
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lot of business to you know, a lot of these
places in O'll pass it because that's what we try
to do, is we try to help out other businesses
that are kind of not necessarily struggling, but trying to
get them some exposure as well. So you can have
multiple stops where you know, first stop registration, second stop
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you pick a card, third and fourth stop you have
a poker hand, and so at the finer stop, you
know high hand winds or low hand wins. So it's
just kind of a fun way to do certain things.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, and with these events, you know it is obviously
predominantly bikers. But do you need a motorcycle to participate
in this run?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
No, not at all, absolutely not. Anybody can show up
to the registration and register and then go to the
different points that we have things. The way we're doing
it this time is like a scavenger hunt, So you
go to the different places and you find the things
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that we have positioned hidden.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
If you will to be found.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
So it's kind of like a fun way that we're
doing it this year so that you can actually do
things to find things.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
You can get in your car. You know, you don't
need to go on your motorcycle. You can go in
your car, you can walk there. I don't recommend it,
but however, you get to these stops by all means
we want as many people that are able to come
out and support to come.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Out as we can get because the main thing, again
is the money that you raise during these runs. Whether
you go to one stop, maybe want to go to
the first stop and then just go straight to the
final stop, because we'll talk about a little bit about
that in a minute, because the final stop is where
all the meat and potatoes of it. If we just
want to go to one, both go straight to the
final stop. I've done that before. The whole point is
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to raise funds, raise awareness for these different projects going
on for veterans.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So and I know that a lot you.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Know, not just in the rough riders, but a lot
of the bikers have a veteran background.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And I think, you know, I believe it was born.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
A lot of the mcs were born because they were military,
and they raised that camaraderie and that brotherhood coming out
and that purpose. And so again, if you're a veteran,
you support the military, support veterans. This is an event
for you, whether or not you've ever been near a motorcycle.
And so if one of you would like to explain,
so how many stops do you have?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And then what is going to happen at the final stop.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
You want me to do.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
So, we do have three thoughts. We have the registration
and about three stops where we have things that are
up around in these stops to be found pictures of
at our end stop, which is the Yard down in Montana. Yeah,
we will have some biker games, prizes, raffle the music music.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
My brother here, his band is going to be playing.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Who's been? Are you in a band?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh cool, that's gonna be really neat. I don't think
I've ever been to a run where one of the
members was online. Our own member, Fender, was in a band.
We only played once, it doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
What kind of music are you guys going to play?
Speaker 7 (30:31):
We play you know, everything from eighties, nineties and two thousands,
rock and roll music, alternative, just some good music to
get people feeling good and having a good time. That
it's really you know, our goal is just to bring
people together with music, and so.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
We're fortunate enough to be able to.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Play at you know, this event, which it's going to
be really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Are you guys going to feed the people?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Absolutely, yes we will food.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Will there be alcohol to purchase?
Speaker 8 (31:02):
The art is going to have the inside and outside
bar open for alcohol purchase.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So I mean again, even if you're not a biker,
they're gonna have biker games.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I'm a biker.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I've never participated in any of these games, but they're
fun to witness. The bands are always amazing. It's always
a good time to go and hang with your friends.
And again, if you're a biker, you're familiar with this.
If you're not, I encourage you to come out and
look and see what this world is all about. Like
I said, if you're just someone who wants to support
veterans or wants to support the community period, these events
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are for you. It's worth coming to look and and
donate and partake and have drinks and eat. And again,
right now, if you're just tuning in, I have Daniel
kraudele Jack in the Box is his road name. We
explained that earlier. If you missing, you're gonna have to
click on the podcast link.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And read here.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
He is the president of Rough Riders MC, as well
as John Durham aka drop It, Sergeant at Arms for
the Rough Riders MC. And again, I'm so surprised that
you all are five to one C three nonprofit. I
didn't think that you could be both. I learned something
new myself today. And you're having an event March ninth,
the twenty second annual Veterans Run for Waco Chapter. All
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proceeds supporting projects for veterans in the olpassive community. Now
what kind of projects will this be helping or what
kind of projects have has this money gone to in
the past.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
So in the past, one of our major benefactors that
we were doing giving our time, our personal time, and
our proceeds from our past Veterans runs too, was actually
the Ambrosio Veterans Home in the Northeast. We were we
would build projects for them. We actually made bounce in
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shooting rains for these guys. We made planters for them
to make their have their own vegetables. We had the
fountain full table, card table for.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Them to have some fun basically instead of being all
cooped up. And you know, this year, my brother drop it.
He was able to kind of get in touch with
the hospice. I'll pass though, and what they what they
do is we've been in talks with them to basically
sponsor their coffee top. So they're going to be they
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take all the veterans, and you know, they basically just
have a gathering just to where they can have some coffee,
enjoy some good conversation, feed them.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
A little bit, and you know, kind of just take care.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Of them that way, you know, make sure that they
have a social life as well, because they know there's
no worse feeling than feeling like you're alone, especially when
you're going through something significant like that. And so I
think it's very important that you know, we make sure, hey,
you guys are not alone.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
We are here.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
But that's one of our biggest things that my brother
drop It brought to our table and all of us
were absolutely on board.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I've had hospice on the on the show before and
again hospice, you're talking about veterans on hospice. So if
you want to support these veterans, which is you know,
this is one of the projects that where this fund
these funds are going to be allocated to. If you
go you go to one stop, you go to all
the stops, you go to the final side, you just
want to go stop, Hey, I can't stay, but here's money.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That is where the money is going towards.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And again I know that you guys are going to
be using this money for the right reasons. I know
that you are going to be helping these veterans. So
anyone out there, I know that you know, people are
wary of well if is my money really going to
go there? Yes, it is, It really is so, and
you're going to get some fun music with it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You're going to you know, be able to help the yard.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Who the yard by the way, a lot of bikers
have their events there because they are very open.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
To helping the community. So you're going to be helping
the yard. You're going to be helping the community in general.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And if you want more information on Facebook, look up
Waco Chapter, hu ECO Chapter Rough Riders Motorcycle Club. You
can also go to the l PASSL Motorcycle Coalition Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Their flyer will be posted there.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
And of course on Sunday ninety nine point nine, ninety
six point three k Hay Country and Power one oh
two point one go look for us on Instagram or Facebook.
Their information will be posted there as well. Daniel, is
there anything else that you would like to tell the
listening audience or if not, can I just ask.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
You, like what does this mean to you? Like working
with the veterans. Why is it so important to you?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Well, first, one thing I do want to say to
everybody listening is there's going to be a lot of
free prizes to come win.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
So if you like free stuff.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Hey, come out and get some Wrapple tickets and you know,
hopefully you guys can win some pre stuff. We have
a lot of fool prizes this year and it's going
to be great. But the reason this is so near
near and dear to my heart is I'm a veteran myself,
just like my brother drop It, and I'm still currently
in the military, serving an active duty and you know,
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it's really it's really nice to basically feel like I'm
accomplishing something by helping out other veterans that are, you know,
maybe not in the best position, or maybe have lost
it away a little bit, or you know, just feeling
like nobody's out there for that. And this is kind
of what we do, is we bring awareness that hey,
there are vets out here.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
There's a bunch of homeless bets. The homoss shelters are cool.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
You know, we feed them, we you know, try to
give them everything we can. And that's why it's so
important that we raise this money so that we can
help as many veterans as we can, and it's very
it's very important to me, especially coming from a military background.
You know, we help as many as we can, especially
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where the veterans suicide rate going up every day, and
that's that's why this is very, very important. You know,
we need help to be able to reach out to
these veterans.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You see it, you're doing it, you're living it.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Thank you for your service and John, same question, why
is this so important to you and is there anything
else that you would like to tell the listening audience.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Well, I retired from the army, so this is important
for me because you know, I am a veteran. I
have been there where I needed help. One I needed help.
So now I am in a position where I can
be that that help for someone else. That's my driving
force to be able to be that help for someone
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you know. My chapter, our chapter does two events a year,
our annual Veterans Run, where we pick an organization every
year to help, and in our Turkey Run, where we're
always raising money to give turkeys to some of the
local shelters and then to veterans. This past year we
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made sure that a lot of it went towards veterans.
But then we also still help some of the shelters
that we do, and some of those always go back
into the motorcycle community that go you know, you know
where they go, because some of them go to the
Guardians of the Children. But this past year we were
able to help some of the veterans that were in
Veterans Court and some of the some of the soldiers
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that were in the unit that was on the border.
And for this coming year, I've actually been working with
Operation home Front. We're going to be able to make
a bigger impact this coming year. I've been working on
this for about six months.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Well, you you make sure to contact me when it's
time to talk about that. I'd love to have you
guys back on again. Thank you both for your service,
thank you for what you're doing for the veteran community,
what you're doing with the biker community.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I'm very grateful to have had you on and thank
you both for being here with me today.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Thank you, thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome back to the l Paso Public Forum.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am your host, Ambrabanda with iHeart and here I
have the ladies Montaniez, founder and president of Dance for
Dreams Foundation, and I got this off online to foster
support and develop l Paso youth in organized sport event competitions.
And we're going to talk. We talking about whole lot more.
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But the leadies, thank you so much for being here
with me today.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Definitely, you and I go a little way back. I'm
just gonna let the audience know. I think I first
met you out a bodybuilding competition, and you know my
mom from her.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Work as a nurse, and so we know each other
a little bit, and that's how I know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
About this foundation. But I know a lot of people don't.
And I mean, I know like dance. I love dance.
Nonprofit so this is, you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Know, something that I really wanted to have on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And so explain to us, the ladies, a little bit
about this nonprofit Dance for Dreams Foundation.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Well as you said it before, we go way back
for whenever I was competing and I realized how expensive
it was to compete and actually reach your goals and
your dreams. And I am not a dance T shirt.
But I used to love dancing and I still do.
It's just that I haven't done it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
For a while.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
And I was always going around town going to events
like dancing events, and I started celebrating my birthdays every year.
And then because I needed to pay for you know,
the food, the rental of the venue, we were charging
people at the entrance. But I didn't want it to
keep my money and I didn't want it to go
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to another organic say because I said, well.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I am doing most of the work anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So in twenty fourteen, I decided to register Dance for Dreams,
which is actually a nonprofit organization public charity, so we
actually can use some of our funds to feed other
nonprofits in our local community that are dealing with the
same costs as we are. So they're nonprofit feeds children
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that are US citizens between the age of ten and
seventeen that live in the Elpaso County. And the reason
because I did it that way was because at the
time I was working for the United States Boarder Patrol
and I didn't want any conflicts of interest because somebody
was not legal or didn't have a residence. So I say,
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you know what, just to keep it clean, let's just
have it with US citizens. As long as they're in
school or their homeschool and they're being ten and seventeen
and they live in the Ol Paso County, they qualify
for our nonprofits. So basically, before we.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Started doing up to five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Scholarships to feed the kids that were involved in organized
or events competition, they needed to be either locally, regional, national,
or international because I competed international as well, and you
have to pay, you know, for the flight and the
hotel and the meals.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It gets really expensive.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
And I want the organization to feed underserved children. But
at the same time I understand that, you know, we
might have children that qualify for our scholarships.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That let's say that they are coming from a.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Let's say that the parents are separated, or let's say
that they're divorced. Let's say that the dad is a doctor,
but the mom, let's say that she worked for Walmart.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So in reality, the mom.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Doesn't have the funds to help the child to reach
their goals and dreams, because I mean, let's be realistic.
I mean, how much do employees in Walmart, you know, earn,
you know, a week. So I wanted to go by
their earned income. But at the same time, you know,
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be cognizant that some children, even though they come from
a you know, high income family, maybe something happened around
the way that they're not from a high income family
and now they're from low income family.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
You know, I know that some organizations have these.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Tables, right like for example, like you get benefits, Like
if you have one person living in the household, I
think that the maximum that the person can earn, Let's
say it's twenty six thousand dollars, But it doesn't take
in consideration what that parent spends during that year.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So maybe that income.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It's twenty six thousand dollars, but maybe their expenses are
thirty thousand dollars. Was then they cannot spend the money
on their kids and they have to prioritize what they
spend their earnings on.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So that's how dance for Drink came along. And then
I have.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
A passion for horses, and I do have a personal story.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I was a bully, I was harassed, I was discriminated
and retaliated in the workplace. And whenever I was little,
my mom used to have a horse and we used
to go riding with my cousins in the mountains. And
I go back to my childhood on how refreshing it
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was to be with a four legged partner.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Right, And I had a dog, her.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Name was Stacy, and she passed away the same day
that I went to Korea with the military, so it
was very emotional for me and I didn't want it
to have another dog, so I said, well, I started
researching on mental illness, mental health and the symptoms and
why does it occurs. And a lot of people think
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that mental illness have to do with people being paranoid, crazy, lunatic, aggressive,
and that's the furthest from the truth. So whenever I
came back from Japan. I found this horse on Facebook.
His name is DOMINOI fact, he's paint black and white.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He's a mud he'll never race on a race track
because he doesn't have.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Any papers, but he helped me so much with processing
my trauma. And then it was one horse after the other.
So right now we have a horses. We have some
race horses, We have some horses that we use for
equinnesses to therapy, and we have some horses that we
use for mounta therapy inside the facility because.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The insurance is really expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Now, I didn't want the horses to be within the
nonprofit because I am the one that feeds and care
for the horses, meaning it's coming from my pocket.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So so horses.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So, just so the audience knows, you have an LLC,
it's called Equestrian Holistic Retreat Getaway for those who serve
you as and we'll talk more about you know, the
serving the US part, but that's what you're referring to.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You invested your money into these horses, made it a business,
and this business is what feeds the nonprofit Dance for
Dreams Foundation.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And the reason because I did that was because at
the time I was working for Customs and Border Protection.
You know, it was hard to get grants from the government.
And then most of the time the government was getting
grants to organizations that were already in assistance for five
to ten years, and you know, they were having like
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full time employees part of employees, and I just didn't
have that. Whenever I went through my troph you know,
my several traumatic events, I wasn't dancing anymore. I wasn't
celebrating my birthdays at events. So I wasn't able to
gather the funds that I needed to move the organization forward.
And then COVID hits, and then after COVID people after
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that they didn't want it to go out anymore. Everything
was on zoom, you know, like you have meetings, people
don't show up, they want to do them on zoom
because they are on pajamas at home. So I needed
a way to feed the organization in a way that
it was realistic and accessible to me in where I
have a little bit more control where the funds were
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coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And so the.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Organization is not fed by grants from the government. It
is fed by donations from the community, and we provide
equalin Assystem Services because equine is a sport. Equestrian is
a sport as long as the children are involved in
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organized you know, sport events.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean, it's not like going to the park and
play basketball.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You know, they have to because the scholarship goes to
let's say, for example, you have a kid that goes
to Tucson to compete with another teammate. You know, it
can pay for the transportation to the for the food,
for the uniform, the entry fees to the sports, and
things of that nature. So that's you know, And then
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I registered the organization with the government, you know, SAMs
dot org. And I realized that there are no grants
for children in sports. So you know, I am not
a grand writer, but I have been constantly looking for
or for funding, you know, from the federal government to
be able to bring them to our community in Alpasso.
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And I have a friend of mine that works for
the community college and she's a grand writer, and she
told me there's no funding for organizations like yours.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, and as it is right now, they're taking away
funding from schools period. But that's another discussion. And if
you're just joining us.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I have Delidi's Montaignies, founder and president of Dance for
Dreams Foundation again to foster support and develop Alpaco youth
in organized sport event competition. So she talked a little
bit about how the organization came to be. It is
a nonprofit about her LLC A question holistic retreat get
away for those who serve us and that's the organ
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that's the business part that feeds the nonprofit because, like
you're saying, there's no funding really for kids in organized
sports and you're able to have these kids, uh, you know,
give them money if they qualify and then they can
use that money towards whatever sporting event that they're doing.
And if the if the community did want to help,
if they do, if they do want to help, there
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is an event coming up that I'm excited to talk about.
It might seem a little early, but it really isn't.
Uh it's the Family Easter Egg Hunt for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Can you tell us a little bit more about this
event and how the public can attend this and how
this is going to help your foundation.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Okay, So, if the if the community goes to our
Facebook page, which is Dance for Dreams Foundation, they will
find a post and it will take them directly to
the link in where they can.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Get the tickets.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
The tickets are between zero for kids between you know,
like days old to five, and then if it's one
parent that goes with the child, it's five dollars, and
for any additional parent is three dollars. For children between
five and seventeen is five dollars. And then all that
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money is going to use to Obviously we have to
have insurance to be able to do the event, you know,
we have to get the refreshments, and then the parents
can actually pay for whatever event they want to do.
You're going to have a competition with like a the sacs,
like people put sex on their under their pants.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, it's kind of like events for the kids.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, we're gonna have uh Easter egg hunt around the facility.
You know, obviously away for the horses because of the safety,
but the energy is there, you know, because the kids
are around the horses and in nature.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And I am excited because I don't know how.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Texas row House found out, but probably because of We
actually had an advertisement on Spotlight News because the executive
director and the owner of the of the newspaper is
actually one of the board members for our organization. His
name is or Rodriguez and he's uh, he has always
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been to my events. Uh, he has always supported me
for the nonprofit. You know, I'm extremely accountable to him.
You know, if he asked me a question where the
money goes, where the money comes, you know, it's full transparency,
you know, with both the nonprofit and the and the business.
And we're gonna have music, We're gonna have the sports
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for the kids, you know, the games.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
We're gonna have refreshments. What else are we gonna have.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
We're gonna have a two for one sale for the
equinessis therapy for So the two for one works. The
said that you have a child and you get the
introductory section services and you get two sessions for the
price of one. Or if you have two children, then
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you can use one session for one and the free
one for the other one.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So equin therapy it's not just for veterans, it's also
for for children.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm gonna tell the audience. I've said this on another
I had another lady.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
She had a ranch. It was also a nonprofit and I.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Growing up, I had a really bad eating disorder. And
I was sent to a place called Remutera Ranch in
Wickenberger's and they used equine therapy. And let me tell you,
horses are so I was afraid of them. I had
never been around them. I didn't want to be around them.
When I got there, they're like, you're getting your horse.
You're going to take care of him. His name is Hollywood.
He stepped on my foot the first day I got there.
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I fell in love with this horse so much so,
this horse changed my life just taking care of something
other than yourself, this big beast, this big innocent beast.
And so you know, anyone out there that has never
experienced they're not sure about equine therapy.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I wasn't either, But that horse. I mean I have
a tattoo of him on my arm, you know, a
little symbol. He changed my life.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And also for everyone listening, I'm part of a nonprofit
Guardance of the Children. We did an Easter egg hunt
event for our kids and our organization at a ranch
away from the horses. But like you said, the vibe
is there, and it's just something about the horses being
there while the kids are doing these these games. It
does It changes the dynamic. It gets you into nature,
not just trees and grass and everything like you're there
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with these horses. That and these horses are actually helping
people will overcome these traumatic events.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And so I just this. That's why I think that
this event is going to be a great event.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
This family Easter Egg Hunt twenty twenty five, Saturday, March
twenty second.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's going to be at.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Two nine zero one girl Scout Lane in Sunland Park,
New Mexico. Now this is the ranch. If you want
to tell everyone, like a little quick what you told
me earlier. This is money that you invested into this location.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So I am a resident of Texas. I live actually
by Franklin High School. But on the prior administration, there
were a lot of talk about the government actually using
our savings. Right, Federal employees have what is called a
four one K, they have the TSP, and throughout my
entire career supported Tralasian for twenty one years, I was
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putting money into those savings. And then I say, well,
I have these horses. I were spending a lot of
money on boarding and I didn't want it to spend
and waste my money. I wanted to invest it so
I took all my savings and then I purchased this
runch and I made it in a way that serves
the business but actually serves the nonprofit as well. So
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the nonprofit is both the business and the nonprofit are
both are registered with a state of Taxes. But because
the facilities in New Mexico, but we actually register in
New Mexico as well as I guess that they call
it domestics foreign business or something like that.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So yeah, so you know, the facility runs.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
On its own except obviously the property taxes that we
have to pay, you know, the maintenance and the caring
for the horses, which are expensive.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We have goats. We actually got three newborn goats.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yesterday, and we're gonna have more because we have another
goat that's pregnant and.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
She should be due this month. So we have like
a goats, not counting the ones that are coming.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We have roasters.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Chickens.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh you can have my yeah, a double of mine
right there with those choices.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh yes, yes, of eggs, just.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A partner eggs. You can fund the Dance for Dreams foundation.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
If my chickens will decide to have eggs, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I think that they're like, yeah, I mean we're feeding them,
you know, the the fat that he's for for chickens
to have eggs.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But I don't know. I mean it was only like
one to day.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Oh no, well I've heard in the winter there they're
a little finnicky that once they wear they'll be good.
But so again, Family Easter egg on twenty twenty five, Saturday,
March twenty second. If people want more information, go to
Facebook Dance for Dreams Foundation or go to Dance for
Dreams Foundation dot org and of course on our instagram.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
For Power one on our Instagram.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And Facebook for Power one or two point one Sunday
ninety nine point nine or ninety six point three k
Country go find us on Instagram or Facebook. The information
will be posted there the flyer what we talked about today,
you know, Dance for Dreams Foundation. I love this organization,
the ladies. Is there anything else that you would like
to tell the listening audience.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm actually going next week to Solem Park School District.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I'm going to talk with the board members.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'm going to talk with the superintendent from the elementary school.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Because what people have to.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Realize is, you know, we have a lot of issues
with mental health suicide. You know, I see the kids
becoming more aggressive as time pass on, and I think
that there is a lot of issues, a lot of
anger that some of these kids have in side that
if we can address with holistic more in a holistic
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approach than medication, we can actually solve them. Says of
money that we're wasting in our country. So you know,
not everybody's into horses, right, but people can also, you know,
can always donate to the nonprofit. One hundred percent of
the donations are deductible. We are actually working on some
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businesses that I have that a percentage is going to
go to the nonprofit itself. So the person that I
you know, like for example, like yourbook Makeup Right. So
I'm a beauty consultant with Mary Kay and ten percent
of the fifty percent that I earned as a beauty consultant,
ten percent goes to Dance for Dreams, ten percent will
go to a nonprofit of your choice, which could be
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the nonprofit that you're involved with.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And then the other.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Thirty percent is going to go to equestrian as it's
the services in our district. So you know, even though
I'm involved with this, you know, because I am retired,
right so I use the products.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I love the products. I believe in the products. And
instead of going to Message.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Jays Penny or Ultra and buy a make cup, you
can buy from Mary Kay and the same way you
can say, you know, you can help our local organizations
because I'm telling you the government is gonna cut a
lot of that funding because there's no oversight, there's no
transparency on that money. That money has been misused and
unless they can come up with as fresh shit where
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the money is going to, you know, a lot of
these nonprofits are going to lose their funding.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Most of them are going to have to close.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, well, let's hope that, you know, people out there
start shopping some Mary Kay post your links on your
Dance for Dreams Foundation. That way people can start shopping
local and supporting these local nonprofits.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The ladies, thank you so much for being here with
me today.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
No, thank you for having me. Have a great day.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Welcome back to the Alpaso Public Forum.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I am your host, Amberbanda with iHeart and right now
I have two bikers. They are part of the Rough
Riders MC motorcycle club. I have here Daniel crotal. Jack
in the Box is his road name. We'll explain that
a little bit later. He is the president of Rough
Riders MC daniel, thank you for being.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Here with me today.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Thank you so much for having.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Me, definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
And we are also accompanied by John Durham aka drop It.
He is the sergeant at arms for Rough Riders, MC John.
Thank you for being here with me today.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
My pleasure. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Of course, so you all are not the first motorcycle
organization I've had on this show, but I always like
to explain road names.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To people because you know, they're.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Jack in the Box, drop It. I am known by
Amber and I am known by Flex. So I'm going
to ask.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Each of you individually.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I'll start with the pres Jack in the Box, How
did you get your name?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Why that name?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Well, when I was when I first started out, I
was known for drinking a lot of red bulls, and.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I was very cool, calm and collective.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
But when the red bulls came out out, you know,
I would pop out of nowhere and.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I would kind of be all over the place.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
And so that's you know, kind of the history you
know behind that name right there, and nothing too.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Crazy about it.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Just one minute, I'm calm, the next it's out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So some names are given, some names you kind of
get them your own. Mostly they're given. Was that given
to you? Or did you name yourself? Jack in the box?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
That was given to me?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I love me, Parson was a red bull, and John
drop it with two te's.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I'm very interested in how you got that name, because
when I think drop it, I think drop it, leg
it's hot, drop it low.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
How did you get your name?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Yeah, so typically in our world, you you get your
road name either by doing something cool, by doing something crazy,
doing something stupid, or you know a lot of people
by by something that they say a lot, like something
catches us to say a lot. I usually like to
leave it mysterious because you know, I've been known to say, like,
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drop it when people are talking about something all the time.
If there's arguments, you know, my thing is just drop it.
Also when we're out doing stuff, you know I can
drop it. But in our lifestyle, you know, we've never
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there's always issues that happen where sometimes you might drop it,
so you never know, I like to leave it a
little bit mysterious.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, we're just gonna leave it at that. It's a mystery.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And so I always love to have bikero organizations on here.
Of course, people people that listen to me. No, I'm
part of Guardians of the Children. We're a nonprofit a
little bit different from from an MC, but we still
follow a lot of the same protocols.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So you know, we have our names to flex. I
just like to live weights.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
People, it's like, oh, it's I just like to lift weights.
My first tattoo is or one of my first is
a whereas it's a dumbbell. So in case anyone was wondering,
But right now, what we're going to talk about rough
riders MC more bikers doing good in the community. And
like I tell people, I've been a part of the
nonprofit world for a long time, even before I got
into Guardians of the Children in the biker world. And y'all,
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if you say you're going to do something, you're going
to do it. That's that's you know, both amazing and
a little bit scary. But in this case we're talking
about good stuff. So before we get into this event,
which is going to be your twenty second annual Veterans
Run for the Waco Chapter, can you tell us a
little bit about your other involvement the Rough Riders MC
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involvement in the community.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So here in Opaso since we've been here in Opaso
since two thousand and three two thousand and four time frame,
our main focus is veterans. We are a five oh
one c three nonprofit organization as a club, as a
whole club and here in a passo.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
For our chapter.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
So it's not it's not just something that we do
and say we do, but we actually are a nonprofit
organization as a club and as a chapter. Uh So
when we say we do things, these things, we actually
do them, we account for them, and we actually go
to these organizations.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
During the first part of the year, our annual Veterans Run,
we allocate the funds for different organizations that do certain things.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Later on we can talk.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Well, so this this one, we are donating money towards
the the hospiceal passo, Okay, because they do things for
veterans during that the last part of their life.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cycle, that's right, like a separate veterans program.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yes, yeah, so that is part of what this event
is going to go towards, or the funds from this event.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
So let's get.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Into let's get into this event. This event.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's March ninth. It's the twenty second, twenty second annual
Veterans Run for the Waco chapter. And like you said,
all proceed support projects for veterans in the l Passo community.
So can either one of you explain a run because
here on the show, we've had five k's, we've had
bicycle events, but this is not a run where you
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have to bring out your teny shoes. What does it
mean when bikers have a run.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Yeah, so it's a it's not a physical event where
you have to put on your running shoes and go
run five miles.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I don't think any of us would like to do that.
I definitely don't want to do that.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
But you know, our run is basically a big gathering
you know, motorcyclist and motorcycle clubs in the community. And
so usually you can do it at one stop and
have everybody meet there, or you can do you know,
a poker run where there's multiple stops to give a
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lot of business to you know, a lot of these
places in O'll pass it because that's what we try
to do, is we try to help out other businesses
that are kind of not necessarily struggling, but trying to
get them some exposure as well. So you can have
multiple stops where you know, first stop registration, second stop
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you pick a card, third and fourth stop you have
a poker hand, and so at the finer stop, you
know high hand winds or low hand wins. So it's
just kind of a fun way to do certain things.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, and with these events, you know it is obviously
predominantly bikers. But do you need a motorcycle to participate
in this run?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
No, not at all, absolutely not. Anybody can show up
to the registration and register and then go to the
different points that we have things. The way we're doing
it this time is like a scavenger hunt, So you
go to the different places and you find the things
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that we have positioned hidden.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
If you will to be found.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
So it's kind of like a fun way that we're
doing it this year so that you can actually do
things to find things.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
You can get in your car. You know, you don't
need to go on your motorcycle. You can go in
your car, you can walk there. I don't recommend it,
but however, you get to these stops by all means
we want as many people that are able to come
out and support to come.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Out as we can get because the main thing, again
is the money that you raise during these runs. Whether
you go to one stop, maybe want to go to
the first stop and then just go straight to the
final stop, because we'll talk about a little bit about
that in a minute, because the final stop is where
all the meat and potatoes of it. If we just
want to go to one, both go straight to the
final stop. I've done that before. The whole point is
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to raise funds, raise awareness for these different projects going
on for veterans.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So and I know that a lot you.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Know, not just in the rough riders, but a lot
of the bikers have a veteran background.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
And I think, you know, I believe it was born.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
A lot of the mcs were born because they were military,
and they raised that camaraderie and that brotherhood coming out
and that purpose. And so again, if you're a veteran,
you support the military, support veterans. This is an event
for you, whether or not you've ever been near a motorcycle.
And so if one of you would like to explain,
so how many stops do you have?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And then what is going to happen at the final stop.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
You want me to do.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
So, we do have three thoughts. We have the registration
and about three stops where we have things that are
up around in these stops to be found pictures of
at our end stop, which is the Yard down in Montana. Yeah,
we will have some biker games, prizes, raffle the music music.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
My brother here, his band is going to be playing.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Who's been? Are you in a band?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh cool, that's gonna be really neat. I don't think
I've ever been to a run where one of the
members was online. Our own member, Fender, was in a band.
We only played once, it doesn't count.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
What kind of music are you guys going to play?
Speaker 7 (30:31):
We play you know, everything from eighties, nineties and two thousands,
rock and roll music, alternative, just some good music to
get people feeling good and having a good time. That
it's really you know, our goal is just to bring
people together with music, and so.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
We're fortunate enough to be able to.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Play at you know, this event, which it's going to
be really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Are you guys going to feed the people?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Absolutely, yes we will food.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Will there be alcohol to purchase?
Speaker 8 (31:02):
The art is going to have the inside and outside
bar open for alcohol purchase.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So I mean again, even if you're not a biker,
they're gonna have biker games.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I'm a biker.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I've never participated in any of these games, but they're
fun to witness. The bands are always amazing. It's always
a good time to go and hang with your friends.
And again, if you're a biker, you're familiar with this.
If you're not, I encourage you to come out and
look and see what this world is all about. Like
I said, if you're just someone who wants to support
veterans or wants to support the community period, these events
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are for you. It's worth coming to look and and
donate and partake and have drinks and eat. And again,
right now, if you're just tuning in, I have Daniel
kraudele Jack in the Box is his road name. We
explained that earlier. If you missing, you're gonna have to
click on the podcast link.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And read here.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
He is the president of Rough Riders MC, as well
as John Durham aka drop It, Sergeant at Arms for
the Rough Riders MC. And again, I'm so surprised that
you all are five to one C three nonprofit. I
didn't think that you could be both. I learned something
new myself today. And you're having an event March ninth,
the twenty second annual Veterans Run for Waco Chapter. All
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proceeds supporting projects for veterans in the olpassive community. Now
what kind of projects will this be helping or what
kind of projects have has this money gone to in
the past.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
So in the past, one of our major benefactors that
we were doing giving our time, our personal time, and
our proceeds from our past Veterans runs too, was actually
the Ambrosio Veterans Home in the Northeast. We were we
would build projects for them. We actually made bounce in
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shooting rains for these guys. We made planters for them
to make their have their own vegetables. We had the
fountain full table, card table for.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Them to have some fun basically instead of being all
cooped up. And you know, this year, my brother drop it.
He was able to kind of get in touch with
the hospice. I'll pass though, and what they what they
do is we've been in talks with them to basically
sponsor their coffee top. So they're going to be they
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take all the veterans, and you know, they basically just
have a gathering just to where they can have some coffee,
enjoy some good conversation, feed them.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
A little bit, and you know, kind of just take care.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Of them that way, you know, make sure that they
have a social life as well, because they know there's
no worse feeling than feeling like you're alone, especially when
you're going through something significant like that. And so I
think it's very important that you know, we make sure, hey,
you guys are not alone.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
We are here.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
But that's one of our biggest things that my brother
drop It brought to our table and all of us
were absolutely on board.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I've had hospice on the on the show before and
again hospice, you're talking about veterans on hospice. So if
you want to support these veterans, which is you know,
this is one of the projects that where this fund
these funds are going to be allocated to. If you
go you go to one stop, you go to all
the stops, you go to the final side, you just
want to go stop, Hey, I can't stay, but here's money.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That is where the money is going towards.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And again I know that you guys are going to
be using this money for the right reasons. I know
that you are going to be helping these veterans. So
anyone out there, I know that you know, people are
wary of well if is my money really going to
go there? Yes, it is, It really is so, and
you're going to get some fun music with it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You're going to you know, be able to help the yard.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Who the yard by the way, a lot of bikers
have their events there because they are very open.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
To helping the community. So you're going to be helping
the yard. You're going to be helping the community in general.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And if you want more information on Facebook, look up
Waco Chapter, hu ECO Chapter Rough Riders Motorcycle Club. You
can also go to the l PASSL Motorcycle Coalition Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Their flyer will be posted there.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
And of course on Sunday ninety nine point nine, ninety
six point three k Hay Country and Power one oh
two point one go look for us on Instagram or Facebook.
Their information will be posted there as well. Daniel, is
there anything else that you would like to tell the
listening audience or if not, can I just ask.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
You, like what does this mean to you? Like working
with the veterans. Why is it so important to you?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Well, first, one thing I do want to say to
everybody listening is there's going to be a lot of
free prizes to come win.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
So if you like free stuff.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Hey, come out and get some Wrapple tickets and you know,
hopefully you guys can win some pre stuff. We have
a lot of fool prizes this year and it's going
to be great. But the reason this is so near
near and dear to my heart is I'm a veteran myself,
just like my brother drop It, and I'm still currently
in the military, serving an active duty and you know,
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it's really it's really nice to basically feel like I'm
accomplishing something by helping out other veterans that are, you know,
maybe not in the best position, or maybe have lost
it away a little bit, or you know, just feeling
like nobody's out there for that. And this is kind
of what we do, is we bring awareness that hey,
there are vets out here.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
There's a bunch of homeless bets. The homoss shelters are cool.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
You know, we feed them, we you know, try to
give them everything we can. And that's why it's so
important that we raise this money so that we can
help as many veterans as we can, and it's very
it's very important to me, especially coming from a military background.
You know, we help as many as we can, especially
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where the veterans suicide rate going up every day, and
that's that's why this is very, very important. You know,
we need help to be able to reach out to
these veterans.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You see it, you're doing it, you're living it.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Thank you for your service and John, same question, why
is this so important to you and is there anything
else that you would like to tell the listening audience.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Well, I retired from the army, so this is important
for me because you know, I am a veteran. I
have been there where I needed help. One I needed help.
So now I am in a position where I can
be that that help for someone else. That's my driving
force to be able to be that help for someone
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you know. My chapter, our chapter does two events a year,
our annual Veterans Run, where we pick an organization every
year to help, and in our Turkey Run, where we're
always raising money to give turkeys to some of the
local shelters and then to veterans. This past year we
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made sure that a lot of it went towards veterans.
But then we also still help some of the shelters
that we do, and some of those always go back
into the motorcycle community that go you know, you know
where they go, because some of them go to the
Guardians of the Children. But this past year we were
able to help some of the veterans that were in
Veterans Court and some of the some of the soldiers
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that were in the unit that was on the border.
And for this coming year, I've actually been working with
Operation home Front. We're going to be able to make
a bigger impact this coming year. I've been working on
this for about six months.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Well, you you make sure to contact me when it's
time to talk about that. I'd love to have you
guys back on again. Thank you both for your service,
thank you for what you're doing for the veteran community,
what you're doing with the biker community.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I'm very grateful to have had you on and thank
you both for being here with me today.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Thank you, thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
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