July 31, 2023 • 30 mins
It was a dark January night in 2006. Rob Pursley, 28, parked his car in a Cincinnati restaurant's rear lot so his girlfriend in the car behind him could take the parking space at the door. That decision of kindness turned into fatal one. Rob was shot and killed in a botched car jacking. His family has spent the last 17 years honoring the UC graduate and avid basketball player, each year with a benefit basketball tournament. Now for the 5th year, the Rob Pursley is holding a Memorial Golf Outing, to remember the man, gather with family and friends old and new, to raise money for those scholarships. Rob's brother Jack Pursley talks about his little brother and the outing open to the golfing public. [NOTE: Corporate sponsors contact https://www.rememberingrobpursley.com/ ]
In part two, Joy Landry, spokesperson for Hamilton County Environmental Services explains how they look out for the health of Tri-staters by daily monitoring of the pollution in this area, and provide warnings, tips and information to avoid lung illnesses.
https://www.hcdoes.org/
In part two, Joy Landry, spokesperson for Hamilton County Environmental Services explains how they look out for the health of Tri-staters by daily monitoring of the pollution in this area, and provide warnings, tips and information to avoid lung illnesses.
https://www.hcdoes.org/
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This week on iHeart Cincy Today,a Cincinnati man's family keeps his name alive
through a foundation that gives back tothe community. Rob Pursley was just twenty
eight, a UC graduate, afinancial planner, an avid college basketball player,
and a beloved family member taken bygun violence. Was he younger older
than you? Younger four years younger? Did you pick on him? He
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probably picked on me and our olderbrother a little bit. Rob was pretty
feisty. That's Rob's brother, JackPursley, here to talk about the Rob
Pursley Foundation's charity memorial golf outing nextmonth. It's the family's way of bringing
Rob's family and friends together each yearto keep his kind spirit alive and raise
scholarship money for student athletes at hisold high school. Stay right there to
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find out about how you can getinvolved, and later, twenty four hours
a day, year round, evenon Christmas, we are monitoring the air.
Joy Landry from the Hamilton County EnvironmentalServices. She's here to make sense
of why air quality days are sodangerous and important, with tips about what
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you should do on those bad airdays and the real medical problems that arise
from breathing bad air. Now oniHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins. Thank you
for listening to iHeart Cincy. I'mSandy Collins. This public affairs program for
tristaters focusing on needs and problems,solutions and answers. We share them all
right here to inform and inspire everybody. Today. My guest is Jack Pursley.
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He's the co chair of the RobPursley Foundation, which donates one hundred
percent of any fundraising for scholarships forstudent athletes at Rob's high school. Rob
was gunned down seventeen years ago herein Cincinnati. We're going to tell you
a little bit about his life throughhis brother Jack, and how their memorial
golf tournament in August is helping changelives and more importantly, if you're a
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golfer or you know one, we'retalk about how you can get involved.
Jack, thank you so much forcoming in. And I know your your
dad, Dan is sitting quietly offto the side. We may say hi
to you before this is over.Dan's okay. Anyway, Jack, thank
you for coming in to talk aboutthe Rob Pursley Memorial Golf Tournament that is
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coming up. This is the fifthyear that you're putting this together, that's
right. And when you have amemorial of anything, it's got to be
emotionally challenging because you're having this funand all these people and all this,
but you're above everybody, you know, feel the pain of the loss of
the person that you're memorializing. Solet's talk about your brother Rob and what
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this does to you having this tournamentevery year and your family, and let's
you know, remember him a littlebit right now. Is he younger older
than you? Younger, four yearsyounger. Did you pick on him?
He probably picked on me and ourolder brother a little bit. Rob was
pretty feisty, Oh he was.Yeah, Well that's fun. I wasn't
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expected your brother was a basketball player, and your dad told me that you
were also into sports. He coachedyou in sports. What kind of sports
did you play when you're a kid. Yes, we had three boys.
I'm in the middle. My olderbrother Dana was the oldest, and then
Rob was the youngest. So allof us played baseball and basketball growing up.
You're right, my dad did coachall of us. We really enjoyed
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that. And I'm proud to coachmy son Jackson now, and both baseball
and basketball. So kind of carryingthe tradition. Well, that's great,
And where did the golf come infor this? Yeah? I just enjoyed
playing live in a community where wehave a course and kind of picked it
up about ten years ago. Alot of our friends golf with my work
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helps to be able to golf andplay in outings and do different charity events.
So I really enjoyed it. Andthen five years ago we decided to
start a golf outing. Is anotherway to remember Rob. I spoke with
your father a while ago about thebasketball tournament that he started to remember Rob
and to raise money for scholarships forSycamore High School? Is that correct?
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Is it that the right? DidI remember that? Dan? It's the
right high school? And so thatthe money that was raised from the basketball
tournament every year goes to fund scholarshipsfor these high school students. You're doing
the same with the golf tournament,that's right. So as a part of
our nonprofit, right the Rob PursleyFoundation, one hundred percent of the proceeds
of all of our fundraising go rightback to local high school student athletes that
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go on to play a support incollege. So one hundred percent of the
proceeds from the golf outing will goback into the foundation, and we've awarded
Sandy over fifty thousand dollars in financialsupport to local high school student athletes.
And what made this scholarship a littledifferent was that you weren't trying to find
the pinnacle athletes, the ones thatare already going to get the scholars ships
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and such, but you're talking aboutthe passionate athletes that may not have the
same kind of opportunities and resources thatmore elite athletes might have. Is that
right, Yeah, Yeah, that'sright. Rob was one of those athletes,
right that had to work really hardand was blused to go on and
play at Bellerman College for a coupleof years, but but didn't have a
full scholarship. And so student athletesthat have an opportunity to continue playing any
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sport, not just basketball, guysand girls. We're excited to help everybody,
whether we can pay for books oryou know, help them with with
rent or if it goes towards tuitionup up to the families that we're helping.
Yeah, that's great. And Iknow you've just finished your basketball tournament
earlier this year. Do you havea figure for what you raised, do
you remember? I think it wasover seven thousand dollars over seven thousand,
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very good, and you awarded allof your your scholarships for this year.
So those kids are going to begoing on to college this fall. You
keep up with them every year.We do, and if anybody were to
jump out on our website remembering RobPursley dot com, very touching to see
the testimonials that scholarship recipients have providedback to us. So my father Dan
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does a really good job, andthe students are always happy to share updates
and keep us post on how they'redoing. And those testimonials on the website
again, it's remembering Rob Pursley dotcom are just so powerful when you read
them and they talk about drawing inspirationfrom winning the scholarship, finishing up their
college career, and then going onto help others and pay it forward.
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It's very touching. So this isthe part I don't like to have to
ask about, but we need totalk about Rob and what happened to him?
Is that okay with you? That'sfine? Yeah. So Rob was
leaving an event with his coworkers andthey were going to a bar. Remember
that day like it was yesterday.Rob and I lived together in Blue Ash
and so I remember him leaving thatday. He was excited. He was
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a financial advisor here in the BlueAsh communic community and he had a workouting.
They started at Turfway Park, sortof an employee appreciation event, and
then you're right. He was withhis girlfriend and one of her friends.
She was she's an attorney now,was was doing an internship back then at
Lexis Nexus, so she was upin Dayton and so she drove separately,
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so they had two cars. Theywere leaving turf Way and they ended up
at a restaurant in Hyde Park.It was Mulligan's back then. It's been
a number of things over the years, and I don't mind sharing the story.
So the girls, because they weren'tfamiliar with this area, were following
Rob in their own car. Therewas a spot kind of up front near
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the near the door. So Robdrove by that spot so that they could
have the spot. And he wentto the back of the lot and that's
where a couple guys were waiting onhim, and they wanted his car.
Wanted his car. It was ayou BMW maybe worth three or four grand
not nothing fancy. UM, butyeah, my understanding, you know,
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and working with Chief Striker, LieutenantCurland Whale and the detectives since my police
department back then, was that Yeahit was. It was a car jacking.
Um. A couple of guys thathad just very long criminal records were
up to no good and UM kindof cornered Rob in the back of the
lot. And it was dark.It was a January night, January night.
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It was dark. Um, itwas in the back of the lot.
Wasn't really a well lit lot,no cameras or anything back there at
that point in time. And UM, I mentioned earlier, Rob was feisty,
you know. UM, I'm surethat you know he wasn't wasn't willing
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to just give them his car.He probably um pushed back, He did
push back, and from the detectives, I believe he exchanged some words with
the first guy. Didn't know thatthere was a second guy. And I
don't want to use their names,they don't deserve that. But um,
the second guy jumps out of thecar and he had an assault rifle and
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shot Rob in the leg and hitthe big bone and then it hit the
artery and there was a there wasa military medic in the restaurant and he
recognized the sound of the AR fifteenand rushed right out and apply to tourniquet.
But the doctor said, even ifthat would have happened in the hospital,
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there wouldn't have been anything they coulddo to save rob because it just
where it hit. Too much bloodloss, too quick. Yeah, half
inch either way, and he's probablygot a little bit of a limp.
And still with us, right right, Well, I am so sorry Jack
for your loss. I know thisis hard to talk about that. This
is why you're here. You're hereto remember your you're your little brother and
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to forward his legacy. Let's talkabout the tournament. Where is it going
to be played in August? Yeah, and before we move on it,
just you know, thinking back towhat happened, we do feel so blessed
to receive justice and closure. Youknow, there are a lot of families
out there that are fighting for thattoday, for their loved ones, and
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hopefully everybody will get that. Butin addition to this, and say a
police department, Rick Gibson from theProsecutor's office did a phenomenal job. We
still stay in touch with with Ricktoday. He supports the foundation. Judge
Stephen Martin, who was actually interviewedby by Willie when the case was happening
back in two thousand and seven,just very grateful for everything that they did
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to make sure that Lonnie Webster wouldnot be able to hurt any other families.
So he'll he'll be locked up forthe rest of his life. But
we are excited about the upcoming golfouting and it's a nice opportunity for a
lot of people that knew Rob toget together to honor him. It is
a fundraiser, I want to beclear about that. We were there to
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raise money and also remember Rob.So it's just going to be a special
day. We've had four golf outingsso far. In the fifth one will
be on Monday, August seventh atMajestic Springs Golf Club. It's up in
Wilmington, Ohio. How long agodid you lose Rob? It was in
two thousand and six, January fourteen, two thousand and six. He was
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twenty eight at the time. Soit's been a long time that your family's
been going through this. And itdoesn't get an easier, I would imagine,
does it. It doesn't. Youheard me get emotional a little bit
ago. It's hard, but thething that keeps us going being able to
help others. That's why my fatherand I started the Rob Pursley Foundation.
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My father Dan and I co chairthat foundation, and we're just committed to
honoring Rob's legacy by helping others.That's our mission, that's what we stay
focused on. Thank you so muchfor coming in. Let's get you some
sponsors. Yeah, some corporate sponsors. And you've got room for foursomes?
We do, we do. Um, we have room for foursomes. Would
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still take maybe five or ten moreteams, would love additional sponsorship. We've
got a couple of options. Wholesponsors are just one hundred and fifty bucks,
but would really really benefit by havinga couple of corporate sponsors join this.
This very good cause. You're ableto reach out to us if you
were able to donate or participate.Um, we have an email address.
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Is it okay if I share that, Sandy? Absolutely, it's the Rob
Pursley Foundation. So Rob Purselely pursl E Y Foundation atmail dot com,
at mail atmail dot com, maildot com. Yeah, I've got our
own inbox for the foundation. Oryou could message or call me Jack at
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five one three three zero four twoone four or four. I've one three
three zero four two one four fourAnd then website for the Rob Pursley Foundation,
remembering Rob Pursley dot com. Yeah, anything else you want to cover,
No, just excited about August seventh. So if anybody is able to
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participate, or if you're if youwant to just contribute to the good cause,
please reach out as soon as youcan. It's going to be a
great afternoon at Majestic Springs on theseventh. We do a lunch in a
registration from twelve to one, andthen my son Jackson. It's a ceremonial
first tea shot every year. That'sat one fifteen and the event starts at
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one thirty. How old is Jackson? Jackson's nine. Okay, yeah,
so it looks cute too, yeah. Yeah. Is he a good golfer?
He plays. He plays baseball andbasketball and does okay at golf.
Last year he crushed one right downthe middle. But we'll see what happens
this year. I'm sure he'll bepracticing. Maybe you'll take him out for
a few buckets of balls before thentoo. So for sure, all right,
Jack, Thank you so much forthat and let us how you do
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Well today, my next guest isthe spokesperson for Hamilton County Environmental Services,
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Joy Landry, Joy, and Iare going to talk about air quality
today, why it's important to knowwhat it is, how it's evaluated,
and what you should do to protectyourself and your family. Welcome, Joy,
We appreciate you being here. Tellus about you and how you came
to the Hamilton County Environmental Services Divisionand actually what you do there, what
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services you provide for Hamilton County.Awesome. Well again, thank you for
the opportunity. My name's Joy Landry. I'm with Hamilton County Environmental Services and
we have basically two agencies. Soone is Hamilton County Resource, which is
your local solid waste and recycling district. And then our other group of employees
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is the Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency. We are contracted by Ohio EPA and
we handle air quality issues for Butler, Hamilton, Clinton, Claremont, and
Warren counties hence the Southwest Ohio andour name. And specifically we have throughout
that region seventeen air monitoring stations thattwenty four hours a day, year round,
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even on Christmas. We are monitoringthe air and the different pollutants that
may be affecting our public health fromday to day. We also work with
local industries, you're a local drycleaner, for example, or you know,
if there's still a large power plant, like there's some facilities up in
Middletown, we work with them tomake sure that they are meeting both state
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Ohio, state and us EPA regulationsto ensure that they are not emitting more
than they are frankly legally allowed todo. So that, in a nutshell,
is what we do here at theAir Quality Agency. What are you
actually measuring? What are you lookingfor? There are six specific air pollutants
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that the us EPA identified as earlyas the nineteen seventies as being harmful to
public health. And specifically this isozone, which we deal with a lot,
unfortunately in our region. So wemay talk about that a little bit
in a few minutes. Particulate matter, which we have seen a tremendous amount
of unfortunately this summer due to thewildfire smoke, sulfur dioxide, which has
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been decreased dramatically. Its principal mainemissions was from coal burning. We're doing
a lot less of that throughout thecountry. Nitrogen dioxides, which come from
some industries but also from a lotof our car exhausts, and then lead
and carbon monoxide. Lead in particular, the amounts are literally so traced that
we are not required to measure forlead here in Southwest Ohio anymore because we've
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basically eradicated that as an air qualitypollutant, which is good news. And
carbon monoxide is very very very lowas well. So the lead was coming
from gasoline? Is that right?You are exactly correct. That was a
major major change to help improve ourair quality when we use a country.
I think it was probably about inthe nineteen nineties with the Clean Air Axe,
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we basically switched from leaded gasoline inour vehicles to unleaded gas and that
had a tremendous impact moving forward overthe next several decades, dramatically improving our
air quality to get the lead outof the air has been a huge wind
across the country. There is goodozone and bad ozone, So let's talk
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about the difference between the two.Where good ozone is, where badozone is
and how is it created. Awesome, great question, Thank you for bringing
this up. So we have theozone layer, and that's the protective layer
in our stratosphere that helps basically protectthe earth, protect the environment from the
sun's harmful race. Then you havewhat we call ground level that's bad ozone.
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It's a combination of multiple pollution sources, so for example, car exhaust,
industrial sources, something as simple asyou spray painting that contains what's called
VOCs volatile organic compounds. And sowhen I talk to school groups, I
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like this analogy. It's sort oflike baking cookies. You have all your
ingredients, and in our case,the ingredients is all those different types of
air pollutants, and then when youput them in the oven ie a lot
of sunshine, a lot of heatin the summer, it allows those ozone
molecules to expand because it's a gasbased air pollutant. And so when we
have higher concentrations of ozone, that'swhen you'll see our agency issue those air
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quality alerts, trying to let folksknow, especially if you have asthma or
maybe a heart condition. You're anolder adult and very very young children are
more susceptible to air pollution. Weknow this from from decades of research.
So an air quality alert is away of us saying, hey, please
check your air quality. Make agood decision is based on your personal health
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profile. Maybe you limit how muchtime you are outside, especially in a
kind of vigorous activity running, jogging, bike riding, things of that nature.
You might want to do that indoorsfor a day or two, you
know, if you can, ifyou have that available to you. Well,
the hard part about this is forpeople who are healthy, basically they're
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not in a special population, theydon't feel the effects of this ozone and
the particulates actually doing the damage.But your research has shown, according to
your website, that it is damagingyour lungs, whether you feel it or
not. And that part got myattention today. Yes, I mean,
try to imagine for example, youknow, we've had some again of the
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smoke issues the summer that have affectedus, and a lot of times you
could see it in the sky.It definitely had kind of that hazy look,
and it's very akin to smoking cigarettesin so far as the particulate matter.
Even though you can't see it withoutthe benefit of a microscope, these
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materials can basically embed themselves deep intoyour long tissue, and so that's where
that potential for long term health effects. If you are impacted by particulate matter
on a regular basis, like othercountries in the world unfortunately are they don't
have the strong air regulation that wedo. That's when you know you're putting
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yourself at risk for long term healthissues. It was so shocked a few
years ago, was listening to heatwarnings and air quality index warnings and don't
go out and I literally drove homein my neighborhood and there was an overweight
man wearing nothing but black and runningand exercising, and I thought, where,
you aren't just inviting a heart attackright at this moment, and it
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was it was It was unbelievable thathe was just taunting death, if you
will, because every single indication wasdon't do this. There's a lot of
people that want to be out thereand have to be out there maybe when
they don't want to be. Allthese construction workers that have to be out
in this, how does that Whatcan they do to mitigate being out in
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that bad air, being on aconstruction site with all this dust and everything.
Do they have special treatments or specialways to mitigate that and protect themselves.
Honestly, I can't really speak tothat other than the hope that they
are employers. When we have extremeconditions like this allow for that by you
know, shortening their shifts, byencouraging them to take more frequent breaks,
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by allowing them, you know,to get inside, even if inside means
going to like the local restaurant forlunch, just to get out of you
know, when we have poor airquality events like that. My guest is
Joy Landry, the spokesperson for HamiltonCounty Environmental Services. Today we're talking about
the air quality index and why it'simportant to know and how to protect yourself.
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So when you don't feel these thingshappening, but it is damaging your
lungs, These particulates you say,you get into the lungs and then they
start doing damage. What will thateventually? What can that eventually turn into?
What are we worried about in thefuture if we don't feel those effects
now? Well, it's again it'ssimilar to someone that might be a lifelong
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cigarette smoker. You know, youpotentially have concerns about as you've vindicated,
you know, cardiovascular disease, youknow, heart damage, you can suffer
from emphysema or if I'm saying itright, coopd Am I getting that correctly?
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Do I'm emphasize that as we startedat the onset of our time here.
You know, our air quality inthe country has improved dramatically. You
can go to our website Southwest ohiowairdot org look at some of those trends.
But we want to stay on thatpositive trend by continuing to make good
decisions. And you know, it'slike we hear this sometimes people talk about
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recycling. Doesn't it doesn't really makea difference. Well, yes it does.
If everybody has a good attitude andit makes the effort to recycle,
it makes a difference. And sosimilarly with our air quality. You know,
if everybody can conserve a little bitof energy, if you're willing to
turn up your thermostat even just onedegree so it's not working quite so hard,
that helps when you're out and aboutand it's not terribly hot or terribly
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cold. If a lot of carswill kind of the engine almost sort of
shuts down when you're at a trafficlight, which is great. But if
you have a little bit older car, say you get caught at a railroad
crossing, I mean, that's justthe best practice. I'll turn my car
off if I see that I'm goingto be sitting there for a couple of
minutes. I don't need to sitthere with my engine running and burning fuel
and wasting my own gas money.So I mean, it's just those little
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things, trying to be mindful again, conserving energy and not idling your car.
If we're under an air quality alertlike we currently are as we're recording
this today in late July, youknow, you don't have to cut your
grass that night. Give yourself abreak, give the error break, you
know, defer that grass cugging untilyou know we've lifted that air quality alert
and the air qualities improved. Thoseare little things that people can do that
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help out. Another couple quick questions. Who decides the air quality alert for
our area? Is it a localdecision, a state decision, or a
federal decision or something else? Okay, great question. So generally it's a
local decision. We have a teamhere at our office there are monitoring an
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analysis team, and every day againyear round, they don't take a d
hit off. At two o'clock inthe afternoon, two or three of them
will get together and they will assesswhat data we're seeing on the monitors.
They will look at what the weatherconditions are. Again for ozone in the
summer when we have a lot ofabundant sunlight, a lot of heat,
very little wind, and no rainin the forecast. Those are perfect conditions
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for that ozone baking. And sojust like our local meteorologists, they issue
a forecast, they make their besteducated decision, and they will issue an
air quality alert because again, ifthat wildfire smoke we have seen this state,
Ohio EPA has issued several statewide airquality alerts because of the smoke that
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we saw, particularly in June.But generally speaking, when you see an
air quality alert that's coming out ofyour local office the Southwest Ohio Quality air
Quality Agency, your website is justa treasure travel of information. Let's give
that out sure, So again encourageyou to go to Southwest Ohio air dot
org and they're some of the neattools that we have. If you go
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under the air quality section, youcan look up you know what the current
air quality is. It gets youupdated almost hourly. There's also a map
where you can see every single monitoringsite within the five county region. Each
is represented by a little colored dot. So if you see a green dot,
that's great, that's what you wantto see. That means the air
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quality is currently good. If yousee a yellow dot, that means we're
in what we call the moderate phase. That's an air quality index of about
fifty one to one hundred. Butonce you start seeing those orange dots,
that means we're in what's considered unhealthyfor sensitive groups again, those folks that
may have asthma or other respiratory illnesses. There's also something called air quality concentration
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trends. So you can look atthe last twenty four forty eight seventy two
hours and you can see, youknow, bad ozone may spike around six
seven o'clock in the evening for theday, and then you'll see that nice
drop off as the temperature cools asthe sun goes down, less heat.
So that can be very interesting andinformative for people that are you know,
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if you personally, you know,have asthma or some type of illness like
that, if you have a familymember, a loved one, it's just
great data to look at and againtry to make good decisions for yourself to
mitigate how much time and how muchexposure you're getting to bad bad air quality.
When it happens. Let's talk tothe parents about taking these alerts seriously
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for young kids. Sure, soa couple important things to think about with
children, especially the younger they are. We know that children breathe faster than
we do little people in particular,you know, toddlers four or five,
six years old, they tend tobreathe through their mouth more too, whereas
you know, we get a littlebit older, we breathe through our nose.
And why is that important? Becauseyou know, our nostrils have all
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those little hairs to help, youknow, filter out different particles. So,
you know, just trying to bemindful of how simply how your child
breathe, and the fact that that'swhy we want to protect them have poor
air quality days by limiting how muchtime they are outside. I get that
it's summer, take them out inthe morning, let them have that playtime
then before it gets too hot andbefore we see that ozone start to build.
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If I could plug an initiative wehave here, we provide free signs,
posts and hardware that politely remind people, hey, don't idow your car.
These are great for local schools daycares. We've in the past, we've
partnered with the Cincinnati Libraries they havethem outside a lot of their branches.
When you're picking up or dropping offkids for events. Again, if it's
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not, you know, terribly hot, to turn that engine off if you
can, if you have to waitfor a few minutes for your person.
These the little things just help tryto protect our air and you certainly don't
want, you know, children comingout of school and they're basically being hit
with an invisible wall of car exhaust. So things like that to try to
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be mindful of is you know,as parents and caretakers again, the little
things that we can do to helptake care of each other really really can
add up in the long run.Joy Landry, the communication specialist for Hamilton
County Environmental Services, thank you forbeing here and taking time. Thank you
explain this stuff to us, andwe appreciate everything you in your office does.
Thank you so much. That's itfor I Heart Sincy for this last
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This week on iHeart Cincy Today,a Cincinnati man's family keeps his name alive
through a foundation that gives back tothe community. Rob Pursley was just twenty
eight, a UC graduate, afinancial planner, an avid college basketball player,
and a beloved family member taken bygun violence. Was he younger older
than you? Younger four years younger? Did you pick on him? He
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probably picked on me and our olderbrother a little bit. Rob was pretty
feisty. That's Rob's brother, JackPursley, here to talk about the Rob
Pursley Foundation's charity memorial golf outing nextmonth. It's the family's way of bringing
Rob's family and friends together each yearto keep his kind spirit alive and raise
scholarship money for student athletes at hisold high school. Stay right there to
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find out about how you can getinvolved, and later, twenty four hours
a day, year round, evenon Christmas, we are monitoring the air.
Joy Landry from the Hamilton County EnvironmentalServices. She's here to make sense
of why air quality days are sodangerous and important, with tips about what
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you should do on those bad airdays and the real medical problems that arise
from breathing bad air. Now oniHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins. Thank you
for listening to iHeart Cincy. I'mSandy Collins. This public affairs program for
tristaters focusing on needs and problems,solutions and answers. We share them all
right here to inform and inspire everybody. Today. My guest is Jack Pursley.
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He's the co chair of the RobPursley Foundation, which donates one hundred
percent of any fundraising for scholarships forstudent athletes at Rob's high school. Rob
was gunned down seventeen years ago herein Cincinnati. We're going to tell you
a little bit about his life throughhis brother Jack, and how their memorial
golf tournament in August is helping changelives and more importantly, if you're a
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golfer or you know one, we'retalk about how you can get involved.
Jack, thank you so much forcoming in. And I know your your
dad, Dan is sitting quietly offto the side. We may say hi
to you before this is over.Dan's okay. Anyway, Jack, thank
you for coming in to talk aboutthe Rob Pursley Memorial Golf Tournament that is
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coming up. This is the fifthyear that you're putting this together, that's
right. And when you have amemorial of anything, it's got to be
emotionally challenging because you're having this funand all these people and all this,
but you're above everybody, you know, feel the pain of the loss of
the person that you're memorializing. Solet's talk about your brother Rob and what
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this does to you having this tournamentevery year and your family, and let's
you know, remember him a littlebit right now. Is he younger older
than you? Younger, four yearsyounger. Did you pick on him?
He probably picked on me and ourolder brother a little bit. Rob was
pretty feisty, Oh he was.Yeah, Well that's fun. I wasn't
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expected your brother was a basketball player, and your dad told me that you
were also into sports. He coachedyou in sports. What kind of sports
did you play when you're a kid. Yes, we had three boys.
I'm in the middle. My olderbrother Dana was the oldest, and then
Rob was the youngest. So allof us played baseball and basketball growing up.
You're right, my dad did coachall of us. We really enjoyed
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that. And I'm proud to coachmy son Jackson now, and both baseball
and basketball. So kind of carryingthe tradition. Well, that's great,
And where did the golf come infor this? Yeah? I just enjoyed
playing live in a community where wehave a course and kind of picked it
up about ten years ago. Alot of our friends golf with my work
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helps to be able to golf andplay in outings and do different charity events.
So I really enjoyed it. Andthen five years ago we decided to
start a golf outing. Is anotherway to remember Rob. I spoke with
your father a while ago about thebasketball tournament that he started to remember Rob
and to raise money for scholarships forSycamore High School? Is that correct?
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Is it that the right? DidI remember that? Dan? It's the
right high school? And so thatthe money that was raised from the basketball
tournament every year goes to fund scholarshipsfor these high school students. You're doing
the same with the golf tournament,that's right. So as a part of
our nonprofit, right the Rob PursleyFoundation, one hundred percent of the proceeds
of all of our fundraising go rightback to local high school student athletes that
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go on to play a support incollege. So one hundred percent of the
proceeds from the golf outing will goback into the foundation, and we've awarded
Sandy over fifty thousand dollars in financialsupport to local high school student athletes.
And what made this scholarship a littledifferent was that you weren't trying to find
the pinnacle athletes, the ones thatare already going to get the scholars ships
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and such, but you're talking aboutthe passionate athletes that may not have the
same kind of opportunities and resources thatmore elite athletes might have. Is that
right, Yeah, Yeah, that'sright. Rob was one of those athletes,
right that had to work really hardand was blused to go on and
play at Bellerman College for a coupleof years, but but didn't have a
full scholarship. And so student athletesthat have an opportunity to continue playing any
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sport, not just basketball, guysand girls. We're excited to help everybody,
whether we can pay for books oryou know, help them with with
rent or if it goes towards tuitionup up to the families that we're helping.
Yeah, that's great. And Iknow you've just finished your basketball tournament
earlier this year. Do you havea figure for what you raised, do
you remember? I think it wasover seven thousand dollars over seven thousand,
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very good, and you awarded allof your your scholarships for this year.
So those kids are going to begoing on to college this fall. You
keep up with them every year.We do, and if anybody were to
jump out on our website remembering RobPursley dot com, very touching to see
the testimonials that scholarship recipients have providedback to us. So my father Dan
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does a really good job, andthe students are always happy to share updates
and keep us post on how they'redoing. And those testimonials on the website
again, it's remembering Rob Pursley dotcom are just so powerful when you read
them and they talk about drawing inspirationfrom winning the scholarship, finishing up their
college career, and then going onto help others and pay it forward.
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It's very touching. So this isthe part I don't like to have to
ask about, but we need totalk about Rob and what happened to him?
Is that okay with you? That'sfine? Yeah. So Rob was
leaving an event with his coworkers andthey were going to a bar. Remember
that day like it was yesterday.Rob and I lived together in Blue Ash
and so I remember him leaving thatday. He was excited. He was
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a financial advisor here in the BlueAsh communic community and he had a workouting.
They started at Turfway Park, sortof an employee appreciation event, and
then you're right. He was withhis girlfriend and one of her friends.
She was she's an attorney now,was was doing an internship back then at
Lexis Nexus, so she was upin Dayton and so she drove separately,
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so they had two cars. Theywere leaving turf Way and they ended up
at a restaurant in Hyde Park.It was Mulligan's back then. It's been
a number of things over the years, and I don't mind sharing the story.
So the girls, because they weren'tfamiliar with this area, were following
Rob in their own car. Therewas a spot kind of up front near
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the near the door. So Robdrove by that spot so that they could
have the spot. And he wentto the back of the lot and that's
where a couple guys were waiting onhim, and they wanted his car.
Wanted his car. It was ayou BMW maybe worth three or four grand
not nothing fancy. UM, butyeah, my understanding, you know,
(08:07):
and working with Chief Striker, LieutenantCurland Whale and the detectives since my police
department back then, was that Yeahit was. It was a car jacking.
Um. A couple of guys thathad just very long criminal records were
up to no good and UM kindof cornered Rob in the back of the
lot. And it was dark.It was a January night, January night.
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It was dark. Um, itwas in the back of the lot.
Wasn't really a well lit lot,no cameras or anything back there at
that point in time. And UM, I mentioned earlier, Rob was feisty,
you know. UM, I'm surethat you know he wasn't wasn't willing
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to just give them his car.He probably um pushed back, He did
push back, and from the detectives, I believe he exchanged some words with
the first guy. Didn't know thatthere was a second guy. And I
don't want to use their names,they don't deserve that. But um,
the second guy jumps out of thecar and he had an assault rifle and
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shot Rob in the leg and hitthe big bone and then it hit the
artery and there was a there wasa military medic in the restaurant and he
recognized the sound of the AR fifteenand rushed right out and apply to tourniquet.
But the doctor said, even ifthat would have happened in the hospital,
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there wouldn't have been anything they coulddo to save rob because it just
where it hit. Too much bloodloss, too quick. Yeah, half
inch either way, and he's probablygot a little bit of a limp.
And still with us, right right, Well, I am so sorry Jack
for your loss. I know thisis hard to talk about that. This
is why you're here. You're hereto remember your you're your little brother and
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to forward his legacy. Let's talkabout the tournament. Where is it going
to be played in August? Yeah, and before we move on it,
just you know, thinking back towhat happened, we do feel so blessed
to receive justice and closure. Youknow, there are a lot of families
out there that are fighting for thattoday, for their loved ones, and
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hopefully everybody will get that. Butin addition to this, and say a
police department, Rick Gibson from theProsecutor's office did a phenomenal job. We
still stay in touch with with Ricktoday. He supports the foundation. Judge
Stephen Martin, who was actually interviewedby by Willie when the case was happening
back in two thousand and seven,just very grateful for everything that they did
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to make sure that Lonnie Webster wouldnot be able to hurt any other families.
So he'll he'll be locked up forthe rest of his life. But
we are excited about the upcoming golfouting and it's a nice opportunity for a
lot of people that knew Rob toget together to honor him. It is
a fundraiser, I want to beclear about that. We were there to
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raise money and also remember Rob.So it's just going to be a special
day. We've had four golf outingsso far. In the fifth one will
be on Monday, August seventh atMajestic Springs Golf Club. It's up in
Wilmington, Ohio. How long agodid you lose Rob? It was in
two thousand and six, January fourteen, two thousand and six. He was
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twenty eight at the time. Soit's been a long time that your family's
been going through this. And itdoesn't get an easier, I would imagine,
does it. It doesn't. Youheard me get emotional a little bit
ago. It's hard, but thething that keeps us going being able to
help others. That's why my fatherand I started the Rob Pursley Foundation.
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My father Dan and I co chairthat foundation, and we're just committed to
honoring Rob's legacy by helping others.That's our mission, that's what we stay
focused on. Thank you so muchfor coming in. Let's get you some
sponsors. Yeah, some corporate sponsors. And you've got room for foursomes?
We do, we do. Um, we have room for foursomes. Would
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still take maybe five or ten moreteams, would love additional sponsorship. We've
got a couple of options. Wholesponsors are just one hundred and fifty bucks,
but would really really benefit by havinga couple of corporate sponsors join this.
This very good cause. You're ableto reach out to us if you
were able to donate or participate.Um, we have an email address.
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Is it okay if I share that, Sandy? Absolutely, it's the Rob
Pursley Foundation. So Rob Purselely pursl E Y Foundation atmail dot com,
at mail atmail dot com, maildot com. Yeah, I've got our
own inbox for the foundation. Oryou could message or call me Jack at
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five one three three zero four twoone four or four. I've one three
three zero four two one four fourAnd then website for the Rob Pursley Foundation,
remembering Rob Pursley dot com. Yeah, anything else you want to cover,
No, just excited about August seventh. So if anybody is able to
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participate, or if you're if youwant to just contribute to the good cause,
please reach out as soon as youcan. It's going to be a
great afternoon at Majestic Springs on theseventh. We do a lunch in a
registration from twelve to one, andthen my son Jackson. It's a ceremonial
first tea shot every year. That'sat one fifteen and the event starts at
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one thirty. How old is Jackson? Jackson's nine. Okay, yeah,
so it looks cute too, yeah. Yeah. Is he a good golfer?
He plays. He plays baseball andbasketball and does okay at golf.
Last year he crushed one right downthe middle. But we'll see what happens
this year. I'm sure he'll bepracticing. Maybe you'll take him out for
a few buckets of balls before thentoo. So for sure, all right,
Jack, Thank you so much forthat and let us how you do
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Well today, my next guest isthe spokesperson for Hamilton County Environmental Services,
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Joy Landry, Joy, and Iare going to talk about air quality
today, why it's important to knowwhat it is, how it's evaluated,
and what you should do to protectyourself and your family. Welcome, Joy,
We appreciate you being here. Tellus about you and how you came
to the Hamilton County Environmental Services Divisionand actually what you do there, what
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services you provide for Hamilton County.Awesome. Well again, thank you for
the opportunity. My name's Joy Landry. I'm with Hamilton County Environmental Services and
we have basically two agencies. Soone is Hamilton County Resource, which is
your local solid waste and recycling district. And then our other group of employees
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is the Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency. We are contracted by Ohio EPA and
we handle air quality issues for Butler, Hamilton, Clinton, Claremont, and
Warren counties hence the Southwest Ohio andour name. And specifically we have throughout
that region seventeen air monitoring stations thattwenty four hours a day, year round,
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even on Christmas. We are monitoringthe air and the different pollutants that
may be affecting our public health fromday to day. We also work with
local industries, you're a local drycleaner, for example, or you know,
if there's still a large power plant, like there's some facilities up in
Middletown, we work with them tomake sure that they are meeting both state
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Ohio, state and us EPA regulationsto ensure that they are not emitting more
than they are frankly legally allowed todo. So that, in a nutshell,
is what we do here at theAir Quality Agency. What are you
actually measuring? What are you lookingfor? There are six specific air pollutants
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that the us EPA identified as earlyas the nineteen seventies as being harmful to
public health. And specifically this isozone, which we deal with a lot,
unfortunately in our region. So wemay talk about that a little bit
in a few minutes. Particulate matter, which we have seen a tremendous amount
of unfortunately this summer due to thewildfire smoke, sulfur dioxide, which has
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been decreased dramatically. Its principal mainemissions was from coal burning. We're doing
a lot less of that throughout thecountry. Nitrogen dioxides, which come from
some industries but also from a lotof our car exhausts, and then lead
and carbon monoxide. Lead in particular, the amounts are literally so traced that
we are not required to measure forlead here in Southwest Ohio anymore because we've
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basically eradicated that as an air qualitypollutant, which is good news. And
carbon monoxide is very very very lowas well. So the lead was coming
from gasoline? Is that right?You are exactly correct. That was a
major major change to help improve ourair quality when we use a country.
I think it was probably about inthe nineteen nineties with the Clean Air Axe,
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we basically switched from leaded gasoline inour vehicles to unleaded gas and that
had a tremendous impact moving forward overthe next several decades, dramatically improving our
air quality to get the lead outof the air has been a huge wind
across the country. There is goodozone and bad ozone, So let's talk
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about the difference between the two.Where good ozone is, where badozone is
and how is it created. Awesome, great question, Thank you for bringing
this up. So we have theozone layer, and that's the protective layer
in our stratosphere that helps basically protectthe earth, protect the environment from the
sun's harmful race. Then you havewhat we call ground level that's bad ozone.
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It's a combination of multiple pollution sources, so for example, car exhaust,
industrial sources, something as simple asyou spray painting that contains what's called
VOCs volatile organic compounds. And sowhen I talk to school groups, I
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like this analogy. It's sort oflike baking cookies. You have all your
ingredients, and in our case,the ingredients is all those different types of
air pollutants, and then when youput them in the oven ie a lot
of sunshine, a lot of heatin the summer, it allows those ozone
molecules to expand because it's a gasbased air pollutant. And so when we
have higher concentrations of ozone, that'swhen you'll see our agency issue those air
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quality alerts, trying to let folksknow, especially if you have asthma or
maybe a heart condition. You're anolder adult and very very young children are
more susceptible to air pollution. Weknow this from from decades of research.
So an air quality alert is away of us saying, hey, please
check your air quality. Make agood decision is based on your personal health
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profile. Maybe you limit how muchtime you are outside, especially in a
kind of vigorous activity running, jogging, bike riding, things of that nature.
You might want to do that indoorsfor a day or two, you
know, if you can, ifyou have that available to you. Well,
the hard part about this is forpeople who are healthy, basically they're
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not in a special population, theydon't feel the effects of this ozone and
the particulates actually doing the damage.But your research has shown, according to
your website, that it is damagingyour lungs, whether you feel it or
not. And that part got myattention today. Yes, I mean,
try to imagine for example, youknow, we've had some again of the
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smoke issues the summer that have affectedus, and a lot of times you
could see it in the sky.It definitely had kind of that hazy look,
and it's very akin to smoking cigarettesin so far as the particulate matter.
Even though you can't see it withoutthe benefit of a microscope, these
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materials can basically embed themselves deep intoyour long tissue, and so that's where
that potential for long term health effects. If you are impacted by particulate matter
on a regular basis, like othercountries in the world unfortunately are they don't
have the strong air regulation that wedo. That's when you know you're putting
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yourself at risk for long term healthissues. It was so shocked a few
years ago, was listening to heatwarnings and air quality index warnings and don't
go out and I literally drove homein my neighborhood and there was an overweight
man wearing nothing but black and runningand exercising, and I thought, where,
you aren't just inviting a heart attackright at this moment, and it
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was it was It was unbelievable thathe was just taunting death, if you
will, because every single indication wasdon't do this. There's a lot of
people that want to be out thereand have to be out there maybe when
they don't want to be. Allthese construction workers that have to be out
in this, how does that Whatcan they do to mitigate being out in
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that bad air, being on aconstruction site with all this dust and everything.
Do they have special treatments or specialways to mitigate that and protect themselves.
Honestly, I can't really speak tothat other than the hope that they
are employers. When we have extremeconditions like this allow for that by you
know, shortening their shifts, byencouraging them to take more frequent breaks,
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by allowing them, you know,to get inside, even if inside means
going to like the local restaurant forlunch, just to get out of you
know, when we have poor airquality events like that. My guest is
Joy Landry, the spokesperson for HamiltonCounty Environmental Services. Today we're talking about
the air quality index and why it'simportant to know and how to protect yourself.
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So when you don't feel these thingshappening, but it is damaging your
lungs, These particulates you say,you get into the lungs and then they
start doing damage. What will thateventually? What can that eventually turn into?
What are we worried about in thefuture if we don't feel those effects
now? Well, it's again it'ssimilar to someone that might be a lifelong
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cigarette smoker. You know, youpotentially have concerns about as you've vindicated,
you know, cardiovascular disease, youknow, heart damage, you can suffer
from emphysema or if I'm saying itright, coopd Am I getting that correctly?
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Do I'm emphasize that as we startedat the onset of our time here.
You know, our air quality inthe country has improved dramatically. You
can go to our website Southwest ohiowairdot org look at some of those trends.
But we want to stay on thatpositive trend by continuing to make good
decisions. And you know, it'slike we hear this sometimes people talk about
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recycling. Doesn't it doesn't really makea difference. Well, yes it does.
If everybody has a good attitude andit makes the effort to recycle,
it makes a difference. And sosimilarly with our air quality. You know,
if everybody can conserve a little bitof energy, if you're willing to
turn up your thermostat even just onedegree so it's not working quite so hard,
that helps when you're out and aboutand it's not terribly hot or terribly
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cold. If a lot of carswill kind of the engine almost sort of
shuts down when you're at a trafficlight, which is great. But if
you have a little bit older car, say you get caught at a railroad
crossing, I mean, that's justthe best practice. I'll turn my car
off if I see that I'm goingto be sitting there for a couple of
minutes. I don't need to sitthere with my engine running and burning fuel
and wasting my own gas money.So I mean, it's just those little
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things, trying to be mindful again, conserving energy and not idling your car.
If we're under an air quality alertlike we currently are as we're recording
this today in late July, youknow, you don't have to cut your
grass that night. Give yourself abreak, give the error break, you
know, defer that grass cugging untilyou know we've lifted that air quality alert
and the air qualities improved. Thoseare little things that people can do that
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help out. Another couple quick questions. Who decides the air quality alert for
our area? Is it a localdecision, a state decision, or a
federal decision or something else? Okay, great question. So generally it's a
local decision. We have a teamhere at our office there are monitoring an
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analysis team, and every day againyear round, they don't take a d
hit off. At two o'clock inthe afternoon, two or three of them
will get together and they will assesswhat data we're seeing on the monitors.
They will look at what the weatherconditions are. Again for ozone in the
summer when we have a lot ofabundant sunlight, a lot of heat,
very little wind, and no rainin the forecast. Those are perfect conditions
(26:11):
for that ozone baking. And sojust like our local meteorologists, they issue
a forecast, they make their besteducated decision, and they will issue an
air quality alert because again, ifthat wildfire smoke we have seen this state,
Ohio EPA has issued several statewide airquality alerts because of the smoke that
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we saw, particularly in June.But generally speaking, when you see an
air quality alert that's coming out ofyour local office the Southwest Ohio Quality air
Quality Agency, your website is justa treasure travel of information. Let's give
that out sure, So again encourageyou to go to Southwest Ohio air dot
org and they're some of the neattools that we have. If you go
(26:56):
under the air quality section, youcan look up you know what the current
air quality is. It gets youupdated almost hourly. There's also a map
where you can see every single monitoringsite within the five county region. Each
is represented by a little colored dot. So if you see a green dot,
that's great, that's what you wantto see. That means the air
(27:18):
quality is currently good. If yousee a yellow dot, that means we're
in what we call the moderate phase. That's an air quality index of about
fifty one to one hundred. Butonce you start seeing those orange dots,
that means we're in what's considered unhealthyfor sensitive groups again, those folks that
may have asthma or other respiratory illnesses. There's also something called air quality concentration
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trends. So you can look atthe last twenty four forty eight seventy two
hours and you can see, youknow, bad ozone may spike around six
seven o'clock in the evening for theday, and then you'll see that nice
drop off as the temperature cools asthe sun goes down, less heat.
So that can be very interesting andinformative for people that are you know,
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if you personally, you know,have asthma or some type of illness like
that, if you have a familymember, a loved one, it's just
great data to look at and againtry to make good decisions for yourself to
mitigate how much time and how muchexposure you're getting to bad bad air quality.
When it happens. Let's talk tothe parents about taking these alerts seriously
(28:25):
for young kids. Sure, soa couple important things to think about with
children, especially the younger they are. We know that children breathe faster than
we do little people in particular,you know, toddlers four or five,
six years old, they tend tobreathe through their mouth more too, whereas
you know, we get a littlebit older, we breathe through our nose.
And why is that important? Becauseyou know, our nostrils have all
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those little hairs to help, youknow, filter out different particles. So,
you know, just trying to bemindful of how simply how your child
breathe, and the fact that that'swhy we want to protect them have poor
air quality days by limiting how muchtime they are outside. I get that
it's summer, take them out inthe morning, let them have that playtime
then before it gets too hot andbefore we see that ozone start to build.
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If I could plug an initiative wehave here, we provide free signs,
posts and hardware that politely remind people, hey, don't idow your car.
These are great for local schools daycares. We've in the past, we've
partnered with the Cincinnati Libraries they havethem outside a lot of their branches.
When you're picking up or dropping offkids for events. Again, if it's
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not, you know, terribly hot, to turn that engine off if you
can, if you have to waitfor a few minutes for your person.
These the little things just help tryto protect our air and you certainly don't
want, you know, children comingout of school and they're basically being hit
with an invisible wall of car exhaust. So things like that to try to
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be mindful of is you know,as parents and caretakers again, the little
things that we can do to helptake care of each other really really can
add up in the long run.Joy Landry, the communication specialist for Hamilton
County Environmental Services, thank you forbeing here and taking time. Thank you
explain this stuff to us, andwe appreciate everything you in your office does.
Thank you so much. That's itfor I Heart Sincy for this last
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In The Village will take you into the most exclusive areas of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to explore the daily life of athletes, complete with all the funny, mundane and unexpected things you learn off the field of play. Join Elizabeth Beisel as she sits down with Olympians each day in Paris.
3. iHeartOlympics: The Latest
Listen to the latest news from the 2024 Olympics.